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Very good first person account of WWII in the Pacific........2006-01-14
From an old Navy veteran: The book is rather short and in some cases repetitive, but from my studies of WWII in the Pacific this is an authentic, first-person account of this soldier's memory of the war against a sadistic, evil, brutal, suicidal enemy. I especially agree with his opinion that the U.S. Army was often overlooked when someone wrote about the war in the Pacific with so much press given to the bloody battles of the U.S. Marines. Don't misunderstand, the Marines were in some miserable, bloody, awful campaigns, but so were soldiers and sailors and they seldom get the recognition due them. This book gives some of that recognition to the soldiers.
Great Story!.......2004-09-12
This is a great story of the GIs who served in the 41st "Sunset" Divsion and fought their way from New Guinea to the Philippines. A great personal memoir of a young soldier who, due to his vast resourcefulness, made the most of his overseas experience. My Dad served in the 163rd "Montana" Regiment of the 41st Division, and though the author was in the 162nd Regiment, his telling of what it was like over there must have been similar to what Dad went through. Dad would only occasionally mention in a sentence or two something about the War and New Guinea. Thanks, Paul Wilson, for giving us a detailed account of the experience. This book should appeal greatly to anyone interested in Pacific War, it was a quick read and hard to put down!
Part history lesson part personal experience.......2003-05-25
Written from the authors experiences in the south pacific durring WW2. As the author tells his war adventure he throws in little painless history lessons. well written, quick easy read. I would love to see more war veterans document their experiences.
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This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. This is not a book to leave the reader standing in the outer court of introduction and background information, but leads directly into Plato's argument. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with philosophical problems in a variety of ways, rather than a philosopher with a fully worked-out system. It includes a brief account of Plato's life and the various interpretations that have been drawn from the sparse remains of information. It stresses the importance of the founding of the Academy and the conception of philosophy as a subject. Julia Annas discusses Plato's style of writing: his use of the dialogue form, his use of what we today call fiction, and his philosophical transformation of myths. She also looks at his discussions of love and philosophy, his attitude to women, and to homosexual love, explores Plato's claim that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and touches on his arguments for the immorality of the soul and his ideas about the nature of the universe.
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Short and deficient........2005-03-28
This is Prof. Annas' second contribution to this series, her first being A Short Introduction to Ancient Philosophy. This one does not measure up to the first. Some of the weaknesses of "Ancient Philosophy" are more evident in "Plato", while the strengths are lacking.
My first beef with Prof. Annas is trivial, but annoying, and that is her insistance that the traditional English language usage for the third person impersonal discriminates against females. In order to counter this supposed disrespect of females, she creates opportunities to plunk down a "she" or a "her" where a "one" or "it" or "he" would normally be expected. An example: Annas writes, "Someone who wins the lottery, for example, may well not be made any happier by just having the money. Unless she puts it to intelligent use, the money may do nothing for her, or even ruin her life." So, we were talking about the relationship of money to happiness, when suddenly the topic changes to gender politics. Why not just say, "Unless the money is put to intelligent use, it may contribute nothing to happiness, and may even ruin one's life", and leave gender politics out of it? I purchased this book in order to learn about Plato, not to deal with Julia Annas' feminist complexes.
She is excessively agnostic about the order of composition of the Platonic dialogues, dismisses with little discussion the internal evidence for a sequence, and its implications for the reconstruction of a picture of the historic Socrates. My complaint is not that she disagrees, but that she doesn't discuss the issue, which seems to be an important one in studies of Plato. And she really doesn't get to the meat of Socrates' irony and method of inquiry.
She devotes an entire chapter to sex and gender issues, only to then dismiss Plato thus: "By this point, studying Plato has little to contribute to modern feminist discussion: his starting points and many of his assumptions are too remote from ours for him to be a profitable partner in debate for very long." If that's true, why did we just spend an entire chapter, 14 percent of a very short book, on the subject?
The remainder of the book is taken up with superficial discussions of Plato's views of virtue, the soul, and metaphysics, and ends with a rousing statement of the obvious: "For in the end, his deepest message is not that we should believe in Forms, or the importance of virtue, but that we should engage with him, and with our own contemporaries, in aspiring to understand these matters."
