Extension Books

This is an older copy of this book, written in 1989. It's is an environmental document.

Heathcote's poetic description of the plight of the elephant is beautiful, painful and very accurate. Half of the book is devoted to his ode to the elephant and the second half is devoted to miscellaneous quotes and short texts that are about elephants.

This book was written when the ivory trade was still in full swing and some of the pictures are heartbreaking. There is a lot of historical information. The places in which elephants have lived have been very influenced by their presence. This is a book that must be read to be fully appreciated.

Interesting book - written awhile ago yet the parts about zoos and circuses are still very timely. It's amazing to me that in this day and age people would choose a circus act with live animals in it, and that these magnificent fellow sentient beings are being keep in zoos.

I guess I am not reading the same book as the other guy. I saw this book as well written, well reasearched, relevant and extremely factual. Berlin's entire book is based on nothing but facts, and he has tons of sources that he refered to. He hs a lot of great refrences, old news papers(which are interesting to read), cogress meeting records, the laws of that time, the census, and lots of other great forms of accurate facts. "Slaves Without Masters" exposed a lot about a time period in american life that was very interesting for a "free" African-American. The book is about the free negroes in the antebellem south, which in most southern states were between 60 and 80 percent of the "free" African-American population, this would explain why we hear a lot in this book about Mulattos. THE MAIN BENEFIT OF THIS BOOK IS THAT IN A DOCUMENT PROVEN AND FACTUAL WAY, EVEN "FREE" PEOPLE CAN BE SLAVES.

If you had an interest in The Ice Man found in the Alps, this book presents the same archaeological findings if not better. The forensics involved in bog bodies are fascinating and anyone who has any interest in history, forensic science, death, disposal and ritual will not be disappointed.

The book is written in an easily understandable layman's approach in mind to why and where these bodies are found, who they possibly were and how they ended up bogged (this is my term) to death. Think about it, why would anyone, knowing the topography, think "oh today I'm going to try to jump into the center of a bog and kill myself"? Another plus is that most bodies appear like they did when alive. Fascinating reading.

Nespeca, Sue McCLeaf and Joan B. Reeve. 2003. Picture Books Plus: 100 Extension Activities in art, Drama, Music, Math, and Science. Chicago: American Library Association.

Picture Books Plus is an excellent resource that provides curriculum extensions to picture books. It is a must-have book for teachers, librarians, and adults who work with preschool children. The books and extensions selected are appropriate for children in preschool through grade 3. The book adeptly covers five major curriculum areas - art, drama, music, math, and science - and provides extensions to 100 quality picture books. The authors, Nespeca and Reeve, state that "extensions provide a natural tie-in to various areas of the curriculum...most importantly, extensions motivate children to read and, thus, promote the love and joy of sharing books."(pg. xi).

The first chapter provides an in-depth coverage on the importance of sharing picture books with children and how adults can appropriately share picture books with children. Since illustrations are an important aspect of picture books, the authors provide a detailed explanation of the various visual elements, formats, and different types of media used in generating illustrations for picture books. This information is helpful in choosing good quality picture books for reading to children.

Each chapter is very well organized and structured. The authors provide a concise and informative background on the key elements of each curriculum area. Information is provided in bullet format rather than narrative so that they main points stand out to the reader. Each chapter includes twenty picture book selections with a short annotation followed by the extension. Each extension is explained meticulously with step by step procedures. The authors also provide variations and alternative techniques of creating the same extension. The authors also note the possible risks or mess any extension might create to prepare the adults before conducting the extension. Each chapter also provides recommendations, bibliography, and any additional videos or music recordings that could be used as extensions. Each curriculum area has been given careful consideration and the extensions provided are very innovative.

The content is very thorough and pretested for the convenience of educators who use this book. There are numerous possibilities in this book, covering all the vital curriculum areas that teachers and librarians can find in one place. Although, the drawing of the extension pieces or final product is clear and detailed, providing actual and colorful pictures would have made the content more appealing and attractive. Overall, the book is an invaluable resource to the teachers, librarians, and other educators who are constantly looking for ways to connect reading and meaningful activities that will reinforce the joy of reading in children.

By Akhila Bhat.

This work was started by Randall in the early days of Pine Crest Ministry, but she died before it was finished. As a tribute to Naomi and her dedicated ministry to the people of the Appalachia, the Board of Church Extension and Home Missions and the Women of the Church of God undertook the completion of the written story with Victoria J. Rice as editor.

Written by Naomi Randall, Alma Sperow, Leona Tussey

Published by Board of Church Extension and Church of God in Anderson, Indiana and Women of the Church of God.

Randal was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1907 and was a teacher at a mission school in the Eastern mountains of Virginia and also worked among the Appalachia people in Eastern Kentucky, and founded the Pine Crest Youth Center near Beattyville, KY. She died in 1983. 80 pages. Copyright on this page was put in by me but book has no copyright so that was just a guess.

I always wondered if I'm a descendant of Pocahontas since I saw this book.

When Bill Gates bought a George Bellows oil for twenty-seven-and-a-half million dollars in November of 1999, the national media at last took notice of what may be the most important genre of American art - the Ashcan period of the early 1900's. This wonderful book captures the lives, times, and works of the six artists who brought the streets of turn-of-the-century New York City to thrilling life. Bellows, Sloan, Henri, Glackens, Luks, and Shinn shared a collective talent and daring unseen before or since in the United States, and the book presents their best works in gorgeous color. It also delves into both the men's and the city's history to place the art in context.

Alfred Lord Tennyson once praised Rudyard Kipling for his 'divine fire.' Of the six artists here, Bellows, Sloan, and Henri clearly possessed that fire.

Bellows's unflinching depiction of New York's seedy side reveals a city simultaneously frightening, comical, and beautiful. Sloan's more affectionate touch finds warm delight in the common and mundane. The vitality of Henri's portraits is nothing short of remarkable.

If you buy this book for nothing else, buy it for Sloan. Beautiful, accessible, challenging paintings. And you won't find yourself in a competition with Bill Gates. =)

Although many works have been done on commutative rings since this was published, this important set of notes and theorem extensions was a foundation for many other papers. Frank DeMeyer, Professor at the University of Colorado and a terrific mathematician, has had many works published through the AMS. Studying this document is an excellent way to build a basis for some of Professor DeMeyer's later works, including a collaborative paper written in 2002 on commutative semigroups by both himself and his daughter, Dr. Lisa DeMeyer, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Central Michigan University.

'Riding the Boom Extension' is an excellent essay, but don't go looking for this book unless you are a collector that simply Must have all of McPhee's books. 'Riding the Boom Extension' is included in the collection 'Table of Contents', which is much easier to find.

Illustrates the procedures for conducting software development research using introspection, case studies, and field studies. Presents research findings in areas such as programming style, team organization, group processes, programmer aptitude, and personality factors. "Software Psychology" is an important historical reference that covers the emergence of complexity measures, interactive systems, and the SQL database query language. Encourages the application of psychological principles to computer science. Published in 1980.