Moonshiners Manual Review

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(More customer reviews)Moonshiner's Manual is more than just an instruction book for distilling alcohol. It is a cleverly concocted treatise that discloses the know-how of generations of back-woods American moonshiners. Michael Barleycorn captures the mood and history surrounding the technological, social and political details of illegal distillation in his light and humorous style. Complete with diagrams and hilarious illustrations, the manual presents tried and true methods for manufacturing all the components of a still, as well as recipes for fermenting mash and aging the liquor. But the book is also an honest and noteworthy record of a nearly extinct clandestine industry that sprang from grass roots, and through years of experimentation, developed into a unique and ingenious American art form.

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Originally published in 1976 The Moonshine Manual is a wonderful book if you live on a farm and can drive to town for a bag corn. Along with the typewriter the town Feed & Seed store have disappeared.Today there is a renaissance in micro-brewing and craft distilling. The principals of distilling described is this book are correct but the methods used by today's "urban" moonshiner have changed because every town in America has a home brew shop where he or she can take a home brewing class and buy his ingredients to make beer and moonshine. (Mostly yeast and sugar.)The techniques described in this book are not used by today's modern moonshiner because better how-to information (books) and equipment are readily available. It is estimated that there are 15,000 modern moonshiners in the USA and the industry is currently going through a renaissance. Some home brew shops and internet brewing supply companies are selling the15 gallon pot stills like hot cakes

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Along the Back Roads of Yesterday Review

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(More customer reviews)I felt like I'd drifted into a time machine and found myself back in the mid 1900's lazing about on a summer afternoon, sipping lemonade on the porch. Oris George author of this book sometimes featured the adventures of a boy and his mule, but more often featured life as it was back then... when kids were allowed to be kids.
Responsibility meant something, taking responsibility meant you received plenty of privileges worthy of the work you'd done to earn them. Boys back then grew up to be men worthy of their hire and recognized for the ire in their back bone.
This book reminds you of what it means to be a man full grown while allowing you to enjoy a memory, a moment, a bit of time spent appreciating the joys of the world we grew up in, yesterday.
Fully captured by the stories in this book, I must say... my heart stopped when I finished the story of Anna and her efforts to rescue mules and donkeys. Thank God for neighbors like Anna's in this world!

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Those fortunate enough to have grown up in rural America in the middle of the 20th Century can roll themselves up in this book like a warm quilt stitched by your grandmother. If you weren't a farm kid in the 1940s and 50s, it is not too late to correct your education, and this is just the book that can do it. Follow Oris George and his contentious friend, Henry, as they journey through life in a world where the chores are as endless as the summers, the odor of fresh baked pies sweetens the air, and a smile from a teenage carhop can lead to serious heart palpitations. It would be an ideal world if Henry would keep in check his urge to take Oris' father's pickup to town without permission. Life would be simpler if Henry hadn't revealed where they stashed Elmer's favorite bull, Challenger. Growing up would be more pleasant if Henry didn't suck up to the grown-ups while laying the consequences of his pranks on the shoulders of his best friend. But simple, pleasant lives would not make for the entertaining world found in the pages of Along the Back Roads of Yesterday. In Oris' world the animals talk, the fish are wily and the mules have more personality than some people. Neighbors can be as grumpy as Elmer, or as eccentric as Anna Tidwell, who wants to save old horses and mules from being slaughtered. Roads are dusty, white tee shirts and jeans are required formal attire for a night on the town. Having your parents leave you “in charge" for the weekend while they take a short trip means unlimited freedom. If this isn't your world now, by the time you turn the last page it will be. Oris George lived these adventures and brings time to life with dialect, description and colorful phrases that are a part of growing up rural. Along the Back Roads of Yesterday should be required reading for every city slicker. Enjoy Ava Betz Prowers County Historian

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Camel in Action Review

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(More customer reviews)If you are a Camel user, you probably need a copy of this book. It covers lots of use cases for Camel, and covers many topics a lesser selection wouldn't even consider (i.e. monitoring, deployment under different containers, etc.).
The book is well-written and is easy to read for even a novice in the "Integration" workspace. This is good, because the workspace itself is broad and deep, and Camel covers much of it. I like that the book didn't myopically focus on Enterprise Integration patterns, which would've been a natural fault to make. Instead, it covers Camel front-to-back, inside and out.
In this reader's opinion, the ordering of the chapters is a little strange-- you aren't told how to build your own projects until nearly the end of the book-- but this doesn't detract from the book's usability. (Just don't be a stickler about reading it all in order, unless you want to spend a good deal of time reading things that precede this important topic.) Aside from that minor nit, there's little to dislike about this book.
Well done, probably the definitive book on Camel for quite some time.

