May 2012 | Text Language List

Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)rating 4.5;Dr Kuhn has made a somewhat different approach to the usual methods of teaching physics 1) Mathematically (formulas!)2) Conceptually (no mathematics, just ideas, more like 'popular science')Instead he has sought a pedagogically stronger middle ground (balancing act) between these two methods...

Data Structures with C++ Using STL (2nd Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The book itself is great and illustrates the core concepts well.The code examples are grossly out of date (were talking 1990's) and completely ruins the beautiful text by adding confusing, poorly written code examples to reinforce good literature. If you are buying this to learn data structures as a...

Vocabulary Power 3: Practicing Essential Words Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Vocabulary Power series may be used in the classroom, of course, but these three books also seem ideal for motivated intermediate or advanced ESL learners to use at home. Each of the 30 sections of each text exposes a student to 10 new academic words, for a total of 300 words in all. The vocabulary...

Public Speaking (8th Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)My public speaking has improved but I was a great speaker to begin with. This book does tell you best ways to release your anxiety.Click Here to see more reviews about: Public Speaking (8th Edition)Centered around three core objectives — helping readers develop vital communication skills, encouraging...

Oracle Database 11g SQL (Osborne ORACLE Press Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I'm an experienced Oracle developer and I use this book all the time. I have several books on SQL, and this book is by far the best. It has good examples. I highly recommend it.Click Here to see more reviews about: Oracle Database 11g SQL (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)Write powerful SQL statements and...

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Kimball has done an excellent job by writing this book. You don't require any mentionable knowledge about data warehousing or dimensional modeling to completely comprehend this book. He has explained all of the concepts of Dimensional Data Warehouse with the help of real-life examples. Perhaps that makes...

Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Science Teacher: Activities and Strategies for an Inclusive Classroom (Differentiated Instruction for Middle School Teachers) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a member of a child study team, I am always happy to refer special resources to the teachers with whom I work. In the past, Joan D'Amico's books have been met with tremendous excitement and enthusiasm so it was with great anticipation that I awaited her newest book, "Differentiated Instruction for...

Data Structures and Algorithms in Java (2nd Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is an excellent book on data structures and algorithms and would be a great addition to a student's text book. Fortunately Lafore does not dwell on the algorithm analysis as many data structures books do. This is a plus for me, as most texts on the subject get the reader bogged down in the analysis...

English Literature and Composition (Cliffs AP) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)To be honest, I was never a good writer, I got a 650 on my SAT2 writing test. I didn't take the English AP Language course because I didn't like the teacher too much, so I never had any preparation for it. I didn't do any writing in my English honors class either, but we did read a lot.I did a few multiple...

Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I like the Head First series, and even Head Rush, for its innovative and fun approach for introductory software topics. I've had small concerns on all of them but I have never been as ambivalent as I have for this book. I know a big part of this problem was that it was rewritten expeditious (I am still...

Literature of the Western World, Volume I: The Ancient World Through the Renaissance (5th Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I got this book because I needed it for class. After reading some pages from it, it's actually not a bad book to hold on to. It's pretty thick, but there are some interesting poems and short stories in there. For those who like to read.Click Here to see more reviews about: Literature of the Western World,...

Mastering Regular Expressions Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Jeffrey Friedl's "Matering Regular Expressions" does a facinating job in taking you through the jungle (and I mean jungle) of RegExp.I am a Perl/CGI programmer, and I had considered myself good at RegExp even before I read this book. Most of the things I knew were from Programming Perl, 3rd edition (chapter...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Concepts, Technology, and Design Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is superb. I have read every SOA book available (up until Apr/06) because it's part of my job as a technology research analyst and all-around techno-geek. From those that I have read and studied, this is the only one I feel compelled to write a review about. AND - because I did have to go through...

Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Satan Says" is the first collection of Olds' poetry which I have read (although I've come across her poems once or twice in anthologies). I found the poems in "Satan Says" to be not only startling and brutally honest, but beautifully crafted as well. Her work reminded me greatly of Marie Howe, another...

Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)When I was teaching World Literature we began class each year reading Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary." Unfortunately, this is the one novel that most needs to be read in its original language since Flaubert constructed each sentence of his book with the precision of a poet. As an example of the inherent...

Three Genres: The Writing of Poetry, Fiction, and Drama (7th Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I find that this text provides a better discussion of poetry than Janet Burroway's recent creative writing book, though her text is stronger in its discussion of fiction. While I don't agree with everything Minot says about writing (he can be too simplistic and authoritative in ways that could limit...

Discovering Popular Culture (A Longman Topics Reader) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book was very interesting and really explains the diverse aspects of popular culture. It is easy to understand and the topics of each passage are engaging. Overall the book was enjoyable and is great to use as a reference to papers on popular culture.Click Here to see more reviews about: Discovering...