This handbook covers more in deopth material on the holocaust than on Anne and her family. This is not necessarily a bad thing because there are tons of books out there on the diary. However, if you are looking for a one stop companion to the diary, this isn't it. You should also be aware that the book is based upon the original Diary of a Young Girl, so the readings don't match and the length of the readings goes from 40-60 pages in the first four to just under 100 pages in the last two. If you use the new diary -- and you should -- then you may want to adjust the readiing assignments. What I did was split the last two in half so there are 8 readings instead of 6. Overall it's well worth the cost, though, because of the supplementary materials. Oh, and most of it's reproducable so that's a huge plus as well!

I taught the literature of the Holocaust to high school students for 13 years, and I never found a book I valued more as a teaching aid than Susan Moger's Teaching the Diary of Anne Frank. As anyone trying to teach Holocaust literature knows, it is important that students understand how and why the Holocaust occurred as they delve into the literature. Moger's book not only provides the resource material, but it does so succinctly, comprehensively, and creatively. I never taught Anne Frank's diary itself - that was done in our middle school, but I used Moger's book daily to engage students in not only the history of the time, but in the emotional and ethical issues as well. It's no wonder this text won the 1999 Ed Press Award. Soon after I got my first copy, I bought 7 more and gave them to every middle or high school English teacher I knew who was confronting the enormity of teaching the Holocaust. Even though I retired last year, I still get calls from teachers thanking me for this text.

As the author of Teaching the Diary of Anne Frank, I am very proud that my book won a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers in 1999.
Susan Moger

With the low-brow humor of "whazzzzzup" and high-speed editing of MTV-style ads dominating the landscape, it's almost hard to imagine how memorable the quaint multi-sign Burma-Shave ads were. The combination of clever verse and brilliant exposition -- stretching along the wide-open road until the punch line could be delivered -- is unlike any other ad delivery in history.

Author Frank Rowsome, Jr. tells the story of the campaign's creation and life, and provides a listing of all signs from the first in1927 ("Shave the modern way / No Brush / No Lather / No Rub-in / Big Tube 35-c Drug Stores / Burma Shave") through their last in 1963 ("Our Fortune / Is Your / Shaven Face / It's Our Best / Advertising Space / Burma-Shave"). In between is an amazingly clever collection of poems, including contest winners, shorter signs for smaller displays, spin-off tooth powder and lotion jingles, and regional ads.

Great reading for those remembering the signs as well as those who just want to get a smile from some great advertising - one of the USA's most underappreciated art forms.

I read this book twenty odd years ago, and I loved it. It brought back such fond childhood memories of my days on the farm in Belsano, PA, where a set of the signs stood soldier-like in the lower field of my grandad's farm. I heard from the grown-ups that someone paid him to put them there, and money was scarce in those days.

I was always intrigued by those signs, so when I saw the book advertised for the first time, it was a must-have for me. I cherished owning a complete set of the verses, most of which I'd never seen.

The book is well-written in that it has a lot of historical fact, loads of humor, and the story-telling holds your interest to the last page. One of those "can't put it down" types.

Somewhere in my travels, I've lost my copy and have mourned it's loss. Thanks to Internet, I will once again have my own cherished copy of "Verse by the Side of the Road."

If you currently own a car built before 1965, there's a pretty good chance you remember driving past those wonderful Burma Shave signs.

How delightful those signs were as we went on Sunday drives with Mom and Dad. Here is not only the complete history of the company but also ALL of the rhymes.

I really had mixed feelings about this book. I started several times to just quit and go on to something else. It is about Jeston Nash, his leaving home and joining Jesse and Frank James and the "Boys." He kills many, gets shot several times, and all the good things men did at that time. I think his best friend is Quiet Jack Smith. You can feel the characters some times but the book just never got to me like othes of Cotton's have.I think there are five more books in the Jeston Nash Adventure series but this one takes him all the way, at least it looks that way to me. I wonder if the others are just flashbacks to previous times. Don't think I will try any more.

