Review:Everyone should read this story. In fact, many of us are required to in school. It's a great, accessible story told by a narrator you really root for. This edition is nice, with a few of those typos common to scanned books. It isn't abridged, which is key. Read more

Review:excellent book targeted for kids from the age of approx 12 - 99 ! it gives you just enough technical info about the element, some pictures of what the material looks like in its raw form, details of how it was discovered, and some history of the practical uses of the element. i think that this book should be required reading in high school for anyone planning on taking technical curriculum. it also looks great on my coffee table. Read more

Review:I have only read about 25% of this book since it is a very large one (over 1000 pages), but I can say The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is one of the best history books I have ever read.
Thought English is not my native language, the book is, with a few exceptions, very easy to read. It is loaded with a lot of history since it covers over 1000 years, but this fact does not give you a headache if you are not into learning everything in it.
The book covers the histo... Read more

Review:The book is a towering work and this audio version makes it easier to digest. The narrators style is appropriate but perhaps a little too fast as the text demands your attention - which is why I have only given it four stars, .The book itself deserves SIX stars. If you get distracted for a few moments, you can often find you have missed a key moment in the story. I have tried to slow it down on my iPhone, but the slowed version sounds like the narrator has suffered a partial stroke, and the voic... Read more

Review:I can all but warn from reading this book because once you'll read it, you'll be hooked on history books for the rest of your life. I originally read other genre books, when my attention fell on a book by Adrian Goldsworthy, "How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower". As the decline and fall of the Roman Empire is a subject of interest for many people, I was intrigued by the title as well and spontaneously decided to read it. It was a nice, easily understandable book that delineated chronologically ... Read more

Review:The book itself is great, but the kindle version doesn't come with the video content that's supposed to come with the book. I'm being given assignments that involve these videos. I thought I was prepared and now I see I'm not. It's Embarrassing. I'm in a no-excuses type of teaching program. I assumed that the video content was going to come with the e-book somehow. Figured it would be linked. But I got nothing. I paid full textbook price for an e-book that doesn't even have the necessary softwar... Read more

Review:Todd puts it simply. The teacher sets the agenda. If they care the classroom will be a place of caring. This gives us permission to care and justifies what educators feel in their hearts. This book is very easy to read and full of take home or take to the classroom advice. Read more

Review:Five stars according to Amazon says "I love it." No.

This is a classic and not one bit of I love it. There is a reason people are reading it now and talking about it. Those facts are not because they love it. But because fiction is often more truthful in exposing reality than non-fiction.

One of the few Must Reads from the latter part of the 20th century which is still a Must Read. Read more

Review:A lot of veiled homoerotic imagery, much of which today would be considered borderline pedophilia. Bogged down by repetitive illusions to the Greek ideals of beauty. Not on narrative par with Buddenbrooks or The Magic Mountain. Best suited for those who wish to say they've read all of Thomas Mann's work. Read more

Review:A lot of veiled homoerotic imagery, much of which today would be considered borderline pedophilia. Bogged down by repetitive illusions to the Greek ideals of beauty. Not on narrative par with Buddenbrooks or The Magic Mountain. Best suited for those who wish to say they've read all of Thomas Mann's work. Read more