I ordered two copies of this book. It is charming just like "What Makes a Rainbow", though I was disappointed to discover that the musical sound chip in both copies was defective. I've ordered replacements, but am hesitant to recommend this book.

We got "What Makes A Rainbow" as a gift and the baby has loved it since 3 weeks old. It is one of our very favorite books and it inspired us to try this book, but the music chip was defective and the story is weak. Maybe our timing was off in terms of when we introduced it, but our baby never got interested in it.

My husband is a former public school music educator and chose this book for one of our son's two-year birthday gifts. We had no idea it would be such a hit! In less then one week, he learned the musical scale by heart!

Although called a "pop-up", this wonderful little book is really much more resilient and well made than a standard pop-up. Instead of typical paper pop-ups, each page reveals a beautiful ribbon of a different color to represent each note on the musical scale. Imaginative and sweet illustrations show how Mama bird teaches her baby how to make music, and baby bird learns the notes of the scale along with the reader. Each ribbon is sized according to the ascending note on the scale and makes a lovely visual effect when the scale is complete. This could also be a great tool for teaching colors!

My son is thrilled when we get to the last page and the ultimate pop-up, (this one is paper but well made) of Mama bird playing her scales in full glory, each one labeled and in corresponding color from the previous pages. You'll love the sparkle in your child's eyes when he discovers the best surprise of all - a well concealed music chip that plays the scale in ascending then descending order when you reach the grand finale' final page!

A lovely and charming book that will have your little one memorizing the musical scale and colors of the rainbow with eager delight.

In this book, Stansfield Turner attempts to outline a clear and immediately applicable nuclear arms control strategy that seeks to drastically reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the global sphere without sacraficing regional and national security interests in the process.

Turner draws heavily upon his experience as both a government official and military leader in formulating an arms control regime tailored to operate in the post-Cold War world. Turner was chosen to be the Director of Central Intelligence by President Carter and has also served as an Admiral in the United States Navy. However, prior to his appointment to the position of DCI, Turner had no political background or experience in the intelligence community. As DCI, Turner chose to rely most heavily upon National Technical Means (NTM's), such as satellites, to gather information. He drastically cut human intelligence initiatives, such as spies and covert operations as a result of his unwavering faith in NTM's. Although it is true that NTM's provide valuable information, they are subject to technical fallibilities and hindered by the fact that satellites are not a stealth means of information collection. Human intelligence is still the most direct source of information. When Carter's presidency ended in 1980, so did Turner's reign as DCI. He has not since served in public office.

While his writing is easy to read, his solutions are often over simplistic or too radical to generate any substantial support from policy makers. Turner's plan mandates that the majority of nuclear weapons be placed in "strategic escrow". In other words, nuclear warheads should be removed from operational strategic launchers and placed in designated storage areas at some distance away from the launchers, thereby making them unavailable for immediate use. Foreign observers will be allowed to view this process, in hopes that they will choose to follow suit. The "strategic escrow" solution carries with it the additional problem of where to store these thousands of dismantled nuclear weapons. Both of Turner's solutions are somewhat problematic. First, he suggests that the warheads be further dismanteled and stored as plutonium and uranium counterparts. This increases the probability of having readily available fissile landing in the wrong hands, which could have disastrous and unpredictable effects. Second, Turner suggests that additional storage space be used in sizable remotely populated areas throughout the world in regions committed to a non-nuclear security regime. Specifically, he suggests Norway, Sweden, and Greenland. It seems rather presumptuous to assume that these non-nuclear states would be willing to allow storage of the worlds quantity of weapons of mass destruction within their sovereign territories. In addition, assessing how strong a commitment against implementing nuclear weapons is a risky endeavor in itself. If the capabilities are there, whether dismantled or not, the temptation for experimentation is there and might be encouraged.

In conclusion, Turner's book outlines a detailed plan to reduce nuclear armaments in the coming century. His ideas and thoughts are meritorious in that they are well organized and systematically ordered for what appears to be immediate implementation. However, careful analysis of his solutions suggest that there are still problems with his remedies that are likely to hinder his vision of achieving a world in which there are virtually no immediately operable nuclear weapons.

This is an extraordinary book coming from the hand of one of the men who once was tasked with carrying out the U.S. SIOP plan. Admiral Turner's analysis and suggestions are timely, especially in the light the slow pace of nuclear arms control and the real threat of nuclear proliferation. The failure of the nuclear superpowers to move more forcefully in reducing their nuclear arsenals lends credence to those new or aspiring nuclear nations to subscribe to the nuclear madness. Admiral Turner raises these issues and the danger of accidental launch and nuclear smuggling in the post Cold War era. However, one can question his advocacy of the wisdom of Ballistic Missile defenses. The abandonment of the ABM treaty could have drastic consequences. However,on balance, Admiral Turner's suggestion that we escrow the nuclear weapons offers intriguing possibilites to break the slow pace of nuclear reduction and elimination.

