I really loved this book. There aren't many kids picture books with both a hero and a heroine. Lucy and the Pirates is one of those. The illustrations are incredible! I love pirates and sea stories, and this one takes place in the 17th century. Perfect. I found this book at the Mystic Seaport Bookstore in Connecticut and boy was I pleased to see it on Amazon.com because it's a British book and not easily available in America.

Our Six year Daughter loved it! Its one of the few books we have seen with female main character on an exiting adventure! The illustrations are marvoulous.

I teach a decision making course for undergraduates. After searching numerious books for my class, I came across The Managerial Decision Making Process. While other books outlined the various models used in decision making, this was the only book that detailed the human considerations we bring to the process. Regardless of the decision making model we use, there are underlying behaviors we must be aware of if we are to make quality decisions. Harrison effectively presents numerous aspects of the process including input from the fields of psychology and sociology and the impact of political power.

This was the most comprehensive and thought provoking book on decision making I have read. Of the three books assigned to this course, this is the one students preferred.

Harrison has, undoubtedly, the definitive collection of theory, philosophy, and case examples around this most simple and difficult of tasks -- the decision, and does so in a scholarly and yet no-nonsense way. It is a book which certainly no business library should be without ...

Anyone who loves Moby Dick and is looking for another Melvillean challenge, buy a copy of "Mardi and a Voyage Thither". Alas! many marvels await thee whosoever has the time and fortitude to muse through this early Melville Masterpiece! Reading this novel is like watching Melville's genius grow, while you voyage through his mystical, metaphysical world. The following are some excerpts of what to expect on this joyous journey:

"We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow; and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound. Out spreads the canvas -- alow, aloft -- boom-stretched, on both sides, with many a stun' sail; till like a hawk, with pinions poised, we shadow the sea with our sails, and reelingly cleave the brine."

"But how fleeting our joys. Storms follow bright dawnings. -Long memories of short-lived scenes, sad thoughts of joyous hours -how common are ye to all mankind. When happy, do we pause and say - "Lo, thy felicity, my soul?" No: happiness seldom seems happiness, except when looked back upon from woes. A flowery landscape, you must come out of, to behold."

"For there is more likelihood of being overrated while living, than of being underrated when dead. And to insure your fame, you must die."

"My cheek blanches white while I write; I start at the scratch of my pen; my own mad brood of eagles devours me; fain would I unsay this audacity; but an iron-mailed hand clenches mine in a vice, and prints down every letter in my spite. Fain would I hurl off this Dionysius that rides me; my thoughts crush me down till I groan; in far fields I hear the song of the reaper, while I slave and faint in this cell. The fever runs through me like lava; my hot brain burns like a coal; and like many a monarch, I am less to be envied, than the veriest hind in the land."

"Of the highest order of genius, it may be truly asserted, that to gain the reputation of superior power, it must partially disguise itself; it must come down, and then it will be applauded for soaring...that there are those who falter in the common tongue, because they think in another; and these are accounted stutterers and stammerers."

"The catalogue of true thoughts is but small; they are ubiquitous; no man's property; and unspoken, or bruited, are the same. When we hear them, why seem they so natural, receiving our spontaneous approval? why do we think we have heard them before? Because they but reiterate ourselves; they were in us, before we were born. The truest poets are but mouth-pieces; and some men duplicates of each other;"

"Faith is to the thoughtless, doubts to the thinker."

"Some joys have thousand lives; can never die; for when they droop, sweet memories bind them up."

"Now, I am my own soul's emperor; and my first act is abdication! Hail! realm of shades!" -- and turning my prow into the racing tide, which seized me like a hand omnipotent, I darted through. Churned in foam, the outer ocean lashed the clouds; and straight in my white wake, headlong dashed a shallop, three fixed specters leaning o'er its prow: three arrows poising. And thus, pursuers and pursued flew on, over an endless sea."

Mardi, the forgotten child ,is yet entirely singular and needs to be read by those who have fallen under the spell of Melville. An encyclopaedic romp through an almost fantastical landscape of isles and warriors; Melville attempts to pull off one the most extraordinary acts of metaphysical fiction ever. He doesn't quite rein it all in but the experience of reading Mardi is utterly disorientating in the best way. Coming after Typee and before Moby Dick, it is somewhat of a nutty middle ground. The anthropological concerns of Typee are stretched to the limit. Like the stars in the sky, Mardi is vast; (the word is Polynesian for the world)--and as full of wonder.

Mastering the Sky tells the exciting story of aviation in historical perspective. The author is a former Air Force pilot who became a published historian. It begins with the take-off of a Boeing 747, asking how one can lift over 400 tons higher than Mt. Everest in a matter of minutes. It gives answers to such questions, as it flashes back to the mythology of flight and comes forward to the 20th century, including space flight. It is current through 2000, three years before the centenary of the Wright Brothers first flights.

