What happens if the kids start from the last question and works backwards? Anyone knows how to get in touch with the authors?

Why would a child start from the end and work backwards?? You have to teach your students how to do the problems and score them, very simple! This is a great resource- kids LOVE them.

From a teacher's perspective, this book is a necessity. I've been using it with my elementary students for 5 years, and it has greatly increased their speed in math. The kids enjoy the daily challenge and don't get bored with it. As soon as they master a skill, there's a new one waiting.

This cookbook is pretty much exactly the same as any other charity cookbook you can get in any rural area. It's a collection of mostly country style recipes that were submitted by residents of Madison County, Iowa. Of course, the fascination with the bestselling novel "Bridges of Madison County" explains why this particular local cookbook was released nationally. As such, the cookbook is fine, and there are a number of stories included that some people might find interesting (again submitted by local residents).

The main fault of the cookbook is the lack of standardization across recipes, leading to recipes that are sometimes vague. For example, one recipe may call for "1 can of tomato juice," but not specify what size can to use. Many of the casserole recipes are especially vague; for example, indicating that one should "cook one chicken," but not explaining how the chicken should be cooked. This cookbook would probably make a nice gift for persons who like country style food and who already know quite a bit about how to cook in this manner. Others beware.

My daughter gave me this book & I in turn am buying it for 2 sister in laws...It is that good. The homespun stories in it are just as good as the recipes it has. I have done numerous recipes from this book & they have all been great!! My only problem with this book is I get sidetracked reading the stories...

I found this cookbook to be a wonderful addition to my cookbook library. With its downhome recipes that include ingredients that you usually have on hand, it is a joy to use. The illustrations that are included give the book a folksy feeling. The short stories give us an insight into true family life. This cookbook is a must for anyone who likes to cook for the family. They are sure to enjoy the results!

This was a very funny book about noses! I think that it is a great book to learn to read with. It has easy words and i'm sure that it will make you laugh! You should definately buy and read this book!

A fantastic little book to teach the young ones about the sizes, shapes, and every other item concerning noses. There are elephants and birds, and other kinds of animals, and some suggestions about how noses are used as well as what would happen if we didn't have any noses. Terrific guidance for the youngsters and oldsters alike. Beautiful poetry and colors, all primary ones. Catchy and wonderful!!!

This was the first book I learned to read all by myself, all the way through.

The information presented is fairly easy to understand, interesting, and seems to be thorough. So what's the problem? I have to say, I would absolutely love the textbook and its corresponding workbook if it wasn't for one truely frustrating aspect - there are way too many errors. It's incredible! Here's an example - a question regarding roman numeral conversions (pg 38 wkbk)- what is 14 in roman numerals? well, anybody who's gone through grade school could tell you it's XIV - the answer key tells you it's CIV (104!!). How about this one (pg 85 txt) - convert 1mg to g: ok, i'm thinking - DUH - .001g - correct answer, according to the answer key is .011g -- Now, this is not quite a big deal when it's very easy to tell the book is wrong (yet, again) - but then, when you get into more difficult calculations and you can't trust the answer key, it becomes very frustrating. When you take into account the fact that you've spent over $60 for the text and workbook and you can't count on the information to be correct it becomes enraging. There are also a plethora of idiotic typos to furthur insult you for sending these people your money. Example (pg 108 txt) convert 120 mcg to mg - answer according to the key: 120 mcg = 0.12 mcg - that's 0.12 MCG not MG. Or, how about his - convert 50% to a decimal. Answer according to the key: 50/100. Now, the last time I checked that was something called a fraction - a decimal looked more like this: .50 - This isn't even the tip of the iceberg. I just have one question for Morton Publishing Co...Do you guys happen to employ anyone there called an EDITOR? I just hope to God you all don't have anything to do with the answer keys the PTCB is holding in their possession. If you do, I quit now.

If you have never worked in a pharmacy before and want to pass the pharmacy technnician certification exam, then you need more than just a certification review book. You will also need a textbook that explains comprehensively pharmacy laws and the operating procedures of a typical pharmacy. Because it isn't a certification review, be aware that it doesn't have enough practice problems. Overall, it is an excellent textbook to use with a workbook.

This wonderful book combines text and visuals to provide the most complete Pharmacy Technician book ever written. The authors of this book have done an outstanding job in bringing us an easy to read, easy to understand book on this subject. Take it from me a Pharmacy Technician student if you buy only one book BUY THIS ONE !!

