Buyer Beware! This is not just a sweet, sentimental "daddy" book. I was so excited when I picked up this book. I bought it for my infant daughter to give as her gift to Daddy on his first father's day. I thought it would be the perfect book for Daddy to read to our child. Well, here we were sitting closely reading "Daddy, Daddy" when my husband gets to this one page. It was like listening to a different book being read! I cannot remember the exact phrases, but they were something like "Daddy, Daddy, I saw you push Mama, I saw you drink too much out of the bottle." My husband was looking at me like, "What? " It was so out of character for the rest of the book! I have never torn a book in my life, but I carefully removed this page from Daddy, Daddy." Does any child really need to hear that? The rest of the book is beautiful, but this particular part RUINED it for us.

For a society that underestimates the power of the father in the home, this book is a must read. If you can get through two pages without identifying it to your own childhood needs, you indeed had a perfect father. if you can get through three pages without crying, you will understand the total need for a book like this one. If we as a society don't include and support our dads involvement in our kids lives, we indeed are being unjust and guilty of neglect to a resource that is right in front of our faces. Daddy's big hands can help eliminate a big source of our childhood injuries. Raising children in a home that is without the example of a father, is like forgetting the need for chocolate in fudge. It just doesn't turnout the same. thank you Candy

I can't say much about the book. I skimmed through it, didn't find so much better stuff compared to, let's say, Kandel & Schwartz. I thought buying the "CD version" would give me a slim, searchable CD-ROM instead of another tome of neuroscience stuff. My fault.

On the other hand the leaflet of the CD-ROM states clearly "fundamental NEUROSCIENCE images". If anyone were to be blamed at all, it'd be me jumping to conclusions and maybe Amazon for not pointing out that it's a CD-ROM full of images (ca. 900 TIFs and some GIFs (<3%)). It's just the images, no legends etc. The viewer is Kudo. It displays thumbnails and seems to have problems keeping the aspect ration when enlarging the viewing window. (It will let you make slide shows, screen savers etc. But that's not exactly why I would by a publication on neuroscience).

This CD comprises all the superb art from the Book. The art is in "jpeg" (*.jpg) format and can be "cut and pasted" into electronic slides. The book it comes from is a tour de force from leading researchers in the area of neuroscience. It is comprehensive in scope going from modern molecular and cellular neuroscience to cognitive and behavioral neuroscience. Includes strong sections on developmental neuroscience, sensory and motor neuroscience, and regulatory systems. Exceptional value for money. Suitable for teaching neuroscience at the graduate level (although it may also be suited for teaching advanced undergraduates and academic medical students and for presentations at professional symposia).

I've been a Floyd freak forever, and this book is as close to excellent as you can get. For non readers of music, it not only has chord names, it actually shows how to play the chords. Most songbooks don't do that anymore. You usually need a chord encyclopedia to learn how to play them. The only reason "Momentary Lapse of Reason" didn't get 5 stars is because most of the words to "Dogs of War" are missing. "On the Turning Away" is superb, and easy to play for a beginner or a 30 year amateur guitar player like me. Shine on.

Well, I started playing guitar about 3 years ago. So I realized that I love Pink Floyd songs (that was a little bit late when talking about a band that old!)! No more Joe Satriani's, Steve Vai's, Eric Clapton's, Rolling Stones' songs! David Gilmour's melodic guitar is what I think the maximum of playing guitar! On The Turning Away song has a great solo just like also Sorrow! No matter how good guitar player you are, how techniques you apply, how old or new your guitar instrument is, you always will want to play like David Gilmour: right notes in the right time! And this songbook (as the others of Pink Floyd) will help you a lot! Have a big fun, pal!

This book is not an easy read, but it's worth it. It was written by a scholar for other scholars, but a lay person with patience will draw a great deal from the reading. It explains common threads -- basic components of African music-- in genres as diverse as blues,rock n' roll, be-bop, hip-hop, etc. What's nice is that the author, a noted scholar and head of Chicago's Collumbia College Center for Black Music Research, lends in his narration some playfulness, invoking elements of the music in the text, with lots of eye-witness discussions of African-American musical events that allow the reader to feel like an observer. You'll emerge from the reading a little exhausted, but with a greater appreciation of black music in the U.S., and a better understanding of how your favorite type of black music, or in the case of rock fans, black music derivative, came into being. (Note: For those lucky enough to live in the handful of cities where Dance Africa is performed each year, reading this book would be a great idea before you attend the next performance.)

Has anyone noticed that the Kirkus reviews tend to be fairly condescending about works from people of color and they tend to disparage the works as limited in their understanding when in fact it could well be that they themselves are the ones with the limited understanding

This book is good at the summary at the end of each chapter, but some details in the chapter is not cover. For example, like the law requirement in TX. There is mistake in the book on page 9. On the figure1.3, supposed Heavy Manufacturing instead of Industrial Real Estate repeat twice. This book should provide some excerise to work on. For example, like the math problem, let us know how to calculate the formula.

Took this course a few years ago, and we used this book. It is a good starter book. There are others out there that could be used also, but this one is written at the average persons reading level. It also is good becuase it covers all properties not just apartments or retail etc..

This was the first biography written about Germany's great WWI air ace,Manfred von Richthofen,better known as "The Red Baron".This book was originaly written in the 1920's and is rather dated.Several superior bios of Richthofen have been written since Gibbons wrote this one.The books main week point is the authors attempt to portray Richthofen as a cold blooded killer,which subsequent biographies have shown to be totaly false.One of the books strong points is Gibbons' interviews with some of the British flyers who were lucky enough to survive being shot down by Richthofen.Their stories are quite interesting.This book makes an entertaining read,but anyone interested in a more factual account of Richthofen's life should buy one of the more recent biographies.

