Arnold Books

It is a lucky kid who finds one really good friend to chum around with.

To outsiders, the good friend may seems like an unlikely choice. It might be because the friend is of a another sex,race,or religion. It might be because the friends are not the same age, or one may have a handicapping condition.

In this story, a lonley young girl spending a summer with her grandparents learns a whole lot about what makes a good friend a good friend.

One of the first things she learns is not to judge a neighbor, "old" Sally Arnold, just on looks. And guess what, it turns out the musical, artistic, and nature loving Sally Arnold makes a very good friend.

Lo and behold, the girl's lonley feeling is soon gone. Before you know it, the mountains of West Virginia end up a beautiful place to spend the summer.

The story and the soft illustrations appeal to my 5th grade nephew. He likes the story as it is about a loving relationship, ecology, music, and more. And since he likes to draw, he knows good illustrations when he sees them.

I loved reading this story about a young girl, Jenny, who has to decide if the strange little old lady in town is really a witch. What Jenny and the little old lady, Sally Arnold, find is that friendship comes in all sizes, ages, and eccentricies.

We often teach our children not to judge others by how they look. Yet Ryan took that simple saying and turned it into an intergenerational story about what friendship really is about---respect.

The book arrived in a very timely fashion, in good condition and at a reasonable price. Thank You

Eberhard Arnold is one of the forgotten spiritual leaders of the 20th century. That is sad because his books are as timely now as when they were written nearly 70 years ago, many of them in protest against the creeping tide of Nazism and fascism. Salt and Light: Living the Sermon on the Mount is passionate in its insistence that Christianity is not a religion for dilettantes. To accept Christ and to really live His message is to risk giving everything up for love. Hate, fear, violence and injustice are not just crimes against humanity, they oppose the very organic fabric of creation. Arnold, in Salt and Light, makes it clear that Christians have a special obligation to preserve and cherish life, to peacefully oppose injustice and war and to spread a gosepl of love---not because it is "moral" and "ethical" to do those things, but because Christians in their faith (salt and light) possess the very essence of life, Christ. Read Arnold, and your relationship with God will change forever. Salt and Light is a classic.

This is the second edition of a text on survey sampling with a different title than the first edition. The first edition published in 1973 was based on a short overview course that Barnett gave on survey sampling. It's title was "Elements of Sampling Theory." The second edition published in 1991 was intended to serve a similar purpose but update the book with advances over the intervening 18 years.

The text is 163 pages including the postscript chapter. The six basic chapters cover an introduction to the methods of sampling from finite populations along with the wide range of application areas in Chpater 1, ideas and properties of simple random sampling in Chapter 2, data collection method for carrying out a survey in Chapter 3, ratio and regression estimates in Chapter 4 including the Hartley-Ross estimator, stratified sampling in Chapter 5, and cluster and multi-stage sampling in Chapter 6. This certainly covers the basics and Barnett the reader to the well-known works of Cochran, Kish, Groves and Kalton for additional details.

This book is clear and concise, much like Silvey's monograph on statistical inference. Like Silvey this is a handy reference book.

This is the second edition of a text on survey sampling with a different title than the first edition. The first edition published in 1973 was based on a short overview course that Barnett gave on survey sampling. It's title was "Elements of Sampling Theory." The second edition published in 1991 was intended to serve a similar purpose but update the book with advances over the intervening 18 years.

The text is 163 pages including the postscript chapter. The six basic chapters cover an introduction to the methods of sampling from finite populations along with the wide range of application areas in Chpater 1, ideas and properties of simple random sampling in Chapter 2, data collection method for carrying out a survey in Chapter 3, ratio and regression estimates in Chapter 4 including the Hartley-Ross estimator, stratified sampling in Chapter 5, and cluster and multi-stage sampling in Chapter 6. This certainly covers the basics and Barnett the reader to the well-known works of Cochran, Kish, Groves and Kalton for additional details.

This book is clear and concise, much like Silvey's monograph on statistical inference. Like Silvey this is a handy reference book.

deseo revisar el libro para saber si recomendarlo como lectura a mis alumnos

I am devastated to see that the translation is incorrect! "Sapo" is a Rana (Frog), and Sepo is actually the Sapo (Toad)! This is actually important because scientifically Sepo has the characteristics of a Sapo (a toad) he is slower and more lazy than "Sapo" who is actually a rana (frog). Frogs are quicker than toads. They should have been named "Rana" (Frog) and "Sapo" (Toad), and Sepo should be the one named Sapo.

I just did a unit on frogs and toads and noticed that in the English version there are a lot of factual similarities to characteristics of frogs and toads but then when I read it in Spanish I was so upset to see they had been misnamed. I actually went through and scratched out and switched the names myself so the kids won't be confused. I wish I could communicate this translation mishap to Arnold Lobel who seems to take care in including important details in writing about his characters. This is a great book to use when teaching about Amphibians and teaching across the curriculum, however if you want to be scientifically correct you will have to do what I did and change the names yourself.

My little boy begged to read more. He is just learning to read, so it was wonderful to hear him ask to keep going.

A story, called Green Ribbon, scared me the most! But I still enjoyed reading it very much!

