Relatively short, this beautifully illustrated version of the son of a God's battle to regain his honor is a good read for intermediate students. Serving the purpose of an introduction to Greek mythology, this book gives a well-rounded biography of "Hera's glory," Hercules. A series of these books done in the same style would have made it easier for teachers to design units on mythology for young children. The illustrations complement the text nicely, however because there is a lot of information on a single page, the picture cannot always tell enough. The text is set off from the illustration in a colorful, but easy to read manner. Some of the vocabulary and pronunciations will need to be explained and demonstrated, and probably should not have been included.

Why 3 stars?:
The illustrations are absolutely wonderful, unfortunately the text drags the books down. There is too much information on a single page. I do not support the condensing of myths, but this book would have been better if it focused on a single aspect of Hercules' life rather than trying to tell the whole thing in a picture book format. It's just too heavy.

I love this book! The book has lovely fight scenes. Very interesting book. I think this book would be great to teach the story of Hercules to your kids.

I just got this book and I love it. Hercules is so cool even though his life was so hard. I love the great pictures, some are scarry but so beautiful.

This is a must-read, along with "Suddenly Jewish" by Barbara Kessel, and "The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot" by Trudy Alexy. Several years ago at Temple beth Israel, we heard true stories from others in our Community who had been raised as Gentile, only to hide, or remember, or discover, that they are actually Jewish; it will make you laugh, cry, and pray for those among us who suffered so much to glorify The Name. Please honor them by educating yourself and others in reading of these things.

I have read and re-read this book. Never before did I realize what hidden children went through to survive. It is assumed that they were safe in homes, attics, or barns and far removed from the fears of other children in worse circumstances. However, this is untrue. These children had to, in many cases, hide their identity, learn whole new life stories and names, and sometimes even religions. They had to worry about family they may never see again, and their own possible discovery or betrayal. It is a testament to their courage that they survived and have gone on to live honorable lives, even while still struggling to deal with all the psychological ramifications of such a life in their formative years. A wonderful read that would be good for young people as it does not bog down in technicalities.

On Memorial Day weekend,1991, 1600 people from around the world gathered together. They flooded the rooms of the Marriot Marquis Hotel in New York City, not only with their bodies but with their stories as well. For over fifty years they remained hidden, first from Hitler and then from the public. They kept their feelings and experiences to themselves because they were afraid. They were afraid of the pain and suffering it might bring to them or their loved ones if they revealed themselves. "For years and years I never wanted to talk or think about my experience during the war," states Ann Shore, a hidden Jewish child during World War II "Just thinking about it brought such pain!" Finally, the once frightened, hidden Jewish children of the war (now old men and women) overcame their fears and discussed their experiences during the Holocaust. Many realized for the first time that there were others like themselves, and there were people who cared about what had happened to them. One women, Jane Marks, cared a great deal and devoted her time to writing The Hidden Children: The Secret Survivors of the Holocaust a book filled with twenty-two inspiring stories. During the conference that weekend and during the months that followed, Jane Marks interviewed more than 60 former hidden children. She became committed to writing a book to record these children's experiences. "I wanted to write a book to make the world aware of the exceptional courage and goodness that emerged in the midst of unspeakable tragedy and destruction." She surely let the world know. By using twenty-two of the stories and continuously interviewing the same children over and over again, she was able to capture the ordeal, the legacy, the aftermath and the healing that these children went through. She used all the information available to establish a unique, truthful and emotional retelling of the Holocaust. In the first part of the book, the ordeal is revealed to the reader: tear jerking stories of how they survived for months in sewers, barns, cellars, closets, fields, anywhere they could, to escape being captured by the Nazis. Some lost their families and friends, but they all lost their childhood. It was the price to pay in exchange for their lives. Rosa Sirota said the following about being a hidden child: "None of the people who went through what I went through had the luxury of being children." Eight stories of courage fill this section of the book, and each one has its own miracle of survival. Sanne Spetter and Marie-Claire Rakowski tell their stories of the aftermath of the war. Both women were born during the war and because their parents feared their safety, they were placed with families. For the first years of their lives, they felt safe and secure and did not know their true identity. After the war, they were returned to families that had suffered more than they could ever imagine. The time after the war was just as painful for them, as it had been for many others during it. Thinking back on the time after the war, Sanne said, "That was when I really started hiding, as I hid my real feelings." The other twelve stories are probably the most interesting to read. They're stories of the legacy and healing involved with the war. Many of the children held the legacy of what they had gone through for many years. It existed in their minds and haunted them. Some remember every minute of what happened to them, while others remember only what was told to them. The healing that some children have gone through is immense. They suffered just like every other Jew, but because they were children at the time, their feelings were discarded as unimportant in their families. They were taught to conceal their feeling and keep them to themselves. They sought healing in trying to hide pain, but the true healing came many years later when they finally shared their stories. Ever since I read Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, in fourth grade, I have had an interest in the Holocaust. I have often wondered what it would have really been like to hide. By reading this book, I now understand that it wasn't easy. The Hidden Children is a truthful document and there does not appear to be any bias in it. It is a well written book for any teenager or adult who, like me, has ever wondered about the Holocaust. Jane Marks recorded what was told to her simply to reveal the truth to the world. The former hidden children that she interviewed, had no reason to lie or make the Nazis soldiers look monstrous. They told what they remembered and what they knew, so they could finally be healed. There are one or two comments, though, that do show some bias. "I admit that my normally nonjudgmental approach has a limit," said Stanley Turecki, M.D., "Especially when it comes to Germans. I can't accept them! Even the younger ones make my skin crawl!" In this case, over the years a bias has developed, but there were not many stories in this book that showed this. Because she picked unbiased stories, Jane Marks created an almost unbiased and very truthful book. The pages of The Hidden Children are filled with painful, but inspiring experiences that have been hidden inside of these children. Now they are out for the world to discover.

