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My 7 yr old had a ton of fun figuring out the puzzles and solving the book. Very well written book. Wish there were more puzzle-centric books for the Lego Knight's Kingdom genre.

This is actually a side story to the Knight's Kingdom books, with puzzles to solve. The amulet is stolen from Sir Santis' castle (he's the red knight).
You solve word, number, or other kind of puzzles and put the results together to find the amulet.
My kindergartner needed assistance with many of the puzzles, but enjoyed the process thoroughly; probably a second-grader could do them alone. Now we just read through the story with our already-solved clues.
A very fun book for a Knight's Kingdom enthusiast.

My 5 yr old is really into the Knights' Kingdom, so he really LOVES this book. We read it every night before bed.

This book continues the story begun in "Search for the King" and "The Grand Tournament". Lord Vladek has a new trick up his sleeve, putting the pieces of the Shield of Ages together in the shape of a magical mask, which of course enables him to take over Morcia.
Naturally, our knights find a way to defeat him. A new king is crowned at the end.
Fun for a Knight's Kingdom enthusiast.

Just a fun read. Not too hard.

This is the third Scholastic Reader in the Lego Knights Kingdom series. Vladek is back, and the four knights have to stop him from taking over Morcia by confronting him at his Dark Fortress, and letting King Mathias' army into that fortress. There's a new king at the end of the story.

The same story is told in "The Lost Kingdom", which is an 8x8 book, but this is a fuller version ("Lost Kingdom" glosses over some elements of the story, leaving you wondering sometimes). If you're choosing between the two, I'd recommend going with "Dark Fortress".

Fun for the Knights Kingdom enthusiast (although none of these are exactly great literature).

"The Knowledge Book: Key Concepts In Philosophy, Science, And Culture" by Steve Fuller (Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick) is an extraordinarily well written and organized interdisciplinary reference work focusing on the nature of knowledge. The underlying premise is that knowledge is intrinsically social. Deftly organized into more than forty alphabetically arranged entries on fundamental concepts at the intersection of philosophy and sociology (known in academic disciplines as 'social epistemology'), "The Knowledge Book" includes concepts associated with cultural studies, communication studies, information science, education, policy studies, and business studies. Of special note are the entries dealing with concepts originating in the field of science and technology studies. Each entry presents a succinct, self-contained essay providing an overview of the concept, along with suggestions for further reading. All entries are cross-references, enabling the reader to make connections and follow personal interests. Also available in a hardcover edition (9780773533462, $80.00), "The Knowledge Book" is a welcome and highly recommended addition to academic library reference collections and supplemental reading lists in contemporary philosophy, general science, and cultural studies.

(I originally posted this review on Amazon.UK, but I see there is a different US publisher.) The book is pretty much as the publisher's description says. Fuller, never one to pass an icon without picking up a hammer, provides a conceptual dictionary of knowledge as if philosophers had always believed it was intrinsically social. So familiar figures like Plato, Kant and Mill turn out to be social epistemologists in disguise. I can see why this would appeal to information scientists, management scientists and other various social scientists who have been traditionally left out of traditional philosophical theories of knowledge that focus on whether you see red or 'redness', blah, blah. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find in this book any account of the perception-based problems of knowledge associated with 'scepticism'. This will disappoint more hidebound epistemologists but for Fuller the feeling is mutual. Keep an eye out for the sharp entries on 'feminism' and 'multiculturalism'.

I am not 13; I'm 60. However, the server will only take my comments in this section of the web site, and this book is too good not to share.Usually I read 5 or 6 books simultaneously - a few pages to put myself to sleep on any given night. However, once I began Kreka, I read it nearly straight through, only interrupting myself to carry on a busy life.I highly recommend it - both for the brillance of the writing and for the wonderfully rich and different perspective on the historical events of this era.

