Bell, William

The The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult (The 5-Minute Consult Series)

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A Must for Practitioners of Pediatrics!
waiting for the CD!
an excellent quick reference for most of what i want to know
Thorough, quick, excellant reference tool

The The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult (The 5-Minute Consult Series)
M. William Schwartz , Louis M Bell , Peter M Bingham , Esther K Chung , and David F Friedman
Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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ASIN: 0781754526

Book Description

Now in its revised, updated Fourth Edition, this best-selling reference provides immediate, practical advice on problems seen in infants, children, and adolescents. More than 450 diseases are covered in the fast-access two-page outline format that makes The 5-Minute Consult Series titles so popular among busy clinicians. Other features include a Chief Complaints section addressing the workup and treatment of 50 signs and symptoms, plus a medication index, syndromes glossary, surgical glossary, laboratory values, and tables. The Fourth Edition includes up-to-the-minute treatment recommendations and new information on SARS, fever and petechiae, sexually transmitted disease evaluation, knee pain, ankle sprain, and urethritis.

This edition is also available for PDAs. See Media listing for details.

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A Must for Practitioners of Pediatrics!.......2000-05-31

The 5-minute pediatric consult is written in an easy to read outline format. The writers have eliminated unnecesary obscure data and offer a concise outline of all major pediatric diseases. The topics are designed to be read in 5 minutes or less and all the up to date information to diagnose and treat a specific illness is included. The topics are alphabetized, so they are easy to look up. The writers are accomplised experts in their fields and the book has been edited by the distinguished Dr. Schwartz, at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. As a professor of Pediatrics, I highly recommend this book to practicing pediatricians, family practitioners, nurses and students.

waiting for the CD!.......1999-01-21

when will the CD be available? I travel to several schools providing healthcare to uninsured children and would like to use this valuable reference. (a PNP)

an excellent quick reference for most of what i want to know.......1998-10-22

love the format. listed alphabetically, the items are presented in a easy to read format. Just about all I want to know about the problem when working in a busy office. I can read more later but this gets the job done. an excellent 90's type of book. where is the CD?

Thorough, quick, excellant reference tool.......1998-10-07

As a pediatric nurse,I really love this book!! Many times, quick reference books are not thorough enough. This one is. I've used it many times as a teaching tool with parents.

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Forbidden City
Forbidden City by William Bell
Vivid details and engrossing story wow reader. By JMM
what to Exspect
Forbidden City, quick must-read for all highschool students!

Forbidden City
William Bell
Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf
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ASIN: 0440226791
Release Date: 1996-01-10

Book Description

Seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson comes home from school to find that his father, a CBC news cameraman, wants to take him to China's capital, Beijing. Once there, Alex finds himself on his own in Tian An Men Square as desperate students fight the Chinese army for their freedom. Separated from his father and carrying illegal videotapes, Alex must trust the students to help him escape.

Closely based on eyewitness accounts of the massacre in Beijing, Forbidden City is a powerful and frightening story.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Forbidden City.......2006-03-17

Alex and his dad are going to China! Alex is home when his dad get home. His dad tells them that they are going to China. They go and they are picked up from the airport by Lao Xu. They go to the Beijing Hotel and meet Eddie. A few days later a protest broke out. A few days later, the army comes. Lots of people were killed. Lao Xu was one of them. Alex runs for his life and gets shot in the lead. He hits the ground and passes out. He wakes in a Chineese civilions home. After he is healed, his friend Xin-hua takes him to the airport to find his dad. When they get to the airport, the Chineese soldiers take Xin-hua and kill her. Alex finds his dad in the airport and they go home. There is a lot of adventure, death, and happiness in Forbidden City.

There's a bit a adventure in Forbidden City. Alex and his dad get to go to China, which is an adventure in itself. Alex does a lot of exploring in the city of Beijing. Xin-hua and Alex have the adventure of trying to get to the airport without the soldiers figuring out that Alex is Canadian.

A lot of people die in this book. Many students, who are the ones that are protesting, were killed. Many civilions were killed. Lao Xu was killed. Xin-hua was killed. They were all killed by Chineese soldiers.

Alex is mostly the only one who is happy. He is happy when he gets to go to China. His dad is happy when he gets to go too China with Alex. Alex is happy when he gets home from China. So is his dad.

Happiness, death, and adventure are diffenently in Forbidden City. If there hadn't been as many people die, it would have been happier, but I guess the people dieing made it a better book. If you like book that are based on true events and you like stuff about China history, this is the book for you.

