Being over 18 I'm not required to take classroom lessons for a permit. I actually failed the test the first time, mainly due to questions not covered in the book (state insurance laws, etc.). That's something to keep in mind--that the book will not cover state-specific issues. However, this book will give you the information needed to get a permit.

IT HAS GIVEN ME ALL THE INFORMATION I NEEDED,I NEED TO GET MY DRIVERS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO GET ON THE ROAD,BUT FIRST I NEED TO STUDY UNTIL I KNOW I'M READY FOR IT.OF COURSE JUST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE.....THANK YOU

One of the self-satisfied myths of modern liberal legal jurisprudence is that the U.S. Constitution is a "living" document, constantly "evolving" to accommodate the (rarely stated, but always implicit) idea that the political ratchet only moves to the left.

Scaturro, a New York attorney with an historical bent (his other book is "President Grant Reconsidered"), sets out to demonstrate, in the words of the old song, "it ain't necessarily so." By cataloguing the various ways in which the post-Reconstruction Supreme Court steadily eviscerated such seemingly straightforward constitutional guarantees as the right of freed slaves to vote, he shows that constitutional interpretation can indeed take on a decidedly reactionary cast as well.

This should be a sobering thought for those of any political persuasion who believe you can read just about any policy preference into the Constitution if only you squint hard enough. Cut loose from the anchor chain of the plain meaning of the Constitutional text and you will not be in a position to complain if you find yourself tossed on the waves of an unexpected storm.

This book is a valuable resource for any legal scholar or historian who is interested in the historical and legal background of the fourteenth amendment. Professor Scaturro provides clear and convincing evidence to support his controversial argument that the Supreme Court has consistently misinterpreted the fourteenth amendment and that desegregation and congressional enforcement of civil rights reflected the original meaning of the amendment.

This is a great collection of magazine articles documenting trips and moves to Florida dating from the late 1800's to the early 1900's. I found it fascinating reading about the wilderness this state was only a century ago.

A collection of newspaper articles about the state of Florida from the turn of the last century. This is a excellent method of presenting a detailed and varied look at what originally drew people to this state. It's also a poignant look at what the increased population of the state has caused. One article mentions fishermen being able to spot turtles swimming along the bottom of Sarasota Bay while today visibility in the same bay is often measured in terms of inches instead of feet. Of course, there were many different view points at the time as well. Some of the articles are clearly written with conversationalist overtones while others discuss the entertainment of shooting unlimited numbers of animals while traveling the state's waterways. Whatever your viewpoint, this is a very entertaining trip in time to Old Florida.

When I first saw this book, I was immediately drawn to it. After looking thorugh it, I realized that it was perfect for my third grade class. I have students that are on various levels and this book allows me to provide reinforcement activities (map skills, graphing, grammar) in many areas for those who need it. The book also contains worksheets that will help me with enrichment activities for some of my students as well. Many times in the mornings when my students are just arriving and getting themselves ready I like to give them a "brain warm-up", these worksheets are great for things like that. I also found that the worksheets included in this book relate to many topics that we study in class, so I'll also use them when we get to those units. The students also enjoy working on them. I recommend this book for all who are looking for a variety of good supplemental worksheets to use in their classroom.

FABULOUS VISUALLY AND INTEREST WISE!

What is it that makes Black Preachers so compelling? Why does it seem as though the Black Preacher is more passionate and emotional in presentation and the people?

Well this book seeks to answer these questions as well as defend the use of Passion and emotion in sermon delivery and preparation. This book presents a sermon as follows:

* Introduction of a problem
* Resolution of problem by the Gospel
* Celebration of the resolution of the problem.

At the introduction of the problem stage it is important to get the congregation on board in not only understanding mentally the problem, but experiencing the problem by being able to see the problem in their own lives. This is primarily emotional, but there is also a cognitive component

Then the black preacher skillfully shows how the gospel resolves not only the problem of the Biblical Story, but also the problem that the people are going through. This is primarily cognitive, but as always there is a emotional component.

Finally the black preacher closes with the clebration of the resolution stage. This celebration is experiential for we have experienced every other part of the sermon to this point. This is primarily emotional.

The writer privides tips and guidelines for celebration and even provides a method for sermon preparation that has celebration as the goal. This method includes a sermon worksheet that is to be filled out when putting together a sermon.

Finally, there are 3 sermons that illustrate the method which help to clarify the use of the sermon worksheet developed in the body of the book.

This is a good book that can help most preachers to provide an emotional component to their sermons.

The only thing I would probably like is a few more sermons that illustrate the method provided in the book.

