How disappointing to see the same old, same old represented here. While a few voices are fresh and interesting, the majority (whose poems have been encountered in too many publications lately) feel stale. This anthology contributes nothing new to the broad and exciting spectrum of today's poetry. See American Poetry: The Next Generation for a more democratic and surprising vision.

Most of the poets in this collection are good. That makes it better than most contemporary anthologies. I especially liked Ruth P. Schwartz, Mark Wunderlich, and Paul Beatty. A few are less good, but the book is a real service to people who want to find out what's happening right now in American poetry. And the poets' discussions in the back of the book are pretty interesting. Overall: very very good.

OK, this book has generated about as much hubbub as a poetry anthology is likely to generate. Everyone wants their say about who the next generation of poets is . . . and everyone will have a gripe with at least a couple of the people included here. Fact is, though, this is a very carefully put together selection of solid -- sometimes terrific -- poems by many of the most talented poets writing today. It's discerningly edited with a good ear for both the sense and the music of the poems.

Of course, if you want a truly democratic anthology, you'll have to go elsewhere. But why the hell should an anthology be democratic? Good anthologies have editors who enforce their own aesthetic values and tastes on the book--who select poems THEY like. In a way, good anthologies are anti-democratic. They go for range, of course, but ultimately have one person in making the decisions. Bad anthologies are often democratic, though. It takes no skill, after all, to include everyone . . . to merely survey the field.

I recommend this effort wholeheartedly. It'll inspire you or make you mad -- but there's a mind at work putting it together and lots of talent in the poems.

This book reads like a video game. Don't waste your time with IT!

I loved it. The art work was fantastic, and Lara isn't a helpless female victim in the movies. She's tough! The second book gets better, so try it, she's a lot better than the video game, in my opinion.

The Tomb Raider series has now been turned into a monthly comic book from Top Cow and this special edition combines the first thee part story that intros the series. You meet Lara Croft, world reknown explorer, her butler and an old ex boyfriend in the form of Chaser Carver who always manages to get to Lara and makes for some great banter between the two.

In this special edition you will learn a bit more about Lara Croft and some info on her mother.

The artwork is simply great and proves that Top Cow has once again managed to give us another strong well written female action hero. Lara is drawn just the way you imagine her to be.

Advanced Mathematics: Precalculus with Discrete Mathematics and Data Analysis. This book consists of: a refresher of Algebraic Expressions and Application in the form of the function (linear, quadratic, and other polynomial), Logarithms and exponents, a review of Analytic Geometry and Trigonometry, Discrete mathematics as it applies to Sequences and Series, Matrices, Combinatorics, Probability, Statistics, Modeling, and Limits and an introduction of Calculus in the form of the derivative.

The book states that an emphasis on application is an intrinsic part of it, this, however is not really the case. The book, while showing an appropriate number of application problems in certain sections, lacks that application horribly in others. However, these lacking sections are few enough that it deserves a fair amount of credit in the attempt.

This book is generally good about explaining the topics covered in the recommended homework, but it is weak in examples and visual aids. I would recommend this book to a student for Final Exam practice, or a teacher for tests.

This is not the grammar one should first reach for in most areas. Daniel Wallace's grammars hold pride of place out of those that are most current. When one compares this grammar to those, there are reasons why this should not be preferred over Wallace.

1) Young has an interesting, and odd, tendency to list only the English translation of passages that aremeant as a Greek grammatical example. thus one has to find the passage to see if his usage is accurate.

2) He changes terminology from that which is commonly used by other scholars. thus one has to get used to his own (idiosyncratic) usages and then compare them against the "normal" usages.

3) He often included exegetically debated texts as his prooftexts for particular usages, and then does not say that they are debatable.

All of these devalue the usage of this grammar. Also he follows speech act theory very closely. which means he not only sees the aorist as not having a time aspect, but rarely sees time aspect mattering in tense at all. However, one should consider the fact that an author in any language can use a verb in an alternate tense to make it more vivid or to bring about a point. This does not invalidate a rule, because one has to know the normal usage to expect the abnormal one.

