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The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker powers.

Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a halt. But when disaster strikes the Leviathan's peacekeeping mission, they find themselves alone and hunted in enemy territory.

Alek and Deryn will need great skill, new allies, and brave hearts to face what's ahead. ... Read more

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Awesome book, but I think it should have had a different title!
Behemoth starts about two days later still on the Leviathan heading for Istanbul. But, on the way there they encounter two German ships that have a Tesla cannon and are ready for the Leviathan! The Leviathan gets an unexpected jolt and everything seems to go down hill from there for Deryn and Alek. The war continues on with more countries entering and Alek finds himself among the enemy on the Leviathan with the British on the other side of the war and Alek must find a way to escape but nothing goes to plan!

Great book, but I don't think it should have been called Behemoth. Since the Behemoth only makes a small appearance in the book. I think it should have been called Bovril! But, maybe the Behemoth will be more prominent in the next book.

This book does answer some questions from the previous book, but not thoroughly. The question of what is in the egg is semi-answered in my opinion. You find out what is in it but not exactly what it is capable of. Also, there is Deryn situation, and whether or not to tell Alek she is a she. That is an ongoing problem for Deryn and it gets a little more complicated for her as well. I love the things Deryn says, she calls herself a "daft lassie mooning at a village dance" when she relates to her problem. She is quite funny.

There are some new characters that pop up in the book. They are not on the Leviathan for that long so they have some on ground friends as the book progresses. But, still all the old favorites are still there.

And of course, the book ends with you wanting more.

Barking Magnificent!
It's been a while since I read Leviathan, so it took me a bit to remember everything I needed to know about the Darwinists, the Clankers, Alek and of course Deryn Sharp.Soon I was sucked right back into the author's alternate universe full of amazing machines and fabricated beasties.Leviathan was my introduction to the Steampunk genre and I have been a devoted fan ever since.Behemoth more than lived up to my expectations!The author does a wonderful job of pacing the novel so the reader barely has time to catch their breath amongst all the action.While this novel is a little light on the character development, it is hardly noticeable.I felt like I was falling back in with old friends who were just a bit too busy to have a long conversation since they really had an entire war to stop, thank you very much.

Most of the action takes place on the ground this time instead of on the Leviathan, but that in no way decreases the fun.Deryn and Alek are in Istanbul, a place at the center of the war between the Clankers and the Darwinists and it's up to our heroes to pretty much outwit everyone in order to stop the war.There's high intrigue, daring feats and even just a bit of unlikely romance.Westerfeld's Istanbul is so richly imagined that I was able to fully visualize all of it's exotic peoples and machines.The illustrations by Keith Thompson are wonderful and really add to the reading experience.

This is an exciting read that effectively carries on the story which began in Leviathan.The good news is that there's plenty of room left at the end of this one for another installment.The bad news is we have to wait so long to read it.This is a great series with loads of appeal for any kid grade 7 and up, especially fans of action/adventure and sci-fi.Adults will find much to enjoy here too, so don't pass this one by!Recommended.

Steampunk At Its Finest

Badly wounded by Clanker airplanes and downed on a lifeless glacier high in the Swiss Alps, the great British hydrogen breather Leviathan has limped back into the air only through the aid of four unlikely allies. Prince Aleksandar Hohenberg, son of the assassinated Austro-Hungarian Archduke, is in hiding and on the run. Along with three loyal men, he had arrived in Switzerland almost at the same moment the Leviathan was crashing. Alek and his men donated the engines necessary to get the Leviathan back in the air, scavenged from their ruined clanker Stormwalker, in exchange for passage to Constantinople. Although most of the Leviathan's officers and crew mistrust the clanker Austrians, they are unaware of Alek's true identity.