I finished her Short Introduction to Ancient Philosophy stimulated to read more. By contrast, reading this book left me with the opposite feeling, that reading more by Annas would be frustrating and a waste of time.
A Too Short Invitation..........2003-07-05
This is the first book that I have ever read about Plato. While it is not the best book in this series - it should have been longer - it is still a good read and worth the $... you'll spend for it.
The best thing about this book is that, rather than just focus on Plato's own philosophy, generous mention is also given to his place in culture and the history of the interpretation of his works. More than anything, this makes for a more enjoyable read, but it also gives us a clue as to how certain practices and ideas that are still current today have (at least some of) their roots in Plato.
However, when it comes to Plato's own thought about different things, this book is a bit lacking. His theory of the forms is given short mention, while an entire chapter is devoted to his views on sexuality. Given our current cultural milieu, such a focus on sexuality is indeed interesting, but was sex really so central to Plato's philosophy?
While it is important to note the differences between his own culture and ours, it is more important to note the main currents of his thought, especially given the constraints on length for this book (the subtitle is, after all, "A Very Short Introduction"). If she had explained his most important and most famous ideas more, such a focus would not seem so disproportionately out of place.
Yet, it is also worth noting that Annas' goal seems to be to write a book that is simply a good place to *start*. The book ends with an invitation to do philosophy rather than to simply know about it which is, so to speak, in the very spirit of Plato himself.
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How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This book introduces important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Hume, Descartes, Hegel, Darwin, and Buddhist writers. It emphasizes throughout the point of doing philosophy, explains how different areas of philosophy are related, and explores the contexts in which philosophy was and is done.
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A bit selective but clear, brief, and interesting.......2007-07-21
I agree with much of the positive reviews below, so I won't repeat their points. Edward Craig does an excellent job to familiarize the reader with the discipline of philosophy by way of looking at snapshots of philosophers that represent key aspects of philosophy. What Craig does present, he presents clearly and succinctly, and he certainly stimulates interest in the subject. So the book happily succeeds as an introduction.
While "biased" may be too strong a term to describe the book, it may suffer a bit from being a bit selective in topic coverage, although this is forgivable given the intorductory nature of the book. Particularly, the absence of any discussion about the existence of God is striking, as it is a perennial topic in Western philosophy and a very lively one. Someone like Thomas Acquinas would have been a perfect philosopher to reference on this topic, especially given the lack of medeival philosophers represented by Craig. Incidentally, he does quote Acquinas, but it is a statement about animals, which is surely more obscure than his well known arguments for the existence of God. Furthermore, if Craig's goal was to present primarily philosophy that argues from reason rather than sacred texts, Acquinas' and others' aruments for God's existence (as well as detractors' rebuttals) would surely have been a better fit than a Scriptural reference.
All in all, though, Craig's book is only meant to be a sampling of philosophy, and such gaps do not take away much from the overall value of the book because Craig is so good a digesting and summarizing philsophers' thoughts for newbies.
Craig's Introductory Tour... de-force........2007-02-13
This little book is a gem. A couple of reviews here are too hard on this a 125 page tour. I came to this book as somewhat of a philosophy novice unlike, it seems, a couple of the disappointed reviewers here, so my perspective may be naïve, but the book did it's job for me and then some. Early on Craig correctly recommends reading slowly, because he packs a lot into the short tour. Apologies to a previous reviewer who found it shallow, keep in mind it's a large task for a small book.
If you know nothing of philosophy, I'd recommend first, as Craig does also, Thomas Nagel's "What Does It All Mean". My first read was Bertrand Russell's "History of Western Philosophy" which was too much for a beginner, although it did give me a sense of the history of western thought as it was intended. Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy" would have been a better start, but Russell can be a bit technical for the beginner.
Craig's book is not so much an intro to the problems of philosophy as a whirlwind tour of the major ideas that encompass western (and some eastern) thought, beginning with Plato, jumping to Hume and touching on some of the authors favorites: Descartes, Hegel, Nietzsche, and the impact of Darwin. He discusses some themes and introduces some "isms". He recommends readings along the way, and the end provides a list of other recommended intro and intermediate texts. He wraps it up with a chapter titled, "What's in it for whom": The individual; The priesthood; The working class; Women; Animals.
