de caer en una desgracia sin remedio... Es un libro extraordinario que funciona porque SE DIRIGE A LOS ADOLESCENTES, FRENTE A FRENTE, mostrándoles la realidad dentro de su propio terreno...
No puedo comentarles cuál iba a ser el error de nuestra pequeña de catorce años, pero es de justicia reconocer que su salvador fue este libro, YA QUE ELLA MISMA NOS LO DIJO...
Es el mejor REGALO QUE LE PUEDES HACER A TU HIJO O HIJA ADOLESCENTE !

Yo no sabía que Manuelito, mi hijo de 14 años,comenzaba a andar en malos pásos... Pero este libro nos salvó a los dos: La novia de Manuelito se lo regaló y todas las tardes se sentaban a leerlo antes de hacer su tarea...
Unos meses más tardes, Manuelito se acercó a mi llevando este libro, ya muy maltratado, para dármelo:
- Yo ya andaba mal, mami. Ya se que no te lo dije...pero no pude. Marisa me regaló el libro y lo estuvimos leyendo..Ya te habrás fijado como han subido mis calificaciones y que ya no ando en malas compañías. Te lo regaló, mamá, como la mejor prueba de que me enderecé...

Fue hasta entonces cuando me senté a llorar de alivio...Dios me había ahorrado la angustia de saber los malos pasos de mi Manuel...

Ese,amigas, es EL VALOR DE ESTE LIBRO...

comprenderán por qué.
La verdad, no me atrevía a hablar de este libro, pero la conciencia me empuja, porque no me perdonaría no haber advertido a otros chavos:
Mis padres ni se imaginan en qué pasos anduve, ni que este libro, que me regaló mi novia, me salvó: ANDABA YA EN LA MOTA, COMENZABA A BEBER Y A NO IR A LA ESCUELA..
Mi novia me exigió que nos sentáramos juntos a leerlo.
Acabé llorando y no volví ni a la mariguana ni a la copa.
Por favor, señores papás, DÉNSELO A SUS HIJOS DE CATORCE A DIECIOCHO AÑOS !
Yo ya cumplí con mi obligación de conciencia...y me siento feliz lejos del peligro

pero quiero que a futuro, sea LA COMPAÑ{ERA DIGNA DE UN HOMBRE Y NO SU ESCLAVA.
Por lo tanto, este libro será la base sobre la que se eduque a nuestra pequeña...¡Para que se parezca a su mamá ... y para que yo no tenga que andar dándole de trompadas al yerno !

estos errores de la mujer son VENTAJAS... hasta que tenemos una hija y nos enardece la idea de que la traigan de una oreja...

Gran libro !

ERA UNA MUJER CULTISIMA Y ADELANTADA A SU TIEMPO..
Es como si ella hubiera escrito este libro para educarme con él... Pero te lo recomiendo, amiga mía. No vayas a estar comentiendo ERRORES QUE, SON TAN INCONSCIENTES, QUE YA NI LOS IDENTIFICAS...
Y por favor: Aplícalo en tus hijas... yo no acabo de agradecerle a mi mamá !"

Several years ago I spent the summer checking out Star Trek paperback novels. There were two that I went out and purchased so I could have my own copy and "Doctor's Orders" was one of them.

While orbiting yet another strange planet, Captain Kirk beams down to handle diplomatic negotiations and places Dr. McCoy in charge of the Enterprise. It seems Bones has been wearing himself down in Sick Bay and he wants to give the good Doctor a rest. Of course, no good deed goes unpunished. No sooner does McCoy take the center seat then Kirk disappears and the Klingons show up looking to pick a fight.

The situation is a bit contrived since I find it hard to believe that Starfleet regulations do not allow Spock to assume command, but who cares? The scenes where McCoy talks to the Klingons or goes toe to toe with Spock are well worth it. Duane's humor in these conversations is entirely grounded in the characters, which was always the strength of Star Trek. This is not a big epic like many of the Star Trek novels tend to be, but there are only so many times the gang can save the universe (I believe the number is 56). This is a delightful tale and well worth the reading.

