As the first-time parent of a 17 month old child, I'm no stranger to nutritional eating for adults, but absolutely clueless as to the same for children... especially for the most finicky child (MINE!). This book helped to explain methodology of eating, essential childhood vitamins and nutrients, and age by age explanations of eating behavior and nutrition. I bought a few other children's nutrition books along with this one (such as the one from American Academy of Pediatrics), and I definitely found this one the most helpful. The chapter format allows you to read only the chapters that pertain to your child. Complete with recipes! I have yet to try them, but they look delicious.

One of the books that should be on any parent's shelves. Easy to read, but detailed.

I felt like I was back in high school science. All the things that I learned, flooded back to me. Now I feel a lot more confident in selecting foods for my kids and label reading. I'm very happy that I found this book.

MILTON ROSENBERG,THE AUTHOR OF WHOM I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH, DOES A OUTSTANDING JOB OF EXPRESSING FACTORS,IN THE CONSISTENCY,OR LACK THREREOF CONCERNING HIS PHILOSOPHY OF CHANGE,AND THE VARIOUS ATTITUDE'S,LEADING UP TO THAT,FACTOR OF CHANGE.......THIS BOOK STRICKLY FOR THE VERY INTELLECTUAL,OF WHICH I'M NOT IN THAT CLASSIFICATION,STILL MADE INTERESTING READING,FOR A LAYMAN....

When one takes the initial steps of such an exotic trip as the middle east, a guide is needed to educate yourself on everything. Even the experienced traveler will find their trips to Europe did little to prepare them for the Middle East. This is why this guide does so much for the independant, and is so invaluable. Lonely planet has a history of helping people travel on a meagre budget, however gives a warm and caring introduction as to why indulging yourself occasionaly in the more expensive treasures can make your vaction. The authors expell the myths of all around violence in the region and firmly warns you where not to go. The religion and customs sections are so informative that I found myself prepared for the basics of Islamic life and ready to learn more. This book inspired me to take the unbeaten path and to still take in the wonderful tourist draws. Ive browsed through the two other major guides on the middle east, they dont compare to the thorough down to earth writing that Lonely Planet produces. Occasionaly, there could be more entries on Long Distance Travel (getting there and away) and there could have been more mention of the smaller budget tours that are offered in the region, however I still contend that this is the best pick for Middle East travel guides for all traveler of all Budgets.

Re-opened to turists since a few years ago, the mastabas of Qar and Idu at Giza, dated to the Sixth Dynasty, are among the most interesting and wonderful ones. This edition - being vol. 2 of the series "Giza Mastabas" from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - is the definitive one about these two sepulchres, which characterize by their unusual statues, as well as for certain very detailed scenes of the funerary retinue that accompany the defunct to the necropolis. Certainly they rank among the finest in this cemetery and from that late date. Top-ten title!

It's impossible that any decent book on Russian verbs of motion wouldn't be helpful, and I think this book does a pretty good job. However, I've been told by native speakers that the language is a little awkward.

I've been a Russian-language teacher / learner for well over two decades now and out of the twelve books I have pertaining to Russian verbs, this is by far my favorite and the most useful for either a student or a teacher. I call myself a teacher / learner both because I have taught Russian at both the highschool, college, and university level, but because I think that learning a language is a continual process (even for one's native language) and I'm still learning happily!

For students it has a comprehensive and not-overly-complicated explanation of how Russian verbs work grammatically with coherent examples and, best of all, wonderful illustration that make comprehending the complicated (in comparison with English) Russian verb system accessible. It has easy work sheets, which can be used in the book or xeroxed for multiple uses.

For teachers, those same work sheets can be made as in-class reinforcement of the verb section in your primary textbook. It also has such wonderful explanations of how the verb system works (I wish I could explain it as wonderfully as the author does with my imperfect English) that I frequently borrow his explanations for the home-made handouts and reference sheets that I prepare for my students.

I highly recommend this book in addition to the main textbook that a student may be using or as a side study to help a student master Russian verbs. This book is especially useful when combined with "501 Russian Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses Alphabetically Arranged (501 Verbs Series)" by Thomas R., Jr. Beyer.