Alek has formed an immediate and unlikely friendship with the exuberant Dylan Sharp, a Leviathan Midshipman with a flair for flying and a knack for being in the right place at the right time. Dylan, a good-natured Scot with a colorful way of speaking, is the perfect foil for the formal, solemn Alek. Dylan is also one of only two Brits aboard the Leviathan (the other being the Darwinist scientist Dr. Nora Barlow) who know the secret of Alek's identity. But Dylan has a secret of his own. He is actually a she. Deryn Sharp has been masquerading as a boy since first applying for the males-only British Air Service and she is constantly aware of the danger of discovery.

As the Leviathan makes her way toward the Constantinople, Alek and Deryn must face some hard truths. Britain and Austria-Hungary have just declared war against one another. Alek is technically an enemy of the Leviathan and if his identity is revealed, he'll be imprisoned. Worse yet, `Dylan' could be hanged for a traitor because `he' knew the truth and didn't pass the information along to `his' superiors. Of course, Deryn is pretty sure they wouldn't really hang a girl, but they would throw her out of the Air Service, which to her would be almost as bad. Once Leviathan reaches Constantinople however, Alek and Deryn will discover that there is more danger and intrigue afoot than they could possibly have imagined.

I adored Leviathan, in fact it was one of my two favorite books of 2009. So it was with some trepidation that I began Behemoth. Sequels, and in particular those that are the second book in a trilogy, rarely live up to expectations. I am happy to report that Behemoth blows by those expectations with rarely a glance in the rearview mirror. Scott Westerfeld's alternative 1914 is so incredibly complete (and so beautifully illustrated by Keith Thompson) that it feels as real as the world around you. The characters - great and small - are interesting and multi-dimensional and the action is both natural and exciting. Steampunk does not get any better than this - very few novels do.

Joining the chorus
All I can do is echo the praises of others -- this is a terrific followup to a great first book and I eagerly look forward to the third.In fact, I just came back here to see if a pre-order for Book Three is available yet!(Not yet, darn it!)

Better Than the First
Usually middle books in a trilogy are just getting one place to another, but Westerfeld has made Behemoth an adventure in itself.The stakes continue to grow as Alek must start to command his own fate and Deryn/Dylan slinks ever closer to having her secret found out.Set squarely in Constantinople/Istanbul for most of the action, the reader is treated to an amalgamation of Clanker and Darwinist agendas that are as much at odds as they are balanced.The even writing makes this one easy book to gobble up while also being visually treated to the artistic stylings of Keith Thompson.

On top of the action, the characters feelings about their situations pervades more than in the first volume of the trilogy, but in an informative manner.Deryn, at odds with her desire to tell Alek that she's a girl, is growingly forced to confront the fact she's not like the rest of the crew on the Leviathan.And Alek, finally starting to find himself in a position to act in the war, must assume some level of leadership even if the people he's trying to influence aren't exactly cooperating as he'd like.And the eggs from the first book?Well, you'll find out soon enough, but that one's a nice little surprise that's still going to play out in the next book by the look of things.

A really solid volume that, in this reviewers opinion, is the rare example of a middle book in a trilogy being better than the first.Westerfeld is really hitting his stride and I, for one, cannot wait for the final volume.Very highly recommended for fans of steampunk, alternate history, and good reading. ... Read more

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It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. The Leviathan is a living airship, the most formidable airbeast in the skies of Europe.

Aleksandar Ferdinand, prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battle-torn Stormwalker and a loyal crew of men.

Deryn Sharp is a commoner, a girl disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered.

With the Great War brewing, Alek's and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way - taking them both aboard the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure. One that will change both their lives forever. ... Read more

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Don't waste the time
Darwin monsters, twisted history, more girl power- this is not worth having on the shelf.

New to Steampunk!
I am new to steampunk.I love this book. Best faction book I have ever read!

Genetic engineering meets steampunk!
Ideally, I would have given this 4 1/2 stars because there were a few itty bitty things that had me suspending my belief, but it's not a big deal. I enjoyed this 100%.

I'm not going to give a summary, but my first impression when I opened this book was that it reminded me a lot of _Dune_. Both Alek and Paul are sons of a Duke, both are 15, both their fathers are assassinated, both go on the run. Not saying that Westerfield borrowed from Herbert, it may very well be that Herbert was also inspired by Archduke Ferdinand's assassination.

