An easier version of Mas-colell's microeconomic theory. Includes nice examples. Although Hal Varian's book is preferred in most undergraduate micro courses, this one is surely better. (maybe the best)
strongly recommended.

I have never in my Economics studies read a book so simple, helpful and practical like this one. It has economics newspaper and journal excerpts to supplement the topics. It starts by explaining to the reader the economy from scratch (ie when there is no production or no firms) up to the complex stages that many advanced economie have reached by now. Although the structure inside might intimidate you, and of course its size, believe me the book is most READABLE! It covers everything on microeconomics, especially undergraduate. It is excellent!

My course(economic theory) was complex and the instructor wasn't so successful in explaining complex situations.This book came into help that time.I've learnt so many things from this book and am still continuing that.Also it was a very powerful source when studying my midterm and final exams.

This volume combines the Nestle-Aland Greek text with the critical apparatus at the bottom of each page. No more having 2+ books open at the same time. Also cuts down on lexicon usage.

With limited greek training, I tried on several occasions to move from reading the new testament in english, to reading it in greek. Each time I stopped, because I was not able to concentrate on the message directed to me. I had to keep looking up in different books some point of grammar or vocabulary. The helps given in this book refreshed my memory, without making me dependent on them for my understanding. The helps did not translate the text for me. This proved to be a winning combination for me. I learned my grammar the traditional way. I learned my basic vocabulary by relating words to their common roots. I transitioned, to a childs level of reading the new testament in greek, using the helps of this book. I have no reason to think that I would have crossed this hurdle otherwise. Rob S.

I have had two years of Koine Greek, yet have never worked through more than a few chapters of the Greek NT. But with this book I am breezing through the Greek text. It is an annotated greek text (3rd UBS version)with notes/parsings for the rare words and first occurrences of common but under 50 uses words. Much less clutter than an interlinear, but eliminates the need for a parsing guide. Designed to help intermediate students gain facility in rapid reading of the text.

Reading Talking in the Dark is like reading the inarticulate thoughts of your own heart. McNair writes with such eloquence and compassion about the inescapable realities of life that I cried as much with relief as with sadness as I read the poems. His very insistence on the embarrassing limits of our humanness points to what lies beyond it - a connection to ourselves and one another that defies our ability to understand it well enough to hold tightly to it for comfort, but which glimmers on the edge of consciousness, like headlights on the ice-coated telephone wires of "Glass Night." The poems are written in the clear and simple language of everyday interactions - with an angry step-parent, an elderly relative who's abandoned the strain of an unacceptable reality, the neighbor who hopefully assembles old cars and appliances in the yard, the lover of many years whose very familiarity has a kind of strangeness in it. The mute testimonies of houses, cars, and clothes also appear, allies in the effort to make deals with our individual fates. These poems reveal the ordinary for what it is - an incomprehensible mystery. I highly recommend this book to everyone who struggles to make sense of the confounding mixture of passion, loss, humor, mortality, tedium, pain, and mute love that fills an average life.

I am searching for Mr. McNair's new book of essays called Mapping the Heart. Does anyone know if it has been published yet? Mr McNair Are you Out there?

I missed the New Hampshire Association for Teachers of English conference in Portsmouth. Heard you were great. I'd like to use your latest book in a Masters Degree Independent Study I'm taking this summer. But I can't find it.

Without abandoning the odd characters and comic moments that bring his poetry to life, Wesley McNair has moved in his new book from storytelling to meditation. As always, his sentences accelerate through unexpected turns, like one of his favorite old Cadillacs floating just off the ground, its steering wheel in the grasp of a proud owner who imagines the car new and himself rich. But these poems dare more than his earlier work, challenging the reader to ponder as well as see. Talking in the Dark is McNair's first book of new poems in five years. He is a New Hampshireman who has lived in Maine for 11 years. His poetry is deeply rooted in northern New England, but his voice is universally American. This has been his ambition since he published his first book, The Faces of Americans in 1853, 15 years ago. The new book's themes are loss, the struggle against life's limits and love. The love is sensual but sometimes unconventional. In "Why We Need Poetry," the narrator wonders aloud at 3 a.m., after finishing a wallpapering job in his kitchen, why the cucumber sandwich he is eating tastes so good. The why is unimportant, he decides. What matters is that you're here in the pleasure of the tongue, which continues after you've finished your sandwich, for now you are savoring the talk alone -- how by staring at the band of fluorescent light over the sink or the pattern you hadn't noticed in the wallpaper, you can see where the sentence you've started, line by line, should go. Only love could lead you to think this way . . . And when the light itself grows larger, it's not the next day coming through the windows of that redone kitchen, but you, changed by the hunger for the words you listen to and speak, their taste which you can never get enough of. The sense of affirmation in these lines is the engine of McNair's poetry, the counterforce that lightens the clueless characters who inhabit many of his poems. He writes of lost people with their their ambitions collapsing and their dreams foundering and of old people with their faculties blinking out. He calls up the humiliations of his own dirt-poot childhood, events that eat into the present because they can never be buried or erased. Even the dogs in his poems often find themselves at the mercy of cruel owners. But McNair's characters are redeemed by their humanity. We readers see ourselves and our neighbors in them. We may pause at first to ask ourselves whether we are not captive to the same ironies and illusions that ensnare these characters, but the quesion soon turns into a resigned nod. We, too, crave what we can't have, fall for seven-day diets and lose our great thoughts in mid-sentence. McNair's poetry has always had three defining qualities: down-to-earth subject matter, accessibility and that saving grace, humor. He is a keen observer of the power of the popular American culture to overwhelm old values and a realist, not a sentimentalist, about the rural northern New England that is fading before our eyes. Talking in the Dark is McNair at his best.

