Students at my school library are always asking for scary books, but appropriate stories are few and far between. This will satisfy many of them. Set in Colonial Massachusetts, the story, in which a dog digs up a bone from the body of Nicholas Greebe begins an incredible, hundred-year journey for that bone. Greebe's ghost waits and haunts his former home until the bone miraculously returns. The illustrations add just the right detail and mood to the story.

I wish I would have written this book! The language is amazing and fun to read over and over. My boys, 6 and 3, love this book, and so do I (which is great since I'm the one reading it). I'm sad that this book is out of print because it's a gem.

To all Parents,grandparents, of whatever stripe: this book is the Quintessence of a Children's Book!!!!! Since my Husband found this Volume: I let him compleat the Review.
Quite by chance, I found this Book on a Sale Table and was 1st struck by the Quality of the Artwork. A quick review of the contents was then in order. The Text was so well written, that I found the nearest chair, and read the entire (unnumbered)15pages!
I am also an amateur historian: and the fellow you might see at Colonial Williamsburg(VA) in a cocked hat and kneebreeches: so I was also interested in the details of the Artwork. In brief, they are superb,and add immensley to the value of the story line.
If you but buy just One Book for the Child in your Life: MAke it this One Book"The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe". You and the children will be most satisfied with it. I cannot rate it highly enough, in this day of 'computer english' and the Degredation of the English Tongue.
Mrs. Harriett Anthony& "Squire" Charles Anthony

This book by wells takes you step by step through the installation procedure and covers basically from history of Linux to maintaining it. But because this book is only about 700 pages, its only covers the most basic. As computer person you are, you know Linux is far more complicated yet powerful for users and require a much deeper explaination and usage on the OS. For beginners, this book is for you. This book is probably good for a textbook in college for introductions and maybe just a simple guide to yourself. For administrators, you may want this to compliment your vast library of Linux books.

When I decided that I wanted to learn about Linux I started out by buying one of the "Linux for Dummies" books. The only problem was that it did not cover all the topics and what it did cover seemed more like a light overview. So I ended up signing up for a Unix (Linux) class at a local college and Wells' book was the textbook. It's an excellent book for beginners. It assumes no prior knowledge of Linux/Unix and explains everything you need to know. All topics are covered thoroughly. If you are not lucky enough to have access to a Linux class that you can take at your local college, you could probably just read this book and learn a great deal by self-study. By the way, we used this book to learn the general concepts, but also used "Linux In A Nutshell" by Ellen Sievers as our reference for all of the commands. Both books together will definitely cover most everything you need to know in order to become Linux-literate.

i've just finished reading this book and i consider it as an A book for poeple trying to get the LPI level 1 and the 2 examens of the GNU & Sair linux crtification, and in fact i've just start teaching this book for the 2 certifications mentioned above. it's a good book and it takes you step by step for the certification. But as NET ADMIN you can use it as a reference in you library.

I really enjoyed reading the book. I'm a Christian so I can really relate to the Biblical principles in the book. The book was well-written and inspiring. Keep up the good work!

Pella and Phillips never seem to disappoint with this series. I recommend all seven books with five stars.

The saga of Anna Yevnovich and her family and friends continues. The fourth book centers around Anna's adoptive daughter and niece Mariana, so there is plenty of "new" to this story. However, there is a lot of dwelling on past events, so I beleive someone who hasn't read the first three of the series may be able to follow it - and perhaps find it even more interesting for that reason. I, too, enjoy Pella's writing style, and how she incorporates Anna's strong Christian faith into the story without it seeming intrusive.

Detailed graphical and pictorial images of many different mechanisms grouped in catagories for easy searching. When your stuck on a mechanical design, this book can be a great help.

this book is for the person who likes to fool around in the workshop inventing things. I like to do that as often as I can and this book has really boosted my productivity in the shop. Before I start on a new project I like to scan the book again and see if I can use any of the ideas. I never fail to find something I can use. The drawings are a big help in understanding the devices. There is no other book like this. It is a gathering of all the neat gadgets all in one book.

I used this book frequently in an undergraduate mechanical engineering design curriculum. Many of the images are self explanitory, and often provide a solution to a mechanism problem at hand. A must for every mechanical design engineer!

Just look at a globe or a map. To the modern man, it all seems so final. Everything is mapped out rather specifically, with all kinds of scientifically and mathematically refined numbers and measurements ordering the physical world. Just a set of numbers can identify any place on Earth now with almost perfect accuracy. After reading Mercator, you realize what a different world we live in compared to the world Gerardus Mercator inhabited around five centuries ago. To Mercator and his colleagues, who were considered the high point of scientific knowledge at the same, the world was a dark mystery that seemed limitless in its expanse. They had little to reference, save fanciful stories of explorers and the Old Testament. It was up to a group of unbelievably talented men to make the leap that mankind needed in order to fully understand the shape and scope of the world we live on.

