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How Cleaning My Room Changed My Life 8 reviews
Huma Gruaz
Alpaytac Inc, 2008
Organizational skills are something everyone should strive to teach their children
Organizational skills are something everyone should strive to teach their children. "How Cleaning My Room Changed My Life" is a guide for preschool age children to learning these invaluable skills, and forming good habits that will stay with them from the rest of their lives. Touching on many aspects of keeping one's room neat and tidy, and illustrated with a fun style of artwork, "How Cleaning ...
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Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and the subject of Eurocentrism.(Critical Essay): An ...1 review
Spurgeon Thompson
Irish University Review, 2003
Burke's evils of the French Revolution
This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of the French Revolution. In Burke's book Reflections on the Revolution in France, he penned a diatribe against the evils of the French Revolution, believing that there was a pernicious cabal of philosophes and politicians joined by money-jobbers whose aim was to topple not only the old regime in France, but to export their "plague" ...
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Convección de calor en el flujo de fluidos viscosos a través de un lecho de empaque metálico.(aceite ): An ...1 review
Luis Patiño Carrillo
Thomson Gale, 2005
Amazing paper
This contribution to the heat transfer science is awesome, if I can I put it 10 stars.
I can't believe the fantastic way in which the author describes and solve the problem mixing science with poetry.
It's a pity that he write it in spanish, anyway you can learn it to appreciate how incredible is this scientific contribution, a mixture between the Cervantes's talent and the Einstein genious.
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Dragonlance: The Legend of Huma (Dragonlance (Numbered))1 review
Richard A. Knaak, Mike S. Miller, ...
Devil's Due Publishing, 2008
Collection including bonus
The first five issues in this book were originally published individually. Issue six has not been previously published and is only available in this collected volume.
The illustrations are beautiful and vibrant, transporting the reader directly into the grandeur as well as the detail of the story. The character portrayals are consistent with those found in the original novel these comics are ...
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Past Worlds Collins Atlas of Archaeology3 reviews
Borders Press, 2003
Great Reference Material
This book has a bunch of great pictures of artifacts, maps, and info on the ancient civilizations of the world. Contains sections on peoples from all corners of the Earth. Granted, the section devoted to each civilization is small, but there are so many of them jammed into the covers of this gigantic-sized color book. If you want more expansive and detailed information on a particular ancient ...
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Jasmine in Her Hair6 reviews
Huma Siddiqui
White Jasmine Press, 2004
True cultural experience
Reviewed by Juanita Watson for Reader Views (4/06)
"Jasmine in Her Hair" - Just the title alone intrigued me. I couldn't help but instantly be drawn into this delightful cookbook. Written by Huma Siddiqui, the recipes are rich with her family's heritage, creating a true cultural experience.
Huma beautifully weaves aspects of her culture with personal memories growing up in Pakistan, ...
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Media critic, critique thyself: Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media? Is as shoddy as the books it attacks. ...1 review
Cathy Young
Reason Foundation, 2003
Makes some good points
Do the media have a liberal bias?
Cathy Young indicates that such a bias is self-evident. After all, a large majority of the media is liberal. And these days, where the media is unafraid to put its views in its editorials (and even in its supposedly unbiased news reporting), that would give the media a liberal bias.
What Young says may well be true. But I think it is overstated. In ...
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Can happiness be taught?: An article from: Daedalus1 review
Martin E.P. Seligman
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004
Will Read Again & Again
Wonderful positive instuctional & motivational article. Very interesting ideas and sources. Not your "quick read," requires some digestion.
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Disintegrating bodies: postmodern narrative in Mariaana Jantti's Amorfiaana.(Critical Essay): An article ...1 review
Tara Chace
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 2004
Magical Realism Meets Postmodernism
Chace relies on Wendy Faris's remarkably constructive "Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction" (from Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community) to show how Jäntti's novel meets all five of the primary characteristics of magical realism: an irreducible element of magic, detailed descriptions of a realistic world, contradictory understandings of events, the near merging ...
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Creatore vs. Traditore: Borges, Reiss and others on the translator's role.: An article from: Confluencia: ...1 review
Eduardo González
University of Northern Colorado, Department of Hispanic Studies, 2005
Excellent article!
Excellent article. Well written, plenty of facts based on a translational analysis of Borges's as well as Reiss's proposed designation of styles. It beautifully "connects" literary and general, everyday, real-life translation. Very solid analysis of Borges's viewpoints on Translation and the author's own ideas --based on empirical facts.
