This is perhaps the sine qua non of trail guides. You will be able to explore the Big South Fork with comfort and ease using Deavers book. If you want day hikes or more challenging distance hikes, this book will help you make your plans. Trail sections are thouroughly explained. Interesting information about the geology and cultural history abound.

A great book that explores all of the regions of North Carolina's exciting history.

This latest addition to the 'Out of This World' series provides a fine history of NASA, using color photos to appeal to middle school students of space history. Coverages of NASA endeavors alone aren't common and ages beyond the middle school range will find this equally useful: chapters present over a hundred pages of timeline information and details on space exploration and NASA involvements.

Ray Cowdery continues his tradition of non-judgemental scholarship in presenting the New Reichs Chancellery as a building of historical importance, not as a hive of evil.

The book is coffee table sized, and includes many full page, full color photographs of some of the more visually stunning areas of the Chancellery. Included are Hitler's office, the Mirrored Hall and the stunning Mosiac Hall. Views of the gardens, paintings from the dining room and out door photos all combine to show why, after it's completion, the New Reichs Chancellery was called, "the most beautiful building in Europe in the last century."

Also covered are the eventual fate of this building which was damaged, although not beyond repair, during the war, the post war usage of the site, and the Fuhrer Bunker where Adolph Hitler spent his final days.

This book is a must for students of WWII, Germany, Berlin or architecture, as well as any lover of truly beautiful buildings.

Freud was the major credible way of therapy when I was an original editor of this book in the 1960's as an undergraduate and first year graduate student. There was an explosion of methodologies that brought variety. It was wonderful for a moment in time. Individuality and personalization came into mental health care, bringing a variety of patients a variety of ways to hope, and be helped. The old specters of absolutist certainty still haunt the halls and corridors of schools, institutions, and offices exactly as Dr. Jurjevich describes in Freud. Subsequent trends in mental health have seen each and every school of treatment become a tyranny unto itself; each contradicting the other. Damning, condemning, and pathologizing those who do not accept or respond to their methodology as intractable has become a trend in most genres of mental health treatment. The head was cut off the Freud's ego 'monster' to became "Dragon Seeds" or a "Hydra," of egos devouring patients in machinations that see Drs. Jurjevich, Bernard Spilka, O. Hobart Mower, Curtis McDougal, Dimitrije Pivnicki, Edward R. and Cathey Pinckney rolling in their graves as I shake my head in disgust. Hart; Emeritus in Colorado. endlessquestions@hotmail.com July 2000.

This story of a famous Japanese artist (1760-1849) is beautifully written and illustrated. It is a story of rising beyond the limitations of class, of educating oneself through persistence and hard work, and of not being confined by the narrow views of others to reach one's potential. Katsushik Hokusai influenced the work of Western Impressionists artists. This is a book not to be missed if you are studying this prolific artist.

Very well written and comprehensive--every home school library should have this one!

This book was funny, descriptive and included the most enchanting photographs of these little critters ever collected in one book. The author shows his delight in these unusual creatures and shares his experiences and knowledge with us in an endearing way.

Divided into 4 sections each of which builds on the lessons that came before: B&W technique, color technique, elements of picture making and subjects & styles. It's large, heavy and will keep you working for months....

This book is an essential read for civil/water/hydraulic/water resources/environmental engineers who need a bit more hydrology necessary for understanding the hydrology applied in their disciplines.

The book defines hydrology and proceeds to indicate the essential difference between applied hydrology and just scientific hydrology. Beginning with the traditional presentation of the hydrologic cycle, all the components of the cycle are dealt with in more detail in the subsequent chapters of the book to indicate the applications involving each and appropriate examples given.

Non-verbose explanations with adequate real examples are used in presentations of meteorology/solar radiation, rainfall/snowmelt, evaporation, infiltration, streamflow and hydrographs/unit hydrographs, groundwater occurrence and hydraulics, probability distributions/extreme value analysis/design floods/storms, river morhology, sedimentation, computer modelling, flood routing by hydrologic and hydraulic methods, and introduction to applications. These are by no means all the main contents - but just indicative of the variety of included essential topics.

It may be old (my edition of 1988) but still contains all the hydrology an engineer may ever need.