This is an accessory to the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, detailing numerous monstrous creatures from various Lovecraftian mileaus. It features a size comparison chart and wonderful art throughout. The Guide can quite easily be used by a non-gamer fan of Lovercraft as there are no game-specific statistics, only narrative. Overall, a well-done book.

The Guide is a book based on H.P. Lovecraft's novels. The creatures in those novels are given shape as they are drawn out and described here. Beutiful full page drawings accompany each creature, and a passage of the original text as well. I liked it a lot, the drawings are real nice and the descriptions are fun to read. By the way, Cthulu fans may be interested in this, H.P. Lovecraft/Cthulu, get it?

This book uses a Q&A format in an interview with Mary Ellen Mark and the Smithsonian asks all the right questions. They start out with how she got started, what it takes to put a photo essay together, if she uses assistants and if art directors have a say over what she does.

My only complaint about this is how short it is. But in these 62 pages the first half gives you what it takes to start in making great pictures and the second half shows you some of Mark's awesome work.

As a student of photojournalism looking to do similar work, this is a valuable resource.

Un excelente libro con soberbias imágenes de Mary Ellen Mark, edicion bien cuidada y papel de excelente calidad viene a ser la base para emprender un viaje por los ojos de esta gran fotógrafa documental a traves del Ensayo Fotografico, venga pues no dejen de darle una mirada de cerca!

Winona Sullivan hooked me with A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe, and kept me interested as Cecile and the nuns headed south. I enjoyed Saving Death in particular because this novel provided some backstory about Cecile's youth and her relationship with Paul - though it was not important to the meat of the mystery, I liked it nonetheless. I'm comfortable with these characters and I enjoyed learning more about them.

Cecile's assignment is to solve a twenty-year-old murder where many of the people involved are either dead or unwilling to talk. Her client, unknown to her, was the man wrongly convicted of the crime, and though he changes his mind at one point Cecile is determined to find closure to this case, before the true killer gets to her first. All in all an enjoyable read.

This book weaves a number of subplots together as an innocent man covicted of murder escapes after serving 20 years. He attempts to find the real murderer by hiring a P.I., who just happens to also be a nun, and the plot thickens as you are taken through the Latin community in Miami, Florida with a great amount of picturesque background. The story is well written and reads quickly. Through most of it, you don't want to put it down.

This book details the events that led up to General Sullivan's scorched-Earth campaign against the Tribes of the Six Nations. The first 6 chapters deal with a "White" perspective and does not shy from Native American atrocities committed against European settlers on their land. However, the second half of the book puts these events in perspective and details the equally atrocious events carried out against Native Americans.

The scorched-Earth campaigns led against the Native Americans is remeniscent of tactics used by ancient armies in southwest Asia. Both points of view are given, but without a doubt the book makes clear who was in the wrong from day one. The title should be a give-away to this fact.

The book assumes the reader has a fairly good knowledge of the American Revolutionary War. There are some points in the book where the author makes mention of some individual or incident indirectly related to a current situation assuming the reader is aware of the name or event being referred to and can see the irony or paradox in the current situation in light of the reference made. For readers with strong knowledge in American history, these nuggets will prove most interesting and thoughtful, but to others they will pass without provoking much thought... although they may intrigue the reader to learn more.

To the lay reader, fine details in the book will read ad nauseum, but to most they are priceless. These are the only reasons I give the book 4 rather than 5 stars. The author does not hold back when describing some of the gruesome details of battles between two armies, but rest assured that he does attempt to lighten the load by using phrases such as, "...dispatched him with a blow from his tomahawk."...

I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the wrongs done towards the Iroquois by narrow-minded, racist, land-stealing settlers.

"Seeds of Empire" is an account of the war for control of the New York frontier and particularly of General John Sullivan's campaign against the Iroquois during the Revolutionary War.

The book gives an excellent overview of the history of the conflict with the Indians in the upstate New York region during the war and gives a particularly good account of St. Leger's expedition against Fort Stanwix and the bloody action at Oriskany in 1777.

