Very useful for those who have been practicing as well as those going to practice ECT. Questions at the end of each chapter help the memory to retain the learned information. James Staudenmeier, MD, MPH

Whether you enjoy Chemistry or not, this is a great idea! By using all sorts of cool graphics and videos and animations, this CD ROM actually makes what I've always found to be a totally hard subject, much easier. I used it for my Chemistry class last semester and managed to actually pull off a A-! Had I been using the textbook only, I know I would not have done nearly as well. Rather than simply barely making it through the class, now I feel like I actually understand Chemistry. Imagine that!

The selling feature of this review program is the graphics. The interactive displays provide an exerience impossible to obtain with a textbook, and rarely obtained in lecture. Animatio and interactive diagrams guide users through such processes as transformation and photosynthesis. Video clips demonstrate movement and actions such as phagocytosis yeast cell division. This interactive CD-ROM is a worthwhile purchase for the excellent photographs, videos, and animations alone.

Electronic Literacies is an insightful study of the challenges and contradictions that arise as culturally and linguistically diverse learners engage in new language and literacy practices in online environments.

The role of the Internet in changing literacy and education has been a topic of much speculation, but very little concrete research has been done in the area. This book is one of the first attempts to document the role of the Internet and other new digital technologies in the development of language and literacy. Warschauer looks at how the nature of reading and writing is changing, and how those changes are being addressed in the classroom. His focus is on the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse learners who are at special risk of being marginalized from the information society.

Based on a 2-year ethnographic study of the uses of the Internet in language and writing classrooms, the book includes data from interviews with students and teachers, classroom observations, and analysis of students' texts. This rich ethnographic data is combined with theories from a broad range of disciplines to develop conclusions about the relationship of technology to language, literacy, education, and culture. Central to Warschauer's discussion and conclusions is how contradictions of language, culture, and class affect the impact of Internet-based education.

Clear, informative, and up to date, Electronic Literacies is highly relevant for those interested or involved in technology-based school reform; critical pedagogy; cultural studies; the social context of learning; composition and literacy education; and ESL, bilingual, and multicultural education.

This is perhaps the best Joe Ross/ Mark Cherlin book. They are all good, but this one is exceptional. Should be re-read often. Shows how you yourself determine your success or failure in trading through your correct thinking and commom sense. Other practical information not found in other books. Expensive, but a bargain.

Whether you like your martinis shaken or stirred, you will find one the perfect martini in this book. The Martini/Appetizer Pairings tell you what Martini to serve with what appetizer. Try the Melontini from the Lenox Room in NYC (made with watermelons) and the "007 - Shaken, not Stirred" from the Viper Room in West Hollywood.

Now gone, the Eliza furnaces of Jones and Laughlin once had a place on the Pittsburgh skyline. Prior to, and including their demolition, Mark Perrott snuck through the fences to record these pictures, which are some of the finest industrial photographs published in a long time. Some of the most moving photograph show the areas where men and women worked, and how ghostly those areas are when the workers have gone. In some photos, it looks almost like some sort of biological weapon or neutron bomb has killed off the workers; everything looks as though they just walked away, and the mill awaits their presence. But of course, they would never return, as the mill was turned into scrap, and probably fed into another company's steelmaking furnaces. Interspersed with interviews of some Eliza workers, this short book has a hard impact, showing the end of a mighty industry. Well worth it.

Elizabeth always seems to be in trouble. She is NOT a saint like other children she knows. She can't understand why she is so different until her Grandmother tells her that she is free spirited and that is okay as long as she doesn't hurt anyone in the process. This was a great message for my "Elizabeth" to hear and realize that she is fine just the way she is. I recommend this book for anyone who also has a good hearted child who seems to find more than her share of trouble.

In this wonderful book, Professor Ungar addresses one of the biggest challenges in modern Latin American political development: establishing a rule of law. This insightful and well-written tome analyzes historical patterns that highlight all the obstacles that face modern Latin American states as they move towards establishing a rule of law.

The breadth and depth of this study is impressive. In this exhaustive study, Ungar focuses on the myriad of agencies enforcing the law including the police, prison officials, provincial governors, legal officials, and the judiciary itself. The book centers around political developments in Argentina and Venezuela; however, it also presents interesting and incisive examples from other Latin American nations. There is ample country-specific information presented to clearly back up Ungar's conclusions.

While this is well written and documented academic book, Ungar's writing style is both clear and interesting - a pleasant contrast from other academic books I've read. If you want to understand the difficulties many Latin American nations face in establishing a rule of law as well as strategies that might be implemented to institutionalize greater democracy in the region, this is definitely the book you should read.

...then you will love this book. To say that this coming-of-age tome is nonlinear, would be a great understatement. There is no recognizable order to the events in the book at all. Each vignette, every chapter, requires the reader to discover, anew, where he is in the overall sequence.

There is reason to enjoy a book wherein the time sequence of every paragraph is a mystery: This volume (all 700+ pages of it) is about the nonlinear progression required, to turn a young gay child into a fully-sentient, understanding young adult. It's a process, and it doesn't happen all at once, or in a simple chain of events. In fact, Effect precedes Cause by several hundred pages here. Other ambiguous discoveries realized by the author: The fluidity of sexual expression in young people, the moral relativism of adults, the ease with which lovers turn to betrayal.

If you're not an avid fan of ambiguity, it might be best to stay away from this book. Some of the most important sentences in it are written in Afrikaans, and there is no context afterward to help the reader decode their meaning. This is problematic, since Afrikaans is not a world language (your friends will be unable to help you). Speaking fluent German is little help with Afrikaans. Perhaps the only people who will be able to understand these important sentences, other than South Africans, will be people who speak Dutch, which itself is not a world language. The author also uses Afrikaans words gratuitously throughout the book. Happily, where these words appear one-at-a-time in the narrative, there is sufficient context around them for the reader to guess their meaning.

I congratulate the author on his unflinching honesty in approximating the thoughts of a young boy, struggling with his parents, hormones, relationships, and the human body (his own--and others'). Sometimes this honesty is reflected in a nongrammatical stream-of-consciousness recorded by the protagonist. It's precisely the way humans think when upset, confused, humiliated, or elated. The relationship between the adult choir teacher and the young protagonist leads to all of these emotions, and more.

If homosexuality bothers you, if you require a yarn told from prologue to epilogue without interruption, if you cannot skip over words in an obscure language without becoming angry at their use (and you don't possess an Afrikaans dictionary) then this book is not for you. If you can embrace these idiosyncratic elements, then this book will open another world, beautiful and untidy, inside your mind.