Frank Thomas has developed a methodology for the kind of preaching that moves the congregation from the pew to the "mountaintop." Although this book is spiritually based, it contains steps to follow throughout the entire preaching process. One of the things I really liked about the book is that it the powerful treatment of the subject of "celebration." Whereas, most authors of preaching books briefly mention the topic, Thomas provides a thorough analysis of the phenomenon as experienced in African American Christian worship. He takes the time to explain what celebration is, its purpose and function in preaching, and a process that evokes the spirit of celebration. This book moves the reader into a state of awe by discussing the core belief of the "assurance of grace" as it relates to celebration and preaching. Thomas discusses theses topics from the emotive and theological perspective of black preaching and the impact it has on the hearers of the sermon. When the reader is able to fully grasp what Thomas is saying, he or she is better equipped to design and deliver sermons, by the aid of the Holy Spirit, that touch the very souls of the congregation, and motivate or challenge the preacher to be the cheerleader in the worship service that, "never quits praisin' God. This book is suitable for any preacher who loves to preach. The material in this book is suitable for both professional clergy and lay ministers alike.

L. Frank Baum's The Tin Woodman Of Oz is one of the more engaging novels in the famous series. When restless boy hero Woot The Wanderer happens upon the Tin Woodman's palace in the yellow Winkie country and learns of the emperor's origin and history, his question concerning the fate of Tin Woodman's one-time Munchkin fiancée, Nimmie Amee, spontaneously hatches a plot to discover her fate.

Joined by the Scarecrow, the three set out on a journey through the amazing and perilous kingdoms of Oz. Uninvited, the three unwisely enter a castle in the purple Gillikin country and are captured by its giant resident, Mrs. Yoop. There they find old friend Polychrome, daughter of the rainbow, already imprisoned and transformed into a canary for the sorceress's amusement. Yookoohoo sorceress Mrs. Yoop, placid and regal, is one of Baum's more terrifying villains, showing as she does an undiluted sociopathic and amoral indifference to the fates of others, who she physically manipulates to suit her fancies. Beautiful and poised, Mrs. Yoop, who lives alone in a dead valley, uses her spell-casting talents to provide herself with sustenance; water, pebbles, and bundles of weeds become coffee, 'fish-balls,' and buttered biscuits with a wave of her hand. When Mrs. Yoop tells the journeyers she is unpleased with their present forms and will transform them to her liking in the morning, the unsubtle suggestion that they may be her next meal is clear. Mrs. Yoop is not only one in a long line of fairytale cannibal giants, but her gigantism and prim, coldly polite manners make clear she is also a figurative as well as a literal devouring mother.

Archetypal motifs abound throughout, their subtexts driving the narrative and creating its sometime disturbing moods and moments. Woot magically degenerates into a green monkey, a form the text makes clear he finds atavistically embarrassing and unpleasant. In a scene fairly brazen for several reasons, agricultural demi-god the Scarecrow sacrifices his body to gain the gorge-spanning services of a straw-eating monster for his companions, only to be imperfectly 'resurrected' on the far side.

The recounting of the Tin Woodman's slow transformation from a healthy Munchkin male into a man of tin underscores the multiple amputations that necessitated the slow replacement of his human limbs with those of metal, allowing Baum free reign to discourse on the nature of identity, though the theme of violence goes undressed. The book might have been called The Tin Woodmen Of Oz, as by its second half there are two tin men, original Winkie king Nick Chopper and a second, soldier Captain Fyter, who was also once a man and became metal through exactly the same violent process. Both 'tin twins' have courted Nimmie Amee, and both been plagued by the Wicked Witch of the West in the period before Dorothy's house dropped upon her from the sky.

It's doubtful that readers of the series ever wondered whatever became of Nick Chopper's 'meat' limbs after they were severed from his body, but this volume answers that question. Together with those of Captain Fyter, the mismatched limbs have been magically glued back together to create errant oddball homunculus Chopfyt, who, perhaps not unreasonably, is aggressive and ill tempered. Where does Nick Chopper's humanity and being begin and end? The question comes in for special consideration when, revisiting his place of transformation from human to tin, he discovers his ungroomed human head alive, listless, and able to speak in a blacksmith's cabinet. Which of these creatures, if any, has a right to Nimmie Amee's hand in marriage? Has Nick, limited to a kind but not a loving heart, a right to invite her to become his bride and the Empress of the Winkies if he can only offer her dutiful companionship?

Baum was unusually sensitive to the details and nuances of his plots, but here unaccountably overlooks a change of gender. Since Mrs. Yoop's strange Yookoohoo magic cannot be changed or undone by even the most powerful forces in Oz, Ozma, the land's fairy ruler, once a boy herself, comes to the conclusion that the stalwart Woot can only regain his original young man's form if another Ozian creature agrees to take on the form of the green monkey. Since readers are led to believe that Woot as the green monkey is still a male, Baum trips himself up when a female character is tricked into assuming the monkey's form. Baum fails to acknowledge that she has not only unhappily regressed into a beast, but now also inhabits a male body.

In an interesting expository section, Oz Royal Historian Baum provides the reader with new facets of Oz's history and its magical rules and regulations. Once a part of the larger world, Oz, which has always been surrounded by an impassable desert, was enchanted by "the fairy band of Queen Lurline" sometime in the distant past. From that moment, no one has ever died or grown older in Oz. The young stay young, the old remain old. "Children remain children always, and play and romp to their hearts' content...while babies live in their cradles, are tenderly cared for and never grow up." Thus Oz is not so very different from Barrie's Never-Never Land (Oz was created roughly four years after Peter Pan debuted on the British stage), especially since children from America-and presumably other parts of Earth-occasionally find their way there. Dorothy, by the time of The Tin Woodman Of Oz a permanent Oz resident, like Peter Pan, will now never grow older, though she may evolve and mature as a personality. Like Peter Pan, she will never know puberty, sexuality, adulthood, parenthood-or death.

