This book was one of my favorite books when I was in Elementry school. It was like someone was reading my mind and putting it all in a book. It's about a girl named Wendy, who's sister (Katie) is good at almost everything. When Wendy finally desides to take up horse riding lessons, her siser does too! Read the book to find out what happens!
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Yes my name is Katie. I remember always checking this book out at the school library. It's so much fun. The story truly keeps kids interested. It has good lessons on sisterhood. Because I know that to my sister I was probably a pest at times too. I think it's best for kids about seven years old to eleven years old. It's about a girl named Wendy, whose little sister is perfect in everything. She can play the piano and pretty much do everything else. Wendy starts to feel a bit jealous and less than katie. Wendy decides to try something new, so she can get soem credit for something. Of course Katie doesn't make it easy. I don't want to ruin it for you, so I recommend you read it too.

Before reading Me and Katie (the pest), I read Stage Fright, which is the book that comes before it. I liked both books a lot, but especially Me and Katie (the Pest). Ann M. Martin kept me interested and the book was very realistic. I know, because I have a sister, too. It reminded me of two of her other books: Ten Kids, No Pets, and its sequel, Eleven Kids, One Summer. I am nine years old.

What a great book---I fell in love with the heroine and didn't want the story to end! Her courage and will to triumph are an inspiration, and the fact that it is a true story makes it even more interesting.

This is an amazing true story, with broad appeal for all ages & both sexes. You won't be able to put it down! This lady was ahead of her time & will inspire you with her courage.

I recently read this book, A Meadowlark Calling, and I could not put it down. It is beatifully written and tells a story that most of us in this modern era have forgotten about. I grew up in Oklahoma many years ago and can remember much of the hardships experienced by Amber Lockhardt.
The book is printed in large type which makes for easier reading and would be appreciated by the older generation as well as the young folk who would get an excellent description of the trials and tribulations and heartache of growing up on the plains of Kansas and Oklahoma. It is a wonderful book for all ages and reminds me of Little House on the Prairie and Ann of Green Gables series. I want all my children to read this book and I think it should be in every school library.

I have used this book in Leadership Training for years. Recently I used it at Gindiri College of Theology in Nigeria. The huge 250 pound student body president said it caused him to weep, thinking about repentance. This was one of the only books graduating senior received this year, because the cost of books is such a high % of their annual income.
In the US, white High School students have returned years later to say this small book changed their thinking and understanding of who Dr. King really was. Mine too. Thanks

What an amazing man. King writes with such love for humanity and such desire for an improved society. Though I am not religious, I am very engaged by his discussions of faith. It is this thesis of the role of humanity and the notion of how precious life is that draw me to this book every few months for inspiration.

This book is a great way to get back in touch with youself as a spiritual and meaningful human being. Many of MLK Jr.'s speeches are so popularized that they often leave his other great works in their shadow. This is one of "those other" great works. Definitely worth the cost.

Prior to this book, I had been dreading my foray into automation. Literally, within minutes of opening the book, I was automating Excel. And within a couple of hours, I had already built my first automation component for an application. These guys make it so easy!

Every book and article I have ever read by Granor and Martin has been superb, and this book is no exception.

After 28+ years in this business I have finally stumbled upon an author who knows how to write technical books. This one should be a "how to write" example for other alleged authors.

The book, is clear, concise, and well designed. No assumptions are made; yet it is structured in a manner that one can easily skip over items of familiarity. It is an ideal book in that it spans the needs of users at all levels of expertise and is loaded with real "meat and potatoes" practicality and minimal blue sky theory. No matter what your level of expertise (or the lack of it), you can be creating quality applications within the first hour!

My hat is off to these writers and editors!

A good book for combine two powerfuls application like vfp and office

The Molecule Hunt: Archaeology and the Search for Ancient DNA written by Martin Jones is a book about modern molecular archaeology and what it entails.

This book is a fascinating and absorbing story of scientific inquiry. Keeping in mind that what is preserved for the scientist is in fosilized form and what DNA samples that they do get need specialized equipment and new field methods for getting the samples, essentially changing the way we think about archaeology.