Where this grammar is most useful is in preposition and conjunction usages. His compiled lists of common usages for conjunctions and prepositions save frequent trips to the lexicon. They also represent the one area of clear superiority over even Wallace's "Beyond the Basics."

Richard Young has a superb job of giving the student of the Greek New Testament a grammar that is a worthy successor to Dana and Mantey. Although it is not as massive as Daniel Wallace's Greek Grammar: Beyond the Basics, Young's treatment is an ideal choice for one who is seeking to use his Greek to interpret the New Testament. Using a linguistical model, Young goes beyond the traditional approaches of sentence-based studies of the surface structure of the Greek language. He presents a broader picture of communication that examines both the language of the Greek New Testament and how its meaning is influence by its literary and situational contexts. A must-have for anyone wishing to do exegesis.

Randolph tells the story of Richard Nixon,the only president to resign the office of the president.You get a rarely seen glimpse of the president whom history and the public tend to remember as the crook, instead of as the only president who could have gone to China , or ended Vietnam. It goes into detail from his childhood in Yorba Linda, California, to his return to the public life of the eighties.

I found this biography for young adult readers to be a thorough and in depth account. It was interesting and informative. I would highly reccommend it!

i DID NOT THINK OF THIS A A GREAT PIECE GOING FROM THE VIRTORIAN NOVERLIST EARA.

I really enjoyed reading this book, and I think everybody could get something out of it. It's written in a good langues and you get a fine picture of what Martin Luther King stood for.

This book collects into one place all of the known paintings and photographic images of Brigham Young, the Mormon prophet of the Great Basin, taken throughout his long life. Born in 1801 before the development of photography, Young lived well into the period when photography had become common in America and died only in 1877. During his life, Young posed for numerous photographers and artists and more than 100 visual representations of him exist. The authors contend that there may well be additional images of Young as yet undiscovered, but that this book includes all known images, and contains as accurate information as possible in dating the image and ascertaining its history.

Essentially a reference work, this collection of images is a valuable tool for historians of the Mormons. Together with a useful introduction, essays on various visual techniques, individual images, and aspects of the history of Mormonism and the Great Basin, this work will be useful for many years to scholars, museum professionals, and collectors.

This book told about Charles Drew and how he achived what he did. It also told about his childhood and his family.Ithink young belivers should read this book.It will help!!!

Frederic Chopin has a French name, a French father, and spent almost half his life in France, but was always considered a Polish composer because his music drew on the peasant tunes and dances of his native land. Perhaps more than any other great classical composer it was Chopin who represented the ideal "poet in music," especially the ideal poet of the Romantic age. What Lord Byron, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley were to poetry, Chopin's piano works were to music. Chopin's work was sensitive, tender, amorous, lyrical and melancholy by turn. Richard Tames provides a straightforward juvenile biography of the composer's life for the Lifetime series. Frederic Francois Chopin (or Fryderyk Franciszek Szopen as he was christened) was born in Warsaw in 1810 and his first composition, a polonaise, was published in 1817. After enjoying success in both Warsaw and Vienna, the failed Polish revolt against Russia made him an exile living in Paris in 1831.

Overall, the book is much more of a biography than a lesson in music appreciation, paying much more attention to Chopin's travels and love interests before his death at the age of 39 than in specific compositions. However, I think that when young readers are introduced to the life of a great composer they should also be steered towards specific works (in fact, I think you should always listen to the music of a composer while you read about their life; certainly there are various "greatest hits" CDs that you can pick up with that will let you hear the Minute Waltz in D-Flat Major, the Nocturne in E-Flat Major, and the Military Polonaise). There are a couple of detailed sidebars on the notorious George Sand and the pianoforte as "The King of Instruments." The book is illustrated with many drawings and paintings made during Chopin's life time, including a sketch by George Sand of Chopin concentrating while composing, as well as a daguerreotype of the composer and a photography of the romantic monument to Chopin in Paris's Parc Monceau. Young readers will get a sense of Chopin's life from this slim biography, but will have to look elsewhere for an appreciation of his music.