Rowe Books

I stumbled across this book while in the library looking for something else and am overjoyed to have found it. Boston Harbor is a place full of legends and magic. Snow recounts the amazing stories he knows in a way that invites further exploration.

Good "watered down" version featuring beloved Egyptian characters with beautiful illustrations as captivating as the story itself!

... and Isis is beloved and revered.

--A-men/"A-mun!"

This was a required book for one of my classes, its an easy read, everything is layed out well with good examples and exercises

This book is even good for Americans for it gives a great overview of all the issues a social worker, or socially interested person, might need to deal with HIV in a professional context.

Michael Kalashnikov wasn't the only tinkerer to invent an advanced firearm which had an impact on Military History. As Roy M. Marcot demonstrates in his excellent book, there was Christopher Miner Spencer (1833-1922) and his revolutionary repeating rifle.

All that is well documented and illustrated in SPENCER REPEATING FIREARMS. If you're interested in the Civil War or the expansion of the American frontier west of Mississippi River, you need this book.

Marcot, for example, explains the various models and how they eventually overcame military doubts about another new, untried system. One of the innovative, young officers who saw its virtues and figured out how to use it was George Armstrong Custer.

He commanded the Michigan Volunteers during the momentous battle at Gettysburg. The cannon fire from that battlefield shook the ground where Custer carefully deployed his raw recruits armed with their new Spencers against none other than Wade Hampden's "Invincibles", part of J.E.B. Stuart's Confederate Cavalry.

The seven shot repeaters broke up several Confederate charges and delayed their offensive long enough to keep them out of the Union rear, which could have been catastrophic for Meade and his blue-clad Union soldiers.

Custer's subsequent career seemed to coincide with the adoption of the Spencer by such Regular Army formations as the Seventh Cavalry, which used it until 1873 when it was replaced by the single shot Springfield carbine, which Custer's men carried with them to the Little Big Horn in 1876.

There, he was confronted by Sioux, Cheyenne and other warriors many of whom had Spencers issued to them as surplus by the Department of the Interior (for hunting.) There, he fell to the very firearms which had been such an important building block in his military career.

This is a great book. I gave it a five star rating.

Dorothy Rowe is a sage of our time. Time with this book is time well spent.

A Tale About Lilly is a depiction of the saying, "God works in mysterious ways." It tells how love and loyalty can manifest in the mist of discretion. Lilly shows how life happens one child, one mind - one family at a time. The story uncovers a series of nail-biting and humorous realities. It's about joy and its journey. This tale is a testament about childhood and the song and dance of family. Ironically, Lucretia, who appeared the most perplexed in her family, helped break the chain of defeat often passed down from generation to generation. At five, Lucretia Beldrin uses her grandmother's hexes to try to fix her family, and she was diagnosed with a phenomenal illness that mocked dual personality disorder when things got out of hand. A Tale About Lilly is about never giving up and how a way out can come from strange behavior, strange things and strangers. Lilly is about trust, about survival against all odds.

This guide sets forth a method by which teachers can do two critical things:
1. Intervene quickly and effecively at the moment of misbehavior
2. Encourage students over the long haul by building their self-esteem and, ultimately, gaining their cooperation.

Interesting and well organized, the book also explores what motivates students to misbehave, ways to avoid and defuse confrontatons, ways to reinforce desirable behavior; and strategies for disciplining cooperatively with students, parents, and other school personnel.

Linda Albertis an educator, family counselor, lecturer, and syndicated columnist nationally known for her work with teachers and parents.

Rowe is one of the best computer science writers today and this book is in keeping with his usually high standards. He draws together the worlds of computer science, biology, and mathematics to present clearly understandable and meaningful models. Any reader with a reasonable background in these fields (decent college freshman courses in programming, calculus, and general biology should suffice, though I'd say that as far as the math goes, some exposure to differential equations would be very helpful) will be able to understand and learn from this material...

Tommy DoLittle is a fun and funny picture book about what happens when perpetually pajama-clad Tommy,the laziest boy in the world- so lazy that his dog walks him- actually reads the words in a book. His subsequent adventures are as improbable as they are amusing, and Rowe's illustrations are witty and bursting with energy. Kids will want to read this over and over again.