Compelling plot and firery finish, bravo Ms Kim!

This is my son's favorite book! He gets a kick out of seeing children doing the same kinds of things he can do. Excellent job!

What fun to share this with your little one. It reinforces their activities and recognizes their growing abilities. Good to send to mothers with little ones.

This book is still the best available for the Western Great Lakes region. Very informative and detailed. The distribution maps are most helpful in attempting to locate the general area to find these beauties. Fred's affection with wild orchids shows in the quality of this publication. I would also suggest his newer book on Trilliums.

This book is extremely useful, especially as a companion to Voss's Michigan Flora and wildflower books covering the Eastern U.S. The photos, although dated, are good. What is especially good about this book, though, is the accurate and descriptive list of habitats that occur in the region, complete with the orchids someone searching the area could find in the habitat. Distribution maps are also included.

A great guide to Midwestern orchids. Fred knows and loves our native orchids and their habitats, and succeeds in communicating that knowledge and love to the reader. Plenty of great photos of orchids and the places in which they grow.

Lots of falling snow, warm muffins, children's choirs ... and a few dead bodies are laced into this satisfying mystery that makes it just right for a cozy read by the Christmas tree.

Mystery traditionalists will enjoy Hunter's careful plotting and thrills of a chaste and purely cerebral nature.

The relationship between Ransom and Charters is almost as much fun to read as the mystery plot. If your Christmas holidays are always uneventful or unsatisfying, read about theirs. It was lots more interesting.

This is a great career book. Not only did it help me with my resume, but with every aspect of my job search. It helped me find interviews by using various methods (networking, recruiters, search engines). Once in the interview, it helped me to effectively control the interview and highlight my skills.

The exercises were great and actually made me realize all of the skills that I had. I learned how to properly negotiate my salary and am now making 20% more. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a job.

Fred has covered it all in this comprehensive guide. It is crucial for the entry level professional, right up to the well seasoned executive searching for the ideal career opportunity. I have this book and have recommended to my colleagues and clients. The guide itself is excellent, but the interactive features extend the flexibility of the document 10 fold! For anybody who works, this book is a must!

Fred Coon's book and CD-ROM are a valuable resource and how-to guide for everyone looking to change careers or find their dream job. Full of concrete and useful tips, this book covers the basics AND the insider's techniques for controlling an interview and conducting an effective job search.

If you read any one book on the topic of Atlantis, this should be it. It's a scholarly work that covers scientific ground that no one else even thinks to tackle. In particular, the late Dr. Muck's discussion of the Gulf Stream and climatologic evidence is persuasive. (It should be tested against the hypothesis of a polar axial shift to ensure validity with regard to location of currents vis a vis the Gulf Stream. His same ideas and techniques applied to Siberia could add further weight to the axial displacement hypothesis as well, or refute it.) More recent evidence about the astronomic event that shattered a small comet or asteroid into over half a million pieces, crossed North America from Alaska and crashed into the Sargasso Sea during the correct time frame (as evidenced by the "Carolina Bays") fully supports Muck's thesis and lends greater credibility to it. This out of print book should be reissued!

A very interesting book for those interested in the legend of Atlantis. All of Mr. Muck's ideas are very intuitive and certainly can't be disputed. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in both Atlantis and theories of very early history.

Otto Muck's "The Secret of Atlantis" is a very intellectually stimulating book that gives substantially correct arguments that can't be proved wrong regarding the lost continent of Atlantis.

This box set gives you everything you need to know about Thay, Rashemen, and that area. If your considering this set take the chance it is well worth the money. There is actualy some power behind the wizards in this set, unlike many of the older sets(high levels). It is the best box set since Menzo!

At first I was reluctant to buy this box set. I didn't know much about Thay, Aglarond, or Rashemen from the Forgotten Realms Campaign Box so I decided to give it a try. My players loved it! The adventures were excellent and they gained almost 4 levels each! They became rich and had a good time doing it. The book even includes how to make a Red Wizard, Rashemar Witch, or a Rashemar Berserker for yourself. A must have for the Forgotten Realms.