I have just got into Westerns and where I live, there are no bookstores that sell them. It was when I was visiting my friends up in Canada when I found this book in a used bookstore. At first I wasn't so sure about it. I like factual books and wasn't into historical fiction sorts. This book changed my mind. I loved the adventures and the vivid images of the characters and their personalities make the book come to life and make it believable. There were several times when I had to remind myself that these were fictional events. This book is a keeper and I'm even thinking of getting the rest of the series :)

Jesse James had a twin brother: his cousin, Jeston Nash.

Jesse James? Even today the name rings with excitement. Ralph Cotton brings that excitement roaring to life in his romantic first novel: WHILE ANGELS DANCE published by St Martin's Press.

One thing about Jesse James, everybody has an opinion, and nobody else agrees with it.
With a subject this volatile, you open the book with a ready sneer, ready to pounce on all the facts sure to be a little awry. But there is a delightful surprise in store. This writing is so good the sneer is immediately transformed into a grin of sheer delight.
Who cares about chasing down facts when you can go chasing down the old owlhoot trail with the 'real' Jesse James that Mr. Cotton has dreamed up?

A writer's job is to raise that curtain of the mind and create a reality the reader can actually see, hear, touch and smell. Ralph Cotton jumps right in, and pulls the reader in after him. In just a matter of minutes the smoke is boiling and outlaws with the bark on stand in the shimmering light with guns blazing.
There's no turning back, from the first page to the last, you will be anxiously watching the shadows to see what happens next.

"You could stumble into more trouble in two minutes than you could crawl out of in a hundred years." in those days.
Jeston Nash killed a Yankee soldier over a horse trade in Kentucky and the only place he could run to was the home of his Aunt Zeralda Samuel, the mother of Frank and Jesse James.

"Look here," she said to Doc Samuel. "He looks enough like Jesse to be his brother."

Frank and Jesse were off riding under the black flag of Quantrill's guerillas. The rumors of Nash's presence bring them back, leery of a trap. "I'd been drawing a fresh bucket of water from the well; the only sound in the stillness of morning was the squeaking crank handle and the clucking of chickens scratching in the dirt. Then all at once behind me, a horse nickered low, and the single heavy thud of a hoof jarred the ground. I froze, felt the skin ripple on my neck, and wondered in that split second how the hell a rider could've slipped in without them chickens raising a fuss."
It was Frank. "Frank could lock on to your eyes like a coiled viper, and though I learned to overcome it in time, that day at the well, off guard, I just stood there staring, dumbfounded by the sudden appearance of this stranger with a friendly smile and a voice like gravel wrapped in silk. And behind him ... less than fifteen feet ... not one rider ... but six! They'd slipped in as quiet as smoke, and sat there atop their horses, looking hard eyed and evil."

WHILE ANGELS DANCE has two things going for it: The characters are so real you dread finding out what might happen to them next, and the outlaw humor has your face laughing before you realize your belly is shaking.
For example, Quiet Jack had been living with a widow for some time when Jeston came to call. "You know, she killed her husband," Jack said casually the day we dug up the bank money.
He smiled affectionately. "Yep, stabbed him in the heart while he was asleep."
"Does that bother you when you go to bed of a night?" I asked.
"Why should it?" he laughed. "We ain't married!"
However, the token sex scenes are much too toxic even for a professional reader like me. Is all this trysting really that necessary?
The first one is more than a chapter long and could easily have been cut in half without the novel suffering any serious trauma. The blue language is almost black in places, but so naturally used that it doesn't actually ruin the story.

Only two, very brief scenes, jar the jaded senses. Both are deep into the novel and this reader probably only noticed them because discovering any less-than-perfect writing was a shock by that time.
A movie from this effort is almost unavoidable. Unfortunately, like Hondo, not even another John Wayne could make it as good as the original.

This book is extemely boring in the beginning just talking about the genie but some how this arabic book had some sense in it. This book is not for everyone since to some people it's not interesting. But this book is worth buying

This is the best book I have ever read. I think the very beginning of the book was a little boring though.

This hilarious book has the same great kind of humor that peppers Patricia C Wrede's "Dealing with Dragons" series.

This book has some wonderful ideas contained between its covers. The underlying assumption is that people are either motivated by rewards or punishment. There is a flowchart that helps you understand how to influence (read manipulate) people into behaving as you want them to.