From the very start, it is plain the Goldbergs lack any primary sources for their book, since there the exploration of Turner's character and personal decisions tend to be more conjecture than anything else. This book seems to do a good job of listing each of the various public decisions and people in Turner's life, but the important decisions and events are glossed over. For instance: The Goldbergs repeatedly note how Turner micromanaged his companies, only promoted from within, and didn't allow his senior managers and board to make major decisions. Yet, by the time CNN was created, Turner was clearly ignoring his billboard company, and TBS seemed to be cranking along fine. What did Turner think of these people, and what were they doing that made the cash flow possible for Turner to lose so much money while CNN was started up?

The book also has a facination with the chronology of his womanizing. While distaining his extramarital sexual adventures, the Goldbergs seem to do little more than count the notches in Turner's bedpost. Sure they do some pop-psychological analysis, but has no discussion of how his womanizing may have affected other parts of his life, family, and businesses -- especially when the affairs became so blatently open in the 70's and 80's.

Read this book if you want to know what happened in Turner's life up until the First Gulf War (the book was written before Turner's empire was bought by Time Warner), but don't expect a whole lot of insight to his personal life and business genius.

The Goldbergs tie Ted Turner into such a tight package that the reader is left with the impression that their impression is one-sided. But his monomorphism seems to naturally follow his fascinating upbringing and the shaping of an incredible domineering father. And then, when one hears post-Citizen Turner interviews and follows the news about Ted, the authors are vindicated. They've got him pegged! Very easily readable

Why would someone who does not know science attempts to comment on common scientific theories?

Granted, relativity may be deep to those who knows nothing of it. But surely pop-science explainations are sufficiently easy to understand for most of us. (We still need the PHDs to crunch the physics formulas)

Basically Mr. Turner's objections to modern scientific theories are that they are too strange to believe.

I know I do not know enough Bible to properly comment on it. Why is the reverse not true for the Bible authors who write about science?

The way I understand the distinction between religion and science is that religion is about love, and the way to live a life. Science is about the gas engine. You need to know how to live, but you also need a gas engine to drive you to work.

This is not your typical work on the philosophy of science or religion. It is a hard hitting, original analysis of some of the most vexing questions of our time: Does God exist? If he does, is he omnipotent and omnicient? How can we take advantage of scientific developments to answer these questions? Why is there evil in the world? What can we - what should we - do about evil? Are there absolute truths? Are there certain moral absolutes by which we should live our lives? If there is a God, what sort of role should he play in our educational system? Turner provides controversial but creative and very well reasoned answers to these questions. You may or may not agree with his answers, but you will surely become a wiser person for understanding his line of thinking. Most importantly, this book offers a philosophy that can be put into action, not just one that is interesting to think about if you have free time on your hands. Though mainly a joy to read, the chapter on relativity theory can be a bit difficult and requires careful attention. Still, if you can make it through this chapter, you will have plenty to think about the next time you hear someone talk about the theory of relativity. As Turner points out, the theory has vast philosophical implications that have gone largely unexplored until now. The book is far more accessible than most books on philosophy and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about the issues outlined above. There are few books that have reallly changed the way I think about the world - this is one of those books.

I love history, so naturally this book sounded interesting to me. I learded a lot from it. It was a very informative, well written book about one of America's strongest Slaves. I admire his ablility to stand behind his beliefs, and this book interprets his life with grace and integrity. I recommend this book to anyone who likes reading dense books packed with history.

This is a terrific book. The introduction is particularly insightful. This is a good book for anybody interested in the history of slavery and slave rebellions.

this book is about HARDY euphorbias (E), those that can be grown in a temperate garden. (Succulent enthusiasts be warned- not for you!) the 1st 2 or 3 chapters are of interest to any gardener but then to get into the meat of the book one needs some familiarity with botany & botanical terminology; What should be the most interesting part of the book- the A-Z of hardy E.in cultivation- is far too full of irritating detail useful only to the E. specialist & would not be usable (except by such enthusiasts) for the identification of an unknown species. There are 16 pages of beautiful photos of some 40 different species but,surprisingly, there is no reference to the text and when one does look up a particular plant there is noreference in the text to the photo. there are also some 20 line drawings shown in the list of contents but there is no indication of which page carries which drawing! only to be recommended to E. enthusiasts

If your interested in the fine details of botanical taxonamy and identifying / cultivating Euphorbia then this is a must for your collection. Euphorbia is a difficult genus to work with and the information in this work makes life a lot easier when keying out plant materials. Contains detailed drawings of seeds and fruits and color photo's of various plants. This work is relatively small but authoratative , detailed and has a permanent spot in my botanical library. A great dollar value. Note : covers Euphorbia under cultivation so may not cover most natives in your area but will give a good intro of Euphorbia terminology that will help in identification of any member of Euphorbia. There are not that many good works on Euphorbia currently in print so when you see one , " BUY IT " , this is one of a few ! Pages 188 , 47 color photo's , bibliography , bw drawings, index.

