Soooooooo good! The two books about Kira are wonderul, draw you in and want to read some more. The relationship btween Kira and her crew makes in the first book and her bravery in spite of all odds with various aalien species is amazzing but very believable!! I wish Aanne Mason had written a third!!

Alas, if only this were still in print. I read this book andits sequel, The Stolen Law, at a library many years ago and I'll neverforget them. The heroine is a smart and spirited interpreter. The focus on alien language is a great way to bring all the new cultures the author dreams up into focus. All in all, one of the best Juvenile/ Young Adult books I've ever read.

The author does an outstanding job at offer the details of survival in the north. I lived in Trenton for many years and know some of the people mentioned. It is embarassing as a Canadian to see how ill equiped we are and what we make our troops do with so little to work with.

The rescue part in the book was a bit abrupt and final...perhaps he could have offered more insight to the final rescue moments.

A thrilling story how just real life can write it. Realistic to the bone with these magic moments which you cannot explain. They just happen and everybody has its own idea what it was for. This book enriches your world of symbols and you learn about the (protection-?) function of phantasy in extreme situations. The book is full of very personal ways to death and back to life. Lots of details make it to more than a "light at the end of the tunnel story". All this is framed by the technical world of the search and rescue schemes with its todays heros: The people of the rescue squads. These storyline let the reader rest after the emotional parts of personal (the main characters) hardship. Both storylines together build up the enormous suspense of this book. To the author: Good, very sensitive recherche realisticly narrated. Perfect for this story.+++ Thanks to all the people who added their for sure not very pleasant memories to make this book possible +++

This is a book that should be in every elementary school library and classroom. Opening children's eyes to new discoveries, and making children aware of life and death cycles in nature are key concepts of the book. The topic of predator vs. prey is approached from an original, creative, and non-threatening manner.The plot of the book involves a young girl coming to terms with the death of her cat, Mouser, whose collar she finds in a wooded area near her home.The layout and design of the book are outstanding. The amount of white space in the wide margins and also found around the print makes the book easy to read. The high quality of paper used for the book, allows the full page illustrations to reflect accurate color schemes selected by the artist at their best advantage.The illustrated book jacket and matching illustrated book cover in library binding makes the book both sturdy and an aesthetic delight. It is the kind of book that develops, in children, an awareness of beauty both in nature and in art. It also exposes children to a style of writing in prose that is poetic and clear.The quality of writing can be compared to the style of E.B.White, whose book, "Charlotte's Web" is a memorable classic. In fact, Everybody's Somebody's Lunch is a contemporary classic because it's plot is timeless, characters believable, theme universal, quality outstanding, and appeals to all generations; both young and old. I recommend it highly for all elementary school teachers without hesitation. Tilbury House Publishers in Gardiner, Maine should be congratulated for a wonderful publication.

Our family's Scottish terrier recently brought home a partially-eaten rabbit, and the kids freaked. It was hard to explain why he had killed the rabbit, and why it was OK for him to do so. EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S LUNCH was recommended by our local bookstore and it really helped my husband and me out...and the kids, and the dog! We're all predators, and we're all prey, and that's how it works. Mason's lively book gets that point across engagingly and positively, with factual accuracy in a non-saccharine but also non-gory way. Mason is a well-known conservationist and author of THE WILD FOX, which the kids also loved. I've never seen predator-prey relationships addressed in a children's book before. Thanks, Ms. Mason, for helping us out!

After receiving this book as a gift, I flipped through the chapters. I noticed that the book references several web sites that will supposedly help you save money in various arenas. I haven't looked them all up yet, but I did go to one recommended for insurance. As a result, I got a new auto insurance policy and saved $500.00. The book has definitely been helpful for me.

Excellent concise work that is invaluable for anyone that is working towards becoming financially independent. This book can be effectively used by students through those that are in retirement. Lots of short concrete examples so that the theories come to life. Also, nearly every page has a 'hot tip' that show ways for one to save money, invest more wisely or to somehow improve one's financial situation. This book is NOT a get-rich-quick scheme. However, it should be required reading for anyone who wants to improve their personal financial management skills. Young couples that would follow the author's advice would be able to live without debt and to retire early.

This book helped prepare for the new experience of owning a Flat Coated Retriever. The book was very helpful, and after four years I still refer to it. This book also has many wonderful photos of these beautiful dogs. A great choice of any Flat Coat owner.

Highlights this versatile, dynamic breed as a top-class gun dog, popular show dog, and affectionate companion animal. Great photos. 160 pp. / 60 photos / HWL-1996

I got two of these excellent atlases, one for my son and one for my daughter, to play with. I had to take them away when they began redesigning the pop-out features to correspond to some of the photos in my medical teratology text showing men and women with variously mutated s_x organs.

This fantastic book has 2 figures to entertain and educate the reader. The male figure has an intriguing pop-up feature.

