A great read full of interesting ideas but as far as I know we have not begun colonizing other planets, so what are the alternatives?

This is a great book to add to your collection of survival books or to use alone. i have read all of Tom Browns books and have found them to be the most usefull and inspiring of any survival book around. The main thing i like about his books are that he relates all of his teaching to the primitive ways, and for me that is what primitive living is all about. This book is more than just a survial book, it is a book to help those interested in primitive living to be able to go out in the woods, and live off the land from what he has taught. Get this book, and you wont be sorry.

I obtained thid book from my local library when they got rid of it, because I was the only person who would ever check it out. I think it is a great book for anyone who wants to or is trying to regain their ancestrial roots. It vividly explains how to build shelters, tan hides, and even make arrowheads. Personally I love it and I think others will probably feel the same way.

Two Sister is a unique volume of poetry where the sisters Sheila Wade and Maureen Brown collaborate to present a compelling memoir in the form of candid, revealing, and inspiring biographical verse that tells of their upbringing, marked by poverty of spirit as well as substance. The sisters deal with emotional issues ranging from personal security to self-esteem to coming out of poverty and rising a prosperity of spirit. Growing Up Too Fast: When I was so very young,/Into adulthood I was flung./To grow up very quickly,/Even though I was often sickly.//My family was dirt poor,/Our house was an eyesore./Our clothes and hair were unclean,/Life in many ways was very mean.//My father had never learned to read,/Yet he was a good man, everyone agreed./He worked so hard at his trade,/We never lived on welfare aid.//Many bills were left unpaid,/Of a better life he always prayed./Until he own life finally did fade,/And at peace at rest he was finally laid.

"Two Sister" is a poignant account of two sisters' journey through the rigors of a childhood spent in poverty. They highlight the gamut of emotions that anyone in their situation would experience: from the embarrassment caused by others' comments or stares to the utter joy found in the simple pleasures of life, like taking a drive with the family. I was moved by the feelings of compassion toward others and gratitude for my own childhood memories that were elicited by reading these simple, yet moving poems.

A mosaic of short poems laden throughout with deep, strong colors and hard-edge shapes of tears. Yet, the entire layout induces with gentle hues and soft graceful movements of laughter. There is no poetic expertise lacking. Dignity, humility and the true meaning of life became the achevements of the authors. Clearly, if any reader remembers "THE GOLDEN RULE", then this book will find its way to the lips and hearts of many parents, teachers and my three sisters. This one gets five rose-cut diamonds from me!

Widowing, Surviving the First Year, belongs in every church and doctor's office as a ready handout. In no nonsense style it offers a framework for dealing with the trauma of loosing a spouse. It covers the 'how tos' which bother us. How to cope, to grieve, to understand and to take the next steps to getting on with life are all covered in practical detail.

The book is sensative and supporting.

It is also a book for men who are living through the loss of a wife.

Professionally we give this book 5 stars. As a couple that have both lost partners we can only add our thanks to the many who praise this book.

I don't know what I would have done without this life-saving guidebook. Its practical suggestions and down to earth advice helped me to get control of my life when I was overwhelmed with grief. I will be forever thankful that I found this book when I needed it so much.

This book is so helpful that it should be given to a new widow as soon as possible! They need it when all their family or friends have gone and they are coping all alone. A great gift.

Summary - Willy was a wimp . He was always getting beat up . Willy hated it . One day when he was sitting at home reading a comic , he found a article about how to get big scary muscles . Willy got straight to work . First he did some running , then some weight lifting , and over the past weeks Willy got bigger and taller and stronger , until he was the size of a gorilla . One day when Willy was going for a walk , he saw Milly getting beat up . Willy ran to go save Milly . Willy had become a hero . And from that day on Willy never got beat up again . I think it is a good childrens book , for any ages bewteen 3 - 7 I give it 10 out of 10

Willy the wimp is a childrens picture book written by Anthony Browne. It is an extremely funny book. Anthony browne writes and illustrates his own work. Each border has a different shape and size. The text is very simple and easy to follow. This book is similar to Willy the Champ, its sequel. This outrageously funny story is great for kids. by Adam Thomlinson

Willy the wimp is a great book for kids, Anthony Browne is the auther and illustrator. Anthony writes a lot of good kids books. I enjoyed his book willy the wimp because with each illustration he had a different boarder or background. The book is written for kids around eight years old, I can1t compare Willy the wimp with any other book. His print is big and bold.

