Stovall faithfully captures the beginnings of the African American community in Paris, tracking music, artistic, and literary communities separately. He is attentive to detail in the extreme and vibrantly captures the excitement of Montmartre. However, little is done to bring these observations together or forward any argument. Stovall does more to present fact that persuade. _Paris Noire_ is better as a reference than a 'read' and for someone interested in comparing the time period with the Harlem Renaissance, this book does little to track what events were happening outside of Paris. Nevertheless, the amount of research in this book is amazing. The picture inset features beautiful photos of Tanner and Josephine Baker, cartoons of the time, and is a very welcome addition to the book. Stovall's work is an opening into a relatively uncharted area of African American history but it is not the final word. _Paris Noire_ opens a dialogue that I hope is continued in future books on the subject.

I recently checked out this book from my University library for a term paper on the 1920s. It was so informative; I could not put it down! I then decided I had to purchase this book for my library. I highly recommend this interesting and informative book!

This step-by-step guide to the video game is very helpful. Before going to the next level or area in this creepy game, the book shows you what to expect and it helps you on your way. Although I still got stuck on a few levels just because I was getting killed by monsters, etc., the book let me know what to expect. I honestly don't think I would have finished the game without it.

I'm rating this Item because i'm a fanatic of the game. Pesonaly I don't believe in stradegy guides, and I never held this book in my hand before. Beat the game on your own, resist the temptation of achievemnt with aid from a book. This game is worth your intellect. Don't mess with fate. Write your own logs for system shock.

I have been intrigued with number bases ever since I learned about them in 6th grade. It gave me an entirely different and deeper understanding of our base 10 system and set my brain up for understanding the binary system of computers later on. I have been toying with ways to teach students about this concept ever since and this was also one of my ideas. In fact, I have collected rubber alien figures with differing numbers of fingers so I can use them as manipulative examples of how and why other number bases would work.

The only thing I do differently is place less emphasis on the binary system, until students understand a higher base. But I have seen others teach binary first and other bases later and that has worked for them, too.

OK, this book is not for everyone, but I do think it is a cute and interesting introduction to other number bases and, for students for whom concepts like this are actually fun and exciting, it is definitely worthwhile.

Many strategy/guide books fall short of what their title intends, but not so with Arcanum.

This book is wonderfully detailed. Different chapters focus on different elements within the game including: character classes, technology, magick, monsters, maps, quests, weapons, armor, the lesser and greater gods, npc's, formulas and schematics and many other tidbits you never new were in the game until you read this book.

I was very impressed with the character creation sections and its very detailed explanations of customizations, auto-schemes, attributes and more.

The monster appendix is great, and identifies about 85% of creatures you will encounter with pictures and 100% with stats.

Weapons, armor, potions/elixirs, schematics/formulas are treated with the same detailed information and can really help you find/discover hard to locate parts or uses for objects that you will come across.

The chapter on Magick is also very detailed, much more so than the original manual and gets you excited about following that college of study within the game.

The maps are priceless, as they are pretty well laid out and complete. However, I did find a few minor errors that were mostly aesthetic. Namely, one of the maps the editors forgot to label (though the legend appears below the map...it corresponds to nothing), and another map is a bit blurry.

The walkthrough and quests are pretty complete from what I can tell and really aid in the hint department if you get stuck on a puzzle. But, I did think there were some obscure references to other quests that could have been explained better. It can be slightly confusing at times to follow the walkthroughs and quests for the page layout and cross-referencing is a bit odd. But, if you study it for a few minutes, you'll get it.

There are no color pics anywhere in the manual, the pics that do exist are in gray scale. Most pictures ties in directly to an object, character or map, but there are a few random pieces of steampunk art mixed in.

What keeps this book from 5 stars is the few errors I found that were probably an oversight from the editing process. Like I said a few blurry pics, a few missing labels, a strange layout in the walkthrough chapter, but otherwise a fantastic and 'very' detailed strategy book of any game I've seen in a while and well worth the cover price.

This book is pretty helpful if you want to get through the game quicker. Detailed maps show you where important items are in case you miss something listening to hours of pesky dialogue. It also gives plenty of tips in case you're new to the series.

A very enjoyble book. About a pig who finds a treasure map and sets out on a dig to find the hidden treasure. A good book for toddlers and childern who are learning how to read.

Blue galss by Sandra Tyler is an interesting book, different from other novels, still it is very easy to relate to. The book is not trying to tell the story of a family through time, it rather focuses on one event. This event may stretch over 4 or 5 years, yet in our lifespane, this is concidered one point in time. The book struck me as a series of scenes, ordinary scenes from our daily life, however, when we watch these scenes go by, we can see that they are not so ordinary after all; there is more than meets the eye. The elements of the book are simple and common: an adolescnet girl, a mother who built her life around her family, and a husband who grew tired of his life style. From one scence to the next, the writer shows very subtle changes and very small incidents that eventually change their whole life. I think the book tries to show us that small things that happen routinly mean something and that we shouldn't assume how the people close to us feel or think; there are things about them that we may never know. The elements and events in the book take place around us and we never notice. They are not special or important. However if we look carefully, we see that they mean a lot and they are very important for those who live through them. Each one of these scenes needs a star and each line needs an actor. Our simple daily lives is a long movie, it is not dull, not ordinary. We are not ordinary people, we are the stars of our own movies, of our own lives.

This is a fun story about a father and daughter who travel from Virginia to Mississippi. This is a perfect book if you want to encourage your young teen to read more about Pioneer American life. I especially enjoyed the tidbits of information about animals, nature, travel and life during this time period. When faced with a spoiled picnic basket of food the father replied.."we'll have to do like the boy across the river. What boy? What river? And what did he do? It's an old saying. If you don't have what you want, you have to do like he did, do without."

I loved it! My copy ha sbeen donated to my childs school library.

I liked the tape very much. My son who is 8 months old likes to listen to the different voices. I like that it has the voices I grew up with, Ed Asner, Bea Arthur, Lily and Mary. My favorite part is the song "Just the Same" by Margaret Bailey. I would love to find more songs by her. My only regret is that it is so short (18 minutes).

This book is a must read for anyone who wishes to consider the "religious life" in a "non-traditional/post-foundationalist" sense. Roberts argues, and rightly so, that Nietzsche raises profound questions regarding the nature of religion and the uses of traditional religious language/metaphor. Further, in his discussion Roberts brings to light the significance of Nietzsche's (unexpectedly) ascetic life style. My only hesitancy is that Roberts seems to stop short of arguing that Nietzsche was indeed a deeply religious thinker. I believe this stronger argument could have been made, though the author limits himself with the less ambitious aim of using Nietzsche to raise questions about what we mean by "religion." My rating = 4.5 stars.