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Chromatics Attack (The Shadow World) Review

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(More customer reviews)Karen Carr shares her unique imagination in her debut novel, Chromatics Attack. Emison is the daughter of a shadow woman A whole new world never before explored opened up a hole and reclaimed a loving woman. Emison teams with fraternal twins who actually didn't even come from the same womb. Emison must quickly learn who to trust and what to fear. She musters her wits on an adventure against psychedelic villains and misguided leaders. Whatever it takes, Emison intends to save her mother and bring her back from the shadows.
Explosive descriptions of a new form of life, a parallel dimension explored for the first time, give the setting sparks and keep you on your toes throughout the well developed storyline. The characters are grounded and reaffirm the ability of man to rise to the occasion and save the day. The adventure is tinged with first crushes and innocent flirtations.
It is an urban fantasy in that the time takes place in current day Chicago but where ordinary lives are invaded by disorder. The main characters are savvy youths, each with an original spin on a gutsy personality. This story is perfect for the imaginative and the intelligent. Anyone who recalls a childhood with the freedom to investigate the streets in search of everything unknown will love this story. This is the first adventure with refracting lights testing Isaac Newton's theories. Karen Carr delivers an original story in her own personal style.


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Twelve-year-old Emison prefers reason over impulse, but when her mom turns into a shadow and vanishes through their apartment wall, Emison's well-ordered reality changes. She embarks upon a journey into a mysterious shadow world, where she encounters an evil gang of color scientists called the Chromatics. Emison must navigate the strange new world and her own insecurities to rescue her mom from the evil gang. Emison's plan unravels when she changes into a flat-black shadow, and descends into the pitch-black land of darkness. To succeed in her quest, she must trust her friends and follow her instincts, which have always been wrong.

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Goodbye Kate Review

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(More customer reviews)This beautifully written masterpiece by Billy C. Clark captures the innocence of a child and the childs love of animals. The tender and eloquent way that Billy C. Clark weaves the words is that of a master. This should be a "must read" book for all students in elementary and high school. The way that Mr. Clark deals with life and death, if only we could be so lucky to explain it to our own children that way. This is only one of the many books available by Mr. Clark. He is a gifted master and poet and his books should fill all shelves of your home.

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Goodbye Kate is based in part on a mule Clark once owned.In the story, Kate is found far back in the hills by a lonely countryboy named Isaac Warfield. He has graduated from the little countryschool he has attended and the other members of his class will bemoving on to another school or no school at all. Isaac will walk intothe nearest town, Tatesburg, to school. He finds Kate when he goesback into the hills to pick blackberries for his mother. The littlemule is as lonely as he is, and she adopts him and follows him home asfar as the pine grove above his house, that is.Kate gets Isaac into trouble when she follows him to school anddisrupts classes, tramples flower beds, and, worst of all, eats feedat John Naper's feed store. Her final crime results in her arrest andincarceration in the town jail. Only Isaac and his friend, Elwood,can save her from a final trip to the tannery.

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Mules Across the Great Wide Open: A True Western Adventure Review

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(More customer reviews)Jody makes one believe dreams are possible, probable and should be undertaken as soon as possible. Beautiful story that illuminates the simple dignity of the common man, and the joy one can have with life.

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Deer: The Ultimate Artist's Reference: A Comprehensive Collection of Sketches, Photographs and Reference Material Review

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(More customer reviews)This book helped me understand a lot of anatomy questions I had about the beautiful and mysterious form of the deer. There aren't that many reference photos to go off of online and it's difficult to find deer (at least where I live) that will allow you to inspect them up close, so this product was a God-send! This book offers a great collection of images, both photo and drawn, that plainly illustrates the way the legs, head, body, antlers, ears, eyes, nose, and even tail look!
I am also extremely appreciative of the fact that this book does not seem to be targeted towards beginners because it doesn't dally around with simple concepts like 'how to draw circles' or other such nonsense. Any text at all is limited and quick, just the way I like it! Images definitely dominate this how-to book, and I am very grateful for that. I learn best by seeing, not by reading, and hopefully others who purchase this product will also benefit from that design.

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Scoundrels' Bargain Review

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(More customer reviews)Annie Lee Twig had her hands full when she left Arkansas in a hurry. She drove her wagon West loaded with a pregnant sister, drunken uncle, and two unidentified corpses stashed under sacks of provisions. Tied to the wagon was a hot-headed "guard" mule affectionately named "Lucifer." Twenty year old Annie, determined to give her family a new start, was in a rush to get to "Oklahoma Territory" in time for the great Land Run of 1889. Full of hope and Ozark gumption she set to work staking her claim with the help of a newly hired hand call John Wesley Matlock. He is an educated man who holds a secret--and a surprising talent for preaching. They say good fences make good neighbors, but Annie's next door neighbor, the well-heeled and influential Henry Trent, was definitely not good, and he stirs up as much trouble as an Oklahoma cyclone. Keeping their secrets and an eye on one another, Annie and John Matlock forge a "scoundrels' bargain" in order to ensure safety and happiness for all those living at the Circle Twig. This "Territorial" tale is sure to please readers in search of an amusing historical romance with a touch of frontier flair.

