This workbook consists of 70 exercises on thinking skills in various aspects, such as visual discrimination, problem solving, understanding relationship,inference, sequencing, storytelling and rhyming words. My 5 years old girl needs me to explain the exercise to her, and it gives her some brain storming. As what the editor written: If a child has grasp of how to think, school success and even success in life will become more assured. However not in ONE workbook, the Gifted and Talented Workbooks have some more titles on maths, reading, science and language arts.

This book provides those who are more likely to have believed the Harlem Renaissance to be entirely literary and entirely Harlem-centered with evidence of the all-encompassing scope and international import of this crucial, modern, blackened artistic surge. The exploration of black identity and construction of black nationality called the Harlem Renaissance is insightfully revisited through the social and artistic problems enacted in the works, within the voices, and upon the bodies of protagonists: Josephine Baker, Paul Robeson, and surprisingly, Orson Welles. This book is a fine complement to books which focus on literary-hitsorical aspects (such as David L. Lewis' _When Harlem was in Vogue_) and those which focus on music such as Angela Davis' _Blues Legacies and Black Feminism_ and Albert Murray's _Stomping the Blues_). It is a a fabulous expansion of the artistic territory encompassed in black art. Maya Angleou has said: "I am human, and therefore nothing h! uman can escape my grasp." I believe that black art has languished too long in the storage bin where fads and fanices go to die. _Black Rhapsodies_ rescues the Renaissance from this fate by positing black art as a philosphical stance, therefore attainable in varied ways throughout the post WWI world--not as the exotic and undisciplined, irregular expressions of primitive black jungle souls on the drum-pulsing streets of 20s Harlem. I couldn't agree more, and I hope that the idea that black art is both a real category and a complex one full of contadictions is adopted in the teaching of the Renaissance.

My one complaint is minor and may stem from my own unfamiliarity with the indexing system of books on art. I found it difficult to locate quickly the visual art being described in certain passages. If there were a more convenient way on idexing the art or of expaining the system to the novice reader, it would be appreciated.

This book is a collection of articles that appeared in various issues of Campaigns and Elections magazine. Sections divide the cases of elections for U.S. Senate, House, state/local races, and ballot initiatives.

Alone, the articles are each reasonably well executed. But don't go looking for connective tissue. This book completely lacks any structure for comparison. The "case studies" are not composed in similar formats. An unfamiliar reader will have trouble understanding when events took place -- dates have been left out -- entire articles exist without reference to years that elections took place.

Articles written by managers or consultants for one candidate reject any balanced discussion of their opponents' tactics.

These aren't flaws of the writers. They're flaws of the collection. The book's editors appear to have made no effort to revise old magazine content. Chapters don't even begin or end with extra unifying information.

Long story short: this is little more than a disjointed re-packaging.

It's very hard to find good, practical case studies of political campaigns written by people who know what they're doing. This book is superb, and an excellent source for people who want to find out the inside story of how candidates win tough elections.

I just recently caterered my husband's 30th birthday party with a Scottish theme. I found "A Little Scottish Cookbook" to have well laid out traditional recipes that were easy to prepare. However, after buying a few other cookbooks on the subject at the time, it's pretty standard. If you're looking for the standard bill of fare in Scottish recipes this is it.

Good effort, but ultimately disappointing. It's same ol', same ol', but in a new vernacular. The authors are rehashing psychotherapeutic wisdom, only this time it is coached in the "scientific" language of evolutionary psychology. And so empathy, positive regard and respect for a client become functions of the "kinship" approach (Bailey), and males are uncommunicative and lousy partners because, well... Because such is their nature, created over the evolutionary eons.
OK, it is not worthless if you are looking for the evolutionary language to reframe human problems. It is not helpful if you are looking for new insights to those problems and new ways of alleviating them. (You'll learn that unconditional support and regard are of primary importance to clients in psychotherapy. But you already knew that, didn't you.)

And I wondered why the chapter on male "psychology," full of stereotypes on male and female behavior, was not followed by a chapter on females, but instead by one on "gender differences." Is it because evolutionary psychologists are pretty much in the dark when it comes to female psychology (if we don't count the old stereotypes, especially about female sexuality)?

This book will find its admirers among the (self-adoring) EP crowd - but if this is not your cuppa tea, you do well looking elsewhere for psychotherapeutic insights.