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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.
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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.
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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.
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.