The author gives many examples that make it seem as though his method of dealing with people is the most effective one. There are more aspects to leadership and management than he describes, and I can just picture in my mind's eye a person with no people skills trying to apply these techniques to his work. Then I get scared.

I would suggest reading books by more principle centered authors first - such as the various Covey books or other ones. If you are just looking for a new perspective, buy it. If you are frustrated because nobody seems to listen to you and you want to manipulate them all to do your bidding - please quit your job. This book wont help you.

This book will change how you deal with performance problems of all sorts. Mager's step-by-step approach can be used in a broad range of situations, including team environments, manager/employee relationships, production situations, and even with your children! He makes it easy to see the logical solution that may currently be evading you.

Ann Pavkovic / Consulting Technical Writer

Before you begin your discussion of performance problems by talking about training, you need to read this common sense book by Robert F. Mager and Peter Pipe. Following a systematic algorithm, you will learn to identify your performance problem, decide how critical the problem is, and identify the underlying reasons for the existence of your problem. Problems can be a result of invisible expectations (you didn't tell me how) or what the book calls "upside-down consequences" (doing it right is not as rewarding as doing it wrong).

Using many common sense examples, this book demonstrates that solutions other than training can solve your performance problems. In fact, you will discover that training may be a useless solution that will not solve your problem. Until you take apart the expected performance, look at the component parts, and identify why the performer chooses the wrong action, you cannot correct the performance deficiency.

Training as a possible solution does not appear until the middle of the book. Training is needed because a person has never performed as required and does not know how to perform as required. Training can also help when skills have decayed over time and training is needed to refresh them.

When you look at human performance, you need to remember that people will usually follow the path of least resistance. They do not choose wrong performance because they want to be wrong. They choose the wrong performance because it is the best solution for them. Mager and Pipe uncover why people make these choices and offer you a way to achieve the correct performance you seek.

This book is a very good way to show who was Frank lloyd Wright because Neil Levine did it very well. But this book has really bad pictures, white and black they are insuficiant in quality and quantity. Because of this, this book in my opinion is too expensive for reality!!!!

then this is a great book to start...

The book provides great details on Wright as well as his works, and I remember going back to this book very frequently. It is lucid in explaning the designs, with accomapanying photos & drawings. It covers most of Wright's famous works, from his first (Oak Park) to his last (Guggenheim Museum, NYC); you will also read about how Wright's life experiences and personal philosophy became intertwined with his designs.

...his works proved his genius and creativity. You'll find that this book does a great job in introducing you to the wonderful world of modern architecture. After this book, I can definitely say that my eyes are more open to different motifs and designs in modern buildings, which were influenced by modern architects like Frank Lloyd Wright.

Neil Levine has captured Wright's complex creative life in a scholarly and truely thought provoking study. For anyone intrested in more than the typical cursory look at Wright, this book provides a compelling look inside the creative process underlying Wright's architecture and life. Levine takes the connecting architectural threads of Wright's work and weaves them into this complete tapistry of Wright's work and life.

I found this book to not be a good value as it is too large to easily fit in a pocket. My program had us buy it as a required book. Book would be improved by making it smaller. Also please put in pictures of finished radiographs and technique suggestions. (Showing suggested side marker placement and showing 2 or three views together on a single image receptor when this is customary would be useful too.) I gave up on trying to carry this thing and wrote my own little book to carry. So did the other students at my hospital.

The newest edition of this Pocket Guide is a great improvement over the previous edition. The alert to projections that may need adjustment for computed radiography is a timely addition. The write-in techniques section is excellent, especially for AEC techniques. We also like the added mobile projections although only 10 of the most common are described. This handy fit-in-the pocket guide is wonderful for students to carry around and reference. The discussion is very brief, however the students have already had detailed study from the main Merrill's textbook. No radiographs are included, however, they have already seen these in their main textbook and in lab. The most important addition, a very well done photo of the patient in postion, is all that most students and radiographers refer to once they have mastered the projections. Although a radiograph would be nice, we are glad the authors have not cluttered the pages with unnecessary data and have kept the Guide relatively small. This is by far the best Pocket Guide on the market. Thanks for a very well done and practical Guide for our students.