In 1779, George Washington, trying to cope with the British on the East Coast, was desperate to find a solution to the "Indian Problem" that had been plauging the frontier settlements in the western country of New York and Pennsylvania. Washtington realized that the best way to deal with marauding British-allied Iroquois Indians was to attack and destory their villages, crops, and supply bases. Thus, he ordered Gen. John Sullivan with a large force of troops, supported by a smaller expedition under the command of Col. Daniel Brodhead further west from Fort Pitt, to march north into Indian territory in western New York. Washinton's orders were very specific that "the immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements." Sullivan managed to engage the Indians in battle and drive them away, laying waste to many villages and fields full of crops ready to be harvested. As a result of this example of devastating total war, the Iroquois were reduced to poverty and starvation and effectively taken out of the war. Washington's orders were fulfilled, but at a high price to the Indians. There has been much controversy regarding Sullivan and Washinton's action during this campaign as it was essentially seen as a war of extermination. There are many arguments for and against Washington's decision to subjuagate the Indians with such brutal tactics, but the historical truth is nonetheless that the once-proud and powerful Iroquois League was smashed and would never recover.

This book is an excellent history of these important events that are too often ignored by many popular and scholarly histories of the Revolutionary War. It is often forgotten that the War was fought not only on the great battlefields of the East, but on the frontier, where some of the bloodiest fighting of the war took place.

This is a very good book. We used this in our Helen Keller unit study. Annie had a life before Helen ! From trials to Teacher to student. This woman had quite a life. She really gave her life to Helen and is a good witness of " love your neighbor ". This may have started of f as a job, but became her life. I read the 1987 paperback edition.

I think this is one of the best books I've ever read. Most of the time I'm not very interested, but in this book I was. I think the writer did a good job because she used words that I understood.

This book has great poems for several themes. As a kindergarten teacher I have used this book many times. The poems are great tools for teaching phonemic awareness.

Although I may be a biased opinion as I am interviewed in the book (more like a manual), Mr. Whisler and company do a very thorough job of discussing the ins and outs of trade. In fact, as a "how to" manual, I've never seen anything better and more straigtforward.

If you are a business that is seriously considering bartering your excess capacity, I'd suggest you order this book today. It's an easy read. Best wishes. Mark Servatius

"The American Pharmaceutical Association's Guide to Prescription Drugs" is a fine text that covered some 1,000 of the most commonly prescribed drugs. It is straightforward, and sells at a newspaper's price. However, its biggest sin is that it is less up-to-date, and offers little when compared to other books like the "Complete Guide to Prescription & Non-prescription Drugs".

It is difficult to write "Short History of Chinese Arts". Suppose that an honest scholar start preparing his lecture note of " Chinese Arts", he shall struggle with selecting subjects and plates. Moreover, for example, he feels that he be an expert on ancient bronzes, and a beginner of export wares in 17th century. Leaving the purgatory, he would want help to a standard textbook.

Among English books, this noted book may have used in many college courses. 1st edition(1967) and The revised edition(1973) were welcomed by many students and scholars. Even a japanese translation had been popular for many years. In this 4th edition, 84 old respectable scholar still attracts me with lucid style.

For beginners, this should be a good introduction. Appreciating artifacts in Museum, finding something in antique shop, or reading books/papers/articles about a particular subject, it needs some elementary background knowledge for chinese arts and history. This offers such COMMON SENSE.

For experienced scholars, this is an interesting reading. This might look a mean textbook for them. Before reading, I minded I become tired for many facts already learned, but I enjoy this book even in commute train, although this edition format is too large. Because not only this is Readable for a japanese, but also gives many (sometimes implicit) skeptical suggestions. At 258p, about Wan Hui (1632-1677, painter), "The Palace Museum collection also contains a number of clever pastiches of tenth-century and Northen Song landscapes that are almost certainly his work"; keen insight!.

I should regretfully notice that some illustrations/items might be inadequate, blurred, or damaged. I hope that they will be changed at next chance.

Any student of architecture, particularly the modern movement, will enjoy reading this work by the mentor of Frank Lloyd Wright and, arguably, the father of modern architecture. In it, Louis Sullivan writes about himself growing from a child into a man, and recounts his personal drive, his fascination with nature, his love of man, bridges, engineering, and buildings, and his desire to create something new without the help of the dusty books of Neo-classicism. Louis Sullivan was never known for his modesty, and the tone of this book is nothing less than self-celebratory, which lends an overall optimistic tone to it. A bonus is the extensive photo plate section - it's interesting to see how his works grew as he did. Unfortunately the plates don't coincide with the text, which is the major flaw in this edition. Overall, though, it's wonderful insight into the mind of this influential architect.