Alek's story was a little slow as he seems to be a passive player, but he really starts to shine once he meets up with Deryn/Dylan - I guess some of Deryn rubbed off on him. Now I love Deryn's character, she's witty and has the funniest curses. She's also a 'do it yourself' kinda girl - or guy in this case.

The pace is swift and there are no boring parts to put you to sleep - Westerfield does a good job of describing just enough of the scene to get things moving. However, I do think he could have described the fabricated beasts a bit more, which were all interesting in their own right. If it wasn't for the pictures (which are gorgeous!) I would have been lost as to what these amazing creatures looked like. For example, the Hydrogen sniffers are described as behaving like dogs, but the picture shows them to be a hybrid of a dog and a spider. I guess they don't have spider senses.

The cover is also beautiful - if you can get the original hardcover with the gears. I'm disappointed that the design isn't continued for the sequel.

Great read, highly recommend this!

ALL THE FUN
Fun fun fun fun fun--

Oh, an actual review.Well.It's got a girl pretending to be a boy in the British military (on a living airship) and a prince who rides around in a mecha-like contraption and it's fake WW1 with different tech and and I adored it.

It's a fairly straightforward plot: the Clankers (roughly corresponding to the Germans, Austro-Hungarians et al of WW1) and the Darwinists (Brits, French, Russians, etc) are on the brink of war.The former have steampunk tech while the latter have DNA-tweaked beasties large and small.The infamous assassination in Sarajevo sends Prince Aleksander, the not-quite-heir of Austro-Hungaria, on the run, while a female Darwinist scientist is on a top-secret mission to Istanbul on the same living airship as Deryn-dressed-as-Dylan.Their paths cross.It's also quite a small, incomplete plot, to be continued in book 2, but it's great fun all the way through.With accompanying illustrations!

Scientists are called boffins, the aforementioned female one has a pet thylacine, there are jellyfish-like floating beasties that the British use as surveillance balloons, there are messenger lizards, there's a kraken cameo, there are large eight-legged mecha as well as Alek's two-legged one, Deryn is marvellous.I adore the girl-dresses-as-boy trope with abandon, and Deryn did not disappoint.She's reckless and brave and throws herself off the airship at one point (with some rope) to save her fellow crewmen and holds someone hostage at knifepoint and complains loudly that she's lost her razor as part of a gambit to keep everyone convinced she's really a boy.

Fun!=D

I should add that I was amazed when I found out the author's not English.The way he repeated only a handful of Scottish words made me suspect he wasn't Scottish, because it felt a bit off at times, but he wrote all the British characters so well - so absent of any tally-ho old chap stiff upper lip sirrah stupidity - I thought surely he's British.Nope!I tip my hat to you, sir.

If you are partial to good YA, I recommend this one.I rarely finish a book grinning with joy.

Great read
This is a great read!I'm fairly new to the steampunk genre but Westerfield creates an interesting world in a somewhat familiar place.I'm eagerly awaiting the next book in the series. ... Read more

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Excellent coverage of surviving B-17s
This is third edition of a book on surviving B-17 bombers. The author reports on the status of 48 basically complete and 11 partial airframes; this out of a total of 8,680 units.

The book is a bit like a family album brought up to date at reunions. But, unlike a family where members die while others are born, the B-17 family, while static in count, is improving with age. While the number of airworthy B-17s slipped from 14 in 1990 to 12 in 2008, the next few years could see the count rise by as many as five. Concurrently, a number of aircraft have been restored to near-new though static condition with two others - the equally legendary Memphis Belle and Ole Betsy/The Swooze - in the loving hands of the National Museum of the US Air Force.

