_Creepy_Classics_ consists of seven short stories, two poems (by Robert Service and Edgar Allan Poe), an excerpt from _Frankenstein_, and an excerpt from Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy - a formidable selection. Some of the works - 'The Monkey's Paw', 'The Dead Girl' (which I have seen elsewhere under the title 'Was it a Dream?'), 'Lost Hearts', 'Dracula's Guest' (which I believe, though I am not certain, is abridged), and 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar' are fairly frequently anthologised, though this is not a problem in a collection for children, who will be encountering most of the works for the first time.

I read this book a couple of times when I was eleven or twelve, and again quite recently, and was impressed with the many features peculiarly helpful to the young reader. The text size is a little larger than usually found in adult or young adult books, but not large enough to be embarrassing; the glossary is nearly comprehensive; the general introduction ('Dear Reader') and the brief biographical sketches are both of high quality. However, the most appealing part of the book (apart, of course, from the stories themselves!) is certainly the pencil drawings by Dominick R. Domingo. There is one for each work; though serious and comic, realistic and grotesque, by turns, they are uniformly good, and contribute greatly to the effect of the individual stories.

This is a book and series that I would recommend to any law student. One of the problems I have found about law school is there is a lot of reading without very much learning. The essence of it is that the case method doesn't work and the practical skills you lack are blaring on the first day you show up at your job.

The nice thing about this book is that it acknowledges that the cases don't do you much good unless you understand how they affect the client or his circumstances. This book is filled with examples and answers for each type of case you study. This proves extremely, extremely, valuable when its time for the exam and you are looking at fact patters.

In addition, I have hated previous guides because they don't recognize that we have gone to class and we need a new way to look at the issue. This book gives you short introduction, so your not reading twenty pages before actually trying to learn something.

The only weakness with this book is that Crim Pro is almost exclusively constitutional law and not statutory. As a result, the brevity of text I just praised makes it a bit difficult to see how cases at times might work together. This becomes a little more apparent when you switch from issues with the Fourth Amendment to issues with the Fifth. While the two work together much of the time, I wanted more of a line in the sand.

This book is great though if you are using it with a casebook. You will be very glad you bought it. I would also highly recommend this book to those of you who freeze up in exams. The examples in this book will allow you see the fact patterns before and save you time under pressure.

Nearly every student in the making disciplines - architecture, and design, fine art, and applied - sees the crit as a difficult experience. Whether it involves a project during study or the final presentation for a degree, the crit is a central aspect of an education in these fields. Understanding how to make best use of the crit will help design scholars in every field.

This book is a useable, well-written guide to the crit. Directed to students, it will also help teachers and research supervisors. While many fields of design research make no use of the crit, nearly every design student and design teacher will take part in a crit or review at some point. This book offers helpful suggestions and benchmarks. It is also useful for professional presentations.

Despite its value as a practical guide, this book is less satisfactory in scholarship. It is seasoned with useful quotes and citations that are poorly sourced. It is unacceptable to cite a single fact or a one-sentence quote from a 257-page by casually referring to author and year. The scholar's work involves organizing sources and making them useful. When architecture and design professors make claims to scholarship, the standards of good scholarship apply.

Good scholarship also involves critical attention to historical fact. The authors claim that the crit began with the eighteenth-century tripos of Cambridge University. Their dates are off by over a thousand years.

The crit is rooted in two traditions, the guild tradition, and the academic tradition. When guild apprentices sought journeyman status, they were required to submit a piece of work to a board of masters. The jury of masters reviewed the journeyman piece and conducted an oral examination on technique, craft knowledge, and professional ethics. After passing this crit, an apprentice advanced to journeyman and was allowed to work freelance. A similar examination took place when a journeyman submitted his masterpiece for advancement to master standing. These traditions are probably rooted in ancient history. Some aspects of these traditions go back to the ancient crafts of the Middle East. These customs were clearly in place among European guilds by the Middle Ages.

The academic tradition of public debate to defend a scholarly thesis began more than two thousand years ago with the philosophers and rhetoricians of classical Greece. The medieval universities established the custom of public lectures, debates or defense of a thesis by the 1200s. Public presentation was required for the inceptio that inaugurated a candidate into the body of masters or doctors.

The authors of this well structured book on educational and professional practice should have restricted themselves to what they know. They attempted to spice the book with learning, enhancing its authority with scholarship and history. When designers, architects, and artists make scholarly claims, they must respect the requirements of scholarship. These include proper sourcing and critical investigation of factual claims. KF

Book review published in Design Research News, Volume 6, Number 8, Aug 2001 ISSN 1473-3862.

Excellent work, you can see the progress in her work, from her earlier times and on. This is an accurate portrayal of homelesness in New York. The pictures were breathtaking. Overall a very interesting and informative work of art.

The pictures in this book provide a real sence as to what the romanticized cuba looks like. It dosn't provide much true insight to the everday feeling's and life like it should though. It is still a beautiful book, and I am glad I bought it.

Despite superb maps on some subjects you never imagined, like the various shifts in the mouth of the Yellow River, and gorgeous illustrations of the art of the period, this book has a few flaws. The line drawing reconstruction illos are so dramatic and modern as to convey relatively little information and some inaccuracies (would someone tell me how those horses are drawing that chariot, other than with the reins?), and the cultural coverage of the text is irregular in what it covers if you are looking for depth. It takes a couple of readings before the text falls together, and then suddenly you know a lot about China. Perservere. It's not bad as an only home reference on China, or as an introduction for the educated adult.

Definitely, a great book. Besides the theory, it incorporates MATLAB files for demosntrating the concepts. The authors are definitely masters on the topics. The DAFX conferences' papers, which could be donwloaded from their web sites help to dive deep into the subject. Unfortunately it doesn't give enough coverage to some topics, rather gives a lot of resources (papers, books) where to look for more concise information. Without additional information and knowledge you could not implement any of those awesome effects.

I think this book was OK. I personally think that Barbie sholdn't be so perfect. I have to admit that the illistrations were pretty good.

When I first bought this book I was a little leary about how good it may or may not be because of the gawdy cover. However, I found that it was well written and that it definately had flavor. I had not expected to get such an up close and personal look at the REAL Jamaica. (Marks was also knowledgable about the whole dancehall scene which was a plus).

Cal and his companions must save the Kingdom of Tronholm when a vampire looses his zombie hordes on the land of the living to secure the region for his Dark Lord.