For fans of Lovecraft? From what I've seen this has nothing to do with the Cthulhu Mythos. No Cthulhu, R'Lyeh, Nyarlathotep. I don't think you should have "psychic gumshoe" in horror stories. It sounds like something from the kid's section. If you want Mythos buy Lovecraft.

This is a great collection of stories. Recommended for not only fans of Carter and Lovecraft, But for people who want some good old fun action packed horror/adventure stories. I highly recommend this!!

Robert Price is a genius editor. Rather than having his eight writers created new stories of the late Lin Carter's hero in the exact same mold as the originator, he let them run loose with the character. The results are 8 marvelous adventures, each giving us
new and different approaches to Anton Zarnak' from action, to horro and even some comedy mixed-in. More anthologies should be this
fun.

Ronald Reagan, who chose to open his 1980 campaign for President by standing in Mississippi and calling the Civil Rights Act of 1964 "bad legislation" and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 "a humiliation for the South," perpetuated lies about welfare recipients, teachers and organized labor in order to cater to the most reactionary, racist, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-poor, anti-immigration sentiments of those bigots in our country. This propagandist tripe attempts to show this heartless capitalist as a hero, and this is a true travesty. Tell the thousands of air traffic controllers whom Reagan fired for asking for higher wages that Reagan is a hero. Tell it to the millions who sunk into poverty thanks to his trickle-down plans that Reagan should be looked up to. Tell all Americans, and our Jewish citizens in particular, that Reagan, who once laid flowers on the graves of Nazi soldiers, is a great American. This is nonsense, and this man should not be celebrated.

This biography of Ronald Reagan focuses on his youth/childhood and provides numerous examples of how early experiences influenced later actions. Whether one approves or disapproves of Reagan's politics or presidency, this is one of a series of biographies that can be instructive for children while also entertaining. The reading level is for the average 4-5th grader.

I strongly reccomend this book to parents who would like to share the wonderful story of America's greatest president with their children. This book is great for reading to your kids and discussing with them afterward. The authors of this book do an excellent job of touching on the life of Ronald Reagan, especially his childhood, withou showing any type of bias.

...those readers who don't come from Edinburgh found the book entertaining, but those who do found it disappointing, and I must add my name to the latter category.

As a lifelong Edinburgh resident I've heard stories of the underground city all my life, and the emergence of this book offered the promise of a full and final explanation of what's really there and what isn't. However, aside from a reasonably interesting general history of old Edinburgh, the book is astonishingly lacking in facts of any kind. It's all conjecture, rumour and myth. At least fifty percent of the book is merely a series of fables and ghost stories with absolutely no descernable facts or evidence to either back them up or dismiss them.

If someone's going to bother writing a book on the underground city, wouldn't you expect them to have something to TELL? Not so Jan-Andrew Henderson. For him the gathering together of a few myths and legends was enough. No solid research, maps, plans or diagrams, descriptions of exactly what remains of the underground city; No reports of excavations, eyewitness accounts; no rummaging through old property plans or title deeds to discover reports of mysterious doorways in lost cellars that seem to lead nowhere. None of this.

If you're really interested in learning about the underground city you'd be better off saving your money, and instead paying a visit to one of Edinburgh's many pubs in the old town, where you'll encounter characters who can tell you much more about it than anything in this book

I only gave this book 4 stars because I felt that it was too short and abbreviated. Then again, I'm the type of person who likes rich historical details. The author doesn't bore you with dates or technical details, the story of the origins of Edinburgh's underground city are told with a marvelous gift of oratory, making you feel like you're hearing a story told in front of a fire, a story that grows more and more chilling.

The story is simple, due to overpopulation, numerous underground chambers and vaults were built to accommodate the fast growth of Edinburgh's Old Town. The poorest of the poor lived in these dark cramped vaults and more often than not died there too, having never known anything but poverty and misery. You are told of the kinds of people who lived there: villians and widows, families and loners. You hear of how they lived, from the people too sickly to work to the poor children forced to climb inside chimneys to clean them. Full of misery, disease and hoplessness, it's no wonder the underground city has gained a reputation for being haunted.

Tales of the supernatural happenings are also found in this book, tales of a mischeivious yet harmless ghost who haunts a pub to the frightening stories of tourists and tour guides alike being assaulted by unseen hands and claws.

Whether a history buff or a fan of ghosts stories, you're sure to enjoy this book. It's easy reading, educational AND entertaining.

