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La Especialidad de Cada Angel
Published in Paperback by Líbra y Léo (01 January, 1997)
Author: Harry Marcel
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¡Con cuanta tranquilidad y alegría vives después de leer
este libro y sentir que los ángeles se mezclan entre nosotros, en nuestras actividades . . . aunque no podamos verlos !

Un estudio maravilloso de Angelografía, que tiene aplicaciones en nuestra vida y nuestra conducta diaria.

¿TE IMAGINAS QUE PUDIÉRAMOS VER
A LOS ÁNGELES ?
Porque es indudable que respiran cerca de nosotros !
ESTE LIBRO ME ESTÁ ENSEÑANDO A INVOCARLOS..Y he descubierto que el simple hecho de pensar en ellos, ME LLENA DE PAZ Y ALEGRIA !

Precioso !
Desde la portada, que es una verdadera obra de arte de ñla cual apenas podemos quitar los ojos.
El libro es precioso y nos eleva el espíritu el ir conociendo ÁNGELES POR SU NOMBRE Y SU OCUPACIÓN...
De tantos libros de ángeles, ESTE ES EL MÁS BONITO


Corgiville Fair
Published in Paperback by Little Brown & Co (Pap) (April, 1998)
Authors: Tasha Tudor and Harry Davis
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So glad to see it's still in print
This was my all time favorite book when I was a child. I went on line, hoping to at least find a used copy for a friend's baby... and am thrilled to find that it is still in print! It's a great children's story, full of wonderful characters, with great illustrations. Very charming. I loved it as a child, and am glad to get to replace my old copy with a new one for my son.

Corgiville Fair Wins Blue Ribbon in My Book!
What a wonderful book! I bought it as a gift, but had it sent to me so I could see it first. Big mistake! I was physically unable to part with it, and had to order another copy to send to my friend, who is lucky enough to live with a Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Sally. If you love corgis, you'll love this book!

If you love corgis you will love this book!
A wonderful children's story that could be enjoyed by everyone in the family! Tasha Tudor captures the characteristics and features of the corgi wonderfully. I bought my entire family a copy for Christmas.


Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
Published in Hardcover by John Wiley and Sons Ltd (29 November, 2002)
Author: D. Blum
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All teachers should read this, too.
I am one of the millions of people in the USA with an education degree who are not teachers. Behavior theory is the rule of the school today. I couldn't figure out why we treat children like guinea pigs instead of like the human beings that they are. This book opened my eyes. There IS more to life than rewards and consequences. I think science has backed itself into a corner, though, because religion has a corner on the love and respect market and science has repeatedly assured us that all that spiritual stuff is nonsense. This book is a must read for anyone with an accessible heart.

Good Historical Perspective
Like many others, I never forgot the pictures in my intro psych text of Hary Harlow's baby monkies and their surrogate mothers. Blum's very readable book reviews Harlow's work and places it in the historical context of psychology and the social perspectives the middle part of the 1900's.

Although the descriptions of Harlow's experiments were well written, the last chapters of Blum's book were most interesting to me. In these chapters, Blum describes the feminist and animal rights back lash against Harlow's work. One can't help be stunned by the irony that Harlow's work, which ultimently championed the importance of mothers' relationships to their children and the deep intelligence of monkies (and their similarities to human beings), would be vilified by these groups.

Blum's book is, thus, not only about one of the most innovative psychologists of the past century, but also a great perspective of how we change our thinking about what we are as a species. It is far more than a book about the man who took baby monkies away from their mothers.

Couldn't put it down...
For a biography / psychology book, I was pleasantly surprised by just how readible this book is (once you start reading, plan on being glued to it until you're finished). A fascinating slice of history, it's useful and insightful reading if you're a parent (or planning on becoming one), or if you're interested in the roots of the controversy over medical research with primates, or if you're just looking for tips on what makes humans tick. Well worth the read if only to put B. F. Skinner's experiments and theories into a frightening human perspective.


Ordinary Differential Equations
Published in Paperback by Dover Pubns (October, 1985)
Authors: Morris Tenenbaum and Harry Pollard
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Wow -- Perfect ODE book for an undergrad
For math background, all that is needed for this book is a first semester in calculus. If you are looking for a book to learn ordinary differential equations (ODEs) from or for a second book for a class, buy this one. The book (which covers methods of solving/applying ordinary differential equations) are explained in just the right amount of detail--it isn't a novel, but it isn't something you should get too bogged down in. Also, there are LOTS of examples, which are all very helpful! The problem sets were put together very well--there are lots of problems and they start out easy and get harder. Also, one of the best things about this book is that it has most of the answers to problems! This makes this book more than sufficient for self-study. This is my favorite Dover Publications book!