Forbidden City by William Bell.......2005-11-29

Forbidden City is a novel based on the events that swept Beijing in 1989 and the impact of this on one person's life.
The main character, a 17-year-old war history fanatic, Alex Jackson, traveled to the Chinese capital with his father, a CBC cameraman, to cover the Russian premier Gorbachev's visit. During this event, Alex experienced the excitement of being a reporter and of recording the events of the protest, but was apprehensive as the protest became more violent. When martial law was declared in Beijing, soldiers swept in, completely surrounding Tianamen Square with the help of AK47s and even tanks. The students and civilians who were part of the demonstrations were shot down without mercy.
Alex lived out this horror as he was shot by a soldier while carrying illegal videotapes of the demonstrations. At this point, his future was bleak until university student, Xinhua rescued him, and tried to help him smuggle the tapes out of China. Alex managed to get to the airport with the tapes and escaped with his father. Sadly, Xinhua was not so lucky, gunned down by a soldier as she tried to help Alex. After the massacre and finally back in his comfy home in Toronto, Alex destroyed all his military models, realizing war wasn't a game to him anymore.
Young people interested in modern Chinese history or modern international political events will be captivated by this book. Even those with no particular interest in modern Chinese history will find the pace and excitement of this novel quite compelling. This book shares same idea as The Red Scarf by Ji Li Jiang and The Power of Tianamen by Dingxin Zhao.
I personally chose this book for this assignment because it was short but punchy. I read reviews, which recommended this book as exciting to read, and I certainly found it so. The best parts of the book were when his best friend Lao Xu was shot down while trying to stop the killings and when Alex finally gets back home to Toronto with the smuggled tapes. These were the highlights for me because they were particularly thrilling but also moving because they showed much bravery and sacrifice.
I would definitely recommend this book. If you want a fast moving and gripping story, you too will enjoy this novel.

Vivid details and engrossing story wow reader. By JMM.......2005-04-04

This book is a vivid description of the "events" at Tian An Men Square that fateful spring in 1989. This novel is about a seventeen year old boy named Alex who travels with his cameraman father to China, and witnesses the Tian An Men Square massacre.
In this book the author pays good attention to the facts while weaving a story around them. He used a journal format; from the point of view of the protagonist, Alex. William Bell (the author) paints a vivid picture of the horrendous tragedy in Beijing, and brings a realistic quality to his fiction. The characters develop well during the story, but the secondary characters are very one-dimensional.
The author brings a real and personal quality that to many of us is simply a far-off event that happened to a bunch of people we don't know. Although it is realistic, it is not a historian's account. Overall, it is a good, compelling, and vividly detailed novel.

what to Exspect.......2003-11-13

well the story I read, I thought was great. This book is called Forbidden City.This book is about these two people that is going to film an event. well two of the character named Alexander Jackson and his dad goes to Beijing to do a report on the event. His dad does this and is risking his life as well as his son. Alex was a history freak, he collected soldiers in his basement.well they traveled to where they were going and it didn't turn out the way they expected. When they got there it was ok until the event was going on. They took out tanks and killed people. While this happened alex witness his chinese friend's death. well through this event he recorded it and when it was over his father didn't know his son recorded it. Well one month after the incident chen xi tong the mayor of Beijing submitted his report to the politburo of the communist party of china.

Forbidden City, quick must-read for all highschool students!.......2003-05-08

Overall, William S. Bell does a good job putting a human face on the tragedies that took place in Tiananmen Square. He is refreshingly accurate with regard to factual information. The diary format is easy to read yet leaves the book open to interpretation and discussion. The story of the fictional characters Alex, Ted, Lao Xu, Eddie and Xin hua was created as a way to explain what happened to all sides involved in this tragic event. Bell combines a mixture of powerful emotions and dynamic characters to create a true must read for all highschool students. If highschoolers get anything out of this book at all, it will be that there are people out there who will stand up for what they believe in and that violence shouldn't be used as the answer to every problem our world faces.

The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching

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Must Read for College Basketball fan
Excellent Team Builder
One of a Kind Coach
The Dean Smith Way!...
This is why we love and miss Dean Smith on the Sidelines!

