During the ice fishing season I read more books on fishing as I wait for open water season...

This is a terrific book. I can't wait until Spring comes so I can use what I've learned from this book.

You will learn about structure, "edges", and the seasonal habits of different species of fish.

Here's one great tidbit from the book. Do you know how high humidity affects fish and fishing? You will after you read this book. Enjoy it.

This book is fascinating. The information is new and exciting. Thriving life with out photosynthesis. I think this book would be fun to use as a classroom project. The book is broken into five chapters. Each chapter assigned as a report to be orally presented would met the guidelines for Standard 2 of the Colorado state reading standards. Because this information is continually being updated, the use of electronic media would enhance this greatly. This is also a great one for meeting science standard 3.1.4 as well as a great underwater geography lesson. The book is a bit much for a third or forth grader to tackle all alone, because of the technical words necessary to tell about the exciting new life living around deep-sea vents and how they were formed. Yet worth the effort. There is a helpful glossary in the back of the book. Good luck learning about chemosynthesis.

Reviewed by THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW. Oct.,1999.

John Charles Fremont was one of the best known of the 19th century explorers of the American western frontier. He tracked his course with the aid of stars and planets. In preparing this first volume of his "Fremont's Greatest Western Exploration" series, John Stewart followed Fremont's course using modern highway and aviation maps. In doing so, Stewart went beyond what library bound researchers and historians could offer because of his own considerable expertise in using concepts of navigation to track Fremont's path in detail. Stewart combines his navigational expertise and love of history with a distinctive flair for writing and communicating Fremont's fascinating excursions with a vivid and informative text that will engage the interest of the history buff, and have much with which to commend itself to the historian and scholar as well.

Aqualog is known world-wide for fish identification publications, but for the Malawi cichlid enthusiast, this book takes the cake. The pictures are vivid and colorful, the Aqualog I.D. numbers make it easy to keep track of favorite species despite the many scientific name changes that have occurred over the years, and the special tips are useful even to seasoned aquarists. This book is beautiful enough to convert marine hobbyists to these gorgeous freshwater fish. It is a must-have!

This book falls somewhere between a science text and a popular science book, probably falling closer to the former. However it is a concisely written textbook that dwells at greatest length on the Pleistocene history of the lakes as it was understood in the early 1950s. Hough's work revises the literature from the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century and presents some of the early carbon-14 dates for the moraines. It is important to keep in mind that all of these dates have been revised because it was discovered in the 1970s that C-14 is not produced at a constant rate in the upper atmosphere. Hough actually tries to relate the terrestrial record of moraines and lake sediments to the deep-sea record, which was pretty progressive for his time. However, the O-18 record of deep sea carbonate that serves as a proxy indication of global ice volume had not been published when Hough was writing.

So this text has to be read with caution. Many of the conclusions are probably out of date. However, Hough includes a lot background information about the bedrock geology and the limnology of the lakes that is quite useful and has probably not been as drastically revised as the Pleistocene sediment record. It is the chronology of the Pleistocene record that has been revised; Hough's relative sequence of events has probably only been changed in the details. He devotes a chapter to the history of each lake basin (although Huron and Erie are treated together) and admits that lake-to-lake correlation of events was still unclear.

A very useful feature of this text is the large number of nicely drawn figures and maps. The older maps and figures tend to be black & white and less full of fussy obscuring details, so they are very useful for teaching.

"Get Organized: How to Control Your Life Through Self Management" can be considered your first step in personal progression in the game of Life. However, it can't stand alone as the "only read" necessary in personal growth and enhancement. A good book that is well organized, "Get Organized" can be a great life enhancer if combined with "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"

Dwight Boyer's "Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes" is almost a classic of Great Lakes literature. The author, a longtime Cleveland, Ohio, journalist, had many friends in Great Lakes shipping and was able to draw upon his numerous contacts to produce a series of works that carry with them the smell and sight and sound of the Great Lakes.

"Ghost Ships" is written as a series of article-length stories about Great Lakes cargo vessels that met disaster - in some cases, disaster so complete that no one was left alive to tell the tale of how the boat went down. Boyer expertly combines contemporary evidence, in many cases gathered from local news stories, to develop believeable theories as to how these "ghost ships" met their end.

Some readers may be troubled by Boyer's ability to guess what happened and his ability to blend fact and fiction together to create his tales. However, all of his stories are firmly grounded (if I can use this word when writing about the water) and the man knew more than any living person how these disasters happened. Modern technology has lowered the probability of great disasters on the Great Lakes, and as of the Year 2000 there have been no "ghost ships" for the past 25 years. Long may it so continue. In the meantime, we have Boyer's fine book.

This book is a great guide for people who are going to make a trip to Utah to do family research. The perfect Tool for genealogoligists.

Until I came across this book, I had no idea that Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, was a hot bed of classic boating. This book is beautifully photographed and well researched, and will make you want to go to the Lake some sparkling summer day and watch the swells renact the obulence, style, and speed of inland yachting a century ago.

In this story, Grandma Nan calls Pip and invites him to spend a weekend at her cabin by the lake. Nan has already invited Grandma Sal and told Pip that he could invite his best friend, Ski.
At the cabin, the Grandmas disagree on everything. Grandma Nan is too strict. But Grandma Sal is too laid back. Pip and Ski are bothered by the feuding grandmothers and try to escape them by going for a walk in the woods. But the grandmas follow! When Grandma Sal declares it "Nap Time," Pip and Sal sneak out of the house and hop in Grandma Nan's row boat. The two paddle out into the middle of the lake.
When the grandmas wake up and find them in the boat, Nan grows upset, but Grandma Sal just questions why they weren't invited! Grandma Nan demands that they return, but they make the both the grandmas promise that they will stop arguing! The grandmas promise!
I thought that this book had a nice storyline. This story, like the other "Grandma Sal and Grandma Nan" stories, is meant for early readers. I found this an entertaining, humorous story and I highly recommend it to all.