My accounting professor was awful and it was this book that saved my grade in the class. It provides very detailed explanations and summaries of each concept it covers throughout the chapter, not just at the end of the section. The accompanying working papers and study guide were also very informative and helpful.

Best book so far for teahing accounting. This is the book for learning accounting.

Good old ernie is a very good book. It is about her life and her embarassing moments. It is ver funny

This is the best book I have ever read!If I hade my own copy I would read it a zillion times!It's the best book in history.If I could I would put it up for Newberry.I've read a lot of books after it and I still haven't found a better book!My teacher read it to me and when ever she stopped I got really mad.I couldn't help wanting to go steel the book from my teachers desk.

I read this book when my son was first diagnosed with CP 10 years ago. It contained a wealth of useful information but also contained information on how a "normal" baby/child would develop. I did not care for that portion of the book although I understand the authors reasoning in so doing. I also read the book Children with Cerebral Palsy -- I found it easier to read.

I'd been a special education teacher before our son was born, then served for 15 years as a Developmental Disabilities Specialist (mental health DD case manager). Now I'm back with special education, and our son, who has multiple developmental disabilities himself, is doing wonderfully. I came across Nancie's book by chance when our son was 1 year old when an OT checked in Nancie's book in my presence. After seeing how valuable it was (it was used as a text book at PSU at the time) I determined I would not go home (two hours away) until I owned a copy! That was an excellent decision.

Even after 20 years, I still useNancie's book. I recommend her book to everyone who loves, lives with, or works with young people with ANY type of motor impairment. It has many useful applications. For instance, it describes ways to play, set up a room, cope, physical handling, toileting, eating, sleep, ways to make stuff inexpensively, enjoy, and it also describes typical development, grief, and growth. Her illustrations are simply and convey useful information in realistic situations. Nancie writes forthrightfully and constructively. Challenging, too, in a bracing manner. There is no wallowing in pity or mincing of words. Yet, in all of this, Nancie conveys positive acceptance, focuses on forward movement, and she somehow shares that disabilities, after all, are part of all that is normal. Then she sets about showing you how to teach, love, and care for a child.

If you want an informative, practical "how to," this is the book you want. I've always felt, as a parent, that this book is something like having a PT/OT/friend/teacher/mentor in my pocket. That is in spite of being a special educator, myself. Someone who supposedly knows what to do. Sorry, no one is prepared for everything that can happen. Nancie provides a holistic and realistic guide... one that speaks directly, constructively, and respectfully. She focuses on taking action and on results. As a professional, her book can be very useful when working with individuals, families and/or staff. For young people growing up with disabilities, it can offer good illustrations to show how to do things. The text, however, at least in my 20 year old copy, is written for adults, not children.

This book is one of two books I'd like every person to have who lives or works with people who have motor impairments, neurological disorders, or cognitive impairments, to have. Social workers, doctors, RNs, therapists, interventionists, students, teachers, and fellow parents, this is a tool I believe you will value, use, and enjoy. (My other "must have" is the classic "Your Child's Self Esteem" by Dorothy Corkille Briggs. It is good for any relationship as well as for interacting with anyone. It certainly is not "just" for use with children.)

My best wishes to all of you who are searching for help, information, and/or direction. This book will not let you down.

Just received this book today, so haven't had time to read the whole thing. It appears to have good practical applications. For example, Chapter 4, Playing It Safe On Line, is one I want to use in a new course which I'm teaching next semester, "Advanced Business Technology". The course is for high school seniors, for whom some of this book is a bit juvenile, but the practical uses make it worth presenting. Does anyone know how to contact the authors for permission to reproduce the Rules of the Road for our class to see? Thank you

This book is perfect for the family that just purchased their first modem. The authors break down the complex world of cyberspace into digestible nuggets. Thank you

Ms. Nina Berberova was an unknown writer to me prior to my reading of, "The Ladies Of St. Petersburg". Happily she no longer is an unknown. Ms. Berberova presents three novellas in this work, all of which are very well done. My comment about starting with this particular work is that it contains an extensive 14 page Foreword by Ms. Marian Schwartz who translated the work of this woman who wrote throughout her 92-year life. This section includes a great deal of biographical information, as well as explaining some of the difficulties involved in translating the work and deciphering the Author's originally intended symbolism.

