The biochemistry review contains a brief, but very well organized summary of each of the chapters in the Biochemistry book by Roskoski. There are questions at the end of each chapter pertaining to the topics discussed in the main text. These questions are meant to be a review for the USMLE exam for medical students and are written in that style and level of difficulty. Also, one of the best features I have found is the glossary at the end of the book that contains a variety of medical terms and their definition. I have learned a considerable amount about clinical situations just by looking up words I don't recognize in my readings and learning how they are used in clinical context. The last thing I want to point out is that the questions at the end of the chapter are followed by a key that contains detailed explanations of the answers. Not one sentence answers, but paragraphs of information that are extremely beneficial in learning biochemical concepts.

This Italian classic is a marvelous exploration of the worlds of creativity and imagination. The author's profound understanding of the child's unspoiled imagination shines through these collected reflections on the art of inventing stories. The book includes dozens of exercises designed to inspire the creation of stories and, ultimately, to foster a love for language and storytelling. Rodari shows teachers how to stir young imaginations by building on simple words, phrases, and rhymes; juxtaposing seemingly unrelated words and images; creating "what if" scenarios; rewriting popular folk tales; speculating on "what happens next"; using toys and puppets as props; drawing comic books; and so on. Analyzing the essential nature of stories, jokes, riddles, and poetry, Rodari delves deep into the mysterious heart of the creative process and vividly illuminates it for the reader. This book is a must-read for teachers of literature and for anyone who has ever marveled at the art of the storyteller.

If you're interested in Jack Nicklaus, and in the way his life and family are interwoven with his golf career, you can't miss this book. One of the great sporting lives in history, a picture of the whole person, an uncommonly intelligent and balanced person who happened to become the greatest player of all time. Even the requisite chapters on instruction (standard among golf biographies) are terrific, reflecting Nicklaus' focus on a few fundamentals, his uncomplicated approach to the game. What you see in this book is an attitude, a mentality, that ought to be a standard for any great athlete, and one that reflects the nature of golf and golf competition at its best--and more than that, an aspiration to greatness that never got out of perspective, never overwhelmed Nicklaus' commitment to his own family and friends. The book was written when his pre-senior-tour career was not even a third finished yet, but it's an early look into the mind of perhaps the most focused, and yet balanced and unassuming, great athlete ever.

I have read and enjoyed Jack Ramsay's Texas Sinners and Revolutionaries in which he uses the interactions of Jane Long, Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar to introduce scores more of early Texans. I was extremely pleased to find the story of my Great Grandfather, Don Erasmo Seguin, included as one of the Tejano's who have so often been left out of the telling of early Texas history. The three people he uses as main characters, Jane Long (a woman who has often been ignored maybe because she was a woman), Sam Houston (the first President of the Republic of Texas, well known as perhaps one of the most famous of all Texans) and Mirabeau Lamar (second President of the Republic of Texas and sometimes known for little more than that) are three people who make me wonder why they left other parts of the United States to enter the conflicts of nineteenth-century Texas. Jane Long who was in her early twenties when she first entered the province could have had an easier life and was before her time by assuming the leadership she took. The story of why Sam Houston, former congressman and ex-governor of Tennessee, left his home state offers an explanation of his well-known personality. Mirabeau Lamar, Georgia ex-senator and son of a wealthy plantation owner, at times must have longed for Georgia. Their ability to unite despite diverse backgrounds provided me an explanation of what it took to create the Republic of Texas when Spain, Mexico and the United States all wanted to claim the land. While each was misunderstood and sometimes maligned by contemporaries, their rebellious conspiracy against Mexico who had a centuries-old claim to Texas is a fascinating story.

Dr. Ramsay's book gave me a unique look at the dynamics of the interplay between Spain, Mexico, the United States, and the Republic of Texas governments. The Index of the book which is illustrated with maps, flags, portraits and political cartoons from national newspapers of that day, makes it an easy and quick reference book to briefly identify many people and events in early Texas.

The book helped me understand Jane Long, an indomitable woman who holds a prominent though little known place in Texas history. The involvement and contributions to the development of Texas by fellow conspirators Jane Long, Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar, though early Texas history, is a very modern story.

"I highly recommend Texas Sinners and Revolutionaries, Jane Long and Her Fellow Conspirators to anyone wanting to learn about early Texas and how it came to be the state it is".
Albert Seguin Gonzales
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A retired businessman who's always liked Lawrence, I bought this book because I wanted to know all about his "visual imagination," and I was not disappointed. The book, though written by a scholar, is about as lucid as you can get. I especially liked the fresh way it linked how writers and painters "think" in similar ways. I now see novels like "The Rainbow" and "Women in Love" as more interesting. In my opinion you don't have to have a PhD to get a lot out of this book.

This book is amazing.. I did some of the games with my fiancee and we both got to know each other much better than we had before. It deepened our relationship and helped us to talk about ideas we had not felt comftrable with before. I recommend it for all stages of relationships.

