I was hoping that this book would be on a par with Wegman's clever Weimaraner photos such as we see on calendars. It was not. The costumes were overpowering and I could barely discern the sad Weimaraner faces amid all the pomp and frippery. On a positive note, the puppies hitched to the pumpkin were adorable.

I love Weimaraners - I have an adorable 9 year old named Fiori and he looks just like the ones in William Wegman's pictures. The only thing that I do not relish about the book is the evidence of Wegman's stylish move toward putting people hands onto some of the dogs. It's odd and a bit disconcerting. However, the text is charming and many of the photos are sweet (the sleeping pooch in bed with the fairy dog-mother over her). It is a fun book to read to kids and, though it perpetuates the entire Cinderella myth among girls, one can always explain that sweet princes only come along for Weimaraners!!

My wife and I were Wegman fans before he did children's books (and before we had children), and now our two daughters are fans as well, particularly of "Cinderella." The language and photography are both beautiful and funny.

It's a nice book to have but it's just a data book, very little history. Nearly all this information is on the web. Don't spend the bucks if you are only interested in one tractor. You'll only get 1.5 pages of info.

This little book is great if you are looking for a data book. It runs from 1921 to 1957. This is not a historical book, and doesn't pretend to be. If you read it before you go to a tractor show, you'll enjoy the show that much more because you know what you are looking at! I find it great to read about a particular machine and then see it at a show.

This concise guide contains an incredible amount of information about IH tractors, and is just the sort of thing a collector would want to pack along in a hip pocket to a show, auction, or similar expeditions. Contains enough information to identify models, locate serial #s and establish manufacturing dates, figure out optional features, etc. I find I've referred to it far more often than I anticipated. It has been well worth the small price.

I found this book poorly organised, and hard to read. It consists of a series of "feel good" anecdotes about how the author's techniques could supposedly assist ADHD children. I got the impression that some of the material was simply rehashed from other publications and in fact, the same text is repeated in several places throughout the book. There is no discussion of any medical or psychological detail that would help parents assess their child's situation. I would keep looking if you are trying to educate yourself further on this tricky subject.

I really don't know how anybody who could rate this item with anything other than 5 stars. The book is for all parents and anyone who works with kids. The principles are practical and wise and I know they work. I plan to buy all the books by these guys!

Meeting the Challenge provides information that every parentandeducator needs in the modern world. Children with attention orbehavior problems can succeed with the help of firm ,loving parents and teachers. This book shows us how with an understandable ten step program for home and an equally straightforward program for school. Every parent with young kids should have this book.

This hardcover version of The Federalist (papers) comes is a nice package so to speak. The end of the book contains both the Declartion of Indepenence and the Constitution. Unlike most other Federalist papers books which are written as paperbacks using cheap newsprint paper, this uses a higher quality and brighter paper. The nice part about this book, unlike alotof others is that it contains the dates for each paper... alot of reproductions don't have this.

After reading the book however, I became quite concerned
because I noticed immediately that the author (intentionally or unintentionally) changed many of the words in the The Federalist!! This annoys me to no end. It's extremely bad practice for purposes of history, to change words in historical documents, because those "translated" words might accidentally get passed to future generations without aknowledgement that that wasn't what the founding fathers actualy wrote. I noticed at least a dozen changed words... there are probably thousands of errors for all I know.. This is bad, bad, bad.

Heres an example from Federalist Paper #1: (pg. 3)
This book writes: "After a full experience of the insufficiency of the existing federal government, you are invited to deliberate upon a new Constitution for the United States of America..."

Every other book in existence writes: "AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America...."

Notice the subtle, yet immensely importance difference in words.
Now what gives this dumb author the right as a scholarly academian to change the words of our founding fathers. In fact, I don't even know which version is truly correct?? (I assume the majority rules, so this book comes out the loser.)

And these errors continue right through Federalist paper #1, and several others that I noticed... Maybe even all of them!

Also, the author has a nasty habit of decapitalising words which should be capitalized in historical conext. Our founding fathers, as was customary grammar at the time, capitalized many words in the middle of the sentance. I don't fully understand the details of antiquated English, however, when I buy a book on historical figures, I expect, nay, I demand, that the reproduction be produced in exactly the manner in which it was presented by our founding fathers. It can be difficult to understand antiquated English, especially some of the stuff written by James Madison, however, I'd rather do the mental translation myself.

