i also have another few books of this write and this writer is simply great to present us his ideas

David Colander's Microeconomics is possibly the best introductory book to Microeconomics. He provides practical examples, as well as allows his own personal quirks and the like to show through, thus avoiding the monotony of traditional textbooks. Also contains color illustrations to help in the understanding (and the illustrations ARE helpful!).

This is a great text for an intro to Microeconomics (I used this book when I was student). It was written clearly by stating the points that the author hopes you learn, followed by the reading and then exercises and problems to make sure the student understood the concepts from the chapter. The many graphs in this book make the concepts easy to understand and the fact that most of the graphs are in color helps out alot.

This book won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize in 2000. Dawes was born in Ghanda but grew up and was educated in Jamaica and New Brunswick, Canada. This collection speaks to the landscape and the authors experience in South Carolina where he teaches English at the University of South Carolina. It also deals with the poet as an artist and has been hailed as "a powerful testament of the complexity, pain, and enrichment of inheritance." My favorite poem is "Love Oil" which deals with the meaning of home for the poet. This is first class poetry.

In Midland, Kwame Dawes describes journeys (geographical, spiritual and aesthetic) which ultimately leave us in state of grace contained in the title poem.
Dawes moves us easily between London, Jamaica, Africa and South Carolina as only someone of his intelligence, humour and talent could and creates a poetic tapestry as a true inheritor of the burden/glory of the African diaspora. Yet despite the shame of racism/slavery/alienation, Dawes keeps on moving with the music, "the reggae aesthetic" that buoys up even his most gut wrenching poems.
If you doubt me, read "Sun Strokes" and then tell me if this man is not a poet!

Simply - one of the best poetry books I have ever read. Wonderful, deep, brilliant craftsmanship - stunning imagery. A great new poetic voice.

This was an excellent book with lots of intrigue, though I would not award this book with the full 5 stars because some parts are a bit repetitive.

Let it be known: I am a train nut. A VIA Rail nut, to be more specific. So when I heard about this great little mystery about a murder aboard the Canadian from Winnipeg to Vancouver, I had to read it! "Murder on the Canadian" was a short read, but a very enjoyable one.

Protagonist Tom Austen wants to become a detective like his idols the Hardy Boys. Tom knows all the techniques: fingerprinting, poisons, collecting evidence and interrogating suspects, but when his vacation turns to a real murder investigation he gets more than he bargained for.

The beautiful Catherine Saks has been murdered in her room, apparently by her drunk, jealous husband. There are a number of suspects, and Tom has to move quickly and carefully to avoid being caught. The case takes a number of interesting twists and turns, including Tom nearly being abandoned in a small town, a poisoned omelette, and a fight in a railway tunnel with the killer.

Vivid descriptions, steady pacing and plenty of great conversations, as well as several action-packed sequences make this an enjoyable read for mystery and train fans of all ages.

I believe this is the most wonderfull suspence book for kids aged 10 to 14. Probably one of the best ones I ever read when I was that age. Highly recomended for kids to incentivate their lecture. Great present

Although I found the book simple and intellectually unchallenging, its sincerity, freshness and admiration for the wilderness and being a part of it were emotionally stirring. It reminded me of the importance of being able to step away from comitments to work, banks and acquaintances to experience something larger than all of us. We need this to remind us of the essence of being alive and human.

Most of us dream of adventures when we are young ... but the responsibilities of the world often derail them. David Scott's story is a tale of the dream of adventure fulfilled.

I love outdoor adventure books and this book is a great one. This is a story of living and thriving in the Canadian wilderness. I was fascinated with the authors adventures of building a cabin, hunting moose, and exploring. If you like outdoor books I recommend this as a must read.

Mid-period Munro, when she began in earnest to explore a talent for expansiveness. The title story is as fine as anything she's written. The final pages reap deliciously what the story's juxtaposed timelines and plots have set up. You walk away from the story shaking your head, sighing, aching. Not as fine a collection as The Moons of Jupiter, also out of the same period in her career, but still hard to beat by another writer in the medium. It seems short stories have waited for Munro for too long, and we are too privileged to be readers in her lifetime.

