I taught kindergarten/1st grade for 10 years. This book was a favorite every year and had the childrens' rapt attention and laughter. Great for teaching ordinal numbers.

This was my favorite book as a child. The illustrations are hilarious. It's an extremely fun book at any age!

Carl B. Stokes And The Rise Of Black Political Power by Leonard N. Moore (Assistant Professor of History and Director of the African and African American Studies Program, Louisiana State University) is a meticulous portrayal of Mayor Carl Stokes of Cleveland and the impact his tenure has had on local and national African-American politics. Individual chapters address a range of issues such as "the making of a mayor"; black capitalism; internal political power struggles; and much, much more. A well-researched and scholarly examination of executive government in microcosm in general, and its reflections in the broader scope of African-American politics in particular, Carl B. Stokes And The Rise Of Black Political Power is a welcome and highly recommended addition to academic Black Studies and Political Science reference collections and reading lists.

Carl B. Stokes And The Rise Of Black Political Power by Leonard N. Moore (Assistant Professor of History and Director of the African and African American Studies Program, Louisiana State University) is a meticulous portrayal of Mayor Carl Stokes of Cleveland and the impact his tenure has had on local and national African-American politics. Individual chapters address a range of issues such as "the making of a mayor"; black capitalism; internal political power struggles; and much, much more. A well-researched and scholarly examination of executive government in microcosm in general, and its reflections in the broader scope of African-American politics in particular, Carl B. Stokes And The Rise Of Black Political Power is a welcome and highly recommended addition to academic Black Studies and Political Science reference collections and reading lists.

I have to disagree with the above editorial. I compared the reproductions with others that I have, and although there are sometimes subtle differences they are not always to the disadvantage of this book. Some pictures are better than others, but the advantage here is that each reproduction is on a page by itself with commentary on an adjoining page-a catalogue layout that I always prefer in that it give the painting room to breathe and because I'm not reading on one page and finding the relevant painting six pages later. The book is obviously done by true lovers of the painter. Chardin is profound and a painter's painter. You can see and feel why he was adored by Cezanne, Soutine, Manet, Proust, and I'm sure many other significant artists. He has rightly been called a virtuoso of stillness. Even in reproduction, pieces of fruit, kitchenware and game animals are alive and quietly glowing from within with a warmth, compassion and a kind of subtle majesty-it's really deep in an indescribable way. In my opinion a very worthwhile purchase.

This book is simply gorgeous. I had been well acquainted with Chardin a number of years ago, and picked up this book on a whim at the store. Rediscovering this master was a true delight. His paintings are deceptively simple: behind the cool colors and the measured scenes lies a captivating energy. This particular volume is very well done. The reproductions are of superior quality and the accompanying essays by the world's most renowned Chardin expert are enjoyable and enlightening. Art books are expensive, but this is one that is well worth the investment.

Organized in encyclopedia format with entries for each letter of the alphabet, Cleveland Browns A To Z by Cleveland Brown expert Roger Gorden is an original and remarkably informative reference resource offering just about everything there is to know about this celebrated American football team. Enhanced with appendices listing numerous additional statistics and tables, Cleveland Browns A To Z in clearly in the" must-have" category and a perfect giftbook for the legions of dedicated Cleveland Browns fans.

This is the most complete and best written Clevelaqnd Browns book ever! A+!

The Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia(2nd Edition) is even better than the first! I don't actually own the book, my mother-in-law, Lillian Zupancic, does. She is not only a die hard fan of The Cleveland Indians but a fan of both the authors as well. Russel Schneider has a co-author who also worked on the 1st edition with him, Mr. Joseph Simenic. He is a prominent baseball researcher and co-founder of the Society of American Baseball Reasearch. He is a long-time Indians fan.

The authors have done a marvelous job on the book. It is complete with beautiful color photos and a color insert of the current home of The Cleveland Indians, Jacob's Field. Facts included are all players from the origins of The Cleveland Indians to present time complete with stats. This is a book that you definitely must own if you are a fan of the Cleveland Indians.

