This book is essentially a review/summary of existing information on hexavalent chromium. The book is extremely useful as an "introductory" text as well as providing references for more advanced issues. It is perfect if you're looking for a readable primer on chromium. The editors have done a thorough job.

The characters that Ms. Mackall presents are likeable and believable and the reader feels like he knows them as the stories unravel. By working as a team in their club, these characters work out situations in life in a Christian way. A fun to read series for children and adult alike!

Dr. Bond has created a new genre within the discipline of African American Religous studies. Any serious scholar should include this title in their library.

Political histories of a nation usually ignore its literature or, at most, compress it into an ancillary chapter. For Elise Salem, however, the writings of Lebanese authors are inseparable from the origins of their country and the record of its recent turmoil. A Lebanese native now living in the United States, but frequently returning to the land of her origin, Salem possesses a unique perspective to write such an analysis. She knows the country's brief history and its political complexities intimately. A literary scholar, she demonstrates extensive and perceptive reading of a wide range of fiction, poetry, and drama, as well as awareness of musical theater productions. Her achievement in this book lies in her ability to demonstrate interrelationships, the ways in which literature has been a source of national identity and serves as an ongoing commentary on unsettling events.

Although the book's subject is Lebanon, Salem also hopes that it will be considered a representative study, with a methodology and a manner of understanding that can be applied to other nations. She notes that those who govern rarely consult their nation's body of writing, and she considers that a mistake: "Artists and intellectuals, often historically in a dubious relationship with the state, not only continue to imagine and hence extend the discourse of the nation but, in more palpable way, participate in remembering, recording, and transforming it."

Salem's eloquent Afterword reiterates, frames, and adds a rich dimension of commentary. It concludes with this possibility: "[These] provocative narratives suggest a new language, vocabulary, style, approach, and thematics that expand the possibilities for Lebanon. They are, after all, the nation's stories and, through fictions, the most telling." Literature was central to Lebanon's origin. Salem's hope is that it will be equally important in helping it face its present crises.

This was an interesting book which explains much more than who did what. It takes the time to discuss each individual so that you may better understand the phenomenon of the trials as a whole. It helps you understand how a few bored, dowarless girls could manipulate an entire town.

Salem is locked out of the house! There's nothing to do, nothing to eat, and Sabrina and her aunts will be gone all day! What a bore~ Then Salem discovers he can torment the dog next door. That snarling brute would just love to get his jaws on Salem. But he can't--he's locked up. Now that's fun! Until...uh oh! The dog is loose! Salem is outta there! But is he fast enough--and smart enough--to stay one step ahead? All day?

Dandi is a well inspired author who really knows how to reach out to children. These books are so well written that they were enjoyable for adults as well. I found myself actually wanting to read to my children @ bedtime b/c I enjoyed the humor, the characters and the overall storyline! Thank you to Dandi for making my job as a mom more enjoyable!

Well written, this book answers many questions that people have about sickness,death and dying. It is a very positive book that while reading, I senced the very presence of God. There is no doubt in my mind that Cheryl & Harry and their entire family allowed God to use this book to help uplift and restore many people who are struggling with the tragedies of life.

I was luck enough to find a copy of this book in print and found it to be very well written and very informative. It shows a whole new sphere of life in Salem, NC.

This series is amazing. It deffiantly is an encouraging series. In this book Josiah has just got back from philip english's home (which is in the second book.)It starts out that josaih hears wolfs and is frightened but then he relises that they're just lonley and the book goes into how the people misunderstand the wolves and Josaih relizes he is the same way with his cousin rebecca who is living with him now and hangs all over him. So Josaih, Hope and their group are trying to save the wolves from the putnam cruel traps and then they get into trouble and are chased up a tree where Rebecca shows her stuff but you have to read it to find out.It doesn't matter what book you start with because you see the character growth in all of them. Trust me i started with the second and third book then read the first. They are also good to read over and over again.