Craig did an excellent job piquing my interest in further readings. His enthusiasm for the subject matter is obvious.
Good introduction.......2007-02-13
I bought this book to introduce this topic to one of my 10th grade English students. We will then get into the next book (Logic: A Very Short Introduction, same publisher). So far, the student is enjoying the books, and he is not intimidated by these friendly, paperback books as he is with the larger, hardbound college-type textbooks.
A walk in the shallows - and unaware of its own bias.......2006-05-08
I suppose one cannot expect too much of a book which aims only to be a "very short introduction", but I did expect a little more than this book gave. I read through it at the request of a friend who wanted to know whether this would give him an adequate starting point for some philosophical reading, as he's entirely new to the field. I found myself shaking my head over most of the book, although certainly there are some portions of the writing which are impartial and informative.
However, as a GENERAL overview, I can't recommend this book. It often bears a rather patronising tone, and in the very first chapter declares its own bias without realising it does so. The examination of the Platonic work is superficial; the discussion of Humes' work is given an extraordinary weighting without reference to other philosophical works pertinent to that discussion; the Indian dialogue is treated in a lopsided fashion; and so on. If discussion of these selections (which are in themselves odd choices in an introductory work) can only be maintained at so superficial a level, better they had been dropped altogether. I am strongly of the opinion that the questions and topics raised in the selections (some of which were not even mentioned) deserve either more elaborate treatment or should be given many more possible interpretations so as to avoid laying a personal interpretation upon the ideas of the writers thus represented.
At no point is the reader to be permitted to make up his mind when it comes to Humes, for instance.
The writing style is simple and clear. This will appeal to some readers. The examples are shallow - again, this will appeal to some readers. The reader is guided into following the writer's own viewpoint - this is what one would expect of a philosopher's own work, not of what purports to be an overview or introduction, which ought of necessity to be more disinterested.
This will appeal to those who have little or no experience with reading Plato themselves, or who have never sat down to embark upon a course of reading including Kant, Freud, Thomas Aquinas, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, C.S. Lewis, Stephen Meyer, Descartes, Rousseau, etc. I can't even say this is a good introductory book. It is a good book in terms of presenting some of the philosophical ideas or works that have influenced its writer.
But even as an introduction, it walks too narrow a path along the shoreline, where only certain waves are permitted to splash and which certainly does not delve into any depths.
Fun but unstructured.......2006-02-02
This is one of the more entertaining and reader-friendly books on philosophy I've read, and in terms of style it goes down more smoothly than even most other Very Short Introductions.
However, it's difficult to see the precise value or usefulness of this book. Obviously, you can't give a comprehensive overview of a subject as vast as Philosophy in a 130 page book. Still, the organization of this volume seems somewhat haphazard and meandering.
Edward Craig is certainly an expert on the subject, and the chapters do explore various facets of philosophy, such as predominant philosophical questions and key philosophers and philosophical texts. But the choice of topics seems a bit too subjective, and the manner in which things are explored lends itself more to entertainment than actual acquisition of knowledge.
I recommend this to anybody who has an interest in philosophy but knows literally next to nothing about it; for anyone else, the content is a bit too shallow to be really useful, though it's still an entertaining read.
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Beloved workout celebrity Denise Austin takes the popular practice of Pilates out of the gym with anytime, anywhere exercises-for anyone, no matter what your current fitness level. -Easy 3-week plan goes at your own speed. -No complicated equipment is required-just a mat, a chair, and a towel or blanket. -Strengthen, lengthen, and tone your muscles. -Improve flexibility, balance, and posture. -Learn to control your breathing, calm your mind, and improve your sense of well-being. -Photos accompany each move, making the exercises easy to follow. -Austin shares her perfected breathing technique, plus visualizations for each move and other tips to achieve the correct posture and gain the greatest benefit (a feature not found in other Pilates books). Other special features include mini-routines to target specific problem areas, tips for beginners, and pointers for those suffering from back pain, arthritis, or other ailments that affect and limit movement.
