The Very Real Ghost Book of Christina Rose is about a girl named Christina and her twin brother Danny. Christina and Danny's mom died in a plane crash when they were only three years old. Christina, Danny, and their dad move from their old home in New York to a pink house in California. Christina thinks about ghosts a lot. Many strange things happen and Christina thinks they are being caused by ghosts.
I liked this book because it involves ghosts. I also like this book because I like the characters' personalities.
The message the author is trying to share is that when you have troubles, you can get over them. I think this because Christina has lots of troubles but she gives them time and she talks them out with friends and family so she can get over them.

This was such a good book, that I couldn't put it down. It was very well written, except for the very end. It stopped such abruptly that I wondered if there was another part to the story. Still, I recommend this book, and I do think that there should be a second "Very Real Ghost Book of Christina Rose".

When 10-year-old Christina Rose and her family (her father and twin brother, Danny) move to North Klondike, California, from New York, she wasn't expecting to move into a haunted house--or have her mother's ghost follow them. So, being a somewhat eccentric child (she claims to have Ghost Radar), Christina starts a ghost club called Ghost Hunters I.N.K. (In North Klondike) and sets out to uncover the truth about the unexplained events in her new house, with the help of her neighbors: Roberto Wing, his psychic mother, and Professor Imogen Barrymore, a parapsychologist.

"The Very Real Ghost Book of Christina Rose" is a great book for preteens who are into the paranormal. It doesn't rely heavily on overused ideas about ghosts, such as white sheets, moaning noises, or murderous spirits. Instead, Christina documents "real" ghost stories, as told from her friends and family--with black and white illustrations--to make the book seem more believable.

Overall, this is an interesting, concise presentation of the anthropological importance of the contents of biblical narratives as contrasted with the the other narratives close in proximity in the general sectarian milieu from which the Bible emerged. Though a certain way of thinking and approaching the texts is explored that is itself dynamic and inspiring, it fails to be more than merely rhetorically convincing. Strangly, Girard claims throughout his text that his observations and interpretations are neither apologetic or biased towards Christian interpretation but, rather, scientific. While it is plausible that the scientific side of his argument has been established in greater detail by those that endorse his theories about mimetic desire culminating violence in human societies and as the foundation of human society, it's not contained in these pages. Nonetheless, this still serves as an interesting introduction to Girard's ideas being both short and straightforward.

Girard provides a complex study of mimetic rivalry/contagion which serves to glorify the "Victory of the Cross". Although these observations are interesting, they contain one essential flaw: the Crucifixion should be mentally accessible to all mankind. These lofty observations are certainly not easy to comprehend. God intended for everyone on earth to understand the purpose of the Christ's death. The ideas asserted by Girard are definitely for the intellectual community.

Over the course of his long career, Girard has moved from literary criticism to anthropology to Biblical exegesis. This work of comparative religion sees him at his clearest and most brilliant as he compares the Gospel readings of violence to mythological interpretations that conceal the role mimetic desire plays in our conflicts. Especially revealing is a late chapter on "the concern for victims," the absolute value of modern culture. But it is in the book's final pages, where Girard finally postulates the existence of a power superior to violent contagion, that I See Satan Fall Like Lightning becomes truly great. This is a work of superb intelligence, among the most powerful and thought-provoking I have ever read.

While this book has many great pictures from the decade and examples of artwork inspired by psychedelic rock, it is a very lightweight effort. Perhaps it was meant to be that way. Concentrating almost solely on London and the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, the book consists mainly of reminiscences of aging hippies, most of whom were involved in the music and/or art scene of that era, either in San Francisco or London. Pretty much all of these consist of uncritical reminiscences about the hippie movement, whose downfall, if we are to believe these people, apparently came only from its eventual invasion by those looking to get rich off the movement (i.e., the establishment), totally disregarding the fact that those hucksters and exploiters were there from the beginning within the movement. One thing that also bothered me is that the rampant drug use of the period was presented almost completely as a positive thing. Indeed, it was glorified. With the exception of mentioning that Syd Barrett apparently became emotionally unhinged at least in part due to his use of LSD, there is almost no mention of the lives destroyed by the hedonism and drug use of the period, including such famous rock pioneers as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison, to name the most prominent. While it was interesting and entertaining to read many of these reminiscences, I wanted to know more. I wanted the authors and editors to dig a bit deeper than the superficial outline of that period's history that we've heard about before. One good effort in that direction was the timeline that was at the bottom of every page, spanning the years from 1965-1969 throughout the course of the book. Basically, I recommend this book, but mainly for the great photo spreads and not as much for the commentaries and reminiscences.

i found that this was a wonderful book. i was not around during the sixties, but i have been in love with them for a while. this book is a great trip back to the sixties for those of us who weren't fortunate enough to be there, and i'm sure it is great memories for those who were. i would reccomend this book to anyone in search of information about the sixties/hippies. it is definately a must read!

