This book is an invaluable guide for garden lovers who want to travel in Maine. I plan to give it to all my summer visitors!

On our first trip to Portugal we did not know what to expect. The "All in one" guide, not only helped us with the language, but also with buying, eating out,City highlights and Historical settings. The book is a must for any new traveler to Portugal.

This book was an inspiration that started me on a successful top management career. I've used this book in several leadership roles, over a 20-year period, as an motivational primer to set subordinates on a path to self-management and achievement. It's a quick and easy guide on how to get things done and to simplify your life too. Beats all of the other how-to books on time management that I've read, combined. Some of the basic management skills never change, no matter what the latest popular trend or fad.

Carlo Carretto went into the Sahara in 1954 at age 44 to serve the poor and draw closer to Christ. He succeeded! His word pictures are stunning and draw you into his world and closer to Christ. A few examples to whet your interest: "I can never insist enough that this beginning of the life of faith is governed by God himself. It is his gift, and we cannot anticipate it by a single instant, however many mountains of virtue we may heap up. It is a freely given gift. God comes like the sun in the morning-when it is time. (p.28) Or meditate on this: It sounds like a fairy story, yet it is the truth. God became bread in Christ. God comes to me hidden in a piece of bread!(p.113) Continuing on this thought later in the chapter, "He is not the boss watching me, He is the brother who feeds me. And He is the food which transforms me. He would have set out on a useless journey if He had come to prove my misery, my weakness, my ease in debasing myself. Much better to come to change me. He changes me by giving Himself in nourishment. This book is not a fast food snack, more like a vintage wine to be savored as it is truly a memorable experience. Bon Apetit!

I base the following comments on the cassettes of the series that I own. I have found Hancock to be THE funniest radio show that I've heard. No wonder it was such a hit in its day with the acting talents of Tony Hancock, Sid James, Hattie Jaques and Kenneth Williams pooled together. It was also written by the legendary 'Galton and Simpson' who have 'Steptoe & Son' to their credit. It's very much a 'Seinfeld' of its time in that we both laugh at and find endearing the foibles of the protagonist. The storylines are also similar - everyday, commonplace events such as going to pie shops, getting dressed for special occassions and so on. This is the one to play to the kids and say proudly "This is how it was, Son". Indisputably, a classic.

Authors James Hanock and James Kushlan, along with illustrators Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman have put together a simply gorgeous guide to all the world's species of herons, egrets, and bitterns. A guide to herons on every continent except Antarctica, all 60 species as recognized by the book, it is a thorough treatment of each one. Each species has a breathtaking color illustration, many times an additional black and white illustration, the common name, genus and species name, alternate common names, when and who first described it as species, maps illustrating range (including directions of migration and areas of casual occurrences), several paragraphs describing in detail their physical appearance, notes on their distribution and population, migration, habitat, behavior flying, feeding, and breeding, descriptions of nests, eggs, and young, and a note or two on taxonomy. Subspecies are noted as well; for instance a two page color range map depicts the 30 subspecies of the green-backed heron, found throught the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, and several Pacific and Indian Ocean island groups.

In addition to being a thorough field guide and collection of natural history notes on the world's herons, egrets, and bitterns the first section of the book contains useful articles on heron classification, courtship, feeding, and tips on identifying herons and egrets, including several color plates that aid in identifying the many white herons and egrets that live around the world. An extensive bibliography closes out this work.

Whether you want to read more about the great blue heron or the black-crowned night heron that lives around the local river or swamp, or something more exotic, like the black heron of Africa or the zigzag heron of South America, then this is the book for you. The book will also be of interest to conservationists, as several species such as the slaty egret have very restricted ranges (in this case known to breed only in the Okavango swamp in northwest Botswana) or very small populations such as Malagasy heron.

The subtitle of this book is "a book about children's rights". I think it's a marvellous idea for a book, and Fitch is just the right poet to write it. The copy I have is a large format hardcover, big but light, and has colourful watercolour illustrations. Each poem explains one of the rights in the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child, with anthropomorphized elephants and chimpanzees and beavers and so on, in language that's easy for kids to understand, and then at the end of the book there's a list of the rights and which poems go with which right.

This is a very good resource for John Hancock. It tells a complete story of his life. In the story John seems like a very interesting character. I suggest teachers use this for there students.

A must-read for all serious constitutional scholars, political science majors, American history buffs, religious scholars, and anyone generally interested in the genesis of America.

I found this book to be very enlightening and extremely useful in my personal studies of the Constitution. A delightful intellectual feast, it gives the reader a complete view of the sort of religious overtones the Founding Fathers assumed the American people would intrinsically understand, but which have been lost to many. For Latter-Day Saints (lds.org), it is a wonderful feast of knowledge, shedding light on many lesser-known facts about the American continent, the Constitution, and everything which is related to these two subjects.

This has moved to the top of my list of ideological books that have a foundation in religion. I highly recommend it to anyone who has any interest in the Constitution and/or America.

The best thing about this book is that once you are finished reading it, you will feel as if an entire world of thought which was previously unknown to you has been exposed to the point that it cannot be hid from you any longer. It really has opened my eyes to truths which I had not supposed existed. It really broadens your perspective on the stated subjects.

All in all, highly recommended to anyone who bothered to click on the link to read this far.

This historical volume has been extremely well-researched, well-documented, and well-written. It is an excellent resource for history aficionados, especially those with a focus on Mississippi and Louisiana. It describes the people, places, and events that shaped Hancock County, Mississippi -- on the Gulf Coast -- from prehistoric times to the present.

There are countless interesting (and very descriptive) stories contained in the book; the author's writing style makes you feel like you were there -- this isn't just a "dry" history book. The people and places really come alive through the well-chosen words.

After reading the book and then visiting Mississippi and Hancock County for the first time, I felt like I was already in familiar territory!