Book Description
Lists nearly 600 shortline and regional railroads in the United States and Canada. Includes line history, locations, radio frequencies, and locomotive data.
Customer Reviews:
Not getting what you expect.......2007-07-15
Published 21 years ago, this reference to a rapidly changing category of data (shortline railroads) is woefully out of date. Worse, as advertised, buyers assume they are getting up to date information. Far from it. Kalmbach Publishing should be embarrassed to even offer it without a date on the cover.
Dated and missing things.......2007-01-05
The short-line world has changed quite a bit in the years since publication. It's time for an update. What the guide does provide is interesting and generally accurate. Edward A. Lewis is perhaps the countries best authority on the subject and has managed several shortlines for many years. I suspect the problems of the book come from Kalbach trying to make it too small - it's glove box format. I'd rather have more information in an 81/2 x 11 format. It has locomotive rosters, capsule histories and other data. What is missing is train operations. Knowing this changes, perhaps the next edition should have an accompanying database of this information, updated by users as it changes. Another missing item are maps. As another reviewer has noted, the photographs could be better.
Black-N-White Pix; 1955??.......2003-01-11
if a train watcher of any kind you need this book but the black and white pix, or lack of many pix as well as lack of any maps at all shows a distinct lack of effort by Kalmbach; very dissappointing
Great on data and pictures - maps are sorely lacking.......2000-05-30
American Shortline Railway Guide is a great help for any train buff. Over 500 short lines are described: history, current status, number of engines (some lines with full listing), cars, as well as address of owner and radio frequencies. I especially liked the many pictures accompanying the text. There is really one drawback only: The book does not contain any maps. You will need a train atlas or a Rand Mc Nally on the side, unfortunately. Other interesting details are lists of abandoned and non-operating lines as well as addresses of ownerships companies. A must-have for US train buffs, especially in conjunction with the Train-Watchers Guide to North American Railroads (also by George W. Drury).
Book Description
"Sweet Baby Jane" Perkins has carved out a mega-selling reputation as rock's favorite bad girl. But her hard-living, tough-talking image can't prevent the sharp dose of reality that hit home when her estranged mother is killed in a car accident. As bizarre coincidences escalate in her own life, Janey grows certain that someone is watching her every move, and it's not one of her adoring fans...Since leaving the Army Rangers six months ago, Jason Wilson has been adrift, a warrior without a war. Now he's taken his first civilian assignment for his army buddy's security firm: protecting a rock diva on her sold-out tour. Far from being a spoiled star, Janey is a revelation-sweet, modest, and incredibly sexy. Their friendship is turning to mutual, heated desire, but it's a distraction that could cost them more than their hearts...Drawn into the depths of a deadly secret, they'll face off against a killer growing more ruthless every day, and Jase will discover just how far he'll go to protect an explosive passion he never expected...
Customer Reviews:
Book #4 in the E D E N Series.......2007-08-14
This was Sweet Baby Jane (no James Taylor pun intended) and Jason Wilson's story.
Jane was a rock star who hired Garrett's Detective Agency AKA E.D.E.N to protect her.
They send...Jason Wilson, who doesn't like rock music. LOL
This was such a nice story. Jane was not at all what "I" would have expected as a rock star. She actually liked PEACE AND QUIET when not on stage.
A definite page turner.......2007-08-07
This was the first of Cindy Gerard's "Bodyguards" series that I picked up quite by accident at the drugstore one day. Wasn't really expecting anything special, but I was really impressed - I couldn't put it down!
The scenes and language are a bit on the gritty end of the spectrum for a romantic suspsense, but no more so than some of Nora Roberts latest. I also really enjoyed that the characters who were likeable, but not at all typical. I've read a ton of romances, and this is the first I've read about a rock star heroine and a hero that looks like he could be 18. It doesn't sound great, but Gerard really makes it work.
The book was good enough to send me off in search of her other Bodyguard books, and Cindy Gerard has become one of my rare "autobuys." The only reason I gave it four stars was that after reading her other Bodyguard books, I like those even more (specifically try Under the Wire; it was really outstanding)!
Way over the line.......2007-07-12
The gratuitous use of vulgar language was unnecessary. You can't help but have a poor opinion of the author's mentality. The plot--rather improbably. Even rockstars don't usually have multiple psychopaths stalking them. Skip this poor excuse and get a romantic mystery by Nora Roberts or Mariah Stewart.
