Buck Books

I bought this book for my grandson when he was four (he's now nine) and he just called to tell me that it is his "all time favourite book". He has just become a Cub Scout and was asked to bring his favourite book to the next meeting and this is the one he chose. His father loves fishing, camping, boating and working outdoors whenever he gets a chance. My grandson seems to be following in his footsteps and the Buck Wilder books are perfect for him. The pages contain a myriad of pictures and information, well drawn and thought out so that there is something of interest and new to be discovered from the age of four to whenever?? I (and my grandson) highly recommend this book and the others in the series for your boys and I'm sure that girls would like them too if they love nature and the outdoors.

Children love adventure, and Buck Wilder is a wonderful character that inspires the spirit. Even if your children have never ventured to the lake or stream with a fishing pole, Buck will make them wish they could find a favorite pond today. My children loved the characters and even had an adventure reading dozens of tips that are written along the borders of the book.

I have enjoyed this study guide so far. From what I can tell it covers all aspects of the CCS-P exam not just the coding. Great tool to use.

Great study help in preparing for the exam. Also using the PRG guide.

I just took the exam about a month ago and passed with flying colors thanks to this book. The questions aren't a cakewalk and goes in depth with rationales on why those answers are and are not the right ones, unlike others that simply write in the correct letter on the back for the right answers. This one explains why that certain answer was incorrect so as not to leave you looking up in the ceiling for answers.

I've red the new one(2005) and quite frankly, they aren't very different. They changed a few questions and added a few things in the review section, then that's about it. You're not missing a big step if you get this instead of the 2005. They both include the CDROM.

By the way, the CDROM is nothing short of amazing. It has 150 Pre and Post Exam Questions(the questions are the same, only in different order) that you answer using the computer. So basically, this book has 150 questions in the CDROM then another 150 on the book making it 300 PRACTICE QUESTIONS!! That doesnt include the short 1-10 quizzes on each section of the review chapters(i.e. each body system, reimbursement, etc.)

Really great book for the bargain price. The AMA sells a review book about $10 more expensive with about 75 questions and no rationales on the right and wrong answers.

I purchased this book in preparation for the AAPC's CPC certification exam. It is easy to use and a wonderful learning tool. There is a timed clock on the CDrom portion to help with building your coding speed (this is essential to getting finished with the exam in the alloted time). The tutorials give rationales for wrong answers. It was an excellent study guide.

There is alot of negative media coverage on plural marriages right now. After reading Buch Buchan's book, I now have a different outlook on this matter and feel that it is not always a negative thing. This book will take you through the emotional high's and low's of plural marriage, the book will also make you laugh and create a tear in your eye. The author really shows you both sides of plural marriges, from sharing your fiances to finding time to be intimate with each wife. I really enjoyed Buch Buchan's book "Collector of Broken Wives" and can't wait for him to write another.

I have always been curious how women can share their partner with other women. A friend of mine, B. Sehl introduced me to this novel Collector of Broken wives. Before reading this book, I always thought there would be some jelousy issues between the wives. I now feel as though maybe polygamy is the way to go. The main character seems very in tune to each of his wives' needs and as a whole, the family is financially stable and secure. It seems polygamy may very well be the answer to many household probelms. There is always someone to watch the children, cook, clean and best of all, there are many incomes. Before reading this book, the positive things never really even came into mind. I now feel as though I need to be looking for a multiple partner marriage instead of the perfect single guy. Collector of Broken Wives has given me an inside look at polygamy and now I envy multiple partner marriages.

This book explains everything you would need to know about creating a newsletter in Adobe Indesign. But the principles you learn in this book can be applied well beyond just newsletters. This book takes you from the beginning and shows you how to layout a newsletter.

This is one of the best books I've seen for explaining now to do "graphic design" to non "graphic designer". Everything is covered. What fonts to use, what colors to use, as well as some basic design elements that may not be so obvious. The way this book describes fonts is a perfect example. I've seen many books that list the "rules" for choosing fonts and pretty much end by saying you can use "anything with anything" so long as it looks good. I am not a graphic artist, so the "so long as it looks good" can be a problem. This book speaks in very precise terms. It tells you which fonts they suggest you use.

