The collaborators who put this book together are dedicated scientists with years of experience in the field. I admire their work. But I find on thing missing from the discussion of brain versus body size. They establish ratios of brain to body size and declare this is one method of measuring the intelligence of the animal, i.e. the larger the brain is in relationship to the body, the smarter the animal is. But they do not explain why a large body needs a large brain. After all, whale sharks of the same size as sperm whales have brains smaller than your fist while the sperm whale brain is six times larger than the human brain. Perhaps it is the large brain which requires the large body. The laws of physics would prohibit a brain developing in a very small body. Necks breaking and cortical sheering would be a problem.

I have read through this book while doing some research on dolphins and marine mammal conservation and must say that this has some information that I could find nowhere else. This book hits on such a large variety of information relating to dolphin biology and conservation that I cannot believe that they fit it all into one book.

Good to see Samantha successful in life. I knew her back when she was a struggling student at Eckerd College.

What a joy! The gorgeous photography earns the book a place on the coffeetable. It is a good source for identifying many flowers. It offers good tips for arranging flowers for all four seasons. This is the perfect type of book gardners should read in the winter, when we are longing for the first colors of Spring and looking forward to getting our hands back in the dirt. I got mine when I was recuperating from bi-lateral carpal tunnel releases in early Spring and it helped me pass the time that I was restricted from much use of my hands and dying to work in my flower and vegetable beds.

What a joy! This book came to me in the Spring, but I had just undergone bi-lateral carpal tunnel releases and was unable to do much with my hands for several weeks. It helped me pass the time that I would have otherwise been working in my flower and vegetable beds. It crossed my mind that this is the kind of book gardners need to read in the winter, when we are housebound and frustrated, planning new projects for as soon as the weather allows. It is a truly a celebration of flowers and one woman's love for growing them and arranging them. It gives good basic advice for creating lovely floral arrangements for all four seasons. It is a good source, complete with color photos, for identifying many flowers. The color photography deserves a place on the coffee table. I will definitely re-read it this Winter when I am housebound,longing for the colors of Spring and looking forward to once again getting my hands in the dirt.

Finally, there's a "coffee table book" that reads like a love story! Hardie Newton has written a celebration of the seasons, of our senses (if we unclutter them), and the natural beauty all around us. It's a lyrical trip through the countryside of my college youth, a gardner's manual, an arranger's inspiration, a recipe book, a medicine chest and a philosophic guide. It's what you might expect from a lady who builds a house with 29 glass doors, no windows and doesn't let Sunny Reynolds, whose photographs are great, show it to you until page 102!

I want you to imagine your favorite school teacher ever. You know - the one who always managed to put a smile on your face, and somehow make learning fun. My personal favorite was my grade three teacher Ms. O'neil, who was not only a nice teacher but also a very pretty woman. Yes, I was hot for teacher. I digress. Edly may not be pretty, but his book gives me the same smile and gentle encouragement that Ms O'Neil offered way back when.

This book is for people who have always wanted to learn music theory, but hate the idea of actually sitting down to try. Edly allows you relax into the learning process, and helps you to think outside the conventional learning box. With lots of great pictures and hand drawn helpfuls, learning becomes fun, interesting and at the risk of sounding redundant or repeating myself, not boring.

Edly's Music Theory is a practical book for practical people. An immensely fun way to learn, CleverJoe recommends this book to practical people everywhere.

I was one of those professional musicians -- and there are a lot of us out there! -- who didn't know very much about music theory. Music theory's for college cats, dig? Then I started giving lessons, and I figured I'd better know what I was talking about. So I bought this book. Edly makes music theory charming, funny, and interesting with a combination of explanation, practical example, and humour. Believe it or not, this book is hard to put down once you get going. For me, much of the book was a revelation of "Oh, so that's what I've been doing!" than any new information, but it's great to be able to understand and talk about music on a deeper level. The book is geared towards jazz and blues players, but the information is easily adapted to any genre. A must for anyone, from beginner to professional, who wants to deepen his understanding of western music!

