If your child is "diagnosed" as AD(H)D, chances are someone is going to encourage you to consider Ritalin. You can dig in your heels and say, "Absolutely not! I would never DRUG my child." OR you can become informed about the nature of the condition knows as AD(H)D, its possible short-term and long-range effects, the pros and cons of Ritalin, and other approaches to treatment, and you can then make an informed decision about what your child needs. If you choose "OR," then this book is for you. The title of this book is a bit of a misnomer, because it is more about ADHD and its treatment than it is exclusively about Ritalin. The authors express the opinion, more than once, that the most effective approach to treating ADHD is a combination that includes drug therapy, education and counseling (for affected individuals and their families), and educational support. Two of the strengths of this book are that it is written by a team that includes an MD and a psychologist, and that it is comprehensive. A minor criticism: I wished for more detail in the section on psychotherapy. Additionally, fuller case studies, rather than short case examples, would have been helpful. All in all, as the mother of a child newly diagnosed as ADD, I was grateful for the sane and balanced approach of this book.

I have never been so disappointed in a book. I bought this book hoping to read an intelligent review of the role of wetlands throughout history. Instead I got a load of psychological babble that had nothing to do with wetlands and had everything to do with the author's apparent need to use all the big words he learned in college. If you want to read about wetland culture, history, and ecology I suggest you find another book.

I am at pains to distinguish two strands within the western tradition - that of the canon (only 2 n's in canon) such as Dante and Milton who theologise and demonise the wetland as a place of evil and that of the counter-tradition of Thoreau, indigenous Australians and contemporary writers like Graham Swift and Coraghessan Boyle who see the wetland as both life-giving and death-dealing.

The range and scope of the book is hardly narrow and stilted when it takes in medical, military and social history, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, and literature and philosophy spanning 2000 years.

This book describes changing attitudes about wetlands over the centuries based on their cultural values. It explains how the world's wetlands got to the sad shape they are in today - and why. Giblett explores the cultural and literary mythology that tagged swamps and marshes as hideouts for the boogey-man and the "Creature from the Black Lagoon." (Remember the "Creature" sprang from the mind of man, not from a swamp.) I believe that understanding where we came from is cruicial to understanding - and changing - where we are going. This book demonstrates how and why humans of different ages and cultures assigned values to wetlands, and why destroying them was seen as a mark of civilization - a civic duty. Without dicussing the evirnomental issues specifically, it teaches the reader that wetlands have a value apart from that which western man assigns - this is their timeless value. This is scholarly writing that requires concentration and thought, but is well worth the effort. Anyone interested in environmental issues and fascinated at how our perception of "nature" has changed and is changing will appreciate this book.

Although the book has good photos, many of the items are not represented correctly. Many items are listed in more than 1 place with different prices or descriptions. A bit more editing and homework would have been worthwhile for this book.
Prices are in many instances good, in others not realistic- either too high or too low. It seems that personal taste and preferences play a big role with the authors.
OK to look at the pictures, don't bother with the text.

Photographs and descriptions done very well. Prices not based in reality. I am an appraiser of antique and period jewelry and wish I could pay these prices.

The Price Guide to Antique Jewelry is a very well done book for the beginner, the expert and everyone in between.

The information is easy to understand, while the pricing information gives the reader a good feel for the real price levels you should expect to pay for antique jewelry, NOT "steals" at garage or estate sales.

Determining values of pieces can be very difficult for people not "in the business". This book does a great job at giving the reader solid, dependable information without listing prices that are "questionable" to either the buyer OR the seller!

As a collector, the book has helped me to feel much more confident when deciding what to purchase and how much I should be willing to pay. It's nice to see something current and thorough finally written about jewelry pricing.

Thanks for letting me add my "two cents".

A collector of over 100 pieces of antique jewelry.

I am currently enrolled In a distanced learning college and was sent this book.The book Is hard to figure out and the problems give you no pretense on who to solve them go with a different book.

This text isn't awful, but it does jump into things a bit quickly for someone who hasn't taken algebra for about a decade. If you need to use this text as part of a college program, I definitely recommend "Forgotten Algebra", ISBN 0812019423 as a refresher (or suppliment) before tackling this text. It will be well worth the extra [money] spent!

College Algebra is well written. The concepts of algebra are thoroughly explained and illustrated with examples. Answers to half the problems are included in the back of the book.

Texas certainly needs a good book on its flag history; unfortunately, "Flags of Texas" isn't that book. This is a revision of "A Concise History of Early Texas" (1964), which itself was based on the Mamie Wynne Cox's greatly flawed "The Romantic Flags of Texas" (1936).

Mistakes abound--the silly conception of the "Indian Flag," the use of archaic French and Spanish flags no longer in use at the time of the exploration of Texas, the use of the current Mexican flag when the text speaks of "Mexico's Historic Flag," a discussion of the "De Zavala Flag" when no such flag existed, the apocryphal designation of Charles Stewart as the designer of the current Lone Star Flag, and the statement that the Confederate "Star and Bars Flag" was "the first official Confererate flag." There is no bibliography, probably because most--if not all--of the research came from reading Mamie Wynne Cox's book.

Fortunately Texas flag scholarship is improving with newer works such as Alan K. Sumrall's "Battle Flags of Texas in the Confederacy" and flag entries in "The New Handbook of Texas."