This book is an excellent resource for veterinary students. It includes easy to understand explanations of clinical laboratory findings and many diagrams illlustrating important concepts. It also contains helpful diagnostic algorithms and case studies to apply what you've learned. Overall it's a great value.

I bought this book for my students reading about the American Colonies and Revolution. I didn't feel that I knew enough about Ben Franklin and needed to learn more. My students were facinated about him because he was an inventor and did the experiment with the key and the kite to learn about electricity. I learned so much from this book that I had never known before and the readabilty level is perfect for my students. I can't wait to share this book with them!

The Return of the Great Brain is a excellent book to read!!! Tom ( the great brain ) is on trial. He has to reform.Tom uses his brain to solve a train robbery,to get a jackass, and many other things. Read The Return of the Great Brain to find out what happens!

This is a light-hearted, funny book. I am way beyond the suggested age level, but i still read all the books in this series every other year. This series is one of two other books that has EVER made me laugh out loud, even when i was younger. So give the gift of laughter to a special kid in your life with this whole series!!

This book was really entertaining, and I have read it more than once. I have not read a better book than this about what kids did in the past etc. It had intresting situation and intresting characters and I recomend it for everyone!

I am a student at Florida State University, My major is Management Information Systems. This book covers many approaches to solving business problems. This book is easy to read and understand. It gives many real world examples and solutions using MS Excel.

He usado el libro en cursos de maestria en administracion. Mis estudiantes lo recomiendan por ser muy didactico, sin sacrificar profundidad en la presentacion de los temas.

This goes great with the hardcover textbook. It is full of problems and solutions to practice with.

There is a good deal to recommend this book. It is for the most part well-written, and the idea behind the book is outstanding. However I have quite a few problems with it. The opening tale by John Tynes is somewhat too short to overcome by backstory and characterization a rather ugly incident that takes place within it, equating experience with the Deep Ones to a version of combat syndrome, and that taints the rest of the book. Other tales fare somewhat better, and have some very thought-provoking concepts, adding a bit of science fiction to the world of the Mythos. One can become a ghoul, for instance, by reading a certain book, and a certain Great Old One can tear holes in the spacetime continuum in order to attract males for her followers (kind of silly, but effective within the tale). On the whole, I liked it, but for me that is the crux of the biscuit-I wanted to love it, and did not. Fell far short of the expectations that were engendered in me by the blurbs on the back cover and the front cover recommendation from Lucius Shepard. Can't give it a thumbs-up, but worth looking at if you have the money. Slim for the price.

I really enjoyed reading this book. As with any collection of short stories, I liked some more than others, but there were none in here that I didn't like. There were a couple that I consider to be real gems. My only real complaint is that it's not much book for 12 bucks. It's about half an inch thick, with eight stories in it. I guess maybe it's priced higher than most paperback books because of the cost involved for a small company to have smaller quantities of a book like this printed, but I must admit I was a bit disappointed with it in this respect.

I have always been a fan of way-out-there lunatic sci-fi/horror but unfortunatly most of the sci-fi and horror out there is just really insipid banal mainstream garbage. This book is different, the stories pull no punches and will blow you away. There is some violent violence and BIZZARE sexual stuff in this book so it is probably NOT for kids. Highly recommended and far better than the other Delta Green fiction "Rules of Engagement."

Absolutely fascinating account of the solution to the meaning of the "te'amin" occurring in the Masoretic or traditional text of the Hebrew Bible. For centuries they have been thought to be vowels or punctuations (which purpose they may have served as they DO govern the chant),yet without clear meaning, this having been lost in the dispersions and persecutions of the Hebrew Temple hierarchy. I have heard Haik-Vantoura's decipherment/arrangement of the 'Song of Solomon' and it is a beautiful composition very clearly meant for male-female duet. Whether this is the ACTUAL system as originally used, it DOES produce beautiful music that is probably upwards of 2,500 years old.

The original French edition of this book, LA MUSIQUE DE LA BIBLE REVELEE, was published in 1976, along with a recording of the same title (likewise sold by Amazon.com as "The Music of the Bible Revealed"). The second edition (of which this book is a translation) appeared in 1978. I didn't encounter Mme. Haik-Vantoura's work, however, until 1982, when the Associates for Biblical Research Newsletter announced it. Since then, I have been the Corresponding Agent in the U.S. for Haik-Vantoura's Institution Roi David. (I was the editor and co-publisher of this English edition.)

What makes Haik-Vantoura's work so seminal -- and still so controversial? Let me explain. When the Masoretes of Tiberias (fl. 9th-10th centuries) disclosed the musical accents (TE`AMIM) now found in the Hebrew Bible (Masoretic Text), they analyzed the notation from the assumption that the Temple music (which they knew and said the accents represented) and the synagogue music of their own time had essentially the same structure and function. Thus they analyzed the notation on the premise that (like the "primitive" synagogue chant) it was primarily exegetical, secondarily musical; and they used the Hebrew verbal syntax as the "virtual bilingual" (in effect, the "Rosetta Stone") necessary to assign an exegetical function to each accent. The synagogue chants of the Ashkenazim especially have developed in accordance with this analysis.

