"Feeding to WIn" es un excelente libro para todos aquellos que estan relacionados con los caballos de carreras y quieren aprender más acerca de su crianza, desarrollo y cuidado. Por lo ameno y agradable de su lectura, completo en los tópicos que contiene y didáctico en la forma en que los trata es altamente recomendable.

This is a wonderful book that I recommend to anyone who has been or is planning to go to Mammoth Cave. I recently took a trip to Mammoth Cave and found it difficult to take pictures while taking the tours. I purchased this book and found that many of the sites that I wanted a picture of where in this book. The picture were much better than I could ever take!

I really got a lot out of this book. It is a lifesaver for the beginning wood worker like myself. I have referred to it countless times, and I thoroughly enjoy it every time I open it.

i first saw this book in the hands of a boy who admired the brevity and stark reality of these words. these lingering tangents are for readers who sometimes admire just the leaves rather than the whole tree.

David Wagoner pulls you in with a giant yank from his very first lines:

When the bank blew up, I had just got to the part in "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" where it was an Oink Oink here and an Oink Oink there (it's easier to grunt on a mouth harp than do most anything else, so I was stretching it out a little to make up for spoiling it later on when the Gobble Gobbles commenced), and at first I thought I'd busted my eardrums from blowing too hard.

In one short paragraph the reader knows he or she is in for wild times, and Wagoner delivers. Tracker is the moving, astonishing, touching and hilarious story of 15-year-old orphan Eli in 1889 Colorado. Raised by an abusive livery stable owner, Eli has lived over a barn all his life, pitching hay by day but dreaming by night of following his hero, the half-Indian old gray-headed man, Tracker Byrd.

When bandits dynamite and then rob the First National Bank of Sheepshank, Colorado, Eli seizes his chance. If he can hire on as part of the posse chasing the villains, he will at the same time learn tracking from Tracker Byrd.

Eli and Tracker split off from the rest of the posse, finding excitement and trouble all along the trail. One walking package of excitement and trouble is Miz Cherry Bastion, a girl so beautiful but headstrong that Eli calls her "both sides of a sermon, the harp music and the sinner's roast."

David Wagoner departs from the stale Western formula of the straight-and-narrow, do-gooder hero and his lily-white, sweet-as-honey love interest. Eli is honest but human, and grapples with his conscience often-with sometimes shaky but hilarious results. Miz Cherry Bastion is about as sweet as vinegar and twice as hard to swallow. Eli's so-called hero, Tracker Byrd, is a hard-drinking, wisecracking old varmint who alternatively delights and dismays Eli.

By painting the characters believable and human, Wagoner does young adult readers a favor. He uses real-life personalities and problems in a make-believe world to allow his readers to learn some concrete answers for today's topsy-turvy world. Sometimes a model or mock-up of a troublesome situation helps overcome perception difficulties.

Tracker is a good role model for today. David Wagoner uses no objectionable language or situations in his novel-he doesn't have to. His clear writing and down-to-earth backwoods style language and wisdom (mixed with generous portions of humor) tell a good story of how far perseverance, trust, and a good healthy does of optimism can take you. Listen to Tracker teaching Eli as Eli teaches the reader:

"Let me put it to you serious," [Tracker] says. "All right, you're chasing some bank robbers. What had you figured on doing when you caught up with them?" "Why, I don't know," I says, shamed to admit I'd been thinking more about improving myself and looking for sign than anything else. It was a beautiful day, and the sun made every crack, stick, grass-blade, weed-stalk, and rock-edge, near and far, look like it was fit to bust, just for the sheer pleasure of being itself and not shaped like nothing else nor colored the same nor standing or laying the same way. What difference did it make if we caught somebody or not? "Take them into custody, I reckon." "Where's that at?" Tracker says. "Where's that 'custody' at?" I tried to be patient with him. "I mean back to Sheepshank so's they can get a fair trial for bank-busting."

P.S. Anyone who has such fun with the English language is bound to be a good poet. Here's a chance to lure the unwary into poetry. David Wagoner is known more for his poetry today than his novels. If the young adult reader loves the novels, perhaps he or she will give the poetry a whack (although Wagoner's wonderfully irreverent way with words is absent in his poetry-too bad!) After all, David Wagoner himself thinks he's a better poet than novelist. Are you sure, David?

