I bought this slim little book when I was first taking Calculus in High School. It helped me immensely with learning and studying Calculus, and provided a great refresher come test time. Since then, I have sometimes needed a formula, and this manual has again been very useful. Calculus is one of those things you forget if you don't use it, and I was in danger of forgetting it when I took a Physics class which required a basic knowledge of Calculus. Thanks in part to this little book, I was able to brush up on the subject and be prepared for my class, though it has been several years since I first learned Calculus in High School and I have had little occasion to use it since.

This quick review will provide an excellent study guide for anyone, like myself, who doesn't use Calculus in everyday life but still doesn't want to forget it. It has definitely proved to be worth its weight in gold for me!

I've been teaching myself Calculus using this book as one of my main resources for about a couple of months now and I am learning a lot from it. It may not help much if you need English explanations, but it is great if you are trying to find the bare essentials of understanding a concept or the whole Calculus, and not a whole lot of fluff.

Get this useful little book if your learning Calc form the get go. It will hold its own in your Calc I and Calc II classes. A great supplement.

The point of this review is to correct an error in Steven Goldstein's review of this book. McKim, Mead, & White were not involved in the construction of the Metropolitan Opera, as he states.

This is a wonderful, ravishing book, although I suppose some readers might be disappointed that the author has limited himself to surviving examples of McKim, Mead, & White's work, with current photographs ... all of them gorgeous. Vintage photographs, where available, would have been a nice addition. For example, it would be interesting, if possible, to compare the Pulitzer mansion in New York as originally built with the current photos ... it has been divided into something like 9 condominiums!

Speaking as a practicing architect and longtime admirer of the works of Stanford White, I found this book was nonetheless a revelation. Gorgeously photographed, it shows a broader spectrum of the residential work of this illustrious firm. McKim Mead and White have a well-deserved reputation for grand public buildings (Metropolitan Opera, Penn Station, Madison Square Garden to name three that have sadly been demolished) but are less known for these spectacular houses built for the robber barons of the Gilded Age among whom Stanford White circulated. What is suprising is the facility with which they moved from lavish and elegantly detailed city houses to surprisingly unpretentious inviting summer homes on Long Island and elsewhere. If you love Beaux Arts architecture, skip this book at your peril.

This book combines rich visual appeal with a serious analysis of the residential work of McKim, Mead & White. The introduction is particularly valuable for its succinct survey of the firm's development and its discussion of the collaboration of the partners.

This book is very good in that it not only goes into great detail about the Prussian army and the myriad battles and wars it fought, but also it explains the political, social, financial, monarchial, and geographic influences on the army itself, all of which were important. Many similar books have come out about the Prussian/German army, but this book excels at integrating the rest of Prussian life and culture into the book, which gives the reader a real feel as to why Prussia developed a paranoia about the rest of Europe and had to raise a huge army for hundreds of years.

For those interested in purchasing this book, it might be useful to describe Dr. White's style as being akin to Stephen Ambrose's own, but transplanted into the context of the era of horse and musket. Dr. White discourses on the weapons, politics, and major combats of the period, but never seems to leave the reader with the impression that this book (while compact) is really anything less than a complete synthesis of the phenomenon of militarism within the Prussian state. White is readable, personable, and does not cower behind the dispassionate mantle of of military historians such as Keegan when expressing his own views as to the nature of war. Hence, I reccommend _The Prussian Army_ to those seeking an overview of the rise of armed, nationalistic nations which, for the first time in quite awhile, does not take Adolf Hitler's Germany as its subject.

And to those who should have the good fortune to meet the author (as I have), please take the oppertunity. He is an extremely helpful, considerate, and supremely intelligent fellow.

-Brett MacKellar
U.S. Army, GVSU Alumn

Whether or not you're comfortable with the progress of post-King (Martin Luther or Rodney) race relations in this country, you should read this book. Seeing through the eyes of residents of this northern city will change how you think about race in the U.S., and it will affect what you know about class and opportunity as well as skin color. Recounting his sojourn along the color line with characteristic reserve, Coleman doesn't pretend to have all the answers; but his questions, at the beginning, at the middle, and at the end of Long Way to Go, are the right ones

This story of the breakup of the marriage of two psychotherapists is told alternately from the husband's and the wife's perspective, with glimpses also of their daughter's experiencing of events and a distanced interpretation of how the same events might be interpreted in a screenplay. In the end, although one learns much about what the characters think and remember, one doesn't really know in full what actually happened. Not unlike real life.

Prior to Sept. 11, I took a college course on terrorism and this was the only text available at the time. It was accurate and informative then, and remains so today. Jonathan White is one of the foremost experts on terrorism and it's correlation to religion in the United States. If you are entering into the field of criminal justice or public policy, I highly recommend reading this book.

I read the book White Water. It's about a thirteen year old boy whose name is Greg. His parents have been divorced ever since he was little.

