I throughly enjoy this book on a daily basis. It has extreme quotations from a wide variety of interesting and exciting people from the past and present.

I have learned that even though you might not agree with what everyone says, that people are entitled to their opinion, and that is why we as a people are so lucky to have freedom.

I highly recommend this book to people of all ages. It will keep you entertained and it is a wonderful way to get to know yourself in the process.

THE COLUMBIA DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. By Robert Andrews. 1092 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. ISBN: 0231071949 (hbk.)

This is a marvelous book that one can spend many happy hours with. It contains over 18,000 remarks, witticisms, judgments and observations on 1,500 alphabetically arranged subjects. Some people like to keep such books around for when they need a quotation for a specific purpose, writers and speakers for example. But a far better use for this one is to have it handy for occasional browsing. More than 11,000 of its quotations have never appeared before in a quotation book, and all have been chosen not for their familiarity but for their quality and relevance to the times. They range from the funny and memorable through to the profound, and Andrews has made such an excellent choice that one's greatest wish while reading this book is for a photographic memory. Passages will be found here from Shakespeare and Malcolm X, Lenin and Salman Rushdie, Emily Dickinson and Camille Paglia, Oscar Wilde and Frank Zappa, and a host of others. It's the perfect book for a certain kind of moment, and there's enough here to keep anyone intrigued and entertained for a very long time.

An excellent quick synopsis of modern China. Gives an historical overview, biographies of the major players, and descriptions of all the recent historical trends that make China what it is today, all in 300 pages.

My only reason to withhold five stars is that I felt the treatment of the last forty years or so was a bit cursory. But then, this is a history book, and not a current events review. I'd recommend it to anybody who is looking for a quick but thorough treatment of the subject.

If you are considering doing business in China, are concerned about global geopolitical developments, or just interested in history and current affairs, this is the book for you. It presents a thorough, yet highly engaging overview of the developments that have led to the modern Chinese State. If you are only going to read one book on China, this would be the one.

Frommers now has numerous books that cover British Columbia as part of larger guides. I have the British Columbia/Canadian Rockies one, but they all contain the same text, which has been repackaged into different titles. As to this book itself, the layout is easy to find your way around and the information is reliable and has obviously been well researched. The hotel listings are especially detailed, down to descriptions of inroom curtains. This formula obviously appeals to many travelers and while I often pass up their hotel listings (too expensive for me), their restaurant descriptions are extremely helpful for me when on the road. They often describe actual dishes giving me a great feel of what to expect in each restaurant.

On the downside, so much space is given to accommodations and restaurants that the most important part of traveling is as good as ignored-what there is to see and do. The reason I travel and that BC is so popular as a destination is the great outdoors. I want to read about what there is do and what to see-the best hiking trails in the national parks, why it's worth my money to go whalewatching, etc. Many marvelous places in the province are missing completely. The book also lacks photos and the maps are poor or outdated (nothing that a good map from a gas station will fix!).

In conclusion, I like the look and feel of the Frommers book and have found that I can rely it when it comes to dining information. I always carry the Moon book as a reference for the ins and outs of each town and together the two books make perfect partners for my travels.

I am just several days before spending my holiday in British Columbia and the Canadian rockies, and this book really gives a lot of pre-fun. Very informative, very useful information (with places to stay, places to dine, must see attractions etc.) and an enthusiastic style make it a pleasure to read. I am sure that it will be of great value for every tourist who will visit this part of Canada.

Mr. Lawrence draws deeply on his life experience with nature and writes true facts about the cougar and how it lives life day in and day out.

This has to be one of my most favorite books of all time! R.D. Lawrence not only gives a factual accounting of the lifestyle of the mountain lion in situ, he does it with an incredible empathy. His description of the wilderness habitat of the cougar and its fellow inhabitants is breath-takingly painted with masterful wording; it draws you in, it brings you THERE. His feeling for the object of his study is incredibly personal,insightful,concise, and haunting in its attitude of acceptance of the almost mystical relationship he feels with the species. When he first physically encounters Ghost,"his" cougar,he speaks of feeling as if he was two separate entities: the factual,observant scientist and the curious,awe-struck, vulnerable human. He DOES give much information on the cougar,but you can also sense the terrible anguish he feels,personally, about the loss of each one(in other parts of the book) and his tremendous concern in the survival of the species as a whole. Mr. Lawrence treats each individual cougar AS a TRUE individual;a creature with its own personality, not with just the cold,impersonal categorizing title of "animal". The vibrancy of his attitude of "fellow-creature" towards this wonderful big cat makes me wonder if he isn't really a cougar in part, inside his soul. Mr. Lawrence, you have one very staunch fan and fellow lover of the mountain lion right here!

