This is a great way to present Bible stories quickly, especially to the littlest children who have very short attention spans!

The video staring Florence Henderson is excellent, and would be a great resource for Christian education programs and for home use.

I had no idea when I watched Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop on television as a child that her grandfather was a rabbi. So we learn in the introduction to this charming book. "I found myself weeping as I read of the indomitable spirit with which endless generations of Jews have faced a hostile world," she writes.

The book includes 20 stories, none more than two pages, and several of them related, touchingly, in only one. Several are Biblical, such as Abraham and the idols, how Moses became a stutterer, Jonah and Ninevah and one of David. Children will also delight in Solomon's lesson about the importance of small creatures.

Other tales are Talmudic, for example one about the boy who prays with a flute.

Still others are humorous, like the tale of the cobbler from Chelm: On a trip from Chelm to the big city, he falls asleep under a tree, but first points his boots toward Warsaw so he'll know which way to go when he awakens. As he sleeps, a branch dangling from the side of a wagon turns the boots around. When he wakes, the toes point towards Chelm so he follows them back home. He arrives thinking, "Why is Warsaw so famous? This is no different than Chelm."

Kids love these stories so much that our copy is falling apart. Alyssa A. Lappen

This story, of a young boy awaiting the time when he can race his pigeons, glows with detail of everyday life in a world that would be foreign, both in sights and possessions, to most of the young readers to whom the book is aimed.

Rather than evoking a sense of "Oh, what a hard life," instead Ms. Kurtz tells the story of a day in this boy's life, allowing his spirit and excitement about the thing he really loves to shine through.

An enjoyable read in its own merit, Only a Pigeon is a wonderful resource for any number of curricular topics, whether it is multiculturalism, social studies or even values education. The paintings show a busy city through which this young boy must navigate, and details of life in Addis Ababa can be gleaned from Cooper's sensitive paintings, without the need to read through description or fact.

This is a wonderful book about Jenna Song. She is a girl who loves gymnastics and dreams of being a Olynpic Gymnast. Whe her parents find out their dream has come true to adopt a Korean baby boy, Jenna is upset. She is scared about sharing her parents with a baby brother and things get even worse when the date for the adoption turns out to be the same date as her gymnastics meet. What will she do?

This is a very short book on optics. It has only some 170 pages!
Still, it's a great fun! Pauli starts witn the Fermat principle and soon finds out the Hamilon-Jacobi equation connected to this variational principle: it's the eikonal equation. He proceeds to get a lot of general results in geometrical optics. After that come interference and diffraction; optics from Maxwell theory,crystal and molecular optics. You'll find fresh perspectives, surprising connections, everywhere. This is the ideal book to review your optical expertise: you'll have lots of fun seeing things you are familiar with, much better done!

McArthur's Oregon Geographic Names is the definitive "all you need to know about Oregon" text. The author spends some 500 or so pages describing towns from Alsea to Zigzag. His details include a mix of pioneer history and native lore. What emerges is a singular and often unknown view of Oregon.

As a student of history, this text provides the "little" details that a larger view of history might neglect to tell. For instance, in discussing the origins of the Willamette river name, McArthur explores the first use of the word in local newspapers, and also calls on linguistic records in order to discover its first use. What the reader discovers here, and it is representative of most of the text, is that McArthur digs deep into the archives by following all available paper trials.

As a student of history, and of Oregon in general, this book is indispensable. I suspect too that it could be used by the "Cliff Clavens" of the world as a way of distributing "little known facts" about Oregon at parties.

Bryan Hiatt, Humanities Department Chemeketa Community College Salem, OR

Anthro major? You might be surprised how much and how many tools come from Engels, as in Marx and Engels of Capital fame. The same analytical tools they applied to economics (That are used every day) here are applied to anthropological study of the basis of our present day social institutions.
Relevant today, as much as for info as for seeing where the ideas discussed lead to the arguments and theories of today.

Upon the recommendation of a State representative I obtained a copy of this fine manual for studying the constitution and have used it in all of my politcal science classes in college. I have also implemented many principles that the book describes as those lived by who formed the written work that should be so dear to every inhabitant of this world, the US Constitution.

The first edition of this book in 1978 brought the first comprehensive text on outlier methods in statistical analysis. Outliers present important practical problems that have been studied for centuries. The twentieth century brought appropriate formal statistical methods for the detection and treatment of outliers.

The literature on outlier methods was scattered. It is commonly discussed in texts on regression analysis and sometimes in texts on robust statistical methods. Its importance in time series analysis was overlooked for a long time. Gnandesikan took the novel approach of using influence functions to search for multivariate outliers and covered this in his multivariate text. Another monograph exclusively on outlier methods by Doug Hawkins was also published at that time. However Barnett and Lewis gave the first comprehensive and unified account of the existing literature.

The second edition published in 1984 provided an update and added chapters on outliers in spatial data and outliers in time series. The chapter on time series devoted some space to my approach for using an influence function matrix to detect outliers of unspecified type. This third edition that I am reviewing, published in 1995 expanded on the work in the previous editions, restructured the text and added many new references. It continues to be the classic reference on outlier methods.

Want to be prepared for the rigors of college academics?. Then one should read the books included in this handy and usefull reference work, i.e., Outstanding Books for the College Bound : Choices for a Generation (Ala Editions) by Marjorie Lewis (Editor), Young Adults Library Services Association. In here one will find the most suitable titles in biography, nonfiction, fiction to mention a few areas. Highly Recommended.