Have read this book, borrowed from our library. The whole book is very useful, with detailed instructions for every type of knitting machine. The techniques are easy to understand and very helpful. Other books are either translations from another language and do not make sense, or are so complicated that the instructions are not feasible. This book makes knitting machine techniques simple to learn.

I want to see hand-manipulated stitches for machine knitters

to see patter

If you have a little one who likes bears and you would like to throw in a little learning, this is a great book. Playful and fun, with great illustrations. As you turn the pages you count down from 10 bears to just one little bear. Each page has the corresponding number of bears written in big bold print, so you can use the book as a learning tool for numbers. With few lines to a page it makes a great book for reading aloud or bedtime.

This is a great book. My 2 year old just loves it. It is easy for a parent to read (over and over and over) and you will be glad when your toddler asks for it again and again, as mine does. Get this book if yours is 1-3 years old. It is sure to be a favorite of both parent and child.

I received this book as a gift and have been reading it to my5-month old since she was about 4 weeks old. It is her very favoritebook that I read to her, and she is also fascinated by the wonderful illustrations. Even when she is cranky because it's bedtime, she'll stop fussing long enough for me to read this counting rhyme to her.

"Ticket to Ride" was a radio show hosted by Scott Muni devoted entirely to the music and memory of the Beatles (remember the radio station in New York City that played nothing but Beatles music?). Muni was a New York radio mainstay for more than twenty years who was not only a disc jockey but a friend to the Beatles. "Ticket to Ride," the book, brings together photographs, rare Beatles memorabilia from Muni's personal collection, and, most importantly, the transcripts of interviews with those touched by the Beatles in important ways. This means musicians like Elton John, Jimmy Page, Sting, and the Rolling Stones talking about how the Beatles inspired their own careers. Then there are friends like Pete Best and Tommy Smothers, family like Yoko Ono and Julian Lennon, musical associates like Billy Preston and George Martin, and the Beatles themselves talking candidly about their lives and music. Muni writes the introduction, and the transcripts are edited by Denny Somach, Kathleen Somach, and Kevin Gunn. The order of these transcripts could not be characterized as chronological, but there is a general attempt to provide a sense of moving forward. An index would have been nice, so that if you want to read about the Beatles appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," Brian Epstein, or the recording sessions for "Let It Be," that it would be more by purpose than happenstance, but transcripts rarely get presented that way. So, basically what we have in "Ticket to Ride" is an expert interviewer talking with about four dozen famous names about the Beatles, including the most famous names (John, Paul, George and Ringo). These are essentially primary document and virtually every interview is an enjoyable and informative read. Warning: when you read the John Lennon interview be prepared to rummage through your music library to play the same songs that pop up during the conversation.

This book is perfect for Beatles fans of all ages. Based on the radio show that ran for seven years, it collected a lot of great stories. Should be reissued!

The best compilation of stories on The Beatles. A must for any Beatle Fan. The book is based on the succesful Radio Show "Ticket to Ride"

This book should be re-issued.

A Time for Heroes let's you learn the history of WWII but tells the tale of a young girls worries, family and overall life.

Katie O'Toole really tells all about what it was like during WWII in a form that will make you want to read it again and again. O'Toole really writes this book in a form where you get so wrapped up in it that you can imagine every little detail.

This is a terrific book for adults, young and old. It follows the growing and maturing of Patsy Kelly, whose 13th birthday coincides with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Her world suddenly is filled with the horrors of war, ethnic and racial prejudices, and the fears and uncertainties of wartime. She learns that people and things aren't always what they seem to be. It is a time for wars to be fought and heroes to come forward.

Patsy lives in a rural Pennsylvania town. Her father is Pine Glen's postmaster, her mother is a homemaker, and her 17-year old brother has major league baseball potential, before the War puts an end to that. The story weaves the coming of age of Patsy with the beginning and progression of the War. Heroes are not only found on the warfront, but also in everyday life. And Patsy is a hero.

Kathleen O'Toole crafts a powerful tale that the reader will find difficult to put down. This book is a winner!

The work presented in this book stands as a shining example of how social science research should be conducted. The authors' ability to set aside their preconceptions regarding gun control establishes their qualifications as preeminent researchers in the field and true professionals (as though this was necessary). Contemporary social science research is too often lacking in integrity; thankfully, these practitioners have made a contribution to the truth rather than some political ideology. The work cannot be classified as conservative or liberal. Rather, it represents a full and exhaustive exploration of the dynamics associated with the gun control debate as it is framed today. True students of the field should be grateful.

