The first time I used this book was in a classroom of 6th - 8th grade students. Their math abilities ranged from 1st to 7th grade as did their reading abilities. Out of 15 students, one found the work difficult. For the rest, this book made learning fractions painless! Each child went at his/her own rate and one child managed to finish the book in two weeks (making me wish I had just as good materials in other topics!) I LOVE this book. After coming home to teach my own children, I made sure to add it to our home library AND to the library I manage for a group of homeschoolers. I can't imagine teaching fractions any other way.
You'll need a box of cuisenaire rods. You can use the c-rods to teach multiplication, division, subtraction, addition, area, perimeter, measurement, and even algebra so buying a box is well worth it.
Each step for learning fractions is broken down in manageable (and rememberable) segments. After each segment is a fun puzzle that the teacher can use to make sure the concept was understood (a test that doesn't look like a test.) The kids love the puzzles and love using the rods. Why use any other system?

This book is a wonderful math aid for educators. Using cuisinaire rods, it helps students understand the concepts of number, perimeter, area, and cubic measurement. I have used it with as young as second graders and as old as sixth graders. It has a nice element of creativity in many of the activities--not always easy to find in math materials.Very well conceived by the author.

Selected by Brandon & Hill (Nursing Outlook, March-April, 1996) as one of best books for small nursing or medical libraries.

This book was invaluable to me when I was working on my Graduate project on Cultural Diversity in Healthcare. Highly recommend it to anyone wanting a good overview of the topic.

I have just purchased and read the new exciting third edition to transcultural nursing. The new updates not only provide an indepth understanding to the various cultural groups, but leaps ahead of its nearest competitors by adding in-depth understanding of biological variations particulalrly those genetic in nature. This book has been the standard for some 10 years. I am again delighted with this work and would highly recommend it as the first book to be bought to understand this extremely important topics.

This book is great for someone looking for all the data on factory loaded ammo and ballistics tables on how it all performs out to 500 yds. But, if you are looking for lots of information on the science of ballistics and how bullets are affected by nature in flight and on target, this book will not satisfy your hunger. Overall, a great book for hunters/shooters/reloaders looking for bullet data.

This paperback, not hard cover book, is an excellent and very timely guide to factory ammo and factory ammo exterior ballistic performance. The book covers a very broad selection of cartridges.

The authors include listings for the .30-378, .338-378 Weatherby cartridges, as well as the .300 Remington Ultra Mag. The book goes on to offer data on the popular cowboy rounds like the .38-40, .38-55 and .44-40, and concludes with extensive listings on the big rounds up through the .700 Nitro Express.

The dimensioned cartridge drawing and brief history for each listing is very helpful and makes for more interesting reading. The velocity/energy and trajectory tables extend out to the extreme range of each listed cartridge.

The only negatives I found were some of the articles. For some inexplicable reason, the font size jumped from what looks like 10 points to 14 on the article pages, as though the publisher were trying to fill space. The authors are well known experts and the comments are certainly valid, but is there really a need to let people know the .30-06 is probably good for large deer, or that the .22-250 can cover a longer range than an almost obsolete .222 ?

I think it's worth the price, the information is accurate and timely, and it will be used frequently if you spend much time hunting, at the range, or are researching for a new firearm purchase.

This book immediately begs comparison with "Cartridges of the World" by Frank C. Barnes. As Mr. Forker states himself in the acknowledgements of this book, Barnes' book is the one by which all other works on cartridges will be judged. "Ammo and Ballistics" is a great reference work in its own right, though, filling a slightly different niche than "Cartridges of the World." The writing, including cartridge history and current opinion, is better in the Barnes book. Also, the Barnes book has a full-sized photo of each cartridge, including obsolete cartridges. Barnes' work has a well-rounded, complete feel to it, and if the world of cartridges fascinates you, as it does me, you will find yourself reading Barnes' classic work for pleasure as well as for the wealth of useful information contained. This is why, for my uses, I prefer the Barnes book. But if you are a hunter, or for some other reason need the lowdown on exterior ballistics, for heavens' sake do yourself a favor and buy the Forker book as well. Mr. Forker supplies page after page of velocity, energy, and trajectory tables for each cartridge. There is a wealth of data here, well presented, covering factory loadings for each cartridge. Antoher useful tidbit of the Forker book is felt recoil factor of each cartridge, so a shooter can compare the felt recoil of each cartridge. No kidding, this book delivers the goods with regards to performance information. I also liked the guest articles by Graig T. Boddington, which are included. Anything Boddington writes, you can take to the bank.

This book is a good introduction to Buddha the man. There are times that it drags a bit, but in general it was a fast read and provided the fundamentals of Buddha's life and a beginning understanding of his teachings. I liked the discussion of the Four Noble truths and the Eightfold path which made the teachings straightforward. All to often we get mired in the ennumerable teachings that exist in a religious/ philosophy/ psychology such as Buddhism or Yoga and forget that the purpose of these teachings was to make our lives simple, balanced, honest and it is not all that hard to do. Reading a book like this brings us back to our essence.

In man's "fathom-long body," the Buddha observed, lies the rising of the world and the ceasing of the world. I read this 133-page biography of Siddhartha Gautama today, absorbed, and in a single sitting. (It has been many years since I read Hesse's classic, "Siddhartha," which I also recommend.) Here, Nelson examines the extraordinary life and inner struggle of Siddhartha, from his birth in 563 BCE, to finding enlightenment at age 35, to his final words just before death at age 80, "work out your own salvation through diligence" (p. 120), while also offering an overview of Buddha's teachings. Along the way, Nelson includes many revealing anecdotes about Siddhartha, such as his pre-"Enlightened One" encounter with an injured lamb, whereupon Siddhartha observes that it is "far, far better for a man to comfort even one small animal, than to sit and watch the sorrows of the world, passively among the praying priests" (p.72). I enjoyed reading this book. END