This book is the best I've seen for doing simple machine experiments at the elementary level. It is perfect for third and fourth grade science classrooms. The directions are simple to follow and the results of the experiments are easy to understand. The function of each simple machine was clear. Students are able to collect the materials from home and the experiments are designed for them to work together. An excellent teacher resource!

This was one of my favorite books as a child. At one time I had the entire collection, but somehow they magically disappeared over time. This would be a great collection to have once again. This book is essential to the collection. I remember reading this book night after night until I had the entire book down by heart. Truely a work of art.

This is a short novel around the military career and exploits of the legendary James Skinner (1778-1841) who lived in the last decades of East India Company rule. As the illegitimate son of a Scottish soldier and his Rajput "wife" (sometimes called a princess), he was disqualified from a regular army commission. It was his "half-caste" (mixed ancestry) status, or as then described "country-born" status, which prevented Skinner from a full career in the Indian army of the East India Company. Despite this, lack of financial resources, and many other problems and barriers, he created the regiment known as Skinner's Horse (1st Bengal Lancers) which was distinguished firstly by the loyalty shown by its virtually all-Indian membership to the commander, known as Sikander Sahib, and secondly by the fact that it never lost a battle. Skinner, or Sikander Sahib, lived like a native, in that he had reputedly 14 wives and several children by all of them. Today, his descendants are either Moslems or Christians, and none in the male line live in India. But at least one male-line descendant distinguished himself in the Second World War.

The story is however not about Skinner's family circumstances, about which very little is known. The important tragedies in his life are lightly sketched - his mother's suicide when he was 12 (to protest the fact that her daughters were being raised in English missionary schools, to marry Englishmen), his brother's suicide after a double murder (of one of his Indian wives and her alleged lover), and the many setbacks and humiliations inflicted on Skinner by insensitive Company officials, the British government at home, not to mention the odd soldier who was technically senior to him.

I want to strongly recommend this book, after having discussed THE FAR PAVILIONS (set in the late 1870s, with a British officer raised in India as the hero) and Allan Mallison's THE HONOURABLE COMPANY (which focuses on another British officer, coming from England) with some others. This novel takes a spare but unsentimental look at the life faced by young British officers in India, as well as the fate of their "country-born" sons. Before the influx of "memsahibs" (British women who came out to India with their husbands, or to catch a husband), "country-born" daughters could at least hope to marry an Englishman, and thus eventually integrate into pre-Victorian British society when they went to the "home country." Until the 1857 Mutiny changed British colonial policies in India (in favoring and promoting the descendants of such unions to middle ranks in the police, army, and so forth), no such way out was open for "country-born" sons of British officers. They could not pursue the careers of their fathers; they were limited in their commercial ventures as well. I have been searching for a book that discusses the fate of the "country-born" or Anglo-Indians, as they are now known in India, during this period 1775-1830. So far I have not found any books on the subject, but SKINNER'S HORSE remains the best (and only) fictional treatment I have read of "Anglo-Indians" before the onset of the British Raj. [The Raj, as understood both in Indian history and in British colonial studies, refers to the British direct rule of India since 1858. The previous period 1757-1857 is referred to as Company rule].

For persons who want to know about more of Skinner's private life or his attitudes towards women in general (or his female relatives and his many wives), this book will be disappointing. That is because it is based largely on his own autobiography and on contemporary sources - none of which discuss his private life at length - and because the book sets out to focus on the military career that made his name famous. For a historical novel or a work of historical fiction, it speculates very little. I have the strong suspicion that the author used the events of Skinner's life and created conversations relating to the military aspects, but deliberately chose to avoid any part of his personal life. A pity in some ways, because this might have enticed more readers.

But read this, in preference to other books that speak about the experience of the British officers in India, or at the very least, read it. That is, if you want to get a better understanding of the problems underlying both Company rule and the Raj, and to understand how a small group of men managed to conquer and rule lands many times the size of their own country.

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Very Highly Recommended.

Every recipe I have tried is wonderful.Many have become family favorites.

I am a second grader. I can read chapter books but I still like picture books . This one was great. It was very exciting and the illustrations were beautiful. I would recommend it to any child.

I read this book sometime in 1996. I was utterly amazed and awed by the predictions that the anti-federalist's prophecized would happen if a new Constitution was ratified in the form of that which is in place today. It is shocking to see now, here, in the '90's that all of those evils that anti-federalist's had dread are becoming manifest and have been doing so over the course of the last fifteen years at least. I am pleased that the high Courts of this country tried to uphold and embrace the spirit of our founding fathers as long as they did. If you read this book, you will understand why I made that last statement. The only thing that has saved us thus far, is the Bill of Rights attatched to the Constitution, but I wonder when that will no longer hold true. The documentation and references are priceless for anyone who believes in freedom and liberty and justice for all. You will be amazed to find that existing State constitutions of that day had "Bills of Rights" inclusive and offered in some cases better protections than our own Constitution!

This is an excellent book . It is a sequel to the dancing meteorite. A fine example of science fiction that has not been infected by fantasy. It is well worth reading.

This book has the ability to explain in layman's terms the complexity of the judicial power within the Federal System.

While other powers, such as the executive and the legislative are more known, the judicial power holds the pillars not only of justice, but of balance between the powers.

This book may contain some cases or verdicts that may no longer be valid today, but in essence, it is a grandeous study of the impact of holding the Constitution applicable today.

I recommend anyone to obtain and hold any copies of these books.

Tales of Maritime Maine is NOT out of print. It can be ordered directly from: Bruce Clark 565 Highland Road Brunswick ME 04011 207-725-7816

I am instructed by the author to give you this information. Could you please e-mail me that you have received this and what your procedure is if customers want to order this book?

In the chapter on tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseaes starting on page 1094 chapter 35. In page 1095 it is quoted from reference 12 by Sidiqi et al published in 1984 in the Am Rev Respir Dis, that mycobacterium TB is not inhibted by NAP. I might be wrong, but I think the original paper by Sidiqi mentions the reverse, i.e., NAP inhibits the growth of mycobacterium TB. Please for your comment. Thanks