Ok, as a Farscape fan I enjoy the content of this book but there's not a single picture in color except on the front and back covers.

A truely unusual work similar to John Keegan's classic, "The Face of Battle." The author sets out to look at the battlefield weaponry, and it's effectiveness, on the mid-17th century to the mid-19th century fields of battle with the eye of the forensic scientist. It is a sucsessful endeavor.

The book is lavishly illustrated with drawings from various military training manuals from the time as well as modern photos illustrating the difficulty of accurately using a smoothbore cannon against advancing troops.

This is not a general history of the armies of this time. It dosen't concern itself with the social aspects of the armies or their respective societies. An excellent book for that would be Christopher Duffy's work; "The Military Experience in the Age of Reason". This book concerns itself with the physical effects of the weaponry on the battlefield proper, both strengths and weaknesses.

While a trifle dry in parts, for the most, it keeps one's interest and is an intelligently written work. Though a specialist work it is a great contribution to the study of military history during the Age of Reason as well as the Napoleonic Wars. It even has a place as an addendum in an American Civil War collection since so many of the weapons and tactics examined were still being used in the 1860's. A good addition to one's collection.

This book is an excellent reference for the beginning fly fisher. The discussions on equipment, fly selection and how two's on rigging flyfishing equipment, knots, reading streams and discussions on insect entomology are well written and explained in a manner which makes them easy to understand and remember by somone who is just getting into fly fishing. The secton on how to cast is also accurate and well written. However the best way to jump start your casting knowledge would be to enroll in a one day class at a local fly shop or coax an acquaintance who knnows how to show you on your lawn. All in all this book is a very good reference material and will give you everything you need to know to begin catching fish on the fly and help you determine whether you want to go further in the sport.

These folktales abound in stories of the cacique (headman of the village), the kalku (village sorcerer), the machi (the good sorcerer), the cuero (a fantastic creature), the chonchon (a form the kalku takes so it can fly through the night). The stories are varied: a russet cow's magic saves a boy and the boy's father and sister. A girl whose face has turned to stone gathers bones until she has enough for a whole skeleton--and miraculously, she is cured. A clever Princess will marry only someone whose riddle she cannot answer. A little tenca, a Chilean song bird, laments a burnt foot all through a cumulative tale only to find that her foot is well after all. And so it goes through 15 of these compelling stories.

The pictures are old, we're talking about 15 years old but the content is positive and very easy to understand. This standard text book covers all the basic like shooting, defending and so on but it very crutially addresses the attitude of players and coaches which as the culture around soccer can be all too aggressive is a breath of postive air. Soccer tactics and skills looks to show even those who think they may know how to coach and play that it is a simple game in which the individuals who will be the most successful do the simple things well. This book will increase your understanding of how to coach and play soccer and comes as recommended reading for those wishing to take a English F A run coaching course. course

Supermodel Darcy Taylor has returned to Austin, Texas to fulfill her dream of having a home and raising a child. After sixteen years of runways and international magazines, she's come back home to the people who loved her and not her face. Though her dream initially included a husband, she has forgone that part because no one could surpass the love she felt for her best friend, Mitchell Maitland. Now a fertility specialist, Mitch reluctantly agrees to help Darcy have a child though he can't understand why the beautiful girl he loved insists on this procedure. As they renew their friendship, both Mitch and Darcy are forced to confront a sixteen-year separation that tore apart the young love they had had for each other but never got the chance to explore.

Karen Hughes's installment of the Maitland Maternity series is engaging and intriguing. Both Mitch and Darcy are interesting characters whose childhood friendship is recalled by the author with a deft hand as being endearing. I enjoyed the nostalgic flashbacks Hughes writes of these two because it deepened my understanding of them and they were well integrated without being overly trite. But in the present, Mitch and Darcy have a lot to overcome due to their celebrity. Much of the conflict lays in Darcy's retirement and the scandal surrounding the Maitlands which envelopes Mitch by blood. The issue of Darcy needing Mitch's help to conceive is never spun out the way readers are led to believe. This was the story's shortcoming. We do, however, learn more about the secondary plot involving an amnesiac waitress and the baby found on the steps of the clinic. Hughes develops this storyline without detracting overly from Mitch and Darcy's story, which is no small feat. I did like Mitch and Darcy despite their difficulties, which are sorted through a little too quickly. But their friendship, which was integral to their romance, was very appealing.

This book is a biography of the poet Langston Hughes; it is arranged in typical chronological fashion, primarily including information about his youth and early career.

Free To Dream is excellent overall. Langston Hughes was a successful writer with an entertaining and exciting career. Osofsky doesn't skimp on the depressing details, including mention of Langston's thorny relationship with his father, rejections at soda counters and restaurants (due to his race), and several other disappointments, mostly economic. ("To save money, he borrowed textbooks from the library instead of buying them, and washed his socks and handkerchiefs by hand.") Still, this is an entertaining read and a good overall assessment of the author's career. High school students who have been entertained or inspired by his poetry will find more inspiration here.

This is a good biography, probably best for young readers, aged 10-18. It's just over 100 pages, which makes it a good resource for a report. It's not so long you can't read the whole thing in one day.

... In addition to providing a much needed survey of major psychoanalytic theories on the making of feminine identity, she also applies psychoanalysis to the theorists themselves, showing the rest of us historians how it should be done. In her last chapter Hughes offers her own rather revolutionary view of how feminine identity is made: rather than the dichotomy of nature versus societal influences, she offers a third possibility, that of a core of female biology influenced by the culture in which the individual is reared. Doctrinaire feminists will be disappointed, but the rest of us can only cheer at Hughes's attempt to take polemic out of the debate. The only criticisms of the book are that Hughes relies heavily on psychoanalytic jargon, so that some portions are rather opaque to even the average educated reader, and that her style is sometimes elusive to the point the reader doesn't know at first whether she is using her own authorial voice or the voice of the theorist under discussion. Despite the reservations, it's a book well worth reading.

I find this book to be most helpful, as well as easy to read and comprehend. I have learned so much about gardening and controlling those pesky weeds, and have actually had fun doing it(if weeds can be fun!) The layout of the book is intelligent, and the illustrations are extremely well done....I don't think anyone reading this book will have any trouble identifying weeds in their garden. It's a good investment for ANY gardener!

Hughes' biography of Hardee is not unlike its subject: competent, professional, and unspectacular. The focus is appropriately on Hardee's Civil War career. The post-war years receive especially light treatment. Hughes does an excellent job of assessing Hardee's performance during each campaign and battle. To his great credit, he is more inclined than most biographers to be critical of his subject when warranted. Hardee's personality emerges less vividly from the book than we might wish. Perhaps this is due to a lack of insightful source material, or to the fact that Hardee himself lacked the charisma to be an ideal subject. Whatever the reason, you won't find Hardee particularly likeable or loathesome, but you will learn a lot about his role in the Civil War.