Gerardus Mercator was by no means born into greatness. On the contrary, the Flemish born genius was of very humble origins. As Crane reminds us, humble at the time meant barely living. Every day was a struggle. Luckily, the bright young boy that would give so much to mankind had a fairly prosperous uncle who funded his education at the Church academy at Leuvren, Belgium. I considered this part of the book to be the best. Crane does a very good outline of the emerging world of western intellectualism that was taking hold in the Low Countries. The Church and its allies, at least in certain areas, were taking fairly enlightened stances, letting non-churchmen hold ecumenical exclusive positions. This resulted in a great flourishing of ideas, especially in the field of cartography and theoretical mathematics. At first, Mercator was more of a simple student, but he soon fell in love with math and its mystical promises. Rapidly, his genius would be fully engaged with the image of the world.

Unfortunately, that image was not agreed upon by some important people. Leaders did not like to see the representations of their own land reduced in any way. Nor did the Vatican like certain new features added that seemed to cast doubt on certain church doctrines. Mercator, like many other intellectuals of the era was caught up in the net of the Inquisition. However, he lived through that experience, and we are all the better for it. Crane goes very indepth into Mercators methods and mindset. The reader gets a full understanding of the calculations and stakes involved. I felt Crane gets bogged down sometimes in minutiae, that does not really help the story, but the book is very good overall. It just brings a sense of awe to the reader that the western world could produce men such as Mercator, it truly is a credit to our civilization and the ideals we all aspire to.

Who hasn't heard of "Mercator projection"? You see it every time you pick up an atlas and look at a world map with all its longitude and latitude lines.

Well, lo and behold, Mercator was a person, Gerardus Mercator, not just a projection.

This is a terrific book for anyone interested in history that goes beyond the ordinary. In fact, there have been a lot of books about scientific history and this is a worthy addition to the genre.

Mercator was born in poverty in the Low Countries and lived to become the preeminent geographer of his time when drawing an accurate map involved doing the best you could from limited resources. Starting with globes he created the conventional way of putting a map on a flat surface with minimal distortion.

This is not the easiest book to read, but it was excellent. I recommend it to anyone who wants to deal with history beyond the usual political history.

Cartographers are generally an anonymous bunch. If you know one cartographer, it is probably Mercator, and you probably only know his last name because of his ingenious projection to make a flat map of our spheroid Earth. Gerard Mercator was a mild and modest man, less interested in making a name for himself than in improving knowledge of our planet. It was for others of his era within the bustling sixteenth century to cross the seas and bring back riches, and more importantly, geographical data. Mercator himself never even approached an ocean, his exploring restricted mostly to libraries and obscure reports from those who made the voyages. He never had a biography in English until Nicholas Crane produced _Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet_ (Henry Holt). The life of the cartographer is integrated with the tumultuous military, political, and meteorological events around him, for an engaging look at an original thinker.

Mercator was born as Gerard Kremer to poor parents (his father was a cobbler) in Flanders in 1512. He was fortunate in being helped in his education, and became an apprentice to a maker of instruments and globes. His engraving into copperplate was beautiful and influential. In 1537, Mercator published his first map, a portrait of the Holy Land. Four years later, he made his first terrestrial globe, and Crane makes understandable how huge such a project was. Making the lens-shaped map papers to glue onto the sphere may have inspired Mercator to calculate his projection, a map that was to be an aid to navigators ever after. Mercator lived in a tumultuous time, and his moderate views, shared with the humanists, about such things as faith in Christ being more important than ritualistic ceremony, were considered heretical by others. In 1544, he was actually imprisoned for seven months for alleged Lutheran sympathies (charged with "_lutherye_"). He remained busy until the end of his long life, during the final three decades of which he worked on a book of maps of lands all over the world which was only completed by his grandsons. There had been other such books, but Mercator's was more comprehensive. It was also more influential; he named it after a Titan of Roman mythology, and ever since, any book of maps has been called an atlas.

We are less surprised by maps than those in Mercator's time; we have instantaneous satellite pictures of the world, whenever we want them, and _terra incognita_ continues to dwindle. Everyone recognizes the true silhouettes of continents. There was a time when such knowledge was still new, and tentative. Crane has written about the many influences on his subject within this complicated historical period, and has produced a remarkably full portrait. Mercator assimilated information and made a new picture of the world, a picture now familiar to us all. His influence is not even confined to the Earth he served so well; when the Mariner missions mapped Mars, the resultant charts were Mercator projections.

While the pictures are wonderful, for an aging dinosaur like myself they are just too small. It is very hard to see the pictures!