Very impressive...
After going through this book and finishing a few weeks ago, and looking at some other comparable titles, I have to come to the conclusion that this is quite possibly overall the best introductory text on ODEs out there.

The book consists of six major subtopics: first-order equations, general nth-order linear equations, systems and nonlinear equations, series solution methods, numerical solution methods and existence/uniqueness theorems. Most of the subjects tend to be divided into two or three chapters, with the first one or two containing the theoretical aspect and computational techniques and the other consisting of applications to real world problems.

At some 800-odd pages the book is quite long, but the sheer amount of material covered is simply astounding; the book has several types of special ODEs and solution methods that I have not seen anywhere else, and the authors go to great lengths to make every concept fully clear to the reader while still being quite rigorous. I am personally somewhat pure-math oriented but also needed some practice with applied problems, and this text is sure to please both students of mathematics as well as those of the sciences due to the very large amounts of subject material contained in both areas. (the book is split about 55-45 in theory/application)

One very nice thing is that if there is some doubt as to whether or not the reader is comfortable with something from another subject (i.e. real analysis), the book does not assume that the reader is familiar wih that topic, but rather it goes through a short review of the topic that is self-contained enough for readers who have not heard of the topic before to get a good idea of it. There are a variety of well-designed problems that provide plenty of practice along with some that expand upon the original concepts, and the average difficulty generally seems about right for the target audience. The numerical methods are also surprisingly robust considering that the book was written in 1963 and calculators/computers were not all that standard. Also, as was remarked earlier, this is one of the very few texts out there that contains the answers to all of the exercises, making it perfect for the self-study that I used it for; other authors/publishers should learn from this.

All things considered, this ranks among the best textbooks on any subject that I have ever seen, and coupled with the extremely low price, it definitely lies in the "must buy" category.

Excellent...Very well written
This is definitively the best introduction book to the differential equations that I Know until this moment. Although there are other excellent books on this topic, this one has the particularity that for each one of the topics that tries, has a collection of carefully elected exercises for the author, in such a way that the student won't feel frustrated of finding exercises that don't have a direct content with the exposed theory, also ordered in upward difficult . Each chapter is divided in lessons where it introduces step to step the elements that will serve him later on in particular in the understanding of some differential equation. With detail and accuracy, the only resource that is needed is to know how to integrate, the rest is in the book. The author doesn't consider that the reader knows something, it simply supposes that he doesn't know it, and then it enriches the text with methodological explanations that make that the text is almost self contained, without for it, to subtract depth in the topics. It is for my a true pleasure to sit down to read this book, of which I always learn on what should be made when one thinks of writing a book: to think of the more general possible reader.


Brules
Published in Audio Cassette by Bantam Books-Audio (June, 1994)
Author: Harry Combs
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Overblown
I do not often read westerns, however I thought I would give a book like Brules, touted to be more literature than genre, a try. I'm sorry I did.

Brules is too long, too wordy, and unnecessarily racist. Yes, the white men and the indians didn't love each other. We know that. But having that driven home without redemption for over 400 of the 500 pages is nauseating at best. Brules himself is mostly without redemption. There is little to love in a man who views his woman as a beautiful piece of flesh and shoots and kills people to get whatever he needs. Yes, I'm sure there were lots of cowboys like that out there, but do we really want to spend a whole 500 and some pages in the company of one?

That said, Brules is fairly well written, and Harry Combs did manage to create one character I really cared about--the young man we meet at the beginning of the book and to whom Brules tells his story, Steven Cartwright. I hear Combs wrote a whole book about him, The Legend of the Painted Horse, and perhaps I will go give that a try.

All told, Brules is probably a good read for Western readers. I think the rest of us, however, will find it a bit nauseating.

Brules is the best of the best, and he proves it.
This is one of the best books that I have read about the old west. The detail that Mr. Combs puts into this book is just awsome. After you read this book you will want to go and saddle a horse, strap on you .38 Smith & Wesson, put your model 66 Winchester in its sheath and have your own adventures. If you like Louis L'amour's books then you will love Brules. He is the man that we all wish we could have been, in the time of history when survival of the fittest was the way of the land. This was a hard time that demanded hard men to tame the "wild west". What they got in Brules was one of the harderst and most dangerous men(when rialed) they could have imagined. Brules is one of the men that legends are made of. This IS the best western book that I have read and I highly recommend this book to any person who is fascinated about the time and people.

