Morgan Books

ISBN 0439443229 - The cover of this book, alone, earned it the fifth star - Mommy and baby bunny are soft, fuzzy and pet-able! The text is okay, and bound to please readers of the sort who think petting a book is cool, if you know who I mean.

Each page features a Mommy/baby set of animals - bunnies, duckies, piggies and mousies - with simple text. Every baby loves their mommy and each Mommy, in turn, loves them back - including people, of course!

I'd really have liked them to carry the touch-y feel-y cover into the pages, but even without that, Mary Morgan's illustrations are very nicely done. There isn't a kid in the world who isn't going to enjoy a book in which he or she makes an appearance, however short (the book ends with "and Mommy loves you!").

Great, cute book that my daughter loves (over and over and over again)!

My son adores bunnies, so this cute story was a big hit with him. The illustrations are sweet and the text is easy to memorize, so now he "reads" me this story on a regular basis. This would be a great addition to an Easter basket.

I started trying to read to my daughter when she was 3 months old and I couldn't find a book that had just a few words per page, any more than that and I would lose her interest. And the last thing I wanted was for her first experience with books to be boring. So when I found this book I was thrilled. It has a great message of love and you can stretch out each page as much as your child's attention span can take by eleborating on the scenery, etc. My daughter just loves it and she is now 14 months. It always sooths her when she is fussy. A very sweet book.

Carolyn Haines does a superb job of telling Peggy Morgan's life story. Peggy was the key witness in the final and successful trial of Byron De La Beckwith, convicted for murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Haines' use of dialogue and her ability to paint the picture put me back in the Mississippi Delta when life was horrible for all blacks and poor whites, as well. Morgan's mother knew secrets about the killers of Emmett Till and she carried those secrets to her grave. Peggy Morgan "inherited" her mother's difficult role, learning Beckwith's secret, but was able to use the information to put Beckwith into prison. I could not put this book down and recommend it to anyone else interested in modern civil rights.

she lives a couple of houses down from me.she told me about the book,and i checked it out at the mobile library.after i read it i knew i had to have a copy so i went online and got one.what a story.takes me back to my old mississippi days.great book.

I live right in Mobile, and was in a downtown bookstore when I ran across the book on Wednesday. Although I badly wanted to get the book, I went right up the street to the Mobile Public Library and got a copy of the book and read it, and I tell you it is something. Poor Inez Albritton took years of abuse, but when she found out about Emmett Till, she wanted so badly to tell, but was so scared that her husband had her institutionalized in a mental health facility. Her daughter,Peggy Morgan, took her knowledge about Medgar Evers, and despite many opposition, told what she knew. What gets me so mad is these men just beating these poor women down. Just beat the spirit out of them, and when they do their dirt, they drink and abuse their families. This book is harrowing, yet poignant and beautiful. this book is highly recommended by me to all women.

By the time I read the last pages of Carolyn Haines' latest book, MY MOTHER'S WITNESS: THE PEGGY MORGAN STORY, I was standing. Right there in my office, behind my desk, I gave a one-woman standing ovation for Carolyn Haines, for Peggy Morgan, for Inez Albritton, for truth, for justice, for hope. The book brought me to my feet spontaneously, as awe and respect for a home run always do.

The drama that unfolds in Haines' first nonfiction book involves two of the most incredible stories you could ever imagine, proving, once again, that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. The book chronicles the life stories of Inez Albritton and her daughter Peggy Albritton Morgan, and the pivotal knowledge they each acquired about two of Mississippi's most notorious murders--the 1955 death of Emmett Till, and the 1963 death of Medgar Evers. The Honorable Bobby B. DeLaughter, Hinds County Circuit Judge, and former prosecutor in the case of State of Mississippi vs. Byron De La Beckwith, provides the book's Foreword.

The author, Carolyn Haines, is a prolific writer who has proably written thirty-five or forty books by now, all fiction. Creating good fiction is her reason to be. She spends her days riding horses and making up stories. For a good many years she was a journalist. She still has the journalist's eye and ear for a story. As fate would have it, she was at her desk at the University of South Alabama when a phone call came from Peggy Morgan. Morgan wanted to know if Haines was really a Mississippian, and if she would help Morgan write her life story. Haines explained that while she was certain Morgan had an interesting story to tell, she did not write nonfiction. Morgan talked on, and Haines' reporter's instinct made her listen. She did not want to write anyone's life story, but she went to see Peggy Morgan. "Once the thread began to unravel and Peggy's story spilled out," Haines writes in the book's Preface, "I knew there was no way I could walk away from it. It is a story that must be told." So Haines rolled up her sleeves and went to work telling it, immersing herself for over a year in the bizarre details of Peggy Morgan's life.

