To American history buffs, the name of Ishi may strike a familiar note. In 1911, he stumbled out of obscurity into newspaper headlines. For years he had been in hiding, the last surviving member of the Yahi Indian tribe. Hungry and confused, he turned up in a slaughterhouse in Oroville, California, looking for food. It was some time before authorities could piece together his story. His real name was never known: "Ishi" was a name given by the Indian's kindly benefactor and friend, Dr. Alfred Kroeber of the University of California at Berkeley. "Ishi" was the word for "Man" in the Yahi language.

Collins and Bergren share Ishi's story in a smoothflowing narrative, beginning with the Indian's appearance in Oroville, flashing back to his years as a boy and man, then closing with his final years living at the California Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley. Nicknamed "The Wild Man of Oroville," the lone Yahi survivor emerges as a gentle, kind person with curiosity and quiet demeanor. Clearly, his years of growing up were painful, his people fighting a losing battle against the determined "saltu" - white people, who wanted land, land and more land. As hunters and fishermen, the Yahi were masters. As warriors, they seemed less able.

"Ishi, the Last of His People" offers a sympathetic look at a most unusual member of history's cast of characters. Pluses to the book, in addition to the ample bibliography and index, are a timetable of Ishi's life and a glossary of Yahi words. Although aimed at a young person's reading level, the book is an interesting "read" for any age.

The only minus in the book is the collection of illustrations, which are mediocre at best. The volume would have been a five star rating, but the drawings are relatively lifeless and add little to the text.

i thought the way she had it twist and turn putting sunday through all the hell in this book was wonderful and how she made her truimph over everything she went through exspeacilly with claude and herbert (mind you both where sick and demented)I also love how finally she got charlie and her together it seemed that they belonged together, that they fit together like two peas in a pod.I was really hurt when she had charlies mom die i thought she was spunky in the book and i hope i'm sorta like her in my old age.i hope the jackie collins keeps writing the kind of books she does i can never put them down.

This is a great little book on World War II Aircraft as per advertized by Amazon. There are about 100 aircraft listed etc.
There are specs for each. This book is divided by Country
Each aircraft has two pages and one photo. As it says on the
front of the book.....A mine of information. This is correct.
I am not an expert but only the common aircraft for each country
are in the book. This is a great book for eight bucks. It is
a pocket book.....since it fits in your pocket! This is good for a first reference. If you need more info there are other books/the Internet/the public Library.

I would have given this book five stars except for the fact that it didn't have Pirate Ships, which is one of my favorite Judy Collins songs. Other than that this song book is a five starrer. I like the fact that with the title of each song there is a little note by Judy Collins about the song. Here is the total listing of songs: Amazing Grace, Angel On My Side, Born to the Breed, Bright Morning Stars, Che, Cook With Honey, Don't Say Goodbye Love, Dream On, Easy Times, Farewell To Tarwathie, The Fisherman Song, Granddaddy, Hard Times For Lovers, Holly Ann (The Weaver Song), Houses, The Life You Dream, Mama Mama, Marieke, Marjorie, Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, My Father, Nightingale, Open The Door (Song For Judith), Out Of Control, Pretty Polly, The Rest Of Your Life, Running For My Life, Secret Gardens, Send In the Clowns, Shoot First, Simple Gifts, Since You've Asked, Sky Fell, Song For Duke, Song For Martin, This is the Day, and Trust Your Heart.

If you are interesting in the common and not so common plants of Southern California coastal and chaparral areas, then this book should be in your collection. Easily followed keys allow even the beginner to determine a plant's identity. The book is also well illustrated with line drawings of most of the common plants.

This is a fun first novel. It's set at the Boucheron (the big national mystery writers convention) in Chicago in 1984. Mallory's mentor and hero is found dead in the bathtub and there are rumors flying of a newly discovered Hammett. Add in a variety of writing types, two widows of the dead man, a slimy publisher and a cute magazine editor. It's a fun, light read - not cozy cute nor noir dark. I'll read more of this series.

This handy little volume is one of three things you should definitely have knocking around loose inside your Land Cruiser on safari. The other two, of course, are the well-stocked drink cooler and Lady Jane. Yes, gin-and-tonic DOES help with malaria, and has far fewer side effects than Larium. In any case, the book is organized in a reasonable way, by families, so that the cats are together in the same section of text and not, for example, strewn about amid elephants and impalas. Thus animals are fairly easy to find even without recourse to the (adequate) index, which lists the page on which descriptive text appears as well as the page on which the animal is illustrated. The illustrations are nicely rendered watercolors that are perhaps less vivid than high-quality photographs might be, but at least show idealized animals that lack any confusing idiosyncracies sometimes seen of individual photographed animals. Certain features of the book are clearly out of date, such as the names of the more recent African countries; Lady Jane was befuddled by a country named Rhodesia occupying the territory of Zimbabwe. Unfortunately, she has been imbibing (in an absolutely out-of-character manner) an American abomination called kamikazes, so she is a trifle under the weather. Another difficulty is that animals that presently are desperately endangered, such as the bongo, were not described as such back in the '70s when most of the text was evidently written. But the written descriptions of the animals are excellent, and most handy in the field, especially when you can find both the text description and the illustration, putting fingers in the book to mark the place of each, and then looking back and forth from text to picture to animal and back again, etc. It is a lot easier than it sounds, even when the Land Cruiser is in one of its bouncier modes. Or ditto Lady Jane

'Leukocyte Recruitment, Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecules, and Transcriptional Control' represents a compilation of thematically related chapters aimed at readers interested in a state-of the-art overview of recent advances in the field. The approach that is taken here is based upon the considerable molecular biological expertise of the authors and editor. The initial sections provide a broad-based overview of the various adhesion receptor mechanisms that are brought into play as leukocytes first roll and subsequently adhere to the vascular wall. The black-and-white graphics are especially clear, with the essential domains of the various adhesion receptors depicted schematically. The relevance of in vitro conditions of static and hydrodynamic flow, as well as in vivo correlates, are clearly discussed. Chapters are extremely well-referenced, providing the interested reader with ample opportunity for investigation of the primary source material. Of especial interest are the continual links between phenomenologic observations and transcriptional control mechanisms, especially related to cytokine activation and genetic promoter/enhancer regions. The three dimensional graphical representations of coactivator and transcriptional initiation complexes are truly outstanding. One of the features which recommends this book considerably is that it is absolutely up-to-date, covering some of the more recently described immunoglobulin superfamily members such as the MAdCAMs. Various tables are scattered throughout the text which facilitate comparisons between different adhesion receptors, with respect to genomic structure and location, structural motifs, tissue distribution, inducible regulation, and the effect of various gene deficiencies. Mechanisms underlying the activation of NF-kB represent a recurring and essential theme throughout the book, with a complete chapter dedicated to the topic. The text concludes with two chapters dedicated to placing the adhesion receptors and NF-kB-mediated adhesion receptor upregulation in a therapeutic context. The relevant actions of known anti-inflammatory agents are discussed, and future directions in the field with respect to various disease states and development of novel therapeutic strategies are anticipated. Overall, this comprehensive book presents a unified and up-to-date picture of the adhesion receptor field, including relevant transcriptional mechanisms. The book is approachable even for those outside the field because of the first-rate graphics, the comprehensive comparison tables, and the explicit relevance for various disease states. This book should represent an outstanding addition to any biomedical reference library, and is not likely to gather dust on the shelf, but rather be referred to over and over again.

Deep insight into the realm of Eastern religion. This treatise gives examples of what a true disciple must learn in order to reach an astral knowledge of one's self, and, in my opinion, how to achieve true happiness.