An excellent listing of the trails of the South Cumberland. I bought it mainly for a guide to the trails of Savage Gulf.

Wallace M. Short was Mayor of Sioux City from 1918 to 1924. This book tells of his interesting life. It is not too well-written, but it does show a lot of research. Short was born June 28, 1866, this book tells us, but amazingly enough it does not tell the date of his death. A footnote tells that his death was noted in the New York Times of Jan. 4, 1853, so that must be about the time of his death. Short was a commendable person in his standing up for free speech, in his ability and courage in standing up against the Anti-Saloon League, and in his opposition to the Ku Klux Klan. This book is well worth reading for anyone interested in Iowa history or Sioux City history.

This book is quite literally an "introduction," in the sense of discussing the environment and the deficiencies of neoclassical economics as if the reader had not a clue that multinational corporations (and the powerful governments that aid them) are destroying the capacity of the biosphere to support life, including human life. The text is simple and easy to understand since the writing is at the level of that of the World Book Encyclopedia, with some of the same excessive optimism and a general failure to examine the effects of the law of compound interest and other increasing exponential functions in any mathematically useful way. The bibliography at the back of the book goes on for several pages, but cites dozens and dozens of titles by the same five people who group-authored this book. The citations in the text are usually to entire books, and not to specific passages (except in the case of periodical ariticles), making specific assertions difficult to verify. Obviously intended as a freshman or sophomore college text, it is overpriced and underuseful.

Far more helpful than this vacuous tome is the Worldwatch Institute series "State of the World," issued every year on selected topics edited by Lester R. Brown, with a variety of individually written well-footnoted articles, each on a specific aspect of development and its effects on the environment and people all over the earth. These volumes will remain useful for years to come, and you can get three of the latest books in the series for less than the cost of "An Introduction to Ecological Economics," which you won't want to keep after reading anyway.

Ecological economics is concerned with extending and integrating the study and management of "nature's household" (ecology) and "humankind's household" (economics). Resistance to this new perspective may come from academia as well as industry and governments. On page 10: "Today's market price to polluters for using atmospheric sink capacity for carbon dioxide disposal is zero, although the real opportunity cost may turn out to be astronomical. Economists are almost unanimous in persisting in externalizing the costs of CO2 emissions, even though by 1993 more than 180 nations had signed a treaty to internalize such costs." It would be difficult to praise this book too highly.

Once again MS-Press has neglected to include the CD-ROM key for the 120 day eval version of NT Terminal Server. How many times is MS-Press going to continue to make this exact same mistake. It really is very frustrating.

The book does not include any information concerning the actual setup and configuration of Terminal Server. Although the book provides excellent insite into project planning before deployment, it falls far short on addressing installation problems and concerns both during and after deployment. The book is valuable for technical insight to the RDP protocol. There are however much better texts out there; particularly from New Rider publishing

This book claims to be written for the expert but wastes most of its content on how to write applications for terminal server. There are perhaps two items of value. The rest of the book meanders through unuseful information for the implementation of Terminal Server. There are better books out there.

Recently I had to setup and configure a Windows NT Terminal Server, I thought it was just another application for NT Server and that it would be a couple of hours of work. I had no idea how wrong I was until I started the process and half way through I was completely lost.

I obtained a copy of this book and after reading over what you can and cannot do I began to understand that Terminal Server if more complex than I first imagined. However this book has done a great deal of teaching me those things that now make it easier to understand everything.

Within the 400 page you'll find topics like Terminal Server components as compared to Windows NT server. Also how the terminal server architecture works, what goes into the desktop protocols and clients.

There is suggestions for performance testing, how to deploy the Terminal Server and how to configure and administrate the applications. Since setting up the terminal Server I have been able to install applications which is also included in the book.

Finally there is troubleshooting tips, optimizing, compatibility and scripting help along with appendices for error codes, commands and automation tools. The cd-rom included does have a 120 day evaluation of Terminal Server. Overall this book has already helped out and I foresee more help coming.

