This was a great book with alot of info

Great history of Butte, MT mining days set in late 1800's. Conflict between English and Irish is a major theme of the book. The action is often riveting as the main character is trapped in mines and in the middle of underground skirmishes.

This book is excellent for beginers in chinese art and art in general. taking you from the beginning by illustrating the basic rules for strokes, techniques and compositions necessary for a well deveopled authentic piece of chinese art. Ms.Cameron shows you what to do and what not to do in a conversational manner that builds confidence. In a short period of practice i was very pleased with my progress. If i can do it any one can. Buy this book.

This is literally a seminal book. For me Cameron provides a meditation on questions and issues that have been haunting me for years regarding the use of language (written and visual) in the formation of a religion that began as small dissident sects and, over the course of three to four centuries achieved imperial recognition and status. This is not a book for tyros, but is most profitably read by students familiar with the sources and the sitz im leben. The speed reader will miss the challenge of confronting his or her own questions with the evidence presented. For example, the author devotes considerable space to the rhetoric of virginity and asceticism. This stimulated me to ask, "Is this language of purity an indictment of a church has been compromised by Roman imperial culture and ethics? Is this insistence on purity an admission of the church's sin of rejecting the meek Jesus of the past in favor of the powerful Kurios of the present? This rejection formally took place when Nicaea declared Christ to be god, a god incarnated in imperial imagery. Cameron indicates that a theological paradigmatic shift took place in the fourth through the fifth centuries. There is a tremendous difference between the tentative use of christian symbols by Ignatius of Antioch and the self assured proclamations of Gregory of Nyssa. The roots of modern christian theology are planted in the fourth through the fifth centuries. Cameron demonstrates that the christian rhetoric of that period provided the familiar themes of Greco Roman culture, but transfused with christian themes. This hybrid not only appealed to all social classes, unlike classical rhetoric, but carried within it the tensions that surfaced during the Iconoclast debate, the debate which resulted in the victory of the masses over the elite. Cameron's style of writing is to present complicated thoughts in lengthy sentences. However, if one hangs in, accepts the evidence presented, and applies it to his own analysis, she will be appreciated as taking the critique of classical rhetoric beyond mere stylistic criticism to its function in the creation of history.

Clue Mysteries is a great book. I love how the character names and motives are the same ones given in their character descriptions on the insert in the game box. But, the comedy falls short to the comedy in the now out-of-print book series created by A.E.Parker. The mysteries are well written, and much longer than those of the original series. I really love the way Cameron describes the discovery of Mr.Boddy's body in each chapter. It's like,"Oh look. Here's John with a big, bloddy dagger sticking out of his back. Let's have some tea." So casual. Plus, at the end of each mystery, one suspect will point to another and accuse them just like in the board game. To make a long story short, too late, I'm looking forward to the sequal due out in September, and will definitely be buying it!

Grossberg, Nelson, and Treichler have compiled a compelling collection of cultural studies essays. The selections in the book examine cultural studies from multiple angles, demonstrating the difficulty in identifying one encompassing definition of cultural studies. The differences do not create dissonance, however; rather they create a thought provoking collection that is worth reading.

This book was a very good one. It was about a little girl named June Cameron growing up along the B.C. coast. Her discriptions of the area are extremely well written, considering i am her grandaughter and visit the area she grew up in every year. This might not be a good chapter book for younger children, because it is a little hard to read. However, the book is filled with interesting facts and bits of humor.

Despite the subtitle, this is not a typical folklorist collection of myths. Cameron modifies these stories and imbues them with her literary style and philosophy of life. She ably merges contemporary themes with the traditional tales of the Pacific coastal Indian of Canada - which is another refreshing aspect of this book, as most published Native American myths and legends focus on Plains and Southwest nations. The result of Cameron's masterful storytelling is a set of alluring, eerie and sometimes humorous stories. Particularly interesting is "The Bearded Woman," something of a feminist fable. Also fascinating is the central story "Dzelarhons," which is an epic spanning many generations and several different yet somehow related women named Dzelarhons. Among other things, this story serves as something of an allegory for history and human relations in general.

