Although several people had recommended this book to me, I found it to be lacking both in the number of schools listed and the information regarding each school. Not a single one of the schools I am investigating is reviewed in this book. Where is Lamplighter? Where is Callier? There is nothing in this book you cannot find by a simple internet search. Don't waste your time or money with this book!

I was not impressed with this book at all. It is as though the author sent a questionnaire to each school and then simply published whatever she received back, with absolutely no research or investigation. The information is organized 3 different ways, none of which are intuitive or easy to maneuver. It seems as if they were just looking for a way to fill up the book. Many of the top name schools are not listed, which makes me wonder how many of the lesser-known name schools are missing. Some of the schools profiles read like an advertisement from their brochure. There is more information online that is worthwhile and helpful, not to mention many of the private schools now have web sites...

This book does not have all the DFW Private schools listed. There isn't any information in this book that you could not find on the website. Just factoids. There are so many schools left out, I don't trust any of the information. Saint Thomas Aquinas, Hockaday, Jesuit. Just visit their websites and save your (money)!

While I admit, in our pop-culture world, the marketing of Harry Potter has reached an insane point, this does not take away from the fact the Harry Potter legend is as good as The Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, and many other fantasy tales that take us back to that feeling of childhood wonder. Catholics and other Christians who prefer to avoid Potter mania need to leave the harmless fairy tale alone. Harry Potter will no more destroy or alter a child's religious belief than Cinderella or Star Wars.

I do have to say that I, myself am not a religious person, yet I hold no poor judgements towards people who do choose to follow it. With regards to Harry Potter, it is fiction. It does not dictate to children how to live their lives, or how to denounce their faith in their religion. I may not be a religious person, but I am an educated one, who is able to take fiction as just that; fiction, and i expect nothing more or less than entertainment from it. About all of this religious sceptisism surrounding Harry Potter due to its references to magic, and evil beings, why does the Wizard of Oz not suffer such scrutiny? It also intertwines its plots with witchcrafy, wizardry, and evil forces. I believe everyone who is critical of a piece of fiction, especialy Harry Potter, for portraying what they take to be un-godly, or anti-religion should take a good look at what this story is about. The Harry Potter series is about a boy struggling to fit in as he grows up into an adult, he just happens to be a wizard. What child in the world could ever be harmed by a book which can show kids it is ok to be different when growing up; how is this in any way evil I ask?

Whatever anyone's personal religious beliefs are, it's wonderful to finally have this book as truth in print to counter-point the insidious Harry Potter mania.

If you want a child to get more interested in reading... turn them on to The Hobbit and the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy by Tolkein. Turn them on to The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew/The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe/The Horse and His Boy/Prince Caspian/Voyage of the Dawn Treader/The Silver Chair/The Last Battle) by C.S. Lewis. How about A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'engle?

All of these are wonderful alternatives for the imaginative mind.

On the other hand, Harry Potter encourages dangerous bases of thought. I'm glad that this book is here to educate those of us who don't ordinarily think in those terms. Catholic, or not... this book is worth the read!

I can still remember where I bought a copy of this book -- cheap, off one of those carts that used book stores wheel out onto the sidewalk on days it's not raining: a shop just below (east of) Government Center in Boston, very close to the Suffolk County Courthouse you get glimpses of every week on "Ally McBeal" and "The Practice."

The book was originally published by the respected British firm Macmillan in 1982, but probably didn't stay in print very long. The author, an English journalist, assayed to visit and patronize brothels across the globe.

Not terribly titillating, as I recall, and of interest only to those in a particular frame of mind, the book is decently written and has its moments. ...

The author mostly reports his observations and experiences in a dispassionate and slightly wide-eyed manner, although he allows a little pathos through when the women voice it.

An oddity that may not be for everyone's bookshelf....

The book did not seem very well thought out as a book in itself. The information within was very minor, and the routines did not seem as ultimate as the cover suggested in achieving the athletic body or performance as Dan O'Brien possesses. The most disturbing aspect was the graphic content inside. Most exercise demonstrations were in pencil sketch. Text was large, as if filling up space, and the design concept at the start of each chapter was too busy. It had the feel of a rushed book, and that Dan didn't even have time to perform the routines himself so drawings were made of him instead; which made knowing how to perform the workouts correctly & safely difficult to gauge. It also lost the personal touch that most books have because I never felt that Dan was actually there with me at every step.

this collection contains one great story: what was it?. diamond lens has a good start, build up nicely, but ends up being mediocre. none of the other stories are really wort mentioning.

I chose this book to read with very high expectations. Once getting about half way through it I realized it was more like a textbook than anything else. It was very dense with information and was lightened up a little with several stories, but overall it was quite long and drawn on. If you are really looking to use and apply Feng Shui in your life then this really isn't the book for you unless you have the endurance to read it about three times through. It does convince you that this way of life does improve yours, but actually improving your life it does not do. Overall, I would recomend looking more into the subject, but I don't think this is the book to do so with.

Booker states that apart from his PhD in English Lit he has also written over a hundered articles on nuclear physics and electronics, which is enough to make you spew. Given that I have been theorising on the Menippea for the last four years, I find Booker's approach a little facile... his approach to "defining" Flann O"Brien as a menippean satirist amounts to ticking off the elements that correspond to Bakhtin's hit-list. He also makes no mention of Kirk's Bibliography, which is a glaring omission. Overall, a poor effort, from someone who obviously regards themselves as an egghead intellect. (Why do Americans continually abbreviate their first names to initials? from D. Bruce Musgrave

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There is lots of strongly expressed "messages" in this story. Among them are .... ... Don't think you're too clever ..... Don't be too dissatisfied with your situation.

We are told the fishy facts of life. We are but one of millions and life is very hard and full of dangers.

Using your imagination and acting on you fantasies may take you to very frightening places.

When our little fishy friend takes the trip down the flooded river into the big lake he finds himself faced with "strange monsters of awesome size". He hadn't seen a fisherman's boat before. He becomes very scared and lonely "What use are brains and imagination if you don't have a friend?" His hides away in a tin can to shut out the big bad world.

His escape back to his little pond requires a one in a zillion chance rescue.

Most children and their parents would find the story line of "The Little Fish in a Big Pond" a bit heavy handed. The real saving grace of this book is the illustrations. They are bright, naturalistic and quite appealing.

This book was a requirment for my honors World History class and neither I, my class, nor my teacher enjoyed reading it. This book does have several positive factors though. It is full of information, dates, and facts. It also features very useful timelines, and excerps from important documents of whatever period is in question. But while these things are good...the bad outnumber them.

It is said that chronology is a historian's secret weapon. The biggest problem in this book is the lack of chronology. The various sections in this book (or what use to be different volumes) are all categorized by civilization and not by time. Since primarily used in a World History class, though, it is hard and downright confusing sometimes to create a mental timeline while reading. Instead there are overlapping dates and the text will hop around chronologically. While when I used this book it was mandatory, if anyone is simply looking for a reference for something, I reccomend you find another book.

I agree with the other reviewer, it did not keep my interest either and was hard to follow and was just pretty darn boring and not a perfect romance book companion, I have read much better short story romance companions that really kept my interest!

I had a hard time with this book. It did not keep my interest at all and was hard to follow in places.