This delightful little book puts into words why children love their Dad. I gave this book to my father as a birthday gift and it delivered a message of love much more eloquently than any Hallmark card.

What I like about is that when Katies father died in world war 2 its a sad. Because their are 2 more books and when she is 11 years old and 12. That's why you should read this book.

Have you noticed how many of the children's books at your local library focus on farms? :) This book is a nice contrast. Set in the city, it teaches colors by focusing on scenes that children who have grown up in the city will find comforting and familiar (e.g. gray for pigeons on skyscrapers; white for powdered sugar on donuts at the diner). For me, the book also somehow stirs fond memories of various places that we have visited on family vacations.

My three year old son loves this book. He has mastered the basic colors and this book gives him an opportunity to expand his knowledge with colors like copper and golden. The illustrations are great, with lots to see and talk about on every page. The text is rythmic and lyrical, although I would omit the line that reads (no litterbug, you). I am extremely disappointed that this book is out of print... I'll keep looking for it.

This is my pick for favorite nature/travelogue of the year. As a cube dwelling computer jockey who enjoys getting out in the field whenever possible, I was able to savor the excitement of field herpetology in the verdant green and brown neotropics with Dr. Crump. After reading "In Search of the Golden Frog", I want to go a froggin', I want to lift a log, I want to wallow in a bog, and most of all, I want to help conserve the wonders of the amphibian world. Dr. Crump's autobiography supplies the reader with an entertaining account of adventures in the field while encouraging involvement in preserving both local and global eco-systems which sustain these veritable princes of herpetofauna. Read it, enjoy it, and help preserve it !!

After having finished reading "In Search of the Golden Frog" by Martha Crump one will realize the opportunities that arise from extensive field work and hard work. This well written journal like story covering a period of 30 or so years of Martha's life describes her early experiences as a young undergrad student working in the tropics to a highly recognized researcher with a family. Martha's great interest and enjoyment in field work and discovery is so apparent in her tales, I couldn't put the book down until I found out what she was doing to this present day. One who has shared similar field experiences will find the detailed descriptions uniquely parallel to that of their own stories. Martha tells of a journey that has lead her to many interesting discoveries but only through time, patience and the desire to handle the difficulties of field work. Martha tells of the troubles and treasurable memories of travelling throughout both Central and South America in search of the creatures she finds most fascinating. Fortunately, in her journey she has also unfolded the nessesity to concentrate on the declining numbers of certain amphibian species. I recommend the book to any individual interested in field work and conservation. The book shares true experiences any field biologist will someday fall upon, preparing those willing to follow in Martha's footsteps.

I checked this book out at my local college and kept renewing it so I could finish more chapters. Finally I ran out of renewing times and decided I really needed to own my own copy.

The book is detailed and precise. It is relatively hard yet light on math and what there is is explained well. It has great graphics and clear explanations that make the most advanced topics easy to visualize and understand. The problems at the end of the chapter are great for review.

It's the best introductory chem book I've ever seen. Better than any chem course.

This book is excellent for the Bioorganic chemistry. I went into my class terrified and overwhelmed. I was actually able to follow along better with the book than my actual teacher. The diagrams are clear cut and gives many examples. I love the factual clips in every chapter about nature or medicine and how this all relates to bioorganic chemistry. I found the clips a breather and a break from the complicated matter. This book finds a way to explain one thing in many different ways so that even the beginner can comprehend it at an advanced level. This book got me through the class with an A.

This book is a concise introduction to one of the most influential tarot decks of our time, namely the Golden Dawn deck drawn by the Mathers.

The book begins with an invaluable 50 pages introduction by Robert Wang, who is an expert on the subject, and a black and white reproduction of his Golden Dawn deck (which can be bought seperately).

It includes Book T (which describes the minor arcana in detail), "The Complete Symbol of the Tarot", Mrs. Felkin's paper "The Tarot Trumps" (the closest thing there is to a public description of Mather's original major arcana), Waite's explanation from the Pictorial Key to the Tarot to the Celtic Cross spread, and an explanation of a 15 cards spread.

I warmly recommend this book to anyone interested in tarot, and especially to those who are interested in decks influenced by the Golden Dawn (Waite's Rider, Crowley's Thoth, the Ciceros', etc).

The only downside of this book is that, beside Wang's excellent introduction, the material is available elsewhere, though it would take some effort and time to get all of it collected to one place.

Far more than acting merely as the companion book for Wang's own tarot deck (based on an actual Golden Dawn tarot deck), this little book reprints most of the relevant Golden Dawn tarot material that appears elsewhere at a much higher price. If you are just starting to explore the Golden Dawn teachings in respect to Tarot, this is the place to start. After working with this, you may want to branch out and read Wang's excellent but very advanced "The Qabalistic Tarot."

Please note, however, that if you already have Israel Regardie's big "Golden Dawn" book, you already have most of the information reprinted here.

In this book, Devin Deweese states that his overall mission is to uncover and revise current views on the Islamization of Central Asia through examining what meaning and function a Muslim conversion narrative had for the people that lived there at the time. This is largely uncharted territory for Central Asian studies, and Deweese's book represents a significant achievement in this area.

This text is monumental and meticulously researched, yet it's premises are simple. Deweese examines the historical context of a conversion narrative, both in its Islamic missionization aspects and the history of pre-Islamic Central Asia geography and religious practice. Then he proceeds to analyze two separate narratives-the conversion of Ozbek Khan to Islam and the different narrative versions of this conversion that circulated at different times and in different geographies in the local region. The meat of the book begins, though, with the telling of the earliest recorded version of the coming of the Sufi shakya Baba Tukles and his trial by ordeal, proving Islam the one "true" religion." The rest of the book is concerned with analyzing this myth, which was so central to the dominance and persistance of Islam in the region.