This book is an easy read, largely helped by the author's prose making for a highly educational read about remarkable new techniques now available for investigation of our, human, past. DNA can be found in all life on the planet, extracting a sample from the past is extremely difficult. From seeds, wood, amber and even pot shards yeild a unique picture of the past as to what our diets consisted of and how we lived.

The author's enthusiasm for this subject is in evidence as the reader goes from chapter to chapter finding how molecular archaeology is in a scientific revolution making our concepts of the past change before our eyes. Stomach contents preserved in humans yields information about ancient diets.

This is an educational book as it shows how scientists, devising a molecular clock, from certain area of the DNA molecule, were able to determine that all humans descend from one common female ancestor... "The Mitochondrial Eve."

This is an all around good read as your eyes read, your brain will say I didn't know that they could do that... amazing as to what can be found out in molecular archaeology.

In The Molecule Hunt, Martin Jones, an expert in bioarchaeology, provides an intriguing explanation of how the discipline has evolved and its particular worldview in dealing with discoveries on the molecular level. DNA research has affected archaeological work in identifying remains, fossils, and relics: The Molecule Hunt effectively tells how a new scientific field has evolved in recent times.

The Molecule Hunt: Archaeology And The Search For Ancient DNA by Martin Jones (the first to hold the George Pitt-Rivers Professorship of Archaeological Science, Cambridge University, and Chairman of the Ancient Biomolecules Initiative program) is a serious, authoritative, highly accessible introduction for the non-specialist general reader to the fascinating scientific revelations that ancient proteins and remnants of DNA trapped in fossils and amber can tell us about the prehistoric world from which they derived. From the discovery that all humans come from one female ancestor 150,000 years ago (dubbed "The Mitochondrial Eve"), to comparing Neanderthal DNA to that of modern homo sapiens, to revising when the first humans crossed the Aleutian land bridge, and much more, The Molecule Hunt is an amazing, informed and informative glimpse into how the disciplines and technologies of science can connect ancient mysteries with modern marvels.

This stimulating challenge to conventional geography should be an essential ingredient to your next upgrade of your metageographical basics, world history as one for a change. The book is a nice debriefing of the several myths that distort that history. One of the main culprits is the East-West divide, whose illusory divide as to culture obsesses too many, butis one of the chief offenders, along with the notion of a 'western civilization' whose boundaries, content and latent ethnocentricism deserve a reminder that the East was always built into the West and vice versa. The Greek myth of Europa was always misleading, no? and isn't the realm of the Israelites the East, then?
One of the liabilities of Toynbean style analysis into 'civilizations' has been the failure to see the inherent unity of one 'Civilization' emerging in a series of partially diffentiated versions, rendering the many distinctions misleading, and quite tribalistic. A good example is the case of Japan which modernized sooner than much of Europe, it is a question of 'information', not of continents.
Fascinating take on 'metageography' and a good rolfing of some archaic concepts we take for granted.

...and never the twain shall meet." Kipling was wrong about that. This fascinating book shows how culture and world-view influenced not just Kipling and others of the past, but continues to do so with us today. Our maps, both mental and otherwise, are largely shaped by our own realities. Indeed the authors argue we are all unwitting believers in THE MYTH OF CONTINENTS. The metageography that this book critiques is defined as "the set of spatial structures through which people order their knowledge of the world." Such structures are arbitrary, but it's not just continents. It extends to world regions, culture areas, zones, and even civilizations. Also any depiction in atlases, on globes, in texts, and on political maps. It's all extremely subjective.

One of the strengths of this book is how it shows these artificial views emerging, changing, and adjusting to the dynamism and power of cultures. The concept of the continent of Europe is directly connected to the power of that region. Why else, the authors ask, should India be a sub-continent and China only a part of Asia? "In physical, cultural and historical diversity, China and India are comparable to the entire European landmass, not to a single European country."

The book traces the origins of the continental system from Herodotus through Ptolemy, the Romans, Medieval Europe to the Age of Discovery and beyond. The whole idea of what defined a continent (large landmass seperated by water) was always very fungible. The authors say that as late as 1599 "any reasonable large body of land or even island group might be deemed a continent". They give the example of a geographer referring to the West Indies as a "large and fruitful continent". The West Indies themselves are a perfect example of perception dictating form. We know that the "Indies" part came about because Columbus thought he had arrived in the East. The metageographies of West and East then are concepts that, like continents, are open to criticism. So too are the New and Old worlds, the First and Third Worlds (was there ever a Second World?) The same vagueness surrounds the North and the South, the Occident and Orient, Far East, Middle East, South Asia and the Pacific Rim.

