I teach ESL courses to adults and children alike and no book has helped more than is book. It is a new book EVERY time we read it because I can add and change things with a touch of a button and it just NEVER gets old or boring. I also can record in different languages or add little tid-bits here and there and customize it to the reader. This is just a MUST HAVE book for the young and old. My 8 yr old recorded his voice for my 1 year old and it has now become MY treasure of his voice reading to his sister.

Oh, Please Help Me Save This Tree is a remarkable and unique children's storybook, the first in "Family Heirloom & Literacy" series that comes with a special built-in recorder allowing a parent or caregiver to record their voice so that a child could be read to and/or taught to read anywhere and anytime. This recorder is not an ordinary cassette or CD accompanying the book; but an easy-to-use device built right into the book. All a child has to do is press the buttons marked 1 through 7, or the Special Message button, to play back the recorded audio messages corresponding to different pages. Unique, delightful, enjoyable, and very strongly recommended, Oh, Please Help Me Save This Tree is illustrated with warm, engaging color drawings, and presents a wonderfully entertaining story to young readers enhanced with a truly innovative audio feature.

I can't understand why this book has gone out of print. I love it because it's so lyrical, and my preschooler loves it because it teaches about counting, days of the week, and nature. Bring it back into print! My softcover edition can't take much more scotch tape.

ONE OF THE BEST CHILDRENS COUNTING BOOKS. HAD IT WHEN MY CHILDREN WERE SMALL. WOULD LOVE TO FIND IT FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN. ABSOLUTELY ONE OF OUR VERY FAVORITE TODDLER BOOKS.

As a researcher at an urban medical center (University of Cincinnati), I find myself going to and from my lab at all hours of the day and night and on weekends. This book offers valuable information regarding awareness, evaluating a possible attacker and simple yet effective self defense techniques. Master Kelljchian has condensed his vast knowledge and experience into a book valuable to both martial artists and those without formal training.

Rape is not something I want to think about, so when my mom gave me One Woman Every Minute, I was reluctant to read it. I'm so glad I did. I finished it in one evening, and came away feeling confident that I have a better sense of how to act if anyone ever tries to rape me. I especially liked the illustrated self-defense techniques in the book. They were simple, yet looked very effective. I actually feel as though I could fight back if I ever had to.

Since before the continents assumed their present shape, countless ages before intelligent proto-hominids walked erect and began using sticks to scratch signs in the mud, immeasurable aeons before alphabets and settled agriculture were new-fangled, Ong's Hat - a now deserted (?) village in southernmost New Jersey - was fated to become the most important locale in humankind's history, a critical juncture in time and space, and the nexus of a vast, uncountable quanta of probability matrices joining at the confluence of those temporal streams called past, present and future.

Since the event referred to as the "Opening of the Gate" occurred at Ong's Hat some thirty-three years ago on a spring equinox, much of the paltry amount of writing on that cosmic shifting of gears has been of an intendedly "disinformational" character for reasons apparent to all serious students of alternative history in general and OH in particular. The time has arrived when the truth can be told, neat and naked, complete and uncensored. And that story is, to put it mildly, a circuitous one.

In brief, a black Sufi cult founded in Newark, New Jersey in the 1920s by a circus magician has (with the help of a small group of Columbia University students, jazz musicians, beatniks, homosexuals and LSD experimenters) evolved by the late 1960's into a techno-tantric Moorish Orthodox commune and physics research institute centered in Ong's Hat, New Jersey, whose members managed to escape from this addled dirt-ball into a parallel universe through the intermediary of the "Egg" - a mechanism that enabled trans-dimensional travel into other worlds in other dimensions.

Add to the story a benevolent race of red-necked humanoids descended from Javanese lemurs on a parallel Earth, chaos magick, alternative sexualities, applied quantum physics, conspiracies galore, and heretical Eastern Orthodox bishops and you have an epistemological smorgasbord fit for a king.

This is a delightful piece of writing that leaves its reader hungry for more (and we are assured there will be more), that deserves to be read and read again, believed or disbelieved, shared with someone you love, and maybe even memorized!

The delightful legend of the Ong's Hat travel cult has been posted in the form of the Incunabula Papers since the earliest days of BBS and Internet communications. The mythos is an historical and cultural curiosity for that reason alone.

Has the great world-mind of the telecommunication infrastructure begun to breed its own myths? The elusiveness of the Incunabula's original proponents, Emory Cranston (a pseudonym) and Joseph Matheny (his real name), has spawned wild speculation that the Ong's Hat legend is nothing but a media hoax. However there is a dark side to this story that has never been fully told, which may help explain their circumspection.

