A well photographed book that explains and introduces the concept of Swedish design at a very simple level for the non decorator crowd. After reading this book just visit any Ikea store to verify the information and start your decorating scheme.In many ways Martha Stewart has duplicated her interiors by using this cool and clean look. Perhaps you can do the same, at a fraction of the cost, with these simple and inexpensive ways to decorate your home.

A beautifully photographed book with easy to follow instructions to achieve the Swedish look. Covers all aspects furniture, paint, linens, curtains, etc. It also offers a good summary of Swedish history and how that affected the look through the years.

A simple story about a simple activity (baking a birthday cake for mother) that my children and their friends have enjoyed for several years. They repeatedly ask for me to read this book. The underlying messages in all the Flicka, Ricka and Dicka books (as well as the Snipp, Snapp, Snurr stories) encourage kindness to others and responsiblity. Not inspiring literature but a great book about somthing young children are interested in.

This is absolutely my favorite children's book! Every little girl should have a copy.

This book is great for a good overview of the entire country--the history, the people, the food, the main attractions. It explains about the different parts of the country. Some of the pictures are just sterotypical Sweden--Sweden is much more diverse then people realize. They have immigrants from many countries. Scandinavia is a beautiful place. The museum details are not up to date, but this is hard because they change often and can be closed for various reasons. Be sure to do research before you go there if you have specific places you want to see. Otherwise just head over and wander the streets and you will find great stuff. This is more of a book to read before you go rather then to carry around with you while you are there. The Iceland Insight Guide is great. As a side note: I lived in Stockholm, Sweden for one year working. I visited all of the Scandinavian countries and Finland while I was there.

Being Swedish, it is always fun to read how other see Sweden and Swedes'. It is a great book that is more in depth on real life and how people are. You will feel that you know the people more after you have read the book. This whole series of Insight guide are great books for anyone travelling for real or if you want to travel by reading a book. You will not be disappointed with this book.

I was sucked in my the first line of the review, "A man goes on a journey... plague-ridden rabbit" and I just had to read this book. I love odd fiction, and I was not disappointed. As with all humans, the characters were flawed but I felt compassion and understanding for the decisions they made and their consequences, as none of it could have come about with the most extreme of circumstances, which these people certainly were facing. There was nothing predictable about the book, so I was interested to the very end. I recommend it to anyone looking for fiction that's really "different" to read.

I have read this book three times but only once in English. This is the best book written by Torgny Lindgren! And it means a lot, everything he has written is worth reading! This is a great anecdote in an epic language. The translation works very well, although I miss the dialect. The story is just fantastic. About a small village in Norrland (northern part of Sweden) a long time ago. Life and death in a village hit hard by the Great Sickness. The best is, however, how well the form corresponds to content. The real question is how to distinguish right from wrong? Könik, Önde, Blasius and the others will help you out.

Graeme Cornwallis almost immediately makes a misstep with his best and worst lists. The Top 10 is fine, but the Bottom 10? You can tell he was put up to this by the publisher. Arvika is shabby? I didn't find it that way at all! A lovely town with beautiful locations and a great arts and crafts store. Forests extremely tedious? Sorry. Ticket machines? I guess if you like ganging up on an overworked clerk, it's more fun not to have a ticket, but otherwise, it's very civilized. If these are the worst that he can find about Sweden, it must be a wonderful place! And that's how I found it. To be fair, Cornwallis is trying to fit a lot of information in a small book. He did miss an item or two (how could he not discuss allmansrãtt, which basically says you can hike or camp anywhere that you're not being obnoxious?) but he certainly covers a lot of what is available. It would take more than one vacation to cover all the attractions he outlines just for Gothenburg. And his directions to eating places in Gothenburg are right on the mark.

This comprehensive guide assures the best plans for your visit to Sweden. It is jampacked with essential information to get you there and away to wonderful destinations and events for every interest and attraction.

