This book was loaned from the Irving Public Library.

I LOVE this book and would include it in my own library if said library were owned. This book should be on the shelf in every senior high school in the USA. What a wonderful exploration of the very powerful Muslim intellects in history! WOW! Very positive -- should be read by high school seniors, Muslims, and Americans.

I have an interest in economics because of my bachelors degree (B.S. Econ, UTA, 1996). Near the end of this book (page 237), I learned that the TRUE FATHER of ECONOMICS is Muslim! A minor character in this book (basically, only mentioned near the end), the "Tunisian polymath" is named Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406). Wow!

ISBN 0590102281

Delightful story about the founder of Geology. A joy to listen to this -- so interesting!
Book-on-CD. Unabridged: 5 3/4 hours on 5 compact discs.
Read by Grover Gardner.
Copyright 2003. Producer: Audio Scholar. High Bridge Company. Original List Price $32.95.

Thanks to the Irving Library Inter-Library Loan bcz this textbook is from the 'Chan Shun Centennial Library' at Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, Texas (https://library.swau.edu/library).

Interested in a 'new take' on Midway? Please read his great tale about that history.

Mr. Martin Dugard, the author, has a writing style that I came to really enjoy, truly admire. At first, it threw me for a loop. Later, I loved it. He writes in a kind of machine gun style -- rat-a-tat-tat. Short sentences. Punctuated. Like it!

His book is a wonderful contrast, as well as supplemental, to my first lesson about The Battle of Midway since schooling, which was the audio-book that I had listened to last year titled "Miracle at Midway".

Hoopla Digital audio-book loan via the Irving Public Library.
Duration: 13h 26m.
Year: 2022.
Publisher: HaperCollins.
Reader: Patrick Lawlor.
https://www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook/the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-steve-...

Irving Public Library access to HOOPLA audio-book edition.
What a fun concept in the technique of explaining history!
The history is very interesting -- a delightful audio-book!
My only 'real' complaint: Although I enjoyed the facts as presented, the reader's voice is not as enjoyable for me to hear, at least when compared to voices of other audio-books. The reader's voice neither engages me as others have nor seems as precise.

Audiobook: available via HOOPLA through the Irving Public Library.
https://www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook/a-brief-history-of-earth-andrew-h-knoll/...
Listening time: 4h 57m.
Read by Tom Parks.
I enjoyed this history of planet Earth and its life. Immense senses of time! Geology and evolution; natural selection as recorded in the rocks, changes over millions of years; amazing science...climate change linked to human activities is a huge problem that humans need to wake-up and hear the klaxon bells alarming, clanging 'Danger Ahead!'

Loaned from Hoopla via an account a the Irving Public Library.
The edition is the downloadable audiobook (ASIN B086R52CM3). (No ISBN with direct correlation exists that I could find.)
Amazon Audible Audiobook link: https://a.co/d/8Wwr2tA.
The introduction is by Barbara Kingsolver. The reader, aka narrator, is Cassandra Campbell.

Fun read. Enjoyable!

As the introduction book to the Joe Leaphorn mystery series, Leaphorn is a secondary character. Mostly, the book introduces Navajo culture, using Leaphorn as a backdrop to help express that culture (very well done, too!). Most of the last half of the book is about the cultural anthropologist and his companions. This book has sets-up the series; and I look forward to reading them in order of publication.

Partially read...about the year...2014?

What an amazing history of the famous WWII Battle of Midway exists as it has been presented in this book, which details the miracle of the United States winning as underdog in this fight with the superior naval force of the Japanese. The history and analyses have been presented fairly from both enemy combatants, a fact I appreciate.
The word-use of 'Miracle' in the title is NOT a joke. I did not know the history of this battle until I listened to this audio-book. Now I have listened, I understand.
I am reminded about how little I had once understood Winston Churchill's famous quote praising the RAF during the Battle of Britain until learning of their history in that WWII battle in the European theater.
In both these battles, I am awed by the weight of history, fact, battle, war.
Finally, I am happy the authors gave small facts about how some individual soldiers fighting for either of these two enemy combatants became associates, and even close friends, after the war was over.

