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I bought this for my sister's birthday but her 13, 10, and 8 year old boys immediately took it and stared at the pages for the next 30 minutes. It's a great idea (turning great art into seek and find puzzles). And it's done so beautifully that it can still be an adult's coffee table book. We all enjoyed looking through this book this day and I'm confident it will be a treasure for years.

What a delightful book for teaching children (and adults, too) a deeper appreciation of art! Makes a game of observation with some exercises simple enough for children as young as 2 (my friend's 2-year-old, anyway) and some challenging adults with an experienced eye. This lovely book will provide hours of fun for the whole family and help develop art savvy. The first time you take your little one to the Louvre, he/she will be excited to see old familiar faces. Its a wonderful way for children to grow up with the arts.

This book shows you how to step by step win the big sale. Thank you for simplifying the process in such a concise manner.
Everyone who is in sales should have this as required reading.

I read this book and put the codebreaker concept to work right away. It takes a little bit of work, but it is incredibly successful once you get a codebreaker on your side. I was able to get into two of the biggest accounts I have been trying to get into for over six months. Every sales manager should make this a strategy for his or her team and start making the big sales immediately!
I highly recommend this book to anyone in sales.

John McPherson's material is great - be prepared to laugh! He has great creativity and quite an imagination!

I Could not stop laughing from start to finish! Great Book, Great Price and Quick delivery! Thanks

Even as an elderly person of 78 years, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I am so glad to see something published for children and young folks that will be spiritually uplifting for them yet entertaining.Beautifully written and illustrated! I hope the author will continue to write books that will benefit our young people in helping them to make the right choices in life and instill real values in them that will stay with them a lifetime.
So much better than these witchcraft stories ! I give you five stars Donna !!

I think it's a great book. It's got adventure, happiness, and sadness all in the same book. I think my friends would really like this book because it is exciting and has a great story line. The main character is Mottsie a gray wolf who in puppyhood is very happy but turns sad because the pack is mistreating him. His sister teaches him to become a humble servant. Mottsie gets happy again. Then he meets with some problems, but David comes and helps him. It was then that I realized that David is like Jesus. Mottsie meets Mitsa and finds a mate in her. Together they sing praises to God. I learned that even when we are very sad we should sing praises to God. I also learned that when we are feeling vey low. God will send someone to help us.

My father is a huge baseball fan. I gave him this book for his birthday and he loved it. Many players he remembered, but lots of stories he'd never heard before and really enjoyed - he's been repeating them to us for weeks! I highly recommend this for the sports fan in your life.

Best baseball book I've read in years. Full of fascinating stories about baseball's "not-quite" immortals that you won't find in other publications. Great read for the avid or casual baseball fan. Stories are both tragic & humorous. Author's incredible baseball knowlege is matched only by his outstanding sense of humor.

This book is full of really funny, down to earth stories. I found myself laughing out loud as I read some chapters. To fully appreciate it, it probably helps to be spent some time in arctic.

This is a great little book. The stories will make you think of your friends and family, and also wonder about evolution and if it really works right. Its chapters are short and sweet and enjoyable! If you dont laugh while reading this book, you need some serious help!!!!! Its not for small children but preteens will enjoy it even, as will grandparents and all in between!

We always try to keep a copy or 2 on hand for our guests to read each year at our B&B, the Kenai River Hideaway B&B, and they all get a good laugh going.

This book teaches you how you can overcome negative or bad things that happened and that makes you feel down or depressed. It shows that most of the time, when something happens, it can lead to a much better opportunity. So many inspiring examples are given and shows you how uplifting it can be reading about famous people that went through struggles before they became famous. Success-street is not easy-street! It is a highly recommended book, definetly worthwhile reading, especially when things don't look they are going your way.

Having been fired from a job which I loved (an editor) for writing about the TRUTH - I found that this book enabled me to redefine who I was and where I was going. Consequently, I just finished my first novel - a passion that has been a lifelong dream.

The Particle Explosion (1987) by Oxford University Press tells the story of particle physics from the unexpected discoveries of electrons, x-rays, and radioactivity in the 1890s to the meticulously planned, large scale experiments nearly a century later that detected the W and Z particles, thereby confirming the Standard Model.

The three authors - Frank Close, Michael Marten, and Christine Sutton - should be commended for the exceptional set of photos that make this book so fascinating. The target audience is the enthusiastic layman, but this account should also appeal to all science students, especially undergraduate physics majors.

Even numbered chapters focus on the researchers and their massive machines. Odd numbered chapters describe the subatomic particles. This unusual even-odd arrangement is surprisingly well-integrated and does not attract attention to itself.