The Red Knight of Germany: The Story of Baron von Richthofen Floyd Gibbons, 1927.

To begin, I can honestly classify this title as simply an excellent read. Gibbons succeeds in giving a full recollection of the occurances during the life of Richthofen, and the respect the author had for Richthofen is apparent throughout the book. It is written with the same views that I believe the pilots of the time would have had pertaining to aerial warfare, or flight alone. The romantic aspects of flight, which were held in higer regard in the times of elegant, open cockpits and gallant pilots than it is today, the book unfolds in a more-than-satisfying manner the events leading up to, and including, Richthofen's time as an aerial fighter. The book includes excerpts from Richthofen's own accounts of the war, through letters to his mother, the official requests for acknowledgement for many of the victories he attained, and quotes. Certainly the book is worthy of much more praise than I am able to give in a short review such as this. For anyone even remotely interested in the early days of Aerial warfare, and of course of special interest to those interested in the history of Germany's Ace of Aces.

This unaffected personal diary uniquely evokes the Golden Age of Aviation. Here is mid 1930s American flying as surely it must have been, not the polished record breaking Lockheeds but mud and cinder airfields, patched airplanes with their deadly OX-5 engines and the singular joy of just flying. Floyd Henderson was a 21 year old grocery clerk in Lafayette, Indian in 1934 when he began recording his day to day activities. It took him a year to accumulate 10 hours of flight time in 15 and 20 minute hops yet flying formed the structure of his life during the two or three years covered. Whatever spare time and whatever spare cash he had was spent at the local "port." He washed airplanes, repaired engines, changed oil and spent endless hours talking airplanes with local pilots. "Joe and I rolled the [Waco] F onto the apron. I wired another tach that Cap has on the center section strut and we started it. I sat in the F for an hour and became very cold while the motor ran at about 900 RPM . . ." A parade of late 1920s and early 1930s aircraft passes across the pages, often with details of their handling characteristics and vices. The "Boeing" of the title was a Model 80A, 18 passenger, trimotor biplane, retired from the airlines, a mammoth of its day. The Boeing flew from one small town airport to the next hopping passenger rides for $1.00. When it passed through town Floyd joined its five man crew. We see "barnstorming" in all its details. The crew lived in tents on whatever airport they happend to be, ate at the local diner and showered in the local "Y". There was an advanceman in a car and a truck with equipment and spares. When the weather turned cold they followd the sun into Georgia. Floyd sold tickets, washed and polished the airplane inside and out and eventually flew the ungainly maching for brief spells. These snapshots of flying are projected against the background of life in mid Depression Indiana. There is a succession of "dates" with a succession of girls, many of them spent watching "Tailspin Tommy Tompkins" and other aviation movies, some of which Henderson "reviews" briefly. To visit his special girlfriend, Floyd would fly the few miles and simply land in a convenient farmer's field. Though the word "depression" is never mentioned and economic conditions never discussed, we see this, too as it must have been. Nickel hamburgers but no nickels to buy time; savings spent gingerly for winter coal and the frustrating search for even a part time job. This book is not for everyone. Appreciating the day by day and flight by flight chronicles requires at least a beginning interest in flying or in Depression era American life. If both of these click you are sure to rate Barnstorming the Boeing as a real find, an undiscovered classic.

This book provides a very useful introduction to key debates in and about behavioral genetics. A nice range of topics and perspectives is provided, many by leaders in the fields of biology, psychology, sociology, ethics, etc. Several articles (such as those by tobin, duster, and carson) are extremely insightful and informative, and purchase of the book is worthwhile for the articles alone.

(If only it were in paperback!)

But, like many edited volumes that cover "hot" topics, this book suffers from a lack of coherence. As noted by the professional reviewer, one must wonder to what "clash" the editors refer - even when contained in the same volume, authors of different perspectives seem to talk past each other rather than "clash," and the editors don't really put the debates in a perspective that illuminates the perceived relationship between the two constructs of biology and culture. Indeed, the book jacket reveals the focus to be quite different than advertised: "Throughout, [the authors] focus on two basic concerns: the quality of the science behind behavioral genetic claims and the need to formulate an appropriate, ethically defensible response when the science turns out to be good." While this is certainly a worthwhile topic, it is not nearly as intellectually challenging or interesting as the title promises. Nevertheless, some selections deliver.

This story features characters from the movie MONSTERS, INC. Sulley is the top Scarer at the Scare Factor in the monster world. However, he finds his job in jeopardy when he finds a little human girl, Boo on the Scare Floor. Sulley doesn't know what to do and hurries home to consult his good friend Mike. Mike comes up with a plan to get rid of the girl and what follows is lots of laughter and chaos.

Many children are familiar with the movie and if they are they will enjoy reading this book. However, even if they are not, the book is a self-contained unit and with characters like Sulley, Mike, and Boo, they will probably enjoy reading it anyway. Since the story contains monsters, it's a nice tale to read at Halloween.

Many of today's poets get caught up in a web of dispair without painting a picture of a possible solution. In "Can I Speak" Tangela Floyd uses vivid metaphors to showcase a world of hope, internal elevation and high esteem. She is a writer worth keeping an eye on and a voice that hopefully will develop nicely. She is a true poet not just another wannabe hip hop artist spewing out meaningless words.