The review is great, though the book seems to go in-depth in unecessary areas that would never be part of the NYS Regents exam. The graphics and graphs are very easy to understand, and the book is strongly recommended to anyone taking Physics. This book does NOT, however, provide enough info for the more advanced AP Physics exam and SAT II: Physics.

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This pack is an outstanding resource for students enrolled in college preparatory physics courses, or AP Physics B courses. The explanations are concise and clear. A student reading these books and completing the tests will understand the core concepts, be able to solve basic problems, and attack classroom physics tests with confidence.

As a teacher, I have found the series an invaluable resource for developing test items, and refining my lecture notes. I look to this series of books as a primary curricular standard for my college preparatory physics course.

I have possibly the most confusing teacher for Sequential Math II, and I take 20 pages of notes per class, none of which do I have a clue what they mean. I'm lucky I bought the power pack. The red book has been prepping me for the Regents exam, and actually have problems my teacher uses to test my class on! :-). The blue book is the best because in less space, and more clearly, it goes over all major topics and gives sample questions. I write this on the day I took a Seq II exam in class, and was the first time I didn't bring my blue book home to study and do not expect a good mark. Anyone taking Sequential II Regents in New York or any other potential test takers should grab this pack if they want to perform higher than with other ordinary prep books or school textbooks!

We don't often think of discrimination being directed against whites in the United States, but that was the case for many "Okies" who migrated to California in the 1920s and 30s. In the community of Weedpatch, CA--a small farm town near Bakersfield--the children of the white migrant farmworkers were not allowed to attend school with the other children in the community.

This book tells the story of the man who fought the community and the powers that be in order to start a school for these kids to make sure they got a decent education. His achievements exceeded his ambitions, as the school was a well deserved success. Many of the students went on to greater things, something that would have been hard to imagine before.

"Children of the Dust Bowl" was written for kids, but anyone interested in this unique time in our country's history would enjoy it.

I had to priviledge of being a student of Jerry Stanley's at Cal State Bakersfield, so I am somewhat biased in my praise for him and his work. This book deserves all of it, though. It is an excellent work in living history and well worth your time

The writing in this book is excellent, flowing evenly from page to page. Many of the photographs within are pure art, having been taken by Russell Lee, Dorothea Lange, and others. These two people are the Pieter Bruegel and Thomas Hart Benton (depicting plain, everyday folk) of American photography. This book relates a small chunk of American history, to be sure, but more than that, it relates universal themes of the human condition. Overall, the book relates the brutal conditions of the dust bowl, the migration over the mountains and desert, taunting and prejudice from settled Californians, and eventual attainment of excellence, as revealed by the construction and maintenance of the Weedpatch School, which eventually became a model school in the community. My 5 1/2 year old enjoyed reading every page, and found particular mirth in the unusual daily chore that the dust bowl children did with their cows. The description of this unusual chore is worth the price of the book. What was this daily chore? One way to find out is to borrow or purchase this book.

I am a student at St. Lawrence University, and doing a summer fellowship about the works of John Steinbeck. This book, while written as a children's book, is a valuable look at the Arvin Federal Emergency School, the conditions of the Dust Bowl, American attitudes about the poor, and Leo Hart, the man whose vision for a "broader curriculum" among his students was so influential and inspiring.

Stanley treats the same material in short form in an article in The American West (1986).

This little book (from Merriam Webster, the big dictionary people) is definitely fun. It is part of a series about how words have been used in different times and places. This volume concentrates on the words "invented" by Shakespeare - the authors estimate that there are in the vicinity of 1,500 such words and this book probably includes a couple hundred examples. Admittedly, there is lots of room for judgement here and sometimes the authors note that, but many times they state theories as fact. This tendency keeps my rating below five stars. The book is organized with a chapter for each letter of the alphabet - and a Shakespeare trivia quiz at the end of each chapter. Again, fun, but beware of theories - on the other hand, maybe one of these questions will make it to "Do You Want To Be A Millionaire?". It is not a book for reading straight through, but it is perfect to fill short periods here and there that keep you waiting. You will be amazed at the words included such as ADVERTISING, ALLIGATOR, INVESTMENT, OBSCENE, PUKE, PUPPY DOG and ZANY. There are also some examples that you probably won't recognize. The text gives sites for the usage in Shakespeare's plays. If you are interested enough in this subject to have made it to the end of this review, then buy it, its worth the price.

