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The Kid's Multicultural cookbook is a handy teacher resource when studying a unit such as multiculturalism in the primary years. It is full of recipes from around the world and ideas of things to do. The recipes are very simple and the most culturally orientated recipe for each land.

Many of my family's favorite foods are "ethnic" so we thought we'd dive right in and discover what else the world is eating that we haven't tried yet. Just looking through the pages makes you want to start cooking! We'll be better prepared now, to dodge the familiar "What's for dinner?" with an enthusiastic response and a taste adventure. Children of all ages can prepare most of the dishes, and there are activities and trivia from several countries represented in the book. We decided to buy it after briefly looking through a library copy.

This is a really fun cookbook. It gives a sampling of recipes from numerous countries around the world. It is also sensitive to availabily of ingredients, nothing strange or exotic that isn't available at the local grocers. Our kids have enjoyed cooking with it and we have certainly benefited from their efforts! It's great to see them going beyond Mac and Cheese and actually learning about cooking. They are already finding it is a creative outlet, that just happens to meet the need of eating.

Ms. Cook obviously put a lot of effort into this compilation of recipes and facts. She interviewed children around the world to find out about the things they eat, and pictures of some of these children are shown throughout the book. The book is divided into regions of the world by continent, and the recipes are rated for difficulty with spoons- one spoon is the easiest, and three spoons requires at least moderate adult help and supervision. Many of the foods turn out to be familiar dishes with different names (like Sherpa Popcorn and Ox-Eye Eggs), and there are ideas for theme parties (after-ski breakfast, ice cream buffet, etc.) throughout the book. I originally bought this book for my then-10-year-old sister, who was just beginning to show an interest in cooking, and now that she is 13 she still uses this book. A lot of these recipes are easy and quick enough to be used in a classroom or school cooking club. I bought a copy of this book for myself and think it is truly neat!

I loved the supportiveness of the family through the hardships of early winter, poverty, and hunger, as well as the compassion for "all God's creatures": the stray kitten and dog. This is a heartwarming little Hanukkah story that transcends the holiday itself, telling a larger parable about kindness, faith, and optimism. I recommend it for all ages.

Fran Manushkin's `Latkes and Applesauce' is one of my favorite Hanukkah books for children. It features a close-knit and kindhearted Jewish family and teaches important lessons about how we should treat those with whom we share G-d's creation. Plus it's a lot of fun!

The story is about the Menashe family, who lived a long time ago somewhere near Minsk. Papa and Mama are poor tailors, and their daughter Rebecca and their son Ezra are `wonderful children who help their Mama and Papa'. Like most Jewish families, they love eating latkes (potato pancakes) with applesauce during Hanukkah. Unfortunately, a huge blizzard - `as if all of heaven's featherbeds had burst!' - begins on the first night of Hanukkah, completely covering the Menashes' potatoes and making it impossible for them to have latkes. The family is understandably disappointed, but they sip their soup, hope for a miracle and continue to cheerfully celebrate the holiday. Then Rebecca hears crying outside, and brings in a wet, motherless kitten. Despite the fact that they have so little, the Menashes agree to share what they have with the kitten because she is one of G-d's creatures. The next night the blizzard gets even worse, and Ezra brings in a starving dog; the family makes the same decision. Rebecca and Ezra are delighted by their new pets (who play dreidel together!), but Papa and Mama warn them to be careful about naming them because `a name must fit like a glove'. The blizzard continues to rage and their soup and then their bread are eventually gone. However, on the last night of Hanukkah the storm ends, and the Menashes are rewarded for their compassion and generosity with a miracle - and the kitten and the dog get names that fit like a glove.

In telling this tale, Manushkin has a breezy, folksy style and a fine sense of humor. Robin Spowart's misty colored chalk illustrations capture the Menashe family's love and warmth and evoke a beautiful feeling of Old World nostalgia. There is also a brief retelling of the traditional Hanukkah story of the Macabees, a delicious-looking recipe for latkes (of course!), instructions for playing dreidel, and a short bibliography - which just happens to include my favorite Hanukkah children's book `Herschel and the Hanukkah Goblins', by Eric Kimmel.

If you're looking for a book that captures the sweetness and coziness of Hanukkah, or a book to introduce children (Jewish or non-Jewish) to the holiday, you can't go wrong with `Latkes and Applesauce'. Personally, though, I prefer latkes with sour cream, but `Sour Cream' is a lousy name for a cat!

A poor family struggles to make ends meet when an enormous snow storm keeps thems from getting supplies. When they realize they will have no potatoes for latkes at Hanukkah, they come across a cat and a dog. Despite the fact that they can't feed themselves, they take the pets in. In this spirit of sharing the pets have a surprise of their own.

