As a teacher of middle-grade science (and other subjects), I found this book to be truly useful. The activities are easy to do and almost always successful.

"Flywater" contains voluptuous shots of sport's top waterbodies in the West and has helped me make it through several dreary winters in the Pacific Northwest. The photography and layout is top-notch and you soon get the feeling that you would've given ANYTHING to have been one of the folks involved with putting this package together. Just be sure to wear a bib when looking inside so you don't make indelible drool marks on the pages!

A great concept, professionally executed, that belongs on every serious flyfisher's bookshelf. I'd LOVE to have the photos available on CD ROM as a screensaver...

Mark

A true gem for the serious investor who want practical advise on how to use an economic profit framework to value a company and how economic profit factors drive stock prices. In this current investing climate this book is a must for anyone who wants to mitigate risk and increase reward in their investment decisions.

The haunts in this novel are both natural and supernatural. All the characters must confront their deepest fears and only the strongest survive. Will give you chills on even the hottest of summer days.

This book is thorough and comprehensive in scope. It tells you exactly what you need to know to apply for a grant from the many organizations it lists. A good measure of its worth is that it's in its 11th update.

This book instills the reality that when women are strong, courageous and great leaders, they are not acting like men, they are acting like.... women! Did you know that a woman did just what Paul Revere did? Also, it points out the enormous contribution of running households, farms and schools, and manufacturing textiles, food supplies, etc. to the creation of our country. I had my teenage daughter read it over the summer and she enjoyed it. Recommended for boys or girls.

I have had the game for a while, and only recently purchased the book to get some pointers. Without reading any one section in its entirity, I am now able to get much farther in the game and have found information I had not previously discovered. The book is very readable, and designed so that you do not have to get a complete solution to the game if you wish only for help on a sticking point. I highly recommend this book be kept on hand if you have the game. I can honestly say that this book has raised my enjoyment of the game 100%.

Generally when a book (especially movies) is first released, all is well with the world. Then there is a second, or sometimes a third, etc and the reader starts to feel like he is getting a well-watered down version of the original. Friction 6 is a real rule breaker, however. The stories in this collection are even fresher and more original that the book's five predecessors. The stories are vibrant and alive and sometimes downright nasty, but they are also thought-provoking and, most importantly, entertaining. Bob Vickery's School Queer will have every (gay) man re-thinking his high school past and his story, Escorts, rethinking the stigma of hiring an escort. Simon Sheppard's The Glorious Fourth makes every other gay man's Independence Day celebrations pale by comparison and T. Hitman's Clean Shorts will have you visiting the Laundromat once gain, even if you have a fine washer and dryer at home. With 39 stories in all, you're sure to find something in this book to quicken your pulse.

Some readers are apprehensive about Michael Grant because the adjective "prolific" so often precedes his name. Whether or not you've read his other 70 books, this is a great work which, in little over 300 pages, takes us into the heart of the Hellenistic world. The period "Alexander to Cleopatra" is often treated as bookends marking the ending and resumption respectively of interesting periods; the interregnum punctuated only by obscure wars between Ptolemites and Selucids. But, as Grant recalls, the Hellenstic period saw Greek culture spread from Egypt to Central Asia and marked new heights in art, mathematics sculpture and literature. Moreover, without understanding the Hellenistic world, it is well nigh impossible to understand the history behind the New Testament - much of which was written in Greek. Maybe it is the very success of the Alexandrian conquests in spreading Greek culture which leads historians to look down their noses at this period - as if the popularization of Hellenic thinking somehow represents a debasement of the coinage. Well illustrated, too.