I must start by saying that I haven't actually read this book. I did, however, visit Edinburgh a week ago and embark upon a tour of the old city that focused sites of murder and mayhem. On that tour, my guide was Jan-Andrew Henderson. He brought an overlarge group of American teenagers to silent, rapt attention with his description of the old city of Edinburgh inside the Floyden wall. We ended at Greyfriar's churchyard, home to 400 monuments and approximately 800,000 bodies. He was a charismatic and knowledgable story-teller, and if he writes at all in the manner in which he speaks, anything he could put on paper would be worth reading. ~ Interested in History

P.S. On this tour Henderson made no mention of his name or plug for his book. I found out his identity later from my overall holiday tour guide (completely independent from Henderson's tour) who had accompanied my school group for the experience.

I absolutely loathed this book out of all of the books in the series. It spends too much time jumping back and forth between the pioneers and the Native Americans! I did not like the setup at all, to the point where I would rather not buy this book, even if it completes my collection of American Girls Collection books. If you want a book that jumps around too much between two worlds and does not give a good idea of either world, feel free to pick it up. But there are plenty of other books out there on Pioneers and Native Americans, many of which probably make more sense!

This is a wonderful book that introduces children to history in a simple and interesting way. As a teacher, I would highly recommend it. It offers a mixture of photographs, drawings and text. I personally liked the back and forth style of the book. I think the point is to show how that the lives of the pioneers and Native Americans were definitely connected as well as to illustrate how their lives compared and contrasted. The format makes it very user friendly.

Whether you are a fan of the American Girls Collection or not, this book is historically accurate and delightful. The story tracks Kirsten's family's journey from Sweeden to the New World using primary source documents like photographs, newspaper articles, letters, and artifacts. Gathered together like a museum exhibit, the information is layered so that readers of different ages and interest levels can engage in Kirsten's life on the prairie, where she lives in a sod dugout and interacts with the local Native Americans and settlers from all over the world. This is a great book for in the classroom or in the home!

Professor Peter Nevile attempts to rehabilitate the reputation of Sir Nevile Henderson, the British Ambassador in Germany from 1937-1939. The basic spin on Henderson has been that he failed in two areas: 1] He failed to see the Nazis for what they really were and did not give an accurate assessment of the Nazi government to the British Foreign Office and 2] That he failed to give certain messages that England wished him to convey to the Nazis, namely against the Anschluss, the invasion of Chekoslavakia, and Poland. Professor Nevile has done meticulous research into his subject, but he only succeeds in disproving some of the second contention. He bravely attempts to dispel the first complaint, but ultimately fails in doing so as he must and does admit in his conclusions. One may take issues with some judgement calls that Professor Nevile has made. He does not take into account the views of other ambassador colleagues of Henderson, nor does he discuss Henderson's nervous breakdown while posted in Egypt. He doesn't discuss the dim views of Henderson from the published memoirs on the Nazi side either. These three items are necessary in order to get a complete picture of Henderson.

(As an aside, Professor Nevile's long footnote on how he discovered Henderson's long lost published book on his dog Happy hopefully is not typical of his research - as a casual internet search will reveal three available copies)

All in all, Professor Nevile does manage to prove that Henderson did effectively convey to the Nazis that Britian was dead serious about protecting Poland, and he does unearth much information that was previously unavailable. It is also an enjoyable read.

Largely because he died early in the Second World War, Sir Nevile Henderson, British ambassador to Germany during 1937-39, has been routinely maligned by his adversaries in the Foreign Office, and historians and journalists with axes to grind -- or misjudgments to conceal. The notion that Henderson was "our Nazi ambassador in Berlin" took root among British revisionists at the time, and has since become the conventional wisdom.

In truth, of course, Henderson was no Nazi, nor even sympathetic toward the Hitler regime, which he abhorred. He was, however, a skilled diplomat and, charged with explaining British policy to the Germans, and vice versa, discharged his duties with the skill, discretion, clarity and competence of his kind. The reader of this biography would profit from acquaintance with Henderson's own apologia, "Failure of a Mission" (1940), but it is sufficient to say that Professor Neville has written an elegant, informative, incisive study which does much to dispel the customary abuse and prejudice directed at Sir Nevile Henderson. This is not just a useful corrective to bias, but a splendid introduction to a complex, subtle and tragic story.

The best part of this book are the charts at the end for converting "old man times" to "young man times". Mostly it seems to be a bibliography on Boston Billy and Priscilla Welch. But just the conversion charts are worth having.

Excellent book consisting of 19 easy to understand chapters covering a wide array of appropriate topics for those interested in running and/or racing. Chapter titles include, "Learning to Run Smarter", "The Diet of Champions", Racing for Fun" & "Running Faster, Farther, Better". The book addresses racing from the 1 Mile to the Marathon (26.2 miles). The comments from Bill Rodgers and Priscilla Welch were very helpful and provided a nice personal touch that was not only balanced between two genders, but between two different professional running experiences. A MUST READ for all runners over 30 years of age!