Author Thompson begins the book by describing the drawdown and scrapping of the B-17 after World War Two. He covers post-war military uses Before moving to civilian uses. This broad overview is then followed by the meat of the book. Thompson works his way through the surviving, complete aircraft in numerical order by serial number, providing a history of the individual aircraft and a current status report. The sections vary from two to five pages and include photos from across the plane's lifetime. This is followed by brief reports on partial aircraft and unrecovered airframes. The book closes out with seven appendices that are a bit bureaucratic in nature addressing issues such as cross-referencing military serial numbers and civil registration. It is here that the book's only shortcoming can be found. One appendix lists B-17 appearances in movies; it has not been update past 1995.

As another reviewer said, this is a book for B-17 lovers...saying that is the highest complement that can be given.

Excellent source on a little covered part of the B-17.
There have been many books published on the legendary B-17 bomber. But most of them cover the combat history of the plane, devoting only a chapter or less to the post war use of the planes and to the surviving aircraft. "Final Cut", on the other hand, is different. The book focuses solely on the non-combat use of the fortress, in roles Boeing designers never imagined the aircraft would do. Uses of the planes in the military such as target drones, air sea rescue and experimental work are shown. Civil uses include fire bombers, air mapping and transports (One plane even served with the CIA). There is also coverage of the planes that weren't so lucky and even discussion of Hollywood movies featuring B-17s such as "Twelve O'Clock High" and "The Best Years of Our Lives".

But where this book really shines is in the survivors. There are a few pages devoted to each survivor, with text and photographs explaining about the individual plane. The text of each section details the plane's use during and after its military service and eventual concludes with its current whereabouts and condition. The photographs help cover the lives of planes such as "Memphis Belle", "Shoo Shoo Baby", "Sentimental Journey", "Nine O Nine" and "Fuddy Duddy". Overall, a great source for millitary and avation buffs alike.

B-17 nuts will love it
all sorts of post-war B-17's - from crop dusters to gas stations to heavily modified B-17's. A Must have for the B-17 fan. ... Read more

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Douglas A-20 Havoc and Boston
This is a very detailed book. It deals with just about every phase of the aircraft. The book begins with bios on the engineers who designed the A-20 or DB-7. Included are French versions, Russian and or Foreign lend-lease versions. A nice chapter on service with US Army Air Forces includes the 3rd Attack Group (The Grim Reapers) during W2 in the Pacific. This book has a lot of very informative photos describing virtually all phases of this aircraft including uses after WW2.Appendix include A-20 specifications,Engines used on the DB7/A-20 Series and a production list that associates the contract numbers with serial numbers and contract dates. Physically, it is a well made book. The only draw back is that it only has 176 pages. At the new 2007 price of fifty dollars it is a very expensive book considering it's size. I bought it before the new price came into effect. If I had to pay the new price it would be a very hard decision and I am not sure it is worth that much. ... Read more

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The Douglas DC-3...certainly the most recognized and celebrated aircraft the world over. This books takes the reader into the more obscure facets of the DC-3 through the long years of its use. Included is the complete history of the DC-3 turbojet and turboprop conversions from early efforts in the late 1940s to the latest Basler product. Also detailed is the reliable service of the DC-3 with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, one of the largest civil users of the DC-3. In mid-1994, a pair of veteran DC-3s made a pilgrimage back to the skies of Normandy to commemorate the D-Day landings of 1944...and the story of that historic sojourn is included here in both words and pictures. A color photo section containing views of many preserved DC-3s from around the world is featured, along with intriguing looks at a number of derelict and forgotten airframes. Also featured: where can you fly a DC-3 today, or where can you just catch a ride on one. Detailed appendices with serial number lists, aircraft histories, etc. A fresh look at the venerable Douglas DC-3. ... Read more

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For PhD students only
This 1967 book is a clasic in organisational theory. The current key target audience is PhD students in management/OB in business schools, or ditto academics that didn't come across the book during their studies. All others should stay away :)

A founding blocks of contingency approaches in organizational studies and human resource management
1967 saw the publication of three books that are now considered founding blocks of contingency approaches in organizational studies and human resource management. Theory of Leadership Effectivenessby Fred Fiedler, Organization and Environment: Managing Differentiation and Integration by Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch, and "Organizations in Action" by James D. Thompson. Fiedler created a model of leadership for industrial and organizational psychology while Lawrence, Lorsch, and Thompson studied organizational structure.

