Seventy-year-old English writer John Charles lives a comfortable life in France. However, John's quiet lifestyle is abruptly shattered when a bullet is fired at his cottage from an unknown assailant. Subsequently, a man dressed in threads similar to what John enjoys wearing is found dead. Finally, John's beloved home is burned to the ground.

Rather than visit the police, the invigorated John flees across the continent to escape his enemies, even as he tries to learn their identities. However, his unknown foes are in close pursuit and they know a lot about what makes John ticks as his past threatens to catch up to him. His enemies will kill him if they ever catch up to him.

ONE MORE RIVER is great personal thriller that digs deep into the mind of the victim. The story line hooks the reader early and never lets go until the novel is finished. The book effortlessly switches back and forth between first and third person without missing a beat and, in fact, propels the terrific tale forward. Nicolas Freeling demonstrates the depth of his talent with this brilliantly written, fast-paced novel that is outside the author's normal realm (police procedural starring Inspector Castang). This reviewer recommends this novel and the author's Castang books because they are all quite enjoyable.

Harriet Klausner

It's a great book for whoever is interested in linear programming applications to real world cases. From the introduction to the last chapter, the book provides a clear view of how linear programming works, how it can be applied, and what its advantages are. Lots of examples and exercises make this book a very good guide in using linear programming in optimization problems.

What an exquisite book! Not only is it an informative and interesting read, but it made me want to move to Taos and take up oil painting! In fact, I'm signing up for painting classes this week! The plates are magnificent, and the subject matter, Taos, and Taos Pueblo Indians, are filled with beauty and dignity from a time gone by. Highly recommended for all lovers of the Southwest, native cultures, and landscape and oil paintings.

Our Family's Genealogy was a labor of love by the author which spanned the last ten years of his life. An avid genealogist, Mr. Beimes thought the concept of an interactive guide from the dawn of time forward which allowed you to input your own family's genealogy opposite a rundown of all major births, deaths, and world events from that specific year would prove interesting and useful to genealogists of all levels. Judging by the rare nature of this book, he was correct.

Our Family's Genealogy is a wonderful tool for history buffs, genealogists, archivists, and those concerned with capturing their families place in history in respect to the rest of the World. It is well worth the search, and can form the basis of a recorded history of your family tree that will become a cherished memento.

Concise, but inclusive. Would make a valuable text for undergrad Music History or for general graduate study.

This book is great for the education of Literature!

Forget the content, which is interesting enough in itself. I'm neither an ethnographer, nor an anthropologist; but the sheer beauty of the stippled and line drawings make this surely one of the most beautiful books produced in the last decade of the twentieth century. If you can't get to see a copy in the flesh, you will scarcely understand. The contents are summed up in the sub-title - indeed this is what Schuster and Carpenter's point is, that tribal and ancient artifacts contain the genealogy of the creators of these artifacts, whether or not the craftsman still remembers or knows of his tradition. I have personal story in confirmation of their thesis. I have a tribal work, which I interpreted along their lines. I then had written confirmation from the craftsman responsible for the work that my surmise; taken in toto from Shcuster and Carpenter was correct. Nevertheless, I'll repeat my view, that for the breathtaking beauty of the drawings alone, this book deserves a wide public.

There are innumerable, many incoherent collections of Chekhov's short fiction: such is the bane of an author being in the public domain. What makes this collection superior is that Edmund Wilson, the greatest critic of the 20th Century, assembled it, and there is at last a logic applied to its assemblage beyond the crude dictates of chronology.

Wilson realized that Chekhov seems spotty if not incomprehensible when his short caricatures and romances are interleaved with brooding tales of peasant lives. Think of a Twain compilation where "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg" and "Punch Brothers Punch" are sandwiched together.

So Wilson's collection takes the best of Chekhov's "social" tales of his last decade, stories that focus on groups of Russians, whether it be the bourgeois, the peasants, the workers, or the decaying aristocracy. In these stories, Chekhov is on Tolstoyean grounds, and holds his own remarkably.

However, this strategy means sacrifice: the beautiful, sparkling "Lady with the Dog" would not sit well in this grim company, so it is excluded.

A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful, 1759

Readers of Kant and Hegel, etc. on the subject of aesthetics will pat this little book on top of the head - having said that - Burke does a workmanlike job in presenting these ideas on the Beautiful and the Sublime. It is basic knowledge and knowledge that you will carry with you throughout life and will affect positively how you see the world and in what depth you see the world. It's a slim volume and more in the nature of a handbook (and was, I believe, used as something of a 'bible' by visual artists in the 19th century.) It is very to-the-point. The numerous section and chapter headings are descriptive and it's easy to find something you want to go over again. This little, modest treatise holds the type of subject matter that would appeal to anybody from an amateur poet to a world-conqueror.