It's a nice book, but I cannot in good conscience give this
anything above 2 stars. In fact, I think it deserves no stars.

NOTE: After researching the matter a little bit, it occurs to me that there are actually two common distinct "translations" and this book presents just one of them.... so I take back blaming the editor. I'm not sure of the origin of these modern translations... but it does seem that this version is much less popular than what is presented in other Federalist Paper repros.
I still claim that this version is error.

This is a very nice edition of the Federalist's Papers. An idea which was inaugurated by James Hamilton to help abate the opposition which was expected toward the newly written constitution.

This Modern Library edition has several features which sets it apart from other editions. First, the editor's introduction (by Robert Scigliano of Boston College) is quite informative and helpful for those who are just getting started in their study and research of American history. And yet it is detailed enough to be informative for those who have a stronger background in American Revolutionary history. Second, the appendices include The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the U.S. along with the amendments. Third, the book has a short but nice bibliography, as well as a nice and very useful index. All these features helped to set this particular edition apart from other editions that I have owned or read.

Of course, the Federalist writings are some of the key writings in American Revolutionary history. Every American should be required to read them since they were written with the intent of promoting the ratification of the constitution. These writings contain the ideas and development of the American system of government, the separation of powers, how congress is to be organized, and the positions of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government. This work provides its reader with the thoughts, inspirations, and brilliance behind the American Constitution and development of American government.
I highly recommend this edition of the Federalists.

This is probably the worst baseball book I have ever read. In addition to rationalizing all of his own many critical mistakes as Commissioner, Vincent provides trite and banal commentary about historic baseball figures, and adds nothing to baseball lore. His "predicitions" on the outcome of the recent labor negotiations proved totally wrong, and were jaded by his own failures. I would only recommend the book because the royalties are going to charity.

The Last Commisioner is interesting with many first-hand baseball stories and insights by the former Commissioner of Baseball. Fay Vincent's chapter on Bart Giamatti and Pete Rose's banning from baseball has again become a hot topic. Recent editorials, including the New York Times', discuss this issue. Fay Vincent's insights and his op-ed piece in the Times makes this book so timely. Vincent's childhood memories are priceless; the reclusive Joe Dimaggio comes to life for the reader. Do yourself a favor if you're interested in Baseball: Get the book and read it, keep it on your shelf. Good Luck !

The anecdotes of old time baseball are worth the price off the book alone. Vincent's tales of meeting with Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio are priceless. The splitting of chapters into topics and lists were fun. Each chapter offered something new, a virtual learning experience. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to any real baseball fan. It shed a new light on his commissionership in my opinion and, in the true test of writing, actually changed my mind about Pete Rose and his inclusion into the Hall of Fame. I always thought Pete should be admitted, but after reading Vincent's words, I have changed my mind.

All these books pertaining to Starck are basically the same. Just imagine a book on Starck pertaining to his real magic: Hotel / Restaurant Interior's, dovetailed with great photo details. For example a complete overview of his Hotel Designs for Ian Schrager. Theres a book that would give you the same feeling you have when entering one of these hotels, that being; "You can check out but you can never leave!"

Well, not quite. This book is more a catalog of his designs than a real musthave. My advise: search the internet for his designs and contact the manufacturer for a (free) catalog. Then you'll probably have the same. By the way, his designs are great!

This man is amazing. He's an all around great designer with morals and ethics in today's society. I bought this book as well as 2 other Fay Sweet books. She gets at the heart of the designer's philosophical views and concepts for design.

I found it difficult to listen to this tape all the way through. Most of the time you just want to say "Get real!!" I did get one or two good ideas from it although I changed their idea to fit into my family better. If you're desperate, give it a try. Maybe it will get the creative juices flowing enough to give you your own techniques for getting your kids to listen and DO what you ask.

This audiotape brings to light many tips for handling division of responsibilities to the family. It's format is in radio talk show format which is easy to listen to.

I gained a lot of helpful hints on how to deal with my preteen. I recommend this tape.

