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The book is broken up into small (~3 page) chapters for each sound, forty chapters in all. Each chapter gives a description on how to form the sound, approximately twenty words with the sound, comparison words with similar sounds, practice sentences, phrasing and intonation exercises, and a review dialogue section. Each lesson takes twenty to thirty minutes to teach to a small class of ten or less.

The exercises are very well designed and practical for a class setting. My students make significant improvement with each lesson. The only thing I find lacking is a section on which sounds are typically difficult for different language backgrounds.

Psychological Testing:History, Principles and Applications (5th Edition) has provided the graduate student with a simplified version of psychological testing. This text can be used with any reader that goes through the rigors of learning the rudiments of psychological testing. What is most valuable in this text is the categories of tests and their explanations with case exhibits. The summaries assist with memory and easy recall of facts while the key terms and concepts after each chapter provide the student with easy recall and a simple glossary.

As required reading for the University of Richmond Public Budgeting and Finance course, Spring 2006, this small book is one that I will probably use for reference material even after the class.
The cover and binding is a classy,dark hunter green, the printing easy to read, and the subject matter is one everyone who pay taxes should read at least once.

I want to thank Robert Quakenbush for taking the time to write Quick, Annie! Give Me a Catchy Line! It is very well written and easy to understand, especially for younger children. This book has colorful pictures and funny cartoons on every page, which help explain the story. I had a great time reading it to my seven-year-old sister!

This book tells of how young Samuel Morse always loved to draw (even when he was supposed to be studying like his younger brothers.) It describes how he first became an artist, painting portraits for a living, and then after studying art in Europe came home to America aboard the steamboat Sully. While on the Sully, after learning how electricity would not be slowed by traveling long distances, he came up with the idea that made him famous -The Electric Telegraph, a way to send messages instantaneously. This book even has a cartoon about how he drove the other passengers crazy with his inventive talk.

The book then shows how his modern telegraph and its wires were constructed, why Annie gave him the catchy line for his first telegram, and what the first words on it were. This book also tells of how he was the first person in America to figure out photography and to be able to take photographs of people, not just still landscapes. Overall, Quick, Annie! Give Me a Catchy Line! gives readers a good explanation of Samuel Morse's life and accomplishments.

There were two aspects I didn't like about this book. One was that it stated how Morse wanted to invent the telegraph so he could be rich, and devote the rest of his life toward painting without a worry or care. It never mentioned that he also wanted to invent it to benefit the people of his country. With his telegraph, people could send messages instantly, and could, for example, know right away if a loved one died or when a war was actually over. Quakenbush's book fails to recognize the selfless reasons why Morse wanted to invent the telegraph.

Even more importantly, the author left out that Samuel Morse was a very strong Christian all through his life, and his Christian beliefs motivated his actions. He gave the first money he received from the telegraph to a church in Washington, so that a Sunday school could begin there. He gave generously to missionaries, religious institutions, and to schools that trained ministers. I think the author should have mentioned Samuel Morse's Christianity in his book, since it was such an important part in his life.

In spite of these problems, I would personally recommend this book for younger readers, because it is so entertaining, while teaching them at the same time about such a great man in American history!

I had to buy this book for my graduate level class at Texas A&M University. It offers excellent strategies and practical advice, along with the research behind each one. Obviously, if the professors in the Education Department at A&M required it for their classes, one KNOWS it has to be good!

This book is the bible of reinforced masonry design. It has a fantastic amount of information useful for architects and engineers. I was somewhat disappointed to find that the book for sale here is actually a reproduction of the original, and is a paperback.

This book has complete information about results-oriented sales training that would increase sales. It shows how to conduct a sales training needs and how to select and train sales people.

The authors cover nearly all the practical ground of the title from antennas to orbitology to video. The book mainly targets BS/MSEE engineers and is an excellent match at a general professional level. Highly experienced pros or academics may refer to it for breadth. The chapter problem sets make it a reasonable fourth year textbook. The index and lists of acronyms and symbols are better than average. Typography and graphics are outstanding.

To do this in only 550 pages (12 chapters) the authors perform a delicate trade-off between logging technical issues and delving into them. The reviewer judges it overall a wise set of trades. No real attempt is made to go into many subtopics past a thorough discussion of basic motives, mathematical relationships and key results, limitations and conventional use. "Middle ground" development and derivation may be missing or merely suggested in some cases. There is essentially no discussion of military vice commercial satcom except noting the hard-limiting transponder. Yet the reader gets a solid feel for the "lay of the land" in both theory and practice. In overall content, the book leans toward RF and physics, and away from data transmission and networking. This sets it apart from books on VSAT. Reference lists go back to classics (e.g. Nyquist in 1928) and forward to about 1991. It is an excellent complement to specialized satellite communication texts on the engineer's reference bookshelf.

Some criticisms can be argued. Topic balance is not always satisfying. For one example, two packed chapters (117 pages) present orbits to an admirable "user level" of detail. Yet only one chapter (40 pages) presents the critical topic of multiple access, and there is only one paragraph on DAMA. In another example, the digital modulations PSK, QPSK and 8-PSK are overviewed but not MSK; yet good references made to Lindsey, Proakis, et. al. Their coverage and references on forward error correction (FEC) coding is even thinner relative to other equally important topics, and in the reviewer's opinion this is one of the book's few shortfall areas holding it down to four stars. This second edition is dated 1993, and a third edition correcting some (few) errors, gaps and shortages (e.g. FEC) should be very welcome by the engineering community. It could be a five star text without rewriting most of it.

[Reviewer's Notes: I own and use this book. I am a professional telecommunication system engineer. I have no relation to the editor, author or publisher. Stars are opinionated and awarded parsimoniously. Five stars is top flight quality and relevance; such a book may not always exist in a given subject. Four is a standout among existing works. Three is solid quality and can be very useful. Two disappoint somewhat but there may be reasons to keep it. One star covers everything from finding many significant flaws to a disaster; I'll spend my time with more stars.]

Professors leading by Robert Murdick make clear the advantegeous to apply OM strategies on services. A superb revision on the operations management dynamics. This edition keeps the material fresh, without loose its objectivity.

As a professor on service operations management I will always appreciate its invaluable didactic support as well on the consulting business.

It was such a dread when I realized that I needed to take Social Psychology this summer in order to finish my graduation requirements in four years. Well, it turned out to not be as bad as I thought it would be. The class was relatively simple and this book is very easy to understand. The authors, Robert Baron and Donn Byrne do a very good job on personalizing stories and studies to their own lives and make ideas clear and presentatble. The reviews at the end of each chapter are very helpful when studying for quizes and exams. I also would advise purchasing the study guide because a lot of the questions appeared in different form on the exams. Good luck.