This is a great introductory book because it is so concise and well written. The basic concepts of Nine Star Ki are presented in a way that is easily understood. However, please don't assume that it is only for beginners. It is an excellent resource for all levels!

Novels for Students is the most wonderful set of books for researching literature. It contains an author background, theme, characters, setting, plot summary, and a critical analysis of the novel. It has helped me with many papers for school. All the information you would need is in one book. It is very convenient and easy.

This concise guide is even better than Cliffs NOtes and contains the author biography, plot summary, character analysis, themes, style, historical context, critical overview and criticism for 16 novels. Novels include: A Tale of Two Cities, The Sun Also Rises, The Pearl, Ethan Frome, The Color Purple, Les Miserables, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Bean Trees, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, How the Garcia Girls lost their Accents, The Outsiders, Like Water for Chocolate, Ender's Game, Love Medicine, Giants in the Earth, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. This series covers the high points for each novel and also has great side topics: Compare and Contrast, Media Adaptions, Topics for Further Study, etc. Useful as both a study guide and a reseach source, it sucessfully highlights the points in approximately 25 pages per novel.

This book is so full of interesting facts it was very helpful in giving information on what obsetricians do and how they do it.I would recommend this book to many students in school who really don't know what career they are lookig forward to yet!

In this pleasing and fun book, a child gets to see what an average day in the life of an orthopedist is like. The photographs are very clear and pertinent to the well written text. This would be a fine introduction to the interesting world of Orthopaedic Surgery. I would recommend this book for any parent or school library!

This book has everything you need to perform. Monologs (good ones, which are very hard to come by), duets, group scenes, EVERYTHING! All of them are either award winning plays or excerpts from them. Each different performance has an intro to it that gives information like: what the stage sould look like, what awards the play one, what other plays the playwright wrote and where the play was performed. The only problem is that the monologs are too short for the contests I enter. Does anyone know of any books that have 5 to 7 minute monologs? Thanks!

I am a Reference Archivist working in Genealogy for a State Archives. This book has provided help for many of my frustrated patrons who are looking for naturalization records of their ancestors. This book is very easy to use. The names are in alphabetical order. Each name has a corresponding numerical key which links it directly to the source it is cited in. I have never had a problem of not being able to find a name. More often than not Patrons have later told me that the books indexed in the Passenger and immigration lists have provided more information than the naturalization records themselves. But Buyer BEWARE! This is ONLY an INDEX it does not have the complete records. It only tells you where the name is located so further research is necessary in order to find the book and this could entail further travel and time. To Diehard "genies" however, this book is a definent lifesaver and should be in every genealogical, historical, reference, and archival library.

This book has poetry criticism for the most popular poems studied in the high school and college students. It also includes the complete text for each poem reviewed. This book is excellent for a smaller library that cant afford to buy 72 volumes of literary criticisms.

This .pdf pamphlet is essential to understanding Shephard's 1979 Pulitzer award winning play. But DON'T read this until AFTER you have seen or read this tough play. I had thought that most of the characters might have been ghosts, none real except for Shelly and Vince - a couple stepping back in time into a fractured family's home. This short book completely explains each character and symbol. Just wonderful. BHH.

I used this book as a source for my term paper which was on shakespeare. I wanted to get essays written by people during the time the plays were performed. This was a great book with lots of essays written by people from all different centuries since the plays have been published. It was an easy book to use...just like a dictionary. All you basically need to find out if the volume number which you can find out quite easily. It was a great book to use and from now on it's the first one I think about using.