Gloria Escoffery's collection of poems depicting life in a small rural community is a delight. Her depictions of shelling gungo peas and Mother Jackson's mutterings to her tomatoes encapsulate the richness of a delibrately circumscribed life. The works breathe contentment, and a coming to terms with what exists, even her failure as an artist to capture the colours of Jamaica's flora-"the magenta that pulses in this flower demands but wisely resists capture." It's well worth keeping. My copy never leaves my handbag.

Simple. Elegant. Playable. Ogre and GEV stand out as classics of SF wargaming. In Ogre, the objective is simple. The first player is the Ogre, a devastatingly powerful self-aware tank - its mission : to destroy a command post guarded by a player chosen mix of conventional units. But this is the year 2085, those units are powered infantry, armed ground effect vehicles (GEV's), tanks, howitzers and so on. In GEV, the action continues, a bigger map, more units and a host of additional scenarios that involve a mix of conventional units and/or ogres.

The game is great, simple but with tactical depth ... challenging, but easy to learn... involving, but even the largest scenario should only take up a couple of hours. I am frankly astonished that it is still available. If you like SF, enjoy wargaming and breathe, this is an excellent purchase.

As a young man many years ago I found this book in Paper-Back. It was the funniest book I can ever recall reading.

Could not put the book down. Insight into the era and the Air Force from a man who was there. The story brings you in and keeps you there until the end. A splendid read.

Visual instructions are easy to follow. The designs are simple enough to remember, but look complicated when completed. Amaze others with this newly learned talent.

This book is fantasic! EASY to read and follow the directions. Colorful, simple photographs and diagrams guide you through each project. I am sorry it is out-of-print. I found it in our school library! A must for teachers!

I rarely find a work of this level of excellence. Every single essay in this book is necessary, accessible, illluminating, compelling, and fulfilling. There are times where I read a compilation such as this one and find one or more of the parts to be lacking, superfluous, or just plain boring. Not this book. Bate and Jackson even had the foresight to include an essay by an actor - Judi Dench. Foakes and Wiggins don't just gloss over what is known about his contemporaries, but challenge and engage new ideas about Shakespeare's first performances. Holland offers a fascinating glimpse at the first superstar reviver of his work, Garrick. Thomson covers subsidized Shakespeare and Smallwood incisively explores the current approaches towards his work, Director's Shakespeare. I could go and on and on, but this book has it all. Recommended for academics and students, professionals and amateurs, life-long devotees and the novice who merely wants to learn more about Shakespearean performance.

I read this book and felt so encouraged. I have suffered with debilitating chronic pain for more than 4 years. Marni Jackson knows what those of us who suffer are going through. This book is a real page-turner for those interested in this ambiguous subject. Pain is such a vague, subjective experience and the author points this out through stories and anecdotes. Her witticisms and practical insights are true gems. I felt less alone in the world of chronic pain after reading this book. If you need a little encouragement, or know someone who does, please read this book. It is well worth the investment!

For most persons, patent or trademark, such verbs of IPR, are almost very hard to be familiar with. However, after reading this book, I got used and interested in reading related articles or jounals. Sometimes, I even enjoy discussing such matters with others. What is more is it is surely practical and useful for managers or business persons. With the progressively trend of IPR, getting a opning book to enter this new world is so critical and having no choice. However, we could be a little frustrated with some tricking or unfamiliar verbs while reading some related IPR writtings. Fortunately, I got this book and really enjoy it. I fully am sure to recommand this book for the above-mentioned reasons. In addition to me, most of the classmates in the university could enjoy it and find much instriction or delighting in this book. From then on, we have started to research such knowledge. Even, I back to office-career now. My boss have told me to read this book to improve self-knowledge to be a good role in our technology market. This book is just so fancy. And everyone will be very enjoyed it with reading it.

