I found the text of this book to be too simple with very basic information but the photographs are great. It is suitable for those in grades 3-5. The simplicity of this book is compensated with the 60 step-by-step projects it includes which are a learning experience in themselves, quite easy to do and great for school projects. To list a few models one can make: Pyramid,Harpoon,Axe,Bow drill,Parthenon, Wooden Henge,Temple,Canoe and Boat. Other interesting projects include ancient food recipes,dyeing cloth,tiles mosaics,masks and clothing

This is a well-written book, with a simplistic, down-to-earth style. It is informative; despite being a bit confusing and erratic, is an excellent book. The numerous illustrations add to the succinct nature of the text. The fascinating world of armor is captured in an epigrammatic book by the renouned Yues.

D. E. Stevenson's novels are guaranteed to give a warm glow all over. They give a wonderful picture of small town English life. This book takes place in the 50's. Charlotte is a head mistress for a girl's school. She's bright and has done well for herself, but she has no real family to speak of. Her mother died when she was quite young and, for a while, she and her father were close. Then, her father married again. She and her new step-mother did not get along, so the solution was to send Charlotte to boarding school. A maternal uncle who had never married heard what had happened and took her in until his death and she became his heir. Her finanical future was secure, but she was destitute emotionally. As headmistress, it would not be wise to show favoritism among the teachers, so she becomes a solitary person. Due to a divorce of a student's parents, Charlotte becomes involved in the life of a fourteen-year-old, who she really comes to like. Her name is Tessa. Tessa asks her to come to visit her home in Scotland over the summer holidays. As Charlotte has no where else to go, she decides to accept the invitation. Tessa's father, Rory, and Charlotte hit it off immediately, but will history repeat itself, this time making Tessa the victim? Charlotte remembers how things changed between her step-mother and herself, and she doesn't want that to happen to Tessa. Read how three good-hearted people become a successful family. This is a sweet, romantic story between the lovers and a touching story of two women who become real friends. Enjoy!

This book despite its size is a book that seems that it needs more. I mean in historical events. The book is for a local history buff, especialy those here in the Charlotte area. It is fun to read about the history of where you live.

While vastly inferior to Jane Austen, who followed a few years later, Rowson does stand out as one of the better early-American writers. In a style foreshadowing Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rowson shows how life punishes vice. The second book, Lucy Temple, is less pedantic and more entertaining. This book is best for enthusiasts of early American Literature.

I read an informational book on the Cocker Spaniels. It was a very good book in my opinion. I learned that the entire Spaniel family was originally used in England more than 600 years ago. They are one of the prettiest and kindest in the Spaniel family. They often appear in major dog shows. I would imagine it would be good for ages 10-Adult. It would be great for a report.

Tibet occupies a unique place in the Western mind. It is seen as both a place of wisdom and spirituality and as a war-torn land with a culture in crisis of becoming extinct. In this novel, Charlotte Painter recounts her 1989 voyage to Tibet to meet with a native woman with alleged magical powers. Painter discovers that Tibet is a land with no easy answers, where nothing is as straight-forward as it seems.

Intermingled with Painter's travel diary is a fictional story entitled 'The Golden Road,' where Painter puts all of the hardship and struggle she sees into fictional terms. She acknowledges that there are problems in Tibet which she cannot address, and therefore uses her fictional characters to enact change.

One cannot find fault in Painter's willingness to show the dark side of Tibet, but there are still definite problems in her book. The fiction sections especially can seem very contrived at times, and too idealistic in comparison with the hardships facing the Tibetans of today. Also, the characters are flat, and due to their secondary nature within the book, there is no motivation to care about them. Tibet is the main character of the novel, and although Painter does a fair job of 'conjuring' it, I finished the novel wishing she had included more about how Tibetans view their own country.

Back Cover description: Bianca was enjoying her first holiday since the death of her beloved husband, three years ago....Until she met Gil Marquez, the owner of the hotel where she was staying.
Gil opened up such intense feelings of desire in Bianca, which she hadn't known she possessed. How could she want this man with such dark intensity, yet be certain that she was falling in love...?

I didn't like kids even though they weren't in much of the story. Gil's intense, she's a little wimpy.

Like everything of Charlotte Armstrong's that I have read, this book (originally published in 1966) is an engaging, nicely plotted suspense novel. The characters are interesting, the plot makes sense, and the book is fun to read without being demanding. What makes Charlotte Armstrong stand out of the crowd of similar authors is her clear, unsentimental voice.

This novel is not her best (A Dram of Poison and The Gift Shop, to my mind) but it's very nice. Read it & you'll be scouring libraries & second-hand bookstores for more.

The problem with Erica Jong's popularity is that so many white males (John Updike, Anthony Burgess, etc.) welcomed her book 'Fear of Flying'. On the other hand, without crediting those white males with any real discernment of feminist daring, let's remember that it was such people who got the book on the best seller list. Jong is infinitely more talented than those writers, but this book seems to be unable to articulate this simple truth. Let's remember, then, that it is clueless white males who advocate books by George Orwell, John Steinbeck, etc. Erica Jong is courageous and challenges eurocentric patriarchy, something those other writers did not do, and are now irrelevant because of it. Besides which, Jong isn't really *all that* radical a feminist anyway. She has been trivialized by being afflicted with white male enthusiasm, but no one can forget that her books are momentous because they are so individual, as all Women are.