Receptors in the Developing Nervous System

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This volume provides a thorough review of receptors in the developing nervous system, focusing on those related to neurotransmitters. It puts basic and clinical information into perspective and points to possible areas for future research. The authors take a contemporary approach emphasizing information derived from the application of cell and molecular biology. Volume one discusses receptors related to growth factors and hormones. Together the two volumes will provide an invaluable source of reference for researchers and graduate students in a wide range of basic and clinical disciplines.

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This skill-building manual teaches the fundamentals of lightplane navigation using a natural, confidence-building progression that immediately allows readers to use newly learned techniques in the cockpit.

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Cross Country Navigation Skills for Private Pilots.......1999-12-07

This is an excellent book on VFR navigation for the Private Pilot or student, and it contains a wealth of valuable information as to how to get where you're going without losing yourself along the way. It's written in an easy to understand fashion, and clearly leads the reader through every facet of navigation for Light Planes. I read this book cover to cover without once tiring of the various topics, and would easily rate it as one of the top General Aviation books available today. If you're a student, or a pilot without a lot of cross country flying under your belt, I would heartily recommend this book for your library.

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Light Airplane Navigation Essentials
Craig
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFQA4Q

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For Writers From All Walks of Life!

There's no need to fear the big, bad world of writing with The Little Red Writing Book in hand. Brimming with clever advice, this book offers writers, students, and business professionals a concise guide to penning strong and effective work for all occasions.

The Little Red Writing Book is designed for visual appeal and ease of use. Elegant yet practical, it will be an intriguing, inviting reference you'll turn to again and again. Author Brandon Royal offers concise explanations and nonintimidating instruction based on the four pillars of sound writing-structure, style, readability, and grammar. His discussion centers on 20 immutable writing principles as well as 30 commonly encountered rules of grammar. A wealth of examples, charts, and engaging exercises make The Little Red Writing Book an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to master those skills that will make a good writer even better.

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Helpful, practical guide!.......2006-07-14

Please produce an audio version for folks with limited vision. This is a straightforward and practical guide to clean, crisp writing. Excellent for students.

"TLRWB:..." A Pearl Book to Improve & Foster Writing Skills.......2005-04-04

"The Little Red Writing Book:...", by Brandon Royal, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, 2004 - ISBN 1-58297-336-9 HC, 160 Pg. (7.4" x 5") includes 100 pg. 20 Principles, 26 pg. Grammar Rules, 2 pg. Idioms, 7 pg. Punct., & 23 pg. Appendices (Overview, US vs UK, Latin, & Exercise Answers, 15 pg.)

The 20 Principles cover Writing Top-Down, Break Down, Transition, Structure, Likes Together, Support Says, Personalize, Keeping Simple, Cutting Length, Eliminate Needless, Active Power, Favor Verbs, Parallel Form, Sentence Variety, Tone Apropos, suggesting Layout/Design, Readability, Headings/Headlines, Neuter Gender & Reworking.

For those working to improve & to better use writing skills, be it for creative, communicative or business purposes, this cleverly assembled & learned primer is a commendable composition by a CPA & corporate teacher (here & abroad), & author of 8 books. I would like to have seen an Index included. The book is a classic "Show & Tell" from the title & cover's color to the 'guts' within the pages -- in a word, it has class, is elegant & is useful.

A charming wirting book.......2005-03-02

It's seems that Brandon Royal distanced himself from the writing process before creating this book. This distancing breathes new life into the art of writing to the benefit of "The Little Red Writing Book" readers.

This book is helpful when organizing your thoughts before writing a book or paper. Royal proposes methods for presenting your material while suggesting ideas for making your writing easy on the eyes.

While writing, getting lost in your own world happens. Yet, you don't want your reader to get lost. Royal helps you stay true to your writing agenda while keeping your reader enticed.

As far as grammar goes, Royal serves it up in short easy to remember bullets. My favorite example is when to use the word "like" instead of "such as" and visa versa.

Little, Red, Different.......2005-02-12

There are five major parts to this book: structure, style, readability, grammar, and the appendices. All of these sections support one goal: helping people to write with precision and clarity. The examples aren't taken from the Great American Novel or from philosophical treatises; they're taken from resumes, college entrance essays, business memos, and so on.They're meant to help you get through everyday writing needs. They're meant to help you present yourself well in the real world of school and jobs.

Whether you need to learn about the top-down approach or transition words, you'll find handy suggestions in the "Structure" section. Perhaps most interesting and useful is the section on the six basic writing structures, including charts and examples. Two things you'll find in every section are examples and exercises; the examples serve well to straighten out any confusion, and the exercises (to which you'll find the answers in one of the appendices) make the lessons stick with you.

Whether you need to learn to support what you say, personalize examples, use parallel forms, or choose an appropriate tone, you can get a handle on it in the "Style" chapter. The "Readability" section deals with interesting topics such as layout, design, headings, gender, and revision; many of the techniques in this chapter are employed to great effect in this book.

