Readers Preference Reviews

This story is in both English and Latin-American Spanish.  It educates the reader about Washington, DC and the sights to be found there using the format of postcards written home by a child who is visiting.  While the "postcards" are English only the facts that are included are in both languages.  This is an excellent book for teaching young children about Washington, DC and its importance to the citizens of the United States while also introducing them to the Spanish language.  With many pictures that invite dialog it is a recommended purchase.

Ubuntu has become one of the fastest growing and arguably most friendly Linux distributions over the last few years.  This book is designed to help someone who has no knowledge of Linux become a basic system administrator.  While it will not make them an expert among people who know Linux well it will make them sufficiently knowledgeable to do most of the common administrative functions.

I reviewed the prior version of this text and rated it as highly recommended and this updated third version continues with the same quality content and highly usable writing style.  Starting with minimal assumptions about the readers's knowledge, the book walks them carefully through the details of both PHP and MySQL from installation (Windows and Linux) to doing the most common tasks.  Included among the new content is coverage of PHP6.

This is basically a retelling of the story Clever Elsie from the Brothers Grimm.  When mother and father bear leave the children alone while they visit their grandmother they are given specific instructions for what to do while their parents are gone.  Well, one incident follows another as they make a mess, destroy the pond wall, and lose their parents' life savings to peddlers who trick them.  Desperate to set things right they head off into the woods to get the money back and that is where the fun really starts.  This is a delightful, humorous story for children and re

If you like to travel and love history then you will greatly appreciate this excellent resource. This book provides information on the best Living History destinations in the United States from prehistory to the early 1840s. Instead of organizing the locations by particular area of the United States the authors have chosen to organize them by significant historical groupings. Examples of these groupings include a section on America's native peoples, one on religious and secular groups, one on the road to independence, and one on opening the West.