This textbook is awesome for serious students who would really like to graspe latin better. It contains the answer key to all the exercises as well as tips for teachers on presenting the material. If you own the student edition, consider the teacher's guide to help you along your way!

As a Latin tutor with over three years experience with teaching this language, and several years of learning it, this text was a surprise. Not only did it offer me better ways to use the Cambridge readers with my pupils, it also provided me with new information that I found interesting for myself. This manual combines grammar with the easy learning tool of an ongoing storyline, as well as providing application skills and ideas, with some baitable history as well. It helps me not only teach my students better but keep them wanting to learn. Anyone looking forward to teaching, or even learning, this language, should most certainly have this book close at hand.

Don Thompson's and Dick Lupoff's' 1973 THE COMIC-BOOK BOOK is even finer than the book that precedes this, the 1970 ALL IN COLOR FOR A DIME. I used to love reading this when I was a child, wishing I could somehow get my hands on reprints of the 1940s comics stories so lovingly retold here (many of which were long out of print when I read this), especially in Maggie Thompson's fine essay on "The Spirit." Now that those old "Spirit" stories have been reproduced by DC, it's fun to go back and read these essays again, and the fascinating background information about the comics creators. the highlight of the whole book is Juanita Coulson's hilarious take on Golden Age superheroines, "Of (Super) Human Bondage": her detailing of the absurdities in an old Wonder Woman story (WW vs. Giganta the Gorilla Girl) are uproarious as well as very forward thinking.

There was a time when comics where not collected. They were purchased, rolled-up, traded and then thrown away. However, those four-color wonders had enough of an impact on a few people that, In the 1970's, they decided to create the hobby known as comics. Those few people decided to write "The Comic-book Book."

"The Comic-book Book," like its predecessor "All in Color for a Dime," is the misty recollections of a group of friends who share the love of this peculiar art form. Each author writes an essay about the genre that affected him/her most. One essay is about the Frankenstein monster, and it's legacy in comics. Another author writes about the romance of the aviator, and how comics entered World War II before America. The Spirit and Will Eisner are the subject of one essay, and the magicians of comics (Mandrake, Zatara, Ibis...) fills another. Each essay is well written, although not particularly scholarly. Many of the authors are writing from memory, as original material was hard to locate.

The best thing about reading "The Comic-book Book" is being able to glimpse into the past, and see people gushing about comics that carry little or no monetary value. The high prices for golden age comics had not yet appeared, and the affection is genuine. A nice book to read for anyone who loves the hobby of comics.

In Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography, Emery and Thomson have drawn together a broad range of information on data analysis methods in a single volume. It is an excellent book for the experienced researcher as well as upper level undergraduates and graduate students. It could either serve as a textbook or as a reference handbook. The focus of the book is on application of methods and not just theoretical description. The material is presented in the same fashion that data is approached, from collection to analysis. Particularly useful is that each chapter provides background for the topics presented; setting a context for understanding the material.

The first chapter reviews the basics of statistical sampling and how various oceanographic data elements are collected. It describes in detail the various methods used for collection and their inherent strengths and weakness. The second chapter moves from collecting the data to processing and data presentation; including calibration, interpolation and a variety of presentation formats. The third chapter presents the standard statistical methods and procedures for error handling. The last two chapters cover the range of methods used for spatial and time series analysis of data. This includes not only long established methods but more recent methodologies, such as wavelet transforms, as well.

A bibliography and set of appendices complement the text, making the book an all encompassing reference work. The authors have created an extensive bibliography that enables readers to follow up with more specific readings. The appendices include units in physical oceanography, a glossary of statistical terms, statistical tables, and non-uniform numbers.

We have no similar books in Physical Oceanography. It puts together the description of many useful techniques (including the modern ones) and it also considers pratical aspects of data collection and analysis. The text is easy to follow. The figures are very clear. Useful references are cited. Other geophysical areas can also benefit from it. Do I need to say something else !

