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With their engaging stories and clever illustrations, the Bob Books have ushered millions of kids into the world of reading. This relaunch of the popular series features a handy new chart on the back of each box that enables parents and educators to easily identify which set is best suited for their child's reading capabilities. Each set is color coded to indicate reading level and each story is carefully crafted to help children at different learning stages master essential reading skills.
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Great Books.......2006-04-18
As a homeschooling Mom of a kindegarten child...I think these books are great. They have just enough so they're not "baby" books, but not too much where my guy gets discouraged. Great for classical education minded children!
Wish there was another set!!.......2006-03-16
As far as I know, this is the last set of the BOB books. I just wish there were more. Loved all of them.
love these books!.......2006-03-10
Would highly recommend for anyone needing books for new readers. Gradual introduction of new words and sounds. Individual books are short enough to keep my daughters attention and interesting enough to make her want to read on her own.
AMAZING!.......2005-11-02
My son just started Kindergarten about 3 months ago, he just turned six. I had taught him chess, and many other logical skills (I'm an engineer) but neglected to nurture his reading needs. After his first semester review I was shocked to find out that he was struggling with is site words. The day I got home from his school I ordered all the Bob's Books.
My son started reading them almost immediately, in fact on evening he read 12 of them back to back. He went to bed to night begging to read some more, he had already read 9 of them, he wants to read the WOW books and he's working through the A and B series first. He recogonizes his rapid reading skills and it's getting him really excited. It's amazing to see your child bouncing with excitement to get to read the next book.
It was stated in another review that your children won't learn on their own, but I disagree. My son rereads the books after we go through them. He even reads them to his four year old brother and he teaches him with the same skills that I used to teach him which makes him an even better reader.
Bottom line, my child learned to read multi-syllable words withing a week of receiving these books. I was very upset after leaving his first review at school, I felt like I had made a serious error in my kids education, these books turned it around. He came from being the worst reader in his class to the third best in just a couple of weeks, Amazing. BTW, these books help reinforce the site words used in the Kindergarten curriculum.
Excellent for your little one.......2005-05-03
I have bought all of the BOB Books levels and they were a great help assisting me in teaching my three children to read. It was amazing to see them improve after each book. Don't think you can give them the book, walk away and they will learn how to read because they will not. It is a tool for you to spend quality time with your child, on a daily basis, with the outcome of them reading each book on their own.
Thank you Bob.
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Kazuomi and Mizuki finally get to spend time away from their busy lives. But is there someone out there trying to split them up?
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John Grisham's head was full of movies when he wrote The Pelican Brief, which is such a brisk page-turner you could use it to dry your hair. He had Julia Roberts in mind for the heroine, Darby Shaw, a brilliant Tulane law student who comes up with an ingenious theory to explain the baffling assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one day. They were shot and strangled by ace international terrorist Khamel, who loves the film Three Days of the Condor, but government gumshoes don't get what connects the deaths. Silly government guys! They died so the conservative president, who just wants to be left alone to play golf, will appoint new, conservative justices who will help out a case involving an industrialist who is the enemy of pelicans and other living things. It's all spelled out for them in Darby's brief. She likes to do legal feats to impress her boyfriend, her boyish law prof Thomas (who, like Grisham, prefers to shave at most once a week, and is cool, smart, and antiauthoritarian). The prof likes to paint her toes red, in homage to Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham. (Sarandon also starred in the film version of Grisham's The Client.)
But when Thomas gets splattered by a car bomb meant for Darby, she escapes the hospital and hooks up with a Washington Post reporter, Gray Grantham, who sleuths like the guys in All the President's Men.
Grisham wishes he hadn't written The Pelican Brief quite so quickly (his first novel, A Time to Kill, went through dozens of drafts), but Pelican's very breathlessness contributes to its dreamy, cinematic chase-o-rama atmosphere.
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Anthony Heald gives an uncommonly compelling performance narrating this fast-paced legal thriller. The action begins with the fierce assassinations of two Supreme Court justices. Too unlikely to be coincidental, the murders have no identifiable connection until a young law student uncovers a hidden link, exposing herself and those around her to deadly consequences. Heald uses the flexibility of his voice to conjure up a large cast of diverse characters. He crafts his delivery expertly, heightening the already substantial suspense and carrying the story to its dramatic conclusion. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --George Laney
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Late one October night Justice Abe Rosenberg, at ninety-one the Supreme Court's Liberal legend, is shot to death in his Georgetown home. Two hours later Glenn Jensen, the Court's youngest and most conservative justice, is strangled. The country is stunned; the FBI has no clues.