Jonathan Dunsby has helped to demystify the difficult and complicated issues surrounding this Schoenberg masterwork. The included English translation by Andrew Porter is excellent, and, by the way, can be heard with the German version (yes, both the English and the German on the same recording!) on Bridge BCD 9032 with Lucy Shelton and the Da Capo Chamber Players. Dunsby gives a detailed history of the work itself and the modern expressionist era that surrounds it, and a very useful interpretive and intentionally incomplete analysis of each of the twenty-one melodramas that will help the performer or the listener gain a better understanding of the work that shaped contemporary classical music. This is not for the faint of heart! Both Schoenberg and Pierrot are very complex, so be prepared to dig into specialized terminology and subject matter.

As many who admire a lot of so-called "difficult" music know, the more you listen, the more you hear. If a work is really inspired and intelligently composed, any open-minded listener can come to appreciate it. After 90+ years, most who care about 20th century music would probably agree that PIERROT LUNAIRE has stood the test of time. It's mesmerizing, beautiful, frightening, all at the same time. Certainly it's challenging too, but what really good music is not?

Jonathan Dunsby had done a service to Schoenberg with this straightforward analysis of PIERROT. Plenty of background information is provided (although more on Albertine Zehme and the early performances of the piece would have been useful). Musical analysis is not forbiddingly technical. Anyone who can read music should be able to follow Dunsby's lead with a score. Those who don't read music should be able to hear what the author points out in precise prose.

It is important to cover as many aspects of PIERROT as possible: because the piece itself is brief and because Schoenberg carefully chose and set each poem. Dunsby treats each melodrama as a separate entity, but he also relates each one to the whole. It is also commendable that he discusses much of PIERROT in terms of melody. The composer was in the process of inventing a new kind of melody and he started an exploratory process that still continues today. Over and over again, Dunsby points out the kaleidoscopic melodic and instrumental variety of this fascinating musical landmark. PIERROT is not an important "museum piece", but an engaging masterpiece that lives on in performance today.

The book arrived quickly and in good condition, I would buy from them again.

This was a great resource for me during my entire Master's Degree coursework. A must have for anybody in Educational Leadership.

True peace is controversial and hard-won, even attacked at times. The centerpiece for Arnold's book is the words of Jesus: "My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you." Unfortunately, the vast majority of us seek peace, happiness and fulfillment with a vengeance in all the wrong places. With hearts burdened by worry and care and a nagging sense of dread, our lives end up becoming a hectic morass of unpeace and disenchantment. The answer, says Arnold through the real life experiences of many friends, lies outside of ourselves. True peace is found by not trying to find it; by forgetting about oneself and devoting one's life to the service of others. Only the reading of the many personal accounts in this book will do these thoughts justice. Give yourself and others a true education, far above the din of saccharine self-help manuals and the watery spiritual soup served up in tomes everywhere. Read this book!

I suspected I'd love this book from the humility apparent in the title phrase "SEEKING Peace": not "having" or "finding" but simply seeking. On the face of it, Johann Christoph Arnold's latest appears to promise less than the forgettable multitude of self-help titles which claim to offer easy methods of achieving peace--with their implication not only that peace is a commodity you can own, but also that once attained it will become a permanent attribute of your character. Arnold promises less, but what this book gives is something infinitely more valuable and original than a quickie peace fix.

This book offers and demands honesty with ourselves and others in our search for peace. Beginning with a section called "Paradoxes", Arnold recognizes that peace is a slippery concept that's easily warped by doublespeaking politicians, New Age gurus, or self-righteous activists. The center piece of the book is a section of fifteen "stepping stones" on the way to piece, including forgiveness, humility, honesty, conviction, and realism. The final section of the book expresses a vision of true peace: peace is creative force whose characteristics are justice, wholeness, and joy.

If I have one argument with the book, it is that the chapter on "Justice" might have been given a more prominent place in the structure of the book. A deepgoing meditation on the slogan "No justice, no peace", this chapter stands alone as an awesome statement of spiritual truth, which takes full account of the horrors of oppression while reaffirming the power of reconciliation. For me, this moment of synthesis is the heart not only of the book, but also of all sincere religious and social movements.

No one said it better than the author Jonathan Kozol, who is quoted on the back cover of Arnold's book: "SEEKING PEACE is a tough, transcendent envisioning of peace: neither fatuous nor sentimental, but arduous and courageous." Every person of good will, of whatever denominational or political stripe, owes it to themselves to embrace, and act on, Arnold's message.

The illustrations are wonderful and manage to convey a mysterious and moody aspect to the fish and thier habitat. Although this is a children's book, it had exactly the information that I needed on electric fishes. A fun and interesting book.

This is definitely a great source of learning about a very interesting ability for kids and adults alike.

Tedd Arnold's books are great. My son and I have read "No More Jumping on the Bed", "No More Water in the Tub" and this one("The Signmaker's Assistant") many many times over. My son has a great sense of humor and I love to hear him laugh and laugh and laugh... and Tedd Arnold never fails to do that! Oh, and read it to your young ones, don't wait till they're 6 or 8 or whatever the recommended age is on these books(my son is not quite 4 yet) - they'll love it!

This is a story about Norman's tricks and the terrible things he did while the signmaker was gone. I liked the book because the things that Norman did were very funny. Norman was about eight or seven. I think he is eight just like me and that is one of the reasons I like this book. I recommend anyone to read this book if they enjoy funny things, jokes and having fun. I will tell you something this is a book for people 4-8.I also liked the pictures because they show exactly what the signs say.