This book is an excellent example of documentary photography of a people and way of life that is slowly (or quickly depending on where you live) passing from the American landscape. Builder Levy has a strong empathy for his subject and for the people he portrays in these marvelous b&w photographs. Buy and read this book (and share it with friends) if you have any interest at all in coal people and Appalachia.

This book draws together a huge range of data on Native American plant and animal use and environmental management in pre-Columbian times. The chapters are by leading authorities, and are comprehensive enough to inform the scholar, while well-written and accessible enough to be valuable to the beginning student. In recent years, publishers have given us a plethora of badly informed books on traditional Native American resource management. Most of them either portray Native Americans as ecological saints or as wasteful destroyers. To such works, the present book is an ideal antidote. It discusses the major known cases in which Native American cultures intensively modified the landscape to produce highly productive, long-sustained agricultural systems. The authors wisely refrain from pontificating on the saint vs. savage issue, but the implication is clear: Native American land management systems were highly diverse but usually sustainable, at least in the medium term, and often exceedingly complex and sophisticated. Notable and very valuable are chapters reviewing the natural vegetation of each region. These not only provide necessary background for the specific case studies; they are also wonderful review articles in their own right. In particular, the chapters on South America bring together materials previously accessible only through many scattered sources in several languages. This book is an absolute "must read" for ecological anthropologists and ethnobiologists. It seems to me to be only slightly less indispensable for ecologists, environmentalists, and environmental historians. On the whole, the book is not action-oriented; it provides data, not applications. Charles Peters' chapter is a welcome exception. While sympathizing with the authors' overall goal of providing "just the facts, ma'am" (as Joe Friday used to say), I am glad Dr. Peters took the next step, and I rather wish that at least some of the other authors had gone farther in that direction.

This is an interesting longitudinal study of a systemic staff development effort. The study points out to us once again the principals' leadership changing the school culture as well as classroom practices.

This book unlocked hidden truths and falsehoods for me and broadened my knowledge of the Vietnamese policy concerning the American M.I.As. It was widely thought-provoking and educational. Anyone interested in the aftermath of the war will be glad they choose to read this book. It helps to illustrate the relationship between these two countries and the growth both have endured since that catastrophic era.

This book is a great resource for speech language pathologists who serve students with Down Syndrome. As a professional new to the field of speech language pathology, I found myself serving two students with Down Syndrome in the elementary school setting and making decisions about their communication. Jon Miller's book explains old theories about Down Syndrome, and introduces new research findings in an easy-to-read format. It covers speech intelligibility and language comprehension and production patterns.

If you are a speech language pathologist who does not know a lot about Down Syndrome, this is the book to help you learn about it and how you can approach speech therapy with this population. It has greatly influenced my decisions regarding the overall communication abilities and potential in my students.

One of the most poetic, and beautiful books that I have ever received. The one that I have was given to me in 1966, 34 years ago ... the images speak volumes, the words cause one to pause. Please bring it out to print again.

Lewis Carroll has always been a mystery man. Raphael Shaberman has brought Sherlock Holmes onto the case and looks at aspects of Lewis Carroll which have not really been examined before. I don't agree with everything he says, but if the mysterious element of Carroll appeals to you, then this book will undoubtedly intrigue and interest you.

Wonderful, evocative account of old Peking before the mass destruction by the current regime. This book reads like the wonderful Blue Guides of Europe (before Blue Guide recently changed the format and gutted so much of the information). The extent of description is amazing - the Lama Temple's rituals, for example, involving canabalism in pantomine: the monks worked themselves into a frenzy and then tore to shreds a man-like figure made of dough and filled with red liquid jam - mess everywhere!. The authors also recommended that tourists of the day go armed in the temple because of the determined attentions (ahem!) of the monks.

I used this book as a guide in the 90's while living in Hong Kong and visiting Peking - it still had great value despite all the losses (the coverage of the Forbidden City is incredible) I found many interesting out-of-the-way spots I would have missed if I'd relied on my strangely (sadly) poor Blue Guide China. In Search of Peking is one of those books (like Austin Coates' Myself a Mandarin for Hong Kong) that will really make you glad you lived (or visited) in China, despite all the modern concrete.

This was the only book I could find about the slave who went to the Pacific with Lewis & Clark. It was published by Colorado Associated University Press in 1985. Exellent foundation for further research on York. very readable with good illustrations & footnotes.

In the Night, Still Dark is an abridged version of the Kumulipo, a Hawaiian creation chant that is spiritually meaningful to Native Hawaiians. This version is poetically written, and beautifully illustrated. It is appropriate for children as well as adults.