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From the Elvis-a-Rama Museum to Star Trek shops and exhibits, this exhaustively researched guide includes the best things to see and do with children in Las Vegas and its environs, including casinos with kid-pleasing programs and the most exciting outdoor adventures.

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Don't Waste Your Money on This Book.......2004-04-01

If you have any knowledge of Vegas, don't waste your money on this book. If you are looking for a book that will tell you the best places to stay with kids, or restaurants to go to, or activities to do, like I was, -- again don't waste your money on this book.

Instead of giving the reader a list of best hotels, restaurants, etc. it has something good to say about every place. Every hotel reads like a page out of the hotel brochure. I was thouroughly disapointed. I can honestly say I did not learn one thing from this rather short and dry book.

Also, watch some Travel channel specials.

If you need a book, the best I have read so far has been
"The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas"

Have Kids? Highly Recommend This Book !!.......2003-07-03

Can't say it enough. If you have kids, this book is a must have. Everything to do and see, locations, prices - it's all here. I let the kids choose what they wanted, mapped it out, and we're on our way. For kids of all ages!!

Lynn Goya has it right!.......2002-03-26

I think what I love about this book is Goya's sheer love of her subject matter. Her lightheartedness easily shines in her writing style that informs us so much about Las Vegas (but never gets bogged down in needless detail). I guarantee you, this book is worthwhile for anyone with an interest for roaming outside our city limits.

Lighthearted and Fun!.......2002-03-25

I live in Phoenix and my wife and I found this book very handy on our last trip with "the kids" - we've got four of 'em. I like Lynn Goya's lighthearted writing style and she did a good job of finding some great spots in Vegas that our whole family enjoyed. The only drawback is that I felt she could have touched on some more getaway trips just outside the city limits, but hey, that's being too persnickity! Really, this is the ideal book if you want to take your family on a vacation to sin city.

Light on Gambling.......2002-03-03

This book is a great way to find experiences in Las Vegas inside and outside of the casinos. There are lots of suggestions for fun things to do when gambling wears off, or the kids (or you) need more interesting activities. Our children are grown with kids of their own, but we like the book for suggestions for us. You don't need kids to get a lot of value out of the book. The writing style is personal, humorous and fun. One of the best travel books I've ever read. The organization makes it easy to read from cove to cover, or to jump to a specific interest. If you are headed to Las Vegas you need this book.

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1926. Vol. 1 of a 2 vol. set. The author planned composing this book for nearly thirty years. He desired to make a particular portrait of Lincoln, that being a sketch of the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the Knox County neighborhood where the author grew up. Sandburg heard the conversations of men and women who had eaten with Lincoln, given him a bed overnight, heard his jokes and lingo, remembered his silences and his mobile face. Illustrated. Volume 2 ISBN 076614609X.

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Dear possible reader of this book,

After I wrote my first book, It Came from Beneath the Bed!, my editor asked me to write another one. (Another one! This is hard work! I'd like to see him write another one!) So anyway...in this book the lovable and smart (not to mention talented) wirehaired dachshund puppy named Howie and his friend, the beautiful and brilliant Delilah, face their biggest challenge yet: the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6!™ Along the way Delilah gets turned into a squirrel and has to beg for acorns. (Hey, don't ask me! Read the book!)

Your friend,

Howie

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This is the best book ever!.......2004-01-27

Would you ever like to visit Asteroid # 6 in space? Tales of the House of Bunnicula Mind Swappers from Asteroid # 6 by James Howe is a good book to read. A dog gets it's mind switched with a squirrel from asteroid #6! Delilah the dog gets sent to asteroid #6 in space. I like this book because it has a lot of cool characters in it and it is really funny. The moral is you should always help your friends when they are in danger. Read more to find out about Tales of the house of Bunnicula mind swappers from Asteroid # 6!

You have to see this review!.......2004-01-27

Would you ever want to go under a bed to get a potion? Well, It Came From
Beneath the Bed by James Howe is full of mystery. This story is about a dog who wants
to become a writer just like his uncle. Delilah helps Howe save the world from a large
stuffed-animal bear from eating the city. I liked this book a lot. It was good because it was funny and interesting. I don't really have a favorite part because the whole book is
good. Read more to find out.

