this is truly a great gift for anybody over the age of 50. makes you feel young and capable of really enjoying the rest of your life. I loved all the funny quotes and the real life stories

"Henderson was the market gardening authority of his time, and he sure knew his stuff. Even after well over 100 years his advice still rings true in most particulars," says Eliot Coleman in The New Organic Grower

"A must for the commercial market gardener. will compliment any vegetable grower's up-to-date library and help keep them gardening for profit." -- New England Farmer.

This is a must read for young people. It gives an excellent picture of one of the most important Native Americans in American history. Stanley makes Geronimo come to life.

This book is somewhat outdated. It¡¯s published in 1989. Since then so much have happened to the semiconductor industry. But if you are interested in the incipient period of the industry, this book is worth reading. This book deals with the internationalization (not globalization) of the American semiconductor industry into Southeast Asia and Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. Their relocation of production into those region was the reaction to the competition from domestic competitors and Japanese makers. The same strategy was adopted by American electronic industry. As we all know now, the main purpose of the movement is the effort to enhance cost competitiveness. That kind of movement is now dubbed as the internationalization. Current globalization is different from it. But without understanding it, we can¡¯t fully figure out globalization for globalization is based and expanded on the international division of labor the internationalization constructed.
I recommend this book to who want to understand the process of globalization in depth and those who study the history of the semiconductor industry.

I am a learning disabled adult and Mr. Reese's book gave me the inperation to do things that I thought I would never do. I am half his age and I thought I couldn't do what I dreamed of doing until I read the book.

This book contains short little stories of how grandmothers received their names. Very sweet, sometimes funny, very touching. A great gift for grandmothers , mothers, and grandmother's to be. A beautiful tabletop book. A great way to celebrate our mothers and grandmothers.

Interesting little things that make life better, plus some nice stuff too. All in all, great stuff that seems pretty easy to make and improves everything.

Henderson begins with a description of Japanese haiku, its form and the "rules" pertaining to its composition. There is the visual appearance of the poem in three lines with the first line having five syllables, the second seven, and the third five. The poem must contain some reference to nature. The poem is specific in the sense that it refers to a particular event, and the event is happening now, not in the past. (p. 14) Additionally, it is often the practice to reference or allude to a time of year by season. Thus "the blossomed-covered hill" would indicate spring, falling leaves fall, snow winter, and long days of sunlight summer.

Americans who appreciate and write haiku are aware of the first requirement about the form of the poem, and they are fairly clear that haiku that does not refer to nature is not really haiku. But the other rules are more often observed in the breach if at all. Thus American haiku can be and sometimes is about most anything (causing great horror to purists!). For example, recall Richard Brautigan's "Haiku Ambulance":

A piece of green pepper fell
off the wooden salad bowl:
so what?

which makes fun of haiku that fail. Note that strictly speaking it is not haiku. It is a clever short satirical poem.

Henderson observes that even in purest Japanese haiku "one haiku in 25 does not have a strict 5-7-5 form." Of course in translation it is far better to convey the poetic qualities and meaning of the haiku than to attempt a slavish adherence to the syllabic rule. Thus this translation of haiku by Basho:

On a withered branch
a crow has settled...
autumn nightfall

sacrifices the syllabic rule while maintaining the three lines, which is usually the way translation is done, and usually the way American haiku is written. One of the reasons for this is that syllabication in Japanese is different from syllabication in English and that furthermore there are in Japanese kireji ("cutting words") that are "primarily verbal punctuation marks" that are difficult to translate directly. (p. 33)

I could go on, and it would be fun to do that, delving into nuance and technique, the appearance of emotion in haiku, etc., but it is enough to suggest the depth of Henderson's intense little book. He details the evolved differences between the form in the two languages and then gives tips on writing and teaching haiku. If you are going to teach haiku at any level, primary to college, you certainly will find this book valuable. If your intent is just to learn and appreciate, Henderson's effort will afford you a better appreciation. If you are a poet yourself, the book is fun because it shows you how others have practiced the form and goes into the experience with a number of examples. The subtleties of expression are as arcane, quaint and beautiful as one would expect from such a venerable fine art form, and it is useful to acquaint oneself with them, even while transgressing a few here and there!

Bottom line: pithy, elegant, and practical. This is one of my favorite books on haiku and one that I found valuable when I taught haiku in my high school English and creative writing classes.

Well..It has everything you need for Health insurance question or helath exconomic problem.

Anyone looking for information on primative burials in the southwest knows how hard this information is to come by. I was glad to see an actual archaeological dig written up so well. The pictures are equally interesting in showing positions of the bodies and possibly the significance of such. Although the dig site is in New Mexico and occupied in the 1300's it was especially interesting to see that in one burial, there was a "cache" of points that were of Texas origin AND from the Archaic time frame. The book also includes tons of charts and graphs for the very serious archaeologists out there.