This book is an excellent portrayal of life in the 60's. It is great nostalgia for those who were there, and a great taster for those who wish they were.

In The Pioneers (1823) James Fenimore Cooper, who created the forerunner of backwoods heroes, depicts the clash between individualistic and communal impulses of people in the early development of a frontier settlement in upstate New York. The founder of the settlement, Judge Temple, is the personification of a bourgeois planned and stable society. He believes that laws imposed on individuals separate people from savages and are prerequisites for a civilized society. By trying to educate his settlers in practical approaches to farming and building and conservation of natural resources for practical use, he wishes to establish social and economic relations which are essential for a firmly structured society. Richard Jones, business assistant to Judge Temple and, later, the Sheriff of the county, is an egotistical jack-of-all-trades and represents a spirit of restless competition by which one pursues riches in order to climb the ladder of success. In contrast, the old hunter, Natty Bumppo, the solitary individual who lives in harmony with nature, is a frontier individualist who has a vision of a frontier society coexisting with nature. He craves traditional attitudes while fearing and despising civilization and its wasteful ways. His individualism is considered as a threat to Templeton and his natural laws eventually bring him into conflict with the "civilized" Judge and the people who are destroying the wilderness, a conflict that ultimately makes him escape the encroaching civilization and the lawless settlers.

I give this 3 stars, because LotM is included here, but the other 2 novels are slow, tedious and well, I've never finished them. Volume 2 of these nice volumes includes The Deerslayer and the Pathfinder, two exciting novels that I recommend, perhaps even before LotM. My favorite is the Pathfinder. Natty Bumpo is awesome in that adventure!

I strongly believe that James Fenimore Cooper belongs to the American and the world history. I learned the history reading his books. I have all of them and I still open them once in a while even now, forty years later.

I used the immunohematology section to review an area with which I am very familiar, and found numerous errors and omissions. Typographical errors in blood group names (e for E, etc.) lead to confusion. In a discipline which changes rapidly, outdated information is worse than useless. Because the format is ideal for exam review I would suggest using this text as an adjunct to a standard work (eg, for blood banking, the AABB Technical Manual.)

Me gustaria que este comentario llegue al autor Alba. Me estoy preparando para el Test of Lab. Scientist, compre sus libros hace 2 semanas y lo he encontrado muy práctico para repasar mis estudios. Pero con gran preocupación he notado que su libro tiene una serie de errores que se prestan para confusión, solo voy en la página 50 y he encontrado más de 2 que no pretendo enumerar (errores de contenido como en la pregunta 1 pag.27, errores tipográficos). El objetivo de mi e-mail es preguntar si esxiste una Fe de Errata de sus libros o de que manera me puede colaborar para seguir usando con confianza sus prácticos libros.

Sin otro particular y en espera de su respuesta, Leonor Palacios-Osma

Albas ha resumido en dos tomos los aspectos mas interesantes y prácticos del laboratorio clínico, desde la estequiometría, pasando por la parasitología, bacteriología, inmunología, bioquímica, permitiendo a quienes quieran aplicar para obtener la licencia, hacer un repaso muy conciso y claro de todos los aspectos vistos en la universidad y capacitándolo para presentar el examen que exigen las leyes de USA. El sistema de dos tomos uno con los contenidos y el otro de preguntas y respuestas es de gran ayuda. Además es supremamente útil en la docencia y en el propio desempeño de las actividades laborales.

Rosa Parks is best remembered as the Black woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a White person. However, she was much more that that. She was raised by grandparents because her mother taught school in another city. Her grandfather was the child of a slave owner and a slave. Rosa was determined to make a difference for her people. She and her husband took part in supporting the Scottsboro boys, Black youth who were accused of crimes they did not commit. Rosa became secretary of the NAACP and contributed greatly to her people, eventually receiving the Congressional Gold Metal award.

This book is a great read for a young child...maybe K-2nd grade. It was good at laying out for the reader the life of Rosa Parks.

This book is about a girl that had to give her seat up in a bus for a white person. She did not get up so they called the police.The police arrested her for not getting up.Then when Rosa got out of jail she made a statement saying, " Why do black people have to give up for white people?" They compromised and the black people do not have to give up there seat anymore. I liked this story because if Rosa Parks did not say anything we will be still separated from black people.

This is a good book to have on hand. It has a lot of valuable information. It gets a bit wordy at times, although the authors have certainly tried to avoid that problem. For my money, Roeser's is my first choice (also the first one I look to for information) and this is my second choice. I own and use them both.

