Great book...very helpful for teaching my students the basics.

Katie's father has gone away for a while, and replacing him is the mysterious Aunt Rhoda with her big dog Moon Eyes, who threatens Katie and her brother. As Katie becomes more aware of Moon Eyes' underlying dangers, she realizes they are in a struggle for their very souls in this excellent supernatural thriller, reprinted for modern audiences.

Liked the global nature of the stories. Offers insights into different cultures. The stories themselves are well-written, beautifully illustrated, suitable for elementary school age girls. These stories are not the kind of love and partnership stories I'd hoped for however. They do include nasty stepmothers and are more about the process of girls claiming their own power, identity and rite of passage. If read with that in mind, the stories are valuable. I'd like to see a complementary set of stories about love, partnership and healthy separation between mothers and daughters.

For anyone who might me interested in Napoleon or Napoleonic history, this is excellent book because it shows to what extent Josephine held sway over Napoleon's heart. Here was a man who feared nothing, or so it seemed. And yet a single woman's love meaned so much to him as to actually preoccupy his mind even on the field of battle.

Evangeline Bruce must be congratulated for this excellent dual biography of Napoleon and Josephine. This is the most useful kind of biography, in that we not only learn the idiosyncratic details of individual lives, but the protagonists serve as windows through which we observe an age.

I have assigned this book to my students in a 300-level seminar on "The Age of Napoleon," and it has generated innumerable classroom discussions on valuable topics: the role of women in revolutionary and imperial France, the sources of political power, the nature of Thermidorian society, and many other things. Despite the length of the book, the students ate it up.

Bruce makes an occasional small error. She describes Joseph and Lucien Bonaparte as "uxorious," despite the fact that both men (indeed, all the Bonaparte men) had several lovers. She describes Andre Massena as "over six feet tall," although he was actually only about an inch taller than Napoleon. She describes General (later Marshal) Augereau as "illiterate," which was true of him before he became a general, but he had learned to read and write before the period she describes.

But despite these things, her grasp of the "big picture" is so good that this book will become one of my standard texts on this period for years to come.

This study of the arcane field of identification documents in the Third Reich is a remarkably solid and detailed contribution to its subject. The book is produced on photographic plate paper and the illustrations of the various examples-the German Army Soldbuecher, the Wehrmacht Drivers' Licenses, the Arbeitsbuecher (Employment Idenfication Documents), the Hunting Permits, the members-artists, actors, composers, puppeteers! of the Reichskulturkammer, the German Red Cross IDs-are lavishly illustrated and expertly glossed and elucidated. One example concerns the Soldbuch of which the joint authors, Ray and Josephine Cowdery, write as follows: "While American and English speakers would probably assume a 'Soldbuch' to be a 'pay book' in which a solder's monthly pay was recorded, the name Soldbuch in German is applied to the authority itself; in other words, the holder of a Soldbuch had the authority to draw pay. Little or no 'pay' was ever recorded in it in most cases." The authors travelled in the old German Democratic Republic, observed that every time they "crossed the border we entered a perceptible time warp in identity documentation. The East German police were operating their border crossing stations according to policies and procedures that had been established during the Third Reich." Highly recommended for the buff, the collector, and all those with a taste for what C.P. Snow once termed "old brandy"-the rare, the off-beat and the esoteric.

This has to be the most eye appealing book for anyone who loves cats, especially if the cat lover is also into antiques. The antique "scrap" images are so numerous and varied that everytime you look at this book you find things you missed the time before. The design is very decorative and colorful and is a beautiful coffee table book. I recommend it highly!

I first read this book in 1977 when I had a "problem puppy". This book gave me insight not only into dog psychology but also into dog owner psychology. Paul Loeb's stories and ancedotes about his clients, himself and his dog Plum opened my eyes and mind and helped me to change my "problem puppy" into a model citizen and me into a happy owner. I have had other dogs since then and they and I still benefit from the wisdom contained in Paul Loeb's book. It is the book that I have recommended most to friends and family, bar none, regardless of topic. The best "Self Help" book around.

Josephine Herbst's neglect is an incredible injustice. She is truly one of the most perceptive novelists of the century. This volume is especially valuable for its insights into the motivations of a character trying to take advantage of rising capitalism in the reconstruction era. This is the historical novel as serious literature. The first in a trilogy about the Trexler family it should be ranked with Dos Passos' U.S.A. and Farrell's Studs Lonigan as some of the most insightful literature of the thirties.

We received this book for Christmas, and it will always have a special place in our hearts. Our only child, a son of 26 years old, died of cancer four years ago. Some of his ashes were taken and planted under a Colorado Blue Spruce on the slopes of Mt Shasta. When we visit, the tall trees that surround him sway in the wind as if to protect him. The tree is a little crooked but it is growing beautifully. We would like to think that this book was written about our tree. The pictures are so well done and the story can be a lesson to us all.