YouthSpeaks is an amazing program and Jen & Scott have done an excellent job putting together this guide, capturing the essence of their mission: "the next generation can speak for itself."

Too many writing programs take a hierarchical approach, attempting to define poetry as if in a vacuum, with no regard for individual experience and taste. This guide flips that tired, off-putting approach and instead, starts with the students' own work, introducing and clarifying poetic devices they already use, slowly slipping in the work of others. The exercises are many and varied, their recognition of and focus on performance is impressive and the inclusion of several poems and anecdotes by students of the program is crucial.

If you teach poetry, or even if you just write it yourself, this book should be on your bookshelf.

I wrote this book as a training manual for therapists who are interested in learning an adaptation of cognitive therapy, for work with depressed young people. I'd be happy to hear from any readers, as I'm intending to do another book, expanding the techniques presented and using more family interventions. Any thoughts are welcomed.

Even though the words were written many years ago, they still hold true today and we all would benefit if man/womankind walked the way of the warrior and upheld the Bushido code...

One of the more alarming aspects of contemporary American life is the habit of tearing up roots. A home is considered merely a piece of real estate to be bought and sold to the highest bidder. One's history can be had for a price. Many Americans consider a house merely an investment to which they have a mechanical, impersonal attachment which can be severed easily for the sake of social climbing or monetary gain. The notion of upward mobility is foul enough without tossing an old, well-built home into the bulldozer.

But then I suspect that the American fallacy that cheapness is better has overtaken the craftsmanship of the well-built home. Edmund Burke warned that time means little to those who run up a building in haste. Lacking some sense of past and future, there is the danger of remaining infantile, having absorbed little experience and none of its lessons as well as the danger of being bored, for a world without associations, Moncrieff wrote, would be flat and meaningless.

Burke is never mentioned in this book by George Scott-Moncrieff, man of letters, except as the name of a street in Edinburgh, Scotland. These were 18th-century homes which had resisted briefly the forces of development and progress. The Burke Street of Moncrieff's youth was a street of associations, every house a history, with its own character and cast of characters, such as Peggy Neale-Swinton, devotee of the ulterior motive (psychology) and Reverend Bruce, who confessed he was not much of a preacher.

Moncrieff wrote that we possess the world "only because our predecessors appreciated it and cherished it." So I would call this book not simply a praise of fine old houses but of the sentiments and enduring values that made them possible. It is also a reminder of the choices we all make about our heritage.

Russell Kirk included this slim volume in the Library of Conservative Thought as a tribute to his friend "who deserves to be remembered," but also in hope that a reader might be inspired "to resist a bulldozer or comfort a next-door neighbor." I have seen no similar desires in the dusty tomes of libertarian economists.

Jane is a woman I feel every female can relate to in love, motherhood and life. You can tell the author put a lot of feeling into the story line. I read this book in 1 day it was very hard to put down just to go and eat. As i said in the beginning it is a very good boo

Author Scott Thybony shares with readers his fascination with and love of the Four Corners region of the Southwest. Burntwater is a loosely joined series of descriptions of Thybony's travels to various locations within this sparsely populated region: the Grand Canyon, back country on the Navajo Reservation, the Goosenecks region of the San Juan River, northern New Mexico, and others. Scott's wandering narrative describes his experiences in each place, often involving travel companions or new found acquaintances and sometimes just himself. One moving chapter describes how he nearly died from dehydration in the Grand Canyon while hiking to the site of his brother's death in an airplane/helicopter collision.

This is a wonderful book filled with gentle descriptions of sometimes physically harsh locations and circumstances. Scott describes but does not judge and, unlike so many other authors, refrains from directing readers to specific emotions or thoughts. Those he leaves up to you. You can easily read this book's 117 pages in a single sitting, but the invitation to this marvelous part of the Southwest may result in a literary and even physical journey of discovery that can last a lifetime.

We have kids and lots of books. This is must have. The kids love it, and we do too. Very well written and great illustrations. If we did not have kids I would have purchased it!

It's great for Kindergarten or 1st grade especially. The kids learn to read this wonderful repetitive book. They really can read it. Its great for predicting too!

Essential for business students, graduate and undergraduates alike. Helps you write professional reports and term papers. Many graduate schools require it.

This compliation of essays lays down the curricular and research agenda for the establishment of a Black Women's Studies program in the academy. It weaves personal narrative, literary criticism, and empirical analysis which cogently argues that Black Studies and Women's Studies in academia do not adequately address the multiple consciousness of Black women through discourses on racism, sexism, classism, and sexuality. The authors of the various articles articulate the need to look at Black women's lives as multi-faceted and complex, neither wholly positive or negative. I am not sure if the authors decided to change the name of the book to make it more marketable but the original title is "All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men,But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies." I tend to prefer the original title because it brilliantly captures the dilemmas that Black women face in higher education and the wider - negation of their experiences as Black people and as women. The book delivers an historical examination of the Black Women's Studies movement that began in the early 1970's with the formation of the Combahee River Collective, a black feminist organization and the National Black Feminist Organization. It also pushes for the development of a Black Women's Studies program that reaches out beyond the halls of academe and situates its curricular and research agenda in political and economic organizing on behalf of Black women of all educational and economic classes.