Here's Franklin with his friends in FRANKLIN GOES TO DAY CAMP. It's an excellent way to introduce kids to the idea of day camp and to the concept of journaling. There are word games and puzzles, a maze, and a board game, all surrounded by beautiful, bright illustrations. It's also good for a child who's sick or stuck indoors on a rainy day. I suggest using a pencil on the puzzles so you can erase and do them again. Or cover the page with plastic and write on that. The affordable book works on several levels: story, journal, games.

This book was great! My 6 and 7 year olds loved it. I liked how it was set up as a journal, that Franklin kept each day he went to camp. This was something my children could relate to because they kept and write in journals at school. My children especially enjoyed doing the activities that went along with Franklin's camp activities. The book is very well thought out and my help alleviate some camp anxieties your child my have.

Richard Mason is a pretty sympathetic expositor of Spinoza, but he likes to get his digs in when he can. (Spinoza comes in, for example, for a little gentle ribbing on the question whether anyone can achieve blessedness without relying on Scripture. Mason suggests in a parenthetical comment that Spinoza may have thought he and Jesus were the only two people who could do so.)

Overall, this volume is an excellent exposition of Spinoza's thought about God and religion -- and it has some very interesting features. For one thing, there's a full chapter devoted to figuring out just what Spinoza thought of Jesus -- a much-neglected topic. For another, there's _another_ full chapter devoted to figuring out just what Spinoza meant by the eternality of the mind.

I find Mason very congenial on many points. For my money he outdoes both Edwin Curley _and_ Jonathan Bennett on some topics -- especially Spinoza's views on the nature of necessity. He also beats the heck out of Yovel on Spinoza's relations to religion. And at one point he offers a gentle corrective to nineteenth-century-idealistic readings of Spinoza (especially Joachim), arguing that Spinoza did think it was possible to know things short of the Absolute. (I think, by the way, that this is both correct and entirely consonant with idealism as it should be understood; in my view the British neo-Hegelians were a bit vulnerable on this point.)

Some readers may like his approach and its conclusion: that there isn't any point to digging around behind Spinoza's words looking for theological secrets; Spinoza meant just what he wrote. (Which means, among other things, that he wasn't trying either to found a new religion or to undermine any existing ones.) Straussians will disagree, of course, but frankly there seems to be little reason to apply persecution-and-the-art-of-writing standards to Spinoza's writings.

A nice addition to everyone's home Spinoza library.

This book is an excellent source, for those interested in the influence of the Jewish/Marrano background of Spinoza, but also for those interested in his metaphysics. The discussion on the attributes was very smooth.

An excellent children's book of one of the greatest carols ever. This carol above all proclaims the social justice of the Gospel; the need to share what we have with others, even in the face of our own adversity, and at the loss of our own pleasure. It's only the more wonderful in that it's based on the story of an actual king, Wencelass, the patron saint of the Czech Republic, who worked tirelessly for his five years in office to bring Christianity to his country of Bohemia. With very beautiful illustrations with a Gothic style of writing, the entire carol is included, a verse for each illustration, along with the notes at the end to sing along with. Children of about 30 should enjoy this work as well.

This a legend from my childhood, one of the many I was told nothin of. buy this one for your kids, so that they may know that wich I knew not.

I have read and pondered the Book of Job many times in my life. But Mike Mason's book goes to the top of my all time list. It is a devotional but so much more. Mason has obviously rubbed shoulders with Joblike suffering, and he has not lost faith. Rather, his faith had been deepened. He has brought a scholarly and devotional blend to his writing. I have been deeply affected and recommend this book to everyone, seeker and believer alike.

Here is a modern 'classic' about the Bible's oldest book, the Book of Job. Job is a 'true classic' in that everybody can relate to the narrative of Job. Mason does an EXCELLENT job of [and according to his forward, he's learned from personal experience] devotionally and practically opening up the eternal issues of doubt, suffering, faith and the human experience. Although it is not meant to be a scholarly commentary, Mason does better than most 'scholarly' commentators with the questions and answers we find in the Biblical narrative of Job. Everybody shares the things Job went through, the important thing is to see that Job [as Mason brings out extremely well] was moved TOWARD God, not away from God in Job's trials and sufferings. As Mason says people reject Jesus but no one rejects Job. And as Job found out you can't reject the Redeemer! Mason's 'Gospel According to Job' is VERY worthwhile reading for pastors, Bible students and any believer seeking a deeper walk with the Lord. With so much PLASTIC Christianity out there, it is great to find some depth. Recommended highly for anyone who faces LIFE. Another largely unknown excellent work on Job is 'Portraits of Perseverance' by Henry Gariepy [Victor Books, 1989]--I don't know if you can find it anywhere but Gariepy [a Salvation Army pastor] does an excellent job of commenting on the Book of Job in short devotional statements, showing Job as a man [like all of us] moved TOWARD God through pain, suffering and trials.