This 16-page workbook is a good addition to a foreign-language library. Some children seem to engage in learning more if they have something to do, rather than just listen and recite. There are a couple cut-and-paste activities, a maze, dot-to-dot, crossword puzzle, picture puzzles, punch-out characters with clothes and one origami-type toy. For intriguing puzzles, humor and an all-around entertaining book we enjoy First German On Holiday by Kathy Gemmell, available here on Amazon.

This book is a textbook for teaching introductory epistemology. The book is organized in a thematic manner with chapters addressing basic terminology, perception, aspects of knowledge, moral knowledge, probability, and several other topics. This is not the usual historical sequence that would be used by most. The chapters are written clearly but do not cohere well. The organization and structure of the book reflects its origin as a text for an introductory class. In addition to the thematic organization, each chapter is followed by a set of questions for students. There are brief but adequate paragraphs suggesting further reading at the end of each chapter. This book is really the armature a good teacher would use to present a basic course on this topic. With additional assigned readings, good lectures, and appropriate use of the questions, I can imagine easily that this book would be an important part of a good course. As a stand alone book on this topic, however, this book is less successful.

First I start with what I did like in the book and that was the decorations,wether it was for keepsakes or temperarely projects,they are nice and fun to do.The recepies however were not halloween minded enough to my liking and of the 18 recepies there was only 1 with picture.Surely as this is a book "full" of ideas they could have shared more ideas on how to present the food.Plenty of pictures though of the costumes wich I found very childish.Granted,they are childrens costumes but they lacked imaganation I thought.It's a shame that there aren't any costumeideas for adults in the book.There's a great book on my bookshelf about decorating your house for halloween and that is 'Halloween decorating'by Arts & Crafts for Home Decorating.Its less childish than Handmade Halloween.ISBN 0-86573-415-1.It was rewarded with the Benjamin Franklin Award and is clearly the best book on Halloween crafts I have yet seen.

This book is ok. It has some very nice pictures. I wouldn't rush out to buy it.

Some results in finance are non-intuitive. Simplistic logic leads to the wrong answer. OK, that was cheaper than buying this book.

If you want some examples from a number of areas of finance which demonstrate this observation, then this book is for you.

If you want to be able to solve any real problems, you'll have to take the next step and actually look inside a textbook for a first course in finance. Unfortunately, this step involves learning some mathematical analysis and finding your calculator. Davis' book only helps you understand that guessing is as likely to lead you to the wrong answer as the right one.... maybe more likely, since there are a lot more wrong answers than right ones.

This is a very interesting book but the writer is much too wordy asking too many questions before trying to answer them. I like the concept of the book but don't like the way it's written.

This is a book I loved and hated. Its topic is wonderful and the scope and conception are great. It gives lots of detail on most all of the Southern Presbyterian theologians of Union (VA) and Columbia (SC/GA) seminaries. I appreciated Dr. Smith's sympathy for the figures he studies. His evangelical and Reformed commitments allow him to often see men like Dabney and Thornwell with great understanding.

This is a reprint of Dr. Smith's doctoral dissertation from Free University, Amsterdam. P&R has packaged it very nicely.

I don't know how I can possibly list all of the disappointing features of this book, however. The pickiest problem -- in 40 years nobody has bothered to catch all of the embarrassing factual errors in this text! For example, several pages are dedicated to William *Swain* Plumer (correct spelling *Swan*). There are literally dozens of these type of errors which undermine the credibility of the author.

Far more serious is the poor approach to history that Smith takes. He has a chip on his shoulder and this makes him look, well, silly. He goes to huge lengths to try to show that the Southern Presbyterians were superior to the Old Princetonians. The evidence he gathers on this is really very, very weak.

