Favorite characters: Dabble the Duck and Jason the young boy

Dabble starts out as a baby duck that belongs to a young boy named Jason. But Dabble grows and grows into a large white duck, and Jason's parents must decide whether Dabble has outgrown the apartment and might be happier on farm. You will have to read the book to see what happens to Dabble.
It is a great story for any kids who have pets, as it shows how much Jason cares about Dabble. The pictures in the book are very colorful and the story shows a real friendship between a boy and his duck. I recommend it for all ages.

Its a shame this book is out of print for its a fun story that teaches compassion. Dabble is cute as a chick, but as a full grown duck he makes a mess in his apartment home. He also is very lonely when his boy goes to school. Then one day on a walk they find an injured, bedraggled dog. The dog finds a caring home and Dabble has a friend. A heartwarming and funny story for preschoolers

I can't keep track of how many people I've met that love marine mammals; especially dolphins and porpoises. If you too are interested in these amazing creatures, I highly recommend this book. Dolphins and Porpoises is a book with the straight facts. Unlike other scientific books, Dolphins and Porpoises is easy to understand, but still gives you the information that you need. It is ideal for research, or pleasure reading. There are also many descriptive diagrams to explain slightly hard-to-grasp concepts on dolphins and porpoises. Dolphins and Porpoises is a wonderful book. I would reccomend it for all ages.

This is another book by Richard Ellis, painting naturalist. In this book Ellis focuses on dolphins and porpoises. The paintings by Ellis are, as in his books on sharks and whales, the main marketing vehicles for the book.

To his credit, Ellis provides a substantial amount of accurate supporting information about the biology, ecology, and behavior, of this group of marine mammals.

Though not a technical text on dolphins and porpoises, it is a great primer on the group. If you, a family member, or friend are interested in dolphins and their kin, then I highly recommend this book to you.

Top-notch introduction to the group.

Marc Ellis challenges the tradtional Jewish and Christian position on the State of Israel, and its relation to the Shoah. Pointing out that remembering what happened in Nazi Germany is important, but that the role of victim still being played out by many is unhealthy. The call to "End Auschwitz" is a call to put bitterness and resentfulness in the past, and to look to a new future that offers hope. Ellis presents his concerns over the treatment of the Palestinian people by the Israelis, wondering if the desire for a homeland and the desire never to victims again has lead to near genecidal actions and dehumanization. Marc Ellis is definately on the cutting edge of post-shoah theology and is sure to make many people angry while enlightening others. A must read for anyone interested in a viable interfaith dialogue.

This book forms the third in a trilogy including TOWARD A JEWISH THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION and BEYOND INNOCENCE AND REDEMPTION. This is the most personal of the three. Starting and refering back to a trip he made to Auschwitz as part of a conference of scholars. He gives great personal detail as to his own spiritual journey. His deep if complicated relationship with Richard Rubenstein, the author of the now legendary AFTER AUSCHWITZ, which along with Elie Wiesel's NIGHT, initiated "holocaust theology."

Along the way he ties Auschwitz with 1492 and the multiple genocides of indigenous peoples since. Reflects on the essential continuity between the "Christ of Faith" and the Constantinian transformation. Attempts to reclaim, insight from the cultural/binational Zionism of Ahad Ha'am, Judah L. Magnes, and Hannah Arendt. Tries to visualize an all inclusive vision of Judaism.

Ellis ranges widely, especially considering that the book is only 162 pages long. Needless to say there are omissions and missteps. While focusing on Auschwitz and 1492, Ellis neglects the Crusades as another catastrophic turning point of western history. Not only does the subject bring in Muslim greivance toward Christianity, but the event marked a new outbreak in anti-Semitism that characterized the second millenium, as well as greatly heightened persecution of homosexuals, heretics and "witches." In short, an event at least as great as Constantine.

