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This is a really good Pippi Longstocking book! It's not so many girls that's strong as her... and not many boys either. In this book she and her friends goes to the circus, and Pippi really likes it. It's so funny when she shows the strong man that shes stronger than him... Almost every one loves Pippi, cause she's so charming and nice. And al the Pippi books can be read by both children and grown upps. I can really recomend this book.

(excerpted from The Independent Review, Summer 2002)

Horten's slim but rich study of broadcasting in the United States during World War II is a welcome addition to the literatures on radio, propaganda, advertising, and the war. It is a juggling act as well, at times a conventional historical account and at times something closer to cultural studies. It is an impressive performance, and only at the end does Horten drop one of the juggling pins to the floor.

With war propaganda embedded in ads and advertisements embedded in war propaganda - and both embedded in listeners' favorite programs - domestic public relations began to take a new turn. Horten writes sensitively about the interplay between different genres of programming and about the officially sponsored messages they now incorporated. Nor does he neglect the times when programs managed to undermine the official messages. The result is an excellent and multifaceted study that breaks new ground in radio history.

The book's epilogue, unfortunately, moves into a new territory, plunging suddenly into the much larger topic of America's "privatized" postwar culture. In this book, the meaning of privitization is shaky; it seems to refer more to the private sphere than to the private sector, though at times even that distinction gets blurred.

Why does Horten conclude an otherwise well-focused study with a broad new topic that he lacks adequate room to explore? Because one of the themes of the book is that this cultural shift, however you choose to define it, began during World War II, not afterward, and that it can be seen in the wartime alignment of private advertising and public propaganda. It is a substantial and defensible point, and I am glad he makes it, but I wish he had left it at that, reserving the larger social speculations for his next book.

It is my view that folktales - tales of such quality that people kept the story alive for centuries - are excellent literature for people of any age. Anne Cameron aims her retellings of Northwest Native tales at a young audience but all of us can enjoy all of them.

This particular tale is a delightful tale of Raven the trickster avoiding work ... and learning a lesson (as much as a trickster ever learns a lesson).

In muted tones and spare text illustrator Dennis Nolan and author Ann Turner together create a story of one family's westward journey. "There's gold in California and free land, A man can't let that go by... Once Pa had an idea, no one could stop him", "Ma tightened her lips, dug a red flower... 'where I go, this flower goes too.' Pa had nothing to say to that". And so begins a journey of peril where Red Flower becomes more than a geranium, it becomes a symbol of survival. The soft sepia tones are punctuated by the bright red geranium flowers emphasizing the importance of Red Flower. This book leaves with you a clearer idea of how scary it would have been to be a pioneer.

Beverly Hall Lawrence gives a wonderful and truthful account of young adults returning to our roots. This book can serve as an aid to understanding the obstacles that confront churches in their recruitment efforts of young men and women under the age of 40.

Gard describes in simple words basic principles of stock evaluation and stock picking. Aimed mainly at the begginer investor and the investor that wants to get into the market, but not give up his day job in the process (i.e. how to limit your research time to the bare essentials not requiring an MBA, yet do it intellegntly). Gard also adds many stories, some from personal experience, to help the reader in grasping the "feel" for stock valuation. A bit too simplistic for my taste. All in all a good book, well written.

Having read strong work by Grennan in The New Yorker magazine in recent years, I decided to try him at book length. This handsomely printed trade paperback offers a large selection of poems, most of them published in the most distinguished poetry magazines in America (one is also from Irish Times). There is no questioning Grennan's skill as a wordsmith; his turns of phrase evoke scenes with a hallucinatory accuracy. The book as a whole is rather heavy, though, because the majority of it recounts the writer's sad struggle with his mother's slow death. A Wordsworthian at heart, Grennan recollects in tranquillity the incidents that most struck his senses. For my money (the book costs $14.00), the best material here are his poems on animals ("Towards Dusk the Porcupine," "Bat," and "Horses," the last of which is the best in the book) and "Angel Looking Away," an extraordinary blending of a Florentine Renaissance bas-relief with a 20th century scene of political torture. That is Grennan doing what other poets can or do not.

Meanwhile back at the ranch...

Deedee Emerson had escaped the family farm, but in her haste to escape her wealthy , mismatched fiance she dived- wedding dress and all- through the first open window she saw. And that window belonged to Garth Gentry's truck..a pickup truck , to be exact , used to haul stuff to the barn.

Garth was a footloose, carefree cowboy who loved his dog, his horse and his grandparents in that order. He had women falling all over him every time he said , "Marry me, darlin"- which was every five minutes.

So when he said it to Deedee, she didin't know whether to laugh or cry..because she wanted to say yes!

Excellent reading for those interested in learning more than the basic techniques of vision therapy. Some prior knowledge in psychology and the visual system is helpful, but anyone can learn from and enjoy this book.

You need to be an avid programmer to appreciate the way the code is organized into C++ objects. This is an older book and all the examples are in DOS until the last example which is in Windows (fun little game). The 3D engine renders to a block of memory so it makes no real difference where the example renders. Unlike books about DirectX or OpenGL, this teaches you the "Under the hood" mechanics of 3D. Keep in mind, DirectX and OpenGL are interfaces and what you are learning is how to talk to DirectX or OpenGL. That doesn't mean you will understand the "Under the hood" mechanics of 3D because there are a lot of math algorithms being used. If you want to understand, or at least try to understand 3D on it's lowest level, you will need to read this book many times over. 3D is just that hard unless your a math wizard. The biggest plus to this book is that you have a full 3D, texture mapping, light shading, 4 point polygon rendering engine to play with. There are no libraries here, it's all in C++ for you to see. I have taken the engine and expanded on it and made a tool for applying textures to polygons and animating the polygon objects for my own projects. That's not to say I completely understand everything in the book because 3D math is that hard. You will gain the most knowledge by trying to use and expand the code for your own use. This is not something you will accomplish over a few week ends. Understand this book, then go to DirectX and/or OpenGL and you will have a far better understanding of 3D and what's really happening. ...

This is the best book i have found yet that describes the basics of 3D game design. True, there are new ways of doing things in 3D like Direct3D and OpenGl, but if you want to know how these things work this is the book to do it. Before i ever read anything about DirectX, i read this book. When i began using DirectX, i was amazed by the corellations i found with this book. The only reason it doesn't get a perfect 10 is because discussions on Polygon Sprites and Sound effects were very weak. Also, if you don't have the Programming Lanquages the author uses, you will have to rewrite some of the code( been there done that ). But if you want to learn how 3D engines work, this is an excellent book. The texture mapped worlds look excellent.

an excelent book but i need it now .. becuese i dont have it now .. some of my freind's got it and do not return it to me ..