All of the pages of the book are published in full color. This allows you to see exactly what you should be creating in the program.

If you are new to InDesign and need to quickly come up to speed to create newsletters or other publications, this book is a great starting point.

"Creating a Newsletter in InDesign" is a Visual Quick Project Book published by Peachpit Press. It is authored by Katrin Straub and Torsten Buck. I highly recommend it as a book which should be in the hands of any beginner with no background in graphic design or page layout who takes on a project for the first time, like yours truly, of doing a Newsletter that can "raise the bar" in communications in, for example, a family, school, club, or a small business. "Creating a Newsletter in InDesign" will have you fairly rapidly becoming joyfully comfortable with the current Adobe® InDesign cs program. The book has both a Contents and an Index that makes items of your interest, a quick find. It is written in a style allowing for easy comprehension and is liberally peppered with accompanying pictures and diagrams. The book is colorful and bright and uses a font in a style and size which makes it easy to read. The book walks one through a project for those who have the luxury of more time to come up to speed.
I am finding the book useful to fine tune what I am doing in the Apple Bits. I trust that I will continue to use it as I develop an on-going style and presentation.
To see the Newsletter that I did for my Computer Club, go to www.neoac.org and click on Newsletters, then click on October 2004. Compare that Newsletter to September 2004 and you can see the progress that I have made.

This book covers all bases of a complete life--spiritual, psychological, political and philisophical. I especially loved the main character--Lee is so human. She's idealistic and commited and also a pushy worry-wart. It's my favorite book!

I taught a six-week workshop at our local library entitled "Reading for Creative Writers." During one week's session , I included Buck's ' Eccentric Circles' together with May Sarton's 'Magnificent Spinster' and Barbara Pym's 'Excellent Women' as examples of unmarried mature women in fiction. The group I taught ranged in age from thirties to early seventies, all female. These eleven students thoroughly enjoyed Buck's style, her humor and her portrayal of "real" women. Considering the scene of the nude swimming, where the characters rise like well-aged Aphrodites from Peconic Bay, led to a lively discussion of issues ranging from women's bodies, shame, aging skin and face-lifts to Georgia O'Keeffe, Eleanor Roosevelt and physical exercise. I heartily recomend this novel to anyone looking for a good read. And especially to Women's Studies/Feminist teachers or students looking for positive images of women's humor, maturity, and well-written modern fiction

Mostly a reference guide and textbook for journalists, the Editor's Toolbox has some interest for the General Reader who is curious about how his newspaper is created.
The reporting and editing processes are covered in some detail, with particular attention to language pitfalls and necessary skills. Visual journalism is well illustrated.
This is a lively and obviously highly useful work, which looks to be especially handy for the student. The General Reader might wish for more attention to have been paid to the embarrassingly obvious biases which have crept into mainstream journalism via loaded language and selective attention.
(The "Rating Stars" are a requirement. This reviewer disavows "stars".)

Between AP stylebook, Rooney's "Copy Editing for Professionals" and "The Editor's Toolbox," you, as a journalist, will have just about everything you need.

As a professional communicator who needs to act periodically as an editor, I believe the essentials taught by Ryan should be mandatory in any journalism class.

Ryan explains editors must know the basics of spelling, grammar, etc. But he also discusses firmly the need and process of fact checking, layout issues, map reading and plenty of other oft-ignored matters of good journalism.

Editors, future editors and jouurnalism professors need to add this tool to their collection of resource books.

I fully recommend "The Editor's Toolbox."

Anthony Trendl

I had this book as a tween and young teen. I re-read many of the stories over and over. They are so beautifully written and even haunting. They transported me to many exotic ports and romantic time periods. Many have morals that aren't simplistic or mean sprited as in English fairy tales. I am buying it as a holiday present for my 13 year old avid reader daughter. I can't wait to delight in the pages with her all over again. I wish my mother had'nt given it away, but I am so pleased to find it here on Amazon.com.

This is one of my favorite books! I'm so glad to have found it again! The tales are so much deeper than the common Eastern fairy tales. Heros and heroines go on long twisted, convoluted journeys, meet some of the most interesting, magical, wise, strange and mystical characters, learn a whole bunch of lessons, return to victory and full more-than-happily-ever-after lives...and a young child can STILL follow the plot!