The Particle Explosion is true to its title. The reader encounters neutrinos, muons, pions (pi-zero, pi-plus, pi-minus), kaons (K-zero, K-plus, K-minus), J/PSI, D (D-zero, D-plus), upsilon, lambda, sigma (sigma-zero, sigma-plus, sigma-minus), xi (xi-minus, xi-zero), omega minus, and charmed lambda. And don't forget, there is an antiparticle for every particle as well as resonance states for many particles. Fortunately, Murray Gell-Mann and others bundled these bewildering particles into well-behaved symmetry groups.

Rather unexpectedly, I actually developed some skill at deciphering images of particle tracks from cloud chambers, bubble chambers, and various electronic detectors. I found that I could even recognize indications of missing particles. Nonetheless, complicated images revealing quarks and gluons remain intimidating. Computer processing is needed to remove unrelated low-momentum tracks, and thereby expose the unique signatures of high energy quarks.

As fate would have it, I no sooner completed this book review than I learned that a 2002 edition with the title The Particle Odyssey (same three authors) was available. The new layout is quite similar. The material has been updated to cover the years 1987-2002 and the graphics are even better.

Recommendation: Deep Down Things (John Hopkins Press, 2004) by Bruce A. Schumm offers a more technical look at the Standard Model. Five stars.

Bubble chamber tracks were always a mystery to me ... until I discovered "The Particle Explosion". This book is wonderful because ... The edited & colorized bubble chamber photographs engender a new, visceral, level of understanding of elementary particles. With so many books and articles on theoretical and abstract aspects of quantum mechaniscs, this book reveals the, oft neglected, world of experimental particle physicists and their immense accomplishments. It is a wonderful example of expository writing, where complex mechanisms are clearly described without resorting to diagrams.

Here is a little book that will give you that close look at the subjunctive that you have needed for so long.



If you have been secretly harboring the following thoughts:


1 - What IS the subjunctive?

2 - Is it a tense?

3 - Is it a mood?

4 - Is it a mode?

5 - Is there any difference in those words?

6 - I QUIT!



Then you have found the right book.

Calm down.

You need a close look at what the Spanish subjunctive actually is.

It is a verb form REQUIRED in certain clauses. You cannot say that you know Spanish but you do not understand the subjunctive. That is an oxymoron.

Don't you want to be honest with yourself? Of course you do.

Vogt explains the Spanish subjunctive more thoroughly than any Spanish teacher I know of, and I've learned from at least a dozen.

Buy this book and invest a few hours. The price is exceedingly low.

You'll be glad you did.

I've always thought that the Spanish subjunctive was so complicated that it could be covered in a book by itself. I've always hoped for such a book, too. Following is its table of contents:

1. When to use the subjunctive and how to form its four tenses
2. Sequence of tenses and the subjunctive
3. Subordinated noun clauses
4. Subordinated adjective clauses
5. Adverbial expressions
6. Contrary-to-fact statements
7. Comprehensive exercises

The author states early in the book that many Spanish students assume that the subjunctive is all about doubt. The author is quick to explain that this assumption is problematic. The use of the subjunctive in doubt or uncertainty is only ONE of its many uses. I'm glad there's a book on the subjunctive that addresses this issue. I used to tutor a student in Spanish who thought the subjunctive was all about doubt. And trying to get her to understand that there was more to the subjunctive than just doubt was a difficult task.

The book explains how to conjugate all four tenses in the subjunctive, then it moves on to its uses. This book explains the uses of the subjunctive in the same order as many other books. First, it explains its uses in nominal clauses, then it moves on to adjective clauses, adverbial clauses, and contrary-to-fact statements. The end of the book has exercises.

I think this book is incredible, but I personally don't think it's a good idea to explain all four tenses at once. I think it's better to start out with the present subjunctive, learn how to use it, and then move on to the other tenses. The author mentions the future subjunctive and the future perfect subjunctive, but he doesn't explain how to use them. I wish he had; it's difficult to find reference materials that explain the future subjunctive.

I highly recommend this book. 5 stars!!!

Brandon Simpson

This book is a must for anyone doing business appraisals. It quantifies the opinion of the marketability discount and provides a defensible methodology as well as a defensible amount. Whether you use the methodology or use the theory to defend your marketability discount, you have a substanstive test other than emperical evidence for your opinion.

Have you ever felt that valuators seem to pick marketability discount percentages 'out of thin air'? This book gave me the tools to go "one-up" on my competition. You'll get everything you need to develop marketability discounts that you can explain and defend. A common-sense approach fitted to the specfic facts and circumstances of the case. I've read this book twice, and I use this methodology for every marketability discount that I value. You'll also learn how to defend your discount in light of the most important Tax Court cases on the subject. And...an inexpensive template available from the author will save you tons of time and money!