I got this because I am intrigued by Wally Ingram's work w/ David Lindley - he is an impressive percussionist. I guessing his involvement on this album is because he has a crush on Crabtree. When it comes to folk music (any music really), I rarely listen to the lyrics until after I am hooked by the music. Crabtree's tunes are topical and heartfelt, but the music is only fair. I will not be keeping this CD.

There are typically two types of books on the market in the area of animal cognition. On the one hand are those who merely offer their own impressions of what is going on in the animal mind. These impressions are fine, but they don't offer any reason why one impression is better than the next. Books that fall under this category are Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' "Hidden Life of Dogs", Jeffrey Masson's "When Elephants Weep" and most recently George Page's "Inside the Animal Mind". Page's book attempts to bring in modern science, but since he doesn't understand the issues, he fails miserably. On the other hand are books that tend to be dry and academic, and often argue that animals lack any kind of intelligence. What Hauser's book brings to this field is a keen understanding of the science, experience as a researcher who has worked in the wild and in captivity, and a love of animals. I highly recommend this book.

The writing is uninspired. The organization is poor. Evidence is largely anecdotal. After reading the review in Scientific American, perhaps I was expecting too much, but this book was not at all what I had hoped for.

I like post-apocalyptic settings and this one has that flavor with a bit of magic mixed in, from the demonic, dirty sense. I think it's a good mix.Adrian Smith has an artistic style that lends a great aural addition to the text and ideas here. There are enough pictures that this does feel like a quality work all around. A removable poster map is included, but it's cleverly glued in so that it folds out easily.The rules set isn't so baroque that it changes d20 completely, a refreshing change from some other d20 products that aparently bought the license when they might as well have made their own system--silliness. The mechanics lend themselves well to the setting. New magic spells, skills, etc are included and none get in the way of play.It's a good buy because it inspires stories.If you are looking for something that puts the demonic spin on post-apocalypse, then this is a good choice.

Seems as if the author had a slight overdose of The Craft. I am a teenaged witch and I rated this book with one star because it is the lowest rate you can give.Veyr poorly written. Alot of references to the Christian concept. This is the type of book you would find a 'witch' to be using in a Fairy tale book or some sort of film.Utterly disgusting to the Witch Race!!!!

I collect books of this nature. I put Lenard Ashleys book on my wish list. I wish my husband hadn't wasted his money. Some of the information in the book is informative. Some of it is interesting. The authors attitude throughout the book was very snide and belittleing. How lucky we (the readers) were, that he could teach us how superstitus, primative and especially stupid we were. His cutting remarks about Wiccans, Witches, Christians, etc, left no doubt that he felt above it all. Perhaps, his other (five) books are written the same way. I don't know, I haven't seen them in the bookstores. If I had had a chance to flip through this book in a bookstore, I would have slowly put the book down and run away.Anyone want to buy a used copy?