Dr. K. brings theory into reality. This book will make you cry and then smile with hope.

Educational help for teachers and parents working with students and children with special needs. Light, quick read.
Heart warming.

My almost-four-year-old loves all things space: Star Trek, space shuttles, Apollo 13, etc. I've tried to impress upon him that space isn't just "in the movies," but that someday, he, too, could be an astronaut...that people, have in fact, already "boldly gon where no one has gone before." This book proved an excellent vehicle for helping him understand that. While the language is too complicated for a four-year-old, he enjoys the meticulous paintings of the space shuttle's journey, from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad, then to space and back. An added bonus: He had seen paintings of the space shuttle in the exhibit halls at Kennedy Space Center, and wanted to "take them home." With the paintings in this book...he can do just that.

I really liked this book because it gave a lot of detail about the actual launch of the space shuttle, but not in technical terms, so kids could understand it

As a first year middle school teacher, I am constantly looking for resources that will help me make my class more meaningful. I have found a great resource in this book. It has great activities for those higher kids who finish their work before the others. It is also great for reinforcing activities that you have already done in class. This is a great book to have in my beginning classroom library!

As a first year middle school teacher I am always searching for books that will help me make my classroom more meaningful. This book has really helped me to set up my class. It has great activities for those higher kids who finish their work before the others. This is a wonderful resource for my new classroom library!

Though the Jewish population of Westmoreland County is spread more thinly than it would be in Brooklyn or Miami Beach, anthropologist Mark Gruber sees the same themes repeated here he would associate with large Jewish settlements in urban areas -- themes that include "skills on how to live as a minority and how to do so with a dignified and decent kind of life. How to cope with the pressures of people who are anti-Semitic or who are ignorant. I just see such a marvelous ethnic heritage being passed on," he said. "I am strangely proud to be a son of the soil from which these storytelles have come," writes Gruber, a Benedictine monk, in his introductory notes to the book. "My people also figure in this narrative: we are `bit players' in their drama."

The subjects of the book range in age from their 50s to their 90s, representing the collective experience of several generations who arrived in Westmoreland County in three distinct waves: during the Civil War, at the turn of the 20th century and as mid-century refugees. Mostly of Russian and Lithuanian descent, they built several communities clustered around synagogues in Greensburg, Jeannette, Latrobe and Mount Pleasant. Many of the original settlers were Pittsburgh based peddlers who sought customers among the county's coal miners and farmers. They went on to develop a number of well-known mercantile fortunes. They took active roles in the civic organizations of the wider community. Most individual accounts reflect a common lifestyle built around Judaic law and tradition: the temple as central institution; the family name as sacrosanct; the male as leader and provider. Education, often not far below having food on the table and clothes to wear, was a paramount goal.----Diane McMullin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh East, Wednesday, November 12, 1997

What is Information Technology? It can have varied meanings that are situational and are based on occupation. This work, geared to practicing school/teacher-librarians, district library coordinators, and library science students in the field of school librarianship, includes the author focus. Also know as infotech, it is "interpreted very broadly to encompass a range of technologies and systems used in or available to today's school library media centers." She continues with, "Information technology includes hardware, networks, systems, software, information structures, and information in electronic (digital) form. It includes technologies used to create, collect, process, store, transmit, access, retrieve, and manipulate information in text, numeric, audio, visual, and multimedia formats."

The work explores four major applications of information technology in school library media centers: Library Administration, Communications, Information Retrieval, and Educational and Recreational Resources. There is a chapter devoted to each of these applications. Each chapter uses a variety of tables and diagrams to exemplify the concepts presented by Clyde. The chapters are thorough, easy to read, and provide a wealth of information. These are followed by three additional chapters: An Infotech Plan, Implementing Infotech in the School Library Media Center, and Administering Infotech in the School Library Media Center. The latter chapters carry out the necessities presented earlier.

As information technology becomes more ingrained in school libraries, tradition management approaches need to be altered or abandoned to allow for more efficient techniques. Even though the focus of the work is the school library, the management of information technology can have a positive impact on other areas in the school setting.

Even though the work is intended to supplement other professional materials in the field, it could easily stand alone as a very definitive work on infotech for school librarianship. The work flows nicely, explaining and presenting concepts without losing the reader. Clyde has drawn together very practical approaches.

Highly recommended.

Reviewed by Peter Genco, Teacher-Librarian and Technology Team Leader, Fairview High School, Fairview, PA, USA email: pgenco@iu05trc.iu5.org

What is Information Technology? It can have varied meanings that are situational and are based on occupation. This work, geared to practicing school/teacher-librarians, district library coordinators, and library science students in the field of school librarianship, includes the author's focus. Also know as infotech, it is "interpreted very broadly to encompass a range of technologies and systems used in or available to today's school library media centers." She continues with, "Information technology includes hardware, networks, systems, software, information structures, and information in electronic (digital) form. It includes technologies used to create, collect, process, store, transmit, access, retrieve, and manipulate information in text, numeric, audio, visual, and multimedia formats."

The work explores four major applications of information technology in school library media centers: Library Administration, Communications, Information Retrieval, and Educational and Recreational Resources.