Alice Munro is, by my reckoning, the greatest short story writer of our time. Her collection, The Progress of Love, is ample proof. I recommend her work with trepidation to aspiring short story writers because her writing is intimidatingly exquisite. Charles Baxter or Lorrie Moore could profit from a session in the batting cage with Munro, but for most everybody else, it would be like taking your Tee-Ball Leaguer for a hitting tutorial with Ted Williams.

What's so good about Munro's writing? Foremost is her precision. The center of the short story writer's craft is economy. It's very difficult to find a word that doesn't advance both story and theme in Munro's work. The reader finds himself stopping to ponder passages not because they're opaque but because they are so powerfully rendered and so intricately woven. I've taught "Monsieur Les Deux Chapeaux" for seven years, and Ross's moment on the bridge never fails to transport me and my students. I don't expect to find an end to my thought about this moment or the story itself. It will unquestionably remain a short story by which I measure all others.

Alice Munro is such a fine writer that she can take some fifty-odd characters over the course of a story collection and make them seem like various aspects of a complex and sensitive personality. These stories are careful and elegant, and writers will note Munro's idiosyncratically beautiful use of unexpected adjectives. But even without such wonderful writing, her stories would speak for themselves: her characters live life directly, simply, and often painfully, and they have more feeling than they can express. Munro does it for them. This collection includes "The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink," one of the most moving stories I can imagine. Read it and weep.

This cookbook is made all the more interesting by the fact that you can actually stay at the authors' Bed and Breakfast Inn and get a good sampling of the results of their receipes. The "Inn on the Cove" is located in the suburbs of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The cookbook contains about 250 receipes. It includes: "Bountiful Beginnings"- Breakfasts, (just what you would expect from a B&B); "From the Kitchen Stove"- breads, pickles, and condiments; "Teasers& Tempters"- appetizers, soups, and salads; "Main Dishes from Land and Sea"; "The Great Outdoors"- receipes for the barbecue; "Celebrating the Harvest"- vegetable side dishes; "Sweet Finale"- cakes, cookies, and deserts. The receipes are straight forward and practical. Ingredients are readily available, except maybe for dulce, the main ingredient for "Dulce Soup". This is a seaweed found in the New Brunswick area and very popular for some local dishes. (I think you have to grow up with it or acquire a special taste for it.) Other than that ingredients can be found relatively easy. Neither of the authors have had professional cooking training, but have both grown up with a love for cooking and entertaining guests. So their receipes are not only practical, but tried and true. Unlike some cookbooks originating outside of the United States, the ingredients are given in both metric and the U.S. system of lbs, ounces, tbsp, cups, etc.

A local cooking show is video taped at the authors' Inn for broadcast on the Fundy Cable network. Many of the receipes found in the book have been demostrated on this show.

You will find this book an interesting addition to you library of cookbooks

We picked up this cookbook when we vacationed in Nova Scotia in August of 2001. Although it is written by the innkeepers of the Inn on the Cove in Saint John's, the food contained in the cookbook is very similar to the food we found and ate in Nova Scotia. We enjoyed this cuisine very much. Especially anything having to do with seafood.
This book did not just sit on the shelf after I returned home. I have made and enjoyed the following recipes: Pumpkin Bread-delicious and moist, Clam Chowder--very good and easy to prepare, Versatile Spaghetti Sauce--the addition of paprika made it one of my husband's favorites, Maritime Meatloaf--very good, Chicken Pot Pie--excellent, I altered it a bit because my son does not like mushrooms.
I've read all through the cookbook and plan on trying many more recipes. I have to say, I have NOT had any bad luck with any of the recipes I have tried yet!

This very book is very good and help full in reading. I would like to suggest all the readers to read this book.

This book would be easy to give a negative review until you realize the task that Dunmore took on in just 400 pages. The author must have conducted dozens upon dozens of interviews to compile this anecdotal history. Dunmore sprinkles this with a Reader's Digest outline of the war's events to give us an entertaining view of the RCAF's huge contribution to the Allied air struggle. While not necessarily for academics, Above and Beyond is a welcome addition to the literature in this area

I loved it!! It's wasn't what I thought it was. I thought it would be boring and there won't excite me but you Spenser Dunmore proved me wrong cause I never read anything like this before!!