The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching
Dean Smith , Gerald D. Bell , and John Kilgo
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Release Date: 2005-02-01

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For forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success. Now, in The Carolina Way, he explains his coaching philosophy and shows readers how to apply it to the leadership and team-building challenges they face in their own lives. In his wry, sensible, wise way, Coach Smith takes us through every aspect of his program, illustrating his insights with vivid stories. Accompanying each of Coach Smith's major points is a “Player Perspective” from a former North Carolina basketball star and an in-depth “Business Perspective” from Gerald D. Bell, a world-renowned leadership consultant and a professor at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School. The keystones of Coach Smith's coaching philosophy are widely applicable and centrally relevant to building successful teams of any kind.

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Must Read for College Basketball fan.......2005-12-16

Dean Smith's book The Tarheel Way was a great read. This book is for kids 12 and up. Unlike many sports books it relates sports to the real world. Dean Smith and his co-writers do a great job of that.

Dean Smith's book talks about the way he ran his basketball team. Dean Smith was all about life lessons and how basketball related to the real world. He does a great job of explaining the recruiting process in his book. He also talks about players leaving early for the NBA and he is ok with that because it gives them financial security for life. He also emphasizes how basketball gives students life lessons that they can carry on in life, or in there work place. Dean Smith had a great understanding of the game of basketball and in life in general. In his book, it is forwarded by people like Roy Williams who have nothing but great respect for him as a coach, and is a person. If you are interested in how a college basketball team is run, Dean Smith's The Tarheel Way is a must read for you.

Excellent Team Builder.......2005-09-07

This book is more than your typical sports book. Sure, it's filled with stories about games, seasons, and individual players. Each chapter starts out with Coach Smith explaining a particular aspect of his coaching methodology. A Player's Perspective follows outlining how the particular aspect and Dr. Bell relates the aspect to the modern workplace. This book is all about building teams.

The Carolina Way can be summed up by these words: Play Hard; Play Together; Play Smart. For example, Coach Smith talks about recruiting players that will fit into his system. Dr. Bell then takes those ideas one step further and relates the recruiting to hiring workers. Another example is Dean Smith held regular one-on-one meetings with each of his players to discover their goals in life as well as basketball. Dr. Bell then outlines how you can pattern employee reviews around these same principals.

I personally got a lot out of this book and plan on implementing some of the strategies in my own team.

One of a Kind Coach.......2005-05-26

Dean Smith is without a doubt one of the best college basketball coaches in the history of the NCAA. I think the win total speaks for itself, and in this book he tells just how he has made it to that milestone. He gives details on his philosophy and past players weigh in on Smith's coaching. This is good for any young coaches out there, or just basketball fans in general. This book is a must have for anyone that loves basketball.

The Dean Smith Way!..........2005-03-12

Dean Smith is a great leader. He has won hundreds of games over the years and has accumulated many trophies that prove his worth as a coach. Great! I got that out of the way.

The Carolina Way should have been called the Dean Smith way. I believe that he would have been successful in almost any profession. He didn't try to win basketball games. He mastered the process that led to winning.

There are many coaches understand basketball X's and O's. Unlike Dean, some successful coaches walk around like they invented the basketball. The difference between Dean Smith and most coaches is his focus on working hard, working smart, and working together. Mastering these traits will help you become successful not matter what you do in life.

Who said nice guys always finish last?

This is why we love and miss Dean Smith on the Sidelines!.......2005-01-24

A year or so after Dean Smith's retirement from coaching the Tarheels, I was waiting on a connection flight from Charlotte and noticed a man sitting alone in the corner, fartherest away from the ramp. He had his back to me, but he looked strangely familiar. I casually got up, walked closer to determine if this was someone I knew and whether or not I should speak. About 15 feet from his seat, I noticed that it was the Dean, sitting alone, with a pen and a yellow legal pad, diagramming plays all by himself. It sounds corny, but it happened and made an indelible impression on me. After all those years, and wins - more than anyone else in college basketball history - the notion that he still had more to learn, that in 35 years, he had not already diagrammed ever possible play, was incomprehensible to me. I wanted to say hello and tell my children later in life that I had met him, but I did not disturb him. Our plane arrived, we boarded, and he walked alone to his seat. I never met him. But I feel like I already knew him having watched him from my baby crib, up to the day he retired.
And reading "The Carolina Way" brought back many memories and reminded me of not only why I am a Carolina Fan but also why he commands such deep respect and admiration. He succedded the right way, never cutting corners, and believing in a system that was based on working hard, working together and being smart. You do NOT have to be a Carolina fan to enjoy and love this book. But if you are, you won' be disappointed, either!

