Nemet-Nejat has compiled a great deal of information into this book. Although the historical overview was a little long and dry, most of the book was very interesting. Nemet-Nejat quotes from a number of original writings of the ancient Mesopotamians, giving a unique view into the thinking and culture of this ancient civilization.

The insights into education, religion, writing, and recreation were most interesting.

This is a thorough treatment on a hard-to-find subject. The book covers all aspects of raising emus, including: housing, health, breeding, incubation, raising chicks, and marketing emu products. The author, Maria Minnaar, has been raising emus commercially since the mid-1980s. This book is aimed at the commercial emu farmer, with detailed information on veterinary care, breeding, meat cuts and emu oil processing. The author provides one chapter on raising Ostrich and Rhea, highlighting the differences between these birds and emus. There is an interesting section covering other ratites, the Cassowary, Kiwi, Moa and Elephant Bird, and a good bibliography of ratite information sources. The drawings and photographs are high-quality.

I am currently in college taking pipe drafting courses. We use this book as our textbook along with the accompaning workbook. I find it to be very knowlegable and informative as well as well written. It explains step by step how to draw your pipes manually, using auto cad and pro-pipe as well. Illistrations are very good also. My husband has been a welder for 22 years, and now he is also taking this course with me, and agrees with my opinion. This teaches you the basics of piping it is not an indepth book on the subject. but for beginners it is outstanding I would highly recommend it to any one interested in the subject...Kathy Noland

I, like the author, Rhea Cote Robbins was brought up belingually in Waterville, Maine. My mother was born in Beauceville, Canada and moved to Maine to work in the Lewiston mills. My dad's parents were from Canada, and moved to the Waterville. When my mother would speak to my siblings and I, it was always in french, we would answer her in english. I could relate with Rhea's stories of going to a parochial schoold, playing in the cemetary, however not the same one as she did, and also the importance of inheriting my grandmothers quilt.....what a treasure. I did marry a man who graduated from Colby, the elite college on the hill. Enjoyed the french dialog, it brought a smile to my face to see the language in print. The author captured the essence of life, the life I grew up in.

This book captures the imagination of a young girl, who appearsto her parents to be totally preoccupied with "what-ifs".Interwoven between the wanderings of Sara's imagination she comes to the aid of her immigrant father by writing bills, making deliveries and punching down rising bread dough. The illustrations and the expressions convey a rich European heritage and show how much children learn by simply observing their parents.

When you're ready to get real about Wicca and the Craft, read this book. I've read many books by such popular authors like Silver RavenWolf and Ray Buckland. Maeve Rhea finally gives us some meat to chew on. (not to cast disparaging remarks in those authors' books. They are good primers to get your appetite whetted!) But contrary to the "I've got to write another book to support my family" mentality of SOME pagan "authors", Maeve Rhea basically rips open her guts and shows us how to really really perform Magick and commune effectively with the Divine. If you're someone who obsesses on what color candle or phase of the moon is correct for any working, basically a "book" pagan, then keep reading the Llewellyn trash that is cranked out each month. But if you are serious about knowing how to really be a true witch and clergy, read this book.