My husband and I loved this book. By bringing fantasy and play to the world of relationships, author Mark Robert Waldman successfully combines psychology and sensuality in Love Games. Exercises drawn from diverse experts, including Harville Hendrix and the Dalai Lama, can be done alone, with a friend, or with a lover. Sometimes therapeutic, sometimes childlike and playful, Waldman's book shows how to discover more about yourself and your partner, improve communication and fan the flames of romance. My favorites: "Treasure Hunt" - Tuck a heartfelt love note under a jar of pickles, in a box of cereal, or between the bedsheets; create a "Couple's Journal"; make a "Pleasure List" of your most pleasurable memories; and "Two Thumbs Up,"in which you and your partner engage in a scene where the characters are, well, your thumbs.

the biography part is entertaining to read--especially the parts about him fainting at the births of his kids. The real meat of this book, though, was the instruction. This was written when jack was at the top of his game--when he was "fat jack" (his words). Back then HE was the monster off the tee moreso than Tiger today. Hearing what his keys were, and how he approached the game then was enlightening

I like Herbert Kohl and his theory of 'creative maladjustment'. He's a persuasive author. But I do believe this book misses the whole point of Babar: learning to get along in a child-dom of the imagination not a real kingdom in the feudal/colonial sense! Nor do I feel the author of Babar is portraying colonialism as a good thing. The author created a setting -- with the look and feel of the historical/cultural India -- and a story for children as children, not a parable or case study for college students. It's up to parents and teachers to explain that colonialism is a bad thing of the past. As for critical reading, that starts at about age 10-12, past the age of the target audience for Babar. There is a time and a place for learning everything. As a child, I appreciated Babar simply for what it was -- I had no notions of "isms" of any kind. The De Brunhoffs are not indoctrinating children; they are simply entertaining them. Every adult puts things in terms children can understand -- literary, cultural, historical, geographic, religious, animal, fairy tale. Kids will grow up and learn the isms for what they are, and will invent new ones.

It's interesting how Mr. Kohl sidesteps the issue of book censorship by telling people not to buy the books, making the title provocative and misleading. Does Mr. Kohl discuss "Huckleberry Finn" in his book? (It mentions the n- word.) I can't recall.

Currently I am reading a lovely book co-authored by Mr. Kohl and Colin Greer, "The Plain Truth of Things." I highly recommend it.

I'm sorry, but the quality of Amazon reviews needs to be a bit higher. The last reviewer obviously hasn't read the book, but has only made a comment of what s/he assumes is in the book based on the Amazon review. The reviewer should be ashamed. I'm willing to forgive the people who thought that was a helpful comment as they may not have realized that the reviewer had not read the book. That's why I am writing this review. Herbert Kohl is a great writer and these essays are informative and sensible. Don't be fooled!!!

The essay "Should We Burn Babar?" is actually a quite thought-provoking and even-handed review of the issue of what ideas kids should have access to. Herbert Kohl may be a progressive educator, but he never advocates "political correctness" or bland literature. In fact, he argues against that approach to solving the problem. In the end, his conclusion is actually:

"I wouldn't ban or burn Babar, or pull it from libraries. But buy it? No. I see no reason to go out of one's way to make Babar available to children, primarily because I don't see much critical reading going on in the schools, and children don't need to be propagandized about colonialism, sexism, or racism. [p 28]"

The title may be a bit shocking, but his conclusions are mild and based on a good argument.

As an author/illustrator of children's books and an avid reader, I found this book a great source of inspiration--it will also be a wonderful guide for parents who are concerned about the rampant but often undiscussed stereotypes present in much children's literature.

With a 2001 H-D softail on order, I looked forward to reading this book to learn about H-D tradition, company exploits, and product development. My reason for writing this review is to let others with similar interests know that this book offers very little on those subjects.

What Herbert Wagner has done is to merely compile a set of photographs of such things as H-D advertisements, products, and events, and annotate them in as spartan a manner as you could possibly imagine. This book borders on being completely uninformative!

Just as dissapointing is the format that was chosen by the author and his publisher. The beginning of the book, comprising the vast majority of the pages, contains photos without text. The end of the book is a series of pages that duplicate, in thumbnail sized images, all of the photos found in the beginning of the book. Next to each of these miniature images you will find a few words of descriptive text. Interestingly, the text is so small that it challenges people (even those with eagle-like vision) to read without squinting or without reaching for reading glasses.

Although I would not recommend this book to anyone, I will add that it does have a brief, well written introduction that captures the unique experience of riding a motorcycle.

This book is an OUTSTANDING collection of vintage HD photographs, set in two volumes. I would agree with one reviewer that flipping from the large picture to the thumbnail credits at the back of the books is sometimes a pain, But the quality of these old photographs is excellant and they are well printed. The only disappointment for me is the second volume which has the current era of bikes. Not as interesting as those old machines of the teens, twenties and thirties.