I bought this book for myself and a copy for my granddaughter, age 13. She had played a leading role in Midsummer's Night two year's ago at her St. Paul elementary school. The experience won her over to Shakespeare. Since I didn't start reading Shakespeare before age 18, I wondered if Coined by Shakespeare would be too far out-of-tune with the romance novels that she was devouring. Well, I've read it now. It is a dandy. A real banger, as Hardy would put it. Rarely does a scholarly book meet the needs of anyone less versed than a PhD. This book, I'm making wager, will charm a 13 year old word lover. We just finished a Minnesota blizzard. I'm tickled that Shakespeare coined "gust."

Coined By Shakespeare: Words & Meanings First Penned By The Bard is the welcome result of lengthy and painstaking research conducted under impeccable standards of scholarship. Readers can also enjoy testing their knowledge of Shakespeare linguistic trivia through a series of quizzes which are interspersed throughout. Coined By Shakespeare is a "must" for all Shakespeare enthusiasts and word buffs.

Wayne Lee has written on the militia and crowds in his innovative work Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and War (2001). This study considers militia issues beyond fighting battles, including the necessity Continental officers faced using militia regiments, and the drawbacks from doing so as well. One of the subjects in Lee's study of the legitimacy of violence during the war is that of the bitter, bloody feuds between Whigs and Tories, a conflict that caused the Patriot militia to become mired in a struggle of 'retaliatory escalation,' vendettas, plundering, murder and other crimes, all of which served to weaken the authority of the newly-created state. For example, Lee describes the fine line between the impressment and stealing of much-needed supplies from the civilian population. 'In accordance with military tradition,' Lee notes, 'it was acceptable to impress from one's enemies without payment,' an assumption which too often led to random theft. This and other problems were a constant burden for Greene and other commanders in the south, just part of the many challenges arising from the reliance on militia troops.

This book was purchased from Amazon.com as a gift for my Mother. She is a historian, genealogist and life long resident of North Carolina. Her main field of expertise is the historical Colonial Period in North Carolina and especially the Regulator Movement. Having taught a college course in early North Carolina history she is well versed on the events and ideologies of the period. She was fascinated with the extensive research done for this publication and how very well the book was written. In her opinion, an excellent book which rates five stars *****.

I do not usually read a lot of military history, but I picked this book up almost by accident and ended up teaching it in my colonial history seminar. Lee uses revolutionary North Carolina to examine the meaning, purposes and imperatives of violence and the ways citizens and societies rationalize and sometimes challenge the use of violence. This is as much social history as military history, and the literary quality of CROWDS AND SOLDIERS makes it an excellent teaching book. I hope to assign it in my survey class next year, or as soon as it comes out in paper. It passed the "father test" with flying colors--I left my copy where my father would be sure to see it, he picked it up, and read it almost without stopping. This is a fine and important work of history that could hardly be more timely in its implications.

This book is based around prints of 31 glass-plate photographs made primarily by Alice Snearly in and around Cache, OK, at the turn of the 20th century. The collection was acquired by Larry McMurtry, who donated the plates to the University of Texas Press, the publisher of the book.
Noyes, who wrote Los Comanches, provides some interesting but mainly inessential notes that at times border on the annoying, particularly when he noodles off into pointless speculation about how the subjects were thinking or feeling when their photo was taken based on the expressions on their faces.
There is a brief historical survey of the treaties that landed the Comanche on the reservation and the work of various Anglo religious, social, and political factions that gerrymandered their fate afterwards. Noyes also provides information on the Comanches' reservation life and their association with the Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache who shared their reservation. Commentary on the dress of the subjects is informative with respect to the assimilation of the Comanches into Anglo cultural and dress patterns during this transitional period in the tribe's history, but numerous notations on tribal dress also indicate how important the peyote ceremony had become for the tribe in captivity.
The photos are generally soft-focus and relatively low contrast, making it difficult to pick out detail, and there are no magnified views. The notes, however, do well at identifying individuals and pointing out notable objects in the prints. Also, Noyes delivers some interesting anecdotal material on Quanah Parker and some of the other tribal leaders during the reservation years.

