While skimping out on a few of the more famous (or so I believe) poems by these authors, this book is a very good introduction to the american realm of poetry. I was disappointed to not find some of my more favorite poems by people such as R.Frost and J.D.Hatter, but was happy to find many more that I did like by authors previously unbeknownst to me.

The challenging idea to find a common point from where to unify a science as pluralistic in style, method, theory and subject as ecology, is taken up by the authors in a strikingly consistent way. The introduction of the notion of scale as a framework to re-order a vast amount of existing theories renders many new and provoking aspects to the scientists view on his or her own subject. Nevertheless, the authors never directly address implicit philosophical models of construction and re-construction they apply and hence fail to see there own work in a broader horizont. Instead, a certain reluctance to get to close to "esoteric argumentation" keeps them from any more theoretical justification that I charge as obligatory when a notion as strong as >scale< is introduced newly at a point as central and crucial as in this book. Focusing on >scale< not only implies focussing on a totally new frame, it implies drawing all questions related with quality/quantity interface problems finally into discussion.

As a Canadian I find that this book is an excellant example of what can be achieved through exploring our multi-culturalism. The children's artwork, coupled with the text make this book very informative to others so they can understand a little about other cultures, and see the differences and similarities. What I find to be an added bonus is that the text is written both in English, and the writers native language! An excellent read for children mostly, but still enjoyable to adults.

The book is very helpful in producing activities and worksheets for children. Many great and creative ideas have stemmed from here. I highly reccommend this book for teachers when helping students learn to write.

Can't review because my third party order was never received. It's been over a month! I ordered a total of 4 books (3 were third party orders). I received all of them in a matter of days and was very pleased with the conditions of the books and the quality of the packaging the books were shipped in. However the
seller still has the same book up for sell! After reading some of the reviews and finding out that several others have not received their orders I'm wondering if we ordered from the same seller. I gave this book a rating of one star simply because I couldn't enter anything less plus you can't rate what you can't read! I'm sure the book is excellent and would love to read it and give it a proper review.

This is an excellent introduction to writings by Black men. A must-have for people of African descent. The writings consist of pictures, short stories, poems and novel excerpts; some writers included are Sterling Brown, Howard Thurman, Countee Cullen, Haki Madhubuti, Ishmael Reed, James Baldwin, Robert Hayden, Richard Wright, Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois and many others

I first read this book as a required reading for my English class in college. I kept this book throughout the years as it reflected on the African-American man (and sometimes woman). The stories discuss history, our beginnings, love and heartache, the issue of race, death and life as we know it. I recommened this book to everyone who wants to understand themselves through the various stories, fiction and non fiction. The book is so simple to follow, you don't have to read the whole book, you can pick and chose stories to read.

In Multiple Streams of Internet Income, Bob Allen takes basic marketing principles and applies them to today's turbulent economy. According to Mr. Allen whether making money on the internet or selling soap by direct mail, the principles are the same: you have to have a unique selling proposition. You need to show the customer a distinct advantage for buying your product, make a sensational offer, and have a powerful promise. So, yes, this book will help you make money on the internet, and lots of it. It will also help you make money no matter what your business endeavor.

Allen's previous books have earned for him a reputation for creative thinking about how to increase personal net worth. I think this is his best book thus far. Throughout 16 thought-provoking and informative chapters, he carefully explains how "ordinary people [can] make extraordinary money online." He cites Jay Abraham's "timeless principles of marketing": increase the number of customers, increase the amount of the order, and increase the frequency of support. Given these three, Allen asks his reader to consider "Three Important Questions":

1. Who is your target audience?

2. What do they want?

3. How can you motivate this audience to act now?

The Internet makes it possible for almost anyone to generate substantial income IF these three questions are correctly answered and then a creative and aggressive marketing program is implemented, driven by strategies which are guided and informed by Abraham's "timeless principles." Throughout the book, Allen identifies and then examines a multiple of "streams" to consider. He asserts that marketing success online has three "bedrock principles":

1. Find a school of hungry fish.

2. Discover the bait they're biting on.

3. Supercharge your bait with a powerful USP (i.e. Ultimate advantage, Sensational offer, and Powerful promise).

Metaphorically, Allen really does help his reader to select among the various "streams", locate the "hungry fish", decide which "bait" to use, and then maximize its appeal. In practical terms, in a single volume, Allen provides about as much information and as much advice as almost any individual could possibly need to generate income online. It remains for each reader to combine appropriate information with appropriate advice, formulate her or his own game plan, and then GET TO WORK.

