Our daughter recently visited the E/R herself. She identified with the characters in this well written book. It has a straight forward approach that even toddlers understand. The illustrations are plentiful and clear. A wonderful book for learning about hospitals.

I was always fond of reading the book as a small child, engrossed in the beautiful illustrations and unique stories. These aren't fairy tales, they're moon tales.

Well, recently I found another version at the library and checked it out. It was still great! I am loving it even after all of these years.

If you like Asia, or are just in for a breathtaking book -- well written, well drawn, and painted for anyone, then this is the book for you.

I am a faculty member at Dept. of Educational & Counseling Psychology and teaches Statistics for graduate students. I owned several Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) books since I have been using MDS a lot for my own research. I read this book a couple of times for my own research. There are several outstanding aspects compared to other MDS books (e.g., books by Cox & Cox; by Borg and Groenen; and by Young): (1) Davison's MDS book is easy to read, not that much technical and easy to understand the core concepts of MDS; (2) Examples are appropriate. His illustrations really help understand what he covered in each chapter; (3) Davison's comparions of MDS with its alternatives are very meaningful, such as comparions with Factor anaysis and Cluster analysis; (4) Davison's exercises sections are really helpful to make sure whether the users understand materials covered in each chapter. In addition to that, the exercises's solutions for each chapter were attached at the end of each chapter, which is really convenient for us.

In summary, as far as I am concerned, Davison's book is the best for introductory or advanced level students who want to learn about MDS. Excellent book! If you have any further questions regarding Davison's MDS book, please don't hesitate call or contact me: e-mail is 'kimse@missouri.edu' or phone is '573-884-5587.' Thanks.

Se-Kang Kim, Ph.D. 16 Hill Hall, Dept. of Educational & Counseling Psychology, Univ. of Missouri

Columbia, MO 65211

One caveat if you are thinking of buying this edition: this is not the way you should read the story for the first time. However, if you've read it and would like a piece of history to call your own, this is a worthy addition to your library.

I first read 1984 when I was in the seventh grade. It earned me sneers and odd looks from my classmates, but I recognized it for what it is - a warning. This book helped shape my outlook on the world, and particularly on politics. It made me wary of false promises and doubletalk - "newspeak" - something that has unfortunately come true within my lifetime. War is peace, black is white, down is up.

Last year I finally bought a hardcover edition of the standard edition to add to my library. This manuscript is no substitute for a standard edition, in terms of reading at leisure. It has all of the corrections, crossed-out paragraphs (and pages), and the majority of it is in Orwell's own hand (i.e. not typed). To read the story in this form for the first time would be daunting.

Nevertheless I cherish it. I cannot recommend this book highly enough to devotees of Orwell. It occupies a treasured space in my bookcase.

Rapid change has been a characteristic feature of the modern era, and nowhere more so than in Singapore and Malaysia where even the recent past can sometimes seem as remote today as some long-forgotten period that one reads about in history books. In this "ragtag miscellany of autobiographical sketches, potted histories, anecdotes and descriptive vignettes", JULIAN DAVISON looks back forty years to a bygone era that has all but disappeared from view. Skilfully weaving childhood memories with historical fact, Davison has produced a richly embroidered tapestry of life in the tropics before the age of air-conditioning and the Internet. Amahs and kebuns, kampongs and kelongs, railway journeys and voyages by sea -- a litany of vanished sights and sounds, which belong to all our yesterdays.

This book provides introductions to a wide variety of topics in Australian history. It has been edited by three of the most eminent Australian academic historians and many of the entries have been written by experts in their respective fields. The entries themselves deal with events, people, noted historians and current issues in Australian historiography.

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An excellent book in terms of the text and photographic material, this book is small in size and makes it easy to carry around in the field. The text is written in simple English, making the information both precise and concise.Technical terms are kept to the minimum, making it user friendly for both beginners and experienced ornithologists. The description of the identificatory features are brief,focusing only on the important field characteristics. The bird calls and songs are also described fairly accurately, judging from my own personal experience as an experienced amateur field ornithologist here in Peninsular Malaysia. This book compliments the existing field guides in the region. The photographs are excellent in terms of quality and certainly help in the identification of birds since photographs show colour and jizz of the bird accurately, which in some cases may be difficult with line drawings and paintings. It is indeed comendable to note that the majority of the photographs were taken under natural conditions in the wild as the surrounding habitat is also shown. Though some of the birds were photographed in captivity (e.g. the hornbills,partridges and some pheasants), this still serves its purpose for accurate identification. It is a very handy book to have for visiting birdwatchers to Malaysia and Singapore who will find the descriptions and the photographs good. Some of your identification problems may be solved instantly.

The book is a collection of poems by Robert Frost. It combines the collections of A Boys Will, and North of Boston. Many of the poems were about nature, and love. I selected the book because I had read Robert Frost before and I liked his style, and I felt I could relate to some of the poems. Most of them had no riming scheme, and were written in sentences, or stanzas. There was one poem about Blueberries that I particularly enjoyed because I like picking them. I also liked it because some of the poems seemed to have a hidden meaning. I thought that Frost wrote discriptive ad imaginable language. I would recommend it to readers that are older than 13. I would also recommend it to readers who like reading about nature. And finally I would recommend it to anyone who has read Robert frost, and enjoyed his work.

This book contains ALL LYRICS AND TUNES of Robert Burns, as well as the background,history and annotation of every song. To sing these songs is endless joy! A must have for every folk song fan, and for everyone who want to know what the serious study of folk musicology is.