I really enjoyed this textbook. The authors of this book really did a good job making you enjoy math. I used to hate math, but this book was an exception. They greatly explain theorems and other things so you won't get confused. One way I liked this book was its many math related photos. Also if you are confused on a lesson they have answers in the back in the book to help you to check your work or give you answers to things you are struggling in. They also have in class lessons so you can understand the concepts you are about to learn in the lesson and homework. They also greatly explain how to do proofs, and everything that involves triangles and trionometry to statistics and functions. They give you reviews and self-tests with all the answers in the back of the book so you can master the information you have just learned in the chapter. Also, I recommend this to anyone who loves math, anyone who is ok or great in math, or anyone who justs wants to learn trigonometry. Finally, all the teachers I have ever had me use UCSMP this book have always loved the books, the material that the studnets grasp easily, and the benefits that the book gives over other textbooks.

Great book for children aged approx. 10-15. I have already purchased and given a few to friends' sons (and daughters). They were purchased as Easter gifts rather than another chocolate bunny. I have received very positive feedback from them and delights me that these children are reading and enjoying it. I plan to purchase a few more for others so they keep reading during the school summer vacation. Since I have purchased and given quite a few, I thought I should read it also. Although I am quite older than the designated market for this book, I did enjoy reading it and it reinforced my purchasing decision.

This book is a wonderful update to what was covered by Jean DeClerk in the 1940's. What was emperically known at that time is more scientifically explained in this book which brings your brewing knowledge to a whole new level of understanding. The 'science' gets heavy in some parts, but if you really want to know, this is a fine book.

Knute Rocken Young Athelete by Guernsey Van Riper Jr.is an excellent book for kids eleven to fifteen years of age. I would recommend
this book to boys more then girls because of the fact the main charter is a
young man and in the most parts of the book is about Knute as an
athlete. In this book, Knute the main charter, does many breath taking
things. Guernsey Van Riper Jr. gets the reader caught on his hook to
read this book. The events make them want to fall out of their chair.
Knute has a sister Anne who takes him out to the berry patch to gather
berries. On their way back from the berry patch Knute decides that he
wants to go swimming so Anne gives in and joins Knute. Suddenly . I
will leave you hanging. Try to get your hands on this book before it is
gone, Also try to get your hands on some of the other books that Guernsey
Van Riper Jr. has written.

I read this book by chance, yesterday, Memorial Day 2003.
Been crying.
It's like Schindler's List or Sophie's choice.
How could they do it?
How can we let them continue doing it?
The animals still are around us, although using another names, another symbols, another motivations.
I kept reading, hoping to find some of the people to be safe at the end, but almost everybody was killed.
Binim, Rozak, Mayer, Bronka, so many of you.
I miss you, my friends.

After reading this book, I feel this should be in every house in every country. You hear so much about the people and the numbers killed that sometimes it doesn't seem real but this book makes it very real. The pictures are so powerful and at the same time so ordinary - they could be pictures of anyone's parents or grandparents. The most haunting pictures are those of the children - you have to wonder how many survived. The stories of the survivors bring it all home - "There's the aunt of the little girl I used to babysit", etc. I found it amazing that these pictures did survive 40, 50 years before being discovered again. Anyone who denies the Holocaust happened should read this book and then try to still say it never happened. Thank you Ann Weiss for bringing these pictures and the stores behind them out of the darkness.

"The last Album" by Ann Weiss is well organized and well written. It contains 400 remarkable
photographs that were brought to Auschwitz-Birkenau by victims in 1943. These photographs were taken
prior to the Holocaust and depict people bursting with life. This is an extremely unique book, and contains material that was lovingly researched for a period of 15 years. The beauty of this book is that the
photographs and the research accomplished brings to life people that were lost during the dreadful time of
the Holocaust. The book like the author is soft, sweet, articulate and brilliant

A LOT of good data for anyone reseaching this area of the country, or just wanting to know about the families of the region. A full description of the book itself was written by "bookmomma77" on eBay. I found the book very useful for understanding the relationships of the "founding families" of this part of the country. As a transplant to Upstate SC, I found it very useful to learn and know the history of the ancestors of people still living here. Some of my newly found friends are the latest part of this history and the convention of using one of the last names as a first name is quite prevelent here. I always ask them if they were named after the streets... :)

