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Our girls read this after a trip to the Amazon, and found lots that they recognized & enjoyed. The standard of information is rather higher than that in the Magic Tree house books, which is reasonable, given that they don't have to worry about plot & characters as well!

If your child enjoys Magic Tree house, and would like to know more about the Amazon this is fine, but I would also recommend One Small Square: Tropical Rainforests (by Donald Silver). We took this with us to the rainforest (see review) and found it to be excellent.

I like the author because he is an Asian and there are not many Asian who has gone into such an approach. This debunks the notion that the study of the Bible is not confined to Western thoughts. I recommend this book to all Asians.

The Images of America series is an incredible assemblage of photographically driven history books about Cities and Towns from the very large to the very small. They're written with the cooperation of local historical societies and have a depth of material I've never seen in other books. If you've got any interest in seeing the early days and evolution of your area or an area you grew up in, I highly recommend these books. They're great for gifts!!

Storm Rider's volume 12 is the ongoing saga of Bu-Jing-Yun (Cloud), his adopted brother Wind (Nie-Fong), and their struggles against their evil stepfather Lord Conquer.

In this issue Jien Chen and Luo Bu-Jing-Yun go to Sword Worship villa to find ultimate sword. Their quest is thwarted by Sword Greedy, Sword Demon and Lady Au. They duel together in a strange and mystical edifice called 'sword pond,' will Cloud survive the encounter?

This installment of Storm Riders was not as good as previous volumes, primarily because Nie-Fong was absent most of the time and a new character: Jien-Chen was focused on. As someone who is a fan of the original cast (Wind, Cloud and Frost), I found this somewhat disappointing. Nie-Fong is my favorite character!

Even though the plot was a little thin in this issue, Wing Shing Ma's art is beautiful and fun too look and reading issue 12 is important to understand the events in 13.

This is a delightful book by a Victorian gentleman who obviously had some dash and a sense of the theatrical, but also a wonderful dry humor and spirit of daring. It is a wonderful book to read as you get ready for an extended canoe or kayaking trip, or just to read by the fire on a cold winter evening. It is interesting to see that MacGregor faced many of the same challenges of traveling by kayak through Europe that you still find today.

Too bad that this book isnt translated to English.
I think many of you that dont read Norwegian would have enjoyed this book much. The main plot of this book is about foreigners living in troubled cities. I.E Moscva, Real Madrid and other political hotspots of the 1930's. The storyline isnt spectacular
and to be honest I cant actually remember most of the book, but it makes you think.

The title means something like "This world must still be young" which tells us a great deal of what this book is about.
Its about countries and people in changing times, and how they behave/act under these adjustments.

Its not the greatest work by Grieg, personally I like Spanish Summer alot better, but its a good source of information about the 30's and the politics in Europe.

I grew up in Westminster and found this book to be very fascinating. There are pictures of various members of my family and many people and places that I recognized. There was good coverage of Academy Hill and the center of town, but much more could have been shown. A map of the town would have been useful. The picture of the Westminster Hotel fire brought back bad memories, but the pictures of the Upton and Loughlin Schools, Mansur's Dairy Bar, and the Forbush Library brought back pleasant memories. I highly recommend it to anyone who has a connection to Westminster. It should stimulate a further interest in its history. I would like to see a second edition, continuing the story of our town.

I can not understand at all why this book has become one of the best-sold books in U.S. One of the reasons is the information in here is extremely unreliable and lack of authenticity. I know many of them have already reveled to be forgery. For instance, the author cited the stories told by Mr. Azuma, the Japanese ex-soldier. But it is already known that his story about this incident was revealed to be his fiction. I also found all the photos listed here were not reliable. I want to insist that this book is filled with vicious forgery.

The topic was interesting. I knew very little about the China-Japan part of WWII. That such horrific occurance has gone under-reported is really a crime. But this book is, sadly, kind of boring. It is also very repetitive, as though the story could have been a short news artiicle or series of articles. (A magazine article). Too bad this had to be expanded to make it appear book-size. If you buy a hard-copy, the font of the print is large and the margins are wide. May have made a passable graduate thesis.

before reading this book, i knew what the japs did to our POW in the southeast, beat, abuse, kill them without any humanity, they are not warriors, but low creatures. I am sorry that there were such terrible sins commited under god, sometimes i really believe President Truman made the right chose, maybe he should go further.