The connection he draws between "the Christ of Faith" and Constantine is just asserted. True, "reformers" are too glib in trying to separate the Church from "abuses." But Ellis, fails to lay out his version of how a group persecuted by empire, became part of the empire and why it was an inevitable development. As for asserting that 1492 "benefitted" the Church. Is this true? Much of the current growth in Asia and Africa is quite indigenous and pentecostalism is the big phenomenon in Latin America.

In critiquing the "Christ of Faith" he falls back on Crossan's THE HISTORICAL JESUS as though Crossan presents the last word on "the Jesus of History" (as though such a thing were possible). He seems unaware that his reconstruction of "Jesus as a peasant cynic" is widely disputed. Reconstructions are ever subject to revision and in the end as Schweizer showed, seem to tell more about the author than the subject. As for his all inclusive view of Judaism, he tries to affirm the pagan practices by Ancient Israelites condemned by the "establishment" prophets. Strange that the "establishment" prophets were often the subject of persecution (e.g. jeremiah and isaiah). While the "popular" pagan practices seem to follow courtly fashion.

Most troubling is that for a "theology" there is almost nothing said concerning God. (In BEYOND INNOCENCE AND REDEMPTION absolutely nothing is said.) But Ellis's journey is far from over. In just the last few weeks, Ellis has delivered a lecture on "the Prophetic: Hope of God, Hope of Humanity" that embraces and declares the need for "God Talk."

With his mentor Rubenstein I too "find everything Marc Ellis writes to be a 'must read'...especially when I disagree with him."

ARCO's guide for taking the GMAT CAT is very thorough and well-written, although it lacks the humor and "chatty" attitude some other lines of study guides are well known for. My only true complaint about this book is that it does not offer any interpretation of the scores you achieve on the practice tests -- you know what you've missed and why, but you have no way of correlating your performance to true GMAT scores. Sort of a bummer...

The Software accompanying this book was the closest ( other than Poweprep from ETS ) that I got to the actual test, as far as the look and feel. Content-wise, it does have some tough math, but overall, it gave me consistent scores which matched almost exactly to my actual GMAT. Make sure to go through the book before you jump to the tests. Improved my score by at least 80-90. With this book , PowerPrep and some tester practice from Princeton Review, I jumped from an initial 570 to 660. Worth every penny.

The book is nice, you read it fast, you can't put it down before the last page, it actualy has a plot, it is a love story, it's sexy, it's nice but lets be honest: the f... parts get a wee bit in the way of the plot. Sometimes I felt like fast forwarding a few pages, to go on with the actual story. Still, it's not a bad way to spend an evening...

"Ancient Greece, the end of the fifth century BC - at the height of the Peloponnesian War. Young Orestes is a citizen of Athens, sent to Sparta as a spy. There he encounters a society of athletic, promiscuous soldiers - including the beautiful Spartan Hector. As Orestes discovers the hard dirty sex that the 'primitive' Spartans enjoy, Hector in turn finds that there's something to be said for Athens' famed erotic sophistication." - exerpt from Erotica-readers

Very helpful and authoritative summaries of terms that are easily confused but essential for reading any of the literature in the field of education. A bit uneven, with some items including editorializing, but a good resource for anyone in a masters of education program. A teacher familiar with the terms in this book could never be accused of being just a caretaking technician; just browsing through this collection of definitions would make a teacher more thoughtful and deliberate.

Anyone wishing to have quick access to information on all of the educational buzzwords drifting through our schools should have this book on her desk. Students in teacher training programs should definitely keep a copy handy. I use this book as a starting point for papers, lectures, and discussions with my colleagues.

Human learning gives a good basic understanding of learning theory for teachers and others who are interested in educational psychology. There are some very good examples for all theories discussed. The book jumps around a bit and some of the explanations are too technical.

This is an amazingly well written text. Ms Ormrod actually practices what she preaches, so the book is organised as an exemplar of how to help students learn. I bought the book as an optional text for a Masters in Education, then I sat up one night to check it out. It became compulsive reading, very hard to put down. It gives a broad overview of Educational Psychology thinking over a wide period of time, and encapsulates it. It is full of useful references. Many of my colleagues have borrowed this book for various courses and for course development for educational projects.