"Doctor's Orders" by Diane Duane is a shipload of fun. It reads like the best of TOS episodes, and shows some interesting insights into the Enterprise characters. Captain Kirk mischievously places Dr. McCoy in command, and a series of events occur throwing the Doctor and crew into life-threatening situations.

Sounds like typical Star Trek, but it is much more. The writer artfully depicts McCoy in a very different light, and does a nice job utilizing a calm and relaxed Kirk, a rare sight indeed. Add the most interesting negotiation of Federation entry for a planet we've seen, and you got a good book.

I liked the pace of the book, which was brisk and exciting. The characters all felt right and the plot was original and excellent. I rate this book at 4.70 out of 5.00, rounded up to 5.00 stars. I wish it were longer! Highly recommended.

This book manages to succeed with a basic plot device that I would have expected to be impossible: McCoy in command of the Enterprise.

Granted, it isn't entirely plausible that McCoy would be unable to release the bridge into the hands of a line officer when one became available, but getting him into the seat in the first place was actually finessed quite well, and the scenes in which he handles a crisis were good enough for me to be willing to suspend disbelief on that previous count. All in all, this book is notable for two things: giving us a marvellous look at McCoy handling unfamiliar responsibilities (like successfully bluffing a Klingon captain) wonderfully, and quite plausibly, and giving us (as Diane Duane frequently does) not one, not two, but THREE sentient alien species none of which is even moderately hominid. (Ameboids, tree-like beings which do NOT resemble ents overmuch, and psionic rocks.)

Highly recommended for any fan of Star Trek; in fact, any reader who isn't actively hostile to Star Trek.

Lily's Mom is pregnant, and she can't wait for the new baby. Things take a dramatic turn for the worse, though, when baby Julius actually arrives. Lily stops singing to the baby, takes back "presents" she "gave" him before he came, and tries to manipulate his future thinking capabilities by reciting numbers and the alphabet out of order. She also spends more than her share of time in the "uncooperative chair". Once her Cousin Garland voices her digust at baby Julius, however, Lily becomes the fiercely protective older sister and learns to love her new baby brother in the process. This book is my 3 year old daughter's new favorite, since she has a 2 year old brother and another brother arriving in approx. 3 months. A great gift for any older siblings-to-be, especially girls. Kevin Henkes always seems to have a book that deals with one childhood trauma or another, and we just can't get enough of them!

I first heard of this book through Reading Rainbow on PBS. It's fabulous -- and fits my daughter to a T. When you're buying a baby gift for the new Julius in your circle of friends....don't forget this book. It's simply my daughter's favorite.

DO NOT be scared of the previous reviewers silly fears about "bad words" in this book. You don't have to be a genius to see that this is a positive book, with an extremely positive message about babies. Plus, it is Kevin Henkes, and he writes books that kids love, I know, I'm a teacher and if you want your kids to love books, buy them books like this. It's great, and the illustrations are adorable.

This book is a must for every network engineer and designer! The content is very detailed and well structured, you may skip chapters and go back and forth if you don't feel that you don't need to read them (not suggested ;). The chapters on STP are probably the best material ever written.

It covers the whole lifecycle of a network - from the design to troubleshooting and every part of it is excellent and very well-explained which makes it easy to understand (as long as this could be "easy" ;).

Unfortunately the CLSC 1.0 test (from the CCNP track) focuses on a little different aspect than this book, which doesn't make this book less valuable. If you're planning on taking CLSC 2.0 (which is coming live later this year) this book fits so well like the test questions are written by the authors (quite likely ;).

In my opinion this book and "Routing TCP/IP" by Jeff Doyle are the best books on networking (and Cisco) ever written.

This book, along with Routing TCP/IP, are two of the best books ever written on Networking. This book is very well written, very concise, and the examples are very useful in presenting a problem and a solution.

The chapter on Multilayer Switching, Multicasting, and Spanning-Tree alone are very extensive and comprehensive. The explanations are very technical yet understandable for the novice readers. Superb illustrations and explanations leave no holes unturned.