Not very impressed with this one!.......2007-01-05
This being the fourth in the Bodyguards series, I had high expectations from this, especially since the last book called To The Brink was truly explosive. The main problem for me was that the characters were just not well developed, especially the hero Jason, who I felt didn't deserve a book of his own. He was no where near to being a alpha male or having a bodyguard personality and even got a nick name called Baby blue from the heroine!!! Now I know I wouldn't want a bodyguard with that name! The suspense itself keeps you turning the pages but when it all comes together in the end, it's very confusing and a lot of it just doesn't make sense. I hope the next one called Under The Wire is not such a disappointment.
Really Enjoyed This book.......2006-11-11
I love Cindy Gerard's Bodyguard series. I'm not going to write a plot summary since many on Amazon have already did that as has Amazon themselves. I loved the lead characters interaction and bond. I really enjoyed that she was a rock star on tour and how he was able to set up security. I loved how she brought the characters from the past novels back and gave the reader an update on them within the story. I didn't like how he took her home like they did in the Bodyguard movie with Whitney Houston. I also didn't like that Ms. Gerard didn't explain some of the reasoning behind some of the incidents that happened. I wish she would have taken a little more time with it and made the book a little longer in order to have the explanation. I would however recommend the whole series to anyone. I think it will keep you fascinated and entertained.
Product Description
This book explores the couching stitch (an embroidery stitch) in depth. It demonstrates that the couching stitch is easy to sew and extremely versatile -- showing that it can be used to produce both delicate and bold effects, which offer an amazing range of surfaces. This book, like all the others in the series, continues to emphasize the value of working exploratory samples and experimenting with new materials.
Product Description
"Vintage photographs through contemporary color serve to illustrate the evolution of a selected railroad from the golden age of steam to the modern age of streamlined diesels and electrics. Having observed its twentieth anniversary in 2003, the Metro-North Railroad is a fitting choice to initiate this series. This installment depicts the Hudson Line between Poughkeepsie and Oscawana, which includes some of the most spectacular scenery in the Hudson River Valley. Illustrations begin with the Hudson River Rail Road and continue through the New York Central, Penn Central, Conrail and Metro-North. Early steam, E-units, FL-9s, F-10s, Geeps, B23-7s, U-boats, RDCs, SPV-2000s and Genesis engines are all shown. "160 pages, 270 color and b&w illustrations and other ephemera, bibliography, index. Printed on 80# gloss enamel paper in an Ota-bind softcover format."
Book Description
Written by Musicians Institute instructor Jean Marc Belkadi at the request of his students, this book/CD pack will help guitarists understand, hear and be able to use modern outside playing techniques in their own compositions and improvisations. The book covers: four different concepts of playing outside (the chromatic, symmetrical, superimposed and 12-tone approach); the major, minor and dominant chord families; and more, all in standard notation and tab. The accompanying CD contains 82 demo tracks, with most played at full tempo, then repeated at half speed.
Customer Reviews:
GREAT TOOL.......2007-05-17
Obviously this is not for the beginner.
You need to know your chords/scales/modes before embarking on outside playing.
The examples are great tools for the guitarist who wants to add more flavor to his/her phrasing lines.
It doesn't spoon-feed you completely because you should already know the terms used in the book and be able to recognize motifs at least by ear.
Great book but NOT for beginners.......2005-12-10
Like all Jean Marc Belkadi books, or at least the 3 or 4 I own or have seen, this book is NOT for beginners. The author does NOT explain in great detail the examples of what he played. There is a short paragraph--usually just 2 or 3 sentences---stating the key and the general concept of what is happening in the lick. If you do not know some music theory, you will struggle with this book. You must also have some 'chops' before even thinking about getting this book. You must also understand how to learn from these books. The author cannot play the guitar for you. The point with books like these is to grasp the underlying concept of the lick the author shows you and then EXPAND on it and experiment with it in as many different ways you can think of. With those caveats being mentioned, this is a WONDERFUL book. It has given me many freah new ideas on improvising. But again, you must be prepared and willing to put alot of time and effort in applying the examples in the book. If you do, you will gain much from this book.
MI Press Rocks.......2005-08-30
Jean Marc is an awesome guitar player that i had the pleasure to meet and recieve a guitar lesson. He travels the whole world finding unique musical references from every star on the map. If you are into unorthodox guitar playing then this book is defintly fo you.
