Music for Children Vol 1 - Tune Up your Mind

Advantages: Easily accessible, thought provoking, well written
Disadvantages: Well, if you're not interested in children or education, you probably won't be taken

...entering the school system. Although much has changed in the Western schooling system since Donaldson first published this book in 1978, it is clear to the reader that we still have a ways to go, and that this might just explain why we increasingly end up labelling children as academic failures. Donaldson's style is easily understandable, she uses a minimum of psychological jargon and her arguments are well drawn out and compelling. In addition, she makes her case in just under 150 pages, and the book can be gotten for as little as 99p in used book stores. It would be an equally good read for students, professionals and parents. If you are planning a developmental psych course and this is not compulsary reading, well, maybe you should read it and see if you might just want to tweak your reading list... PS! If you have read this... Read review

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Advantages: A brilliant little program that saves you lots of time
Disadvantages: none

...things from cleaning your hard disc to boosting your internet experience, and also enable you to personalise the look of your system. The first screen gives you the options of? ** INCREASING PERFORMANCE? * Tune-up drive defrag? defragment your disc space to speed up your system. * Organise what programs start up when windows opens * Accelerating download speeds and system optimiser/ advisor. * Registry defragment? speeding up your registry? ** FREE UP DISK SPACE? This scans your system and tells you what it feels is safe to remove? releasing space on your hard drive?** CAUTION?do check the list of what it finds before deleting. * Also, it gives you a disk space explorer? letting you see exactly space programs take up on your system ** MAINTAINING WINDOWS? * One click fixes, which gives you a chance to see any problems... Read review

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Advantages: An enjoyable light read
Disadvantages: none!

...I have read many books by Jill Mansell and I have to say that I would rate 'Making Your Mind Up', which is her latest one, as one of her best. If you are not familiar with Jill Mansell, I think I would say that her novels fall into the category of 'chic lit' although I'm never quite sure exactly what that is! My own definition tends to be light modern fiction. Well Jill Mansell seems incredibly good at this and all her novels are very accessible and easy to read. I think that one of the most important things that influence whether you enjoy the book are the characters - you have to like them and you have to care what happens to them (and I would say this is the same whether you are reading the greatest classic or the latest chic lit). I definitely liked most of the characters in this book. The plot also has to be believable... Read review

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