This book is an OK introduction to the gun control movement. Those who have not chosen sides, as well as those who have, will benefit from this book because it presents material in a humorous, easy-to-understand manner.

The position of many different organizations - such as the media - as well as the positions of many individuals is covered. Furthermore, the rationales for those opinions is examined, if in a superficial manner. The author weighs in on more than just the gun control debate itself; failures of government agencies, policy faults, etc. A generous helping of cartoons - some taken from newspaper editorial pages, others from noted political cartoonists - help drive the point home. This is truly an easy reading, hilarious book.

However, it reads a bit like someone just spouting off. The arguments and info are recycled from NRA literature and there's little sign of critical examination of the issues.

Author, and others, find it too easy to dismiss the opinions of persons in favor of gun control. Author tends to readily dismiss alternative viewpoints as "political correctness", which is lazy thinking in my opinion.

If you wanted to REALLY know what the Founding Fathers thought about guns, this is the place to look. References go as far back as Norse law, and are built upon through English Common Law and end up being fully codified in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.

Dr. Bass presents a logical and easily referenced source for understanding the reasoning behind the right to bear arms in the US. It is easily read and understood. It would be the best starting point for those who seek to research gun control and it's history in the US.

Less scholarly than Stephen Halbrook's "That Every Man Be Armed," or "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms" by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)--this is nevertheless a well-reasoned and valuable little booklet. Only 96 pages, in large easily readable type, it is a valuable addition to the gun-control debate. I would like to see it widely read.

I have a couple of quibbles, or perhaps reservations about the author's personal conclusions: on page 5, as one of the six parties who contribute to the lack of substantive discussion on gun-control he contends that "big business" has no interest in promoting our model of government. That statement reeks of the paranoid class-warfare philosophy espoused by the very socialistic promoters of gun-control whom he scorns. An unfortunate stance.

I think that it is an unwarranted assumption. Later, he also blames big business for the content of school textbooks (which fail to teach our system's principles) and for the views expressed in the press, which he says they "control." I also doubt those claims, and think they are unjustified. Editorial staff controls the editorial content of newspapers, magazines and textbooks. The owners, by and large, are simply interested in readership, which enables them to sell the product or advertising and make money. Therefore, they hire professionals, whom they leave alone to do their jobs. Why many, if not most, of the professionals in those areas are exponents of gun-control is potentially a more revealing question, the answer to which may lie in the institutions from which they spring and the politics of the professors who teach them.

The bulk of the book is informative and well-researched. For one who is truly concerned about the recent attacks on the Second Amendment--the palladium of the Bill of Rights--as am I, there are a great many very good, scholarly books available, several of which he mentions in his bibliography.

I recommend this little book to you. My fear is that Americans have grown too apathetic to pay much attention to their government, or the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, and their representatives are too self-centered. A single indifferent generation, through their inaction, may lose the freedoms that our warriors have bled to protect for two and a quarter centuries. If so,the road back will be very hard and bloody.

Joseph H. Pierre, USN (Ret)
author, Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
editor, George Tooley's Beginner's Book on How to Handle Firearms Safely

I thought that this "official revised edition" would be a contemporary version of the catechism that I memorized in elementary school however this is the pre-Vatican II version. Although there are some positive ideas, the illustrations are archaic have no relationship to the real world. I find this book to be depressing and heavy.

I recommend Good Goats : Healing Our Image of God by Dennis Linn, et al. Paperback (June 1994) as an antidote for the Baltimore Catechism.

Such as dogma and doctrine of the Faith. And we see this mentality reflected in the Baltimore Catechism. While "outdated" in the sense that this book was compiled before Vatican II, which was almost 4 decades ago, this book is still entirely relevant for Catholics today. The book is assembled as a series of questions and answers to a number of matters as it pertains to the faith of Catholic Christians. This is the second book, which is targetted to children from middle school and up. I am an adult (i.e.: over 18) and I still enjoy reading this Catechism. The answers are simple and straightforward, and I've found that working as a catechist (R.C.I.A. - Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) that this book becomes a wonderful resource. In addition, since this book has not been modified post-Vatican II, this is a favorite resource of traditionalist Catholics. Overall, I think the book is a good resource for Catholics, the pictures break up what could be tedious reading (sorting through Q&A) otherwise and add a unique "flavor" to this book that it would not otherwise have.

It is great to see this book is available again. Some
of the most basic Catholic Teachings seem to get left
behind in todays - social service age - this brings
back the basics of Catholic Religious education. Great for recent converts who need specific details. Great reference.