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Saddle up and enjoy this charming tale of a spirited heroine and a mysterious hero. Peggy Fielding does it again by creating interesting characters in a romantic tale that is laced with interesting historical tidbits and a memorable secondary cast that includes a crazy mule and an affectionate pig! Scoundrels' Bargain will tickle your funny bone and make you sigh with pleasure as you experience early Oklahoma on this sentimental journey. -Debby Camp, author of Primrose and Lady LegendPlatinum haired beauty, Annie Twig, works and speaks like a field hand, with only her drunken uncle and her pregnant teen-aged sister to help her, she is having trouble proving up on the small farm she staked out when she made the run into Oklahoma Territory. She needs a strong man to help get the “Circle Twig," as she calls their place, up and running.Her problem and part of her secret is that she always accepts anyone who comes by and asks for work. She knows she has not one dime to pay but she is desperate enough to keep that information to herself.Educated sounding John Wesley Matlock, asks for a job and she hires him knowing that food and a place to sleep are all she can give him. She has no idea that the man has come to O.T. just to investigate her family because a prominent Arkansas family is missing one of its own.Annie and John Wesley make a good team and even though they are both being secretive, they make a “Scoundrels' Bargain," to keep from delving too deeply into each other's hidden agendas.A crazy mule, a pig, and a baby add to the fun and to the strangely attractive family life that exists on the “Circle Twig."

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Deer of the Southwest Review

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(More customer reviews)With "Deer of the Southwest", Jim Heffelfinger has the merit of creating a performing work for every one wants to learn about Mule Deer and With-Tailed Deer and the wildlife in the America's Southwestern environments.
The work includes 9 chapters treating the taxonomy of the deer, their historical perspectives (including the evolution of the family in America), physical characters (especially those which let people distinguish the two species), their antlers in particular (their shape, variation, and main anomalies), animals' requirements in water and food, their density, home range, and movements, their reproduction, their mortality, and finally, their management.
The book marks an important step in the understanding American wildlife and makes its author as one of the most authoritative specialist on knowledge and management of deer in the America's Southwestern.
Its style is easy and pleasant and the book can be easily read by the scientist as well as all non specialist. Wildlife management agents, university teachers and researchers, people found of wildlife of simple curious in natural history can found here a lot of interesting knowledge and information about this subject.


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Another Sommer-Time Story: Tied Up In Knots Review

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(More customer reviews)All children everywhere have struggled with the concept of sharing. Getting along with you siblings and others can be challenging for young children. This story works out those conflicts creatively through the idea of teamwork. What a great book to entertain your children and teach them a valuable truth.

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Benny and Sally don't mind doing their farm chores and caring for their mules, but they absolutely refuse to share. Their mules, Bossy and Stiffy, imitate their owners' selfish ways by stubbornly refusing to let anyone else ride them, and fussing whenever they work together doing farm work.Dad needs to teach the mules a lesson. He ties them together which forces them to learn to cooperate in order to eat. After much struggling, the mules learn to work together, and teach their owners Benny and Sally that sharing brings happiness.This delightful story by Carl Sommer shows the importance of cooperation, tolerance and respect. Grades K-3.Virtues: Cooperation / Tolerance / RespectOther Virtues: Appreciation, Caring, Cheerfulness, Compassion, Courtesy, Fairness, Friendship, Humility, Justice, Kindness, Obedience to Parents, and Patience

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Smuggling Drugs into Prison Review

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(More customer reviews)This story shows how desperate drug addicts can be. Bobby, the narrator, puts his health and even his life at risk to smuggle drugs into prison. Bobby also wants to be "the man," the guy at the center of attention, the one who can supply drugs to other inmates and get their admiration. He is a master storyteller who lets readers sample prison tales; that is, stories that inmates tell each other to build themselves up in the eyes of other men and to puff themselves up. Anyone who wants to understand drug addiction can learn a lot from this story.

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Bobby G tells a hilarious story about kiestering drugs, both the trials of getting them in and the challenge of getting them out. He finally pushes them in when the squad comes rumbling through and he thinks they are coming for him. His cache survives a strip search. A few mintues later, while he sat on the toilet to push the drug outs, a chorus of drug-hungry inmates stroll by his cell whispering out of the sides of their mouths, "Did you get it out yet?" In the end, Bobby is the hero of his cell block that day, the man.

