This book is recommended for ages 9-12, but my 6-year-old ate it up and my 4-year-old enjoyed it too. I bought it because my girls are going through a knights and castles thing, and this was recommended as a good place to learn about them. I thought we'd just read that section and put it on the shelf until the other subjects came up. Well my 6-year-old saw things differently. She loves this book. She loves the way it is laid out and what she is learning from it. She had no interest in Vikings or Romans or Egyptians before this, but now she wants more on all these topics. And it is a fun book for me to read too. It is reminding me of things I hadn't learned since I was a child, and the diagrams are so clear that maybe I am learning things better than I did when I was a child.

WOW, this is a compilation of four different civilizations, it includes ALOT of information on understanding how these ancient groups lived. I have learned alot of interesting facts every time I haved looked through the pages. The illustration in it is amazing, there is not a corner left empty in this huge book!

Every child has a favorite stuffed animal that they have loved the stuffing right out of. This sweet story of a little girls love for her best friend, "Bear" will delight your children. Gentle, colorful illustrations complement the story. This is a book you and your child(ren), along with their "best friend" will want to read over and over again.

There are three phases to command- Pre Command, Command and Post Command. Several years ago BG John Meyer Jr. gave us a guidebook for command. Now, Nate Allen and Tony Burgess have given us a comprehensive instruction manual preparing the new commander for command.

Taking the Guidon is a superb manuscript that should be required reading at every Captain's Career Course. This book is the natural extension of the enormously successful CompanyCommand.com website that serves to facilitate success in all three phases of command. Taking the Guidon provides great advice and solid guidelines enabling the soon to be commander to posture himself/herself AND their unit for success. The gold nuggets filling the pages of this book provide sound applicable strategies that when applied, will result in a more combat effective unit.

My copy is filled with notes in the margins, passages highlighted and pages dog-eared. My wife bought me a copy the week it was released; I bought my 1SG a copy before I took command. You want to be a successful commander- this book is a MUST READ!

Taking the Guidon offers strategies to develop your command philosophy, prepare for your change of command inventories, plan a vision and apply that vision to your training calendar and most importantly, this book offers tactics on how to get the most out of your unit. Ever wonder how to juggle all those glass balls- the secret is found in this book.

Some may find some of the content to be focused too much on the "touchy feely" stuff, I submit that you will have a tough time in command if you don't master that aspect of human relations. Today's soldiers require a different approach; the tools that Nate and Tony provide in this book can be applied universally to the air defender, infantryman, mechanic or cook. Sound approaches for a solid commander; approaches drawn from great leaders both military and civilian.

Get this book for yourself, get a copy for your 1SG as his initial counseling and get a copy for your XO as you send him/her off to CCC. Then after you complete command, go to the website and offer up your successful tips to other commanders and soon to be commanders. Your post command time can have even more impact than your time in command.

George Corbari
CPT, AD
Commanding

The book starts out at such a leisurely pace that one is fooled into thinking that it will be finshed in a few days read, but Feynman soon plunges into the much deeper aspects of computation. Some chapters are material that are covered by others much more extensively (such as theory of computation) but they are often treated in his unique approach, other topics (such as Quantum mechanical computers) are such rare gems that they alone would be worth getting the book for.

This book is not easy, but like his physics lecture, the effort in following his lectures and working out the questions and problems that he poses make this, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful, albeit difficult and terse, books on computation I have come across in a long time. Certainly belongs in the library of anyone who is serious about the theoretical aspects of computation.

This reference is derived from Feynman's lectures at Caltech between 1983-1986 for the course 'Potentialities and Limitations of Computing Machines'. This small volume introduces computers as a file clerk performing his tasks, moves on to show how the 'file clerk' can be built out of simple gates, how the gates can be built out actual transistors, discusses essential issues in computation theory such as computability and Turing machines, and then discusses essential issues in information theory such as data compression. The physics of computing from a thermodynamics context is then considered. If the general reader ignores the gas equations, this chapter is fairly easy to read and enlightening. The next chapter continues with a discussion of quantum mechanical computers. The final chapter discusses how real transistors function at the atomic level and fabrication techniques for real integrated circuits. Lectures given by invited experts on computer science topics such as vision, robots, expert systems, etc, are not included. Although this reference does not discuss alternative architectures for computation, such as the ones found in the brains of animals, this reference is ideal to introduce the motivated general reader to the concept of computation and the techniques used in commercial computers.

Doesn't matter how many stars I give it. Just a warning:. this book isn't what you might suppose. I ordered it sight unseen for my daughter because of the "Usborne Spinechillers" label.. I assumed it was like"Stage Fright" or "The Haunting of Dungeon Creek," which are spooky offshoots of the very good Usborne "Puzzle Adventure" series of picture books. Instead this book turns out to be a kid-gets-trapped-in- electronic-game story written for R.L. Stine buffs. I haven't read it through and don't know how good it is for its genre. All I know is it isn't what I meant to get.