The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology (Blackwell Companions to Religion)

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Great political/theological writing
Best Collection on Political Theology Available

The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology (Blackwell Companions to Religion)

Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Written by a team of international experts, this Companion provides the first comprehensive survey and interpretation of contemporary Christian political theology. It comprises 35 freshly-commissioned essays that embody the best current thinking in the field. These essays explore the political aspects of Christian sources, and consider the interface of theology with political ideologies, including the contribution of theology to feminist, ecological, black and pacifist movements. In assessing the contribution of major political theologians and theological movements, the text indicates how central Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and Christology have politics embedded within them. It also includes two essays that present Jewish and Muslim perspectives on political theology.

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Great political/theological writing.......2005-02-18

This book could have been titled many things. It could be an "introduction" to political theology, because, although it is over 500 pages, there is much more that needs to be said on the topic. Political theology "reader" would also be an appropriate description, since it contains essays by many thinkers working in the field. In the end, though, this book is definately a "companion" to the other writings on the topic available today.

As ought to be expected, this book represents many different perspectives on the task of political theology. It does a good job sampling the numerous viewpoints currently being articulated. One should not expect a coherent presentation. Instead, this is a collection that draws from many conversations.

The book is broken into five parts. The first discusses traditional resources in political theology. This includes scripture, worship, and various traditions prior to the twentieth-century. The second surveys various understandings of the task of political theology. These essays include expositions of movements as well as thinkers. Undoubtedly this section could be greatly expanded, but it does a fair job at surveying the field. The third section is, in my opinion, the most beneficial. Through various doctrines, the task of political theology is examined in a constructive manner. Here the differences in perspective truly come out. The fourth section, also exceptional, gives a response to various movements in the world and academia. Here, for instance, a response to democracy is given. This section could easily have included 2 essays on each topic to present a balanced picture. The final section gives an Islamic and Jewish perspective on the task of political theology. I found these two essays very helpful.

This is a must read for those interested in the interaction of Christian theological thought and the political (however the terms are defined). Readers will be challenged in their beliefs and forced to examine their true convictions. This is a good text to be used as a survey or a springboard for further discussion.

Best Collection on Political Theology Available.......2004-08-15

In the contemporary theological scene, the political dimensions of theology have become a topic for much discussion and no little debate. From all over the theological spectrum, many theologians are becoming more and more caught up in striving to understand the political underpinnings and implications of theological claims. Moreover, the countless political-theological movements that have emerged throughout the twentieth century demonstrate that we indeed seeing a renaissance of sorts in "political theology." Editors Peter Scott and William Cavanaugh have offered a substantive contribution to this contemporary movement in this substantive companion to political theology. This volume offers the most extensive and exhaustive volume dealing with the multifaceted topic of political theology to date. Boasting over 500 pages of political-theological reflection from prominent theologians and political activists from The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, Austria and South Africa, this book promises to become essential reading for those interesting the many and necessary connections between theology and politics.

Scott and Cavanaugh are two very different theologians with very different political views. Cavanaugh, being trained in theology and ethics has established himself distinctly within the radical ecclesial tradition that has become associated with the term "theological politics" while Scott remains far more committed to the long-standing tradition of "political theology." Cavanaugh's "theopolitical imagination" has led him to explore at length the political nature of the church, particularly centering on worship and the Eucharist as inherently political acts. Scott on the other hand has interacted in-depth with issues of ecotheology, arguing for theology's contribution to an ecological democracy in the "common realm" of God, humanity and nature. There are certainly keen differences between the theological and political views of the authors. However, both intimate in the foreword that they hope their "differences would make for a richer volume" (p. 3). This seems to indeed be the case in what follows.

