Este es un buen libro escrito por unos de los mejores especialistas en diagnóstico prenatal com lo es P. Jeanty (tal vez el mejor del mundo.Una gran adquisición Claudio Luna

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, what a place they keep in our fonder memories of childhood. Somehow we always knew Tom and Huck were real, not like the TV media charectors fed us since our common baby-boomer childhoods! We weren't fooled, those were actors and actresses playing parts, and as such they were single dimensional stick puppets, compared to the fleshy realness of Twains prodginy. When they capture your imagination with their Civil War journey you'll will them to stay with you for yours!

And now to have their stories continued by this talented RI writer, and to bring to it such an intimate look at our Civil War. "Not for nothing" did Ken Burns launch his career with this the most monumental dramaticly cataclism of American History.

We simply don't know enough about the Civil War, yet it was only a few generations ago, and Fernandes brings to our understanding of this war a flood of details in a humourous offhanded Tom and Huck way. With wry wit, this historical novel flows easily, might even be compared to "Little Big Man" in it's span and humor.
Tom and Huck remain true to Twains intended charectors. This builds on those charectors, in fact can be considered a charector building book as well as a fun, enlightening read...

I hope that someday this book can make it's way into high school history curriculum where High School juniors can both spend time with our old friends Tom and Huck, and learn about the War that tore this nation in two and piled up grevious losses. And I hope to see it in the laps of plenty of us baby boomers, it's funny, it's dramatic,and it's honest to the times and the literature of Twain!...Ka-doink, we got a winner!

Frank Walsh has made South African history compelling, from the early colonial period to the present day. Dense, but readable, the narrative style contributes greatly to the flow of events. Particularly enlightening is Walsh's method of including "mini-psycho-biography" as an aspect of character analysis. The Boer colonials are more alive than in any history I have previously read. Their foibles and human weaknesses are shown with sometimes tragic-comic insight. My understanding of the tribal situation has grown greatly from reading this book, so the present day Zulu-Bantu power struggles gain new meaning. Kruger, Malan, DeKlerk, Mandela, Biko, Buthalezi...are all here, along with the ghostly spectre of the all but extinct KhoiKhoi (Hottentots). Walsh has made Africa's pariah a thing of flesh and bone, in which we can see all of our humanity too well. Read this history if you wish to understand today's South Africa.

It is nice to see that the most significant novel in the history of Science Fiction is receiving the same sort of treatment from Spark Notes that are given to the plays of Shakespeare. Frank Herbert's "Dune" is a complex novel that brings a breadth and depth of the field of Science Fiction that J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy brought to the genre of fantasy. This is a novel that combines a look at the relationship between religion and power (represented by both variants on Islam and Roman Catholicism) with the issue of human control of ecology. Both of these key themes are treated by this Spark Notes edition, along with the motifs of inheritance/nepotism and precognition, as well as the symbols of melange and water.

This Spark Notes provides detailed analysis of the characters of Paul Atreides, Jessica, and Baron Harkonnen. The Summary & Analysis section divides each of the novel's three books into multiple sections. Overall the emphasis is more on the analysis that the summary, which is as it should be in a study guide. Then there are important quotations that are explained, a list of key facts, study questions and essay topics, and a review & resources section, which includes quiz questions, a glossary of terms used in "Dune," and suggestions for further reading (i.e., all the "Dune" sequels). Consequently, this little blue book is of value to instructors as well as students.

The strength of the Spark Notes is that they indicate lines of analysis and insight into "Dune" without providing the complete arguments. In other words, students are going to be able to get some good ideas for papers but not the complete arguments. In other words, using Spark Notes can jump start their papers but will not given them anything they can turn in as a completed paper. The summary is rather bare boned given the complexity of the novel, so it will not serve as a substitute for reading it but will serve to set up the specific analysis sections. The approach to this books is formulaic (I think that this is a novel that has more than four quotations worth exploring), but the idea is to offer something that will benefit those who have read "Dune" without providing a lot of extra reading.