Further, he wants to argue that all the Southern Presbyterians were in lock-step agreement on full-subscription, no-exception belief in the Westminster Standards. Anybody who has spent any time at all reading them knows that this is not true. Yes, the major figures, at least, were all ardent Calvinists and did not waver on Biblical authority or the major doctrines. But they also reflected the diversity of any significant school of Reformed theology. Especially on secondary points of theology. Smith does not do these wonderful men a service by artifically restricting their very interesting theologies.

Another problem is that Smith seems to have gathered very poor information on some of the minor figures. But this does not stop him from making conclusions which he has not demonstrated. Smith will state things like this (I'm making this example up): *Dr. Jones taught at Union Seminary from 1902-04. He did not publish any articles. But we know he must have been an advocate of full subscription to the Westminster Confession and a 24-hour day creationist because he taught at Union. In addition, this author's uncle once took a course from him and commented that Dr. Jones was a fine conservative gentleman.* Give me a break!

Further, Dr. Smith lets his disgust for the Northern U.S. show every so often and this really doesn't help his case.

This book did help me gain some insight into Dr.Smith's attitude in his denominational politics. I can see where the extreme rigidity comes from when he seeks to supress good, solid, Calvinist zealots in his own denomination, simply because they may have one or two very small differences with the Westminster Confession.

Anyway, I did read this book cover-to-cover and even bought a second copy for my church office. I loved the topic, the orderliness of the book's arrangement, the Reformed theology, and the attractive packaging, but I found the scholarship to be extremely weak and the poor documentation to be very sad.

VERY USEFUL! ESPECIALLY TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T USE ENGLISH IN MOTHER LANGUAGE VERY HELPFUL TO SPOKEN ENGLISH.

This book is full of images of spaces that are 'white by design'. But it simply wasn't what I was looking for. I was looking for a romantic feeling, and the cover of the book is misleading. Most of the spaces featured in the book itself are more clean and modern. If that is what you are looking for, this is the book for you! If you are looking for something like I was, 'Victoria: At Home with White' should better fill your needs.

I only found a few bits of things that were interesting in this book. But most of the things written in this book are things that any Madonna fan will already be well aware of, and it's telling that the things I found interesting in this book were largely chunks of Madonna interviews that Mr. Morton had just re-published (note: they were not interviews the Mr. Morton had conducted with Madonna, rather they were interviews from magazines, etc.), as well as bits from others' articles about Madonna. That's the problem with unauthorized biographies, they have to resort to a lot of "gleaning" from other sources. I would suggest just going to the sources themselves, which any Madonna fan can do by buying magazines with her interviews, etc.

Andrew Morton's writing is rather uninteresting and dry. In his biographies of Lady Di and Monica Lewinsky, he at least had the cooperation of the subjects. Madonna was in no way affiliated with this book's preparation. Maybe some day she will write her own autobiography. Until then, we will probably have to endure many misinterpretations of Madonna, as I believe this book really misinterprets her.

As a loyal Madonna fan, I tried to resist buying the book, but I gave in. Though Morton's writing is weak, his subject is interesting enough to propel the book. Although it has been criticized for not really containing anything new, it is thorough (delving into Madonna's family history on both sides) and insightful. Morton has a tendency to analyze his subjects as if they were mental cases, and he does this to Madonna throughout the novel. His findings, however, are nothing new; Madonna needs attention, and Madonna needs to mother and be mothered. Nonetheless, the book is readable and insightful, and gives the best look that the public has seen so far at the woman behind the persona. Morton has done his detective work, and done it well, his findings giving some insight into the complexities that make the world watch Madonna.

Madonna... Queen of Pop
This was an interesting read about the Queen of Pop, Madonna. Obviously, Mr. Morton is a fan of Maddy's, as he treats her with relative kid gloves, as opposed to some other recent biographies. I enjoyed the book, but it's not Mr. Morton's best by a long shot! I would recommend Madonna fans to also purchase Matthew Rettenmund's "Encyclopedia Madonnica" and Michael D. Craig's "Who's That Girl? The Ultimate Madonna Trivia Book" for the real low-down on the Material Girl.