If you want to eventually speak Russian fluently then this book is a great way to start!

I'm not going to say that I completely understand Russian verbs of motion after reading this book (it'll take me a few years in the country continually practicing and using them to reach that level!), but this book is an immense help and provides a very strong base for learning the logic of Russian verbs of motion. Everything from the descriptions of the verbs and prefixes, to the exercises, to the appendices in the back of the book are useful and very well done. The verbs of motion in the Russian language will always initially be difficult for foreigners to learn, but fortunately, this book does ease some of the pain and frustration, and for that reason alone, it is worth being a part of every Russian student's library. My thanks to Mr. Mahota.

This is a dense book -- what I mean is that is has a lot of material, a lot of images, and it is rather small print. This version has "new materials" from William Kelly Simpson but it is currently 20+ years old so I'd not recommend it for a new class or serious study -- things do change in the study of the ancient world as new discoveries, new techniques, and new theories develop. However, if you just want basic, great images, ad chronological order to the study of art and architecture it is perfectly fine for these purposes. I used it extensively when I was studying ancient Egypt back at Columbia University.

As always, the reprint of this title should be warmly welcomed. This is a high-standart, much authoritative text on Egyptian art from its origins down to the sunset of Egypt's glorious pharaonic civilization. It is not only well-writen but also furnished with lavishing plates and a lot of figures, which constitute a wealth of information. Not only for Egyptologists and Egyptofans, but for anybody interested in learning seriously about the treasures of art and architecture in the Nile Valley. Highly recommendable.

Many art and architectural treasures survive from Ancient Egypt. This book offers 400 illustrations of such treasures from the fourth millennium B.C. to the conquest of Alexander the Great. The author examines Ancient Egyptian tombs, temples, palaces, decorations, and many other works of art. A recommended book for the interested student of art and of Egyptology.

This book offers glimpses into the life of a fascinating man. William Borden was a wealthy Ivy League graduate with a singular focus on serving God. His intellect and his devotion are revealed, in part, by extended exerpts from personal correspondence in Borden's family. The story is not comprehensive and the presentation falls well short of a biography. It is more a collection of disconnected anecdotes in chronological order. Though Borden's missionary zeal is well established, his educational development and his most important relationships are not. This makes for something less than a satisfying story. The subject, however, is a truly interesting personality with an inspiring conviction. Borden's evangelistic accomplishments are unusual and one wonders what he might have achieved had his life not been shortened suddenly at an early age. Perhaps this book, like the life of Borden itself, was intended to reveal God's grace in an unexpected manner.

This book has had more impact on my life than any other. In the 25 short years that he lived, William Borden invested himself, his time, and all that he had, in things of eternal value. He strove not to waste even minutes. Even though he only lived 25 years, he lived for God more than most who live for 80 years. This book will inspire you throughout your life!!! You will never forget it. Great for young people.

When I was a college student, I read this book. Every day for the past 44 years, I have remembered it and the words of Bill Borden's commitment to God: "I take hands off as far as my own life is concerned." With the exception of the Bible, no other book has had such an impact on my life.

Very well-researched, with a wealth of primary source material (perhaps too much!), this book is quite academic and dry. Rather than a traditional biography, the book is more a study of various aspects of the reign of Edward VI (e.g. policies on religion, economics, land use, etc.) first under the leadership of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, and later, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. I did not feel that I really learned anything about these three figures as people. "Fans" of Tudor history, having read a biography or two of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, are likely to be disappointed in this book. It is much more geared to the historian with a serious, even professional, interest in the period.

This book represents a comprehensive and conclusive study of an important Tudor figure. An academic study of a less well-known English monarch, this book is a fitting epitaph to a leading historian of our time.

This book would normally get a "10" for providing us with the shorter poems of Edmund Spenser, but it is marred by overediting. The collective ego of Yale comes through on almost every page. I can see one footnote that begins, "There is irony here." I ask, is there any poem without irony? Why point it out? A footnote should be providing the student with factual information, references to allusions, etc., and not providing interpretation. So, buy the book; Spenser is so great a poet that philosophy textbooks sometimes devote pages to him; but ignore the editing.