Our ideas about history begin with those first lessons in school replete with dates of battles, births, and political events. It falls to an imaginative writer to give voices and faces to personalities who lived long ago and to give us the chance of a re-evaluation of them. Mention of Attila the Hun invariably conjures up a brutal image in the popular mind, but if we approach his life and times from the present we move backwards and arrive with too much contemporary baggage to see him clearly. Joan Silva has spent many years stripping the layers of inappropriate packaging from Attila and given us a healthily restored version. Acknowledging the inherent violence of Attila's age, the author looks for his personal qualities in a way that befits a warrior as well as a man with loves and a family. Kreka, wife of Attila, receives her due attention in this book as a woman with strength and insight. The political maneuvering in the novel helps us understand the participants as being more than the sword-swinging aggressors the Barbarians are often shown to have been. I was drawn in as the book progressed and found it ultimately very moving.

This is an extraordinary book dealing with the pervasiveness of U.S. culture in Canada, and how Canadians have seemingly allowed their own culture and politics to be subsumed into American versions. Although written from a small-c conservative point of view, and in the 1960s, it remains an extraordinary book that will intrigue any person interested in Canada and US relations. In addition, Mr. Grant is a gifted writer; his fluent use of words in a serious political work such as this one, only accentuates his poetic capabilites.

In the light of September 11th, many Americans are asking the rhetorical question 'Why do they hate us so?' This essay from 1965 brilliantly outlines the forces, in modern liberalism, that are antagonistic to local culture. The lament that it describes is a lament for a local nationalism that has been abandoned by its population in favor for the attractions of a global culture based on American values. These American values are the values of the modern culture, in which traditional values which provide meaning to life are abandoned for the ease which modern technology can bring. Traditional values which provided meaning but also constraints to human life and action are being abandoned according the this book view for a shallow notion of human freedom. This shallow freedom is the freedom to enjoy temporary conveniences at the expense of the ability to live life in compatibility with eternal principles. What meaning that modern life can provide are rationalizations of self-indulgence which will be adjusted to fit the needs of technology as it evolves in its self-defined way.

The book describes how Canadians have abandoned their traditional 'conservative' values in favor of the easy continentalist option of acquiring American wealth by accepting American values. The author describes how 1960s Gaullism in France was a reaction to the same forces. The same observations can be made today about the knee-jerk anti-Americanism in Europe and France in particular that is paradoxically based on the inherent attractiveness of American values. The American culture is becoming the world culture. It is dispossessing all other cultures that it encounters. This provokes a reaction among 'conservative' (which includes the globalization protestors who in this book's terms are conservative in respect to culture although they would see themselves as anarchistic, radical etc.) who fear that the cultures that they value are going to be lost to the forces of technic- `the one best way'.

I cannot do justice to this book which links these ideas into the flow of Western ideas. It shows the conflicts that of these differing sets f ideas in the works of philosophers and theologians. it does so in a manner that is very accessible to the general reader but has also provided a basis for research by professional philosopher's, political scientists etc. for the 37years since it was published.

This book is on a par with Jacques Ellul's 'The Technological Society.' It is a book that will be remembered and studied for hundreds of years. It uses as its starting point the issue of Canadian nationalism but its implications are universal. I wish that I could give it six stars.

Marie was granddaughter to queen victoria and czar alexander ii of russia.at 17 she was married to a man she barely new,into a unstable country and thrown.she made her marriage work and promote her new country trying to make the lives of her people better.

I recently re-read Hannah Pakula's spectacular bio of the British princess Marie who became the iconic queen of Roumania and I enjoyed it even more than I did twenty years ago when I first read it. Queen Marie exemplified what was best about royalty, a woman who through her training at the hands of her mother (who was daughter of the Tsar) learned to put the needs of her people before her own happiness. Marie overcame the sorrows of a difficult marriage, the scandals of her own indiscretions, and the loneliness of being a foreign princess in an exotic land, to be the inspiration and advocate the Roumanian people needed in the dark days of WWI and its aftermath. One is thrilled to become acquainted with a woman who was intelligent, cultured, sophisticated, an international beauty, a writer, full of passion and integrity. I highly recommend this book as one that is worth having in any private collection of royal biographies.