Thompson's book aims at providing what he calls a "conceptual inventory": a framework for tying together a multitude of concepts by various authors. The book reads like a serialized decision tree - a hundred propositions presented in the order of their dependencies, fleshed out by explanations and some examples of the concepts involved.

Thompson's approach is based on two fundamental ideas: 1) The nature of uncertainty in the environment is a determining factor of organizational structure. 2) Simple models cannot work for complex organizations, but for their respective components.

Uncertainty in the environment - variables the organization can neither control nor predict - is a key to understanding organizational structure, according to Thompson. An organization is built around a technical core; in order to achieve high performance, the organization shields the core from uncertainty by setting up separate components that serve as an interface to the outside world. Such a division of responsibility allows an organization to structure their technical core from a closed-system perspective and hence with a rational model. Uncertainty is taken care of, and the technical core component can be designed for maximum performance. The components at the managerial level are also tasked with controlling the technical core. Components at the third, the institutional level cover aspects of the environment that go beyond a straight-forward provision of resources and sales channels - here, uncertainty is high and means of control are few and weak.

In part two of the book, Thompson takes a stab at the human factor. He sketches out some goals of employees: individuals in early-ceiling occupations, for instance, use collective bargaining to improve the standing of their occupation while individuals in late-ceiling occupations try to improve their standing among their peers. Exercising discretion appears as a key problem to Thompson; while acknowledging that "some individuals are more tolerant of risk and ambiguity than others", he goes on with the assumption "that individuals exercise discretion whenever they believe it is to their advantage to do so and seek to evade discretion on other occasions." Individuals make entirely rational choices to present their work in the best light possible (pp. 123, 124), but they are not opportunistic; Thompson briefly discusses what he terms "deviant discretion" and presents it as a relatively minor problem, at least "in societies which possess the appropriate supporting institutions" (p. 122).

In this second part, Thompson appears to be out of his depth. He is not a psychologist - the concepts and models of part two look crude compared to the framework in part one. And while mechanistic models of organizations are commonplace, the reader may be less forgiving when simple models are applied to humans.

It is safe to assume that Frederick W. Taylor was aware that resources don't simply materialize in the factory as needed. Max Weber presented bureaucracy as an answer to an environment where rational-legal authority was on the rise. And both intended to tailor organizations to given problems, guided by their respective principles. From this perspective, Thompson does not stray far from the idea that there should be "one best way" - he offers a formalized, fairly deterministic way for finding the structure that can cope with a given environment, including its uncertainties. In fact, Thompson performs a sleight of hand in plain view of the reader: the highest uncertainty is relegated to a barely defined institutional level - but for that level, precious little insight is offered beyond the common measuring of success in satisficing terms.

What really differentiates Thompson from Weber and Taylor with regards to uncertainty is the assessment of organizations: goals may be unclear or conflicting, and cause/effect relations may be unknown - these are hard problems that bureaucracies and scientific management are ill-equipped to deal with.

Books are not very flexible as a medium. The process of creating and distributing new editions is expensive, and the readership may not even be appreciative, particularly if a book is popular enough to warrant further editions or even regarded as a "classic" (reference books are an obvious exception). And so this reader stumbled over several oddities and omissions: Thompson didn't foresee the rise of Just-In-Time production (pp. 20-23). Within his model, increasing interdependence results in increased power and dependence - an explanation of how this constitutes an "important escape from the 'zero-sum' concept of power" seems lacking (pp. 30-32). And he fails to mention that in many scenarios, coalescence is less constraining than co-optation - joint ventures are separate entities while members of the board of directors affect the main organization (pp. 35, 36). It is worth pointing out that this last problem becomes only obvious when looking at the specific examples given by Thompson.