Average customer rating:
- Diplomacy on the brinkmanship
- Vindication
- Doctrinaire View of the North
- Not worth the money
- If you know something about Korea it would be interesting
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Over the Line: North Korea's Negotiating Strategy
Chuck Downs
Manufacturer: AEI Press
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Book Description
This book explores the role of espionage and infiltration and provides an alarming prediction of the future course of North Korea's relations with the United States and it allies.
Customer Reviews:
Diplomacy on the brinkmanship.......2003-07-15
Chuck Downes has written exellent book. The history diplomatic contacts United States with North Korea was begin in 1951. Military Armistice Comissionn in Panmunjom was to 1993 only one channel diplomatic contacts. Chuck Downs described north korean diplomatic behaviour. Tis diplomacy on the brinkmanship. This continue now by Kim Chong-il. Spreading nuclear programme after withdrawal from nonproliferation regime. Book is detailed description events in history this contact. Murders axes from Panmujom accident , Pueblo warship case, Submarine commando strikers are only leading examles this activity. This book is needed for all diplomats, scholars , journalists try understand korean issue.
Vindication.......2003-01-22
I read this book when it first came out. Anyone who did is unsurprised about the past several months' developments -- except by the fact that some in the free world still want to reward North Korea for doing what it is already obligated to do.
Doctrinaire View of the North.......2002-07-27
When you consider that Mr. Downs does not speak Korean, and has never spoken directly with North Koreans, either on a friendly basis nor in an adversarial sense across the bargaining table, all you are getting here is a second-hand rehash reflecting of the stand-off at Panmunjom. A serious mirror study of U.S. negotiating tactics there would not be too complimentary. This book is more about conservative U.S. opinion of the Clinton administration than anything else. Read Scot Snyder instead.
Not worth the money.......2002-02-06
This book is suspiciously loaded with one-sided story. This book emphasizes
north Korea as unpredictble and crazy while there is no mention
about US negotiating strategy, which I suspect is part of the problem.
I give a low mark just because there is not much opposing views or alternate
objective presentation. Judging from the authors, I can't but suspect
that book is not well balanced.
If you know something about Korea it would be interesting.......2001-03-11
I would like to have either more on the actual negotiating or more on the history but the book seems to jump back and forwards between the two leaving me the reader a bit confused. So someone like myself who knows little about US and North Korea relations got little from this book.
Disappointingly it does not include that much about how other goverments (in particular South Korea) reacted and played in these talks.
However if you want to know about how the North Korean goverment have behaved with the US this is a very good book. I was stunned to read the sort of documents the US has had to sign in dealing with the North Koreans.
It shows the limitation that the US faces even in a region that it is the major power.
Book Description
Crossing over the Line describes the folly of the Mann Act of 1910—a United States law which made travel from one state to another by a man and a woman with the intent of committing an immoral act a major crime. Spawned by a national wave of "white slave trade" hysteria, the Act was created by the Congress of the United States as a weapon against forced prostitution.
This book is the first history of the Mann Act's often bizarre career, from its passage to the amendment that finally laid it low. In David J. Langum's hands, the story of the Act becomes an entertaining cautionary tale about the folly of legislating private morality.
Langum recounts the colorful details of numerous court cases to show how enforcement of the Act mirrored changes in America's social attitudes. Federal prosecutors became masters in the selective use of the Act: against political opponents of the government, like Charlie Chaplin; against individuals who eluded other criminal charges, like the Capone mobster "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn; and against black men, like singer Chuck Berry and boxer Jack Johnson, who dared to consort with white women. The Act engendered a thriving blackmail industry and was used by women like Frank Lloyd Wright's wife to extort favorable divorce settlements.
"Crossing over the Line is a work of scholarship as wrought by a civil libertarian, and the text . . . sizzles with the passion of an ardent believer in real liberty under reasonable laws."—Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
Customer Reviews:
No laughing matter.......2007-10-08
Once a leading pop culture touchstone, the Mann Act has gone the way of the hi-fi and bakelite. In a way that's too bad, because as this terrific work of legal and social history shows, the Act was a sad chapter in the history of American efforts to legislate private behavior.