This is by far the most entertaining book on music theory I have ever read. It is one of the most understandable and easy to read books on theory, too. The book covers all of the fundamental areas of theory from diatonic intervals to chord construction to tritone substitutions. Ear training is also covered as is the philosophy of improvisation (including tips for better improv.) I would wholeheartedly recommend that anyone new to music theory read the book cover to cover. Experienced musicians will find it useful as a reference.

This book reminds all of us who live in the Finger Lks, how beautiful this area is, and how lucky we are to live here. GREAT JOB KRIS!

I live in the Finger Lakes area (Elmira) and I have either driven, hiked, or bicycled around all the lakes and sailed across several. This is a wonderful piece of work and all scenes are easily recognized. A great compilation.

As a previous resident of the Finger Lakes area, I can personally vouch for the beauty of the area. Mr. Reynolds has captured it as well as any human being can capture the glory of nature's beauty. I would highly recommend this book to anyone with a taste for looking at beautiful places, beautifully photographed. Mr. Reynolds has presented an excellent talent with this beautiful book. I look forward to his next effort.

Michael Reynolds's Hemingway, The Paris Years is the second volume of his five volume life of Hemingway. Reynolds's takes pains in his introduction to thank and praise Carlos Baker for his Hemingway biography, but Reynolds's work has become acknowledged as the greater of the two. This volume deals with Hemingway's Paris years from 1921 to 1926, the same period that Hemingway describes in his short memoir, "A Moveable Feast."

The twenty-two year old Hemingway is newly married to his first wife Hadley and has been advised by his American literary mentor, Sherwood Anderson, to go live and work among the writers and artist of Paris' Left Bank expatriate pack.

Reynolds present Hemingway's Paris years in detailed chronological order. He occasionally goes into greater detail than is appropriate for good story telling but the book reads for the most part like a novel. Hemingway takes a trip to Italy to visit his WWI haunts in Milan and the riverbank where he was wounded. Hemingway's early work as a reporter for the Toronto Star takes him to some of the major political events of the 1920's. He interviews Mussolini mere months before he seizes power in Italy and attends a 1922 Genoa conference that is eerily similar to the 2001 Genoa conference. He takes exciting bullfighting trips to Spain wherein the development of Hemingway aficion for bullfighting is well described. The details of Hemingway's climb up the literary pecking order are made clear. He is being referred to as the best young American novelist by friendly critics years before he has published a novel.

The painstaking process by which Hemingway fashioned his early, classic short stories is described in you-are-there detail. The pugnacious Hemingway picks fights with perceived rivals, both with fisticuffs and with his writing. The long and difficult negotiation by which his first publisher, Boni and Liveright publish his first widely available book, "In Our Time," is well described. It seems that "In Our Time" was published almost more as a favor to Sherwood Anderson and Hemingway's other literary fans than on it's own commercial merit. Hemingway's dissatisfaction with Boni and Liveright's efforts for him is described as well as Fitzgerald's efforts to bring Hemingway to Scribner's. Hemingway writes the short satiric novella "The Torrents of Spring" to force Boni and Liveright to break their contract with him and then gives his first real novel, "The Sun Also Rises, " to Scribner's.

The book ends with Hemingway on his way home to Paris from New York in winter 1926. He has successfully broken his contract with his first publisher and signed a new contract with Scribner's.

I sometimes feel sorry for the biographers of great men. In this case, the subject, Hemingway, lived his larger-than-life life to the fullest, grabbing all the gusto, having his adventures and love affairs while the poor biographer is trapped in his academic cocoon, poring over old papers, scribbling in notebooks, devoting his own life to writing about someone else's life. Such is the lonely world of biographers. Those thought aside, "Hemingway, The Paris Years" is a one fifth of monumental achievement by Reynolds and a must read for any fan of the great man.

Mr. Reynolds continues his bio of EH with the writer's first marriage and Paris years of the early 1920's. Reynolds is excellent in his narrative of EH's developing literary career. The trial and errors of the early stories, the rejection and success of getting the stories published is well told. EH's social life in Paris is well analyzed. Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound are part of EH's life for short periods that EH makes the most of. His life as a reporter and editor are well told too. His life as husband and father is secondary to his work as a writer. Mr. Reynold's skill as a biographer has improved since the first volume. He is less judgemental and lets EH's nasty side reveal itself thru incident rather than excessive criticism. A first rate bio.

