I was just going to read the first few pages of the gift I purchased for an acquaintance that recently lost her husband following a long illness. I couldn't put it down and read the entire book in one sitting! I was fascinated with the story, and the wisdom the author obtained as a result of the tragic challenges presented to her family. I was pleasantly surprised to be comforted with the love shown by others and the growth of their faith in the process. As I finished the book at 1 a.m., I turned off the light next to my bed, but felt totally enlightened with the love of God projected through the heartwarming stories in this inspirational book. Afloat or sinking, this is an excellent guide that would benefit every parent to read.

When tragedies happen in our families, Keeping Your Kids Afloat When it Feels Like You're Sinking offers answers to the questions we all have in times of uncertainty. Through
Cyndi's triumphant journey with her three children as they faced loosing the head of their home, God's never ending faithfulness to His children is revealed. With practical suggestions and real-life examples from other families, readers will find the help they need to carry their children above the rough seas of bitterness to safety and wholeness after the storm.

Have you ever read a book about time travel and just thought it was a good story because it has a pretty basic plot? Let me tell you something about this book. It eats your brain out. You constantly find yourself stopping to think about details of what would happen to the "future you" if this happened to you because he does so much to possibly change his current life. Yet of course, that's a good thing in this case. This book is about a sixteen-year-old kid named J.J. who is an assistant to Professor Poplov who helps him with his projects. While the professor is gone J.J. guesses the code to the security panel on the secret closet where professor Poplov keeps all of his secret projects. He discovers in the closet a time machine. Testing it out he accidentally goes back four years. He stumbles into his old self and is followed to the labs. He from then on calls this him Jacko. Jacko follows him forward to present time where they see strange people on the roof. They rush back six years to warn the professor. While there they run into Mutt. Mutt is J.J. but six years younger. After solving the problem the two older J.J.s go home.
All of the problems in this story came one after another and soon led to the end. I liked the style of writing most of all. The way the author wrote the story is the same way I write. I also liked how it made me think. It kind of confused me sometimes. The last of the story is written from Mutt's point of view. Mutt then begins to rewrite his future in a whole different way. This book really puts readers right in the story.

I remember reading this when I was a kid. I always thought it was a pretty neat book. Time travel is always a cool thing to read about, and this one is pretty good too. One of the best things I remember is writing a letter to the author. She wrote me a full-length letter back! For an 11-year-old kid, that's quite a thrill. I recommend this book for any children's book library.

I read this book under the title "The Mysterious Shrinking House" also. It remains one of my favorite stories of all time! I must have been about 11 when I read it the first time, and I read it over and over. I am buying it now (after searching for it forever!) because I have a 12 year old daughter and I've shared with her how much I love this story. I am going to give her the hardback for Christmas and I hope that it will mean as much to her as it did to me. It's something that I am really excited to have in common with my daughter!

I read this under the title The Mysterious Shrinking House. I was probably around six or seven the first time I read it and I still love this book. Mindy finds an old dollhouse and falls in love with it. It sure looks a lot like Mrs. Bright's old family home which strangely vanished one day way back in 1915. Soon Mindy and lively old Mrs. Bright find themselves dollhouse-sized and that's just the start. A lot of fun from Horse the dog who's hot on his missing owner's trail to the inhabitants of Lilliput U.S.A. A clever and engaging story with a few chuckles along the way.

My boys are into bugs and are crazy about the great color photographs and interesting facts about all kinds of bugs. The book is great for building basic counting skills. All in all a great title...

My son ran across this book and fell in love with it...it combines addition and subtraction skills with fun factual information on insects. I highly recommend it to teachers and parents with children from preschool to grade 3...

I love the disk that comes with the book. It adds user-defined radar library functions to your Excel spreadsheet. No more being in a crunch and having to figure out how to do a calculation. The number of funtions is quite large. The installation instructions are clear, and worked the first time. Once installed, they are as easy to use as any other Excel functions(sum, sin, etc). The equations are viewable and changeable, if you want to change from the 'read-only' protection on the Radar functions library file. I have not had any problems using the functions provided. The book gives background reading on a topic, explains the use of the function, inputs, and outputs, and gives examples. The book and accompanying disk are a nice combination.

First, let me say up front that I have worked with the author, so my opinion is necessarily biased. However, even if I had no association with Mr. Curry, I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to any radar system analyst. With a solid understanding of the topics presented, the reader should be able to systematically analyze the performance of any search, tracking, or MTI radar, even when faced with incomplete information regarding the specifics of the system. The VBA code is useful for making quick spreadsheet calculations, and also provides a valuable resource for validating the implementation of algorithms that are integrated in more elaborate radar system analysis codes. Particularly interesting to me were the chapters detailing performance against jammers and those covering modeling of volume search modes.

The author has also developed a weeklong radar modeling course based on the book material that nicely complements the exposition in the text. I highly recommend the course, as it offers a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with a man whose experience & insight run deep.

I would particularly recommend the book as a follow-up to Toomay's "Radar Principles for the Non-Specialist" for the reader who has developed a qualitative understanding of basic radar concepts and wants to perform quantitative, concrete analysis.

Finally. A well thought out and well executed book about a major movement in American art that is often dismissed as being one dimensional. Dennis' introspective look into the most revered "Regionalist" artists not only offers engaging scholarship, but a very good education in American social history as well. A must read for anyone who thinks they know what "Regionalism" is.

