Reading Instruction Books

I purchased this book for a graduate level class. Has good information but definately a college textbook. I plan to keep as a reference though.

This book had been through the ringer! It was faded and worn on all edges. The packaging did little to prtect it, as well.

This book arrived new in excellent condition, but it took forever to arrive at my house. I started to wonder if I had done something wrong in the ordering process or if it was lost!

This item was very helpful, full of pertinent information and will remain in my professional book collection for continuing reference.

This was too much like a text book. Nurses at our facility said "send it back" it is not user friendly!!

...That about says it all. This is THE pre-eminent reference for critical care nursing. Excellent as a resource for the novice, advanced enough for the expert practitioner and everyone in between the ends of the spectrum. Lots of good tables and examples to illustrate points, and is, for the most part, easy to read. I use mine everyday in practice as a clinical educator and after 18 years, I still find things in there that I either didn't know or tidbits that help me clarify points for my students/orientees. Worth the money!

Negatives: Expensive. There are not enough diagrams and pictures. Leaves much to the imagination. Some areas not well organized. Positives: most detailed textbook related to critical care without being a medical textbook and cater toward nursing. Excellent pathophysiology descriptions. Everything is broken down to the most basic cellular level. I never knew how much I did not know until I read this book. Highly recommended.

This book is one-of-a-kind in its sensitivity to cultural difference, and it provides a solid explanation of sociocultural perspectives on literacy instruction. I don't know of other books of this kind out there that are even comparable!

This book gives voice to a viewpoint that is desperately missing in the dialogue of education and educational reform. Anyone who works within the institution of education needs to read this. It is insightful and as unbiased as a work can be when dealing with the topic of students from cultural and ethnic backgrounds that have been educationally, politically, and socially marginalized (oppressed) within American society. Those who find fault with it should take a more unbiased viewpoint of American history and politics.

A very unmoving books, totally biased and slanted against american culture and the English language.

This book does not teach you scales, arpeggios, or keys. It does make you learn how to read. If you take the time to really get through this, even at a tempo like 4 beats at 40 bpm per quarter note, it will IMPROVE YOUR READING. If you take reading seriously this book will make you teach yourself. This book is a great supplement when you know you're stuck in the pithole scale fingerings. Can anyone say E pentatonic? Tom Bruner is a good ol' boy: he doesn't really tell you what to do, he just says, "shut up and play yer' guitar."

Someone recommended Sight Reading for the Contemporary Guitarist by Tom Dempsey but I ended up accidentally buying Tom Bruner's book with the same title instead. Because I thought I was getting this other book recommended by my friend I had high expectations before I started reading it. I found this book to not be very helpful overall in learning sight-reading. It basically shows the reader a view of the entire guitar neck without much elaboration followed by a series equally difficult (hard or easy depending on experience) musical excerpts. It does this for five regions of the guitar. I found it annoying to do exercises in terms of five regions instead of 12 positions. I also found it odd how there were no key signatures with every accidental written into the piece instead. I would say that if you are like me and don't have tons of sight reading experience then you should stick to a more comprehensive and detailed book.

This isn't a revolutionery book, it's just some unmusical reading exercises arranged in an ascending order. it's very grooling to practice on, but it gets the job done, it makes you READ, not guess, or use your memory, but acually see-process-figure out-play. If you do this enough you will be a much better sight reader.

The philosophies of progressivism run deep and are often not amenable to rational discourse. That's the case here. Nearly 100 years worth of research converges on one simple, unassailable fact: Phonics taught systematically and directly is the key to the successful teaching of beginning reading. The logic in this book is difficult to follow because it rests on beliefs rather than the best science. Please read "Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children" or any of the research reports commissioned by Congress within the past three years.

Richard Meyer accurately describes what a scripted reading classroom looks like. I have observed in classes like his, and they follow the same format. Meyer points out the dangers of this type of teaching, which eliminates creativity, individuality, and diversity on the part of the teachers and students. Students may learn the skills of reading in these classes, but they do not learn independent or critical thinking strategies. Meyer rightly points out the dangers of scripted instructional programs and the politicians who mandate them.

If you own only one book on phonics, this is the one to own! It is enjoyable to read, and very informative.

the content was not quite what I expected it to be. Most of the content of this book is already common knowledge among professional pilots.

Great book, easy to read. Makes navigation looks easy. Another advantage is that it is cheap.

While Richard's comment about the book might be true, I (private pilot currently doing instrument rating) found the book very interesting in the way that it introduces much of what I already knew (and much of what I didn't) from a completely new point of view. The thing is, pilots are confined in their own way of thinking, and fairly often know much less about the mathematical part of navigation than would be desirable. I personally felt my private pilot ground school was baby talk, the textbooks did not contain enough about mathematics, and it felt good to read something that assumes the reader went to at least high school.

That being said, the mathematics in the book are not scary, I felt the author intentionally did not use anything more complicated than high school math (mostly simple trigonometry), which he also said in the beginning of the book. My math was quite average in high school, and never really dealt with it anymore in university, and it still did not take too much effort to understand most of the book. It did require some brain work to follow the calculations, though. The most mathematical part of the book is the second chapter, "Vectors and Spheres", where I had to skip some of the calculations. The book could have used a little more explanation in this part, but I must admit, had I not been a little lazy, I could have looked up the necessary knowledge in a couple of days.

