When was the last time you picked up a medical textbook and had the reaction "Hey Way Cool". That is the reaction you will have to Armstrong and Cohen's practical, beautifully illustrated, readable textbook. This book straddles the media divide betwixt the standard twentieth century text and the future's 21st century media by the way it has been organized. I highly recommend this book to any interested physician.

What sort of rooms did middle-class America live in during the fifties? Just have a look at the 250 room-set photos in this fascinating book. The advertising folk at Armstrong Tiles had the neat idea of showing the companies product as part of a room set to inspire home owners. These photos were used in their ads in the leading consumer magazines of the period. The photos are sharp, well-lit with no deep shadows, everything had to be visible and they capture the time between mom just cleaning the house and the folks arriving! I find the many kitchen and bathroom shots the most interesting, living in London during the fifties my parents would have loved to have such units and facilities. This book and the companion volume on the sixties, are a wonderful reminder of how we lived in the recent past. Although it does not detract from the photos the typography and presentation are rather bland.

As a decorator for one of the well respected prop houses in the Los Angeles area, as well as a student of interior design, I found this book extremely helpful in giving me the direction I needed to finish a project that had me stumped. The book is graphic intensive (which I like)with just a few words written about each photo. I shall use this book without fail for many years to come. Now if I can only find the volume covering the 50's and also the 70's.

This is an awesome book! I learned so much I can teach both of my parents. Because of this, I have made my own Web page with this book as my only guide. All the activities here rock!

This book has a very limited scope: It lists and describes any and all deaths the author can relate to JFK. Some are obviously murders, others are probably innocent coincidences. But as you turn page after page of "heart attacks" and death by "suicide" you suddenly realize that the information in this book alone is enough to prove a conspiracy. I'm not a statistician, but the odds of that many of the participants being murdered have to be enourmous (I think I remember reading billions to one or more). The one complaint I have is that some people have pages devoted to their backgrounds, while others only tell the location and vague details of the death in a few sentences so it's a little unbalanced, but then again there is a lack of data on some people. Also it probably needs to be updated... I give it 5 stars for the EXCELLENT use as a reference tool. Not much new info here for me but I can look up any character's bio and usually find out what his role in the assassination was.

This is a great book both as a simple cookbook (best oxtail soup recipe I've found) and just for fun. It takes the dishes mentioned in ULYSSES and gives recipes as well as putting them in the context of the book. Most of the recipes are period; no microwaves here. But I'm no great cook, and I've found that I can do just fine with most of the recipes, though many are too time-consuming for everyday use. But for special occasions, the recipes are wonderful to actually use and the rest of the time the book provides a historical reference and insight into Joyce's masterpiece.

This is a world where we need to understand and help those in need, especially those kids with special education needs. The book has provided many useful checklists, questionaires, and ideas to help special education teachers share some thoughts and clearify some myths with other students in class and at school. Cute comics on almost every page make it more fun to read. If you are the one who would like to give a hand to those kids with special education needs, this is the book you must have at hand!

I truly enjoyed the book and loved the illustrations by Rohmann, particularly those of the crow. In King Crow the role of the crow is both messenger and trickster. The wounded and blinded King Cormac, left for dead after a decisive battle with the evil King Bregant awakens to find a wounded crow asking for his help. The crow has an arrow in its wing from the battle. Cormac helps the crow and he, in turn, promises to repay Cormac's kindness. While the good king doubts the crow can do much for him, the crow assures him he will, just before Bregant's forces arrive to take Cormac prisoner. The crow arrives three times with news for Cormac in regards to Bregant, acting out his traditional role of messenger. The tidbits of news the crow delivers, however aren't vital pieces of intelligence concerning opposition of hidden troops yet loyal to Cormac or the like, rather they're seemingly insignificant scenes in which the crow finds the King Bregant. By adding a single, telling detail each time, the crow ensures that Cormac will sufficiently unnerve Bregant to the point that the provided visions lead to his deserved ("destined" even) fate. With the addition of these significant details, the crow enacts it's other traditional role, that of trickster. Rohmann's depiction of the crow is wonderful. His soft lines and use of colors make the otherwise dismal black of the crow's feathers seem warm and welcoming. Without forsaking the natural integrity of the crow, he successfully gives the crow expressions, varying from plaintive to conspirative, inquisitive and thoughtful, even concern. Once Armstrong has finished setting up the world and gets the story going, it flows well. The conversations between the crow and Cormac are well constructed. There's a sense of the fairy tale throughout the story and together with Rohmann's art it works well as a whole.

This was the first mainstream U.S. book to address the issue of incest. It's highly accessible but deeply disturbing, filled with tragic, individual stories of assaults, mostly by fathers and perpetrated upon daughters. Armstrong did her homework. I got to know her in New York in the late 70s through a mutual friend, and she was a warm, intelligent, and compassionate woman. I wish I could find her today to let her know how my own story has ended up. But anyway, read this book if you are a survivor who needs to know you're not alone, a perpetrator who is on the road to recovery (though there is never 100% recovery for them, and I would not trust one completely with anyone under the age of 16), or just someone interested in this field of criminal psychology from a layman's perspective.

Of the few books I've found that were arranged the way this book is, in a way that topical information is easy to locate, this was by far the most thorough, covering the moving-out process from finding an apartment to setting up finances. It teaches how to live safe, healthy, thrifty, financially sound... if children came with a manual as many parents wish, then this would be part two.