Wonderful story, but much harsher and bleaker than her mother's own writings about settling in the West. A stunning work about a struggle for independence I couldn't even imagine.

The best parts of "Plum Creek", Little Town on the Prarie", "The Long Winter" and "Happy Golden Years" all rolled into one. Very exciting. I could not put it down. She gets right to the action, and leaves out all of the uneventful chapters on weaving, needlework and churning butter, etc., that her mother put into the Little House books. You can see that the best parts of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books were a direct result of Rose Wilder Lane's input. Her writing is vivid and exciting.

Young Pioneers is a good book if you love reading about how our country became seltled in the west by the young, brave people like Molly and David. Rose Wilder Lane is a great author just like her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder. If you enjoy Laura's books, you will enjoy Rose's also. Young Pioneers is a great story about how life was like in the 1800s. I really enjoyed this book.

The book Rose and Alva was one of the best books I ever read. I liked this book because Rose moved to a new home, and she meets Alva. Rose has to work on the farm,but on Sundays she can play. Alva usually comes over and asks if Rose can come over . They went on lots of adventures. They had a lots of fun together. If you like hearing about adventure I recommend this book, Rose and Alva, to you.

Rose and Alva are two little girls who are best friends. They pick pokeweed, expore caves, see a deer rub , vist the kittens, and make mud pies. Rose likes her new tomboy friend and they both have such fun times!

A great book discribes Rose buifly fun and intresting. a great atinchen graber. It discribes Rose and Alva great. the best of McBrides books.

A silly parody of The Night Before Christmas for the young at heart. I especially recommend this book to all bovine enthusiasts. Santa Claus..........Mo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ve over!

I'm 19 with two kids of my own and have had this book since I was little! I loved it then & my kids love it now! My oldest daughter loves it so much she makes daddy read it EVERY NIGHT before bed!! It's a fun & silly twist on a classic!

If you want to read an excellent Christmas Book, the book Santa Cows is the book for you. This amazing book was created by an wonderful author Cooper Edens. It is an exciting and adventurous picture book. I strongly suggest you read it.

The setting in this story is on Christmas Eve. The children were watching television and eating crackers chips etc. Outside there is a noise and you might have guessed it, it wasd the Santa Cows. The cows come through the chimney with a surprise. After the surprise is discovered the cows go outside with the people and play a well known sport.

I was very excited the first time I read this amazing book. I enjoyed it very much. I really think you should read it. It has many wonderful features, features such as rhymes and similies. The sound of Twas The Night Before Christmas kicks it up a knoch. It really has beautiful illustrations. I strongly encourage you to read this fantastic book.

This was one of the few books available at the time my son was diagonosed with SI. The book was invaluable to me at the time. Understand the book is a theory and practice text, and is not written with the layman in mind. However, I did gain more insight into SI with the book. It helped me understand a lot of the reasons behind my son's behaviors. It also helped me better understand the need for the therapy he was receiving, and why things affected him the way they did. I would recommend this book to other parents who are as perplexed as I was. It helps with a few more pieces of the puzzle.

I am a music therapist specializing in work with Autistic and other diagnosed children. I have just completed a book titled:
Music Therapy, Sensory Integration and The Autistic Child, currently in publication at Jessica Kingsley Publishers. It is filled with physiologic information as that relates to the work of music therapy. I have used the Fisher book as a reference and found it accurate, concise, and well presented, and it is one of the physiologic references in my own bibliography. Any therapist working with sensory integration issues must investigate the physiologic implications in coordinated hearing, seeing, sensing. For that information, I found this book clear and direct in helping lay readers and professionals alike to understand physiology. My own book follows similar progressions from presenting physiologic information to demonstrating, through case examples, how sensory integration implicates the work of music therapy. I recommend this book for clinicians, educators, caregivers. My own book will be available in late 2001.

Even with forty years of experience in the field, I found this book insightful. It is written to enlarge existing understanding of sensory integration without intimidating the reader. The wealth of knowledge can help not only the new graduate, but also the more experienced practitioner.