This book is wonderfully (and obviously pain-stakingly) crafted. It reads like a novel, but it illuminates Hemingway's personality through subtle, and not so subtle, touches. This is an excellent telling of the early years in Paris and Toronto and of how Hemingway taught himself to write. I especially enjoyed the details of the Hemingway, Ford Madox Ford relationship regarding the Transatlantic publication, and I also enjoyed learning better what Stein gave to Hemingway's writing -- but overall I enjoyed the book evenly from start to finish. This book can stand alone. It was the first one in the series that I'd read. I look forward to reading the others.

This books make's great thing - In Cert Lab, you will fill like at home. JNCIP exam task will be demanding but not suprising.
You find in this book: examples, case studies, tricks$tips and self-test scenarios. If you are able to make self-test in assument time, you probably pass JNCIP without problems.
I pass my JNCIP by 1st time, with just one point loss.

This book is the best single source of information for preparation for the JNCIP-M lab exam. The book reads easily, configurations given are well explained and with the case studies at the end of each chapter you can test your knowledge and practise.
I believe this book helped me to pass the JNCIP-M exam, it also deepened my knowledge about subjects I thought I already knew well.

In my opinion this is one if the best book I have read. It is not a book about JUNOS basics or technology basic, you are assumed to have at atleast a JNCIS level of knowledge with prior knowledge of JUNOS. The book walks you through what seems to be every possible exam topic that you can encounter when going for your JNCIP exam. In addition to these topic discussions, the author does an excellent job in showing you the commands to configure the task at hand, verify your work and the steps you should take in working your way through a problem. He gives you tips throughout the material and gives you different solutions to a problem. At the end of each chapter, you have a case study that he walks you through and last but not least, some questions to see if you can spot the problem which really enforces the material you just read. This book is one of the best written books I have read. It is easy to follow and understand and you will love some of the humor he throws in. It shed some light on topics that I had missed when I took my JNCIP exam and has made me much better prepared to tackle it the next time around. It is worth the $$.

-Mario Puras

This book is a slender, fully illustrated introduction to the Christianity and Christology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The ten issues are:

1)Are Latter-day Saints Christian?
2)What do Latter-day Saints believe about God?
3)Do latter-day Saints believe in the Bible and biblical Christianity?
4)Does God speak to his children in ways other than through the Bible?
5)Do Latter-day Saints believe that men and women can become Gods?
6)What do latter-day Saints mean when they say that God was once a man?
7)What do Latter-day Saints believe a person must do to be saved?
8)Do the doctrines and practices of the LDS Church change?
9)Ho do latter-day Saints believe they should live their lives?
10)Why do Latter-day Saints try to convert others?

I hope this gets your interest whetted. Robert L. Millet, the Dean of Religion at Brigham Young University-Provo and Dr. Noel Reynolds, an academic vice president at Brigham young University--Provo, are the editors, with several contributors from the Religious Faculty at BYU.

This booklet allows us to speak for ourselves, unfiltered and undistorted. It serves as a great introduction, a guide map if you will, for several points of doctrine and theology that are important for the Church of Jesus Christ. It is written at the high school level, and has beautiful eye-catching pictures. It is a booklet written for everyone.

I'm not a Mormon (Evangelical Christian, actually) and I think this is a great intro to LDS doctrine for Christians curious about Mormonism.

If you want to know the true LDS beliefs you should get them from a person who believes in Mormonism, not from a person who thinks Mormonism is a terrible cult. This book quickly cuts to the chase on some of the more controversial issues. This way you can make your own opinion, not get railroaded into a sensational one.

This is, for its size, an excellent little book that gives a solid, concise overview of Latter-day Saint belief on several issues that almost invariably come up when non-Mormons are asking questions about Mormonism. It's perfect for giving to curious neighbors, co-workers, etc. It makes no attempt to convert, but merely to explain. Very, very well done.

This book is the most lovely pictoral tribute to the Great State of Nevada that I have ever seen. It exemplifies the rich physical and social geography as well as the cultural, institutional and entrepenurial spirit that this state holds so dear. Truly beautiful.

