Книжка-читалка для самых маленьких. Эльфы помогают детям выучить алфавит (или эльфовит?) Для детей 4-8 лет.
Yolen's elves are all energetically engaged in a variety of activities:
"G is for Grape Elf grumpily gathering," "K is for Kite Elf keenly
kicking." Mills enters into the spirit of the book with watercolor
drawings of dainty, pointy-eared, long-toed little folk busy in their
flowered or fruited setting. Borders include upper- and lower-case
letters and more flowers, birds, or animals that extend the initial
letter theme, a device not uncommon among alphabet books. Although the
text is unexceptional and the delicate artwork is somewhat precious,
enough preschoolers and their care givers will enjoy the antics of the
elves to warrant purchase where there is room for another alphabet book
on the shelves.
Book Description
Explores aversive behaviors -- such as gossiping, betrayal, and insens itivity -- that lead to so much dissatisfaction in our most intimate r elationships. The content of the book is novel -- very little researc h or theoretical attention has been given to such negative aspects of relationships, although we all have experienced them.
The Roots of Consciousness: The Classic Encyclopedia of Consciousness Studies Revised and Expanded
This revised edition is more of a history than an encyclopedic study, although it is a thorough review of the literature of the occult and the paranormal, mystical, and religious roots of what can broadly be termed "consciousness." The study is filled with useful information, although it tends to accept the information without evaluating how it fits into the fabric of science, when often the data directly conflict with the rest of science. One wonders, for example, why the magician James Randi's exposure and duplication of psychic surgery is not mentioned (although his work on faith healing is). Most of the healings described have little or no scientific evidence to back them up. They may be useful in suggesting future research, but by themselves the data, and this book, must be used with caution.
Penguin Books - Edward De Bono - Simplicity
We are all drowning in complexity. Hardly anyone uses more than a tenth of the features on our video-recorders. Legislation constantly introduces qualifications and amendments which keep lawyers in business at everybody else's expense. And an old woman in Holland recently spent a week in a shopping mall - she just couldn't find the way out. Yet although we all yearn for more simplicity, it seems astonishingly difficult to simplify our lives. Here, with characteristic directness, Edward de Bono demonstrates how it can be done.