Kenneth Cameron has created a very interesting work here. He goes into great detail about what is known, or what is theorized, about the original meanings of the names of places. The author has done a lot of research into the little known field of "onomastics," or place names. The title is kind of a misnomer -- a fair number of the place names discussed here are not technically "English," but Celtic. A few may even date to pre-Celtic times, although it's impossible to be completely sure about things that became set in tradition so long before the advent of writing in the region. Other place names come from the viking period and language of the Danelaw (known as Old Norse); from the French incursion after the Norman Conquest; or even Breton and Flemish, from when the uber-jerk Henry II employed Flemish and Breton knights and mercenaries to kill problematic upstarts for him. Cameron has included short chapters on each of these sources of place names. He has several chapters about the meanings of geographic locales,and fills the book out with surprisingly interesting discussion of the grammar behind these place names.

My only real problem with this book is that there are hardly any maps. There should be more of them.

Speaking as an American, and one who has never been to the U.K., you may well wonder "What in the name of all that's holy was Ed doing, in reading this book?!" Fair enough. I sought it out because many of the towns in pleasant, albeit meteorologically schizophrenic Massachusetts, where I live, were named after English towns. As you go farther west in America, more and more towns were named after settlers last names, or Spanish cities of terms, instead of English towns. Still, if you live in the East, you'll find a lot of familiar names here. One of my favorite examples would be the following... Framingham is a town in the metrowest suburbs of Boston, in Massachusetts. It's English onomastic progenitor was named Framingham, meaning (in the Dark Ages) "homestead or hamlet (ham) of the descendents or dependents (ing, from Old English ingas) of Fram. "Fram," most likely, was some kind of particularly humongous Dark Age barbarian warlord, from the 6th or 7th century AD or so, who scared everyone into letting him call himself their "protector." That's one name. There are many more...

Be aware of the helpful little table in back, which helps clear up the meanings of especially common parts of words. -Burg, -ton, -ford, -by, -cester, -wich... all these are explained, and more.

There's a nice little bibliography in back, which you should definitely look at. If you enjoy the topic, seek out the publications of the "English Place Names Society," or any articles or books by Margaret Gelling. Also -- if you have an interest in the meaning of words handed down from the olden days, you should think about reading about the names of stars. They're really intriguing, too. I recommend "Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning," by Richard Hinckley Allen, or "Short Guide to Modern Star Names and Their Derivations" by Paul Kunitzsch (watch that spelling) and Tim Smart.

This book would have benefitted from some maps, but I basically enjoyed it a lot. Two thumbs up.

The story of the textbook is to give students an appreciation of theatre, to delineate theatre from other Art forms such as sculpture, dance, and painting as well as film and sporting events. The text gives a concise and accurate, although thoroughly Western, overview of theatre history with brief emphasis on African and Asian theatre. One is taken Chapter by Chapter through a discovery process from the very broad appreciation of theatre as a performing art to the very specific nuances of various Asian performance techniques. Along the way there are three units broken up into various chapters. Unit one focuses on audience relationship to the stage, the social context of theatre, textual and visual analysis a.k.a audience appreciation. Unit Two analyzes the state of theatre today and occupations in theatre. Unit Three focuses entirely on theatre history with chapters on ancient theatre, the middle ages, neoclassicism, romanticism, avant garde, eclectic and current theatre, and concludes with world theatre (mainly African, Islamic, and Asian). The book's weaknesses are its decidedly Western and Caucasian focus, very little of the text is devoted to non-white theatre and (although much improved on other texts) there are very few multi-cultural photos and illustrations included. Also, there are no plays included in the text. It is difficult to encourage script analysis if no script is included, and one page of a script with blocking scribbled all over it does not suffice. There is not much focus on design besides explaining the role of designers in the theatrical process and showing different illustrations of various historical theatre buildings or areas. Lastly, not knowing how to eloquently state this, there is something disturbing about siphoning Chekhov, Ibsen, the Federal Theatre Project, Kathakali, avant garde, Ira Aldridge etc. to two paragraphs or less. By trying to include so many various historical topics in one relatively small text, the authors have sold many of them short. Overall, If used in combination with lectures or texts on design, live performance, and a collection of world drama or scripts this is a solid and very useful text.