Like most biology books full of big words and irrelevent terms this 4th edition biology book by Mader was quite easy for me to understand the scientific terms considering this was my first science course. This easy to read book is a must for those who struggle with the harsh technical terms in science

Mader's "Biology" makes every thing simple with its easy-to-understand language and figures. Great EM shots, summarized tables, and applied examples are a few of the several features of the book. Also, summaries at the end of each section and chapter make it easy to reveiw what you have read in a short time. In addition, I have to note that the book is very simple. i.e. College students may need more detailes, although this book is very useful to them!

Brilliant photography, logical arrangement of topics, outstanding illustrations, and well-written text combine to make this text an outstanding tool in the classroom, or as a resource. Features include: main ideas emphasized in boxes within text; challenging content written for easy comprehension; chapters introduced with clear objectives and concluded with detailed summary; information presented in logical flow; chapter assessment by essay, multiple-choice, and critical-thinking questions; detailed index and glossary.

As an amateur singer of folksongs, country, and "oldies", I was looking for a book with familiar tunes and lyrics. Although I only recognized a few of Ms. Ritchie's songs, I found the histories of each song very interesting. I took a chance and purchased the book, not sure of what I was getting. What I got was a nice read about the history of song, and a new interest in a person who obviously has a passion!

I love this book because it preserves the rough edges that the music of everday people has. If JR learned the verse to a song that didn't rhyme, she didn't "fix" it. The melodies are often asymmetrical, the ballads often have odd twists to their stories, and the emotion is just pure.

If you're looking for a book of songs for the camp-fire, this may not be it. If you're looking for the real songs of Appalachia, look no further.

This is truely a wonderful and informative book. My husband and I are Children's Church Directors and prior to reading this book agonixed every week to come up with something that would draw the children's attention. Since reading the book, we refer to it nearly every week for our lesson planning. This is a must have for every church library or for Children's church workers.

Jean Ritchie has written this book so well and it really draws you in.It is the true,detailed events of a seemingly ordinary family who are plagued by paranormal events that they strongly believe to be contact with aliens,mostly centred around their teenage son,Jason,who they are convinced is abducted by the ugly little creatures,most nights.Is he?I found it hard to be entirely convinced but there is definitely something strange happening to these people.And Jean wrote a long well-detailed book that very soon makes you feel as if you know this family.They truly hate what is happening to them,but they believe the odd experiences are helping them to grow spiritually.The often distressed family wish they could be like everyone else but they also insist that the aliens have the Earth's greater good in mind.If you like to read about paranormal experiences,then for goodness sake,BUY THIS BOOK!I could hardly get my head out of it.

Stream of conciousness writing, wasted days of throwing caution and existential pranksters who take life way too seriously have NOT died, my friends. They have merely moved to the slums on the outskirts of Edinburough.

The manic desperation, the hypnotic sexuality and the vague but overpowering ambition of the great ones: Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs have been reborn in a haunting sea of realism and metaphysics, and it's name is Acid Plaid.

The emergence of new Scottish street poets and subway prophets like Alan Warner and Duncan McLean give rise to a renaissance of punk, excess, pointless violence and gratuitous sex that so many in our generation, in weariness, have settled upon for the answers to the question of who we are.

Irvine Welsh's contribution takes a seething look at the downside of adultery, abuse and falling hopelessly out of love with life...and at the same time it contains some of the funniest passages I've read in my life.

A great book. Get it, definitely.

Why only four stars out of five?

It wore me out..................

This is a standard 8th grade text for American Histoy. I have read the book along with my son who is taking the course and have found it stimulating and informative. As a consequnce of reading this text, I have read several additional sources as a consequnce of stimulation from this text, as history is not my field of expertise. This book is an excellent choice, as well, for anyone who is not a student and does not have a great deal of time or wishes to go into that beyond the necessary to have a good review of American History. At times, there is certainly a revisionist, politically correct for the 90's, approach here, but overall the information is well organized and well written for nearly any reading level, including the college graduate. With this years presidential contest, it was really interesting to look back at the elections of 1876 and 1888 and how they came out and why they did so. This text is good about discussing social movements and in that arena goes far beyond a "names and dates" approach. It is a good resource for building a knowledge base for our country's history.

Dairy and letters home to his mother, by U.S. pilot, describing his experiences in training and flying for the Army's air service in WWI. By the time he was sent to the front to actually fight, the war was almost over, so there is little regarding combat but good descriptions of airplanes, training, air bases and morale of the flyers.

While the 20th century audience may recognize William Makepeace Thackeray as one of the 19th century's most interesting authors, very few know of his daughter. Winifred Gerin is the only biographer so far to recognize Anne Thackeray Ritchie as an author in her own right. The 1981 biography offers an in-depth and up-close look at Thackeray's world, including many familiar faces such as Tennyson, Dickens, Carlyle, Ruskin, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf (Anne's niece), and even an eyewitness account of Chopin's last days in Paris. Anne Thackeray was the eyes and ears of Victorian London, and through Gerin's thorough research and plentiful use of letters and recorded conversations, the average reader comes that much closer to getting a true glimpse of the literary and art scene of Victorian Britain.

The classic "secret" Greyhawk campaign continues! (See my DA1 review, Adventures in Blackmoor, for details on that statement...) The heroes (levels 10-14) finally catch a glimpse of the fallen wonders of the City of the Gods itself! Mysterious metal golems and an eldritch magic known only as technology await the unwary... even worse, the vile Temple of the Frog has caught wind of the discovery, and that can only mean one thing - confrontation! I've heard that this is the area that inspired Gygax's S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks (the City has been developed in Arneson's campaign for decades), but can't say for certain...

I bought this for my parents as they had recently moved from California to Conn. They love this book as it has allowed them to find some great bedroom communities nearby.
A true review would be from someone who knows the area, but for outsiders this was a great purchase.