This book was the not the greatest if you have athletes in your classes. The games were general, some of them would be no fun to use. They certainly are not lead-up games, they are simply games teaching no fundementals of sports.

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This book would be perfect for a PE teacher who is having a bad day and didn't plan the gym class for the next session of third graders. Just grab this book and you will have 150 ready made ideas at your finger tips!

I was interested in a specific sport lead up games and found many new ideas that easily adapted to my needs. Also discovered some interesting ideas to spice up a Soccer Camp.

It's a reference book and so it sits on the shelf a lot but when you need a great idea for activities for kids, you will reach for this one.

I would recommend for PE teachers and youth sports coaches who want to add excitement and fun into practice sessions.
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Guy Bailey provides the physical education teacher as well as the classroom teacher with a complete and comprehensive guide that presents sports lead-up games for over 150 game activities. They are user friendly and the book is very organized and easy to use. My students have really enjoyed these lead-up games. I highly recommend this book. It can also be a great tool for substitutes.

Contemporary publishing would probably be in far better shape if more of its managers had the fiscal know-how of Bailey. There's no question that he has a unique mastery of the accounting and financial formulas that were necessary in his own day. But this book was originally written in 1970 and, while one would like to believe that good advice is timeless, there have been so many changes in the publishing industry since then (many occurring in the last five years) that it is difficult not to conclude that some of his concerns and emphases are just no longer in sync with times. If you're accumulating a library of publishing texts, surely include this one. But if you want contemporary financial advice that takes current realities into account, you're better off with a book like Thomas Woll's excellent Publishing For Profit.

This book is a must for a person who is interested in book publishing. The author discusses selecting a list price and selecting a print run size from a mathematical point of view. The book is packed with concepts that a mature publisher would take for granted and a novice would need to grow into a mature publisher. I can imagine this book as a college text for an advanced degree.

with so many tiny tidbits of interesting information stuck in here and there it was a learning experience just reading the special highlights throughout the book. There were useful lists of important dates and happenings throughout each chapter and even suggested websites relating to each chapter's material for further information. The way the book was written made for easy understanding of the material and better memory of what was read. Although the book follows a text book formula it was fun to read which is rare. A real find!

I looked for a long time to find a decent world history; one that was neither 10,000 pages nor painfully dry. This is the best I found. It is a very readable book of reasonable length. The authors make good use of sidebars with thought-provoking bits of literature which are scattered throughout the overall history. They also make a good attempt at discussing underlying causes and patterns behind the historical events. I perfer that to a dry recounting of the facts, even if I may not always agree with them on the interpretation. It was surprisingly neutral on religious topics, given the origin of the book.

As a new creative writing instructor I was very pleased to locate this book! It allowed my students to begin with the bits and pieces for good stories and combine them into great works. Gone are the days of students constantly saying " I don't know where to begin". This book gives them the necessary information to begin their writing and then allows them to experiment with different settings, characters and actions until they are satisfied with the end result!

As a new instructor of creative writing I was very pleased to locate this book! My students were paralyzed with fear when given their first writing assignment. "Where do I start?" and "How do I establish believability?" were frequent questions. This book allowed my students to start at one specified place and work on the specific parts of their stories and then move on. It is absolutely the best textbook I have located to date!

An outstanding historical overview of American foreign policy and individual Secretaries of State and the presidential policies they worked from (or at cross purposes with). Easy-to-read, it is written for the layman, not the academic.

I learned things I'd never heard of before, such as the fact that the United States has had troops occupying Russia! During the intervention of 1918, Europeans and America went in to support the White Russians and help quell the chaos during the early Russian Revolution.

Also that in early American history our relationship with Canada was anything but friendly. There were shooting incidents between Americans and Canadians partly over border disputes and partly over Canadian fears of American invasion.

I have used this book in college and for preparing high school classes. I find the explanation of historical events to be clear and systematic. The supplemental charts are easy to follow. I recommend this book for finding good explanations for the events that the United States was involved in and about the key players at the time.

"Focus on the Language Classroom" was written specifically for language teachers with little or no background in research practices or statistics, with its main aim to bridge the gap between research and teaching. It is divided into five parts. The first part explains what classroom research is and why it is important. The second part looks at principles and procedures of classroom research. Both parts are quite interesting and are worth reading. The last three parts of "Focus on the Language Classroom", which is the core of the book, look at specific research findings and their implications for teaching. Although I found the "discussion starters" and "suggestions for further reading" of each chapter to help, in the main, I found the latter parts of this book to be to be rather dull. Partly, it was because the book is a little old and therefore, the issues are somewhat dated. Partly, it was because Allwright and Bailey don't make data analysis look so inspiring. But mainly, I didn't like these chapters because nearly all the data were taken from sloppy teachers, real and imagined. I was also frequently peeved at the models that researchers have generated. They vary from the simple and pointless, to the complex and useless. I have one of my own that you'd perhaps like to spend the next few hours in your ivory tower pondering; if you buy this book, you will either a) put on weight, b) lose weight, or c) stay the same. If there is a conclusion, then it is that there is still a big gap between research and teaching, and this book doesn't narrow that gap.

