This is about depth and emotion. It really established a way to engage contact with the past and retrieve the great western life with a sense of feeling that you were there and dealing with the evey day problems of the community's life.

if i didn't have the cliffnotes I would have never pass this class

well, the Cliff's Notes for this book is kind of confusing. It doesn't go "chapter-by-chapter"... only by "Book 1,Book 2, and Book 3"-so it is hard to follow a long.

I found the cliffnotes very helpful. It is split into "books," but it is still easy to follow along. This books made reading Tender is the Night easier for me, so it therefore serves its purpose.

this is a greta book and i really recommend it to anyone who likes to read.

These Cliff Notes on The Red Badge of Courage were a great help on a project I had to do for school. I didn't have much time and the project was worth a lot of points. With this at hand, I finished the report with all the qualifications, topics and details I needed. If you're in a hurry to read this book or you don't understand it well, get this book.

This is not a good book for people that are taking Differential Equations in college, but rather for people that are taking calculus and would like to get started with simple differential equations. I especially didn't like the fact that the book didn't even derive Euler's fomula for second order, homogenous differential equations, y=(e^(ax)(cosbx+sinbx)) when the characteristic roots are a+bi and a-bi. Nevertheless, this book provides a good START.

This book provided me with almost what I wanted from such a title, that is a good bare 'how-to' review of ODE's (no PDE's here despite the rather general title). You'll find no 'theorem/proof/lemma' approach but rather 'heres an example-do 'em like this'-which does have its place for those seeking a 'quick fix' and can actually make concrete some ideas. I felt there were omissions that could have been included instead of the brief 'review of calculus' and 'a few applications'. These would include at least some attempt to deal with solving DE's by power series at ordinary singular points, some coverage of simple numerical (say Euler) solutions, and a mention of 'slope fields' in the 'introduction to DE's' section. For myself I also like the non-ornate presentation..it is free of the 'soap box/multi-windowed/cross referenced' pedagogical style that tends to distract some (me for one). A commendable feature is that this book could actually be 'read' (in the old fashioned contiguous way), and learned from by most high school/freshman level students.

This book is not for the beginner, in fact you wonder whom it's aimed towards. His Holiness The Dalai Lama did a wonderful job with this book and many of the things are well thought and well explained, but it's hard to understand. The book does not have a beginner's touch at all. I wouldn't recommend this one unless you have had some basic Dzogchen education. Again, who is this book aimed towards? beginner? or expert?

Recently His Holiness the Dalai Lama published highly edited transcripts of four empowerments he gave into the traditional Nyingma teaching of Dzogchen or Great Perfection. Both Dzogchen and Mahamudra represent important indigenous developments of Tantric teachings in Tibet. Like all wisdom traditions, Buddhism rests upon the transmission of heart-essence realization and dharma from one generation to the next. Dzogchen, literally "great perfection," is the primary teaching of the Nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism, having been carried to Tibet in the eighth century by Padmasambhava, who is recognized as a "second Buddha." This actualization of what Dzogchen is is sent out through this collection of empowerments given from 1982-1989 by the 14th Dalai Lama. Sogyal Rinpoche (The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying) requested these teachings, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama obliged with emphasis on the 5th Dalai Lama's visionary receipt of Dzogchen teaching, which is summarized simply by the verse: "Ema! Phenomena are, without exception, Perfect within the continuum of self-arising rigpa." Ema is an expression of wonder and astonishment. Whereas rigpa is a technical term for root single awareness that illuminates all; whereas ordinary awareness is that but as refracted into various experiences of subject and object, so that the unity becomes a secret, except for those who are aware of the nature of the root awareness then everything is the root awareness. To attempt to understand enough so that one can cut through the veils of separations that is usually the habit mind. Of course the development of habitual indwelling in non-divisive bliss might be more fun than reading hundreds of books. But as the verse say there is no difference at the root or in the stem and branch or such preferences seeming important. Empowerments are a principle way the Tibetans are bringing Buddha dharma to the west. An empowerment is the oral recitation of the teaching with impromptu commentary for the audience. It is done with a ritual format so that there can be prayers, chants and other meditation aids going on but the most important aspect of the empowerment is that the teacher and his assistants as well as the whole audience is speaking at the time from within the nondual realization of what is being taught. In other words the Dalai Lama and his retinue are all within a state of actualization of the reality to which the teaching refers. As the audience is also so attuned the psychic contagion can be intense and experiences can quickly and deeply cut through the fog of our surface consciousness. Now this volume is likely to be popular among students of Buddhism, but, except for the Appendix: Compassion, the Heart of Enlightenment; the texts would confuse the novice. Because of this I recommend several other texts that provide more systematic accounts of the Dzogchen traditions and how they fit in with the wider traditions of Buddhist practice. The Golden Letters: The Three Statements of Garab Dorje, the First Teacher of Dzogchen, Together With a Commentary by Garab Dorje, edited and translated with a commentary by John Myrdhin Reynolds (Snow Lion Press) In many ways the best guide to Dzogchen teachings. Includes explanations that were previously thought too secret to publish. Mipham's Beacon of Certainty: Illuminating the View of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection by Mi-Pham-Rgya-Mtsho Nes Ses Rin Po Chei Sgron Me edited and translated with commentary by John W. Pettit (Wisdom Publications) offers the necessary links between Madhyamika and Dzogchen. And as a relatively easy introduction the The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, edited by John Shane (Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy: Snow Lion Press) provides a useful introduction.

