Bright and bold illastrations firmly keep the childs attention, whilst Mem Foxs rhyming has them quickly reading along with you. A big favourite for many children.

I enjoy reading this book to my 2.5 year old son. It is repetative and enjoyable as he chimes in with the "Boo to a goose" line. They say this is how young kids start to learn how to read! I think it is just fun to have a book that helps your child interact with the reader. The illustrations are also unique and fun...a collage type art. I recommend this book for any parent that enjoys interactive reading time with their child 2+.

"Boo to a goose" is a refreshingly silly book that's fun to read to kids. The structure is very repetitive, so they know exactly when to say that they "wouldn't say boo to a goose," and all of the other, braver things that they would do instead are funny to slightly older kids too.

The explanation of why the storyteller is scared of geese comes suddenly at the end, and wraps it up nicely (and in a silly way).

I find this book to be invaluable in understanding how to negotiate through office politics and personal relationships. Although it is certainly pop-psychology, I found it to be at least as useful as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The key to this book is showing you how to understand yourself and others, and communicate with them without having to change. It's appeal is in its short-term results approach.

The author separates people into four groups, based on how they take in information, and view the world. There are the deliberators, conceptors, knowers, and conciliators. I have used this book every day at work since I bought it two years ago! My ability to understand and relate to people is exponentially better than it was.

For example, as a conceptor, I think in broad concepts. It was understanding that mechanism that allowed me to determine how best to fit my concepts into others' world of data. Moreover, it helps me determine, within a very few minutes, how the other party thinks, and what type of information they need.

Although critics panned this book (non-psychobabble fans won't like it) I found it to be quite useful in real world application. For a Conceptor like me, for whom everyone else was a mystery, I can't begin to explain how invaluable this book is. For Deliberator book critics, not so much - but if you read it, you'll understand why.

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I have educated children, young adults, and adults in every setting from Kindergarten through college, in consultative settings, and in workshops and training for over 25 years. Never have I encountered such an empowering and spiritually-gratifying text as this. As an independent consultant for over seven years, I've obtained a couple dozen certifications to teach various authors' systems and models. Two years ago, I read BrainStyles and met the author. After certifying to coach and instruct in the BrainStyles system, I now lead with BrainStyles in my approach to clients, my own business process, my family and my marriage. Breakthroughs are common occurences as a result. This is a must-read as it supersedes all dimensions of "differences" or "diversity" and challenges you to be your OWN role model by leading and living from your hard-wired strengths, and expecting others to do likewise. This is powerful and challenging, as our strengths are invisible to us. We focus on our misfits, mistakes, and we waste energy. Then we double the loss by focusing on others' shortcomings (in our perception), damaging teamwork, self-esteem, and motivation in the process.

Read this text and take the inventory it includes. Begin to shift your vision of yourself and others and serve the world from your gifts. Marlane Miller teaches you how in Chapter 8.

After reading every book of this ilk I could find, now I understand "why I am the way I am" and if I know you, I understand you, too. Read it--it could save you years of therapy, jobs that pinch, wrong relationships. This book is the best guide to understanding yourself and other people I've ever found. As a right-brained CONCEPTOR/CONCILIATOR, I learned to see the benefits of having left-brained friends to keep me on track and right brained ones to share the way I discuss things--not in a straight line.

I was just browsing the book section on the internet when I found this book. I was completely shocked when I saw the picture on the cover of the book. That same picture hangs in my home. It is my great grandfather Charles Poeschel. His daughter Margaret Zwierlein is my grandmother. I purchased the book and totally enjoyed reading the history of breweries in Cleveland.

I would like to find out where my great grandfather was employed when that photo was taken. Does anyone know how to find out which brewery it was?

This wonderful book has helped me imagine how my ansestors must have lived in Cleveland during the 19th century and early 20th.

I purchased this book for my father and it's proven to be one of his all-time favorite gifts. The wealth of photographs and the attention to detail has made this the preeminant book on brewery history. A must-have for brew buffs.

I devoured this book in one night! I still like to browse through it and look at all of the historical pictures. A MUST READ for anyone interested in the history of brewing in Cleveland, Ohio or brewing in general. Everyone needs this masterpiece for their coffee table.

How has a tiny island had such a great impact on world culture? With it's evocative and poetic photo essays and personal almost intimate written essays about Cuba, Cuba On the Verge goes a long way to making you feel in your bones the potent Cuban 'ajiaco' the mixture of cultures and the vibrancy of the life and art it produces. I particularly enjoyed the interview with Chucho Valdes and Cuban popstar 'el Tosco' which helps us move beyond the limiting view of Buena Vista Social Club as the only Cuban music that most people in the world are aware of. Cuba is not caught in a fifties timewarp as most articles and books you read these days would have you believe, and Cuba On the Verge shows that.

A huge & quietly engrossing collection of essays & pictures by leading Cuban & American writers & photographers, offering unique insights into life in this fabled island nation.

