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Another fabulous adventure in one of my pre-teen favorite series' was "Hayride!" I loved it because of all the boy-girl stuff (I was just getting into boys) and it was just a really entertaining book! Reccommended to any young girl, Saddle Club reader or not!

When I used to read the Saddle Club books, this was one of my favs. I loved the way Stevie schemed Bob and Lisa's relationship and Veronica's failed scheme added to the hysterias! I love this one!

This book, I could read over and over. Friendship, in this book you see the speacial bond friends have and i admire the one between Stevie,Lisa and Carole. Carole wants a speacial party but something turns up that ruins it, READ THIS BOOK!!!!

Carole's birthday is coming up and she wants to do something speacial. Stevie and lisa think that it's a great idea. Carole deserves something special for her birthday. Not just special, something horsey. Then they come up with the perfect plan. A hayride! They invite girls and boys to a basic party and then they go for a hayride. It's perfect! But their plans shatter when Carole hurts her leg and won't be able to dance at the party. They decide to have the party anyway, so they invite everyone at Pine Hollow. But word gets out around the stables before snooty Veronica gets her invite. Now she's out to ruin the party for The saddle Club. She calls Cam and Phil (Carole and Stevie's boyfriends) and tells them something to make them not come. As for Lisa... Veronica gets the idea that Simon, the boy who's been crushing on Lisa, is Lisa's boyfriend. She snags him as a partner to go to the dance with, planning to go to the party she wasn't invited to with Lisa's boyfriend. But Lisa has help from Stevie to get her real crush as a date. Turns out Veronica was invited, though.

Read this book, it's great!

this is a good book because stevie is so preoccupied. i also really loved learning more about vaulting. now i can convice my friend(shes a gymnast/circus performer) that horses r the greatest. i got so attached to the goslings, and #7's (or was it 5?) gift for Veronica is an image i will cherish forever! it was so sad when stevie realized that the goslings were not all going to hatch. it was funny when #'s 1-8 officially became #'s 1-8. even my brother likes it!

This book was great. Stevie gets 12 goose eegs when she entered in a contest. There is also a other thing going on. Max Pine Hollow's onwer as a vaulting horse at the stables. The Saddle Club is determined to master vaulting but Veronica is getting in the way. She is taking fancy coaches and the girls can't helping admitting that Veronica is really good at it. When Stevie's goslings hatch they follow her everywhere she goes. Now there is a vaulting show coming up and The Saddle Club is going to be in it and so is Veronica. Lisa is getting really good. She was the first one to master the Stand. Stevie and Carole think Lisa got what it takes to win the show or is the Saddle Club and Veronica in for a big surprise?

It was a good book and I like what happens to Varonica in the end. I also liked the surprise Stevie gets when she opens the box, but it go's on for to long when the eggs are hatching. I don't think Steve would forget about the new horse so quickly either.

I really liked this one! Stevie gets to become MOtherGoose! When stevie gets a box in the mail, she assumes it is a down comforter that she won in a contest, little does she know that when she opens the box that her real prize is not the blanket but a clutch of unhatched goose eggs, and when the eggs hatch, the fun begins and stevie heads into trouble. Meanwhile everyone is learning a new skill, vaulting and good old veronica thinks that she can just hire any old coach and she will automatically win the competition, boy is she in for a surprise and so will you! SO Read HOrse Feathers and let it tickle your funny bone!

I think Bonnie Bryant writes great books.The Saddle Club is a good series for all the serious horsemen today. Read this book and the others!

Horse Trade was a great book.Everything about the book was great,except when Max told Carole to demonstrate the wrong ways of jmping they called Starlight a she when he is a gelding.

I really thought Horse Trade was a good book, because as you read more the plot thickens. Phil Stevie's boy-friend is bording a mare and Stevie falls in love with the mare.But she has a problem the mare(No-Name)keeps braking out in hives.Can Stevie find out whats wrong before it's to late for a person and a horse?

This was a great book . I loved the part about stevie trying to figure out No- Names allegries. However I noticed several minor mistakes . like calling Starlight a mare . But over all it was really good!

The review in American Scientist said it beautifully and also included a few of the gorgeous photos of demonstrations created by the two authors. There are blocks that can be piled up so they balance with their tops not over their bottoms. There is a planimeter made from a coat-hanger wire with which to find the area of a plane figure. There is a drill bit that can drill a square hole. Terrific fun at every level from the logo chief to the graduate engineer.

