Austin Reviews

I ordered this book after being assigned excerpts from it in a literature class. The excerpts changed my life. The book was different, but even better than the little bits I had read. It's about the turn of the last century from a woman's perspective. It gave some insights on early feminism and the suffragettes that I had not expected, which were fascinating. I love how she simply tells her story, without propagandizing for a point. And it was wonderful to read about how my home state, California, looked a hundred years ago.

This book discusses, in very personal terms, faith, motherhood, marriage, careers, family, and wonder of nature. I highly recommend it.

This book was great help in working on a planting design for a client. I got a few ideas just flipping through the pages. The plan graphics at the back of the book were also a good resource for ideas.

The Employer's Survival Guide is a "user friendly" how-to manual and guide for small business owners and managers to recruit and keep effective employees in today's very tight labor market. Andrew Blake and John Austin successfully collaborate to provide the reader with proven methods of seeking out prospective employees, what the hidden costs of employee turnover entail, hiring the disabled, federal employment credits available to the small businessman, and even how to protect the business from computer crashes. The Employer's Survival Guide is a "must" for any owner or manager of a company so small that they do not have their own on-staff human resource development specialist.

The concise, authoritative guide to the English rose by one of the world's foremost experts. David Austin has distilled 40 years' experience in developing beautiful, healthy hybrids into an accessible, informative volume. Lavishly illustrated with strikingly detailed photos of roses in the garden and in still-life arrangements, The English Rose offers handy descriptions of dozens of varieties, isolating distinctive qualities of each one. Austin's professional introduction and list of suppliers complement the text. In sum, The English Rose is an essential resource for novice and experienced gardener alike and a wonderful companion to David Austin's English Roses.

This is a wonderful technical work. The scholarship and research are well translated into a reference work for the military historian. The intelligence operatives and methods of Rome are something that have long deserved a work of this detail and scope.

The family in this books is deemed to be the national average. We are welcomed into their home and life through a series of pictures, quotes and well written simple text.

The family are posed for a photo with all their worldly possessions, then the book takes us through their average day and lifestyle.

It is a wonderful book that gives children an easy way to compare their lives with those of the children in the book. It is simple yet thorough.

An excellent introductory book to real life of families in Ethiopia.

This is a great book for young children. Excellent first book for teaching kids about another county. I enjoyed the book very much and I am an adult! It offers lots of nice color photographs and discusses everyday life of the typical Guatemala family.

We bought this book for our daughter, age 18 months and adopted in Vietnam, thinking she would appreciate it when she was older. I'm sure she will, but we're all enjoying it now also. Having visited and loved Vietnam, we've been disappointed in some other children's books about the country. Some focus on negative differences -- the relative standard of living and the results of the war -- so we found this book's very family-oriented description really refreshing. It's full of great detailed photos, which make it interesting for all ages.

It is such a relief to have an up-to-date book about diabetes that's readable and understandable. It answers so many questions that my doctors don't have time to answer, and it gives me so much information on issues I never even thought about! Thank you, Dr. Alterman

This crime anthology consists of nine tales, of which five star the wonderful female investigative partners C.J. Gunn and Jenny Gordon. The G&G quintet are all quite good and in some ways overwhelm the remaining four contributions though they are also entertaining tales. Still the key to this book is that the prime players in this anthology are all strong cast members for the most part performing reasonable sleuthing tasks. However it is the G&G duo that stands out but not because they are starring in over half the stories. They are the most developed of the characters and could easily be transferred into a novel as lead protagonists (not so subtle of a hint that hopefully the author hears through the grapevine). Each of the stories are creative and refreshingly plotted but they are not clones of one another. They are unique in their own right and even the non-G&G stories can be expanded into a good novel. Readers will find the G&G so unbelievably good that they will be enthralled by each story and wish that there were more of them to read in this surprisingly good anthology. FOUND DEAD IN TEXAS is a wonderful collection that showcases the talent of Jan Grape who relates appealing crime dramas to the mystery crowd.

Harriet Klausner