Each essay & photo series delights--thinking men & observant women--about rituals & revolution; of struggling for love & beauty; the music of Cuba, focusing on Chucho Valdés; sugar mills & tobacco farms; the faces of change; life among the ruins; the emerging middle class; of being born too late for the revolution; of landscapes & mythology; how a Cuban comes home; letters from exile.

From the pens of Jon Lee Anderson; Russell Banks; Avilio Estévez; Abelarde Estorino; Cristina Garcia; Pablo Medina; Ana Menéndez; Mayra Montero; Nancy Morejón; Achy Obejas; Susan Orlean; Hugo Perez; Antonio José Ponte; Eduardo Luis Rodriguez & Reina Maria Rodriguez.

From the cameras of Niurka Barroso; Ernesto Bazan; Virginia Beahan; Carlos Garaicoa; Kastia Garcia Fayat; Abigail Gonzáles; Andrew Moore; Inge Morath; Abelardo Morell; René Peña; Manuel Piña; Silvia Plachy; Adalberto Roque; Fazal Sheikh & Carrie Mae Weems.

William Kennedy's Introduction is written in the style of a Miami newsman, who has written about Cuba for decades & now at last he's going to the "incipient phoenix, an exotic ambiguity...one of the major social experiments of the twentieth century..." & his excitement is palpable.

Playwright Arthur Miller's Epilogue is rich in impressions & American points of view of an encounter with The Leader, President Fidel Castro.

We were drawn to the title of this book simply because of our interest in Cuba and its history and hardships. Hoping to someday visit, we were intrigued by the visual and literary representation of the story. The photography is provocative with components of sadness and pride evident in the faces that are looking back at the camera. What is remarkable is the tragedy of a once beautiful country. The destruction of Cuba and the hopelessness of its people are vividly depicted. Yet the pride and strength that is intrinsic to Cuba's culture fosters growth and change.

Never before has spirituality and psychology been so compatible and accessible. This book has opened my eyes and has allowed me to find new meaning in my life. This is truly one of the most important books I have ever read. Those who read this extraordinary book will never forget Dr. Miller.

Judith Miller integrates her acquired knowledge and understanding of the mystical into an innovative therapeutic approach redefining the concepts of mental health and mental illness in Direct Connection: Transformation Of Consciousness. Miller challenges the medical establishment to re-examine the way in which it perceives human nature. She encourages the reader to be open to all possibilities and approaches to our understanding, including those revealed in shamanism, Christian mysticism, and our modern era experiences in personal, metaphysical, and psychological healing and transformation. Highly recommended and accessible reading.

Judith Miller does what few people in her field have done. She speaks from her heart and gives humans a glimpse at their true nature. Far better than most new age superficiality,"Direct Connection" holds promise for all the people who have been wrecked by the psychiatrists who are ignorant of the meaning of spiritual consciousness. Why have we not heard of Dr.Miller before?

Margaret Miller's book is filled with incredible creativity. She guides the reader to just let the juices flow and not to be afraid to try whatever "the reader" feels will work. No intimidation, no stress. First time quilters need not be afraid to give it a shot. Every quilt is a piece of art!! I'll own all of her books soon!

This book has been inspirational to me. I am now in the process of designing my own "Easy Pieces" quilt. The concept of using only triangles and wedges and then cutting the 6" block from the sewn pieces is so simple even I, a beginner quilter, could figure it out. The color and pattern possibilities seem to be endless and the results are startling. I have to finish up a boring hexagon quilt before I allow myself to start my Easy Pieces quilt, but I know exactly what I am going to do and have purchased the fabrics already. WOW"

I bought this book to learn more about designing quilts. Margaret Miller encourages the reader to play with two basic geometric shapes. This frees up the beginner from being overwhelmed by complicated construction techniques and able to play with quilt design. The quilts selected for inclusion in this volume also have a great deal of motion built into the design, so it gives the reader a chance to study how this is done. If you want to learn more about design, color, and motion of quilts--this is an excellent resource. Color examples that are my favorites include Marty Kutz's "Fall Frost" (pg. 60),Grace Crocker's "Quilt Virus"(pg. 66), Maureen Roy's "Sisters"(pg. 100), and Nancy Meyer's "The Inside Story."(pg. 51). All of the examples in this book are contemporary style quilts. mary cox the accidental quilter

An excellent book covering the migration out of Ireland. Miller looks at the different time periods and at the different kinds of immigration, and traces the idea of emigration as "exile." Great background materials are included, as well as good statistical appendices and notes.

Many of us tracing our Irish ancestry will never really know our forebears - we may learn their names and the dates and places of their births and deaths - but we will never know who they really were. It is to sources such as this book that we must turn to flesh out the picture of the Irish emigrant and the forces that drove them from their homes - economic, social, cultural, and psychological, as well as their reactions to and rationalizations of those forces. We must then apply this information on the Irish emigrant milieu to the framework of knowledge of our specific forebears. The book has given me a plausible explanation as to why my County Mayo ancestors did not emigrate until the 1880's while so many from other parts of Ireland came over much sooner. Dr. Miller is quite detailed in his discussion of the differences in the adherence to traditional Irish culture and the Irish language that existed between the inhabitants of western Ireland and the remainder of the island. A must-read for any geneaologist seeking their Irish roots!