As its title says, it is a real reference audiology text which provide you with important practice subjects, I think it is one of the most important audiology texts

This book gives a convincing and well researched thesis that the conventual chronology for the years roughly 1000BC to 500BC have been inflated by about 250 years. It also demonstrates that the problem is with the standard egyptian chronology which is throwning off the dating. This is a thesis put forth in other books notably PHAROAHS AND KINGS by DAVID ROHL however this book goes into greater depth and covers more areas than any other book I have seen on the subject. But frustratingly it stops there and totally fails to give the authors thesis on what the correct chronology for this time is. The impression left is that this only half the book. What's here is very interesting but is like a jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces left out.

Centuries of Darkness is, to me, an unusual work, in that the authors seem to be serious historians, who are still willing to stand up and point out the emperor's got no clothes. In this case, the emperor is the convoluted house of cards made up of middle eastern chronology which has been developing, in good faith, for over a century, and the fact that there appear to be flaws in this structure. The descriptions of these flaws and their suggestions for ways to handle them are well presented, even if they are not all immeadiately compelling. In short, this work is truly nutritious food for thought, and well worth the time to read it.

This book addresses a subject that has received scant notice by historians over the years, the history of the Revolutionary War in the Ohio Country.

The book begins by giving a short but concise history of the conflict in the western country. Though not generally known today, there was much bitter fighting between the British allied Ohio tribes and the American settlers on the frontier in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Virigina in the years between 1777-1782 with both sides commiting terrible atrocities. The Americans became deterimined to stop the raids by launching an attack against the British stronghold at Detroit, the support center for the Shawnee, Mingo, Wyandot, and Miami Indians who were raiding up and down the frontier. Though the Delaware were largely allies of the Americans, they later threw their lot in with the other tribes late in the war after the infamous massacre of Christian Delawares at Gnadenhutten.

Fort Laurens, named for Continental Congress president Henry Laurens, was built by order of General Lachlan McIntosh and was intended as the first step to securing, through military occupation, the wilderness of the Ohio Country. It was also intended to serve as a first step toward the ultimate goal of reducing Fort Detroit. Sadly, the fort was so far removed from its supply base at Fort Pitt and surrounded by a wilderness infested with hostile tribes that the maintenance of the fort soon became impossible. Despite its best effort, the garrison commanded by Col John Gibson, lacking food and supplies and finding themselves under nearly constant attack by the Indians and British rangers, was finally forced to abandon the post. This halting attempt to subdue the Ohio tribes was a total failure.

This is a short book but contains alot of good info on a little known subject.

This is a good introduction to the site of Ft. Laurens in Bolivar, Ohio. While it takes three or four chapters to actually get to the fort itself, all of this preliminary information is needed to understand the context in which the fort operated. The one thing I wish would have been done differently was the use of footnotes or endnotes--there were none. However, there was a useful Note on Sources at the end of the book. The final chapter is devoted to the archaeological excavations performed at the site in the 1970s. This is a very interesting section, and now that more excavations are currently being conducted, perhaps an updated edition of the book could be prepared.

I agree with the previous review. This book offered provocative conclusions about the origins of World War I: first, that precipitating the war and bringing in the reluctant British was the aim of French and Russian diplomacy, and second, that Serbia was a "rougue terrorist nation"--my words, not Goodspeed's--wholly undeserving of the support provided by Russia in the weeks after Franz Ferdinand's assassination. The history of the Balkans from about 1871 to 1914 provided by the first two chapters is very valuable and relevant given today's headlines.

This book is a sort of old-fashioned diplomatic and military history which seems to be out of fashion today. It focuses on an overall strategic view of the two wars. Such a view contrasts sharply with, say, the focus on soldiers' experiences which the PBS documentary "The Great War" presented.

I actually had the good fortune to have this man as my history professor at Brock University for a semester (he was a retired Colonel in the Canadian armed forces). We were studying military tactics in the 19th and 20th century and naturally it was recommended that we buy and read his book.

The book focus's on the idea that the first and second world war were not seperate events but rather one long war with a period of peace between the 2 conflicts. To support this idea, the book delves into the political/social and economic factors that lead to the first world war. Following the first world war, the book presents more political, social and economic factors that inevitibly lead to the second world war.

The 2 wars themselves are not covered in much detail except for the major strategies of each country involved. The strategies are criticized/applauded as being great/bad and are reviewed in great detail.

The book itself is a little dry at times especially in the events leading up to WWI, but it's a fascinating idea that the 2 wars are so closely tied especially in light of all the political events that are revealed.
Discussions on strategy are also very indepth and interesting.

I recommend it to anyone who is interested in political/social/economic background of the 2 wars and the major countries strategies in each war.