I say this not only because Mr. Simenic is my mother-in-law's brother and my husband's uncle, but because The Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia (both editions) are a valuable asset to any fans' library!

Very informative history of the Cleveland franchise from the late 1800's to the present. Comments and player stats for every season. Bios on all players, front office, ballparks, Hall of Famers, Great Moments and many other features. There really isn't much of note that you could want to know about the team that isn't included. This effort must put the Indians fans in a more knowledgeable position about their team than any other fans

This is a great book for any Cleveland Indians fan! I just Wish Lindy Powers would do more books on other sports teams as well! Would love to see some hockey teams do a book like this. Really awesome shots of the players and their families.

This is a great addition to any baseball fans library. Just wish there were more teams that would put out a book like this.

As a die hard member of the dawg pound, this book will always have a special place in my heart. It describes in rich detail the influence and impact Cleveland Stadium had on the city. I'd highly recommend it - Go Browns!

This book is amazing, truly an inspiration! The author pours his heart and soul to depict the legacy that was Cleveland Stadium. A must read for any Indians or Browns fan!

William Cleveland clearly describes how data can be presented to great effect. His description of visual perception spell out the "how to's" of graphing data. While many graphing programs are available in today's high technology environment, Cleveland's descriptions of how data can be presented into graphical format is enlightening. The book provides great examples of both superior and poor graphing presentation, focusing on how to encode graphs to allow for straightforward data analysis.

"The Elements of Graphiing Data" is a must for those who graph scientific data.

Tufte shows you why it's important to do graphs well. Cleveland shows you _how_.

The last quarter of the book details experiments in human visual perception that rank how well we detect certain things: relative angles not on a common baseline (i.e. pie charts) justly come out at the bottom of the list.

One of a only handful of books I've labelled "JXH ONLY". If I loan you my copy, know that you are special.

"Gods' Delight", an exhibition of ancient small bronzes, is one of the "sleepers" of ancient art history, for specialists and general readers alike. In Greco-Roman studies, exhibitions of the so-called "minor arts" often produce the best art history, when scholars explore the evolution and meaning of ancient forms across media and contexts. (Compare "Glass of the Caesars", "Hellenistic Art in the Walters Art Gallery", and "The Age of Spirituality".) This book has pride of place on my own reference shelves. One could almost make it a textbook for sculpture and the history of taste. (Few standard surveys have a map or timeline - from this book I often xerox for lecture courses the 4 map pages, and the 8-page historical timeline to ancient politics and culture. ) Many American museums shared their finest: it is fitting, also, that a show which explores why and how art was privately patronized draws on some modern private holdings (Levy-White, Fleischmann and Christos Bastis collections). The color and B/W photographs set a high standard for evocative images of metal sculpture; they almost fall out of the page into one's hand, the way they originally cherished. The preface reviews bronze technology, the cultural habits generating Greco-Roman sculpture, and the development of private ownership out of habits of religious dedication. Each segment ( pre-Roman Greek, Etruscan, and Roman-era), is prefaced by a richly illustrated essay; the well-annotated catalogue entries tend to 3-6 pages each. (The contributing connoisseur-curators are also good narrators!)