Always more than what they seem, the Oz books entertain, spellbind, and fascinate. The Tin Woodman Of Oz, full of eccentric undertones and undertows, tugs at its readers with its strange siren call and is certain to leave children and adult readers perplexed, questioning, somewhat wiser, and anxiously reaching for the next volume.

Nick Chopper, the famous Tin Woodman of the land of Oz, was once a flesh and blood man. He fell in love with a beautiful Munchkin girl who worked for the wicked witch. The witch tried to break up the couple by enchanting his ax. As his bewitched ax cut off parts of his body, Nick would get the parts replaced with tin prostheses by a tinsmith. He ended up totally tin after his ax split his trunk in half. We all know how he rusted in a sudden rainstorm only to be rescued by Dorothy Gale and an animated Scarecrow, and how the Wizard of Oz granted his wish by giving him a velvet heart.

This book begins years later when a young wanderer named Woot, asks the Tin Man why, after he got his heart from the Wizard of Oz, he never went back to marry that Munchkin lass. The Woodman decides that he owes it to the young woman to go back and fulfill his promise to marry her. So he, the Scarecrow and Woot go off to find the Munchkin woman so he can propose to her. On the way they are captured by a giantess, meet their old friend Polychrome, the Rainbow's daughter, and are transformed into a tin owl, a straw-stuffed bear, and a green monkey. They also run into a second tin man and have a reunion with the Munchkin tinsmith. Who is this second tin man? Will they regain their true forms? Will the Tin Woodman find his sweetheart and marry her? The story is well-developed and fun to read. It is an Oz adventure that all will enjoy.

This book gives an overall explanation about information systems. The chapter detailing sample job descriptions is outdated since there are no web/electronic commerce positions; however, the ones mentioned do remain viable.

The Project Management chapter is excellent since a generic overview is presented that would be applicable to any information systems project. The sample horror stories are good examples about pros and cons related to projects. The determining the customer needs and assigning weights chapter could be utilized by other than information systems personnel.

This book is suggested reading for Chief Financial (CFO) and Chief Operations (COO) officers of small to mid-sized companies that are growing and enlarging their information technology organization.

The book would be an excellent text or reference source for courses about managing information systems.

This book gives a solid overall explanation about information technology (IT). The Introduction to Technology is a facinating account of the historical development and the Project Management chapter is an excellent generic overview that is presented in an applicable manner to any information systems project.

The sample horror stories about pros and cons related to projects are a must read. The determining the customer needs and assigning weights chapter could be utilized by other than information systems personnel.
This book is suggested reading for Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Operations Officer (COO) of companies that are growing their information technology organization.

The book would be an excellent text or reference source for courses about managing information systems.

I have the CD shamans breath and wish to obtain the other CD's mentioned in the book as the music is excellent, a unique blend of traditional trible sounds with synthized sounds creating a potent dance mix. I have heard nothing like it since and coundn't obtain the above mentioned CD's. The CD is a 1995 Island production by Joe Galdo & Frank Natale. This CD would be perfect for an intamate loud party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This book was VERY inspiring to me and without It I would not have developed the same way. When I first got it about 6 or so years ago I read it many times and highlighted almost every word on every page. I highly recommend this to anyone on a spiritual path especially those involved in dance of any kind. This book may positively and powerfully alter your perception of dance and the posibility of visionary experience and natualy feelings of ecstacy after falling under the trance of the dance. Check it out!

As the Business Travel Columnist at BellaOnline.com, I recommend this book to anyone who has forgotten how to have fun on biz travel. This is a great present to give to any road warrior!

I was given this book as a gift from a friend because after being a road warrior for over 10 years.... I was complaining about ALL the travel. Well, my friend felt that I was forgetting about all the great things about being a road warrior and bought me this book.

After reading this book, I realized how much we (road warriors) do have fun on the company's nickel.... and how at times we need to relax more when away for work.

The author does an fantastic job of showcasing the sights and sounds around the world that he has visited while throwing in some great tips! A quick read.

I knew Perkins when he was making these trips. I especially enjoyed his photographs, as well as his prose describing his extracurricular wanderings. If you are a business traveller who ever wondered what to do with your free time, READ THIS BOOK! You will learn a thing or two. -Bob Davis

As a college graduate in Botany, I have seen many field guides. I probably own of 30 in different categories, and this one is one of my favorites. It was the only one I carried on a trip to California to identify trees in the Bay area. The color illustrations make a huge difference as they are very accurate and easy to use a field guides. It does require you to have a little more than a basic knowledge of trees, as it does not start out with a dicotomous key.

The best book I found for understanding the classification of trees, and for getting clarifying the differences between the major tree families...