The recent proliferation of books on tropical ecology is a goodthing, but it might make it difficult to decide which books toread. I've read almost all the books on tropical ecology and taughtseveral tropical ecology courses, and this is the best work I've seenyet. It is definitely not a text book and should not be used as such,but it covers all the major issues in tropical ecology while focusingon one of the best studied neotropical ecosystems: Barro ColoradoIsland. I recommend this book to anyone interested in tropicalecology.

If you are going to be fly fishing in Colorado or Wyoming you absolutely must track down a copy of this out-of-print book. It crams an incredible amount of useful information into 149 pages of easy to read prose, charts and illustrations -- nearly all of which is as valid today as when first printed in 1987. Wish I could find more copies to use as gifts for friends!

This book is exquisitly written,and Mary Joy Martin has that rare artistic gift that few writers truly have: An ability to turn ordinary prose into pure poetry. The mark of a really good writer is to take the stories they tell and to breath life into them, in effect, setting them to music, with tempo and rhythm, tone and beat. That's what this book has. Comparing this book to another forgettable one I read on American Hauntings is like comparing an artistic painting to a stick figure drawing. The one I read on American Hauntings had no flair, and was just straight facts about hauntings across America that chose and then presented their ghostly stories poorly, without the passion and color that Martin brings to her spooky tales of Colorado's restless spirits from the other side.
Of course, I'm a skeptic either way, but it was Martin's way of telling her stories that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and her vivid descriptions superbly painted the canvas of these etheral encounters that the other author on American Hauntings rendered as rudementary black and white sketches. Authors like Mary Joy Martin, on the other hand, leave me wanting to explore more of their work.

A wonderful look into the lives of my husbands grandparents(Angus)and his mother during the twenties and thirties. A guide into a little known part of their western heritage. I am proud to have been, somewhat by proxie, a part of the story. Especially wonderful are the pictures that show what the country and what our family was like during that time.

The characters in this book are great. I like a woman who is trying something new, which is what the heroine does in this book. I highly recommend this book.

Dr. Brosnan's book is a rigorously researched work that documents the interplay between economics, law and natural resources in the development of the Rocky Mountain front range. The book is not just a thoroughly engrossing history of the growth of the Denver region, but is an excellent study as to the general development of regions that are dependent on the extractive industries. As such, Dr. Brosnan's study is an incredibly important, timely and relevant book.

I am looking forward to Dr. Brosnan's next book.

William J. Kresse
Assistant Professor
Graham School of Management
Saint Xavier University
Chicago, Illinois, USA

A good read for people interested in Uranium history. This book would especially interest people in the Four Corners area. Althought this goes into some of the history of U, it is mostly about one man Charlie Steen. This book is not technical.

Being a naturalist hiking guide, I reccomend this book to everyone! Detailed directions to the trailhead, accurate difficulty ratings, fairly accurate times (on the trail, that is!) Thorough descriptions of most of the best hikes in the Vail area.

A fascinating book about one of the most dangerous avalanche areas in the U.S.. With plenty of amazing photographs and interesting interviews, the authors provide a look at the incredible beauty of the area, and the awesome destructive force of avalanches in the San Juan Mountains in Southwest Colorado. A great book for anyone interested in experiencing mountain back country, or in the history of how the people of this area have learned to live with these incredible forces of nature.

With this new book Dr. Glenda Russell has achieved what few scholars ever have. She has given us a solid, scholarly and rigorous accounting of her research into the effects of the passage of Colorado's notorious, homophobic Amendment 2 on gay people. In addition, she has given us many completely readable narratives that bring the devastating psychological effects down to individuals deeply harmed by the vote. (Amendment 2 was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.) If the scholarly research reporting is too much for most of us, the personal accounts are well worth the reading. One wishes that all scholars would report their findings in such friendly ways, ways that all of us can access. A splendid book, both for its careful explication of research methods and results and for its careful discriptions of how anti-gay politics really does very deep and personal damage gay people. Lay readers may not want to read this book from front to back, but it's well worth the paperback price to have it on hand for those parts that are so readable and moving. It is a bonus that Russell writes so well--clearly and concisely, unlike the authors of most academic tomes.