I am the kind of person who likes to ask a lot of "why?" questions in my head, and this book gave me answers to a number of them.

I imagine the book could be equally interesting for math students, as it gives meaning to the numbers - something I missed a lot in mathematics. While to me it was definitely the first half of the book that contained most of the new things, to them it might be the other way round.

Each of 98 themes has a double page sized 2 x 13.6 x 10.2 inches filled up with from 2 to 10 beautiful photos of modern furniture pieces totaling in approx. 800 works. Each one is named and further identified usually by its designer or/and manufacturer, and accompanied by a short description, but not a place of availability (that can be searched by its, designer's or/and manufacturer's names on the Internet). The book is exquisitely published on glossy paper.

In spite of the growing popularity of contemporary design in the home books on the subject are far and few between. I waited anxiously for the publication of this book and tore through it the moment it arrived. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed.

The book does contain a large number of excellent color plates. However, while the furniture is identified by designer, model and even model line it is not identified by manufacturer. The Author also fails to provide a source list as an appendix. If I did not subscribe to virtually every furniture design magazine and did not attend the shows in Milan I would have no idea where to begin looking for the furniture featured.

The author has focused almost exclusively on Italian design. Some well deserved attention has been given to Jaime Tresserra, a Spaniard, and the front cover does feature a Maly bed by Ligne Roset (French) but big things are happening in the Netherlands, England, Israel and Japan.

Where are Ron Arad (I know there's a little picture of a chair on the front cover), Ingo Maurer, Ayala Sperling Sefaty, Montis, Label, Ycami, de Sede, Tendo and Droog design?

This is a nice safe mainstream book which will serve as a primer for the uninitiated and look good on a coffee table.

If you're really interested in contemporary design don't bother.

Ed Goldfluss The Birmingham Contemporary Design Center

I bought 4 RICA books and comparatively this is the absolute worst! First, there are typos and erroneous answers! For example, in the multiple choice section one of the questions has 4 right answers. The answer sheet says "All answers are correct". Not "D. All of the above" - just no answer! Some responses are accidentally bolded print. It looks like the whole book has been printed off a home printer!

The wording of the multiple choice questions are unclear and confusing.

I also bought "Case Studies in Preparation for RICA" by Rossi, "Cliffs Test Prep for RICA" and "Ready for RICA" by Zarillo. Of these, I would recommend that you buy the book on case studies and "Ready for RICA".

Having taken the exam, I can tell you that Zarillo's book has questions worded and constructed exactly like the test. Many of the questions were so closely worded that I nearly thought it was the same exact question.

Don't waste your time on this book. There are many others out there that are far superior.

Good luck!

With all new 2007 copyrights, this up-to-date jam packed study guide provides you access to more than twenty years of reading experience under one cover. The well researched information is specifically aligned with the RICA Reading Instruction Competence Standards to ensure you are fully prepared to pass the assessement. The fast shipping gives you plenty of time to be ready. This is a study guide you will refer back to throughout your teaching!

After reading this book and applying the author's revolutionary principles to my now VERY BRIEF workouts, I'm hitting the ball off the tee substantially farther (over 20 yards!) than I ever did before. And this is a consistent 20 yards further! Even more important to me than my dramatic improvement in my golf game is the fact that I've dropped about 12 pounds of fat and am far stronger than I have ever been at any point in my life. All this from a two-minute workout performed only ten times in eight weeks! As the authors' recommend, I'm now only working out once every two weeks on strength training and I'm still gaining distance on my drive (although not as dramatically now) and am getting stronger with each workout. This is truly a ground-breaking book by two gentleman who are already the talk of the golf world. If you're serious about wanting to improve your game and your health, you'll want this book.

I found the premise not so hot in that holding a static position would help my swing. I have read a good deal about what the tour players and others are doing, and I found no evidence of this program in use. When I looked at the book, I felt the exercises might be ok for someone just starting out. However, when I ran this by my physician he said that holding a movement is bad for my blood pressure, so I nixed the whole idea.

My first thought when encountering this book was that the claims were too outrageous. Thirty yards is a lot, especially after only 6 weeks. However, I think it's silly to spend thousands of dollars on clubs and green fees and not be willing to spend a few bucks for a book.

I have worked out off and on for many years with weights. I stopped my routine and dutifully followed the book. I worked out once a week, doing the exercises as outlined. After about 5 weeks, I didn't notice any appreciable increase in my strength or my driving distance. Yes, the amount of weight that I could lift using their static technique had increased quite a bit. However, the same thing happens when I lift weights normally. Anytime I start a new exercise, I am initially very bad at it and improve quickly to a plataeu.

On the book itself. I was really disappointed that the authors made their claims based on a study of 6 golfers. Just 6! That's hardly enough for any kind of reasonable statistics. Furthermore, they didn't use any kind of control group to verify that it wasn't simply a placebo effect. I would also have like to seen a control group to verify that the extra yardage wasn't caused by people simply trying harder because they were part of an experiment. I kept wondering if these people were practicing at the range more often because of this experiment.

