Provides all the information needed for brief or extended solo trips in Glacier Bay National Park. Includes excellent summaries of a dozen multi-day trips including trip highlights, photos, distances, ratings of difficulty, likely hazards, hints for locating campsites and maps suitable for scoping your trip. Also includes additional resources you may need in the appendix along with phone numbers. The book gave me the courage and information I needed for my first long, solo trip in a wilderness area. An excellent addition to my library.

A wonderful little book of his past on the east side of Detroit during the 1940's. His muted love and affection for his mother and her family (originally from Germany but relocated in southern Ontario) brings back many poignant memories. Touches a nerve that is hard to translate into words but Mr. Dumas has done a wonderful job exploring his inner soul and the one's around him. Just a great "little" book of thoughts and poetry, emotion and strength of character, love and remorse-all the things that we all have felt in our lifetime.

This is an excellent elementary introduction to numerical analysis, only basic math is required. It is fun and easy to read. This is a "small" book; the largest section (linear equations) being 66 pages. However, it does cover a lot of ground.

Code fragments are in C and FORTRAN. The C code obviously hasn't been tested (abs() instead of fabs() throughout). There are many typos in the text as well as in the code fragments.

This book is a must-have for anyone who works in health education or is a practitioner of any sort. Fan et al have created an easy-to-read yet detailed account of HIV and AIDS from the views of the epidemiologist, virologist, health care worker, psychologist, sociologist, and anyone else interested in the topic. I first encountered this book in 1999 as a student enrolled in a course on HIV and it's impact on our society. I now use it in teaching County sponsored HIV/STD workshops and mini courses to youth ages 13-19 and to professors and students at my university.

I picked this book up at the gift shop on Alcatraz Island. This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to learn about how the Federal Prison on Alcatraz operated.

The book contains a very thorough essay by Jay Stuller in which he describes the history of the prison, many of the famous inmates that were housed there, and many famous incidents involving riots, muders, suicides, and escape attempts. You'll learn all about inmates like Al "Scarface" Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, and "The Birdman" Robert Stroud. While the essay is quite informative, this book's real strength is in all the pictures that it contains. Ever page has black and white pictures depicting prison life on Alcatraz. By looking at these pictures you'll get a very good idea about the prison cells, watch towers, officers' living quarters, and the kinds of activities the prisoners engaged in to pass the time.

This is an excellent reference book for information about Alcatraz. It contains just about all the information that you would get if you actually took a tour of the prison (which I've done several times). It's also a fun and interesting book to read.

Color is what this book is all about. Beautiful pictures follow well-written text that takes one through the different seasons (as expected) in Canada's oldest Park. A real treat!

After defeating the Giants in the championship now the must take on the Royals Redsox and TIGERS Can they do it That's all up to Jonathan if he braggs they should not even be here if he doesen't they deserve the Little League World Title (as long as Chinese Taipei is thrown out of the series forever

Alone Among Friends is the first full-scale biography of W. Robert Parks, the eleventh and longest-serving president of Iowa State University. The life of Parks and the evolution of his university are intimately intertwined compelling this biography to serve as a history of the nation's first land-grand university as well. Alone Among Friends shows how a people's college, under Parks' stewardship, went on to become one of the nation's great institutions of higher learning a the peer of even the more prestigious European university systems. Alone Among Friends is a detailed, candid, occasionally humorous, exceptionally well presented and highly recommended biography of the man who, more than any other, is inextricably linked to Iowa State University.

This is an absolute must-buy. If you like the poetry of fellow Brazilian Carlos Drummond de Andrade (and you should, because he's brilliant-- trans by Mark Strand and Elizabeth Bishop, title: "Running in the Family"), you'll love Prado. She is complicated, frank, has balls, and expresses the most amazing HYSTERIA. I mean, you'll be BLOWN away by this book. Takes lines like: "I'm not so ugly / that I can't get married."

She also has an outrageous devotion to God, not unlike Gerald Manley Hopkins-- which even an atheist like me can appreciate. In some ways, she's doing what I wish more contemporary American female poets were doing. She hits gender issues head on, in an utterly flamboyent, decadent, laughing/screaming kind of way.

I rank this book among my very favorites, among Stevens, among Plath, among Celan, among Rilke, among Trakl. If I could only keep ten books, this would be one. And I wish there were more translations of her work. Will someone please take on this project? I would if I knew Portequese.

This is a fun book. The graphics are really engaging, and the writing has a really incisive glance at consumerism and how TV and media control every aspect of our lives. It's a nice follow up to Snark, Inc. and in many ways it's a stronger book.

Turn of the TV and check it out!