Biggest Koala Bear in the world!!.......2003-10-22

I enjoyed this book even though I did not read the other books in the series. Bunnicula is about a boy who wants to rule the world. He made a potion and spilt it on his stuffed Koala Bear named Pudgykins.The potion made Pudgykins grow really, really big. He was eating everything. After he ate one thing he grew one foot taller. At the end of the book they put him on a boat and brought him to to an Island where people dump trash. People were trying to figure out what to do with him. But they just left him on the Island. I like this book very much.

Learn Writing from a Dog....Fun way to teach kids.......2003-03-30

After taking many writing classes on "how to teach kids to write"...I stumbled across James Howe's new series, "Tales From the House of Bunnicula"...and I began to learn how to teach writing, from a dog. The whole time I was reading the book, lesson plans popped into my head... "I could use this to teach simile...or that would make a great lesson on 'cliffhangers', or when and how to use adjectives...and this part would show what 'literary license' means..... the book is full of laugh-out-loud humor. I can't wait to share these tales with my fourth grade students. Jame Howe's books are not only fun to read, but you soon realize that you can learn a lot from a dog...and from great authors. This is a Howling Success, I know I'll be using them in my classroom.

Key Indicators of Child and Youth Well-Being: Completing the Picture

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Key Indicators of Child and Youth Well-Being: Completing the Picture

Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum
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Indicators of child and youth well-being are indispensable tools for improving the lives of children. In this new book, the nation’s leading development researchers review the recent progress made in the measurement, collection, dissemination, and use of indicators of child and youth well-being. In addition, they identify opportunities for future research to expand and improve on the indicator data available, so as to develop greater measures of positive development.

The first eleven chapters cover key indicators in the areas of health, education, social, and emotional development and then social context indicators of the family, peers, school, and the community. The book then goes on to demonstrate the use of indicators for influencing policy at the state and local levels. One chapter discusses how social indicators were used to guide welfare reform and another recounts the use of the indicators to guide local planning. The volume concludes with a discussion of summary indicesof well-being and the methodological challenges of constructing such indices.

Written in an accessible manner for policy makers, practitioners, and researchers concerned with children’s’ well-being, including experts in developmental, social, community, and educational psychology, the book also serves as a supplementary text in public policy and the social sciences. The policy chapters will be of particular interest to those who use child and youth indicators to guide policy development.

In the Footsteps of Eve: The Mystery of Human Origins (Adventure Press)

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These little apes were our ancestors.
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In the Footsteps of Eve: The Mystery of Human Origins (Adventure Press)
Lee Berger , and Brett Hilton Barber
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Release Date: 2001-06-01

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Where did we come from? Though it's been fairly well settled that our species was born in Africa, the debate still rages over our hometown. In the Footsteps of Eve: The Mystery of Human Origins is a beautifully written argument in favor of the southern end of the continent rather than the eastern locations more popular among paleoanthropologists. Author Lee R. Berger's discovery and analysis of 117,000-year-old fossilized footprints of modern humans in South Africa, as well as a wealth of other fossils and artifacts, point to a speciation event in the unique ecosystem found along the Cape. His tells his story lyrically, and the rich descriptions of his finds and reconstructions of past events conjure strong imagery in the reader's mind; unfortunately, the book must rely on these descriptions since illustrations are sparse. Using clear, careful language, Berger explains the differing theories of recent human evolution, how his differs from the Leakey-Johansen model cradling H. sapiens near the Horn of Africa, and where the argument stands as of his writing in early 2000. Capturing the excitement of fossil hunting, the frustration of challenging established authority, and the sheer delight of scientific pursuit, In the Footsteps of Eve finds the mystery of life in ancient dust and rocks. --Rob Lightner

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Paleoanthropology: the very word sounds daunting, a dry-as-dust, arcane academic discipline -- but nothing could be further from the truth, as this fascinating and provocative book makes clear. In fact, the search for human origins is a passionate, vital pursuit, a world filled with larger-than-life personalities and intense rivalries, a field where sudden insights and imaginative leaps must be backed up by meticulous forensic reconstructions, and competing theories of our evolution may stand or fall on the evidence of a single, million-year-old fragment of bone.

In the Footsteps of Eve, with its carefully reasoned argument, challenges the conventional wisdom of half a century. It suggests that the true cradle of our species lies in the fossil-rich limestone of South Africa rather than in the East African sites where Louis and Mary Leakey revolutionized modern paleoanthropology and where Don Johanson made the discovery of the ancient skeleton immortalized as Lucy. Dr. Lee Berger, a leader of the new generation of scientists whose recent discoveries have reshaped our ideas about human genesis, is an expert and engaging guide who offers a detailed yet always clear and readable overview of the quest for our origins, from Darwin to the present day. He makes a persuasive case for redrawing our ancient family tree.