But Darby Shaw, a brilliant law student at Tulane, thinks she has the answer. Days of digging through the law library's computers have led her to draft a brief speculating on an obscure connection between the two justices—and a most unlikely suspect. Her suspect has powerful friends: one evening, outside a New Orleans restaurant, Darby narrowly escapes an assassin's car bomb. Someone has read her brief—someone who wants her dead.
Alone and frightened, Darby disappears into the anonymous shadows of the French Quarter, where she contacts the investigative reporter Gary Grantham and convinces him that Washington's position on the killings amounts to the biggest cover-up since Watergate. Together they go underground on the run, trying to stay alive long enough to expose the real truth contained in the Pelican Brief.
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Definitely something you can't stop reading.......2007-08-16
Very interesting plot, just probably a little bit unrealistic in certain passages, but awesome in the way the plot is progressively revealed and the truths behind the machinations investigated by the main characters are unveiled. Also, very interesting legal component.
The Pelican Brief.......2007-02-23
Drunk, he hobbles towards the car. His date is only a few steps behind, yells at him to let her drive. "No!" the drunk man screams. "I won't get in the car with you!" she screams, tears streaming down her face. "Have fun walking home!" he shouts. "Your drunk!" she screams. "I can drive better drunk than you can sober!" he hollers back. He reaches the car, she pleads with him one last time to let her drive. He refuses. As he gets into the car, it explodes. The girl is fazed, who would do this? She decides that the bomb must have also been meant for her. Her date, Thomas Callahan and her constitutional law professor, never did anything to upset people to the point that they would kill him. She, Darby Shaw, had written a brief about why she thinks that two Supreme Court justices where murdered. Thomas had said that he had given the brief to his friend in the FBI. Darby goes into hiding, she makes contact with the FBI officer who Thomas gave the brief to. He is murdered the night before they were suppose to meet. Darby continues to hide, as she is being hunted by people who plan to kill her. Finally, she contacts The Washington Post reporter Gray Grisham and with her information they collect enough evidence to make the biggest news break since Watergate. The Pelican Brief by John Grishman is a complex and suspenseful novel which is a little confusing to read.
This novel has many, many characters, it makes hard to keep track of the story line. There is a lot of characters that have no purpose or very small purposes, one is Eric Easton. He was mentioned maybe twice in the whole story. You get so confused that its possible to get K.O. Lewis, a FBI agent, and L. Matthew Barr, the person hired to oversee killing Darby, mixed up. Some characters are rarely mentioned and some seem to spontaneously appear.
Readers do not find out what is in the Pelican Brief until you are about two-hundred pages into the story. This causes it to be suspenseful because you do not know why people are killing people. The many deaths also cause it to be suspenseful as well, it adds to the "why" factor. Other than the two Supreme Judges, Rosenburg and Jensen, a FBI agent, Gavin Verheek, is murdered and then the expert murder for hire who killed the last three people named, Khamel, is murdered.
When this happens, Darby believes him to be Verheek. After they plan to meet, Verheek is murdered by Khamel. Then Khamel pretends to be Verheek and meets Darby. As they are walking together, Khamel is trying to find a spot to kill Darby then he is shot. Randomly shot, you don't know who shot him, how they recognized him or anything. It becomes very unclear. Another thing that might puzzle readers is that there isn't a clear path between how Darby and Grantham find out their information. It isn't easy to grasp how they get from one informant to another.
This book is slightly confusing to read, and is complex and suspenseful. It has lots of characters, Grisham withholds vital information, and has some confusing incidents. Although, it does have a very engrossing plot and I would recommend it only for people who are very avid readers who enjoy complicated mysteries and thrillers.