I feel untrue in even giving this book 1 star. I have spent a great deal of time on Cumberland island and have a great love for the island and it's true story. This book did a complete injustice to Cumberland and to literature in general. The characters were flat and wouldn't have even been allowed into the worst episode of Murder She Wrote. Ben Reese was the only character that made me continue the painful experience of reading this book but even his scenes were as dry as reading a road sign. As far as mysteries go, this was completely unbelievable - the method of Hannah's murder and the steps that the the murderer would have had to go through are illogical and don't even really fit the clues. The innocent, sweet niece that the reader is supposed to care about is the biggest idiot of all time - 'I know you are acting very suspicious, and I know you've tried to kill me in the past, but I'll drink that coffee you are offering cause I'm just too stupid to live.' I cannot think of a single redeeming quality of this book. I never throw away books but I didn't want this one to remain in my house. I thought of giving it to a friend, but I don't know anyone I dislike that much. If anyone wants to read this book, I will gladly send you my copy free of charge.

Cumberland Island had been in Charlotte Hill MacKinnon's family for over eighty years. She "suddenly" died from an aortic aneurysm, according to the reports. She willed the island to Hannah Hill, a widow suffering from MS, who would continue Charlotte's fight to keep the land from developers.

Ben Reese was Charlotte's nephew. He went to the island, visited Hannah, and listened to her tale about a disguised intruder who entered her room during the night to spray some sort of mist and wore a gas mask. Hannah had thought it a dream. Short days later, even though her own doctor thought Hannah doing better, she mysteriously died.

Ben suspected foul play and began asking questions. The killer knew of Ben's reputation for snooping whenever his curiosity became aroused. Ben would have to be watched closely.

**** Great mystery reading here. It was a bit hard to get into the story at the beginning. The characters kept dying after only being in the story for one or two chapters. However, when Ben Reese entered the story it became engrossing. A sharp man who not only copes with the Cumberland Island problem, but also a problem (sub-plot) at the Alderton University involving an old will and the new president. Recommended for true mystery fans! ****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch.

In 1960, Cumberland Island off the coast of Georgia is one of last barrier islands to be privately owned by an individual. Charlotte Hill MacKinnon, the owner of most of the land intends to keep it that way. When she dies, she leaves her holdings on Cumberland Island to Hannah Williams Hill, her sister in law. Hannah feels the same way about Cumberland as Charlotte did and she intends to fight off the developers and the Parks Department who want to take it by eminent domain.

Even though she is in the end stages of multiple sclerosis, her mind is clear and she asks her nephew, archivist Ben Reese to help her. Ben has one satisfying conversation with Hannah before she dies and he wants to help the new heir, Johanna Elliott, a shy retiring opera singer who intends to carry out her aunt's wishes. Ben isn't sure that Hannah died from natural causes so he starts his own investigation just to make sure that there isn't a killer on the loose ready to strike again.

Sally Wright is a very talented, very visual writer who describes Cumberland Island in such detail that readers will feel they have visited the place. The fourth Reese mystery is the best yet, primarily because the audience feels closer to the protagonist. OUT OF THE RUINS is a cerebral brainteaser that will appeal to fans of literary mysteries.

Harriet Klausner

This is Arnow's companion volume to her SEEDTIME ON THE CUMBERLAND. While SEEDTIME focuses on physical aspects of pioneering, i.e., food, clothing, shelter, the struggle against Indians and governments, FLOWERING emphasizes social institutions and activities that required the early settlers to interact with other people as a society, i.e., communication, education, industry, and trade. Home life as a focal point is reiterated, and the transplanting of Old World culture into the Cumberland River region is stressed. Primary sources, as well as some unpublished materials, are cited. The treatment, however, seems somewhat romantic and not critical, almost like a novel. In essence, Arnow is telling the story or stories of these early pioneers. The material is structured topically.

I first discovered this book, when it was a required reading for folklore class I had in college. This book not only includes information about what happened in Kentucky in the past, it also includes a lot of customs of the present day. One chapter focuses on hangouts and customs of young people in Kentucky, including cruising and string racing. Montell also includes a lot of pictures. I was amazed to see some pictures of people and places from my own county. Although I prefer Montell's other books (like Ghosts Along the Cumberland) that focus on particular folk stories, this was still interesting enough for me to read.