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Not only is the art the usual high quality for Adam Warren, but the story is also one of his best.

This is Warren when he's most intelligent. A great read for the casual reader, this story also offers a highly intelligent, satiric meta-story about the stupidity of super-hero comics (sic!). Well worth the read if you like your comics more intelligent than just mindless action.

The only complaint I can really have about this are the garish colors, but that is a matter of taste.

Excellent one-issue Elseworlds story by Warren, which details the adventures of a new group of "Titans" in the far-future. Plenty of action, light-hearted angst, and psuedo-religious/scientific babble to get the story going. Plus a number of engaging and interesting characters making up the team.

Especially interesting was the "appearance" of a current DC superhero and how Warren managed to incorporate him into the new Titans! From beginning to slam-bang finish, this story is well worth your time and money.

I love this book! why? because ADAM(WAR!)WARREN made it. He is the best (American)Manga writer/artist or what some say 'wartist'. The book has action, comedy, and the usual asian- manga flavor. I f you love anime/manga you must get this book. If it's ADAM "war!" WARREN made it rules!

The Library Card is four short stories about kids who never thought they would ever be interested in reading until a "magical and mysterious" library card comes and takes these kids to the library and turns these lazy punks into inquiring minds. This is one of the best books I've ever read. I would recommend this book to anybody!

Have you ever wanted to run away from home? Well, Tooter does - she hates the smell on the farm and will do anything to get away! Tooter won't talk to anybody because she doesn't want to live on Aunt Sally's farm. Aunt Sally likes the silent treatment, but it drives dad crrrraaaaazzzzy! Tooter thinks she's going to croak because there isn't any McDonald's.

I liked this book because it contained funny stories. For example, Tooter handcuffs herself to the sink in protest over a move to a farm. She also walks around the farm with perfume to block out nasty smells. The end is heartwarming. I would recommend this book to people who like funny stories.

I couldn't put the book down. Extremely well written and simply a chilling story. I hope it is adapted for the bigscreen.

A truly moving and inspirational story, combined with a plot that does not let you stop reading makes this novel a must have for everyone. As a story about such a tragic event in human history, this book explores an often ignored aspect of the Holocaust by putting a human face to history.

This is a fantastic novel, I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend this book to anyone.

Our school used this book with easy to follow patterns for both a first grade and third grade folk art unit. The kids were able to do a great job, and felt proud with their end-product.

I can hardly wait to use this for our Girl Scout Troop! -- We will make two-sided patterns and use them for christmas decorations.

--Great Book.

This book is very well done. The designs are originals and there are patterns from which to create your own pieces of art. The art pieces included in this book are very colorful and extremely intricate, surely a sign of a master's hand! This is a must have book for anyone interested in Folk Art, particularily Polish Folk Art. The author has her art displayed in regional museums as well as in the Smithsonian and has been widely acclaimed for her work. Enthusiastically, I recommend this book for art lovers everywhere!

This book is a fabulous book for beginning paper cutters and seasoned papercutters alike!! It is well constructed, well organized, and extremely easy to follow!! The patterns are fabulous and designed from beginners to advanced. The instructions are well detailed and easy to follow. I love the artist's patterns-they are orginals and extremely beautiful. This is one book I'll use again and again. There's something for everyone here. This is a wonderful addition to any artist's library and would also make a wonderful gift.

When I read this book last year, several months into working with an 8th grade remedial reading class consisting of all boys but two, I felt great relief to see that I was not the only teacher having such difficulties. Wilhelm used his difficult years of teaching remedial reading to kids who insisted on hating school and hating reading, and turned this experience into a practical approach to getting reluctant readers involved in a good story. His premise is generally that many struggling readers have difficulties because they are unable or unwilling to visualize what they read. He oulines practical ideas for helping readers visualize, generally by using process drama and tableaus in class. The book concentrates on a few different strategies, but he goes into some details on them, and just reading about these few strategies is enough to get you thinking about other ways to help your students. I'll never forget my macho boy students interpretating Charlotte from Avi's The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, sashaying around the front of the room. Once they got over their embarrassment, they enjoyed the drama and said such activities helped them remember and understand what they've read, as well as helping them connect with the characters.