Like an encyclopedia, it leaves nothing to chance for planning each leg of your trip. It has two outstanding sections that sets this travel guide apart from others.

First, is it's Facts For The Visitor. It highlights the Best And Worst of what to hit or miss on your visit, which includes incidentals like free car-ferries, but expensive beer, bread, and parking fees. This section also includes the essentials for planning prior to your visit. It is a must for acquainting yourself with the cultural differences and practicals of visiting abroad.

Second best, but not least, section is the Getting There And Away. This is the best guide I have seen that gives all the transportation alternatives available to get you where you want to be, with schedules and pricing. Though this section does not boast of winning any photo contest, it has more cities per area to give the best overall opportunity to visit the real country, not just the tourist traps. Also included are internet connections to give even greater details, which brings the reference material to life.

Overall, I believe this guide is the bible for experiencing Sweden in the first year of the new millennium.

Pippi has always had adventures with Tommy and Annika, like shipwrecks and shopping and finding a spink, but now, Pippi's father King Efraim has come back and ready for Pippi to come with him! Will Pippi have to say good by to Ville Villakulla? Finf out in Pippi Goes On Board!

This book was a great novel, sequal to Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Goes On Board is an extremendous book. This book explained of Pippi and her friends venturing an island. If you live adventure stories, this is on book you do not want to miss! It's a very funny, adventerous, couraging, fun book! You will not be able to put the book down once you start reading it. This book is a favorite book of many childen in the United States. If you loved Pippi Longstocking, you'll love this great sequal. The beginning, middle, and end of the book are all great words! If you're kid doesn't like to read, or doesn't want to, sit down and read this book to them! They will enjoy this book more and more. Then they will want to start reading other books by Astrid Lindgren. Astrid Lindgren is a very good author. Read all of the favorite Pippi books. The author has done a great job!

My daughter has just entered Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. She has wanted to become a medical doctor since she was 13.

I have encouraged her to study molecular biology and computational biology as the best field to go into for the next 50 years of her life.

In 1968 my dad recommended that I go into computers, in order to be on the leading edge of the future throughout my working life. I followed my dad's advice.

I asked her what book she most wanted to read. She wanted a to find the best book on reforming the medical insurance because she believes that is the most important issue for the future. She is also interested in epidemeology.

I asked my dad to research the field of medical insurance and make a recommendation.

He recommended this book for my daughter. I have bought it for her and will make a followup recommendation once she has read the book.

this book gathers all the masters in this field to talk about the reforms in their countries, and let us know the thought and background of each country. therefore, i recommend this book.

This was a required reading for a college course, yet I really enjoyed it. It is short and easy to get through.

More concise and poetic than Death of a Beekeeper, this subtly captivating book delights at every turn. LG expounds on the "joys" of solitude and pedantic endeavors. His ability to turn bottomless bitterness into insightful humor is masterful.

Though this story easily deserves 5 stars, it suffers slightly due to the author's agenda (she was commissioned to write a geography book for children). Knowing this, it is easy to hurl criticism at those chapters that seem to exist solely for the purpose of education. Nonetheless, once this minor fault (and I am not really sure you can call it a fault) is recognized, the story of Nils is a fantastic one, seemingly not at all distant from native folklore and fairy tales, rich with an earthiness that simply doesn't exist in modern children literature. Of course, Lagerlof does more then simply make a modern day fairy-tale. There are passages here that are simply too delightful for description; one which comes to mind is a gathering of all the animals to celebrate the coming of spring--the image and significance crafted by the author are bound to stay with the reader for a life-time. I haven't read anything else by Lagerlof, and only found this book by accident at a local vendor. If I have any complaint it is that Dover does not offer the sequel to this work (at this writing anyway), though apparently another publisher offers it at a much higher price. I think anyone who enjoys folktales/folklore and whimsical animal fantasies (I.E. Wind in the Willows, the Moomin books, etc.) will find this book very rewarding and enjoy the opportunity to read an unknown classic (in Sweden, Nils actually appears on their money!)

