I am so excited to find this book in your inventory. Of all the books I had as a child this is the one I still pull off the shelf from time to time to read again. It was a gift from my parents on my 5th birthday some thirty years ago and my mother spent many hours reading it to me until such time as I could read it myself. The cover is tattered and worn but the story and illustrations endure. My husband and I are not planning a family but I am buying several copies in the hopes of nieces and nephews and friend's children. Thank you for providing a means to obtain this wonderful selection.

This is undeniably my favorite book of all time.

I don't say this lightly. Wende and Harry Devlin's Old Black Witch is the first book that I have any memory of. If I'm feeling low, I still get it out and give it a quick read, even today. It still brings a smile. You could say this book is my oldest friend.

My copy has seen more wear and abuse than any book should. Not only did I draw on it (on almost every page) but I also took it into the bath tub, added a few of my own crayola styled illustrations and cut pages out--removing them to cut out the Old Black Witch herself, so I would have a facsimile to play with.

Several years ago, I spotted a paperback reprint and bought one for myself and my nephew. He was completely indifferent to it. I guess a pancake making New England Witch can't compete with Pokémon in the eyes of a modern child.....but she sure wins out with me.

If you ever find a copy of this, do yourself a favor and grab hold of it.

The pancake recipe on the back is great too!

I first read Old Black witch when I was seven years old. That was thirty two years ago. I recently ran across the book at the library while there with my eight year old daughter. I was so delighted to see her again with her fat little body, beedy eyes and funny pointed shoes. As I read this book to my own daughter. I found myself falling in love with it all over again. When old black witch makes her room in the dusty attic, complaining all the way, she sits upon a cozy patch work quilt. Her head is tilted, looking into the spider web above her bed for comfort. My heart breaks for the funny little wonderful creature that she is, and how wonderfully she is represented in the illustrations. Old Black Witch speaks volumes about the unspoken love between children and their elders, especially those elders who may not be as demonstrative as they could be. Though old black witch is grumpy and difficult, Nickey knows that "she really is a good witch." And we know that Old Black Witch loves Nickey and will always watch over him. The story is a simple one, nicely told, of a displaced boy and his mother looking for a life. They find a family and a place in the world when they enter the domain of Old Black Witch. What really makes this story magical though are the illustrations, filled with bright 1960's color and detail and yet they are timeless. Just the tilt of OBW's head as she sits upon that quilt is and will always be a master piece to me. I'm so glad to see she's still around.

I was fortunate enough to purchase this book while dining in Japan's finest mexican food restaurant. The owner says he is good friends with Mr. Goatskin and Mr. Foreskin.

If you hate getting constant Forwards from friends with jokes that you have to muddle through the 50 times it was forwarded before it got to you, due to the fact that most internet and computer users are oblivious to this thing call cut and paste, look no further. Our research team tells us that this book has every joke forwarded from person to person all over the world in it.

So when you get that email from a friend where the subject line reads; "FW: Ha-ha" or "FW: Thought this was funny" or "FW: LOL", delete it and buy this book and you will have all those jokes.

These jokes are funny. There are one-liners, stories, battle of the sexes jokes. It is just like the title says. This book is way better than Drew Carey's.

I got sick of buying dirty joke books that promised something new, but only rehased tired old chestnuts that I heard in Junior High School. DDDJ delivers the goods. It takes the gloves off and pulls no punches. It makes no effort at all to soften the blow. There's something here to offend everyone. There are hundreds of jokes from easy to remember one liners to convoluted tales with trick endings. I keep my copy by the toilet, and review it before going out to parties or singles bars. This belongs in every bachelor's library. It lives up to its title. You will not be sorry you bought this book.

If you are easily offended, don't bother. However, if you have a twisted sense of humor, by all means GET THIS BOOK. It is definitely not just another run-of-the-mill joke book. It is clever and irreverent, and will make you laugh out loud, no matter where you might be while reading it.

PORQUE CUBRE NIÑOS HASTA DE DOCE AÑOS !
Todas las madres damos la bienvenida a un "socio-auxiliar " que nos auxilie a cuidar de nuestros niños !
¿Y QUÉ MEJOR QUE UN ANGELITO ???
UN LIBRO BELLÍSIMO !