The Goldfish Bowl is one of the best mysteries I've ever read. It combines real detective work, a complex network of clues, believable characters and realistic dialouge. In the book, an elusive sniper kills eight people in the dark, rain-soaked streets of Vancouver, Canada. At the scene of each crime, the shooter leaves an object that is a clue that points towards the next victim. Laurence Gough has done a superb job on the Goldfish Bowl. The book is, truly, as tense and tight as a trigger. When you read it, you will be hanging on every delicious word, as did I the first time I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Gough's book.

Hi, my name is Laurence Gough. I'm the author of 'The Godfish Bowl, Funny Money, etc. No, I don't want to review one of my own books. I just want to draw your attention to the misspelling of my name. That's Laurence, with a 'u'. Not a 'w'. I know you must be awfully busy, but I'd appreciate it if you'd make the correction, when you can find the time.
Sincerely
Laurence Gough

Used this book extensively during the summer, not many places I looked for were not listed! Was a great help for entering waypoints in my GPS unit.

After using this book for a month and logging in hundreds of waypoints I have high praise for it's accuracy and user friendly layout. Often, as in passing a buoy, I had the chance to do an accuracy check. The waypoints from this book passed with 'flying colors' . We also had fun taking turns plotting our own waypoints and comparing. The book was hard to beat.

I read this book in 6th grade, along with almost all of the realated books. This one always had a special place in my heart. A young girl is visited by her very radical aunt. For the time, her aunt is quite revolutionary as she doesn't wear a corset, didn't take her husband's name and crusades against liquor. The aunt introduces her neice to ideas of suffrage, temperance and racial tolerance through her crusades. As a girl, it was amazing to see how much has changed for women in this country and get an inside look at what it took to create that change. Imagine my surprise to discover that it would have been unheard of to eat rice in America if you weren't Chinese! This book really broadens your perspective, while being funny and exciting.

As always, Beatty's characters are incredibly memorable while her story draws you in. Aunt Columbia, a suffragette who stirs things up in late nineteenth-century Astoria, is the kind of aunt everyone wishes they had---regardless of the time period in which they live!

Not only is this book packaged in a handsome red and gold cover, the contents are rather intriguing. Well organized and informative, this book would have been a 5, except for a college student (like most books) it is pricey. A worthwhile addition to any collection.

Still the best general collection of major sources to have at your fingertips -- this after teaching over thirty years and using dozens. The CUP selections never get too old!

Tom Austen is a kid detective. When he hears about a ghost town in the mountains of British Columbia, he has to go. Soon Tom and his sidekick, Dietmar Oban, find out that a young girl has disappeared. Then a boy disappears. It's now up to Tom and Dietmar to solve the mystery, before it's too late and they disappear too.

This was an excellent book. I recommend it to any mystery fans.

I like it when TOM explores ghost towns and caves. I wish that I would be allowed to go explore ghost towns too. The part I like best is when they find CHUCK and TIPPY at the end. I want to read all of his books. I CAN NAME SOME OF THEM. COLD MIDNIGHT IN VIEUX QUEBEC, CODE RED IN THE SUPER MALL, THE GREEN GABLES DETECTIVE, SPIRT IN THE RAINFOREST, THE ICE DIAMAND QUEST, MURDER ON THE CANADIAN and many more

This is a remarkable look at the untamed American West of 1834-1837 through the eyes of a young naturalist. Despite its age, this account is quite readable. The smaller segments describing Townsend's visits to Hawaii, Tahiti and Chile are also enjoyable.

Since this is a diary, it does have some flat spots (not every day can be an adventure), but mostly Townsend fills his descriptions with details and color that bring his encounters alive. You can sense Townsend maturing as the journey goes on. One suggestion to the editors: If a new edition is produced, it would be nice to include a map of Townsend's travels, because in some places it's hard to tell where he is.

A tip to the reader: Skip the introduction, since it's mostly just a summary of what you'll be reading. It does, however, contain a description of what happened to Townsend after the book, so go back and read that once you finish.

hi everyone, please buy, read and cherish this book! you would not believe how much work went into this - I know because I'm the author's daughter. BUY BUY BUY! :) thanks