"Nevada" has been sitting on my coffee table for about a year now - and it's served well. I've come home many days after being enmeshed in our modern world for 10 or more hours and been reminded of the expansiveness and beauty of the natural world that's only a 4 hour drive away from me. This is a well-written and beautifully photographed book. I have to admit that I'm fascinated with Nevada. With the great otherness and open space that is the Silver State.

I learned quite a bit and was entertained by the essays that divide the sections of photos with chapters including: "The Meaning of Nevada", "People and the Land", Basin and Range", and "Prospect and Chance." There is good history here about Nevada's people and it's geography, helped by quotes from the likes of John Muir, Mark Twain and authors of other Nevada oriented books as well as regular folks who like their home state.

However the real draw is in the photos. Scenic, evocative, large, well footnoted, just plain beautiful. I really felt like this is a book crafted by people with a love and appreciation of the place that is Nevada. As though they wanted to share their passion and knowledge with me. I also like the simplicity of the look and feel of the book. There's a frankness and openness that's reminiscent of the state of Nevada itself.

Enjoy!

This is a beautiful book.

However, Jon Christensen' s essay 'Basin and Range' really caught my attention. It turns out that this region is quite special, rich in unique species and lessons about evolution. Christensen compares the 'Great Basin sky islands' with the more famous islands of the Galapagos.

This book is the perfect combination of big color photographs and four well-written essays. The Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company of Portland did a fine job.

This book, is very detailed but very user-friendly.It covers basic cardiac anomilies to the more detailed,(not so common)anomolies as well as signs and symptoms.This book covers adult as well as some pediatrics. Listed in alpphabetical order, they are easily accessed.The last section covers all formulas and methods, with calculations.
The book is a little large for pocket use, measuring approximately 9x5 inches. Enjoy, RDR

Great tables of normal/abnormal values and diagnostic criteria (more complete than Otto and Mayo manual). Especially useful for practical echo reporting. The book does assume a basic working knowledge of echocardiography: beginner should use this book in conjunction with the Otto or Mayo text.

A fantastic format for echocardiographers and cardiac fellows. The book is well put together with real life values that are easy to understand. Terry's book is for those who perform echocardiograms and need an accurate, consise, guide to refer to.

Judy Moody is a must read for those who like comedy. It is about a girl named Judy who doesn't like this boy named Frank. Frank has feelings for her. Slowly, Judy starts to like her more and more. Judy and her other friend start a club and Rocky, her best friend, says most clubs have three people. Later, they invite Frank because they start to learn Frank is a nice kid. This book is guaranteed to make you laugh.

Judy Moody Gets Famous!

Have you ever heard of Judy Moody Gets Famous? Well you ran into a book that will keep you reading for hours! This book is about a girl that well in my opinion is crazy, but not wacko out of the world, you know has weird friends for example Franky, he collects bugs or Jessica, who is a spelling bee queen! Her brother is named Stink. In this book Judy Moody tries to get famous, her friend Franky brakes his finger, and has to go to the hospital. She goes with him. She has to wait in the waiting room, where she finds a girl that looks pretty bored. Judy asks, "Why aren't you playing with your dolls?" the girl says, "Because one of them has a broken head and they all have torn legs, and their arms are a mess." As usual, Judy Moody gets to work. She wants this girl to have fun. I will not tell you anything else, because then you'd know the whole book.

Judy Moody's mood

I think that Judy Moody is very strange but not in a weird way, in a fun way!! She is nice to her friends. She can get in fights sometimes, but always makes up. On the other hand, her family is strange too. I mean, a cat named mouse and a brother named Stink? Talk about weird.
At first Judy Moody freaked me out. Then she got funny. Then hilarious. Then my eyes are stuck on the book.

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Judy Moody really reminds me of Junie B. Jones because they both like to be in the middle of things. It also reminded me of my friend Katie because she is very funny , nice to talk to and love s this book just like I do !This book is by Megan McDonald, and illustrated by Peter Raynold. They also
wrote Judy Moody and Judy Moody saves the world. You can find these books at any bookstore or library.

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This book will make you laugh. The illustrations in this book are very cute. I liked the part of the book where Judy and Rocky start a club called "The Toad Pee Club" because a toad peed on them. Kids who read the "Junie B. Jones" series will probably like the Judy Moody books, but the Judy Moody books are a little longer...