I used two books to prepare for the GRE. I started with REA's Math Builder for Admission & Standardized Tests which is fraught with errors and presents mathematical concepts in a disconnected manner, but at least loosened 18 years of rust.

Then I studied every single page and did every single problem (some twice)in GRE CBT. I completed both sets of timed tests. I felt more than ready for the computer-based GRE. I was indeed well-prepared for the Verbal & Quantitative tests. However, I had problems in the Analytical.

The good news is that the test-taking tips are good. I'm an execellent test-taker, but I still got a few new ideas. Plus the first sample test gives you an idea of how you will flow through to easier or more difficult questions. And the problems are generally well-edited so you don't often hit those frustrating errors in the questions. This becomes less true at the end of the book, but by then you should have a handle on when you're right and the book is wrong.

The Verbal and Quantitative preparation is good. The verbal questions definitely stretched my vocabulary and the math questions covered almost everything that I saw on the actual GRE. I did astonishingly well on both sections.

The Analytical prep is good for half of that test, drawing conclusions from text passages. My problem was with the logic puzzles. The book has a multitude of samples, but none of them were as difficult as the ones I encountered on the test. Since I had aced every single puzzle in the book, I was completely unprepared for the speed at which I was expected to work on some very difficult problems. I ran out of time with 1/3 of the questions remaining. Fortunately, that turned out to be a "pre-screen" unscored section and I paced myself better on my godsent second chance.

This is a good study guide. I still recommend it. However if you expect to be working at the high end of the difficulty range, I recommend that you also purchase a second study guide that has a better Analytical section.

And here's a free tip that's in neither book. Study with mild distractions in the background. The computer test center is not quiet. Someone will be typing an essay while you're trying to remember a math formula. Every few minutes, someone walks behind you to get in or out. The chairs creak like crazy. While I was studying, I cursed my two-year-old's Barney videos. While I was testing, I blessed them.

This book brings back the many forgotten works of William Wurster. It balances the architect's story and illustrations well. I recommend this book to architecture enthusiasts who want to reach beyond mainstream architecture.

Peter Brook has staged many successful (and unsuccessful)productions of Shakespeare. Find out what he thinks aboutcontemporizing Shakespeare. Brook writes very simply, as most of his works are transcribed speeches. This book is easy to follow and wonderfully illuminating. Has large print, so that's sort of hard to swallow. This book is packed with information, but it is a SMALL book.

As it says on the cover, this Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Book on "Shakespeare" allows young readers to "Discover the fascinating life and times of one of history's greatest playwrights." What needs to be underscored here is that this is not a book for introducing young students to William Shakespeare, but rather a book where they can find out more about him and the times in which he lived, especially if they have just read one of his plays for class. This means the book is as much about life in Elizabethan England as it is about the Bard of Avon, telling us how fashion-conscious people dressed, how Elizabethans performed startling stage effects, and such.

As with all DK books the emphasis here is on the illustrations and you will find full-color photographs of everything from trundle beds and the nine men's morris game to a 17th-century traveling library and a model of the Globe Theater. Peter Chrisp uses the chronology of Shakespeare's life to organize the book, looking at what going to school was like them and what happened when Shakespeare went to London. You will find out how boys were used to play the roles of young girls, what sorts of instruments were used to play the music used in plays, and what the audience would have been eating and drinking during the performances. The plays themselves are covered very briefly, organized by comedies, famous tragedies, the Roman plays, and adventures and fairy tales.

The more you know about Shakespeare's life, times and plays, the more you will find this particular volume interesting. Depending on what play is being read for class, this book can provide some nice insights into how that plays as performed, but this is definitely a hit and miss proposition. But then we are talking Shakespeare, and in 64-pages filled with illustrations you are going to have to make a lot of decisions as to what to include and what to leave out. Teachers should look through this volume before beginning a Shakespeare unit because they will certainly find bits and pieces of fascinating information that will impress their students.

Mercer's book is an excellent resource for not only Hamlet, but The Spanish Tragedy (Kyd), Antonio's Revenge (Marston) and The Revenger's Tragedy (Tourneur/Middleton?). Critical for anyone researching these plays.

I've never really thought of myself as a fan of the 'Western' genre, but soon found that this was not required in order to thoroughly enjoy "Hell On The Draw:Best Western stories by Loren D. Estleman". While each story is indeed rooted in the West, they are by no means your run of the mill 'shoot-em-ups.' Each one is completely different in mood and style, from lighthearted humor to dark twists of fate, from romance to a touch of the supernatural. The author fills each tale with people you'll find yourself wishing that you had known or vey glad that you didn't. The vividly described settings along with fine attention to historical details of events, people, equipment and weapons, pull you inside and make you feel as if you are there. Aside from the complete enjoyment of the stories themselves, this audio version features a variety of gifted voice talents well suited to the telling of these tales of the West.

This is the best work of Shakespeare that I have read. It contains jems of wisdom, such as the fall of Cardinal Wolsey, or the sympathetic speaches of Queen Catherine. These are also events of history, not far removed from Shakespeare's own times; tragic events which ultimately reshaped the world we live in.

A great book by william peter blatty explains in great detail the process from the authors first touch with a case of demonic possession to his fantastic novel the exorcist.
Very well written plus some nice scene drawings . Just 58. pages thick but a must for every serious fan of the novel and the movie.

Thgs excellent book, combines the best new tool from technology with the best educational methods.Best of all the authors are teachers who pracitce what they preach, the best of all world in a professional development setting. This family affair effort gets high marks from central Indiana teachers and trainers.

William H. Mott IV takes us into the world of Satellite communications with an effective, business-like approach; so don't expect to be taken away by beautiful language, however, Mr. Mott IV gets the job done in any case.

The reader is given a slam-dunk course in Satellites 101 going through the types of satellite, stakeholders, national powers in the space, applications, economics, challenges, developments, and provides some foresight. But do not expect to find out what satellite service you should be investing in; that is not the purpose of this book.

If you have in interest in learning more about satellite technology and want to learn about how it might solve some of communication's problems, you will find it in this book.