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This is an excellent book to use with beginner English Language Learners (ELLs) for several reasons. It has repetition of a question that they can use with chanting. It has clear illustrations that are a picture puzzle. The limited amount of text makes it easy to memorize. Finally, school-age ELLs apply the newly learned question to asking about their own environment.

A very brightly colourful book. The question is asked on each page : "Where's The Cat?" A visual clue (part of the cat's body) is shown on each page. The page is then turned and the answer revealed, with the written answer. Each answer begins with a preposition, and each pair rhymes (eg on the chair, up the stair, under the bed, behind the shed). An excellent book for pre-schoolers and beginning readers.

Great read. I found myself interested in the level of historical detail about bands even though I have no links to playing in a band in Ohio.

In the middle of the 1800s, the town band was the center of local entertainment. Usually they were a group of about a dozen men who played brass instruments. They came from all walks of life and learned to play their horns as part of the band.

With all the changes in life over the last 150 years, most town bands had disappeared (although a fair number have been reestablished lately). The town band in Bryan, Ohio has been performing public concerts on the town square since 1852--one of the oldest, continuously performing groups in the United States. This book, written by a long-time member in honor of the band's 150th season, is a lively account of life and times in small town America.

Though published through the regional University of Akron Press, the autobiography of Wayne Embry is essential reading for basketball fans, sports historians and those intrigued on how sports reflects the games played by the power brokers in society.

Embry was a professional player and climbed the corporate ladder in the NBA during eras when the racial divide was felt in locker rooms and in neighborhoods throughout the nation.

Perhaps mostly known nationally as the executive who traded Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - from the Milwaukee Bucks to the Los Angeles Lakers - Embry drew the ire of Cleveland Cavalier fans for the trading of Ron Harper, which is covered in depth.

But it's within the inside game on the hardwood floor of life - that needed the finesse of a swift ball-handling point guard and the sharp elbows of a tough power forward - where Embry ultimately excelled. He did not close the doors of opportunity when he maneuvered into a position to take advantage of a small opening, but has been a trailblazer by leading the way for many others into successful careers in pro basketball and the corporate world.

I just finished this book tonight, and it's one of the best sports autobiographies I've read in ages, and I read most of them. Wayne Embry is a pioneer, and a man that overcame a tremendous amount of racism and adversity in his life to become a power player (GM) of 2 NBA ballclubs.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Embry in passing at camps, and he was a kind gentleman. I always admired him but never knew all that he went through. To be fair in my review, I must say that in reading the book, he seems at times overly-sensitive in his analysis of some situations, especially those with Cavs ownership, and that he often seems to have felt slighted, when he may have just been a casualty of an underachieving ballclub, and NOT the victim of racism.
Either way, the man is an intellect, and also found success in business as a big-time McDonald's franchisee and sat on the BOD of several Fortune 500 companies, as well as a trustee of his alma mater, Miami of Ohio. A man who has been married to the same woman for almost 50 years. A man of conviction.
I say this for Embry, whether or not you agree or disagree with his views, he pulls no punches. He tells it like it is, and does not sugar coat things in this book. There's nothing worse than shelling out $20 or $30 for a book, and then you get nothing but cliche nonsense, or the same old fuzzy stories you already knew from the sports pages or internet.
This book is a must for old-time/vintage NBA fans or those who wonder what it's like to be a GM of a team. Wayne Embry was not only a physical specimen, but a cerebral giant of a man, and this is one helluva read. Kudos, Big Wayne. Regards, James R. Acho, Esq. www.cmda-law.com

This is a seminal work in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Following an initial period of enthusiasm, the field encountered a period of frustration and disrepute. Minksy and Papert's 1969 book summed up this general feeling of frustration among researchers by demonstrating the representational limitations of Perceptrons (used in neural networks). Their arguments were very influential in the field and accepted by most without further analysis.

I found this book to be generally easy to read. Despite being written in 1969, it is still very timely.

In 1958, Cornell psychologist Frank Rosenblatt proposed the 'perceptron', one of the first neural networks to become widely known. A retina sensory layer projected to an association layer made up of threshold logic units which in turn connected to the third layer, the response layer. If two groups of patterns are linearly separable then the perceptron network works well in learning to classify them in separate classes. In this reference, Minsky and Papert show that assuming a diameter-limited sensory retina, a perceptron network could not always compute connectedness, ie, determining if a line figure is one connected line or two separate lines. Extrapolating the conclusions of this reference to other sorts of neural networks was a big setback to the field at the time of this reference. However, it was subsequently shown that having an additional 'hidden' layer in the neural network overcame many of the limitations. This reference figures so prominently in the field of neural networks, and is often referred to in modern works. But of even greater significance, the history of the perceptron demonstrates the complexity of analyzing neural networks. Before this reference, artificial neural networks were considered terrific, after this reference limited, and then in the 1980s terrific again. But at the time of this writing, it is realized that despite physiological plausibility, artificial neural networks do not scale well to large or complex problems that brains can easily handle, and artificial neural networks as we know them may actually be not so terrific.

