As I've stated in several other reviews, I used to read this series of books to my much-younger adopted sisters back when they were first in print in the 80s and early 90s. Now that I have a child of my own I have been re-collecting these books to read to him.

The artwork in this book is not nearly as strong as one sees from the usual Sesame Series artists, Chartier and Matheiu, but you can certainly recognize all the characters in Grover's classroom from previous books in this series. The basis of the storyline for this book centers on Barry, a new kid starting school in Grover's class. Grover goes out of his way repeatedly to help Barry, and even overlooks some of his rude behavior (ie pushing Molly out of the way and cutting in line on the slide at lunch) to be his friend. After Barry draws a fire truck on Grover's post-lunch masterpiece painting, Grover has had the last straw and confronts Barry, who then apologizes, saying he 'forgot how to be nice today', and then Barry has a complete turnaround and is helpful and friendly to all the other children and Grover. While it is understandable to the adults reading this book why Barry is acting the way he is (nervous about being new and not acting like himself), this is never really clarified enough for a young child to really understand. (My sisters used to always wonder why Barry was so mean and that it didn't make any sense for him to act so mean to the other kids when he didn't know them). The author also does not seem to keep the previous classmates used in other books in character -- I admit to laughing out loud at Truman's criticism of Barry's rude behavior when he was himself the rude antagonist in the Grover Goes to School book, the first of the Grover books in this series.

This is a good choice if your child is as crazy about Grover as mine is, or you like to read the Grover books to your children, but it you are looking for the best of this series, this is not one of them.

This book has wonderful illustrations that will give children the true feelings of Christmas.

Paintball : The Combat Adventure Sport

This was a ok book, It didnt live up to what I thought it would be. When it had the title combat in it like a army paintball book. It is a good book for Begainers. It could of been improved and used more details.

This book was fairly thorough and gives pretty straight foward explainations. It falls short on being anything special or really giving some advice on how to beat the system. From what I have been learning lately, being a DBA is just plain dumb and this book really doesn't steer one away from that option.
But if you're not looking for any particular advice and just want a basic text book type of book, then it's ok.

Tangled Web is a great concept. Cool writers get to do Spiderman related stories. Volume 1 has some of the best stories including Flowers For Rhino (Rhino becomes super smart) and Severance Package(which shows what happens to one of Kingpin's lieutenants after Spiderman messes up an operation). Sadly, as a whole, the series is uneven.

This edition of Tangled Web is volume III. I cannot attest to the goodness of this volume because i have not read all the issues it collects, but it contains my favorite issue of Tangled Web, #13 which features a villain bar populated by Doc Oc, Matador, Stiltman, and Whirlwind. The story centers around a Mystery Man, The Vulture, and Kraven meeting in a bar and swapping stories. The Vulture/Kraven dynamic is hilarious but the last two pages of the story would stun any spiderman fan. I don't want to spoil it, so just find the back issue or buy this book.

The book explains the fundamentals for design and methodology of SOCs. It also addresses the design reuse concerns. However, the book does not cover practical examples of SOC design and does not explain the difference between ASICs and SOCs.

Purchased on a whim while on a trip around the web, I could hardly put this tome down: it was like watching a train wreck off a cliff, or more like watching the last few seconds of a bug's life as he speeds toward the windshield of his own ignorance, as Mr. Cooke stumbled from point to point, slobbering bile along the tracks of his plot line. It is not only lacking in drama, structure, and grammar, Mr. Cooke seems to have some sort of manic obsession with the "fictional" disturbed priest of this "book". It is no wonder that this self-indulgent tripe is self-published; no real imprint would have it. If you were in need of combustible materials to keep you warm on a winter's night; I couldn't recommend The Evil We Do any more.

The "reviewer" from "St. Petersburg" is bitter because he probably disagrees with the political and religious views of the author.
This is a very good book with a great plot and fascinating characters.

I was very disappointed with this book. Its cover gives the impression, with bullets, that you will be able to learn several things from the author. For example 1) Using an S Corp for a personal tax shelter. 2) Completely avoid paying any income tax. I bought this book thinking that I would be taken through a step by step process on how to accomplish at least those items highlighted on the books cover. But instead, I was taken through a lot of general information without really being tought how to "do" anything. I believe that the author is knowledgeable, however this book was sold as a "how to" book. It feel way short of that mark.

HOW TO START YOUR OWN (SUBCHAPTER)S CORPORATION initially deceives the reader into thinking it will be easy to understand, because of the author's folksy style and use of plain language. However, the information in the book is not organized helpfully, nor is it complete. For example, there is one mention of Social Security Tax in the index; upon looking at the correct page for this mention, I found an only an irreverent reference to the possibility that FICA taxes may not be returned to taxpayers in Social Security payments. In the "Summary and Examples" section of Chapter 3, the author states, "...again, the IRS and the Social Security Administration won't like that procedure..." (i.e., taking all S corporation profits as dividend distributions) but I was unable to find where the author had discussed this at all (why say, "again,"?)

Furthermore, an updated edition would be welcome inasmuch as there have been several changes to S Corporation regulations, the most notable being in 1996 when the limit on number of stockholders was changed from 35 to 75, a substantial increase indeed.

Great breakdown of the tax options available to small businesses in terms of S corporations, partnerships, LLC's, etc. Everything you need to know to start an S corporation.

I found this book too steep for my abilities. I was attracted to its small size, for I hoped that this would provide an easy way to understand DE's. However, I should have remembered what Pythagoras told the anxious king: "There is no royal road in mathematics." This book is a case in point. The reason for its brevity are that its demonstrations are terse, and it provides only occasional answers to the problem sets. Moreover, I find it asumes that the reader is an astute mathematician.
The book might serve as a good refresher (see other review comments), but not a sufficient introductory text for someone with no previous experience in DE's or at the very least, someone who does not have a strong mathematics background. I gave this book 2 stars and not 1, only because part of the problem might be me. I believe I will do much better with Schaum's book on differential equations in their Outline series--a much bigger book, of course.

I bought this book to review my differential equations, which I had taken years ago and had mostly forgoten. I foudn it useless: it seems to cover all the essential aspect of D.E. that would belong in a introductory text, and to have reasonable rigor. However, it went to fast, was not well organized, and was generally hard to follow. I found that I was lost within a few pages, dispite having successfully completed classes on the material in the past. I've seen more advanced texts on things such as advanced calculous and partial D.E.s that were easier to understand than this. Anyway, I don't have another book to suggest, but I would avoid this one.

I bought this book as an aid to a differential equations course I had as an undergrad, and I found that it was lacking in sufficient examples. The text itself was easy to follow and logical, but the derivations of the equations and finding the solutions to the diff eq's were rather brief with few intermediate steps. It does, however, explain the applications of the mathematics to other fields such as physics, engineering, even biology. It even includes a few computational computer programs to illustrate the applications in computer science. It was an ok book to read, but was weak in the area of "teaching from the blackboard."

This book provides you with four pencil and paper games and they have duplicate copies provided for you, but they aren't very inventive. If I would have known what this book had, I would not have purchased it.