Thompson's legacy is a more differentiated look at the complexity of organizational structure. If theories evolved, it might have been a decent starting point for a more comprehensive framework of organizational studies. In some disciplines, however, theories tend to be more closely associated with authors than with research subjects. They rarely evolve. They are superseded.
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Fascinating
This is my second purchase of "Boneyards" and it took me a while to find. The story of how and why this victorious country amassed and destroyed tens of thousands of WW2 aircraft after the war has always fascinated this reader. Narrative is very well written, but pictures of the storage fields are amazing. If you're interested in the War, aviation, a necessary process of destruction involving an enormous inventory of aircraft, not all of it worn out, this is a keeper!

Very good overview of post-war aircraft 'dumps'
This book provides an overview of how the USAAF reduced its warplane inventory after the end of the Second World War. As an overview, there is less detail than most historians - professional and amateur - but when compared with other books addressing this subject, this one is the definitve version.

Coverage includes the big yards - such as Chino/Ontario, Kingman, Altus, Davis-Monthan and Litchfield Park - as well as individual aircraft. A job really well done.

Simply Amazing
This book is as facinating as it is informative. The hundreds of pictures are absolutly stunning and the captions are informative and well written. The book is a great look at not only aircraft preservation, but also the scrapping and recycling of those once proud aircraft that served with distinction. It begins with the history of the aircraft reclamation industry in it's infancy, after World War I, thru World War II, on to the conflicts in Asia, The Cold War, and then to today (Year 2000). The visualizations are stunning, the most memorable being a B-17 bomber with the "chopper" hovering only a few feet above the center of the fuesalage. The authors take you on a tour of the great scrap yards of yesterday and today, drawing you in, and making you wish you could walk the rows of B-24s, B-17s, P-51s, F-84s, F-4s, C-147s, and countless others and learn about the historic and heroic past of each of them. I highly recommend this book to ANY avaition fan or anyone even remotly interesed in military aircraft of the past 100 years. ... Read more

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Chief Joseph's exhausted words of surrender, 'Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever', are the accepted end of the Nez Perce War of 1877, in which several bands of Nez Perce attempting to find a new home outside their diminished Idaho reservation clashed with the U.S. military (and occasionally other Indians) along the Clearwater and Big Hole Rivers, and finally at the foot of the Bear Paw Mountains. However, a number of Nez Perce escaped transportation to Indian Territory with Joseph and continued their flight to Canada, with perhaps a hundred eventually joining Sitting Bull's Lakota."I Will Tell of My War Story" reproduces, describes, and discusses a remarkable series of drawings by an anonymous Indian artist who fought with Chief Joseph and later reached Canada. The drawings, in red, blue, and black pencil, include portraits of principal participants in the war, battle scenes, and views of Nez Perce camp life and celebrations during the war and after. The drawings are preserved in a small pocket ledger labeled 'Cash Book' on the front, which was acquired by Indian Agent Charles D. Warner in the 1880s.It was willed by him to a family living in northern Idaho, and is now in the collection of the Idaho State Historical Society.Scott Thompson worked closely both with the owners and with members of the Nez Perce community in preparing his manuscript. Thompson's detective work and research methods to identify Nez Perce and other parties pictured in the Cash Book make fascinating reading. He is careful to point out what is speculation and what has been documented or attested to by experts on dress, weapons, ceremony, and other aspects of Native culture.The Cash Book drawings are unique in several ways. They are one of very few firsthand pictorial records of the Nez Perce War, representing an even scarcer record of this war as seen from the Indian viewpoint. They contain invaluable historical and ethnographic information not only explicit in the form of military and Native dress, regalia, and quite graphic battle scenes, but also implicit. The drawings reveal an important stage of cultural adaptation as shown by the mixture of white and Native goods combined in Nez Perce material culture during the 1870s and 1880s, and by the artist's assimilation of white/European drawing techniques such as texture and perspective.The artist combined these drawing techniques with Native art traditions to make exceptionally effective pictorial communications. Scott M. Thompson is an art teacher at Chase Middle School in Spokane, Washington. ... Read more

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Well worth your time
This book is very informative and I really enjoyed reading the detailed descriptions of what the ledger drawings are believed to illustrate.There was one error (a typo?) regarding the year that Agent Charles Warner lost his position as agent (page 3 states 1881 and page 4 states 1882).Overall, this book gave me an appreciation for the perceptive eye that the Native chroniclers possessed.In a way, it helps give credence to their oral history.
Highly recommended.