This weekend it was his dad's turn. They went white water rafting. Greg didn't want to go and his mom wasn't going to make him. He ended up going and his step brother came along too. (He does not like his step brother.)

When they arrive at the rafting house, they learn all about rafing. Then they start to go down the river. When they start their trip, everything goes wrong. His dad gets bitten by a rattle snake and almost dies. They also lose the raft.

If you like adventure you should read White Water. There are a lot of twists and turns. It kept me turing the page. Read this book to find out what happens to Greg, James, and their father.

White Fang by Jack London was initially published in 1905. It takes place in many places during the earlier days of civilized America when Native Americans were still a tribal culture. At the beginning of the book, the story is set in North-West Canada, then in an Indian camp. Later on, the main character goes to San Francisco.
The main character in this book is White Fang. He is half dog and half wolf, but he looks a regular gray wolves. He grew up having to be very ferocious and merciless in order to survive; those qualities stuck with him most of his life. He is very fast and has a reputation for never getting “knocked off his feet”. He is a very tough fighter, which he needs to be because most other dogs and wolves do not like him.
I highly recommend this book. It is a very interesting book, with a good, happy ending. This book should be kept on the summer reading list because it is enjoyable to read with lots of surprising plot twists. I would recommend this book mostly to people who like animals.

White Fang, the story of a dog/wolf. White Fang was published by scholastic publishing in 1986. I think White Fang is a great book because it has lots of excitement and adventure. Hopefully this review will make you read it yourself.
White Fang was one of five cubs,and the only one to survive. His father dies shortly after his birth. Because he and his mother are all alone he soon finds out about life, what hurt is, how to fight, and other dangers of the wild.After a few months of being alone with his mother he stumbles upon an indian camp. One of the indians recognizes White Fang's mother as his dog. White Fang and his mother live with the indians from then on.White Fangs' master is named Gray Beaver. He soon makes enemies with another puppy named Lip-Lip. White Fang soon earns the respect of the other dogs because of his superior fighting skills. His mother and master both leave and he must learn to live without them. White Fang learns the rules around camp and doesn't get in near as much trouble.
Every once in a while the indians would go to town to trade.A bunch of men would look at all of the indian goods. Others looked at the dogs. One of them was a man named Beauty Smith. He saw how fierce White Fang was and traded with Gray Beaver for him.White Fang ran back to him two times and received two beatings.Finally he stayed with Beauty.Beauty was cruel and evil and soon made White Fang the same.Then one day he locked White Fang up in a cage and another dog was set on him.He killed the dog and from then on his new, evil master forced him to fight for money.
Will White Fang everbe saved from his horrible master? Will he ever have a kind one? Read the book and find out that, and more.

by: Andrew King

For a few years, "Call of The Wild" was my favorite book. It's still one of my favorites, and now I finally read "White Fang," which is the book that many people have compared to "Call of The Wild." Both of those classics were wrote by the same great author, Jack London.

"White Fang" isn't as much like "Call of The Wild" as you might think it is. "White Fang" is a classic story of a wolf who was born part dog/part wolf, but who's wild instincts (the wolf side), far outshine the dog instincts. However, life in the wild is tough and White Fang has to learn the ways of humans. Will White Fang ever grow fond of humans, or will he remain a wild creature who only knows vengeance? I recommend getting this book and reading it to find out, and trust me, it's well worth it if you like classic books that are well written.

If you like "White Fang" after you read it, I would recommend also getting "Call of The Wild." I can't really say which one of the two is my favorite because they're both GREAT books!

Jonathan Carroll is part of a group that is now being called the "New Fabulists". This group consists of writers who are writing fiction of the imagination; not fantasy, not sci-fi, not horror. Just imagination. Caroll has been a leader of this group, with novel after novel that are both touching, profound and, yes, very imaginative.

Unfortunately, every great author meets a speed bump at one point in his carreer. White Apple isn't a bad book; it is full of philosophical ideas and lessons in morality that are all very interesting to read. But in the end, the book falls a little bit short, never achieving the levels of greatness that his other novels have in the past.

Vincent Ettrich has died. But somehow, he is brought back to life. Why? For the sole purpose of love. In his new life, he must come face to face with a lover, Coco, and with the love of his life, Isabella, who is now also pregnant with his child. Unfortunately, some people aren't happy to see Ettrich alive. One of them, Chaos, will do anything to ruin his chance at happiness. Another one is one of Vincent's old co-worker who also died and who is now set on putting a stop to the happy reunions. They will follow Vincent through purgatory and through the maze of memory to try and stop him.

There are long sections about the power of love and its meaning, long sections about the power of life and its meaning. And yet, in the end, you never really end up learning anything except that Carroll has a great vivid imagination.

One thing Carroll knows how to do is to write great vivid characters. And he knows how to decribe scenery with beautiful prose. But overall, there was something lacking in this book, the very punch that made his other novels so memorable. A good effort, just not a great one.

