This is a very carefully researched book and it is reflected in the balanced and thorough text. The photos, however, are the reason I give it "5 Stars". They are not just "nicely shot" - they actually give you the feel of the place (I've been to a few of the Missions written about). It is an exicitng book - inspirational. I've read it a couple of times and each time, I want to pack up my bag and head for the Arizona-Sonora border. It is like entering another world! And the photgraphers and author have accurately captured its essence...

I loved Hannah & Jack! I wish my sister would have written it while my two sons were small enough for me to read it to them. Oh well, my 23 year old and my 18 year old STILL read it anyway, and loved it. We think Mary is simply....The Best!!!

This boy Ronald Morgan has a bad and sad life.His birthday is on Friday.But something happen.Thursday school is over for the year.Ronald Morgans life is ruin because his class isn't going to celebrate his birthday.
I think that when the author Patricia Reilly writes a story it means that she likes what she is writing about.The author discribes Ronald Morgans feeling.Ronald Morgan has one feeling,sad.He wants a puppy for his birthday.Is he going to get his puppy?
I didn't want to put this book down because I didn't know if they where going to celebrate his birthday.I definitely wanted to know what was going to happen next.This book was really exciting and amazing.I recommend it to anyone who likes Patricia Reilly Giff because she made me get on Ronald Morgan shoes.I also recommend it to the ones who like fiction books because they are fun.This book made me feel sad at the beginning,But at the end it made me feel happy.I like it because how they discribed his feelings.I liked it because how they acted like they didn't know about his birthday.

Increasingly, the real (and exciting) work of scholarship nowtakes place in the interstices of the established means of academicdiscourse. Journal articles (dare I say it) exist largely for reasons of career and professional advancement, rather than communicating ideas and knowledge. Were that not the case, most scholarly publications would already have gravitated solely to Web publication, and the truly remarkable profits of the journal publishers would be no more.

Equally, academic conferences, now often anticipated by pre-prints no longer exist for the communication of knowledge by the reading of a paper. The exchanges of value take place before and after the formal business, through face to face discussions. However, until The Hardy Review we did not posses anything that reflected the real life way in which the business of scholarship is actually transacted.

So, I appreciate, as an enthusiast, what it contains, but value more its message for the future of scholarship. The sections of symposium papers are valuable, because they make permanent -material (like the work at the 1998 Hardy Conference), that might at best have disappeared into the half-world of what librarians call 'gray literature'. And the publication of graduate student essays in the Independent Essay section serves much the same purpose.

However, the true innovation, which marks out the Hardy Review, is the Dialogues and Interactive Resources section. This of course, exists in electronic format on The Thomas Hardy Association website. But I was struck by how differently I read the Poem of the Month and Forum discussions in printed form from the way in which I perceived them in the electronic original.

What came across from the electronic original was the sense of debate and vitality, but I found it easier to roam backwards and forward through the debate, to juxtapose one idea with another in the printed version. I think that there has also been some judicious editing which would not have been appropriate initially, while the discussion was in spate, but which now helps to clarify the issues after the flood of ideas and comment have subsided.

What the first issue of this remarkable publication made clear to me was what the future relationship of electronic and printed scholarly productions will be. The Hardy Review shows that future working, and working well. That is: the debate and flux will take place via the Internet, and probably mostly by email. But from that will emerge a work of record, and that will still be better read, largely for paratextual reasons, in printed page codex format.

Of course, something like this was done in the nineteenth century, when the proceeding of learned societies often recorded the oral commentary from the floor. But The Hardy Review moves beyond this. Those oral contributions usually lacked substance by comparison with the power and force of the prepared written text. The prepared text was primary and the oral contributions secondary. But here the email debate, although carrying some of the oral immediacy, is still written text; transferred to the written page, it is unmarked by the oral/written shift that limited the earlier attempt to interpolate text and comment. All the material here exists on the same textual plane and it transfers easily and effectively to the printed page.

Of course, anyone could have downloaded this same material from the internet site, but it would have lacked the editorial 'post-co-ordination', to appropriate another term from library science, which helps to clarify and frame the arguments.

The Thomas Hardy Association site has been rightly recognized as a pioneering and highly effective venture. The Hardy Review shares those same qualities of innovation. END

this book has great pictures which depict their work. they are so good with the material and careful details.

This book is written for dog owners, breeders, and veterinarians. Topics include common skeleton lesions that affect the growth of many large breeds of dogs: osteochondroses, elbow dysplasia and hip dysplasia. The text is easily understandable and there are many x-rays to illustrate both normal and affected. Also discusssed are the genetic aspects of these diseases as well as the contributing nutritional and enviromental factors. Reference is made through out the text to the fact that breeding for increased size, increased early growth, along with nutrition and exercise absolutely impacts the development of these bone and joint diseases. The authors are responsible for the Wind/Morgan Program for Labradors at UC Davis: genetic screening of breeding stock with submission to the open database of The Institute of Genetic Disease Control in Animals (GDC). This book belongs in the library of anyone who undertakes the breeding of dogs.

My daughter is two and just loved this book. The colors are very vivid and Minerva is just adorable. She is always looking at things in a different way. My daughter kept correcting her and laughing. This book is easy to follow and a lot of fun. We also love Minerva goes to School.

Groner's book is a painstakingly detailed, but highly readable account of the history of the custody dispute which riveted America in the late eighties and early nineties. The principals were a successful DC area plastic surgeon--Elizabeth Morgan--and an almost equally successful dental surgeon--Eric Foretich. Almost as important as the principals in the case were the army of lawyers and experts each enlisted to support their cause.

Groner does not conceal his conclusions about where the truth lay in the dispute. I think if one had to rely on what the parents or their experts said it would be nearly impossible to decide what was true. Both sets of grandparents were actively involved with Hilary and with the dispute, however. The contrast between the role, character and testimony of Eric's parents and Elizabeth's was persuasive for me.

I'm sorry to see this book is now remaindered or available only used. I think it would be worth reprinting.

This book grabs your imagination and takes it for one hell of a ride. The mix or mystery, romance, and love of horses, combines to make an exciting and addicting story. Don't pass up the chance to let your mind take you into this rich and vibrant world of horse racing.

I really enjoyed this mystery. It is well written and suspenseful. I couldn't put it down!