It is current through 2000.

The author has slightly expanded and updated through 1999 this book for publication in the spring of 2000.

You won't want to put this book down. God is doing fantastic NEW things in our world today. This book is loaded with information on how to seek the Father and move in His (God's) timing and purpose. Read it -You'll love it.

This was one incredible and awe inspiring book. You perspective will change when you read and understand all the new and powerful things that God has in store for His Saints.

My dad read all of Thornton W. Burgess books to me as a child and now I read them to my daughter she loves them and I still love them myself. You cant go wrong reading any of his work. Wish there were more books like this today.

After 40 year, I just reread the series. By todays standards, the books are a little old fashioned, but manners & obedience never go out of style. Besides, kids learn alot about how different wild animals live.

This is a fine work that draws hatred because it exposes the hollow myths that underlie both the growth of centralized American Empire and the self-righteous American belief, born of WASP Puritans, that it is appointed by God to purify, with warfare and then welfare, the world of all wrongs, from slavery to 'classism' to tobacco usage to 'insensitivity' toward 'oppressed peoples' to failure to condemn the evil past, etc. ad nauseam.

Slavery has received numerous arguments and coverages which have ultimately fostered a series of unjust myths about history, and historical data is used by Kennedy to reveal the truth behind these myths. From the commonly-held misconceptions about the history of slavery (it has existed since prehistoric times and persists today) to the acknowledgment that slavery has been used by all races around the world, Myths Of American Slavery provides an important and iconoclastic coverage which surveys social, political and even religious interactions with slavery issues. An important, eye-opening book.

War is hell. It's not for the weak of heart nor the indecisive. On the middle of the expansive battlefield of Gettysburg we find the characters in No Longer Warriors entrenched in a house...sheltered from the frenzied fury of bombardment that is transpiring all around the exterior of the home. In the interior, things are no different as both wounded Confederate and Union soldiers take refuge from the horrific battle and take verbal stabs at one another as the fighting reaches its climax on Seminary Ridge.

War is indeed hell on earth but the human heart can transcend many obstacles. Despite the raging war outside, some of the characters inside are enveloped in a cocoon of compassion and caring. Remarkable deeds unfold, decisive decisions are made and life long friendships are forged. There are some unique twists and turns to the plot and Harrison doesn't disappoint with his descriptive style. You never lose sight of the fact that although human beings can display acts of kindness, carnage reigns as king between the Blue and the Grey during the three days of intense fighting.

I highly recommend this book not only for Civil War buffs but for anyone who wants a good story. It's a fast read and very entertaining!

It is difficult to describe a historic depiction of the Civil War as enjoyable, but I have to use that word when speaking of "Warriors". There is a personality here not found in most commentaries about the war; each of the characters is described not only in his historic context but in his human one as well. Zinger is a character you'd love to hate, but as you continue through the book it is also easy to find a soft spot for him. The descriptions and imagery transport you right to the battlefield; the sights, sounds, and smells are palpable. I am not a history buff and thoroughly enjoyed this read. I await your future volumes, Mr. Harrison!

I chose this book to use for reading instruction. The print is big and bold. Just the right number of words per page for a child starting chapter books. The book is easily decodable, with a very few sophosticated (but still decodable)words sprinkled in like undignified, contentment,conceit, to advance a childs vocabulary. Most important though, the story is really very entertaining. The reader quickly finds himself sympathizing with the poor hungry foxes. Granny has lots of important lessons to teach the younger fox about just how smart elders can be. A true delight.

A 1920 copyright book (with a few illustrations by Harrison Cady) presents charmingly told stories by a master storyteller. Reddy Fox learns many lessons in life from his Granny. Greed, humility, patience, selflessness, and other virtues and vices are revealed in timeless tales of the animals that inhabit the Green Meadow and Green Forest. There are 29 chapters, each about 6-7 pages long, in the Grosset & Dunlap edition. Each chapter begins with a short insightful poem. This is a good book to read to a 4-9 year old at bedtime. The pace of its stories are suitable for being read over several nights with chapters building upon prior events. As Granny Fox says, "It's what you do for others, Not what they do for you, That makes you feel so happy All through and through and through." - Cedric Richeson

This book by Slack et al is an excellent introductory text to the subject of Operations Management. The book is well structured, clearly written and provides good coverage of the subject including operations strategy, design, planning and improvement. To enhance the learning process, each chapter contains numerous practical examples and illustrations.

In this textbook the writers learn the reader every step of the operation management from the design of the product, the needed design for a factory, layout and flow and job design, to all steps of planning and control, till the first product is created and from then on improvements on the system and the production process. A thick book that provides minor information of a lot of different subjects, but still the writers succeed in giving the reader the idea to read and learn new thinks. Especially for people new in production industry this book is useful for a first introduction in the jargon used and the problems encountered.