This book is charming with the old moral story of "it is best to be yourself". The art is great but since the story mostly involves 2 iguanas lazing around and talking, there really was not a chance for Mark to apply his wonderful upbeat inventive artwork. But if you want grand fun, check out other books that are illustrated by the illustrator of this book. He even writes some of his books too. Try, "the secret shortcut", "the lost and found", a recent great book "One Halloween Night", "Pigsty" (great at convincing anyone they should have a clean room), "No moon, no milk", "what I did on my summer vacation", and "the baby tamer". The best of all for over the top inventiveness is "the flying dragon room".

3-8 yrs. Children will enjoy this story of Tom and Dom, two Iguana brothers who contemplate such issues as whether or not to eat bugs, their realization that they are dinosaurs, and having friends. They speak english with occasional spanish words reflecting their locale & habitat. A funny story.

Hurray for Tom and Dom! I really love reading this book aloud. Tom and Dom are such great characters I wish that Tony Johnston would write another Iguana brothers book. With illustrations by Mark Teague, of course.

As a 1L at NYU, I've been using this book as a general reference while learning about the firms through other channels as well. Some entries seemed a little gossipy, leading me to wonder if the editors were tending to include predominantly the most inflammatory or "juicy" quotes. As a basic reference it was very useful, especially when I was first starting to research firms, but I wouldn't rely on it too heavily.

Packed with insider accounts from the lawyers themselves. Can it get any better than that?

I thought that 750 pages were going to be too many. I was wrong. There is plenty of statistics, charts, and details that make every part of this book really very useful!!!

The Leatherfolk Anthology is full of valuable information and first person accounts from within the BDSM community. This book goes beyond the scope of a how-to-manual with more theoretically based essays designed to inform people not directly involved with BDSM and challenge people in the leather community itself. This book is probably not for anyone who doesn't know what "vanilla sex" means or is other wise sexually non-deviant.

The stories in this book communicate the history and a chronology of the SM and Leather community through various individual's experiences, thoughts and impressions. After reading Thompson's compilation I felt I had a deeper understanding and curiosity for the intricacies of the leather/SM community. The voices are from all over the spectrum and give insights into various multi-layered identities. The editor's determination to portray the chronology and the ancient origins of SM give important foundations for the contemporary commentaries by members of the community. I am a student in a Gay and Lesbian Ethnography class and this was my favorite book over the entire semester and I learned so much through the varied perspectives and historical foundations. It inspired discussions and reflections on sex and how it tends to function socially and personally outside of the SM community and how there is a lot to be learned from that community regarding communication and respect. I must also mention that the piece by Dorothy Allison was one of the most passionate, poetic and evocative excerpts I have read from a lesbian perspective!

The classic work on the leather underground provides a history from the 1940's to the present, resource lists, and 20 black & white photos.

