This book is unquestionably one of the finest resources for Bach scholarship that I've come across! I cannot praise this book enough--Charles Sanford Terry would certainly have admired this work. The layout of the texts, with its biblical references, is so very helpful when listening to a cantata. As one who has two complete recording sets of these marvelous works, I can honestly express my gratitude for this book.

This book answers many questions children have concerning flight. It is written in a simple matter and is wonderfully illustrated. The book not only explains how airplanes fly, but also gives a brief history of flight, and introduces new vocabulary words chidren may not have heard before. I used this book as the foundation of a science unit I taught my preschoolers about airplanes.

I read this book to my 8-year old son. He loved the book and asked me to read it to him over and over again. It's a great introduction to evolution.

Mr. Taylor has effectively examined many of the factors that influence relationships today. His approach to the subject matter is readily understandable and to the point. This book is a valuable reference.

Many readers know Carolina de Jesus's memior "Child of the Dark" but few knew that she wrote a second book about her bitter journey from her favela shack to the brick house of her dreams. There, she was treated just as badly as she had been when she was a scavenger for garbage in the favela. As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil (too many years ago!!) I loved this book. It is riveting, unexpected, and filled with insights about how Carolina de Jesus saw the world. The editor's background description and analysis is excellent, too.

This is the finest book I have read on the lifestyle of the Lakota (Sioux),people not only before European contact, but also how they dealt with their transformation into "civilized" members of the dominate society. It was originally written in 1933. Luther Standing Bear took his name after entering Carlisle Indian School. How sad that the newcomers to North America didn't take the time to learn the culture of the original inhabitants of this land. We would all be better off today if they had. This book gives much insight into why. Even at this late date, there is a lot that can be learned from "Native Wisdom." I highly suggest that anyone interested, read this book. It will touch your heart!

I helped read the proofs to the book. I would like to submit two quotes from two reviews of the volume in question. "Despite the textbook title, this is not a dry book....It is a fine journalist's fascinating view of late 20th-century public manners, satirically funny, cold-eyed, affectionate, tolerant and harsh by turns....Superb, fascinating, amusing...a splendid explosion of properly directed outrage....Anyone with the slightest interest in civilized discourse will find it a rich and refreshing account, not just of errors to avoid, but of how to recognize, laugh at, and dispose of the flatulent rubbish which assaults us from every journalistic side." Herb Greer, THE SPECTATOR (London), 20 January 2001. "...After all, Goethe knew how much harm newspapers and magazines can do when what is good in them gets swallowed up with the bad and the mediocre....He would have approved of the way that Lasky, in his new book, went about criticizing the mainstream press of New York, Washington, London, Paris (and Frankfurt)....Not 'systematically' or 'scientifically' but in a 'wild profusion of echo and allusion.' Readers are led from text to text, in clippings galore, featuring puns and punch-lines; and, once the happy reader salutes a point well made by doffing his hat, he'll never get to put it on again. And yet this is a deeply serious, urgently argued book....Who knows newspapers who only newspapers know? Melvin Lasky is at home in the world of journalism as well as in the literature of three cultures. Karl Kraus once undertook a similar task, but this work is different, lacking as it does any malevolent anger and having a touch of resignation about it. The relationship between the language of journalism and the general critique of our culture and civilization is drawn very loosely, to the great benefit of the general reader....Thus, we are offered an incomparable mix of wit and wisdom, of scholarship and attention to present-day troubles, of a twinkle of the eye and a furrowed brow of deep concern...and all in a sparkling and transparent prose, an almost wastefully rich vocabulary, and a spirit which keeps on tilting at the windmills of the Zeitgeist without losing its sense of humor....In their day Goethe, Heine and Nietzsche were indeed among those who were newspaper addicts. And Goethe suggested that he was saved -- from the bad, the mediocre, the self-destructiveness of newspapers always chasing the new -- by playing to great profit the pedantic reader. (Das mach mir denn zum reichen Gewinn/Dass ich getrost eine Pedante bin.)...." Wolfgang Schuller, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 March 2001

Whenever a discussion of economics in the modern space age arises, I recommend this book. I think it is really the seminal work on this topic, and that not enough people have read it.

What I like best is how completely the costs of extremely high flight are quantified. The Pegasus comes off looking very bad, and rightly so, I think.

You should read this book. Maybe twice.

I liked the book since I was doing a report on the rainforest animals and I liked it because I enjoy reading about other parts of the world.Most of all I read it because its for a grade in science and language arts.

This book would be a good way to introduce children to the solar system. It focuses on the nine planets, and has a "punch-out" glow-in-the-dark kit that allows you to make your own model of the solar system. The information is of the most basic, which would probably be best for children from four to eight.