This book is profusely and gorgeously illustrated with period photos and paintings of English fairs, and as such it could be an invaluable resource to reenactors or devotees of the contemporary Renaissance Faire. However I found much of the text to be dry, repetitive, and frustratingly superficial, being largely composed of lists of the fairs that dealt in whatever commodity was being discussed (wool, beef, etc)along with relevant dates, locations, and sprinklings of anecdotes from authors and diarists of the time. Occasionally, however, these anecdotes would paint a vivid picture of a time and place different than our own. I enjoyed the information on the relationship of the church and the fair (factoid: many early fairs were held by churches in graveyards to take advantage of pilgrims' business when they came to visit the relics of the saints on their feast days). I was dismayed by the description of the hiring fairs ("mops") in which housemaids and farmhands would come to display themselves like cattle, looking for work in the coming year. Overall I was disappointed in this book- I was hoping for something with more disciplined, sociological approach- but it's possible a reader with different interests and objectives might find it more useful than I did.

I have to admit I was pretty dissapointed with this one. It has a great setup, Spotting the Hunsacker clan leaving town, Longarm hops a horse and races off in pursuit of them. Now he has got them cornered in the ghost town of Lodestar, Nevada. The group of them on the inside of an old abandoned stone house built like a fort, and Longarm without food or water on the outside...What a terrific setup for a story, imagine the ingenious ways that Longarm can pick them off one at a time,go in and get them or smoke them out. Instead Longarm spends the first third of the book sitting around with no clue and complaining about his job and reminiscing about some women he has had.

Then some women arrive and he kidnaps them and uses them for bait, but he is wounded and spends the rest of the book running away from the bad guys and getting weaker all the time. Finally at the end he has to use a woman to help him get the bad guys.

In the story I didn't have the old feeling that Longarm was the master of the situation, moving events along as he planned them, rather he was just reacting to things and trying to stay alive, not like the old (early) Longarm at all

This ia a reprint of the 1922 edition originally published by D. Appleton and Company. It is based on a report by The Bookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Institute For Government Research. The book covers the birth and early years of the National Park Service.

Section one / History : Information on the beginings of the first National Parks and National Monuments.

Section two / Activeties : Information on the services the National Park Service provides.

Sectin three / Organization: Information on the oranization of the National Park Service.

The appendix gives an Outline of Organization, Classification of Activities, Publications, Laws, Financial Statements, Statistics of Visitors and a Bibliography.

The book contains no photographs. It is a wealth of facts on the early years (1872 to 1922) of the National Park Service.

It would be of interst to people who are researching the National Park Service. Not recommend for people looking for travel information. VERY DRY READING / Just the facts.

This book is more "fluff" than "The Best of New Mexico Kitchens" -- more trendy restaurant recipes, PLUS the infamous "How to Boil Water" recipe. If you want traditional New Mexico -- not restaurant versions -- buy "The Best of New Mexico Kitchens" instead of this version.

It borrows and expands on the characterizations of Jake and Nog during A Man Alone, The Nagus and Storyteller, still making mischief and growing up, not quite to the point of jake becoming a writer or Nog wanting to join the Academy. Thus, it's an interesting, accurate look from a young adult's perspective at first season DS9 (both Jake and Nog are the youngest on the station, the only recurring kids and in Ms. O'Brien's class), but the suspense and adnveture aren't quite even up to Hardy Boys level. I'd recommend Starfleet Academy (TNG Young Adults) over this.

Interesting combination historical fiction/romance. Enjoyed this as light reading of the period of the American Revolution. However, the author seems to have run out of paper or time at the very end. The conclusion is brief, matter of fact and disappointing.

While doing my prep for an Exec briefing at E-Commerce and it's impacts to the retail and services industry - I thought this book might provide some insights and new perspectives...I was left totally disapointed. Not only is the writing sort of premature, junior graders entry level on very general views, it is also disturbing by the conclusions. I hate to say it, but this book is a total rip-off and I am glad for the occasion, reading it before buying.

While doing my prep for an Exec briefing at E-Commerce and it's impacts to the retail and services industry - I thought this book might provide some insights and new perspectives...I was left totally disapointed. Not only is the writing sort of premature, junior graders entry level on very general views, it is also disturbing by the conclusions. I hate to say it, but this book is a total rip-off and I am glad for the occasion, reading it before buying. The max it should sell for is 2US$ (for kids loocking for a quick snap.)

i am e-com sdutent,so i need some pre exlanation for my future plan

I agree with the last review. They simply taped a workshop - and we miss what's said by the participants because they're not miked. What's worse, though, is that it simply ends in the middle of one of the list-making exercises -- no conclusions are drawn. There is nothing to explain why on earth we've made all these lists. This is horrible.

I have to admit that I haven't read any of the Artist's Way books. Maybe I am missing something here but the back of the tape promised that..."The authors show you how to link creativity to learnable skills; recognize the power that connects creativity with the universe;...recover confindence and courage in order to overcome hurdles". This is indeed a tall order, and I didn't really expect it all, but this tape delivers nothing! It is a poorly done recording of a seminar given by Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan. There is no real information given on what their idea's are or how to use their methods. There is just a lot inane banter and list making. An example, which was done several times over the course of the tape, is that they ask for you to write what an artist is over and over (we are talking ten times in a row!). This is all there is to the tape. I didn't find it helpful or even interesting.

I wish I would have read the previous review before buying it. All I needed was some general information (structure etc.) on how iostreams work and this book did little for me. I do not recommend it to anyone

Actually, zero stars

I had high expectations for this book but was utterly disappointed. This book has not had even elementary copy editing performed -- I found *hundreds* of typographical and technical errors -- and the writing style had short, simple sentences that was maddening to read when compared to the wonderful writing of (say) Stroustrup. The authors have chosen a graphical model to represent class hierarchies that I have not seen before and found very hard to visualize, and their "introduction" to inheritance and class construction was disorganized and confusing (a new C++ user would be lost). Their description of manipulators was cursory and disappointing, and their real examples later in the book didn't seem to use any extended ones.

Some of their code examples have merit -- notably communications ports -- but the technical material surrounding the code was bug-ridden (all the the RS-232 diagrams had mistakes, for instance).

The Stroustrup *chapter* on iostreams was much better than this whole book, so I cannot recommend this book to anybody. I'll be sending mine to the authors with my markups in the hope they fix the bugs, but even without the bugs it was a terrible book.

A Horrid book! As usual, Cameron is overly, overtly subjective in his views. The text is crammed with minute details regarding film, yet it lacks any real analytical scope. Cameron has done his research, but the work is dry, dull and uninviting. He makes claims based on this research, but he does not argue them persuasively or elegantly.