This is the fifth volume in the humorous Norby science fiction series for children about a space cadet and his unusual robot Norby. In this tale, Jeff and his friends are accidentally transported back in time to pre-revolutionary France in 1789. Jeff discovers that somehow the timeline has been altered and he has to fix it with the help of his robot Norby. Benjamin Franklin also makes an appearance in this novel. This novel is a nice way to introduce some history to young students.

Jeff and Fargo are in a skit publicizing the Metropolitan Museum's newest acquisition, the replica of Marie Antoinette's necklace. This necklace is really a time/space travel device that sends whoever is touching it into an almost random place and time. Albany, Fargo's girlfriend, Fargo and Jeff are all touching each other, so they get sent into 18th Century France, into the workshop where the real necklace was made. Albany is still wearing the time travel device when she picks up the real necklace and then disappears. Jeff and Fargo are sent to the Bastille.

History is changed when Albany disappears with the real necklace. Jeff, Fargo and Albany might not even exist if they manage to get back to their own time. They are marooned in a false time!

Will they ever get back to their own time?

Read the book to find out.

i am continually amazed and astounded

Asimov is at his best explaining intricate scientific ideas in plain words, and this is a good example. In this short work, he explores phenomenally large numbers by relating them to common experiences. He uses examples from numerous fields to illustrate unexpected encounters with these large numbers. This is one of Asimov's best "light" scientific pieces.

This book is simple for the layman to understand. Provides good detail into how the body reacts to wounds, infection, loss of blood etc. Educates the reader to understand the body systems which makes proper treatment understandable and predictable. No more trying to memorize what to do for this injury or that.

An excellent book. Rather than discussing different catagories of injuries and medical issues peice-meal, it presents basic underlying principles and a system for approaching accidents and medical issues then discusses accidents through that system. It is the most cohesive, integrated wilderness first aid text I have come accross. It uses simple language, and gets the job done without being overly technical (but it is not dumbed-down). It is so accessible and well put together you will actually pick it up and refer back to it (with ease). It is simply a very practical and clear book on wilderness medicine.

The late Dr. Asimov's clear wit and wisdom is taken to bear here on fools and the future. He begins by excoriating "Religious Radicals," in harsh liberal prose that seems rather outdated today. (For instance, there is a chapter called "The Reagan Doctrine" that pokes fun at tactics Ronald Reagan used in battling the Soviet empire.) Other chapters are also dated, including several chapters on environmental predictions that are informed by distinctly Malthusian notions of supply shortages. (To wit, "And in the mad scramble for food on your part and on the part of billions of others, the people of eath will further damage the world they live in and will begin to fight each other over scraps.") Still, Asimov writes lucidly on science in a number of historical and opinion pieces, which are carefully reasoned. Five essays at the book's end give perspective to the late thinker's personal life, and a number of inserted memorials (new to this edition) from other prominent scientists and science fiction authors really round out a book that shows Asimov's incomparable breadth of interest. The "Roving Mind" of the title is Asimov's own intellect; any thoughtful reader will find his own mind broadened for having read it.

Isaac Asimov was probably the best person ever to write science fiction. He was also one of the best people to ever write science fact. His death in 1992 was a great loss to the world.

This book provides a good look into how Isaac Asimov thought about various issues. With all the problems in the world, the views of Asimov might help to make the world a bit more logical place if we pay attention to him.

Although this book does not describe its sources of inspiration in detail, my impression was that the book comes from a perspective that is consistent with Transcendental Meditation. Most of us get little nudges from our minds. Some rely on those sources of intuition and others don't. Some people visualize what they want to accomplish, and see it happen. Still others pray fervently for aid, and hope for the best. This book addresses all of the ways that you can access your subconscious mind to focus your energies and attention on what is important to you. Although I have read many books about employing the subconscious, this one had several valuable suggestions that I had not read before (such as making petitions broad, so that there are more ways for them to be fulfilled). It's major weakness is that it would have had more credibility if it had cited the research on how the subconscious mind works, as does the new edition of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind.

The book provides many techniques that will be helpful to you. It describes verbal and nonverbal ways to make petitions to your subconscious mind. You will also learn ways of meditating that will help you access your subconscious mind to answer questions and to check your judgment. The book also describes helpful ways to do affirmations. You will get ideas for how to recognize when your subconscious is communicating with you.