What gives this book even greater potential value is that all of the same information and advice can also be helpful to small-to-midsize companies about to become involved (or which are already involved) in e-business. Those who share my high regard for this book are then urged to check out The E-Commerce Question-and-Answer Book and FutureConsumer.com.

Bob Allen has done it again to create a blueprint for generating millions of dollars. He goes beyond being a master of influence, he is a wizard of influence! Don't read it if you're not ready to transform your business and life, right now. Once your mind is expanded by his ideas, it will never go back to its original shape. I know this from personal experience that started 5 years ago with his Multiple Streams of Income book and tapes. Specific, defined ways to make money on the Internet SCREAM from almost every page of Multiple Streams of Internet Income.

In this one 279 page book he includes just about all of the best and most current Internet marketing advice you need to make millions. Not only did I learn about the inside specifics of how the Internet works with search engines, how to make affiliate programs really work for me, how and why to set up joint ventures and how to advertise. I learned what triggers an automatic buy response, what words to use, what offers to make, when to make the offers, how to take any information idea and make money with it. I use these ideas in my new web marketing business, to create money making affordable web sites for small businesses as well as set up joint ventures with other business leaders. I have Bob to thank for every bit of money I make now, he teaches it all to us. We just have to use what we learn. It's hard not to make money if we are breathing and doing.

While it is true that Creating Wealth was written back in 1986, the advice is timeless.

Interest rates and costs of mortgages may be different but people still want wealth; discounted mortgages abound and tax liens still are a powerful strategy.

The nothing down scripts are still effective. I used them in 1988 and I am still using them now.

Now if you want a book that is sorely out of date, read Making the Most of Your Money by Jane Bryant Quinn. Now that book was outdated before it showed up on the book shelves!

The excellent book by Robert G. Allen was originally released back in 1986, but the advice is timeless.

Although many have attempted to copy Mr. Allen, most are mere imitations. His material remains fresh, strategies are workable and his writing style is entertaining and informative.

This book had been revised and updated. I also recommend Multiple Streams of Income, Nothing Down for the 90's (still works in the new millenium) and The One Minute Millionaire.

Creating Wealth is a classic and a must read for anyone who wants to create real wealth.

Allen's simple and effective strategies can help any investor amass and maintain a fortune starting with little or no money. One of the tips that really helped me was Allen's admonition to stop "thinking poor". That really put me on "tilt" and caused me to look at my attitudes toward money in a new and more prosperous light. I had always been programmed to think of savings as good and debt as bad, however in my effort to feel secure I was ruling out many opportunities to ever be rich. "Creating Wealth" shows you how to master wealth principles, develop a winning strategy suited to your life, make wealth come to you, avoid taxes, perpetuate wealth and retire young! When it seems like everyone's going nuts with our skyrocketing stock market, many forget that some of us don't have a lot of capital to start with. We need more ingenious ideas to get the ball rolling. Allen's approach is clear, succinct and makes a great read if you're looking to get ahead--NOW!

Robert G. Allen's third book written in 1987 chronicles the challenge of taking 3 people of out a St. Louis unemployment line and teaching them about real estate. 'The Challenge' is for the 3 students to have $5,000 cash in 90 days. This is a true story that will have many parallels to the fiction story written by Allen 15 years later in 'The One Minute Millionaire.' This book is inspirational and motivational rather than an instruction book on real estate. This book by itself would not provide a person with enough information to go forward and this book doe not even share all the instructions that are given to the 3 unemployed students.

The book is easy to read and understand, and the inside dust jacket claims that it reads like a novel. This may be true, but if you are looking for a recipe or a cook book, you will be disappointed. 'The Challenge' is more of the story of how 3 people without cooking knowledge could become short order cooks. But if you wanted a book telling you HOW to be a real estate chef, this book is not for you. On the plus side these are real people with real stories, sometimes sad, sometimes happy and they started with literally nothing and succeeded with the teaching of Robert Allen and the mentoring and coaching of others assembled for this project. At the end of the book one of the students is said to have controlled 'over several million in real estate.' I would have liked to see more follow on, and even an update to the present. Apparently 'The Challenge' itself took place in the summer of 1984 and for me I would like to see where Steve and Mary Boneberger, Karen and Philip Moore, and Nora Jean Boles are today with respect to their real estate investments. The real story is about them and it's a compelling story at that, but it is not a real estate instructional book. I enjoyed reading their story, but I would have liked to see what instruction they were given, more details of the deals they did and a more detailed follow up on their successes after 'The Challenge' and for that and the age of the book I would rate it as 2.5 stars.

A truly exciting, rewarding and essential reading for anyone interested in real estate investments! Great book!

The content of Hogg/Craig - even though it is structured chapter-wise - is not too structured in the chapters. Some relevant content is presented in examples, so a reader skipping examples might not get all of the relevant content which is very poor. I didn't like this one too much...