This is a great pocket guide for radiography students. The new techniques section, especially the AEC area, is well designed to include any portion of any exposure technique. Not only do our students depend on this for their daily techniques in the clinical areas, we use it for our lab sessions and the students augment the printed matter with notes of their own. This is the best tool the student has when they leave our program and begin work elsewhere. This pocket guide is very comprehensive and fits nicely into a pocket. My faculty depend on this guide when they moonlight at various jobs around our locale. No radiography student should be without this very well designed tool.

So quickly does amnesia set in with age!

One generation is barely finished acting out the final throes of its rebellion before it turns to condemn the morals and values of the generation which follows. We see this today, of course, but it is nothing new, as Wedekind's play - written a century ago - brings to light with a startling clarity.

Abandoning any pretence of objectivity or realism, Wedekind's A Spring Awakening tells the timeless story of one generation's struggle to come to grips with the emotional and physical changes of adolescence, in the context of the earlier generation's social and sexual mores. As Wedekind makes very clear, it is not the natural impulses of youth that are corrupting, but rather the attempts of the adults to control these impulses by layering them with guilt.

Wedekind's exploration of these themes, while decidedly (and intentionally) one-sided, is a beautifully crafted piece of expressionist theatre. After seeing this play performed, I found myself thinking of it for days; after reading the script, further layers of both meaning and ambiguity came to the fore.

we are going to do this play in drama class, so I read it and was amazed. the plays we put up before were more classical like shakespeare and this seemed to be something a teenager can really relate to. I think every teenager should read this book with it's surprising ending.

Recently observing an adapted performance of Spring Awakening I was stunned at the confronting and amazingly written script of Frank Wedekind. Although written over one hundred years ago the issues involved are still plaguing the children of todays generation. The play is interesting and easily related to by teenage children aswell as older audiences. I thoroughly enjoyed myself while watching the play along with all my companions

Author calls it concise monograph that covers a wide variety of backup and recovery issues with plenty of examples. Well, concerning backup section there are more examples in Books on Line. No backup options are explained (i.e. You would use this option to do this particular thing). Absolutely NO scenarios are given. Only a few basic backup statements without any explanation what to run before and after backup. There is an interesting script "Monitoring the Completion of a Backup" - almost 3 pages of code but there is no download option so it is up to the reader to type it in. What a waste of time. Author often makes a point how bad backup and restore practices are in places he did the consulting for. I think they are no better or worse than the books we have to learn from.

McBath's book highlights common problems and provides practical workarounds for Backup/restore
The Book shows some very cool tricks that make it possible to recover data that's lost due to media
failures. It also covers data recovery tricks by using indexes. It continues about explaining what
to do when you need to rebuild your machine from scratch. Common problems are discussed and workarounds
given. The book is full of examples and tips and tricks from REAL consulting, not rehashing a manual
or Books on line. These tips give the book even more value.

What I liked most was that it describes using the GUI and T-SQL scripts. A GUI is nice but to really
hit the nail one should automate this and script it.
This is THE Backup/Restore book each SQL-Server DBA must have in his bag. READ it BEFORE disasater
happens. One can never be preperaed enough for situations like this.

Last but not least there's an appendix with the Mohan/Narang paper This paper outlines
the ARIES Write Ahead Log protocol recovery mechanism that SQL Server uses.

If you do any SQL Server administration where your boss cares about the data contained therein, TRUST ME, READ THIS BOOK THOROUGHLY BEFORE you are in a position of responsibilty. Had I never read this book before I inherited my DBA responsibilities, I doubt I'd be employed right now. This book could not be easier to read, have better examples or provide better insights. Even though I went through a MOC training course and the teacher was great, one week isn't long enough for everything to sink in. Thank goodness there are guys like Mr. McBride to fill in the remaining gap.

I could not say enough good things about this book...mainly becuase I still have a good job because of it.

If your database is important to your boss, this book is a MUST!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, I bought this book thinking it was by the real Frank Messina. LOL. What a sham! Warning. This book is not by the legendary spoken word artist Frank Messina, better check out frankmessina.com for the real one. But the author gets 2 stars just for having a cool name.

A book I thoroughly enjoyed. Well written with a heartfelt sensitivity you don't see that much anymore. I recommend this book highly.

A totally refreshing story brimming with warmth and and sensitivity and written beautifully. Thank you, Frank Messina.