Also, the exercises are hard to perform without a partner. They seem to work better if you have someone to put the weight into position for you. Also, I found that some exercises were hard to do with the equipment I had at home. It seemed like I was expending a fair amount of effort using other muscles just to hold my position. Sometimes, I didn't feel that the target muscles got exercised as much as they were supposed to be.

What will probably interest most people more is that I did indeed increase my driving distance anywhere from 30-50 yards, but it had nothing to do with the book. First, I bought a Momentus weight club. It easily gave me another 10-15 yards. A weighted club exercises muscles which don't get exercised with normal weights. Secondly, and even more important, I discovered that I was hitting all of my shots on the heel of the club. Once I fixed my address position to account for that, I started bombing my drives. For most of the year, 250 yards was about as far as I could drive. Not long after I fixed my address positions, I hit a couple of 300 yard drives and my 3 wood is consistently in the 240-250 yard range. At the beginning of the year, my 3 wood was about 220 yards.

The only thing I did like about the book was the explanation on why static exercises work. They talk in a fair amount of detail on how muscles work. It made sense to me.

Unfortunately, I just didn't see any results.

If you don't have access to body building equipment forget it.

I was the not sure if this program would work. Worked out hard over the winter with Body for Life. Did not seem to be getting any stronger and the diet was killing me. I have since discovered I am a diabetic. Decided to try the progam and I am amazed at the increase in my stength. In 4 weeks I have gone from 150 lbs. in the bench press to 286. Other exercises show the same result. Have I increased my drives yes and all other clubs. Hit the ball more consistent. Length increase with driver 15 to 20 yards. Buy the book and give it and honest chance. You will be susprised. Only problem is I have maxed out all of the machines at the Y and I am having to move over to free weights.

Never got the chance to enjoy my book, for the reason I never received my order. It was b/o from day 1 and months later still b/o. so I canceled it. now my child is due in March/April and I have to scramble to find a book so that I may choose a name from....Not happy.

O'Neill's _Japanese Names_ (0834802252) was all that was available when I first started translating Japanese. Today there are many more titles available.

Not only is O'Neill outdated (data cutoff in the 1960s), it is far from comprehensive. For names of living people, I recommend the _Jinmei yomikata jiten_ [Guide to Readings of Japanese Names] (ISBN 4816902481). This series has 22,000+ last names and 26,000+ first names. O'Neill has a total of only some 32,000 people names, which also includes many ancient names. If you want historical names, I recommend the _Concise Nihon Jinmei Jiten_ (ISBN: 4385158045) which has biographies for 14,000 historical figures.

O'Neill is even worse for place names. It has only 4,000 some place names. I recommend _Zenkoku chimei ekimei yomikata jiten_ [Guide to Readings of All Japan's Place Names-Station Name] (ISBN 4816916229), which has 130,000+ place names. It even has an entry for Habomai in the disputed Northwest Territories.

One benefit of O'Neill which I have not seen in any Japanes edictionary is that it allows you to look up the readings of the second character of a name. Japanese dictionaries typically only allow look-up from the head character. This, the fact that O'Neill was around when there was nothing else available, and the fact that O'Neill is well made just outdated, lead me to give it 3 stars.

After hearing many people tell me how great this book was I finally bought it. While it has been somewhat useful in finding the readings for some names, it is far from being "A Comprehensive Index" of Japanese names. Less than half of the names I try to look up in it are even listed, and the way the kanji are indexed is not intuitive (even to someone familiar with radicals and stroke-count indices).

I would only recommend this to someone who doesn't have access to a real name dictionary from Japan, but don't count on it to be "comprehensive" in any sense of the word. It's not even close.

This book is great. It doesn't have every name, but that is a difficult task. it doesn't have alot of period names, but that's not what it was writen for. It was writen (in the 60's & 70's) to compile a list of readings and spellins of japanese names commonly used today (read 1972). It has Isaburou in it - that is a really rare name so you have to give O'Neill credit. But if you look up really old names (like medeival names) you probably aren't going to find it - but that's not what it's for - it's for names spellable with the 1,945 kanji deemed for general usage by the Japanese govt. in 1948 and the additional 284 allowed for name usage only. While that may seem like alot, that's peanuts compared to what was available in the day. So cut O'Neill a break - the book is a great general reference for Japanese names. A more comprehesive work (on surnames only) by Wolfgang Hadamitzky is available from KG Saur but it's composed of 3 massive (websters dictionary sized - the hardback version) volumes. O'Neill fits in your pocket.

Well, Japanese names, like names in other languages, are complicated. You cannot expect every Japanese name you've ever heard is in this book. Most names would have at least 2 Kanji representations, so it is difficult and unrealistic to include all representations. Just like there are several spellings for the name Catherine (Katherine, Katheryn, Kathrin...etc). So I would say this book is fairly useful. Especially when it comes to historical figures. If you have a English spelling of a Japanese name, you can find the corresponding Kanji representations without much trouble most of the times.