My daughter has learned several animal sounds thanks to this book. She loves the bright pictures and the song. We read this one often.

This is a terriffic book for use in the music classroom, and at home. As a book that can be either sung or read: it is versatile. It's large size and colorful illustrations draw kids attention. I have personally found it to be very effective with my kindergarten through third grade students. I highly reccommend it to anyone looking for a good book for younger kids that can be sung or read!

new and creative vehicle for teaching/exploring analytic thought--the essay--similar in style to Yolam's "Love's Executioner"

This book is a great buy totally the best.

Hopefully we will continue to hear from The Key West Co-op. These insightful writers capture the essence of what is wacky and wonderful about Key West.

I am one the the group of 12 who cooperatively wrote and published this book of south Florida short stories. Living in what some call "paradise" produces a unique life experience which we want to share with those living more traditional lifestyles. You'll enjoy a tropical getaway with each story. Read them slowly, they'll last a long time in your memory.

This is a good basic book for understanding the underworkings of Oracle's development tools. While SQL Forms is an old Oracle product, the tips are still relevant.

This book contains all the important information a developer would need to become more productive using Oracle Forms. It is an outstanding collection of tips and techniques and examples that range from beginner to power-user level. You will understand the working of Oracle Forms internals and advanced features

Something magical connects the five distinct stories which comprise 'The Orange Tree'. They read like the jumbled fragments of a beautiful, disorienting dream. Fuentes offers glimpses of remarkable events - the firey fall of the Aztecs, the sexual death of a fading film star, a Roman siege - and makes their ugliness beautiful. All the while, he weaves a delicate web of connective tissue, turning 'The Orange Tree' into a remarkably cohesive tapestry of Latin American history and culture. Surreal, haunting and elegant, this book reads like a vision.

The Orange Tree is a book of unusual beauty. Fuentes, once again playing the historian, presents a reiteration of Latin American history which is utterly convincing as a piece of pure mythology. This perhaps lies in Fuentes' uncanny ability to assign either perfect charm or horrifying ugliness to so much of what he describes: the spectacular fall of the Aztec Empire; the complex seige of a Spanish city by the Romans; the dreamlike arrival of Columbus to a ambivilant paradise.

The five novellas of The Orange Tree offer the reader voices which seem to speak from beyond life and history. We are presented tales of death and suffering in a context so huge, so ambitious, that Fuentes has destroyed the barriers of history and constructed a reality all his own. The lavishness of his vision is hypnotic.

Read this book with abandon; allow its mythology to consume you.

Robert Adams' photographs are testimony to his continued sensitivity to the West and the hopes for what is POSSIBLE. Adams is one of the most influential photographers of the late 20th century and all photographers concerned about their own environment can learn from him.

The photographs in this publication are a departure from Robert Adams' more sobering work. This book celebrates the simple joy of spending time outside, looking and exploring, and it just might incite spring fever in you.

After reading this book and putting in practice what I learned, I felt I had to come back here and post a comment on it. Let me tell you that this book became my Bible on golf. I have shown it to some of my golf friends and ALL of them ordered one. Even my brother who is handicap 2 and a golf fanatic ordered one. Mike covers ALL aspects of the golf swing: grip, stance, movement, etc. The comparison of the Classic and Modern swings is very well done and his tips, believe me, help a lot! If you had many golf professionals teaching you different things, you need a reference. I made this book my own.

I've been playing golf for over 25 years and this book has had THE most profound impact on my game. Coverage of the fundamentals is strong, but the parts that really made a difference were the chapters on the short game, including pitching, chipping, putting, and sand. The pitching and chipping techniques presented here are simple to learn and easy to remember. Best of all they helped me shave many strokes from my score!

I first saw this book in 1982, and even after 20 years of being a "fan" of how the mind works, this one stands out as unique. Interestingly, he looks at all the different mind mysteries (from Yaqui sorcerers to est (now Landmark) to Aldous Huxley to floating in a sensory deprivation tank) as being different applications of the same "secret ingredients", and seeks the commonalities as clues to what's really going on under the surface.

I learned a lot, and his analysis has stood the test of time.

This book changed my life. It gave me a new perspective on the human ability to function in harmony with, as opposed to at odds with, his environment. This new outlook has allowed me to approach each day with renewed optomism and expectation for success instead of disappointment. If there was a way for me to personally express my gratitude to this author I would certainly do so.