As a person who grew up in Tampa, and is very aware of Ybor City, I think this book is great. Mormino and Pozzetta outdid themselves on this book. There is so much detail in this book, it feels like you are walking the old brick streets in Ybor. Hopefullly more teachers will have their class read this as it pertains to a great piece of America's history.

In the past, I have had the great opportunity to have Gary Mormino as my history teacher at the University of South Florida. He was, to say the least, a grand teacher. His skill exhibited in the class, to say the least, come alive in this book. This is a great book and a great read - find it and read it.

I'm delighted to have "the whole of" IT collated and easy to consult. I don't see how any serious reader can remain unchanged by this work. It is a full frontal attack on mushy thinking and sloppy poetics.

The point is not, of course, the obvious one about making a rhythmic sequence of long and short poems alternating. I mean, every poet writes both. Perhaps not since Wallace Stevens' extended meditation (a form for now largely unfashionable but patient to be rediscovered), "The Auroras of Autumn," or at least the work of William Bronk, have we enjoyed a metaphysician who speaks to us in poems...--Richard Blevins

Dominic Felse, the son of the famous policeman George Felse, met his girlfriend Tossa Barber in the earlier book in this series, Piper on the Mountain. Now, as a favor to Tossa's mother, Dominic and Tossa have agreed to escort a young girl named Angli out to meet her father in India. However, when they arrive they find that Angli's father has been missing for over a year, and soon Angli is kidnapped. The result is a good, fast-paced mystery, with some very interesting local color on India.

Strictly speaking, this isn't an Inspector Felse mystery, but a Dominic Felse mystery. Ideally, read all the preceding Inspector Felse mysteries, in order, as they follow Dominic's childhood onward - but only to enjoy the character development properly. At a minimum, at least read _The Piper on the Mountain_, which recounts Dominic's first meeting with Tossa Barber and her mother, before _Mourning Raga_.

Tossa's movie-star mother Chloe has a genius for disrupting her daughter's plans, so Dominic fears the worst when Chloe calls the university just before Christmas vacation, with an offer that sounds too good to be true: accept an all-expense-paid trip to India, to escort 14-year-old Anjli Kumar, the daughter of Chloe's co-star Dorette Lester, to stay with her father while her mother is filming in England. (Anjli's mother is nominally the custodial parent, but even she's mostly an absentee.) Happily, Ms. Pargeter (a.k.a. Ellis Peters), doesn't make either leading lady behave according to stereotype; each is charming in private as well as in public, and they seem to get on well together; their influence to bring others into their orbit is as inevitable as a planet's gravity. :)

Dorette arranged for an old friend to look out for Anjli and her companions, since the friend is directing a film - a dramatized life of Buddha - on location. A potted mini-biography of Siddhartha's early life, before he became Buddha, is provided as the film is described; one noteworthy celebrity they meet is the composer working on the film. He's adapted a morning raga - something sung when guests depart in the morning - as a theme to be played for Siddhartha's bride and their young son; the adaptation is catchy.

Unfortunately, Dorette only wrote to her ex, rather than phoning him or waiting for a reply. Kumar has been out of touch for months, and his mother - Anjli's grandmother - is dying. The only relative left functioning is a cousin who acts as trustee for the estate - and Dominic and Tossa aren't too keen to leave Anjli, Kumar's heir, in his care.

But the matter is taken abruptly out of their hands when Anjli is kidnapped and held for ransom after her grandmother's death. Although published after _Black is the Colour of My True-Love's Heart_, the events of this book take place earlier: their first meeting with the Swami, mentioned in that book, occurs herein. As a friend of Kumar's, he takes a hand in working for Anjli's safe return. And Dominic is very uneasy, since the morning of her disappearance, he heard someone in the street outside the hotel singing a song from the soundtrack of a film that's still in production.