In offering their own system for organizing human space the authors replace continents with "world regions". Arnold Toynbee and more recently Samuel Huntinton's system of using civilizations as the organizing principle gets a nod from the authors. In the classification they use, Europe is now "Western Eurasia", "African-America" includes not just the West Indies but the entire Caribbean and North-Eastern Brazil. North America remains and Ibero-America emerges.

Obviously geographers will thoroughly enjoy this book but it has a much broader appeal. Wherever we are in the world we use some of the terms above to describe our place. If nothing else this book will make us all a little more aware of how we define ourselves and others.

I'm surprised to be the first to review this book. It was recommended to me a couple of years ago by a professor and I've only now gotten around to reading it: it's definitely one of the best books I've read recently.

As the title suggests, the book explores the myth of continents. The authors show the origin of the idea of the continent in ancient Greece and show its continued use throughout the centuries even as the addition of the Americas and Australia to the world map caused more and more incongruities with the original Greek and medieval world system.

The authors also look at the concepts of 'East' and 'West' and the similarly overused (but underdefined) 'Orient' and 'Occident', arguing against Edward Said for the continuation of a world divided into geographical regions, albeit ones that does not draw upon geographical determinism or cartographic ethnocentrism. Unlike Samuel Huntington they stress their world regions (i.e. African-America and Central Asia) as not always coherent territories with distinct borders. Agreeing with Herodotus and Toynbee about the need to examine the continental system, they thoroughly discuss the philosophical and political views of continents in recent centuries, looking at Rousseau, Herder, Hegel, Montesquieu, H.G. Wells, J. Burckhardt, Wallerstein and others.

This book is so good at deconstructing the built-up assumptions of the aforementioned terms that I hesistate to list any faults, although I should at least mention that I would have liked a few more maps and a separate section on how and why the authors chose each world region and its borders (i.e. why not a separate region for Madagascar).

In any case, this is a convincing and powerful book.

WOW! Thanks Martin Martinez for having the courage to come forward with this life saving information. I am a patient who uses marijuana to treat my debilitating migraine headaches. I believe marijuana has saved my life. I have also worked with cancer, AIDS and other seriously ill patients whose lives have been saved by this magical medicinal herb. Im so glad to see a book written for the patient population that adequately explains how to heal with marijuana. Finally, we have a book written by a patient for the patients! Lets get this life saving information out there so that other patients lives can be saved by having the tools and information to heal with medical marijuana. Thanks again Martin. You definitely are an ANGEL from heaven.

I used to smoke marijuana when I was at college and recently my dad was diagnosed with MS, I thought marijuana would help him with the pain but he was really against it. I gave him this book and amazingly he read it and after discussing it with his doctor is now eating a cookie once a day. It won't cure him but it really helps him deal with the pain. Thanks for a well researched honest book.

Finally a concise, articulate and user friendly book on the controversial subject of medicinal Marijuana, available from Quick American Archives Publishing. "The New Prescription-Marijuana As Medicine" by Martin Martinez relies both on anecdotal evidence and scientific study to outline the myriad of positive applications the cannabis plant offers in the treatment and managment of many modern illnesses.

With an insightful forward by Seattle medical marijuana activist Dr.Francis Podrebarec, The New Prescription details the failures of past and current administrations to even allow clinical study of the medicinal properties of the multi-faceted plant, while chronicling it's extensive history dating back thousands of years.

As informative but more user friendly than it's counterpart the "Marijuana Medical Handbook" (Ed Rosenthal, Dale Gieringer, Tod Mikuriya, M.D.), Martinez' work does not limit itself to professing only the positive aspects of the illicit weed. In addition to extolling the virtues of marijuana's effect on illnesses from cancer, multiple sclerosis and even anorexia, there are chapters exploring anxiety attacks, delerium and dependence.

This is a well written, plain english layman's guide to medical cannabis in an easy to read format. Complete with appendices, extensive notes, and bibliography, The New Perscription is a thoughtful, serious work dedicated to informing the inquisitive reader from an unbiased yet accurate perspective. This promises to be a must have for activists, patients and medical professionals.