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Cottingham does a very good job of tracing his war experiences from the Aleutians to Italy and France. His description of a naer attack of walruses in the Bering Sea is facsinating as well as his near death in Italy under tank fire. The only weakness is the inability to develop the profile of his friends and fellow soldiers. A good well paced narrative.

A very well written book that follows one man through his training and fighting with the First Special Service Force. There are a lot of mini stories that show the bravery and tenacity that these hardened and well trained men possessed. This is not the glossy, "hell is for heroe's" kind of story, but it tells of the boredom and fear of waiting for combat and combat itself. The movie(Devil's Brigade) shows just a portion of what these soldiers went through..."Once Upon A Wartime" gives it a face and a shot of reality. Hats off to Mr. Cottingham and his fellow "Forcemen". Well worth reading

Having read almost every available book and text published about the First Special Service Force, this book is not only one which I found hard to put down but is also one of the few that I look forward to re-reading.

Mr. Cottingham's recollections are obviously the product of a sharp mind and are doubly valuable when recounted through his clear and concise writing style. The historical events described are obviously important in and of themselves, but the reader becomes much more engaged by the fact that Mr. Cottingham and his fellow Forcemen are sympathetic men rising to face the extraordinarily difficult demands made of them.

This is not a "blood and guts" book thrusting the subject before the reader and attempting to impress by grandious "war stories". Rather, this is a personal recollection presented in a self-deprecating style that allows readers to come to their own conclusions that these men were true heroes at a time in our history when they were needed.

We should be thankful for the wartime contributions of the men of the First Special Service Force and grateful to Mr. Cottingham for this historically valuable, well-written contribution to the topic.

A cozy reminiscent of the best Agatha Christie had to offer. There are two new police officers solving mysteries and they can use the stuff that Agatha's heroes could not. They are called into play over a long hot weekend in July when, at their estate in Canada, some hoity-toity folks have a large getaway with family and friends. Of course the weekend could not be complete without a body turning up in the garden and telephoning the police. You have humor, complications, and characters so real that you can just about touch them and smell their sweat. Good stuff!

Leann Arndt, Reviewer

Lawyer Peter Martin and his devastatingly beautiful trophy wife, Jillian, captured my interest right from the beginning of this page-turning mystery. The Martins are on their way to the country mansion of Peter's partner George Brodie and his wife, Ellen, for the July long weekend. But there are complications. Jillian's mousy, apologetic older sister, Shauna, turns up unexpectedly at the Martins' apartment. Peter insists on taking her along and Jillian wants to leave her behind. We gather this is only the tip of the iceberg in the tensions building between the couple. Over at the Brodies, the weekend is shaping up to be far more than what George, and especially Ellen, had bargained for. Their guest list keeps expanding. It was to include only his law partners and their wives; their son Kendall; and Lorry, a distant relative of Ellen's, whom she hopes to match up with Kendall. But other guests keep turning up, some savory, some unsavory. As the weekend begins, there's lots of action and interaction among the ill-assorted group of weekenders, including the beginnings of unexpected romantic attachments. Events increasingly reveal the shallowness of the self-centred Jillian, which contrasts sharply with Lorry's depth and sincerity. By the end of Part I, there's a body in the Brodies' lovely Japanese garden. The rest of the book, in the best Agatha Christie tradition, keeps the reader guessing about which of the assembled weekenders tightened the noose around the victim's neck. I have only one small quibble. Part II starts slowly, with what I found to be too much detail about Detective Inspector Paul Manziuk and his partner, Jacqueline Ryan, who's been promoted because she's black and a woman--and who's out to prove she can be as good a cop as any in the department. It's well worth persisting through this slow patch because the rest of the book is riveting. I didn't guess "who done it" until Lindquist was good and ready to tell me near the end of the book.

SHADED LIGHT is an excellent mystery in the classic sense -- a who-dunnit in the tradition of Agatha Christie, but for the 21st century. SHADED LIGHT would make a great 'Murder She Wrote' type of TV movie. If you like to curl up with a good mystery, one that has humor, a thread of romance, its share of twists and turns, pick up N.J. Linquist's SHADED LIGHT, and follow Manziuk and Ryan through the maze of clues and red herrings that will track a killer. I wasn't sure who the killer was until the very end. I'm looking forward to the author's next book in the series. Joan Hall Hovey, Author of 'Nowhere To Hide'