There is a chapter devoted to each of these applications. Each chapter uses a variety of tables and diagrams to exemplify the concepts presented by Clyde. The chapters are thorough, easy to read, and provide a wealth of information. These are followed by three additional chapters: An Infotech Plan, Implementing Infotech in the School Library Media Center, and Administering Infotech in the School Library Media Center. The latter chapters carry out the necessities presented earlier.

As information technology becomes more ingrained in school libraries, tradition management approaches need to be altered or abandoned to allow for more efficient techniques. Even though the focus of the work is the school library, the management of information technology can have a positive impact on other areas in the school setting.

Even though the works is intended to supplement other professional materials in the field, it could easily stand alone as a very definitive work on infotech for school librarianship. The work flows nicely, explaining and presenting concepts without losing the reader. Clyde has drawn together very practical approaches.

Highly recommended.

Reviewed by Peter Genco, Teacher-Librarian and Technology Team Leader, Fairivew High School, Fairview, PA, USA email: pgenco@iu05trc.iu5.org

From a management perspective, this book offers great advice on how to establish telecommuting relationships with your employees. It walks you through the steps in a straightforward and friendly fashion. To improve your bottom line further, I recommend "The Work at Home Balancing Act" by Sandy Anderson. This resource will arm your telecommuting employees with everything they need to successfully manage their work and personal lives under one roof. These books should be the foundation of everyone's telecommuting resource library. Read them and profit

Jack Nilles delivers everything that leaders and managers could possibly want. With a relaxed and friendly writing style and his delightful sense of humor, Jack guides us with ease and clarity through the human and technological complexities of creating successfu telework programs. He provides the essential leadership and management philosophies and the time-tested techiniques learned from 25 years of cutting-edge experience. These pages pack a complete range of knowledge from practical checklists to internationl trends. It's even more than what we have come to expect from Jack, the Father of Telecommuting. I would not be without it.

This guide covers the topics on the 224 Test. It helps with making certain the informaiton is retained. Easy to use format.

If you want to know your Exchange Administration just get this and go through it until you know it. Great in depth technical information. You will pass the exam!!!
Thanks a million !

I attended the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine longer ago than I care to recall, but I am personally familiar with many of the doctors and incidents depicted in this well-researched and interestingly written book. It contains more facts per page than anything I have ever read (with the possible exception of the Yellow Pages), but that's the way it should be in a history that documents the key years of an institution that changed from a small medical outpost on the prairie to--as the authors brand Oklahoma taxpayers' expectations--a "Harvard on the plains" medical complex. While the school perhaps never achieved that level of academic excellence, it certainly rose far higher than the Oklahoma state legislature and it's turf-protecting politicians had any right to expect, given their meager level of support both financial and political. Politics aside, the 50's and 60's were great times to be living in Oklahoma City, and this book brings back many of my fondest memories--and reminds me of the many brilliant and industrious men and women I met and worked with at the Medical Center. The book captures it all beautifully, and I highly recommend it for anybody interested in the subject.

I found the book to be extremely interesting, and even humorous at times. The book offers a play by play event listing of the establishment of the medical school and tells a candid story of the founders and individuals that were ultimately responsible for what kind of medical facilities, Oklahoma has today. A "must-read" for Medical Students, Educators and generally any History Buff that would enjoy the "inside" story behind the Oklahoma Medical Center. The photographs are a plus.

this is a very clasic book on the subject, and it shows the early research that this grate physician and scientist made with a very corect explanations and guide- lines that are relevant to this day.a very proof and recommanded book.

In depth details on the role that nutrition can play in mental illness. A MUST READ book that will inform you of the aspects of diet and nutrition. FASCINATING reading about toxic elements and malnutrition which can be possible causes for mental illness

An excellent book for Grduate level MBA and Finance students. Very precise and covers all details in a very simple and effective way. I recommend every single MBA student should keep this book as a reference.

As a French student and now as an MBA graduate student from an American University, I had the opportunity to read several books from both the US and from Europe. This one is simply excellent!

You can find other great books like those written by Myers, Ross and so on. They all give a good overview of corporate finance issues. But something is missing in all these books: a more friendly and a less institutional approach. You can find that in the book written by Balbirer and Shapiro.

In my opinion, you can use this book in two ways. Either you are looking for a particular issue. Then you will see how this book is well organized and how the content is strong, concise and interesting. Or you can do like I did. Read this book for pleasure and enjoy how the authors reformulate the same point, the same ideas in three or four different ways in the same paragraph to make sure that you can understand. And that is the main strenght of this book. Whatever topic you pick up in ordinaries (even excellent) Finance books, you might have to read a paragraph two or three times to really get it. In this one, just enjoy how the authors try to take different perspectives to explain things...only one reading is required to understand!

I think this book is more appropriate for undergraduate students even if it is a great introductory book for MBA students or people without any financial background. It covers a lot of different topics so you can consider that as a first (strong) or a secondary Corporate Finance book. However, I don't think that it would be appropriate for very advanced Finance major students. The latter could however consider it as their new reference books where they can come to pick up some information they might have forgotten in previous classes.

My advice...just by it or you will miss something.