This book is the ultimate book for soon-to-be or already parakeet owners. It holds more information on parakeets than I imagined. I am a soon-to-be parakeet owner who was looking for a good book on parakeet care and training. I found this book and immediately knew that I'd have to buy it for further reference! This book holds information on: hand and trust training, tips for purchasing a parakeet, states what you'll need for your parakeet, information on toys, prevention of diseases and boredom, and much much more! I cannot even begin to describe the whole book. Annette Wolter refers to her life experiences with her parakeets that helped me to understand better what to expect from parakeets. This book DEFINITELY deserves MORE than 5 stars! Looking for a REALLY good parakeet owner's manual? This IS the book for you!

I first got this book at the library, wanting a parakeet for my birthday. When I decided I wanted one I purchased the book. It has been very helpful. It has questions to ask yourself if a bird is right for you, ways to pick a bird, how to take care of a bird, how to tame, how to speech-train, what their diet is, lifespan of a parakeet, and much, much more.

I have now had my bird for a month and I can still use the book and I will be able to use the book for a long time.

Though I know Steve personally, still I would like to take the chance (a chance because it will be easy to charge bias)in stating that he is a fine poet, unpretentious & unaffected to the point of being admirable (hard for people with his talent not to have a little affectation). Passionate Journey is a joy; each poem is not only accessible but paradoxically subtle as well. The book's lyricism and honesty impress the reader immediately.

"Reading these beautiful recreations of Indian love poetry I hear the poets of the Greek Anthology and Rexroth's translations from the Japanese... Steve Kowit does us great service in finding the right tone for these songs from India." James Laughlin

Illustrated by Arthur Okamura, this is a great Valentine gift book

Comments: I had an opportunity to hear a segment on WHUR last week and then got the tape. I found it entriguing and enlightening. I want to know more about investing. I am ready to take the leap of faith, but I don't want to make any decisions without a better understanding. Thank you in advance for sharing your wisdom.

Comments: I listened to your presentation and I realize I have so many financial "errors" that we MUST pass along to our younger generations the importance of becoming financially saavy. We MUST get them beyond the mindset of giving literally millions of dollars away - aka NIKE, TIMBERLAND, HILFIGER, PERRY ELLIS, NAUTICA, EDDIE BAUER, etc. and not reap ANY benefits of these huge consumer investments. We pump over 400B into the economy - we can turn this around. I know you know - but more of us have got to learn this - and this means ME.

The author never forgot the time his mother, Eileen Levine, stopped an official from cutting down a neighbor's tree in Elmont (Long Island), NY. From that seed, this exciting story germinated, the story of a tough but sweet woman who saves a gingko tree and teaches us how to be a mensch in the world. Pearl and her sisters (Selma, Velma, and Wilma) grew up on Gingko Street (formerly Smith St) -- a street filled with Jewish and other immigrants, shaded by young, wide leafed, gingko trees. As time progressed, the trees grew, and people moved. Pearl stayed and the surnames changed. By the end of the book, Pearl is playing cards and hanging with her neighbors -- neighbors with Asian, African American and Hispanic surnames. They eat bagels and steamed dumplings, jalapenos and iced tea. When someone comes to cut down the last remaining gingko tree on the street, Pearl takes action, involves her neighbors, leverages the media, and gets the mayor to save the tree, plant new trees, and try her warm noodle kugel.

This is a delighfully sublte book that both children and adults will enjoy. It is about justice, about change, about pride, and about community. The illustrations are wonderful and in themselves provide many opportunities for discussion. Every school should have this book and every teacher should read it. Please check it out!

My best friend was into this type of book early on, and eventually he won me into them. I started with the Lord of the Rings, and was pretty much hooked. Then I saw these books on his shelf, and decided to give them a shot. Rather instantly I was hooked! The characters in each book are well thought out and the reader gets to know and enjoy every aspect of the story. Though by Arthur it became a little convulated, the plotline was seamless and excellent. Keen Beans Mr. Lawhead!

Taliesin was really the first fantasy book I have read. Mostly I read star trek stuff and chriton books. So this was a real turn-around. The second I started reading Taliesin I was hooked. I couldn't put the book down. Though it's mideival writing style does slow the reader down the over all story and the characers are what you fall in love with. I am almost done with pendragon the fourth book in the series. This is what started me on fantasy books.

