Models Books

My daughter, a first grader was able to read through the MaryKate & Ashley series of books on average within an hour, the 4 or 5 she has read far.

Great books for chapter readers starting out. When I looked for these at B&N the assistant was amazed that a 7 year old was reading pre-teen literature.

Great stories for young readers, an exciting page turner, too bad there was only a series of 8 books, as this series has graphics and photos which add to the story and help keep the interest up.

Mom and Taylor 7

As a mother of a girl, age 7, I was looking for books that would interest her, as she is beyond the teddy bears and dollies stage. While my daughter was interested in Mary Kate and Ashley, she found their other books a little too hard for a second grader. Then, we found this series. It is perfect for her. With colorful pictures and an up-to-date story line, it is great for girls her age.

If you like cars you would like the book Making a Car by Peter Sloan and Sherly Sloan. It is a about how to make a car with a box and paper, glus, and scissors. I like cars. So, check it out today!

If you like cars you would like the book Making a Car by Peter Sloan and Sheryl Sloan. It is about how to make a care with a box and paper, glue, and scissors. I like cars. So, check it out at your library today.

I am highly impressed with this book. The format of the book is easy to read. I'd imagine even a beginner would be able to work through it and create a sculpture as well. The photos are very high quality and detailed.

She supplies tips and suggestions for each project as well as patterns on completing each one in the book.

It's great for those anthro styled animals from fairy tales and cartoons.

The characters are cute and interesting... the Dalmation in turnouts is adorable. The instructions appear to be easy to follow, and the projects are within anyone's reach, even beginners. Original style on new and old themes.

This book has tons of great pictures, easy to follow instructions and an index of suppliers. It is great for ideas for your dollhouse and it is easy to build one from the book.....

This book gives measured drawings and building instructions for five different buildings: a cider barn, a forge, the "Swan Inn", a really large Georgian house and a water mill. These are not (with the exception of the Georgian house) your "typical dollhouse". Still, the buildings are charming, the directions are complete and you might be TIRED of typical dollhouses. There are also many color photos of finished interiors, and a last chapter devoted to the workshop which covers safety, tools and techniques.

Ron's book is not only good for the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals certification, it's great for educating upper management that cutting costs are not always the answer to driving improved capacity and plant reliability. Many times, investing in proactive behaviors outweigh saving our way to prosperity. When undergoing change efforts around reliability practices, I share this book with senior management, asking them to read the first two chapters if nothing else.

Jeff Shiver, CMRP, CPMM

Ron Moore's knowledge and passion for business comes out in his book "Making Common Sense, Common Practice". I give this book to supervisors as required reading material when they are preparing for the Society of Maintenance & Reliability Society's - Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional Exam.

I ordered this book for my dad last Christmas, and he has used all of the patterns at least once. He is constantly telling me how well-planned the book is. I'm not a woodworker, but my dad is, and he rates this book top notch!

This is a book filled with projects for machines that are fun to play with. Over the years I have built more than half of them. (And given them all away as Christmas presents.) The machines are unique and really fun to watch work. A relatively high level of woodworking skill is required.

Date: February 24, 1999 This book has been reprinted and is available from McGraw-Hill. It can be ordered from any book store.

If you're looking for the "dixie cup" of knowledge this isn't for you. This is the fire hose of knowledge and not an overview. Limited to those who wish to deeply understand the arcane science of sizing pneumatic components, this work will increase anyone's understanding of how to make a given pneumatic cylinder move faster. The book is more than that. The author tirelessly explains individual pneumatic components (generically), educates the reader (from maintenance or professional engineer), and provides resources not found in typical overview texts. If you want to know how to optimize a pneumatic circuit there is no other text available. In a narrow scope there is tremendous depth. The author details how the US could reduce dependancy on foreign oil by just more efficiently applying his simple rules clearly supported by engineering logic. It is a cherished reference and testament to what was obviously his life's work.

Margaret Mitchell's Models in Gone With The Wind is a thoroughly original detective story. Its author penetrates a delicate web of fact, fiction, old (very old) rumor, myth, and fantasy. He proceeds unhurriedly, with sympathy and cool judgment. As he journeys into the living backgrounds of Mitchell's novel, Hardman introduces new truths into the rarefied, elusive climate that has traditionally surrounded Mitchell's great romance. After reading this work, I can never again view Gone With The Wind in quite the same way. The author has made Margaret Mitchell and the Gone With The Wind subject much more interesting.

According to Samuel Hardman's new study of Margaret Mitchell'smodels the first enthralled readers of Gone With The Wind foundMitchell's magnificent characters and their story much too real to be fiction. They assumed that she must have based her work on the lives of real people. Who were they? Where was Tara? Thousands of her readers demanded to know.

Some of Atlanta's most prominent citizens thought they knew who Mitchell's models were and where they had lived. The regent of a local D.A.R. chapter told Mitchell who she had been talking about in her book. In 1939, using Gone With The Wind as his sole guide, the distinguished Atlanta historian Franklin M. Garrett published the location of Scarlett's Peachtree mansion in an Atlanta newspaper. The new mega-star Mitchell responded to Garrett's model by denying the content of her published work to heap scorn on the historian and to silence him on the subject of Gone With The Wind models for the next fifty-six years.

From Hardman's work it appears that
Mitchell's famous characters and their homes were indeed drawn from life; further, it appears that when writing Gone With The Wind, Mitchell plagiarized the published work of another Atlanta writer, Miss Ella May Powell (1863-1955).

Margaret Mitchell's Models in Gone With The Wind seriously questions the veracity of Margaret Mitchell's statements concerning the origins of her famous novel and brings to light a persuasive and heretofore unknown literary model for Gone With The Wind; explores Margaret Mitchell's early reputation and history of plagiarism, dating from her school days at Washington Seminary, and inquires into the sensitive race issue by recording a fresh sub-text of anti-Semitic sentiment.

Here is literary skulduggery of the highest order. Hardman's unique view of Mitchell and her work is very much that of the ultimate insider. His fascinating portrait of Mitchell as an irreverent chain-smoker addicted to hard pornography is startling.

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Maria is trully a great both in tennis and beauty. This calendar shows the sides of Maria we don't see in the courts but that we imagine she has.

Of all of the reference guides I own, I use two. This is one of those two. This book is an invaluable resource for identifying Matchbox models. It has several indexes to use--chronological, by name and by issue number. I would recommend that any Matchbox collector add this book to their reference library.

This book helped me greatly