In addition to the 20 rules of writing, this book includes 30 rules of grammar. This chapter serves as excellent reference material for someone who occasionally has trouble keeping "further" and "farther" straight or knowing when to use reflexive pronouns.

This is a remarkably stylish little book. It has a very "old world" feel to it, which is rather nifty considering this came out in 2004. It's a small book with cream-colored pages decorated with old-style borders and images; a formal tone supports its traditional feel. However, the drawback is that it's dry reading.

Also, as befits the tone but not the time period, there is no reference to how any of this relates to things such as writing for new media. In most cases it doesn't matter; elements of structure, for example, don't really change when you write for the web. Elements of readability, however, could have benefited from a discussion of how they relate to web pages or magazine articles as opposed to essays or job applications.

For a truly in-depth work to help you get the most out of your writing, I prefer Wilbers' "Keys to Great Writing." For a simpler reference work that's easier to access at a moment's notice, however, Royal's "Little Red Writing Book" makes a great alternative. Certainly I plan to keep it on hand.

"best small all-rounded writing book in the market" .......2004-09-11

As someone who communicates for a living (with a penchant for writing), I recently purchased The Little Red Writing Book to add to my personal library. Notwithstanding its hard cover, this book clearly reminded me of an earlier soft cover classic, The Elements of Style. I couldn't help reviewing both books while noting their similarities and differences. Here's my take:

The Elements of Style is really a grammar book with a dose of style added. The Little Red Writing Book is foremost a writing skills book with grammar added. Case in point: The Elements of Style devotes half its coverage to "rules of usage" and "words and expressions commonly misused"; it doesn't even address structure, whereas The Little Red Writing Book wastes no time in discussing the "top-down approach to writing" and the "high school five-paragraph approach to writing". In terms of writing style, the essence of The Elements of Style is "cut out unnecessary words", while the gist of The Little Red Writing Book is "be specific, give adequate support for what you say".

The Elements of Style contains no exercises. The Little Red Writing Book does, and this is an indisputable strength of this book, for I know of no other small book that deals with writing and also contains short exercises. I have secretly marveled at writing books that attempt to teach writing without providing exercises. Of course, any handbook of English grammar will contain exercises, but its thickness will prove intimidating for all but the bravest student.

Which brings me to another point. In dividing the world of writing books into manuals, handbooks, and pocketbooks, there certainly exist a number of excellent books in the first two of these categories. The Chicago Manual of Style and The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage are examples of renowned manuals; Warriner's English Grammar and Composition and Prentice-Hall Handbook for Writers are just two of many superb handbooks.

The Little Red Writing Book brought home to me the idea of all-roundedness. All of the pocketbooks that I've reviewed to-date are focused on grammar. TLRWB is broad reaching and the book's introduction highlights this:

*Writing has four pillars-structure, style, readability, and grammar-and each pillar is like the single leg of a sturdy chair. Structure is really about organization and deciding in which order to present your ideas. Style describes how one writes, including how to use specific examples to support what is written. Readability is about presentation, and how to make a document visually pleasing and easy to read. Grammar, including diction, is about expressing language in a correct and acceptable form.*

One of my pet peeves with other writing books and writing courses is that they focus on grammar. I believe this has in large part led to the belief that if a person masters grammar, then he or she has mastered writing. I know people who can write technically correct sentences but are still not effective writers. As TLRWB points out, writing is based on macro elements as well. Grammar, including spelling and punctuation, represents only a single leg.

In my assessment, this is the most all-rounded small writing book in the market today. It's "fun" too. I would most highly recommend it to any high school or college student. (I've left my copy at the office to "encourage" a few colleagues to review basic writing fundamentals for themselves.)

Other recommendations. My four favorite grammar/punctuation books include: The Elements of Style (the best of grammar in the shortest period of time), Write Right! (this book's emphasis is on punctuation but in a very distilled manner), The Penguin Guide to Punctuation (excellent for understanding the differences in punctuation between American and British English) and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire (a grammar book built around the eight parts of speech and written with real verve).

I should point out that I've concentrated on non-fiction books in this review. My two favorite "fiction writing" books include Stephen King's On Writing and John Gardner's On Becoming a Novelist.

P.S. I also judge a book in terms of its memorable lines, and this book has its share. "An airline pilot never leaves the runway without having a destination and flight pattern." (page 13; refers to writing structure); "A valued technique, which can be used when writing rough drafts, is to stress the point you wish to make by placing `for example' immediately after what you write." (page 38; refers to support techniques); "Unpolished writing is like shifting sand in a desert storm. Eventually the storm ceases and the sand sits still." (page 99; refers to readability and the need to let writing "sit" before being called finished); "It is said that 90 percent of writers can use the comma correctly 75% of the time, but only 1 percent of writers can use the comma correctly 99 percent of the time. (page 132; refers to punctuation).