This book have drawings more simple than the next.
There are 12 stories (3 can not drawing on the blackboard).
"Alexander" is a lovely story of a lost friend and found, "Banana cream pie" could be translate by don't attach your dog with sausages. The others stories are: "At the end of the Rainbow", "Cousin Vladimir" ( a family gathering!), "Juanita the
Whale" (a unusual doctor),"The Princess and the critter", "The giant Rabbit story" (a incredible story!), "Trapezoid and parallelogram" (a science-fiction story), "Going to
Maroonawoo" (a difficult travel), "Uncle Bob" (an uncle working
in circus!), "Katie and the Giant", "William and Warble" (a big egg!). A good book, beautiful drawings and also tips,
books to read after, activities around the stories....
We are not bored!

Ce livre a des dessins moins élaborés que le suivant. Il a 12 histoires (3 ne peuvent être dessinées sur le tableau noir). "Alexander" est une charmante histoire d'un ami perdu et retrouvé, "Banana cream pie" pourrait être traduit par on n'attache pas son chien avec des saucisses. Les autres histoires sont "At the end of the Rainbow", "Cousin Vladimir" ( une réunion familiale!), "Juanita the Whale" (un médecin peu ordinaire),"The Princess and the critter", "The giant Rabbit story" (une histoire incroyable!), "Trapezoid and parallelogram" (une histoire de science-fiction), "Going to Maroonawoo" (un voyage difficile), "Uncle Bob" (un oncle qui travaille dans un cirque!), "Katie and the Giant", "William and Warble" (un gros oeuf!) Un bon livre, de beaux dessins et aussi des conseils, des livres à lire après, des activités autour des histoires.... On ne s'ennuie pas!

This book are 12 stories. A part can be drawn on blackboard (7). I'm found of "the ghost on Pedersen's farm", a story about ghosts! Before each story the author has drawn the drawing completely, showing with arrows the meaning of each part of final drawing. You will find in this book a story under the sign of st Valentine ("Claudette's valentines"), a story about mutual aid ("Tiki and Buko"), a story about special gift ("Willy's gift"),the story of the trees mysteriously cut ("Tree mites"), the story of mysterious numeral ("The locked box"), a story that like a famous story of Grimm ("Frog's riddle"), a story about a fall of teeth ("Hank and the tooth fairy")and also a story about a pizza delivery man ("The pizza pedaller"). The others storied are:"The horn players", "the Castaways" and "The wanderer". At the end of each story the author give the name of books related to the story. He explained how better tell and which activities to suggest to the kids after reading. A very good book indeed!

Ce livre contient 12 histoires. Un partie peut être dessinée sur un tableau noir (7). Mon histoire préférée s'appelle "the ghost on Pedersen's farm", une histoire de fantômes! Avant chaque histoire, l'auteur a dessiné le dessin entièrement, en montrant à l'aide de flèches la signification, de chacune des parties du dessin final. Génial, non? Les histoires sont très différentes les unes des autres. Vous trouverez dans ce livre une histoire sous le signe de la st Valentin ("Claudette's valentines"), une histoire d'entraide mutuelle ("Tiki and Buko"), l'histoire d'un cadeau très spécial ("Willy's gift"), l'histoire d'arbres mystérieusement coupés ("Tree mites"), l'histoire du chiffre mystérieux ("The locked box"), une histoire qui ressemble beaucoup à une histoire connue de Grimm ("Frog's riddle"), une histoire de dent tombée ("Hank and the tooth fairy")et aussi une histoire sur un pauvre livreur de pizzas ("The pizza pedaller"). Les autres histoires s'appellent:"The horn players", "the Castaways" et "The wanderer". A la fin de chaque histoire l'auteur donne le nom d'un ou deux livres se rapportant à l'histoire, il explique comment mieux raconter, quelles activitées proposer aux enfants après la lecture... Un très bon livre!

Anne Ford has written a remarkable book. This is tremendously helpful for all parents that have children with learning disabilities. Also, it is a great lesson that shows the rest of us to reach out to others with love, patience and dignity.

When a child is born, parents are filled with positive dreams for his or her future. These typically include success in school, supportive friends, good health and a life filled with joy. If the child were a painting, it would have bright colors, sharp focus, every detail in place. But that fairy-tale existence is just that --- a fable. We are imperfect, and so are children.

And then there are families that get an extra helping of imperfection. Instead of dreams, they get challenges which can either pull them together or fracture them. In Anne Ford's case the "perfect world" dream dissolved when she learned that her daughter Allegra had learning disabilities. While they were not visible to the naked eye, what was going on inside Allegra was impeding her development and her ability to learn. It's never easy to accept a dark, definitive verdict, especially when it concerns a small child. To her credit, Anne did. And then she became Allegra's advocate and cheerleader, as well as her mother.