Excellent job by the authors with both the text and the selection of photographs. This is a very desirable book for readers interested in Comanches, the development of North Texas, early photography, or the process of Texas transitioning from frontier cultures into society as we have it today.

The historical introduction in this book has filled a huge gap by detailing the events of the lives of Commanches after they were placed on the reservation up to about 1915. Most of the happenings are the same for other reservation peoples and yet few nonIndians are familiar with the sequence of events after various native groups of people were put on reservations.

The photographs are unique and ones not previously seen before. Larry McMurty has provided a valuable service by making these images available through the University of Texas archives.

This is the personal memoir of an American diplomat who was posted to French Indo-China before, during and after the catastrophic defeat of the French Expeditionary Corps at Dien Bien Phu. It is not the scholarly review of the daily travails of the battle that can be found in the late Bernard B. Fall's HELL IN A VERY SMALL PLACE, but, it is a valuable addition to the literature of that pivotal battle. Simpson knew all of the key players on the French side. He knew "Bruno" Bigeard, commander of the famous 6eme "Batallion de Parachutistes Coloniaux; the aristocratic cavalry officer de Castries, who commanded the French garrison at DBP. He knew the rest of the "paratroop mafia" including Langlais, Botella, Brechignac and Giraud who eventually took command of the French pockets of resistance and held the Viet Minh at bay for 57 days. Simpson tells of the mistakes that the French made and compares them to some of the later ones made by America in our war there. But, it is also obvious that he was a man of his times and his leanings were toward the French. Simpson admired the elan and bravery of the soldiers of the French Expeditionary Corps. The Frenchmen and Legionnaires who fought a thankless war at the end of the supply line were professionals and he respected them for their dedication and their desire to prevent the Associated States of Indo-China from falling into the Communist orbit. This book is a personal history, filled with personal anecdotes and of course because it is history, we already know the ending. The French lost at Dien Bien Phu and were eventually forced to leave the "crown jewel" of their overseas empire. Eventuallly, the problem would become America's as the decision-making shifted from Paris to Washington. I recommend this book to readers of Fall's fine history of the battle AND to people who haven't read it because they don't want to get into the technical details of the battle. Students of the French conflict in Indo-China should also read this book so that they can fill in any gaps concerning the personalities of the senior French leadership. All in all, this book needs to be in the library of any serious student of the lengthy war that bled the finest of both the French and American armies.

Simpson's profile of the legendary "Para" Bigeard is welcome, as their are not too many of this Homeric figure. I'd have given it a five star, but Fall's "Hell In A Very Small Place" and Jules Roy's "Siege of DIen Bien Phu" were more griping and comprehensive (Simpson had flown out of DBP by the the time of the siege.)

Well written depiction of one hell of a battle. Hats off to the brave French warriors who risked it all.

I picked up this book because of previous familiarity with Stuart Kaufmanns other work. I have no academic background in psychology, but I have a general interest in this type of literature.

The general information on complexity science included in the book was very interesting, and included a section on the evolution of biochemistry which I had never seen before. The sections were also very well written and suitable for readers with little background in natural science. So full points for these sections of the book.

However, I had some trouble with the sections looking at psychoanalysis and comparing it to complex system theory. To my knowledge, traditional Freudian ideas about personality development have been much criticised in their own right. Is the authors use of these explanations for deeper psychological motivations in his patients earnest, or just an attempt at avoiding taking on too much controversy at the same time?

Personally, I find the analogy between complex system development and the process of going through personal development compelling. However, this book does not constitute proof that these processes are related in the way that the author states. It is probably difficult at this point in time to attain such proof, and I agree with people like Daniel Dennett that explanations based on analogies may not always be a bad thing. However, it's still possible for skeptics to dismiss these theories as "just so" stories. (Rudyard Kipling wrote a book of fables called "Just So Stories" and it has become a name for make-believe evolutionary explanations without sure proof).