At a time when countries like USA, Australia and Great Britain have registered their concern over literacy standards in schools by subjecting students to an ever increasing battery of standardised tests, it is refreshing to read a book by an experienced educator which emphasises a human and humane approach to putting the joy back into teaching reading. Jeffrey D Wilhelm's response to teaching students with reading difficulties is to make books "live" by using drama and art activities to enable readers to see and feel the text as well as to read it. He maintains that reluctant readers feel submissive to texts, seeing them as codes to be cracked rather than as containing meaningful stories and experiences. These students become so preoccupied with word identification and pronunciation that they never experience sentences and meanings. It is not until the teacher intervenes to reinforce reading with visualisation and actualisation activities that some students begin to "see" stories in their imaginations for the first time. Wilhelm's resistant students move from rejecting reading altogether as being irrelevant and boring to actively interrogating texts to check the validity of their artistic and dramatic performances - they learn to enjoy reading. It's worth wondering whether any basic skills test or comprehension activity could claim to have had that effect on even the most enthusiastic of readers. As an educator of beginning high school English teachers in Australia, I found this book to be both inspiring and topical, given the debate about literacy standards, particularly in relation to boys. One of the most frequently asked questions from student teachers returning from their practice teaching experiences is, "How do you get kids to read anything these days?" This book provides some helpful suggestions - firstly, get to know the students, without labelling them as failures, secondly don't be afraid to use texts they enjoy outside school, especially comics, and then present literature in conjunction with other forms of art so that students can see their experiences represented. Wilhelm is insistent that once students can "see" the worlds written about in literature, then they can enter the story world and from there encounter texts at gradually deepening levels of insight and enjoyment. It sounds like it might be worth a try.

This book is fantastic! It's fun and very enlightening to read about Mr. Wilhelm's experiences as a junior high literature teacher. He has a firm grasp of contemporary reader-response theories and provides dozens of great project ideas for teaching literature to adolescents. I do a lot of empirical research into young adult reading patterns, and this book is full of inspiration and ideas. It is a valuable resource for both university students and English/ ESL teachers, as well as a well-written sory about one teacher's life in the literature classroom. Excellent!

Astonishing. An indispensable user's guide to anyone who seek for the abject concept and its applications particularly on the aesthethics issues, from Bataille to Kristeva.

O guia definitivo do conceito de abjeto e suas manifestações na arte contemporânea. Indispensável para diletantes na abjeção, de Bataille a Kristeva.

I had every intention of majoring in accounting when I started college. This was the textbook used in my first two accounting classes, and I was quite pleased. The book is incredibly user-friendly. It reads like a regular book, and doesn't just beat you over the head with facts as most textbooks do. However, this doesn't mean it is all fluff. The information presented is clear and concise. As you read the book even gives real world applications of "Accounting in Action", applicable to the material in the chapter. Some of these examples are fascinating.

Here's how much I like this book... I am taking a cost accounting class now and when I get confused by something in that book I refer to the last chapter in Accounting Principles, which is Managerial Accounting. And more often than not I get a better explanation.

An Excellent text to complement the teaching of financial accounting fundamentals. Reccomended on a 100%.

Prof. Graziano Maldonado, Jr.
East University
A Member of the Ana G. Mendez University System

I thought I would write this review because I am a student at Southampton university and am currently trying to surf the net for information on Jackie Kay. As of yet I have been met with blank walls wherever I have turned which is beginning to bug me. If anyone knows where I can find any info on Jackie and The Adoption Papers maybe they could share it with me in another review. Thanks

magical and magnificent, here is an astounding new voice, the most important defining debut since Emily Dickinson.

I realy like this book.Trust me and buy this book.

This was a good book i realy liked it.Trust me and buy this book.

This collection of poems by Robin Becker is truly wonderful. Her poems range from funny and ironic, to deeply moving, to acute (if sometime oblique) social critique. Her topics range over a wide range of concerns (as noted in the description above), but she is a poet, plain and simple, not a lesbian poet, Jewish poet, and so on. Her insights are her own, from her own specific perspective.

To me, the most amazing thing about this collection is the high level of quality maintained throughout. While not every poem is a "home run," there are not fly balls or grounders either: none of the filler stuff that is all too prevalent in books by established poets.

I read a considerable amount of contemporary poetry, but I only discovered Robin Becker during the last year. I was amazed by her poems. This is a poet who is struggling to write about whatever glimpses of truth she can find, not settling for easy answers or arresting, but ultimately hollow, metaphors or symbols. Additionally, one must consider that many gay or lesbian poets either seem to write primarily about their sexuality, or they attempt to keep that autobiographical fact out of their books (for fear of being cast by readers as being solely a "gay poet.") Even in the literary world, I think that ambiguity makes many readers nervous. Any poet facing the decision about whether to reveal his or her homosexuality in print knows (and quite possibly fears) being pigeonholed because of sexual orientation. Becker's work is ambiguous (or, more clearly, complex) only in that she chooses to focus on many different subjects, with her lesbianism being one of many subjects from which she gleans meaning. Thus, she cannot be categorized neatly. For any poet, such uniqueness is almost always a compliment, and it definitely is one in her case. I read all of Robin Becker's books this summer, and each (with the exception of her first collection, included in *Personal Effects*) had at least a few poems that were amazing and will remain in my memory forever. However, if I had to choose a favorite book, I would pick this one. The sheer quantity of highly successful poems in this collection makes reading *All-American Girl* a very rewarding experience.