The word biodiversity often conjures up visions of tropical rain forests, and for good reason. They contain more species than anywhere else in the world. But, as this lavishly illustrated and well written book attests there is a great deal of biodiversity in the U.S. In fact, U.S. is the richest country in terms of numbers of species for several groups inclulding freshwater mussels and crayfishes. The authors take us through the groups of plants and animals in the U.S. with a combination of natural history descriptions, photographs, maps, and when appropriate, data summaries. The maps are really noteworthy, because they add a great deal to the book both visually and in terms of understanding the patterns. The book is well worthy the cost just for the photos and maps. Later chapters address the patterns of rarity, threats, and protection strategies. In terms of style and content, it rests between David Wilcove's, The Condor's Shadow and Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment by Taylor Ricketts et al. Precious Heritage belongs on the bookshelves of everyone interested in and concerned about biodiversity in the U.S.

This book should be on the shelf of environmentalist interested in biodiversity as well as professional conservation biologists. The authors provide a well written introduction to our understanding of biodiversity and the ways that we measure it. They also provide overviews of the geographic trends in biodiversity, the current threats to this diversity, and offer a perspective on the ways that we proactively maintain this "precious heritage". The book also provides a perspective that allows professional conservation biologists to see their work in a large scale biogeographic framework, and provides some of the data needed to allow scientists to move from writing epitaphs for dying species to proactively conserving diversity.

I can't agree with the previous reviewer that this book is a prescription for living -- lying, cheating, fraud, deception, cruelty, and murder hardly appeal to me as a model for my personal life. Nor do I agree that the word virtu completely captures the essence of the work. But, the translation is excellent, and the supporting material is wonderful. Norton critical editions are generally good, but this one excels. I read it voraciously from cover to cover.

Though much maligned through the centuries, Machiavelli's The Prince has certain practical applications, even to such travellers and dreamers as myself, who follow the scent of impossible visions to the place where they grow, like fruit on a tree, to partake of their strange savor. Robert M. Adams' is the best translation of this work into English, because of a simple device. The center of Machiavelli's work is the cluster of ideas represented by the Italian word "virtu." The translator demonstrates that this word can, depending on its context, mean many things in English: strength, ability, courage, manliness, ingenuity, character, wisdom, or virtue. To translate "virtu" with one single word as many have done is vague and confusing. Therefore Adams, with one simple device, has made the text much more accessible to the reader: wherever the term "virtu" appears in the original work, he places it in brackets beside the term he has chosen to stand in for it, in English. For example, speaking of the influence of Luck on human affairs in Chapter 25 (my favorite chapter, because of its beautiful imagery) Adams translates the Italian "Similmente interviene della fortuna; la quale dimostra la sua potenzia dove non e ordinata virtu a resisterle; e quivi volta li sua impeti dove la sa che non sono fattie gli argini e li ripari a tenerla" as "So with Fortune, who exerts all her power where there is no strength [virtu] prepared to oppose her, and turns to smashing things up wherever there are no dikes and restraining dams." Thus does Adams lead the reader to a better understanding of the work.

I myself discovered this translation after a sedentary life, and it made all the difference between how I lived my life then, and how I live it now. I read it when I was in the hospital recovering from Dr. Voronoff's glandular rejuvenation technique, long touted as a means to renew one's energy. The infusion of new life into my tottering body, and the concepts in this book, motivated me to leave behind my sorry existence and travel the world. I always keep this work by my side throughout my journeys, and its magic word "virtu" has gotten me out of many difficult situations, even as it was the force that allowed me to get into them in the first place. Virtu was my wisdom, when I was unofficially detained by close mouthed bureaucrats in the Balkans, who eventually let me continue my travels because of my clever diplomacy; I muttered "Virtu!" to myself as I clambered for forty hard days up the steep slopes of the Andes in search of unclassified protozoa; virtu was my strength, when I fought and killed in self defense the leader of a tribe of Geladas, and became their new alpha male. I would never have done any of these things--indeed, I would not be here writing this--had I not read this work. It has been an inspiration to me, and the principle of virtu is one the most powerful tools in the bag of tricks I have developed as I have travelled the world.