Este libro me arrancó lágrimas de ternura: Hay un angelito especial para cuando nuestro bebé tiene gripa. Para cuando nuestro hijo sale a la calle. Para cuando nuestra hija o hijo tiene que someterse a una cirugía Hay un angelito que se encarga de la salud de nuestros nenes...

El libro nos ofrece no sólo sus nombres, sino también una sugerencia para cómo invocarlos

La verdad, desde su portada es precioso!!

son nuestros hijos...
¿Que hay mejor que encomendar su cuidado ?

ESE ES EL OBJETIVO DE ESTE HERMOSO LIBRO !

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK CALLY HALL PERSONALY FOR SUCH A EXCELLENT WORK ON GEMSTONES. THE WORK CANNOT BE DESCRIBED IN WORDS. I AM A JEWELLER AS WELL AS GEMOLOGIST, GOT QUIET IMPRESSED WITH SUCH PIECE OF ART.

Where to begin? Photos, interesting facts, chemical compositions, broad range of stones!!!! The perfect reference for jewelers, libraries, hobbyists, homeschoolers- and to all you crystal/light workers, here is an awesome way to get a view of the crystals mentioned in the text-only guidebooks. See the Rocks & Minerals guide also.

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS AND THIS BOOK HAS TERRIFIC PICTURES AND VERY CLEAR AND CONCISE DESCRIPTIONS. EVERYTHING THAT I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE SUBJECT IS ANSWERED IN THIS BOOK. THERE'S A VISUAL GUIDE TO OVER 130 GEMSTONE VARIETIES AND A COLOR KEY FOR EVERY GEMSTONE. THERE ARE SO MANY INTERESTING BITS OF INFORMATION HERE THAT THE READER GETS A COURSE IN HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, SCIENCE AND FOLKLORE. FOR INSTANCE, THE CUSTOM OF WEARING BIRTHSTONE JEWELRY STARTED IN 18TH CENTURY POLAND; THE MASK OF TUTANKHAMEN WAS MADE OF LAPIS FROM AFGHANISTAN AND THE BEAUTIFUL PINK MORGANITE WAS NAMED AFTER J.P. MORGAN. THIS IS A SUPER REFERENCE BOOK!

I am one of the millions of people in the USA with an education degree who are not teachers. Behavior theory is the rule of the school today. I couldn't figure out why we treat children like guinea pigs instead of like the human beings that they are. This book opened my eyes. There IS more to life than rewards and consequences. I think science has backed itself into a corner, though, because religion has a corner on the love and respect market and science has repeatedly assured us that all that spiritual stuff is nonsense. This book is a must read for anyone with an accessible heart.

Like many others, I never forgot the pictures in my intro psych text of Hary Harlow's baby monkies and their surrogate mothers. Blum's very readable book reviews Harlow's work and places it in the historical context of psychology and the social perspectives the middle part of the 1900's.

Although the descriptions of Harlow's experiments were well written, the last chapters of Blum's book were most interesting to me. In these chapters, Blum describes the feminist and animal rights back lash against Harlow's work. One can't help be stunned by the irony that Harlow's work, which ultimently championed the importance of mothers' relationships to their children and the deep intelligence of monkies (and their similarities to human beings), would be vilified by these groups.

Blum's book is, thus, not only about one of the most innovative psychologists of the past century, but also a great perspective of how we change our thinking about what we are as a species. It is far more than a book about the man who took baby monkies away from their mothers.

For a biography / psychology book, I was pleasantly surprised by just how readible this book is (once you start reading, plan on being glued to it until you're finished). A fascinating slice of history, it's useful and insightful reading if you're a parent (or planning on becoming one), or if you're interested in the roots of the controversy over medical research with primates, or if you're just looking for tips on what makes humans tick. Well worth the read if only to put B. F. Skinner's experiments and theories into a frightening human perspective.

This is a SEVEN-STAR BOOK! The quality of the writing, the incredible characterization, and the marvelous story-telling make this the best book I've read in the past seven or eight years. If you have not read any Flashman books, this will be an incredible treat, although one note: this book (and the whole series) is not for the intellectually limited. The smarter you are and the more knowledge you have, the more you'll love this magnificent fiction. No one writes this well, not Jim or Jamie Harrison, not Jane Smiley, not John Irving, not Joyce Carol Oates; no one tells the story better. Please read these books; they are masterpieces of fiction, and are actually somewhat important, especially as a question concering the value and morality of self-knowledge. Just magnificent.

