THE definative text for breeding and rasing large parrots.

Well writen... excellent chapters on aviary construction and design as well as an amazing amout of data on everything from feather growth in a variety of chicks to serum blood values in a number of different species. Some chapter were very short (i.e. 2 pages or less) but those were generally were about topics that are not central to the book.... Great color photo sections as well. I would hope that a 2nd ed. would have a bit more written on quarintine and viral disease as both topics were barley talked about.... overall a great book for those interested in breeding parrots... highly recomended

This book still simply the best book about Psittacine aviculture ever writen. Fully ilustrated, informative, techinical and with a lot of statistics never found in another book, even nowadays. If you wanna buy the best book about parrot production, buy it now!

My favorite recipe is the stevia fruit gluk. It is delicious and easy to cook. The apple pie is also terrific. Most of the recipes taste better than sugar recipes, because stevia tastes so good. I would recommend that you buy a copy, then another 5 copies for your friends.

My only problem with the book is I can never get the author's name spelled right. :)

The content of Jeffrey Goettemoillers cook book is excellent. I am allergic to wheat and milk, along with sugar. Some of his recipies are wheat and milk free. The recipies for everyday foods; [ketchup,Granola, etc.] are great as you can now have sugar free ketchup, and wheat free granola. Thanks for a great book.

So far I have only tried one recipe...the apple pie. Everyone loved it. I really like this book because it is completely healthy. Not just sugarless. It also calls for whole food products, not refined. They try and stay away from dairy as much as possible. They give you options just in case you might not like a certain something. Intelligently written.

This book was enormously valuable to me in helping my father through his final illness. My deepest thanks to the authors and the publisher!

Readers should know that the second author of this valuable text can no longer be reached at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and is best reached at "RPatt@cancerpain.org."

Thanks you & best wishes,

RP

"You Don't Have to Suffer" is one of the most helpful, honest, clearly written books on the management of long-term, severe pain that I have ever read. Every cancer patient who has or fears having pain needs to own and read this book. It is also appropriate and helpful for people with severely painful, progressive conditions like endometriosis, sickle-cell disease, lupus, or any painful condition that is being treated with narcotic medications.

The clear and thorough writing in this book helped me to understand the difference between drug tollerance and drug addiction, to know why my doctors were uncomfortable prescribing appropriately strong medication, and gave me the ammunition and courage I needed to go to a pain clinic and get treatment to control my pain and allow me to live my life.

For the beginner who is interested in acquiring a good command of basic German, I would highly recommend this course. The course begins at square one and guides the learner step-by-step through the German language, starting with such topics and greetings, time, and directions, and moving on towards the end with topics like describing where you grew up and expressing your opinions on various subjects. Each unit contains lots of speaking and listening exercises, and the course center around the tapes, which are easy-to-follow and clearly recorded. The entire book is divided into two parts, each ending with a cumulative quiz so you can test your progress (answers to the quizzes and all exercises are in the back). Every page is colorful and enhanced with drawings and photos. There is also a lot of practical, cultural, and historical information on Germany interspersed throughout. One particularly good thing about this course is its relevancy--it teaches you the grammar and vocabulary you will really use, not just "textbook" stuff. For those who are not so good with formal grammar it is also good, because although you will learn it, it is approached in small steps and you are never thrown too much at once. The emphasis is on getting you to speak and understand. There is also a balance of touristy vs. more conversational topics--you'll learn to book a hotel room and order food in a restaurant, for example, but you'll also learn to talk about your family and your career. So it's a good course for serious tourists as well as people who want to eventually achieve a high level of proficiency in German. At the end of this course you should be able to get around in a German-speaking country without too much hassle and to engage in basic conversations with German-speaking people. I'd say that this course is equivalent to about a year of college-level German, so it's definitely more than just a simple tourist course. I own this course and I have used it, so if you have any further questions before you buy it, feel free to e-mail me.

My only complaint about the course is that it centers around story-line of a young Romanian new to Germany, and this story can be hard to get into and follow if you haven't seen the videos (which are broadcast only in England). But this does not affect the learning process because understanding the story-line is not crucial to the actual course--it is more of a side-story designed to keep you entertained.

This course was an excellent start for me. It did not focus on grammar, but at the same time it did not completely ignore it. The pace of learning was good, and much of the learning occurred naturally without rote memorization or drill. I studied the course for three months before moving to Germany and was able to get along OK as soon as I arrived.

As soon as the book was unwrapped and opened for inspection, my 5 year old wanted to dive right in. A mother can't help but love a book like that. Usborne's many pictures and small paragraphs of information are ideal for children. The content is astonishingly good, and the presentation is even better. I absolutely love the experiments throughout the book. They are easy to do and only require items I normally have around my house. My only regret is that I didn't have this book to read when I was younger. After this book, I believe Usborne could make a book on the anything seem interesting.

This has turned into a useful book. I homeschool our five children using a classical approach. Following the recommendation of The Well Trained Mind, I purchased this book. Initially, I was not as thrilled with this as with some of my other school purchases. References to macroevolution, the Big Bang, etc,,, as if those theories are fact don't seem suitable to a science book when you are training children in the beginnings of the scientific method. Unfortunately, this is a common approach. For those concerned about Biblical creation, the evolutionary detail is limited and can be easily skipped or discussed in light of the Bible.

On a practical level, this book is great. On numerous pages it offers little ideas to follow or use as mini-experiments or further research. It is easy enough for my youngest scholar to follow, and my oldest, a third grader, on busy days can read to the others.