When you read this book if you read it by yourself or to your children it pulls you right in. The beautiful destriptions of the land gives you a geographic picture. The stories give you good examples and the whole book gives you something that you will never forget. This is a book you want to read over and over.

My dad read me this book when I was just young in Swedish. He is from Sweden and wanted his children born in America to know the culture and history of his homeland. That is what this book is about. It's actually a story of the geography of Sweden from the south up to the north. Taken from the view of a young trouble maker,who shrunken, rides on the back of a wild goose you get to experience the adventure with him. A delightful, delightful book.

Kropp & Lagercrantz's book Ultimate High is the latest in my Everest obsession which began with my reading Into Thin Air.

This book has a proper index (I hate books that do not have a proper index), though it has no table of contents(?)and at the conclusion of the 'story' are excellent lists: Kropp's "Ultimate Mountain List" (I had wanted to read a list like this since reading Into Thin Air), Kropp's packing list (hmmmm), and the Special Summiteer List (very helpful & informative).

The book was well-crafted and reveals Kropp's thoughts, feelings and actions on his trek. The authors do a good job of letting the reader see what Kropp saw! I liked the book and the story, but at the conclusion, though I admired what Kropp did and how he did it, I didn't like Kropp very much. I was left with the impression of a cold, very self-absorbed, somewhat shallow, ecologically-minded tough-guy.

I do recommend buying this book, however; it is worth the purchase price just for the lists!

This book is affected by a malady that seems to infect all mountaineering books in that it references countless other climbs and climbers (half of which have met a tragic end). I suppose this does set some context, but the endless name dropping gets tiresome.

Kropp's retelling of his bicycle journey from Sweden to Everest is forgettable. 7,000 miles is compressed into 1 chapter where the author has some rocks thrown at him, has his bike fixed a couple times, and is occasionally scared. That's about all the information we get about the bike trip. I've read more thrilling accounts of a chicken crossing the road.

When the author does get to Everest we're presented with the now familiar characters that we've all come to know and love. Hall is still the charmer, Fischer the thinker, and Pittman always the villain. Kropp is the 1st to make an attempt on the mountain in 1996, but is turned around at high altitude by a storm. While he is recuperating at base camp, the tragic events of May 10th unfold. This section seems lifted directly out of "Into Thin Air" (especially since the author had no direct role in the events).

After nearly everyone else leaves, Kropp makes another attempt at the summit (after all, he didn't ride his bike 7,000 miles for nothing) and this time is successful. After a predictable near-death experience on the descent, Kropp is reunited with his girlfriend for a return bicycle trip to Sweden where I assume they live happily ever after.

Throughout the book Kropp takes great pains to point out that his expedition is entirely self-supported and that he isn't 1 of the "65,000 tourists" just looking to get Everest for his trophy case. To this end we're treated with Kropp accounting for every bit of food (down to a cup of tea and candy bar) that he didn't carry to Everest. But at the end of the book we're shown a chart listing the tallest mountains in the world and the ones that Kropp has climbed are checked off. Trophy hunting indeed.

Kropp also informs us of his next adventure. He plans to sail from Sweden to Antarctica and then trek to the South Pole. All self-supported of course. The only hitch in his plan is that he doesn't know how to sail. He plans to do this by 2004, and I think I'll be skipping that book. "Ultimate High" deserves 2 stars. I'm giving it 3 stars only because cycling some 14,000 miles is pretty dang impressive.

Goran Kropp's "Ultimate High" is one of the best Everest books to come along in quite some time. It's not all about mountains or just Everest, it's about people, places, hardships and humility. Kropps sets out on his bicycle from Sweden to the Himalayas to climb Everest unassisted and with without oxygen. Throughout this adventure Kropp fearlessly talks about the climbing elite and some of the "goings on" on Everest. He accomplishes this without being malicious. It's a tell it like it is scenario. This writer learned more about Everest in this short little book than from several others about the subject."Ultimate High" is the ultimate read.