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Title: Farming in the 21st century: a modern business in a modern world.
Author: Arlene Dohm
Publication: Occupational Outlook Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 49 Issue: 1 Page: 18(8)

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Whimsically entertaining!.......1999-12-19

Paintbrush in Paris offers a light-hearted and insightful view of cats, Paris, Parisians and the world of art. Paintbrush himself, and his friend Mon Ami, will capture your imagination and your heart while teaching you un petit de francaise along the way. Indulge...and enjoy on this vicarious bon voyage!

AN INSIDER'S VIEW OF LIVING IN PARIS.......1998-09-21

PAINTBRUSH IS A CAT. THIS IS HIS STORY OF MOVING TO PARIS AND GETTING TO KNOW ABOUT THE "LA VIE FRANCAISE"...RULES FOR DINNER, WHERE TO SHOP (INSIDER'S ADDRESSES), MUSEUMS AND A CUTE STORY . ADORABLE ILLUSTRATIONS: LOOKS LIKE A CHILDREN'S BOOK BUT WRITTEN FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN.

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Great introduction to a complicated topic

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David Macenulty
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Every player encounters the king and pawn endgame, the most common finish to a chess match. In The Chess Kid's Book of the King and Pawn Endgame, MacEnulty shows advanced beginner and intermediate players the most important positions and combinations of this tricky ending, including the ideas of key squares and outflanking. Targeting at 8-14-year-olds, this guide will challenge students to become better and more thoughtful chess players.

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Great introduction to a complicated topic.......2007-08-10

An engaging overview of a difficult topic, how to play when there are only Kings and Pawns on the board. Macenulty eloquently covers the basic ideas (square of the pawn, opposition, triangulation (if you don't know what these terms mean, then get the book!)).

This book fills a nice void in a literature filled with material that is just a dump of positions with little explanation. If you have mastered the basics, and want a user-friendly introduction to the complex world of King and Pawn endgames, then this is a great place to start.

A side note on the other reviews. Over half the reviewers here criticize the author because he didn't include topics such as basic mates. If those reviewers had bothered to look, they would see that another book in his 'Kids Chess' series covers basic checkmates extremely well. This is a more advanced book. You might as well complain when a calculus book doesn't cover how to add two numbers.

Timing is everything.......2007-01-29

First of all, this is a somewhat specialized book. Basic checkmates are not discussed; this book is about K & P endings only. I thought the title makes that clear.

Secondly, I think this book is simply WONDERFUL - but not until the time is right, and perhaps not for most kids at all. (Okay, in that sense, maybe the title is misleading.) Not everyone wants to develop a deeper understanding of chess, and that is perfectly all right. One can have all kinds of fun at different hobbies without needing to make work of it.

But if (and until) a time comes when a player can appreciate the frustration of playing K & P endings - and I mean really feel in their minds that somehow some tools are missing from their arsenal, that there must be a better way - only then can they hope to see the utility of this book. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of theory and "solutions" without any motivation or "problem."

As far as the quality of the content is concerned, I would say just compare to all the other stuff available on K & P endings out there. The stuff is either scattered too thinly in the general chess books, or WAY to dry in endgame tomes. This is the most crystal clear, helpful, and digestible exposition of this topic I've seen.

Oh I must agree!!!!!!.......2005-04-13

Daa! It has been pointed out that the author forgot to cover how to checkmate with a Queen and King against a lone King when this is a book for the beginner. And, after reading some other books on the endgame I decided why not warn all of those who might buy this book and then be very upset that this book is disorganized and written in a way that it doesn't know what it is talking (writting) about. I my only be 10 (yeas old) but this books gets a 1.

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Why a book on how to "Queen a Pawn" when not even showing what to do once you get a Queen? Well obviously this book was written in an organized way.
When teaching chess to a beginner you would teach how to checkmate with a Queen before showing how to get one. But this book was written without that basic piece of advice.
There are numeous typos making some of the material impossible to understand not to mention that the author of this book (I looked him up on www.uschess.org the rating list) was not an expert or a master rated player himself but was beind about 30,000 other rated players in the country.
Why Random House would hire a person to write books who cannot play chess at a top or even a significanly above aveage tournament level is beyond me!

Just OK.......2004-07-09

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Although I am mostly a C/C++ programmer, I still found this book to be an interesting read. If you, like me, have an interest in programming language design and implementation I highly recommend it. As other reviewers have noted, however, the book has little material for Lisp programmers who just want to use the MOP without looking under the hood. I don't consider this a shortcoming - understanding the design and implementation of your language and tools helps in using them effectively.

Authoritative, but less useful than it could be.......2003-03-27

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Unfortunately, it falls way short in motivating the USE of the MOP. It shows how it is implemented, and has some examples of how to modify its behaviour. Which is wonderfully useful if your interest is in building your own implementation of MOP. It is not nearly so useful if you're trying to figure out how to apply it to less extraordinary purposes.

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This was a disappointing purchase for me, as I read some of the book on-line (in CMU-CL's "Encycmuclopedia") and was rather stunned at the beauty and possibilities of the MOP (which, in short, is defining the core object system itself in terms of the object system, allowing you to use the full power of the object system class hierarchy/relationships to control your object semantics). The book is a pretty straight forward implentation discussion, which is certainly nice as a case study in implementing such an interrelated system and boot-strapping the MOP into use, but it is only that. The MOP is one of those perfect ideas with such vast potential that I would much rather have seen actual expressions of that potential instead of mere inner working details. If I'd know that, I would not have bought it--but then neither will I be selling my copy.

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