All three novellas are wonderful, and they all are quite different from one another. Even the first two that are many things but are not joyous, are still are very different. "The Ladies From St. Petersburg" covers a great swath of time and History, which it is recounted in so few pages, and feels so complete when read is remarkable. The main event is not new or unique, however Ms. Berberova adds a circumstance that takes a routine if unhappy event, and makes it almost grotesque.

The second work, "Zoya Andreyevna", has the largest cast of players and provides a setting for a wide exposition of human character traits, and the tale will not leave you filled with optimism. The final work, "The Big City" is quite different, appears autobiographical and looks forward to a future that while seemingly positive still reads as though the character sees the future through shades of gray. New times are approaching, they will be better, or will at least seem to be. There is a fascinating bit when a set of binoculars are much more than an optical instrument, and become more like a crystal ball manipulated by the user and perhaps their owner.

Three great Novellas, which suggest that pursuing this writer's work, is definitely worthwhile.

OK, I admit to a slight prejudice (I'm the translator's proud brother), but don't take my word for it. The NY Times put it on their Best of '98 list. I don't know any Russian beyond a few guidebook phrases and isolated words that pop up in Russian songs and James Bond novels. All I ask of a translation is that it give me the sense that I'm reading great literature. I usually don't know enough - as in this case - to comment on accuracy or to nit-pick connotations. What my "reader's voice" gives me is the sound of a masterpiece, different from the sound of the translator's own prose (read the wonderful introductory memories of Berberova). The three stories collected here weren't meant as a trilogy and are separated by years and, in the case of the last, by several decades. The first two reminded me of Tolstoy's "Death of Ivan Illych," with their satiric and grotesque edge on death and illness. The last seemed to me more modern, even somewhat like Kafka, in its phantasmagoria. I must admit to liking the third story -- about an immigrant in New York City - best. Berberova is good and even funny on the disorientation of the newcomer, but also romantic (and Romantic) about the city's attraction and mystery. The book is filled with passages of virtuoso storytelling - all of which seem to point to a big nature that could easily create a novel. In the first, a description of a burial stands out. In the second, a sick woman is taken out of a rooming house run by almost fairy-tale witches to a hospital. In the third, the immigrant is given a pair of (magic?) binoculars by someone who reminds me strongly of a wizard in a cave and is shown a series of powerful, disturbing images - realistic and fantastic at the same time. I have to bring up classic masters to remind myself of anything this good. Berberova's a thrilling find.

A Fawcett book (Popular Library, Div of CBS) edition of this novel (IBSN: 0-445-04421-7) was published under the name change of "Mixed Company", in 1978. (This book refers to the original title of "Mixed Blessings" as well.)

Set in 1902, this novel describes the efforts of Miss Alfreda Esmond, "Freddy", nineteen years old, to run a boardinghouse and support herself and her younger brother Jason after her mother is killed in a buggy accident. She is also waiting for her reluctant swain Rob to come up to scratch and request her hand in marriage, which she hopes will deliver her from her current troubles.

Meanwhile she struggles with a group of assorted boarders with various eccentricities and personality conflicts; including an elderly drifty professor type, a gluttonous dowager and eventually her adventuous son as well, who was once imprisioned in the wild West for trumped up crimes, a man-hating mother and her meek pale daughter, a hired hand with a reluctance for work, and a strong minded family retainer cook who does her best to give some guidance to Freddy and her brother Jason while keeping the house running.

Freddy does her best to manage the situation and her responsibilities, and to cope with the financial concerns of her ever dwindling pocketbook. But complications such as quarantine for scarlet fever and a trial challenging the mental competency of one of her boarders make life interesting for Freddy, while her best friend Hope also being in love with Freddy's suitor Rob makes for awkward relations there as well. To top things off, two of the boarders elope with one another and that causes complications also.

Dr. Simon Fletcher, the gruff and surly doctor who practices medicine under a cloud of town suspicion of past malpractice (which gossip is finally resolved by the eloping couple playing sleuth on their honeymoon, but until then the mystery lingers through much of the book,) provides medical care to the boarders yet also makes Freddy's life miserable for some time. But all ends well eventually.

