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I'm a journalist, a sports fan, amateur historian and the fourth great-granddaughter of the amazing Peter Sides, a Revolutionary War Veteran who was killed at the bloodiest battle on Texas soil, the Battle of Medina in 1813.

You don't believe me? Look it up!

I first read this book years ago and loved it. I've recommended it to others who have loved it. It's a fabulous read and rollicking adventure. It's the kind of book I keep re-reading and buying any copy I can find and passing it on to people I love.

Please excuse the passive voice in the previous paragraph. I know better ; )

Fast Copy is a lot of lively fun!

A native Texan myself, I found myself laughing all through this book. I caught continual glimpses of friends and relatives (and, yes, even myself!) in this wonderful little novel that explores Texas, football, and Texans.

However, it is not just a comedy that pokes fun at Texans. Nosiree! It deals specifically with Depression-Era Texas and makes us take a disturbing look at ourselves. How can someone callously believe that other humans are "just hobos"? Do we truly believe that appearances are more important than reality? What will one do for Love; is it ok to hurt others to pursue one's own pleasure?

This is a most thought-provoking work and well worth the time to read.

Tera Leigh's book Faux Mosiacs is a fabulous find. I too am a great lover of mosiac but with a toddler and a career who has the time to break out the old plates and create and old fashioned masterpiece? I love this method for creating artistic frames (I feature one in my book "Craft the Perfect Frame"), creating one of a kind home accents, and creating great gifts for friends. You can easily knock out any one or two of these fun projects in an evening giving yourself a well needed sense of creative accomplishment. Kids can also easily join in on this version of mosiac, not only a great "I'm bored" eraser but a fantastic creative activity to create gifts for friends and teachers.

Do yourself a favor and give this book a try. It's easy, it's fun, it's creative, and fun for everyone.

I've often admired the look of mosaic tile, but just couldn't deal with the mess, tools, and time involved in the original technique. Then I found this book -- AMAZING! "Faux Mosaics" look like the real thing, without a bunch of expensive tools and tricky application techniques. Don't be fooled by the words "tile" and "grout" in this book; the tile is any piece of paper, and the grout is a brush-on finish that's a snap to apply. Best of all, you don't have to be "crafty" to make beautiful mosaic look-alikes. Ms. Leigh's super-simple technique is explained so well that virtually anyone can get FANTASTIC RESULTS. And she shows so many wonderful project ideas -- you'll never run out of items to transform into works of art for your home and unique gifts for friends and family. This book is a MUST HAVE for anyone who has ever admired mosaics ... I'm sure you'll use and love it as much as I have!

If you think you understand American constitutions rights and thought, you can't be sure unless this book is in your reading (and there are others, of course). Read this (I have the soft-bound version). Learn how little of the constitution is actually practiced today. Don't be too surprised when you find out that, when defined by the thoughts in this book, we no longer follow our constitution except for a few logistical practices, like trial by jury. In fact, read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and learn how our nation no longer functions by these documents in the final analysis. We no longer live in a Republic except by name.

The book is prophetic for our day.

This is a must-read.

It will open your eyes to what is happening around us.

We all must become aware of what people are doing to control us and take away our freedoms.

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They should be teaching this in our public schools.This defines who we are and what the consequences are if not adopted (Which they were. Thank God.)We need a rebirth of patriotism and this is a good start.

I really enjoyed this book because it was a fantasy book! For readers that like exciting adventurous short books this is the book for you. I really enjoyed the parts where: Felix mind read with the princess frog; The elf came alive from the magical moon stone; Mr. Nubble made his yard into a monster museum.

We liked "Felix and the 400 Frogs" because our class is studying about ponds and pond creatures (like frogs). We also liked the main character Felix because he was nice and he was always helping the Frog Princess. Also, we liked the book because the authors put a lot of detail in it. They also put some hard words in it that we didn't know so that we could learn new words. The book was full of interesting things like someone kissing a frog and interesting characters like the mean Mr. Nubble. Our favorite parts were when Mr. Nubble called Felix names and when Felix and the Frog Princess were trying to find the Magic Moonstone. The worst part about the book was when it ended! We would recommend the book to 2nd, 3rd, or 4th graders. We give the book 5 stars! Mrs. Justice's 1999 3rd Grade Class, Jersey Shore Elementary in Jersey Shore, PA

This Festschrift for Le Cam was organized by former students and colleagues on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1994. It did not actually get published until 1997. There are numerous papers written by prominent probabilists and statisticians who worked in the area of asymptotic theory that Le Cam was so well known for. Erich Lehmann provides an essay on Le Cam's years at Berkeley. Diaconis and Freedman talk about the consistency of Bayes estimates in nonparametric regression. Dudley reviews empirical processes. Yang provides an application of Le Cam's work to sodium channel experiments. Stigler provides an historical account of maximum likelihood through the work of Daniel Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler. van der Vaart covers superefficiency. Donoho and Johnstone present some new results on minmax estimation based on wavelets. Many of Le Cam's colleagues at Berkeley contributed interesting articles including Beran, Blackwell, Brillinger and Freedman. There are nearly as many applied papers as theoretical ones in this festschrift. Other well known contributors include Aalen, Millar, de Acosta, Picard, Ferguson, Pollard, van Zwet, Roussas and C. R. Rao.

