Ashley Jones Books

Girls, social class, and literacy: What teachers can do to make a difference by Stephanie Jones is a book that educators, parents, students, business personnel, and others should read. There are countless books that fill the shelves, but this book reveals the realities of the world and the world of education. It is about time an educator put on paper what many dared never to speak about.
The book is full of thought provoking material. There are reflection exercises after each chapter that gets the wheels turning in the mind. Each chapter can benefit any teacher. This book leaves you hungry to get to know your students better and to take them to a new level of critical literacy.

I am studying to be a certified nutritionist and this is the textbook for my first class. I have found this book to be very thorough, yet consise and to the point. The information is pertinent and up-to-date. The authors take a holistic approach and the book covers diet, healthy lifestyle choices, emotional health and well being, as well as important information on body functions. It isn't overly technical (which is nice for a beginner) but provides enough detail. I recommend it as an introduction to learning about nutrition or health.

i had never read a such fantastic book that suit my style so close, i just love all the decoration shown in every pages, and it directed you in a very simple step to help to decorate your own

What can be said about this album?; on this book are mentioned details about this historic spiritual session that any music, jazz fan must indeed know. Read it and grow.

"A Love Supreme" was already one of my favourite jazz record before I read this, but after having read the book, now I listen to the music in a totally different way.

I'm not a spiritual or religious person at all, but the book helped me understand what was probably going through Coltrane's mind (from a spiritual point of view) when he composed and recorded "A Love Supreme".

Great music for those who love traditional jazz. Coltrane shows off his dexterity with the sax throughout this entire record.

Ashley Khan did a great job. I first picked up Coltrane's A Love Supreme, in the early 90's while a teenager, in a used section of a Parisian jazz record store, at that time i was only basicly educated about music and jazz. When i first played that album i was spiritualy moved and fell in love with it. I had no idea then of the importance of that record in Coltrane's career or in jazz in general, but the music touched my soul, and took me on a journey, which have been my (still young) life's journey and spiritual quest.

For the past 10 years i have been playing that record before evey major key events of my life... as a way to pray and meditate... i had no idea this album have been such a spiritual listening experience for other people before i started learning more about Coltrane and music. For this, Kahn's book is a very good illustration of the importance of that particular record. It is well written, have beautifull pictures and some precious informations. It contains basic elements about Coltrane's life, but reading Colrane's bio can remain a necessity. The making of a love supreme is a must read. Peace.

Kahn's stellar research for this volume on Coltrane's best known album, "A Love Supreme," is undermined by sloppy prose and lack of focus. Kahn does a great job showing just how powerful the album has been for generations of listeners, from Wayne Shorter to Bono. The biographical material on Coltrane is very good, but profoundly impersonal, skipping over key aspects of his life. The best part of the book is his meticulous documentation of the December 9 & 10, 1964 sessions that resulted in this album. Kahn describes the music with vivid language, and includes details about where Elvin Jones' drums were placed and how Rudy Van Gelder lit the studio to create a Jazz Club atmosphere for the performers. After that, Kahn's book loses focus. It's as if he had a 100 page manuscript, but then the folks at Penguin asked him to make it 250, and he had scratch around for any extra material he could find. His assessment of Coltrane's career post-"A Love Supreme" is very tepid, and the chapter on the legacy of the recording, especially from the vantagepoint of JOWCOL publishing, shows promise, but ultimately goes nowhere. Kahn's major problem here is that he doesn't know who his audience is. Is it for die-hard Trane-iacs, or is it for the casual listener that has "A Love Supreme" and no other Coltrane album? Some of this might not be Kahn's fault, as the content suggests this is for experts, but the formating of the book, with its wide margins and coffee-table book size, make it seem as if it's simply for show and tell in some bourgeois apartment. The book could have been better organized, more historically contextual, and filled with glossaries and footnotes for the more casual fans. Also, Kahn's lack of historical grounding makes it seem as though "A Love Supreme" was the only album released in 1965, and that jazz was the most popular music at that time, which is far from the case (just as it is today). Here, his homage to this wonderful album bleeds over into the realm of adulation. If this was a book for the "experts," it would be more critical of the album, instead of an all-out gush-fest. But Kahn's research must be commended (especially since he seems to be responsible for getting the December 10th performance of "Acknowledgment," with Davis and Shepp as added musicians, unearthed and onto the Deluxe Edition reissue of "A Love Supreme).