Deweese is careful to note that in popular and academic discourse, the idea persists that Islam has a policy of forced conversion or death for conquered peoples, and also that Islamization often does not graft itself onto populations at a deep level, since "belief" or faith is not emphasized over ritual action. He believes both notions are false, and I agree that the historical evidence is in his favor.

Deweese clearly demonstrates that within an Islamic worldview, the production of "eventually" correct ritual behavior can be a gateway for the grace of Allah to produce correct belief, so there need not be such an emphasis on early zeal for a convert. In other words, you didn't have to understand everything right away to be a good Muslim. Significantly, although Deweese criticizes the common image of Islam as a religion of the sword, he does note that up until the Islamization of Central Asia the main motif of conversion narratives within Islam was that of the "holy war." Deweese understands this as a metaphor for the internal struggle of the individual to submit to Allah. Indeed, this is by far the more common meaning of "jihad" outside of the overt militancy that the American media has a fascination for.

This brings us to the rich exposition Deweese has of the Tukles narrative. He finds that the motif of the traveling founder or progenitor is common in Central Asia mythic motifs. Thus the development of the Tukles conversion narrative is evidence of a syncretic production between the structure of Muslim narrative and the structure of indigenous Central Asian motifs. In other words, conversion stories are the result of what the potential convert brings to the experience, just as much as the party that advocates for conversion.

The most interesting section to me was the section that expounded on the mythic meaning and function of the image of the "crucible" as part of the conversion narrative. Deweese contends that this constitutes a mythic identification with the shamanic figure-a common motif of the transformed individual through sacred disassembly and ritual reassembly. Instead of following early work on this too closely, Deweese asserts that this should be understood not only as the creation of a new individual, but the ritual founding of a new progenitor/First Man and also a sacred Muslim community at the same time.

It's difficult to say anything bad about this book. Deweese, in the Introduction, tells you explicitly what his project is...a analysis of a conversion narrative -- and its different versions and motifs relating to a particular community. About the only thing that one could accuse him of is perhaps viewing the religious community in Central Asia as monolithic, and not exploring the different political functions of the myth to legitimate internal power.

But then again, this is a huge book, and this is only a small omission given the grand scope of the book.

A fascinating study through several centuries, cultures and linguistic strata, concentrating on islamization narratives and national self identification within their context, this book is a fascinating collation of sources both medieval and modern; it is a remarkable achievment, detailed and interestingly argued, on what at first might be taken to be a topic of little relevance, but is in actuality one of the most basic of all human concerns, how societies perceive and identify themselves. Although more scholarly than a light read, I'd reccomend it to any person with a desire to further their understanding of both the scholarly process and the societies it touches upon.

This is one of the best Elder Golden compilation, in addition to the book "Wheat." You have the stories combined with Bagly's odd illustrations. It works, for some reason; then again, Elder Golden himself was oddly illustrated, and he worked! ;-)

This is a great book and clearly shows the reader just exactly what kind of man J. Golden Kimball was. I could read this book over and over again! It blows your mind away how he would season his church talks with 'hells' and 'damns', how he told a bunch of young men to go to Hell, and would constantly put President Heber J. Grant in all sorts of predicaments! This is a classic in LDS literature and you'll laugh and cry at the same time.

joe kelly and dough mahnke makes a perfect combination,just like morrison and quitely,or ennis and dillon,or loeb and sale,
mills and bisley,jodorowsky&moebius.
and while i think morrison is very good,i prefer the way kelly writes jla.morrison is better suited for x-men.
the story is fun,the characters well described and used.
there's an exchange between bats and ww that are fantastic.or plastic man trying to get a peek at ww in her chambers.
but the best of it is mahnke's artwork.superior to any of the artist who accompanied morrison on the jla.he's just getting better and better,since his days drawing the mask,and the classic mask versus lobo.he draws plastic man quite a bit like mask sometimes,the wildest i've seen him.
at the end there's a separate short story about bats and plastic man that is just pure poetry.really excellent.
after having read this,i'm certainly getting "the obsidian age" too!

When a child is stolen from under the Amazons' protection, Wonder Woman and the rest of the Justice League of America (Superman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Plastic Man, and the Atom) set out to reunite the child and his mother. Finding that the boy is heir to an ancient, hidden civilization, Wonder Woman uses her lasso (the Golden Perfect) to discover the truth. But when the lasso breaks, truth and order become uncertain throughout the whole universe. And now it is up to Wonder Woman to fix the Golden Perfect and the JLA to fix the universe.

As an added bonus, two other stories bracket Golden Perfect: Two Minute Warning, which gives the JLA two minutes to save the world; and Bouncing Baby Boy, in which the improbable duo of Bat Man and Plastic Man must work to save a boy from a life of crime.

This was a really good graphic novel. The graphics were short of excellence, but the story was fantastic! While Flash and the Atom were somewhat minor characters, Plastic Man was used to his absolutely funniest best. It's been a while since I've seen Plastic Man so well represented! My nine-year-old son and I both loved this book, and highly recommend it to you!

I remember my grandfather reading this book to me countless times. What fun poetry for young and old kids alike.

The lines page after page are easily read and remembered. Although I have not read it in 11 years I can still remember it. "Said farmer Brown tralah tralee, today is my birthday lucky me" etc. This book should be in every child's collection.

Just My Friend And Me was a great book. It told you how you would play with your friend when he/she came over. It showed how to help your friend when he/she gets hurt. In someways once you have a friend come over you can't wait for them to leave so you can be a lone and do stuff you want to do and not have someone else want to do something different. Well, I hope this gives you a good idea of what this book is about. I hope all of the little children will enjoy this book. I know I did.

The book is two thumbs up by me for my littel sisters and cousins. I think this book is a very good book for children 1-5. I would recomend this book to any one