It is an unusually straightforward, comprehensive, insightful, and heartfelt book about a nonpartisan, common sense approach to fixing our society's problems. The author intends to shock Americans into the realization that our educational, governmental, and political systems must be fundamentally reformed. He offers a series of very specific solutions. His basic idea is that we must restore individual responsibility. Here is a short list of this unusual writer's proposals: - keep children at grade level until competence is demonstrated; - eliminate the school boards and the educational bureaucracy; - replace the income tax with a consumption tax; - eliminate money from politics; - run universities by faculty and students; - stop the "rights" circus of special interests; etc., etc. I am absolutely astounded by the depth of this man's arguments. This is the book of the year. Read it!

This book describes the work of an extensive survey into the feelings of adolsecents. 1634 teenagers (aged between 13.5 and 14.5 years) filled in questionnaries. This was a project of the Health Promotion Department, Greater Glascow Health Board.

If you are looking for solutions - a 'how to do this' type book - this may not be the book for you. What this book does is openly reveal the feelings of teenagers. Significantly this is done using the words of teenagers.

The book provides invaluable background information for teachers (what's really going on in the heads of those we teach) and parents.

The survey used to collect the information is included as an appendix at the back of the book.

For inventors & innovators, this book contains everything needed to answer detailed preliminary questions on the main aspects of human power and its application on land, air and sea. The only drawback was that the section on flying was a little short and the section on cycling a little long, but the cycling stats fed into the flying machines anyway so no real loss. Plenty of charts, stats, references on air and water resistance, human horsepower, peak performance issues, actual test results. Very impressive collection of information, well worth the price.

This is a wonderfull book about all the aspects of African hunting. Gordon Cundill is a well educated man and that shows through in his writing. He gives vivid and witty accounts of his childhood in Zululand, his most thrilling hunts, and his ideas on the proper weaponry for a safari. He is truly one of the super-stars of the safari world, having held licences in Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa, and others. He has hunted with some of the best including Capstick, Mike Hissey, Mark Selby, and the legendary Harry Selby. This is a wonderfull book by a genius and legend of the modern field.

I have this book (two books in one) titled with "Hunters life among lions,elephants, and other wild animals of South Africa" published in 1856. The more than 600 pages of travel, hunting, and near escapes will keep you reading. Cummings is not long winded on his tales at all, more facts would be nice. but still you will love his hunts and the thrilling escapes using the old muzzle- loader, stalking, hunting from horseback etc. htl ky

I love all of Lucy Gordon's books. They always seem to have the right amount of twists and turns and romance all blended in one. In this story, we are presented with Angie, who happens to be a wealthy doctor who always been rather lighthearted when it comes to romance and never takes any man really seriously... until she meets Bernardo, a brooding Sicilian with whom she falls head over heels in love with. Bernardo falls for her like a ton of bricks himself, but as usual, love is never simple. This is where Ms. Gordon gives us all that delightful twists and turns that make her books more than just simple romances. Another good Lucy Gordon novel would be "Rico's Secret Child".

I'M ALIVE! is a series of books for preschoolers and beginning readers that explains to them how their bodies work and grow. These early biology books compare the human body to plants and animals that are familiar to children. I CAN MOVE! presents ideas and activities that use what kids already know to help them learn more about how we move.

This book is a rare gem in the ever-growing world of computer how-to books; it's form and features are now used throughout the industry, but I feel I can safely call this book an original.

For starters, it's fun to read. Really. The author has gone a long way towards defusing the initial terror of computer usage with easygoing humor and an accessible style that neither preaches nor belittles the reader--you aren't a dummy, you just hate Windows!

Although laid out logically, this book can be opened anywhere for a quick learn and laugh. Odd bits of information are accompanied by pranks you can use on your co-workers with your new-found knowledge. Useless knowlege is made useful. (Typing high-ASCII charaters isn't a pain when you realize you can make filenames like I¥4U [I Yen for you].) The stuff only nerds would want to know is labeled as such--and lets the reader return to the book knowing they can find a tip or a shortcut because they remember the humor that went with it.

One must ask, of course, if this whole approach works. When I first picked up this book in 1993, I knew nothing about Windows. Today, I know much, and teach others. It's all largely due to this book. I recommend it highly.

This is the second I'm Safe! book I've bought for my daughter, who is 6. She loves hearing about Kip and Kayla, the brother and sister in the book. In I'm Safe! In the Water, Kayla and Kip get to take swimming lessons; however Kayla is a little afraid of the water. We are taken along with them on their first class, and by learning what to expect to happen during her swim classes, my daughter's own fears were allayed. In the story, Kayla is given a water situtation in which she does not feel helpless, thus, the next time she goes to her swim class, she is not scared. That is the crux of the I'm Safe! series: teaching children how to respond to situations that they may be unsure of, or may find scary. The Gordon's do this in such a way that the reader is never scared, but feels empowered right along with Kip and Kayla. I recommend these books highly, and so does my daughter.

At last, someone has written a story for preschoolers which teaches children what to do if they get lost, without scaring them half to death. Thank you, thank you, thank you!