An I can read science reader. Enjoy reading about butterfly life cycles. A young girl wants to keep the pretty butterfly in her room. One day it comes up missing ! Where did it go?

Daniel Ellis was a Unionist East Tennessean during the Civil War. An exiled fugitive for participating in bridge burning, he took to guiding escaped prisoners, southern deserters, slaves, and all manner of refugees through the mountains to the Union lines. He eventually became captain of Company A in the 13th Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U.S.A.

"Thrilling Adventures" is Ellis' memoir, recounting the brutal hardships he had to endure during his years on the run. Written shortly after the war, it is tainted by his still-burning fury toward the Confederacy. The book has been criticized for perceived exaggerations, but its true excesses are in its narrative style, full of classical allusions and long-winded melodrama -- elements long since gone out of fashion.

Given its faults in narrative and Ellis' understandable lack of objectivity, the book is an accurate account of life in southern Appalachia during the Civil War. The region in that era is receiving increasing attention, most notably in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain (which acknowledges Ellis' Thrilling Adventures) and Cameron Judd's Mountain War trilogy...

A good book for a young adult girl reader. I enjoyed this one but It wasn't so good that I would read it twice. It was pretty interesting though. I recommend it if you have read and enjoyed any other springsong books. Tiffany is a likable character and once you begin to read about her you will want to continue to read and finish the book to find out what happens with her and the docter!

I reviewed this book for the American Statistician in 1994. The book provides extensive coverage of time series methodology without being overly theoretical. The authors are well versed on the topic as they have published on it in the statistical literature. They avoid delving into the difficult theory by sketching out the mathematics, present the key theorems and refer the reader to other sources for rigorous details. They provide a broad treatment of both the time and frequency domain approaches to time series analysis. It is at the level of an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level course. Still there is more coverage of the time domain.

Traditional time domain models including exponential smoothing and moving averages are introduced first. The ARMA models and Harvey's structural models are treated as special cases of the state space models. They introduce many parameter estimation procedures but make the key point that many of them are simply useful approximations to the maximum likelihood estimates. They discuss applications with reference to the software packages MINITAB and SYSTAT (now owned by SPSS Inc.).

My criticism of it is with regard to omissions. They talk about the NAG libraries but neglect IMSL. The routines in SPlus that were available at the time of publication of the book were also overlooked. They also overlooked the recent advances on detecting outliers in time series as was covered in the 1984 2nd edition of "Outliers in Statistical Data" by Barnett and Lewis. Further work can now be found in the 3rd edition of the Barnett and Lewis book that came out in 1995. Although forecasting (or prediction) is perhaps the most important application of time series methodology, it is also worthwhile in a book like this intended for engineers and other practitioners that other applications be discussed. Discrimination is one such topic. Certain time series (e.g. radar signals) must be detected and discriminated from noise and then further identified by type. In biomedical applications a patient's electroencephalogram or electrocardiagram are routinely studied to look for abnormalities that could indicate neurological or heart diseases respectively. Shumway covers this well in his book "Applied Statistical Time Series" published in 1988 and more examples can be found in his 2000 book "Time Series and Its Applications" coauthored with David Stoffer. There they look at the interesting problem of discriminating between earthquake activity and nuclear explosions. New methods involving wavelet transforms are now used. This is discussed in the Shumway and Stoffer book and in detail in the new book on Wavelets by Percival and Walden.

Chapters 6-12 are somewhat lacking in exercises while chapters 1-5 provide enough exercises for class homework. A course based on this text would benefit from additional exercises and some case studies provided by the instructor. Also new material developed in the last 8 years should be covered in such a course.

Some mention of Bayesian methods is given in chapter 6 with particular reference to the book by West and Harrison. Additional developments have been published in the last 8 years including additional articles and books by Mike West and his coauthors.

In the latter part of the nineteenth century, the United States Government initiated a plan to assimilate Indians into Anglo society by forcing Indian children to attend reservation boarding schools. These schools attempted to "civilize" Native Americans, teaching them the Anglo-American culture, and therefore preventing the Indians, as Clyde Ellis states, "from returning to the blanket." To Change Them Forever studies education on the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in western Oklahoma at the close of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. Ellis uses research, personal memoirs, official school records, and interviews to give the reader an insight into life at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School. He describes a myriad of problems encountered by the school's superintendents. The author examines curriculum, social life, and educational process while exposing years of governmental neglect. Ellis also evaluates the impact of United States Indian policy upon the Kiowa children attending the school. The author contrasts the Rainy Mountain School with schools at Ft. Sill, Riverside, and other sites scattered across the nation. He reveals their constant lack of funds; this financial neglect by the Bureau of Indian Affairs would create inadequate facilities, teacher shortages, and lead to serious illnesses for those in the boarding school. The school also had problems keeping its administration and faculty due to the extremely poor facilities. Even with all its problems, as Ellis points out, Rainy Mountain never lacked students. Although many reservation schools throughout this period had attendance problems, the Rainy Mountain School did not. While other schools maintained their student bodies by forcibly removing children from their families, the Kiowas eagerly sent their children for an education. When the Rainy Mountain Boarding School closed in 1920, the Kiowa Indian Nation protested unsuccessfully. Ellis does a masterful job! in explaining that Rainy Mountain and the government boarding schools across the nation simultaneously succeeded and failed. They taught students English and trained them in various trades, but they failed in their efforts to transform the Indian students. In describing the impact of the school's attempt to change him, one man said, "They couldn't, I didn't let that happen. People all the time asking me who I am. Who am I? I am Kiowa." Well-documented and well-researched, this book is a welcome addition to the study of Indian Education. Ellis' interviews with former students of Rainy Mountain add depth and insight to this well-written book. This monograph fills a need for a detailed study of the reservation boarding schools utilized by the government to "civilize" the Indians. It will be of special interest to those studying Kiowa History, Indian Education, and the impact of the government assimilation programs of the early twentieth century.

Why this book is out of print

This delightful novel marks another triumph for Monique Ellis. The characters are likeable and fun as are the adventures in the book. This book had two slight drawbacks: (1) too much of the book was spent on the adventurous parts compared to the developing romance, which made the latter improbable; (2) the long-suffering patience of the heroine was stretched too much (I wanted to do violence to several of the villians and couldn't believe the heroine's foreberance). However, on the whole, this book is a keeper.

I have been researching moving SGML documents to the Web, and this book provided a comprehensive coverage of this topic. The authors lay out the various approaches to converting SGML to HTML and give the positive and negative aspects of each. Although the book is geared towards SGML/HTML implementations, it also gives a good description of SGML (in particular DTDs). I recommend Using SGML to anyone who needs to understand SGML and porting SGML documents to the Web.

This is a provocative exploration of the gains and losses sustained by the kibbutz movement in relation to Israel's tumultuous history and fragmented culture. The author, who has experienced years of communal life as both a kibbutz member and now a moshavnik, has a great deal to say about ideology, continuity, and the fragile dream of the Zionist communal movement. A well-written and exciting collection of stories.

The first thing that made me want to read the book, other than the title, was that is was unbelievably short. After reading it, I was impressed with how much the information made sense and how easy it would be to try. I have a low class this year and decided to give the Whole to Part theory a chance. I was very impressed to see my students making connections after only one week. Many of my students do not speak Englis as a first language so I wasn't sure how well this would work. My students are enjoying learning to read this way and feel very successful, even my special education students. I will be using this information for a long time to come. Many teachers I work with have seen my success and are interested in reading this book and trying it for themselves.

Thanks, Marilyn V.