I have been taking an intensive second year latin course, and we have used quite a few book during the class. This is by far the best for enabling you to learn to read latin that hasn't been made up specifically for students.

Each page contains 4-8 lines of latin, which are numbered every 5 lines. This takes about a third of the page. The rest of each page is left for extensive notes on the latin. The notes include unusual vocabulary, historical notes, translation of unusual phrases, and explainations of constructs used. For example it points out instances of chiasmus, which are arrangments of words in an ABBA pattern. This kind of thing is very useful because it allows you to get used to the unusual but regular word ordering that is found in latin poetry. One other thing I especially liked about the notes is that they always gave a full dictionary entry when saying what a word means (so you can then determine by the morphology what role the word is playing).

The book also has several other sections. First is a question and answers section which is a good place to check when anything is confusing you. It will point show what selected words and clauses are doing in a sentance, what they're modifying, disambiguate cases, etc. There are sections on different uses and terms related to meter, as well as figures of speech common in poetry. The final feature is one of the most useful....a dictionary with every single word used throughout the book. It is much faster to look a word up here rather than in a complete dictionary, and it provides the meaning that is most likely to be used in the context of the poems.

Overall, this is a great book.

The books put out by Bolchazy-Carducci are wonderful for students and teachers to use as they prepare for the AP tests. The book includes commentary and a glossary of terms that the author uses in the poems. A short biography is at the beginning.

The legends and folk lore embodied in the culture and values of Pacific island peoples are showcased in Pacific Island Legends, a single, easy to read volume that is beautifully illustrated with the woodcut images of Connie J. Adams. Educators Bo Flood, Beret Strong, and William Flood have successfully collaborated to present forty-four legends from all over the Pacific, serving to provide cultural access that will be appreciated by scholars and non-specialist general readers alike. Pacific Island Legends is a highly recommended addition to any personal, academic, or public library multicultural myth, legend and folklore reference collection.

For me it was easy as I am already fascinated by English history, architecture and the land. This book is wonderful! It has breathtaking color photographs of such variety it truly captures the rugged, changing and multiple landscapes of a gorgeous country. This would be a perfect book for your coffee table. The photographs are of high quality and clarity and the authors do a wonderful job of evoking all kinds of emotions from the lonely, dark feelings of northern Yorkshire to the jubilant colorful lifeforce of the coastal towns of southern England. The sheer chalk cliffs of the southeast of England are perfectly captured. Ample justice is made to capturing all that this wonderful country has to offer from the cold to the warm weather, the wet to the even more wet! Light and dark combine to produce a powerful visual image that makes this book one to keep for a rainy day to look at and fall into a dreamlike state. I loved every page!

The authors allow the readers to take a close look into the history of electoral socialism....Highly recomended to political science students & others who wish to know more aboute the intriding world of politics.

I purchased this book b/c I am looking to get into the trucking industry. After I received this book, I was pleased. This book is well-layed out and describes all aspects of the trucking industry and CDL requirements. Each chapter is followed by a series of questions and the authors give tips throughout the book for passing CDL exams. Includes all endorsements, and the book was published in 2001, so you know it is not out-dated. Overall, I am satisfied with the contents and hope to get into the industry.

I scored in the 87th percentile on Step 1 and credit much of my above-average performance to this series. The author seems very in tune with what's important for the boards. Lots of great info presented in the way it was asked about on my exam. Strongly recommend every book in the series, but particularly the pathology volumes. Check these out!

This book is marvelous, it's fun, useful, easy to use and so resourceful. It includes 25 poems organized in 5 topics and for every poem there is a thematic web with activities for language arts, math, social studies, science, art, music, health, cooking and physical education. The plans are explained step by step and all resources have granted permission for copying them. I say a must for kindergarden teachers!

I've always loved the more literary espionage novels, like those written by John Le Carre or Graham Greene; but for more purely escapist reading, I've enjoyed few books as much as Adam Hall's Quiller novels. Of these, "The Peking Target," remains a personal favorite (esp. since I was studying karate when I first read it). Few authors do as good a job of entering into, and involving the reader in the borderline insanity of an action hero's mind. Even fewer did a comparable job of describing a hand-to-hand fight scene from that same perspective (Quiller never used a gun, and both the author and character were long-time karateka). Adam Hall's Quiller books were really great fun and I'd love to see them back in print some day. If you like straight ahead action with a degree of psychological depth, try a Quiller novel (if you can find one) try it (and remember to tell me where you got it).

this book isn't normally something I would pick out for myself, my grandfather gave it to me. after reading it though, I understood a bit more about my grandfather as well as being a southerner. as young native of a big southern city, I gained a new respect for life in a small town, although I still love the conveniences of city life. you can tell that the author very fondly remembers those years and that town. almost makes me hope that I will remember atlanta as fondly someday.