We join him in deep caves where miner's headlamps illuminate the long-buried bones that are the clues in a detective story that spans more than three million years, and in laboratories where patient researchers spend years assembling tiny shards into the skull of a creature who walked the Earth more than 5,000 generations ago. We sit in on conferences where brilliant scientists engage in intellectual sparring matches as tense as any courtroom drama. And we share the electric thrill when he runs his fingertips across the fossilized footprint of a young human female who walked along a South African beach more than 100,000 years ago -- and suddenly realizes that this extraordinary find may alter our current perceptions of human history.

In the Footsteps of Eve introduces readers both to an outstanding, wonderfully articulate new voice in paleoanthropology and to a bold new theory of our earliest ancestry. Combining hard science and high drama, it is a book as engrossing as it is important.

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Absolutely Wonderful!.......2002-10-29

There are so many anthropology books to choose from! Why read this book? Simple. It keeps you hooked from beginning to end and leaves you wanting more! Dr.Berger asks a question that I too would like to know the answer to...Why isn't there more focus on post-cranial evidence? His writing is excellent. I can't wait for Dr. Berger to write more!

thought provoking and easy to understand ..........2002-05-20

I do not have an acedemic background. As a human being curious about our origins, I am always on the lookout for books on this topic. The author is very considerate of its readers, acknowledging that not all have a PHD. The book offers insight into the scientific community's struggle to find a clear path to the modern human. Full of history, theories and political intrigue. Its simply fascinating. I'm inspired to read more.

A Good Overview from a Different Perspective.......2002-04-30

Lee Berger and journalist Brett Hilton-Barber have written an engaging and concise overview of the main events in the discovery and interpretation of human evolution, including the obligatory personality clashes and disagreements. This sort of thing has been covered before in other books, but what is new and important here is the focus on the significance of the South African hominid fossils. One of the unfortunate side effects of the apartheid era in South Africa and the economic and intellectual embargoes imposed upon it was the loss, for so many years, of the knowledge of some of the world's finest hominid fossils. Unearthed and then locked away in vaults, they languished unstudied and undescribed for many years. For students of human evolution, this was literally an undiscovered country. This book is a compelling look at these fossils, and the intellectual journey that Berger embarked on in order to understand them.

Berger chose to go to South Africa at a time when it was considered inappropriate for academics to be seen dealing with that country. He was fully aware of the potential consequences of such a move, including the possibility of being barred entrance to Kenya (and access to its fossils), but for an ambitious student, the attraction of working with original and often previously unexamined hominid fossils was too powerful to ignore. And, as this book clearly illustrates, Berger was nothing if not ambitious.

There has been relatively little work published on the South African fossils since the 1950s (most notably some analyses on their functional morphology), so much of what we see in textbooks regarding them is based on rather old work. As a result, there has been a tendency to pay little attention to the South African material in the popular literature, compared to the accounts of the phenomenal fossils that have been found in East Africa. The fact that the geology and depositional history of the South African cave sites is so enormously difficult to interpret has only added to this inadvertent marginalization, because no absolute dates can be attached to any fossil using conventional radiometric dating techniques. Despite the difficulties, Berger is insistent that the South African hominids are important to our understanding of human evolution, and he is right.

Much of this book is devoted to how Berger arrived at his interpretation of the sequence of early hominid evolution based upon the morphology of Australopithecus africanus, a hominid often assigned to a side branch in human evolutionary family trees. He postulates that A. africanus, and not A. afarensis ("Lucy"), is a direct human ancestor. Even if his particular interpretation remains open to question (there was much he did not mention about how hominid fossil relationships are determined), he has helped to confirm the suspicion that the road to the genus Homo is rather more complicated than once thought. The analysis of hominid postcrania (the skeleton from the neck down) has often shown a sequence of evolutionary adaptation that is discordant with what the study of skulls and teeth alone has suggested. Traditionally there has been a strong bias toward the analysis of craniodental remains to the exclusion of the postcranium, not the least because the former is far more abundant and taxonomically important. The trick is putting these sometimes-divergent lines of evidence together. Berger thinks he has an answer, but time will tell.