This is my second favorite Flashman book, after (by a close margin) "Flashman and the Mountain of Light". History, plot, and characterization are superb, as are all the descriptive parts. As for the suspension of disbelief... I found nothing inconsistent in Flashman's recount of Moss Troopers torturing their captives. Exactly because he is utterly selfish, Flashman does not identify with Moss Troopers any more than with sepoys, or with anyone else for that matter. Also he derives sadistic pleasure out of exposing other people's baseness whenever he can - to justify his own, perhaps.

Only two things about Harry Flashman I found really hard to believe. One is his linguistic ability, which sometimes borders on supernatural (although in this book it is merely very good). In "Flashman and the Dragon" he becomes near-fluent in CHINESE in less than a month - his first tonal language, I might add, - and in "Flashman and the Redskins" he switches to thinking in Siouxan upon hearing it for the first time in 25 years. And the second thing which defies belief - how did a man in his nineties manage to write all these manuscripts in a few short years? His fingers should have fallen off!

History is boring? Not if it's written by George MacDonald Fraser. India comes alive in a way most authors can only dream of, and you can taste the chapattis. I didn't think Fraser could top Flashman at the Charge, but he has done it. Read this book! Imagine a world without fiction, or worse, a world without Harry Flashman? No thanks, I'll keep them both.

I was really surprised when i found that Debbie Harry had written a book. It was really wonderful to start reading it and find that she was such a good author. She's open and honest, and she has really interesting ideas and philosophies which she shares in the book. "Making Tracks" really takes you into the world of Blondie and shows you what its like to get famous and tour and have to deal with bad management. Chris Stein's pictures are lovely and really add to the book. The only problem I had with the book was the miscellaneous photos of people never talked about or photos out of order with the text. But its kind of like "oh, we were chummy with this famous person" and "here's me with Ray Manzarek" which is cool.
Overall, it was a book that says exactly what its trying to, and does a good job of doing so.

No, I wasn't around to see Blondie in their prime, primarily because I wasn't born yet. But I could practically SMELL the Bowery and CBGBs while reading "Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie". For some reason unknown to me, I found it in my school's library. The photos and Harry's narrative make it thoroughly enjoyable. It was impossible to put down. Are these expressions overused and usually used as inaccurate embellishment? Of course they are. But in this case, they are the abosolute truth. BUY THIS BOOK! BLONDIE4FR!

This book traces the "rise of Blondie" from the early days when the group started, right up until the split. Many fabulous pictures, writings and lots of information. Looking forward to the new Biography coming soon and Keep on rocking Blondie!

For math background, all that is needed for this book is a first semester in calculus. If you are looking for a book to learn ordinary differential equations (ODEs) from or for a second book for a class, buy this one. The book (which covers methods of solving/applying ordinary differential equations) are explained in just the right amount of detail--it isn't a novel, but it isn't something you should get too bogged down in. Also, there are LOTS of examples, which are all very helpful! The problem sets were put together very well--there are lots of problems and they start out easy and get harder. Also, one of the best things about this book is that it has most of the answers to problems! This makes this book more than sufficient for self-study. This is my favorite Dover Publications book!

After going through this book and finishing a few weeks ago, and looking at some other comparable titles, I have to come to the conclusion that this is quite possibly overall the best introductory text on ODEs out there.

The book consists of six major subtopics: first-order equations, general nth-order linear equations, systems and nonlinear equations, series solution methods, numerical solution methods and existence/uniqueness theorems. Most of the subjects tend to be divided into two or three chapters, with the first one or two containing the theoretical aspect and computational techniques and the other consisting of applications to real world problems.

