This book make you want to know more about graph theory. The concepts are first intuitively explained and then formally stated. The numerous examples are completely treated and then easy to follow. R. Trudeau devoted a large part of the book to the puzzling problems of planar graphs and coloring and explains them in a very pleasant manner. As a result, these problems almost appear as trivial (which of course is not the case).

The main criticism I would make is the following. This book is a corrected and enlarged version of another book. Unfortunately, the updating is not very convincing when the "four color problem" is a conjecture in the body of the book and a theorem in footnotes and afterwords.

Mr. Trudeau has done a fabulous job of introducing graph theory in a way which is understandable and intellectually provocative. He mentions that some of the problems are easy, and that some have been unsolved. In both cases, they both are fully illustrative of the subject matter. If you want to begin exploring graph theory, this book is for you!

I love the clothes, but hard to cut out.

This is a very cute book,displaying various African outfits.

I wanted to give this book five stars, but it's not a convenient book to cut from.

Nice little book. Small in size, but nice pictures.

This coloring book has clean, simple lines which make coloring it enjoyable for children of all ages. Children will have no trouble instantly relating the clear pictures to the text of each of the Mother Goose rhymes. My only reservation is that the youngest artists may be limited somewhat by the small scale of the book (each page is only 4 3/16" x 5 3/4"), although this pocket size does make it handy to throw in your bag for those unexpected waiting times.

I have always been a big fan of the Boeing B-314 and of Pan Am. When I heard a book about the big airliners ordeal at the dawn of World War II, I immediately picked up a copy. I'm glad I did.

A quick synopsis: The Pan-Am airliner Pacific Clipper was enroute to New Zealand from San Francisco at the exact moment the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. In an effort to save the aircraft and crew, the decision was made to fly the plane from New Zealand to New York the long way via India, Africa and South America; something that this type of aircraft had never done before.

Mr. Dover did a tremendous job of research for this book and it shows. "The Long Way" touches on the well-known details as well as the personal stories that made up this incredible adventure. Although I had read brief articles about the clipper's around-the-world flight before, I found many fascinating nuggets of new information. The spotting of a Japanese submarine in the Indian Ocean is just one example.

The only things that keep this book from being a five are some glaring spelling errors and Mr. Dover's occaisionally flat narration.

A fascinating read that is just begging for a movie to made from it.

This book is a good addition to the library of any serious student of Pan Am's great history. In these days of mass production, we don't think of one aircraft as a national asset. But the owners and operators of this one did, and rightly so. Only 12 B-314 flying boats were built and they played a critical support role in all theaters of WWII. This author has a clear and direct style. The description of the difficult take-off from the Congo River put you right on the flight deck. This book would actually make a good movie. As you read this account, you cannot help but think of what present day air travellers owe these pioneers. And, you also will have one more reason to say thanks to the WWII generation.

Poetry is a means of understanding the human aspect of history. Pure history books do not illustrate the lives of the people. Great ballads are written in every culture to document the world that evolves around the common man. They also develop into tall tales which I feel is also valid on a cultural level. Contrary to the belief of many Americans, John Wayne was not the first folk hero in history. Francis James Child has collected a group of British ballads. These ballads give one an overview of British life through the ages. This is an abbreviated version of Childs collection. That is unfortunate since there is a wealth of great material that was cut from the ranks. Still ballads like Bonny Barbara Allen and The Unquiet Grave are glorious examples of folk poetry. I would reccommend this book as a beginner course. I hope to get my hands on a copy of the full collection. These ballads are classic components of English language literature.

The Dover Thrift edition of this book is a pretty good value. You get a handful of the great ballads Child gathered--like "Sir Patrick Spens", "The Unquiet Grave", "Lady Isabel ad the Elf-Knight", and "Bonny Barbara Allan"--without spending the fortune you would on the complete collection. It's a good introduction to the ballad, and these are some of the best written of the ancient British ballads.

I don't know what I was expecting, but I found this book to be a little out of my abilities. Maybe it would be ok for someone who already works with wood or has their own woodworking shop. I wouldn't advise this one for a beginner. Better yet, have a wood-working friend buy the book and make you the tools. :)

This book is a must for any artist or crafter who prefers to make their own tools and materials instead of breaking the bank at the art supply store.

Many of the raw materials seem to be accessible and inexpensive.

The instructions for creating paper,pens,pastels and inks are uncomplicated.

Techniques for making and using historical materials such as silverpoint and quill pens are intriguing.

Brief historical introductions about the tools and materials add interest to the clear step-by-step instructions and illustrations/drawings.

Though some of the designs are nice, most are way too busy for my taste, and I wouldn't really call them Art Nouveau. Quite a few of them look more like Renaissance style stained glass, and some of them look modern (like the sailboat patterns?). It is in color, though, which is nice. Very complicated - definately not for beginning stained glass crafters.

Nice plates with dimensions. Good for projects and for idea's. I highly reccomend it.

While he sits to drink -glub -glub and dreams the day away Our dear old fool the man of drink is useless anyway. And so you see my comrades the fanciful is evil's seed alchahol's for devils lacking what they need. This poetry of satire wards and fends us all from denouement disaster and the one great fall.

As you can tell, we thoroughly enjoyed the title poem and all following works. While we feel that Robinson throughout his poetry maintains a relatively decent standard of excellance through use of rhyme scheme and subject matter - he doesn't quiet live up to the qualifications to be considered "one of the greats". Thus, his work, while good, isn't quite great and we have decided to liberally reward him with our kindness of a 4. Thank you for your time. It was well wasted.

This book is classic Robison. It is a collection of his poems. Including the great and not-so-great poems. His works are wonderful and easy to relate to. Robinson was interested in those who suceeded personally, not secularly. Well done.

A noted conjecture of the author's on the harmonic mean of the divisors is tucked unobtrusively in this pleasant reader: "Every harmonic number is even." See problem B2 in Richard K. Guy's Unsolved Problem's in Number Theory.

A good book (but not a great book). Very basic. For the more advanced historical approach, Andre Weil's Number Theory: An approach through history" is to be recommended. Or even Guy's book mentioned above.

This book goes into detail on number theory, but it is often hard to follow with the history mingled with the theory. More advanced material is referenced without proofs. Two readers will especially like this book: those who want an introduction to number theory and those who want a good introduction to the history of number theory.

The paisley patterns are well chosen, but I was hoping to see some other interesting textile patterns as well - most of the other patterns included were very boring and not as representative of the broad spectrum of textile patterns found in Indian fabrics...

I am so glad I got this book and I am sure I will use it often. I think it will be very inspirational in things that I want to make with an "all over" pattern or for use in making borders. From looking at the paisleys in the book I can see where paisleys come from and I never really thought of that before.The paisleys may seem the same to some people but I do like seeing so many different ways to do the same thing. I have been happy with most of the Dover books that I have...I think they do a good job!