Interviewing felony prisoners in ten state correctional systems in 1981, Wright and Rossi found extensive information suggesting that gun control laws have relatively little effect on violent criminals. For example, only 12% of criminals, and only 7% of the criminals specializing in handgun crime, had acquired their last crime handgun at a gun store. Of those, about a quarter had stolen the gun from a store; a large number of the rest, Wright and Rossi suggested, had probably procured the gun through a legal surrogate buyer, such as a girlfriend with a clean record. Fifty-six percent of the prisoners said that a criminal would not attack a potential victim who was known to be armed. Seventy-four percent agreed with the statement that "One reason burglars avoid houses where people are at home is that they fear being shot during the crime." Thirty-nine percent of the felons had personally decided not to commit a crime because they thought the victim might have a gun, and eight percent said the experience had occurred "many times." Criminals in states with higher civilian gun ownership rates worried the most about armed victims. Despite the popular myth that criminals preferred small, inexpensive handguns (so-called "Saturday Night Specials" or "junk guns"), the felony prisoners preferred larger, more powerful handguns-equal to the guns which they expected the police would have. Although the criminals rarely bought guns in gun stores, the overwhelming majority stated that obtaining a gun after their release from prison would be a simple project, which might take a few hours to a few weeks. Armed and Dangerous has lost none of its importance. In the years since it was published, no-one has done any research on criminal gun use and acquisition that is even half as significant or detailed. Armed and Dangerous is also a great book to give a library. The new paperback includes an introduction by Jim Wright that discusses the reaction to Armed and Dangerous in the years since its first publication.

Intending to build the case for comprehensive federal gun restrictions, the Carter administration handed out a major gun control research grant to sociology Professor James D. Wright, and his colleagues Peter Rossi and Kathleen Daly. Wright was already on record as favoring much stricter controls, and he and his colleagues were recognized as among sociology's brightest stars. Rossi, a University of Massachusetts professor, would later become President of the American Sociology Association. Wright, who formerly served as Director of the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, now teaches at Tulane. Daly was a relatively young scholar at the time, but she has since gone on to win the Hindelang Prize from the American Society of Criminology. The Hindelang Prize is awarded for the most significant contribution to criminology in a three-year period. Daly is the most recent winner, for her studies of women's issues. Anyway, Wright, Rossi, and Daly were asked to survey the state of research regarding the efficacy of gun control, presumably to show that gun control worked, and America needed more of it. But when Wright, Rossi, and Daly produced their report for the National Institute of Justice, they delivered a document quite different from the one they had expected to write. Carefully reviewing all existing research to date, the three scholars found no persuasive scholarly evidence that America's 20,000 gun control laws had reduced criminal violence. For example, the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, which banned most interstate gun sales, had no discernible impact on the criminal acquisition of guns from other states. Washington, D.C.'s 1977 ban on the ownership of handguns which had not already been registered in the District was not linked to any reduction in gun crime in the District. Even Detroit's law providing mandatory sentences for felonies committed with a gun was found to have no effect on gun crime patterns, in part because judges would often reduce the sentence for the underlying offense in order to balance out the mandatory two-year extra sentence for use of a gun. The Wright/Rossi/Daly team exploded scores of other gun control myths. They discussed the data showing that gun owners-rather then being a violent, aberrant group of nuts-were at least as psychologically stable and morally sound as the rest of the population. Polls claiming to show that a large majority of the population favored "more gun control" were debunked as being the product of biased questions, and of the fact that most people have no idea how strict gun laws already are. As the scholars frankly admitted, they had started out their research as gun control advocates, and had been forced to change their minds by a careful review of the evidence. Review by Dave Kopel, Independence Institute, http://i2i.org.

I love the book. It was the best book I ever read in my whole life!

I loved this book it was great it was so great I couldent put it down. It was about a little girl who had to be perfet and was asked to be a flower girl at her cousin Roxys punk wedding!

I'm 9 years old and I think this book is awesome because Violet is nice and fun. The book had some really interesting characters.This book is cool I thick Roxy is the most interesting.Roxy is cool too.