This book may seem outdated but don't be fooled by the publish date. It's 2001, I'm redesigning our LAN network with Cisco 6509 Core switches and this book comes in handy every step of the way.

I usually hold my praise until I take and pass an exam but I'll make exception for this awesome book. Most CCNP books seem very disjointed and filled with numerous technical and egregious editing errors. Simply put they don't make a lot of sense because they seem like a collection of cut-n-paste from other techinical documents. If you were trying to learn and understand various switching technologies including LANE, STP, VTP, VLAN or etc.... i can truly say that this book is the best. It explains with authority, clearity, and humour. After you read this book, you'll feel like your time reading it was well spent because you will understand reasons and whys. Its just a beautiful book. Thanks to authors.

A darling book about a little one and some misbehaving due to excitement. Lilly want to share so badly that she is very disruptive to her class. Mr. Slinger, the teacher is patient at first but soon takes action to stop Lilly's behavior. The teacher Lilly once loved becomes a monster she really doesn't like any longer. She even writes him a nasty note. Lilly soon finds out that Mr. Slinger is still her hero. I won't spoil the ending! This is a great read for the first day of school. Students can connect to Lilly. They understand her need for attention and I am sure most students have misbehaved to get that attention. This will start a good discussion about what Lilly could of done instead of being disruptive, what good behavior looks like, and why teachers sometimes have to take things away from students. Also, after Lilly sneaks the teacher the note and Mr. Slinger gives Lilly the purse back, this is a good time to make predictions about what might happen. Furthermore, how would you students deal with the situation Lilly has gotten herself into with this nasty note she wrote. Lots of teaching possibilities with this book.

This is a book that adults will appreciate as much as children. Pay close attention to all that's happening in the illustrations. You can't help but love Lilly, she means well but like any of us she finds herself in trouble. Mr. Slinger, Lilly's teacher is a hero. This is a must read for all kids. Makes a great gift, look for a purple plastic purse and movie star sunglasses to go a long with it! After reading this book you'll find yourself looking for and falling in love with all of Kevin Henkes' books! Wow! That is all I can say. Wow!

Kevin Henkes spins a wonderful tale that appeals to many age groups with the fun story of Lilly and her new purse. Lilly loves her teacher and school, but her normally attentive nature is put to the test when she brings her new purse and accessories to class one day. Woven with lessons about the importance of patience, listening, and responsibility, the story is accompanied by colorful and simple illustrations depicting the young mouse Lilly and other characters in ordinary classroom situations every child can relate to. Your children will love reading this with you; you'll have to read every delightful caption. Something in the story will make adults laugh every time they read it too. Very well rounded and enjoyable work.

Am re reading Facing Autism and taking down notes and checking off what gave Ryan in Lynn Hamiltons book leaps forward in his development. I really feel like this book is a must read for any child or doctor of an autistic child as it covers not only educational interventions but dietary and biological interventions. After reading all that is available through the various organisations and parent groups I find that I can be very confused - Lynn Hamilton takes all of the available treatments and states how and why they work and where to find the appropriate information and/or persons to further investigate those options. I found Lynns practical knowledge and perserverance to be very inspiring - I didn't feel like this was a one off miracle story but rather a very thoughful and methodical approach - there are so many oneoff stories in amongst all of the different approaches to autism but very very few stories of steady improvement across all areas of a child's life - education, diet, biomedical etc etc.

I have found this a must read, and am recommending it to anyone with an autistic child so they can see positive results from someone who has kept looking for answers and uncovering lots of options that are available to anyone to try with their child - so many of the biomedical ideas we will now persue - I was totally unaware of how to even where to begin in this area - or I have attempted to begin a few times before only to be confused and have retreated again. The style of writing is a great combination of getting to know Ryan, so that one may compare to ones own child, as we all do and then three quarters of the book is practical information, including a what to do now list, which saves so much precious time - this is my number one book - it is a book that I will be giving to our childs teacher aide, teacher and anyone else in his life as it gives anyone a great overall picture of how multifaceted this disorder is and what can be done about it to give a child the best possible quality of life. Thanks for such a great contribution to my life!