C. Shipman
The Pelican Brief.......2007-02-23
Drunk, he hobbles towards the car. His date is only a few steps behind, yells at him to let her drive. "No!" the drunk man screams. "I won't get in the car with you!" she screams, tears streaming down her face. "Have fun walking home!" he shouts. "Your drunk!" she screams. "I can drive better drunk than you can sober!" he hollers back. He reaches the car, she pleads with him one last time to let her drive. He refuses. As he gets into the car, it explodes. The girl is fazed, who would do this? She decides that the bomb must have also been meant for her. Her date, Thomas Callahan and her constitutional law professor, never did anything to upset people to the point that they would kill him. She, Darby Shaw, had written a brief about why she thinks that two Supreme Court justices where murdered. Thomas had said that he had given the brief to his friend in the FBI. Darby goes into hiding, she makes contact with the FBI officer who Thomas gave the brief to. He is murdered the night before they were suppose to meet. Darby continues to hide, as she is being hunted by people who plan to kill her. Finally, she contacts The Washington Post reporter Gray Grisham with her information. Together they collect enough information to make the biggest news break since Watergate. The Pelican Brief by John Grishman is a complex and suspenseful novel which is a little confusing to read.
This novel has many, many characters, it makes hard to keep track of the story line. There is a lot of characters that have no purpose or very small purposes, one is Eric Easton. He was mentioned maybe twice in the whole story. You get so confused that its possible to get K.O. Lewis, a FBI agent, and L. Matthew Barr, the person hired to oversee killing Darby, mixed up. Some characters are rarely mentioned and some seem to spontaneously appear.
Readers do not find out what is in the Pelican Brief until you are about two-hundred pages into the story. This causes it to be suspenseful because you do not know why people are killing people. The many deaths also cause it to be suspenseful as well, it adds to the "why" factor. Other than the two Supreme Judges, Rosenburg and Jensen, a FBI agent, Gavin Verheek, is murdered and then the expert murder for hire who killed the last three people named, Khamel, is murdered.
When this happens, Darby believes him to be Verheek. After they plan to meet, Verheek is murdered by Khamel. Then Khamel pretends to be Verheek and meets Darby. As they are walking together, Khamel is trying to find a spot to kill Darby then he is shot. Randomly shot, you don't know who shot him, how they recognized him or anything. It becomes very unclear. Another thing that might puzzle readers is that there isn't a clear path between how Darby and Grantham find out their information. It isn't easy to grasp how they get from one informant to another.
This book is slightly confusing to read, and is complex and suspenseful. It has lots of characters, Grisham withholds vital information, and has some confusing incidents. Although, it does have a very engrossing plot and I would recommend it only for people who are very avid readers who enjoy complicated mysteries and thrillers.
C. Shipman
Spellbinding.......2007-02-22
I read the book and then watched the movie. I enjoyed both very much, but I think the book is better. I really like the way John Grisham writes.
The pelican bried.......2006-11-22
The Pelican Brief is about how two Supreme Court justices who get murdered on the same night, and why they were murdered. A law student named Darby writes a brief explaining why the two judges were killed. Darby's brief which started out as just a crazy idea ends up hitting it spot on. So now she's on the run for her life. The book gets a little confusing with all the characters and all the information it sometimes hard to keep up. Overall it was a good read. If you like fast pace books with plenty of information the Pelican Brief is the book for you!
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Room service, fine dining, observation decks, gold-tinted windows, shoe shining, spectacular scenery. These are just some of the luxuries you can expeirence on train trips around the world. All Aboard! takes you on fast trains and slow trains, new trains and old, from Europe and India to Canada, Japan, and Australia. Step aboard to discover some of the worlds most famous and unusual train journeys!
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As conflicts over religious extremism dominate our front pages, the bestselling author of The Harlot by the Side of the Road presents a work of history that could not be more timely: a surprising look back at the origins of religious intolerance during the tumultuous fourth century.
This is the epic story of how classical paganism, with its tolerance for many deities and beliefs, lost a centuries-long struggle with monotheism and its chauvinistic insistence on belief in one God. With his trademark blend of wit and scholarship, Kirsch traces the war of God against the gods from its roots in Ancient Egypt to its climax during the last stand of paganism the tumultuous fourth century, when two passionate, charismatic, and revolutionary Roman emperors, the Christian Constantine and the pagan Julian, changed the course of history and shaped the world we live in today.
