A wonderful text from a simpler time...
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This is one of two titles by Elizabeth Hough Sechrist that I have always treasured (the other being "Heigh-Ho for Hallowe'en!" which is sadly still out of print). I first found her work, appropriately enough, when I was a child. Several of her books about holidays were in our children's library at school, and they were that type of book which I had to check out again and again because they were so interesting.
This title, "It's Time for Thanksgiving" offers up a wide range of stories, poems, and plays centered on the theme of Thanksgiving. Guy Fry's fun illustrations are sprinkled throughout the book, and never fail to bring a smile.
There is a story of young people in pioneer days preparing the Thanksgiving feast while their parents are not at home, and they have visitors drop by who they have been taught to fear; Indian visitors (I know the term isn't PC, but the book is very respectful, otherwise)! Another tale revolves around children charged with making pumpkin pies, but a simple miscommunication leads to more pies than they can handle! A boy's pet goose is slated for the chopping block and Thanksgiving dinner, until fate intervenes. And a fun play has a little boy who overeats on Turkey Day put on trial by food!
The stories are rich and imaginative, always fun and simple. The tales have the definite feel of the mid-fifties, which in my humble opinion make them so much better than the types of things served up and force-fed to kids today. You just knew that Ms. Sechrist and her co-author, Jannette Woolsey, really loved and understood the world of children and the excitement of holidays, and her work (unlike commercialized junk like "Barney"), was not just an excuse to mass-market toys.
Coming back into print after all these years! Let us hope more of Elizabeth Hough Sechrist's work will be made available once again! Hurrah, Omnigraphics!
4928137
This is a beautiful edition of this text. As usual, the Germans deliver with a well bound, wonderfully designed, and perfectly printed text. The pages are super thin yet durable, and you just want to keep holding it.

As for the content of the text, I will leave that to the reader to decide. Rosenzweig plays a vey important role in the dialogue with his contemporary German counterparts. Particularly in contrast to Levinas, this is a very interesting text read alongside Heidegger's Being and Time. Its quite difficult, so I would suggest reading it with someone who is familiar with the text, its questions, and the intellectual context.
3254579
A delightful set of pamphlets from the Revolutionary era. . . . This two volume set includes pamphlets published between 1764 and 1776. The volume includes some of the most important publications of the era and provides a fine resource for those who want to explore the intellectual background of the Revolution.

Just listing some of the documents emphasizes the centrality of the works included:

  James Otis, "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved"
  Thomas Paine, "Common Sense"
  Edmund Burke, "The Speech of Edmund Burke. . .on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies"
  Thomas Jefferson, "A Summary View of the Rigthts of British America"
  Samuel Seabury, "The Congress Canvassed"
  "The Speeches of his Excellency Governor Hutchinson"

Some of the essays favor freedom from Great Britain; others argue for continuing the relationship with that country.

Overall, the set of essays provides a sense of the "American Mind," divided as it was. Certainly, Americans were not united in the move toward Revolution. There was considerable internal debate. These two volumes do a nice job illustrating that very point.
1214711
I am not an authority on Eastern Europe; I read this book as a (very successful) undergraduate in social sciences.  I enjoyed the thorough, methodically-organized text.  Crampton divides the text into time periods or event trends, and examines each country's experience in detail.  The organization is this text's strongest point.  Its other great asset is the degree of detail.  It combines a historian's "big-picture" view of trends with a nearly journalistic (I hope the word doesn't offend!) chronology of political events at crucial moments.  This pair of perspectives, together with the fact that headings make it easy to identify sections for quick reference, made this a really good book for me.
Now the downside:  all of this detail makes the book terribly long.  The prose, particularly in early sections, is unnecessarily verbose and not particularly well-constructed.  I am quite comfortable reading academic texts; this one could be better. Teachers using this text should include some sort of geography primer; I think that even if Americans were geographically compotent, we would need help with some of these references to non-political regional names.  I do not consider this a weakness, however, and generally endorse this text; my course used several of these chronologies, and this was easily the best.  If your students will read 500+ pages of rather obscure text, Crampton will serve you very well.
208454
I was so pleased to find this book.  Though written in 1939, the language is clear and straight-forward and accessible.  On the back is a note from the author - I assume it was originally a preface.  Hunt writes, "....The reason the same story takes so much longer to tell in this book is that the men who wrote the Gospels just went straight on and hardly even stopped to explain anything.  They couldn't be expected to know how differently we would live, and that we would have forgotten how people dressed and spoke and built their houses, and the other customs they had in those days.  So in this book, I have to stop and explain all the time, but after you have read it, a good deal of the explaining will have been done, and you can start reading the Gospels yourself anytime you want."  Well, my own kiddo has renewed her interest in the Bible after just a few pages with this book.  Its retelling is gentle and warm, and the artwork is just enough to lend interest.  The illustrator is Ted Schluenderfritz (that's 14 letters in that there name, folks, and typing all that just goes to prove his artwork for this book is worth taking note of!)  A portfolio of his work can be seen at [...] This is an excellent book for reading aloud to pre-K's up to young readers.  It shines as a religious ed. text for homeschoolers in early to mid elementary.
3215368
The text is written very eloquently, hard to believe it would ever become outdated.  A very good read!!
2439241
This small book, written originally in 1938, has very down to earth advice that is still relevant today, along with examples and anecdotes that give a lovely view into society in the 1930s.  Delightful!
3376299
I have had a hard copy of this edition since 1986 and it's been screaming "Read Me!" from my bookshelves ever since then. For many reasons, I've neglected it....not having felt in the mood to read something just about 700 years old. It must have been stale and outdated by now, I kept thinking. But classics become classics for a reason and I have to say I was delightfully surprised with how much I enjoyed this book. It helps that each "tale" is different and from a different "speaker," which helps break up potential monotony. They are short enough that you can read one tale in one sitting and then take a break before picking up the next tale. I was also surprised at the relevance of so many of the tales even in today's world. Human relations, good and bad, are as much at the center of tales from 700 years as they are in today's world.