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Call Me Francis Tucket (The Francis Tucket Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)This was a very entertaining book with lots of action and adventure. It starts out where it leaves off at the first book, "Mr. Tucket". Francis Tucket is with the wagon train Mr. Grimes left him with. Then he decides to go out hunting on the prairie. After finding a large herd of buffalo, his Indian pony goes into the herd. He makes a big mistake by shooting his rifle while in the middle of the buffalo. The buffalo go into a wild stampede with Mr. Tucket in it. The stampede finally ends in the middle of the Great Plains. He sleeps the night and wakes up with two men pointing his rifle at him. They take all his food, ammunition, and even the shirt off his back. So he is stranded in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a skinny donkey. I liked this book a lot except the abrupt ending. Otherwise, the book is a great sequel and has lots of interesting situations. I would recommend reading the first book before reading this one. There are also three sequels in the Tucket books. This is an excellent book if you like the Oregon Trail or the frontier, or if you like Gary Paulsen books.

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Open Source Soa Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a fantastic introduction for intermediate to advanced programmers to get their coding hands on the various constructs of SOA. His examples explore an integrated set of open source tools that build the full SOA stack. He also makes an excellent overview of the capabilities and contrast the various offerings. A wonderful, detailed tour of a complex, critical topic. Also, at least so far, all the code examples worked! Thanks for a great book!

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You can build a world-class SOA infrastructure entirely using popular, and mature, open-source applications. Unfortunately, the technical documentation for most open-source projects focuses on a specific product, the big SOA picture. You're left to your own devices to figure out how to cobble together a full solution from the various bits. In other words, unless you already know how Mule and Tuscany work with jBPM, you're stuck.

Open Source SOA shows readers how to build an entire SOA application using open-source technologies. It shows readers how to apply key ideas like Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) design and Business Process Management (BPM) and learn the tools and techniques to implement them effectively.

To pull everything together, the author describes real-life case studies from his own work to tie together all the principles and practices. These hard-to-find case studies are pure gold for the reader, as most developers keep these trade secrets to themselves.

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Hunting Black-Tailed Deer: An Oregon Perspective Review

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(More customer reviews)Shelves of books exist about whitetails, but very little is in print concerning blacktailed deer. Terkla fills a real need. I am an amatuer naturalist and a hunter, and I found his book to be very well researched. He cites from numerous studies found only in college archives and wildlife department file cabinets: information that is inexcessible to the general public. It compares favorably to the text on blacktails published in the 1950s by the Washington Department of Game (now the Department of Fish and Wildlife). Details include the seasonal movement and diet of blacktails, their favored habitat, and the best methods to observe and hunt these shy creatures. Forget about trying to translate what you read about whitetails or mule deer to the blacktailed deer. This book will deals with them specifically.

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This book is a comprehensive guide to black-tailed deerhunting, based on the author's 56 years of deer hunting experience.It provides valuable tips for both the novice and seasoned hunter bycombining useful biological information and hunting strategies.Thebook unravels much of the mystery surrounding black-tailed deer frompreparation for the hunt to enjoying venison on the table and would bea welcome addition to any hunter's library.

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1944 revised encyclopedia of canaries and other cage birds. Canaries, Parrakeets, Love Birds, Finches, Parrots, Mules and Hybrids Review

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(More customer reviews)This is such a charmer, with old-fashioned prints of the original show-type ideal birds, and tons of personal experience raising and breeding Canaries, etc. Says it includes: Parakeets, Love Birds, Finches, Parrots, Mules and Hybrids. Also has dozens of more, such as various finches, and even wild birds like the goldfinch. This has old-time breeder advice that you can't learn overnight! There is quite a lot of info and sometimes anecdotes on each page.
Very rare. Isn't the cover great? Great deal, recommended.

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Charlie and the Fightin' Mule Review

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(More customer reviews)Donald Thompson is one of the South's rising stars. His new book is a witty collection of tales about the folks and critters that call the South home. A very enjoyable book best read in your favorite rocker with a tall glass of sweet tea.

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Kamikaze Gods and Suicide Mules Review

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(More customer reviews)If you are looking for something new in the world of poetry, then this is it. Wherever these guys came from, they kept to themselves and learned how to write. I found every influence from Rumi to Neruda in their work. Sensational. From feeling the death of a spider to eating a bagel in a New York apartment, and from the touch of that first love to the laughter of birds. A must for the private library. Good work, new and fresh. Something different for this century.

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From Godzilla bombs and false teeth to Nebada's sleeping orgies and moonlit hills. An eclectic, inimitable exploration of the American Dream and disillusionment--the real and the raw of life.

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