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The first two pages are of Linda Bove showing the signs for the alphabet. Each page after that is based on a theme (for example: "In the morning" has pictures of Linda doing words like "Good, Morning, Alarm clock, window, comb, toothpaste, mirror..." followed by another page with drawings of Sesame street characters and settings with each of those signs in it and something along the line of "How many things in this picture can you sign?" (with all of those things in it).

The themes are "In the morning", "The family", "School days", "Colors", "on the farm", "playground fun", "Opposites", "Action words", "People in the neighborhood", "Spring", "Summer", "autumn", "Winter", "Utensils and food", "In the woods", "How people get around", "In the Jungle", "The way you feel", and "Nighttime". The final two pages of the book are dedicated to signing the numbers 1-10.

It is a fantastic book and I hope they decide to start printing it again so my friends can stop looking for discarded library copies. ;)

This book is a great place to learn sign language. There are pictures of people acting out words and phrases. Makes it fun and easy to learn a little sign language!

I loved this book as a child and still have the gift to read and share with my own children. Every story is very charming and extremely fun to read. My favorite is The Diamond D and the Dreadful Dragon!! Those of you who have had the pleasure of reading this particular story, and have a wry sense of humor fully understands why. This book is a classic and a "must have for all children."

What a wonderful book! Full of emotions, life lessons and fun familiar friends. The story of the Princess and the teeny tiny cookie has stayed with me all my life and I have so enjoyed sharing it with my own daughter.

Since I am a French woman who flies her plane, you can believe that I will take some risks. But the French are very careful with their money, so to learn these strategies of short-selling, a French woman, like me, must be guided along the way. This book is the way to find out about these important things to do with some of your moneys. I am very fortunate to know about these things better from this book.

Short selling is an unorthodox, high risk investment strategy. But it also offers some of the highest potential for profits and hedge protection in bear markets. Unfortunately, there is too little information available to investors on short selling techniques.

I am fortunate enough to have read this excellent book. Although it is not the most up to date, the fundamentals of the market are still the same. I most highly recommend this book and the Art of Short Selling for anyone interested in this dynamic investment opportunity.

Coincidentally, I also am in Somerville, MA. I happened upon this only because it was displayed prominently in a local Cambridge institution in Harvard Square on top of a stack of new architecture and art books that I passed by just browsing. I probably buy more computer-related books (not many at all) than architecture these days, but after looking through this I easily decided to buy it then and there. Two buildings I never previously knew existed, but are richly and lovingly documented (right down to the oddball uniforms the staff had to wear during that period in time). Equal parts historical reference and architectural anthology of the two structures. It currently occupies the top shelf of my living room bookcase.

Daniel Abramson is a first-class writer who beautifully handles a large and interesting subject. Hundreds of photos make the book highly accessible. The text perfectly complements the photographs. Outstanding.

This book, like the others in the series, is an absolute joy! All of these books have morals, without being overly preachy. Like the other reviewer said, I agree that the funny part was Stacy breaking the pencil sharpener. When I was Stacey's age I, too, "broke" a pencil sharpener but it was my mom's office pencil sharpener. I couldn't fit it back together so my mom was upset about the mess just like Ms. Zachary is in this book (however I was able to get it back together later on luckily). So when I read about Stacey's pencil sharpener dielema, I chuckled because I could relate!

You;ll like the part about when Stacey broke the pencil sharpener.

Not many books published with an elderly woman as the main character. Mrs. Cimino, because of unusual stress, has become confused. A hearing is held, a guardian appointed, her assets placed under control of a bank, and she is sent to a nursing home. Thanks to her granddaughter, she is moved to a home that helps her recover. The bank has sold her home and possessions with no interference from her two sons, so she moves to an apartment hotel. But she must, with difficulty, sue for a larger allowance from her own money and to regain some control over her own assets. Once placed under guardianship, few recover control of their own lives. Even Mrs. Cimino, who is quite well off financially, does not get all she asks. And she is warned by her attorney that the bank might ship her to another nursing home to avoid losing control of her money. An absorbing story with characters who seem real. After reading it, one doesn't have to wonder what happens to less wealthy people in the same situation.

This is a moving, powerful novel about an idealist's search for meaning in a callous, corrupt society. The characters are multi-faceted -- not all good, or all bad, just achingly human. Klasne is a lyrical, talented writer. I was deeply touched by this book.

I've been a fire captain and paramedic for about 14 years -- and I can attest to Keith Neely's accurate rendition of "life on the streets."

The story follows a paramedic in a busy metro Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system, along with some of his friends and colleagues. For the EMS/fire/law enforcement professional, there are laugh-out-loud passages, where we read about people we have dealt with hundreds of times ourselves! For the lay reader, there is enough action to keep the story moving along, but enough of a look behind the mystery of what paramedics do (and who they are) to make it very informative, as well.

My only complaint is that it wasn't long enough, and there hasn't been a sequel!

