Michelle Williams Books

This book is a real help. It gave me cool ideas for my birthday! Read it and see if it helps you!

The book has 2 very contrasting parts. The first is an analysis of Du Bois' collection of Georgia Negro photographs, that he exhibited at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Several hundred photos. Mostly of middle class American Negroes, well dressed and well posed for the photographer. (Who was not actually Du Bois himself.) The photos tended to show people born after the end of the Civil War and slavery.

In that Paris Exposition, Du Bois' offering was a deliberate contrast to the other depictions of Africans, which came from the European empires in Africa. These invariably showed tribal Africans. Backward and ignorant. This was the ideological or racial justification for the White Man's Burden of imperialism. What Du Bois depicted were educated Americans, as an eloquent counterpoint. Here were people of African descent, but otherwise indistinguishable from white middle class Americans or Europeans.

Another fillip was the inclusion of light skinned Negroes by Du Bois. As a rejoinder to a strict racial and racist separation promulgated by some whites. In one example, there is a photo of a girl who looked more southern European (think Spaniard or Italian perhaps) than African. Yet to the white mainstream, she would have been irrevocably classified as Negro.

The second half of the book studies the lynching photos. Taken by whites at lynchings throughout the American South. Here, Smith takes particulars never to show the grotesqueries of the victims. (Other books adequately do this.) Instead, there is an incisive analysis of the white spectators and participants. We see them preening and guiltless. Many of the photos were in fact used as postcards, sent by the participants to others. While the white ideology of those times depicted Negroes as savages, the book asks, who were the actual savages?

Willie Pearl lives with her family in the coal fields of Kentucky. The story is written by Willie Pearl's daughter, and is a great story of family unity and perserverence for children. When Willie Pearl finds herself in a difficult situation, she remembers her brother's advice: "One foot in front of another and keep moving."

This is not really a review perse. I'm getting this book for a prereq in college. I'm just wondering if anyone knows the difference between the 3rd and 4th editions. Or is this another fantastic move of the publishing industry to save their lives/waste our money?

I ordered this textbook off of Amazon because it was cheaper than at my college bookstore. However, when I recieved it, I found that it was the Instructor's Edition. When I attempted to contact the seller, Lotus Books, to return it in exchange for the correct edition, my e-mail was ignored. I will never do business with Lotus Books ever again.

Using and Understanding Mathematics is the worse math book I have ever opened in my entire life. Chapters 5 and 6 are definitely the worse chapters in the book. Chapters 5 and 6 deal with statistical reasoning, having taken a statistic course prior to this course I found that there were a lot of mistakes in the book. The explanation of surveying and opinion polls was extremely poor. The calculation of the confidence interval was not clearly defined neither was the discussion on choosing bias for samples, nor finding the significant point value within a given sample. I also felt the book did a horrible job at explaining the significance of standard deviation and did a poor job of explaining the 68-95-99.7 rule. On a good note I felt chapter 4 was very informal especially about how to calculate credit card debt, mortgage, and determine loan payments with just simple equations.

I needed this book for class. The ISBN number matched perfectly the book was brand new. The price through AMAZON was less than buying from the school bookstore. THANKS! Amazon

I really like this book. I'm using it for an independent study class and it is ideal. I don't need to contact my instructor for clarification because it is well-written and has good examples.

Have had a different book in this series and thought there would be more content. Okay book but a bit disappointed.

The images are fine, but I think this atlas lacks of a little bit of explaining text. Not bad, but I expected much more.

Nice little atlas, although ENT doctors get more out of it than neuro doctors.

. The Indians (not `Native Americans') have a problem: where are they going to get the cows, pigs, and sheep the government representative tells them they must raise in order to keep the new house and barn on which they have been forced to move? With low finances, they must use their ingenuity to procure livestock from the woods.

As moose, beaver, and bear come to their aid, the message that Native Americans are more in sync with nature comes across. The wild animals act anthropomorphic and win the Indian couple their farm.

It is a mildly amusing story with watercolor illustrations that will win no Caldecotts but aren't too bad. This story is freighted with heavier meaning than children will understand or care about.

This is a fun and nicely illustrated children's book. Great watercolor pictures support clever story. I really enjoyed it!

a pleasant surprise, not what I was expecting. slow in a few parts but never enough to put down for long. interesting political viewpoints as well. recommended.

_Flame War_ was unimpressive and dull, though it had a few brief moments of enjoyment buried in it. Cute, stereotyped characters (pudgy, asocial hacker; beautiful female geek; clueless man w/ heart of gold) and poorly planned plot devices (going online without modems/getting diskettes in the mail/being blown up by diskettes with C-4), and maddeningly slow pacing make this book resemble a bowl of porridge rather than the spicy curry of intrigue the jacket promises.

