I found this book very useful in it's approach and focus. It helped me out tremendously. Barbach has many useful exercises to practice both alone and together, as well as many insights into possible problems.

This was bought with the big book of Garfield excuses and both were enjoyed. Its good for younger kids and keeps the Garfield fan entertained.

This book is the same size as a normal Garfield cartoon book, but it contains trivia questions.

Each page contains two sets of questions. Each set of questions has 15 possible points, and five questions. The first question is worth 1 point and is very easy, the second question is worth 2 points and is slightly harder, etc. The fifth question is very hard and obscure, and worth 5 points!

You can quiz a friend, or play by yourself (the answers are on the other side of the page, so you won't see the answers until you turn the page). There is a ranking table at the front of the book, with funny comments like "Even Jim Davis would have trouble getting this many" (14) and "You cheated!" (15).

This book came out fairly early in the Garfield comic series, so it naturally only covers the older cartoons. If you do not have a full collection of the early Garfield comic strip books, you will miss a lot of this trivia book (but you will learn stuff in the process). This book is what motivated me to get the ones I was missing :-)

This was an interesting biography about an accomplished General, Congressman and President. Peskin has done a great job of discussing both the military and civilian accomplishments of this great man. The book is usually entertaining and informative; however, at times it becomes a bit dry. Moreover, I wish Peskin would have spent more pages on the academical accomplishments of this one time professor. An interesting read for persons interested in post-reconstructionist United States.

Siempre fue más sugestiva, más exitante, una mujer medio vestida que una desnuda. La sensualidad narrada a través de las curvas sugeridas por la seda, puede mucho más que la imagen amplificada de cualquier recodo de la persona deseada. Éste dato, casi un lugar común, se ve ampliamente justificado por el tono distendido, libre de todo prejuicio verbal, que utiliza la autora. Narrada por una voz femenina que suele ¨soplarle¨ alguna idea a la protagonista, ésta novela sobre el erotismo es también una parodia del género, apoyada en certeros epígrafes que anuncian, al modo antiguo, el contenido del capítulo, y que van a sustentar, sobre el final, no la teoría Bataille sobre el tema, sino su antítesis. Allí dónde él sostuviera que la entrega al acto erótico es necesariamente una muerte que genera vida, Griselda Gambaro prolonga casi hasta el orgasmo la posibilidad de un encuentro que finalmente tomará otro rumbo. Erotizada por la historia, la narradora no pierde la oportunidad para burlarse de los íconos del machismo, ni para dejar en claro que la asistencia sexual femenina para una mujer puede ser muy gratificante. Un bonito hombrecillo que tiene la vida supeditada a la de su propio glande descomunal, que es ingobernable; una sierva fiel e ignorante que posee la llave del placer de la protagonista y un desfile de innobles fornicadores llevan al paroxismo ésta novela sobre lo impenetrable, sobre lo que está tan lejos e inalcanzable que, sólo entregando la vida podremos poseerlo.

Teachers and parents will sometimes have trouble finding proper web sites for children to access. Also, they themselves may need to have access to information of high quality. This book can be a help. This book begins with "What Is the Internet?" and "Netiquettes and Nethics". After these, there are "Internet Tools" (like E-Mail, Mailing Lists, Newsgroups) and "Internet Resources". I find "Teacher Resources Sites" very useful. On its almost all pages there is a URL and a detailed description of a site and tells you what to do there. This may be a must book for teachers.

James Garfield was the second American president to be assassinated but this juvenile biography by Dee Lillegard provides a much better sense of the ideal of public service he personified in his political career. Garfield is one of those presidents that the history books pretty much ignore, mainly because he was only in office about 200 days. Yet, young readers will certainly have a sense for why he was elected and his potential to be an above-average president. The book presents Garfield as a rising star in the Republican Party, who rose from a canal boy to become a general in the early days of the Civil War and then a Congressman, where as chairman of the Appropriations Committee he made his reputation that would see him win the presidency in 1880.

Lillegard actually spends more time on the assassination and the almost three months it took him to die than on the time Garfield ran the government. However, this does pretty much reflect Garfield's legacy. This volume is illustrated with historic photographs, engravings, cartoons, and paintings, depicting not only Garfield's life and political career but also the major events of the time. These are the most impressive illustrations I have seen in one of these volumes, including a poem showing Lady Liberty praying for Garfield's life and several excellent political cartoons of the period. Students looking for information about Garfield will find relatively little about his actual presidency, but much about his political life up to winning the White House.

This book was superbly illustrated and organized. It listed and evaluated every card for both sealed deck and tournament play. This was very helpful for myself, only an average player. However, I wish that it had included more overall combo techniques and discussed some of the trends and changes in deckbuilding schemes which Tempest unleased on the tournament level of play. This would have been helpful for evaluating Tempest cards in relation to previous expansions.

This novel is what genre fiction should offer -- a plot with all the color and energy its subject matter (werewolves) allows, but anchored by a detailed, realistic character and his friends and community. "Moondog" has one of the most viscerally appealing portraits one might find of working class northern Californians; it's a gritty character book and slice of Americana -- and a page-turner, too.

your must read one..special for young kids that very early on their ages..to start a brighter day..