Hart and Risley have created an easy to read volume that speaks readily to parents, policy makers and educators. This book is a must for anyone who truly wants to understand the relationship between the way we interact with children and the evolution of their intellectual development. If you are interested in poverty prevention, early literacy intervention or the impact of family based literacy on childrens' academic success, you will be inspired by the work of Hart Risley.

This book is one of the by-products of one of the most dedicated efforts to understand variances in the development of language. One of the reviewers of the book states that the work "...is a detective story of the most serious academic kind." Yet the book is written in a manner that would allow it to be required reading for "Parenting 102" if not "Parenting 101". The implications for parenting and public policy are profound

I have several of Todd Parr's books. My 2 year old and 5 year old both love them. My 2 year old loves the funny pictures and fast pace. My 5 year old just feels great after we read them. They are full of silly lessons that make kids feel important.

Great book..my 2.5 yo reads it to her stuffed animals and baby dolls. Colorful, realistic and charming..now all we need is a board book for the car!

If you are interested in campaign finance, then this is a must read. It is very informative and the authors obviously know a lot about the subject.

Money Matters is a very important and thought- provoking analysis of campaign finance reform. No matter what your specific opinions about this issue are, I certainly recommend that you read this book.

I received this cassette about ten years ago, when I was pretty much still a kid. I have grown up with this story; it has kept my family company on many a long car trip. Well, the older I get, the more I understand and appreciate the brilliance of this tale. The reading is excellent. I really feel as if I'm "cursin' and spittin' " up those "woods roads" along with Homer and Ophelia in her little Go-Devil. The narrator truly deserves an award for his reading. I don't know if it could ever be topped! He changes voices convincingly, and has the New England dialect down pat. Trust me, audio book fans, this cassette is magic! My biggest fear is that I will wear out my old copy before I can locate another. It's that good.

I loved it. Wish I could find it again. Will pay double the cost for it.

Being an "older" musician--that is, I didn't grow up with a computer attached to my head--I've been rather biased in my attitude toward the Internet, thinking that the tools it had to offer were mostly hype. In truth, I was just intimated. However, having read "The Musician's Guide To The Internet"--and now being informed rather than ignorant--I'm neither dismissive or scared! And that's a nice change for a geezer like me!

This book is one that we at nichemarket recommend highly in our Booklist for any Hip Hop Entrepreneur serious about a career in the music industry! --Walt Goodridge, President, Hip Hop Entrepreneur Association

This is an excellent book full of useful information pertaining to natural attenuation. The text covers a great deal of information and offers comments on other remedial methods and limitations. Included is information of processes affecting solute fate and transport, attenuation of source zones and plume formation, abiotic processes, intrinsic bioremediation, estimating source masses, denitrification, methanogenesis, etc. Great book! I highly recommend it.

"This is the finest compendium of research published over the last 20 years involving fuel and chlorinated solvent degradation in groundwater. The authors should be applauded for their efforts."

10/22/99

This is one of the most complete collections of information on waterfowl available. It contains beautiful pictures as well as complete information on waterfowl from all over the world. The written text is excellent giving many details about each species as well as general descriptions of the behaviors including courtship, migration, feeding, reproduction, flight, etc. This is a must for all nature lovers including wildlife artists, naturalists and birders.

This is really the most beautiful and complete book about waterfowl I ever bought about waterfowl. About 450 pages and many, many (about 700) full coloured pictures! For all waterfowl lovers, breeders, enthusiasts etc. a must to have! You can find all screamers, ducks, geese and swans with great and usefull information about their habitat and many more.

Notre Dame Game Day: Getting There, Getting In, and Getting in the Spirit is a must-read for even the most casual Notre Dame observer. Author Todd Tucker provides invaluable insight for making the most of your Notre Dame game day experience, including what to do before, during and after any Fighting Irish home contest. Even more intriguing are the anecdotes Tucker sprinkles throughout the book about Notre Dame, its history, its players and its facilities. That's where Tucker's depth of knowledge about his alma mater really shines through.

Even if you're no "Golden Domer," - and I'm not - you can appreciate the great traditions and spirit that Tucker ably details here. It's an easy read. I was left wanting more, including a couple of midfield seats.

Notre Dame Game Day: Getting There, Getting In, and Getting in the Spirit is a must-read for even the most casual Notre Dame observer. Author Todd Tucker provides invaluable insight for making the most of your Notre Dame game day experience, including what to do before, during and after any Fighting Irish home contest. Even more intriguing are the anecdotes Tucker sprinkles throughout the book about Notre Dame, its history, its players and its facilities. That's where Tucker's depth of knowledge about his alma mater really shines through.

Even if you're no "Golden Domer," - and I'm not - you can appreciate the great traditions and spirit that Tucker ably details here. It's an easy read. I was left wanting more, including a couple of midfield seats.

It took me a while to cough up the do, re, mi for this one, but I'm glad I did now it's in my hands. I love this book because it's all about the music. It has enough ethnomusicoligy in it to assure you it's honest. It has a wealth of wonderful tunes both in print and on a CD. The CD gets the underlying rhythm across like notation just can't do. And the stories about the old boys and girls are a bonus. Too many old time fiddle books seem to be a catalogue of old boys. You sometimes wonder if the author ever heard them play. Not this book. This is a university press publication, so if it sells out it probably won't be available again for a long time, if ever. So get it now.

Titon's book is an excellent compilation of fiddle tunes from Kentucky. After introductory material that places his scholarship within the history of research on old-time fiddling, Titon focuses on the transcriptions of 170 tunes that are either unique to Kentucky or else characteristic of Kentucky fiddling styles. The tunes are transcribed in clear, accessible, and accurate musical notation. He includes transcriptions of older recordings made decades ago as well as transcriptions of recent field recordings. The tunes are from the repertoires of numerous players, and the transcriptions should thus be very useful in comparing individual techniques. They also will add to the store of tunes that fiddlers can play. Titon includes discographic and historical information on each tune, thereby adding to the usefulness of his study of Kentucky fiddling. I also appreciated the biographical information and photographs of the various fiddlers, and listening to the accompanying CD warmed the written notes on the cold, printed page. The book has a terrific bibliography for those interested in additional research on fiddling, and I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in folk music, folklorists' scholarship, and Kentucky history. My only critique of the book is that Titon could have included more information about the style of fiddling used in each tune. Simply discussing bowing techniques, tempo, and ornamentation for various tunes within the pages where they were transcribed would have helped round out the excellent treatment of Kentucky fiddling.

I just got finished reading Heavenly No 3, so far it is my favorite one. I love all of these books. They are great for the whole family.

Hi, I'm Kit Rand and I'm part of an average family.My brother Robby and I are Mom's kids. Chance and Samara are Dad's kids. Tyler is both of their kid. We got a new nanny and her name is Heavenly Litebody, I know it's not a very common name, and she is not a normal nanny either. She got magic. But she been helping our family a lot. Anyway, Mom and Dad got a new job and they got to go to Italy. Heavenly suppose to bring me and the others later. but heavenly was afraid of the thought of flying. So me and Chance take over because we're the oldest. Well, when we got there, guess who we found? Jessica 'Know it all' Huffington was there. Jessica such a mean person. She was suppose to be my arch enemy and she got a crush on my gorgeous stepbrother and she aws trying to get through him by using me. And I thought she was wanting to be my friend and how very wrong I was. And she not the only one we met in Italy but also gorgeous, handsome hunk name Rafael....