This fascinating book flags the spot where engineering and mathematics meet. Each chapter essentially covers a different subject: from linkages to vernier scales to slide rules to balancing dominoes to suspension bridges and so much more. The authors combine the rigidly theoretical approach of mathematics to the very real, practical and physical problems faced in engineering. The result is an amazing romp through various subject areas where the two meet. Very few mathematical derivations are presented here; instead, appropriate references are given throughout (but the reader may feel the urge to attempt some of the derivations him/herself). Some of the results are truly amazing, e.g., stacking a leaning tower of dominoes; some are very ingenious, e.g., the vernier scale and the slide rule; and some chapters I found rather disappointing, e.g., the chapter on suspension bridges - a subject dear to my heart that somehow I felt was lacking. The writing style can be a model of clarity for many chapters while, unfortunately, others seem rather cloudy by comparison; for example, I would place the first (Hard Lines) and seventh (Follow My Leader) chapters in the second category. But overall, the reader is bound to find this book very much worth the read. Those who are likely to relish this book the most would include mathematicians, engineers and serious science buffs. This book could also be used as a supplementary text for related university courses.

What this book shows you is that you can really understand Mathematics, when you try to build things, even something simple, like cutting a good circle from wood. Many areas of mathematics are discussed that people instinctively feel they understand, such as the roundness of a curve or circle, dividing an angle into 3 equal parts and other interesting Objects De Mathematica. You will find fascinating ways to really model the pythagorean theorem, or gather the sectors of a circle to make an equivalent triangle. There is much to discover between these pages, and Mathematics becomes concrete, objectified, and deeply understood. As another example: "what would a 3 dimensional object that has constant width throughout (based on the tetrahedron) Look like? You can see what this object looks like, when you read the work, and see the model. To add to your understanding, the Authors have constucted Models of the various mathematical principles and ideas, that you can see with your own eyes: such as "two-tip" polyhedrons, and summing the squares of numbers from 1 to n. Reading this book will improve your grasp of mathematics, as well as inspire you to study Engineering, if you havent already. Future Engineers, will be much smarter for having read this great book. Richard H. Pratt, Ph.D.

This book is in the tradition of the famous book "Mathematical Models," by H. Martyn Cundy and A. P. Rollett. It shows how to create models that illustrate particular mathematical laws, and in fact Cundy was consulted, while he was still alive, by the author. It is a worthy successor to Cundy & Rollett's book, concentrating mainly in two areas: linkages to draw straight lines and curves, and constant-breadth shapes, though entering a few other areas.

An example of the type of problem this book considers is: How would you construct "the first" protractor or ruler, if there were none already existing?

The spirit of the book is the kind of practical thinking that is thought of as engineering, but the mathematics discussed is fundamental. This is a highly recommended book.

If you're afraid of the truth, do not read this book.

If you run a company and would like to make it better, go ahead and buy it because it's honest, it's on target and it will help you grow your business.

I've read over 25 best-selling business books and Steve Bryant has hit a home run with this one.

Common sense today is sometimes pushed to the side as Business Managers, Executives and Entrepeneurs search for the latest business fads to make them and their companies succesfull. The author of "It's Mom and Pop" gets to the real bottom line through common sense, practical processes and experience. It will rival all the reccomended reading for new business managers as well as seasoned professionals and lead them back to the basics of business management.

Bud Honshell V.P. Operations

Signet Expressions, LTD.

"Mom and Pop," gives me lessons never learned in college as a young General Manager of a growing family business.Good enough that we ordered 100 copies to pass out to our top accounts! Josh Wildman,G.M. Wildman Uniform & Linen

Practical wisdom with each point, wrapped in the real stories of a seasoned veteran. It's like having a proven consultant on retainer. This book should become every managers operational bible. Read it, apply it...then EXPECT TO WIN!

Brent Wildman, Owner Wildman Uniform & Linen

a book written by a woman who has been through it. It is candid and very honest. I recommend it.

If you are a women seeking forgiveness from the Lord and from yourself because of an abortion, you have to read this book!! It really makes you understand what Jesus did on the cross for us!! It shows you that the Lord has a perfect plan for all of us; we just need to follow His narrow path and live our lives for Him! Thank you so much Noreen, for sharing your story; it really opened my eyes and helped me sort out some of the feelings I was experiencing!! God Bless!

This story opened my eyes to the devistating effects on the emotional turmoil a woman goes through after having an abortion. I always wondered if a women has any remorse and or feeling of a child they aborted. This answered some of my questions. I highly recommend this book.

This is the autobiographical account of a woman's painful journey through the darkness of depression and the grief of rejecting her unborn child. It is only when she 'throws away her crutches' that she allows herself to find a deeper relationship with God. It is a tender and moving story told with a lightness of voice and a lack of self-pity that makes it a surprisingly easy book to read. It is a book that will appeal to so many people who are searching for meaning in their lives. It has particular resonance for anyone who has suffered an abortion, and for anyone who has suffered from depression. Finally, it is a tale of hope, reconciliation, forgiveness and peace. I recommend this book unreservedly.

