Carey Books

This is an excellent book for grades 3-6 doing a research project in the library. There are four different units including:Foriegn Country, Famous Person, Animal, Sport, and Transportation. My 6 graders found it easy to use and with a little flair from the teacher, it's a lot of fun.

One tip: Break the units down in a day by day goal. I copied each day's assignment in a different colored paper so the students had a easily identified assignment.

When communism collapsed in the Warsaw Pact, it did so most spectacularly in Romania. Out of this bloodshed stumbled a non-communist society. Deeply impoverished, and hung over from decades of dictatorship.

Corey presents a broad survey of Romania in the intervening years. The papers discuss many sweeping changes. Many involve politics, unsurprisingly. The struggle to establish a pluralistic multiparty democracy, against a backdrop of endemic corruption and cynical public apathy.

Other papers describe how the fall of communism has led to a resurgence of nationalism by the ethnic majority and various minorities. A pre World War 2 tension rising like swamp gas. The most notable case concerns the Transylvanian Hungarians. Another is the persistent discrimination of Gypsies. Cautious optimism is expressed by the authors. Largely because any entrance into the European Union will force Romania to address these inequities.

The book has merit as a comprehensive single volume synopsis of Romania that is up to date and does not gloss over the country's warts.

In The Rumbling Volcano, Nabeel Jabbour paints an objective picture of the modern fundamentalist movement in Egypt. While many contemporary Western and/or Christian voices routinely condemn and crucify them as simple "terrorists," Jabbour takes pains to examine their motivations and ideals with "disciplined wonder," letting them speak for themselves, striving to enter into their world. In this he succeeds, and enables the reader to understand historically the genesis and development of the call for jihad. Beginning with the opposition movements of the Kharijites and Shiites, he shows how the puritanical element has always existed in Islam. Next, in describing the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood and its splinter groups, Jabbour pays homage to their thinkers, philosophers, and pragmatists. Finally, he notes contributing elements to the surge in popular fundamentalism, and posits some thoughts for the future. His book is fair and even-handed, and provides the reader with a thorough introductory knowledge of Islamism that goes beyond the headlines of the sensationalist news media.

My edition of 1843 (rebound) has 197 pages of small type in two columns. Coming to this after Howitt's 'Life in Germany,' I distinctly felt the lack of illustrations to compare with that volume. However, the lack of maps is easily supplied online.

Howitt entered into the life of the places he traveled with interest and sympathy. Except for an anti-Catholic streak that shows when he reaches Austria, he generally gives a fair and upbeat view of the country and the people, being obviously fascinated with, rather than repelled by, the differences from his native England. His prose lacks the opaque ornamentation of some 19th century writers, making it quite accessible to us nearly two centuries later.

Highlights of the book: a day-by-day tour from Prussia to Austria and back; the arrangements of German farms and apartment houses; an exerpt from a play, showing the different kinds of Germans that might be in just one family; a dazzled description of the period German Christmas, a holiday focused on children rather than, as in England, on adults; the enforced wanderings of journeyman craftsmen, to get them varied experience; the German love of the outdoors; the domesticity of German women; tragedies on the dangerous Brocken; details of travel.

There's simply too much information to cover in detail. For the armchair traveler, especially those with a fondness for time machines, this is a pleasant trip of absorbing detail to the world of the middle class and country, rather than court life, of a time and a place often slighted in English.

I liked this book because it is exciting. Also I liked itbecause I like learning about the Revolutionary War.

OVERLOAD by Linda Howard
Blackout! The entire Southeast was without power - but there was still more than enough electricity between Elizabeth Major and Tom Quinlan! They were stranded together in a Dallas high rise for the duration - and setting off enough sparks to light up the darkest night.

HOT COPY by Carole Buck
Hotshot newswriters Mitch Nelson and CHristy Kavanaugh had loved their way through the big blackout of 1977. So imagine their surprise when they were reunited to cover the great lights-out of '93. All thoughts of keeping things cool were doused along with the lights!

STEAM BATH by Suzanne Carey
The elevator didn't work and neither did the air-conditioning, so prim-and-proper Melisande Taylor was stuck in a sweaty office with the man not of her dreams - sex, irritating Joe Carbone. And Joe had a lot more on his mind than passing the time with boring conversation...

Henry C. Carey was the head of the American Philosophical Society--founded by Franklin--in the mid-nineteenth century. His circles were those who built and rebuilt the USA. In this volume he details some of the grand historical, strategic elements at play in the matter of slavery in the modern era around the globe. It is a view laregly forgotten in our day but it was the view of Carey and his circle--including his pupil: Abraham Lincoln.

During the dark days and nights of the bombing in London during WWII, a group of women must learn to cope and carry on while the men are otherwise engaged. The women had to learn to survive in a new world. A world once occupied by men. The women must learn to make decisions and turn their lives around not knowing if they will have the men home again. This book describes the fear of sitting in a shelter with the bombs raining down. The loss of life and the homes they had known for generations. The rationing of food and clothing and trying to feed a family. The war was won because of the strength of character of the British people and that includes the women who kept the home fires buring. Let us not forget the women who stayed home, waiting.

When my English teacher first issued out the novel to our class, I thought the novel was going to be a very suspendful and interesting book. But it turned out that a lot of my classmates did not like the book as I expected. Personally, I think this book was not that bad as I thought. The character Mersault was a little bit annoying at the beginning when he showed no emotion toward his mama's death. He seemed to care less what others thought of him. The fact that he was an atheist really showed why he had strongly refused to listen to the chaplain at the end of the novel. He was the kind of man that really stuck to his belief of existentialism without being shaky. I was surprised that nature had a big impact on Mersault. In everything he saw around him, colors of nature were always involved. However, it was kind of unfair for him to die at the end because he had killed an Arab which he himself did not want to. According to his answer, the sun forced him to commit a crime. Though, it sounded vague. But we need to know that this man was imprisoned by nature and by his existentialism belief. His physical needs were more important than shedding feeling toward anything. I believe what Mersault said that the sun was the reason why he had killed the Arab. He himself was innocent and shouldn't have died just because he showed no feeling toward his mama's death. That's just stupid and ridiculous.

A simplified guide to writing that is great for undergraduates in college who need to know both MLA and APA. The writing guide also has content for writing styles, along with practical examples fit for the Communication field. Nice job Dr. Adams.