While this book did not thrill me, my daughter loves it! She has chosen this book over many others time and again to have read to her. It has been over a year since she first saw it, and she still loves it. I run a childcare in my home and the children enjoy it too. The pull up parts on the pages engages children to participate in the story. Even though an adult may not like a story or the illustrations, children are the ultimate judge. The copy I have is a chunky board book which fits well in small hands.

What is our soul? Is it synonymous with spirit or are they two different entities? Are we spirits or do we have spirit, and is it our soul or our spirit (or both) that goes to Heaven? These are some very challenging, subjective questions that I often like to philosophize about. This is the reason I picked up David Hansen's book. While I knew this book would be deep reading, I was pleasantly surprised by the intellectual challenge it provided.

David Hansen will take you on an in depth journey into the soul, and the common Christian philosophies on exactly what our soul is. Hansen thorougly and reflectively analyzes all views on this topic without forcing his view as being superior. Hansen describes our souls as being empty, and our spirit being what we immerse our souls in, like a sponge. This is the most creative way I have heard this put, and this is just one of many analogies he makes that helps the reader to understand.

The question of whether or not we are body, soul and spirit (Trichotomy) or just body and soul (Dualism) is just the tip of the iceberg. Hansen also discusses what the role of the soul is, its function in the context of this world, and the question of the soul being our unique identity. Hansen also discusses at length the concepts of heart and mind, and how these differ from the soul and spirit.

This is a must-read for people who want to explore and reflect about the Christian faith and ideas about the soul. It is not the kind of book you pick up and read over a couple of days. It is the kind you reflect on and read a few pages at a time, but I have gained a better understanding of my soul through the pages of this book.

Knowing next to nothing about Babs, I found this book educational, but a little difficult to follow. The author dropped (what seemed like) about 10 names per page, most of which nobody who was born post-1960, like myself, would recognize. It was very hard to remember who was who. I thought I was doing a pretty good job keeping up with Babs' husbands...remembering which was which...but after a while it got confusing (obviously more the subject's fault than the author's). I think I got a pretty good idea of what Ms. Hutton was about, and have a hard time sympathizing with her...poor little rich girl indeed! She popped into a Woolworth's ONCE in her life, just to sign a few autographs. Her cheesy poetry netted her less than $200, the only money she truly earned of her own effort. Someone else handled all her financial matters (luckily for her, usually quite well), because she couldn't be bothered...spending money takes time, you know). She dropped husbands as soon as they no longer entertained her. Yes, she had exquisite taste in clothing and jewelry, and traveled incessantly to places I can only dream of ever seeing..but had no grasp on reality- she once sent one of her employees to the bank to change a bill because she had no change..it was a $10,000 bill ( I didn't even know those existed!). I enjoyed this book because it took me somewhere I could never go myself. It's hard to feel sorry for her though...she dug her own grave!!!

I haven't read "text me" yet, but this book is just over twice as long. It teaches you how to speak almost EVERYTHING from "B = Be", "C = See", "LOL = Laughing out Loud", "BRB = Be right back", easy stuff like that to hard stuff like "StndBckImGoNaBrkTDOrDwn = Stand Back, I'm going to break the door down.". It's an awesome book. It also covers Emoticons, from easy to hard. It even shows you full-ons. From ":-) = happy" to ">_< = I'm angry" to "..._(:)-) = scuba diver" and everything like that. If it doesn't cover something you want it to have, at the last few pages there's an "Ova2U" section where you write your own stuff. Have fun with this book ;-) (^.^)/

David H. Miller's claim to have interviewed oodles of Indian survivors of the Custer fight is bogus. Most of the factual Indian material in the book is freely lifted from interviews recorded by other people such as Stanley Vestal. Even the Indian "portraits" which Miller supposedly did from life appear to have been done from photographs. It is significant that Miller waited until the last Indian survivor had died in 1955 before publishing. Like his spiritual descendent, Dee Brown, Miller writes nonsense while leaning on the works of more reputable authors...

His "original" material is sheer nonsense, like his contention that Custer committed suicide and that the powder burns were somehow "wiped away" by cover-up officers -- and that Custer's body was taken away on the Far West rather than buried on the field. (Oddly enough, he also claims that Custer got shot crossing the river...)

I have not yet read the book but am now ordering it. I noticed that a couple of the reviews from readers questioned the validity of the book. It is absolutely authenic. I was the Millers banker in 1981 when they lived in Rancho Santa Fe, Ca. and I visited their home on 2 occasins. Mr. Miller has a fascinating background which does include living with the indians and seeking out those who had fought Custer approximately 50 years prior to his painting their busts.His home was full of Indian artifacts which he refused to sell because they had been given to him and had special meaning. Mr. Miller was also employed on the sets of several cowboy movies as an Indian expert. He was about 75 years old in 1981 and I have lost total contact with him. I just want readers of this book to know that it is the real thing.

Having read several differing accounts of the battle at Little Big Horn, I find that no one, not even the Indians know what happened that day. Mr. Miller has done his best to present the views of the Indians who fought at the battle as factually as possible. I have not read a recent printing, (my book was printed in 1965, 208 pages counting lists of Indians interviewed or mentioned and the Officers of the 7th Cavalry). I have not been able to find anything in this book, or in any other books to make me believe that Mr. Miller has done anything other than present the facts as best as he could, and I highly recomend this book for anyone interested in the truth about what happened June 25, 1876.

Although Peter Cottontail is a very nice character, the young reader has to pull a string -- so the rabbit Peter will be hidden from sight. The mechanism do not work if you are intending to give this book to a baby or a toddler, specially because there are signs during the text, indicating if the child is supposed to pull down on the string or release it. Too complicated for the youngers, I think.

