Wallace Books

This is not a cursory review of Physics - The Root Science with Applications. I have used the textbook to teach students for more than five years as it was being developed by the authors and in its final form for publication.

I am a biology major with a minor in chemistry and Spanish and certification in physics. I have found the text to lend itself to use by someone with my background.

Flexibility is one of the many strong points of the text. There are a sampling of lab suggestions and problem samples in the text. There are references to supplement the material.

I have been pleased with the successful motivation of students by Chapter 2 entitled Applications of Physics to Science, Technology, and Society which demonstrate the usefulness of physics of such purposes as RADAR, Sports Medicine, and about a dozen other topics.

I have found Physics - The Root Science to meet the needs of both myself and my students. It is a text that I can use to successfully introduce the world of physics to a variety of students with a variety of needs and backgrounds. It is one of the few texts that I have seen that I can cover in a year, that doesn't overwhelm, that does a masterful job of helping me cover what must be covered to prepare my students for further course work, both in physics and in other sciences.

"Pirate Boy" has been captured by evil pirates and is forced to be their slave aboard a pirate ship; but when the pirates decide to enjoy some shore leave, it's up to Pirate Boy to make his escape, even if it means going adrift on the open seas. A simple pirate adventure story will have kids immersed.

We took a trip through 4 states and had purchased 5 sets of books on CD. They all worked out great. We put them in our portable DVD player w/double headset jacks and 2 of us could listen at the same time. We laughed together at how silly Amelia Bedelia can be. Great purchases with many years of enjoyment left in them.

No good library should be without this and other collections of Playboy interviews. They are without doubt some of the most candid, thorough and insightful interviews of the idea-makers and prime-movers of our times.

In this volume the interviews of Muhammad Ali (then Cassisus Clay), Ayn Rand, Fidel Castro, Marlon Brando, and Martin Luther King alone are worth the price - but there are amny many more. Five stars.

Absolutely stunning, glorious and sensual black and white photos of Beatrice Wood.

B. Wood conveys in her photos that life can be lived with enthusiasm and zeal at 100 years old.

She inspires me on every level as a woman.

A small yet magnificent book.

This is a story for young readers that brings to light a long forgotten problem this country faced during and shortly after WWI. That of Plume Hunting. This was the practice of killing hundreds and thousands of birds, many of them on the verge of extinction, merely for their feathers. In this story the the Snowy Egret was center stage. The story is of the raiding of their last few nesting areas and is the story of of thier rookeries, pretty well whipping them out. This story of course has a very good mystry envolved...two young children investigating the and trying to find the greedy raiders. Ms. Wallace is a natural story teller and eventhough this work was first published in 1959, it still has much to teach us today. This work was accomplished before this country became aware of our environment being completely destroyed and is sort of a landmark work. It is a shame this one is not longer in print. If you can lay your hands on a copy, do so, you certainly will not be sorry.

This collection edited by Samuel French Morse provides in chronological order a good share of Stevens' most well- known and anthologized poetry.
It has a small introduction by Morse in which he speaks of a few of the general features of Stevens' work, and of his major considerations in his editing of the volume.
As I understand it much more is taken from the early work of Stevens than from that of his last years. The great poems of 'Harmonium' such as 'Peter Quince at the Clavier' and 'Sunday Morning' are featured.
Stevens' incredibly great musical gift, the sensuous richness of his language is clearly out of the Shakespeare- Keats tradition. He refers to Whitman , and Whitman is certainly in his consciousness. But it seems to me he does not come close to encompassing the worlds of perception and reality that Whitman does. Detached and distant, his art seems far more impersonal and remote than that of the great confessional Poets. His meditativeness and reflectiveness enrich almost every poem. And his metaphoric richness surprises time and time again. Neologisms abound and his complicated discursive vocabulary make his work always difficult and always interesting. Stevens is a poet supremely conscious of his art and its devices, of the play of Imagination and Reality, of the Fictive at the heart of what he most believes.
This is a selection of the best of one of America's greatest poets.
Again it may be difficult to read, but with the difficulty comes real delight and unexpected pleasure.

I cannot think of a better way to introduce the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow than this small volume. The selection is excellent and of interest you the young reader. The commentary is quite relevant as are the pictures which accompany it. I find that often now, our young people go all the way through the early grades in school and many of them have never heard of Longfellow much less read his poetry. This was the sort of stuff my generation and the generation before it grew up on and cut our teeth on. I do not feel I am any worse for the wear. I am fearful that we are bringing up an entire generation (rightfully or wrong, although I feel it is the later) of young folks who will have no appreciation to this great art form and will miss a lot. This book helps. This entire series helps, as a matter of fact and I certainly recommend you add this one and the others to your library. Actually, it is rather fun reading these with the young folk and then talking about them. Not only do you get to enjoy the work your self and perhaps bring back some great memories, but you have the opportunity to interact with your child or student. It is actually rather surprising what some of the kids come up with. I read these to my grandchildren and to the kids in my classes at school. For the most part, when I really get to discussing the work with them, they enjoy it. NOTE: After reading the reviews above from School Library Journal and Kirkus review, I am not sure if they or I read the same work. I would personally recommend you rather ignore some of the negative comments. I will say though, that this is one you might want to read with your child or children though, as there are some rather archaic terms used, delightful, but archaic. Recommend this one highly.

Synopsis (from the back cover):

This 100,000-word manual gives you the 120 Advanced Concepts of Poker and shows you step-by-step how to apply these concepts to any level of action.

Here are the topics of just 12 of the 120 money-winning Advanced Concepts:

How to be an honest player who cannot lose at poker.
How to increase your advantage so greatly that you can break most games at will. How to prevent games from breaking up.
How to extract maximum money from all opponents.
How to keep losers in the game. How to make winners quit.
How to see unexposed cards without cheating.
How to beat dishonest players and cheaters.
How to lie and practice deceit.
How to control the rules. How to jack up stakes.
How to produce sloppy and careless attitudes in opponents.
How to make good players disintegrate into poor players.
How to manipulate opponents through distraction and hypnosis.
How to locate or create new games for bigger and quicker profits.

Helped my dau-in-law build and set up the best jumps for her students. Very nice directions and drawings. Lots of pictures to explain even to the youngest child. The entire series is well done. Recommended.