This Festschrift for Le Cam was organized by former students and colleagues on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1994. It did not actually get published until 1997. There are numerous papers written by prominent probabilists and statisticians who worked in the area of asymptotic theory that Le Cam was so well known for. Erich Lehmann provides an essay on Le Cam's years at Berkeley. Diaconis and Freedman talk about the consistency of Bayes estimates in nonparametric regression. Dudley reviews empirical processes. Yang provides an application of Le Cam's work to sodium channel experiments. Stigler provides an historical account of maximum likelihood through the work of Daniel Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler. van der Vaart covers superefficiency. Donoho and Johnstone present some new results on minmax estimation based on wavelets. Many of Le Cam's colleagues at Berkeley contributed interesting articles including Beran, Blackwell, Brillinger and Freedman. There are nearly as many applied papers as theoretical ones in this festschrift. Other well known contributors include Aalen, Millar, de Acosta, Picard, Ferguson, Pollard, van Zwet, Roussas and C. R. Rao.

Some number of months ago, I gave my neighbor's kid some gliders preprinted by NASA as a PR gift (Got them at Oshkosh). It wasn't long before he was stopping me on the way back from work to ask if I had anymore planes! This title fit the bill (more planes). It was in color and precisely precut for little hands. I almost didn't gift it!
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I happened across this book in a bookstore and could not resist buying it.

To date, I have made the first three airplanes in the book. I'm working on the fourth now. The first few models are rather simplistic to get new people accustomed to paper modeling. The later models are amazing. The curves of the aircraft are to scale and very impressive.

The book is also a great way to learn how to design your own paper model airplanes to fly. I've made a space shuttle using the techniques learned in this book and it looks/flies great!

I should mention that this is not a typical 'paper airplane' book. You do not simply take a sheet of paper and fold it in various ways then fly it. You have to cut out numerous pieces, form them to get the proper curves, glue them (carefully, so that the paper doesn't warp when it's drying), and THEN fly them. Even though that may sound challenging, the first few airplanes are enough to learn the skills necessary for the later (and more challenging) airplanes. And...THE PLANES FLY GREAT when built with patience and care. Mine have survived some great crashes into walls and radiators since I have a habit of launching them indoors (all the planes have a hook for launching via rubber bands).

This is by far one of the best EQ books that I have read. The plot is fairly complex, not like that of Sherlock Holmes where you know who did it, but the story introduces a selection of characters that each have a motive for the threatining messages and the weird christmas gifts presented to one John, who is sure that someone is trying to murder him. towards the middle, a dead body is found and EQ is starting to worry. The ending I won't give away, but it is a twist no one expected. I would reccomened this book to anyone who is sick and tired of Agatha Christi and Sherlock Holmes.

A must-read for anyone who loves surprise endings. At first, the book seems to be giving away too much information and that the clues would lead me to the right solution. Alas, the Master has again hood-winked this reader. The characters may not be as fully-realized as in Calamity Town, but the multiple red-herrings that the Maestro pulls out of the hat and the Dennis Miller-like ambiguous references he gives out at a fast clip more than makes up for it.

This is a great novel. I was kind of put off at the beginning because a big deal was made out of that it had never been editted due to the history of the book and it's a work of natural genius blah blah blah, but I really got into this book. Billany tackles issues of class system and war ethics, honesty and love in a way I've never seen so genuinely done before. I got a lot out of this novel (or memoir, I'm not sure which as it's in first person).

Dan Billany's The Trap is an unjustly forgotten book. Billany, who died in 1943 after escaping from a prisoner of war camp, brilliantly analyzes British society and the war. For Billany, a Communist, the war is not a "just" war, a war for democracy and against the forces of darkness. Instead, it is merely one capitalist society fighting another for dominance. It is a powerful and compassionate look at the lowest class in British society.

It has photographs, maps, etc. on at least every other page. It covers nearly all of the major archeological findings up to the end of the B.C. years. Written in a easily readable style by a person who cares more about the quality of the concrete evidence than making surmises or speculations from it. I would have liked more associations made with what's been found in Britain and the Continent, but it's still a five-star overview.

This book, by the archaeologist who excavated Newgrange, is an excellent resource for anyone interested in European prehistory. Though subtitled "An Introduction to Irish Prehistory," the book does not shy away from indepth scientific and archaeological evidence, either supporting or refuting conventional theories; thus, the book would be better classified as intermediate to advanced. One would be hard pressed to find a better resource of Irish prehistory.