Protagonist Harry Garnet, law student-cum-caretaker, provides a style of narration that seems at first silly and flip, then gratingly cutesy. However, the dialogue in general is better than average. Another point in _Flame War_'s favor is its near-accurate depiction of MOOs and MU*s in general.

All things considered, though, you'd do well to wait this one out and hope for a more savvy treatment of the 'cyberthriller' premise.

Flame Wars is just OK. The tech is good, the dialogue is flip, and the story has been done before.

Slacker Harry newly graduated from law-school just meets the beautiful daughter of the scientist then he gets blown-up. The scientist dies in the explosion. With nothing else to do, he decides to solve the mystery of the scientists murder and win the girl. This leads him to a serial murderer and a plot involving a Clipper-like national encryption standard.

The best part of the story was the dialogue. It was hip, and flip. In addition, the author's had their tech straight. Although, I think the scientist's daughter did end-up going on-line in a pizza parlor without a phone connection (or a cell modem) at least once. I also doubt you can squeeze enough C4 inside a 3.5" floppy to create a weapon of mass destruction.

The problem I had was the story had been told before. There was nothing new in the way it was told. In addition, the characters did not have enough spin to escape cliché. Except for characters getting sliced-and-diced, I'll have to agree with the Kirkus review, that this book would appeal more to Young Adults.

Read this book, if you want to catch-up on the (now defunct) Clipper national encryption issue without getting technical..

This textbook is very poorly designed, while it should be a resource to help us understand common HR practices, it does not explain many of the terms used in the explanation of HR practices so unless you take the time to research the terms, this textbook makes it difficult to grasp HR management strategies. If this textbook was created for someone already practicing HR it would be helpful.

Rec'd book in brand new condition still in shrinkwrap. Very pleased!

It was good to show the same chair with three different looks, and the how-to diagrams were good if sketchy. But I found the watercolour illustrations rather mimsy.

I think that this book has some good ideas for beginners as far as (1) how to lay out fabric, (2) how to make basic slipcover patterns, etc.; however, the illustrations in the book are almost child-like in presentation.

Dumb indeed. Even as a basic guide to useful travel phrases, this was disappointing. For example, nowhere will you find the French for "Where is the bathroom?" which I for one figure qualifies as THE most important useful phrase to learn. The dictionary at the end (admittedly very short) did not include "bathroom" or "toilet." Not to dwell overly on this tender subject, but isn't that an important consideration for the traveler?

No book can make you fluent in a language. But this is a great resource for those who only want to learn enough to get by while traveling or who want a good back-up for other instructional methods.
You'll get a solid working vocabulary, easy-to-understand pronuciation tips and a foundation in basic grammar.

It can be a good book for beginners...it is for sure. I did not expect anything as i knew already it would be presented like that.
In general, you can find really necessary material there, so , good luck to the learners of French!!!;)))

I have come to the conclusion that one can NOT learn french without attending the old-fashion French class-room based seminars! I tried books, audio-cassettes, and interactive PC softwares yet I made no progress! But once I started attending the classes, all the books and cassettes I had helped me to advance at a rate faster than all my class-peers!

Having that in mind, this book is a good book to read once you start a French course. It's comprehensive on the basic concepts and it's fun to read as well. It will give you some tips that your French instructor might miss or overlook. It will also enhance your vocabulary.

The CD however is quite disappointing! It pronounces the alphabet, which is good. But only few of the conversations are available on the CD. I think that if they had the pronounciations of various words available as well then it would've been much more helpful.

If you're expecting to learn French by reading a funny book or by listening to cassettes while driving, then get real! Learning a new language is a difficult task. Don't expect that a book or a cassette will make it any easier.

The written portion was pretty good and concise. Though I wish it had some sort of abridged French to English dictionary. The CD, on the other hand, is quite possibly the dumbest CD I've ever listened to. First they do a long conversation in French b/t two people (various topics: i.e., flying on a plane, making a reservation at a restaurant, etc), then they go through each line one by one, and give you time to pronounce it yourself. Sounds good, right? Well, they neglect to tell you just what the heck you're saying. They NEVER translate it to English. A couple of the conversations can be found in the book (though you have to search for them, the audio CD doesn't tell you where) but most are not in the book, in English, to follow along. My wife and I were AMAZED they didn't give you the English translation. So, if you use this CD, you'll end up with great French pronunciation, you just won't know what the heck you're saying. This dummies book must have been written by a bunch of dummies.