This is kind of an odd statistics book. Most books at this intermediate level are devoted almost solely to the subject of "mathematical statistics", in other words: estimation, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, etc. Yet for some reason the first half of the book is devoted entirely to elementary probability theory, which should be a prerequisite for reading this book (see Hoel's probability book for a much better treatment of that subject).

As far as its coverage of statistics, the discussion of estimation is excellent, and the material on sufficient statistics is the best I've seen. I would agree with other reviewers, however, that the examples could be better. On some topics the explanations are not very well motivated, making it very dry at times. And there is basically no coverage of regression theory. An argument could be made that linear regression belongs in a more basic course, but there could've at least been some coverage of regression beyond the couple pages on nonlinear regression you get here.

This was the book used in the class I took, and I felt it was great in spots but could've been a lot better overall. It's not bad for what it does cover, but looking back I wish it could've covered more statistics material. It tries to be a probability+statistics two-in-one book, when really the two subjects deserve their own (more fully covered) book.

Hogg and Craig is one of my favorite texts. It is an intermediate text in mathematical statistics similar to Mood, Graybill and Boes. I took qualifying exams in mathematics for my Masters Degree in math at the University of Maryland in the early 1970s. One of the exams I took was in statistics. I had little formal training in statistics at the time. Hogg and Craig was the recommended text for the statistics exam. So I bought it and studied out of it on my own. It was very clear with excellent coverage of methods for deriving distributions for random variables and transformations of random variables. I passed my exams and got my highest grades on the statistics exam even though I had more training in abstract algebra. Hogg and Craig really helped. It has been revised since then to maintain currency with statistical developments but it still has maintained its clarity and usefulness.

Better not to spend your money on this one. If you really want it try your local library for free.

Some of the book is enjoyable and insightful. However, much of it seems to merely argue semantics. Makes some good points, but is mostly lacking in substance.

"In many ways the concept of hypnosis is analogous to some other mysteries that have confused and confounded scientists in the past--such as phlogiston, the ether wind, and 'N-rays.'" Those are not hypnotism's only analogies. Decades after the Condon Report established that UFOs are misidentified mundane phenomena, the media encourage the ignoranti to believe that humanoid aliens are abducting human beings. A decade after James Randi's Project Alpha, the masses continue to believe in paranormal phenomena. And a decade after Robert Baker proved that "the phenomenon called 'hypnosis' does not exist, has never existed in the past, and will not exist in the future," the masses,whose only source of information is the vast wasteland, continue to believe that 'hypnosis' is more real than demon possession or witchcraft.
Baker shows that "all of what we call 'hypnotic behavior' can be accounted for by a number of much simpler sorts of psychological processes that are well understood.... When normal human beings close their eyes, go into a sleep-like trance state, and do strange and unusual things ... the volunteers are merely complying with the hypnotist's requests, and ... nothing other than suggestion and their own imagination is responsible for their behavior.... As for the claimed therapeutic effectiveness of hypnosis and the many seemingly miraculous cures and events apparently due to the effects of hypnosis, in reality, these are due to a number of external factors such as suggestion and conditioning interacting with internal psychological variables such as relaxation and imagination." And on the kind of hypnotic brainwashing popularized by the novel and movie, "The Manchurian Candidate," Baker reports, "Fortunately, the scenario described in the novel could never happen. Years of experimentation by the CIA has shown this sort of programming simply does not work and never will."
On the fallacy that hypnotism can improve memory, Baker explains that a technique of relaxation and an instruction to "think back" can indeed enable an individual to remember unforgotten experiences in slightly greater detail. What it cannot do is guarantee that the added details are accurate: "At the moment we cannot tell whether a subject is telling the truth or is 'confabulating,' i.e., providing pseudomemories."
In the chapter, "The Uses and Misuses of hypnosis," Baker debunks age regression by showing that equally convincing "memories" can be elicited by telling the subject he is traveling into the future. He explains how the Betty and Barney Hill alien abduction hoax was created by a hypnotist prompting the subjects to concoct the kind of tale the hypnotist wanted to hear--and then persuading them that the confabulation was a genuine memory. "This is, of course, one of the worst if not the worst misuse of so-called hypnosis."
Asked to explain claims of mysterious powers supposedly acquired under hypnosis, Baker answered, "Because some unscrupulous or naive people like to deceive and impress others and make them believe things that aren't true. Salesmen do it all the time in order to sell us things."
So the next time someone tells you that hypnotism is a panacea for all ills, or conversely a diabolical power, ask yourself: Would you buy a used car from that person?