The essays included in this volume are far to numerous and detailed to be examined in-depth. However, some general comments are in order. The book is structured into five different sections. The first deals with "traditioned resources." In particular, this section examines the political contribution of the Old and New Testaments, Augustine, Aquinas, Reformation thought and the Liturgy. The second section, forming the bulk of the book engages in a survey of political theologians and schools of political-theological thought. Theologians, Carl Schmitt, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Courtney Murray, William Temple, Reinhold Niebhur, Jürgen Moltmann, Johann Baptist Metz, Gustavo Gutiérrez and Stanley Hauerwas are all treated at length. In addition, this section also scrutinizes Eastern Orthodox political theology, northern and southern feminist theology, Asian political theology and black theology. The following section consists of essays in constructive political theology, each exploring the political implications of a major category of systematic theology. The doctrines of the Trinity, Creation, Christology, the Atonement, the Spirit, the Church and Eschatology are all treated. The fourth section consists of theological evaluations and engagements with different political and cultural structures and movements. Issues of the state and civil society, democracy, critical theory, postmodernism and globalization are treated here. Finally, the volume concludes with two responses to the volume from the perspective of the other two "Abrahamic faiths" (p. 3), Judaism and Islam. Islamic theologian, Bustami Mohamed Khir details an Islamic theology of liberation that seeks after socio-political justice that he believes shares certain commonalities with Christian liberation theology (pp. 515-516). Jewish theologian Peter Ochs, in his response articulates an "Abrahamic Theo-politics" (pp. 519-534). Interestingly, there seem to be several points of contact between Khir's and Scott's perspectives on liberation theology and Ochs's and Cavanaugh's conception of theological politics.

There are numerous comments, questions, excitements, anticipations and criticisms that this volume will doubtless elicit. Most of the questions that come to my mind largely concern what was omitted, rather than what was included. It is curious that given all the interaction which took place in the various essays with the work of Oliver O'Donovan, that his work did not merit an essay of its own. Also, it was a bit unfortunate that Calvin, Luther, Müntzer, and the Anabaptists were all condensed into one essay (with Zwingli not being treated at all), while Augustine and Aquinas received individual treatments. While Gustavo Gutiérrez receives treatment, it seems strange that Latin American liberation theology does not merit an essay of its own.

There are certainly other comments that could be made, particularly about the various political claims made by the contributors to the section on constructive political theology, but such discussions are beyond the bounds of this review. While there is certainly important material that is not treated in this volume (as with all edited volumes), this is beyond question the most exhaustive book of its kind, if indeed there are any other books of this kind. To date no compendium of essays in political theology of this caliber and diversity has been brought together to my knowledge. It will become required reading for all those interested in politics, theology and the intersection between them.

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Practical, useful, and Biblical
One of the Best...
Inspiring, challenging. You'll grow or put the book away!
Gurnall better than current titles on Spiritual Warfare.

The Christian in Complete Armour
William Gurnall
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The Christian in Complete Armour provides daily readings packed with tools for spiritual triumph. Written in the seventeenth century by Pastor William Gurnall and compiled into 365 readings by editor James S. Bell, Jr., this collection supplies Christians with a soul-searching and inspiring supplement to the Bible.'The best thought breeder in our library.' -Charles Spurgeon

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Practical, useful, and Biblical.......2006-03-02

In this age of Harry Potter, feel-good gospels, barking in the Spirit, demon warfare, and other spiritual silliness within our churches and without, William Gurnall is a welcome return to Biblical seriousness and a call to arms against the actual enemy on the actual battlefield: sin, and our own flesh.

For a solid, Biblical discussion on sin and spiritual warfare, "The Christian in Complete Armour", from which this devotional is excerpted, is without compare. The daily portions lose the context of the full work, but stand well enough on their own. That makes this devotional an ideal, daily revisiting for those who have read the full set. But for those new to Gurnall, or those ready to move from milk to meat, but wanting small, savory morsels, this devotional is perfect.

Though Mr. Gurnall's work is for everyone, his combat and military style will have particular appeal to men. (If you approach this book with that in mind, and you've been reading John Eldridge's books on "Christian manliness", repent and forget everything he said. Read this instead.)

This is absolute 6-star material compared to other devotionals, but I give it 4 stars compared to his full work, for an average of 5 stars. :)

One of the Best..........2004-07-16

I don't think there is a single book in my library that I go to more often than this inspiring work. A true masterpiece. Devote yourself to reading this devotional and get ready for the blessings.

Inspiring, challenging. You'll grow or put the book away!.......1999-07-24

Absolutely the most challenging book I have read this year! It has made me evaluate how I look at the things around me and how I interpret events in my life. I have been more transformed into the image of Christ because of this book and I highly reccommend it to anyone who is serious about dying to flesh and living for Christ.

Gurnall better than current titles on Spiritual Warfare........1998-07-21

John Newton, who wrote the famous hymn Amazing Grace, said that Gurnall's original volume would be the one book he would want in addition to his Bible. Bell's devotional edition captures some of the best illustations and insights of Gurnall in a way that is enoyable and that will introduce you to the writings of this great Puritan Pastor. His understanding on Spiritual warfare is soundly Biblical and contrary to a lot of current titles that purport to be Biblical but are based on experience. Gurnall will Bless You!