To give you an example of how this can work, I went out for a sandwich yesterday. While I was waiting for it to be delivered to me, I suddenly felt like the food I was about to be served was unclean. I can't explain why I felt this way, but it came from my mind. When the sandwich arrived, I sniffed it carefully. It smelled all right so I ate it. Within two hours, I was hugging the toilet bowl. Something had turned out to be wrong with the food. I cannot explain how such subconscious mental processes work, but I find that such urgings are usually worth heeding. I wish I had acted more on this one!

If you have not yet learned to meditate, you should also know that research has indicated that this practice is very good for your physical and mental health.

After you learn about the methods in this book, I suggest that you think about what your life goals should be. Go back into being a child, and imagine that you can do anything. Chances are that you can accomplish much more than you are thinking about! If you find that to be the case, share this lesson with others.

Put your subconscious mind to work on worthy goals!

SEEDS OF LUCK: The ABCs of Creating Your Heart's Desires By Isaac E. Nwokogba ISBN: 1-58820-103-1 1st Books Library, www.1stbooks.com December 2000 Release

The author, Isaac Nwokogba is well educated in the fields of nature's law and its principles. He has published several books that deal with spirituality and he holds a master's degree in business from Southwest Texas State University. This talented author resides in Southern California. Mr. Nwokogba's book SEEDS OF LUCK is a fantastic read. Each chapter helps you, the reader, find your spiritual space. He includes step-by-step, practical ways for creating your own luck and keeping it! One of my favorite chapters is Chapter Six: Meditation and Self-Hypnosis. As a mother of three, author, reviewer, and full time day care mom, I use this technique frequently. Mr. Nwokogba explains the often confusing difference between meditation and visualization by giving examples of each. I'm certain you will find this book enjoyable, informative, and helpful. SEEDS OF LUCK clarifies why humans give up the search for their heart's desire or why something you really want never happens when you want it to. Isaac Nwokogba writes that perhaps petition is the way to bring about the things you desire instead of using religious prayer. After reading his personal thoughts and researched facts, I am left open-minded to his suggestions, but I will continue to use religious prayer none-the-less. Faith, hope, destiny, love, nature, desire and of course, luck are well-thought out subjects in Isaac Nwokogba's book SEEDS OF LUCK: The ABCs of Creating Your Heart's Desires, http://www.seedsofluck.com This book is perfect for anyone who seeks a change of luck. Read my review for his book AMERICA, HERE I COME: A Spiritual Journey by going to: http://www.geocities.com/ladyjiraff/reviews3.html

--Reviewed by Jennifer LB Leese, ASTORYWEAVER'S Book Reviews, www.geocities.com/ladyjiraff/aswbr.html

I was particularly intrigued to read the experiences and understanding that Flower Newhouse has in the world of angels. She presents a comprehensive perspective on the many ways that Angels communicate and work with us. Together with some simple techniques that help initiate the contact with Angels, the author brings these heavenly beings into our relationships and our daily lives.

I just finished reading this book and I must say I enjoyed it tremendously. I am new to the study of Angels and this book is a great place to find a better understanding of how Angels can have an influence in your life.

Although there are maybe 3 or 4 really good stories in this book filled with short stories, the rest seem all too familiar to those old black and white sci-fi serials from the 50's or 60's.

My favorite one of all being the Bicentenniel Man short story. I read this years before they made the movie with Robin Williams (which, wasn't that bad of a movie, albeit a few bad translations of things from the book). By far the best short story in the book. I got this book as a gift from my father for a birthday. He paid around [$] for this one when he bought me the book Nightfall on a sale for [$]. A good buy for any old-time sci-fi fan.

...and delighted by how far ahead of their time these prescient authors were. From 'Rex,' the robot-surgeon striving for the perfection of the human race, to 'Star-Crossed,' the dual minds of a ship turned lovers and then ultimately destroyed, 'War With the Robots' provides a comprehensive view of robots, their progression and society, by some of the greatest minds of science fiction. All the stories are realistic fiction, and many give you the impression that the author was speaking his view of the future, prophet of space-travel and the development of super-fast computers.

The book is broken up into several sections, most with more than one story under its heading, all in chronological order (of the date they were first published). For anyone interested in the history of robot technology and ideas, this book is fun to read as well as educating. I recommend it for all with the drive to push technology to its limits.

To start off, the book is easy to read - something which I increasingly need with a very busy lifestyle. It was especially important as design isn't a core skill for me but It is becoming increasingly important for my job. All of the subjects covered were very interesting, although the font chapter was heavy going (i am not sure that fonts will ever be exciting to me) - it didnt provide unnecessary information.