I'm not Irish and I didn't have to read this book as part of a course. I read the book because I'm interesed in U.S. immigration, and find it necessary to understand refugee movements past and present. I'm also concerned about the 'problems'in Northern Ireland.

This book is a hard slog but a fairly good read. I read 10-15 pages at lunch every day and finally got through it. It's a very informative book, and quite illuminating.

The British undoubtedly caused many of the problems the Irish experienced in the past and continue to experience today. However, the Irish have had a hard time letting go of the past. What is to be done? One cannot make the past different, only the present. Although one might sympathize with the Catholic Irish, and even the IRA, the future must be different. Protestants are not going back to England or Scotland. In fact, they can no more return than those of British or Scotish descent living in North Carolina can go back to the U.K.

Read this book to better understand the dilemmna in Northern Ireland, and the possible ways peace may be found.

This is probably pound for pound the best literary anthology I've come across. A great mix of old (Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Nabokov) and new (Means, Foster Wallace). I wish I had this book in my undergraduate days--would've been great to have these stories all consolidated in one package as they are here. It also has the best cover I've ever seen for an anthology.

So much better than the Best American Stories of the Century. I took this book on vacation with me, and found it to be one of the greatest collections I've ever read.

Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wallace, Steinbeck, Nabokov...The list goes on and on. What more can you ask for? I spent the weekend with the book, and there are no duds here. Only some of the finest fiction from the 20th Century. It's also printed on high quality, thick paper, unlike so many other anthologies which are printed on paper so thin you can see through it.
It's also a beautiful book to have sitting on your coffee table.

I didn't care for this book. I found it difficult to follow with a dry narrative. But as others have said, if you want the facts, they are contained within the pages of this book. It's awful to think that the America high command was so willing to sacrifice the lives of thousand of young GI's for no tactical advantage whatsoever. This costly battle should never have taken place! The men who fought there never flinched from their duty and are due are highest degree of respect and admiration. But it angers me to think the whole thing may not have been necessary in the scope of world events.

A Dark And Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest And The Roer River Dams, 1944-1945 by Edward G. Miller (an active-duty army ordnance officer) is a closely detailed study of the brutal fighting which took place in the Hurtgen Forest near the end of World War II. Those deadly battles in the Hurtgen Forest have been overshadowed in military history and popular imagination by the more famous "Battle of the Bulge", and yet the gripping depictions of combat, terror, and the revelations of lethal blunders in A Dark And Bloody Ground make it a truly recommended resource for avid students of Military History in general and World War II Studies in particular.

I purchased this book as part of research I am doing. I found it to be very informative and interesting reading. The author does a wonderful job putting names of men with places throughout the book. I was even able to find reference to my Dad, Capt. Gilbert H. Fuller, 2nd Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment.

This book will prove very helpful in my writing of a WWII memorial of my parents and their contributions to the effort.

I would certainly highly recommend it to others.

Having stumbled upon a copy of this book entirely by accident, I have since found Harm's work to be indispensible in my search for dread Cthulhu lore. With a simple A-Z format, the complier has recorded many useful references that are not confined to the Lovecraft canon of works (which are, of course, thinly veiled as fiction). The works of others with similar foresight and understanding are also used as sources. If Arkham University were ever to offer a paper in Cthulhu Investigation 101, this would certainly be on the required reading list.

Even though I've been reading Lovecraft, and the later contributors to the Mythos, for over a quarter of a century, there were still fine points that I could never quite get straight. This is understandable seeing how you often have to piece the fabric of the whole out of off-hand remarks and vague hints and references. In a way that does contribute to the mystery of the corpus, but it can be dissatisfying, if not maddening at times. That is why this excellently written and designed reference is truly a treasure to the serious reader.
Finally, I know the difference between the Elder Gods, the Great Old Ones, The Outer Gods, and the Elder Things. You finally get the associations in the pantheon spelled out. You know how Cthulhu, Tsathuggua, Hastur, and Ithaqua (the Great Old Ones) differ from Azathuth, Nyarlathotep, Shuh-Niggurath, and Yog-Sothoth (the Outer Gods.) And of course you learn never to associate Nodens, Kthanid, and Yag-Thaddag (the Elder Gods) with any of these.
Come to think of it I probably shouldn't have spoken these names aloud while I was typing. What is that noise in the

I have been recommending this book to people I know since I first encountered the first edition. This second edition is expanded and revised, and is even more helpful to Call of Cthulhu gamers, keepers, and especially writers of Mythos fiction. I've been using it as source material for my own odd little tales since I began writing them. And while it is true that the author has been known to frequent some of the same newsgroups that I do, he did not pay me to say these things. The book is extensively indexed and cross-referenced, with a very helpful timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos toward the back. It is clearly written, has doses of the author's dry sense of humor, especially in his choice of a quote for the preface page, is quite attractively packaged, and will look very nice on your bookshelf next to the many volumes of HP Lovecraft that you should have if you're reading this.