The main problem with the book is Berger's rather large ego and sense of self-importance. It is plain throughout that his intention is self-aggrandizement, even at the expense of others, and therefore the attempt to portray himself as a disinterested academic/administrator trying to create the best department he can doesn't entirely ring true. There is a niggling sense that Ronald Clarke was not well treated; perhaps Clarke's fears that Berger would "take over" the Sterkfontein australopithecine skeleton were not unfounded, and Berger's ambition throughout is too apparent to really take his protestations seriously. Berger is out to make his mark in the profession, and make it fast. He also sets himself up as a David facing down the Goliath of scientific consensus, embodied in the form of Tim White and his team of researchers. This may make for good dramatic tension, but the fact is, no matter whose jet the White team arrived on, Berger was under no obligation to submit to an inquisition regarding his work. Most researchers are more than happy to discuss their published work with colleagues, so I sense a bit of descriptive overkill here.

The other big complaint is that a copy editor apparently never laid eyes on the text: It is riddled with an inexcusable number of typos, misspellings of names (of both individuals and fossils) and generally sloppy or nonexistent editing. One wonders if there was pressure on Berger or National Geographic to get the book out fast, for some reason. Nevertheless, there is no doubt of the importance of the material from the caves of South Africa, and Berger has put forth some interesting and provocative ideas about how human evolution proceeded. If one can stomach the lack of polish and Berger's overriding ego, the book provides a valuable insight into an often-overlooked part of the human evolutionary story.

These little apes were our ancestors........2002-03-19

This book brings closer to our imagination the Australopithecs and other ape-like creatures that were our ancestors. A job well done! An honest book as well, as there are many secrets still to be unveiled.

SUBTITLED: Adventures of a Whining Anthropologist...........2001-11-09

This had the makings of a spectacular book...compelling, controversial, educational...on the cutting edge of the Studies of Human origins...and then Berger began whining. And blaming and demeaning other Anthropologists for his hardships. Berger is [perhaps] a brilliant Anthropologist, progressive and fore-thinking in his research and science. But Gee Whiz!!! Can you stop whining about Dart and Leakey and all the others who "Don't Give Me No Respect?" There are times when Berger's "Poor Me" ramblings made me want to throw the book out the window. But the scholarship is so wonderful, I MADE myself finish the book. Controversy is the key to learning but "GROW UP!!" Leakey and the like have had a lock on Fossil Human studies for a long time. Berger's research and intuition make him way beyond those "Fossil" Anthropologists in quality and delivery. And yet he just won't stop whining!! Respect is earned, and hard won, within the field of Paleoanthropology and the study of Fossil Humans and hominids. Berger would surely earn my respect faster with "quiet" suffering of the hardships of presenting a revolutionary and controversial idea while carrying his hugely compelling "Big Stick" of research and quality interpretation of the Fossil record. Genius of a Man attached to a Baby Bottle!!!

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WHAT A BRAT!
Heart wrenching account needs a large box of tissues
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Brett and her family have a permanent place in my heart!

Being Brett
Douglas Hobbie
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A father recalls his daughter's harrowing and courageous struggle with Hodgkin's disease. Douglas Hobbie writes with insight and an unflinching eye that strips away the myths and unrealities that surround the disease and often insulate us from death and dying.

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Douglas Hobbie recounts the harrowing account of his daughter's struggle with Hodgkin's disease. This is a record of change and perseverance that pushes past the myths and unreality that often stimulate us from death and dying.

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WHAT A BRAT!.......2006-05-30

Overall I found this book somewhat difficult to read. The author refers to himself as "he." And he refers to every male from his son Nathaniel to various doctors as "he." Most of the time I had to guess who "he" was talking about! Wasn't this book edited?

The more I read, the more disapointed I became. I found nothing to love about Brett. My impression, given the information in the book, was that she was a spoiled, willful, self-centered, selfish brat! I just have to be honest about this.

I am a cancer survivor, but I had several young friends and family members who battled cancer and lost. None of these people acted like Brett. I have little use for people who call God as a witness (take his name in vain)repeatedly and never feel or show remorse and who ironically refuse to believe in God. It is so tragic that some folks wait for DEATH to open their eyes! And how wide their eyes will open!!!!

