This book is definitely a great mystery for kids, since its main characters are kids our age, and the topic isn't too heavy. It has some humor in it, and the characters are easy to relate to. Also, the narrator shares his opinions with the reader, which makes you more empathetic with the characters. I'd definitely read more of the series.

Crash! Bam! Whizz! Clatter! The Four Flying Fingers are back, only this time the little boys are not coming as suspects, they actually have a case for the McGurk Detective Organization. They want to hire the detectives to clear them from false charges. A case that has stumped the police for many years, a rambling old house has been the target of mysterious attacks. Windows have been broken but who is the attacker? Is it the work of a Slinghost Shiper, or are Evil Forces at work? It's up to ten-year-olds McGurk and his partners Willie, Wanda, Joey and Brains to crack the case!

I just love the McGurk mysteries, though I have only two ("The Case of the Slingshot Sniper" and "The Case of the Condemned Cat"). I wish the books weren't so hard to find. It's lots of fun for both younger kids and older kids and also the plot pretty well thought out, too. Don't miss out on the McGurk mysteries!

I had been reading Cavafy's poetry for a rather long time before picking up Keeley's book. The book has opened up new aspects of the poetry I didn't discover while reading consciously. For example, Keeley notes the myth-making drama of Alexandria (both ancient and modern) that Cavafy created over a span of 20 years.

Toward the end of the book, Keeley outlines modern criticism of Cavafy's work and attempts to show the genius that Cavafy is.

I purchased this book in 1994. It got me started in the investigation business and I keep it handy on the top shelf of my bookshelf.
It is a wonderful guide to start you out and then you'll keep coming back to it when something redflags your memory saying, "Didn't I read that in Ed Pankau's book?"

Both me and my wife have been reading this book regularly to understand our children better. It is both interesting and practical. What I like best about it is that its recommndations as to how to raise children are mostly based on experience and research, not on anyone's opinions.

And one more thing: my two-year-old daughter LOVES the pictures inside!

I found this book to be a very informative guide to the history and ethnology of the Chippewa of Wisconsin and Michigan's Western Upper Penninsula over a period of 300 years. The extensive interviews shows Dr. Danzinger did his homework. I was pleased at his consistent noting of the survival mechanisms and postive attitudes of this select group who are a still growing part the largest tribe (Anishinabe or Ojibwe) of Indians in North America. The footnotes and bibliography offer the reader excellent resources for further study. I look forward to another volume. Megwetch.

Specific suggestions and tips help teachers solve common organization and management problems *Case studies at the elementary level provide teachers with realistic expectations of what they will encounter in the classroom and how to deal with a wide range of different situations. *Case studies give teachers real-world examples on managing cooperative learning, literature-based and whole-language learning, and inclusion classroons. *The authors have increased the coverage of diversity in student populations and have added new suggestions for working with special needs students.

I use this book as the text for one of my classes at Vanderbilt University. The students always love it. It is one of the most practical textbooks that I have seen. This book contains everything beginning teachers need to make a smooth and effective start on their journey as a teacher.

The book "Claude Kirk and the Politics of Confrontation" is an extremely interesting view of an interesting man, warts and all. A conservative Florida Governor who was honest and extremely blunt, he was probably the last politician in recent history to leave office less financially affluent than when he entered political life. He shot from the hip and didn't watch to see a windsock of read the latest opinion poll. Sometimes he was right and sometimes he was wrong, but he always took responsibility for his actions.

His sense of humor sometimes bordered on the bizarre. He once showed up for a campaign speech on horseback and loved to play jokes on the press that were not always well taken. Once he baited the press and had them hang around all day for an important announcement. After hours of wading through mundane business that did not interest them, he announced: 'And now for the important announcement, our astronauts will now carry real Florida orange juice into space instead of Tang!'

The book is insightful and illustrates the never-dull life of a colorful politician.

Traditionally, MTV has held the monopoly on what's hip in the music world, but recently, VH1, MTV's network rival, has claimed ratings ground with its award-winning show, "Behind the Music," which chronicles the beginnings of the great rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s and which is watched religiously by those of us who spent much of our formative years listening to the Rolling Stones and Bad Company (in contrast to today's youth, who prefer the gastronomically-named and oddly-spelled Eminem and Limp Bizkit). In Colin's Campus, as in "Behind the Music," Gary Bouchard, a scholar of the English Renaissance, recounts a crucial yet hitherto unexplored feature of the English Renaissance pastoral: pastoralists' "backward glance" at their university days for literary inspiration. Bouchard posits that Edmund Spenser, Phineas Fletcher, and John Milton, the early modern authors who are the focus of Bouchard's analysis, incorporate aspects of Cambridge life in their poetry. Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender, Fletcher's Piscatorie Eclogues, and Milton's Lycidas wax lyrical on collegiate fellowship, rivalry, poverty, sexuality, and "inheritance" or imitation of previous pastoralists: Theocritus, Virgil, and Sannazaro. Bouchard's argument, however, is not limited to tracing the Renaissance poets' nostalgia for the lost worlds of the campus; Bouchard also describes the poets' realization that they have outgrown student sensibilities, that their re-creation of the campus superimposes mature views of the future. Hence, Colin's Campus possesses an analytical comprehensiveness that does full justice to the complexity of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century pastoral and to the canon of early modern literature. Also, it must be noted that apart from the absorbing and cloistered subject matter of Colin's Campus, Bouchard's finely tuned prose is to be praised. In fact, every sentence of Colin's Campus appears to be carefully crafted for clarity. At a moment in English studies when literary criticism is often weighed down with theoretical jargon and maze-like explications, Bouchard's examination is highly readable and recommended for specialists and non-specialists alike. Readers will enjoy Bouchard's wit and humor, as in the following sentence, which endeavors to explain Colin Clout's unrequited love in The Shepheardes Calender through the words of the irrepressible Mick Jagger: Bouchard writes, "As for Colin's romantic venture with Rosalind, we learn little apart from the standard Petrarchan predicament: he's so hot for her; she's so cold."