I used to teach a gender equality class for Stanford students in Washington and they read this book with amazement at how it revealed the law's stark burdens. Now I'm doing research on a different project and still find this book to be thorough and persuasive. Sometimes claims of structural sexism are unpersuasive, but this book proves up structural sexism in the law unequivocally. It documents how the law of self-defense arose among combatants of presumed equal strength. Facially neutral rules like "no escalating the form of violence" can leave battered women with the choice of waiting to be killed or using non-protected deadly force herself. A grim and stunning conclusion. -- Betsy Cavendish

This book is a treatment of how common law's concept of self-defense does not traditionally describe the method in which battered women who kill their abusers finally do the deed. Hence, it has been difficult for battered women to win cases with the defense of "justifiable homicide."

The author, founder of the Northwest Women's Law Center, puts forth her argument logically and forcefully, with extensive references. A must read for those interested in the legal defense of battered women who kill their abusers.

As a "Baby Boomer" who came of age in the 1970's, I remember a lot of hype about the concept of the "feminine mystique." It sounded like something I needed to understand...I guess I finally did. I don't care how far we women have come in the cause of equality and liberation, most of us still harbor a secret desire to be "soft" but "strong;" "smart" but "vulnerable:" "efficient" but "sexy." After reading Carol's book (and laughing a whole lot at the archaic language) I believe we are no different from our grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Wisdom,humor, and a good bit of common sense are
everywhere in this book.Carol has done extensive research to
bring entertaining as well as pertinent information to those of us who are on an eternal quest to be all things to all of the people in our lives. Although the recipes for making your own cold cream will probably not be high on your list of "must do asap," the advice she relays in her chapter on "Considering Marriage" would be approved by Dr. Laura, Ann Landers, and your personal clergy! I highly recommend this book and the coming series that will include the totally enlightened sage advice of the premier Victorian authorities who give us the most up to date advice for "Coping with the Everyday Life of the 19th Century Homemaker."

Keeping Hearth and Home in Old Ohio is a well researched and very readable collection of information which would have been of vital importance to a woman living in the late 1800s. It is intriquing to those of us interested women's place in history. The author has included information about all facets of life: habits becoming a lady, advice for a bride, how to raise healthy children, meal preparation, etc. She includes recipes for cooking, grooming, health cures, and other household needs. Many of the hints for better living are as pertinent in 2002 as they were in 1882. Many, provide us with a healthy chuckle as we read.

Gene Logsdon has hit a homer again with not just a novel, but an enjoyable morality tale parroting the Last of the Mohicans. It could be the Last of the American Farmers if people don't wake up to what's going on in the agricultural world around us. Read all of Logsdon's works if you want to still be able to feed yourselves and then go line your compost bins with the Big Ag rags.

The traditional family farmer has all but been driven out of business by factory farms. This is am exceptional tale of one's man's struggle to continue the family farm lifestyle in opposition to the philosophy of "get big or get out". An enjoyable and warm, family drama. (If you like Wendell Berry's fiction about rural America, you'll also like Gene Logsdon.)

I read Joe's book in a day, cried during the reading, and found even more respect (although I didn't think it possible to respect him more than I already did) as a human being, writer, and professor. The story is intriguing and honest, rich and lyrical. Joe really knows how to use language to his advantage. I've passed it on to others already. It's a great book from a great man.

Mackall writes a gutsy book here, looking honestly at drinking, depression, despair, and the similar pitfalls that too often trip-up young men from blue-collar Cleveland (or any other rust belt city), yet he writes with beauty and lyricism, giving us, in the end, a beautiful memoir of faith and redemption.

I received a copy of the book in 1993 after my mother Doris (Krull) Merris passed away. The Authors put so much work into it that it is really unbelievable. Thank you so much for the time you spent on gathering the information. I remember filling out the form back in the early 70's and am I glad I did! I will pass the book on to my son Anthony so that he can remember all of his many relatives. Thank you!

I like the story of the Remlinger Storys of Charles and Amanda Remlinger and there Family I have always love to hear storys about the Remlingers and Underbrinks.

We bought this book because it's exactly what fourth and fifth grade students in Ohio are studying, the glaciers and the "First People," but the poetic and rhythmic language has turned the book into a family favorite.

This book contains lovely artwork and an inspiring story. We're from Ohio so I couldn't resist buying this for our homeschool history program. It is somewhat historical and it is very nicely done. Ages 4-10 would enjoy it.