As an early childhood educator, I found this book to be invaluable resource on the importance of of dramatic play among young children. This clearly written book gives parents and educators alike a better understanding of the contributions of play to the cognitive, social and physical development of preschoolers, and includes constructive ideas for encouraging dramatic play in the school and home. This book gave me the backround I needed to explain the importance of dramatic play in my pre-school program.

There are several wars going on... Women versus men, liberals versus conservatives, left wing versus right wing, academics versus real world, British versus colonials, rich versus poor etc. What are the odds that all of these wars victimize the same person, the hero (?) of this excellent book ! I cannot find any other way to comment on "Redback" except that I consider it one of the best examples of British humor and that I am certainly going to read every book written by Howard Jacobson

This book is a labor of love!
It's so extensively researched. Eleanor Grace Sawyer has each entry sourced. Extremely well done. If you have New England ancestry, you'll find yourself reaching for this book over and over again!

Compiled by the editor, with contributions from the aerospace and automobile industrial engineers, the theory and design behind gas turbine engines has never been clearer with Sawyer's handbooks (3 volume in total). Although not very suitable as a textbook introduction to gas turbines, interested readers should find this book useful and more pratical than most textbooks.

This was an exellent science book!! It tells you so many experiments you can do at home in your spare time!! I did two of the experiments, I made an electric lemon and salad dressing. This book also tells about safty rules you should follow when you do the experiments. And the best part is that there are so many more experiments to do!!

This is an excellent reference book if you are planning a trip to Scotland. I had bought and read it and had borrowed to friends who were planning a trip to the United Kingdom. When they returned they said it was an excellent source for information and helped them tremendously.

Ms. Sawyer has the most beautiful mind for the lovely ladies of nature. Her choice for surroundings, hair, style really bring the beauty of nature and fairydom into the world. I have seen the finished pattern peices used for suncatchers, mosaic stepping stones and full scale window peices which were breathtaking. With the use of dichroaic glass the iridesence of wings, scales and nature come to life...from easy to advanced this is a great pattern book for the lovers of nature and myth.

Smart Services gathers competitive information strategies, solutions and success stories for service businesses, revealing the many forms of competition in service businesses and covering everything from customer origin and government competition to locating intelligence about people. An excellent survey of business models and changes.

We live in a dangerous world of religion-driven international terrorism that is causing the deaths of hundreds of men, women and children around the world, including almost 3,000 deaths on American soil with the destruction of the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon building, and a jumbo jet over Pennsylvania. Why did God allow such evil, destruction, and loss? Where was the Christian God when the innocent were made victims of Muslim hatred. Does God really care about what the murder and political terrorism rampant in the world today? Can God bring forth some kind of benefit out of such evil circumstances, events, and actions? Norma Sawyers addresses these questions in Spiritual Answers For Perilous Times: Answers About God And His Actions. This is a book for anyone of any denomination or faith who is seeking to reconcile the love of God with the hatreds and atrocities of human beings in the world today.

As expected, this book from America's greatest writer is fun and funny. It's actually three books, put together in a facsimile edition by Oxford. The first books, _The Stolen White Elephant, etc._ is a collection of Clemens' humorous short stories and speeches. Though these do not get into the same serious criticism of society as _Huck Finn_ or _Connecticut Yankee_, they do have a biting tone and make the reader laugh. Despite the title, the only of these tales with any detectives is the title story. The second book, _Tom Sawyer, Detective_, follows Tom and Huck on a third adventure. Huck tells the story, and though the accent isn't done as thoroughly as in the prequel, the novel is funny and...well, funny! The last novel, _A Double-Barreled Detective Story_, makes fun of the whole detective genre.

I'd recommend this book to anyone who who missed Tom, Huck and Hank Morgan, and to anyone looking for a good laugh.