I actually picked this book up in St. Paul's gift shop in London on a recent trip not knowing if it was available in the U.S. This is a delightful story told in verse that will bring a smile to anyone familiar with Christmas plays. The illustrations are superb. I collect Christian children's books and this is definitely a keeper. It will go nicely with The Grumpy Shepherd and a Tale of Three Trees. Although the recommended age group is listed as 4-8, I would suggest this book is more appropriate for the wee ones (to be read by mom or dad) or the youngster just learning to read. A wonderful opportunity to share quality time with your child and share the Christmas story all at once. A true treasure!

This book is so easy to understand and read! This is not a dry tech manual full of confusing formulas. It is just full of all the little things that make all the difference. I recommend a copy for each person involved with the worship service. It covers everthing from easy explanations of the basics of sound systems all the way up to designing a system yourself. It even has moments of humor. There is a "Worship Team Guide" that helps to get everyone working together smoothly.
If you are looking for a book that will help you to understand sound systems and get the most out of them, you found it! This is a winner.

This author is considered one of sport's architecture's most important proponents of the forgotten values that made parks such as Wrigley Field and County Stadium great places to watch baseball: designing ballparks where the common fan and not the suite-holder have first priority. His book examines why not all new ballparks are great parks, and identifies those factors that put Jacobs Field and PNC Park in a different league from The Ballpark in Arlington and Comiskey Park.

This special book would be a delight for anyone to have; collectors, children, and anyone with an eye for beauty. The stand up style is unique. To get the best of this book, put it on display where everyone will see it.

If you're interested in the history of public parks, 19th century landscape design, the social history of public spaces, or Australian cities, this should be in your collection.

The public gardens that (nearly) surround Melbourne's CBD form a collection of landscapes that would be unimaginable in most cities. Like Adelaide, some cities have more extensive greenbelts but few have such large areas that can, fairly, be described as 'gardens'. In fewer still were these developed from the start as public places.

CIVILISING THE CITY traces the history of these gardens in two main sections. The first describes collective influences - designers and other individuals as well as local political, cultural and social trends. The second, based around a fabulous collection of historical photos, provides a history of each garden starting in the first decade after the Victorian gold rush (1851), continuing through Melbourne's boom years of the 1880s and the era of Federation (1901) when it was the capital of Australia, and the inter-wars period.

Pleasant and popular though these gardens are, and although they feature a few inspired spaces, you wouldn't look to any of them as masterpieces of landscape architecture. However, when you consider them as contemporaries of Olmsted's Central Park in NYC - a sort of alternative parallel universe of landscapes - it makes a fascinating study in how subtleties of culture, climate and individuals are reflected in design.

Whitehead has produced a readable and engaging narrative that is also an authoritative and informative history based on primary sources. Although it featured on the best seller list for several weeks in The Age (Melbourne), the book is out of print.

If you're interested in other aspects of Australian garden or landscape history, Whitehead also edited PLANTING THE NATION, a similarly readable collection of essays on landscapes around the period of Australian Federation published by the Australian Garden History Society (2001). The recent encyclopedic OXFORD COMPANION TO AUSTRALIAN GARDENS is also worth a look.

An Excellent Book For All The Managers In Every Organisation....... A Must Read

This is a decent review of Ralph Stover as a climbing area. It covers all the standard climbs with decent information on the area and it's pretty easy to find the routes. However, there are areas not covered in the book (to the East and towards the river).

This small, descriptive guide is one of the best organized and written climbing guides I have seen, period. It has a perfect balance of diagrams and concise route descriptions. Since purchasing this book, I have discovered more routes and variations in the park than ever. Add this book to your pack today. Your friends and fellow climbers will fight you for it.

This book was great! My favorite part was when the cougar came into the story. I read the book in one day because it was so good and I just couldn't stop reading! It was interesting to learn about the Hopi people and the way they lived. In this book I learned a lot about cougars and people who lived long ago. The book was exciting and full of suspence.

An excellent book on the journey of learning how to climb mountains. A wonderful discovery and descriptions about the mountains that are all over the world. A very interesting book for everyone on the adventures of mountain climbing. The most amazing writer and mountain climber!