I recommend this book, and books like this one, to all parents who wish to introduce other cultures to their children. The story is simple and well told. The illustrations are absolutely fabulous and are faithful to the Persian architecture.
If I may respond to the reviewers, folk stories do not always follow the Hollywood goodguy-badguy plot. This story does have morales: We should not get attached to material things because they are not permanent, friendship is more important that diamonds, a little kid can come up with a great idea, great achievements are made by working together.
There is some truth to the legend too. A carpet dubbed as `Bahar of Khosrow' (spring of Khosrow), existed at the Palace of Ctesiphone which is referred to in Persian scripts as the `Arch Palace of Ctesiphone'. The carpet was 450 feet long and 90 feet wide, made for Sassanid king Khosrow and for this reason it was named `Bahar of Khosrow'. In the book, the king character is named "Balash", which was the name of five of the Sassanid kings.
One minor critique though, the Sassanid dynasty was pre-islamic. The illustrations in the book, both the architecture and peoples costumes, are obviously post-islamic. :-)

This beautifully written and illustrated tale for children ages 5 to 10, shows the power of childrens' kindness and ingenuity in a cleverly written story set in ancient Persia. Told like an old folktale, this story engrossed my two boys, ages 7 and 10, who thoroughly enjoyed the rich images the story and the pictures created. A good purchase for home or the classroom studying different cultures.

This is a fascinating look into the lives of the women of the kings of England from Medieval to Tudor times. These women were amazingly diverse, their letters ranging from kindly requests to their husbands on behalf of others to arrogant demands to their sons; from mundane business like household expenses to true slices of history, like Eleanor of Aquitaine's desperate plea to the Pope for her imprisoned son and the love letter that sent Catherine Howard to the executioner's block. There are also interesting summaries before each woman's letters of their place in history and the lives of their husbands and sons. Not to be missed by anyone interested in the periods involved.

I read a lot of dry English history books and that's okay with me because since I'm writing novels on each queen of England, it's expected.
However I was pleased to find out that the letters were not hard to read and very interesting. Also, the author gives a lot of background info on each queen so that even a beginner could read this book and follow the names. She explains what's going on in each letter and that makes it much easier.
Well worth your money!

This book is one of the best books I have ever read, because it gave me a lot of wisdom, in the way of marrige. Even though I am not married yet I learned a lot from this series of letters in the novel. It taught me that I should relax more and not be so uptight. This novel also taught me that when I do get married I will follow some of the guidelines of his letters and use them in my everyday married life. The author showed me the importance of marrige, and how highly I should respect it.I recommend this book to anyone who is planing or think about taking the step into marrige. This book devoloped my relationship with my campanion, to an extent were we can talk about or problems. I reliezed through this book marriage is not all fun and games, it is a serious desicion. After reading this book my knowledge about marriage is greater then it ever was. I thought that even though I am not married, I can be a better person if I read this again when I get married, because there was so much wisdom within those letters. This book was so outstanding to read about his girlfriend because I could tell that they are thinking about taking that special step.I hope he learns as much as i did, becauses he will use it a lot sooner than I will.

Thank you God Bless

Joshua Thompson

This book is one of the best books I have ever read, because it gave me a lot of wisdom, in the way of marrige. Even though I am not married yet I learned a lot from this series of letters in the novel. It taught me that I should relax more and not be so uptight. This novel also taught me that when I do get married I will follow some of the guidelines of his letters and use them in my everyday married life. The author showed me the importance of marrige, and how highly I should respect it.I recommend this book to anyone who is planing or think about taking the step into marrige. This book devoloped my relationship with my campanion, to an extent were we can talk about or problems. I reliezed through this book marriage is not all fun and games, it is a serious desicion. After reading this book my knowledge about marriage is greater then it ever was. I thought that even though I am not married, I can be a better person if I read this again when I get married, because there was so much wisdom within those letters. This book was so outstanding to read about his girlfriend because I could tell that they are thinking about taking that special step.I hope he learns as much as i did, becauses he will use it a lot sooner than I will. Thank you God Bless

Joshua Thompson