I enjoyed reading this book and found it hard to put down very intresting cast and always moving somewhere never any dull pages. I look forward to the seque

Published in 1980 but a timeless classic, the book explains how a shrewd professional investor discovers a dull but solid family company whose management has just passed to a grandson with an MBA and grand visions of turning it into a high-tech conglomerate. After the grandson bungles a tech acquisition, the investor shorts and the price falls by two thirds. The investor closes and begins to ponder whether it is possible to transform a boring company into a stockmarket star. The book is more or less a manual of how to dress up mutton as lamb, and as a professional investor, I particularly appreciate the detail on how to manipulate the stock price so as to produce the chart signals that get technical analysts excited.

The fact that this book is out of print merely proves that the collective intelligence of the market is as low as ever.

Investing is war. And as in any conflict, victory depends on knowledge and excecution. On Wall Street,the public is matched against two principal advisaries: the specialist and the one known as the syndicate manager. These are,after the brokerage houses,no doubt the most succeful of Wall Street. And of the two advisaries, the syndicate manager is chief,a master manipulator,a preditor, deceptive and cunning. He is as the wind: felt but unseen. He is as patient as nature and just as ruthless in his survival. To be as successful as he, we must adopt his ways---see what he sees, think like he thinks. In this book the thinking, motives,and tactics of the syndicate manager are made known by the Author Marchand Sage. To win on Wall Street you must know your enemy,to know your enemy you must read this book. It is a must that you obtain it;purchase it if you can;steal it if you can't. "Know the enemy and know yourself;in a hundred battles you will never be in peril." Sun Tzu "The art of War"

This won't come as a surprise to those who know Lux's work, but *The Street of Clocks* is very good. This is, of course, also the guy who gave us "Commercial Leech Farming Today" (so much for those who say there's no new subject matter), so it always amazes me how many people don't know his work. But you should, all of you. I don't know anybody else who writes like Lux.

Describing his work, unfortunately, is more difficult than flinging around general superlatives. Often weird subject matter which nonetheless hooks into the same stuff we're all feeling: check. Unexpected vocabulary: check. But those features might be thought to equal only novelty (or at best a quirky vision appreciated only by a few isolated fellow nutcases) if it weren't for all the other stuff.

Other stuff. There's the voice, which you couldn't mistake in a thousand; in a period when an awful lot of poets sound an awful lot alike, Lux's voice is distinctive. (I'm not making this up.) That whole James-Wright-minor-melancholy tone that's so prevalent in folks coming out of workshops is absent in his poems, though it's not hard to see that Wright was an influence some way back. And there's the craft; Lux's line breaks are thought out in a way that too many poets' don't seem to be, and he manages formal verse as handily as free. (I think I'm quoting Lewis Turco when I remark that free verse isn't; and Lux knows it.) And there's the specificity which characterizes all good poets: to quote one of my favorites (from *Half-Promised Land*), "Yes!--it does, it does feel exactly fine/ crawling ashore, emptying the boots of water, and frankly/ here's to the clouds the color of bone,/ here's to the indecipherable path home,/ here's to the worm's sweat in the loam..."

See what I mean? That's sufficiently specific to crack your eardrum, with not an abstraction in the lot; and it is, believe it or not, formal verse (I read a Lux sestina without realizing what it was for at least four stanzas). And it's strange enough to make you laugh, a function which distracts you from noticing it's sufficiently (and simultaneously) poignant and celebratory to hook out your liver, a pang you notice just too late to forestall it. (Speaking of livers, there's a poem in *The Street of Clocks* with a lucky vulture in it. Now you know you can't pass that up.) And you can't imagine anyone else putting it just the way Lux does, but you know just what it means, and it makes you feel, in fact, at home. Right here. Seriously, folks, this stuff is good, and it's accessible, and people who hate poetry often like it anyhow. Buy it early and often.

Tom Lux's new book, Street of Clocks, allows its reader the luxury of a slow stroll down a familiar and comforting path. Its language is concise and uncomplicated, and its subject matter is clever, if not profound. Lux deals with such issues as fatherhood, citizenship, and personal insight without being overbearing or forceful. In fact, it is a delight to take your time wading through these thoughtful poems, like stepping into a cool fountain on a hot summer's day; be sure not to get lost in the shiny glitter that comes from some of the metallic detail of his poems, for it is sometimes blinding. This collection is many years in the making, but well worth the wait. Be sure to include this hardback in your permanent collection.

You will enjoy this idea packed book! Every picture is beautiful and inspiring! Mix and match the ideas, they don't all have to come from one home. Floor plans included, with builder and interior design resources given. Street of Dreams website (www.streetofdreams.com) tells you locations of when they will be in your neighborhood. A must see!

If you can't find your dream home in this book, it may not exist in any book! While it only contains 50 plans, every one is beautiful and unique. Each home is covered in four or more pages, with color photos of the front and back of the home, inside, and of course, the floor plans. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a luxury home to build. Each one has many details and there are homes ranging from 3,000 to almost 10,000 square feet. I have had a hard time trying to find plans for homes over 5,000 square feet, and a majority in this book fit that description. I wish I could find more like it.