If you interested in human anatomic variations, you should see this book.

My son and I loved this book. It is a touching story of a young couple, with a great take home message at the end. After reading it I was able to tell my son about my great grandfather living in a dugout when he came over from Germany.

Nevada has always struggled with what advertising people would refer to as an image problem. With the exception of the gaming meccas of Las Vegas and Reno, the last century considered it so barren and worthless as to be the ideal location for a Nuclear Test Site. The current generation has deemed it worthy of being a national Hazardous Waste Dump. It is rare indeed to hear a tourist or travel agent describe Nevada as having beautiful scenery or landscape as is often the case with New Mexico, Utah, Arizona or Colorado. This book, in words and pictures, paints a different picture and what a sight it is.
Accomplished writer Ann Ronald has spent 30 years viewing Nevada landscapes and geography with a different aesthetic eye than most observers. Renowned photographer Stephen Trimble has the uncanny ability to record on film some of the most remarkable images of what Ronald describes as "one vast deserted landscape of color and shadow and aesthetic dimension." Together, with the written word and unforgettable images, they paint a picture of the other Nevada that is unforgettable in it's beauty and clarity.
Ronald describes the colors of Nevada, which is at heart the theme of the book, with such clarity that the purple sage, teal sky, mountain mahogany and myriad shades of vermilion, orange and gold virtually leap from the page. However, if the reader does not have an acute imagination for such colors there are the stunning photographs of Trimble that leave no doubt of the magnificence of this state. Seldom does the collaboration between writer and photographer produce results of such beauty and hope.
Highly recommended for readers interested in the "other" Nevada.

I think that this book gives a true to life account of slavery from a little girl's perspective. If only everyone was as wise as she was during the slave years, then there wouldn't have been any slavery.

Valuable asset for adherents to late David Brower's promise to restore Glen Canyon as wild river. Read Scott Slovic's 21 page afterword...& understand that Glen canyon Dam may soon be by-passed,standing, as a concrete artfiact to man's defamation of nature. (See Cadillac Desert, late author-Reisner)

Snow Fence Guide is the definitive text on snow fence analysis, planning and installation. Well-written and easy-to-follow, Tabler explains the physics behind snow drifting and how it relates to roads, airfields, and railroads. The book has practical advice on siting, wind, and fence materials. Overall this valuble reference for engineers and others interested in protecting transportation facilities or in harvesting drifting snow to enhance soil moisture at specific locations is a worthwhile addition to a technical or professional library.

This is my 3 year old son's all time favorite book. It perfectly captures the spirit of children yearning to become part of the adult world, in this instance, to be able to ride a horse. It's homey feeling and subtle humor make it a pleasure to read again and again and again...a must for little cowpokes.

Haslam finds the mystical in the mundane, pearls of innocence in a room full of naivete'. Based in the rustic California Central Valley, Haslam creates a field of characters with rich, vivid voices. Raw and humorous, he often takes readers off guard with his expressionistic storytelling. Please seek and read his entire library

As a clinican and also an attendent for Dr. Rapee's workshops in Scotland & Hong Kong, I have an impression that Dr. Rapee has a good understanding and experience in treating children of anxiety problems with CBT approaches. This book is a good summary of his effort, with a balance between science and practice. Thus, it should be included in our bookshelf among child therapists.

I had hoped this book would give practical development techniques for XP theory as presented in Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained. Unfortunately, this book takes a step in that direction and then veers sharply off the path. There are some good ideas and new concepts here, but everything is so vague you have to fill in a lot of gaps to arrive at anything useful. Also, I have to say, the tone of the book is so smug and self-congratulatory at times that it really turned me off.

I found Rick Hightower's Java Tools for Extreme Programming offered much more useful XP coding advice. Mr. Hightower's book explains how to use open source tools Ant, JUnit, Cactus, JUnitPerf, and others. He explains where each tool fits into the XP methodology, and gives buildfiles, complete tests, and techniques for using the tools together to build an XP software development process. This book helped me put the XP methodology into practice.

If your a Java programmer, my advice is to forget Extreme Programming Installed, and pick up Java Tools for Extreme Programming.

Extreme Programming (XP) is a software development methodology. This is no ivory tower, academic exercise; the authors have used XP on large-scale projects and seen it work. This book is an introduction to XP for programmers. Chapters tend to be short and easily digested. The language is somewhat casual.

XP advocates unit testing and code review. Okay, what's so extreme about that? Unit tests are fundamental to the process. Tests are frequently written before the code to be tested. There should be a test for anything that could possibly break. Tests are run frequently and must run at 100% before integrating code. Note that refactoring (see Martin Fowler's "Refactoring") is an XP practice and is sensible only where there is an extensive collection of tests. Code review takes the form of pair programming. That is, two programmers sitting side-by-side, one driving and the other paying close attention to the task at hand. So, it's continuous code review.

Some of the other practices are simple design, coding standard, continuous integration, small releases and forty-hour week. All of the practices are directed toward simple, quality code with the highest business value (as determined by the customer) written against milestone deadlines that become increasingly accurately gauged.

I highly recommend this book. I would expect other experienced programmers to react as I do that XP makes good sense. It may be difficult to sell, but it is worth the effort.

I am writing a new review. I mentioned, in my previous review, that I am acknowledged in the credits as having contributed, but I don't think I wrote a clear review. In a nutshell, this is one of the few programming books I keep right next to my keyboard for sound advice on Unit Testing and a variety of software construction, even though the company I am at does not do full XP (yet). The book assumes you have bought the concepts in "Extreme Programming Explained." While that is a great book, it is theory and one is still left with "Well, how do I do it?" This book shows you step by step. One of the problems I had in the previous book and on the Web, was understanding User Stories and User Story Estimation. This book leads you through the process. One of the wonderful things about Extreme Programming is that it is a lightweight, yet rigorous process. In this day of huge process like CMM and ISO9000, which most programmers totally reject, XP is light enough and common sense enough to be adopted. In fact, many of the pratcices in this book are totally useful even if you have not totally adopted XP. Example: At my current company, we need to add Unit Tests fast. This book gave me the step by step procedures to do just that. The book covers in detail all the XP practices with examples. One of the only downfalls of the book is that a lot of the examples are in Smalltalk, a language that the authors favor, but few use. I had a hard time with the examples, however I finally understood them, and there is a Java section. Overall, XP is a revolution in software development and this book is the guide!