This book covers the architectural and natural wonders of Andalusia, but skimps on helpful information about restaurants, shopping, and to some extent, lodging.

A solid and standard style travel book with nothing special about it. Descriptions of hotels, eating places,enterainment, and shopping is miminal and unelinghtening. All the travel books have good descriptions of the main sites, the Footprint goes in detail about the more out of the way places in Andalucia. Ok, but not great.

While reading this purported memoir of Mrs. Wyatt Earp, I was unable to distinguish between the authentic words of Mrs. Earp and the imaginings of the author. Mr. Boyer has hihacked Mrs. Earp's memoirs and dive bombed them into 1881 Tombstone, AT.

The research on which this book is based is all on file in the Special Collections of the University of Arizona Library. I don't understand the many attacks upon its authenticity unless they stem from personal animosity of reviewers. This is one of the most heavily researched books ever published. No Western Buff's library should be without it. If you were to read just one Earp book to get a feel for the man this would be that book. Here appeared the first public knowledge of a vast new quantity of information that is today accepted as fact in the Earp Saga, and here many new pictures were first introduced. Before this book was published, Wyatt Earp's third wife was little more than a name. The author personally knew most of his informants, and knew Mrs. Earp casually from a couple of meetings when he was a young man, having been an Earp family friend for half a century and a member of a family that had associated with Wyatt Earp and his wife since the turn of the century.

Better than Berlitz, but that's not saying much. Get Fodors or Rough Guide

Best for background research before you go, the Insight guides are strong on giving a feel for the culture and people. For me, the short chapters on hunting, fishing and golf were not as interesting as the very good essays about how the Scottish church moulded the temperment of the people, and the bit about Scottish painters. A variety of topics like these are covered in the first 150 pages, the next 160 or so goes into the various locations, with a sense of the area combined with acutal landmarks, their description, location, hours of operation. The books are jammed full of photographs of decent quality. A different approach than the Eyewitness guides, worth looking at both before you go.

This late Bell suffers from a problem shared with Gladys Mitchell and Margery Allingham: many of the scenes are excellent, demonstrating fertility and ingenuity, but the same fertility and ingenuity are over-applied to the serious business of plotting, resulting in such tangled webs that their foundation lives up to the book's title. Thus, although the surprisingly Rendellesque presentation of the two murderous sisters (one of whom the doctor hero is completely taken aback to discover is a lesbian) and the scenes in the Devil's Well are excellent, the details of the crimes committed twenty years before the main action are impossible to follow, calling for mute acceptance rather than for scrutiny. A pity, for this "crime novel" (as critics would call it) could have been an excellent book with a little more work.

Overall, it's a fine book, and I'm glad I read it. The maps were very helpful, as were the introductions to each chapter that put Dr. Donovan's experiences in the larger context of events. But I have some beefs: (1) It *sounds* like an old man telling the story. Even if the authors had not disclosed this, you could still tell because Dr. Donovan telescopes interesting details & stories in the way old men often do. My other concern about this oral history is the 50 year delay between the events and the re-telling, as time selects memories and the hard edge comes off the stories. (2) The chapter on the home front was uninteresting. The wife's experience seems little different from the thousands of wives of POWs/MIAs in the history of warfare. I did like the "stopped bumping" description, though. :-) (3) It would have been nice to have at least a paragraph or two on how the author's war experiences affected his post-war life. What are the long-term effects of experiences like this? 50 years of hindsight would have been valuable in this regard. (4) I'm a military physician, so I was looking for medical details about captivity. I can fully understand why they may have been omitted, however. I can only hope that I never have to endure what Dr. Donovan did, and if I do, that I can measure up with the same courage, skill, and resourcefulness that he displayed.

I imagine that back in 1989 (when this book was written) everyone wanted to know what the lives of the two most photographed women in the world was like. Well, if you are this sort of character, then you have a juicy piece of literature here to tell you everything from the places the then Princess of Wales and Duchess of York went to lunch, shop, have their hair done, etc.; to the houses they owned, the palaces they lived in, the sports they practiced and their general lifestyles. This is mostly a volume for young girls who dream about probably the same ideals these two young women once dreamed of - and sadly found there were too different from their own dreams. It is, however, a delightful book, full of details on what a "Royal lifestyle" is like; the clothes, the jewels, the traveling and the spotlight in general. The author is herself a frequent visitor in the "Royal Circles" so she can pinpoint her own opinions quite correctly sometimes. On the other hand, this book is not an interesting piece of literature from the critical point of view and, at the beginning of this new century, now that the masks have worn off and the two ladies are not even part of the Royal Family anymore (one of them sadly and dramatically gone forever), this volume seems hopelessly outdated and, sometimes, silly.