Doctor Blanshard has been criticized for not being a very original thinker. Whatever one thinks about original thought, one must admire a philosopher who expends the effort necessary to be understood and never hides in obscurity. Blanshard wrote a book 'On philosophical Style' and a better example of excellence in writing style cannot be found than this book edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. As a student of philosophy I always found it difficult to locate material that could present philosophy alive and allow one to study it as though taking part in the ideas. As each philosopher presents Blanshard with his/her criticism, one finds oneself actively participating in the cut and thrust of ideas as Blanshard responds at the end of each essay. Only the dialogues of Plato rival this work in providing the reader with the impression that he/she is present as great minds exchange ideas. The professional and amateur will long treasure this fine example of philosophical debate. END

Brand Blanshard, easily the twentieth century's sturdiest defender of reason, rationality and the "rational temper," exemplified that temper in every line of his graceful prose. His solid defenses of e.g. the nature of mind as seeking and striving after ends, the end of thought as systematic understanding, the coherence theory of truth, the objective existence of necessary logical and causal connections, the universe as a strongly coherent logical and causal whole in which every fact entails and is entailed by every other, the meaning of "goodness" as the objective fulfillment of human ends accompanied by the taking of satisfaction in that fulfillment -- his defenses of these views and others won the admiration of friends and critics alike, both for the thoroughness of his approach and for the generosity with which he treated opposing positions. In this volume he exchanges essays with many of those friends and critics, providing yet again not only a defense of his views but an admirable example of how to conduct oneself in philosophical controversy. In a departure from the practice followed in the other volumes in this series, Blanshard replies to each critical essay individually rather than in one long reply at the volume's end. The effect is that the book reads like an extended philosophical conversation, in which Blanshard deals personally and closely with each thinker in turn. His replies also indicate where his thought had grown and developed since the publication of _The Nature of Thought_ in the 1930s, thereby continuing his thought along the lines laid down in _Reason and Analysis_, _Reason and Goodness_, and Reason and Belief_. The essays and replies are arranged topically, covering the full range of Blanshard's rationalist philosophy. And an introductory autobiographical essay provides a delightfully personal introduction to the man himself. No student of Blanshard can afford to miss this thorough and thoroughly engaging volume.

As a the director of a volunteer literacy program, I am constantly asked by our tutors about phonics. I kept thinking to myself "If only I could find a simple, inexpensive book that would not only explain what phonics is (and what it isn't), but how and when to teach it and what sequence to teach it in." Then to my delighted surprise I found this book! I plan to buy as many copies as our program can afford. It will be required reading for any tutor with a student that needs help with decoding. Also, even though the book refers to beginning readers as children, the strategies presented can be easily applied to adult learners.

This is a great little handbook for new teachers. It is easy to read and provides practical methods to teach phonics--it also provides ideas for activities. The book begins by discussing the purpose and limitations of phonics. Next it discusses the history and controversy of phonics--basal programs, and sight-word method vs. phonetic method. It also describes how children learn to read, and prerequisites for phonics instruction. Best of all--it leads you through the process of teaching phonics; starting with consonant letter-sound relationships, vowel letter-sound relationships, structural analysis, etc. It provides information on how to teach as well as activities.

I never thought such a book would exist! Thanks to the Internet and Amazon.com I found this book! For years our family has owned a large Weber mechanical orchestra built in the Black Forest of Germany. It sat long silent in the ballroom of our family's hotel. No one had any ideas on how best to fix our instrument. Then a friend suggested the Internet and Amazon.com. This book opened the door to restoring this machine. The orchestrion now sounds wonderful. Thanks Amazon and Art Reblitz!

A must-read for any player-piano owner. Even if you don't intend to do restoration work yourself, you'll find this book useful, informative and just plain fun! Lots of illustrations and interesting historical information!

This really is an excellent book, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for Sherlock Holmes, of course, but he was also an excellent science fiction author of his time, up there with Wells, Verne and the rest, and a wonderful writer in general. The Poison Belt starts off rather humorously then become intense, sad, and joyful in turn. Professor Challenger is another larger than life character, and he is also Doyle's favorite creation, not Holmes. I enjoy the Sherlock Holmes books, but I really do like Doyle's underrated sci-fi better.

This is an excellent book creating suspense as our solar system passes through a poision belt in the cosmic web and explains beautifully the effects of a supposed poisen on our solar system. The Reader of this book will wonder that has Sir ever been an attendent of Dr. Einstein or Sir has himself teleported himself to the Deep Space and visualised the passing of 9 planets into etheral poisen.

A Princess in Berlin is a good book I have no doubt in recommending: an interesting an pleasurable reading. Berlin in the 1920s, through a myriad of characters and stories in different levels, is its true protagonist. The book tells a highly formative and easy to read story. We come to understand, among other things, the political and economic situation that made possible the arrival of Hitler and the nazis. It may lack some depth in its characters, and the story seems sometimes streched to tell us many bits of history. It probaly comes short in style to become a masterpiece, but it certainly succeeds in taking you close to Berlin in a critical moment in history. And despite its limitations, the book remains close to your heart. This probably explains its hughe success

This is a wonderful story of an aspiring young American painter, a veteran of World War I, living in Berlin in the early twenties, in the aftermath of Germany's defeat and the middle of the Weimar inflation. The young man's dollars make him wealthy, and he becomes involved in the life of the city on several levels, the financial and political world as well as the artistic. Meanwhile, in Munich, the National Socialists loom, rant, and look for their chance to exploit the chaos.

As a novelist, Solmssen, a practicing attorney, is an "amateur" in the very best sense. His love of the city and fascination with its history are very exhilarating. He wanted to get as much Berlin as he could into the book. It's too bad it's out of print.