November 2012 | Text Language List

Software Engineering: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Having to teach on a new lab course on Software Engineering, i desperately looked for a book that helps me organize the topics i have to teach. Since i have a programming background , i was not so interested in the implementation part, but wanted to know more on the other aspects of the development :...

On Writing Short Stories Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"On Writing Short Stories" is a masterful introduction to the craft of short stories. Editor Tom Bailey (an accomplished writer himself) has compiled some of the best essays by well-known authors that not only serve as inspiration but also as a fine learning tool for young writers.The twelve stories...

Study Guide for the Middle School Tests (Praxis Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The guide provides lists of all the topics that you will be tested on but does not provide explanations of the terms and topics. I had to spend cosiderable time on my own researching the information needed. It would have been helpful if some of this was included in the guide. However, the practice questions...

Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument with Readings Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book contains many interesting issues that affect our daily lives. Topics are very well put together and allows the reader to think about challenges that surround us.Click Here to see more reviews about: Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument with ReadingsClick...

Research Methods In Psychology Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I just finished a Research Methods in Psychology class that used this text. Overall, I thought this book was excellent. All the topics discussed are well organized and explained with many helpful examples. The writing is clear and generally easy to understand. I struggled with a couple chapters but class...

Technical Communication Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I teach technical writing at a community college and frequently switched textbooks until I discovered Mike Markel's. It is well organized, gives 8 measures of excellence in technical writing that students quickly grasp, has very up-to-date scenarios that prompt critical reading and writing and the online...

The Preposition Book: Practice toward Mastering English Prepositions Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have been to many ESL classes. However, I still have difficulties writing correct English sentences. All these classes overlooked my two major grammar problems. Whenever I write, I have to think a lot before selecting an appropriate preposition or article.Fortunately, I came across the books of this...

The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This anthology was something I stumbled upon in college and completely changed the way I approached reading and writing. The stories are a wide variety and the writers writing about writing is a fantastic resource. This is one of the most precious pieces to my library and a must for any serious reader...

Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium Trilogy) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, the second volume in the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, publisher Mikael Blomkvist and the police are conducting parallel investigations into three horrifying murders -- and their initial evidence points straight at young computer genius and social misfit Lisbeth...

Abriendo Puertas = Always We Begin Again - Antologia de literatura en espanol Tomo I (Spanish Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book along with "Tomo I" are without a doubt the AP Spanish Lit Exam. I had both books during the last school year and 4 of the featured stories in the books appeared on the MC section and another 4 appeared on the free response section. Bottom line if you are looking to take AP Spanish Lit exam...

Sticking to the Point: A Rational Methodology for the Step By Step Formulation and Administration of a TCM Acupuncture Treatment (vol. 1) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought this book when I was wanting to review for my senior level exams in acupuncture. This book is a neat little review of things a practitioner should think about when approaching a patient. It walks you through diagnosis and point selection in almost a narrative manner. Not a really comprehensive...

Access Database Design & Programming (3rd Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In Access Database Design & Programming, the author uses very mathematical and academic language. The database design part of the book is focused on the mathematical theory of relational databases. The programming part of the book is a reference work to programming with VBA.All parts of the relational...

Messages: Building Interpersonal Communication Skills (6th Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Excellent resource for now and the future. Definitely a keeper, this one will not be sold back!Click Here to see more reviews about: Messages: Building Interpersonal Communication Skills (6th Edition)Messages is a brief, highly interactive text that emphasizes interpersonal communication skills in the...

The Communicators: Leadership in the Age of Crisis Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The day to day grind can be done without saying much. It's when the machine stops working well where the great leaders emerge. "The Communicators: Leadership in the Age of Crisis" is an inspirational business read from Richard S. Levick as he provides advice and wisdom from the great leaders in business...

Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Virtually all editions of Macbeth will have at least some annotations. Rummaging through five different editions, I preferred the Yale University Press version, edited by Burton Raffel, as having the most comprehensive and comprehensible notes, as well as an excellent introduction to Shakespeare's play....

Writing Fiction (6th Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The steep price of this book gives away that it's a college textbook, not a book for the general reader. There are books for the novice out there that answer the same questions this book but cost you a lot less. But this really is better than most books.Rather than trying to address itself to writing...

Azulejo: Study Guide for the AP Spanish Literature Course (Spanish Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am a native Spanish speaker and design syllabi for literature courses, including the A.P. Spanish Literature course. This book does not sufficiently provide the information needed for the exam; this book shouldn't even be used as a supplement. There are many more well-written study books that do a...