Since environmental erosion is most often slow and insidious, the drama of an environmental catastrophe cannot often be recorded. Theresa Donovan Brown has described such an event in her novel, "Summitville". In this age of world-wide concern for the planet Earth, Brown's book tells how one person's action can affect the public good.

Because her characters all come alive on their own terms, they may obscure the exacting description of cyanide heap leach gold mining. The reader not only becomes acquainted with the local players, but also appreciates the different perspectives they offer: the forman's on-the-job mining action, the local biochemist's concern for the environmental risks, and the newspaper reporter's desire to expose those risks. The river is the lifeblood for the local farming and tourist area so the local residents are concerned about the mountaintop activity.

Then there are the two complex protagonists. The story is written from the perspective of Colleen Fitzgerald, a California gold stock analyst, who regards her job "not just as what she does, but who she is. She prided herself on intensity." She is in Colorado to represent the bank that financed the mining operation. Her professional intensity falters, however, when she responds to her personal and emotional life.

The aptly named Rob Sharpe portrays 20th Century "gold rush fever", eventually acting with no moral obligation for either environmental or financial damage caused by his venture. "He had calculated his risks."

Although the author's liberal use of "big words" is distracting, her great use of metaphors and similies is very effective and thought provoking. For example, the opening sentence in the first chapter entices: "Rocks are like stories, their properties like a language." This evokes the poetry of geologic time turning mineralized water into gold!

For a look beyond the story "Summitville" tells, one hopes readers connect the significance of Rob Sharpe's "escape and evasion" policy after his Colorado mountain disaster to the brief news article which serves as the book's Epilogue!

This book tells an interesting story. Read it!

Summitville is a superb and suspenseful read. The plot and characterizations are terrific, and moved me along with increasing interest. Theresa Donovan Brown paced her novel such that I was able to grasp important details of subjects that I had little familiarity with. My hunger for information was rewarded and now I know a lot more about heavy metals, biogeochemistry, and swimming. Her depiction of the securities and commodities trading environment, something I know about first hand, rang irreverantly and perfectly true. I laughed out loud. Summitville is a compelling, well-written fictional account of scary events taking place right now. Buy this book and enjoy an education.

I liked the sense of adventure that drives through the story, a lot of different little lives caught up in Big Nature. The narrator is a tough cookie, but that keeps the views crisp -- of the brutal winter in the Rockies, and the vastness of environmental devastation that the gold mining produces. The interplay of characters kept me interested, it seems how real politics in real places gets done. The female leads are great -- brittle, searching Colleen, and the middle-aged scientist/naturalist Anna. I learned a lot from the financial side of the novel -- how Wall Street has real effects in the heartland, not just for immediate profits, but in the long-term damage that unbridled greed can do.This is a book that will keep you reading, and when you've finished it, keep you thinking about things, like the gold jewelry you wear and the water coming out of your tap, in new ways.

One of the best books I have ever read. Its a childrens book, but hey, "If not, why not??" You will love it I promise.

This is the first book I read, and it started my love affair with books. I was 11 when my mom bought it for me, after reading it 15 time the book finally fell apart. Now I'm looking for a copy to buy for my daughter. Plus, I'd love to read it again.

As an adult I hesitated to purchase this "juvenile" book but the description was enticing. This isn't just a book for juveniles. Rockwood describes a young girl's journey into adulthood in a time period & setting we seldom give any thought. Wonderfully told, this story gives a good sense of the native world view and the terrible destruction wrought on Cherokee society by European diseases. Even though filled with foreboding the story is heartwarming and inspiring.

I've been learning Thai on and off for a while now. When I was in Chiang Mai, I took courses at the AUA there (they were very good), and they roughly followed these books for the classes. From looking around both here and in Thailand, they are really the ONLY comprehensive set of books that teaches english speakers how to speak thai. I also believe that the few college courses in america that teach thai also use these books.