Loaned from HOOPLA via the Irving Public Library System.
42 chapters and with an introduction and preface, too.
Listening time for this audio-book is 17h10m.

Webpage link for Hoopla:
https://www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook/miracle-at-midway-gordon-w-prange/140893...

Produced by Dreamscape Media, LLC.
Webpage link for Dreamscape:
https://www.dreamscapepublishing.com/blog/audiobook/miracle-at-midway/

Webpage link to Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-at-Midway/dp/B08RSC4J5R

This book was book number two in an anthology including three books, starting with ('Leaphorn & Chee, #12: "The Fallen Man") and concluding with the final book ('Leaphorn & Chee, #14: "Hunting Badger").
The book has been loaned from the South Irving Public Library, is 52 pages in length, which covers the actual stories; and is a hard cover, ISBN 9780060820787.
I do not quite understand why Janet Pete was so furious with Jim Chee at the end...but, then again, I am not experienced with relationships as I have had very few...What Jim Chee did makes sense (to me) given context. I would have thought she would have understood his actions, too, so, I do not get it, yet.

Hardcover -- on-loan from the Irving Public Library, South -- Large Print.

Wow...this book and/or CD should be read/listened to by most people. The info needs to be understood -- the science, the laws of nature, what is happening in our world.
The goal is not to be sad. Work past that. The goal is knowledge, awareness. And, maybe, once understood, then an individual, or a group of people, can develop ideas about how to go forward in life. Humans are altering the Earth. We must learn.
Loaned from the Irving Public Library, South.
Unabridged on 8 CD's.
(I wish the CD segments were in 3-minutes, they are not. There are about 6 segments per CD and then the 7th is the end of that CD. At the end of a CD, no voice mentions that the CD has ended; that is, no clue as to when a CD stops except that there is no sound.)
Library packaging: 8 CD's, each CD is in a plastic sheath, two CD's to a single sheath, one CD per side, thus four total sheaths inside the plastic clam case.
The barcode contains this info about price: USA $34.99 / $39.99 Canada.
ISBN 978-1-4423-6945-0.
Website: Audio.SimonAndSchuster.com
https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/audio
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Sixth-Extinction/Elizabeth-Kolbert/97...

THERE IS A NEW EDITION available: The Tenth Anniversary Edition. Here is the website for the audio book of of the TENTH edition:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Sixth-Extinction-Tenth-Anniversary-Ed...

An edition exists for young readers. Here is the weblink for the audio-book for young readers:
show more target="_top">https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Sixth-Extinction-(Young-Readers-Adapt... show less

13 CD's - 16 hours - unabridged.
Tantor Audio. www.tantor.com (877) 782-6867.
List price (year 2007) $39.99.
(Personal note of memory: my listening dates are approximate. I began listening on a vacation about two or three years ago. Finally, the set of CD's were finished, mostly, in the past few months.)

Unabridged on 5 CD's; length is 4.5 hours.
Copyright 2006. Released by AudioWorks, a division of Simon & Schuster. $29.95USA/$41.00Canada.
Read by Hope Davis.

Audiobook on 4 CD's ~ 4.5 hours Unabridged
www.tantor.com (877) 782-6867
Tantor Audio;
USA $24.99, Can $27.99
Copyright 2007 Tantor Media, Inc.
ISBN 13: 978-1-4001-0388-1
ISBN 10: 1-4001-0388-6
The CD case is of sturdy plastic; the clam-case shuts solidly with a clipping noise; inside, the hinges are sturdy plastic; the CD's are kept in individual slip-cases (four) with a soft-white background and a half-flap cover of clear plastic. Very nicely displayed and protected.
The CD's are comprised of 3 minute tracks. The end of each CD has a male voice calmly telling the listener that the CD has ended. (I appreciate this feature as some CD's do not have an 'end' notice, a 'stop' notice. The feature could be improved if, in addition to explaining that the CD has ended, the voice mentioned the CD numbers as a way of reference.)
Copyright by the author 206 Janet Browne. "She is the Aramont Professor in the History of Science at Harvard University." (Quoted from the back-side of the case.) Wonderfully updated bio of Mr. Charles Darwin, to what I have enjoyed being a listener.
The VOICE of Ms. Josephine Bailey, the female narrator, is of British origin judging by accent. She won an award as "best female narrator" in 2003, according to the back-jacket cover. She has won other awards, too, such as five of the 'AudioFile Earphones Awards' and an 'Audie Award for Best Audio Drama'.