There seems to be a lack of history. The reader never gets any kind of reason to like Brett. There is never any thing said about why she was a "good" person worth remembering. By the way she acted, I could only see a self-absorbed person. Her parents exhausted themselves mentally, physically, emotionally and FINANCIALLY to be there for their daughter...and yet Brett is constantly taking vacations around the world and having fun. When she gets her $5000 backpay from Social Security she doesn't give any of it to her parents but rather she spends it on a trip to Florence, Italy with her lover. Over and over again the reader is told by Brett that she doesn't want to suffer. And she is so rude to her family by telling them to "Get over it!" She offends her family by having a yard sale and selling family mementos such as a watch that her grandmother gave her and a figurine that her mother bought her overseas. She further offends her family by giving her lover Beth power of attorney. How can knowing someone for a couple of years equal the love and care from a family who has known you from birth? A family who isn't going to move on to another relationship?

I got this book because I am a fan of Holly Hobbie and I enjoyed reading her book, "The Art of Holly Hobbie." I feel compassion for the family over the death of their firstborn child. However, I had hoped this book would be about an heroic death, but instead I found it to be an example of the self-centered generation and world that we live in. Are there no real heroes to write about anymore?

Heart wrenching account needs a large box of tissues.......2002-09-13

Douglas Hobbie has probably done the best job possible in conveying to another human being what the loss of a child is like. I shudder to think what the rest of his days are like, knowing his beautiful Brett will never be there with him face to face again. Even though I knew how the book would end, I found myself hoping again and again that the treatments would work, all their pain and suffering would be relieved. A heartbreaking tale, and yet one that must be shared, so more of the world can have a piece of Brett in it. For Mr. Hobbie, his family, or anyone out there that has lossed a loved one, I would just like to quote Flavia Weedn, "We can't feel saddened over the loss of those we love without first remembering the joy they brought us. The real loss would have been never having had them in our lives at all". Be happy for the time you had with her and the memories you will carry with you always. And kudos to Beth, who stayed with her through thick and mostly thin. Their love for each other shines throughout the book.

SELF CENTERED.......2002-06-22

I was deeply disappointed in this book. I thought it went on and on and on with out getting anywhere. While I was saddened over the writters daughter, he isnt the first to have a sick child nor, will he be the last. Way to much oh poor me. Do not waste your money on this one. I might check it out of the library if it was the only book available. On second thought I probably wouldnt.This author was totally self absorbed. PLEASE feel sorry for me.I hope he has a day job.

Frightened Mom.......2002-02-22

I have not read the book, out of fear. My daughter is age 24 and also has Hodgkin's Disease and is having relapse problems also. I wonder if you could send this to Mr. Hobbie and ask him to contact me by email. I need to talk to someone who went through this agony. I am hoping he can help me and my daughter with his past experience with this disease. I am truly saddened and sorry for his loss, and God knows, I know his pain...but am desperate for a letter or advice from him. Need to know if chemotherapy and radiation are advisable for the second time. First time, didn't work. PLEASE HELP!! I am so afraid to read the book.

Brett and her family have a permanent place in my heart!.......2000-08-09

This is the first book I have ever read that as soon as I finished it I started right over again. What a heartbreakingly intense journey Brett struggled through! I felt so close to her and her family and will forever be enriched from this reading experience. Thank you Mr Hobbie, for sharing your family and especially your amazing daugther Brett with us. I plan to visit her memorial bench someday. I will always remember the joyous spirit of "Santa Bretta".

THE DEATH OF LORD HAW HAW No.1 Personality of World War No.2/ Being an Account of the Last Days of the Foremost Nazi Spy and News Commentator, the Mysterious English Traitor

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THE DEATH OF LORD HAW HAW No.1 Personality of World War No.2/ Being an Account of the Last Days of the Foremost Nazi Spy and News Commentator, the Mysterious English Traitor
Brett Rutledge
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Death of Lord Haw Haw, The : Being an Account of the Last Days of the Foremost N

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Death of Lord Haw Haw, The : Being an Account of the Last Days of the Foremost N
Brett Rutledge
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Indicators of Children's Well-Being

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"Being a poet".(Book Review): An article from: New Criterion

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Paul Dean
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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on February 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2077 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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On Being a Gay Parent: Making a Future Together

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On Being a Gay Parent: Making a Future Together
Brett Webb-Mitchell
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The Albert Gate mystery,: Being further adventures of Reginald Brett, barrister dectective,

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Louis Tracy
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