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A joyful read-aloud
I can't give enough praise to this book.I've worn out my old copy and am now ordering a new one.The characters are fun and whimsical, kids can relate to them.The message is positive and empowering--kids come up with compromises and solutions to problems.And it has a subtle anti-sexist message without being overpowering and pedantic in its political correctness.Micheal Bird Boy and Boss Lady both seem comfortable in their own unique skin, and that's also a great message for kids.This is a fine example of a pre-k/early elem. book that shows environmental action in a positive light.A nice gift for the Micheals in your life!

A Lasting Impression
Wow!I read this book as a child and I remember learning about the story and the environmental message.I just found my childhood copy and I amthrilled to find how wonderful it is again!I am glad it is still inprint.Enjoy, teach your kids about changing things.Sadly, the blackcloud this time is caused by a much more harmful problem, fossil fules...

Wonderful childrens book
Michael Bird-Boy is a wonderful story, that takes an environmental message in to action.Michael Bird Boy is able to find solutions to problems in the story, with positive interaction between Michael and the problems. Michael is far more empowering and optimistic than the environmentalclassic The Lorax, without sugar coating the issue or leaving the reader(child and parent) without possible solutions. ... Read more

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Terrible introductory text
Good thing my teacher was so good because this book is terrible.

The explanations are lacking in important areas and overdone in others. It spends like 2 pages on VSEPR theory, incomplete activity series and solubility rules, and terrible intro in stoichiometry. We only did 15 chapters, but this book didn't help at all. I didn't even read half of it because the problems offer no challenge whatsoever. Not enough application problems. The end of section review Qs only ask for definitions and explanations, no real chemistry. No difficult and tricky questions whatsoever.

Honestly, no clue why high schools use this text so much. Pretty sad if this is the best there is.

An overall Disappointment
This book was largely a disappointment. I had heard previously that this was the leading high school text that is used and had high expectations. I was disappointed to find a plethora of type errors (including math mistakes!) and also very poor descriptions of things like bonding theory, equilibrium constants, reaction ratesetc. The book covers a lot but fails to get real advanced in much of anything. I would reccomend for the advanced high school student a college level text with a good teacher instead of wasting your time on this.

Not too good for self-study
I'm an 8th grader that wants to learn chemistry very badly, and bought this book.

Most of the book provides an adequate explanation for all the essential concepts encountered in a regular high school course. I know this because after reading this book, I looked at the state tests for a high school chemistry course, and I could do most of the problems. There are many examples in the book that help a student understand what the text is trying to explain. There are also a lot of practice problems after each section and chapter that reinforces the contents of the chapter/section very well.

However, without a teacher, if some concept is not clear, then chaos occurs. There are selected parts in the book that are vague in a way. To me, the noticable ambiguity in the text comes in the bonding chapter. They sort of assume that out of nowhere you can write an electron dot structure, a concept that other review chemistry texts take pages explaining. Hybridization was also explained poorly, and several weeks after I read that part (when I was finished with the book), I finally thought I got it, and then a chapter review problem proved that it was still a mystery. I have another chemistry book that I use to help me understand in case I don't get what's going on in this chemistry book.

Bonding isn't the only chapter that is a disaster in clarity (although it is the worst). The chapters from about 16-23 were all not as good as the other ones. There was also some guessing involved in the oragnic chemistry section, but that was not too bad; I still figured it out.

My school uses this textbook (as I found out months after I bought this book). With a teacher, this book is perfect, but without one, get ready to think; appreciate the pictures in there when you can, but focus a lot on figuring out the material.

BIG FAT MISTAKE
I just found out from my VISA company that not only you credit my money back but you charged the money for the item that I returned. Another words you charged me twice.

THIS IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE MISTAKE.

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Fairly Decent
This book is a decent chemistry book that does a good job in covering chemistry material.Although there are not enough example problems in the book to gain a good understanding of the "math" goes on chemistry.The book doesn't provide goods STEPS in chemistry problems.For example, the text lacks a section that tells teh student how to draw a Lewis Dot Structure and the steps to determine bonds.This text also has labs but they aren't really that good.

The book does offer good examples of realife chemistry in action.Things are organized well with good charts, graphs, and summary tables.The book problems are o.k. but one should supplement the book with another excercise book.It's easy too understand and good for first year chem only. ... Read more

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Yet another sleepless night.
Not quite a page turner, but factually correct throughout. Now I've finished reading it, I'm using it to prop up that wobbly filing cabinet in the corner. ... Read more

Book Description
This is a book by an author who practiced what he preached. Wattles lived most of his life in poverty but worked his way to great wealth. Wattles practiced the technique of creative visualization and, as his daughter Florence related, " He saw himself as a successful writer, a personality of power, an advancing man, and he began to work toward the realization of this vision. He wrote almost constantly. It was then that he formed his mental picture. He lived every page. His life was truly the powerful life." ... Read more

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Napoleon Hill was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, “Think and Grow Rich,” is one of the best-selling books of all time. Hill called his success teachings "The Philosophy of Achievement" and he considered freedom, democracy, capitalism, and harmony to be important contributing elements. For without these, Hill demonstrated throughout his writings, personal beliefs are not possible ... Read more

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The Classic they all copy
This is the original classic personal-growth and wealth-building book that all the self-help "Guru"s have been copying and imitating.Buy this and learn from the original.Buy this and learn the classic techniques the new-age thinking was built on, and that the "New-Wage" hucksters imitate without crediting it.

The single way of life in a capitalist society
After finishing "Think and Grow Rich" I have suddenly realized that this simple slogan is the single way of life in a capitalist society. In this book, as the only way of getting rich, the author advocates goal-directed way of life, purposefulness, constant self-perfection, courage, the skill to think and to act, and the other similar traits of character.

Many people came to a conclusion that the wealth, in some extent, depends on a level of education, motivation, self-esteem, and so on. The problem is that not all the people in equal extend incline to the education, to their self-improvement. This is because of the differences of their needs, habits, abilities, capabilities, and so on. Leo Tolstoy in his novel "Resurrection" arose a question of how to improve the level of education within a society: from inside of each individual or from outside? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Should first the level of education of each and every individual be risen which yields a revolution (dialectic transition of quantity into quality) or the revolution should make the environment to foster the education of every individual?

The traits advocated by Napoleon Hill correspond to the first Leo Tolstoy's way of improving society. If each and every individual will improve, the society will automatically improve. The second way of Leo Tolstoy (create the environment which will foster the education of every individual) is contrary to Napoleon Hill's ideas: "if something is got for free or without big effort, it won't be appreciated, won't be handled with care or you won't trust it". Free education and medical care won't be respected properly by people, regardless how good this education and medical care are. That's why the socialist society will develop slower than capitalist. Marxists knew this and have built the concept of World revolution (to overthrow of capitalism in all countries), and a further idea by Trotsky that it was impossible to build socialism in a single country. Trotsky wrote that the socialist economy is not as efficient as capitalist and without the World revolution the USSR won't be able to overcome its economic underperformance.

Napoleon Hill praises the freedom and opportunities of the capitalist society of the U.S. in particular, which gives, according to Napoleon Hill, boundless opportunities for an individual who is able to think and grow rich.

I also recommend "The Road to Serfdom" by F. A. Hayek in addition to this book. Although "Think and Grow Rich" is a classical self-help book for a general reader while "The Road to Serfdom" is mostly academic, I think that both of them should be read.
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