This book is good if you like pictures of unicorns. It was very impressionable for its poetry coupled with the pictures. The style is flowy and suits the poetry.

I choose ¡§Stealing The Hills¡¨ because of the funny title. In the cover, there is a girl, it lead me to think, it seems that it is not possible to steal a hill by a girl and I guess that the girl is a scientist, she will use some technologies to move away the hill and then obtain the minerals under the hill.

After reading this book, I notice that some parts of the book are quite similar to what I guess. However, the background of the main character is not as same as I think. It is not a well- developed country with a highly developed technology. The story only happened in a small village. The main content is not satisfied with my expectation. I am quite disappointed that it is not relate to some science and technology. The main character, the girl on the cover, is not a knowledgeable person, she is not an expert in extract some minerals under the hill.

The type of this book is a friction. The author is Josephine Feeney. The main character is a man and two girls. Although the content of this story is not satisfied with my expectation, I still love this book. First, this book gives a strong message of environmental protection. When a man try to pollute the village: his mine gave out a thick, black smoke, many babies and children ill because of those black smoke, the vegetable were ruined; many big lorries made noises; the river turned black. He made the air, land, water and noise pollution. At this time, the two brave girls tried to stop him and the others villagers hate him. It is clear to show that people dislike others to pollute our Earth.

Second, I love the main character, the two girls, because they protest about that man. Although that man is very rich and he controlled the main food supply in the village; used a lot of money to lure them, sent a dog to attack them, stopped selling food to their families. He hoped the two girls to stop the protest. However, the two girls still insisted to protest him whatever they were under the pressure of their families. I appreciate with their insistence, they stand firmly with their view.

I recommend this book to the readers because it teaches us we must protest when we think something is wrong and tell you how annoying when you live in a polluted area. We will benefit if we think deeper.

3*'s
The book results from 13 years' work by two Pittsburgh educators. They address a difficult question in adolescent growth: how can we promote the development of young leaders? They propose a stage theory of leadership development in teens, over five leadership skill areas (information and thinking, attitudes, communication, decision-making, and stress-management) in three chronological developmental levels ("I'm not a leader," "I am a leader," and "I'm going to step up and do it"). The general thrust of development and leadership training is toward ever-more responsible and conscious decision-making and action on the part of the teen. They are looking to develop persons who "influence others in an ethical and socially responsible way."

Few books address leadership development in adolescents, but this one does. It is a great relief from business-oriented "leadership" books, such as Jack Welch's Straight from the Gut, which promote ersatz values and celebrity status as examples of leadership. Instead, these authors see the teaching of leadership as one of the most ethical acts that a community of caring adults can provide for teens. They see leadership as a central element in democratic and humane behavior. This book is not, however, a "how to" book and contains no experiential exercises or adventure tasks.

The authors stop short, however, of examining in detail why we do not do better in educating young leaders. It is not clear why they do not take the next obvious step, to advocate that leadership skills (which they outline well) should be embedded into the social curriculum of all middle and high schools, on a daily basis. After all, if we are serious about developing young leaders in society, perhaps we should be more explicit about it, and weave a deliberate web of development into every teenager's life.

This was a big disappointment. The writing is very dull like an old, boring textbook with nothing to even describe the recipes. I don't require pictures in cookbooks (this one doesn't have any but that's okay) but do like descriptions of how things taste (eg, is this recipe here because it is quick & cheap or because it is yummy) and when to serve them (eg, is this great for a party or good for the family when you're pressed for time.

I was horribly disappointed with this book. At best, it was uninspiring and very dull. I grew up loving Jewish cooking and have many Jewish cookbook.... There are many absolutely wonderful cookbooks on Jewish cooking (check Amazon)

I've made ten or so of the recipes in the book and I've always had success. Everything turns out great. Either it's something new that just tastes really good or it's an old memory from my childhood that I didn't know how to cook. We have several cookbooks in the house. This one is the best.