"Bookmama77" (an eBay non de plume) writes (and I edited): A Collection of Upper South Carolina Genealogical & Family Records, Volume One, as edited by James E. Wooley c. 1979, Published in 1980. Hardcover as new condition, attractive "rust" with black highlighting the gilt lettering, [6x9], 416 pages, INDEXED! What is this book? Hmmmmm. This is just a great book, bid on it. (Very big grin). Ok, "these records comprise the loose files of the late Pauline Young, one of South Carolina's most widely know genealogists' on Upper South Carolina. Each family record is filed with names of persons mentioned. These records include: * Estate Settlements * Bastardy Bonds * Deeds * Wills * Coroner's inquests (fun stuff) * Abstracts of letters pertaining to estates, guardianships, tavern licenses, etc It is estimated that each book in this series contain more than 40,000 names of early settler in Upper South Carolina from the mid 1700's down to the 1850's. These records are primarily from counties such as: Pendleton District Abbeville Edgefield Greenville Pickens The print is very legible, though small. A lot of data is packed on these pages. In Volume III you're gonna find the exact same words as this one (sorry to be boring, fingers get tired). However, each index will be abstracted individually (YEAH), on to it... Surnames: Abbett * Abbott * Abney * Adair * Adams * Addis * Agnew * Albertson * Alexander * Allen * Allgood * Anderson * Armstrong * Arnold * Arter * Atkins * Atkinson * Austin * Bailey * Baker * Baldwin * Balentine * Ball * Banks * Barker * Barksdale * Barnes * Barrett * Barton * Baskin * Bates * Beaty * Belcher * Bell * Bellotte * Bennett * Benson * Berry * Bickley * Birdsong (yeah!) * Black * Balassingame * Boggs * Boon * Bowen * Boyd * Bradley * Brseale/Breaseale * Briggs * Brooks * Brown * Bruce * Burch * Burdine * Burgess * Burton * Cain * Caldwell * Calhoun * Campbell * Cannon * Cantrell * Capehart * Caradine * Carson 8 Carter * Case * Chambers * Chandler * Chapman * Chappell * Chiles * Clark * Clayton * Cleveland * Cobb * Collins * Conner * Cook * Cooper * Cox * Craig * Crawford * Crenshaw * Cunningham * Daniel * Darnal * Darracott * Davis * Devenport * Dickson * Dill * Dobbins * Drennan * Durham * Eakin * Earle * Easley * Easter * Eaton * Eddins * Edens * Edwards * Ellenburg * Elliott * Ellis * Ellison * Elrod * English * Erwin * Eubanks * Evans * Farr * Fennell * Ferguson * Field/s * Findley/Finley * Folger * Foosbee * Ford * Foster * Fowler * Fraser/Frazier * Freeman * Gaines * Galphin * Gantt * Garner * Garrett * Garvin * Gassaway * Gibson * Gilbert * Gilstrap * Glenn * Gordon * Gossett * Graham * Grant * Gray * Green * Griffin * Grisham * Hagood * Hall * Hallum * Hamilton * Harbin * Harris * Harrison * Hawthorne * Haynes * Hays * (1 mention Phil Hazle) * Henderson * Hendrick/s * Hester * Hill * Hodges * W.E. & R.E. Holcombe * Holland * Howard * Hudson * Hughes * Hunnicutt * Hunt * Hunter * Jackson * James * Jenkins * Johns * Johnson/Johnston * Jones * Keith * King * Kirksey * Ladd * Langston * Latham * Latimer * Lawrence * Lawson * Lay * Lee * Lesley * Lewis * Livingston * Logan * Lomax * Long * Looper * Lyone * Madden * Major * Maret * Martin * Mason * Matthews * Mattison * Mauldin * Maxwell * May * Mayes * Mayfield * Mays * McCants * McClanahan * McCoy * McWhorter * Meriweather * Miller * Mitchell * Moore * Morgan * Morris * Morton * Nash * Neal/Neel * Neely * Nelson * Nichols * Nicholson * Noble * Norris * Norton * Odell * Owens * Pace * Parker * Parson * Patterson * Perkins * Perrin * Perry * Petty * Phillips * Pickens * Pittts * Pool * Porter * Powell * Rackley * Reeder * Reeves * Reid * Rice * Richards * Richardson * Riggins * Riser * Roberts * Robertson * Robinson * Rogers * Roper * Russell * Sample * sanders * Saxon * scott * Shaw * Simmons * Simpson * Sims * Singleton * Sitton * Sloan * Smith * Spence * Stephens * Stevenson * Stewart * Stone * Stuart * Sullivan * Swords * Tarrant * Tate * Taylor * Templeton * Terrell (yeah) * Thacker * Thomas * Thompson * Thomson * Todd * Trotter * Turner * Wade * Walker * Wallace * Wallis * Ward * Wardlaw * Watkins * Watson * Welborn * Wells * West * Whisenant * White * Whitten * Wideman * Williams * Wilson * Wood * Wright * Young * Youngblood * (There is a separate slave index).

Again, courtesy of bookmomma77 on eBay...

There are two other volumes, the contents of which I have not read or reviewed...

This book is, at heart, a book about the art exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York. Don't expect a book full of pictures, as the majority of this book is descriptive text. The art isn't nearly as shocking as one might expect- and perhaps that is the point.

The main body of the book covers a general examination of Jewish art and specifically attitudes towards art and the holocaust. The works themselves are not described in as much detail as I would have liked. It referes not just to the art of the holocaust but more general controversial works, and I feel at times the exhibition itself is neglected.

This is probably worth buying as a companion to the exhibition- it is certainly not a substitute for seeing the exhibition itself.

The book is well presented and clear, and is suitable from anyone aged about thirteen upward. One artworks does feature partial nudity, however, so more sensative readers should be warned.

I teach 7th grade English at an Orthodox Jewish girl's school, and we use this book as our vocabulary text. I find the selection of words in each lesson only moderately useful. The sample sentences given are often too wordy, and don't display enough understanding of the word in question. Instead of this book being the main source of my vocabulary instruction, I try to use large words as I teach. That "forces" my students to call out and say, "What are you talking about? We don't know all these big words!" Then they have a desire to both learn and use those words (as opposed to the memorized words from the text). It's challenging to teach vocabulary in Brooklyn, where poor English seems to be the norm. This book doesn't really make my job much easier.