This book is a very useful guide to a large variety of Florida plants, as well as a superb collection of truly stunning photographs. It can be used for simple visual identification, but its organization by family and its binomial key make it user-friendly for the botanist as well.

This book is very easy to understand. I am not an advanced potter (I have fired a gas kiln before) and I have not had any trouble. All terms and charts are explained for those who are not familiar with them and examples are given to better explain concepts. I can't wait to apply this new knowledge to my own firing techniques.

Please see my complete review of "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight" under the heading "A Fox Under My Cloak."

A very useful text for the serious student of second language acquisition research to keep on hand. Thorough and includes research not only in English but other languages as well. Covers concisely most of the best-known researchers and their work. Various theories, their history, development, and the research related to them are explained by a variety of experts in terms that most advanced undergraduates or graduate students would find comprehensible. The index is adequate and the overall organization of the text is generally good for searching a particular topic. Also much more relevant recent research included than in many other texts. All in all, a scholarly collection which puts together the same material a student would have to go through many lengthy texts to find, explained and organized in a very convenient way.

Recommended if you are spending any time in a particular area of scotland, this entire series is well-organized and comprehensive about what to see. See my review in the Edinburgh title of this series for chapter contents and more.

The aurhor is a historian with the British Ministry of Defense so this is a semi-official history. In the late thirties the RAF started a program to expand the production capabilities of the British aircraft industry to cope with the needs of the anticipated war. This book describes how this program was handled. The only criticism one might make is that the lenngth of the book is too short (283 pages) to completely cover such a large subject.

This book is great for any student who needs or wants to get a good round idea about Japan. It includes the basic needs to write any report, and is filled with beautiful color pictures throught the book, giving any one the visual effect! It's 72 pages, LOADS of pictures, 2 charts... one map, and the symbols for writting in Japan. Well written and great for students in middle school, maybe even up to ninth grade! If you are looking for indepth study, tense facts, and dence litature, this is not the book. It gives you a basic all around idea of Japan, nothing more, nothing less.

I never read a book about trains before. I never thought I would. But when I sat down with this book, I couldn't put it down. The writing is superb; the content matter keeps you on the edge of the seat, even though I was on a bus, and the historic pictures were so much fun because of their spontaneous, rather than, set-up feel. I recommend this book even if you never thought you'd want to pick up a book on trains and Frank Pettit. Actually, I'd recommend this book even if you can't read!

Jean Ritchie's Dulcimer People bridges the gap between the old0time players and the folk revival. For those of us who havbe a passion for this great instrument and the history that surronds it, Jean Ritchie's Dulcimer People is an essential source. From J. Edward Thomas, to the Ritchie family, to Farina, to Lynn McSpadden, this book covers a lot of hallowed ground. History then gives way to playing styles and great arrngements, and from there it proceeds to dulcimer building. This is an all-around great resource. Don't pass it up!

i enjoy reading the jonie series, because as a christian, reading these books is an excellent reminder of how i should strive to live my life. her stories are entertaining and wonderful to read, one can only hope their life is as full as jonies.