What a great way to learn or re-learn or upgrade your skills in this crucial skill! This book is a joy to handle and read, and a powerful learning tool. Bravo to the authors!

This book is great! It's easy to understand, and reviews lessons frequently. It is both comprehensive and easy to understand. Even individuals with learning difficulties will find this a valuable tool. I am purchasing it for a reference book for the staff. I LOVED it!

This is a very sweet book with wonderful artwork. I purchased the book because of the beautiful cover -- I was looking for ideas on how to decorate my new daughters bedroom. I was delighted when the book came and I read the sweet poetry which describes all the different flowers.

This is a beautiful little book for any parent or grandparent. First published in 1912 and out of print for a very long time, it is wonderful to see this book again. The illustrations are of flowers with childrens faces and a short verse about each flower. Charming pictures and poetry. I loved this book as a child and love sharing them with my kids.

This is a powerful book that tells the simple truth. It takes you into the world of the holocaust that is very real and a part of our past. I learned alot and gained an understanding of what happened not too long ago that has affected generation after generation. I actually had the opportunity to meet Elizabeth Jaranyi and I was put to awe with her incredible stories and strength that seemed to come through her writing as well as speach. I am haunted by the past and have a deep respect for all who had to experience such a horrible part of human history. This book is more than a story, it is a first hand experience and it sweeps you away leaving you with a new perspective and new respect for life.

This book was outstanding and superb when it came to telling a story. I was moved deeply and found myself crying after I finished reading it. I gained a deeper understanding and I felt emotions that were portrayed by the author. I actually had the opportunity to meet Elizabeth Jaranyi and I was put to awe with her stories and incredible strength. She is a wonderful person and tells an amazing story that brings the past alive and it haunts me to this very day what happened to all these people and it gave to a better understanding of the long term effects on the people and the generations to come. I thank her for writing this book and allowing the rest of us to learn from her.

You could say I like Chelm stories, and that I buy every one I can.

You could also say that Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote this tale in 1973, was no ordinary purveyor of Chelm shtiklech. You can tell from his beginning, a master's parody of Genesis.

"The pious believed that God said, 'Let there be Chelm.' And there was Chelm. But many scholars insisted that the town happened as the result of an eruption.

" 'Before Chelm,' they said, 'the area was one huge chaos, all fog and mist. Then came a great explosion and Chelm appeared.

"At the beginning the surface of Chelm was so hot that even if Chelmites had already existed, they could not have walked on the earth because they would have burned their feet." The first Chemites, this version goes, were not people but microbes, amoebas and other such creatures. When people finally arrived in town, they had names like Gronam the First, aka Gronam Ox, and Dopey Lekisch, Zeinvel Ninny, Treitel Fool and Shmendrick Numskull. And they practically invented problems.

One of the biggest was that the people of nearby Gorshkov called the Chelmites fools. Gronam Ox told his compatriots, "We Chelmites know that, of the ten measures of wisdom sent down to earth from heaven, nine went to Chelm. But the conceited people of Gorshkov think they are the clever ones and we are the fools." What does he propose? Why making war, of course.

Needless to say, the Chelmnicks end up in the wrong place, a God-forsaken town called Mazelborsht (translation: luck soup). Defeated by their own foolishness, they returned to Chelm half naked, weaponless and with broken noses and black eyes. This produced the expected seven days and seven nights of contemplation which resulted in four sage proclamations.

Next the Chelmites abolished money, decided to hold elections once every 40 years, asked Zeckel Poet to compose a hymn of 12,000 lines which schoolchildren must learn by heart and appoint Shlemeil secretary. Of course, the merchants refused to part with their goods for nothing, which resulted in a system of barter in which Zeckel Poet was the most eager participant, followed by Shmoyger the matchmaker, Fultsha Jester and the Chelm band. Nothing was exchanged.

To discover what became of Singer's Chelm, you'll have to exchange some abolished currency for this masterwork, which contains much hilarity. And of course, you'll be in luck soup if you find a copy. Alyssa A. Lappen

It is always a pleasure to read something by I.B.Singer. Although this short tale is recommended for ages 9-12, it is certainly also addressed to any age beyond. The tale is a delightful satire of society's political and ideological systems, in may aspects a short version of George Orwell's "Animal Farm."

This book is a good introduction into Forth. it's mostly
complete. it's easy to read, easy to understand and the
examples are quite useful. this is not a fat thousand
pages bloated book where one don't know how to start.
this book is exzellent for all peoples how want to understand
what Forth is and how Forth works. there are many years of
experience collected.