Graves knows his stuff and if you like military history, you will want to read this book. His research is impeccable and his writing style makes it seem as though you were reading a very historically accurate novel. The War of 1812 has been long neglected by historians and this, one of the largest and blodiest battles, is almost unknown despite taking place practically on top of Niagra Falls, Ont. This book corrects the situation and will certainly be the definitive work for years to come.

This is an excellent study on the bloodiest battle of the War of 1812. For many years little was known about the series of battles fought along the Niagara Frontier in 1814. This book helps to correct that gap. A companion volume to the author's earlier title on the Battle of Chippewa, here again many myths are corrected.

Winfield Scott recklessly lead his well trained brigade against General Drummonds British posted on the bluff above Lundy's Lane. Unlike many accounts of this battle told in most histories, here Mr. Graves shows us that Scott marched his brigade up to the British position, deployed it, and allowed it to be shot to pieces! The British artillery tore Scott's brigade apart while it stood dutifully at attention awaiting Scott's word to advance. But Scott held back, fearful of being outnumbered, and affraid to retreat before a superior enemy. Most histories tell us that Scott recklessy attacked, but the in-depth study of the battle provided here shows us this was not the case. Scott advanced his brigade to contact, but did not commit it completely to attack. Only when Ripley's and Porter's brigades reinforced subsequently did the American's finally attack and carry the British guns. But Scott's brigade will play no part in this process until later.

One of the interesting things about this battle is how poorly both sides fought it. Scott was reckless to the point of mania, while Drummond was weary after the recent defeat at Chippewa. The British general had only to advance his line at any point during the battle and the American position would have been untenible. Why Drummond did not make use of his six light companies to screen his force and harrass the American advance remains one of the mysteries of the battle. The series of British counter-attacks which took place to regain their guns has also been wrongly described by many historians of the action. As the battle continued from late afternoon into night the fighting became more and more confused. If Drummond had properly deployed his skirmishers Brown never could have captured the British artillery. Instead, the Americans were allowed to gain a lodgement in the center of the British line and a bloody series of close range fire-fights took place, all to no avail in driving
back the determined Americans. Both sides would lose in excess of 800 men and the battle would become one of the greatest debacles of the War. Both sides would claim victory, even though neither really could justify it.

For sure the 1814 Niagara Campaign and its battles deserves more attention. It was this campaign and its battles at Chippewa, Lundy's Lane, and later the siege at Fort Erie which made the ameteur American army into a respected fighting force. If not for these two battles the New Republic would have been disgraced.
We can certainly learn a lot from studying this campaign. Andrew Jackson and New Orleans has been done over and over again. There is little to learn from this one-sided battle which saw Americans safely defeating British regulars from behind entrenchments. What makes Lundy's Lane important is that Brown's brigades went toe-to-toe against British professionals. They gave as good as they got, and could have done a lot worse. Winfield Scott emerges as a somewhat vainglory maniac, who nonetheless drilled his brigade to the point where it could fight like a European army. His colume attack later in the battle, while another dismal failure, illustrates that the American army, when well trained and officered, could perform European tactics. Scott, for all his faults and recklessness, deserves a lot of credit for this.

In sum, Graves has done a great job rescueing an important battle from the dust-bins of history. The narrative is vivid, smooth, and un-biased. Many prints and pictures enhance the text. This is the deffinitive work on this battle for many years to come. All War of 1812 buffs should have it in their collection.

Donald Graves is the authority on the campaigns on the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812. Of his three five books on the period and campaigns, this is the best one. It tells the story of a fight that was one of the fiercest fought on the North American continent, even though the numbers on both sides were very small. One British officer who participated, and who had experienced wwarfare in Europe during the period, said it was the hardest, most savage fight he had ever been in. Both sides literally shot each other to pieces, ending in darkness, confusion, and a very unsatisfying draw.

This book is highly recommended. It, along with Graves other books, and those by John Elting and Henry Adams, give the complete story of the War of 1812, the huge amount of territory over which it was fought by small 'armies', the drama, inexperience of the Americans that finally grew into budding professionalism, and the bright moments at sea when the yearling US Navy humbled the proud, seeminly invincible Royal Navy.

