This is terror. This is horror. This one seizes you by the throat and scares the hell out of you. And it is funny. Really, there are moments when I literally laughed my rear-end off. And it is sad. It tears your heart out and then makes you mad as hell! Absolutely brilliant!

Even though the "Master of" computer games - Orion, Orion II and Magic - are no longer published, they are constantly on the classics list of many players. This book is as thorough and well produced as any guide you'll ever find, and a perfect complement to an excellent game. Very detailed and explanatory. When the games fade from your hard drive (years from now), this book will still be on your shelf as an example of "how it *should* be done."

Not sure why this recent book showed up so low on the list of his books. Its an excellent summary of mayflies, and contains a good distillation of the main must-have flies, with tying instructions. The book describes a system for being ready for anything without carrying everything. It is the usual thing: narrowing the flies you carry with careful lifecycle, size, and colour choices. I have been seriously fly fishing for 25 years, and still found lots to consider about his approach.

I really only have one quibble about the book (and his others for that mater), and that is that Hughes is not a particularly gifted tier. This is not a good book upon which to base your style. If there is a series of flies in different colours, they sometimes all look different in form also. He never seems to get the same result twice. When tiers have a strong stylistic vision, it speaks to how they see the effectiveness, aesthetics, and structure of a fly, so you just learn more from viewing weel made flies. This limitation would most affect a how to tie flies book, which this isn't. But there are enough patterns that it will doubtless serve that role for some. On the plus side, it is obvious that Hughes must catch trout on these patterns, so one needn't feel intimidated by one's own efforts should they be rough also.

Hughes is a hugely prolific writer, and I have several of his books, and don't find them particularly repetitive. But common sense should dictate caution if you have a number of his titles that may cover the same material. An extensive article/extract of this book was carried in one of the fly mags, so you may feel deja vu there also, though I found the book more useful.

As a parent and volunteer educator, this book and the others in this series provide excellent age appropriate material and interesting facts about the most important artists. The book offers great visuals, with many ideas for looking at art with youngsters. Even the exercises are easy and successful. The format is busy, but eyecatching and informative. I am ordering the whole series!

Ted Hughes has the ability to make the natural world jump at you, alive, off the page. Nowhere is this more evident than in this wonderful cornucopia of sea poems beautifully illustrated by Flora Mcdonnell.

There is literally the zing of sea salt from the moment you open the book. For a person, like myself, who does not live by the sea, it is a tribute to Hughes' power that I felt a whole new world opening in my eyes . This apparent throughout the book, each poem delving deeper and deeper into the mystery of the ocean.

At no time does the book become sentimental. Hughes' characteristic truth when it comes to nature is apparent throughout the book. He treats his subjects with the respect they deserve and in doing so creates a whoolly entertaining yet realistic portrayal of the sea.

A favorite of mine which illustrates this is a short little poem concerning a mussel, in which Hughes likens it to a torn heart. By turns descriptive and playful, he turns it into a beautiful poem concerning a creature of the sea which would not usually garner such poetic attention.

This, as such, is the strength of the book. It has an unerring ability to make the ordinary into something exraordinay ensuring that a walk by the ocean (for children and adults alike) will never be the same again.

An excellent, relatively plain English treatment of one of the most critical devices in the narrative toolbox. Dallenbach examines the development of mise en abyme--the mirror in the text the author/autuer/artist uses to illuminate the main thrust of the text, painting, or film. We see the technique everyday--be it the "play within a play" in "Hamlet", the subplot of Brooks Hadlin in "Shawshank Redemption", or any of the mirrored images in the paintings of Velasquez. Now Dallenbach gives an articulate and elegant examination of how it functions within literary and artistic works. With plenty of examples and a direct approach to its treatment of literary criticism--an area all too often obtusely treated--it is a good text for someone interested in narratology, although not a casual read.

Godfrey Diekmann, OSB, is a giant of the Liturgical Movement. His faith journey and career as an ecclesiastic, in many ways, parallel the spiritual awakening of the Christian churches of the twentieth century. Vatican II can be seen as the pivotal moment in both the larger movement and Diekmann's life's work. Perhaps more than any other single figure, Father Godfrey has expounded the vision of Church in which the Church is seen as most itself when it is the Church at prayer. His role in the shaping of the possibilities of renewal within the Roman Church has been an integral one. It is he and his like-minded colleagues who have seen to it that worship not be considered a collection of museum pieces of rubric, but rather that (especially through the use of the vernacular and the 'breaking open" of ritual gesture and language into even richer statements of faith) the public worship of the Church be a wellspring of nourishment from which comes the strength to attempt to remake and heal the broken world.

Kathleen Hughes is an outstanding scholar of the generation of liturgist-theologians which followed Diekmann and have done so much to make the edifice which Diekmann and his colleagues built upon Virgil Michael's foundational work a meaningful, beautiful home for modern Christians. Her writing style is clear and compelling, her research skills outstanding. In this volume Hughes pays tribute to a friend and colleague without making her opus sound like a hagiography. Her subject is shown with wit, wisdom and even a few limitations and flaws. Hughes chronicles Diekmann's life and work in such a way that the reader can feel the zeal of the young scholar and his frustrations with politics and misunderstanding at various points in his life. This is a highly readable work which should be required reading for anyone who holds a leadership role in the prayer life of a community, regardless of denomination.

...as a long standing student of Morocco I found this book focused and factually correct. Unlike some other books written about this country, 'Morocco Under King Hassan' provides a balanced picture that allows the reader to make his or her own judgements. If asked which books a student of Morocco should put at the top of their reading list I would start with Maxwell's 'Lords of the Atlas' and then Mr. Hughes' book.

Originally, I borrowed this book from the library and it was so good I just purchased a copy! I've read many cookbooks over the years, but I find this one to be exceptional in many ways. First, it's bound like ALL cookbooks should be (spiral), so it lies flat. Second, the recipes are easy to follow and use common ingredients. Third, the food is GOOD! I've made ginger beer, jollof rice (which has become a family favorite), Nigerian Chicken, and a few other dishes that were all hits! Even the spicier foods were winners with the kids. I especially enjoy the fact that there are African American dishes included that bring back fond childhood memories. This book would make a great gift and I plan on giving it to several friends that are getting married soon (as well as for Kwanzaa!).

Moving Molly is a wonderful book for preschool aged children. Molly and her family are moving from the city to the country. Vividly illustrated and well written, this story is entertaining for adults as well.

Molly's brother, sister and parents are eager to move; yet they all recognize the memories they made at their former home. Molly gets to see all aspects of the move, from the bare walls her family leaves behind to the different schools her siblings attend. This book is about new beginnings and is comforting to children who are on the verge of making a fresh start.