This toy organizer is a great product. As our little boy acquired toys (cars, little stuffed animals, animal action figures, legos, books) it became nearly impossible to keep his room organized. We found ourselves piling all of his small toys into his toy box. At the time, he was too little to really get into the toy box and find exactly what he wanted. Then, my wife saw this toy organizer at T...

The Linksys wireless G 2.4 GHz broadband router is a great router if you're interested in setting up a wireless network in your home. It's very affordable at less than $100.My Cable interenet provider wanted to come set up another high speed connection (which was totally unnecessary given the fact that I already have another room that has a cable drop right off of the first splitter in ...

This is a great addition to the library of any healthcare provider that takes care of children or pregnant women. The more popular, "Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation" is owned and/or used by many who work in pediatrics. This book (malformation) is extremely useful especially in the nursery (normal newborn all the way up to NICU). Variations of clubfoot deformiti...

There truly is a war raging in our society. On one side of the battlefield, we have the traditionalists. Across the meadow are the secular progressives. If you hold traditional family values and ethics in high priority, you'll find this book quite disturbing. The political milieu in our nation is fraught with secular progressive individuals and organizations that are in the process of under...

This is the first of the Hannibal Lecter books that I've read. Interestingly, the last (latest) is the first chronicle in Hannibal's life. When I heard about the new movie, I decided to read Hannibal Rising first and work through the Thomas Harris series in chronological order. Maybe a mistake, not sure, I'll have to let you know once I've read them all. I was very intrigue...

 I really like Michael Crichton's work; however, I was fairly disappointed by Next. This novel is set predominantly in CA. It centers around the biomedical science/genetics and molecular biology world. Cloning technology is a major theme. Genetic manipulations (or the impending possibility thereof) of animals and humans take place. The pharmaceutical research world is portrayed as a sc...

I have been a proponent of environmental preservation and have been caught up in a "State of Fear" with regard to global warming for quite some time. This book broadened by perception of environmentalism. I have gobbled up information about global warming distributed by the major media without critical analyzing it or asking questions about the validity of the notions purported. Not t...

This is a fantastic book written by a physicist, but on a level that any educated lay person can handle. I found it fascinating. The major focus is on the evolution of gravitational wave detection as a science. Many of Einstein's predictions (based on his theories of relativity) have withstood the test of time and experimentation. However, the inevitable detection of ripples through space-t...

This is a really fantastic book about Abraham Lincoln's rise to the political forefront. It begins with his childhood, but quickly moves into his early adult years. He struggled financially for many years. After finally completing law school, things were still slow in coming. He endured multiple tragedies on personal fronts including losing two sons. After taking office as president, war br...

This is a great compilation of synopses of salient concepts in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, science and economics. The author does a phenomenal job of explaining the concepts on a level appropriate for the educated lay reader.Some of the concepts I found interesting were: Gresham's law, Laissez Faire Economics, the invisible hand the Pythagorean theorem, Archimedes' Princ...

This is a really great book about the use of human cadavers in research. It is quite graphic in places and is certainly not for the faint of heart or those of weak constitution. Dead bodies and all of their parts are discussed in painstaking detail.Many uses for cadavers are discussed including, impact testing to learn more about the resiliency or lack thereof of human tissues, experiments of d...

This is Romina's first book. It's actually quite good. If you like Dan Brown's style, you'll like Cold Eyes. It's a technological thriller set in Silicon Valley. The plot revolves around the biomedical world. A famous physician and AIDS researcher is murdered. The perpetrator is a hacking genious who in addition to taking out a premier researcher, is in the process of sabota...

This is an intriguing book about extraterrestrial life??? Marrs explains the nature and his theorized origins of mysteries such as crop circles, cattle mutilation, military conspiracies regarding aliens. Much of the material presented in the book is supposedly taken from hitherto hidden, confidential governmental files (hard to believe, you'll have to form your own opinion as to the authent...

Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War, Authentic Accounts of the Strange and Unexplained is a fantastic collection of strange stories that you will not find in your college history textbook. Coleman has put together a great set of Civil War ghost stories covering haunted battlefields, phantom soldiers in hotels, ghosts of executed abolitionists and more. There are 36 stories in all. Many areas are...

This is a great introductory book if you're interested in anthropology, but have little or no formal training in the field. Richard Leakey is the son of Arthur Leakey (the renowned). This book is written on a level such that any educated lay person can appreciate and assimilate the concepts conveyed. Leakey writes about what the first humans might have been like. There's a very interest...

Blink, the Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a great book by Malcom Gladwell. He is the author of a landmark bestseller entitled, The Tipping Point. Blink is about split decision making and human intuition. What Gladwell means by "thinking without thinking" is how the human mind takes a situation, an object, or a conversation and develops an opinion or perception rapidly and witho...

The Vikings by Dr. Johnathan Wooding is a short synopsis of the Viking age and associated culture. I'm interested in Scandinavian History, but have no formal training persay in the field. I've tried other books that required too much background knowledge. This book, however, is great for the novice interested in learning about the Vikings and Norwegian history. It has many great photos ...

Lucy the Beginnings of Humankind by Dr. Donald Johanson is the story of an earth-shattering find in anthropology. In 1974 in the desolate Afar region of Ehtiopia, Johanson made one of the most, if not the most, significant finds in the history of anthropology - a partial skeleton of an adult female biped primate dated approximately 3.2 million years ago. This pushed back the origin of biped pri...

Unsolved Mysteries of History by Paul Aron is a great collection of stories of mysterious events, objects and happenstances throughout history. Some of the mysteries include: a discussion of the Neanderthals and their place in the human evolutionary tree, the construction of stonehenge, the construction of the pyramids of Giza, the Trojan war, the resurrection of Christ, the Nazca lines, the st...

Unsolved Mysteries of American History is another intriguing collection of historical tales by Paul Aron. Some of the mysteries include: when did the first people arrive in America (was it Leif Ericsson?), where did Christopher Columbus land?, how did Cortez manage to conquer the Aztecs?, did Pocohantas really save John Smith?, was Daniel Boone a traitor?, Benedict Arnold - why?, was Meriwether...