Although several types are mentioned that aren't found in many publications, one common point are missing (at least), Rockwall,

I purchased this book after I've recently been exposed to our local Texas Indian artifacts. This book was extremely helpful in identifying and categorizing items that I have stumbled across. It is a must to have in your backpack!

Nice cover, but disappoints reader with exclusive use of poorly printed, dark and muddy black & white images.

Foundation iMovie provides good, clear information about all aspects of this programme. The examples given are interesting and the steps that are described to achieve those examples are easy to follow. The authors style is engaging and straightforward. The chapter about iDVD makes a very useful addition to this excellent book.

This book had some merit as a description of the War of 1812. While reading it though, it was impossible to escape the fact that it was written by a Canadian. The bias in this book was incredible, and often hid some of the points that needed to be made. I am not saying this as an American who only wants to read pro-American history, but this book became to biased to convey the facts the author was apparently trying to get across.

It works as a good overview. This is not the author's only book about this event, so I trust he knows his facts but I wouldn't be able to verify that. One small drawback is that the author assumes you know the location of certain places so you might become geographically lost at times. It was a quick read on the war which was all I was looking for.

This book is a good overview of the war that does not get bogged down in extensive details pertaining to each individual battle. Those looking for a detailed analysis of the war may want to look elsewhere, but those who are more interested in the general events and the reason for the choices made during the war will likely be pleased with this. My only real qualm is that the book lacks good maps to accompany the descriptions of advances, retreats, etc. Overall though, anyone looking for a general explanation of the events of 1812 and especially the reasons why certain choices were made during the war will likely be pleased with this book.

If you are in college and like to read technical documents, hey, it's probably the book for you! If you're like me, a high schooler, and you really like and remember documentaries from the History Channel but have a hard time reading extensive historical info, don't get this book! You'll end up spacing out from boredom because it gets too complex and you have to reread each paragraph 3 or 4 times just to remember it for the next 10 minutes.

This book is so boring that I often find myself staring blankly at the page for long periods of time wondering why I even signed up for Dual Enrollment Western Civilization (we use this book, unfortunately). The text, which bombards you with facts, dates, names, and geographical locations one after the other unceasingly, is enough to scare anyone away from a history major. It has numerous maps (one every couple pages), but geez, the book is the cure for insomnia for crying out loud! Two words into the text and I'm out like a light! It is far too technical. It also talks of things as if you already knew what they were talking about, like it's supposed to be a refresher for us.

As an 11th grader on block schedule, I have already taken World History (1 year ago), and I have to say, I remember more from THAT textbook right now (which wasn't fun either) than from that which I read last night from this textbook. Lists of dates and names don't cut it. It doesn't give interesting info, and some areas are surprisingly summarized into only a few sentences while others are unmercifully long winded; and should not begun to be read past 6 PM! God forbid a battle come up, it's like a list of geographical locations: so and so fought at the [insert place], whereafter they fought at [name] and so forth until I can't even clearly distinguish from the text WHY the battle even started in the first place. The Persian War and Peloponnesian War are what we've covered on the war fronts, and they listed what the militaries did and where they fought. It was like a manual. I'm sure that's great reading for a historian, but for the average Joe, it's equivalent to staring at a blank wall for 10 hours- you don't accomplish or remember anything.

That's a high schooler's take on the book. For a high schooler, this book equals doom! For older people, it might be a pleasant read....(*yeah, sure...)

This is a well balanced study guide with a variety of questions and answers. There are no tips or model answers for the considerations of specific documents, it would help to also have an orientation. Just as there are answers to multiple choice, true false, and completion it would help to have answers on further consideration of the documents section. The Map exercises should also have there answers in order to benefit from such exercises especially when your working with distances between cities, locations. Take the case of Chapter 14, how long would it take to reach the Moon on a mountain bike, with a car, on a jet, or a cruise ship, it all depends on the speed that you may assign to the vehicle. This is like playing TRIVIA, pag. 143. Suggestions for further consideration should have a model answer unless you require just an opinion.

The book looked brand new. It arrived in about a week. I would recommend to anyone!