The trial turns out in favor of Mr. Clarkson, the elderly boarder who has his sanity questioned by greedy relatives, and he in the end provides Freddy with unexpected help and security, which amply repay her support and concern for the old man. By the last pages, the boarders have all bonded together into an unorthodox but comfortable surrogate family, Freddy's financial and romantic troubles appear to be solved (her situation with Rob finally sorted out but with a surprise twist at the end,) and her life seems to be joyful and comfortable at last.

Mr. Clarkson is a collector of superstitions and combines famous quotations in a rather unique way. The unusual prayers he assembles at mealtimes (Jason in fact collects them, writing them down right at the table,) punctuate the book throughout, often summing up circumstances in an intricately convoluted yet appropriate way. And the novel's last words are a final blessing by Mr. Clarkson (rather reminiscent in fact of Tiny Tim's "God bless us every one!" ending to A Christmas Carol) in a exhortation both charming and eloquent.

Simply the most enjoyable novel I've ever read. There are novels that are more realistic (Catcher in the Rye), more absorbing (To Kill a Mockingbird), or more whacked-out funny (Cosmic Banditos), but for all-around sweetness and a warm glow when you're finished, this one is the tops. Many libraries still have it...get it!

This book is excellent for ethnologists and the curious alike! Although it is out of print, it is a book worth finding! Written in 4 volumes, each takes a look at different parts of the Scottish folk beliefs -from witchcraft and second sight, to songs and stories told over time, this book has it all, and in an easy to read-straight forward fashion. Definitely a book for anyone remotely interested in Scotland or non-christian customs!

F. Marian McNeill, in the tradition of Alexander Carmichael (Carmina Gadelica) and Anne Ross' The Folklore of the Scottish Highlands, has done an immense service in her writing The Silver Bough Series. These books are currently out of print, unfortunately. If you can find a copy of the first volume you will not be sorry. Little known are the other three volumes which explore a number of very ancient Scottish customs and beliefs, from Selkirk to Orkney to the Isle of Mull to Aberdeen and Fife, which survive to the present day in many cases. In an era of "Celtic" insta-books some of these classical ethnographic sources are deeply refreshing.

When I read _The Silver Highway_, I intended to stretch my reading of the Treasure Quest Series out, as I was in school. Within weeks, though, I found that I couldn't stand to wait, checked the three sequels out of the library, and devoured them in just a week. This book introduces over half of the recurring characters. In the mid-1850's Olivia Thomas's parents send her off to a Boston boarding school because she will not behave quietly, riding about the plantation in her absent brother's old clothes and protesting the overseer's whipping of a slave. En route to the school, Olivia befriends another of its new students, a dark-complected Creole named Crystal, who hopes to learn about a female relative who was in Boston years ago, whom her parents have never talked about. Olivia's parents feel sure that the Boston school will help to make her a proper southern lady, since it is well-supervised, and her brother, Matthew, attending nearby Harvard, can check on her now and then. Olivia meets Matthew's best friend, Alex Duncan, but isn't impressed. Before the year is out, Crystal is called home by her parents, and Alex, who is under pressure from a family friend to enter southern politics after graduation, disappears. He has met some famous abolitionists after waking up from a drunken spree and been impressed by them, but Matthew and Olivia have no idea what has become of him. Further events draw all four of these young people and another recurring character, Amelia Randolph, together on Alex's boat transporting slaves tup the Mississippi to Canada. Along the way some will be converted to lived, rather than merely formal, Christianity and to conscious opposition to slavery, while some will decide to head west to the new Colorado Territory on the eve of the Civil War. Marion Wells evokes her settings, the changed time of year at a new chapter's start, and her character's states of mind with bright clarity. In the copy that I read, I found one flawed historical detail, discussion of a "Missouri Compromise of 1850," a consolidation of two political compromises, but I was anxious to learn what would happen to the characters, and the series was worth the flaw, which for all I know may have been corrected in later printings. This flaw is the only reason that I did not rate the book 5 stars.