International finance expert Callum Henderson provides a detailed, well-researched, and highly readable account of China's current economic situation. The book focuses specifically on how economic, environmental, and social problems threaten China's historic economic reform programs. What happens in China affects investment, markets, and economic policies around the world - issues Henderson investigates thoroughly. We at getAbstract recommend this book to all business people with an interest in China's economic climate - and if you conduct business internationally, this means you!

I recently borrowed this book from a friend and was captivated by this book's theme. This book contains a lot of Chinese myths that tell stories with Chinese background, and has a very exciting point of view rather than the bland versions of some other books. I found it very exciting to see myths from other countries. A lot of young people will find this kind of topic too much to understand. Some story elements like the mood and themes were existant, but hardcore mythology fans will read this book like there's no tommorow.

Heroine:   solid

Independent, avant-garde metal sculptress and amateur detective Samantha Jones has an uncanny knack for accidentally turning up wherever very bad "stuff" is going down.

Savvier than the police and tougher than the bad guys, sexy Sam serves up equal measures of justice, booze, and humor in between her art sessions and sexcapades.

   What worked for me:

This first-person narrative of a feminista Sam Spade-type flung out so many similes and metaphors it was hard not to feel like the author was poking fun at the gumshoe genre even as she embraced it.    

What didn't work for me:

Despite years of watching imported British comedies, much of the slang went right over my head. I guess I have been watching all the wrong shows?

I am definitely too vanilla to read this entire series back-to-back, but one book here and there makes for an interesting way to break out of a reading rut.

Overall:

Edgy, darkly funny, and very British (not in a tea-and-scones sort of way) this thriller series is the antithesis of the Agatha Christie cozy mysteries. Anyone searching for a hip heroine who refuses to play by society's rules need look no further.

Warning: Very coarse language, graphic violence, casual drug use, and spicy sexual references are the trademark of these books. Not for the politically-correct or the faint-of-heart.

If you liked the Sam Jones series, you might also like: the Stephanie Plum series, or the Women's Murder Club series.

If you're interested in the fatal-femme crime genre (a la _One For The Money_, etc.) then you really should hook up with the writings of Lauren Henderson. This is her first book in the series about Sam Jones, a sculptress in metal works who has a sharp-witted mind, a series of adventurous and sexual escapades with a tongue as fiery as her blowtorch! In this introduction to the series, Sam's former beloved art lecturer is found dead after a wild (and rather hippy!) party. Sam won't let this mystery go unsolved and ends up pursuing the matter through the world of London's art society, often risking herself in the memory of the "dead white female". You can't really get better than this for a series - I personally think that it's faster and spicier than the Evanovich series and for an Australian reader who relates more to Brit culture than American suburbia it really is an enthralling experience. Since it's out of print (shows how popular it is!) you'd most likely find the "Freeze My Margarita" book first to get a glimpse of Sam's wild life and Henderson's pacy writing. If you're into this style or genre, check out tartcity.com for similar writers and get into Henderson as soon as you can!

Well I was excited by the cover of this book, I like books about ships and sailing but when I read this book I was very disappointed. I thought the characters were weak and not developed enough. The hero is a mean man who doens't really get nicer as the story progresses. The heroine was just too good, maybe saintly is a better term. She has come to take care of her dying sister and her child who is the hero's dead brother's family. The story just never seemed to get my attention.

Beautiful story - kept my interest to the end. Plus the setting of the story on South Bass Island is very unique. I would love to see a sequel to the story as the child grows up and finds a love of her own, who also has a connection with the Island and makes their home there.

I purchased this book in the hopes that it would, in fact, be a book. NOPE. It's a bound collection of pictures with a small, gloss-the-surface "story" about the history of the originators--Black Sabbath. I'm still waiting for a "book" book. One without pictures and quotes from more than one band member (like the "Oral History" thing), much like one of the many Led Zeppelin books. ("Hammer of the Gods" was pretty good). Anyway, I guess I'll keep waiting.

Man, I've been an OZZY fan since TRIBUTE but I had no idea how much Sabbath affected metal music until I read this book! I took the author's advice and bought ALL of the Sabbath albums. Now I can't get them out of my head! BLACK SABBATH AND OZZY RULES!!

Another cool thing is that the guy who wrote the liner notes for the KISS remasters wrote this book. He also wrote the copy on OZZY's bubble-gum cards that I bought at Spencers. DO me a favor, Mr. Conte--write about JUDAS PRIEST and IRON MAIDEN next, OK?

Peace!

There was any info really. There was a lot but the same stuff you can get on the internet. The whole thing was practically pictures but they had some really good pictures so thats why i gave it a higer rating. If you want info don't get this book but if you just want to look at some sick pictures i would get it for an ozzy memorance thing when he dies.