A couple of tales went on a little too long for me, but generally all very enjoyable.

So as not to carry the book around while traveling, I downloaded the Kindle version of my edition. It was probably even easier to read it on the Kindle with the way they spaced the lines and the font they used. I might have gotten a little more bogged down if I had only read the hard copy by Penguin.
4254385
I really enjoyed this text. It detailed the history of Art really well, and it went into much detail about different techniques used in the art world. It is very contemporary as it makes comparisons to recent events and objects, but it is a history book so it has to mention the past. I liked the images of different art works, and of photographs. It is easy to read, and very easy to follow.
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Fascinating miniature time capsule featuring a voice rarely heard from the period. I love this kind of history--- the perspective of the "everyday" person providing a window into what ordinary life was like at the time. The only disappointment is that it's so thin; it's not a terribly long memoir, and not very fleshed out. That being said, the supporting text (and the research that was done to produce it) really help provide context. One feels as though one is getting a glimpse through a small window into an entirely different world. It's just a little frustrating because the window is so small! Nevertheless, it's extremely worthwhile. Wonderful stuff for anyone interested in pre-Depression America.
956968
Most impressive!  A few decades old but still great text, illustrations, and glossy pages.
1619394
Like many others, I have strong memories of this from childhood - my copy has a date of 1972, which may well have been the year my mom got it for me (I was 6 or 7).  I'm pleased to say that it was fun to re-acquaint myself with it in middle age.

The book was in surprisingly good shape despite my strong memory of it, indicating that I must have read it several times -- at any rate, this is notable more for the truly superb art by Philippe Fix, reminiscent most strongly of Arthur Rackham and other "realistic" illustrators from the Golden Age of a century ago.  His draughstmanship is beautifully detailed, at times grotesque, full of life and movement; the three very short stories - which attempt a fairy-tale atmosphere - alas don't quite come up to this level but are certainly charming.  All three have in common that the giants in question end up acting like frightened or clueless children - I guess that's sort of the point, that big people are really still kids at heart.  Probably best for kids in the 6-10 range, but any fan of classic children's illustration should have a look at this as well.
2036835
The text is great. My eyes (and I) are getting older and I probably should have purchased the full-size edition.
2781740
I used this text as an undergraduate, and found it to possess and nice combination of clarity, readability, and rigor:  qualities not always combined in a single text.  The text does not cover applications with as much attention, I presume the author expects the text to be followed by a more complete one.  A term paper forced me to use, among other texts, Wald's, which I also found to be clear, and seemingly more comprehensive (I only read a few sections from Wald, though).
1570374
It's obviously a bit out dated but I still enjoyed it. The illustrations are beautiful. Some of the science is behind the times, but I like seeing where people's minds and thoughts were vs today's classes.
1685007
This is a classic text which can be supplemented by a more modern approach. I like it because of the extensive section on dyadics a topic which is slowly fading into obsolescence (a few might disagree).

I would use text in conjunction with Moon and Spencer's&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Vectors/dp/0442054904/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Vectors</a>&nbsp;and Crowe's&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/A-History-of-Vector-Analysis-The-Evolution-of-the-Idea-of-a-Vectorial-System-Dover-Books-on-Mathematics/dp/0486679101/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System (Dover Books on Mathematics)</a>&nbsp;along with Spiegel&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Schaum-s-Outline-of-Theory-and-Problems-of-Vector-Analysis-and-an-Introduction-t/dp/B002JYSY9O/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Vector Analysis and an Introduction t</a>&nbsp;for practice to have a well rounded understanding of the subject.
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This is a contemporary reprinting of a classic text called "Manual of Mythology" dating from 1874 (which the previous reviewer would have known if he would have done HIS research).  Scholarship has of course advanced in 130 years, as have the presumptions of moderns in regards to the beliefs of the ancients.  In other words, I wouldn't use this as a definitive resource for a term paper, but it has other value.  Consider this more a view of how the 19th century saw these myths, complete with an authentic typesetting and wonderful 19th cent. engravings mainly based on classical sculpture.  Enjoy the feel of the classic myths evoked through Victorian writing and images, and put it on your shelf next to Frazer's Golden Bough.