Here is a fresh approach to educating us to the need for conservation and preservation. I would recommend this title to any family who has concerns about our environment and our childrens' future. The story is well conceived and the art is worth a good look.

Here is a story about what might have really happened to cause the dinosaurs to dissappear and what could happen to us if we choose to follow their practice. It takes two little dragonflies to tell the world we are needlessly wasting things and J.W. Dixon has told their story very well. This is a children's book well worth reading and well worth buying. The whole family will benefit from it.

The book is by no means perfect, but it's a darn good book. Its major imperfection is that many important concepts are spread around and not specifically brought to the forefront alone. Otherwise, though, it allows for a great foundation in Macroeconomics for your GECO 200 or equivalent class.

This book gives a great overview of the study of economics. I used it for an Introduction to Global Economics class in college and found it to be easy to read and understand. The information is extremely up-to-date, and is displayed not only through text, but by charts and graphs as well. There also additional materials (practice test questions, a CD rom, and a guide to researching economics on the internet) which accompany the text which are available as well. Overall, a great book for the study of basic economics!

Lynne Sullivan's Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica & St. Lucia Alive focuses on the best of the regions, from shopping to outdoors activities and nightclubs. All details on customs, culture and opportunities are covered for destination-bound visitors.

My wife and I went to St. Lucia in April. We had prepared for our trip by reading all this book had to say about the island, which was very helpful in planning day trips, money exchange, restaurants, etc. We took the book with us and it was extremely helpful with maps when we drove around the island, and the different side trips off the main road. I would highly recommend it to any who are planning a trip to that area!

If you like history, wouldn't it be great to hear from someone who was there? Mark Sullivan was there during the period of 1900-1925 and has written a detailed account of what things were like and what was the mood of the country. It is facinating to hear him speak of Teddy Roosevelt taking him aside and telling him of his concerns about his successor, Taft. It is also interesting to hear him speak of the concerns of the day, which seem much like concerns many share today. This is a well-done historical work. For most of us readers, we should thank Dan Rather for cutting it down to an abridged form.

Thanks to Dan Rather for boiling-down Mark Sullivan's Our Times series. A great job--but go out and look for the originals (they're not too hard to find, at least in NY). Sullivan got a bit carried away with his pet politicians, but his sidelong views of everyday life (music, clothing, humor, race relations, etc.) between 1900-25 are a stunning time machine. He was THERE, so you'll read things in his book a modern-day historian might discard.

This book is fascinating as it explores a subject matter that is less familiar to most Americans. It is an excellent educational resource.

Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez's Piety, Power, and Politics gives an evenhanded and insightful look into this interesting time in Central American history. His treatment of Rafael Carrera and the leader's tumultous relationship with the Catholic Church obviously represents countless hours of primary source scholarship (as his bibliography attests). All in all the book is engaging and informative, not a bad combination at all in a work of such scholarship.

As an undergraduate math major with knowledge of only some linear algebra and elementary calculus of one and several variables, I found this text to be interesting and challenging. The chapter on metric spaces serves as a good introduction to concepts in point-set topology, while providing motivation for such studies. While the proofs are rigorous and complete, sometimes the developments seem to lack motivation. This can be annoying when attempting the exercises, but motivation for such developments could easily be provided by examples from other texts or a professor. After studying Stewart's "Calculus" and Bartle and Sherbert's introductory analysis text, I find the rigor and thoroughness of this text most refreshing. For instance, rather than assuming the completeness property of the reals, the authors develop the reals as an equvalence class on the rationals, and proceed to prove the completeness property. I am certain that anyone interested in learning analysis could benefit greatly from this text, especially in combination with other analysis texts.

This book can serve as an important bridge between books like baby Rudin and big Rudin. Like baby Rudin, this book assumes only the basics from calculus and linear algebra (it is fairly self-contained) and covers the basics on convergence, continuity, differentiation, uniform convergence, etc. It then goes on to cover many topics in the first half of big Rudin like Lebesgue integration, Banach spaces, and Hilbert spaces. The style and tone of the book is sophisticated, and prepares the reader for the arid tone of big Rudin. On the other hand, this book always tries to develop topics in the most elementary way. For example, the Lebesgue theory is developed via the Daniell method on R^n and then, in a brief separate section, the general theory is sketched, leaving many proofs to the reader. I liked this approach, because working in R^n is comfortable and the proofs extend to the general case in an obvious way. Another example is the Riesz representation theorem, which is done on the real line with a very intuitive proof. In contrast, big Rudin is really a book to marvel at once you already know something about its contents. This book is ideal preparation for big Rudin because after reading it, you will know in essence what Rudin wants to say and basically why it is true. But big Rudin will show you how these results extend to more general settings with extremely elegant (although sometimes baffling) proofs. You should also note that when I was at Chicago they were using this book, so the big guys and gals must like it too.