In this year 2000, SONY Playstation II performs better than all of the other PCs for handling polygon calculation and graphic representation. This is the first time when an embedded system gets on the top of the mountain. From last several decades, embedded systems are used all over the places, which are ubiquitous and even invisible. Such as refrigerator, artificial organic device, and even aircraft are embedded systems. These are more demanding and dominant nowdays and the future needs more. In this background, this book gives very good overview about modeling and design of embedded system for upper undergraduate or lower graduate students. Formalism of modeling for those devices are introduced and system-design methodology are reviewed. You can learn several good algorithms about partitioning which is essential for electric design automation for embedded system design to reduce time to market. Interesting world can be true with those embedded system. You can start to step forward there with this book.

This is Thompson at her best! Although OZ is at the end, it's a wonderful new story about SPEEDY from THE YELLOW KNIGHT OF OZ and how he, Princess Gureeda and Terrybubble the Dinosaur skeleton save Oz from the terrifying giant Loxo!

Since Amazon didn't post an editorial review, here's the description from the back of the book to help you decide if this book is for you: "Married in name only .... the marriage of Spencer Brade, M.D., to Carol Grahame was one of simple convenience. He needed money to start the practice -- wanted it desperately -- she needed a husband immediately. With the Grahame fortune he could set himself up. In return, Carol was able to give her unborn child a name. But soon Spencer Brade found himself in love with the beautiful girl who was his wife. The money she had given him seemed like an inrumountable barrier between them. He decided that he must make money quickly, without caring too much how he got it, and pay Carol back. Only then could he hope to win her love in return and make their marriage one in fact as well as one in name .... Spencer Brade, M.D. is the thrilling story of an idealistic young doctor who allows himself to be corrupted by the medical vultures of a great and honorable profession ..."

I *love* this book, if only because it is one of the very few publications out there with a guide to catching the elusive chocolate shark. There's an entire section devoted to sailing one's skin boat up the cocoa canal in the hope of catching sight of this elusive beast, and as such, this book totally warrants the 5 stars I've awarded it.

The Maine Antique Digest (Sam Pennington, Editor mad@maine.com) wrote this neat review and I am sharing it with everyone who might want to know more about this great book.

This handsomely produced, definitive book is replete with reproductions of paintings, etchings, and lithographs of waterfowl and related works of Frank W. Benson, a pivotal artist of the American Impressionist movement. Benson's accurate depictions of birds have commanded high prices, and rightly so. This book will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of art collectors.

Faith Andrews Bedford gathered diverse and firsthand source material. She covers Benson's career by melding his primary interests: his family, his art, and the sporting life, not to mention his lifelong passion for birds. By interlacing her text with commentary from interviews with Benson's family, diaries, letters, photographs, and historical articles, she creates a lively, immediate flavor.

Chapter three, "A Sense of Place," begins by telling how the Benson family first visited North Haven island in Maine's Penobscot Bay in June 1901. They eventually bought Wooster Farm and summered there for about 40 years. I have a particular fondness for that island and was transported by the descriptions of their initial visits and their farm on Crabtree Point. To exemplify how neatly Bedford packs information, here is a quote from early in that chapter: "Benson's North Haven paintings of his family were praised by critics and collectors for capturing the `joyous gaiety' and `holiday mood' of life on the island. They sold almost as soon as they were seen by the public...Benson was not an indoor man by nature and far preferred the `life outside the studio.' Although his wife and daughters enjoyed the theater and music and for decades held the same two seats for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he did not often accompany them. Nor did he enjoy the confines of church. He felt the place to worship God and respect His handiwork was through nature."

There is mention also of their tennis court at the farm, interest in golf, and of course the birds and fishing. Bedford adds other significant information about how the island affected Benson's art: "It was to become the site of many milestones, not only in his family life but in his art as well. Benson began his etching career on North Haven. Originally, this aspect of his work was merely a diversion, an experiment." This taste gives an inkling of the abundant information compiled. It is clearly presented and a good biographical resource.

Benson lived a long, fruitful life. Bedford, who has become a scholar capable of making such statements, says, "Benson was, perhaps, that rarest of humans, a happy man. Not that he ever rested on his laurels, not that he did not look constantly for challenges...He had reaped rewards and financial success from his art, had won fame and recognition in his own lifetime-something he realized few artists ever achieved...In Benson's own words, the secret to both tranquil enjoyment and success was in doing what you love."