Langum provides a thorough account of the Mann Act's history. Highlights include the more well-known defendants, like Charlie Chaplin and Humbert Humbert. The analysis is at once concise and evocative--his description of the hazards of "affirmative discretion" gave me a new handle on Ken Starr. The narrative sometimes gets bogged down in all the cases, but my only real complaint is that he didn't find space to namecheck PDQ Bach and his immoral porpoises.
Book Description
Fully up-to-date, this riveting collection includes the most recent operations into Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia, and features the entire range of special forces from SAS, Commandos, and Rangers to Navy SEALS and Paratroopers. Among the legendary “behind the lines” operations of the Special Forces from their formation in 1940 onwards are the Green Berets in Vietnam, the Royal Marine Commandos in the Falklands, the SBS in the Aegean in WWII, and US Navy SEALS in the Gulf War. The Mammoth Book of Special Forces contains thirty true and graphic accounts of the most heroic missions ever undertaken behind enemy lines.
Customer Reviews:
Why they are "special".......2007-05-29
This one of two military history books I recently re-read, the other being The Mammoth Book of Special Ops. This volume was edited by Jon E. Lewis and consists of eyewitness accounts and/or analyses of "30 missions of ultimate danger from behind enemy lines" that extend throughout the 20th century, from T.E. Lawrence's "The Revolt in the Desert - Special Force Operations, Arabia, 1917" until Eric Bailey's "Fighting Fire with Fire with Fire, 22 SAS, Afghanistan, 2002). Of special interest to me is the fact that the same core principles of special operations (i.e. special ops) that are evident in most (if not all) of the 30 accounts can be traced back in time at least to ancient Troy. As Lewis observes in his brief but remarkably comprehensive Introduction, "...what did Odysseus do but use `specially trained, equipped, and organized' forces to gain entry into Troy by concealing them inside the Wooden Horse?" Specifically, exceptional preparation, focus, stealth, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and teamwork as well as highly specialized skills and speed of execution when conducting operations behind enemy lines.
Of course, which accounts are of greatest interest will vary from one reader to the next. Those that I found most fascinating include:
"Cockleshell Heroes"
(Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment, France 1942)
Patrick Pringle
Comment: According to Pringle, this was the problem to be solved: "Something had to be done about the German ships at Bordeaux. They were sailing regularly to and from Japan. They were running the Allied blockade, taking out prototypes of German weapons and equipment - and bringing back rubber and other raw materials vital in war. Either the ships should be destroyed in the harbour, or the port itself would have to be made unusable." Pringle's account of is of Operation Frankton and a raid led by then Major Herbert ("Blondie") Hasler. FYI, the cockleshell was a canoe that Hasler co-designed with Fred Goatley to meet the mission's strict specifications.
"The Attack on Rommel's HQ"
(11 Scottish Commando, North Africa 1941)
Richard Arnold
Comment: Under the command of Lieutenant Geoffrey Keyes, six officers and fifty-three of other ranks were delivered by submarines to attack Rommel's headquarters (at Beda Littoria, halfway between Tobruk and Bengaz) and either kill or capture him.
"Eagle Claw"
(Delta Force, Iran 1980)
Ian Westwell
Comment: The objective was to rescue 56 U.S. nationals who were held as hostages in Tehran. The group was led by Colonel Charles Beckwith. The Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta (i.e. Delta Force) was Beckwith's "brainchild" and established in 1977, inspired by the British 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (i.e. SAS) with which he served in 1962-63.
"Interrogation"
(SOE, France 1944)
Bruce Marshall
Comment: According to Marshall, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was formed in 1940 as an amalgamation of various British secret service department, and charged with the co-ordination of `all action, by way of sabotage and subversion, against the enemy overseas.'" In this account, Frederick Yeo-Thomas (his code names "Shelley" and "White Rabbit") parachutes into France to coordinate the Resistance groups and, only four months before D-Day, is captured and interrogated by the Gestapo. And then....
As this review is composed in the U.S. on Memorial Day, 2007, I am especially grateful for books such as this because they help me to understand and appreciate even more the courageous women and men as well as their missions that demonstrate what is "special" about special forces.
Book Description
Readers will enjoy laughing at insights, testing their memories, and taking the history quizzes created by jokester Bob Phillips. Packed with wisdom and fascinating facts, Over the Hill and On a Roll celebrates the passing of time and pokes fun at what lies ahead.
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