The Little Red Writing Book: A Practical Guide to Writing Your Own Life Story

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Help for People Stymied by Blank Page
Write 'em, cowgirl!
Must have for grandparents!
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The Little Red Writing Book: A Practical Guide to Writing Your Own Life Story
Lonnie Burstein Hewitt
Manufacturer: Telltale Productions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0966673107

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Help for People Stymied by Blank Page.......2000-12-24

I've read the book and done several of the exercises. They're excellent for helping you get past the "What do I do with a blank page" feeling. Her concept is that EVERYONE has a story to tell, but most of us don't know how. Probably true on both counts. I highly recommend this book. Also would be good for giving to grandparents, parents and so forth so you can get their stories while they're still around to tell them.

Write 'em, cowgirl!.......2000-12-24

What a find! This book is for any and all writers or writers-to-be! Breezily written. easily read, The Little Red Writing Book will help anyone get started writing a memoir or a memory... one story at a time. It will also inspire you to get those stories from your parents and grandparents... before the precious tales are gone or forgotten. Hewitt is a hoot; she has a great sense of humor, and a better sense of what keeps writers writing (or keeps them FROM writing). Be sure to do the exercises -- they really work! I was amazed at the outcome -- and I'm hooked on Hewitt! I'll be sure to use her "Walking San Diego" book next time I'm in her neighborhood.

Must have for grandparents!.......2000-12-21

Our son bought a copy for his grandmother to chronicle the family for posterity. Grandma liked it so much, she decided that it would be her Christmas gift to all of us. We can't wait! Looking over the book, it was just what was needed to motivate her to get the story told. She just couldn't get all the pieces together, but now she has the tools to do it.

If you haven't got a copy for your parents, get this book.

If you missed it..........2000-11-24

If you were absent during the one-week unit on creative writing in your eighth grade English class, this book is for you. It is that simple and that simplistic. Don't bother with this one unless you are a complete non-writer who only wishes to get a few little memory pieces in readable -- but not publishable -- form.

Makes My Top 10.......2000-03-02

This book is a "must have" for me. I own over two dozen "how to" writing books but when I get stuck or need inspiration, I grab my copy of "The Little Red Writing Book" Similar to Natalie Goldberg's "Writing Down the Bones" and Joel Saltzman's "If You Can Talk You Can Write", just easier, quicker, and more to the point! Thanks Ms Hewitt! I recommend this book highly!

Chairman Cazort's Little Red Book of Writing: A Revolutionary Guide for Getting Better Grades

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Chairman Cazort's Little Red Book of Writing: A Revolutionary Guide for Getting Better Grades
Douglas Cazort
Manufacturer: Lowell House
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ASIN: 1565650743

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Little Red Writing Book 1
Lori Mammen
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Little Red Writing Book 3
Lori Mammen
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The Red Sox Fan's Little Book of Wisdom: A Fine Sense of the Ridiculous: A Fine Sense of the Ridiculous (Little Book of Wisdom (Taylor))

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The Red Sox Fan's Little Book of Wisdom: A Fine Sense of the Ridiculous: A Fine Sense of the Ridiculous (Little Book of Wisdom (Taylor))
Curt Smith
Manufacturer: Diamond Communications
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ASIN: 091208376X

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This book uses fact, quote, lesson, and humor to celebrate one of baseball's more storied franchises.

Little Red Riding Hood (QEB Start Writing)

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Little Red Riding Hood (QEB Start Writing)
Anne Faundez
Manufacturer: QEB Publishing
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 1595660208

Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale.(Book Review): An article from: Marvels & Tales

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Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale.(Book Review): An article from: Marvels & Tales
Cathy Preston
Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press
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This digital document is an article from Marvels & Tales, published by Wayne State University Press on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2093 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale.(Book Review)
Author: Cathy Preston
Publication: Marvels & Tales (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Page: 132(5)

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The Little Red Writing Book: 20 Powerful Principle of Structure, Style & Readability.(Brief Article)(Book Review): An article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch

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This digital document is an article from Reviewer's Bookwatch, published by Midwest Book Review on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1385 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Little Red Writing Book: 20 Powerful Principle of Structure, Style & Readability.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Author: Jim Sullivan
Publication: Reviewer's Bookwatch (Newsletter)
Date: November 1, 2004
Publisher: Midwest Book Review
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Rethinking East German education.(Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995)(Book Review): An article from: Modern Age

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Rethinking East German education.(Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995)(Book Review): An article from: Modern Age
Ewa M. Thompson
Manufacturer: Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Modern Age, published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc. on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1701 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Rethinking East German education.(Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995)(Book Review)
Author: Ewa M. Thompson
Publication: Modern Age (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc.
Volume: 47 Issue: 1 Page: 75(4)

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James Gillray, one of England's best loved caricaturists, was an immensely successful and popular artist, yet there were no accounts of his work published in England during his lifetime. The single contemporary source on Gillray is a series of commentaries published in the German journal London und Paris between 1798 and 1806. Christiane Banerji and Diana Donald have now translated and edited selected commentaries, with accompanying illustrations. The edition offers a unique insight into the role of satire in British politics during the Napoleonic era.

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