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Review.......2007-03-12
This is another wonderful Denise Austin workout. I began doing this Pilates DVD over four years ago and still do it. When I do this DVD three times per week, I can really see a difference in the length and tone of my body. My posture is better. I just look overall lean and fit. It is always challenging. She is a great instructor and that really makes this DVD worthwhile. The only downfall to this DVD is that it is a little long so sometimes I avoid doing it because of that but when I do it, I am always glad I did. A lot of the moves I incorporate into my everyday life when I just want to stretch. It is great.
Worked for me.......2004-10-21
I started using this book in June 2004. I am 41 years of age and wanted to tone by body. I have followed her workouts in this book primarily using the 10 minute routines for upper body, abs, lower body, back, ball and resistance bands. My goal primarily was to one my body. I have dropped a full clothing size and lost 10lbs. I tell everyone I can about this book and the philosophy of exercise. I consider myself a very busy person, I am a mother, I work full time, but every weekday morning I find 10 minutes to do my exercises and it has clearly paid off for me. These results come from exercise. I don't believe in fad diets and have continued to eat food in moderation and control portion size, but I eat what I want. If toning up is important to you, invest the money and the time you will not be disappointed.
Pilates for Every Body by Denise Austin.......2004-05-30
This book is a useful supplement to your existing health and
exercise regimen. The focus is concentration, breathing techniques and control. The authors provide pictorial depictions
of abs exercises, HIP opening routines, the buttocks stretch,
warm-ups, the ABS stretch, the leg lift roll-up and leg stretches. This book will help you to develop a comprehensive program in a short period of time. It is worth the money if you are serious about crafting a considerable exercise program as part of the daily routine.
Pilates for Advanced Everybodies.......2004-03-30
I tried this Pilates tape that is supposedly for everybody. Denise is as full of sunshine as she alwasy ever. It gets irritating fast when you realize that you can't begin to do half the stuff she is talking about. I have done Pilates before so I know that Denise is doing advanced positions that could cause beginners to injure themselves. She doesn't even give alternate or adjustment poses too often.
If you are advanced don't get this Pilates tape you can do better. If you are a beginner, don't get this tape unless you want to hurt yourself.
GREAT PICTURES AND FABULOUS BOOK!.......2004-02-27
This book has excellent pictures and is a great book. I have the video tape, Pilates for Every Body which is fantastic, and is a great workout. I was browsing through the book section, and looked through this book. I found the instructions to be thorough and complete. As always Denise has another winner!
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I want to like this one..........2007-08-27
This book has a lot of promise, and I really want to like it. I'll start with what's good:
The book is organized fabulously. Each recipe is on its own page, with a large color photo, a few step-by-step photos, nutrition information, and a difficulty gage. The recipes are organized into general sections, like Soups, Pasta & Rice, Outdoor Cooking, etc., though there's no table of contents or index. There are a lot of recipes that look and sound delicious, and make you want to jump right in and start cooking.
Once I started cooking out of it, though, my thoughts changed a bit. I'm a beginning cook who doesn't have a lot of extra cash (college student). One major problem with the book that I began to notice right off the bat is that the vast majority of recipes are very "gourmet", whith long ingredient lists and uncommon ingredients. Several of the pasta recipes call for fresh pasta, there's liberal use of fresh herbs and gourmet mushrooms, and a lot of them simply don't seem to be aimed at the quick-and-easy set (which is fine, if that's what you want).
The real clincher for me though was that none of the recipes really turned out that well for me. I skip back and forth between this book and another (Fanny Farmer) for recipe ideas, and even for nearly identical dishes the ones from this book took longer to make and turned out bland and unappetizing. There were several that I didn't have any comparison for that ended up being a disaster.
Of course, I haven't tried all of the recipes here, so there could be some real gems I haven't come across (or that I screwed up in the process). I hope that's the case, because I'm going to keep trying it every so often amongst my other books. But as of right now, I wouldn't recommend this over any other vegetarian cookbook. While it's nice to look at and get inspired by, the time, effort, and taste just hasn't been worth it.
Ideal Vegetarian Cookbook.......2006-11-27
As a hesitant omnivore, I picked up this cookbook on sale after paging through the recipes and seeing many different dishes with few recipes involving tofu or beans. It was literally the wisest purchase I have ever made; it made my transition to vegetarianism a smooth and thrilling one. I could not cook/live without this cookbook.