This book should be on the shelves of all professionals dealing with the diagnosis of autism in children, so that they can hand it over to the parents who have just received the news.
Lynn Hamilton, the mother of an autistic child herself, deals first of all with the difficult time parents experience as they come to terms with their child's condition. But she then goes on to do what many so-called experts in the field do not do - she tells us what we CAN do, rather than leaving it there. This book covers the essential topics of diet, supplementation and biomedical treatments such as anti-fungal therapy and secretin, which made a big difference to her son's condition.
There are comprehensive lists of helpful websites. She gives details of various resources for Occupational and other therapies.
She also gives an overview of the main educational approaches, in particular describing more fully how a home-based ABA programme has greatly helped her son, who is now in mainstream school. While she, herself, is based in the USA, this information, and contact addresses for training courses and support groups, is given for other countries too.
However, although this is indeed an 'essential guide' and handbook containing all the information you need as you start to investigate how to help your autistic child, it is also much more. In a very down-to-earth, honest and readable manner, Lynn Hamilton shares her own experiences...........her hopes, fears, pain and ultimately her joy in her son's triumph over many of his former difficulties.
I read this book about 15 months after my own son's diagnosis, by which time I had accumulated a great deal of knowledge, and collected piles of printouts from the Internet! However, in this one volume, there was still much for me to learn, as well as a welcome encouragement to continue to have a great deal of hope for my child.
Lynn's faith shines out from this book, and it has certainly helped to lighten my own path through this maze that is Autism.

A friend bought me this book shortly after one of my twin daughters was diagnosed with Autism. I was touched by the gift, but after reading the book I have thanked my friend many times over. The book is a very easy read & I managed to finish it within a week. That is really saying something considering how hectic my life gets dealing with twins & one who is a special needs child. Lynn Hamilton does a great job explaining her life experiences along with giving accurate information on therapies and treatments. There are many times I still thumb through the book to look up a phone number, name or web address. There is so much information packed in this book. At the time I was very new to Autism & her book was the best starting place for my family. I have recommended this book to several friends who have children with ASD. I have also encouraged family members to read it so they have a better understanding of Autism & how it effects families.

I've now read about 2000 pages about LaGrange Calvert, Father Horst, et al... Quite a story. These novels remind me of the science fiction I read as a teenager (Van Vogt, Heinlein, Asimov, Simak). Quite unlike the "idea" stories you see so much of these days. And yet Hamilton's work uses lots of "fresh science" (datavise, geneering, voidhawks, habitats, etc). In defense of the length of his novel (These four books: Reality Dysfunction I & II, Neutronium Alchemist I & II are really one long novel; each does not have a discernable conclusion): I found myself reading each one more rapidly than the previous, and enjoying it more as well. My criticism of the length of his novel: Mr. Hamilton, are you squeezing as much money out of me as you can with this story? At about 10 bucks a pop, I've now spent $40, and I have to wait till 1999 for the conclusion of this story? (And at the end, I won't even have a nice hardcover to put on the bookshelf with the other clssics I've read.) I think Mr. Hamilton knows he has us hooked. Finally, I must say, this book(s) is worth the effort. Read it!

In this series of books Hamilton ceates a unique cosmos of worlds, cultures, aliens, and characters. All without forgetting he has to first entertain and engage his reader. Don't look for deep meaning or some "read between the lines" insight - this is a fun romp through the galaxy. Much like Dune, a new world is created complete with technology, aliens, cultures and language. Unlike Dune, you don't need an appendix to keep up with the action. Don't get the first book(s) (Reality Dysfunction 1 & 2) without buying The Neutronium Alchemist 1 & 2. You won't forgive yourself. Can't wait for the conclusion.

Peter H Hamilton is fast approaching the heights of Iain M Banks when it comes to truley engrossing, orginal and spectacular pseudo politcial sci-fi space opera - his earlier novels deal with near future, post global warming/flooding Great Britain and all eventually lead up the development of the deep space race - and lead us all neatly to this tour de force.

