This book is THE BOOK to consult when it comes to Spanish idioms. It is the best among all others. The book is very well organized; alphabetically, guide words appear at the top of the page and for each word, there is an English translation and after that appear idioms that contain that word. There is an English translation for each idiom, and each idiom is used in a Spanish sentence, which is also then translated in English. At the end there is a list of common English idioms, with a Spanish equivalent and the page where it is found. It is a steal!

For those young people out there who want to read a Spider-man book rather than a comic book. Excellent quality photo-animation pictures and graphics accompany approximately twelve sentences per page. I enjoyed this book more than I did the movie. A must have for any young fan. Grades 4-8

This book helps you dive into Eugene O'Neill's work and life, letting you inside him while he wrote his plays. A must have for any serious O'Neill fan.

These stories were an important part of my early adulthood and my children's development into thinking adults. They entertain by inducing the audience to "entertain the ideas." Reading these stories (or having them read to you) is no passive experience and can yield great rewards in the joy of thinking. I believe the works of this series to be healthy mind food that eat like ice cream! I want these for my granddaughter and my second childhood. Please repint them...and in hardcover, heirloom editions. Even at twice the price, I would buy half-a-dozen.

Jerusalem: Portrait Of The City In The Second Temple Period (538 B.C.E. - 70 C.E.) by Professor Lee I Levine (Department of History and the Institute of Archeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is a superbly written, organized and presented historical and archaeological survey of just about all that modern study and science have gathered about Jerusalem, its temples, and the historiography and archaeologically based evidence that points to how people once lived and worshiped there. A welcome and very strongly recommended addition to World History, Biblical Archaeology, and Judaic Studies reference shelves, Jerusalem: Portrait Of The City In The Second Temple Period (538B.C.E. - 70 C.E.) is a straightforward, accessible text which is enhanced throughout with black-and-white photographs.

This is simply a beautiful book about the illustrator Jessie Wilcox Smith. Eugene Mitchell (Gene Mitchell on the book cover) has captured the charm of this special artist. It includes not only a biography, but an autobiography in Smith's own words about her experiances painting children. The full color illustrations are beautiful enough to frame. Since it is out of print, and if you can find a used one, grab it, this is a book that Jessie Wilcox Smith admirers don't want to miss. My only regret is that the Mitchell didn't do further books as promised in this one.

The vast majority of those who speculate in commodity futures - despite occasional large gains - overall lose large sums of money, even though many of them spend hundreds of dollars on "winning" chart, computer, and advisory services. But thanks to Eugene Nofri, now you can be one of the few who consistently rack up big profits. From the day he joined the Chicago Board of Trade, Mr. Nofri was determined to develop a method of predicting commodity price movements. After years of experimentation, trial and error, he finally succeeded with his CONGESTION PHASE SYSTEM, to our knowledge one of the most profitable trading system ever devised.

This limited edition reveals all the details his of his remarkable method. Based on the pressures and counter pressures of buying and selling which occur every day in the marketplace, the CONGESTION PHASE SYSTEM enables you to forecast with amazing accuracy when a commodity is about to change direction. The result: you have an edge when to get in and out fast for big percentage profits often in just a couple of days.

The key is recurring patterns that appear at least 75% of the time during market congestion-both in uptrends and downtrends. The repetitive occurrence of these phases and the predictable price movements that immediately follow are what give the Congestion Phase its incredible reliability.

This system of trading builds your profits three ways:
1. You see when to day trade for quick profits.
2. It signals when to get out of a position already held.
3. It confirms you should get into the market (or warns you to keep out) when some other system indicates a potentially profitable move is about to begin.

Mr. Nofri explains what Congestion Phases are all about, with easy-to-read text and charts you can master in a single evening. He gives you a new and simplified way to chart closing prices in just minutes a day, shows you how to identify a period of market congestion, and immediately spot which phase "your commodities" are in. Because you trade only in congestion periods, you can not only make sizeable profits, you are protected against large losses brought about by getting caught in a straightaway move against you. The system telegraphs coming changes in direction so you automatically close out positions with your profits intact.