All the other books you will find sold here on synagogue cantillation assume that the Masoretes' premise was correct. What they won't tell you is that the Masoretic paradigm doesn't explain most of the physical features of the notation or of its relationship to the words. Nor will they tell you that this paradigm was developed from tentative beginnings over several centuries, and that only after the notation itself appeared fully developed and "out of nowhere". How then can the Masoretic paradigm represent the original meaning of the accentuation?

Suzanne Haik-Vantoura's approach was the mirror-image of that of the Masoretes. Like them, she used the Hebrew verbal syntax as the "virtual bilingual" necessary to assign a function to each accent. Unlike the Masoretes, she actually believed what both Jewish tradition and musicological consensus indicate: the accents are primarily musical, secondarily exegetical. The resulting "deciphering key" is the only one possible based on that premise, and it explains all the features the Masoretic paradigm explains plus all the features it does not. (I owe to Masoretic scholar James D. Price the needed clue to correct the interpretation of one rare accent by her key. The correction is not in this book, however, but on my King David's Harp, Inc. Web site.)

The music that results does correlate with some of the oldest synagogue melodies, but unlike them it actually interweaves with the words syntactically. In effect, the Hebrew Bible was created and transmitted as "art song" (compare Psalm 119:54), and every biblical author "from Moses to Malachi (or Chronicles)" was a "poet-composer". The music theory behind the reconstructed music correlates on many levels with what we know of ancient music (including harp tuning and playing techniques), and has similarities with Gregorian chant on the one hand and Indian ragas on the other; yet it has a harmonic structure (especially in Psalms) which was not rediscovered in Western music until at least the Renaissance. Thus, thanks to Haik-Vantoura's work, we have the staggering privilege of being able to hear and perform music that sounds surprisingly modern, yet (according to Scripture) is up to 3,400 years old.

The notation itself is a transcription of a method of conducting music by means of hand- and finger-gestures (chironomy). An entire chapter of the book is devoted to the subject. After the book's publication, I set myself to reconstructing the chironomy behind the written accentuation, beginning with historical indications cited in the book. (Again, the system of chironomy is only documented online to date.)

The above results do not sit well with all rabbis, cantors, musicologists and Masoretic scholars. Yet everyone who has followed the late Haik-Vantoura's logic correctly (and there have been many) have supported her conclusions. You will find a long list of such people (and even some praise by "hostile reviewers") at the end of her book.

Haik-Vantoura herself died on Simchat Torah, October 22, 2002, after publishing or overseeing a total of eight recordings and numerous musical scores comprising some 5,000 verses (about one-fourth) of the Hebrew Bible. Most of this material is listed in the back of the book. Much of it is only available overseas (some via online sites) or is out of print. (Please note too that the contact information for King David's Harp, Inc. given in the book is outdated.)

David Dodd has assembled a wide variety of stories to inspire and encourage addicted people to get clean. I was impressed that Twelve Step groups were NOT the focus of every tale, and that the one constant was that each individual made a PERSONAL CHOICE to forego their addiction and live sober. For all the help some people get from 12-Step groups, there are many who don't "relate" to the religiousity. But this book shows that recovery is still possible and worthwhile. The fact that most of these tales are told by celebrities and artists we KNOW only increases their value. Plus, it's nice to know that my gut feeling about Steven Tyler is "on the money" - he truly IS a mensch!!

I was attracted to the many well-known names listed on the cover, but once I began reading the book, I was overwhelmed with its passion and solutions. David Dodd has done a remarkable job which is reflected in this collection of interviews. My favorite part, however, is the introduction to the book, where the author tells his personal story on how he became sober with the help of Steven Tyler. His vivid description of the events were astonishing to me, they were absolutely incredible. This is a wonderful book!

The good news. This book is excellent value for the money, and is the best written Schaum's Outline I have ever read. It is certainly not excessively mathematical, compared to nearly everything that passes for logic nowadays. Schaum's outlines are seldom written by first-raters in their respective fields. This is a clear exception; Varzi is a first rate contemporary philosopher. This book is an excellent example of modern scientific communication.

The bad news. The book's approach to logic is a bit on the old fashioned side. Much of the material on traditional logic could have been omitted. The book shares a flaw that is sadly all too common: trivial propositions take 20-40 lines to prove. The refutation tree or natural deduction machinery of this and other contemporary books is far too ponderous. This book, like all too many books in the philosophical logic tradition, devotes time to topics that leave me cold, such as modal logic. Meanwhile, it slights or omits topics that fascinate me, such as mereology, the isomorphism between truth functors and Boolean algebra, and metatheory. I like probability and inductive logic and feel that these have a great deal to offer to logic and philosophy, but this book only scratches the surface of these topics. The main comsumers of logic nowadays are computer scientists. It is not at all clear that this book would be of any value to them. On the other hand, this is an excellent book for your typical philosophy major.