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Religious War.......2007-08-28
This is a very concise, yet thorough, history of the war between the One True God and the many varied Gods of paganism from the beginning of religion. Anyone who wants to expand their mind can do so by reading this book. It is not biased that I could see and explains many events that had not been explained satisfactorily to me in the past by clergymen. It reflects the changes that can be made by one or several men that will affect an entire world and how one change can destroy or build several generations of beliefs. Very satisfying to anyone who wishes to know the true occurences of religious history.
Excellent Work on the Struggle Between Mono and Polytheism!.......2006-12-30
Jonathan Kirsch, a scholar and excellent author, explores the "war" between the Judeo-Christian/Muslim monotheism and the polytheism it struggled and continues to struggle against. Kirsch takes the reader back through history to the origins of the struggle, introduces the key political figures that helped further each theory, and brings this struggle into the present by detailing ways that monotheism and polytheism continue to clash.
This is the second book by Kirsch that I have read and I must say he does not disappoint. The amount of research that Kirsch did for the writing of this book is evident on every page. Supporting his position and opinions with both ancient and modern text, Kirsch opens up and lays bare a power struggle over two thousand years old. If you are interested in religious theory and history, this is an excellent work and I highly recommend it.
Essential Reading!!.......2006-12-03
For anyone even half interested in understanding the history of religious wars, including the chaos occuring in modern times, this books gives an essential understanding of the role of monotheism in its fundamentalist forms to this history. Reading this book changed my entire world view of religion. It's essential reading for everyone, but particularly those who think religion is above criticism. You will not see the world in quite the same way after reading this.
Good story-telling; amateur and ignorant analysis. .......2006-05-05
The main part of the book tells the story of how Rome went from pagan to Christian. Kirsch's description of Constantine, Julian the Apostate, Constantius II, Theodius, and others, are interesting and well-written. But when Kirsch goes beyond telling what happened and tries to explain it, or generalizes from a single series of events over couple hundred years of Roman history, the book heads towards Hades in a hand-basket.
Problems begin on page one. "Modern medical science proposes that the idea of 'god' is literally hard-wired into the anatomy of the brain." First, this is sloppy -- scientists propose, sometimes foolishly, "science" does not. And the usual claim is that mystical experiences -- not an "idea of god" -- have a physical basis. Other writers blur the line between the two, true, but even a reasonably sophisticated (though sometimes dubious) secularist explanation of religion like that of Pascal Boyer is quite a bit more complex than this suggests.
Kirsch's most important error appears on the very next page. "Only very late in the development of Homo religiosus did monotheism first appear." He makes no mention of Andrew Lang or Wilhelm Schdmit, who showed that primitive peoples are often aware of a Supreme God remarkably like the God of the Bible. Karen Armstrong, whose History of God he mentions on page 1, begins her book by mentioning Schmidt -- though she ignores the implications of his work. But Kirsch appears to have never heard of either scholar -- or of Durkheim, who reluctantly admitted that Australian aborigines knew about God, John Mbiti, who showed Africans did, too, or James Legge, the great sinologist who showed that early Chinese worshiped a Being who was "exactly the same as God was to our ancestors." (See my Jesus and the Religions of Man, chapter nine, "The Non-History of God," for the story.)
To tell the story of "God" and make no mention of the fact (and it is a fact) that hundreds of peoples around the world appear to have developed almost identical understandings of Him, is a crushing oversight. How can you make a universal argument about God and the gods by ignoring all data outside of Israel, Greece, Egypt, and Rome?
Nor is Kirsch' discussion of Mediterranean religions always reliable. He blows a few Biblical references. He errs on the library in Alexandria -- a Christian mob did not burn down the main library, with "700,000 books," but a smaller annex.
Kirsch also badly errs by assuming that Christian theology is completely hostile to paganism, portrayed merely as a "parade of horribles." This is bad history and worse theology. I've written two books on the subject, and am planning others, but will try to be concise. Early Christian thinkers (whom Kirsch ought to have read) often called Greek philosophy a "tutor" to bring the world to Christ: Justin Martyr, Augustine, and many others did in fact become Christians by following Plato and other "pagan" philosopher to what they saw as their logical conclusion. Anyone who writes on this subject should read the Church Fathers carefully, and also what Jaroslav Pelikan, Paul Tillich, G. K. Chesterton, and C. S. Lewis have written on teh subject. (I also recommend two of my own books: "Jesus and the Religions of Man," and "True Son of Heaven: How Jesus Fulfills the Chinese Culture," along with G. Ronald Murphy's "The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove.") Many of the most influential Christian thinkers have had a deep love of pagan virtue. As Dante said to Virgil, "Through you I became a poet; through you, a Christian." And the seeds of this appreciation, like the seeds of anger at human sacrifice and untruth wherever it lies, can also be found in the Christian Scriptures.