I read this item after completing Kaufmann's translation of Faust. It certainly helped my understanding of the original text, although I am sure I would not have enjoyed the experience quite as much had I not read the actual work. I recommend not attempting to pick up the Cliff's Notes with the expectation of receiving the full benefit of Goethe; it is, however, a good place to turn if you need clarification, details, explanation of diction or allusion, or even an idea with which to start off a paper. Not a replacement for reading Faust, but a good resource to use in addition to the text.

One of the things that makes Robert Milch's Cliffs Notes for Goethe's "Faust, Parts I and II" particularly useful for teachers and students is that when the work is included in literary anthologies it is also excerpts, never the complete work (I was teaching it from the "Norton Anthology of World Literature"). Consequently, the Summary/Commentary sections are quite handy for filling in the gaps. The introductory section includes a biography of Goethe and several pages on "The Faust Legend in European Thought." I consider this particularly important because I do not think you can appreciate "Faust" without recognizing the significant changes in the legend, especially as compared to Marlowe's play "Doctor Faustus." Following the Summary/Commentary section Milch looks at the Principal Characters, and the Special Problems presented because of the differences between the two parts of "Faust" and massive problems in actually staging this "play." Milch develops "Faust" as "A Metaphysical Quest" and also looks at it as an example of Romanticism. So, while this is not an above average example of the little yellow books with the black stripes, it has definite uses for teachers and students alike. Final helpful hint: see if students recognize the danger for a soul because of a moment of perfect happiness as it relates to Angel on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." They might be surprised to notice the Faust legend lives on.

This very well may the shortest and cheapest books on parenting the only child, but I found it thin on the type of information that I was looking for. There are no fast fixes to parenting and I was hoping for more depth in dealing with issues that were of great importance to me.

This is the cheapest, shortest, and by far the best of the 4 books on this topic which I recently purchased on Amazon. It is factual rather than anecdotal. It is very balanced in that it examines the pros and cons of many aspects of being an only child. It is far more expert and professional than the others I read.

I read this book when looking for a language text. My goal is/was to actually learn to read, write and speak chinese at some point in the future. After leafing through it for about 30 minutes, I noticed that it was severely lacking in many aspects. It offers sparse chinese language instruction. If you are looking for something extremely basic this might work for you. However, you might be better off with any number of phrase books. If you are genuinely interested in learning chinese, I can recommend ANYTHING from either the faculty of PEKING UNIVERSITY or if you are interested in computer based instruction Triple-Play Chinese CD-ROM by transparent technologies. I recommend the triple-play as a basic introduction into chinese because it is inexpensive and has voice recognition software to aid in the pronunciation of pin-yin. There are other software titles out there, but I believe its the best one for the beginning student.

I hope this review helps you choose the right book.- Corcoran

This book is a good choice for learning spoken Mandarin in preparation for a trip to China. You'll learn a lot of phrases you need to know as a tourist and the book is more thorough than a simple phrasebook. You'll also learn how to put sentences together and by the end of the course you will develop a good feel for the language. Four ninety-minute tapes accompany the cassette version. Though professionally made, too much time is spent by the narrator walking you through the book. The time would have been better spent by supplementing the dialogs. The dialogs themselve are invaluable. The book uses romanized Chinese (pinyin) and therefore you will not learn how to interpret Chinese characters. Although the book comes with a nice fold-out dictionary the Oxford Starter Chinese Dictionary would make a wonderful accompanyment to this volume. This is about the easiest introduction to spoken Chinese that can be found.

Great hints and explanations of what they're looking for in the questions. Good ideas to help you eliminate wrong answers to deduce the answers. Use this book to supplement others that provide more test samples with rational. Good Luck!

I purchased Michelle Spence's (Cliff's) Miller Analogies Test Preparation Guide as well as Sternberg's (Barron's) How to Prepare for the MAT -- probably overkill -- but I studied both thoroughly and got a very high score. It was worth it! I have a hunch that Sternberg helped more in the middle score ranges and perhaps Spence in the higher more difficult analogies. Spence stretched my limits. She was more abstract, often leaving me unsatisfied that I understood or agreed with her logic. Sternberg offered clear and helpful details not only about the analogies, but also about every angle of preparing for the test. If I had to choose only one, I would buy Sternberg, but together they offered considerable strength. I think Spence probably added to my score at the top. When I finished the actual test, I felt I had not done as well as I had on the practice tests in either of the preparation books, but actually I had scored higher than nearly all my scores on the practice tests. I valued both of their insights.

Though thorough and accurate, it does not have any sample problems and solutions, which is part of why I purchased this book.

This book is a great source of background information and will provide a great starting point for organic chemistry. I would suggest reading it prior to taking a course, or using it as reference.