I am generally a fan of the NMS books, and have used many of them for my 3rd year clerkships with great results. I expected equivalent assistance from the NMS step 2 review CD. Unfortunately I had great difficulty installing and opening this CD and an hour later, gave up and borrowed the book from a classmate. I later heard from multiple classmates that they, too, had difficulties with this CD and preferred the book. I can wholeheartedly endorse the book with 5 stars, and assure other medical students that the step 2 version I took yesterday was very comparable to the test 4 therein.

i took my step 2 last december and the questions on the exam were very (!) close to the ones on this cd. comparable products (even though newer) seemed to be made for a different exam....
to me the best source available.

Had no difficulty at all installing the CD. Although the software interface is slightly different than the real USMLE, the questions' style and content were right on the money. Like the real test, it allows you to mark and review questions. You can take whole exams or focused exams (e.g., OB/Gyn, Peds, Surg, etc.) in the areas where you need help. The biggest help was the computer timer ticking down just like the real exam -- nice to get used to this.

Unfortunately, Schacht's seminal work on the evolution of fiqh and the growth and fabrication of the hadith literature [ON MUHAMMADAN JURISPRUDENCE] is no longer in print. What is also unfortunate is the difficulty of Schacht's text to understand due to the large volume of material that he handles. Moreover, his citations are merely reference rather than extensively quoted. Many of his citations are difficult to obtain readily as well since they are comprised of extremely old sources and different versions of those very same sources. Overall, for over 50 years, the theories of Schacht, building on those of Ignaz Goldziher 50 years before him, remain basically irrefutable insofar as the bulk of his theories are materially, tangibly and textually substantiated.

al-Azami's book is an incredible resource for two reasons: 1) he quotes in both Arabic and English what Schacht mostly on cites and 2)it is perhaps the only response by an Arabic scholar to Western scholarship. Note, this 15 yr. old book has not as of yet been published in Arabic, neither has Schacht's work. Before I left Egypt this year, one of my professors had the manuscript for the Arabic translation [of al-Azami, not Schacht] of this book--meaning that the only Arabic-speaking speaking scholars will only be able to read the polemic, which is unfortunate.

al-Azami goes through Schacht's work in detail, but he just doesn't seem to 'get it'. By 'it', I mean the methodology embodied in Schachts work of critical scholarship. There seems to be a lack of understanding of what compromises evidence and proof. For example, al-Azami consistently uses texts written hundreds of years after the texts and people being discussed. The problematic of the hadith is never grasped fully. [to give everyone an idea, the hadith where not committed to writing until 200 yrs. after the fact ... like if we had just started to produce historical records of the American revolution today].

...P>Schacht's work is controversial to Muslims because as al-Azami states, there is a fear that he is trying to destroy the basis of their culture and civilization. The contrary is actually the truth. Schacht was a scholar that actually highly valued the system and genius of the Islamic tradition of law; however, he viewed this tradition as a HUMAN tradition. Schacht's criticisms of the origins of Islamic Law proving that it is neither prophetic nor divine but simply human does not destroy a civilization or tradition but opens it up to revision and modernized based on reason rather than religious fanaticism.

This is a very fine book which disects the theories of Schacht about unreliability of Hadiths. Author takes us step by step with Schacht's claims and provides contrary arguments to negate Schacht's assertions on the subject. Although he has made every effort to make the book independent of Schacht's book "Origins:, It is helpful to read both in paralell.Most of the time author has either summarized or replicated Schacht's claims before he attacked them. This book is very helpful in understanding why Schacht is considered as Orientalist, for instead of claiming that Schacht was wrong in this or that as a blanket statement, he proves why he was wrong.

