Review:Having lived near two great lakes in my life (Lakes Erie and Michigan), I was dying to know what was going on. Thiw was informative and read like a novel. My only complaint: not enough graphs, maps, and no timeline. Read more

Review:Not happy about having to write my very personal reaction to this book in such a public forum, but am motivated by my intense desire to communicate how important the book has been for me, and possibly could be for others.
Like I believe many people, I find myself often addicted to a particular handheld, mindless electronic game. Some days, I spend hours on this. I do it to cope with stress. Traumatized as a child, I found that if I created rushes of adrenalin, by creating dangerous situation ... Read more

Review:Early in Eating Meat, Foer shares an anecdote of his starving Jewish grandmother, fleeing the Nazis and offered pork by a kind peasant. She is dying of starvation but rejects the pork, explaining, "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save." While Foer loves his grandmother, the story-teller, the life-giver, and the lover of kosher beef and chicken, he uses her quote as a sort of epitaph throughout his book to pave the way for his conversion to vegetarianism, a conversion that separates him fr... Read more

Review:Covered the evolutionary process thoroughly from day one to today. I learned of eras I had no idea existed. Seems like our schools can't go back beyond dinosours. I had no idea of the formation of the moon and its relationship with earth. I listened to the story as an audio book, then I had to get an ebook copy. Read more

Review:The images in this book are very good. If you buy this for book solely for that purpose it is worth it.

However if you actually want to READ it, buyer be warned! The incessant need for the author and contributors to continue to make the same statements... "mankind is killing the planet" gets very tiresome.

Do these people not realize that the writing of this book uses paper(even if recycled it is still a limited resource that could be used elsewhere). Do they not see that the del... Read more

Review:James Herriot's books are my favorite, his sensitivity, his love of nature, his intelligence, his simplicity, all make for a book of a life that you feel that you yourself are living, that his experiences are yours also. I hate when I've reached the end of his books. I want to live them over and over, and keep reading them forever. Read more

Review:I was hoping to read individual stories about Coyote behavior. The upsetting part I needed to read dealt with the horrible poison war on coyotes for way too many years, an attack that may not be totally over yet, thanks to ranchers and perhaps even the government. Read more

Review:I'm still reading this book, with great pleasure, and have given it as a gift, as well. The book gives me a whole new perspective on the consciousness of animals. I had no knowledge of octopuses, nor of other sea animals. I do live in an area with many animals and birds, and have observed them, as they have observed me. What a gift to be among them! I recommend this book to anyone who wants to think of animals in a new way. Read more

Review:picture misrepresented book. book was hardcover with no jacket. one reason i chose this particular book for my daughter is because of the picture showed on site i chose. i had this book when it came out and wanted to share that cover picture especially. other than that book was in good condition. just not the one shown in picture. Read more

Review:This is a book about whom every one of significance (except aboard the helicopter) has died. These dead people are the ones through whose eyes we are to see this disaster unfold. In other words,there is a whole lot of "Then they must have thought this", or "Of course we can assume they were saying this...." It is a book of so much fiction regarding everything of interest, and yet it is presented as a factual account of the disaster.

The only interesting aspect to this book is the one area... Read more