Roberto Innocenti and J. Patrick Lewis' Last Resort tells of an artist's imagination which abruptly disappears. His quest to recover it leads him to a remote seaside hotel where he finds other seekers. The illustrations are gorgeous and parents can help kids absorb the somewhat difficult theme.

I was so pleased to find this book. I am a beginning gardener, and I wanted to find out about all kinds of landscaping ideas and plants. This book has beautiful color photos of different ornamental grasses and groundcovers, one area I am interested in. It also includes a detailed description of each, and important information about climate, growing guidelines, height, and spread. Armed with the information in this book, I can now visit my local garden center knowing exactly what I want for my yard.

This book is especially attractive to me because of the way in which the material is presented. It is easy to browse and appealing to the eye. I found myself sitting for hours looking through the book to determine what types of grasses and groundcovers appealed to me the most. I have not found any other garden books which present their material in such a user-friendly manner. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in starting or enhancing their garden and landscape.

I read this book for my Classic Ethnographies seminar at school. It is by far one of the most interesting ethnographies I have had the pleasure of reading. It combines ethnography with history and gives the reader a good overall view of the Iroquois. I can't recommend this book enough. If you only read one book on the Iroquois, this should be that book!

A complete course in Reformed theology including a syllibus of required readings. Though written in the 19th century, the material was ahead of its time and not many contemporary treatments equal it in breadth or salience. Robert Dabney demonstrates great skill in exegesis, antebellum analysis, and historical insight. Dabney vividly demonstrates the role of Thomas Reid's thought in American theology and makes genuine, not merely rhetorical, use of it. His lectures carry the discussion forward on many the period's pressing questions and anticipates much of the shape of current analytic philosophy of religion. I recommend using the text as a supplement to Charles Hodge's Systematic Theology, since Dabney generally agrees with Hodge unless he specificly says otherwise (which is always significant). R.L. Dabney was a pastor and a professor of Church History at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia and served under Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson in the Civil War.

A truly excellent book with a gripping story and sweeping images. I found myselfe becoming attached quite deeply to all of the characters. Ultimatly a superb read , I highly reccomend it to any anemei fan

I would like to start by pointing out that this is a review of the translation rather than the original book.

The original english language version of this book had always been so close to my heart that, as I picked up the french edition, I wondered if a translation could retain the charm, depth and endearing warmth of CS Lewis' unique literary style.
A successful translation is not necessarily a precise reflection of the original vocabulary or sentence structure. It should, rather, reproduce the atmosphere created by the text in its original form, all the while using lucid and diverse language.
This translation completely achieves the former, though, just occasionally, and probably only due to a momentary lack of attention, falls short of the latter, with one or two incorrectly constructed sentences. An inevitable difficulty was the english public school speak (for example, "By Jove, Edmund!" or, "he's a brick!"), an affliction suffered by virtually every character in the story. However, this puzzling obstacle was admirably dealt with. All in all, an authentic, convincing translation, which often had me forgetting i was even reading the book in another language.

C.S. Lewis believed that letters should be about a person's readings, thinkings, and doings, and this nearly half century of correspondence between Lewis and his friend Arthur Greeves richly fulfils all three of these areas. Only a few letters are by Greeves, the rest being Lewis's correspondence to him. Walter Hooper has done a fine job in ordering these letters and writing a fine introduction to fill in the background for these two. The letters are often funny, sometimes pensive, and usually insightful, but they are never dull. I enjoyed them greatly.

This book contains about 400 of Wharton's letters, out of about 4,000 extant. It is a careful selection, including "major" letters that are often quoted, and for the first time (other than in a small university publication), a substantial portion of her correspondence with Morton Fullerton, with whom she had an affair while in her mid-40s. That particular correspondence did not surface until the 1980s, and added an entirely new perspective on Wharton's life and work. Unfortunately, nearly all of her correspondence with two of her greatest friends, Henry James and Walter Berry, did not survive, and the absence is felt. I applaud the editors (one of whom wrote a Pulitzer prize winning bio of Wharton) for a selection that is very readable and never trite or repetitive (a big problem when dealing with letters in their entirety). Reading the letters after having read the bio, I found they added to my understanding of Wharton as a person and a writer.

The Evensons have combined an easy to use spiral-bound book format with great Lewis & Clark art and a good selection of relevant quotes from Lewis and Clark journals.

As dedicated Lewis & Clark afficianados, we have done extensive research on the Corps of Discovery and the foods they ate. This book and its companion "Sacagawea Cookbook" capture the essence of the L&C Expedition in food, imagery, and word. It is very well laid out and a joy to read and use.

The recipes have taken the essence of foods on the Expedition and the times, and have presented contemporary recipes which can be prepared in today's kitchen with today's ingredients. Spiral-bound, the book stays open flat to the recipe in use; or you can prop it open (tent-like) to one of the full-page art works.

Lewis & Clark: From The Rockies To The Pacific is a gorgeously illustrated, in-depth account of the famous explorers' journey through the American West. The stunningly beautiful, full-color photography by Robert M. Reynolds of natural landscapes that Lewis and Clark traveled through, are presented side-by-side with a detailed reconstruction by Stephen Dow Beckham of the Lewis & Clark expeditionary journey that often quotes the travelers' journals. Lewis & Clark is an attractive, highly recommended coffee-table book for home, school, and community library American History collections.