Freuds ideas on what shapes us may not be scientifically sound, although the general process of therapy may be a process where slow progress is interspersed with more significant phase transitions. This may have nothing to do with Freudian theory, but could for example be a function of how our brain works, and work independently of the system of therapy employed. Modern theories on consciousness state that the brain is a self-organizing complex system. Thus, different therapeutic methods may trigger the same kind of underlying development process. The methods may not be equally good at achieving progress, and the choice of the best method may also depend on the nature of the patient's problem.

I would however encourage further scientific exploration of this theme, and this book is an important first step in that direction. I therefore recommend this to anyone interested in personal development, psychotherapy or psychoanalysis.

This book results from the meeting of two extraordinary minds. Stanley Palombo is our leading psychoanalytic authority on dreaming and primary process mentation. His pioneering 1978 book, "Dreaming and Memory," replaced many of Freud's antiquated ideas about dreaming with a modern theory that takes account of both the basic information processing function of dreaming and the defensive alterations introduced into dreaming by the censorship mechanism Freud described. Stuart Kauffman is the brilliant exponent of complexity theory whose ideas have reshaped our understanding of the origins and evolution of life. Kauffman's universe is not a static residue of chance events but a material system that naturally promotes ever increasing diversity and complexity. In this book, Palombo turns to the questions raised by the therapeutic action of the psychoanalytic process. After reading Kauffman's "The Origins of Order," he travelled to the Santa Fe Insitute to discuss his own ideas on this critical topic with Kauffman. "The Emergent Ego" is the result of these discussions. Using the ideas of Kauffman and other complexity theorists to explain his own clinical observations, Palombo provides a coherent scientific understanding of the interaction between patient and analyst. In so doing, he demystifies the psychoanalytic process and exposes many of the technical errors induced by unjustified theoretical assumptions. "The Emergent Ego" offers a powerful cure for the doubts many people feel about the scientific validity of psychoanalysis and its value as a method of treatment for sufferers from emotional illness.

This book has transformed my understanding of the psychoanalytic process and how it works to benefit patients. Instead of a hodge-podge of isolated rules of thumb for psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy, "The Emergent Ego" presents a coherent picture of the process through which evolutionary change takes place in treatment, in both the therapist and the patient. Palombo conceives of the therapeutic relationship as an ecosystem in which the analyst's knowledge of the patient and the patient's self-knowledge coevolve. This occurs through a continual updating and restructuring of the analytic discourse, the memories shared between patient and analyst of the events of the analysis, including the cumulative structure formed by the connections formulated by both partners in the relationship. Progress is marked by a series of phase transitions in the organization of the patient's mind, both conscious and unconscious. Since the phase transitions often appear to be sudden and discontinuous, the course of treatment may contain periods when nothing seems to be happening, but which then resolve into a sudden coming together of insight and feeling.

There is much more to this book than I can summarize in a paragraph or two. It introduces a new scientific paradigm that quahes any doubts about the scientific authenticity of psychoanalysis. I recommend it to anyone who is serious about understanding what psychoanalysis really is and how it can be done most effectively.

as a kid i read the headless cupid many times. i remeber eading this and never finishing it for some reason now i ddi finish it. it was very good. i t is an exciting kidnapping story. if you look for something with a supernatraul twist like cupid this dosent have as much execept for blair,s vison however it still enjoyable.

I liked this book a lot. This story has action to it and a regular story line to it as well. It was very good. This book had a lot of sense to it and good detail as well as plot. I recommend this book highly! It's most enjoyable.

This book is that rare treat - a children's book that is so multi-faceted and well told that it will capture any adult reader as well.

I found this book looking for something good for my daughter to read, then couldn't give it up to her until I had finished it! A tense, realistic, and heartwarming tale.

We tend to think of dictatorships in a very specific way. One man cannot rule alone and this book describes the political manuvering and the ideological underpinnings of Franco's Spain. I was surprised that Fascist Italy was the ideological wellspring for the Iberians. I found particularly interesting the idea of Corporatism as a means of organizing society.

Mr. Payne's book The Franco Regime contains a wealth of first class information. In the course of studying it - a pleasurable affair, because of its fine style - I had however some disappointments when I went after checking some footnotes.