This book makes you rethink any ideas you might have about Regionalism. Whether you agree with James Dennis or not is up to you, but he certainly does bring up some very interesting ideas. The basic ideas of the Regionalism school are initially laid out for the reader, and from this beginning it is already possible to see the weak foundation of the very definition of "Regionalism," as it was defined NOT by the artists, but by their critics and the public. The sterotyping generalities inherent in this 'school' set the stage for Dennis' questioning of the similarities of the work of Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steurat Curry, the triumvirate of Regionalism. The author proceeds to explicate the inherent differences between the 3 artists' work, as well as the eventually obvious flawed general definition of "Regionalism." Dennis breaks down his discussions into realism vs. abstraction, realistic subject matter vs. fantasies, the ideas of nationalism and fascism in the artists' work, their varying depictions of women, and finally compares the three Regionalists to three contemporary modernists, Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, and Marsden Hartley. Dennis concludes with the assertion that the so-called "Regionalists" are in many ways more "modern" than their modernists contemporaries. The book has plenty of pictures, sadly only in black and white, and thus the book is a surprisingly quick read. Each chapter is thorough however, and must be studied to be fully understood. The reader should have some art historical background, and some knowledge of the history of the first half of the 20th century. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Regionalism, and the history of American art. Makes you think.

This book has become our favorite curry cookbook. Every recipe we've tried (and we've tried several) has been challenging, delicious, and fulfilling. I would recommend this book to any curry chef who is feeling adventurous and would like to learn more about the subtle flavors of curries. Our favorite recipe is Akash's Chicken Dhansak Balti. There are several excellent chicken, meat, and fish recipes as well as several vegetarian/vegetable recipes and the authors have included history of the Balti method and balti cooking techniques. Enjoy!

American Impressionists and Realists were farther apart in time than they were in what they painted. In fact, with both groups their art grew out of training in Paris; liking for modern French painting; and building an American art that would support American nationalism by faith in the future, the present, and the good old days. They both went outdoors, to the growing system of parks and places for holiday outings, as in Impressionist William Merritt Chase's brightly colored "Prospect Park, Brooklyn," with its Gustave Caillebotte-type compressed backgrounds, exaggeratedly converging spaces, and splayed foregrounds; and in the rugged "Central Park in winter," where Realist William Glackens painted sharply contrasting light and dark side by side and wavily-formed lively children into vigorously brushworked snowy chill. Both groups chose personally meaningful, over nationally significant, places to paint, as in Impressionist Childe Hassam's "Late afternoon, New York: winter" brilliantly light-touched and delicately paint-stitched in one overall tone and Realist Robert Henri's energetically darker-toned "Street scene with snow." Or historical landscapes, such as "Gloucester harbor" through Impressionist Willard Metcalf's dazzlingly wide-banded high-key color for bright summer sun-lighted skies and under Realist John Sloan's late afternoon powerful glow, low sun-cast strong shadows, and storm clouds over Fauvist-type intensely colored and heavily pigmented industrial cranes and wharves. In fact, they both tended to be city painters, as in Childe Hassam's "Rainy day, Boston," with its "Church of St-Philippe-du-Roule" plunging perspective, empty central foreground, masterly controlled narrow tonal palette, and two streets panoramically joined; and in "Bleeker and Carmine Streets" by Impressionist George Luks, as the intersection for overcrowded immigrant slums, ramshackled cold-water flats, and boardinghouses in heavy impastos and somber palette. Both were also aware of how nature was part of doing business in the city, as in the hothouse flower sales of Childe Hassam's lightly brushed "At the florist" and John Sloan's gritty, realistically colored, and vigorously brushed "Easter eve." Both groups were concerned, too, over how industrialization was changing American life, but with Impressionist J Alden Weir's Willimantic Linen Company's "Factory village" naturally fitting as a picturesque river valley industry in the middle of lushly fresh fields while George Luks hunched his driver over the reins to a horse-drawn "Butcher cart" on a slushily dark Manhattan street. Both cared about how people fit into the changing American life so they likewise went in for portraits, as in William Merritt Chase's "James McNeill Whistler," with the sitter's style of broadly applied paint, low-key palette, and thin washes; and in Robert Henri's "George Luks," with the sitter's coarsely provocative painting style of crudely bold slashing strokes and richly dark colors. Both groups had similar concerns about how people were interacting with each other, as in the children playing at Childe Hassam's privileged "Lake for miniature yachts" under the gaze of near-by adults and at John Sloan's "Backyards, Greenwich Village" around the beckoning responsibilities of hanging laundry. Or as in adult time out, with the music of the James Whistler-type sobre paletted "At the piano" by Impressionist Theodore Robinson and of the Honore Daumier- and Francisco Goya-type exaggeratedly expressive "Spielers" shown frenetically dancing by George Luks. Or with a French-styled drawing viewers into the woman in black's box as a figure leaves the upper left corner box in Impressionist Mary Cassatt's "At the opera" and up along with craning spectators at the acrobat inching along the tightrope in "Hammerstein's roof garden" by William Glackens. Or with a surprising sympathy for the performer passed down from Jean-Antoine Watteau's "Gilles" to William Merritt Chase's hunchbacked jester pouring a bracing drink and John Sloan's harshly lit clown making up. So authors H Barbara Weinberg et al's book, with its gorgeously illustrated and nicely organized text, trailblazes looking at the similarities in the art by the 26 artists participating in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's traveling exhibition on AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM AND REALISM.

This medical reference guide is easy to understand and follow; all symptoms of illnesses are clearly grouped into diagrams/charts that lead you through a set of yes-no questions to lead to probable diagnosis and recommendations for treatment. The illustrations are also excellent. I use my copy all the time and always buy extras to give at wedding and baby showers, Every family should have a copy of this guide.

Aqui, Alla Y Aculla, is an excellent choice for those seeking to learn or perfect their spanish skills. As indicated by the title it is a great aid, especially to those needing help in the areas of spanish conversation and composition. This book was written by a very talented Spanish professor, and his talent comes across in the work. Fausto Vergara has written many other Spanish college textbooks, and I would readily recommend every one of them.