I am interested in getting involved in, or help build and intentional community. This book was perfect for helping me see the ins and outs of community life. The author was candid about their mistakes, as well as their accomplishments, in the first few years. I found this very helpful.

i can't believe such a funny & influential book (for me at least *grin*) is out of print! my advice is to send in a request. ask for a copy for yourself, your crazy hippie kid sister (no apologies offered as i wear that title with honor), your library, your child's school, for everyone you know. this is an honest, funny, and inspiring look into the early days of one of the longest standing intentional communities in the u.s. (yep, it's still around) the sequel perhaps provides more insight (as they'd been experimenting an additional 20 years), but this first account makes a great supplement to b.f. skinner's _walden two_ as you can feel more of its presence with the group of motivated readers who decided to see if they could actualize his ideas. b.f. skinner even wrote the introduction to this account!

fact is often stranger than fiction ~ go ahead, indulge yourself!

This book was writen after five years of the development of Twin Oaks community based roughly on a book by B. F. Skinner. The premise of Twin Oaks was to establish a community where all members were equal in finance, labor, and living. Kat Kenkade, on of the founding members, relays the difficulties of starting a working commune in the late 1960's in rural Virgina. From farming to manufacture, living in a barn to building their own houses. This book makes a good follow-up to Walden Two.

My 2 1/2-year-old discovered Pooh on the Disney video. However, she wanted to hear about his adventures at bedtime, so I bought this book. Now she actually prefers it to the video, which makes everyone happy. Of all of her Pooh books, this is her favorite.

I have been reading Pooh stories to my children for many years. When my oldest son was little, Pooh was his nickname. How great to have these wonderful stories to give to my grandchildren. It is like passing on part of my sons childhood to their children. Both of my grandchildren love Pooh just as much as their Daddy's did. Pooh, Tigger, Piglet and the rest will never go away. I have to confess, I'm the Nana, but I love reading these stories to my grandchildren. They are my favorites too.

We bought the movie for my daughter's 2nd Birthday. She loves the movie so much that she has almost the whole thing memorized, but the real fun started when we found the book. She sits down and "reads" the book herself. This book is so close the the movie that she can repeat the story as she looks at the pictures in the book. What more could a parent ask for than a book that children can relate to and encourage them to read instead of watch TV. Thank You.

Dr. Kain's science books provide marvelous supplemental activities for children to experience the excitement of science. The activities are great for kids with learning handicaps and offer them the opportunity to enjoy and learn outside of a more rigid curriculum. Children are introduced to the concept of the scientific method in a fun and hands-on fashion. Teachers are given ideas for extending the activities into other academic disciplines. And finally there is a wealth of additional resources available in the back of the teacher's manual for those who wish to expand upon the concepts introduced in the books.

I heartily endorse the use of these books by educators of children in grades K through 5.

Erin E. Flory, 5th Grade Special Education Teacher, California

My 4-year-old daughter loves this book. She had me read it over-and-over again. Then we started mixing some stuff together. She may not understand everything but it sure has been fun!

Reading the Science Spiders books is like going to the dentist. So why did I rate the books so highly? I have a very good dentist. He's friendly, interesting, and before we're finished with the small talk, he's finished with the injection. The worst part of going to the dentist is over before I know it's happening. The Science Spider books are simple, playful stories about a patient, scientifically inclined mom and her young children. The readers don't realize they're learning science until after it happens. My jaw gets numb just thinking about it. There's no math, but readers of all ages become familiar with chemical reactions, color theory, acids, bases, forces, energy, molecules, scientific method, air pressure, and center of gravity. The lucky children who are introduced to science by the Science Spiders will have a positive feeling for the subject that can only help them in future studies. Dr. Kain has a Ph.D in materials science and engineering. She barely conceals her identity in the books as "Mom." Mom is an excellent role model for all children, but especially girls. She and her kitchen experiments prove that science is very much woman's work. And apparently, so is dentistry.

Rick Kamen, author of HEIRLOOM STORIES FROM THE HARNESSMAKER'S SON

Humorous and insightful. I've given it to many friends as gifts and they love it.

This book made me laugh and it made me cry. There are some really choice tidbits that you will want to savor and quote to others. I found myself reading aloud from the book to all my friends and family and I gave many copies gifts. I really love this book!

Casey has a wry sense of humor and a way with words. Anyone who has ever been in a family will appreciate the insight, wisdom and humor that can be found in this book and her other books. It's a great gift book that you can give to friends and relative,