The book, set in the Mississippi Delta, opens with Peggy's mother, Inez Albritton, giving birth to her sixth child, Peggy Ruth, in the back seat of a Ford automobile. Once Inez married Gene Albritton, her life was set on a dangerous course of poverty, abuse, alcohol, and consecutive children. Her sixth child became her protector, all the while promising herself that when she grew up she would escape all the hardships she'd witnessed being visited upon her mother. When Peggy Albritton married Lloyd Morgan, the only man she'd ever seen defy her father, she embarked on a dangerous course almost identical to that of her mother. Both women eventually learned that the abuse they endured at the hands of their husbands spilled over into racial activity, as well. Inez Albritton spent years trying to tell someone the truth about who murdered Emmett Till, and Peggy Morgan spent years preparing to tell the truth about the murder of Medgar Evers. Both women were desperate to share what they knew. No one ever paid attention to Inez Albritton's story, but Peggy Morgan has finally succeeded in chronicling the truth for both of them. These are two interrelated stories that must be told, and Inez Albritton and Peggy Morgan are two Mississippi women who must be celebrated--for their perseverance, their courage, their honesty, their overwhelming humanity. We should all stand at the conclusion of this book.

"George Varghese has had a remarkable impact on the real world of networking with his algorithmic innovations over many years. The networking research and development community is fortunate that
he has now distilled his knowledge in this very readable, insightful, and much-needed book." -- Yukuen Lai

Varghese explains a very specialised but critical field. He presupposes on your part an already extensive knowledge of TCP/IP and its routing protocols. The book usefully offers on its inside cover 15 principles for overcoming network bottlenecks. It seems fair to say that the bulk of the book is devoted to explaining and using these ideas. Undoubtedly, other books have elucidated most of these. But maybe not as explicitly and cogently as Varghese.

One key motivator mentioned in the text is to defend against network attacks. For this, it helps to be able to quickly analyse as many IP packets as possible. Perhaps an unfortunate commentary on today's Internet, inasmuch as this will be the most important reason for some of you to get this book.

This is an excellent, excellent text. Techniques and principles for building high performance distributed systems are hard to come by except through experience and talking to experts. There's a lot of knowledge in the community but this book is the first time to my knowledge that someone has collected it and presented it in a coherent framework. Even if you don't work with low level stuff, this book will help you learn to think in a "systemsy" way about high-performance designs.

The book describes in an unique way some of the algorithmic and system implementation details of network appliances. Some of the chapters (packet classification, forwarding and traffic measurements) might be know to readers familiar with the SIGCOMM and Infocom conferences: these chapters are excellent tutorials to some very advanced networking topics and can help readers to better understand papers from the main author published at Infocom/SIGCOMM.
Its probably the best networking book I've ever read....and I read a lot.

I have just finished reading this book. I have read it cover to cover twice and I will return to it from time to time when I'm working with hearing impaired clients. I have placed it on the shelf with my nursing journals and texts for future reference. I strongly recommend that Health care and education professionals read this book as it is a great reference and learning tool for anyone who works with hearing impaired clients. I would like to see it be required reading for nurses and teachers before graduation. Patricia Ann Morgan Candlish is not only the author of this book but has lived with a child who is "not deaf enough". She tells her story of how it is and was to raise a hard of hearing child. She discusses her personal diffculties in obtaining a diagnosis and her future roadblocks in achieving satisfactory therapy in rural Ontario post diagnosis. This book describes numerous personal experiences from a parents' point of view and would be a wonderful asset to any home or school library. The author portrays in detail, and with humour,I might add the challenges of day to day living with a hard of hearing child. The book is well laid out; each chapter is full of material starting with the stages of grief, incliding denial and anger at being blessed with a "not so perfect baby." As the book progresses she describes the formal and informal testing, the anatomy of the ear, hearing aids, financial stresses and sign languages versus speech reading. She describes the symptoms of hearing loss and indicators for hearing testing from the US National Institute of Health. It goes on to depict the management of temper tantrums, difficulty with education, schools, and basically how to deal with health care and educational professionals. Updated information is also available on teaching aids such as toys, books phones and computers. I would recommend this reading material not only for those working with a child who is hearing impaired, but for those working with the hard of hearing of any age. The information in this book is invaluable to all professionals of heal care and education.