When first I bought this expansion I bought it only for the two adventures (GREAT!!). After I read the campaign guide I couldn't believe what I found. I have found a source of information so interesting. Since then I only play in that region in the Forgotten Realms, and my players and I enjoy it even now after more than a year. I even made my own adventure through the campaign guide. Filled with the evil political planing of the Red Wizards the tough Rashmar and the mysterious Symbol of Aglarond. This one is for keeps!!

A Little Pigeon Toad is a humorous picture book written as a series of single sentence vignettes that take place in a little girl's mind. Homonyms are used throughout this story and they confuse the little girl who interprets what her parents say differently than what they meant. Gwynne's book illustrates our ridiculous English language; for example, "Daddy wants a pool table," shows a table with a pool in it and everyone's swimming. The illustrations are literal interpretations of what the little girl thinks her parents are saying.
The words, easy to read, short and very simple, are intended for an audience between grades 3 and 5. But, adults or older readers would also enjoy this book.
Gwynne wrote and illustrated 13 other books: The King Who Rained, A Chocolate Moose For Dinner, The Sixteen Hand Horse, The Kings Trousers, and Easy to See Why. He attended Harvard and worked as an illustrator before starring as Herman on the TV show "The Munsters". Gwynne died in 1993.

This is a delightful book to read to and with children. It introduces them not only to some of the idiosyncracies of the English language, but also to verbal humor. Fred Gwynne was not only a wonderful comic actor, but he was a great artist as well; the pictures in these books are soft and playful augmenting the confused phrases in the young girl's mind. Kids love this book and it is a joy to read.

One of the masters of illustrating the ridiculousness of English, Mr. Gwynne has done it again by taking common idioms and interpreting them literally. The reader accompanies a young girl through all sorts of different, funny English sayings and phrases and takes them all literally. In the one that is the title of the book, she stand off in a field looking at a strange animal that has the body, legs and wings of a pigeon, but the brown, bumpy head of a toad. On a beautiful 2-page spread are three grizzly bears wearing kilts and tams dancing to the music of a fourth bear who plays the bagpipes. The text reads, "Grandma says our four bears came from Scotland." Meanwhile, Daddy wants a pool table and there are three feet in a yard.

As a teacher, I love to use this book to illustrate how funny and confusing English can be, even for a native speaker! When reading the book I tell them about the time when I was in elementary school and listening to the news reports of "gorilla warfare." Usually I ask students to compose and illustrate their own literal interpretation of common phrases ("hit any key to continue" is a perennial favorite).

Readers who enjoy this book may wish to check out some of the other, similar play on words books by Mr. Gwynne, such as "A Chocolate Moose for Dinner" or "The King Who Rained." Another excellent author readers may enjoy is Jon Agee and his books like "Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? And Other Oxymorons." Beautifully illustrated and very funny, this book is highly recommended.

The third time I read this book, I was even more moved than before. I looked forward to the bare bones writing style---saw a bear---shot him. The most poignant moment was when he asked the cashier at the bowling alley how to tell his daughter that her mother had died. His respect for the eskimo and other native Americans was a measure of the man. I would not want to live his life, but I feel blessed that he did.

Although I read this book a few years ago, I am still awed by the emotions felt while thinking about it. The author writes as though you are there with him throughout every adventure, and you quickly become aware that you are in very good hands. Who wouldn't want to venture to Alaska with Fred Hatfield at your side? I have nothing but praise for this incredible story about the life of a "not so ordinary" man...

This is an awe-inspiring, moving book, well-written, fast-paced, and short. I know nothing about Alaska, but the picture that Fred paints is vivid. The candidness with which he tells his unusual tale is itself unusual. His prose is crystal clear, a model for even experienced writers, which he is not. As far as I know, this was his first and only book. Everyone I have recommended it to has loved it. I would love to hear back from other readers of this book.

