September 2012 | Text Language List

Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft (Penguin Academics Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Not to start a war here, but Janet Burroway's book *is* fresh, and it's the best, most comprehensive multigenre text on the market. And it's affordable both for university students and writers who want to use it on their own. No, it's not full of inspirational gobbledygook and gimmicky suggestions to...

English Words from Latin and Greek Elements Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As the reviser of this book--not the Photographer (there is not a single picture in the tome)--I must correct a few misimpressions given in the other reviews, while touting the systematic format that separates Dr. Ayers's book from its competitors. To be sure this is a textbook--the best selling text...

The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction (Twelfth Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I purchased this for my non-fiction english class and have not yet read through all of it; but from what I have seen and from what I plan on reading outside of the course, this anthology is great! Buy it if you like essayists, controversial topics, or if you just like to read an occasional quick story.Click...

Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book, `Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide' edited by Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell, is a book widely used in colleges and universities, as well as advanced high school classes across the nation. It is a very useful text, and I use it when tutoring students in...

Teaching With Favorite Patricia Polacco Books: Creative, Skill-Building Activities for Exploring the Themes in These Popular Books Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I give this teacher resource book an A+. It is brimming with creative ideas for teachers of first through third grade students. From exploring family traditions and heritage to examining touchy emotional subjects such as fear and sibling rivalry, the activities suggested hit the developmental bulls-eye....

Object Oriented Programming In C++ Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book covers the important aspects of OO approach as well as the STL for C++. It is definitely not suitable for those who have no programming experience in C, and indeed, I find that one actually even needs to have a little knowledge of C++ to benefit from the book. The first two chapters let the...

Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book and the other Practice-Makes-Perfect workbook by Dorothy Richmond ("Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions") are the best Spanish books I've ever used. I just got back from 2 years in the Peace Corps in Honduras and I studied these books every day. They REALLY helped me learn more Spanish! In addition...

Realidades: Level 1 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am a 10th grader taking 1st-year Spanish at a public high school.Maybe I would like this class more if I had a better teacher. I didn't like this book much though. The activities were good, but I wish it was presented in a less child-like format - all of the big pictures and color, but not much actual...

Sophocles I: Oedipus The King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (The Complete Greek Tragedies) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Researching translations is never an easy task, and in this case, where you'll have to search on Amazon for the title and the translator to find what you want, it's particularly difficult.Here's what I've found by comparing several editions:1. David Grene translation: Seems to be accurate, yet not unwieldy...

"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Even as a writer, writing teacher, and rhetorician, I could not see how many gaps I left in my writing until this book. So much of the writing process was just flung at me in public school that I was fortunate to absorb dribs and drabs. Graff, Birkenstein, and Durst dismantle writing into a system, based...

¡Buen viaje Level 1, Student Edition (Glencoe Spanish) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am a native speaker. I have a degree in linguistics. I have taught French, English and Spanish. I have been teaching Spanish in high school for the last 4 years. Unfortunately, I've had the "pleasure" of working with this book.My biggest problem with this book is that the authors assume students will...

The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Penguin Classics) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The other review (by the reader from New Orleans) appears to refer to the 19th-century volume, not to this the 20th-century volume. Here's the contents list for THIS volume, copied-and-pasted from elsewhere..."Alyosha the Pot", Leo Tolstoy"The Bishop", Anton Chekhov"Recollections of Leo Tolstoy", Maxim...

Simple Real-time Operating System: A Kernel Inside View for a Beginner Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book reads like something written in a foreign language and put through google translator.Click Here to see more reviews about: Simple Real-time Operating System: A Kernel Inside View for a BeginnerThe first motivation for writing this book is to teach mycolleagues about RTOS (Real-Time Operating...

Speed Mathematics: Secret Skills for Quick Calculation Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A farmer told me, Your methods don't help me milk the cows. He was right, and his comments were about as relevant as the two reviews by people who haven't read my book.Firstly, Trachtenberg's book was criticised for similar reasons forty years ago. I was a fan of Trachtenberg and thought that the criticism...

Teacher (Touchstone Books) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Hard for me to write a short review of this book since I've written a book about Ashton-Warner's contributions to teaching young children.The point is, Ashton-Warner was a careful observer of the young Maori children she taught. She knew that what she had been trained to do in a college teacher-training...

70-432: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Implementation and Maintenance, Textbook Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)had to get this book as part of the coursework for a class and i have to say that it is the worst textbook i have ever had the displeasure to study. many of the questions don't even have the correct answers as part of the options and often they are not even applicable to the lesson that they are in....

Master Skills Series: Reading Comprehension Grade 3 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was looking for a good reader's comprehension book to use on my third grader. This book is very short (4 to 5 sentences) paragraphs followed by 3 questions. I was looking for something a little longer. The topics in the book are fairly kid friendly and if you are just looking for something for you...