Can't wait to read more from this author,
Lupe
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Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems and Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First ... 1 review
Heather James
Renaissance Society of America, 2002
Disappointing
I purchased this document in the hope of reading an academic account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his beloved Metamorphoses. I was disappointed to find that the document was a brief book review. Had I read the fine print on the Amazon page, I would have learned this, but I was gullible enough to assume that a detail of that importance would be publicized.
The article itself is ...
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The other warsaw uprising: why the world has forgotten.: An article from: Commonweal 1 review
Justus George Lawler
Commonweal Foundation, 2004
The Forgotten Warsaw Uprising: a Thought-Provoking Essay
Why is it that the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 1943) is widely publicized, while the much larger Polish Warsaw Uprising (August-October 1944) is largely ignored? Justus George Lawler comments: "Lack of attention to the Rising in the United States can be attributed to several factors. In the early decades of the twentieth century, Polish immigrants were so preoccupied with the struggle ...
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Political Thought in Europe: 1250-1450.: An article from: Renaissance Quarterly1 review
Steven Rowan
Renaissance Society of America, 1994
Rip-off
This item is a 1-1/2 page review of 2 books, Antony Black's and another by Viroli. Only 3/4 of the first page is devoted to the review of Antony Black's book, and while it is a good, concise review, it is absolutely not worth paying $5.95 when reviews can be found for free on the Internet.
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Another inconvenient truth.(Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid)(Book review): An article from: Commonweal 1 review
George Jaeger
Thomson Gale, 2007
An inconvenient falsehood
Yes, it is an "inconvenient truth" that we humans are having an effect on the environment, and that all other things being equal, the effect may be a significant global warming during this century. It is inconvenient because we'd rather not spend the effort to stop doing what we're doing and because we're not really sure how bad the problem is.
But is it an inconvenient truth that we humans ...
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Body Explorer: An Interactive Multilingual Program on the Cross-Sectional Anatomy of the Visible Huma Human ... 2 reviews
Andreas Bulling, Florian Castrop, ...
Springer, 2001
Body Explorer 2.0 - excellent Cross-Sectional Anatomy
For individuals who are interested in their own anatomy and for medical students the Body Explorer 2.0 is a great possibility to learn about the human anatomy. In combination with an usual atlas you have the complete impression of the 3D anatomy. You can surf through the human body by having a view at any desired slice in horizontal level. Following several structures through the slices you will ...
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Ordinary Poles.(Books)(Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz)(Book review): An article from: ...1 review
John Connelly
Thomson Gale, 2007
Mixes Sophisticated and Unsophisticated Analysis
Pointedly, Connelly realizes that, by making blanket statements against Poles, Jan T. Gross is actually contradicting himself: "For one, it contradicts Gross' own commitment to combating ethnic stereotypes." (p. 29)
Connelly comments: "But Israeli historian Sara Bender's recent study of [Kielce] under Nazi occupation shows that Poles had little if any role in the Holocaust. German ...
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Modernization, Democracy, and Islam1 review
Praeger Paperback, 2005
Great book
This is an excellent compilation of articles written by some of the top professors in the field. All the articles colloborate to cover the movements of various countries in the arab world. This is a great secondary source for any research or for reading casually. The individual articles each cover their own topics well.
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The Legend of Huma (Dragonlance: Heroes) 129 reviews
Richard A. Knaak
Wizards of the Coast, 2004
Excellent Piece of the Saga
The Dragonlance Chronicles were so popular that they spawned dozens of prequels, sequels, and "histories" set in the world of Krynn. Unfortunately, most of those not written by Weis and Hickman were mediocre at best. This was one of the rare exceptions - almost as compelling as the original trilogy. Knaak has written other Dragonlance books, and I actually enjoyed them all, but this is his best. ...
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The Altar and Altarpieces of New St. Peter's Outfitting the Basilica 1621-1666.(Review) (book review): An ...1 review
Martha Pollak
Renaissance Society of America, 2001
What A WASTE OF MONEY!!!
I can'r believe how stupid I was for buying this.
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Worldmaking.(Critical Essay): An article from: Variaciones Borges1 review
Alejandro Riberi
University of Aarhus, Borges Center, 2004
It does makes you think ...¿Por qué?
Like most of Riberi's work it's beautifully shaped and elegantly crafted but bordering on the overly sculptured. Having just finished with his piece I am left with a feeling of deep unfulfilment which I cannot really explain. Read his other works especially Fictions as Cognitive Artefacts: the Case of Jorge Luis Borges' "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' (Magnolia Press - nice cover in hardback ...
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