BRULE'S
THIS BOOK BY HARRY COMBS IS FABULOUS. THE DETAILS OF THE AREA ARE SUPERB. AS WE LIVE VERY CLOSE BY AND HAVE BEEN TO THIS SPOT MANY TIMES, WE ARE VERY PLEASED WITH HIS PRECISE DETAIL. THE STORY IS SO EASY TO FOLLOW AND CAPTIVATING, WE COULD NOT WAIT TO OBTAIN THE NEXT 2 BOOKS. MANY OF OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS IN NORWOOD HAVE ORDERED THIS ON OUR RECOMMENDATION. THANK YOU HARRY COMBS.


On Writing the College Application Essay : The Key to Acceptance and the College of your Choice
Published in Paperback by Barnes & Noble (September, 1987)
Author: Harry Bauld
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Excellent resource and easy to read
I've read several books on the college application process and it is clear that the essay plays a major role in determining whether or not an applicant is accepted. Mr. Bauld has written an entertaining, informative and very easy-to-read book that is also thankfully short. No long-winded, self-congratulatory filler here! It gets right to the point and is generous with excellent examples. In fact, this book is a great resource not only for those prepping to write a college application essay, but it contains great advice for writers in general. This book is well worth its reasonable price for the ideas, motivation and examples it provides. Now I need to get a clue from Mr. Bauld and keep this short and to the point. Bye.

Helpful and amusing advice on writing an original essay.
This book really helped me through the college application process. I was having a hard time trying to come up with a topic that wouldn't put admission officers to sleep, and this book did exactly that. Harry Bauld worked for a university and knows what catches the eye and what doesn't. I was able to come up with a clever topic for my essay. This may sound too good to be true, but my essays, with the advice and tips on from Harry Bauld, partially helped me get a full scholarship to college. I highly recommend this book to anyone having any trouble writing essays! Good luck!

Must have for essay writing
This is a great book for all who are about to or in the midst of writing essays for college admission. It is funny, honest and insightful. I also recommend this book to anyone who needs help with writing essays for any class. The advice offered applies to all essay writing, not just college application essays. I am a teacher, and I felt that it even helped me a bit. Buy this book or see if your library has a copy. All high school students would do well to read this book.


Bill the Galactic Hero
Published in Paperback by I Books (01 June, 2001)
Author: Harry Harrison
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Sci-Fi Pulp
Bill the Galactic Hero is the epitome and parody of every sci-fi book. He's the ultimate hero and the total loser. You have to love the sci-fi genre to appreciate Bill. Sure it's corny, and some of the jokes are rather low brow, but it's not meant to wring your brain in comprehension. It's a book that you can sit and read without shifting your brain out of first gear.(No offense intended, Mr. Harrison.) Lots of fun.

Underappreciated Brilliance
I first read this book back in Junior High, where some relative had most likely picked it up at a used book store and it some how made its way into my basement. When I read it then, it was one of the first books that I loved from the very first page, all the way through to the end. I also fondly remember it as the first book to make me laugh out loud. Now, 4 or 5 years later I have managed to find the book again and buy it new, and I love it just as much as I did the first time, if not more.

The story follows the life of a humble farmer and how he gets manipulated into joining the army of the future and the many misfortunes that follow. It's basically a satire on the future, civilization, and the military. Don't let this books cheesy cover or silly name disuade you, its worth every penny. And now that I have found out there are sequels to follow, i'm one happy man. In the same vein as Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and even Kurt Vonnegut, this game is one hillarious treasure.

Underappreciated Treasure
I first read this book back in Junior High where some family member most likely found it at a used book store and some how it made its way into my basement. When I read it then it was one of the first books I truly enjoyed page for page. It was certainly the first book that ever made me laugh out loud. Now, 5 or 6 years later I have found myself a new copy of the book and it is just as great as I remembered it. A hillarious take on the future of war. This story follows a gentle farmer through the many obscure misfortunes that make up his life. Very similiar in style to Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, or even Kurt Vonnegut. It's really hard to find, but if you can get your hands on it I deffinatly recommend it.


Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat
Published in Paperback by Ace Books (June, 1988)
Author: Harry Harrison
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What 5-Star Ratings Were Invented For
To enter the world of the Stainless Steel Rat remains one of the greatest delights of my reading experience when I was a teen, and I am so grateful to my father for having recommended these books to me. I would now like to pass the recommendation on to the world. If you're a fan of exceptionallly exciting, creative, and hilarious science fiction, you can't lose with the Rat. I've hardly ever been able to read a book twice, because I remember everything that happened and it's too boring to consider. Well, The Stainless Steel Rat stands in the company of a handful of exceptional books through the years that have merited repeated readings. I've read the first volume of stories four times over the years and I've been thinking as of late that I might read it again.