The bronzes come from a thousand years (8th-c. BCE to 3rd c. CE) across Europe and the Mediterranean - gods and heroes, Victories and Lares, hunchbacked artisans and African slaves, athletes and dwarves, actors and naked nymphs, generals, babies and barbarians, philosophers, musicians and dancers: the crowd speaks equally for distinctive regional and cultural habits, and for themes and styles broadly shared across the Greco-Roman world, because of the commerce in objects and the movement of artists. Some are famous in the field (the inscribed votive Apollo" dedicated by Mantiklos, the Baker Dancer, the Met's exotic Asiatic dancers); much less known are e.g. the miniature magistrates from an applied bronze version of the great Roman historical reliefs, or the "Polykleitan" offerant dedicated by a Romanized Greek, Publius Achaicus. Some exemplify standard genres of quality ornamentation; some vie to be small masterworks, as versions of other masterpieces (like Praxiteles' Knidia or a 5th-c. general) or autonomous creations. Some were mirror-image pairs; others, like the bronze korai, would have seemed in accumulation to make a series too. Some were free-standing; others animated prized objects of social ritual - candelabra holders, mirror and patera handles, chariot and chest appliques, box handles and incense burners. (The two Roman "speaking" incense burners, of an actor and of a singer whose mouths puffed smoke, give form to our metaphor of, "talking hot air" ...). These statuettes are from a world in which the most famous sculptors were applauded for their skill in metal miniatures. These cousins to the great monumental bronzes (on which see e.g. Carole Mattusch) are a vivid document to the impact of "high art" down the social scale; reviewing this show is as if we could look into one of the votive treasuries of Delphi or Praeneste, and into the private cabinets of the Hellenistic kings and the Roman elite.

"Gods' Delight", an exhibition of ancient small bronzes, is one of the "sleepers" of ancient art history, for specialists and general readers alike. In Greco-Roman studies, exhibitions of the so-called "minor arts" often produce the best art history, when scholars explore the evolution and meaning of ancient forms across media and contexts. (Compare "Glass of the Caesars", "Hellenistic Art in the Walters Art Gallery", and "The Age of Spirituality".) This book has pride of place on my own reference shelves. One could almost make it a textbook for sculpture and the history of taste. (Few standard surveys have a map or timeline - from this book I often xerox for lecture courses the 4 map pages, and the 8-page historical timeline to ancient politics and culture. ) Many American museums shared their finest: it is fitting, also, that a show which explores why and how art was privately patronized draws on some modern private holdings (Levy-White, Fleischmann and Christos Bastis collections). The color and B/W photographs set a high standard for evocative images of metal sculpture; they almost fall out of the page into one's hand, the way they originally cherished. The preface reviews bronze technology, the cultural habits generating Greco-Roman sculpture, and the development of private ownership out of habits of religious dedication. Each segment ( pre-Roman Greek, Etruscan, and Roman-era), is prefaced by a richly illustrated essay; the well-annotated catalogue entries tend to 3-6 pages each. (The contributing connoisseur-curators are also good narrators!)

The bronzes come from a thousand years (8th-c. BCE to 3rd c. CE) across Europe and the Mediterranean - gods and heroes, Victories and Lares, hunchbacked artisans and African slaves, athletes and dwarves, actors and naked nymphs, generals, babies and barbarians, philosophers, musicians and dancers: the crowd speaks equally for distinctive regional and cultural habits, and for themes and styles broadly shared across the Greco-Roman world, because of the commerce in objects and the movement of artists. Some are famous in the field (the inscribed votive Apollo" dedicated by Mantiklos, the Baker Dancer, the Met's exotic Asiatic dancers); much less known are e.g. the miniature magistrates from an applied bronze version of the great Roman historical reliefs, or the "Polykleitan" offerant dedicated by a Romanized Greek, Publius Achaicus. Some exemplify standard genres of quality ornamentation; some vie to be small masterworks, as versions of other masterpieces (like Praxiteles' Knidia or a 5th-c. general) or autonomous creations. Some were mirror-image pairs; others, like the bronze korai, would have seemed in accumulation to make a series too. Some were free-standing; others animated prized objects of social ritual - candelabra holders, mirror and patera handles, chariot and chest appliques, box handles and incense burners. (The two Roman "speaking" incense burners, of an actor and of a singer whose mouths puffed smoke, give form to our metaphor of, "talking hot air" ...). These statuettes are from a world in which the most famous sculptors were applauded for their skill in metal miniatures. These cousins to the great monumental bronzes (on which see e.g. Carole Mattusch) are a vivid document to the impact of "high art" down the social scale; reviewing this show is as if we could look into one of the votive treasuries of Delphi or Praeneste, and into the private cabinets of the Hellenistic kings and the Roman elite.