A very worthwhile book. I had a chance to reread your book this summer and I found myself learning even more the second time around.(Actually the third time if you count the manuscript.) I always knew your life was not easy but I didn't know just how difficult it has been. You have not only coped beautifully but managed to produce a very worthwhile work out of all your difficulties that will benefit others. Congratulations. I'm lucky to be your older sister. Your book is so easy to read, even the technical parts. I think it should be required reading for everyone in the education field. I loved the way you interspersed it with pictures. I have always been amazed at how you taught Reid to talk. You done great SIS!

"Not Deaf Enough" (the title is devastating in itself,can be read on at least two levels. The first is obvious. The author, mother of a child with hearing deficiencies, gives the reader an account and the benefit of her and her famly's experiences with the system proved deficient. The advice is practical and focussed and comes from an intelligent, tenacious, loving, resourceful and articulate woman. Candlish pulls no punches and does not pussyfoot around the problem. If you are fortunate enough not to have had a major challnege of this sort in your family, then read the book from the perspective of someone who felt that the outside world should get a return on her and her family's investment. With any luck, this book will inspire others to give help and support to others less fortunate. There should be more books written such as this written so clearly. A third level, of course, is that the book is also a character sketch of someone who is playing the hand that she has been dealt without whining and without asking for a new deal.

This no-nonsense book is filled with practical, useful information. I highly recommend this book to all parents of hard of hearing children.

As the parent of two hard of hearing children, I have read my share of books about deafness. This is one of the best.

Amazon says the book is out of print, but I checked with the publisher ...and they say they have just reprinted it and it should be available soon.

Mary Mackey's attention to historical detail in The Notorious Mrs. Winston creates a convincing character sketch of the determined heroine, Claire Winston. An engaging love tale coupled with a compelling story of the Civil War, Mackey's latest novel celebrates womanhood by staying true to the times the heroine lived in rather than inserting modern ideas into the past. A moving and absorbing read that will no doubt leave modern day readers satisfied and inspired.

The Notorious Mrs. Winston I found very interesting. John Hunt Morgan is claimed by my home state Kentucky. In Lexington there is his historical home called the John Hunt Morgan House. In my Kentucky history class I did a term paper on his life and his raiders. The protagonist of the book and her cause tells the story in a very intriguing manner. Sit back and relax. Mary Mackey will tell you a delightful story of the Civil War. By Ruth Thompson author of "Natchez Above the River" and "The Bluegrass Dream."

Writing as a Small BusinessQualifying Laps: A Brewster County NovelSins of the Fathers: A Brewster County NovelTravelersThe Bluegrass Dream: A Wilderness Adventure of Early SettlersNatchez Above The River: A Family's Survival In The Civil War

This is Mary Mackey's best ever. The story line keeps you turning pages. The Historical accuracy is intriguing. The detail she provides gives you a new perspective on the lives of these Civil War soldiers. She hits you with a surprise every time you turn around. Bring on your next book Mary Mackey.

Bob Howenstine

In February 1861, the Civil War is two months away when Claire still on her honeymoon with much older portrait photographer Henry Winston sees the "angel" for the first time. She cannot believe how wanton she must be to desire Henry's nephew John Taylor when she just married. She does not love her spouse having said I do for financial security during troubled times.

Besides hiding her reaction the first time ever she saw John's face from him and his uncle, Claire also joins the abolitionist cause without telling her husband. When John, a true believer in the Confederate cause, goes off to battle as a member of Morgan's Raiders, she follows disguised as a young soldier. This enables her to see both sides of the fight especially after Morgan enlists her to his side.

THE NOTORIOUS MRS. WINSTON is a deep look at the Civil War from the viewpoint of a feisty independent female masquerading as a male. Readers see up close what happened at battles and other events through mostly Claire's perspective. Though there is a romantic subplot, Mary Mackey uses that in a support catalyst role as this is a strong engaging historical fiction starring a wonderful protagonist.

Harriet Klausner

Earning my living from numismatics, I can't afford to miss reading just about any book from the field of numismatics. So, I set myself down for some boring reading since I just hate Morgan dollars. But I was engrossed. Mr Bowers is a capable author as well as a famous numismatist. The history of all U.S. dollars is covered in brief, and then the history of why the Morgan dollar was even minted in the first place. Continues with how the original dies were made and includes portions of letters and notes from the people actually involved. There's intrigue, double-crossing, mystery, and so forth -- all in a reference book about one particular coin. You'd just never expect it. Of course, the remainder of the book deals with minting the coins and then a blow-by-blow for each date and mint in the series.