The quality of the printing is not always top quality in chapters 2 - 4 (some of the images are poor - the designers at work found that hard to forgive) but that didnt get in the way of the message.

What have I got out of the book?
I particularly found color theory fascinating.
I now have the vocabulary to find out more on the subjects in the later chapters
I can better critique my own designs, understand what the designers at work are trying to do, and can used designs I like to inspire my own, as I can now take them apart to the constituant parts.
I have already started to benefit from the understanding of what makes good design.

Just what it says: Web graphics, for people without a lick of graphic talent or design sense - like me.

This book goes over just about every common method of making a web page look better than just text. From basic color science and typography to Flash authoring, "Web Graphics for Non-Designers" covers it - thoroughly, and in concise language that does not talk down to those who have been to design school.

I especially enjoyed the chapters on color science and general web-page layout. In each of those chapters, I learned something I didn't know before. If I had to pick a least favorite chapter, I'd say Flash, just because Flash scares me right now.

If you aren't generally creative to begin with, this book will only indirectly help you decide what content to put on your web; it will, however, help you better organize and present what you're planning to put on your web already.

Although this book gives prodigious and beautiful examples of web pages throughout the (English-speaking) world, very few books help you with the creativity and imagination that you need to decide what to come up with in the first place. Since that's the problem I suffer from as a web developer, I pay particular attention to books that claim to help with web creativity but don't deliver. Web Graphics is not such a book, I'm happy to say. But the pictures are pretty, and I could try to emulate them quite easily with this book if I wanted.

I lucked out with this purchase, and it will hold a prominent (small) space on my shelf - and at that, one that I reach for fairly often, and don't loan out. If I need to brush up on a skill, or figure out how to position something without breaking the rest of my layout, I'm fairly confident I'll be able to get the answer out of this book, and at less thickness than the standard King James Bible, that's a good book to have.

One of the most famous science fiction books to date is H. G. Wells' classic War of the Worlds, which has become national paranoia in the late 30's with Orson Welles over the radio. And later in the 50's become a national hit with the movie goers. Well, neither the radio broadcast or movie rendition really took the book to its letter by letter copy, but rather improvised like most non-literal entertainers. The book begins with suspicion, suspense and wonder as a meteor passes the sky without any real notice to anyone. While the book is told in the perspective of the scientist (whose name I cant seem to recall at the moment), later, somewhere after the mid-point the gears switch and we learn what the scientists brother is doing elsewhere. For the majority of the book, once the aliens have control over the earth, which is within the first 4 chapters, things calm down and become a bit stale. Only after we come back to the scientist from the brothers story, things pick up, but mind you, they pick up slowly. I am happy I got the chance to read this book, but was a little dissapointed in how the story unfolded which is why I gave this book 4 stars. Nonetheless, certainly a required reading for science fiction fans, and even now, amongst those persuing literature.

I finally read this book for the first time at age 27, and was not disapointed!

The imagery is incredible, Wells tells the story of invasion and chaos as if he had been there himself . . .I could certainly imagine myself there.

I do think you have to be a little bit older, more well read to better appreciate this book. I noticed several school kids from VA put reviews on line calling it boring. Of course, these are probably the kids who were expecting the main character to be like Will Smith and the earthlings to travel to the Martians space station (a la Independence Day).

And that was part of the book's charm. No influence from Hollywood. Written in the late 1800's, before movies existed, the book is way ahead of its time. Independce Day obviously got its influence from this book, and is a more updated (and Americanized) version.

Hey, go read it now!

Unknown to the inhabitants of Earth, the planet Mars is aging and nearing its exhaustion. The Martians, not even perceiving humans to be anything other than animals, decide that it is time to seize this lush, young planet. Landing in several locations in southeastern England they begin their conquest of the planet. Can man, with his most advanced technology hope to stop the Martians with their much more advanced technology?

You've seen the 1953 movie, War of the Worlds, and want to read it in book form? Well, then don't look here. Herbert George Wells wrote this book in 1898, a mere one year after The Invisible Man, and two years after The Island of Doctor Moreau. The moviemakers of the 1950s made a wonderful movie, but one that, alas, bears very little resemblance to the original!

This book is one of the crowning examples of nineteenth century fantastic fiction. It is a gripping story that masterfully combines horror and suspense, keeping you at the edge of your seat until the final page.

I am lucky enough to possess the 2001, Books of Wonder edition that contains fourteen wonderful, full-color, full-page illustrations plus the two-page illustrations on the front and back, all done by the masterful Tom Kidd. It is very well made, and would make an excellent addition to any library.