To a grown-up's eye, Benjamin Bunny's colors aren't all accurate. In fact, Peter Rabbits red radishes look a lot like orange carrots. However, this is my 7-month-old's favorite book! It's short, so we actually get through the whole book. It's tough, so she can grab and chew on the pages. But most of all, it's a wonderful size for little baby hands. She carries it all over the house, into the car, and even tries to feed it to the dog. Fortunately, the dog has the sense to simply sniff. You never know what babies are going to like, but she certainly likes this book.

Although this is a useful book, and one frequently cited in bibliographies, Lewis tends to focus on perpetuating a myth (the "Big Four" as robber barrons) rather than substantive biography. It's practically all we have on Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, but far better biographies of C P Huntington are available: David F. Myrick's The Great Pursuader is excellent, and so is Cerinda Evan's Collis Potter Huntington. All three of the published biographies of Leland Stanford are well done, especially Clark's. This is a marginally useful book, but far better biographies of Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, and David Douty Colton need to be written. Lewis' remarks that Crocker in his later years was lethargic and obese are despicable given the Crocker's advanced state of complications from diabeties (which eventually killed him), especially considering that probably no other man in American history ever equalled his genius railroad construction. Buy it but beware its serious ethical shortcumings. -- these are my thoughts from one who has studied Southern Pacific history for nearly three decades.

John Potter, one of the tenors in the Hilliard Ensemble and a lecturer at my university music department in York, is one of the most eclectic and dynamic singers of our time. This collection of essays on the art of vocal music, including two pieces of his own work, is designed to provide students of singing with a useful set of reference points.

If you are a singer, you would certainly do well to consider getting hold of this. Some chapters deal with the mechanics of the voice and the acoustical properties thereof; this can become very technical and indeed is not a pre-requiste for singing, but some of it makes for interesting reading. More interesting are the various chapters on various singing traditions of the world: German lieder, jazz vocals, opera, church and cathedral choirs, singing amongst indiginous cultures of Africa, America and the Far East, singing as part of primary school education. Potter's own contributions include a useful one on ensemble singing that draws heavily on his experience with the Hillard Ensemble; there is also a chapter (translated into English) about choir warm-ups, particular those that are useful for children's choirs. These chapters in particular should be considered invaluable to choir directors as well as to chamber choirs and vocal ensembles seeking to achieve the kind of excellence achieved by the Hilliards. Other contributors to the book include well-known singers and academics such as Stephen Varcoe.

This book is not recommended to the casual reader, however. The overall tone is very academic and it is far better if you are studying singing academically; I have never had a proper singing lesson in my life, but as someone who sings regularly and has an interest in the direction of singing ensembles, I find this book useful to open up from time to time.

Margaret Medley wrote this academically oriented book for the serious collector or connoisseur of Chinese ceramics, but her descriptions and explainations have helped me, a teacher, in understanding the Chinese approach to clay in all of its historic facets. I was fascinated to learn so much about the evolution of porcelain, not to mention the ways of the dragons and emperors!

This short book is the British journalist's story of how she coped with her need to reach above her class. This is a familiar scenario for many Americans: lower middle-class Englishwoman manages, through intelligent marriages and hard-work, to move away from the world of aitches, tea-cosies, tabloids, barc-a-loungers and lottery into the world of velvet-collar riding jackets, carved walking sticks, Barbours and picnic hampers with cristal glasses. She is sometimes insightful, although her non-English readers will often struggle to identify particular people she mentions (she is a tireless name-dropper). Although I'm fascinated by class divisions, this book ultimately disappointed me, because it did not really provide any insight into the English class structure, and particularly into its evolution since the 1950s, when it was still very much an "upstairs-downstairs" sort of thing. If you care about this subject from a less solipsistic (if American) perspective, read Paul Fussell's "Class". If you want to read Ms Lee-Potter's book, get the paperback version when it comes out, or borrow it from someone else. He won't miss it.

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This teeny tome (it measures 3.5 by 3.5 inches) is the perfect pocket-sized primer of used (and abused) proverbs and sayings, bastardized by some famous folks to suit their own applause-getting needs. Think Roseanne: "The fastest way to a man's heart is through his chest." Think Rhonda Boozer: "A bird in the hand is dead." Think John Lennon: "Beauty is in the eye of the newt and a hair of the dog." (Huh?) Think Dorothy Parker: "Don't put all your eggs into one bastard." Think Woody Allen: "TB or not TB, that is the congestion." Mae's here, as is Lenny and Groucho and W.C. It's a shame the cover is so misleading: "Do unto others ... then run" was muttered by Benny Hill, but Groucho. Here, the book ain't on the Marx.

It is a brief review based on my past memory when I saw the book on the desk of a professor, a colleague at University of Tenessee, Knoxville.The book, Dynamic Models in Physics is a good reference book to improve upon similiar courses in physics departments, particularly for second year physics undergraduates who have completed two semesters of a calculus based introductory physics, and are about to start in a year or two an instruction in Goldstein level of mechanics. I can use the book gainfully even in my own course of a 300 level mechanics course, and if book can be seamlessly adopted to excell spreadsheet, can seve as a companion textbook.

I may have to leave now, and probably i will write a more candid review if i have the book on my desk. I am taking this opportunity to request the authors if they can rush a copy to me. I remember vaguely that the book has a good coverage on normal mode analysis that i use in my diffraction based simulation of materials' structure-property.

Sorry for rushing the review 1

It is a good couloring book and has cool pictures and a cool glowing wand!

I think this book is all right but is not enough but if like to color or Haryr Potter buy it!