This book is a small collection of photos and reminiscences of the workers of the great estates of Long Island. Known as the Gold Coast, there were a great many homes of the rich and famous on Long Island, mostly on the North Shore. This small book tells the story of the workers on the estates, the people who made the houses run as if by magic. The photos are excellent and the author gives a fairly detailed description of the different jobs and what they entailed. This series of books is very informative and I recommend them highly.

The story line is excellent, with interesting twists and turns. A real page turner. I highly recommend it, and I am pretty picky about what I recommend.

I thought this was a really good book, because it was funny and touching. I liked the characters and their feelings, and I liked James, the 5-yr old boy.

While Indentured Immigrants accurately traces the journey of a family from Maderia to the Sandwich Islands, it also spells out the history of that time and people and their struggles with life. Painstakenly researched, Philip Pasquini chronicles not only the life of the Pereira family but life aboard the Sterlingshire,a three-masted ship, sailing around Cape Horn. It includes numerous stories of life as an indentured servants in the cane fields of Hawaii, transition to life on the mainland, and the quest of people seeking a better life. Indentured Immigrants is a book that's meant to be read over and over. Graphics, maps, illustrations, and photographs enhance nearly every page. Full of data and poignant stories, this book is long overdue.

This is my all-time favorite book. If you like "Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek," be sure to read "Inland Island" by Josephine Johnson. She has the same unromanticized view of nature's uncompromising rule (whatever survives, works), and she has the mind of an agnostic poet expressed in prose. Example: I think it is disgusting to praise God for making us acknowledge His presence by a poke in our eyeballs with His sharp stick.

And: All day, a rain of life and death goes on. A catbird crashed against the pane and fell gasping. Then it gathered itself in a narrow canoe shape and lay there patiently waiting to recover or die. Awareness is a name of agony. I wish there was something to pray to for its life. But one must not get excited. One must not grieve. Nature, Mom, all-powerful, monstrous and monolithic Mother sits and chooses.

The whole book is wonderful! I wish I could read it again for the first time just for the pleasure of its discovery.

Rob Wilson and Vilsoni Hereniko are the editors of a book that provides probing insight to the politics of identity and creativity across the Pacific. Highly theoretical but more than worth it, the sometimes post-modernist essays elucidate the complex realm of contradictions which are the meat of Pacific consciousness and literature. With a chapter by Hawaiian soveriegnty leader Haunani-Kay Trask and an insightful interview with acclaimed author Albert Wendt (of Samoa), this book will open your mind to the depth and humanity of Pacific issues. Especially stimulating is the chapter on Gaugain's NuaNua, in which Gilbertese/African American poet Teresia Teaiwa critically analyzes the role of his work in "shaping...the Polynesian body." All of the contributors to this groundbreaking work offer a fresh re-thinking of even the most ingrained Pacific archetypes, while openly challenging the reader to engage new modes of analysis with respect to post-colonial (and in many cases, neo-colonial) art and literature. More penetratingly, the contributors look to the dynamic between this body of work and the Pacific "self"--how art and literature have shaped, and been shaped by indigenous and settler Pacific peoples' perceptions of themselves. This book, like the Field Symposia's "Poet's Reading", is an anthology of anthologies. A dense read with a lot of knowledge therein, and not for the faint of heart. Truly the "inside" story on the politics of identity in Pacific art and literature.

My wife is stationed here in Naploi, so naturally we are always looking at guides and suffing the net for sights to see. I checked this book out of the library here and could not believe the photography, this artist has captured the essence of Napoli. And the descriptions of Napoli are so true, I couldn't have presented the city any better. Although the city is dirty, overcrowded, and with criminal element, it is a wonderful opportunity to be here, the people are very spirited and extroverted, the food is tremendous, and there is a lot to see and do here. If you can not come and see for yourself, this book is the next best thing. I highly recommend this guide and I'll be looking for other Insight Guides for our travels.

I found purchasing Eric B. Shumway's "Intensive Course in Tongan" tapes, very helpful as a student wanting to learn the Tongan language. Although buying the book with the tapes is a necessity. I found the readings on the tapes to be very clear and easy to follow along with. The reader gives you plenty of time to repeat after them, which is very effective in learning. Also the songs and readings are very entertaining. This is a good buy for a serious Tongan language learning student. Also these are the only Tongan language tapes I could find out there.

This was a great book. It really enhanced one's respect for medics, stretcher-bearers, wire carriers (of whom I knew nothing prior to reading this), and all G.I.'s in general. I saw THE THIN RED LINE afterwards, and understood it much more than I would have been able to thanks to this book. It was excellent.

The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age 3000-800 BC is a fascinating, informative, exceptionally well written presentation of the archaeological record regarding the Ionian Islands at the northwestern fringes of the Aegean world, and the factors that shaped the unique cultural identity, of their inhabitants in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages. The archaeological evidence drawn from tombs, cemeteries, settlement sites, and artifacts are treated chronologically and thematically, reconstructing a profile of each of the islands and the island region as a whole. A pattern emerges which points to alternating periods provincialism and isolation with those of vitality and openness to long distance connections. A seminal work of impeccable archaeological scholarship, The Ionian Islands is highly recommended for academic and professional reference collections regarding the prehistoric cultures of the Aegean region.