Perhaps the greatest weakness of Kirsch' argument, though, is his own honesty. His generalization dies the death of a thousand qualifications. I mean, he is surprisingly fair in relating the transition from paganism to Christianity. But as he tells the story, the exceptions to his thesis -- monotheists harsh, polytheists mild and gentle -- grow so that you begin to worry for the thesis. He shows how Greek and Roman pagans abused Jewish monotheists. He details how Romans persecuted Christians for 250 years. He admits that some early Christian rulers were pretty mild. Why, then, not entertain alternative solutions to the puzzle? Maybe some rulers are just nicer than others. Maybe "Christians" learned what Nero taught them -- traditional Roman cruelty. (They were still Romans, after all.) Or maybe, as a civilization sinks -- and Rome had been sinking for more than a century before Christians took over -- it begins to circle wagons and lash out -- as people naturally do. Failing to mention alternative explanations, Kirsch does not even begin to connect his story with his thesis in a persuasive way.
Kirsch could not save his theory by appealing to other cultures, either. Christians were killed not only in Rome, but also in China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, communist Russia, and many tribal cultures. Sometimes Christians have committed terrible crimes. But "Christian" America has not burnt a witch or heretic for several centuries, now. Kirsch argues that "cultural diversity and religious liberty" are "pagan values." He can only maintain such absurd generalizations (both ways) by ignoring a great deal of history.
And then at the end, he describes Naziism and Communism as an "enduring legacy of monotheism." What, were Mao and Pol Pott raised by Jesuits? (In fact, probably the greatest ruler in all Chinese history, the moderate and tolerant Kang Xi emeperor, really was educated by Jesuits!) Stalin killed more innocents on an average snowy day, every day for 25 years, than the Spanish inquisitors in all of six centuries. Stalin was an atheist, heavily influenced by Enlightenment philosophy. (Marx wrote his doctoral dissertation on the pagan story of Prometheus; and Mao loved the polytheistic story of Monkey King that parallels it in Chinese literature.)
Far better books on this subject, which give both sides and connect evidence to argument much more tightly, would be sociologist Rodney Stark's series on Christianity and western culture. (The Rise of Christianity, One True God, and For the Glory of God -- and the new one, which I haven't read yet.) Stark agrees that monotheism can lead to intolerance, but explains everything a much more sophisticated manner.
The story Kirsch tells, like most history, is a long story of bad behavior by almost everyone. To generalize from that story takes a great deal more knowledge, caution, and care than this author seems to possess. As a record of an interesting period in Roman history, however, this book seemed pretty good.
Essential reading for understanding the nature of the western belief in 'God'.......2006-03-25
This book is a landmark treatment of the transition - often violent and fraught with ideological prejudices - from polytheism to monotheism in the ancient world. It covers the brief advent of monotheism in Egypt, the rise of monotheistic western religion, and the battles - ideological, theological and cultural - fought between adherents of polytheists and monotheists over a 1500 year period.
Perhaps the most important aspect of this treatment is in how Kirsch shows that the advent of monotheism was not all that its adherents would have us believe. He points to how polytheistic religions were often more tolerant than monotheism toward people who held different beliefs. He shows how the ideals of religious liberty and open-mindedness that we have tried to value, are more likely to have originated in polytheistic religions than in monotheistic religions. He lays responsibility for much of the violence, hatred and fear experienced in the modern West at the feet of the three monotheistic religions that have dominated our cultural and religious histories, and intimates that 9/11 - both the perpetrators of the terrorist attack and the general response of many Americans - are rooted in traditional, iconic stories of the Bible. While Kirsch is not arguing for a return to polytheism (polytheism has just as many problems as monotheism), he does provide the concerned reader with a great deal to think about.
The book should be read by anyone concerned with the `dark side' of the three monotheistic religions that dominate the West.
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