This book has superb illustrations which will engage children's attention while imparting all the basics of the plant's lifecycle. As a teacher, this book will enhance the science curriculum and motivates students to learn about lifecycles.

Everyone who is interested in Gerald Massey and his writings must read this book!! Gerald Massey sought to inform the masses about the evolution of the human mind through varioius archetypes (a term that Mr. Massey uses well before Carl Jung) and symbols. Mr. Massey's service to mankind is as valuable as Charles Darwin's was but because his research is so revolutionary in it's effects that traditional academia still can't embrace what Mr. Massey discovered. Mr. Shaw's book helps the student of Mr. Massey's research to better understand what helped to shape Gerald Massey's views and opinions.

It is a good book for both new and experienced researcher in biosciences. Reading this book had exposed me to many areas and important findings related to biotechnology. And had been the first reference for me when I faced many difficult problems.

An excellent book to collect.

I am student at University of British Columbia (UBC). Time to time I help some neuropsychologists on various research from head injury to rehabilitation. I found the content of this book informative regarding today's topic, and particularly easy to read and understandable. This book covers areas of assessment in neuropsychology from early childhood to late adulthood. It also covers various assessment such as in neuropsychiatry, cognition, etc. This book is a valuable reference for student in clinical neuropsychology, and a reliable source of information for research. I highly recomand this golden reference to my coleagues.

If you're a true Keats fan this is a must to add to your collection. Contains all of Keat's best work. Or enrich somone's life who is not familiar with Keats. A great gift idea.

This book is an excellent companion to conventional textbooks in a Global History course. The Introduction and "Consider" feature before each source helps the reader to pinpoint key ideas and important themes in the document as well as provide important background information which aides in the understanding of the source. The wide variety of sources focusing on various aspects of each topic help to provide a well-rounded view of the subject.

The writer of this book appropriately acknowledges the fact that you cannot learn to present from a book. Like many other things it is a matter of practice makes perfect. So, if you are interested in this book because you are "scared"/unsure etc. of an upcoming presentation, this book will not teach you how to do it. However, this book will make you aware of some of the good and bad practices.

In the preface of the book the author mentions that the growth in computer projection equipment and the accompanying software that enables the creation of the so called "slide shows" may lead to the impression that everything is done by the computer. In this book he effectively shows that that is not the case.

The book commences in Chapters 2 and 3 by stressing the importance of planning your talk. Knowing what you want to say and who the audience will be. It emphasises planning the overall structure of the talk.

Chapters 4 and 5 are appropriately dedicated to the use of visual aids. It stresses the importance of getting the message to the audience. From this perspective it provides sensible useful guidelines for people whose artistic capabilities may not be well developed. Practical aspect of letter sizing and color usage is presented - mistakes in this regard, which I see made in presentations at all levels, are pointed out. These two chapters will probably shed interesting light on certain issues even for reasonably experienced presenters. The only "factor" that I could find that is not addressed in these chapters is the excessive use of animation which certain computer software "impose" on you. Therefore if a section that builds on the statement "Don't use animation unless there is a specific reason why it would aid in getting the message across..." is added, I would be happy that it is the most complete way in which this topic is addressed in one single source.

Chapter 6 specifically deals with "new" presentation technology. It mentions several issues that pertain specifically to computer-based presentations. This is the one chapter were the book could probably be bettered, especially for people wanting to read specifically about these kinds of presentations. To get value from this chapter one probably needs to read the previous chapters as well. As such the book loses a bit of its potential as "reference" material. It is, however, still very much worthwhile if you read the book as a unit.

The rest of the book deals with a variety of issues deals with aspects such as different kinds of room layouts, different kinds of presentations etc. It fails, however, to make a link between how these would change the presentation. If the latter part of the book receives attention and do a bit more than just mention these issues much value can be added. This part of the book is probably responsible for its 4-rating. If I were to evaluate Chapters 1 - 6 and 7 - 11 separately it would probably receive 5 and 3 stars respectively.

The appendices provide some evaluation forms for the different types of meetings, which could save you some experimentation.

In general the book is a good buy for people with no or little experience in making presentations - applying and thinking carefully about some of the suggestions may help you avoid mistakes by raising awareness. However, even experienced presenters could probably get value out of the book by measuring their existing way of doing against chapters 3 - 6.

This is not one of those books filled with pep talks and exhortations to overcome stage fright or thinly veiled Toastmaster "how to". It's about the realities of delivering technical presentations as either the speaker or the coordinator of a presentation. To be sure, it does address some of the basics, such as how to clarify your message with an outline, dealing with hostile audiences, and how to create effective visual aids that reinforce your message.

What sets this book apart, though, is the way the author addresses the logistical issues, which can be a coordinator's nightmare. The advice given is born of experience and enduring the last minute pressures of getting on a plane to do an unplanned presentation the next morning. As life would have it, such events depend on luck and demonstration equipment or software functioning perfectly. As Murphy's Law would have it, these events age one rapidly. But the author thoroughly covers all of the issues and factors, including scheduling and logistics and how to coordinate the complexities of preparing the site. He also goes into minute details of site selection and optimum room layout, audience (and speaker) comfort and safety and coordinating multiple speakers. Here is an example of the level of detail the book goes into, showing how well thought out the material is: managing speaking events in multilingual audiences or guest speakers requiring translators.

To a presenter this book is valuable; to an event coordinator or road-warrior presenter this book is a jewel. It covers topics and situations you rarely think of until you've been embarrassed a few times, and is clearly and cleverly written.