This book is both a call for better designed medium density housing and a source book on how to achieve that end. The great thing about this book is that it provides simple design and layout advice for housing projects based on detailed research and post occupancy evaluations. This book sets out what works in housing design. I think every planner or designer should have this book close at hand.

Beautiful tape of music to introduce to your children. Some songs are instrumental. Includes songs such as "Miss Mary Mack," "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud," "Lift Every Voice," "Kumbaya," etc. The book has the words with wonderful illustration of Black children. No sheet music, but a few arrangements are included.

This book is a "must have" for everyone who wish to became a paintball field owner. Very usefull, very up-to-date and very complete guide to field creation and management. Don't let this strange spiral bound fool You! This book is worth every cent!

This book is an amazing compendium of interesting facts about the evolution of our genome. It is comprehensive without being boring. I am writing this review in 2003, rather late for a 1999 book, because it is so good I felt it shouldn't be listed on Amazon without at least one review from a reader. I hope that the author will update it with a second edition incorporating new data from the sequencing of the human genome, which was "completed" after this book was published.

"It starts with a cow." So begins Elisha Cooper's entertaining and inventive picture book, Ice Cream. From the cows grazing on grass in the pasture, to the yummy final product being delivered to stores, Mr Cooper details each fascinating step in the creation of everyone's favorite treat. His engaging text, that often winds its way creatively around the page, is informative and filled with simple, straightforward explanations, marvelous machine sound effects, and subtle humor, and is enhanced by charming pencil and watercolor artwork. Perfect for kids 7-10, or for reading aloud to younger children, Ice Cream is non-fiction at its very best, and a delicious little masterpiece you don't want to miss.

This little book has a great big inside.....
It is full of awe and wonder for a small child to giggle through... or an adult to be whimsically delighted.

If you are looking for a reference that will summarize what's been happening since forever, this is it. In two volumes, Fay-Cooper and friends manage to sum it all up. And then they liberally illustrate it all with several photos per page, some in color, some not. The text is not difficult to read so junior or senior high schoolers could make use of this set to "get their bearings" on what the teacher is presenting. An excellent work by a well-known and highly regarded anthropologist, the books end at the close of WWII.

Collaboratively created by poet Roger Cooper and photographer John Erickson, Impressions is a unique melding of full-color photography and poetry. Images of nature combine with spiritual free-verse lyrics, each preserved without deliberate knowledge of or reference to one another, and presented side by side, offering the reader a memorable series of visual, literary, and emotional experiences far greater than the sum of its parts. Impressions is enthusiastically recommended as a relaxing and emotionally contemplative work that is thoroughly enjoyable to page through at leisure.

... This is an oversize book, illustrated with 360 photographs, 52 in full color. "The event that brought American antiques into the forefront of world collecting was the now legendary 1929 exhibition sponsored by the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. Now this lavishly illustrated book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the exhibition, presents 180 years of magnificent American decorative arts and antiques....." This is the beginning of the opening remarks on the dustcover jacket. The writer continues to detail, chapter by chapter, the contributions of dealers and curators like Graham Hood of Colonial Williamsburg and Charles Hummel of Winterhur. Included in the text are the special commissions, the patronage and the craftsmanship that led to the creation of items that would eventually become the treasured collectable pieces of art we call antiques. The fashion centers of the East each had it's own style with often dramatic differences from New York to Philadelphia and into rural Lancaster, Pennsylvania or the villages of New Hampshire. Each page, whether photograph or text is printed on photo quality paper. The type style was taken from a noted German typographer and modified for this book. Every detail of the collection, organization and print process was meticulously supervised to provide and unusually fine book. "For collectors, dealers, libraries, and amateurs in the field - a beautiful and important book, a landmark in the literature of American antiques."

Individual Differences was recommended to me by a friend so that I might better understand personality, intelligence and psychometrics. I now understand these concepts thanks to the easy, readable style of writing. As well as listing theories the author also evaluates them, referring to the emperical literature - a pleasant change.