Well-written authoritative text that is easy to read, exciting narrative, well-researched and very reliable, this book is one of the best of its type, and the author is one of the best living militiary historians.

This text is a very readable presentation of first year graduate abstract algebra. The material is presented with notations similar to that of Jacobsen in his "Basic Algebra" texts, and is useful as a review text for qualifiers, or for independent study.

After getting frustated by nearly all the so-called "authoritative" books on abstract algebra (Lang, Hungerford, Jacobson), I really can say that MacLane/Birkhoff is the best die-hard classic on algebra. Now I must stress that this book IS NOT out-of-print: the third edition is actually published by AMS/Chelsea.

There's an interesting thing about the evolution of this book: the first edition has become famous among mathematicians, because it brought for the first time an elementary exposition of categories and universal constructions, directly from the horse's mouth (MacLane founded the theory of categories together with S. Eilenberg; Birkhoff was the creator of the theory of lattices), which is used as a basic tool throughout the book; it also contained unusual topics such as multilinear algebra and affine and projective spaces, but no Galois theory. The second edition has gained a chapter on Galois theory, but has lost the part on affine and projective spaces.

The third edition is the best! It has recovered the part which was lost in the second edition, and had its exposition considerably polished. While most other books expose abstract algebra as a ugly, prawling monster, MacLane/Birkhoff manage to explain quite esoterical topics (many of them created and/or developed by themselves) in a surprisingly natural and tasty way (compare it with the dry, encyclopaedic style of Hungerford and Lang); although quite big, the book supports several ways of reading and teaching its parts without sacrificing clarity. Another great quality: it is INSPIRING, in the sense that it develops a powerful algebraic intuition, which is, in my opinion, the main obstacle one has to face to learn algebra.

There isn't a song that Gene put out that I didn't enjoy. The book does a good job giving a pretty in depth overview of his short and frantic life. What came out was his total love for rockabilly and rock music. He sacrificed his health and eventually his life for it. The book tends to "race" much like it's title and dates tend to be ignored and events, concerts etc. aren't fully explained. But the good far outweighs the bad. After reading the book I fully realized the (physical and mental) pain he went through to perform the music he loved so much. Money was secondary to performing for his audiences. Hard to believe that today isn't it? Gene's personal life was a shambles but he rocked on. He was one of a kind and they won't be making any more like him.

...that this is the only in-print bio on Vincent, I have to say this is an excellent book. Despite the tone of the writer at times to try to seem "country," and her habit of not really pointing out too many specific dates (or years even!), I did enjoy this. The extensive after-notes, and interview list were quite impressive and obviously a lot of research went into it. I guess I just wish it seemed more in depth than it read. It will definitely do for now...

Gene Vincent was the prototype rock 'n' roller, and his contributions were formidable, influencing The Beatles, Van Morrison, Robert Plant, John Fogarty, Jeff Beck, Chris Issac and Jim Morrison to name some of the most vocal with their praises. This book widely explores Mr. Vincent's youth, establishing step-by-step how his Norfolk, Virginia roots helped mold "The Sound" he started in music. Before Mr. Vincent, popular music aimed to hit listeners between the ears or between the arms. "Be-Bop-A-Lula" clobbered listeners between their legs, and rock 'n' roll would never be the same. The author's obviously deep love and respect for Mr. Vincent and his music translates to an extremely intricate -- albeit highly readable -- study, I would say the best ever written on the subject. To her credit, Ms. VanHecke never lets her admiration overshadow reality. Mr. Vincent was no candidate for sainthood, either by destiny or by his own choice. And it's precisely this aspect of Mr. Vincent's personality that's so wonderful about the book. While it's quite easy to track the direct musical lineage created by Mr. Vincent, millions of rock music fans probably never recognized that the rebel personna also started with him. This book is a must-read for anyone who remotely appreciates rock 'n' roll.

Good, tight writing with unexpected twists. I didn't want to put it down!

The plot of this book is one of the most original and haunting I've read to date. It's an emotional read about a family's near destruction and one man's sacrifice to save it. I especially enjoyed the ending... which is not all that neat and tidy.

