Playful puppies frolic across the page, making learning to count (to five) fun. The story is written in rhyme, adding to the fun, and because this is a board book this will stand up well to many readings ("gain!" says my 21-month old). I generally have to read this book at least 5 times in a row...

This book gives a good introduction to how life begins and grows in and out of the womb. Using puppies gives children the chance to be comfortable with questions they may have about how animals and people are born. Although it was a little wordy at the end, this book held my four-year old's attention the whole way through.

This book is a handy primer on dialysis written in simple language and useful for the novice as well as containing nuggets of information useful for the practising renal physician. The book is quite comprehensive as it covers almost all the aspects of dialysis and has good charts for summary of various aspects of dialysis. In short it is a valuable book, an essential aid in the dialysis room and well worth the money spent.

Howard Morgen's arrangements & treatment of standards are great as usual !

hi; am john balogun you see peace keepers really do suffer but all the same with out them there would be disaster in africa. so we should be very gratefull to them imagine those fighters going dont know if they would come back some of them with five children they die in another mans land living their wife and children to suffer for nothing but god is with them. generally they are good because with out them i cant imagine the way africa will be so we should be gratefull to them. the book is very good teaches us about what is going on in africa so that others to come would also have ideas about what has happened in the past.

I met Joe Morgan in the middle of a two day driving rainstorm as I hiked the appalachian trial. Joe took me for a ride with an oral history showing me places in his book. I look forward to fleshing out the visual with the written word as I have ordered the book.

Tornados, prairie fires and moonshiners balance civic pride, classrooms and enlistment portraits in this touching photographic account of life in a much slower time. This collection of postcard images records events of 1900-1920 in America; faithfully collected by postcard archivists Hal Morgan and Andreas Brown. These are images from the outposts of rural life, small runs of unique events that offer the past with a remarkable immediacy. The images dominate, a 10-page introduction is supplemented by explanatory captions. This book will "transfix anyone with an interest in American history, postcards or photography."

If you're in the military prepare to be frustrated. Women in the Navy haven't been referred to as WAVES in over 20 years. At no time were female hospital corpman referred to as "Corpwaves". Ms. McKennas has the women officers wearing enlisted uniforms instead of khakis. These are just a few things that are irritating - there are quite a few more. If you can get past the inaccuracies the plot is quite good. Harlequin/Silhouette should hire a former military person to proof read their books that deal with military plots.

This is a light and pleasant romp through Revolutionary (1700s) France.

French aristrocrat Eloise taunts and torments a jaded English nobleman with her physical charms while at the same time ensuring that her maids know their place in the world. But the French Revolution changes Eloise's position in the world and she finds she must turn to that same English gentleman she humiliated to rescue her from France. Her former servants enjoy abusing her, as does the Englishman, but although Eloise is debauched, she never will learn humility.

This features many very erotic S&M scenes, though the urine and dirt fetishes may be a bit strong for some. Pleasantly light on the bondage and more directed towards submission and passion.

This is a fun, amusing, and light read for those hours you just want to relax and enjoy a steamy book in the bath.

This book is well-known in academic database circles as "The Red Book" (in fact, the editors maintain a useful web site at http://redbook.cs.berkeley.edu/) and is a canonical resource in those circles. It's primarily intended as a reader/textbook for a graduate course in database systems and has a heavy emphasis on implementation issues. It contains a fair number of classic papers that should be read by anybody who actually works on database engines as well as a number of more recent papers that should be read by anyone who does research in database systems. The usefulness for end-users of databases (i.e., application writers) is unclear.

The 3rd edition, in my opinion, improves upon the 2nd edition considerably. Of course, it freshens the paper selection in some areas. More importantly, it prunes the number of subject areas considerably, resulting in a more manageable collection (in more ways than one!). For example, a great deal of work was performed in the late 1980s and early 1990s in areas such as extensibility and active database management. By the late 1990s, the SQL3/SQL1999 train had already left the station - work still goes on in these areas, but at a greatly reduced rate. Conversely, data mining and decision analysis have become hugely important areas, and the new Red Book has a section on it.

If there's a place where this book "missed the boat," it would probably be in terms of applications. The editors cut the section on user interfaces and programming models and have always ignored unstructured/semistructured data models. In these days of the Web, this choice is questionable; on the other hand, a lot of the most reasonable work in these areas has in fact appeared since 1998, so it's a bit hard to criticize with any degree of fairness!