It has been a year since Terrence Patrick Sullivan broke Bailey Flowers' heart, but the Private Investigator still sends the former mercenary turned PI an occassional case or two. One such case was some work for Bailey's sister, who wanted to know if her billionaire husband was cheating on her. When her sister disappears, Bailey storms into Sully's office and demands answers. When the man assigned to investigate the case also turns up missing, the two former lovers, neither of whom have gotten over the other completely, go on the hunt. This suspenseful romance mystery will keep you guessing, recommended

Harper Allen delivers her second tale of The Avengers in "Sullivan's Last Stand." When her sister disappears, Bailey Flowers blames her former lover, Terrence Sullivan. Sullivan's detective agency was investigating her sister. Now both the investigator and Bailey's sister are missing. Can Bailey work with Sullivan to find out what happened, and uncover the secrets that kept them apart?

Allen's Intrigues tend to be thoroughly different and imaginative. "Sullivan's Last Stand" is no exception, an interesting puzzle told in her distinctive voice. I don't think I've ever read a mystery quite like this in romantic suspense, full of unexpected twists and shifts in direction. As always, readers looking for a breath of fresh air in the often stagnant world of romantic suspense will find it here. Her heroine is strong and fiery, her hero full of dark charm, and their story culminates in another spectacular, emotional and unforgettable climax. This is the perfect companion to the wonderful first Avengers book, "Guarding Jane Doe," not letting down readers in the least. Probably the best one-two punch since the first two books in Gayle Wilson's Men of Mystery series. Don't miss it!

"Teaching English in Japan" is a very practical resource for those who wish to teach English in Japan. It is not an anecdotal book, and the writing style is more of what you would find in a textbook.

There is some excellent advice on obtaining visas, and a good introduction to the various types of English teacher positions available, from the informal "coffee shop school" to the more formal JET program. The book gives a brief glimpse of Japanese history and culture, but that is not a majority focus.

Fully half of "Teaching English in Japan" is focused on practical, specific English teaching skills. There is a good introduction to pronunciation mistakes common to Japanese learners, as well as a solid coverage of grammar and tenses that occur in English, but not Japanese. A chapter is devoted to creating lesson plans, and another chapter introduces various teaching styles and tools.

If you want to teach English, but have never done so before, this book will give you a good idea of what will be expected of you. Don't expect to memorize every lesson in the book. It is a valuable reference to pack along to Japan, and pull out again and again.

for anyone considering going to teach english in Japan this is THE BOOK to start you on your journey. very practical resource which takes you through all the steps involved, from how to get a job, info on cultural issues, plus a whole section devoted to lesson planning for the novice teacher. I can also recommend 'Make a Mil-Yen' by Don Best and 'Learning to Bow' by Bruce Feiler.

I enjoyed this book very much. TRAPPED! includes many stories about people that are trapped in different places. Here are 4of the six stories that I can remember. Sullivan leads with the gripping story of baby Jessica McClure --- an 18 month old toddler trapped in a dark, narrow abandoned well for more than 48 hours in October of 1987 in Midland, Texas. Then He moves on to a 1972 mining disaster, a Mount Everest blizzard, a sunken submarine, and two other remarkable stories.I really enjoyed this book but I got the charectors mixed up alot when switching stories. I recoomend this book to anyone!

The book Trapped helped me a lot because it deals with many different types of people and problems, that deals with teens these days. One story I liked in this book was the first one. I can't remember the name but, it was about a guy in his last year of high school, and he wants to get married other than go to college. It's very shocking to his parents but at the end he gets out of it. That story was vering intresting and helpful for me, and it helps me to understand that you can wait later to get married. Again this was intresting, and i would recomand this to all kids.

This is a good book if you are interested in a brief synopsis or precis of the Lewis and Clark Journals. The Introduction is informative and accurate. There is a note on the text detailing the editing process, and the constraints the author was confined to. All in all, it is a good, quick summary of the journals. It should be noted that the first entry is for May 13, 1804, so any earlier history of the expedition is ommitted. Additionally, the entries end on September 24, 1806. Basically stated, for the price it is a good value. If you are interested in a beginning primer on the expedition of Lewis and Clark, you cannot go wrong by starting here.

Historians and enthusiasts of U.S. exploration are very fortunate that these journals of Jedediah Smith have survived so that we have a better understanding as to past events and life as it was so long ago. The book begins with a short but enlightening autobiography from Smith himself on how and why he entered the fur trade. The following chapter is the finale of his epic 1826-1827 ramble across the Great Basin from California where he and his two men nearly perished. The focus of the book is on his second California expedition to California in 1827-1828, then up to Oregon and Washington. While the second expedition was disastrous in the loss of ten men to the Mohave Indians along the Colorado River and fifteen men lost to the Umpqua Indians in Oregon, it was monumental in exploration and cartography for the United States. Sandwiched between these two massacres were confrontations with Mexican officials. Also included are letters from HBC Chief Trader McLeod on his journey with Smith back to the Umpqua River in order to recover what was stolen from Smith and his party by these marauding Indians. A very historic book because of the journals and Sullivan's thorough editing. The precursor to these journals would be the book "The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah S. Smith: His Personal Account of the Journey to California, 1826-1827", edited by George R. Brooks.