Another series of short essays on current issues in the churches of Christ. This book is similar in structure, tone, and content to the author's original book: Tradition, Opinion, and Truth. Like the original, this book contains many novel and, occasionally, deep thoughts that break the mold of traditional thinking and open the heart to new possibilities and perspectives. For some reason, I did not find this one quite as stimulating as the original--or perhaps it was too stimulating. It seemed to give me a case of "change overload," a sense that some of the essays were written more for "shock value" or to encourage "change for change sake" than "responsible change." Still, I can recommend this book to the awareness of congregational leaders and other mature Christian thinkers. May we never forget Him who does not change.

Fred is a God-gifted writer and encourager. He is a change agent. I am reminded of how Jesus brought radical change to the traditions of His time on earth. I pray we all become Christ-like and do the same.

Fred Peatross' book is not only a call to reform in Churches of Christ but a call to relevance. He challenges our "sacred cows" in a biblically thoughtful way that not only touches our heads but reaches our hearts. Some of his most challenging material is aimed at church leaders. In a renewed call to humility he states, "I believe that much of the work the Lord wants to do in the lives of leaders is to teach them to walk in their weakness as powerfully as they walk in their strengths." Fred interweaves biblical scholarship with story for a book that transports us closer to the will of God and the foot of the cross.

--Paul Woodhouse Minister, Grace Church of Christ

The basic content of this book is excellent. It provides a readily accessible introduction to the principles of engineering. This book could easily be used as the text for a first year course in a unified engineering curriculum including Computer Science. The one flaw with this book is that it appears to have been rushed out by the publisher. Many of the page references are to the wrong pages and some of the pictures are rather blurry. Finally, the instructions for creating and downloading ICB files to incorporate assembly language modules for interrupt side programming and similar purposes needs to be reworked in a future edition. I hope that a future edition will also have a chapter on electrical design and construction techniques to compliment the chapter on mechanical techniques. I also look forward to a third chapter on sensing and possibly a second chapter on control theory. Regardless, this is overall an excellent book and should be acquired by anyone interested in small robots.

This book presents an introduction to various aspects of robot building and planning. It is written as an undergraduate textbook, and contains numerous exercises throughout the text. The book assumes that students and other readers will have access to Handyboards and LEGO Technic equipment, as well as a desktop PC and hobbyist-level soldering equipment. The book walks the reader through analyzing a Handyboard, how to use it, how to build custom sensors and motors, and how to write programs in assembly language. All of this information would be very useful to first-year engineering students as it would help them put theory from many of their other classes into practice. Nevertheless, most of the tasks and programs described in the book could actually be built with a standard LEGO RCX brick. On the other hand, a person who masters the material in this book would be able to take advantage of the extra sensors and motors that the Handyboard supports and build far more sophisticated robots than would be possible with LEGO Mindstorms equipment. Anyone who builds robots using LEGO equipment, whether with a Handyboard or an RCX, will find information in this book about Braitenberg vehicles, LEGO design, control theory, and robotics contests quite useful. The introduction to Assembly language in Appendix A is also presented in an easily accessible style.

I found this to be an excellent introduction to how to build a fully functional, autonomous robot. This book covers everything you need to build robots using LEGO Technics (think LEGO blocks plus gears, motors, etc.) and a Handyboard, a robot brain developed to get the hard digital electronics out of the way so you can concentrate on putting together a good design with motors and sensors and software intelligence.

As someone looking for how to break into robotics without first getting bachelors in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering, this book was for me. I got the basics of the two topics covered and was able to dive right into the interesting "what can I do with my robot" scenarios.

This book also goes into some detail on inexpensive sensor components out in the electronics market and how to use them in robots. I found this to be a great source of ideas and instructions even when not creating robots using the Handyboard brain.

For those looking to dabble, be aware that this is a book best used in conjunction with real, live robot parts. (...)