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Flatfoot Fox and the Case of the Missing Eye is an intriguing mystery for children. It captures simple themes of mystery while captivating and entertaining the children in playful characters and dialogue. Being a high school student, I still enjoy reading this book, but obviously do not find as much pleasure in it as a child would. However, this book was my favorite as a child and I read it over and over again. Purchase this book. It is fascinating. (Also, can be used to help your child to read!)

This is one of my favorite children's novels of all time - it is absolutely unique in its portrayal of boys during adolescence. It was translated in Bulgarian along with three other of Kastner's novels and as such it comprised one of the most read collections for kids for more than 4 generations. Even today, every average Eastern European seems to know about the story and considers it close to their heart. And as for me, I was in love with Martin for a few years, at least!
And as comic moments go, the little Uly sitting in the trashcan which dangles from the ceiling, as his father, the teacher, is wondering aloud what kind of parents allow their son to miss school, has to come in the top ten.

I highly recommend this book by Lisa Slater Nicholls.

While we as Fox developers are generally fairly comfortable with generating reports within the Fox environment, we aren't as comfortable with applying the power of VFP to getting to data outside of the Fox environment. And many of you have even gone so far as to go to Crystal Reports, because for so many years the MS Fox development team kept telling us that the Report Writer wasn't ever going to substantially change in the future. Well, the introduction of VFP9 contradicted those thoughts that the Report Writer wasn't ever to going to really change. It is so extensible now that we have a whole new area to learn and conquer. This new book will speed you ahead toward that goal and give you a much deeper understanding of not only how VFP9 can get to external data, but to the data within the VFP9 environment. As part of the title of the book says "any data" in "any environment".

The author has a well-known presence in the FoxPro community and has not only written other books and presented sessions at numerous conferences, she was a part of the development team that came up with the new reporting system within VFP9. She is presenting how the reporting tools were intended to be used.

I'm sure many of you who are set in reporting things the old way and feel that what your already know does more than enough. Well, if the old ways were enough, there wouldn't have been a good number of Fox developers moving to Crystal Reports to do their reporting. And Crystal Reports is a tool for reporting all sorts of data in pretty much any environment. This book tells you and shows you that Visual FoxPro 9 can not only do superior reporting, but do it in an environment you are already mostly familiar with and doing it for your customers/boss with a royalty-free runtime library. You can't get any better than that. And this is supposed to also be usable by non-Fox developers. I've been in the Fox area for so long, I surely can't make a legitimate comment on that, except to say, if I can do it, so should any reputable programmer.

And, as with anything new and different from what you've used, don't feel like you are the Lone Ranger if you have to read and re-read it for it to sink in. I like to read new things three times for it to really sink in. Maybe that's my weakness, but it works well. When I first started reading about dBASE II back in the days where it was available for the CP/M operating system, I had no idea what a database system was, let alone what it was used for. I just knew some other computer developers seemed pretty pumped up about its significance at that time. So, I decided to actually read the documentation from cover to cover and I really did read it three times. The first read was very painful. It was all so dry and totally alien. I just didn't get it. [Some might say I still don't get it.] After the second read, a glimmer of hope started emerging which lead me to go one more time with a different perspective on the last read. Then, the light bulb really came on and I had an idea for a personal expense tracking database that I used to apply the material I covered over and over with no purpose in mind as I first read it all.

I bring all of this up not to display how slow I am on the uptake, but to tell you that the material in this book should warrant multiple readings for you to grasp its significance and use. Fortunately, if you are a Fox developer, you already have the basics down of what a database is and does, so you are not starting from day one. And fortunate for you as well is that the book is not anywhere near as long as full documentation on a database product. And, you get a lot of source code to use along with the book's material that lets you try and see the results immediately as you proceed through the book. Today's use of source code to back up programming concepts didn't exist back when I started my quest to learn dBASE II. That old painful process is in my past and I welcome anything that makes it easier to learn and makes it faster to see real results. So, some of the concepts in this book will seem odd at first. But you should quickly be able to absorb what is being shown to you and how to use it, even if it takes three reads to get there!

In Flying Foxes, Fruit And Blossom Bats Of Australia, two acknowledged authorities on Australia's bats, Leslie Hall and Greg Richards, effective collaborate to produce an informative, illustrated guide to Australia's thirteen species of Megachiroptera -- the "mega" bats. While these bats are nocturnal, they live in forests rather than caves, they navigate by sight rather than radar-like sound reflection (echolocation), and their long snouts and large ears and eyes give them a canine-like appearance and the resultant appellation of "flying foxes". Flying Foxes discusses such controversial matters as these creatures being kept as pets, the management of flying fox populations, and recent incidents of viral diseases being transmitted from the bats to humans. The informative, authoritative, comprehensive text is enhanced with line drawings by Louise Saunders and twenty-nine superbly presented color photographs (including many by acclaimed wildlife photographer, Theo Allofs). A highly recommended addition to exotic wildlife reference collections, Flying Foxes, Fruit And Blossom Bats Of Australia is also available in a trade paperback format (1575241765, $21.50).

excellent book alsowonderful service from amazom and book dealers very happy with results thanks again doug dakin

Though this book is on a cartoon series out of print for more than half a century, it depicts accurately small town life in our country post wwI thru post wwII (early 1950's). everyone is a character, no one is left out. the trolley may no longer be a part of life in my neck of the woods...but the characters live forever! look around for mickey mcguire, the terrible tempered
mr bang, the powerful katrinka, and all the harried commuters...
you will find yourself in fontaine fox's yesterday as well as
2002! :> and enjoy!

What this book discussess about:
Chapter 1 Fighting Disease with Food
Chapter 2 What Vitamins Do for You
---Lists which type of food is high in that vitamin
Chapter 3 What Minerals Do for You
---Lists which type of food os high in that mineral
Chapter 4 The Healing Powers of Phytochemicals
---Explains the different types of phytochemicals found in food
Chapter 5 Natural Healing with Foods, A to Z

While this book was published in 1994, I still find myself using this book as a reference. For each food listed, it lists the nutritional benefits and nutritional value.

This is an excellent book. If you can find it, and if you don't mind looking a little bit silly as you read a book while walking through the streets, you should absolutely take this with you. I lived in Israel for a few months and used this book on several occasions. Kaminker directs your attention to details that you would otherwise have missed. Highly recommended.

I'm sorry to see that this book is out of print! Beautiful illustrations accompany a word for each letter of the alphabet. On each page, there is a word written in English, French, Spanish, and, I believe German. The words reveal a similar origin, and demonstrate to children how these languages are linked.

Wow! I am impressed with this hot new Canadian author! The Fox is full of surprises, I simply could NOT put it down. With complex plotlines, and amazingly real characters, The Fox is a MUST READ for any mystery/action fan!

M. Pfluegl,
Midnight Reader