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What Is Cancer Anyway?: Explaining Cancer to Children of All Ages
Karen L. Carney
Dragonfly Publishing, 1998
Keeping it simple
How do you go about explaining something to your children that you have difficulty understanding yourself? Well Barklay and Eve make the process easier. This wonderful book describes the most complicated procedures in simple terms without talking down to children. I ...
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Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
Ron Rosenbaum
Harper Perennial, 1999
Great Information, Egghead Writing
The information in this book is excellent. That being said, the prose is at times absolutely outlandish. The introduction gives you a cue of what's to come as the author gives you a "Dennis Milleresque" outline of the facts. After he used the term "Heathcliffian" I ...
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (2nd Edition)
Graham T. Allison, Philip Zelikow
Longman, 1999
Impressive Scholarship
A great number of books and articles has been published attempting to explore and explain the Cuban missile crisis that had brought the world to the brink of a thermonuclear world war. Allison and Zelikow, in Essence of Decision, explain the Cuban missile crisis ...
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Butterfly Kisses and Wishes on Wings: When someone you love has cancer...a hopeful, helpful book for kids
Ellen McVicker
Self published, 2006
wonderful and important
Incredible book: excellent writing, wonderful illustrations and brilliant conveyance of a difficult message. I can't say enough good things about it. I hope your book reaches the thousands of doctors, hospitals, clinics, labs, schools, libraries and homes where it ...
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Water Bugs & Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children (Looking Up)
Doris Stickney
Pilgrim Press, 2004
Perfect Book for Children & Adults
A mother told me about this book when I was searching for help in explaining death to my 7 year old son. He was overwhelmed and worried about the people he loved dying after a pet had died. Most reviews will tell you how wonderful this story is but there is so much ...
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Forever Fingerprints: An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children
Sherrie Eldridge
EMK Press, 2007
Professionally helpful
We recently used the book Forever Fingerprints when a young child was being placed with his new adoptive family. His birth mother and adoptive mother read him the book and then both he and his birth mother made their finger/hand prints on the paper that was provided. ...
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Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment
Ben Fry
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008
Great book, bad title
I'm short of superlatives for this book or more generally for the work of Ben Fry.
In my line of work, how people think of graphs is very much influenced by what is possible to do in Excel without changing the default settings too much.
Enter Processing, a data ...
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Excel-Erated Learning: Explaining in Plain English How Dogs Learn and How Best to Teach Them
Pamela J. Reid
James & Kenneth Publishers, 1996
Excellent translation of theory to practice
Simply excellent. It explained in clear terms how and why many techniques work and where they might go wrong. As someone who competes in obedience regularly I would highly recommend giving this book a read.
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Mathematics for the Nonmathematician (Dover Books Explaining Science)
Morris Kline
Dover Publications, 1985
This is a classic and a great book.
This is the classic text (available in Dover hardbound and paperback editions) for a college course on mathematics for those who are not science majors and probably hated math in high school. Making math interesting for such a group is a tall order, but one that ...
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The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
Niall Ferguson
Basic Books, 2000
The Best History of World War One
With charm and ease, author Niall Ferguson challenges the accepted wisdom about the causes and effects of WW1. Ferguson establishes intimacy at once with a reference to a family member who fought in the Great War. He goes on to lay out his thesis with elegance and ...
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Mathematics and the Physical World (Dover books explaining science)
Morris Kline
Dover Publications, 1981
I wish this had been my physics textbook ...
I still have a hard time deciding if this is a book about math or physics, but actually, it's about both. Kline follows the history of physics beginning with the Greeks as a way to describe the evolution of mathematics up to the 20th century, and he does it ...
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Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy (Zeuthen Lectures)
Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini
The MIT Press, 2002
The best Political Science AND Economics book
The authors understand that the study of political institutions drives political science and apply economic principles to do this methodologically. This book evaluates various political institutions in their barest forms and derives intuitive results for their expected ...
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The Dragonfly Door
John Adams
Feather Rock Books, Inc., 2007
The warm, emotional colors of award-winning artist Barbara L. Gibson
The debut children's picturebook of author John Adams, The Dragonfly Door dares to confront serious topics - of loss, death, grieving, and transition. Nym and Lea are two close insect friends, but one day after Nym yells at Lea, Lea disappears. Nym searches everywhere ...
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Explaining 'Unexplained Illnesses': Disease Paradigm for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Chemical ...
Martin L. Pall
Informa HealthCare, 2007
Helpful Model for Unexplained Illness
Dr. Pall's research and recommended treatment saved me. The core of my treatment for a variety of neurological and digestive problems involves his recommended techniques for down-regulating the NO/ONOO cycle. My improvement relies on specific supplements to turn down ...
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Explaining English Grammar (Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers)
George Yule
Oxford University Press, USA, 1999
Connects language functions to grammar
This book is great. It does a lot to bridge the gap between teaching grammar and pragmatics (or language functions). It goes beyond the decontextualized grammar that most grammar books provide and describes how the peculiarities and idiosyncracies of nine difficult ...
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