I noticed this mistake a week ago, I thhink, and I hope that Amazon will simply remove this review, since I wrote a new one for Jewel of Promise after noticing that this review, somehow posted here by accident, had not appeared on the page for the fourth, concluding Treasure Quest Book, and I like my later-written review better. I don't know if I mistakenly wrote my review on this page, or if maybe some glich on Amazon's part caused it to appear on the wrong page, but below--if Amazon doesn't simply read these opening sentences and sensibly delete this review for me, which would be nice of them--you, the browwsing customer, will see the review of _Silver Highway_ that I wrote four years ago when using my previous Email address. Ignore the rest of this review, pleazsse, but visit the page for _Jewel of Promise_ and the other TQ books. you'll find the I love reading fiction and nonfiction about American history, from the colonial period through the nineteenth century, so I read this and the preceding three Treasure Quest titles shortly after finding out about them. I began this book, as I did the third book in this series, only hours after finishing the previous book, to complete a week-long, satisfying reading marathon. _Jewel of Promise_ reconnects readers with Alex and Olivia, the couple who came together in the series's opening book, _The Silver Highway_ but who were not seen in _Colorado Gold_ or _Out of the Crucible_. After a visit to South Carolina, both to introduce olivia for the first time to Alex's parents and to see for themselves that the national reconciliation they desire cannot be gained without sacrificing the goals that they have come to share, Alex and Olivia return to friends in Pennsylvania, and the war eventually separates them. Meanwhile, Olivia's brother, Matthew, and his wife, Crystal, return to the East, to both my and Olivia's satisfaction, but soon they too face trials of separation and the difficulty of enduring fear and uncertainty when the chaos of war makes it impossible to know where a soldier is at times. The stories of these two couples and of the Irish-American pilot of Alex's steamboat and the teenage runaway, Beth, with whom he falls in love, are intertwined into one whole story that alternately brought moments of pleasure, made me cry, and made me wonder how the characters would escape various suspenseful predicaments, from arriving in unfamiliar towns only to be stranded by converging armies, being taken prisoner, trying to find purpose after the war delivers a seemingly insurmountable emotional blow, or discovering too late that one has made a horrible mistake as a novice spy. Ultimately Marian Wells drew all of the plot threads together into a triumphant climax. Although I wondered afterward what Alex, Olivia, Crystal, and Matthew would have gone on to do after the book's end, if they had been real people, I don't think that wells could have shown that satisfactorily without starting a new book. This book ended where it needed to.

I bought this book hoping it would answer a lot of my questions about freelancing. I am pleased to report that it did. This book is well thought out and organized. I only wish it would discuss a little more about the financial aspects of freelancing (i.e., where to put the money for maximum benefit after you make it!)

I brought this book after reading it at the library. I was highly impressed, and knew I would have to add this to my personal library. It was moreso of a business guide, which was more than excellent for me. Presented the material in a much more livelier way than all of the other guides I read.

I have not finished reading it at this time, but I was highly impressed to the point of buying it.

I am an avid reader and book collector, and I have learned to judge a good book by its cover (and first couple of chapters.) :)

Book readers looking for a fast moving intriguing scenario with mixed multiple plots will enjoy this "fast read."

How the small South Dakota community copes with the invasion of so many bikers in a rally mood is well handled by the author. It speaks well for the adaptability of community spirit that is so lacking in other writings these days. Some of the several conflicts that arise are dealt with in a balanced manner. The author allows the reader to come to some of their own conclusions. Readers should be able to participate as the author has so well sculptured her characters and their coping with the real world.

Looking forward to more in the near future!

If you want a terrific vacation in a wonderful place you have to read this book. You may hate motor cycles, but you will love this South Dakota story. People who live on the coasts think that the Midwest is fly over country, this is the real America with real people. The author has a wonderful way of describing the people who live in and visit South Dakota. The reason so many people of every description return to South Dakota to take a vacation is that it's just like the author tells it. The locals are just plain great to visitors. The Black Hills are one of the world's great treasures. Get this book and plan a vacation in one of the last great places...Sweet Thunder. If you want to be with 500,000 bikers make it the lst full week of August each year. If you don't like Harleys skip this week and and more of the interesting locals will be in Sweet Thunder to greet you. Every town in the Black Hills is fun to visit.