This is a small book, but it has a very clear layout with eleven songs including: If You're Happy, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Bingo, Row, Row Your Boat, The Muffin Man, The Mulberry Bush, London Bridge, Over The River and Through The Woods, Tell Me Why, She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain, and The Bear Went Over the Mountain. The lyrics to the song are written out, with the corresponding musical notes above the lyrics, and the sign for each word below the lyrics. There are no instructions, however, of how to make each sign. They assume you either already know how to do the sign, or can figure it out by looking at the picture. (And for the most part, you can.) Overall, a very fun little book!

Published in 1801, Tabitha Tenney's novel, "Female Quixotism" is at times an amusing, satiric, and profoundly melancholic work. Written in the popular 18th century strain of novels with a moral aesthetic, whose purpose is social and moral corrective, "Female Quixotism" positions itself in the discourse of the dangers of novel reading, especially for young women. While this is its primary function, the narrative also engages with its historical moment, just a few years after the birth of the American nation, "Female Quixotism" addresses America's relationship to increasing numbers of 'foreign' immigrants, the 'problem' of the Native American, and strikingly, the issue of abolishing slavery.

"Female Quixotism" takes place over fifty years, from about 1750 to 1800. Dorcas Sheldon is an only child, who early on loses her mother. Raised and educated by her father, she is entranced throughout her life by British novels, particularly those of Samuel Richardson and Tobias Smollett. This 'turns her head,' if you will, making her believe that the passionate, spontaneous expressions of love and desire found in these novels are the only legitimate basis of love and marriage. She even goes so far as to change her name on her 18th birthday to Dorcasina, thinking it far more romantic. Her father and her neighbours, the Stanlys, along with her waiting maid Betty all try to argue Dorcasina to a more rational kind of love, but are forced to watch her repeatedly make a fool out of herself while men who are either interested in sport or money take advantage of her delusions.

Dorcasina's 'lovers,' particularly O'Connor, James, Philander, 'Montague' and Seymour all use Dorcasina's predilection for high-flown courting language and ridiculous sentimentality against her to achieve their own purposes. As Dorcasina gets progressively older, she begins to appear more and more ludicrous and shameless, a sore trial for her father, one of L____, Pennsylvania's most wealthy and respected inhabitants. Contrasted throughout the novel is one of Dorcasina's neighbours, Harriot Stanly, a bright young woman, who is sent away to study in a private school, with an injunction from her mother never to read a novel, citing Dorcasina as a prime negative example. In the fine picaresque style, following such romps as the immortal "Don Quixote," or Goldsmith's "The Vicar of Wakefield" and so on, "Female Quixotism" lampoons the heroine's wild notions of novels as patterns for life.

Ironically, unlike her male predecessors, Dorcasina and her sidekick, Betty do very little traveling, moving primarily in the novel between their house and a wooded grove in which many of her amorous misadventures begin. The novel's isolationism follows from it's uniquely early-American context. One of the more important issues that "Female Quixotism" handles is the question of marginal people in the new United States, and as in Charles Brockden Brown, one of Tenney's contemporaries, particularly Irish immigrants, while also tackling the Constitution's fictional notion of equality in terms of African-American slavery. Also as in Brown's novels, "Female Quixotism" takes place in an agricultural area outside of Philadelphia, the hub of national activity in the late 18th century. In many ways, "Female Quixotism" can be read as a commentary on the socio-political options and choices facing the new republic - in imagining a household without a male authority figure, "Female Quixotism" tests the viability and vulnerability of a Lockean government though a wholly domestic arena.

A fascinating, entertaning, and often pitiful heroine, cleverly managed anti-romantic storylines, and urgent historical questions make "Female Quixotism" a pivotal early American work of fiction. Tenney's novel is delightful and seriously engaging and should be read by anyone interested in the development of the 18th century novel in general, American fiction in particular, as well as the history of women's education.

This work covers almost all areas of fingerprinting and identification. It has some lapses where it does not explain the full Henry Classification process.

I found the book to be quite adequate in most areas. It has become somewhat dated in the fact that it only covers AFIS Systems briefly in the final chapter.

There are some areas that I would rate as excellent, and others as "rushed" and not read over by the author. Some sections do not take into account a reader who has not spent 20 years in classifing prints. The Henry Classification System is not totally covered - although AFIS Systems make Henry outdated.

There are two problems with gay travel guides -- usually.

First, they are often sponsored by advertising, which means that every review is a rave. Every club is suddenly "friendly," and "the place to be." That doesn't help much,and it makes for grimacing reading.

Second, they are often sketchy. Some guidebooks are little more than a group of symbols and maybe a few phrases if we're lucky like, "Crowded. Dark."

Thankfully, this book is honest, fun and descriptive. Here, you'll find an unvarnished description of the major restaurants, accommodations and bars in South Florida. Most are accompanied by at least a paragraph that seeks to *show* the reader what it's like, rather than *telling*. I'm especially proud of the fact that in several places, the author isn't afraid to call a place a dump if it warrants it. That kind of honesty is refreshing.

My only complaint is that the author admits that some places are omitted because are so bad they don't meet the standards of the book. I would like to see those places reviewed anyway so the reader can determine for himself.

All in all, this is a compact, descriptive, helpful guide for the gay traveler who is new to the area.

This is a good book for those who are familiar with sign language and want more information that is available in most introductory texts on food signs. My only complaint is that there aren't that many signs here. You'll still have to finger spell alot of words after this one...

Some fifteen years ago I was given a copy of Foolscape which I read with "puzzlement", perhaps because it had been a new form of novel writing I had been exposed to. It was a serious, interesting and curious entry into a young man's "rite of passage". One felt like a friend at times and an intruder at others. It led me to read novels that would never otherwise have read - to be adventurous in my reading. I had been so enthusiastic that I leant it to someone and it was never returned. I hoped that it went on to inspire other readers. Your world is as large as you make it. Thank you for such an opportunity!

This book was very interisting for my test to selection of University. This book talk about everything important for forage in medicine veterinary.

Here's a grim little tale set in the World of Greyhawk - you may have always thought of gargoyles as sinister, deadly adversaries, but what do you do when one stalks you, wakes you, and begs you help him recover his stolen wings? This is one of my all-time favorite adventures to entice novices into the game - a wonderful story for levels 1-4.

Having admittedly bought this book at a Phar-Mor "bargain books" section in 1989-ish for one or two dollars (those were the days!!), this book immediately entered into the (literally)"bang for the buck" category! Kamin's extraordinary photos, though somewhat biased toward the "trio years" and 1980-84 in general, well capture the theatrics and imagination of Genesis' and Peter Gabriel's stage shows, and its commentary by Goddard, though somewhat equally biased toward this period, is equally evocative. The good but overly short interviews of Collins, Rutherford, Banks and Gabriel (PG in "Plays Live" mode; Collins only a year away from the success of "No Jacket Required") are also of interest, clarifying the misunderstandings (no pun intended!) on the group's shift from progressive rock pioneers to superstar intelligent-pop trio of the 1980's, and the making of the trio's self-titled 1983 release.

I really enjoyed this American mystery set in Boston and the surrounding area, and was disappointed to find that the are no other mysteries listed for the author. The information on art, auctions and art galleries was interesting, the settings realistic, and the characters both fascinating and believable. The plot moved right along, and while the identity of the murderer came as a surprise, it made sense. I hope Ms. Collins picks her pen back up.