The illustrations are authentic, not sappy and fake like the ones you find in most fairy tales. Also, the stories are about folks of all different shades of brown. How refreshing to read and share magical stories of wonder, adventure and wisdom about people from lands different than white Middle America!

My folks read this book to me as a kid 40 years ago...I found it in a pile of family books and enjoyed it again during my adulthood...lost my copy...and now get to read it to my kids!

You can't go wrong with this book!

Susan Buck's book is a good overview of the conecptal framework associated with the growing awarness of The Global Commons. While the book covers a lot of subject matter setting forth international regime formation and the framework for analysis lightly, it does give a well-informed overview of the commons relating to space, the atmosphere, the oceans, and Antarica. This book would make a great political science text read in undergraduate colleges and universities. In fact, relevance is quite timely. I trust that this book is being read by students throughout the United States today. It certainly should be.

This is a very informative and up-to-date book which makes me read right to the end, without stopping. Each chapter prompts me to read the next one. It deals very in depth about the current geopolitical issues affecting our world today - the air, the sea, the space and technology. It also gives a good case study about Antartica. very few geopolitical books that I have read has made such a deep analysis on such immediate issues. Not too intimidating for the reader who has little geopolitical know-how because of its explanation of current concepts and definitions (in the first chapter) as well as a glossary of key terms used.

This novel won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932. The author later won the Nobel Prize in literature. It is a story that sticks in your mind long after you have read the novel.

The setting for the story is in China at an indefinite time, perhaps circa 1930. An illiterate farmer buys himself a wife and has several children before being forced off the land by a drought. When a mob storms a wealthy man's house, the farmer's wife finds a cache of jewels which they steal. Jewels can be traded for money and land, and the farmer becomes rich, educating his sons and rising above his previous station.

Wealth leads to decadence, and he eventually becomes one of the wealthy individuals that he previously envied, supplanting a family who had previously decayed. What goes around, comes around.

This 1932 Pulitzer Prize winning novel is still a standout today. Deceptive in its simplicity, it is a story built around a flawed human being and a teetering socio-economic system, as well as one that is layered with profound themes. The cadence of the author's writing is also of note, as it rhythmically lends itself to the telling of the story, giving it a very distinct voice. No doubt the author's writing style was influenced by her own immersion in Chinese culture, as she grew up and lived in China, the daughter of missionaries.

This is the story of the cyclical nature of life, of the passions and desires that motivate a human being, of good and evil, and of the desire to survive and thrive against great odds. It begins with the story of an illiterate, poor, peasant farmer, Wang Lung, who ventures from the rural countryside and goes to town to the great house of Hwang to obtain a bride from those among the rank of slave. There, he is given the slave O-lan as his bride.

Selfless, hardworking, and a bearer of sons, the plain-faced O-lan supports Wang Lung's veneration of the land and his desire to acquire more land. She stays with him through thick and thin, through famine and very lean times, working alongside him on the land, making great sacrifices, and raising his children. As a family, they weather the tumultuousness of pre-revolutionary China in the 1920s, only to find themselves the recipient of riches beyond their dreams. At the first opportunity, they buy land from the great house of Hwang, whose expenses appear to be exceeding their income.

With the passing of time, Wang Lung buys more and more land from the house of Hwang, until he owns it all, as his veneration of the land is always paramount. With O-lan at this side, his family continues to prosper. His life becomes more complicated, however, the richer he gets. Wang Lung then commits a life-changing act that pierces O-lan's heart in the most profoundly heartbreaking way.

As the years pass, his sons become educated and literate, and the family continues to prosper. With the great house of Hwang on the skids, an opportunity to buy their house, the very same house from where he had fetched O-lan many years ago, becomes available. Pressed upon to buy that house by his sons, who do not share Wang Lung's veneration for the land and rural life, he buys the house. The country mice now have become the city mice.

This is a potent story, brimming with irony, yet simply told against a framework of mounting social change. It is a story that stands as a parable in many ways and is one that certainly should be read. It illustrates the timeless dichotomy between the young and the old, the old and the new, and the rich and the poor. It is no wonder that this beautifully written book won a Pulitzer Prize and is considered a classic masterpiece. Bravo!