The best information and historical reference of the Morgan series I have read in years!

As someone new to the world of numismatics (but interested in Morgans) I was a bit confused by all the varieties, mintmarks, etc. This book explained everything to me. The history is quite fascinating. I am looking forward to getting my first "CC". Overall, a very heplful and well written book.

This book gives a concise desription of both the historical development of Morgan Silver Dollars as well as pratical information in determining the highlights of each Morgan Silver Dollar according to the chronological year. The book is informative and descriptive in its interpretation of the Morgan Silver Dollar. Most important the reading isn't dry but keeps you intrigued, especially the historical data associated with the Morgan Silver Dollar Series. The book is well written and definitely an addition to any numismatic literary collection.

As a researcher in the field, this book was immediately useful to me. Nearly every source code transformation and optimization technique that I'm aware of is present in this book, which often saves sifting through stacks of papers or looking for an elusive reference. If you're looking for a book to teach you the basics of how compilers work, it certainly is not the appropriate place to begin, but if you already have one good book on that then this book will make an excellent companion to it. It was slightly annoying that the book comes with two loose pages, one errata list and another to tape over a page early in the book, but that's what you get with 1st editions. Overall it's very good and the errors are very minor typos as opposed to factual goofs.

Randy Allen and Ken Kennedy are famous for their contributions
to compiler design theory. This book is a clearly written
discussion of the issues involving loop optimization and
dependence analysis. While this book also covers scalar
optimization issues, it is naturally complemented by Steven
S. Muchnick's excellent book "Advanced Compiler Design and
Implementation".

Randy Allen has spent many years implementing a variety of
compilers for supercomputers and hardware design languages.
While Ken Kennedy has published seminal theoretical work on
compiler optimization, he has also been involved in hands on
implementation as well. The experience of these two authors
results in a book which covers the huge body of knowledge in
compiler optimization and provides this knowledge in a
practical form that can be used by software engineers working
on compiler design.

For anyone working on modern compilers that require sophisticated
optimization features, this is an important reference work.
As with Muchnick's book, I have owned this since it was first
published. Rereading it reminds me of what a gem this work is.

Allen and Kennedy (A&K) haven't written your first compiler book. There's nothing about syntax analysis, code generation, instruction scheduling, or intermediate representations. You already know all that part, or you won't get very far in this book. Once you have the basics down, A&K is an irreplaceable reference.

It centers heavily on Fortran - even today, a mainstay of scientific computing and an active area of language development. Today, just as 50 years ago, the language's straightforward structure makes detailed behavioral analysis relatively easy. That's especially true in handling the array computations that soak up so many dozens (as of this writing) of CPU-hours per second on todays largest machines. There's far too much to summarize here, but A&K cover a huge range of processor features, including caches, multiple ALUs, vector units, chaining, and more. C code gets some attention as well, much needed because of the cultural weirdness around array handling in C. In every case, the focus is on the real-world kernels that need the help and on explicit ways of identifying and manipulating those code structures. As a result, the authors disregard the unreal situations that sometimes arise, e.g. in
"while (--n) *a++ = *b++ * *c++;"
Yes, the arrays pointed to by a, b, and c can overlap. But the pointer a can also point to a, b, c, or n, somewhere in its range - and likewise for pointers b and c, or all three. There is essentially no limit to how bad this can get, e.g when n is an alias for a, b, or c. Yes these are rare situations and generally errors - but I've seen on-the-fly code generation in production environments, so even the A&K example isn't as bad as it gets. I admit these to be pathological cases, though, better suited to an 'Obfuscated C' contest than to a compiler textbook.

The real disappointment comes from the section on compilation for Verilog and VHDL, and that disappointment may be a matter of emphasis only. The authors focus heavily on the strangeness of four-valued bits, which exist in Verilog and VHDL simulation, but not in synthesis. I.e., not in what really matters to a deployed application. The real challenge lies in compilation of C or Fortran into gates, a topic that the authors barely skim. That, however, is still a field of research exotica. It should be mentioned in a general book on compilation, as it is here, but awaits a text of its own.

All you processor designers out there should read the title a little differently. You should read this as "Modern Architectures for Optimizing Compilers," but you probably worked that out for yourself. If you have the luxury to define your own memory structure, all that analysis of memory access will give you plenty of ideas for your next ASIP. It will certainly give you lots of ways to quantify the behavior of your target applications, so you'll know just how to get the most MIPS per Mgate, including hard limits on how much hardware paralellism can actually do you any good.