There are a lot of books on Wicca. Most of them contain an overview of everything involved with this faith. This book is different. It devote the whole book to two topics that usually get only a chapter or perhaps less.I found this book to be both a validation of my experience with invocation and a guide to deepen my experience of it. I think that anyone could benefit from this book, from the novice to seasoned veterans. Admittedly I have 12 years of pagan ritual experience behind me, but i don't think i am underestimating serious new comers. Witches and Pagans at every level should read this book. If you are inexperienced it should be reread everytime you make a step ahead on your path because you will find new understanding each time. I am not a newcomer and still i plan on rereading this book.Usually I am turned off by those who use the title "lady" and high priestess. They seem to be full of themselves and plain full of "it". But Maeve Rhea is a no-nonsence kind of lady. Her techniques are very practical and don't rely on hard to find tools and complicated correspondence charts. The exercises for invocation seem tailor made for solitaries. the section on evocation is the smaller one and the one i found less useful for myself as it relied more on group work. But the visualizations in the section for understanding the elements are absolutly incredible and absent of romanticiation.I found the authors voice to be very likable--she is a practical gal. she has a very good grasp of human psychology--and a terrific grasp on reality.i do disagree a lot with some other reviewers--even some of the positive ones. For instance i don't see the author as political correct. yes she has oppinions and makes no appoligies for them. but at the same time she doesn't try to make you give up yours. She makes comment after comment on how you should question everything you read--even her work. she writes with authority which is something a good writer should do. who wants to read a book by a wishy-washy personality.i understand that people may be sensitve when her oppinions don't match their own. but why do people feel the need to have their beliefs spit right back out at them. for instnce--rhea makes a lot of anti-vegetarian comments. i am a hard-core vegan for 14 years and i don't feel threatened by that. i can see that her oppinion on this is part of her feelings that anything that is self-punishing is not spirtually uplifting. and i know that she doesn't have my experience of tasting a preparing the most mouth watering delicious satisfying ecastacy producing vegan food---her loss. but that doesn't make her invocation techniques less valid.i don't feel that maeve rhea is a religious bigot. but she expresses her oppinions on other religions. the comments that she makes are part of her philosophy and are there to make a point on the subject she is writing about. this is not a book on magic and does not portend to be. it is a book on the spiritual experience of invocation and evocation in the wiccan tradition. the author is not saying that ceremonial magic doesn't work just because she doesn't like it. her reason is that it does not do what it claims to do. in her oppinion what it claims to do is use magic to get other beings to do your bidding. she makes the point that if it worked then all magicians would have perfect lives.her reason for using c. magic as an illustration is two fold. it shows us that we cannot expect deities to bow at our demend and solve all our problems. the deities will appear to us in a form of their own choosing. they will not fix our petty everyday human problems that we should be fixing ourselves. and they will do anything that is harmful so don't expect them to smite your enemies.the second part of her using c. magic as an illustration is to explain her theories on demons. her feeling is that the universe is good, that deities (or as she calls them god-forms) are always beneficient and that so-called demons are not of divine origin. she admits that magicians can conjure demons--but explains how demons our created out of our own wounded human psyches.to say that the author doesn't differenciate between enochian magic and the more general ceremonial magic is absurd. just because she says they are both unsucessful doesn't mean she is saying they are both the same. she posits both as examples to prove her points. when she writes about enochian magic it is basically just to inform people that it is based on a hoax---which is true. the author gives warning about a lot of things because she is trying to help people. she has seen a lot in this world and is giving advice. it is not out of predjudice but out of personal experience. she always makes it clear that she is expressing her own oppinions and doesn't expect you to accept it as the bible truth. even when she does condemn things it is with an open, level-headed and fair mind.The author seems a to be a sincere, caring, intellegent person. don't be put off by other reviews. she really isn't abrasive at all. it is easy to just take comments out of context and use it to make yourself get offended. for instance in the beginning the author states that she uses the term "god-forms" because deity is ultimatly ungendered--so she feels no need to use the "goddess-forms"--so immediatly the feminist in me starts thinking "oh--here we go. a self hating woman--if deity is ungendered why not just use the term "goddess-form" to describe both gods and goddesses--doesn't she know that by choosing the masculine term she is furthing the goals of the patriarchy"---but i read on and i realize that for her truely gender is not an issue. so i didn't let that one comment ruin the whole book for me--sure it isn't what i would have choosen--but who cares.---did i mention i love this book?

I have read the other reviews and I am very disappointed in the ones who think that this is a bad book. This book has worked wonders for my 2nd circle students. This is one of the few books that i have found that actually get the reader ready with exercises to invoke.

I'm also impressed with the way that it covers Invoking and evoking. For students who have not been exposed to both concepts this book explains and gives exercises to get one ready for each. It gives them a basis of what to expect. I do, however agree that this book is not for beginners. I don't believe that beginners should be invoking period. I also must say that the feeling of invoking a deity is different for everyone. I do not go to another place. I am here but a presence has come within me, inside of me.

