A variety of commonly recognized animals are profiled with respect to the level and type of care that the parents may give. The artwork and colors are very appealing. I see this book as a great resource for elementary teachers to address survival adaptations in different species. I would recommend pairing this book with "Growing Up:Alone."

i had to read John Bull's other island and major barbara for a literature class. i really disliked both of them. major barbara included a preface all about poverty and how the jails should be emptied. (apparently, shaw was a socialist.) it was really pretentious and he just made me really mad. the plays themselves seemed really dry and dull. i don't think this is the fault of the class because i really liked other things we read. it just seemed like the characters were really one dimentional, the social message shaw was trying to get across was the real focus of the play. i resent that. i don't read plays to be (primarily) lectured to. they were pretty unentertaining, too.

For those who are thinking of getting this book because your lecturers or instructors recommend it, please please find some other alternatives instead. Do not ever buy this book.

This book is much smaller, thinner and has bigger fonts compared to other Fluid Mech textbooks. After flipping through a few pages, it is obvious that it lacks clear explanations and examples which will be very hard for students to fully understand Fluid Mechanics.

Personally, books that are more suitable for undergraduates will be :
Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics by Bruce R. Munson, Donald F.Young & Theodore H. Okiishi
Fluid Mechanics by Frank M. White
Introduction to Fluid Mechanics by Fox & Mcdonald

This book is written in a manner that makes it more useful for professors than students. Virtually no derivation paths for formulas are shown, which makes it almost impossible or very time-consuming to understand where they come from.

I have not read this book, but was so offended by his racist textbook "History of England" that I must ask Mr. Burke: Are you not aware that the "macho" males are genetic mutants, attracted to XYY males?. When you give snide endorsement to Edward being thrust with a hot poker, you define a culture of gays and bi-sexual lesbians. I hear that this is what has become of England since my last visit in 1974.

This book presents an introduction to the field of educational technology. The table of contents, with all of its varied topics is quite promising. However, the execution is not very satisfying. Much of the text seems to be descriptive, presenting historical details of educational technology, instead of instructing teachers how to use it, or getting them to think about it. For this reason, it's rather dry and un-engaging-it seems to approach the issues but never quite meets them head on with details.

The book is filled with inaccuracies or ambiguities. For example, on p. 278 Poole writes "Ironically, whereas in 1950 three out of four high school graduates went on to pursue a college education, by 1900 that ratio had fallen to two out of every four, a drop of 25 percent!" Hmmmm. As an example of computers helping students with disabilities, the author draws repeatedly on an article about facilitated communication. Wasn't that disproven with double-blind tests years ago? (In facilitated communication an aide helps a student with severe communication difficulties to type by "holding their hands steady" as they type. Some researchers didn't believe it was really the students typing, so they showed pictures to both aides and students, individually so that they couldn't see each others' pictures. Then they had the students type what they saw with the aides' help. Funny enough, the students "typed" only what the aides saw, never what the students saw, despite the fact that the students never saw what the aides saw.) The book includes questions at the end of chapter. Sometimes the questions are about the material in the chapter itself, and sometimes about the feature article at the end of the chapter (not always related).

Some of the graphics in the book are blurry, and a few are illegible. However, the pictures are great, and would be useful as discussion starters. In general, though, I wouldn't recommend this text. Instead, I would choose alternatives such as Geisert & Futrell's Teachers, Computers, and Curriculum, Morrison's Integrating Computer Technology into the Classroom, or Jonassen's Learning with Technology.