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Anyway if you're into Raf and what he does and stands for then you're in for a treat. If not, you're missing out. This is a great book for a fans and those new to Raf's world alike.
Enjoy.

"Redux" extends Raf Simons' idea that fashion is more than clothes and celebrities. The book reveals Simons' social background, social isolation, social intimacy with his designers/models, and a blurry vision of the future.

Most importantly, the book doesn't reveal too much information on Mr Simons and is presented in such a way which seems unfinished but actually avoids pretensiousness.

The mystery is reduced but not revealed. Recommended

Book Fair was too crowded, so I took a detour to Commercial Press where I could leisurely browse over many books. No surprises at the management book corner, but I got this new book at a discount.

This is supposed to be a novel, but the plot is not too complicated. It begins with the main character, Christopher Boone, finding a dog stabbed to death by a garden fork at night in the backyard garden of a neighbour. He played Sherlock Holmes and started to investigate the murder of the dog and went on to discover secrets about his family and experienced an adventure. I shall not tell the ending of the story in case some of you may wish to read this book yourselves.

The value of the book is not the story, but rather the writing style of the author in telling it. Christopher was actually an autistic 15 year old boy who had behavioral problem and attended Special Needs school. He possessed a gift of doing advanced mathematics in his mind, liked red and hated yellow to the extent of eating only red food. He lacked the ability of communicating with other people and lived in a mind of his own. The book was written with Christopher as the first person and he narrated through the book. The readers are actually reading the mind of this autistic child, experiencing how he thought and felt, what his fears were and what calmed him down.

There are some interesting behaviour of Christopher as portrayed by the author. Whenever Christopher came across a difficult word, he would announce the definition of the word openly, which was quite funny in the middle of a conversation. Other people would look at him and wonder why he was stating the obvious. The author skillfully describes how an autistic child reassured himself by repeating known facts and details.

Christopher was unable to distinguish a joke from fact. To him, everything said were taken by face value. As a result, he thought jokes were real and people were really doing such silly things. When he discovered that people did not mean what they said in a joke, he thought they were telling lies. I think the author is trying to use a metaphor to demonstrate the hypocrisy in our daily life, that people said things they didn't mean, or tried to circumvent the true meaning of nasty words. The world is much simpler in the mind of an autistic child.

I recommend this book for leisure reading. It will only take you a short time a day for several days to read it through. Good for reading while commuting. You will be much surprised with the insight into the mind of an autistic child, and how much similarity there are to ourselves.

I did not enjoy reading this book. I found it very confusing and boring. I understand this was written from an autistic persons view, but not being educated on autism, it made it frustrating to read.

True, this novel was different from anything else I've ever read. Possibly that is the reason for its popularity. I'd think that most people would want to know more about autism, what with it on the rise, though I did have to admit that I wasn't totally sympathetic for Christopher. My dog, however, did get my sympathy.

The form of the book is unique and the story short. Not the best book I've read, but certainly something you should try.

This book was written by Mark Haddon. Haddon was born in 1962 in Northampton, England and attended Oxford where he studied English. Haddon wrote this book about an autistic child. His knowledge of autism comes from working with autistic people as a young man. Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize Overall Best First Book for his work on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
The novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is an excellent portrayal of a child with autism. In this novel autistic Christopher Boone in on a quest to discover who killed his neighbor's dog, Wellington. His autism is apparent as he finds out who the killer is, and goes through his daily life.
The entire novel brilliantly captures how an autistic person lives his life through routine and how he is very intelligent as well. Christopher says, "In the bus on the way to school the next day we passed 4 red cars in a row, which meant it was a Good Day, so I decided not to be sad about Wellington" (24). He also says, "My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries in the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057" (2). These two quotes show how people with autism need consistency and routine as well, and they also show Christopher's intelligence. Christopher hates the color yellow but loves the color red, which is why he has Good Days and Black Days. When there are many red things in a row, he deems it a Good Day, and when there are many yellow things in a row he deems it a Black Day. During Black Days Christopher talks to no one and eats nothing. He sits in a corner all day and mopes. He also has a photographic memory; he can memorize perfectly the scenery of any place he visits.
Despite the fine portrayal of an autistic person, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is somewhat boring at parts. For example, I lost interest when Christopher is trying to find the train station and when he is trying to get to his train. The reader will most likely skim through these portions and not catch some of Haddon's main points. If he attempted to liven up the story a bit he would engage the reader, get the reader more interested and in doing so would be able to convey his ideas more effectively.
Besides this, Haddon still excellently shows how an autistic person lives his life. With great detail, he describes as Christopher's senses go into overdrive. When this happens Christopher starts to groan somewhat like stimming. He also shows how other people, such as Christopher's parents and aide, interact with him.
This novel is much like the movie Rain Man displaying how autistic people have poor communication skills. In Rain Man, Raymond repeats himself and other people over and over again. He also can't comprehend their questions very well. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Christopher doesn't understand complex human emotions. He only understands simple emotions like happy and sad. Christopher also has to ask people what they mean when they say something or make facial expressions.
This wonderful portrayal of autism provides a lot of good information. It demonstrates how an autistic person lives and how other people interact with them. Haddon had an excellent understanding of autism when writing this novel.

