This book could be classified as a lover's reference guide. I find it to be enlightening and very romantic. I think you for sharing your work and talents. Your gift and knowledge has been of great benefit to me in my personal relationships. Thank you Dr. Harper.. Pam from Sacramento California

As I was only a pre-teen when Ronald Reagan first took office in January 1981, his is the first administration, that I took an active interest in.This, along with the birth of cable news and I was hooked on current events and politics The Reagan era was filled with many highs and its share of lows, both inside and outside the White House. One of the things that was so remarkable about Reagan, to this young person at least, was the fact that no matter what was going in the world (good or bad), he always seemed to have the right words to say. Of course, he had a solid speechwriting staff behind him, but it was more than that though. His delivery, conviction, and passion concerning his core beliefs, and his love for America, played a huge part in him being called "the great communicator"

This book collects Reagan's keynote phrases and speeches throughout his political life and later as a statesmen. Edited by Frederick Ryan Jr, I would think that this book would have appeal to anyone who is into political histoy--and no matter what side of the aisle you are on. Personal highlights in the book for me include the famous "tear down this wall" speech to Gorbachev. As well as the address that he gave to the nation following the Challanger shuttle explosion in 1986. Reading those words again, following the Columbia shuttle disaster, I was struck how comforted I felt by those same words. Reagan was known as an optimistic President. The book illustrates that key element. A fine read for these troubled times

The book has dozens of color and black and white photos. This 160 page book has a forward from the editor. I recommend it those who lived through the Reagan years, and to those who want to know more. You don't have to agree with everything he did or said to get something from this book

Kipling’s words give the key to understanding his real, but sadly limited, achievements. He was capable of an extraordinarily sensitive empathy with people, especially with those who did the work of the Empire, the doctors, engineers and administrators. But his political sympathies constrained his emotional sympathies. His love for the Empire was twisted in with a most unintelligent hero-worship of the scoundrels who ran it, and with hatred for those who opposed it.

His works reflect this ambiguity. Many of his writings are excellent, for instance the Jungle Book, some of his stories and many of his poems. Lycett has presented an amazingly detailed portrait of Kipling’s adopted class and milieu. But he lacks a novelist’s imagination and ease with language; the biography often just lists Kipling’s possessions, travels, guests and friends. In reflection of Kipling, he smothers his finer understandings in a blanket of conventions. We still need Angus Wilson’s fine book, ‘The strange ride of Rudyard Kipling’, to see the full peculiarity of Kipling’s career.

I was in the Merhant Marine in 1969. Even though this book was set in the 30's,the correlations to life in the merchant fleet were amazing. I suppose anyone who has sailed has had a similar experience but the parallels gave me an erie sense of Deja Vu. I highly recommend this book for anyone who has gone to sea,especially at the age of 18. Thank you Mr.Cooley,where ever you are, for this galvanizing novel !Jack C. Noble,M.D.

SCHUMANN is a work of sound and thorough scholarship, refreshingly free of cant, pomposity, bombast, condescension, self-aggrandizement and arrogance, six pillars in the temple of bad academic writing. Mr. Jensen's thoughtful prose is eminently readable, his argument clear and convincing thanks in no small part to a masterly balancing of distance from and sympathy for his primary subject. The plight of temperament (in Schumann's case, genius) in conflict with ignorance, incomprehension, complacent professionalism and "benign" authoritarianism continues to be a matter of interest and concern. Who or what today would keep Schumann in a cage?

Especially recommended for use in curriculum planning for classrooms of students in grades 4-8, Science Fiction Readers Theatre is a handy and "user friendly" resource for teachers interested in a participation-based approach that uses creative, science-fiction themed scripts to fuel students' imaginations and help them develop their reading and speaking skills. A very useful book for language arts curriculums, Science Fiction Readers Theatre is a welcome and recommended addition to Educational Resource & Curriculum Supplementation reference collections.

Since his achievements as a music publisher are familiar, may I recall that Don Gillespie's biography is a masterpiece of historical recreation--personal and yet factual, detailed and yet thorough--about an obscure but influential music figure in American music a century ago. For those who don't already know, Ward taught Delius, assigned to manage a plantation in northern Florida, more than he learned at the Leipzig music academy a few years later. One charm of Gillespie's book is incorporating his research efforts into the narrative. Indeed, were I a professor of graduate musicology, this is the sort of book I would give to my best students as an example of how to do uniquely valuable scholarship with otherwise forgotten eminences. The awards this book did not receive upon publication are hereby discredited

I read this book years ago and I still remember it clearly. Strange things are happening on the distant planets where, in the far future, mankind has scattered. Every planet has something oddly wrong with it. On one, people simply have no drive left; on another, the old rule the young; on yet a third, women rule men (yes, it's faintly sexist, but don't let that ruin a great book). A group of adventurers go from planet to planet, trying to find out what has caused this problem and barely escaping from each planet with their lives. Finally they make their way to old Earth... and what's going on _there_ makes all the messed-up planets look like paradises. Only in a great book like this could the statement of a mathematical formula make you gasp and drop the book. (Well, I did.) It's a shame that this book is out of print, but I strongly recommend that you find it somewhere!

Anything Dr. Kildare is so hard to find today. I was so happy to see that they actually have a new hard cover book edition. My mom is going to go nuts.