The pictures are excellent, and the recipes are varied: Indian Hyderabad pickles to stellar Italian pasta dishes. Over the past year, I've tried the appetizers, breads, pasta dishes, salads and met tasty success with all of them.
This cookbook is more of an introduction to than a tutorial in international cooking. Some of the recipes are a bit westernized, and the dishes suffer minor compromise. The desserts are a little too health-conscious for my taste, but the rest of the book makes up for it. Despite these drawbacks, I would recommend this cookbook to anyone--vegetarian or not, beginner to advanced cook.
Easy to Use Cookbook.......2006-08-11
I'm not vegetarian, but I love veggies, rice and pastas, and this cookbook has plenty to serve. Each page has great color photos (usually 4) showing the different steps to cooking the meal & the final product. Each recipe also has nutritional info as well as ETAs for cooking & prep time. There are also plenty of cooking tips. My favorite recipes are the soups. We esp LOVE rthe exotic mushroom soup.
Just to give you an idea of recipes: orange & pumpkin soup, zucchini & thyme fritters, eggplant timbale, white raddishh curry, walnut & olive pasta, spinich & ricotta gnocchi, bean curd w/bell peppers, cheese & potato strudel, turkish kabobs, coconut apples, special peach melba, cool cucumber salad, saffron-flavored potatoes, mango ice cream, and sweet fruit wontons. hungry yet?
My onlu issue is that the book's binding is week and my book is starting to fall apart. I guess I use it too much.
The best of all!!!.......2006-04-13
This is the best cookbook of all. I am NOT a vegetarian but often forget while browsing through this book. Every page hass pictures of the dishes AND of the preparation instructions so if there's something you've never heard of or have no idea how it should be done, you're can be safe from making big mistakes.
VEGETARIAN BIBLE - if you own 1 cookbook, make it this one!.......2005-10-02
This is MY FAVORITE and most-used cookbook. I bought it for beans at Ross thinking it was probably one of those useless coffee table books, but after thumbing through it, I decided to give it a chance. I'm SO GLAD I did!! Two of my (non-vegetarian) friends went and bought it after I made them meals from it.
The depth, breadth, and diversity of recipes is astounding. Lots of Mediterranean and Indian recipes. (thank goodness!) Beautiful photos, easy directions, and delicious meals. This thing even tells you how to make paneer (Indian fresh cheese). I made it and it was easy, scrumptious, and I must admit... fun!
You WILL NOT find a better cookbook. I can't understand why it's out of print. That's just crazy. Note: this thing is huge like the Oxford dictionary, and every bit as useful.
Happy Eating!!
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The majestic Great Dane is indeed the giant of the dog world, although his physical size is not the only asset he offers the right owner. The Great Dane excels as a companion for the family and children, providing protection and convincing deterrence; as a personal friend, always responding with outgoing kindness; and as a performance animal, competing in obedience trials and the show ring alike. The Great Dane, of course, comes with his considerable demands as well, requiring an owner with a sizeable yard and pocketbook, plus the confidence to handle 120 lbs. of canine power. This book provides the much-needed information about the Great Dane's remarkable history, an insightful look at the breed's characteristics and standard, as well as puppy selection, feeding, training, and preventative health care.
In addition to an extremely authoritative text, this book presents over 135 photographs in full color, which prove to be as informative as they are attractive. Helpful hints and important information are highlighted to provide easy access to everything the reader needs to know about life with a Great Dane from puppyhood to the senior years.
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A Nice Guide.......2007-02-06
My family recently decided to add a dog to our house. All, except the cat, were in agreement. I argued for a Great Dane. I had some friends who raised them when I was a kid and a professor who had one when I was in seminary. I remembered them as being impressing, friendly and faithful. Just to be sure, though, I bought this book to learn a little bit more. I'm glad I did.
The book does a fair job of covering the basics that any dog owner would need to know and does them from the point of view of having a dog that may well be the second largest member of the family. It is common sense to know that a Great Dane can steal food off your counter top a lot more effectively than a Chihuahua but there are other factors that are not so obvious. The book also does a reasonable job of going through the early training process and getting the dog house broken. This turned out to be of less use to us because the dog we obtained was already an adult and had been trained. Still, it might come in handy in the future.