A recent Commodity Exchange Authority survey shows that over a period of nine years, only 25% of the speculators surveyed had a net profit. Mr. Nofri's system not only provides the opportunity for giant-sized gains, it protects you from major loss. That's why Mr. Nofri's exclusive Congestion Phase System may well be the most priceless revelation of the century for the commodity trader. Perry Kaufman, in his landmark, best selling "Trading Systems and Methods", had this to say about Nofri's congestion phase system: "The congestion phase system can stand alone as a short term trading method or can be used to complement any longer technique. An assumption of 75% (probability of success) is reasonable."

Yet it's so easy to use you'll wonder why nobody ever devised such a system before (perhaps nobody before Mr. Nofri ever had the patience to spend half a lifetime developing it).

I have been working in reliability and quality of electronic and electro-mechanical systems and components for over 20 years. According to my experience, cost-effective and technically adequate qualification of new complex products takes almost the same time as their initial design. Normally, proper stresses reveal faults, which have to be analyzed, fixed and verified through the new test. Because of inherently long duration of regular reliability tests, a product under qualification may enter the market too late. On the other hand, improper assessment may mislead a manufacturer, vendors and designers resulting in catastrophic field failures, loss of contracts and reputation. Finally, cost of modern qualifications became rather high and nobody wants to waste money due to a wrong or ineffective approach. Therefore, efficient accelerated tests followed by proper failure analysis and corrective actions become mandatory for any industry.

In my opinion, the book of Lev and Eugene Klyatis fill in a gap in accelerated test methodology related to complex machinery, especially in transportation. The book provides modern comprehensive and practical approach to this topic based on extremely broad international and US experience. It combines scientific introduction into the test organization, failure physics, statistical estimates with a rather detailed practical description of environmental laboratory stressing. One can find not just concepts, but recommendations regarding simulation of field conditions in a lab, test equipment and setups, combination of technically most efficient and cost-effective stresses. A number of well-conceived life-on examples, reference tables and pictorial summaries provide condense guidance and ease digesting of this complex topic. Correct implementation of the authors' approach expedites time-to-market of new products, provides tangible saving, and improve quality and reliability of new and existing systems.

I highly recommend this manuscript to reliability and quality professionals, R&D and manufacturing engineers working in machinery-related industries, especially in transportation. I believe that this book may be successfully used in order to train appropriate college students with majors in quality, manufacturing and design engineering and management. The book is certainly useful during continuous education program.

My kids love Super Surf! It's great having so many websites my kids love in one handy, esy-to-use place - and all kid-safe and kid-friendly. I highly recommend this book to parents and grandparents: You'll love surfing the net with the kids! It's great, a truly unique interactive book with lots of fun stuff and educational websites too.

According to Fish, "Paradise Lost" operates according to a mechanism of rhetorical indirection that works on all rhetorical levels, from depiction of character to deployment of tropes. Milton wants to show us how our fallen state corrupts and distorts our responses to poetry and instruction; the poem is constructed as a series of interlocking traps for the reader, who is lured into reacting in tempting but "wrong" ways to tropes ("with serpent error wandering") and characters (the apparently admirable Satan and his cohorts, the apparently tyrannical and odious God). The chapter on the poetics of prelapsarian Eden ("In Wandering Mazes Lost," I think it's called) is a masterpiece. Fish backs this all up with plenty of solid research into the theological doctrines Milton was known to endorse or was likely to have been familiar with.

This approach to Milton was regarded as radical when the book first came out, rather oddly, since Milton's tactics of indirection had already been noted by several critics, though not foregrounded as here. What's new is the thoroughness and clarity of the treatment, and Fish's sheer intelligence as a reader. This is criticism at its best: lucid, engaging, responsible, illuminating.