Scott Thompson finds buried treasure
For anyone who likes the history of Native American Culture or military history, this book is an interesting find.The pictures found in the "cash book" by Mr. Thompson in 1990 illustrate a hidden viewpoint of the Nez Perce War.An unknown Indian warrior who traveled with the Nez Perce during their flight from the U.S. Army recorded some brilliant pictures in full color.These pictures, preserved by Indian Agent Charles Warner, are first shown to the public in this book. The pictures are not only full of cultural symbolism, but also portray historical figures.If you have interest in what happened in America's wars with the Indians, Chief Joseph, or the Pacific Northwest this book is worth looking into.I think that it is interesting just to see the pictures.Although the book is an academic publication with footnotes and all, it is well written and reads easily. ... Read more

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First published in 1922, this volume draws together a broad selection of Sir Walter Scott's poetry. The selection was made by A. Hamilton Thompson, as part of the Selections from English Romantic Poetry series, with the intention of capturing Scott's unique qualities and displaying the characteristic genius of his verse. Owing to the narrative basis of much of the poetry this was inevitably a difficult process, but where passages have been included from longer poems detailed summaries are given in the extensive notes at the end of the book. These notes also provide explanations of difficult areas within the volumes and are combined with a detailed introduction to provide a consummately edited text that will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in Scott's poetry. ... Read more

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Sorry to plug my related book
This is a stellar book.I am proud to have an essay included in it. See also Richard Burt's Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media (Palgrave 2008; paperback 2010). Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media ... Read more

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Our public school systems must be transformed in order to help every child achieve his or her potential. However, transformational leadership can be intense, complex, and often chaotic, producing storms of resistance, controversy, and pressure. To survive such storms, author Scott Thompson contends that educators must learn to lead with peace and clarity. In this book, Thompson aims to make new connections within the education reform movement, unleash new energies among leaders, and open new perspectives. Through research and in-depth interviews with seventeen educational leaders, the author explores new developments in the area of spiritual leadership for the systemic improvement of public schools. Topics of discussion include: _ ... Read more

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A Luminous Collection
City Lights publishers are to commended for including in one volume all of Goethe's esoteric short fiction. Including his well known marchen 'The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily' which remains one of the symbolic enigmas of world literature. Included is the 'New Melusina' a lesser known romantic fairy tale that lingers in the memory long after reading. Goethe's take on Mozart's Masonic inspired 'Magic Flute' is fascinating and available to the casual reader for the first time.

Though this collection is dedicated to his short prose works, if Goethe's unfinished poem 'The Mysteries' were included one would have an essential collection of his key illuminist writings outside of 'Faust'.Any time spent reading Goethe is an edifying experience. ... Read more

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This autobiography by W. Scott Thompson, former top aide in the Reagan presidency, describes the consequences of his "coming out" as a gay Republican. It provides an analysis of current social-political debates on gay issues - on outing, civil rights reform, child custody and gay marriage. ... Read more

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Fun growing plants
Perfectly acceptable book if you want a fun intro about how plants grow. Shows kids making plant "aliens" with living grass for hair. Gives very basic info about what plants need to grow and photosynthesis. The book is colorful and photos where taken just for MAKE IT GROW. There is a nice illustration showing the roots, leaves, and stem. There are a couple of activities, a glossary, an index, and a few questions to think about at the end of the book. Karen Woodworth Roman, MS. Children's Science Book Review ... Read more