For me, information about the breed was of the most use. This included discussion of temperament, differing varieties and such. After reading it, I felt able to make an informed decision about getting the dog. Clyde is now a loved member of the family and the cat is still hacked off.
This is the Great Dane book you need.......2005-09-30
This is the best Great Dane book that I have read and I've read four recently. We are planning on breeding and possibly showing Great Danes and I have been reading everything I can get my hands on. Not only is this book easy to read, but also the most comprehensive. I also feel that it is the most balanced. Some books are written by dog fanatics and are a little extreme. This book seemed to be very centered with an understanding of reality. It gives good information on conformation (much more than the other books), breeding, training a dog (nice section on housebreaking), and even a little on showing your dog. If you are only going to buy one book on Great Danes, I would buy this one.
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Your Great Dane (Your Dog Books)
Lina Basquette
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Susan Purney-Mark Daphne Greig Quilt shops and quilters love fat quarters! Many shops package groups of fat quarters together by theme and in complementary colors, making them quite attractive to buy, give, and trade. But what do you do with them? The authors' answer is a collection of delightful, traditional quilt patterns, all made from fat quarters. Quilters love fat quarters because they provide a lot of variety at an economical price. Quilt shops love fat quarters because they are great for promotional purposes and they sell fabrics. To help the shops and the quilters, the authors have included a teachers' guide to developing classes for fat quarter projects. Susan Purney-Mark and Daphne Greig also wrote Quilted Havens: City Houses, Country Homes (AQS, 2000).
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Very disappointed.......2006-12-16
I just recd this book & there is not one project in it that I will make. I have already put in with other books to be sold in a yard sale. I need colors I like to be shown in the quilt in order for me to decide to make it. The colors in this book are dark; without any sparkle. The quilt on the cover is the only one I half way liked but I have other books I can refer to for the pattern.
Ticket to Fat Quarter Quilting Success!.......2005-04-26
This is by far the best FQ quilt book I've purchased. This book has projects I will actually make, unlike many of the other FQ books I've bought.
I just got this book this past weekend, and have already read it twice (I hardly ever READ a quilt project book like this), and earmarked three quilts to make.
If you're looking for quick 'n easy quilts to make from your FQ collections, I highly recommend this book!
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Fat Quarter Frenzy 2
Susan Purney-Mark
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Year-Round Wreaths: Creative Ideas for Every Season
Richard Kollath
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Thirty easy ways you can give your children a head start on essential education skills
Kitchen-Table Play & Learn gives you structured yet fun lessons to teach your preschoolers the basics of education at home. These 30 lessons include games and activities that help you hone your children's motor skills, number and letter recognition, logic, and visual discrimination, as well as expose them to math, writing, and reading.
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Preschool done at home.......2006-08-13
My daughter is a year old right now, but I have begun to look at preschool curriculum for her to complete at home. I was homeschooled in elementary school and loved the experience; I want to share my love of learning with my children.
I have looked at several books and curriculum series, and this book is one that I plan on using. It has lots of great ideas, and while it will take some prep on the part of the parent, the activities are development oriented.
The book is divided into themes such as sports, fall, the farm, shapes, etc, and each theme is accompanied by activites to encourage many developmental skills. All units begin with a picture book suggestion (no specific title, only a topic). The activities include letter and number recognition, a few science experiments, matching and sorting, some cooking, pre-reading and pre-writing, cutting and pasting, and many other preschool activities. There is a variety within each lesson and across the units so that you do not feel as though you are doing the same things over and over again.
Rhymes and songs and games are included too, so multiple learning styles are addressed. The activities can be spread out over a week or two, depending on your child's level and attention span, or you can spend an hour or two on one day.
Anyone interested in home schooling or in supplementing preschool experiences will enjoy this book.
Excellent.......2006-01-27
This is by far the best children's educational book both me and my wife have read (and there have been MANY). The impact made from the activities has been amazing and the kids can't wait for the next lesson. A must have for parents with young children.
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Jochen Gerz: Res Publica: The Public Works
Rosanna Albertini ,
Marion Hohlfeldt ,
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Jochen Gerz
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Contributors include Rosanna Albertini, Andreas Hapkemeyer, Marion Hohlfeldt, Helga Pakasaar.