This book is a superb introduction to real analysis for anyone with math phobia.

This little book can take a bright high school student or undergraduate through some most interesting territory, previously uncharted at this level of mathematical understanding. Fixed point methods -- approaches to problem solving based on the simple equation f(x)=x -- are ubiquitous and ideally suited for digital computers, but they are seldom introduced in the classroom. Get this book for your high school library. Use it as an independent study for that student you don't want to set loose on calculus quite yet.

A short but excellent book for someone who wants a well motivated refresher on analysis. By grounding the ideas with applications of fixed point theorems (such as proving the existence of unique solutions to certain types of differential equations) the author makes accessible an area of mathematics that is often treated in an axiomatic and uninteresting way.

I believe the author is correct when he recommends the book for people who have already had some exposure to analysis. At best a student should already have completed the standard non-rigorous college calculus sequence to get the most out of this book.

This short book is a gem. Metric Spaces by Victor Bryant is an enjoyable introduction to analysis. I liked the author's informal conversational approach to this rather abstract topic. Nonetheless, I did find it necessary to reread some sections for full understanding.

Bryant motivates the reader immediately with a look at iterative techniques, fixed point functions, converging sequences, and approximation solutions - all in an engaging style. Later topics included distance concepts, function spaces, and the relationship between closed sets, complete sets, and compact sets. The fourth chapter was devoted to the contraction mapping principle and its use in solving differential equations.

Is this book for you? The author says: "The only prerequisite is to have done a course on elementary analysis: it is not a prerequisite to have understood it nor to have remembered it at all." I had never taken any formal courses in analysis, and the highly structured axiomatic approach of analysis texts had never appealed to me. I only had a vague idea as to the properties of a metric space. But I was lured into buying Bryant's short text by the previous Amazon reviewers. And thankfully so.

Bryant certainly enjoys his subject, but he just as clearly recognizes that not everyone might have such an abiding interest. Throughout the text, he points out opportunities where the reader might skip forward if the going has become less interesting. (For the record I refused to be enticed by these short cuts.)

Problems are embedded in the text, one or two at a time, and are used to reinforce points under discussion. Most have clear hints and I found many problems straightforward, but others were more difficult. A few problems were identified as appropriate for the "keen" student. The most abstract mathematics are reserved for the last (optional) chapter, but the author does encourage the reader to stay with it: "It would be a pity to stop ..." Chapter five recasts the first four chapters into a more generalized form of real analysis and addresses the question: "What makes analysis work?"

Bryant had an unusual goal for a mathematics text. "I have tried to provide a readable and natural introduction to an abstract subject in a down-to-earth manner." Also, he says, "My aim is to provide a book which can be read and enjoyed ..." He succeeded in doing just that.

It's a great book, with clarifications that my 14 year old can use; as well as myself. Thanks

One of the challenges many readers find in "enjoying" Moby Dick is the plethora of knowledge about the whaling industry that Melville provides through the voice or Ishmael. Those chapters, I readily admit, will only be enjoyable to people to appreciate "lore" as such, or who relish Ishmael's sarcastic side-comments about the foibles of humanity. Another challenge is the tongue-in-cheek science of "cetology" as expounded by Ishmael. The reader has to know enough current science to recognize when Melville is playing fast and loose with the scientific method, satirizing the science of his own day. But in chapters 104 and 105, science-minded readers would be wise to pay close attention to Mr. Ishmael, and to remember that Moby Dick was published in 1851! Ishmael expounds - almost as if it were self-evident - the basic Darwinian theory of 'descent with modification'! He also ASSUMES deep time - a geological scale of time involving millions of years, a necessary first step toward understanding evolution. He presents fairly accurate notions of the role of glaciers! He actually posits the "snowball earth" hypothesis, that is, that the whole planet was once locked in a ice age! This self-educated seaman was no mean scientist! And since we can assume that anything Ishmael 'knew' and cared about, Melville also knew and thought about, it's no wonder that Herman Melville found himself on the brink of abandoning his Christian beliefs.

Ishmael is the main character in the novel, you know, the one who sets the pace and calls the tune. It's Ishmael who goes questing; Ahab's quest is just a bright projection of Ishmael's, a particularly fantastic shadow puppet on the wall of Ishmael's cave. It's mostly Ishmael to tells us what Ahab is all about, though betimes Melville lets Ahab rage in his own plenipotent Shakespearean dialect. It's Ishmael who leads us, in the reverse of Dante, to paradisal seas and proper Christian faith first, then to the purgatory of the butchery, and then the depths of hellish annihilation. If I ever had to teach a high school English class - an honor I don't aspire to - I'd tell the little blighters straight off that in any novel with a first-person narrator, that's the chap to watch. Finally, it's Ishmael who LEARNS. In his first encounter with Queequeg, he learns human relativity. Through all the pages and chapters detailing the nature of the whale and of whaling, he learns and learns, and shares his learning in his ever-bemused, ironic style. Of course, he learns eventually that HE is the sole survivor of his own quest. And don't be fooled for a moment that he hasn't learned the metaphysical truth that he set out to learn in the symbolic guise of the White Whale...