Someone in a previous review wondered where the movie is. I've wondered the same thing for years. Well, Slippery Jim fans will be happy to learn that a movie is in the works as I type.

One of my all-time favorites!
This is a book I've read and re-read and re-read numerous times. I enjoyed this book very much. So much so that I took the "handle" Stainless Steel Rat on the first BBS I was on (1984) and some "hacker" buddies still call me "Rat" to this day...

I recommend this book to any and all sci-fi readers. The later books weren't always as good as this trilogy - this should be the starting point for any future "Rats."

In short: GET THIS BOOK!

I own two copies - one to lend, one to reread myself.
It is a pleasant surprise when you find a book that makes you try to guess what will happen next, you are always wrong, and you prefer it that way. Jim is one of the most brilliant, principled, vibrant characters you will find. It is obvious that Mr. Harrison spent a long time working on the plot. One of the weaknesses of Sci-Fi is the lack of originality in many of the stories. These stories are all creative masterpieces. I think every writer of the science fiction, adventure, or mystery should read this book to see how it can be done.


Harry Potter y la camara secreta
Published in Paperback by Emece/Argentina (March, 2001)
Authors: J. K. Rowling, Adolfo Munoz Garcia, and Nieves Martin Azofra
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Muy Bien
Esta novela me esta gustando aun mejor que la primera. !Que divertida es!

The translators and publisher are Spanish. There is much vocabulary from Spain, just as the English version has much British vocabulary. I really enjoy learning about regional vocabulary differences, whether in English or Spanish, so this was a big plus.

A friend claims the American editions have been Americanized, although I don't know if it's true. (The American editions still have many British words, but do use some American words, like "sweater" instead of "jumper".) It's funny how the Brits understand us from seeing our movies/television, but we don't understand their vocab or accent as well. It's great to be exposed to different forms of languages we already know.

The translation seems very good, but some things seem wrong, such as "?QUE TE TENGO DICHO?" on the second page of text. I think this should be "?QUE TE HE DICHO?" Maybe this is a form with which I'm not familiar, because I can't imagine a native speaker and translator would make such a gringo ("guiri" en Espana) mistake.

Fascinante la serie de Libros de Harry Potter
Ahora Harry Potter se encuentra en segundo año de la escuela de Magos. Este es un libro que una vez lo comienzes a leer no podras parar como si realmente tuviera un hechizo. Ya he comenzado a leer el Prisionero de Azkaban que es el tercero de la serie y espero ansiosa que el cuarto libro salga en español. Definitivamente la narrativa es increible,la forma en que JK Rowling describe a los personajes es impresionante. Te los puedes inmaginar tal y como son y a la misma vez te transportas a la camara secreta con Harry. Es una serie de libros completamente fascinante, tanto para adultos como para niños.

Wrong review (above)
I just LOVE this book, and all the harry potter books. I wanted to say to Eric J Justice, who wrote a review above, that your review was incorrect. It DIDNT have a mistake; saying QUE TE TENGO DICHO es right. In fact, im pretty sure what you said was right too. But anyway, anyone who hasn't read this should, but read the SORCERER'S STONE first, because it's really best to read them in order.


The Annotated Lost World
Published in Hardcover by Gasogene Books (January, 1996)
Authors: Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle, Patrick Forbes, and Harry Rountree
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Great Bloody Book
A Classic. I have to agreee that I do not think Micheal read this book. One of Doyles best with out a doubt. Challenger is as good a hero as Holmes. Thank god for America releasing the 1925 film on DVD.

excellent notes on a dated but fascinating novel
With the DVD remastering of the 1925 film of "The Lost World", this book makes a fascinating companion. I read the novel in my teens and it was fun to re-enter Doyle's world and remeet the fascinating Prof.

Get the book and the remastered DVD - making sure you get the restored version.

A collector's item
This handsome (Wessex = listed here as Gasogene) edition of an enthralling yet sadly neglected masterpiece by Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, is enhanced by dozens of insightful annotations, all the original illustrations, as well as a stockpile of in-depth, illuminating essays on the origins of the work itself, its adaptation to the silent screen, and more. Five- star rating both for content and presentation. A collector's item, well worth the price.


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