I have a 2 year old who started reading this book with Grandma several months ago. She reads it to him in a sing-song voice that just enthralls him. Some days she'll re-read it 7 or 8 times. If you have irish roots you will enjoy sharing this book with your kids. And I think they'll really enjoy it.

I'm working in Silicon Valley for a company that deals regularly with the Japanese. Personally, I have lived and worked in Japan, so I am not completely new to the complex culture. Recently, I've been searching for a current book that addresses specifically problems that can arise and solutions to those problems in negotiations between Americans and Japanese. This book does just that.

The first portion of the book compares Japan and the US in cultural terms. Newcomers to Japan will find this section very useful. I enjoyed the section, as it allowed me to review material that I had learned through reading other books on Japan and through personal experiences. The second section, the Business of Face-to-Face Negotiation, was the reason I bought the book. It provides a detailed analysis of negotiating with the Japanese - who to send, what character traits are effective in dealing with Japanese, timing, process, etc. In addition, all of the information is supported by anecdotes of the authors, who all have long, impressive careers in working with Japan.

Overall, it think the book is excellent and would recommend it to anyone who negotiates with the Japanese - whether that person is a newcomer to the Japanese culture or a Japanophile.

This book goes beyond the basic or even advanced Excel how-to book. It focuses on business modeling and how to structure any spreadsheet you build, a topic completely missed by any other Excel book. This book has been written by people who build spreadsheet models, not programmers.

Use this book as a good reference on building spreadsheet, be it for business modeling or just plain use of Excel. For years I sought for this a book. Finally I found it. ...

This book contains original paintings by Ian Marshall which include the Warrior, the Monitor, the Olympia, the Maine and various other amazing renditions of Pre-Dreadnought ships.

This is a wonderful book/tape to use in teaching EFL to youngsters. My colleagues and I have used it in several courses that we have taught and it was always a success. Highly recommend!

Ann Graham Gaines's juvenile biography of "John Adams: Our Second President" is an excellent book for young students to find out about the patriot whose accomplishments were overshadowed by the men who were elected before and after him: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. This book has only four chapters: American Patriot, A Weak Vice President, The Presidency, and Saving the Nation from War. So even though Adams only served one four-year term as President, his time in the office is the focus on half of Gaines's book. No doubt Adams himself would be grateful that the final chapter emphasizes what he considered to be his major accomplishment in office, which was avoiding going to war with France.

This book focuses on providing basic information about Adams, with "Interesting Facts" about his life and times added to the margins. Each chapter has a page devoted to details about a related topic: The Boston Massacre, Abigail Adams, the White House and the friendship between Adams and Jefferson. There are a couple dozen illustrations in the book, all of which are in color. The back of this volume includes a time line of John Adams's life, a glossary of three dozen words, information on all of the Presidents form Washington to Bush, Presidential facts, and internet sites and books for finding further information.

Older students or those looking for more detailed information about Adams in a juvenile biography should turn next to Marlene Targ Brill's biography in the Encyclopedia of Presidents series and eventually David McCullough's best-selling biography. The "Our Presidents" books are part of the "Spirit of America" series, which focuses on the American experience in terms of history, culture, and politics.

(From a high class-B player, USCF) This book, along with its companion volume "The New Classical King's Indian", gives really in-depth coverage of the 6. Be2 lines of the King's Indian Defense. One feature I like about this book is that the author includes at least some prose description of the typical ideas and manuevers in some of the main variations. However, make no mistake about it -- this is a book with lots and lots of variations, and is probably best suited for tournament players or those with a pretty fair amount of experience. Definitely not for beginners, probably most useful to players rated around 1600 and above. If you want to memorize, or just familiarize yourself with the main variations of this opening, this is a good one though.

This book provides an incredible account of one mans walk with faith. I found it to be an enjoyable read that uplifted my spirit. I highly recommend this book to anyone. You will be amazed at this Doctors ability to remain faithful to his calling.

R.B. Cunninghame Graham's books are the sort of non-fiction that can almost be passed off as fiction. Desolate but fascinating wastelands, journeys over the silent terrain of the Americas, encounters with the bare edges of existence -- all make his works so engaging that I can't think of any writers to compare with him except his friends Joseph Conrad and W.H. Hudson.

Culled from his thirty or more books, Graham's "North American Sketches" were written between 1880 and 1925. They form the companion volume to his stunning South American and Scottish sketches also edited by John Walker. Here, we travel with the eccentric Scottish gaucho and radical MP for Menteith to the Mexican frontier and the Texas borderlands.

It is a savage world oscillating between barbarity and loneliness Graham describes for us. Time is punctuated with bloodshed, pointless cruelty, man's inhumanity to man, but also with hope and awe of this still wild land. "A Hegira," perhaps the most powerful sketch, depicts Graham's repeated encounters with six fugitive Mexican Apaches escaping from "the law" as he and his wife head north from Mexico City to their San Antonio ranch. "Silent and stoical the warriors sat," he describes them in the first encounter, before their flight, "not speaking once in a whole day, communicating but by signs; naked except the breech-clout; their eyes apparently opaque, and looking at you without sight, but seeing everything." These figures from two worlds meet up again. "Days followed days as in a ship at sea; the waggons rolling on across the plains" as Graham's party continually spies traces of the Apaches fleeing to their homes in the north, pursued by Mexican Indian hunters who, over a week, track down and kill them all. Nothing during his journey inspires in him so much fascination as those "stoical," silent "indios bravos": "I wondered what they thought, how they looked upon the world."

There is in these sketches a profound sense of disenchantment with civilization as practised, with "progress" as conceived. The American and Mexican public, he writes, doubtless believe in the problematical "Uncle Sam's Justice [sic]," the "poetical justice" of slaughtering Indians. Nevertheless, Graham does not completely scorn "civilization"; far from it. "We might have taught [the Indians] something, they might have taught us much, but soon they will all be forgotten, and the lying telegrams will speak of 'glorious victories by our troops.' " Some sketches, in fact, exhibit Graham's great admiration for the Anglo and Mexican societies he in other places condemns. "A Chihuahueño" is a wonderful portrait of Miguel Sáenz, a mestizo from Chihuahua. Full of Sáenz's witty proverbs, the sketch shows Graham's fascination with folk sayings. "Trust not a mule nor a wench", Sáenz quips; and "Among soldiers and prostitutes all compliments stand excused."

Graham's portraits of Mexico and Texas are every bit as fascinating as his awesome South American Sketches. If you like W.H. Hudson and Joseph Conrad, you'll love R.B. Cunninghame Graham.

THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU READ IT OVER 10,000,000 TIMES! WHEN i GOT THIS BOOK I LAUGHED SO MUCH! MY SUGGESTION IS IF YOUR A PYTHON MANIAC YOU MUST BUY THIS BOOK.(NEE!)