Judith Krantz is not a writer you read for intellectual stimulation or spiritual enlightenment. But she is still one of the most entertaining mass-market novelists around, especially for women. All of her books feature strong, attractive (on the inside as well as the outside) yet believable women; and the plots are the stuff of modern age fairy tales. Scruples is her first novel, the one that put her on the map and was a smash hit in the late '70s. The heroine, Billy Winthrop Ikehorn (two other surnames follow eventually), may be the least likeable of all her heroines, yet is the most believable perhaps because she is flawed. The plot and settings feel slightly dated, but don't really distract from the pure mindless enjoyment of a "smashing read". One of the big attractions of the Krantz novels are the well-researched and absorbing "inside details" of the settings - of the Beverly Hills retail world, the movie industry and people of a certain class in Paris in the case of Scruples. If you read this book and like it, you'll want to grab all her books; if you hate it, don't bother with any others. I have been buying every single one of her books since Scruples up to her latest, Spring Collection, and hope she continues. They are great for reading in bed or in a hot tub.

Judith Krantz was not the first great writer of women's fiction: Mary McCarthy, Taylor Caldwell, Grace Metallus and Jacqueline Susann came before her. Yet, certainly, Krantz gave birth to the women's fiction industry as it exists today. Susan Issacs, Olivia Goldsmith, Danielle Steel, Jackie Collins, Barbara Taylor Bradford and Mary Higgins Clark are just some of those who follow the path blazed by Judith Krantz. A few of these Great Dames may have equalled Ms. Krantz, but none of them has yet exceeded her success.

SCRUPLES is the first modern novel written in that lively style which so many others have tried to emulate. As always with Ms. Krantz, SCRUPLES has several complicated, entwined plotlines involving the half-dozen or so leading characters. As always with Ms. Krantz, these characters each are complex, convincing and endearing. Her writing here, as it would prove to be ever after, is easy to read and quick-paced.

Where Judith Krantz stands alone among the ladies is in the details. After a reader has finished one of her books, that reader will have had an education in whatever topics the book covers. In SCRUPLES, the reader will learn all about high-end retailing and fashion design, about growing up in Paris, about the lifestyle of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills. In fact, Judith Krantz probably solidified the entire fascination with that kind of lifestyle, spawning television series, magazines and, yes, other novels. In reading Ms. Krantz's work, one admires the gowns, tastes the treats, smells the perfume, touches the sculptures. No other author consistently claims this same effect.

Many years after its first issue, SCRUPLES remains as fresh as the day it was published. Not many works can boast of this achievement, and those that do are known as "classics." This freshness, too, must be unique among the women's books. The similar efforts of other authors quickly become dated if they are not read within the first couple of years after they hit the shops.

Judith Krantz deserves greater appreciation than she has received from her legion of fans. An entire branch of the publishing industry has evolved out of second-rate authors who attempt to imitate her style with little success, yet acknowledgement of Krantz's impact has been inexcusably slow in coming.

Judith Krantz clearly set out to write a big, glitzy novel, a fun read. And she did. Did she ever! Very simply, Judith Krantz is the best of the best.

I don't usually read romance novels - they're all patently predictable and unbelievable and, in most cases, horribly written. My girlfriend read Scruples during the summer that we were both 15, and she made me read it, which I did in one long, hot day, stretched out in a hammock in my backyard. The writing is quite intelligent, humorous, touching, and diverse - Judith Krantz, I quickly learned, likes to educate the reader at odd, unsuspected moments. Odd little tidbits - such as South Carolina produces more fashion models than any other state, and that panties from Juel Park go for $200.00 a paid (or did in 1976). The sex was rather yummy, and kind of ahead of its time (read the glory hole sequence). Yeah, I read it, and yeah, I enjoyed it, and yeah, I read her other books as well. I must admit, this one was my favorite. I still have a copy, and i still re-read it from time to time. Hey, sometimes you just have to appreciate the classics.

The text is confusing, very baddly structured and hard to read. Because of the many different authors, the text is not concise. The diagrams and tables are often unprecise, leaving you with even more questions instead of answers. The book is a absolutely not the wright choice for learning immunology. For that I recomend Alberts: MBOC (immunology chapters) and Abbas 5th ed., which are much better books.

My college professor raved about Roitt, Brostoff, and Male's "Immunology" (the fifth edition) but as a student I found the book very technical and difficult to understand. I was in the library the other day and picked up "Roitt's Essential Immunology" because I recognized the author (a different book by the same author). "Essential Immunology" is much easier to read and understand than "Immunology". I highly recommend Roitt's Essential Immunology instead of this book.

I READ THIS EDITION IN CHINA PUBLISHED...

DO YOU THINK STUDY IMMUNOLOGY?

GOOD CHOICE THIS BOOK...