I love this book. We see a snake in the woods, and take note of as many characteristics as we can, then look it up later to learn more about it. Same with frogs, toads, lizards, skinks! The actual information provided for each reptile is slim but very interesting. This is a great book to have if you spend any time in the wild in Virginia.

I've had and used this book since it came out in 1980. I always recommend it to all of the classes and seminars I give on reptiles and amphibians and to all of the people who ask for a good field guide because, for the size and cost, there are none better for this part of the country. Well worth the money if a handy, accurate, well-done field guide with great photos and range maps is what you want.

There is hardly any significant fact about viruses that missed-out in this edition of "Fields Virology". Page after page, this sound all-inclusive reference doles out authoritative information on both viruses and viral syndromes. From taxonomy to etiology, metamorphosis to replication; the analyses of this text is grand. The same applies to its attached CD-ROM. Its practical outlook was intended to benefit both microbiologists and pathologists. Bernard Fields and his colleagues made their mark with this book. It is a great effort.
However, most botanist may not be pleased to know that little attention was paid to plant viruses. Again, many potential buyers may be demoralized by the rather high price that this virology-set demands.

It covers all fields of virology. Perfect and wonderful ! Easy to understand. I really recommend this book to who is involved in biology

A collection of essays by scholars of Apocalypticism. Good cites, interesting reading. Would have given it 5 stars, but the book contains no index, which would have been very useful to me.

I like this book. It has a lot of suspense and action. It is very exciting and if you like mythology, you should read this book. It has many exciting adventures with Hercules.
It starts off in Thebes. Amphitryon and Alcmene had a baby who was going to be the heir to the throne. It turns out that they're going to have two babies. This is a problem because if there is two prince babies, there will be a problem of succession. One baby was Hercules. He was twice the size of his twin brother Iphicles. Hercules was so big that people started to think he was a son of a god. Hera, who is the queen of gods, thought that Hercules was Zeus's son. So she sent two serpents to kill him. The two came and started to choke Hercules and his brother. His brother became unconsious, but Hercules just started to squeeze the life out of the snake choking him. He also took the other snake and tied them together. Iphicles had some broken ribs, but Hercules had bruises but no broken bones. Hera was very angry. Hercules grew and learned from a centaur Chiron. He taught Hercules many things. Hera forgot about Hercules for a while. Then she remembered him and she thought of a way to trick him. She gave him a vision. In the vision, she put a tall, grown man. He had a wife and kids. The man was angry and he struck his wife with his club and killed her. His two children screamed and tried to run away but he grabbed both of them and smashed their heads together. Seeing this, Hercules got scared. He was going to kill himself to prevent this from happening, but Hera said that if Hercules served the King Eurystheus in Mycenae for 12 years, he would be freed of this curse. Hercules went there at once. His first task was to kill the Nemean Lion and bring its hide to the king. The Nemean Lion was bigger than an elephant with teeth like daggers, claws like brass hooks, and a hide that no weapon can pierce. Hercules went the the Nemean Lion's territory. He killed it after using most of his weapons and finally stabbing its eye running at full speed with a spear. He cut the hide by using the lion's own claws. There were more tasks as dangerous as these. He was told to kill the Hydra, clean the Augean Stables in one day which was impossible without help, stealing red bulls from a a triple-bodied monster with 3 bodies and six legs and six arms all connected at the waist, and a few more near-impossible tasks. Hercules probably finishes them but thats for me to know and for you to find out by reading this book. I recommend this book to anybody who enjoys reading mythology books.

A wonderfully revealing history of the chicanery and deceit used in transferring much of European art into today's U.S. museums. Simpson is detailed and thorough in researching the history of the House of Duveen and connecting well known Art Historian Bernard Berenson to the early 20th century's version of today's internet speculation game

This books is a resource for advanced classical piano students. It covers all manner of pedaling techniques, and adresses a wide scope of composers, including the classics, romantics, as well as baroque. All the pedaling examples are supported by score extracts, showing the exact suggested pedaling, and the various composers are discussed at length with regards to pedaling style & performance practices. Remember that using the pedal (although it sounds simple!) is something not mastered well by many pianists, and it can be enormously effective in generating a wide spectrum of tonal effects. You have to be a serious classical piano student to appreciate this book - but if you are, it is definately worth it!

Joe Flanagan knows his stuff! This books covers the entire book Insight we clarity. While not a replacement for Insight, F's book helps to unravel what can be at times difficult in Insight. For example, as F. said in the Lonergan Web Site interview, his book's first goal is to provide the links to understanding Insight's first five chapters. It is these chapters with their heavy mathematical and scientific import that can be discouraging to first-time Insight readers. Having F's book along side Insight helps manage these chapters. In this sense, it is a must purchase book. But, here's a warning: Don't rely on F's book. It is a means not an end. The pricipal aim of Insight is YOUR self-appropriation. If F's book helps toward this goal then fine. If not, then drop it and move to another source.

As a textbook for an accounting systems class, this text is extremely cumbersome and long-winded. The authors seem to want to beat every subject to death, which results in excrutiatingly long chapters. Much of the material may be relevant to information systems majors taking it in a series of two classes, but is probably not suitable for an accounting major class. The writing style is boring and cryptic in many places. Look into the Gelinas/Sutton/Oram or Bodnar/Hopwood books for much better content and readability.

I was looking for specialized information and I failed to understand that "Essential Concepts and Applications" meant just what it said: this is a university text book for students, and in this quality it certainly rates a high grade, (although I am not qualified to say if it rates $ 311), but as a reference book for professional in the field, it is useless: half of the book introduces essentials of computer technology, the other half essentials of accounting, but none in depth. I will be more careful in the future and can only lament the loss. However, as a study text book, it is probably very good.

I have used the fourth edition of this book, and it's one of the best AIS text books I have seen. It's concise, to the point, and informative. The fourth edition of this book gets the point across without being longwinded. Supplementary materials are included on a CD and can be accessed if needed or to supplement the text material. The problems are extremely useful. I highly recommend this text for use in accounting information systems classes.

This is a well done book but the title is misleading. Jewish parents will especially want to take care, as this book is really written for non-Jewish children to learn about the Jewish Bible. THe book references the Jewish Bible from a Christian point of view, and references historical characters as to their distance in time to Jesus. I wish they had been more explicit about this; in fact, by prominently featuring the name of a rabbi who wrote the FOreword on the book's cover, the publishers seem to be purposely misleading potential buyers as to the nature of the book

First off, there is nothing distinctively Jewish about this book
except 1) a six-pointed star on the cover and 2) a foreword by a Rabbi.
However, in looking for bible story books for my child, it is the
best collection of Old Testament bible stories that I have come
across. The stories stick close to the actual bible stories
with little interpretation or fictionalizing. And the photos showing the landscapes and archaological finds are nice. ...

I teach fifth-grade Sunday school at my (reform) synagogue. Every week I struggle to bring these stories alive. I have a shelf of books to help, but none does a better job of providing clear and beautiful illustrations, and organizing things so I can help the kids make sense of all this.

So, the book is repackaged. Who cares? It helps me do what I need to do: present the Bible to kids in a way that keeps them interested. I think it helps me as I try to launch them into a lifelong relationship with Tanakh.

So, the book mentions Jesus. Good. This way I get to explain Jesus, the historical and cultural phenomenon, to the kids. It makes no sense to try to ignore the dominant culture of the United States, even (and maybe especially) in temple. I think Jewish kids could use some perspective, and I welcome the chance to provide it.

Can we relax a bit? I appreciate the "heads up," but prefer to take a pass on the hysteria.