Would have given it 10 stars if it was just a larger book. Some of the flowers are only one inch high, much too small for me to appreciate the detail.

Where can we find this in an 8.5 x 11 version?

A picture is worth a thousand words; and one hundred pictures that happen to be O'Keeffe's are priceless. The works accurately portray the artist's keen eye for the beauty found in the smallest of mother earth's gifts: the flower. The book is an overall thorough and concise summary of the artist's most prized achievements.

O'Keeffe can magnify the beauty of flowers magically in her paintings. Her perception allows the everyday art lover to escape into God's garden and visualize the serenity found in heaven.

Happy Valley is a book that you won't want to put down as it takes you through the many adventures of the colorful colonialists who came to Kenya. Its strength is that it is a riveting work that captures the main events of an incredible story. Its main weakness is that it sometimes lacks depth, but it remains a great introduction to a most fascinating subject.

This slim volume ..... The book covers several episodes in the colonial history of Kenya. It's not suitable for research historians, but it will entertain you on a flight or on the beach. Some of the anecdotes will make you laugh till you cry.

This is not a review. It's the only way I can find on your site to ask a question. I just ordered Happy Valley by Micholas Best. It's out of print and I ordered a used one. However, I only want a hard back copy. Please let me know if that is possible. There was no way to indicate I only wanted a hard back edition.

Thank you, William B. MacIver

Doing a review of Keats' work is impossible, his merit has already been established, his work is mastery. Now the question is this, is the book well done? For a small sample of the genius's work, this is a great edition, for a more experienced poet, this one isn't for you. The poetry is genius, the book is not great.

Doing a review of someone like Frost, Keats, Rilke, or Shakespeare is like reviewing the Bible, it is impossible. It has already been established that this man's poetry is mastery. Now the question is thus, what book should you purchase? If you want a small taste of his work at a good price, this is it. With this small, under $... edition, you can decide if you want to purchase anymore of his books. I say it is a great book for a poetry shelf in anyone's library.

What a wonderful anthology of John Keats' poetry. The selections in this book range from his well known and loved pieces like "Lamia" and " To Autumn" to less familliar but still gracefully written "On the Sea" and "To Leigh Hunt, Esq." The timeline in the front of the book is helpful, giving an overview of what the world was like in Keats' short lifespan. Many critics wonder what he would've accomplished had he lived longer, and by reading this collection of his poems, one can only image the brilliant works he might have given us to further his powerful legacy.

This book places heavy emphasis on the technical and mathematical aspect of investing. It is quite excellent but I found the math to be very advanced and therefore it is probably not suitable to most individual investors. Like the previous reviewer, I also found the book to be too brief.

This book definitely has merit, but it isn't right for beginners or the mainstream investment community. The best audience would be investors with highly specialized investing methods.

This is a very good introduction to the basic mathematics used in Wall Street. The author is a professor of mathematics, which explains the ease in which he explains all of the mathematical concepts for even the average reader. The downside to this book is that it does not go very far. Given its small size, only 100 pages, I feel that he could have gone on much further into more advanced topics. He starts with means and variances, and works his way through correlation, risk measures, performance measures, investment planning, and indexes. He wraps up with some ultra-brief comments on ARCH models and neural networks. I would love for him to come out with a much larger, much more detailed, much more advanced book.

Savvy investors in the stock market need knowledge of the math behind the market, and The Math Behind Wall Street provides it: a slim book masks a wealth of information covering statistics, probability, and other practical applications of business math concepts. From risk factors to annual rates of return, The Math Behind Wall Street will prove invaluable.

This book would be wonderful for a first time mom or a mom who is breastfeeding for the first time and has a cranky child. The book has good nutrition guidelines and information on what might be causing your child to be distressed during or after feeding. If, however, you have been dealing with lactose or milk protein problems with your other children as babies, this book probably won't give you much more information than you already have. If you are like me, you've been searching for help on what foods could cause stomach upset, and how to deal with dairy problems in breastfeeding. This book gave me no new information. The recipes looked like good basic recipes but there was nothing there that I haven't seen in other cookbooks.

As a first-time mother who hadn't considered breastfeeding until my daughter was born, it just felt like the natural way to go. As we had encountered our first tough night, and couldn't calm our crying daughter, I wondered, was it something I ate? I frantically searched the web for help, and decided I needed an entire book on the subject. I ended up with several books, and this one was the quickest and easiest to read through. It has lists of possible "gas-producing foods", and "cow's milk-containing foods" that helped solve our problem. It was very down-to-earth, and explained everything I needed to know to help me understand how to best feed my daughter. She is now 8 months old, still breastfeeding (and on some solids), and is the happiest baby I know. Thank you!

Jill Dalley deserves an award for her effort into this incredible book........She must have spent years on it's development and research......