(0 star review)

Happened across this book in the library, and I thought I'd put in a few words against it, since it's doubtless highly recommended among books to help kids "cope" with alcoholism in the family; that is, if your idea of teaching children to cope is training them to accept their fate, bury it in euphemism, and move on from one depressing day of abuse to another in the shadow of what this book seeks to excuse as a sickness.

The father in this book is typically horrendous, lying and near-abusing his daughter, yet the non-alcoholic mother insists on keeping her child in this situation, breaking down in tears rather than offering a beacon of safety in what must be the poor child's hopeless world.

True, this book is realistic. Yet I cannot imagine any parent or counsellor offering it to a child, since it doesn't offer any real advice besides
a) alcoholism is something to be ashamed of (the girl says she used to not have anyone she could talk to about her father, but now her mother has one friend she CAN confide in)
b) feel free to get out for an evening of fun before returning to the same bad situation.

Yuck, yuck and double-yuck. I'm all for building a body of fiction to help kids cope with issues, but this is a nasty addition to the bunch and could destroy more than a few already-fragile kids...

A girl and her mother deal with the father's drinking during Christmas. The father builds his daughter a beautiful handmade sled, but is then too drunk to keep his promise to go sledding with her. Mother and daughter take theri Christmas turkey to the home of an older woman who is a recovering alcoholic. This woman provides them with a safe haven of understanding and acceptance. She acknowleges the hurt, but encourages the child to find ways to be happy even while her father continues to drink.

The story could help the child of an alcoholic understand that it is not the child's fault.

At the back of the book is information and a phone number for Alanon.

Carol E. Watkins, M.D.

The editors have tried to add value to this rather unexciting collection of letters and brief diary by interspersing their own comments among the letters. This is all very well when they stick to facts, but too often they inflict their own 20th-century political beliefs upon the readers. That's particularly annoying considering the lip service paid to "objectivity" in the foreword.

The letters themselves are not exactly thrilling. The soldier in question saw little action and his letters (typically of Civil War letters) concern themselves mostly with relatives he's met and what he wants to have sent from home. His prison diary is interesting mostly in that its tone differs markedly from that of the letters; it's emotional and romantic, whereas the letters are downright dull. Still, the diary offers little factual information -- though he does undermine his editors' hoopla by stating that he was actually treated reasonably well. Whether he was "unreconstructed", as the editors claim, is unknown, because no post-war writings of his own are included.

I'd skip this. The editing is annoying and the primary material adds nothing new or entertaining to the wealth of Civil War primary sources already in print.

Sojourns of a Patriot is a compelling read. It esentially follows the life a Confederate infantryman, Corporal A.P. Adamson, throughout his tenure of the War Between the States. The book is composed primarily of his letters home and a journal he kept for the last year of the war. Secondarily, the editors provide comment and explanation to some of the entries. Most revealing were the roles that camp gossip played in his thoughts on the morale of the Southern troops. Also quite interesting were the false or incomplete pieces of "news" that reached Southern camps. This aspect of the book provides the reader with an insight that is often not present in regimental or campaign histories. Often, readers know the outcome of the battle, the makeup of the casualty list, or the result of a particular election. The letters in this book permit the reader an escape from that biased knowledge and to live through the life of the writer. The love of the writer for his home, his yearning for a return to his previous life, and his concern for the future are poignantly brought to the fore through his letters to various family members. However, some of the best writing is not included in these letters, but is in his later journal. These entries are poetry disguised as prose. The images brought forth by his writings are disturbing, comforting, melancholic, and often heart-wrenching. Brief though they are, they are some of the most powerful writings of the War this reader has encountered. The only detractor to the book is in the commentaries by the editors. They focussed a little more than was perhaps necessary on the personal histories of peripheral protagonists. Some of the information was repititious. However, in their defence, the editors do warn the reader of this in the beginning and they do have personal bias to this information. Additionally, the other commentaries they provide would be useful to readers who may not be as familiar with the conflict (in fact, these could have been expanded somewhat, but there is a conscious effort by the editors to provide suggested readings which are appropriate for each entry). Overall, I highly recommend this book to any person interested in the War Between the States. It will be especially appealling to readers with interest in the personal experiences of the war and an informative diversion to those readers who generally limit themselves to straight histories.