Parenting in today's world is complex, puzzling, challenging, ever changing, and a whole lot of hard work. In Kids Are From Jupiter, practicing psychologist and family counseling Mark Chamberlain presents a practical, sensible, funny, effective, "parent friendly", highly recommended guide to overcoming parenting stumbling blocks, shows how to develop effective coping strategies for common child-rearing dilemmas, and how to gain an understanding of those evolving little people we call our children.

I loved this book! I couldn't wait to read through each segment. Down-to-earth, hands-on advice for raising children. Dr. Chamberlain speaks from personal experience as a father and from years of experience counseling parents and children. A must read book for parents. Thought provoking, humorous, insightful, and especially useful information. I highly recommend "Kids are from Jupiter" to anyone seeking solutions as a parent.

I loved reading Kids are from Jupiter, it was entertaining and easy to read. It helped me understand the behavior of my three children, and gave me useful techniques to be a better and less stressed mother. I feel better about myself and my capabilities! I recommend it for anyone who wants to understand children.

Alan Dingwall is a real kid: he's worried about bullies, wonders if his parents care about him now that they're divorced, and envies his overweight friend's apparently happy family. Alan struggles at math, and dreads the school bell that means the school population has to find a way out of the school without running afoul of the "Cougars" - the school bullies.

Life is tough - and real - for Alan, and Scrimger pulls no punches.

Then an alien, Norbert, takes up residence in Alan's nose, and things go quickly awry in Alan's balanced (if somewhat sad) world. Norbert is quickly mistaken for "Squeaky" - Alan's new nickname as the school's suddenly gifted ventriloquist. As Squeaky starts tossing bon-mots aplenty around the school, Alan finds himself unwittingly insulting the bullies, telling girls how he really feels, and being - just this once - the life of the classroom.

What's heartening about this tale is not really the antics of the alien in Alan's nose - though certainly the humour is a blast and it's enjoyable to the extreme. What got my real vote was the true-to-life child frustration that Scrimger wove into the plot. Alan worries that his father doesn't care about him anymore, and that his mother is just too busy to really pay attention. He's a witty kid, and very smart (in non-math ways), and I doubt anyone would have any trouble empathising with Alan's world.

The balance of humour and real-life in this book is nothing short of artful, and kids will appreciate not being spoken down to in this tale. Snap it up, and be prepared for an eventually triumphant novel that will touch on some real emotionality.

'Nathan

The "Nose from Jupiter" was really a fantastic book and I loved it! It was really funny and the author had some funny sentences that just made me laugh. I liked the conversations between Norbert and Alan, and this book was funny and also sad. I recommend this book to everybody!

I read this book to my daugther (9.5 yrs) during a long car trip this summer. We both loved it. It was very funny (Norbert, from Jupiter, has quite a sense of humour) but it was also sad as it addressed issues of kids suffering through a divorce, parents too busy for their kids, schoolyard bullies, confidence and self-esteem. We laughed at Norbert, cried, and then rejoiced for Alan when he learned how to deal with his problems. It is a wonderful book. I think that both kids and parents should read it.

I read this book over the summer and I found that Isaac Asimov can be very funny! I love the blurbs on each story. It really adds to your experience during the reading. Some were funny, but many were just clever. I love his writing style! I recommend this book!!!!!!!!!

Wading through the madness of Ernest Hogan's CORTEZ ON JUPITER is like taking a stroll through the mind of a mad Mexican Hunter S. Thompson--and damn me, that's a GOOD thing.

With its narrator and main character, the crazed freefall painter Pablo Cortez, spewing autobiography and Spanglish stream-of-conciousness as he takes you through a future world of painting, stardom, sex, and the exploration of spaces both inner and outer, CORTEZ ON JUPITER grabs hold of your literary huevos and just doesn't let go. Freefall splatterpainting, guerrilla artworks, artpolitik, alienation, alien cultures, a spaceride into Jupiter's Big Red Spot that has become a trip promising certain death to all who attempt it--a spaceride/deathride that has also been turned into a Systemwide televisual phenomenon; the show everyone watches ... CORTEZ ON JUPITER holds wrapped in its pages more ideas than a shelf stacked with books, yet Hogan weaves them all together in a web spun by his unreliable narrator/hero to climax and beyond. A great, rollicking read of a book.

This book has fun and interesting information for any age readers. It also has great color pictures of the planet and moons!

DISTANT ENCOUNTERS is a fascinating, very readable account of the unfolding drama of the Voyager spacecraft travels to Jupiter and Saturn in the late 1970's. Some coverage of the preceding Pioneer flybys is also provided. You can almost feel the emotions of the JPL engineers as they simultaneously battle frustrating technical problems with the spacecraft and experience the triumphs of some of the greatest scientific returns in the history of planetary exploration. Nontechnical, sometimes humorous, and quite informative regarding the status of space exploration during this time in history, this book proves that an engaging account of unmanned space technology and exploration can be written for the general reader.

THE AUTHOR OBVIOUSLY IS A DIVING ENTHUSIAST AND HISTORY BUFF. CLEARLY, EXHAUSTIVELY RESEARCHED IN IT'S DETAIL AND INTEREST. FACTS HAVE BEEN CHECKED AND DOUBLE-CHECKED FOR ACCURACY. THE AUTHOR TRULY WAS A PERFECTIONIST. THANKS MARK.

I read this book in its 1896 edition out of the Spencer Rare Books Library at the University of Kansas. As a history student, I found Colonel Astor's book a most amazing example of late nineteenth-century socio-economic thought. In the tradition of utopia novels, Astor creates a nineteenth-century version of the year 2000, in which all the problems of the world that he perceives in 1896 are fixed, and the thought process behind the industrial revolution has reached its apex. As a novel, "A Journey in Other Worlds" is probably not very good, but as a study in nineteenth-century frames of mind, ideas, and idealism, it is a most amazing primary source.

If I have any complaint, it's that Asimov didn't live well into his 80s and update this books. It was written in 1973, before the rings of Jupiter were discovered. It's sad that so many of Dr. Asimov's great works on astronomy are outdated, as they are true classics.

This book talks about the atmosphere, moons, size and other features of Jupiter, but the highlight has to be Asimov's descriptions of what it would be like to look out from each of Jupiter's inner moons.

Riveting historical novel set in Italy in the early 19th century. Refreshing account of the genisis of the secret society which became to be known as the Mafia. Fantasitc read! Filled with political and religious intrigue, romance and adventure. No other literary piece has ever put into perspective the evolution of what began as a society with a noble mission into the corrupt organization which has fasinated the public.