I purchased both of Crossley's Hide-and-Seek books for my son when he was 6 months old, and he has always loved them! They're wonderful interactive books, and in this one, Peter Cottontail "pops up" to surprise bears, ducks, and a lamb with candy and flowers on Easter morning. My son loves to anticipate each page, even though by now he knows exactly what to expect. To this day, he goes nuts over the ducks, and he loves to point out everything in each picture. Very simply written and colorfully illustrated, I only wish that Mr. Crossley would give us more of these! I must add that this book has somehow managed to survive my son's every attempt to destroy it. It's a very sturdy board book, and the elastic that holds Peter is extremely strong, but I'd *still* recommend putting this book away after the reading session is over.

I just completed a course that used this book as a...reference. Granted, it is a first edition, but it reads like a rough draft. The presence of three authors is all too obvious in the inconsistent writing of proofs, paragraphs, and even exercises. Some proofs are just plain wrong, and many have gaping holes in them. Notation is confusing, and changes without warning or explanation. I will say this much in its favor: many important results are presented, although the proofs are absent. It makes a good source for named theorems, but that's about it.

Once thought to be high-brow estoeric mathematics, algebraic geometry is now finding applications in a myriad of different areas, such as cryptography, coding algorithms, and computer graphics. This book gives an overview of some of the techniques involved when applying algebraic geometry. The authors gear the discussion to those who are attempting to write computer code to solve polynomial equations and thus the first few chapters cover the algebraic structure of ideals in polynomial rings and Grobner basis algorithms. The reader is expected to have a fairly good background in undergraduate algebra in order to read this book, but the authors do give an introduction to algebra in the first chapter. Many exercises permeate the text, some of which are quite useful in testing the reader's understanding. The Maple symbolic programming language is used to illustrate the main algorithms, and I think effectively so. The authors do mention other packages such as Axiom, Mathematica, Macauley, and REDUCE to do the calculations. The chapter on local rings is the most well-written in the book, as the idea of a local ring is made very concrete in their discussion and in the examples. The strategy of studying properties of a variety via the study of functions on the variety is illustrated nicely with an example of a circle of radius one. Later, in a chapter on free resolutions, the authors discuss the Hilbert function and give a very instructive example of its calculation, that of a twisted cubic in three-dimensional space. They mention the conjecture on graded resolutions of ideals of canonical curves and refer the reader to the literature for more information. Particularly interesting is the chapter on polytopes, where toric varieties are introduced. The authors motivate nicely how some of the more abstract constructions in this subject, such as the Chow ring and the Veronese map, arise. The important subject of homotopy continuation methods is discussed, and this is helpful since these methods have taken on major applications in recent years. In optimization theory, they serve as a kind of generalization of the gradient methods, but do not have the convergence to local minima problems so characteristic of these methods. In addition, one can use homotopy continuation methods to get a computational handle on the Schubert calculus, namely, the problem of finding explicity the number of m-planes that meet a set of linear subspaces in general position. There are some software packages developed in the academic environment that deal with homotopy continuation, such as "Continuum", which is a projective approach based on Bezout's theorem; and "PHC", which is based on Bernstein's theorem, the latter of which the authors treat in detail in the book. My primary reason for purchasing the book was mainly the last chapter on algebraic coding theory. The authors do give an effective presentation of the concepts, including error-correcting codes, but I was disappointed in not finding a treatment of the soft-decision problem in Reed-Solomon codes.

In general this is a good book and worth reading, if one needs an introduction to the areas covered. Students could definitely benefit from its perusal.

This teeny tome (it measures 3.5 by 3.5 inches) is the perfect pocket-sized primer of used (and abused) proverbs and sayings, bastardized by some famous folks to suit their own applause-getting needs. Think Roseanne: "The fastest way to a man's heart is through his chest." Think Rhonda Boozer: "A bird in the hand is dead." Think John Lennon: "Beauty is in the eye of the newt and a hair of the dog." (Huh?) Think Dorothy Parker: "Don't put all your eggs into one bastard." Think Woody Allen: "TB or not TB, that is the congestion." Mae's here, as is Lenny and Groucho and W.C. It's a shame the cover is so misleading: "Do unto others ... then run" was muttered by Benny Hill, but Groucho. Here, the book ain't on the Marx.

NOT TRUE! It is all a hoax! It is the Santa of Hanukah. NO candles were kept on for 8 days. Sorry Kids, I learned it in sunday school

That's some free advice that you won't find in this book. Solomon offers such obvious advice that anyone could have written it. Here's the summary of 163 pages: Get a fifteen year instead of 30 year mortgage and save money to prepay it! Wow what a revelation! He then offers dozens of boring, simplistic suggestions on how to do that including clip coupons, shop for bargains, set a budget, don't overspend, avoid expensive habits. Did I really spend money to read this when Mom & Dad told me this when I was ten? For free! I stopped reading when Mr. Solomon advised me to bring a pen to a closing! Trees died for this? Also, Mr. Solomon freely admits to having no children, so this book is not really designed for parents who have a little more difficulty saving than what he refers to as TINKS (Two Incomes, No Kids). His argument on the value of prepaying a mortgage (rather than sustaining one for the tax credit) is the only thing worthwhile in this overpadded book. How to win the mortgage war and get out of debt? Talk a publisher into printing a book of advice everyone has already heard then collect those royalty checks!

I admit it. This book does not contain any new or incredible advice. It's all pretty much just common sense stuff. The benefit of the book is that it is very motivating. All of the knowledge in the world will not do you any good unless you actually apply it. The author does a good job of relating his personal stories. You leave the book feeling like you CAN do it.