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New insights on democratization in Central America.......1997-07-21
The author makes a valuable addition to the dialogue on democracy by not only incorporating older approaches but also moving beyond them. Based on both archival sources and original interview data, this revised dissertation provides cogent arguments, lucid writing, and credible references. The book weaves together two perspectives on democratization often viewed as mutually exclusive: structural and agency approaches. It integrates these two by introducing a third approach: political coalition-building. The author's postulates are tested by examining the histories of Costa Rica and Guatemala. The histories of these two countries actually provide three case studies: one example in each country where democratization failed, and one example in Costa Rica where it succeeded. By introducing a new emphasis on the importance to democratization of the mobilization of the countryside, the author sheds new light on known historical events. She also emphasizes that not only the timing but also the sequencing of events is important in attempts at democratization. Finally, other conditions necessary to the emergence and permanence of democracy are identified for use in future studies. This book should enliven the debate on democratizatio
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The third and last volume of this comprehensive history traces Russia from theend of the Crimean War through the rise of Stalin.
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Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution? (Language Policy)
Shouhui Zhao , and
Jr., Richard B. Baldauf
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0387485740 |
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The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a growing, developing, dynamic society that is moving to take its place as a major world power. Having the world’s largest population, it is estimated that sometime in the next 10 years, China’s economy will become the world’s largest. This development has led a number of language experts to predict that as this power and influence grows, so too will the spread of the Chinese language, with some suggesting that it will surpass English as the world’s most common lingua franca.
However, for the Chinese language to grow in power and influence, a number of hurdles must be overcome, in particular the challenges of technology. The barriers to growth and spread of the Chinese language are very different for spoken and written Chinese, and this monograph focuses on the written variety. It traces the language policy and planning related developments for Chinese characters, with particular emphasis on post-1950 period in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the more recent challenges that technology, and particularly the World Wide Web, have posed for the language.
While Chinese language policy and planning developments can generally be characterized as evolutionary, currently there are forces, both reactionary, i.e. elements of traditional language and cultural purism, and revolutionary, i.e. ‘alphabetic’ or radical simplification schemes, at work in the PRC. The volume examines this linguistic, cultural, political, economic debate, the outcome of which could determine whether Chinese reaches its international language potential, and explores some possible language policy and planning directions for the future.
Given the importance of China and potential of the Chinese language, understanding of these issues is critical for not only our understanding of China, but also for second language policy as it relates to Chinese around the world.
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Reform, Revolution and Reaction
Vincent J. McNally
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ASIN: 0819199990 |
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This work is a comprehensive and sensitive account of Archbishop John Thomas Troy (1787-1823), the first modern leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland. The first book written on the subject, "Reform, Revolution and Reaction" fills a significant gap in Irish historiography. As such, it is an indispensable introduction to the history of modern Irish Catholicism. Contents: Diocesan Concerns (1787-1817); Uncertain Promise (1787-1792); A Reaction to "Wretched Times" (1792-1793); A National Seminary (1791-1817); Ferocity and Folly (1793-1801); "Such is Faction!" (1801-1805); "For the Good of Religion" (1806-1809); Ourselves Alone (1809-1812); Contrasts and Conclusions (1813-1817).
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Spendid addition to Irish church history.......2000-10-18
"McNally's study is thorough, balanced and professionally critical: a spendid addition to our accumulating knowledge of the Irish Catholic Church." E.R. Norman, Peterhouse, Cambridge University. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 185-86.
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These essays arose out of lectures given in Oxford to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1848 revolutions in Europe. Authoritative, yet readable and colourful, they comprise judicious summaries of the existing state of knowledge, as well as new insights and unfamiliar information. The book also seeks to place the revolutionary events in their wider context: apart from chapters covering the main centres of disturbance in France, Germany, Italy, and the Habsburg lands, there are discussions of the situation in Britain and Russia, which were affected but not convulsed by the disorders elsewhere; of reactions in the United States of America; and of the symbolism of 1848 for later democratic, radical, and socialist movements. 1848 marked the first breakdown of traditional authority across much of the continent, and as such is of profound significance in the development of modern European politics as a whole.
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