1. On page 139 (in my copy) Payne relates the Guernica bombing. I was inclined to believe his every word, but his footnote 54 mentions an important author with the alleged name Geoffrey Speer. However, following footnote 56 I studied Mr. Southworth's book Guernica! Guernica!, in which obviously the same author's name is spelled - correctly - George L. Steer. He is the author of The tree of Gernika. It is strange that Southworth book seems to be recommended by Payne, whereas Southworth is highly critical of Payne himself, who is accused of credulity of neo-franquist sources. I would have liked (and expected) that Payne had defended himself.

In the same vein there is on p. 647 an odd recommendation of the book of the German Walther L. Bernecker, Spanien seit dem Burgerkrieg, that is very biased, or at least very hostile, against Franco, whereas Payne is making a case for reappraisal of Franco as a leader who deserves some credit.

It seems that Mr. Payne mentions or recommends books that he did not give much attention.

I must admit these are or not very important issues, but it makes me a bit anxious about the other footnotes.

This is without a doubt one of the finest books I have ever read. I read it cover to cover and not only did I find it a fascinating read, but it was also a work which breaks down many preconceived notions about the structure and dynamics of the Franco regime. This, read with Hitler Stopped by Franco, will certainly change some ideas about the character and motivation of Franco. This book cites well from primary sources, and is certainly one of the best researched works I have seen on the subject. Any person who questions the motives or history of the Franco regime should read this book. (Especially if they have read the terrible articles in the New York Times lately).

From the beginnings of craft protectionism and built upon a number of militant worker movements from say 1875 to 1920, the Great Depression spurred the rise of industrial unions. The Wagner Act neatly bottled up, with union acquiescence, worker unrest and power to influence US industry. As Aronowitz shows, the limitations of that accord were revealed early on in the failed Southern organizing drives and the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act. But that was then. Now one has to wonder if the notion of a "labor movement" has any real meaning. Is there a recognizable philosophy of labor or worker empowerment in the general public's consciousness. I don't think so. Yes unions have hung on in some industries and teachers, whose situation in terms of public and contract-based employment is unlike that found in the private sector, have hidden the overall decline of unions. Also unions in this age of extremely small voter turnouts that can mobilize a dedicated minority can influence some elections much as can the Christian right. But those have been mostly defensive victories: elect the least conservative of two. One of Aronowitz's key suggestions is the organizing of the huge numbers of professional-technical and white collar workers. But that seems to be mostly hope. Many (probably most) of those folks accept all of the negative stereotypes of unions. Aronowitz briefly mentions European-style works councils, but US unions aren't about to allow that. There just is not much in this book, as well as in scores of others written since John Sweeney took over the helm of the AFL-CIO, that is a realistic assessment of the possibility of going from point A (corporate dominance of the economy and politics) to point B (genuine worker influence within enterprises and the overall economy and political process).

Stanley Aronowitz is the most important (perhaps one of the only) public intellectual of our age. He argues convincingly for a new agenda for the labor movement, one that takes into account not only the interests of the working class, but opens the possibility for injecting new life into the movement by forcing unions to find ways to link its interests with the interests of all Americans. In other words, Aronowitz shows how labor can finally fulfill its promise to be the vanguard of democracy in America. Anyone interested in the future of our democratic enterprise -- be they middle class or working class -- needs to read this book.

Not having read any of Mr. Aronowitz' other books, I came to this one looking for a guide to the history of organized labor and am glad I did. As he points out, labor seems not to exist as far as the media are concerned. Workers appears only in strikes, portrayed as grasping disrupters of business. My interest in organized labor and the plight of the worker came from direct experience in a lock out. Eyes opened by the event, I was eager to put it in perspective and this book was exactly what I was looking for. Things can't go on as they are. Aronowitz rightly points out how both political parties are pro-business, that the conservatives have framed the debate on the economy and labor is confined to a diminished spot with the Democrats, largely taken for granted. If you scratch the surface of material wealth you find discontent with society. The lack of protection for workers; the "temping" of the workforce and the shifting of the costs of benefits to workers from business is spreading like wildfire. Those who never dreamed of associating with organized labor are now having second thoughts. Labor, as Aronowitz points out, must appeal to social issues and working conditions in other countries if it is to survive. This book is a call to take a full place on the stage, a stage set for labor to re-enter from parochialism. Anyone interested in new forms that labor may take and why it should take them should read this book. If you work for a living and wonder about tomorrow, read it.