Few books have moved me as much as LAUGHING ALLEGRA. While the story of our family is different from Anne's, I do know what happens when the picture gets blurred. What works about this book is that Anne writes this memoir with candor and feeling --- right from the heart. She captures the swirl of emotion that surrounds this diagnosis, the questions that every parent asks and the path through what is always uncharted territory, as each child is his or her own mosaic. At the same time, she offers concrete information that parents of learning-disabled children need. Most important of all: Anne Ford shows us, beat by beat, how she helped her daughter build a world in which she could laugh instead of cower, succeed instead of fail. She empowered Allegra and along the way empowered herself as well.

The book is by no means whitewashed with only upbeat anecdotes. In her writing you can feel the pain that filled many of these years, as well as the uncertainty. The book took four years to write and along the way Anne had to dredge up some feelings that readers will see are still raw. There is no quick patch when you have watched your child hurting; clearly, she ripped the bandages off to write this.

Often when people learn that things are not "perfect," there is a natural feeling of being overwhelmed with the unknown. For parents who have found themselves either on the cusp of the diagnosis, or grappling with its meaning, or even those who are further along the path and want to read how another family grew with this, I recommend LAUGHING ALLEGRA. I also recommend it for parents of so-called "normal children," who may want to understand rather than dismiss the schoolmate their child knows who is different, or special.

Anne's book stresses that this is a family issue as it affects the entire family. She was a single mother, but also had a son, Alessandro, whose role as Allegra's older brother took him on a journey that he also had not expected. The effect on him is spoken about with enough depth to ensure that readers realize that that all people in the family must grapple with the challenge.

One thing to note here. Allegra is now thirty and living independently. As I read I thought about the great strides that are being made every day in the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities. Anne and Allegra came to tackle many of the challenges without the tools that are now in place. This, as much of any of Anne's stories, can bring parents great hope.

The back of the book has appendices with list of resources and excellent guidelines on such topics as Questions Parents Ask, Mothers and Fathers Understanding Each Other and Your Legal Rights. They are as well-written as the rest of the book, and provide more nuts and bolts information.

I cannot recommend a book more highly than this. Halfway through I found myself making lists of people who would enjoy it. I encourage you to pick it up --- and then spread the word.

--- Reviewed by Carol Fitzgerald

When I think of all the time our management team has wasted with consultants and gurus, I know now that the first thing you should do is get a copy of this series for everyone who works for you and require them to listen to it. This is what leaders have done to win their people and customers in the words of the leaders themselves.

Listening to Dr. Rachel Remen is a life-changing experience. Most leaders suffer because they never fit in a mold, and now Dr. Remen finally tells us why. Thompson and Wilson have put together a remarkable series here, with wisdom from people who have succeeded in every imaginable part of the human experience. It's not just about leadership; it's about making a difference.

I encourage all process engineers to read this book. I took many courses with Dr. Manning at The University of Tulsa, he is one of the best professors I have ever met.

this book is a definite must for the graduate, practicing engineer,plant operator, manager and consultant. Not only does it cover understandable process descriptions, design methods, operating procedures and troubleshooting in great detail, it reinforces the understanding with review questions, practical numerical problems and worked examples. It provides the engineer with a comprehensive desk manual. This book is the definitive source on oil and gas processing. Topics addressed include: characterization of crude oil, phase behavior of crude oil, water in crude emulsions, 3 phase separation, dehydration of crude, desalting, crude sweeting and stabilisation, measurement of crude, all complimented with case histories. One of the best books on oil & gas processing

Business Diagnostics provides a concise framework for sizing up your business enterprise. Mimick and Thompson provide a framework that allows a busy entrepreneur to evaluate key factors in their business environment. It does not go into tremendous detail in accounting, finance, and marketing, but keys on the most relevant areas for the small to medium sized business owner. If you used Coles notes to help you with Shakespeare - you'll love this book to help you with your business.
Although I have the Canadian edition, I believe the framework and examples provided are almost universally applicable.

Wonderful book, great story , kids can relate to Jesse. Awesome art work. Richard has a knack for story telling for kids of all ages. Looking forward to a lot more stories.