This is a very important book in its field against the Orientalist onslaught against Islam and Muhammadan Jurisprudence. The author Muhammad Azami achived in his dissertation of refuting the orientalist Schacht's thesis on Muhammadan Jurisprudence. Schacht's Origins On Muhammadan Jurisprudence was highly acclaimed amongst Orientalists, such that H.A.R Gibb considered,"It will become the foundation for all future study of Islamic Civilisation and Law, at least in the West". Schacht's work in other words was regarded as the bible for the Orientalist attack on Islam, moreover, became a reference point of other Orientalists in refuting Islam. Muhammad Azami comprehensively repudiates Schacht's work by deconstructing his theories and arguement to the point of making it into mere fiction. Muhammad Azami elucidates on the lack of scientific approach taken by Schacht thus effecting his deduction. Schacht had two methods at his disposal 1. To draw conclusions from a study of the original sources of islam, the Quran or, 2. The writings of early scholars as sources. Schachts opts for the latter approach. Azami highlights in taking the second approach Schacht failled to consult the relavant literature and futhermore misunderstood the texts he quoted, even to the point of occassionally quoting out of context. Schacht's work as a result is full of contradictions and is completely opposed to History per se. The false methodology of Schacht concludes in the the total negation of Islamic jurisprudence by claiming the Hadith literature and its chain of narrators to be fogeries. Rather, Schacht concludes of a conspiracy to revive a non-existant legal history of the Prophet Muhammad in which the four legal schools in Islam get involved in perpetuating. The early scholars are accussed of putting words into the mouth of the Prophet Muhammad and interpretting the Hadiths to embody their own attitudes and doctrines... This particular book of Muhammad Azami dispels the theories of Schacht elegantly and in a lucid manner, leaving the reader in no doubt of the falsity and futility of Schacht's theories and accusations. This is a very important book for the Muslim, such that, it has been translated into the Arabic language which is a rare and an outstanding achievement. A must for every Muslim and non-Muslim interested in Islam and Hadith literature.

As a New Englander who is attending school in Rhode Island, I had hoped that this book would provide me with some interesting information on a little-understood political figure making a quite a rise through the ranks of the Democratic Party.

Boy, did I pick the wrong book.

First of all, West has no writing ability whatsoever. His vulgar, crass style is not appreciated and is wholly inappropriate. Frequently laughable, his "prose" disqualifies himself as any sort of an expert on the subject matter.

Second, the book is so fiercely partisan that it is factually incorrect throughout. It appears to this reader that West has little understanding of political issues and even less of how to explain political matters to an audience. This book was little more than preaching to the way-outside-the-mainstream radical leftist crowd. As a political independent, this book was too polarizing to be informative.

Third, there are many things Patrick Kennedy is and an angel is not one of them. How anyone can pretend that Kennedy's long history of reckless behavior is either a coincidence or is otherwise not his fault is foolishly naive. I think there has to come a point where West is going to have to accept that Patrick Kennedy might not be the unfortunate saint he believes him to be.

Bottom line: This was the worst book I have ever read. Where I had hoped to find intelligent, insightful commentary, I found a book that was vulgar and ridiculous with a gaping hole where integrity should be. I cannot imagine a publisher actually deciding to publish this book and I wish Mr. West would learn some manners and writing skills. Note to West: Partisan cheap shots do not equal quality writing outside of Brown University.

I was initially alarmed at the slender length of the book, and had braced myself for choppy reading and hurried accounts. I was glad I kept an open mind, because this book easily surpased all of my content expectations.

West neither massacres nor coddles his subject, and I could actually identify with some of Kennedy's emotions and struggles to define himself. As a college student, I was very impressed that he was in the legislature while finishing up his degree---no easy feat in a state of any size. His personal health led him to identify with the disadvantaged and disempowered.

Tracing his childhood and young adulthood, West shows how the "un-Kennedy" Kennedy emerged to become the chair of the DCCC. For a public figure, Kennedy has managed to keep his life largely private and scandal free. He does not engage in the life style that has created headlines for so many other members of the family.

Although I am more partial to his father's voting record, I respect the niche Kennedy carved out on his own terms and was impressed with the many different things he had accomplished. This book is especially inspirational for young democratic politicians.

This book provides a highly readable account of the Kennedy's political operation. Generally sympathetic to the family, but hard-hitting at times. Good stories from people who have worked for the Kennedys as well as those who have opposed them. The average person would like this book!

All I want to do is make a Table of Contents in a Word document. It tells all about how to make the table, but not mark the items which I wish to include in the table... I guess that's just too basic for them to bother including. All and all, if you know at least half of what you need to know, this book will provide the other half. The question is, how do you know which half they include and which half you know. I've found this a lot in the QUE books. They just don't have the patience to give a good "step 1, step2, etc." process for those of us that bought the book to learn. So, if you want a book that might, just might, answer half your questions half of the time, then this isn't so bad. If you, like me, need a good resource that will take you from the beginning through the end of a process, then don't buy this book. I don't buy any of the QUE books anymore for this reason.

This book presented quality information on the complete application suites of the Microsoft Office 2000. It is easy to follow, and includes substantial information on Internet Explorer 5.0, Windows '95, '98, and NT.
My only disappointment with it is that it offered summarized information on PhotoDraw.

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