The book gives an excellent overview of the art in the Oceanic region with special emphasis on New Guinea.

The contributions are organised geographically and then by tribes. The book not only depicts extraordinary and seldom documented works of art from museums and private collections but also provides valuable information on the ethnological and social context of the works displayed.

Photographs and layout are outstanding and the printing is of the highest quality.

It is a must for all those interested in the art of the region or in tribal art in general.

This text marries lucid, idiomatic, modern text to the movement and rough power of the original Anglo-Saxon verse. Explainatory Notes are pithy and helpful, analysis is direct and interesting, and the material itself is breathtaking. The poetry's rough, rude meter drives inexorably forward with the steady throb of a beating heart or a column of troops, marching with a tramp-tramp-tramp inexorably onward, onward, onward. An amazing read--"Widsith," "The Fates of Man," and "The Battle of Maldon" deserve especial commendation.

This was my daughter's first book in 1981 when she was six months old. Pig Newton's Plaid Pants is a story of a little pig who owned one pair of plaid pants that he wore everyday to school. He would wash them every night and hang them on the line to dry. The other little pigs would make fun of him and tease him about his plaid pants, but he adored his plaid pants. One night as his pants hung on the line to dry, some little pigs stole them and he was very sad. He went to visit his uncle the tailor and told him about his pants being stolen. His uncle loved him very much and made him a whole wardrobe of plaid pants, shirts, suits, pajamas, and hats. When Pig Newton went to school dressed in all his plaidery finest, everyone crowded around him and thought he was so cool, until they all wanted to start dressing like Pig Newton. This was such a delightful story and a lesson to children to stay true to themselves and not to give in to peer pressure, because they may make someone else happy by doing so, but they may not be happy themselves

One of my favorite titles from the helmut newton library. This books offers that rare opportunity for us to see some of the "studies' that lead up to the defining newton final print. It covers both newton's personal work as well as many fashion campaigns from those magical years in the seventies at french vogue. A thrilling book for any Newton fan. many of the polaroids have notes scribbled over them that are often witty and revealing.

Ian Newton yet again is successful in giving a wonderful overview of a complex environmental issue

As a long time student of the photographic arts, I can truly appreciate the works of Helmut Newton. Intimate and perhaps slightly naughty, Newtons photographs have an exceptional power to them. Great book and a truly wonderful collection of work!!

Most educators I know do not have any background in educational research. Dr. Suter does a fantastic job of introducing a new and unfamiliar topic in an understandable manner. I had absolutely no experience in the area of educational research or research in general, so every term was "Greek" to me. Dr. Suter uses clear examples in every chapter and each chapter builds nicely on knowledge learned from the previous chapters. I took Educational Research as a web course over the internet and have never even met Dr. Suter. This was my first web course in graduate school and I was so pleased at the amount of insight I now have in the area of educational research. I am far from being a researcher and I would still have some trouble deciding on whether or not a particular research report was reliable and valid, but I have enough knowledge to disregard sloppy work and maybe even enough to conduct a small scale research project in my own classroom or school district. This was just an introduction course and I feel I got an introduction plus some! The book is easy to read and assumes you know nothing about research. The only concept that Dr. Suter assumes you recognize is "standard deviation" and "bell curve." As educators, most would not have a problem with those terms. This book does not concentrate on the calculations and statistics - that would be for a more advanced research student. It does discuss how to set up a research project, types of research, how to control for extraneous (or other) variables, and how to tell if a particular report is valid and reliable. I enjoyed it so much I am taking another course by Dr. Suter via the web this next semester!

Newton's "Principia" was the crowning achievement of 17th Century Natural Philosophy, bringing together the works of great thinkers like Galileo and Johanes Kepler. This great work supplied the momentum for the Scientific Revolution and dominated physics for over 200 years. Although it was later demonstrated to have limitations at the atomic level, the principles of Newtonian physics are still applicable to much of our everyday lives. The casual reader may find this book difficult to work through, however. Newton's three laws of motion are not stated in the language that is used in modern introductory physics texts. A good companion to this book is "Feynman's Lost Lecture" in which Richard Feyman demonstrates planetary motion using the same geometric techniques employed by Isaac Newton, but in a more clear, modern style.

I found this book easy to get into and understand. The first chapters lead you by the hand and then the middle chapters wake you up to the potential of the Newton. My only complaint is that the order of the chapters seems odd. There is an entire chapter on debugging, before the chapter on creating the file structure. Even with this minor fault, I had my first project running within the first hour after STARTING the book. -Mac Senour

A book about the prostate is worth zilch unless it minces no words. The author of this one is totally honest. That is what makes this one indispensable if you, like me and other millions, have prostate concerns. My problem is not (yet) serious or urgent but I find the book highly revealing and very helpful. And I now know if that is the case at this time, then if and when my Gleason Scale number goes up (see the book!) and I face surgery, the book will be a necessity to keep at my side. It sure does not read like a novel but it is Information with a capital I. The three key words in describing what Newt Malerman has written, are candid, informative, and helpful.