Students in our predominantly Gentile elementary school enjoy listening to this heartwarming tale of a poor Eastern European Jewish family near the city of Minsk celebrating Hanukkah during a winter blizzard. Their potatoes and apples are hidden beneath the freezing snow before they have a chance to make latkes and applesauce for their celebration. Despite their hunger, they take in a stray kitten and dog, who are able to locate potatoes and apples on the eighth night of Hanukkah after the skies clear.

Since our students know so little about Jewish family life, this tender story gives them a glimpse into a loving family and the way they celebrate the holidays during this particular harsh winter.

The book concludes with a brief description of Hanukkah and a recipe for making latkes (which is delicious, since I made them the first year we got this book for our school library).

I purchased this book four years ago for our child when she was a preschooler. This book is ideal for those children who like hands on learning activities and games. The book utilizes activities and games to teach mathematical concepts in a fun and engaging format. I would follow this book up with the Singapore Earlybird Math books 1A-2B, then proceed to MCP Kindergarten Math.

Great source for an Early Childhood Curriculum. This book gave me wonderful ideas on teaching little ones to counting and math. This book helped me plan lessons for my home toddler/preschool daycare. This book is a MUST HAVE for home daycare providers and home schooling parents.

We loved this book! This is for people who want to incorporateeducation into fun times with the kids but are sometimes short onideas. I would recommend this book for working parents because it is easy to be organized or introduce projects at a moment's notice when bits of time are found. All of the ideas and instructions are right there in front of you. It would also be easy to leave for a caregiver as a lesson plan. Stay at home moms can certainly use this book to help fill the many hours constructively.

We love this book. The activities are simple to prepare and easy for my 5-year old to understand. This is a great help in practicing beginners' math concepts with her.

A wonderful resource to have in my dyslexia classroom. It gets the children thinking and using their letters.

Patricia Cunningham offers a systematic, month-by-month guide to using a class Word Wall. The book is sprinkled with great word wall games and instrutcional techniques. I reccomend this for a new teacher in need of a program to help get the class word wall started.

This book was well worth the money in helping me to plan phonics lessons that are multi-level for my class and beneficial to my struggling readers.

This book is exactly what it says: multilevel and systematic. For a good price, I received a full year's plan for phonics and word study instruction that matched the instructional needs of the group of students I bought it for.

There is hardly any book for CRNE review , and sure this one is excellent.
we really need more of such books in areas like Obstetrics , psychiatry.

El libro esta muy completo, verdad que sip, con todo y los apartados de maquinas sincronas que lo hacen mas completo, God bless you!

Although old but this book is really one of the top books in the area of power system stabilization and control.
The book provides the principles of electrical machine modelling which are explained with many examples. The last chapter gives a brief idea of modeling of multi-machine systems.

This is the only good source where you can find a decent exposure to the dynamical modelling of the power systems, the details given in the book were very helpful to conduct my research. There are other books around but they are either incomplete or too detailed or a major pain.

This is a great book because is has great photos - and good writing by an author who sees the pop value of service stations and like. There is a good historic overview of the early days, and lots of facts that make for fun reading. This book is not just for collectors of gas station stuff. This is a good read for anyone who use to pay 35 cents a gallon for gas.

This is one of two books written by Margolies which I have just re-read. (The other is Ticket to Paradise.) Regrettably, copies of both are now difficult to obtain but well-worth the effort. Each focuses on what may seem to be a highly specialized subject. In fact, both offer a wealth of information and commentary concerning a basic component within the development of U.S. culture. This volume focuses on the "glory days of the gas station." At least some readers of this review recall traveling across the country decades ago and pulling over where they could fill up their vehicle's gas tank. For many summers, I drove from Chicago to Los Angeles along Route 66 and stopped at several of the locations featured in this book. I have forgotten when but, at some point, the filling station became a service station. Upon arrival, an eager stranger appeared to fill up the tank, check the oil and tire pressure, wash the windows, and encourage me to purchase a canvas bag filled with water in the event the summer heat depleted the water in the radiator. One attendant who resembled Gabby Hayes noted that I might also need extra water "if this thing of yours breaks down in the middle of nowhere."