If you're a fan of mystery novels, especially the kind that take you through plot twists and grisly murders, you'll like "Sacrifice." The story brings to mind the better work of Dean Koonz when it comes to horrific suspense; a brutal, clever villain and a resourceful, sacrificing hero. Check it out!

Tons of material and the lyric help is good but if you want to learn how to play these songs well you need another source (if you can't figure them out, which is hard for a beginner to do). The problem is that it just gives the basic chords and doesn't include open tunings - something vital in dylan's work - or how to do anything other than strum the chord over the vocal. It was given to me years ago and now that i include dylan's work in about 25% of my performances i use it as a reference or key checker but now how to play the songs well.

if you're a recreational guitarist and dylan fan this is the absolute best! i have every dylan songbook in print and most of those out of print and this is by far my favorite. it even has chord changes noted on the supplemental lyrics (something i have never seen elsewhere).

I picked this book up when I was first teaching myself guitar about 8 years ago, and the main reason I was teaching myself guitar is because I wanted to learn how to play my favorite Dylan tunes and get to the heart of the magic of his songwriting. This book covers much of his most glorious material, basically from Blonde on Blonde through Desire. That means you can learn how to play Visions of Johanna, Simple Twist of Fate, Hurricane or any of the Basement Tapes ditties. In addition to having superb material, the book has the most sensible layout of any folio I've ever purchased: a key to all the chords used in the song appears on the top of EVERY page, so when you flip to the end of the verse you don't have to flip back again to remember what an F#m7 looks like; this is obviously beneficial to a new player. By and large the chords seem to be accurate; some songs sound closer to the album than others, and I've read that many Dylan songs were recorded in unorthodox tunings, but if you want to get the gist of "Tangled up in Blue" or "Lay Lady Lay" (which sounds dead-on) you'll be more than happy with the way it's spelled out here. I think this book is around, so if you're willing to hunt through a few well stocked music or book stores you could probably find it. It would be well worth your while

Modern algebra is an extraordinary topic and Birkhoff and MacLane do a superb job of exploring it. However, as is often the case with mathematical texts, the material can be somewhat dry.

Fashions come and go, even in mathematics textbooks. Books from the 60s and 70s often have a set-theoretic flavor to them, because that was the fashion. Few books of any period are well written enough to resist such aging. spivak/calculus is one, and birkhoff&maclane is another.

This book strips algebra bare. I'm not talking about kiddie stuff like y=mx+c, I mean answers to the questions 'what does it mean to add two numbers together?' 'what is a real number'? Now there's no getting away from the use of sets and logic for these sorts of questions, but B&M do it with such elegance and clarity of exposition that it seems perfectly natural. And when you think about it, they're answering pretty fundamental questions; once that your school teachers glossed over. You can add 2 apples to 3 apples and count 5 apples, and maybe 2.5 and 3.5 apples make sense, but on what logical basis can you say that pi + pi is 6.28... given that you can never have exactly pi apples? Does saying you have a real number of anything make sense?

I have just started reading this book, and already I am
enthralled by the beauty and elegance of the authors'
exposition. Assuming nothing more than an acquaintance with
school algebra and a little geometry, they develop
the basic properties of central algebraic structures, including
rings, groups and fields. These are treated by reference to
familiar examples, such as the ring of integers and the
rational, real and complex fields. Everything that one learned
in school algebra is to be found here, though, as is to be
expected, each topic is treated at a rigorous, mathematically
sophisticated level. In the first two chapters, the properties
of the integers and rational numbers are gradually examined,
ultimately down to the definition of addition and multiplication
on the basis of Peano postulates. The authors then consider
polynomials, the real and complex numbers, vector spaces, linear
algebra and other topics.
The writing style is clear, concise and elegant, with each new
concept being carefully defined as it is introduced. The proofs
achieve a satisfying balance between detail and brevity. Indeed,
reading the proofs and completing the exercises would do much, I
am sure, to enhance a reader's mathematical facility.

If you are interested in acquiring a deeper understanding of
algebra, this book should serve as an excellent introduction.