This is a well written text on the topic of behavior management. It offers numerous examples to support the theories mentioned. It is an informative read for teachers and parents alike, and offers tangible solutions.

Pictures are excellent in black and white, but would have been super in color. It would have made information more appealing. Narrative a bit dry: but gives good information. Not a book a typical person would just pick and read for pleasure; but for research, yes. Good science book for the 3rd through the 8th grade, and also for teachers.

This book is an excellent book to have as an introductory text for biochemical engineering. Its a good book to have irrespective of whether you are new or experienced in this field.

It covers everything from background in biology and chemical engineering with a biochem viewpoint to industrial applications, modeling, control and instrumentation issues... it has a chapter for each of these things. An excellent undergrad/grad text. Definitely a book to keep for lifetime.

In May, 1942, the Japanese developed a plan to capture Port Moresby and Australia. A powerful Japanese fleet sailed into the bright blue waters of the Coral Sea. However, unknown to the Japanese, the Americans, through the efforts of their code-breakers, knew the number and types of ships in the Japanese force and they sent their own force to halt the Japanese advance.

This was the first naval battle fought where the opposing sides never saw one another. The Americans, under the command of Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, stuck first at the Japanese, sinking a light aircraft carrier. An ironic note occurred here as the two air strike forces actually passed each other, but neither side sighted the other. The Japanese had greater success, sinking the carrier Lexington and damaging the Yorktown. In the end, this turned out to be a tactical victory for the Japanese due to the greater American shipping losses, but it was a strategic victory for the Americans because the Japanese forces were forced to withdraw, never threatening Port Moresby or Australia again.

I enjoyed this book very much. The description of the battle is very good, and the author pays great attention to detail. Perhaps my favorite part of the book involves the struggle of the oiler Neosho and the destroyer Sims, both attacked by the Japanese because they were mistaken for aircraft carriers. The author devotes several chapters to the heroic struggle of these tiny ships and their survivors.

This battle changed the outcome of the war for both the Japanese and Americans. After this battle, the Japanese never regained the offensive in the Pacific, while the Americans began the long road to Tokyo.

Ed Tilston's BOJADOR has everything you could possibly want: pirates! Battles at sea! Beautiful women! Moorish Spain! Portuguese sea captains! Young love! Camel caravans snaking across trackless desert!

But this is no silly bodice-ripper. Instead the story of how the Portuguese learned navigation secrets from Moorish caravan leaders, and used this knowledge to prove to Europe that there is a southern Africa, is told with impressive scholarship. Mario Freitas' adventures, which take him from sea pilot to slave to favorite of Prince Henry the Navigator, have the ring of authenticity. Ed Tilston picks the moment in history when the Portuguese discovered a new dimension to their world, and invests it with human drama.

Tilston knows how to tell a story, and, more important, how to incorporate significant historical, cultural, and technical information into the telling so that his account is as dignified as it is exciting.

"Bold Relief" won the best-book-of-the-year prize from the Political Sociology section of the American Sociological Association and was a finalist for the Association's Distinguished Publication Award. It is a marvelous work of historical reconstruction and comparative analysis. As Michael Katz of the University of Pennsylvania has written, "With convincing evidence 'Bold Relief' limns a bold new vision of federal social policy from the New Deal through the 1940s. Looking back through the lens of current policy concerns, Amenta makes clear, distorts the past by underestimating the importance and achievements of work and relief policies. . . . In the process, we miss America's brief moment as a leader in public social spending. While Amenta is critical of current 'welfare reform' and pessimistic about the future of public social spending in the late 1990s, the implications of his story are not all gloomy. For he showcases an alternative tradition within modern American experience and argues that no set of social policies is inevitable."

Amenta shows that the U.S. welfare state, which is typically viewed as a welfare-state "laggard," was actually more generous than any in Europe by the end of the 1930s, due mainly to the public-employment programs of the New Deal, especially the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and to Old Age Assistance. This "work and relief state," as he calls it, was dismantled by conservatives during the 1940s, a process that he ascribes to the "underdemocratized" American polity, specifically Jim Crow politics in the South and patronage politics in the North and Midwest.

Amenta makes extensive, and effective, use of comparisons among U.S. states to bolster his analysis. As Bartholomew Sparrow writes in his "Political Science Quarterly" review, "The author makes a convincing case that the large variations existing in the scope and trajectory of the social provisions offered in the forty-eight states can be best explained by the structure of each state's political system, where the states differed from each other on voting rights, presence of patronage parties, politics of the ruling regime, administrative power, and presence of social movements." Jeff Manza has noted, in his "American Journal of Sociology" review, that these "empirical tests of his model are unusual in historical sociology and generally convincing." Amenta also bolsters his argument with case studies of the "little New Deals" in four states: Virginia, Illinois, Wisconsin, and California. Finally, the last chapter of "Bold Relief" examines the British welfare state in order to underscore the particularities of the U.S. case. Beverly Stadum, in her "Journal of Politics" review, concludes that "Bold Relief" "deepens [our] understanding of social programs' origins while shifting traditional assumptions about the meaning of the New Deal. And the book reminds us of the insidious role that racism and poverty have played in the whole of our public life."

The autobiography of an inspirational officer, businessman, husband, father, and visionary. It will make you want to do something great with your life, and for those around you.

It's a really great book on defensive and offensive techniques in boxing. Very complete and has alot of pictures and illustrations. Very complete in its survey of boxing techniques. It's out of print but it's available from a martial arts book supply company. It only costs ten dollars. It's really a classic. I'm a boxing fan and it's one of the best books I've seen.

This book provides an excellent introduction to the mathematics electronic students need to master. The author uses problems in electronics to illuminate the concepts and techniques of calculus and more advanced mathematics such as Fourier and Laplacian analysis. This is an ideal book for students in an electronics technology program, and would even be of help to a engineering student in need of an intuitive introduction to calculus.

If there was ever a time when the academic communities of the world needed the experience of heavens opened and the rain of God's blessedness poured down, it is now. Beginning with a history of higher education's strong evangelical heritage, Orr covers the many campus awakening movements both in the United States and abroad, weaving throughout an historical narrative of period conditions. Closing chapters are devoted to discussion of the pattern and theology of college revivals. In addition to a complete bibliography, this new work includes a thorough index, making it invaluable to students of revival.