Excellent summary on the development of classroom research provides insights on what is classroom research and why it is important at this moment. Lucid but reader friendly style of writing catches reader¡¯s attention, and provides insights as well as thought provoking suggestions on understanding learner errors, input and interaction in language classrooms. The book extends the scope of classroom interaction from diverse angles-receptivity, attention, etc. In the appendices section of the book, Allwright and Bailey illustrate classroom interaction analysis schema which are quite helpful for the novice researchers regarding what to look at in the language classroom. The diverse observation schema illustrated might meet future researchers¡¯ needs coming from different research backgrounds. However, the authors do not limit the scope of investigation within quantifiable and observable data. Their explanations as to the differences between quantitative and qualitative research paradigm might ameliorate novice researchers¡¯ conceptualization in understanding two different research positions.

This book is one of the acclaimed Time-Life ,"Planet Earth" , series, and excellently holds up its end of things. The book addresses both alpine glaciers and ice sheets and does an excellent, brief history on the origination and refinement of Ice Age science. The photography, both color and black-white, is exceptional and closely follows an easily read and understood text that is not elementary. The sections on icebergs and on the Antarctic dry valleys are one of a kind.

I could have done without yet another review of Captain Robert Scott's folly in the Antarctic, and can't give the book five stars for that reason, but I suppose that any author of a work on glaciers feels somehow obliged to put in a section on early polar exploration, especially on the unduly stubborn Captain Scott.

As noted, the rest of the volume is very well done, and I recommend it highly to anyone not familiar with the nuances of glaciology and Ice Ages.

1. god's great plough 2.The animated life og\f glaciers

I use the Bailey School Kids Series in my special education classroom. This book did not receive as much enthusiasm as several of the others in the series according to the ones who count....the kids reading these books.

I think ALL of the Bailey School Kids books are GREAT! (and thespin-off "Bailey City Monsters" series and "TripletTrouble" series, all by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones.) They are funny, innocent stories that get my classrom children interested in reading (they can't get enough of them!) and motivate them to write their own stories.

Two traditions exist side by side in the literature of natural history: the scientific tradition, running through Linnaeus and Darwin to the evolutionary biologists of today, and the romantic tradition, passing from Gilbert White to John Burroughs and today's conservation and nature movements. The American naturalist Florence Merriam Bailey (1863-1947), the subject of this biography, was one of those rare individuals who was at home in both traditions. In her early years Bailey was active in the crusade against feather hats, and we see her vigorous work "in the trenches" of Smith College and of Washington society. On the scientific side, as sister to C. Hart Merriam and as wife to Vernon Bailey, pioneer figures in the U.S. Biological Survey, Florence Bailey was an explorer of the American West, and her many expeditions provided material not only for her technical Handbook of Birds of the Western United States (1902) and her Birds of New Mexico (1928), but for dozens of travel and life history accounts in the popular press as well. Ample quotations from Bailey's writings give a vivid picture of the early West, and make it easy to understand why her works were appreciated by both professionals and amateurs.

The weakness of this biography is that, unlike Bailey, its author is at home only in the romantic tradition. We are told on three occasions, for example, that the scientific method of bird study was to "shoot first and ask questions later," a derogatory characterization Bailey would probably not have made inasmuch as her brother and husband were among the greatest collectors of their generation. Florence Bailey comes through as an admirable figure, but the manner in which her story is told will tend to reinforce the prejudices that members of both the scientific and romantic traditions have toward each other today. [Adapted from my review in Archives of Natural History, 18(3): 415, 1991.]

I highly recommend this book. It is a wonderful read about a highly individualistic, inspiring woman who lived a fascinating life. I found it soothing and stimulating at the same time: it made me get up off my duff and get back out into the big outdoors to take another look at birds and the natural world, and it also gave me hope about what we can do as individuals to learn about and protect the environment. Florence helped start the movement to ban the practice of putting birds and bird feathers on women's hats that nearly wiped out many of our bird species around the turn of the century. Her early life in the woods with minimal schooling allowed her to see the world in a less cynical, socially molded way, making it possible for her to become one of the preeminent naturalists of her day. She traveled all over the West camping with her naturalist husband and observing birds so that she could write some of the first field guides for these areas. As a writer and a scientist, I found the author's descriptions of Florence's scientific technique, which relied on intimate observations of birds' daily lives, fascinating. What a role model! I will read this book again whenever I need to replenish my stores of hope and curiousity.

This is a good overview of the history of the Arkansas Razorback football program. Henry glosses over many good teams, however. He focuses particularly on the mythical championship team of 1964 and leaves a lot out about the better teams of 1969, 1988 and 1989. He has also left out many lettermen from the list in the appendix.

Besides the Bible (seeing it is at the top of my list), this is one of the best books I have ever read. If you have any fascination with the Arkansas Razorbacks, this is the book for you. Wonderful!!! I might have to get it out and read it again.