I like this book, and I'm in favor of Israel in this conflict. However, the problem with this book is simple: it doesn't even attempt to present two sides to the story. It is so full of sniveling and whining against the Palestinians that it grates on your nerves after 30 pages. It doesn't present one single argument in the Palestinians' favor. It's just whining, whining, whining from Israelis, who fail to see that their actions may have some role in the current mess we're in.

The dictionary defines autopsy as 'an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine the cause of death'.

Quite appropriate therefore that this book is titled an autopsy of the Mid-East Peace Process. Few in the Mid-East or the international arena now give credence to the evaluation that the 'peace process' is still functional.

This book is of considerable value in that it examines how the so-called 'peace process' actually died. This is not a 'play on words' but an actual investigation into what went wrong and why.

The basic premise for peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian/Arab world was allegedly 'land for peace'. This book scrutinizes how this principle was actually just a facade. The most far reaching concessions ever offered by any Israeli leader only resulting in the Palestinian 'intifadas' that are analysed here and which 'grace' our television screens almost on a daily basis.

The book scrutinises the previously unheard of offers by former Israeli PM Ehud Barak in relation to ceding some 98% of the 'West Bank' and Gaza towards a Palestinian state, a deal on 'settlements' and 'refugees' plus an agreement to 'share' Jerusalem. Investigated too are the failure of Yasser Arafat & the Palestinian Authority to accept this as even a basis for negotiation, their violation of previous agreements and the reneging of their promise to resolve all disagreements through negotiations.

The authors themselves show that even despite agreed Israeli withdrawals peace was not forthcoming, the PLO not even amending it's Covenant calling for the destruction of the Jewish state.

The book outlines a statement through Jordanian Television by Yasser Arafat on the very same day as he appeared in 1993 on the White House lawn with Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Bill Clinton and co., shaking hands and making his promises of peace.

The book (on page 22) declares that Arafat, in his public statement in Arabic on Jordan Television, stated that he had no intent to halt terrorism, or any peaceful co-existence with Israel. Instead he described the agreement, in fact the whole 'peace-process', was in the context of the '1974 plan', known by the whole Arab world as the 'plan of phases' for the destruction of Israel.

Perhaps this should have opened everyone's eyes to the real intent and agenda behind the scenes, but clearly not so.

This book provides a number of essays by very learned people including Efraim Karsh, David Bar-Ilan, Dore Gold, Daniel Pipes and others, that investigate how Arafat duped the whole world into believing that he was pursuant of a peaceful co-existence with the Jewish people and the State of Israel.

This book also explores the regional & international consequences of the failure of the Mid-East 'peace-process' in light of September 11th. This becomes even more relevant in few of recent developments appertaining to Iraq. Also explored and discussed are the future, potential conventional and nuclear conflicts between Israel and the Arab world, also weighed against the possible existence of a Palestinian 'state' in Israel's very heartland.

A very illuminating, thought-provoking read and a handy reference book for the days ahead which we must all watch with interest.

Compiled and edited by Neal Kozodoy and enhanced with an "afterword" by Mark Helprin, The Mideast Peace Process: An Autopsy is a grim analysis of the clashes and bloodshed between Israelis and the Palestinians. The contributions include Israel's New Polyannas (David bar-Illan); The Story Behind the Handshake (Yigal Carmon); Land for No Peace (Douglas J. Feith); Where is the Peace Process Going? (Dore Gold); In Arafat's Kingdom (Nadav Haetzni); When the Palestinian Army Invades (Yuval Steinitz); Israel's moment of Truth (Daniel Pipes); Intifada II: Death of an Illusion? (Norman Podhoretz); The Journalists and the Palestinians (Fiamma Nirenstein); On the "Right of Return" (Efraim Karsh). As immediately relevant as today's newspaper headlines, The Mideast Peace Process: An Autopsy is a highly recommended, contribution to Mideast Studies and Palestinian Studies reference collections and reading lists.

The second collection from Mark Waid's run on JLA continues to improve upon the mess Grant Morrison made of the series. As in "JLA: Tower of Babel", these stories focus on both the individual and the team. Waid brings a human interest to the JLA, whereas Grant Morrison just brought action and chaos. Through Waid, we get to know the characters (Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, Plastic Man and Martian Manhunter) both inside and out. No more are the massive team-ups from Morrison's run. These stories are tight and stream-lined. They're more about friendship than saving the world.

