The three stories in this book are wonderful children's books. This is the perfect way to get a kid interested in the Hardy Boys. I suggest this to everyone.

These books are some of the best of the series. Number six, The Crowning Terror, a young woman named Charity complicates the case. Number seven, Deathgame, is a must read book. It involves physical and mental capabilities, perfect for the genius and athlete. Number eight is the first where Callie tries to become involved in cases and ends up getting more than she hoped for. Number nine, The Genius Thieves, had an excellent plot and exciting scenes. Next, Hostages of Hate, involves terrorists, a hijacked plane and Callie, who is being held on it. Brother against Brother, one of my personal favorites, is about Joe and his lost memory. Will he realize that Frank's not a hit man or will he discover that in time? Read all these books and see for yourself!

The starter set is a great way to hook a new reader on the Hardy Boys series.
Most fans consider these stories to be among the best in the series.
You even save on the cost of the books AND the shipping charge!
What a deal!

I absolutely love this book and have used it for five years. Somehow, this year it was misplaced and I was lost without it. Wonderful and very comprehensive indexing with lots of photos.

Increasingly, the real (and exciting) work of scholarship nowtakes place in the interstices of the established means of academicdiscourse. Journal articles (dare I say it) exist largely for reasons of career and professional advancement, rather than communicating ideas and knowledge. Were that not the case, most scholarly publications would already have gravitated solely to Web publication, and the truly remarkable profits of the journal publishers would be no more.

Equally, academic conferences, now often anticipated by pre-prints no longer exist for the communication of knowledge by the reading of a paper. The exchanges of value take place before and after the formal business, through face to face discussions. However, until The Hardy Review we did not posses anything that reflected the real life way in which the business of scholarship is actually transacted.

So, I appreciate, as an enthusiast, what it contains, but value more its message for the future of scholarship. The sections of symposium papers are valuable, because they make permanent -material (like the work at the 1998 Hardy Conference), that might at best have disappeared into the half-world of what librarians call 'gray literature'. And the publication of graduate student essays in the Independent Essay section serves much the same purpose.

However, the true innovation, which marks out the Hardy Review, is the Dialogues and Interactive Resources section. This of course, exists in electronic format on The Thomas Hardy Association website. But I was struck by how differently I read the Poem of the Month and Forum discussions in printed form from the way in which I perceived them in the electronic original.

What came across from the electronic original was the sense of debate and vitality, but I found it easier to roam backwards and forward through the debate, to juxtapose one idea with another in the printed version. I think that there has also been some judicious editing which would not have been appropriate initially, while the discussion was in spate, but which now helps to clarify the issues after the flood of ideas and comment have subsided.

What the first issue of this remarkable publication made clear to me was what the future relationship of electronic and printed scholarly productions will be. The Hardy Review shows that future working, and working well. That is: the debate and flux will take place via the Internet, and probably mostly by email. But from that will emerge a work of record, and that will still be better read, largely for paratextual reasons, in printed page codex format.

Of course, something like this was done in the nineteenth century, when the proceeding of learned societies often recorded the oral commentary from the floor. But The Hardy Review moves beyond this. Those oral contributions usually lacked substance by comparison with the power and force of the prepared written text. The prepared text was primary and the oral contributions secondary. But here the email debate, although carrying some of the oral immediacy, is still written text; transferred to the written page, it is unmarked by the oral/written shift that limited the earlier attempt to interpolate text and comment. All the material here exists on the same textual plane and it transfers easily and effectively to the printed page.

Of course, anyone could have downloaded this same material from the internet site, but it would have lacked the editorial 'post-co-ordination', to appropriate another term from library science, which helps to clarify and frame the arguments.

The Thomas Hardy Association site has been rightly recognized as a pioneering and highly effective venture. The Hardy Review shares those same qualities of innovation. END

The solid cultural information, beautiful photographs, and evocative descriptions made Hardy Roses: An Organic Guide to Growing Frost-and Disease-Resistant Varieties (c. 1991) my favorite rose book.

Now this classic is available in a revised edition, now called Hardy Roses: A Practical Guide to Varieties and Techniques (2001). Though the sub-title has changed, the updated and expanded chapters on propagating and nurturing roses and dealing with insects and diseases remain solidly in the organic camp.

34 new roses have been added to the heart of the book which includes descriptions and photographs of roses which have done well in the author's Canadian nursery.

There are also two other features. There is an updated list of 200 varieties of hardy roses and also an appendix listing nurseries, rose organizations and source books (no Internet addresses, alas!)

This book complements Jerry Olson's Growing Roses in Cold Climates. I like having both.

Should a rose fancier who already has the first edition buy the second? There is nothing wrong with the first edition (it is less expensive and still available) but for me, I wanted those 34 new roses! I'm glad I went ahead with this purchase.

Vaughan's presentation of the Hardy-Littlewood Method is destined to be a bedrock of contemporary number theory. His work is awe-inspiring in his ability to strike a balance between lucidity and complexity. His development of the method is careful with a level of cutting-edge insight at times bordering on sheer brilliance. His work displays an elegance to which all mathematicians aspire. No one who hopes to understand number theory today can afford to be without this volume.

This is an excellent collection, including some of Hardy's most beautiful poetry. Hardy, in our modern period, is more famous for his controversial novels (Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure among them), although in his life, he was most known, and preferred to call himself a poet. In fact, he is buried in the poet's section of Westminster Abbey. His poems sound with the same issues as his novels, although they are perhaps marginally more digestable because they are all moderately short. I would not recommend reading more than a few of these poems at a time because they are all permeated by the classic Hardian tragic sense of life that we all know and love. If you have not read Hardy's novels, I strongly recommend that you do, and also experience his poetry, which is quite out of this world as well.

The Human Web is an excellent summary of human history. It is indeed a bird's eye view in that it looks at the broad overall sweep of human affairs and doesn't bog down in unnecessary detail. The major theme is the construction and expansion of human webs, or interconnections that tie cultures and civilizations together ever more tightly. If space voyagers ever arrived on Earth (and could read a human language) this book would be one of the first things I hope we hand them to help them understand us.

The Hunter Douglas Guide to Window Decorating would be a good reference guide if it were written by an unknown. The fact that the largest manufacturer of Window Blinds and coverings, Hunter Douglas, has embarked on an impressive and easily comprehensible How-To is remarkable. There are no bells and whistles, just honest and easy to understand examples in both written word and pictures. The case studies are relevant and feasible: a concern many other books simply do not acknowledge. In my opinion, being a designer myself, it is a refreshing reference to have in any design conscious household or office.