The book does an excellent job of showing the beauty of Montgomery. It makes a great coffee table book. It covers the both the main and obscure attrations of the capitol city.

Although published quite some time ago, More Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes by M. B. Ellis and his earlier book titled simply Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes are probably the most often used texts to identify hyphomycetous microfungi with dark conidiospores (and many non-pigmented hyphomycetes as well). Massively illustrated both texts supply taxonomic keys enabling the student of mycology to indentify their collections at least to genus and in many cases to species. Purchasing More Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes by M. B. Ellis by itself is probably not a good idea because many descriptions of genera given in the first text (Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes) are not repeated in the second but rather are simply referred to. Nonwithstanding this reservation, this is a "must have" book for any mycologist interested in this group of dark spored asexual fungi. I would also advise any would be purchaser of this book to also purchase BC Sutton's Coelomycetes which cover those hyphomycetes producing conidial fructifications.

Enlightening to the gifts our mothers gave us, such as the love of good books, the appreciation of good music, and the gift of security.Laced with humor and enriching easy read stories to warm the soul.

My seven and five year olds received this book as a gift for Christmas. We have read and reread it so many times that I could probably recite it. The language is perfect for children and the inclusion of a glossary is wonderful. The children also love the photographs. It was such a hit that my daughter(7) has chosen Mountain Gorillas as the topic for her first research project. The book contains a great deal of information delivered in a fun, easy to understand manner.

This is the syllabus I used when I was a first year student in music school. Through the years I have seen many first year books on theory and I still think that this one is the most clearly written, most concise, and easiest to use. It gets straight to the point on the information that you really need to succeed in your theory classes. It is an older book and is now out of print, but I always wondered why people just kept turning out new books on music theory, just for the sake of producing a new book. This book, along with its companion, Music Theory, Volume 2, are all that you will need to gain an excellent understanding of the basics. Aside from great teachers, these books definitely helped me to score in the top 3% of the music theory portion of the graduate record exam. If you can get a copy of them, by all means do.

In this his masterpiece, John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart develops his Idealist, more or less Hegelian metaphysics in painstaking detail. A clear, no-nonsense thinker who professed impatience with the sort of philosophy that "emanate[d] from the west of Scotland" -- i.e. the pleasantly sermonic sort of Idealism typically invoked for its sweet morals and religion-friendly messages -- McTaggart was himself an atheist (and, incidentally, a staunch supporter of the free market). In this massive two-volume work, he argues that existence itself consists, at bottom, of finite centers of experience related to one another through love.

Some of his arguments have been tried and found wanting; his proof that time is unreal (the famous bit about the A-series, the B-series, and the C-series) has in particular not stood up to examination. But it's unusual these days to find massive works of systematic philosophy written at all, let alone with the monumental grace and wit of thinkers like McTaggart.

Interested readers will also want to check out his _Some Dogmas of Religion_, and hard-core students should try to scare up a copy of Charlie Dunbar Broad's _Critical Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy_. Also, readers attracted by McTaggart's thesis may enjoy Timothy Sprigge's _The Vindication of Absolute Idealism_.

This book kept me awake for nights on end with its jungle fever approach to analytical chemistry.

Neptune is the eighth planet in the solar system, the last gas giant and the last planet of any real size. Due to its great distance from the sun, everything that we knew about this planet, until Voyager 2 visited it in 1989, was determined by telescopic observation. In this book, the authors, who both worked on the Voyager science team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, summarize the discoveries made by the spacecraft, the spacecraft's design and the discoveries made by telescopic observations. As with all the books published in the Springer-Praxis, Astronomy and Space Sciences series, there are numerous high quality photographs, line drawings and graphs in this book. Other than a few children's books, I believe that this is the only text, which covers Neptune in any detail.

The first quarter of the books examines the pre-Voyager findings from Galileo's possible sighting, to its modern discovery that was determined by mathematical methods and its possible origins. The next portion of the book, which is also approximately one quarter of the book, covers the development of the Voyager probes and their subsequent discoveries at Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus (Voyager 2 only). The remainder of the book focuses on the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in 1989 from the long-range pre-encounter observations to the post encounters studies. In this large section of the book there are discussions on everything from, rings and satellite discoveries, radio science, the moons, the moon Triton and its atmosphere, cloud structure and much more.

A few final thoughts. First, if you don't have a great summary the Voyager mission, this book definitely provides it. Secondly, even though I have a technical background, I found some sections, especially the chapter of the magnetic fields a bit too technical. With that said, this book is definitive text about the planet Neptune.

Beautiful Danielle Sharp is not used to not getting what she wants. Now, that she has Don, the only thing stopping them from being together is the fact that he moved back in with his parents! Will Danielle's plans for the perfect romance blow up in her face, or will she finally have the man of her dreams?

Ms. Johns has insightfully juxtaposed major landscape works into a visual feast. For those who cannot travel to such faraway places, this catalog offers us a treat in travel as well as important understanding of the artistic talent responding to local settings and influences. Descriptions of the paintings and biographical anecdotes are superbly presented.