At some 800-odd pages the book is quite long, but the sheer amount of material covered is simply astounding; the book has several types of special ODEs and solution methods that I have not seen anywhere else, and the authors go to great lengths to make every concept fully clear to the reader while still being quite rigorous. I am personally somewhat pure-math oriented but also needed some practice with applied problems, and this text is sure to please both students of mathematics as well as those of the sciences due to the very large amounts of subject material contained in both areas. (the book is split about 55-45 in theory/application)

One very nice thing is that if there is some doubt as to whether or not the reader is comfortable with something from another subject (i.e. real analysis), the book does not assume that the reader is familiar wih that topic, but rather it goes through a short review of the topic that is self-contained enough for readers who have not heard of the topic before to get a good idea of it. There are a variety of well-designed problems that provide plenty of practice along with some that expand upon the original concepts, and the average difficulty generally seems about right for the target audience. The numerical methods are also surprisingly robust considering that the book was written in 1963 and calculators/computers were not all that standard. Also, as was remarked earlier, this is one of the very few texts out there that contains the answers to all of the exercises, making it perfect for the self-study that I used it for; other authors/publishers should learn from this.

All things considered, this ranks among the best textbooks on any subject that I have ever seen, and coupled with the extremely low price, it definitely lies in the "must buy" category.

This is definitively the best introduction book to the differential equations that I Know until this moment. Although there are other excellent books on this topic, this one has the particularity that for each one of the topics that tries, has a collection of carefully elected exercises for the author, in such a way that the student won't feel frustrated of finding exercises that don't have a direct content with the exposed theory, also ordered in upward difficult . Each chapter is divided in lessons where it introduces step to step the elements that will serve him later on in particular in the understanding of some differential equation. With detail and accuracy, the only resource that is needed is to know how to integrate, the rest is in the book. The author doesn't consider that the reader knows something, it simply supposes that he doesn't know it, and then it enriches the text with methodological explanations that make that the text is almost self contained, without for it, to subtract depth in the topics. It is for my a true pleasure to sit down to read this book, of which I always learn on what should be made when one thinks of writing a book: to think of the more general possible reader.

This exceptional book of excellent photography and educational text provides a personal look at children from around the world. A wonderful book to read with your children over and over again. They'll learn about customs, food, locale, etc. -- and so will you. Buy several and give them as enlightening gifts!-B. Silverstein

This book is a collection of children around the world and is a wonderfull way to introduce your children to how people live around the world. Children of many different religious, finantial(very poor to quite wealthy), and ethnic backgrounds are given introduction within.

You and your kids will meet children like Carlitos, a boy who lives on an Argintine ranch in a three bedroom house and rides horses and drinks Mate tea. -- Or Suchart, from Thiland, a 12 year old budhist monk in training who lives in a small hut on stilts, has no toys, and starts his day begging for alms in his small village. He likes the cats who live in the temple, and is always losing his sandals because he has to take them off before he goes into the temple and forgets where he left them. -- And Thi Lien, in Vietnam who wears beautiful batik died traditional clothes made by her mother, helps feed the families chickens and harvest rice, and collects firewood. -- And Celina, who lives in the Amazon Rain Forrest of Brazil in a mud brick two room hut. She likes to paint herself with die made from a local root every day, and has never worn shoes. She likes to take the canoe out on the river her family lives near.

There is information about each child's favorite activities, what they eat, what they wear, pictures of thier home, family members, religious practices, and special things about thier cultures. This book has many children from Australia, Africa, The Americas, The Philipenes, Europe, Asia, India, and more. I have enjoyed looking at all the childred in this book and reading about how they live. Even though it's for children, anyone can enjoy this book. I only wish it had more children to meet. This book shows how children and people everywhere have the same thoughts, and fun, even though they may live in vastly different conditions.

This is the very best non-fiction children's book weve seen, and we have a library of almost 1000 children's books for our daughter. Also check out its companion titles, "Celebrations", etc. Our daughter began enjoying this book at age 3. She already has a great grasp of geography just from this book.

A Classic. I have to agreee that I do not think Micheal read this book. One of Doyles best with out a doubt. Challenger is as good a hero as Holmes. Thank god for America releasing the 1925 film on DVD.

With the DVD remastering of the 1925 film of "The Lost World", this book makes a fascinating companion. I read the novel in my teens and it was fun to re-enter Doyle's world and remeet the fascinating Prof.

Get the book and the remastered DVD - making sure you get the restored version.

This handsome (Wessex = listed here as Gasogene) edition of an enthralling yet sadly neglected masterpiece by Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, is enhanced by dozens of insightful annotations, all the original illustrations, as well as a stockpile of in-depth, illuminating essays on the origins of the work itself, its adaptation to the silent screen, and more. Five- star rating both for content and presentation. A collector's item, well worth the price.