This book presents a very good coverage of modern Forth and comes from the world's second Forth programmer, a close friend of Chuck Moore (the inventer of the language), and president of Forth, Inc., the company they founded back in 1973. Forth has been one of those sleeper languages - not as widely known as most but used in a lot of places where few are aware of the implementation language - such as the FedEx hand scanners, Sun workstation boot software and many NASA space vehicles. This book give a great introduction to Forth and is up to date with the current ANSI standard. It is a good complement to Leo Brodie's "Starting Forth" (which, by the way, Forth Inc. owns the copyright to) and brings Forth into the 21st century. If you have ever had even the slightest curiosity about Forth or would like to look at a refreshing alternative to trendy languages today, get this book. For the price, you can not go wrong and I think you will be amazed by the beauty and simplicity (and power) of Forth.

I read this book when it was first released in the 1970s. It is an excellent resource for evolution vs. Creation. Harold Hill, a noted scientist, simplifies the process and helps the reader understand why Creation makes a lot more scientific sense then evolution. A must read!

This book is VERY easy to read - another job well done by Harold Hill. The book very clearly (and with a lot of humour thrown in) goes through various aspects of the creation/evolution debate. No matter which side of the debate you are on, this book is highly recommended.

Bought this book for my dad for Christmas and he loved it. It is a very nice book for inspiring any wood worker. If you know someone who loves wood working and you are tired of buying them another tool, give this book a try.

When I started woodworking as a hobby about 11 years ago one of the books I first came across in a library was "Sam Maloof". I consider Sam Maloof to be a genius. When I heard that there is a new book out about Sam Maloof I couldn't wait to get a hold of it. The book "The Furniture of Sam Maloof" is a very nice and detailed life story of the woodworking genius and (my guru) with a lot of details about his excellant work. This book is so precious to me that I wont even let anybody in my family put a fingerprint on it. I could easily say that no other person has made such a profound impression on me than Sam Maloof. This book is a must for every woodworker's library.

This is a book based on bold design. Bright colors and lots of texture are staples of the book. Although I usually do not enjoy this kind of approach, I enjoyed this book. For those interested in contemporary design, I suggest it.

If you like bold colors, faux painting, contrasting textures, and casual, fun interior designs, you'll love this book. It includes photos of wonderful interiors inspired by Italian villas and South Western colors.

I think this book has the best comprehensive over-view of humanity's place in the unfolding evolution of life on earth.
It shows that our species is in the midst of choosing to fulfill it's potential or by default, self-destruct. It clearly shows that our choices that we are making now are decisive. It also makes clear that we already have and know everything we need to not only survive and prosper, but to facilitate the same for all of our fellow creatures and earth itself. Our time is running out and, as this book shows, the world will go on perfectly well without us. We are a new "big-brain" experiment in the dance of life...one that is blessed/cursed with having to choose our destiny.

Although out of print in its original title "Gaia...", it is now available as "Earthdance; Living Systems in Evolution."

Contact life@igc.org for ordering info.

Excellent book written in user-friendly language that shows how we can better model our social systems after natural systems; which has had billions of years to work out the kinks. Highly recommended.

Hellebores are some of the best perennial flowers, blooming especially in the dead of winter, and easy to grow, but American gardeners don't seem to know much about them. Here's the best book on the subject, by wellknown garden writer Graham Rice and plantswoman Liz Strangman, who celebrate an extraordinary variety of types and species.

Beautifully-illustrated (with many excellent group shots of single flowers), the text sparkles (as is Graham Rice's penchant), covering such topics as hybrids in the wild and in gardens, an encyclopedia section of the species, how to breed hellebores, the national collections in britain, cultivation, plant associations, with an entire chapter devoted just to the orientalis hybrids. There's also a chapter devoted to "people and their plants" with such sections as "confessions of a hellebore addict" and "margery fish and hellebores at East Lambrook".

Even though these are British authors, this is an easy book to transpose into American growing, with a chapter devoted to "Hellebores in America".

This is a splendid book, well worth buying.

Warning: if you read -even browse- this book, you're in danger to get hooked to hellebores for life. The authors know what they are writing about, and shovel sage advice in every page. Several expert growers offer also their knowledge. Not to talk about the simply wonderful colour photographs, that will let you dreaming on hellebores for weeks and weeks and... Simply the best book to enter in Hellebore Land.