This book is about a travelog of University of Columbia Professor Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1862-1937) through Persia in 1903 on horseback. His plan was to traverse as much territory known to Zarathustra (Zoroaster), including Transcaspia and Turkistan, and to visit the places most celebrated in the history of Persia. The book includes very interesting pictures photographed by the author himself. There have been other travellers who journeyed through Persia before Jackson, but I have not found so far any account which includes pictures. Jackson began his journey to Iran by steamer out of New York. At that time Jackson, a professor of Indo-Iranian languages, had just published a book on the life and teachings of Zarathustra (Jackson, A.V.W. 1899. Zoroaster, the Prophet of Ancient Iran, Columbia University Press, New York). However, he had not visited Iran and was eager to remedy his lack of first-hand knowledge of the land where Zarathustra was born and lived. He was also very interested to meet the Zoroastrians still living in Iran, learn more about their religion and culture and how they managed despite the hardships brought on by religious persecution. He also wanted to actually enter a functioning fire-temple and have learned discourses with Zoroastrians priests.

Jackson wrote about his visit to Isfahan and meeting some Zoroastrians thus: "I found that, although there were some six of them [Zoroastrians] doing business in the bazaar, only three resided regularly in Isfahan; the rest were Gabars [or Guebres] from Yezd. I have designated them as Gabars after the native fashion, but this term is derogatory, being equivalent to 'unbelievers', and is never employed by the Zoroastrians themselves. They designate themselves as Zardustíán, 'Zoroastrians', and sometimes as Bah-Dínán, 'those of the Good Religion' or Fársís, i.e., 'from Fars' or 'Pars' of the old province of Persia Proper. As for the name 'Fire-Worshipper [Atash-Parast]', the Zoroastrians in Persia as well as in India object to that title."

"As regards their dress, moreover, the Zoroastrians have always been obliged to adopt a style that would distinguish them from the Mohammedans, and it is only within the last ten years that they could wear any color except yellow, gray or brown, and the wearing of white stockings, spectacles or rings was long interdicted. The use of spectacles and eye-glasses, and the privilege of carrying an umbrella, have been allowed only within the same decade, and even now the Gabars are not permitted to ride in the streets or to make use of the public baths."

When Jackson asked the Zoroastrians at Yezd to be shown their religious books, they told him that all remaining important religious books and manuscripts had been sent to Bombay for safekeeping. They ascribed much of the loss of their sacred books to the persecution following the Islamic conquests. "The Zoroastrians who dwell within the city [of Yezd] are largely occupied in trading. This privilege was not accorded to them until about fifty years ago, and they are even now subject to certain restrictions and exactions to which no Mohammedan would be liable. They are not allowed, for instance, to sell food in the bazaars, inasmuch as that would be an abomination in the eyes of the Moslems, who regard them as unbelievers and therefore unclean. Until 1882 they were oppressed by the jazía tax, a poll tax imposed upon them as non-believers, and this gave an opportunity for grinding them down by extortionate assessments and trading-tolls. The jazía was finally repealed by Shah Nasr ud-Din, who issued a firman [royal decree] to that effect September 27, 1882."

Jackson left Yezd on 13 May 1903 and reached Teheran on 19th May 1903. At Teheran Jackson did extensive research on the ancient Zoroastrian city of Rei [or Ragha], a suburb of Tehran. At Rei stands the ruins of the most ancient dokhmah situated on a hill and constructed according to all the requirements of the Vendidad canon, i.e., that it should be on a hill, far from human habitation, but accessible to corpse-eating birds and animals.

The language in Jackson's book does not seem dated and together with illustrations of black and white pictures it makes very interesting reading indeed. The author traces Persian history from Cyrus the Great to the Shahs. He describes the peoples he meets along his journey and their culture. Jackson describes in detail the town of Urumiah, the early home of Zarathustra. There he discovers the church of Mart Mariam where one of the three Magi, who travelled from Persia to witness the birth of Jesus Christ, is said to be buried. I would unhesitatingly recommend this book to anyone searching for his/her Zoroastrians roots.