Margolies organizes his material within five chapters: Pump and Circumstance (signage); Pioneer Days (road maps); Golden Age: 1920-1940 (Pop Architecture, Aircraft, Razzmatazz: Kid Stuff, Believe it or Not!, Razzmatazz: That's Entertainment!, and Deco Moderne); "Going, Going...: 1940-1965 (Razzmatazz: Postwar Frolics, Porcelain Enamel, restrooms, and Razzmatazz: The Best of the Best; and Back to the Future: 1965-1990. The book is filled with superb illustrations (the best of which being archival photographs) and the text is based on a wealth of primary sources. Chapter 3 was especially interesting to me because it examines (with some of the best graphics in the book) various gas station architectures which include the Gulf Lighthouse Service Station (Miami Beach, FL), windmill-shaped buildings (Saint Cloud, MN), shell-shaped Shell gas stations (Winston-Salem, NC), the B-17 "Bomber Gas Station" (the plane installed above the pumps in Milwaukee, WI), "Bob's Airmail Service Station" built around a 32-passenger Fokker plane (Los Angeles, CA), and a zepplin-shaped building grounded beside the Pennzoil pumps (near Pittsburgh, PA). Photographs of most of these facilities are included, accompanied by brief but informative commentaries.

I highly recommend this book (as well as Ticket to Paradise) to those who share my interest in icons such as the gas station. Its evolution has been inextricably involved in the cultural history of the United States.

Margolies has done his homework. In addition to a good written history of the "filling station," he has come up with photos and postcards depicting all aspects of delivering gasoline to your hungry tank. Following are just a few:

A station shaped like a red and white teapot, complete with pouring spout, in Zillah, Washington, built in 1922.

A 50 foot high tepee shaped gas station from Lawrence, Kansas, built in 1930

A station with a roof shaped like a red cowboy hat with a 50 foot wide brim, and restrooms in a structure shaped like a pair of cowboy boots, in Seattle, Washington, built just after World War II.

A station utilizing an actual B-17 Bomber overhanging the gas pumps from Milwaukie (sic), Oregon, again built just after World War II.

A flying saucer service station from Ashtabula, Ohio, built in 1966.

There are lighthouses, windmills, giant soda bottles, icebergs, and a myriad of other shapes and styles including art-deco, ceramic tile, cape cod, and just plain wooden sheds and concrete blocks.

The book includes a written history of filling stations from tanks atop horse-drawn carts to today's stations. Every kind of pump from hand cranked to coin operated to visible level to today's 24 hour automated pump are displayed and discussed. There are men's and women's uniforms, and there are advertising slogans, signs, very artistic give-away road maps, and even a discussion of the evolution of "the clean restroom" as an advertising feature.

We live in the era of the automobile, and PUMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE is, in addition to being brainfood for the nostalgia buff in all of us, a history of that still unfolding era.

This is the kind of coffee table book that any over 30 guest in your home will be drawn to and, pointing at some illustration, say, "Hey, I remember those."

This handsome book arouses my nostalgia for the good old days of motoring both visually and educationally. Besides tracing the evolution of gas-station architecture, gas pumps themselves, and petrol merchandising, the book displays top-quality photo reproduction. This is especially to be appreciated for the way it shows the details in the older pictures, which were made in the days of slow, fine-grain films. And the book's generous page size helps the photos stand out, too. There's a good bibliography to further stoke the nostalgia.

I enjoyed the rich historical knowledge that is shared in this volume of the Images of America Series which I admire very much. It is full of precious photos of P-51s, B-17s and many other planes. The book tells of the legendary Airbase known to all as Quonset Point, Rhode Island...

This book brings back memories for thoes who served in the military. It is also a useful tool for thoes interested in ecconomic development. You will see how different Naval Air Stations have the same things in common -deep water ports-landing strips-rail connections-access to roads to major cities. They are all perfect for industry or intermodal transportation. Sean Milligan has lots more information to share and there are more books to follow on these topics. The photos are great and everyone I let read my book were very moved. It was like watching someone look at an old school yearbook. I think you or your family will get a kick out of seeing this piece of history. ENJOY

This is a really good collection of Photos spanning the history of Quonset. Sean Milligan is a man who has been studying Quonset and related topics all his life. I have known him for many years and he lives and breathes everything Navy, Air Force and Marines. He loves Planes and Ships and it shows in his work.Look for a big book to follow soon on this and related Topics. You will be surprised at some of these rare photos and believe me he has more to show you. This book is a must and be assured there is more to come from this historian. Sean Milligan lives in Pawt. Rhode Island and he is working on other books and a TV program related to this subject. ENJOY.

I found this book to be great in all phases that I donated a copy to the USS Leyte CV 32 Association. There it is exposed to thousands of members at their reunions.In Knowing Sean Milligan he has the know how of editing a book.

This book is a real and rare gem of mathematical teaching. It explains in easy and accessible language the links between the topics in the title with remarkable clarity and simplicity. Of course the real strength of a book like this is to show to beginner mathematicians the power one can acquire by looking at a given problem from several perspectives, and this is where the book really excels.
The authors are doing a great job in reducing all concepts to the essential, but never - on the other side - trivializing or leaving essential things unexplained. College algebra is all what is required to understand it, and you will certainly be rewarded.