Half of this book follows the aftermath of Tower of Babel
(wherein Batman 'betrays' the rest of the League) and the other half deals with one component of that 'betrayal'; the necessity of harboring a 'secret identity'.
After expelling Batman via a 4-3 vote, the JLA finds itself split like Repubs and Democrats; mistrust and petty sniping abound. Finally Supes and Bats have a heart-to-heart that is one of the best stories featuring these two together that has ever been done. If Frank Miller's "Return of the Dark Knight" was about the abject difference between these two, JLA #50 points out the similarities. From there we go to another storyline, where the membership is split up again, although in a totally different way. I won't give away details, suffice it to say it's an Alan Moore-esque study into the inner stress having a "secret identity" can create. It's gets a little complicated and overwrought, but hell, the entire JLA series from ish #1 to The Obsidian Age has been complicated and overwrought, so what the hey. A necessary companion piece to Tower of Babel.

I liked the story line of this book. We all wonder what if you met your alter ego? It catches the flavor of what happens when there is a break up or split. It is worth the price

I haven't been impressed at all by this book. We are building a web site that will eventually use 11 languages so we have kind of a high interest and knowledge on the subject ;-).

We found that the book was rather imcomplete it doesn't talk about how codesets are handled in forms. It also contained some "errors" such as suggesting the use of a flag to represent the various language (this is definitelly not politically correct!).

But I guess for $20 you still get a few good tips.

Here at Honda we purchased 50 copies of this absolutely informative book. While it's out of print now, we bought several more copies from online We have made it required reading for a number of corporate offices, both in Japan and Southern California.

If company is on the web, and you're offering products and services to a worldwide market, this book is required reading! Among the first books ever to address the web and becoming truly international.

I heard about this book last week and I wanted 20 copies for my IT department at Zacky Farms. A friend lent me his copy and I was awakened by this insightful and very helpful "how-to" book.

If anyone is serious about Web e-commerce then they got to get this book! I heard a revision is upcoming, is this true?

Erica Hui, Senior CPA for International Sales

"You can't get lost in the Lost and Found," Mona and Wendell told him [Floyd], but they no longer sounded so sure (from "The Lost and Found," by Mark Teague).

I just read "The Lost and Found" to a group of 3rd and 4th graders who selected it from a batch of new books we just added to our elementary school library. They sat totally engaged in this fantastic journey into the world at the bottom of a school lost and found.

Since our school lost and found is located just outside our library, I often see children--and parents--lost in a fantasy world as they peruse all the missing items in there. In many ways, I was reminded of the dress-up box my parents had when I was a child. You could just pick up a hat, gloves or an old shirt and be mentally transported to another place or time. Mark Teague builds very effectively on this imaginative tendency in children.

Our 3rd and 4th graders had a brief discussion on the concepts of fiction or non-fiction, and realistic or fantasy, at the conclusion of this story. I'm sure your children will enjoy this as much as our group did. Just don't get lost in the lost and found!

Don't know why anyone would not give this one 5 stars?

Great book about imagination and friendship!

Get it via used books in good condition - then it's a GREAT buy!

What a delightful book! Lush illustrations throughout the story-- That one page is always good for an impromptu game of "I spy"-- great for boys or girls. Both of my kids-- 5 and 3-- love to hear this story over and over.

I enjoy reading Mark McCormack's books. On Negotiating was enjoyable, and provided some helpful things for me to think about and put into practice. However, if you were to buy only one book on the subject of negotiation, this would NOT be the first book to buy. Fisher, Ury and Patton's "Getting to Yes", or Cohen's "You can negotiate anything" are better books to begin with. Either of these books treat the reader more as a beginner and provide a more fundamental discussion than Mark McCormack's book.

Mr. McCormack is as experienced as they come.

The book (like his others) is easy to read and full of gems.

However, He is much more capable in Sales and Management. Delightful book nonetheless.

I also recommend; You Can Negotiate Anything by Herb Cohen.

I already have read one of his older books what they don't teach you.... I liked that book and it's the same with 'on negotiating'. Mr. McCormack offers unique insights into the negotiating process though on a very personal and unuasal way. In order to get new ideas, to analyse a situation I am in as a negotiator I find his book really helpful. It's more much more interesting than the usual 'sales books' I've read before. And by the way I like to learn from the experiences of other people.