Mark Haddon is a novelist known best for his book, The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time, in which he won the WhitBread Book of the Year Award. His book is about a boy named Christopher who has Asperger's Syndrome, a mental disorder, in which people have difficulties in social interactions. He fears strangers and new places, and screams when people touch him. Yet, he has an amazing memory and is mathematically gifted. His perspectives give the reader a different way of viewing events taking place. He sees things logically and takes words literally. As a young man, Mark Haddon worked with autistic people and was motivated to write about one. He is also an atheist, and he uses the character to get some of his views/points about God across to the readers.
In his novel, one night Christopher discovers his neighbor's dog along with the garden fork used to kill him. He is seen holding Wellington, the dog, in his arms and is arrested. He is determined to find out the dog's true murderer and learns more than he intended. The secrets he discovers are too much for him to handle, and he runs away to live with a family member. While on his journey, he must face situations in which he can no longer close himself off from the world around him. While his investigation and journey is taking place, he is influenced by one of his school teachers to write about the mystery and his adventure. Hence, the story is written from Christopher's point of view and tends to be simple in its style. Also, the reader figures out some clues before he does. As for myself, I truly enjoyed reading this novel and recommend for all to read it, for it was entertaining, informative and some times funny.

I don't have a lot of science background but I had to take an evolution class that required this book. I was excited to learn about the subject but this book is not written for beginners. It is written for people who already have a strong background in science. For me, the book went way too deep into the different aspects of evolution and was downright confusing most of the time.

I took an evolution class with Ridley's Evolution as the textbook. It was way too much and I found reading tedious. A few years later I came across this Evolution and I thought " I wish I had this book as an undergrad" Strickberger's Evolution is a much easier read. There are plenty of diagrams and figures and they are explained fairly well. This book almost reads like a general biology book, because it gives a nice review of general botany, zoology and genetics. Highly recommended to any professors that are looking for a good evolution text for their undergrad class.

Strickberger is famous in the genetical studies of Drosophila and his works primarily focus on phylogenetics and traditional genetic data interpretation.

In lieu of his speciality he has done a remarkable job composing this book as it makes a smooth, gradual transition from traditional evolutionary biology covering topics such as the endosymbiont theory, chemosynthetic origins of life, various theories of life and its formation to Linnean and Cladistic (anatomical and physiological classification) and finally into the real world with modern day molecular clock concepts and phylogenetic analysis.

Our focus in Biology 114 were all of these and the book was a fountain of knowledge in these regards. The field of study is generally boring, and I myself found this genre of biology to be more along the lines of some history class than a science subject.

On consideration of my negative bias of this whole topic, I still found this book to be remarkable. It had made a subject which I was not fond of (I didnt hate it but I didnt like it either) and made is refreshing. Strickberger's conversational style of writing and simplicity should by dually noted, the guy has a sense of humour what will make an individual crack up whilst reading his book. He is also highly informative and his explanations are not lost when reading as he joins ideas so coherently that it is hard to find gaps in the concepts he presents. This is by the way a book that ranges from explaining the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology, creationism vs evolution and how DNA fits in with respect to the three major biological domains.

The subject of Eukarya, Prokarya and Archia is discussed very well, a lot of focus is placed on the Eukaryotic paradigm of evolution since it is much more simpler to explain concepts with examples that an individual can associate with.

So unless you have a microbiology PhD or are microscopic yourself it is safe to say that Eukarya is most ideal :)

Strickberger has some philosophical differences to myself however I have learnt a significant amount from his text and found it useful in my further studies of Genetics at 200 (sophomore or second year) levels. How he explains electrophoresis is better than most analytical genetics textbooks, and this all packed in one cute package.

The bottom of the pages have this interesting lizard animation that when you flick the pages you see it move and eat a fly. I found that entertaining for the whole semester lol.