The book brings together two of my passions : random
walks and electric networks. It turns out that there are
interesting relationships between these two areas, so insights
in one provide can be used to prove things in the other.

There is this beautiful theorem by Polya which states that a
random walker on an infinite street network in d-dimensional
space is bound to return to the starting point when d = 2,
but has a positive probability of escaping to infinity without
returning to the starting point when d >= 3. The book
reinterprets this theorem as a statement about electric networks,
and then proves the theorem using techniques from classical
network theory. The proof relies on showing that the resistance
of the corresponding electric network in 1 and 2 dimensions
is infinite, whereas it is finite in the 3 dimensional case.
Thus some current [like our random walker] can flow to infinity.

Strongly recommended!. Also check out Peter Doyle's webpage
at Dartmouth "http://math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/"

This book provides fascinating insights and analogies between random walks and electric networks- and how you can exploit these analogies to solve difficult problems in one using the other... there's also a nice proof of the "Polya's theorem" using these analogies- basically Polya's theorem says that a random walk in dimensions >2 is transient, while a random walk on a plane or a line always returns to its starting point...

The book brings together two of my passions : random
walks and electric networks. It turns out that there are
interesting relationships between these two areas, so insights
in one can be used to prove things in the other.

There is this beautiful theorem by Polya which states that a
random walker on an infinite street network in d-dimensional
space is bound to return to the starting point when d = 2,
but has a positive probability of escaping to infinity without
returning to the starting point when d >= 3. The book
reinterprets this theorem as a statement about electric networks,
and then proves the theorem using techniques from classical
network theory. The proof relies on showing that the resistance
of the corresponding electric network in 1 and 2 dimensions
is infinite, whereas it is finite in the 3 dimensional case.
Thus some current [like our random walker] can flow to infinity.

Strongly recommended!.

I had heard that this was an excellent book for problem solving. I am not using it a whole lot because I teach grade 3/4 and it is still the beginning of the year so most of the problems in the book are too difficult for the children in my room. I think I will use it more towards the end of the year.

This series of books is an excellent way for children to learn about what math really means. They got the opportunity to draw out the problem that they are solving and then write the equation and finally write a sentence or more about the answer. This is great preparation for the WASL test, and for greater thinkers. All students can be successful with these materials.

My teacher uses this in our classroom to help us understand multiplication better. I love reading the problems and solving them by drawing pictures. This book is a lot of fun for everyone. Written by CEK in 2nd grade.

This workbook is composed of activities that combine reading, math, written expression, and problem-solving. The student must read the problem and draw a picture of how they view the passage, then they must solve the problem in a through a pictoral manner. This allows the child to show how they solve the problems while using their creativity. Teachers may visualize any errors made by the child and understand better how to help the child. This is fun and educational and what could be better?

We hadread the first book of Ms. Cunningham's new trilogy, The "Daugther of the Isles" and read it aloud & loved it!! So, wewent & found this earlier work ..which is also about spirituality & nature & the Goddess & is peopled by amazing characters. We can not reccomend it enough!!!

THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS is my all-time favorite book. Author Robert Kelly called it a "celebration of how four remarkable people grow into godhood, the journal all love tries to make". I grew to love these four unforgetable characters. The story is also called "a divine comedy", and I laughed my way through it. I celebrated Esther's journey to self discovery and personal growth--and related to it--and most women can. THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS begins on Halloween night, and so I re-read it every October. The imagery--sights, sounds, smells--bring this book to life. Every time I read it, I envision this story made into a movie--it would be wonderful! Thank-you, Elizabeth Cunningham, for bringing these characters and this town to life.

I love this book. I've read it so much that the pages are almost all dog eared. I've given copies of it to 6 of my friends and have loaned mine to at least five others. Elizabeth Cunningham is a fantastic storyteller and she leads us on a journey through a woman's spirit, awakening to the power of her self. It is a hard journey, but a worthwhile one, and you'll laugh all the way through until you cry at the end. Beautiful, poetic writing and outrageously funny realism combine to make this a "can't put it down 'til I'm done" kind of book. The Goddess dances across the pages and into your heart as you read it, and the book leaves you with a sense of hope and a feeling that somehow, someway, justice will always be done. Thanks, Elizabeth Cunningham, for the book that always picks me up when I'm in a low place.

A wonderful novel for both people who want an introduction to the Goddess as well as those who already are faithful believers. I agree with the other reviewers who say this book is meant to be reread and reread. As a true believer, I would send this to my circle friends,but I would also feel comfortable and sharing it with friends who don't know about female centered religions.