If you don't like to see guns pop up unexpectedly in children's books then don't buy this one. I was thoroughly disappointed to see a gun come into play towards the end of what was, until that point, a nice story.

Every child wonders about the sun and why it goes up or goes down. I've read this book to my daughter and she likes it! She can even read it by herself

I am a complete beginner at watercolors and this is the book for me. Each lesson is broken into Saturday's painting exercises, which focus on different watercolor techniques, and Sunday's painting. The exercises are just what I was looking for, I need that step by step guidance. This book is helping me get past that feeling of not knowing where to start with watercolors, and so far I am enjoying it so much.

Having read a number of books and experimented on my own with watercolors (no formal instruction), I was disappointed in the results of my efforts. Then I picked up this book, followed the first lesson and was stunned at the quality of the result. This book goes step by step through techniques and each painting is very easy to follow. The results are a real ego booster. My only caveat is that you come to realize how important composition and color selection are to a painting's success, and this is the one area that the book is somewhat weak in.

I think this book will help beginners and experienced painters. easy to understand steps and enough techniques to keep you practicing for quite awhile

This book is an excellent introduction to environmental issues from the standpoint of population and its impact on the environment.

It has interesting case studies from around the globe and engaging illustrations that really convey an understanding of the state of the world. However, I would have liked to see a more prescriptive section with recommendations for action as well.

I recommend checking out the table of contents on the "Look inside" link, because the TOC is very representative in this book's case. I also recommend checking out World Resources 2000-2001, the companion book to Bill Moyers' series "Earth on Edge." It's perhaps a bit more engaging although not as focused on population.

Thorough introduction to financial accounting. Excellent attention to the basics, in a readable format. Support materials include Working Pages which give the forms used for the exercises and problems, and Study Guide, a review book with more support. This text is widely used in introductory accounting courses.

This is a delightful book and indispensible if you are a collector of Harrison Fisher postcards. I was disappointed that ten of Book Advertising postcards were NOT illustrated. If they have never been discovered that is fine, but even then the illustration from the original magazine would have helped to picture the art color and compostion of that particular card. The colors were also a concern as in many cases the illustrations appeared more muddy than the cards that I own. It is a pity that a dust cover was not also included as already the printed board cover is getting well thumbed! But these little quibbles apart I am very pleased to now own this book, especially as I know which cards I particularly want to add to my collection.

This title served well my research on the historical origins of the Arthurian myths. This title focused on the main enemies of Arthur in the fifth century, but it also covered later periods up to just before the Norman conquest.

What I like about the Osprey military books is how they provide a good ballace of text and illustration. This conveys information in a way which is both efficient and entertaining. This is far preferable to books which offer plenty of text but lack sufficient illustrations to show what the text is talking about; it is also far preferable to books which contain plenty of illustrations but lack sufficient text to explain them. My only complaint is that the photographs of manuscript illustations and archaeological artifacts are printed in black & white, so the reader misses much of the spectacular color and detail of this wonderful Anglo-Saxon art. Of course, printing everything in color will make a book more expensive, but it still may be worth doing. The great thing about all the Opsprey titles, though, is that each has a section in the middle made up of beautiful full color illustrations which portray the appearance and activities of the troops under study.

My review may be somewhat prejudiced because Ann Condon and I collaborated on our books. Ann has taken the diaries and correspondence of two literary figures from southern California whose writing efforts may have started in the mountains of West Virginia during the Civil War and put them together in a fine book. Dr. Condon sets the stage for the works of Harrison Gray and Eliza Otis with an introduction to this husband and wife team. The diary of Eliza Otis is particularly well writen and a wonderful insight to a woman's view of the Civil War. Her descriptions of the wild country of the Kanawha, New and Gauley River country of West Virginia are exceptional. What is sad from a historian's perspective is that these writers did not continue their diaries beyond the summer of 1863 or that they are not available. This wonderful book provides a view of the Civil War beyond battles and campaigns giving a wonderful insight of the time.

To read this book is absolutely essential not only for students and teachers (as the autthors suggest) but also for everybody interested in XX century art and its mental and intellectual origins. A wide spectrum of problems displayed in the book and careful selection of texts is really impressive and creates a panoramic view for entire artistic life and artistuc consciousness of the whole century. Even politicians like Lenin, Marx and Zdhanov have found their place in this interesting world! But what about Stanislaw ignacy Witkiewicz - a famous Polish painter, photographer, writer, philosopher and theoretician of art? I am slightly dissapointed because of an absence of his texts. His theory of Pure Form in painting, theatre and literature formulated during the years of the First World War (edeited as a book entitled 'Nowe formy w malarstwie...' ['New Forms in Painting...'] in 1919 in Warsaw is really worth presenting and omitting it can be treated as a serious mistake... But the rest is OK. Short introductory notes on each author or problem preceding texts are masterpieces of a species and can serve as patterns for everybody writing on art. These notes also create specific art history 'in a pill' (quite tasty pill, I can say), very useful for any quick researchings or, simply, for reading in spare time...