Whether you rate this a 10 or a 2 depends on your reading tastes. No doubt many people would find the topic uninteresting, and if the topic or the author are not subjects you enjoy, then don't bother to buy it. Not being a lit. buff myself, my attraction for the book was the author's commentary, with the goldmine of quotable material found therein. This is an impressive volume of literary history, and I doubt that anyone else could have done such a thorough job and still made the topic come to life with such vigorous exposition. Opinionated? You bet. That's part of what makes it enjoyable to read. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the book, you may want to contact Oxford University Press directly. As one of the twelve volumes constituting the "Oxford History of English Literature" series, they have continued to print it over the years.

Excellent source of information for those horseowners who want to optimize their horse's care instead of just throwing "any old hay" at them. Even though this book is very similar (almost identical) in content to Lewis' other book, "Feeding and Care of the Horse", I would definitely choose "Equine Clinical Nutrition" instead as it contains literary references to research. Very useful if you need supportive information and are located near a vet-med library to pull papers.

This book should be used in conjunction with the "Nutrient Requirements of Horses" (National Research Council, 1989), as Lewis' appendices do not include the full nutritional content tables of many less-commonly used feeds.

This book is well worth the price, and I am looking forward to the next edition if one is in the works!

This book shows that ERISA can be fun. I like the green cover, and all the inside jokes about the government (pay attention or you might miss 'em.) All in all, this is the kind of legal information book we've all been clamoring for. Hats off to Lewis!

The contents of this book have been extracted from the early writings of Dr. H. Spencer Lewis and were not originally intended for publication in this form, but rather as counsel and advice to members and students of the Rosicrucian Order, somewhat like letters from a master to his disciples. These essays are, however, of great value to all spiritually minded people as they touch upon the fundamentals of human life, such as birth, mankind's mission, our concern with the afterlife, and practical problems of morals and ethics. The author writes with authority and speaks to the reader with great clarity. Written in conversational style, the essays lack formality and are sensible and serviceable in confronting the mysteries of life. Chapters which I found particularly appealing include the following: God and the Cosmic, About Healing, Psychic Centers, Human Auras and Science, Demonstrating Psychic Power, Swedenborg and Jacob Boehme, Mystical Numbers, Do Animals Have Souls? and Transition. Highly recommended for reading pleasure and as a reference work.

Astonishing that so many pages of such great writing (and such wonderful, interesting annotations) can be purchased for so little money. We have needed an inexpensive annotated edition of Thoreau's best short prose for a very long time, and this clearly fits the bill. Teachers and students, in particular, will find this book extraordinarily useful. The Thoreau material and annotations alone are extraordinarily valuable, but Hyde's excellent introduction on Thoreau's "Prophetic Excursions" make this the best deal available for a Thoreau book. Buy it; you'll be glad you did!

Hal Clement was one of the first "hard science" writers to enter the science fiction field, and has reamined productive over many decades. This volume contains three of his long-out-of-print stories that fans have had trouble finding for many years. If you're not a fan but you like hard-science science fiction, coupled with good writing and a "solve the puzzle" style that keeps you thinking throughout the book, give this a try. The stories may seem amazingly old (the book title tells how he wrote them after all), but they are hardly out of date. Based on human nature (perhaps a bit idealized) and fundamental physics & chemistry, they are just as gripping a read today as they were in the 1950's when they were written.

The Essential Hal Clement 2 offers seventeen of Clement's shortscience fiction, from stories about the outer edges of Earth'satmosphere to deep space exploration, and demonstrate the range of a writer perhaps best known for his alien invasion story 'Needle'. This demonstrates an even wider range to his talents and makes for an excellent collection especially recommended for prior fans of Clement's novels.

Are you a Lewis and Clark buff, just starting out? You've read "Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose, and perhaps a couple other Lewis and Clark books. It's time to read the journals, but you are daunted by the thought of all that early 19th century wordiness, spelling and such?

Me too.

This book is great. It's just what it says it is. All the good stuff from Lewis and Clark's copious journals, all the highlights, well edited. The value of this book is as a starting place, perhaps. It's short enought to be read easily over a few days. Like all good introductions, then, if you want more you know where to look, and you'll now know what to expect. Landon Jones provides all the accessibility; Lewis and Clark still provide the wonder.

I had the seventh edition of this book. The book was great but what I thought was impressive was the included CDROM. It made learning concepts easy. It shows how to do things like telling the differences in heart murmors (something that would be impossible with only a book) and invesitages the body in 3D animation. I have used many other anantomy programs and find this one to be far superior. I am amazed every time I use it! Like I said, the book is great as well.

The Everlasting Sky is a reissued collection of classic essays that portray stark details of Anishinabe reservation life in Northern Minnesota, along with human histories and tragic imbalances between Anishinabe and dominant culture individuals. A recurring theme that is the search to honor the vision of the artist, particularly the Anishinabe artist, and the quest to refine or even reforge a definition of "indian," Anishinabe, and cultural art and learning. These chapters are compelling, vivid, and go beyond linear verbal traditions with their impact. They do not make for easy or comfortable reading, for the dominant culture reader. But they are treasures laced with bitterness, but treasures nevertheless. There is something medicinal and bracing about the writings of Vizenor. In his new introduction he writes about manifest manners, "the apish continuance of manifest destiny," and the educational value of daydreaming: "Ted Mahto, the literary artist and philosopher, celebrates the natural Anishinabe custom of daydreaming as 'a very constructive kind of behavior' in public schools...'We are going to have to find ways to recognize what it is that is happening to a child when he daydreams, because this kind of visual thinking,you know, might be of more value with respect to learning how to live with one another than learning how to work a mathematical problem...There is something spontaneous and religious about visual thinking which is being ignored in the public schools. (p. xiii).'"

This dialectic underlies much of The Everlasting Sky. And even that trivial insight is not key to understanding or experiencing the dazzling Anishinabe voices under Vizenor's pen. Perhaps it is necessary to allow oneself to experience the pain in it, even vicariously, to progress to something like a starting point, or common ground. Then the elusive beauty that pervades the underlying cultural vision can perhaps be glimpsed or imagined.

Though it is difficult to understand those whom we have so badly hurt, it is not a punishment to read The Everlasting Sky. Rather, it is an experience of richness, like the final series of paintings of George Morrison, that work to "create a sense of that imagic moment when the water on the horizon of the lake merges with the sky (p. x)."

Nancy Lorraine, Reviewer