Sachs Books

Did you evey hear of a kid eating dog biscuits... and liking them? Well, in the book, "The Boy Who Ate Dog Biscuits," Billy is so crazy about dogs that he sneaks dog biscuits for snacks! Billy really wants a dog of his own, but his parents won't let him. Billy is aways getting into trouble with his best friend, Howard, so his parents think Billy is not responsible. What Billy's parents don't know is that Billy works hard and helps Dr. Mike, the vet, take care of the dogs. When Billy falls in love with a stray dog at the vet's, it's a race against time to convince his parents that he can have a dog of his own, before someone else takes it!
This book is so gross (eating dog biscuits) that it's funny! If you like dogs and funny stories, you should read this book. It's so good I want to buy it!

Basics: 2000, 1st edition, softcover, 250 pages, 88 color plates; 500+ species; no range maps; Vietnamese language only

Note: This book is written in only Vietnamese. The English and scientific names are given with each bird and are also in the index.

This book is a standard field guide with plates on the right and accompanying text on the left. The plates illustrate over 500 of the 800 species that have been found in Vietnam. Most of the birds have multiple illustrations to show the plumage differences between gender and ages.

The artistry is good and will help the birder identify most of the species. Unless you can read Vietnamese, complete reliance on just the plates will be a weakness with the various Sylviidae warblers and other difficult groups. The color rendition is a little inconsistent between the plates. Many seem to have been printed a little too darkly. A few seem a little washed; however, this is minor and is not a distractor from using the book.

Not being able to read Vietnamese, two things come to mind that I would like to have seen added to this field guide. One, is a range map. Two, is a designation of which species are endemic. It appears two of the endemics (Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush and Orange-breasted Laughingthrush) are not included since these were discovered/split after the book was written.

This book will be useful to you in Vietnam since this is the only decent book available to focus on just this country's birds. Using Robson's larger Birds of Southeast Asia would be a good compliment since it is in English and contains all the birds that can be found in Vietnam.

Other Related Books:
1) Birds of South Vietnam by Wildash
2) Birds of Tam Dao by Salah
3) Identification Guide ot the Birds of Southeast Asia by Robson
4) Birds of Thailand by Robson
5) Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia by Strange
6) A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia by King
7) A Guide to the Birds of Thailand by Lekagul

if you want to support any effort related with justice. you have to read this book.

A very useful book for me to study electromagnetic compatibility .
I hope I could have one.

This is the story of Lilly (an 11 year old girl) and four ugly, loud cats...Lily lives in a single parent household and is home alone often because her mother works many jobs to support them. One unfortunate day, Lily is locked out and all the neighbors who usually help her when this happens are not at home...just old, mean Mr. Freeman and his loud, ugly cats. Mr. Freeman hears her crying and admonishes her to stop making so much racket because she's bothering him...eventually he allows her in his house to wait until her mother comes home, where she discovers that despite his cantankerous nature, he's quite loving and caring when it comes to his four very ugly, very loud cats. It's this kindness that Lily remembers when Mr. Freeman dies a short while later and the apartment manager threatens to call the S.P.C.A to get rid of the cats so he can rent the apartment.

Lily feels responsible and begs the manager to allow her to find homes for them first...she's given three days to place the animals...this is a heartwarming story of making human connections with people who you might not normally get to know and how wonderful community and good neighbors can be...that and the story of Lily triumphing over the difficulty of placing the cats before her time runs out! Well thought out and very easy to read for those starting out with chapter books, it also has some simple illustrations to help bring the story to life for those making the transition to all word chapter books. The Four Ugly Cats in Apartment 3D is easy to follow, but interesting for young readers! I'd recommend it for readers just starting to read chapter books on their own without help, it's simple enough for reading the words and still managing to keep the story straight, while still being interesting to the reader! I give it a solid B!

She explains the why's and why not of making the tea and how it affects the system.

A little long in the tooth at this point, especially with the rise of the mega-stables of folks like Todd Pletcher and Steve Asmussen, but, dammit, they are the children of D. Wayne Lukas. Racing the way it is played today, for better or worse, is unthinkable without the old lion's revolutionary way of operating. Of course, you have to have big money behind you, and Lukas had as much as anyone at one time, and this book, in great detail and with great fascination, follows Lukas at the major auctions and shows what was bought and for how much and how the animal fared. It is a window into a closing world, with bloodlines that still resonate. There are lessons still to be learned here, for those idiosyncratic enough to care to learn them. Fetishistic and rewarding scholarship.

Despite this book's moderate size (175 pages only), it is a very well-done book with amples of photographs; where appropriate building plan, architects' contact information; bibliography; author biographies, illustration credits (not in any particular order). Unlike some architecture books which emphasise merely upon the visuals, this book is rather cerebral trying to define what "minimalism" is. In the end, it doesn't provide us with a definitive answer but it raises more questions in helping us to categorise the kind of minimalism that we think we belong to. Here, minimalism is separated into essential minimalism (transposing Modernism's "less is more" to "least is most", reductive composition with usage of industrial materials, & inward looking), meta-minimalism (appropriation "minimalism"-s formal language whilst cultivating it for their own aims), & trans-minimalism (as quoted, theoretical speculation about an architecture which would allow itself to be inspired not by the forms but by the concepts of Minimal Art, taking its external environment into context as a sum of its parts). Here, acknowledged minimalist architects are omitted such as John Pawson & Campo Baeza. Rather, architects such as OMA, Herzog & de Meuron (cheekily called the enfant terrible of "minimalist architecture" for their loose interpretation of such discipline & only been used on some of their works), Zaha Hadid, Shigeru Ban, Jose Rafel Moneo Arquitecto, Diener & Diener Architekten & the list continues. Here, we are brought to the attention that there is an irony in minimalism where its original intention to deviate from consumerism is used subsequently by Prada, Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani to market their products. As minimalism is going mainstream, Prada is now engaging service of OMA to redefine minimalism & thus, individualise its brand from other brand offerings. This is one of those books that I enjoy reading again & again. Highly recommended & a definitive collection if you are an architecture enthusiast.

Mog is back! This time causing as much mayhem as ever before. Children, parents and cat lovers all over will love this book. In every cat there is a part of mog and in every mog story there's a part of every cat, this one certainly no exception. Mog does a bad thing and when she gets told off feels very bad about it indeed.. but in the end will she win the day?

I'm a professional medical biller and accounts receivable specialist - a second career following a quarter century of working for corporations large and small. I was shocked to see the low level of business acumen many physicians have, whether they are new to their profession or have been in business for many years. When I read this book I appreciated that Laura Sachs is one of the foremost experts in the field, and quickly added it to my short list of Must Have publications for my most troubled clients.

This is a no-nonsense, practical guide suitable for any size practice. The topics covered range from the purely financial to management of personnel, maintenance of the physical environment, estate planning, dress codes and hygiene, and more. It has dozens of checklists and hundreds of tips for the physician and his staff; nothing is left out.

Unfortunately, the book is somewhat dated. It apparently had only one printing, in 1991, and could stand updating in areas such as computerization of medical records, insurance industry changes, and the legal and regulatory climate. Nevertheless, much of the advice in this book is timeless, and the $70 price tag should be considered a very wise investment.