Rowe Books

A brightly coloured lift the flap book, aimed at very young toddlers. The book is not a story, just a "whose tail?" on each page showing a bit of the tail poking out to give a clue, the flap is lifted to reveal who the tail belongs to.
I believe that this book would have been better if the animals were depicted in their regular colours, for example, the kangaroo is green and the tiger is blue and orange, making it difficult for an older toddler to guess the tail before lifting the flap.

I and many others in my IT Management program were forced to buy this new text book for our intro to telecom course. All I can say about this book is that it is far to broad!

Didn't teach me anything new!!

A relatively good introduction to Telecommunication for starters.

This book starts with the very basics but eventually gets into some interesting information. If you are an experienced telecomm person, you may want to stand clear of this one because it provides lengthy coverage of some basic subjects.

On the other hand, if you are new to telecommunications it is an excellent text to start with. It gives the reader a good foundation knowledge of coding principles, client-server, OSI Model, packet and circuit switching, ATM, the list goes on. Most subjects are covered in more detail than just a quick overview, so you actually gain an understanding of the subject matter.

My favorite chapters were on network management, and network design and implementation. Also, the book is quite up-to-date with discussions on xDSL, Gigabit Ethernet, GSM, etc.

I had to buy this for my intro to telecom class as some of the others. This book (stinks), unless you are an art major and want to learn all the basics about telecommunications. If you are SERIOUSLY looking to get into telecommunications, or networking theory, check out Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. It gives you MUCH more theory, in detail, and a hell-uv-alot less (...), for less money!! (...) This is the book we should have been using. Too bad this 300 level class was for beginners. Should've been a 100 level class.......I have been doing networking and System administration for about 5 years now, and this book is great overview, really really bad for networking concepts. Even managers should know what the hell their employees are doing on a deeper level....this book skims over the important decision making processes that any good "manager" would be asking of their top engineers. Of course, if the manager would have bought a better book, they probably wouldn't need to ask!!

We got the book for a course in Introduction to Networking. The only thing the teacher could say was, "I wish that GWU didn't require this book, there are better, and cheaper at that." It really does not deliver in detail. It is just a superficial vision. Skip it if possible.

I learned so much from reading the information about nutrition that Rowe and Davis share in this book. The recipes are delicious and easy to follow, and the illustrations are enticing. I'm looking forward to trying more of the recipes and learning to incorporate healthy foods in my everyday meals. I strongly recommend this book.

This book starts out great with the discussion of how food can inflame the body with an unbalanced intake of omega 6 and omega 3 fatty acids. However the authors must be unaware that all grains, legumes and most seeds have a 20:1 ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3 making them inflammatory. Several recipes in the book are then inflammatory because of the grain. This is a tough pill to swallow but it appears that the human genome functions better with a balanced 1:1 ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 fatty acids and this genetic trait was in place before agricultural practices which led to grain consumption and more recently seed oils which are very inflammatory. Foods consumed prior to agriculture would have been fruits and vegetables, wild game, fish and moderate portion of nuts. Ironically all these foods have a well balanced ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 fatty acids. Go Paleo!!

Although there are good recipes in the book, I am amazed the authors endorse the use of canola oil and margarine. Canola oil comes from the rape seed, which is part of the mustard family of plants. Rape is the most toxic of all food-oil plants. Like soy, rape is a weed. Insects will not eat it; it is deadly poisonous! The oil from the rape seed is a hundred times more toxic than soy oil.
Canola is a semi-drying oil that is used as lubricant, fuel, soap and synthetic rubber base, and as an illuminant for the slick color pages you see in magazines. It is an industrial oil and does not belong in the body!
Margine is a synthetic food and a hydrogenated oil. Loads of literature to support eliminating it from your diet.
I use the recipes but make substitutions.

For a book on anti-inflammatory foods, there were too many recipes using
one of the potentially inflammatory foods: tomatoes...from the nightshade family...

I found Jeremy Rowe's book an excellent source of information on not only the photographers and technology of photography, but of the culture and sociology of the late 19th century period in Arizona. I was especially interested in his directory of photographers working in various areas in the Territory. I think this book has wonderful value to genealogists whose family history was linked to the area and time.

In my opinion Mr Rowe's hobby turned into a book is an incomplete at best catalogue of a few pcitures taken by a few photographers in the southwest.Photographs are scant and photographers are noticibly missing i.e. Rassmussen. A poor choice for anyone interested in a comprehensive guide.

This book was one of the most uninformative books i've ever read about martial arts. Nothing that special, a lot of what a person can learn from joining a badminton team. It didn't seem very organized at all, you could get more information on martial arts from just surfing the internet. I was very disappointed as i have seen every episode of the first and second season of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.... ughh Jason really let me down this time.

Karate Warriors

The title of the book I chosen to read is called Karate Warriors. What this book is all about is Karate. The author's name is Austin St. John. This book does not really have a conflict because it is mainly about is how the martial arts teacher teaches you steps of how to do karate. He teaches you a lot of steps but the ones I liked the most are the Flying Side Kick and Spinning Kick He teaches you all kinds of steps. The martial arts teacher wears a black belt. Only the greatest warriors are able to ware the black belt it is an honor to wear it. He has been wearing that belt for at least 2 years. He also teaches you about your attitude you, you have to have a positive attitude about yourself and you have to know when to defend yourself and when to attack. He also teaches you everything you need to do to be champion like him. Being a champion in karate includes 1 to 1 and a half hours of pure exercise. He also tells you that you should eat a lot for protein. You should also eat a lot so all that fat you get into your body and then you do exercise you'll burn it and it will turn in to muscle. At last it has a Quote it says, "The harder you work the harder it is to surrender. I recommend you to think about this quote and put it to work.

