I was given this book as a present when I was a child. It is the story of a boy and his dad who travel together and are best friends, until his father is killed in a car accident and the boy has to go and live with his Uncle and Aunt on their remote Australian Farm. With his cousins away at boarding school, he spends the summer slowly recuperating from his injuries and grieving for the loss of his father. Human relationships are too complex for him to fully embrace and it is a dingo (wild dog) that first helps him to recover, by taking a relationship back to the basics of need and help. This is reciprocated with the Boy helping the dingo out of trouble as he gradually blends with his new environment.

Similar stories have been told before, but as a child this rang very true to me. The writer has written a very honest and accurate account of how it feels to be a lonely boy, and the prose is descriptive (from the well-meaning relatives, to the beautiful but isolated locations), so that the story is fully involving.

A little too depressing for younger readers, perhaps, but a lovely tale that slightly lonely children should be able to relate to well.

I'll never part with my copy.

"Dinosaurs" is a great book for every Christian family, school and church. It is obvious that Baker has spent years researching this subject. It is well written, easy to read (middle school range) and very clear. Covers dinsoaur families, sub-families, science, research, Noah's ark, scripture and much more.

Reading THE DIRECTOR'S CUT, one cannot help but wonder how things might have been different if a movie called "The Singer not the Song" had never been made. Its director, Roy Baker (who added "Ward" to his name in 1967, to avoid confusion with another Roy Baker in the industry), was at the top of his game, having recently made the marvelous "A Night to Remember." He was making "The Singer not the Song" under protest, and in fact tried very hard to avoid the assignment. His instincts turned out to have been right - the film was panned, and his career went into a decline from which it never fully recovered.

Baker is unlikely to ever top anyone's list of great directors, but he is a fine craftsman who made some outstanding films. THE DIRECTOR'S CUT is his memoir - a fairly brief but very entertaining account of his 60-year career in films and television. It's a quick and very pleasant read; it took me only a few hours to get through, and I'm no speed-reader. The book gives a vivid picture of British cinematic life from the silent era into the 1960s, and contains lively anecdotes concerning Marilyn Monroe, Alfred Hitchcock, and some of the other famous personages with whom Baker worked during his career. The best parts, though, are the little technical "secrets" he periodically divulges - tricks of the trade that seem quaint by today's high-tech standards, but serve as fascinating reminders of a time when artistry and ingenuity had to make up for the absence of computer wizardry.

A few years after "The Singer not the Song," Baker had something of a second career in horror films, especially with Britain's legendary Hammer Films. During this period, he made some of the best - and also, one must admit, some of the worst - films in that studio's history. Having been an avid Hammer fan since childhood, it was in this connection that I first became aware of Baker's work. However, I can heartily recommend THE DIRECTOR'S CUT to anyone interested in film, whether or not they've ever seen any of Baker's movies. There aren't many men from his generation left to tell their tales, and Baker's insights and reminiscences should be cherished as relics of a bygone era.

If you care about movies, buy this book. I am sure you will enjoy it, and it may even turn you on to the work of a sorely underappreciated filmmaker.

This collection, edited by Helen Hoke, contains numerous tales from Europe and Asia, all focusing on the subject of the dragon. Some are funny, some frightening, but all are superlative stories; we checked this book out of our local library so frequently that it became something of a joke. If you love dragons or know a child who does, this book is worth tracking down.

I highly recommend this book to almost everyone. It should really get more attention!

The writing is thoughtful and interesting, and the subject matter unique. The book follows Barack Obama as he grows up and defines himself and his view of the world, as he finds the community that he wants to count himself a member of. In the end that "community" is really the community of humanity, but this book takes you on Barack's journey.

The author examines his heritage of white, midwesterners on his mother's side and later in the book explores the world of his father, a Kenya of the Luo tribe who came to the U.S. to study. Three parts of the book I found especially well done. First, the evocation of what it was like to be in Barack's head as a young black man with few black role models in his life and the difficult philosophical (internal) conversation of the African-American community defining itself in white America. Second, his work as a community organizer in Chicago really dealt well with the complex problems of declining inner cities. Third, the idealization of his absent father by both himself and his mother and the gradual discovery of the real character of his father and grandfather.

Overall, this book was about his struggle to be true to himself and to figure out what that meant.

This book presents the fundamental results in the field of scheduling theory in a coherent manner. The presentation and motivation is very clear and this book all contains the recent results in scheduling theory. In my opinion , this book will be of great use to graduate students interested in scheduling theory as well as a good reference book for researchers.

Joe Nickell, in this work, tackles a formidable task. He has looked at a variety of "entities," beings that are outside of normal human experience. Angels, demons, sasquatch, faeries, and extraterrestrials are just some of the beings that he covers, reviewing the folklore of these beings and the actual cause of belief in them.

The only drawback to the book is that he seems to try to cover to much in too limited of a space. Much detail that might be interesting is lost, due to the number of beings covered. Overall, this is a good general overview of the belief systems that revolve around these nonexistent entities.

The book was best when the Judge provides her perspective on events and personalities known to most of us only through news accounts. I enjoyed the book which was a quick read and left me hoping Judge Motely would write another book with greater detail of some of the very interesting episodes in her career. The author's career is remarkable and tracks the major events of the civil rights movement through the eyes of a women who appears to be uneasy with the role model label. I had been looking for a book on Judge Motely after reading several books concerning the civil rights movement. It is remarkable that Judge Motely has not been the subject of biographers. Her story is unique. The book would be useful for lawyers, legal buffs and those searching for true role models. It avoids legalease and is written in a manner which made it a very easy read.

Im very much interested to know more about the bakery machines. How they process the breads and other machines used in the bakery. I think it was worth the money and helpful, informative.

This is a very good book which gives an overall review of family medicine. Would recommend it for medical students and family practice residents