As a teacher of Spanish and Portuguese, I can speak with some authority on the value and quality of Listen and Learn Portuguese continental. When I decided to expand my languages in 1990 from just English and Spanish to Portuguese, I looked for a simple and coherent place to start. This book provided me that through its easy to follow lessons, useful vocabulary, and great pronunciation practice. It is a great and economical way to get started in the car or at home.

This little activity book makes a great party favor or small treat. My preschooler loves the little activity books for long car rides as well.

It is difficult to find a dot to dot book for older children and consequently this activity book was a delightful find for my daughter. I would recommend this book for children over the age of 7. Each picture in the book has a minimum number span of 1 to 100. Until the dot to dot activity is completed the child cannot tell what the picture is, consequently it is a much more exciting activity book than the average follow the dot book. After finishing the dot to dot activities, the pictures may be colored. Upon completion of all the follow the dot and coloring activities, the child can save the book and read the story that they have helped to finish. For the small price of the book, it will occupy a child for hours!

This book offers a great way to show traditional Japanese clothing. I teach 7th grade students at Desert Springs Middle School in Desert Hot Springs, Ca. Our core reading list includes The Big Wave, and Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Both novels can be accessed more completely with the visuals of the Japanese paperdoll costumes. I recommend this book to anyone interested in authentic Japanese costumes presented in a colorful, and detailed manner

This Dover Little Activity Book features a girl paper doll named "Patience". Patience herself is on the back cover,on card weight paper. She comes with 8 outfits on glossy paper, and only one of them is the outfit we think about when we imagine a pilgrim girl. The rest of the outfits are appropriately conservative for the time period and culture. The outfits reflect different activities a pilgrim girl might participate in, and include headcoverings and accessories.

I found seeing the range of pilgrim attire to be an interesting, eye-opening experience. This is a great little book for children or adults learning about pilgrim clothing options. I hope to use it as a starting point for future Thanksgiving sewing projects; creating a pilgrim girl outfit that moves beyond the stereotype.

Machinery and Mechanical Devices, isn't just a clip-art book. This sixty-page presentation of copyright free illustrations from the 1800's is a humorous personal expression of the wonderment and fear associated with functionally obscure mechanical devices. Unlike other clip-art books which present the material as individual objects separated by a lot of white space, this book is brought to much higher levels of interest. The way Rowe does this is by creating collages of illustrations on each page - not simply displaying them piece-by-piece. He even goes so far as to make up names for many of his concoctions, and adds other details such as twinkling stars and abstract patterns. The result is a highly entertaining picture book useful not only for the art it displays, but also as a catalog of visual and humorous ideas. Enjoy!

Just as its title implies, this book is devoted to electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) properties of atoms and molecules containing unpaired electrons. Written by one of the most senior, and best known, authorities on EPR of small molecules, it is unique in its hands-on approach to the understanding and analysis of the experimental EPR spectra. Started as a practical introduction into the theory of EPR spectra for new co-workers arriving to Prof. Weltner's laboratory, this book enables a student or scientist already comfortable with the concepts of spin and quantum mechanics, but not yet intimate with the field of EPR, to enter this new area as rapidly, and as painlessly as possible. The bulk of the book goes through a careful analysis of experimental EPR results for representative systems, paying careful attention to the physical sources of interactions observed in the spectra. A special emphasis, lacking in most other sources, is given to the relationship between gas-phase and matrix isolation experiments. The book is accompanied by a comprehensive review of experimental data for small molecules published before 1983. Although somewhat dated, this data is still immensely useful, and is not easy to find otherwise. This book will is a welcome, and little known, addition to a bookshelf of any researcher working in the field.

I just got a few of these for the kids of my friends while we were visiting them. The kids (aged 2 and 4) had a blast while we got to "catch up." I had no idea they would be such a hit! And you can't beat the price! Plus, they are educational. You can use them to ask questions - "what kind of animal is this? what kind of noise does it make? where would it go in this picture?" They're just great!

This little book has nicely lined pages for ease of writing. The cream colored paper is pleasant to look at, and the marbleized cover is lovely.

It fits beautifully into a purse, and is a good size for quick notes, or journaling.

Harte's stories are written with the underdog as the central characters. In "The Luck of Roaring Camp" there is a most motley crew of characters. They all seem to be down and out, or on hard times.
When a baby is born in camp, and it's mother dies... the young one brings luck to the camp.
Harte's language and characterizations are pure old west. If you enjoy westerns this book is for you. The ironic humor and down and out characters make for entertaining reading.

Harte's capacity to capture the sense of humanity beneath often typecast characters, deliver an emotional punch ending, and capture the reader's mind's eye with fluid imagery is astounding. Every piece in here is gold...now RUSH and order this book. (pa-da-ching)