The power of the word. The poem 'Walt Whitman Bathing' deserves a special Pulitzer Prize alone. Written a simple clauses, the poem is loaded with words that made me stop, think, and read on, again and again. Wagoner's arc in this collection is from childhood to old age. The words stayed the same. The context changed. And this is who we are. Give this book to someone as a gift. Gift. What a beautiful word. Wagoner. Another.

I've loved this book for more than 20 years. Wagoner makes the myths and sensibilities of the native people of the Pacific Northwest come alive in simple powerful language.

The poems stick in my head. I remember his ``Songs for the Bones of Salmon'' every time I put a bite of salmon into my mouth. ``Lost'' resonates for me whenever I step out into the forest and see the nurse logs of fallen cedar trees, and the salal and ferny undergrowth.

And his ``Burial Poem'' has become the mandatory reading at all our family funerals. It is elegant, spare, and presents an attitude toward death that I find consistent with my family's ecological and theological values.

I do admire Wagoner's later work, but this is the book above all others that I esteem.

As a student of religious history, I found Van Wagoner's book to be an acessible and thourough, yet comprehensive and in depth study of the history of Mormon polygamy. The nature of Mormon polygamy, its origins in the revelation of prophet Jos. Smith, and a historiographical analysis of the Mormon church are skillfully woven together to form an insightful narrative. Though the author was educated at Brigham Young University, he manages to maintain a highly professional neutrality and hard factualism in dealing with a subject which is controversial not only in wider American culture but within the Latter Day Saints and Reformed Latter Day Saints churches.

The only inclusion I would quibble with is the final chapter on cases of modern polygamy by so-called mormon splinter groups; it seems superfluous and bound to be outdated long before the rest of the book, and at a certain point any serious hitorical analyst must, in fact, pick up a newspaper for themselves.

In spite of this, Van Wagoners book is a benchmark work of the highest scholarship and a must-read for any scholar of American Religious History.

I first read Van Wagoner's book a decade ago, but I dusted it off recently as I read through Richard Abanes' excellent tome "One Nation Under Gods." Although Van Wagoner is, as I far as I know and understand it, LDS, he is very fair with the facts, even though he shows the LDS Church leaders from the turn of the 20th century in a less-than-honest light. I find it amusing where several previous reviewers on Amazon claimed that this is an anti-LDS work. Why should something be considered "anti-LDS" just because it gives the documented facts with the sources included? A religion that struggles with only encouraging "faith-promoting" materials is one that should be highly scruntinized before one attempts to become invovled with it.

The book's type is small--I estimate it at 11 point--so be prepared to put on the reading glasses. I do like the fact, though, that Van Wagoner kept the endnotes to a minimum. I also appreciated that they were at the end of the chapters rather than in the back of the book. (I wish publishers of academic works would cease from the pointless practice of sticking the endnotes in the back of the book. In fact, what's wrong with footnotes?)

Since Van Wagoner has written the book, much has happened in Mormon polygamy, including the public arrest and trial of one Utah polygamist who, I believe, was prosecuted thanks to the Salt Lake Olympics. I have known some Utah polygamists who hold to the very ideas officially believed by Mormons before 1890 (or 1904). In fact, they believe that the LDS Church is apostate because its leaders changed a vital doctrine of Mormonism. I would almost have to side with them in their contention that their version is much more authentic and closer in origin to the pure Mormonism as explained by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, among others. Polygamy is an ugly business, though, as I have seen firsthand some of the situations with which current polygamists have to deal. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to get a clearer picture of polygamy in America, especially as it was historically believed by the LDS Church.

In this revised and updated edition, Richard Van Wagoner's Mormon Polygamy: A History continues to be a truly informative, totally engaging, candid and comprehensive history of the practice of plural marriage (commonly called polygamy) in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons). From its inception under the founding prophet Joseph Smith, Mormon fundamentalist splinter groups continued the practice after the mainstream church abandoned the practice under federal political and military pressures. Mormon Polygamy: A History is an objective, "reader friendly", highly recommended, descriptive study that will be of continuing interest and value to students of polygamy within the framework of Mormon theology, sociology, and church history.

A easy read tale with the basic facts. A great book for kids with a fun side. Using it on a report as a source is great.

impecable libro del maestro Adams..en mi pais es referencia para los estuidantes que preparan el examen de Clinica de Equinos..D Amoza..Universidad de la República, Facultad de Veterinaria..URUGUAY south america