What began as an heretical Islamic sect founded in the early 1900s by Black circus magician, Noble Drew Ali, evolved over the century into a techno-tantric commune whose members managed to escape this befouled world into a pristine, Edenic parallel universe, a New Jersey Pine Barrens devoid of inhabitants. This latter rag-tag group built the "Egg" - a glistening Faberge-like device that enabled trans-dimensional travel into unpopulated mirror worlds (per the Everett-Wheeler-Graham model). A special quantum-tantric feature allowed passage for two occupants while they made love, irrespective of their race, age or gender.

But wait, there's more! Add to this mix a benevolent race of humanoids descended from Javanese lemurs on a parallel Earth, capable of dimensional shift without machinery, who have been world tripping for thousands of years. You've got your chaos; sex magick; applied quantum physics; shadow conspiracy; crypto-palaeontology and enlightenment hopes all wrapped up in one neat package. What the [heck] more do you want

If you are considering the military, if you just need some courage in your life, or if you just enjoy American History, this book is a must read. James Kirby Martin will become your mentor, but he will always remain a simple man. The most valuable part of this book is the reality of the American Revolution. It will open your eyes to the hardships that the ordinary soldiers had to go through so that you can sit here and read this review. READ IT...YOU'LL LOVE IT!

"Ordinary" hardly seems to be the appropriate description of one Joseph Plumb Marin. True, Martin never holds any rank of note in the Revolutionary Army, however his contribution to the cause of American independance transcends any momentary action or deed. Martin's greatest donation is this work, loaded with stories of struggle, pain and hardships that make him quite extraordinary. His colloquail style and humor, even in the face of starvation and death, gives the reader a new frame of reference with which to view the War for Independance.

College students who are majoring in history, business, sociology, and industrial psychology should read this book. Also, anyone just interested in challenging the status quo will find inspiration within its pages.

Wonderful book. Required reading in my sociology course in 1958. Explains how the culture of "robber barons" continued under a new guise after WWII and developed the ultimate corporate planned community and culture. In some places it worked too well and contributed to many social problems of the 60's and 70's. A wonderful companion to " The Stepford Wives", but done as a sociological treatise.Excellent!

I first read Professor Charles' book as a college student in the early 1970's. It is one of the few books I have kept; and I re-read it every several years. The book is very short, but contains extremely well documented information on the birth of America's multi-party system. Unlike the general belief today, the U.S. was to have a "no party" system of government. Indeed, while Madison was goading Jefferson into forming a party to oppose the Washington/Hamilton policies, Washington was preaching that a multi-party system would mean the death of the new American government. This is a fantastic book! And, unlike most academic texts, it is actually more like a long essay that is fun to read. Read it - you will enjoy it!

I first read Charles' book in the early 1970's while a college student. I thought it a masterpiece then and still think so today. (I re-read the book about every two years or so.) In this brief book - really a long essay - Charles outlines how American politics evolved from a one-party (or no-party) system into a multi-party system, the result of policy conflicts among Hamilton, Washington, Madison and Jefferson. When the different factions began to organize, George Washington was aghast. The thought of opposing political parties was abhorrent to him - yet he allowed Hamilton to push through programs that virtually guaranteed the split. Charles details the various policies and their outcomes in a simple, straight-forward manner. His citations and footnotes are fantastic. Once you finish reading this book, you will laugh anytime some American politician spouts rhetoric about the sanctity of America's two-party system. In fact, it was something very few wanted and only reluctantly formed. An absolutely great book!

first and foremost this is the first book that I have read on this topic. only recently have I had the desire to learn about cosmology. it wasn't too complex to grasp so for a first time interest it was good. I definetly plan on reading this occasionally it is just a book that I loved to read and didn't like to put down. I highly recommend it.

Firstly, I should correct the amazon.com Kirkus review because journalist Dominique Simonnet is a man, not a woman (and I think his name is spelled Simonnet, not Simmonet.) Secondly, I didn't really read this particular book, I read the original French version ("La plus belle histoire du monde.") That said, I thought the book was very good. It was not written for the extreme scientifically oriented audience. It was aimed at the average person who is curious about a well reasoned hypothesis for the origins of the universe, life and mankind. This book doesn't answer every one of life's questions - but I didn't expect it to. The authors go out of their way to be sensitive and considerate of other points of view. Where they don't know or can't answer a question, they simply say so. This book is understandable, factual and balanced. I recommend it to anyone interested in an up-to-date scientific perspective regarding life and it's origins.

This excellent tome is aimed at those sitting the boards examination or the UK FRCS(Tr & Orth). It is highly readable and concise and constitutes an excellent alternative to Miller's textbook of Orthopaedics. however it is more expensive but should be obtained in the year leading up to the examinations. Highly recommended.

This text is a must for Orthopaedic Registrars and trainees about to sit the FRCS(Tr & Orth) / Boards examination . It is a credible alternative to the Miller textbook ; Review of Orthopaedics. For hthose tired of wading throgh longer texts it is easy to read and easily digestible. It should be a readily accessible tome in Orthopaedic Departmental libraries