Moby Dick is a book about the dread Melville felt at his increasing religious uncertainty, his fear of the infinite, and particularly of an infinite that might well be empty, that might be as void as the color white. He says as much in the key chapter 42, 'The Whiteness of the Whale': "...a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows -- a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink..."

But Moby Dick is also a rollickingly funny book, ripping anything it touches with its sarcasm and satire. If one chapter seems wordy, dear reader, keep your eyes open and you'll be rewarded by a side-splitter in a few pages. Melville perhaps still wrote under the illusion that he could sell profundity to the parlor readership of Victorian America; a good thing for us, since he gave us full measure of adventure, of humor, and of personal anguish all in one unforgettable book. What each reader notices as she/he reads Moby Dick will be as different as what each hiker sees while descending into the Grand Canyon. I've read it three times now, decades apart; this time, with my own metaphysical quests all logged, I found it more hilarious, more picturesque, more a grand display of virtuosic wordsmithing than I recalled. Anyone who finds Moby Dick boring isn't worth his/her hard tack biscuit.

The essays appended on to this edition added to my enjoyment of the book. A good edition of a classic work for one's home library.

This is an excellent new edition of Moby Dick, with detailed informational notes and "double text," showing and explaining the differences between the American and British versions of MD. There are also very helpful diagrams and prints, illucidating some of the nonfiction/informational chapters. Excellent text for college students studying at the upper levels.

Filled with lots of photos and charts. Very thorough listings broken down by propagation category (seed, cutting, division etc) and genus listing best time, requirements, time required etc. I've been a plantaholic for about 25 years and was amazed at how much the book had to offer. With all of the photos, charts and descriptions it should be detailed enough for the beginner too.

I love this book. Beautiful color photos of propagation. We use this in our class for Master Gardeners for reference. I like the way it has seperate lists for cuttings and division and seed germination. This makes it for fast look up. I bought one for home use too. The reference part tells season to do propagation,strike time or germination time and temp. All around good reference guide.

I think this is a great book for beginner to intermediate gardeners. It's all that 90% of the people out there would ever need. The book describes several methods of propagation, then gives lists of plants and what methods to use. It doesen't cover some exotic plants, but then most people aren't trying to grow very exotic plants. I recommend it.

This is a great book for beginners as well as the seasoned gardener. Very easy to understand language and a lot of pictures. Anyone who has ever considered propagating their own plants either from seed to grafting should really consider buying this book.

This is a "must have" resource, particularly if you are a doctoral student pursuing your studies via distance learning means. Virually everything you need to know for crafting your dissertation can be found right here, and it's written in a style that makes it not only informative, but interesting and enjoyable to read as well. I cannot say enough great things about this book...it really is that good!

All dissertation writers search for practical hands-on advice. The Portable Dissertation Advisor offers that advice in a clear, readable, never overwhelming style. In addition, dissertation writers, particularly those involved in distance education, seek someone to assure them that their struggles are neither unique nor insurmountable.

Miles Bryant is a faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Bryant teaches a course in the development of the doctoral dissertation and has worked with hundreds of doctoral students over the span of his career. This experience has helped him to write a book that is specifically aimed at distance and part-time doctoral students.

Finding a topic, choosing a research design, writing a literature review, and presenting your proposal are some of the key topics covered in this book. But beyond the practical advice, Bryant goes a step farther. By the time you finish this book, you will not only have a solid handle on the task in front of you, you will also feel as though your fears and trepidations are understood, you have found a sympathetic and understanding guide through the dark forest that is the mighty dissertation.

Dr. Bryant's The Portable Dissertation Advisor was aptly named. It has traveled in my carry-on bag many times as I made the flight to the university where I earned my doctorate, primarily through distance learning. Like my suitcase, the book is lightweight, efficiently packed, and carries all the essentials for the journey.

I referred to this book extensively throughout my dissertation proposal development, the writing process, and even when preparing for the defense. The advice offered is thorough, direct, and very practical. The number of turned-down pages and sticky-notes left protruding from the well-worn pages are testament to the usefulness of the small text. I will - and in fact, already have - recommended this resource to anyone in a doctoral program.

If you are a doctoral student preparing to write you dissertation, you need to get this book. Dr. Bryant does an excellent job of taking you through this process. Not only that, but he understands the feelings and frustrations that all doctoral students go through at this time. This will be a reference I will continually use throughout my dissertation process.