Karate Warrior is a beginners guide geared more towards a young audience, after all look who wrote it, Austin St. John the former "Red Ranger" on the kid TV series Power Rangers. It has sections that tell about the philosophies of martial arts, physical conditioning, mental outlook, etc. There are many color photos on each page that illustrate what is being talked about. It shows how to do a few martial arts moves in the back of the book, which is one of the few good points of the book. 12 year olds and younger might want to read this book, but I don't recommend it to anyone above that age. Like it suggests in the book, if you are really interested in martial arts, try to join one of the many martial arts training groups.

Basically this book is packed with information. It often had formulas that were even unseen from my own textbook, which became helpful on a number of occassions. I never read through the entire thing, mainly because I had other review books that were able to lead the way for me. I did use this book when all my other books would fail to explain something to me, though. It has a lot of unique information such as defining the magnitude of electronegativities on the Pauling Scale, which I had never seen before. Also, this book gives the most diagrams out of all the review books. The one gripe I have with this book is that it's bigger than my textbooks was, and for a review book is probably too much. It has a lot of interesting information that helps you have an overall scope of chemistry, and ultimately this information helps round out chemistry, but the information doesn't necessarily help for the AP test directly. I agree with the other reviewer that if someone really wanted a 5, they could pick this up as padding, but know that the Princeton Review really helps you focus on what the majority of the test will be, and Barron's is a better subsitute for ensuring a 5, anyway. Just if you are really paranoid about not getting a 5 or something, that's the only reason you should get this.

This is the worst AP Chemistry book I've ever seen. Tedious chunks of words that no one wants to read unless they are desperate for that 5, and then when one reads it, it leaves zero imprint on the mind.

I did the practice test. I got a 3. One totally absurd question asked me to do logarithms without calculator on the multiple choice questions. I even found mistakes in the provided answers! I found Princeton Review a LOT better.

My three year old and I picked this book out at the library, and we brought it home with hopes for a story as cute as the picture on the front. Alas, it was not to be.

I'm not an overly sensitive person, but this book left me disturbed due to a lack of moral justice in the ending. All through the book, this adorable little porcupine just wants a hug. Everyone around him is hugging, and keep telling him to go away. Then he meets a crocodile that no one will kiss because he is "too ugly", so they kiss and hug each other. Yay, right? But no mention of all these other people who have been absolute jerks to these two creatures, no "and people realized you should still be nice to others no matter how they look". I was waiting for something along those lines, after reading through several pages of seeing this little BABY porcupine berated at every turn. But the last page was just of croc and porcupine happy and everyone else going about their business.

So we read this book twice, the second time my husband read it with us and he agreed with how bad the story really is, but liked the illustration like myself. After the second time of reading it my three year old said she wouldnt kiss the crocodile because he's ugly, and that was that. I decided that book is going back to the library today, and I am going to be much more careful about what I pick out.

Again, I'm not overly sensitive, but after writing this review I kind of feel like I may come across as so. But trust me, the story in this book did nothing to make me feel warm and fuzzy inside, and I find it hard to believe that it would make anyone feel warm and fuzzy.

This is one of my favorite Platonic dialogues, an analysis of both rhetoric and love which leads to some compelling discussions. However, the translation offered by Pengin Classics is hideously lacking. I can't put my finger on exactly where it goes wrong, but the translator makes it a pain to get through just one page. Everything seems laborous and technical, including the normally exquisite speeches.

Get another translation instead. Might I suggest the one published by Hackett? Or perhaps Cornell University Press? Both of those translations take care to make the dialogue as lively annd exciting as it rightfully should be.

I thought this book:'Prince George's County Maryland', by Corpening Rowe et al would have focused more on the history of PG County. Instead it concentrated mainly, on the lives of some of the earlier families from PG and their decendents through pictures. I didn't find it useful as a historical reference book. I wanted to read something on the demographics of the county which would explain how Black people became the successful affluent majority, but would also mention other racial groups who live there too.

Lisette Felix
March 2008

Probably best known for The Republic, this is a very similar selection from Plato where he wrestles with the best form of government understanding the obvious restrictions and limitations of mankind. Plato considers the monarchy, or the benevolent rule of one good man, to be the best and most desired form of governance. A democracy, or a rule by the mob, is the least effective and desirable form according to Plato. But, without a biblical worldview in which to frame his understanding, Plato fails to recognize and account for the influence of the fall of man and man's sinful nature. Without an appreciation for divine revelation and the power of the Holy Spirit to regenerate man from his fallen state, Plato also fails to recognize the power and influence that God's Word and the presence of the Holy Spirit can have on a man's thoughts and life. While Plato limits mankind by some unknown formula so that only a few may rise to political knowledge, he finds it impossible to know whether a ruler will be a tyrant or a statesman. And while laws may confine and restrain evil, they can also hamper and restrict good. Plato's world is dominated by an appreciation for the state, but his understanding and appreciation for mankind or humanity demonstrates his shortsightedness in his approach to finding true statesmen. True statesmen are not products of their culture; in contrast they are generally those who cut against the prevailing grain of society. True statesmen have an internal moral compass pointed toward absolute truth that guides and directs even in the midst of societal blindness and confusion. Plato desires to produces these men, but his formula is lacking and deficient. The Statesman is a difficult read with mostly conversations that seem to run tangent to the real issue at hand.