I was relieved to find someone who also saw deity the way that I do. nit to offend anyone who worships a Goddess because I do but Deity does NOT have a gender. I have read countless books that tell me that I can not inoke a male God because I am a female and that is ridiculous. I've been doing it for 14 years and it's never hurt me. There are many different Gods and Goddesses. The some Greek Gods are alot more feminine than some female Sumerian Goddesses so the difference isn't the gender, it is the person calling and who they are.

All in all I would definately suggest this book to anyone who has studied the basics of witchcraft and wishes to move on.

... The layout of the book was confusing and so where theexamples and explanations. If it where not for a great math teacher Iwould have been lost in the class if I was just left to the book alone. I would recommend students and teachers (if your considering this book for your class) to stay away from it... END

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This book is addressed for understanding of the Calculus and not for the traditional teaching that sins for the excess of formalism. It is an excellent book for who wants to understand and to learn Calculus through the application of problems of the Real World. The book also motivates the use of graphic calculators to have a better vision of the problem.

The first half of this text seems be be a bit simple. Many of the problems are confusing at best. The authors are not very clear on what they want. Many students in my class were frustrated by this time and time again. Still other times the questions were way to easy and never really chalanged the students. Basicly the first half does not provied a good solid base for Calculus. The second half is just flat out poorly written. It leaves the students constently scraching their heads wondering what the authors want. Questions are asked in such a way as to not make sence or not to follow the chapters very well. Chapt 7 is very much like this. Bad. The faculty agrees by having to put out an additional book of their own to help provide a better understanding of Trig.
Over all this book needs to be re-thought out. A poor choise for instructors wanting their students to get a solid base so as to takle more advaced math classes.

I like pictures of people on bikes. It makes me feel better because riding mountain bikes is fun. So when I work on functions, I feel happier.

Great book! It is especially good for understanding what different functions do, and how. This is very important for understanding calculus. Great examples, always linking functions with things in real life.

this book i was supposed to get for a class is a waste of money, it didn't help me anymore than the help files on acadr13

I came to Amazon to buy another copy of this for my brother-- your price is better than at our college store. I do not know who wrote that first note about this book being a waste of money, but my guess is that he has trouble in all of his classes, based on his writing. My instructor used this in our class, and we used the Online Companion to find additional resources to help us do he work. He also used the exercises in our class, and we were able to do real projects with the book.

I found this to be the most complete and user friendly AutoCAD R13 book on the market. You can basically teach yourself how to use AutoCAD with this text very simply. The language is very user friendly and organized well. This book has 2D, 3D and programming and customizing AutoCAD. I am going to pick up a copy of the R14 version for reference. I recommend Harnessing AutoCAD highly!

I wanted so much more from this book. I felt that the information contained was mainly common sense, and the writing seemed to be aimed toward a small child. Not only that, but the quality of this print is pretty bad - cheap paper and binding. There are so many better books out there, with creative and innovative techniques described that WORK. My kitties required that I try another title: "Is Your Cat Crazy?: Solutions from the Casebook of a Cat Therapist" by John C. Wright. I found this title to be much more helpful.

I gave this book two stars because a child might benefit from it, or even just someone who simply has not spent much time around cats.

This book brought a lot of smiles and laughs of recognition. As the "pets" of 2 homebound felines, we gained a world of understanding about how our companions viewed us and our shared home. The startle-can trick works wonders for keeping cats off furniture, even when we "alpha-cats" are not around. Handy habit-troubleshooting guide and clear explanations of what underlies the behavior. Have already shared the book with other cat-companions and they are getting their own copies for continued future reference.

All in all, a fantastic book! I have recommended this book to tens of people already ... if you want clear, common sensical and effective ways of (re)training your kitty or want to understand why your cat is peeing in your bed/lounge/laundry ... then this is the book for you. Yes, it is written in a simple, good natured way, but if you are actually willing to put to work the advice given, it is a god-send. This is not a book for people who want a quick-fix, sell me a pill type solutions!! All the recommendations in here work - I have two living examples - but they all take some effort and time ...