Hace diez años, las portavoces del imperio declararon el amanecer del Nuevo Orden Mundial y cantaron el Fin de Historia -pero parece hace siglos-. Cada año incrementa el número de guerras no declaradas de Washington para subsanar Wall Street a costo de miles, y cuando no millones, de vidas, pero con cada baño de sangre sólo hace que titubean más los amos de dinero.

La panorama que nos pinta el capital financiero y su neoliberalismo es una recesión económica creciente y el resultado inevitable de la marcha forzada hacia el fascismo y la guerra.

La guía de acción sólida viene de la conclusiones comunistas, aprendidas en los dos baños de sangre mundiales. La condición previa para una Guerra Mundial es que el fascismo tiene que aplastar a la clase trabajadora. Y antes de que se sucede este derrocamiento, el proletariado cuenta con una oportunidad de tomar el poder y así poner fin a todas las guerras -una vez por siempre en el caso de los Estados Unidos, el último imperio-.

Este libro se trata de la caída de la Bolsa de Valores en Wall Street, Nueva York en 1987 y sus repercusiones; el "Periodo Especial" (término usado en Cuba para describir la crisis económica entre 1990 y 1996); la lucha en contra el estalinismo y en contra los "focos del capitalismo" en Cuba; y el papel de la revolución cubana como inspiración para los trabajadores de todo el mundo. La marcha del imperialismo yanqui (en primer lugar) hacia el fascismo y guerra mundial va en contra de sus aliados-rivales imperialistas, en contra de las fundaciones económicas poscapitalistas de los estados-obrero (ex URSS, Europa Oriental, China, etc.) y en contra de los trabajadores y campesinos del mundo, incluyendo los que están dentro los mismos países imperialistas. Finalmente este libro plantea que hay un solo camino para la resistencia en contra de este futuro bárbaro: seguir el ejemplo de la revolucion bolchevique y el ejemplo de la revolucion cubana, aplicado a las particularidades de cada país, lo que es posible y necesario en los mismos países imperialistas. Más que todo, este libro es un mensaje de esperanza y confianza científica en los trabajadores y campesinos de todo el mundo, basada en la experiencia de los militantes que construyen un partido obrero revolucionario en los EE.UU.

He encontrado en las revistas de política y teoría marxista Nueva Internacional una fuente indispensable de información, análisis y orientación política. Como indica su título, las revistas de dedican a educar y forjar una nueva vanguardia de la clase obrera a nivel mundial. Bien vale el tiempo necesario para leer y estudiarlas y compartir los artículos con otros trabajadores.

Este número contiene artículos con un análisis marxista de la historia del capitalismo desde la expansión en las décadas después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta el estancamiento y las crisis de los años 1980s y 1990s. Las condiciones para la expansión del capital, las relaciones entre trabajadores y capitalistas, la explotación de los países del Tercer Mundo, el papel de los bancos y las bolsas de valores --con sus maniobras financieras y sus escándalos-- , los raíces de la marcha de los imperialistas hacia la guerra: todo se encuentra aquí. También un artículo que ayuda mucho en entender el funcionamiento del sistema capitalista a nivel mundial: "La curva del desarrollo capitalista," por León Trotsky.

Otro artículo importante es "La defensa de Cuba, la defensa de la revolución socialista," escrito poco después de la caída de los regimenes estalinistas en Moscú y los países de Europa Oriental. La crisis del capitalismo surge de las leyes de su propio desarrollo -- y la perspectiva de lucha de clases de Nueva Internacional ofrece una alternativa imprescindible: la lucha del pueblo trabajador para tomar el poder político y comenzar la construcción de una sociedad socialista.

Given the recent events, this book seems to take the position that we would do well to research protective DNA. Not only against aging but also against foreign and domestic attacks. It seems that the author has a grasp of how to modify and develop DNA for good purposes. He has a good sense of humor and a mind for details. Tom Clancy-like in his approach to characters and action.

If you like detailed plots and character descriptions, this is the book for you. Gripping suspense and science fiction murder mystery at its best.

Gripping suspense. Well written with plots intertwined with subplots that keep the reader spellbound until the surprise ending.