I taught a six-week workshop at our local library entitled "Reading for Creative Writers." During one week's session , I included Buck's ' Eccentric Circles' together with May Sarton's 'Magnificent Spinster' and Barbara Pym's 'Excellent Women' as examples of unmarried mature women in fiction. The group I taught ranged in age from thirties to early seventies, all female. These eleven students thoroughly enjoyed Buck's style, her humor and her portrayal of "real" women. Considering the scene of the nude swimming, where the characters rise like well-aged Aphrodites from Peconic Bay, led to a lively discussion of issues ranging from women's bodies, shame, aging skin and face-lifts to Georgia O'Keeffe, Eleanor Roosevelt and physical exercise. I heartily recomend this novel to anyone looking for a good read. And especially to Women's Studies/Feminist teachers or students looking for positive images of women's humor, maturity, and well-written modern fiction

This was one of my textbooks as a beginner, and I found it very helpful. It has a large portion devoted to translation of hieroglyphic texts, and the instructions are clear and easy to understand. The overview of grammar given is worthwhile also. I would recommend this book to anyone beginning in their hieroglyphic studies!

"Watching Jim, you learn how easy flying is, how effortless this wonderful art can be. But how do Jim Gannett and his like accomplish this simplicity? They study and practice, enthusiastically pursuing the art of flight, until knowledge gives them confidence and practice provides the skill to perform. It is there for all of us."

Reading this book you get to fly with the author, who's career at TWA spanned DC-2's to the B-747, and learn his distilled practical knowledge. Check lists, habits, emergencies, control smoothness -- it is all here. People say that if you want to be successful in something, you should hang out with people who already show the qualities you desire. This book is a way to hang with a true master pilot. (If you were wondering, Jim Gannett was Boeing's senior test pilot.)

This is a good set of wargaming rules for Victorian Science Fiction: Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, etc. Players with "The Sword and the Flame" or "Space 1889" armies looking for a weird change of pace should check these out. The basic games mechanisms are your standard 1:1 skirmish game rules, with special abilities and saves for Heroic Characters. Where the rules really shine is how they integrate the Science Fiction elements. You come up with a concept, machine, infernal device, dinosaur, what-not, and then roll dice to randomize its effectiveness. You need to roll dice to start things up, and then to keep them going ("sustain" rolls). This prevents super-powerful infernal devices from ruling the game. Inspired by a game my son and I played at a convention, I have sought out old Burger King Wild Wild West Giant mechanical spider toys, Pinnacle's Weird West Civil War Soldiers with rocket packs, Disney Atlantis Toys, etc. The interesting part is that any weapons you can invision Victorians having (and that includes Burrough's John Carter of Mars) can be made, but they will have limitations. Bring on those Lost Valley T-rexes and pterodactyls. This game is FUN!

Written two recessions ago, this book does not glow over with mantras about the "new paradigm" of the "new economy" and how profits don't matter anymore, blah blah blah.

Instead this book tells you what you already know; i.e., that the way you success in business is by working hard. It's the common-sense advice that your parents and grandparents gave you.

The main point of this book is to give you kick in the tail and motivate you. It succeeded for me, so I'd definitely recommend it. Five stars all the way.

I truly enjoyed Gifts From Nature and all of the wonderful projects and ideas for each season. I love the simplicity of ideas and that Matthew Mead focuses on using things that are available in nature- right in our own backyard. If you like Martha Stewart, you'll love this book by Matthew Mead- no hard to find supplies or expensive materials- it's filled with what is easy to find for all of us- no matter where you live or how much money you have. I'll be giving Gifts From Nature to all of my friends this holidy season- why? Because it is so affordable, so doable and such a joy to read and re-read. Give yourself the Gift of Nature- and you'll be suprised at what a fresh outlook you'll have on the world around you.

This is a very informative and up-to-date book which makes me read right to the end, without stopping. Each chapter prompts me to read the next one. It deals very in depth about the current geopolitical issues affecting our world today - the air, the sea, the space and technology. It also gives a good case study about Antartica. very few geopolitical books that I have read has made such a deep analysis on such immediate issues. Not too intimidating for the reader who has little geopolitical know-how because of its explanation of current concepts and definitions (in the first chapter) as well as a glossary of key terms used.

I think the people that will like this book will be people that like to hunt. This book talks about how people got their deer and what happened when they did. If you don't like to hunt, then you won't really like this book.
One of the best parts of the book is the pictures, and the hunters showing and telling how they got their deer. There were many different hunters and their roles were to hunt deer and kill deer to get big bucks.

This is a really great little book. It is very simple and to the point. It goes well with what Buck teaches at clinics. It also contains the same things you'll see on his videos. It is for anyone wanting to offer the horse a better deal. I use these same ways of teaching the horse and they do work when you allow the horse to learn it.

well done. follows family from england to bucks county pa ,then their descendants into virginia and families who went west. this book is still available .