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Food Microbiology & Laboratory Practice
Chris Bell , Anthony Williams , and Paul Neaves
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Chunky Flap books are Great, except this one.
Surprise Thomas! is a great little book
1 year old loves this book

Surprise, Thomas! (A Chunky Book(R))
William Heinemann
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Release Date: 1994-04-05

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Illustrated in full color. Uncover surprises all over the Island of Sodor with Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends.

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Chunky Flap books are Great, except this one........2002-09-11

I have four Chunky Flap books. They are all great except for "Surprise, Thomas".

Each individual page in these books is supposed to tie into a central theme. It is a stretch to say that this book follows that pattern. This book is very disjointed. The text is grammatically awkard and fails to tie each page into the party theme.

There are even a few places where the text doesn't make sense such as when the flaps open to reveal clowns and the text says "shoes" instead of "clowns". There are shoes in the picture but I think clowns are the important part of the picture and they are what fits into the party theme.

This book is a nice size to travel with and the flaps are fun to open. However, there are much better Chunky Flap books. I would recommend getting one of those and skipping this one. "Open the Barn Door" is particularly good.

Surprise Thomas! is a great little book.......2001-12-21

My son Tommy loves this book. Its small size is just right for him to carry it around with him as a security item, I guess. But I've read it to him so many times, and he still loves it. It's been taped and retaped due to so much handling, but that's OK with him. Lots of fun flaps which he loves to open. A great book!

1 year old loves this book.......1998-11-14

Our 1 year old son never tires of opening the flaps to see what's behind them!

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Comprehensive, colorful guide, but hard to use
Wild Flowers of NC
Wild flowers of North Carolina

Wild Flowers of North Carolina, 2nd Ed.
William S. Justice , C. Ritchie Bell , and Anne H. Lindsey
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Release Date: 2005-05-14

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This classic botanical handbook, originally compiled by the late William S. Justice and C. Ritchie Bell, pairs color photographs with descriptions of the wild flowers and flowering trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, and weeds found in North Carolina and many other eastern states, from Delaware to Georgia. Entries include information on habitat, range, size, months of bloom, and features for identification. For this new edition, Bell and Anne H. Lindsey have included 100 additional species and expanded the information in previous entries to address developments in the field of plant conservation, providing comments on endangered and protected species, medicinal uses, the cultivation of species in a wild garden, and the commercial availability of nursery-grown natives.

Customer Reviews:

Comprehensive, colorful guide, but hard to use .......2006-08-20

This guidebook to wild flowers in North Carolina has about 500 species illustrated, each with a description and a small photograph of the flower and plant. The guide deserves high marks for the number of species included and the scholarship which went into describing each by location, blooming date, and other information. Brief tidbits concerning medicinal uses, edibiity, and folklore of the plant are included in many descriptions. Indexed are both scientific and common names of each plant.

However, the guide is nearly worthless for the field identification of flowers. There needs to be some sort of key or pattern to help with identification. There seems no rhyme nor reason I can discern with the order in which the flowers are described. It would be a lot better if the flowers were grouped by blooming date and color, e.g. yellow flowers that appear in May should be together as should purple flowers blooming in September.

So, if you want to go into your backyard and identify what is blooming there you will need a field guide, not this book.

Smallchief

Wild Flowers of NC.......2003-10-23

Excellent reference book for use in describing flowers growing in North Carolina at certain times of year.

Wild flowers of North Carolina.......2000-04-17

This is a good book to bring along on day hikes. Clear photos and identifying information. It is not about gardening wildflowers.

Naval Documents of the American Revolution [Volumes I-VI]

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Naval Documents of the American Revolution [Volumes I-VI]
William Bell [editor] Clark
Manufacturer: USGPO
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000CBEJT0

Call and Response the Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (Anthology of African-American Literature)

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This book sings to me
Difficult to use book
Destined for greatness

Call and Response the Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (Anthology of African-American Literature)

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Three Classic African-American Novels : Clotel, Iola Leroy, The Marrow of Tradition (Vintage Classics)
Access Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume E: The Victorian Age
Black Ice

ASIN: 0395809614

Book Description

More than a decade in the making, Call and Response is a ground-breaking anthology of African American literature, unique in its placing equal emphasis on the written and the oral dimensions of the black aesthetic. It traces the centuries-long emergence of this distinct literary tradition from its earliest roots in African proverbs, folktales, and chants to its latest flowering in the works of such writers as Rita Dove, August Wilson, and Terry McMillan. Here, in 2,000 pages and 550 selections, is (in the words of Richard Wright) the "long black song" of African American life, sung in a great choir of voices, from the slaves of the 1600s to the rap artists, orators, novelists, and poets of today.

