The most beautifully illustrated children's book I have yet to experience. My daughter is enthralled. Also, a delightful story. I highly recommend it.

This is a terrific book. My dad bought it for me after I finished my first year in college. It is filled with wonderful essays geared toward the general public on a wide range of interesting topics

the ethical implication regarding children are complex, and thomas murray discusses them in a way that is so wonderful - it makes me want to be his child.

I stumbled on the first edition of this book in the late seventies while I was preparing to teach a college course in how to teach writing for English and education majors. I don't know about my students but the book transformed my teaching.

This book covers the hows and whys of teaching writing as a process rather than as a product. It comes from a very active publishing writer who writes very well and knows how to teach, even through his very words on the page. From discoverying what to write about, to focusing on an audience, to accomplishing one's purpose from writing, Murray's book is not only instructive in its presentation but is also an excellent model for audience, purpose, and the processes a writer can use to accomplish his/her goals. Revision is Murray's forte. He believes it to be the key to successful writing.

"A Writer Teaches Writing" assumes that the teacher writes. Certainly, Murray does, and so well that all other books on the subject are ecllipsed by this masterpiece.

In my middle years of elementary school, my language arts teachers required us all to purchase the "Writer's Almanac". I fell in love with the easy to understand text, colorful pictures, and thorough explanations of ALL kinds of writting. I am now in high school and, while not for the colorful images, I value this resource just as highly. I never begin reports without my "Writer's Almanac" at hand. It's charts, graphs, and appendicies are invalueable to me, even now. The cover is almost worn off of mine! This is a must buy for anyone - elementary school students, high school students, college students, and professionals.

The Writer's Legal Guide is an invaluable reference for published and unpublished writers alike. Relevant and significant areas of the law are explained in helpful and easy to understand terms. This book is essential to dealing successfully with the business side of publishing, as all writers must at some point in their careers. Learn your rights and responsibilities as a writer, become knowledgeable about Copyright and First Amendment law, and be prepared to handle publishers and agents. The Writer's Legal Guide is well prepared to be your "guide".

We have been using this software for past three years. It is one of the best software we used so far. It is very simple and easy to use. It is extremely useful for designing experiments for screening the variables (both process and product variable) and for optimization. It covers several experimental designs. It gives polynomial equations and main effects that relate variables and factors. In general it is a very good software for research and applications

Siegel jump starts your journey down the path to radio sales enlightenment ... Grasshopper, heed the words of the Grand VibeMaster and you will have a very successful career. Lots of visuals that illustrate the Rules of the Game ... a must read for the new hire and a great refresher for someone stuck in the slow sales lane.

This text is basically a new, up-to-date version of the 1st edition of Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine (which is out of print and difficult to come by). For that reason I think it is wonderful.
I do think the editor's review is slightly misleading because there is very little information regarding specific diagnoses and their treatments. Instead there are lists of diseases which different species are prone to getting and formulary charts for the different species. If you want detailed information about a specific disease, diagnostics, and various treatment options, this book is not ideal.
What this book is great for: species biology, husbandry, basic zoo medicine...

Ok for starters I didn't expect to enjoy this book, and also I did what many very bad people do and I watched the film before I read the book. I thought the film was great until I read the book and then I realised that the raw sexuality of the text could ony come through in novel form. I adore the way Anne Rice decribes the taking of blood she does it without shame in the way that every other... book I've ever read describes a passionate... encounter. Claudia made me cry, she was so mixed up, without the experience of being treated as an adult, she had to stay a precosious child with a wise old woman's mind and somehow a woman's sex drive, her lust poured through the pages in the same way as Lestats like a thumping pulse. Louis, sweet innocent Louis who should never have been a vampire appreciated evey emotion he felt much ,more deeply than the other characters in the book, and analysed every thing said to him, I fell in love with him. If I met him I'd without hesitation agree to be his eternal partner. Never have I fallen in love with a book so deeply since Flowers in the attic. Pease read this book!

Growing up, reading books was quick and simple, but as time went on I grew up, and it became an awful school assignment, and I hated it.
Now, with a much re-newed love to read, thanks to Anne Rice, and her glorious story of Interview with the Vampire, I look forward to sitting with a good book.
Interview is a wonderfully written, and massively creative piece of art in words. In the words of Louis, the beloved main character, he leads the reader through many passages and times with his haunting and hypnotic stories of Paris, Claudia, his quest to find vampires with answers, and his beloved brother. Accompanied by Lestat, the vampire who gave him the "dark gift", he describes his hatred for immortality, and questions the existence of God, the Devil, love and loneliness.
From start to finish, Louis will captivate you with his mystery, and his ongoing journey for meaning.

I was completely absorbed by this enthrallingly thought and provoking tale of the travels of Louis Pointe du Lac and the vampire Lestat. The way the story is told by Louis is so different. The 18th-century setting is vividly described, so that pictures are intricately painted in your mind. The story line is such a classical original which delves into deeply emotional and morale aspects of life and death. This story for me brings to mind a saying I once hear which I believe to be true. This saying goes along the lines of 'You had better really want what you want, because you might just get it!'

All of the characters are intense, especially the tortured Louis who is refreshingly feeling and regretfully of immortal lot. As you read the story and learn more about Louis, you come to discover a passionate killer who is desparately trying to resist his cold blooded instincts. You can visualise Louis's eternal pain in his struggle to save the small piece of his soul that remains. In the character Louis, you can sense a feeling of total and utter isolation and frustration, because of his display of emotions to those who cannot comprehend them.

Lestat is the perfect contrasting character to Louis. He is cold, calculating, oblivious self-obsessed and evil to the core. Claudia is a fascinating character as you roll through the story, and see her maturing from the innocent child victim who is chillingly preyed upon by Lestat, to the cunning and rebellious young woman who comes to the shocking realisation of her fate. Claudia's growing rage and discontent builds deliciously to fever pitch. These characters are all thrust into a 'red hot cauldron'of fascinting travels and murderous conquests throughout the years.