We school for six weeks and take a break the seventh. The format of the book fits this perfectly. Each of the six sections can be read in a four-page spread weekly in six weeks, totalling the 36 weeks needed for school. This schedule allows one or two days a week for reading and a second day a week for experiments, field trips, or alternative reading/studying. (I usually read Tues. and Thurs. and do field trips and experiments on Saturday with Dad).

Overall rating of this book is positive.

Organized by seasons, Susan Simon's "Insalate" provides Italian salads for all meals, from the sublimely simple - melted gorgonzola poured over baby spinach leaves, or romaine and fennel salad, or tomato and mozzarella; to the simple and hearty - tuna and bean, bread salad, eggplant caponata. There are grilled salads with tomato and zucchini, fruit salads including mixed berry with blueberry sauce, grapefruit and carrot salad, grapefruit and avocado, orange salad with leeks and radicchio. She offers seven potato salads, including potato and green bean with pesto, potato and beet and a simple baked potato salad with sweet pepper and onion. There are only two pasta salads, one with eggplant, one with tomato and basil.

The emphasis is on fresh ingredients and the directions are simple, as is most preparation. Anyone who loves fresh vegetables and Italian flavors like olives and olive oil, capers, anchovies, tomatoes, basil, and parmesan will find the recipes and luscious color photos mouth watering.

This is a sensational little book full of delicious, inventive recipes. Great for summer, but the rest of the year is thoroughly seen to as well. Highly recommended.

The other reviews didn't say this, but this book employs almost a comic book approach to Melanie Klein's life and ideas. Every page has incredible graphics with captions by the people in the book describing their views. I read it in two sittings, and feel I now know something about object relations and child psychiatry that I hadn't known. There is a whole series of "introducing" books that I plan to investigate.

Dr. Hinshelwood, one of the world's leading proponents of Kleinian psychoanalysis, has produced an interesting and readable synopsis of the work of the noted psychoanalyst, Melanie Klein.

Often difficult to understand, Mrs. Klein's work is centred on the intrapsychic aspects of human development. This slim volume allows the reader an opportunity to appreciate some of the more complex aspects of Kleinian thought.

Having digested Dr. Hinshelwood's excellent text entitled "Clinical Klein", I found the visual depictions in "Introducing Melanie Klein" of some of the same cases described in his other work to be helpful and clarifying.

I would recommend any interested reader pick up both volumes and use the "Introducing..." book as a quick reference guide to the "Clinical..." text.

I can't say enough about this tape and book! I started playing this tape for my son when he was about 2. He loved it. Everytime we drove in the car, he wanted to hear it. It's got a fun beat (easy for parents to listen to!) and a great book with lots of color. In fact, I had to order extra books, because his friends wanted to have their own when they were in the car. My son turned 6 in December. He began sounding out words when he was 4, and was reading words on his own by 4 1/2. Now he's way beyond any of his peers, reading at the 3rd grade, 8th month level. His spelling is also exceptional. I truely believe I owe it to his early introduction to this book!

I purchased Rock 'N Learn Letter Sounds for my two year old daughter. She loved following along in the work book to the very catchy songs. There are many colorful pictures to hold her interest. Also, it has a quick pace to keep her interested, but not too fast for her to keep up. She learned her letters and all their sounds before she turned three. We are now moving on to side two of the tape that teaches her to read whole words. I went to a local teacher supply store and asked for a recommendation for teaching early phonics. They told me this was the best out there. I agree. Furthermore, the music is actually pretty good so it doesn't drive parents crazy.

The exhibit was astounding - this museum is HUGE! The works of art featured are very diverse, both in theme, style and culture. The book really is a nice tribute to this grand exhibition. Any Californian who likes both popular art and "marginal" or underground art would be satisfied with this book.

Finally, an expansive and critical, although bewildering, survey of California's visual culture and its impact on American culture at large! Beautiful in its design and generous in illustrations, the catalog offers insight into the complexities of America's "wild frontier." What makes this catalog/exhibtion most intriguing is its inclusion of ephemera, framed by the organizers as important historical and cultural documents of life in California. Often overlooked, these items are often more telling than the cultural productions of visual artists and offer interesting juxtapositions to the art also presented. In addition to the discourse between hi and low culture, is the discussion of the cultural and racial diversity of California's population and its effect on culture and identity. The writers and curators bring together important documents, visuals, and art that construct diverse racial, gender, and sexual identities and also offer critical insight to these.

I had to read this book for a Media Ethics class and I must say that it was one of my favourite books! Salant teaches readers about the workings of a newsroom and the struggle to do what is right with the news through funny annecdotes and interesting stories. Any aspiring journalist MUST read this, and anyone just looking for a good biography would do well to read this. (Actually, EVERYONE should read this as journalism and the media are a strong presence in all our lives, and this is a fun way to learn more about it.)

The Buzenbergs have captured the essence of a unique man of principle. Using Salant's voluminous archives, this book is a fascinating trip through an era that established high standards in broadcast journalism. The book raises issues and questions which are at the heart of today's journalism. Household names Cronkite, Rather, Brokaw, Jennings, Sevareid are the characters in the tale of how the premiere broadcast news organization came to be - what and who held it together - and the inside view of a corporation struggling with its identity. The players were giants in a land that has more recently turned into a universe of pygmies. You don't have to be a news junkie to enjoy and learn from this book - you just have to ask yourself: "if I see one more Monica Lewinsky story"...I won't take it anymore! Good reading.

Peter Herford