The reality disfunction (even though weighty at 1,000+ pages) is almost best read in one sitting - a novel that you never want to end. Simply stunning, highly original, action packed from start to finish british science fiction - can't wait for the last in teh series.

Ten young Florentine noblemen and women escaping the Black Death in Florence in 1348 entertain themselves by each relating a story per day for ten days - 100 entertaining stories in all, mostly set in and around medieval Florence. Although famously naughty, none of these stories strikes a modern reader as more than mildly erotic. Rather, they consistently astonish by their thoroughly modern message that women are as good as men, nobility doesn't come from birth, sanctity doesn't come from the church, and - above all - true love must never be denied. Amazingly, Boccaccio often delivers this message while pretending to say the exact opposite; sometimes he presents very sympathetic characters who get away with things thought scandalous in his time, offering a mere token condemnation at the end, while other times he depicts someone actually following the accepted code and committing some horrible act of cruelty in the process. Either way - and despite his claims to be upholding convention - we always know what he really means, and apparently he didn't fool too many people in his own day either.

But one doesn't need to focus on the revolutionary aspects of the Decameron to enjoy the book; each of the stories delights the reader with a different tasty morsel, and, you can read as much or as little at a time as you please. Once you get past the introduction, (and that's probably the most serious part of the book, so be sure not to give up before you get to the first story) the stories will make you laugh, make you cringe, and make you sit on the edge of your seat. Inspiring authors from Chaucer to Shakespeare and entertaining audiences for over 700 years, the Decameron continues to delight.

I had to read a good part of "The Decameron" last quarter and I have gone back to read more stories from it even though the Fall quarter is over. This is a great book: funny, entertaining, subtly revolutionary, insightful, and superbly well-written. Approach it without fear. It is a Classic, but it will have you laughing, thinking, and learning far better than any current best-seller. Anyone with an interest in journalism and/or history will profit from Boccaccio's Introduction, at the beginning of the First Day. His description of the Plague in Florence is vivid and gripping, and this eventually provides the background for the setting of the one hundred and one tales that seven young women and three young men will narrate in a villa away from the dying city. Also, the Introduction to the Fourth Day presents the reader with an unfinished, but hilarious story about a man who has been kept away from women. This story is what my teacher called the 101st, and I have to agree with her.

Do not think that all "The Decameron" deals with is sex. The mostly illicit sexual encounters depicted are some times funny, sometimes sad, but they share a common trait with the stories from the Tenth Day, for example (these ones are mostly about sacrifice, abnegation, and servitude), or with those of the Second: Boccaccio's concern for his society and the terrible tensions that had reached a breaking point by the 14th century. The Plague, in Boccaccio's universe, acts as a catalyst of emotions, desires, and changes that had to come.

Read, then, about Alibech putting the Devil back in Hell, Lisabetta and her pot of basil, Ser Ceperello and his "saintly" life, Griselda and her incredible loyalty in spite of the suffering at the hands of a God-like husband, Tancredi and his disturbing love for his daughter, Masetto and the new kind of society he helps create with some less-than-religious nuns, and then it will be easier to understand why Boccaccio is so popular after 650 years. And although it may be skipped by most readers, do not miss the Translator's (G. M. McWilliam) introduction on the history of "The Decameron" proper, and that of its many, and mostly unfortunate, translations into English. This book is one of the wisest, most economic ways of obtaining entertainment and culture. Do not miss it.

Giovanni Boccaccio THE DECAMERON. Second Edition. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam. cli + 909 pages. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1995. ISBN 0-14-044629-X (Pbk).

Second-hand opinions can do a lot of harm. Most of us have been given the impression that The Decameron is a lightweight collection of bawdy tales which, though it may appeal to the salacious, sober readers would do well to avoid. The more literate will probably be aware that the book is made up of one hundred stories told on ten consecutive days in 1348 by ten charming young Florentines who have fled to an amply stocked country villa to take refuge from the plague which is ravaging Florence.

Idle tales of love and adventure, then, told merely to pass the time by a group of pampered aristocrats, and written by an author who was quite without the technical equipment of a modern story-teller such as Flannery O'Connor. But how, one wonders, could it have survived for over six hundred years if that's all there were to it? And why has it so often been censored? Why have there always been those who don't want us to read it?