Included as the third story in a collection of three stories, book titled "The Jim Chee Mysteries", including "People of Darkness", "The Dark Wind", and, finally, this book, "The Ghostway". Enjoyed them immensely! (Loan from Irving Public Library, South)

Amazing... After reading the first three books, which feature Joe Leaphorn, I seemed to sense of very different approach by Mr. Tony Hillerman as he constructed the story and character of Jim Chee. The differences would be subtle to me. I wonder how an avid reader or a literary professional would interpret this, if there are differences. My visions/interpretations of these stories are not mine alone, but are clouded by TV series (the most recent of which is 'Dark Winds'; earlier versions would have been on PBS). What I am saying is this: if it is true what I sense, it reveals the fine craftsmanship Tony Hillerman utilizes as an author to create. Admirable!
These books make me think how wonderful it is to be introduced and to learn about indigenous culture and mythologies through the medium of story-telling, in this case, police mysteries, and fascinating, well-written murder mysteries to boot.
BRILLIANT!
Story-telling is the way to introduce what Hillerman interprets in human culture when comparing/contrasting Navajo cultures with those around it, and to make the lessons taught not as a side-line, not as a distraction, but as an integral part of an engaging story, becoming the backdrop, the stage upon which the actors and actresses perform, adding meaning, depth -- Frame of Reference.
Kinda like an anthropology professor teaching his class about culture by framing the interpretation of facts against a radically updated and changed version of gumshoe in a 1940's Noir show more detective mystery -- from New York City or L.A. to the wide expanses of desert in the West, with a different people with different crimes -- right? show less

As the introduction book to the Joe Leaphorn mystery series, Leaphorn is a secondary character. Mostly, the book introduces Navajo culture, using Leaphorn as a backdrop to help express that culture (very well done, too!). Most of the last half of the book is about the cultural anthropologist and his companions. This book has sets-up the series; and I look forward to reading them in order of publication.

Wonderfully complex ending! Unhappily satisfying -- (huh?)! One would like a happier conclusion, but the complex conclusion is life-like, and it works well.
I have not read Hillerman for 20 years. I had forgotten why his books have won so many awards. This is the 2nd book for me to finish recently, and I now understand.

Tough fight in a cave! I wish I could visualize the scenes better. Books like this make me want to explore Native American culture and desert canyons. Take a hike! (But don't get lost.)

I remember this as being a fun book to read.

Merged review:

I remember this as being a fun book to read.

Great book!

[ai:Isaac Asimov|16667|Isaac Asimov|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1341965730p2/16667.jpg]A really enjoyable work of Sci-Fi full of short stories author Isaac Asimov wrote over several decades dealing with all kinds of robots in various situations. Many of the stories delightfully puzzle-through various aspects, twists-and-turns and challenges, of the Three Laws of Robotics. The historical time-span Asimov employs reveals how he could imaginatively peer into the future and project technological and social developments, which is true as an over-arching theme in many of his authored works, as if he had this centuries-long frame into which he painted his stories across the canvas of time, space, and the galaxy. The interplay of the social life of humans and that of robots, as the Life they share intertwines, reveals the forces of logic and emotional passion and whimsical social trends, and how they can conflict, distort, challenge, and not always get along very well -- at all. The book is enjoyable reading for anyone interested in, to turn a phrase, 'Human Life, The Universe, and Everything Robotic'.

This digital book was copied to my Kindle Paperwhite from the Gutenberg Project webpage {https://www.gutenberg.org/}. It was published Thomas Nelson and Sons. The original copyright date is not know (yet). This e-book contains some nice images, albeit sometimes they are difficult to see, i.e. read, in this Kindle version, and, so, careful studying of an image may be required.