If you are in any way responsible academically for Spenser's shorter works, this is the book. Editing, of course, refers to how the text of the poems is managed with regard to conflicts in early editions, etc. Here, decisions on text are made consistently and all changes vs. early texts are listed in the Appendices. Also useful, even though it's now more than 12 years out of date, is the annotated bibliography, which provides a good starting point for additional literary research.

In God & Man at Yale, first published in 1951, William F. Buckley stingingly critiqued Yale on two grounds: Its academic departments' failure to uphold the Christian ideals that the university professed, and their tendency to disparage "individualism." (He uses the term "individualism" as an antonym for collectivism, but noted in his 1977 introduction that, were he writing the book in the 1970s, he would have chosen a different term.)

If anything, his critique is truer today than when he wrote this book. While the specter of Communism has receded, institutions of higher learning have become a bastion for trendy anti-Americanism. One need only examine some of the shameful remarks made by academics in the wake of September 11 to understand the truth of this statement. (Examples include the now-infamous "Anyone who can blow up the Pentagon gets my vote," as well as the lesser-known but no less odious pronouncement that the American flag is "a symbol of terrorism and death and fear and destruction and oppression.")

Unfortunately, this book provides a minimal guide to understanding the current problems with academia. Buckley himself recognized that his specific argument about Yale's failings would quickly become dated. As he notes in his 1977 introduction: "For years and years after this book came out I would receive letters from Yale alumni asking for an authoritative account of 'how the situation at Yale is now.' After about three or four years I wrote that I was incompetent to give such an account. I am as incompetent to judge Yale education today as most of the critics who reviewed this book were incompetent to correct me when I judged it twenty-five years ago."

The dated nature of the book is exacerbated by the fact that the information he puts forward is highly specific: There is much discussion of professors who left the school decades ago, and textbooks that have undergone extensive revision since his writing, or more often, are no longer used.

Despite the dated nature of his arguments about Yale, there is much in the book that is worth reading. His new introduction, describing the vitriolic response that the initial publication of God & Man at Yale engendered, is highly amusing. He also puts forward a cogent refutation of the argument for "academic freedom" that was (and is) often advanced when the ideologies promoted by institutions of higher learning are questioned, as well as an appeal to alumni generally to ensure that their values are not subverted by the universities that they support.

Unfortunately, however, the majority of the text deals with dated material of limited utility to contemporary readers.

Buckley's 1951 conservative critique of higher education remains a viable argument today. Buckley, a recent graduate of Yale University at the time he wrote his book, feared that the mission of the university was being ignored in the name of academic honesty without the knowledge or approval of the alumni who give the Corporation the money it needs to operate. Yale's historical goal was to prepare men to be good Christians and American citizens, religious "individualists" in Buckley's terms, but he felt that professors with personal beliefs opposed to these ideas were diverting students from the path they and their parents were promised by the school's mission statement. It is a provacative argument whether you agree with it or not and is well worth exploring just to think a little deeper about higher education in America. The book is dated and the ample evidence Buckley used to prove his case is now rather meaningless to the contemporary reader, but it is still worth reading. I think most people interested in higher education will find the argument interesting even if they think it is ridiculous and it is well written and easy to understand so it is a good way to get your mind working.

This seminal work of one of the most courageous conservative thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries laid the groundwork on which numerous other media voices built. He descrbes how it all started when he was an undergraduate at Yale University from 1946-1950. He writes from his conscious. Buckley is precise in describing how he felt traditional American values were being ignored, undermined, and distorted by academics. He makes his case by citing specific classes, instructors, and textbooks. In the revised edition he brings readers up to date on how critics and the public responded when the book originally came out. Buckley earned the right to be the quintessential role model for conservatives because of his courage and gift of clearly communicating his argument in a logical manner. There are no ad hominem fallacies here or in any of his writings. He confronts isses head on. He even discusses his motive for writing the book by saying it is tied to his love for his alma mater and the country in general. By that he means his desire is for constructive change. It is in pointing out the errors that he hopes to achieve the positive resolutions he seeks. Buckley has remained a voice worthy of an audience in the marketplace of ideas for decades. This is the book that launched him and it is worth reading at any point in time.