This book is an excellent introduction to what I call the
mechanics of logic. If you are interested in metalogic
proofs, like the deduction theorem, then don't look here.
This book teaches the basics of logic. It presents logic
in several different ways: using Aristole's version (strictly
for historical reasons), using Venn diagrams, a Hilbert-style
logic (rules to introduce and remove boolean operators), and
semantic tableaux. Also, it first introduces propositional
logic, then it proceeds to predicate logic. The book has
a peculiar approach that it does not introduce functions (not
predicate functions) until much later.

One of the more interesting chapter covers fallacious arguments.

"Schaum's Outlines Logic" covers more material than you can learn in a single semester course in logic. If you will select what to learn after you buy the book, include the chapter on logical fallacies.

Logical fallacies are noticable in conversation and in your own thinking. You can find fallacies in newspaper articles, political speeches, and your arguments with your loved ones.

My first college course in logic covered the propositional calculus, the final exam involved solving argument forms for validity. This book covers propositional calculus in a chapter, before it goes on to the predicate calculus in two following chapters. You need mathematics skills to handle the pace this book sets, chapter by chapter. You'll find it easier to follow along if you already know some logic. So stick out the earlier chapters to make it through the later chapters. A bonus final chapter gives you a peek at advanced studies in logic, if those might interest you.

The book's explanations are terse. Solved problems and end-of-chapter problems help you learn the material. I don't like that only a quarter of the end-of-chapter problems have solutions you can look up. But the book was great for my needs, so I give it five stars.

Disney Mouseworks seems to be moving to smaller books and it looks like the end of the line of the Disney Classics series. The new Read-Aloud Storybooks are shorter (by about 20 pages) and smaller (by an inch here and there). That's too bad for those of us who have been collecting the old series. The paper is nicer and the artwork is very good, though, so it's not a total loss.

The Edgar Rice Burroughs books are full of suspense, a perfect bedtime story. The best thing is that many (if not all of them) can be downloaded from from Project Gutenberg. Try reading the first one, Tarzan of the Apes, to your child as a serial bedtime story. They'll be begging to go to bed.

This version of Disney's Tarzan is clearly written and has accurate drawings true to the film's content. Rarely do you find a smaler version of the big books so well presented.

Rodriguez is an excellent chef and a great cookbook writer. I bought this after eating a couple of meals in one of his newer restaurants in NYC, Chicama, where the creative ceviches, oyster appetizers and other dishes are absolutely out of this world. Combining unlikely flavors to create new versions of Latin American standards, this book contains many recipes you will want to make over and over. Only challenges: some ingredients are hard to find, and most of the recipes take a little extra preparation. Small price to pay for uncommonly good food.

We've just returned from a Caribbean cruise with its final destination in Costa Rica. We were inspired by the diversity of the flavors and food presentation everywhere we visited...so inspired we decided to come home and have a New Year's Latino brunch for friends and neighbors. So, our local library had Nuevo Latino on the shelf and we were on! Douglas Rodriguez' book is well written so that it tells an interesting story of his career journey, and it presents recipes, definitions of ingredients, and presentation ideas in a practical and easy-to-replicate way. Now, even the trips to the grocery store with all these new "foreign" foods in the produce section conjure up memories/ideas from the recipes he's presented. Can't wait to go to New York to experience Patria, but also know that what we made from his book was excellent. Our friends thought we were great cooks! And that's the point of cookbooks, isn't it! Thanks to Nuevo Latino.

Is this cool way of cookin?! I'm totally impressed by the style and excitement of this style of cuisine, full of marinades (adobo in Spanish, both dry rub and liquid), and that hot/cool tension of Latino food.

With tropical fruits and Latino veggies and tubers (malanga, yuca, etc) this introduces most of us to an exciting whole new venue of possibilities.

It's all here, drink suggestions and Breads (you've got to try the Yellow Arepas, they're worth the book itself). Amazing array of salsas and mojos, such as Ruby Grapefruit, Shallot and Cilantro Mojo (unblievable flavors).

The offerings here are spectacular, Grilled Flank Steak over Mushroom Ceviche. Who would have thought of that, ceviche applied to small button mushrooms which this guy found in Peruvia through his dad's barber.

Knockout dishes like Original Plantain Coated Mahimahi served with Tamarind Tartar Sauce. Avocado and Pistachio Crusted Gulf Snapper with Black Bean Sauce. Sugarcane Tuna with Malanga Puree and Dried Shrimp Salsa. Mango and Mustard-Glazed Salmon with Calamari Rice.

This review could continue to speak of creative dish after dish. Desserts are equally attractive, with fruit and flans and rice and a neat dish to dazzle your guests from Cuba, Brazo Park Avenue with Banana Mousse.

All nicely packaged by one of the best, Ten Speed Press, with class and style, color photos and rich, vibrant text.

My frontrunner for Latino cooking resource.