This is a superb textbook. Where it surpasses the most widely known textbook in the field (Futuyma)is in its detailed listing of original source material after every chapter. This makes it an excellent springboard into serious background study for virtually any aspect of evolution or the topics surrounding evolution.

I used the second edition of this book and have not had a chance to view the third, but it no doubt is an excellent and comprehensive overview of the theory of evolution, just as in the second. In the edition I used, there are many fine diagrams illustrating the main points and also exercises at the end of each chapter to reinforce the concepts presented. Space probibits a detailed review so I will list only the areas in the book that I found exceptionally well-written: 1. The philosophical and religious issues in evolution theory. 2. The history of biology before Darwin. 3. The comparison between the pangenesis and germ plasm theories in the formation of a human. 4. The table on the comparison of views on variation and heredity. 5. The clarification by the author that evolution is primarily a historical process, and not arising by a lucky combination of events. 6. The general scheme of protein synthesis in Escherchia coli. 7. The schematic diagram outlining the mutual dependence of information carried by nucleotide sequences and function governed by proteins. 8. The dicussion on the "RNA world". 9. The universality of the genetic code. 10. The evolution of the genetic code. 11. The discussion on exceptions to Mendelism. 12. The highly interesting discussion on the evolution of sex-determining systems. 13. The discussion on sickle cell mutation. 14. Evolutionary solutions to problems of locomotion. 15. The evolution of the human brain. 15. Conservation of gene frequencies and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. 16. The treatment of adaptive landscapes showing adaptive heights of different possible genotypes.

I bought this book freshman year of college and have used it well into my senior year. It's a great book to keep for reference and contains information covered in all the biology classes I have taken. Pictures of mechanisms are easy to understand and very helpful.

This text does not go into enough depth. I found myself going to other sources in order to further grasp required concepts. There is also an error in figure 45.17.

I utilized this book for my college biology classes. It was very complete and had great details on photosynthesis, Krebs cycle, glycolysis. I even liked the chapters on animal structure and function, quite interesting. However, the chapter on genetics was the hardest to read. I had to re-read pages over again to understand what Raven was trying to teach. If you want to know what is the best study guides for college biology to study from, get the following by Patrick Leonardi--
The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations (Vol 1)
Topics: Organziation of Living Things and Chemistry of Life, Structure and Function of the Cell and Energy Pathways, Reproduction and Heredity, Genetics.

The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations (Vol 2)
Topics: Evolution, Ecology, Kingdom Bacteria, Kingdom Protista, Kingdom Fungi, Viruses, Plant Form and Function

The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations (Vol 3)
Topics: Kingdom Animalia, Organization of the Animal Body, Animal Form and Function, Animal Reproduction, Development and Behavior.

The last three study guides prepared me for the kind of questions that were asked on my college exams. This helped me cut a lot of time in my studying because now I new what to focus on. Raven's book is a also a must buy.

The graphs summarize lots of important information in a clear and easy to understand format.

Some part of the text is wordy, not very concise. It helps to develop the breadth and depth of the text but meanwhile it's quite distracting and sometimes confusing for grasping the key concepts.

I absolutely love this book. The explanations are thorough and understandable and the pictures and diagrams cannot be beat. Truly a great read. The book goes into enough detail, but not too much that you get confused. Thank you Purdue bio department for choosing this book!! Highly recommended!

pretty good movie actually , was funny and had its moments that almost makes you cry a little .

A lighthearted film about life, love and not allowing even the most difficult of obstacles to get in our way. Two brothers go through life as conjoined twins. None-the-less, they achieve and experience more in life than the average Jane or Joe. When one wants to become a Hollywood actor and the other finds his true love, things get complicated. Should they chance a risky operation to be separated or continue life as it is?

The storyline is not as predictable as one may imagine, the humor, feeling and soundtrack are great. In fact, I am crazy about their version of the song "Summertime" and wish I could find it somewhere! Unfortunately, so far I can't.

My husband and I weren't even planning to watch a movie when when my son asked us to watch this film and we both truly enjoyed it - we hope you do too!

I wanted a book that would stimulate my children's interest in marine life. They are into elephants and lions in a big way but there's more to life! I think this book will do nicely. Smaller than I was expecting - that just makes it easier to handle for the kids. Each page has a stunning photograph of an even more stunning creature/plant. Below the picture, there is a block of text with just enough detail. I guess a bright 12 year-old could understand it.