White Apples is the beginning of a new trilogy from Carroll, and with new beginnings he's decided to modify his modus operandi from previous novels. To start with, gone is the first-person, unreliable male narrator; in its place is a third-person omniscient voice that is both strangly familiar and disconcerting. I hesitate to call it Carroll's true voice, because he's shown in previous novels that he can take on differing personas convincingly, and the voice is still filtered here through the impressions of the characters. However, instead of only getting into the thoughts of the primary character lost in Carroll's latest version of Wonderland, this time you get to understand the motivations of three: the male lead, Vincent Ettrich, "a genial philanderer" (as the dust jacket copy labels him); Isabelle, his true love; and Coco Hallis, his guardian angel.

That's the other thing that's different about this new novel. Most of Carroll's novels have something strange and weird about them--the common way I introduce his work to people is to say that it would be labeled magic realism if his last name had been of the Spanish origin. Before White Apples, however, the typical Carroll started off in a world much like our own and only started to look weird halfway through the book when the dog sleeping on the bed starts talking or two characters realize that they share the same dreamworld. In this new novel, Carroll drops us down the rabbit hole in the first chapter when we learn that Vincent is actually dead. Or has died, and now is back, but not in the sense that he was legally dead and the paramedics restarted his heart, but in the Monty Python sense of he had kicked the bucket and was pushing up daisies, and now he's walking his old haunts. No one knows the difference, except for his friend Bruno Mann, but that's because Bruno's dead himself.

It only gets weirder from that.

Carroll's strength is never in the weirdnesses, although every one of his books contains a major element of the fantastic. Instead, Carroll's best writing centers around those integral and important details that make up characters and relationships. I consider the first third of Bones of the Moon to be the best love story I've ever read and think it would have not been out of place had it appeared in The New Yorker. There's no fantasy anywhere in it, either, except the wonder that such a love could ever grow between two people. In White Apples, the reader never gets to see those important details between Vincent and Isabelle, and must instead learn about their character and relationship from the things they tell each other and awkward flackback sequences. In the world of creative writing workshops, we would consider this "telling, and not showing," except that Carroll's an accomplished storyteller and doesn't linger on the telling for that long. If this is your first taste of Carroll, you might not even notice it, but for those fans, it provides enough of a twist to the tale that it is every bit as off-putting as the Twilight Zone cliffhangers at the end of each chapter here.

I don't want to give the impression that I didn't like this book. I read it with the same fervor that I reserve for only a few authors (Carroll, Pat Cadigan, Iain Banks, and, recently, J.K. Rowling). But something nagged at me constantly, and I think it was the assumption that the relationship between Vincent and Isabelle was love, beautiful and strong. My suspension of disbelief didn't have any trouble with Vincent back from the dead, but I could never get over the precious way that Vincent and Isabelle reflected on their past. It was like listening to a couple baby-talk with each other thinking that you would hear their words as endearing and not sophomoric.

This is supposedly the first book of a Joyce Cary-like trilogy, where this was from the viewpoint of the man, the next will be from the viewpoint of a woman, and the third from a child. Having heard Carroll read the first chapter of the new book during his recent U.S. tour, I'm already excited by it, and it should be interesting to see how well he gets into the female viewpoint--the sections in White Apples give us a just a taste of that. That first chapter is weirder than anything in this book, and perhaps that is what Carroll is heading to: a book that shows us that normal is really the fantasy, the fantastic.

Vincent Ettrich was once dead. Now that he's returned to life, he has discovered that he's soon to be a father to a child the world will desperately need. Isabelle, the mother, is the one that brought him back. Pursued by destructive forces, and helped along by benificent guardians (including the unborn fetus itself), the two attempt to protect their unborn child and themselves from death, chaos, and a sinister henchman known only as "King of the Park". Somehow this all makes much more sense in the book.

Jonathan Carroll is one hell of a good writer and I look forward to reading some of his other work. Not one to be cubby-holed into a genre, this book spans fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and a beautifully portrayed look at metaphysics without so much as batting an eyelash. The dialog is written wonderfully. The scenes between Vincent and his women really sparkle. I tore through this book in a day - which I haven't done for any book in quite some time. While the book is not without a couple of loose ends, the ambience more than makes up for it and makes this one you should place high on your reading list.

This author lacks credibility as he cites the Gun Owners of America ... as a terrorist group - right next to Hamas (page 285, in the appendix)...such an allegation, without more to back it up borderlines on defamation. This test is used by Blue Ridge Community College (Weyers Cave, Virginia) in a counter-terrorism course. The instructor advised me that he's giving up the text in future classes because of this one erroneous allegation in the book.

Dr. White is direct and to the point. I recommend this book to all of my friends.

This is an introductory book. As such, it is designed for an audience with little or no background in this topic. Despite this limitation, I have found many people who are well read in this topic, prefer this book over others. I use this book in classes I teach on terrorism because it is, hands down, the best overview of terrorism on the market.