All architects of performance computing systems, hardware or software, need this book. Even application developers can learn better ways to cooperate with the compilers and tools that run their codes. It has my very highest recommendation.

//wiredweird

This book is a very thorough look through all the ways you can extract and use parallelism and data dependencies advantageously in an optimized compiler, depending on your target architecture. As one example, this book contains every imaginable way to deal with arrays and loops and the maddeningly complex data dependancies that can result from their various interminglings. The book is refreshingly easy to read and contains pseudo-code and step-by-step examples everywhere you'd want to see them.

If you've been looking for a book search no further because Over & Out a realistic fiction book by Melissa Morgan is the book for you. Over & Out, a book in the Camp Confidential series is a book about Jenna Bloom. Jenna is Camp Lakeview's best prankster. Her favorite camp event is color war, but only if Jenna behaves will she be allowed to compete in it this year. Jenna has been very good this year until Dr.Steve's snobby nephew joins camp at the end of this summer. Everything changes. Will Jenna compete in color war this year? If you like books about a sneaky girl, this is the book for you.

this book is the best and so is CAMP CONFIDENTIAL!!! I just finished winter games and now i am reading a fair to remeber. i cant wait for hide and shriek !! that one looks soooo good!! i am a camp confidential fanatic!!! i love camp confidential

This book was purchased for a 12yr old girl who had started the series and was enjoying it. She was very happy to see all the new books she received for Christmas.

I love Camp Confidential! This one is about Jenna who loves to pull pranks. She promised she would not pull any more but once she meets a big prankster she gets the best prank idea to pull on the Color War: Operation Drowned Rat. But she's afraid she'll lose her friends' trust for her though, so she throws it away. Meanwhile, she has a broken leg and has to just coach her Color War team. This makes sports superstar Jenna so mad!
Anyway just read it! I also hope that this gives you an idea of what the next book is about for the other members of the non-existing Camp Confidential Fan Club!!

This is a must have for every elementary school science teacher. I've used just a few of the lesson plans and I'm already the most popular teacher in school. Kids that hated science before now look forward to coming to my class for the next science lesson & lab. I'm convinced that this book will have a significant impact on our standardized test courses. Thank-you Karen & Emily for the outstanding effort you've put into this book. My students and I will be forever in your debt.

Authors and classroom veterans Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan know you're short on time...so they've integrated science and reading in a natural way to help you teach both subjects at once. They know that students who aren't strong readers may be turned off by science texts...so they show how to use high-quality fiction and non-fiction picture books to engage students in grades 3-6 in hands-on, standards-based science inquiries. This book contains 15 ready-to-teach science inquiry lessons, complete with reproducible student pages and assessments. It covers a broad range of topics, and draws on such diverse children's books as Dr. Xargle's Book of Earthlets, Sheep in a Jeep, and Weird Friends: Unlikley Allies in the Animal Kingdom.

Why would any one get rid of this book great resource

This book has fantastic lessons that include graphic organizers along with a hands-on approach to learning. Incorporating picture books with the lessons, it makes the lessons motivating while educating across the curriculum. The book is easy to use and the graphic organizers are "student friendly". This book is highly recommended.

This is the story of an extraordinarily bright and gifted teenager having a bad day. His doctors turned a common painful teen experience into a nightmare and nearly cost him and others their lives! Be sure to read to the end for a big surprise! The moral of the story is .. don't just accept what your doctors tell you .. do some research .. and trust your instincts.

This book makes you question placing all of your trust in doctors. I just couldn't stop reading to find out what happened next as I became more overwhelmed with what was happening. This is a real eye opener into antidepressents which I would have never thought twice about before reading this book. ANyone with kids on any type of long-term prescritions should read this book.

This is a true, believeable story. At what point do you stop blindly listening to people who don't give hope a chance? Chris is a good person who blindly accepted attempts to cure him, when he was much better off just listening to himself! Everyone should read this book!

Prescription for Madness is a gutwrenching must read. I could barely keep reading, yet I had to find out what happened to Chris. The teen's downward spiral echoed events in my own family's life. Prescription drugs for depression have saved many lives, but daresay have destroyed just as many. If you or your family members are taking antidepressants or considering them, please read this book, and ask lots of questions! You could save everybody's sanity and possibly somebody's life.