Among the works included are Frederick Douglass's Life and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye--both presented complete and unabridged. Here too are hundreds of spirituals and work songs, jazz and blues lyrics, poems, plays, stories, and speeches. An audio CD, produced in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, features many of the texts as spoken or sung by their creators.

Customer Reviews:

This book sings to me.......2001-08-06

This is no mere literary anthology. It's a history, a cultural statement and a new way of looking at the African American tradition. Song lyrics weave themselves through the poems, around the stories, under the essays and beyond the non-fiction articles. Where else could anyone find the rhetoric of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the old down home Virginny blues of Jimmy Reed?

This has the speech that Jesse Jackson gave to the Democratic convention in San Francisco in 1984. I was there. It was a big moment at the time but I didn't recognize it as an historical event until I found it printed here.

The book itself feels like the typical blues song. We Rhythm and Blues kids used to call it a 12 bar blues. This is a song where the first two lines were repeated and then came the summary. In section IV, the subtitle reads, "Play the blues, play the blues for me." Section V repeats the same words. Section VI has the summary line: "No other music'll ease my misery." I can put these words to the standard 12 bar blues tune in my mind.

Hill delicately reaches back to the lyrics from spirituals, prison songs, rural blues, ragtime and back to slave work songs and their African origins. She advances the music through R & B into Avant-Garde Jazz and Rap and Hip Hop. The book contains a CD with songs and speeches.

The music entices us into the literary content. There's more here than the usual fiction, drama, poetry and essays. I found sermons, toasts, prayers, and folktales, both slave and African. Readers may be unfamiliar with some of the classifications -- Conjure tales, Griot's chant, haunt tales and "Call and Response."

We follow the history of a people through the writings of slave poets, the abolitionist orators, the fugitive slave narratives, preacher tales, and the voices of reconstruction. It continues through to contemporary fiction and non-fiction writers.

It's not an easy book to read because every time I look for one idea, I get distracted by selections like, "Sketches from a Black-Nappy-Headed Poet," or "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane."

I confess, I know more about the music than the literature. This book draws me in with artists like Muddy Waters, Leadbelly, Howlin' Wolf, Oscar Brown, Jr., Public Enemy and Ice T. After I'm involved, I'm learning about Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Frances Watkins Harper and Sojourner Truth.

I'm afraid that if I were to ask the average American high school student to name three African American literary figures, he or she would say: Martin Luther King, Jr., Langston Hughs and then stop there. Some might add Alice Walker. This text puts those writers in their place and, given the wealth of content here, they occupy a small place compared with all who surround them.

I came upon this book as I was participating in the Urban Dreams Program, a federal project to train high school teachers in computer technology. Pat Hill spoke to our group. She impressed us all with her spirit, her knowledge and her comprehensive understanding of the African American tradition. To the degree that I've been positively influenced by her dynamic presence, I caution the reader of this review to be aware than I may have elevated her book higher than if I had not seen Hill in person. Other than that, this book is one of my personal favorites which will never be loaned out to anyone, ever. So please, my friends, don't even ask.

Difficult to use book.......2001-02-01

Although there is no faulting the content of this book, I do have issues with its presentation. As a literature textbook, it offers little to the user in the way of navigation. The page headers refer not to the authors or works on those pages, but instead to the abritrary titles of the Editors' sections. In this way, it is well-nigh impossible to find anything in the book. Further, the book could have done with explanatory footnotes in the texts and even something so simple as a publication/writing date for each of the selections.

The editor's notes are quite extensive, perhaps too much so. They spend a lot of time advancing their theories about the development of African American literature when they should be presenting the texts and leaving the reader to decide.

However, as I said, I cannot fault the content itself, which is very good, allowing the student a wide breadth of material, much of it by authors who are otherwise ignored by other anthologies. But much of this material is also covered in other anthologies which are much easier to navigate.

Destined for greatness.......1999-05-01

I found this to be a truly valuable resource put together by some very smart people. It's packed with insightful essays, rich overviews and enough great black literature to keep me busy for a good long while. I only wish it had been written years ago.

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