Boys do not develop emotionally nor psychologically as fast as girls do. Whey did this experience have to happen when he was only 12? It had a lasting effect on his life. Drugs were not the answer to his problems. Yes, there were good times, too! A must to read! True story of his personal life.

What happened to this boy when he was only 12 years old? Then at 18 he was introduced to drugs, which only complicated his already complicated life. Will his heart rendering hopes and dreams ever become a reality? He had lots of friends and did a lot of things in two short years. And then ---. this book will hold your interest. You won't want to put it down until you are finished!

Well written. His true experience held my attention. A fun-loving kid that enjoyed partying with his buddies. First hand info on what drugs did to his life.

I use this book on a regular basis to help with ideas for activities for my preschooler. It is so well organized with great ideas and easy activities. I have a stack of preschooler idea books at home and this is the one that gets the biggest workout! I plan to buy the next one in the series, too.

This is a popular one at the center that I contract out of for family child care. It's a worthwhile book. It's a great series. I like knowing that the activities are specifically catered to an age group. It helps with family child care and daycare, too.

It has been over 15 years since I had Accounting in college. I am starting a new business and purchased Quickbooks 2003 to keep track of the books. I was having a hard time grasping Quickbooks and realized that I needed an overview of Accounting to learn how the software should be used. This book is easy to read and provides a good overview to bring someone up to speed on Accounting methodology, how to read financial statements, etc.

Having looked for a good, simple, in layperson's language book to give to beginning entrepeneurs, this is it. Very well done, understandable, but factual at the same time.

Professor Bagby skillfully manages an enviable feat: his book is simultaneously concise, crammed with valuable detail, and eminently readable. It's not only a valuable resource for students and teachers alike, it's thoroughly enjoyable and difficult to put down. But these are merely the stylistic prerequisites. The book's real strengths lie in the material itself.

Bagby charts the institutional matrix of interests and authority that determine foreign policy, and how the push and pull of individual personalities affects policy decisions within that framework. In this way, while emphasizing the importance of historical actors, Bagby delineates the institutional constraints on the spectrum of options available to the architects of U.S. foreign policy.

He does his readers a great service by engaging the topic beyond conventional pieties while refraining from polemic. The book includes valuable discussions of socio-economic, diplomatic, and strategic relations with allies and enemies alike. Bagby illustrates how these relations produce competing interests and motivations, the management of which constitutes U.S. foreign policy.

In addition Bagby summarizes competing scholarly interpretations of key foreign policy engagements, such as the Vietnam War.

Most importantly, without reducing his interpretation to a restrictive ideological stance, Bagby spells out the differences, evident in the historical record, between stated foreign policy motives and actual U.S. diplomatic and military practices.

This is a remarkable and measured study of the U.S. role on the world stage during "the American Century," a valuable introductory guide to understanding how American foreign policy is constructed and in what manner that policy shapes the world.

Up to date and completeIf you are looking for a book about American Diplomacy you will surely appreciate this one. It is comprehensive and easy to read. The author has taken great care in avoiding omissions. I learned more American History from this book than I had from volumes before it came to my hands.With impeccable simplicity, the author manages to serve the reader the vast subject of America's International Relations at the White House's table with rich insights. You'll have the impression that you have been actually sitting with the Presidents, when there decisions were made.I could not put Bagby's book down from beginning to end, for it provided me with tools to understand along the history of the world in the Twenties Century.From Wilson to Clinton, Bagby explains the nine different policies of the United States and how they worked to introduce American Democracy and its complications to every single spot of the world. Fantastic!, a book you might want to keep for consultations in your personal bookcase.

Arguably the best film version of "A Thousand and One Arabian Nights" in exsistence. Between stories of humour, adventure, and fantasy is the intriguing story of Scherizade, second wife of the Sultan, who must tell her stories to save her life, and to save her husband from madness and his treacherous brother.

Arabian Nights is the second Hallmark Entertainment Book by Kathryn Wesley and even better than the first. Most of us are at least somewhat familiar with stories like Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The stories are retold here with humor and style, along with some stories with which most people are not familiar. But the main story here is the story of the clever storyteller Scheherazade, which is the best story of them all.

Marguerite Henry has a wonderful style of writing that keeps children's attention as they read. This is an excellent biography of a famous artist, and one that any child or adult would truly enjoy (whether or not they were interested in art). Where else can you learn of the ingenuity of a young boy, willing to use hair from his cat's tail to make his own paint brushes. I have read the majority of the books written by Marguerite Henry, and would highly recommend this one as one of her best.

The biography of Benjamin West is a treat for any young person. The author's presentation of Quaker life is informative and accurate, and her style encourages the reader to keep reading. Benjamin West's childhood is well represented as he works, plays, and grows up in colonial America. His strength of character is revealed as he struggles with his desire to paint and draw while living in a culture that views pictures as frivolous and unnecessary. I have read this book with elementary students several times and they are always delighted with the story and learn a great deal about this American artist. Anyone who loves Marguerite Henry's horse stories will enjoy this biography as well.

I have been looking for something like this for several years. Our own denomination does not (to my best knowledge) publish anything designed so well to meet a specific need like this. We have a growing number of new Christians who have never dealt with the Bible in all their lives. This book gives a wonderful way to introduce them to the Book of books quickly -- and to give them a useable working knowledge of the Bible. We are going to standardize on it as a part of our regular new Christians' training program. (Pastor, Bray Road Baptist Church, Clio, MI)

So often Christians tend to asssume that other Christians know more than they do about the Bible. This book, Bible 101, allows either personal or group study that sets the basic knowledge on a level playing field for all, young and old Christians alike. If you or your church community have not done some basic Bible teaching, they are a significant number among you who are lost in Scripture. Get it, learn it, teach it, study it...all in all, you won't regret it!