Emily Osborn has written a romance which has as its setting the old plantation which was built on the lake from which our town gets its name. Names have thinly-veiled pseudonyms such as Lake Johnson for Lake Jackson, the Grace family instead of the Groce family, and Pelican Island Plantation instead of Eagle Island Plantation. The heroine of the story is Laura, who was adopted by the plantation's overseer and his wife after Laura's birth parents died of cholera. Laura is in an interesting social situation, not of the landed gentry, but also not a slave. She relates to the slaves and the landowners but never really fits into either group. She is attracted to the young son of the plantation owner and also the tutor who comes to Fairhope to teach the children there. The book helps the reader sees what everyday life was like on a Texas plantation before and after the Civil War. This is Mrs. Osborne's first published novel and it is a good story, especially to people interested in the history of the Texas Gulf Coast.

Richard Butler, a proponent of the abolition of all nuclear weapons, has written an important book concerning the current state of nuclear weapons in the world. His main thesis states that the problem with nuclear weapons are the weapons themselves and anything short of getting rid of them a futile effort. Specifically he refers to the Bush administrations future deployment of National Missile Defence as the "fatal choice."

According to Butler, the advocates of missile defense and other measures designed to keep and expand nuclear arsenals in the U.S. use the argument that current treaties, especially the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, are not being adhered to and are thus useless. Butler, however, indicts the U.S. as being the main noncopliant culprit in that the U.S. has not bilaterally reduced its arsenal along with Russia to lower levels as is required in the treaty. Instead of scrapping the treaties, Butler advocates that these treaties ought to be bolstered and the proper institution be established to ensure compliance by all signators.

Butler's book outlines effectively a few specific arguments against NMD.

i recommend any one to buy this book if they see it on the bookshelf, its filled with love and emotion!

This Novel is set in the post pelleponesian war period. It has a thrilling account of warfare of the period sort of sharpe in ancient greece

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A very good book on algorithms for permutation groups. The author gives many references for each chapter, which are useful for further study.

Excellent but very personal view of the nature of soils. Crtitique of Soil Taxonomy unjustified. Most suitable for undergraduate geology students. Fine illustration are useful.

Hayflick's book "How and Why We Age" is an excellent, first hand account on the research that has been conducted up to now on the biology of aging. It is of note that Hayflick is one of the pioneers in the field. The book is well written and can be enjoyed both by the scientist and the layperson. One flaw, in my opinion, involves Hayflick's personal- and highly biassed- account of the supposedly erroneous conclusions of Alexis Carrel regarding the immortality of cells cultured in vitro. After presenting what seems conclusive evidence opposing Carrel's claim, Hayflick describes a conversation with a technician who worked at Carrel's lab in New York in the thirties, who discloses highly questionable procedures, and describes threats to her when she reaised issues with the lab directors. It is clearly suggested that there was scientific negligence and even misconduct, and yet, the identity of this technician is not revealed, and the accusations, half a century la! ter, are foggy and impossible to challenge. This is a very serious issue, as Hayflick himself claims to have proven Carrel wrong, through his discovery of a fixed maximum number of divisions in cells grown in vitro. However, some even more recent experiments suggest that it is Hayflick who is wrong, because the cell culture conditions he uses are highly artificial, while Carrel's more primitive, but also more robust method (cultivating a chunk of tissue) are closer to physiological conditions. The issue at stakes is by no means trivial: are cells intrinsically immortal, ageless, or do they age and die like whole organisms?

Other books have covered Hubley toys in their text, but this is the first book devoted entirely to Hubley toys, at least those produced between 1946 and 1965. What it doesn't cover is the early cast iron toys produced as far back as the turn of the century, which is unfortunate since some of the rarest and most valuable Hubleys are those produced before WWII. For what it does cover, "Hubley Toy Vehicles: 1946-1965" provides excellent full color photos, accompanied by informative text and current values.

This book is exceptionally good. The translation is clear, and easy to understand. I recommend this book to anyone who likes fiction and are interested in these gods and goddesses. This book keeps you entertained and you don't want to put this book down once you start reading until your finished reading it. It keeps your attention and it doesn't leave you with any questions unanswered. I recommend this book to anyone interested.