The books were published a long time ago, but they still work fine. We had a laugh in book 2 during one of the exercises where they were arguing between 8 baht and 9 baht for a taxi ride (a.k.a. 18 cents or 20 cents nowadays)

I started with book 2 because I was already partially conversational. The books include vocabular, tone exercises, dialog practices, reading for comprehension, and how to read and write the thai characters. Each book contains perhaps 20 lessons. The lessons are not especially subject oriented (i.e. chapter 8 foods), but rather they are more a progression of words and sentance structures that are used most frequently.

Anyways, buy them, go to thailand and take the classes, have fun.

I started learning thai with the AUA series and have gone through the three books. All build on each other in an orderly fashion, you really have the choice of just focusing on speaking or you can incorporate the reading/writing too. The only negative is that the vocabulary is often times not as useful. "A cow is smaller than a water buffalo" I combined this series with the Colliquial Thai course and the combo addressed each others weaknesses.

I studied this couse while in Thailand and can attest to it's effectiveness. As there is only one other review I thought a second might be helpful to an aspiring Thai learner. This course is for serious students though. Expect to spend about 100 hours+ per book and cassette pack. By the way... you must study with the tapes. It starts out with subject matter a little less useful than a guidebook because it presupposes that you are in it for the long haul and will pay your dues in order to REALLY learn Thai! But like I said "you need the tapes!" so here are the addresses if you can't find them on the net:U.S.+CANADA SEAP Publications, East Hill Plaza, Ithaaca, NY 14850 AUSTRALIA+NEW ZEALAND MIP Publications P.O. Box 416 Chatswood N.S.W. 2057 AUSTRALIA and from all other places THAI STUDIES DEPT> AUA Language Center 179 Rajadamri rd Bangkok 10330 Thailand

This newly re-released version of classic Peanuts fare is entitled "We're Right Behind You, Charlie Brown", and it does indeed deliver all it advertises. This is great stuff, culled from a time when all of us growing up in the sixties were slavishly devoted to what Linus, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy and Schroeder did and said from stripo to strip. Schulz showboats his best baseball segments, leaving one wondering as to how gullible good old Charlie Brown can be. Yet, at the same time it is not a book devoted to one set of segments at all. Instead, it sulls the very best oand most classic of the strips, and gives them the full articulation they deserve.

I spent some time on this book reading it to my friend's grand daughter, and she really loves Snoopy. Of course, we happened to have my daughter's bassett hound laying down next to us on the couch as we read! Now she looks at him with greater respect and devotion.Hahaha. At any rate, all your favorite Peanuts characters are here, unresolved existential doubts and all, and their manifest insecurities are showing. It is great fun, and greatly nostalgic for those of us who remember when these comic strips originally ran. Enjoy!

"We're Right Behind You, Charlie Brown" offers more classics Sunday "Peanuts" strips from 1958-1964, but do not expect what you find within to live up to the title, because Lucy and Snoopy in particular seemed determine to drive poor Charlie Brown crazy. This particular collection offers some of Charles M. Schulz's best baseball strips, with Linus showing his ability to field the deep fly ball, Snoopy showing that a glove is not absolutely necessary, and Lucy learning a spitball is an illegal pitch. There are also several strips having to do with winter and the fun of snow. I also think this collection offers up the first attempt of Charlie Brown to kick a football held by Lucy, but do not hold me to that speculation. But my favorite is the one where Linus proves empirically that talking to Lucy is like talking to a brick wall. You will also recognize a couple of this strips as having made their way into some of the animated "Peanuts" specials from the Sixties (remember pantophobia, the fear of everything?). For more Sunday funnies from this same period, which is clearly the heyday of "Peanuts," check out "Sunday's Fun Day, Charlie Brown."

This is the eigth Peanuts reprint book. This book contains strips from 1958-64. Published by Holt, Rinehart And Winston.

I played the Yellow Brick Road in a version of The Wiz, and it's an awesome show. I will never forget it. "Ease on Down the Road" and "Slide Some Oil to Me" are probably the best songs. There is no show as creative and imaginative as The Wiz.

I'm in an adaption of the Wiz right now as an insane person, a slave, and part of the tornado. It RULZ!

let's hope the movie gets performed onstage