Gently written by Lillian hammer Ross, Buba Leah And Her Paper Children is a truly charming children's picture book story about a quiet Jewish family. Visiting her great aunt Buba Leah, little Chava hears Buba Leah speak fondly of her paper children, which prompts Chava to wonder: What are paper children?, And where could they be hidden? The gentle, countryside-manner of the full-color artwork by Mary Morgan beautifully enhance this captivating and highly recommended picture book story for young readers.

Outstanding account of this period in history. Mr. Morgan's reputation of a conniving thug are dispelled. This is a fun and informative book.

This is an excellent book on helping the reader to define his or her own goals and objectives as compared to following the path as set forth for them by parents, friends, relatives and society. This should be a must read for every youngster. Find what you are good at and then puruse a career in that direction.

Most students who have taken a semester course in compiler would agree that a semester is too short even for just building a compiler, not to include the time used to learn the basics like parsing. This book is a good start at where your course left off. It covers many interesting and modern topics on building an _optimizing_ compiler, a compiler that generates compact and speedy code.

As a comparison to the Muchnick one, this book is slightly less advanced but contains sufficient details to start one in this field. This book also excels in its clear and informative explanations.

An interesting feature of this book (and also Muchnick) is that no concrete code/implementation is included. The focus is on the concepts of building an optimizing compiler and the theory behind code optimization, not exactly on how to build one (from scratch) using whatever programming language. The reader must come up with the implementation side of the story if she wants to apply the techniques to her own compiler.

As a final note, this is not an introductory book on compilers. If you want one, go find the classic Dragon book (by Aho, Sethi, Ullman) or the newly written work by Appel.

Taylor Coffman is an extraordinary thinker and writer. His far-ranging mind covers both in depth and in scope a unique era and two of its most intriguing and passionately creative personalities. Mr. Coffman has a way with words that is delightfully entertaining and keenly informative. This is a five-star performance and worth every penny!

My 2 1/2 year old was having some fear about going down the bigger slides at the park. He has never been much of a risk taker and we do not push. This is a great story of Caillou having the same anxiety, and how his daddy helps him give it a try. My son was totally involved in the story. We talked about how Caillou was feeling, and how my son felt. The next time he and dad went to the park, he wanted to go down the slide with dad "Just like Caillou". We have bought several of these books since, and they just seem to be great at opening up discussions. My Son really relates to Caillou!

Exceptional history and current description of Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco music. Will be appreciated both by tourists new to Louisiana culture as well as by serious connoiseurs of folk music and traditions and of French language. Barry Jean Ancelet is both a distinguished professor at the University of Louisiana (Lafayette), as well as being a Cajun "Garrison Keillor" (of Prairie Home Companion fame).

This is a great calculus book, very helpfull for introducing or refreshing all the main calculus topics! It is concise and the author gets right to the point without unnecessary comments, that many other calculus textbooks are filled with. This book is perfect if you want to refresh one or several particular notions.

Cancelled Words.

I've received comments on the seeming high price of Cancelled Words, and it seemed a good idea to explain why this should be. I was the editor at Routledge responsible for publishing the book in 1992.

This is a ground-breaking work, about what can happen when an author gets into the hands of a determined editor. Thomas Hardy was then a virtual unknown, not recognized as one of the world's greatest writers. He had little choice but to allow his editor, the august and supremely self-confident, Leslie Stephen, to 'cancel' Hardy's own words in 'Far from the Madding Crowd'.

Stephen was worried that Hardy's very Un-Victorian presentation of human relationships and sexuality would offend the sensibilities of readers. So when he reacted badly to Hardy's improprieties, he just cut them out.

So we have always read a purged Far from the Madding Crowd, without seeing the book that Hardy first wanted us to have. Very few of Leslie Stephen's changes made it a better novel: Hardy's own first words and ideas are always immeasurably superior.

But that was not the end of the story. Years afterwards the original manuscript was rediscovered by accident and preserved so we can now know what Thomas Hardy really wanted to say before he was censored. That manuscript is now in the Beinecke Library at Yale University and has been used to write 'Cancelled Words'.

Rosemarie Morgan believed that it is essential to see what were Thomas Hardy's own words as he wrote them. That was the essence of the book and we at Routledge took the decision that a quarter of it should be given up to Hardy's words, in his own handwriting, faithfully reproduced in facsimile with the cancellations and changes visible for all to see.

Of course, regrettably, this made the book more expensive, but I still think this was the right decision. And the publication of Cancelled Words contributed substantially to her groundbreaking new edition of Far from the Madding Crowd, published by Penguin Books, and giving back that original edition to the world.

I would hate to think that our decision should put off future readers from buying a book that takes you into the heart of one of the master works of English fiction.

OK so when I read the phrase 'sexually voracious beasts' in the editorial reviews red warnings lights should have gone off but I thought that these beasts were marauding Vikings rather than their trusty doggies ..... Wrong ....

Set in a mythical land of warriors, trolls and slaves we find our heroine, Aisla, rescuing another young nubile, Sulitea from the sexual slavery of what would probably considered a convent. The story then develops as the twoo girls must now go into hiding since they are 'belongings' that must be returned to their masters for retribution.

Actually considering the subject matter the authors' writing is quite good, but, pretty darned hard core. Most of the sex is rape and I got the distinct impression that people that enjoy seduction scenes by using virtual 2 by 4's and force raped by squads of men and trolls, then this has to be the book for you. That little issue of bestiality,as well should really not bother you either I might add .......

I, personally, did not like the book, but I still give it 5 stars since it was written for a very specific readership ....