A puritan has been described as someone who has an awful feeling that somebody somewhere may be enjoying themselves, and since The Decameron offers the reader many pleasures it becomes automatically suspect to such minds. In the first place it is a comic masterpiece, a collection of entertaining tales many of which are as genuinely funny as Chaucer's, and it offers us the pleasure of savoring the witty, ironic, and highly refined sensibility of a writer who was also a bit of a rogue. It also provides us with an engaging portrait of the Middle Ages, and one in which we are pleasantly surprised to find that the people of those days were every bit as human as we are, and in some ways considerably more delicate.

We are also given an ongoing hilarious and devastating portrayal of the corruption and hypocrisy of the medieval Church. Another target of Boccaccio's satire is human gullibility in matters religious, since, then as now, most folks could be trusted to believe whatever they were told by authority figures. And for those who have always found Dante to be a crushing bore, the sheer good fun of The Decameron, as Human Comedy, becomes, by implication (since Boccaccio was a personal friend of Dante), a powerful and compassionate counterblast to the solemn and cruel anti-life nonsense of The Divine Comedy.

There is a pagan exuberance to Boccaccio, a frank and wholesome celebration of the flesh; in contrast to medieval Christianity's loathing of woman we find in him what David Denby beautifully describes as "a tribute to the deep-down lovableness of women" (Denby, p.249). And today, when so many women are being taught by anti-sex radical feminists to deny their own bodies and feelings, Boccaccio's celebration of the sexual avidity of the natural woman should come as a very welcome antidote. For Denby, who has written a superb essay on The Decameron that can be strongly recommended, Boccaccio's is a scandalous book, a book that liberates, a book that returns us to "the paradise from which, long ago, we had been expelled" (Denby, p.248).

The present Penguin Classics edition, besides containing Boccaccio's complete text, also includes a 122-page Introduction, a Select Bibliography, 67 pages of Notes, four excellent Maps and two Indexes. McWilliam, who is a Boccaccio scholar, writes in a supple, refined, elegant and truly impressive English which successfully captures the highly sophisticated sensibility of Boccaccio himself. His translation reads not so much as a translation as an original work, though his Introduction (which seems to cover everything except what is most important) should definitely be supplemented by Denby's wonderfully insightful and stimulating essay, details of which follow:

Chapter 17 - 'Boccaccio,' in 'GREAT BOOKS - My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World'
by David Denby. pp.241-249. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. ISBN 0-684-83533-9 (Pbk).

A good friend sent me this book even though she calls me a "right-wing Republican" and not a Carter fan even though I happen to live in Georgia and ironically have the same last name at the author. This book is bigger than all that. It is the human story of one man's life, rich stories about Vietnam, Washington and the civil rights movement and powerful, emotional and important stories about Mr. Jordon's three different bouts with cancer. But not just a cancer book but a book for anyone who likes a good read that grabs you and holds you and holds you to the very last page!

Being a southerner myself, and also having almost every single male member of my family die of cancer, this book really hit home for me. It is inspirational and full of hope. I think Mr. Jordan's legacy will not be his time in politics, but more importantly it will be his own life story and the war he and his family have waged against cancer. The book is uplifting and entertaining. The political history itself makes the book a fascinating read, but the real story is Mr. Jordan's successful battles with cancer. I am so glad that I had an opportunity to read this book, and I truly believe that it will inspire anyone who picks it up. I guarantee you won't be able to put it down- I couldn't!

Unquestionably the finest memoir that I have read in my life. Mr. Jordan powerfully describes his most personal experiences with both cancer and American politics in an incredible manner. This book contains stories that every human should have the opportunity to read. Mr. Jordan is a cancer survivor, a family man, a politial leader, and most importantly a gentleman. My recomendation is to not only buy this book for yourself, but also copies for every person who is important to you as well. You certainly will be glad that you did. I thank Mr. Jordan for writing such a wonderful book for us all to read. It is certainly as good as they come.