Sorry to say, its not worth the money. Some very old illustrations. I would be ashamed to charge this amount of money for such little substance.

I've used this over and over in my Youth class. There's something for every lesson you can come up with, and more.

Wayne Rice offers several great illustrations to help you explain Biblical truths. The illustrations in this volume are practical and can be used with youth or adults. I have used several of the illustrations in my own sermons to both groups and the response is great! The book will help you to find application and meaning to drive home the points of your sermons.

This is a study guide that is 100% worthless unless you are using it with the associated text book. Don't buy it as a stand-alone work. It doesn't even have an index.

Instead check out "Lifespan Human Development" by Gormly and Brodzinsky instead. It has a high Amazon rating and it seems well written, concise, and on topic.

I was also very happy with the vendor, College Book Service. They let me upgrade the shipping on my order so it would arrive sooner,...

This book is a big help in getting the basics. I really want to comment on the seller-College Book Service- they had the book here in 4 days. I was happy!

This book provides an excellent, detailed look at human growth and development from birth through death, detailing theory, history, and up-to-date concepts in the field. Current issues in human development are also discussed. An excellent resource for teachers and other professionals!

This was good but not quite as good as PAPER ROSES. I would have liked a story about Kyle (from _Paper Roses_) too. I think that the subject of this story was just not that interesting to me but it was done well and the characters were likable. I don't know that I would pay to have this book searched.

"Paper Tiger" is the second book in a trilogy that began with "Paper Roses." While it is not necessary to read "Paper Roses" first to enjoy this book, ("Paper Tiger" can certainly stand on its own as far as plot and characters go), it is a plus if you do so. This story of Daniel Mulloney, begins when he is a man in his mid-twenties. "Paper Roses" is the story of his adopted sister, Evie, with whom he was raised. But Daniel's boyhood and adolescence are featured prominently in the 1st novel, as are the adventures he almost always shares with his sister, and much information about the formation of his character. So, if you begin this book after reading its prequel, you feel like you are meeting an old friend and catching up on what has happened since you last heard from him. And, there is much about the character of Daniel Mulloney that is only revealed in book #1 - book #2 is more plot-driven.

Daniel was raised by a nanny who was paid for her services. His family abandoned him to her care when it was discovered he was born lame. The family obviously is a wealthy one, as Daniel was brought up to live as a gentleman, in post-Civil War St. Louis, Missouri. All his bills and his education were paid for by check, from the Mulloney family lawyer to the servant. Daniel grew up hurt and somewhat embittered that he had been so carelessly discarded. And he always wondered about his parents and extended family. When the nanny dies, Daniel goes to Texas with his adopted sister, and grows to manhood, surviving numerous adventures, including blowing up a small Texas town. He is a handsome, intelligent, witty and sensitive man with an interest in journalism and the desire to finally find out about his roots.

On his way to Cutlerville, Ohio, (home of the Mulloney clan), he meets a young heiress on the train. Georgina Hanover is an extroverted, mischievous and very attractive young woman, who goes after what she wants. What she does Not want is to marry her fiance, Peter Mulloney, heir to a fortune in his own right...and brother to Daniel. She would like to help Daniel start up a newspaper in Cutlerville and begin his journalistic crusade for workers' rights. The primary exploiter of workers and women in Cutlerville is Daniel's father - the one who abandoned him at birth. Go figure!

This is a terrific story, but it does not compare to "Paper Roses," which is one of my favorite books. "Paper Roses" is almost epic in its scope - involving many characters and various plots, subplots and themes. "Paper Tiger" is a terrific tale, but much less complex and ambitious - and less compelling too. As always, Patricia Rice creates characters that are realistic and 3-dimensional. Her take on social reform, journalism and photography in mid-19th century America, creates an interesting environment for her characters and is also great for plot development. Her humor is ever present. I recommend this book, on its own merit...but if you can, read "Paper Flowers" first. I look forward to beginning "Paper Moon." You can't go wrong with Patricia Rice!

This was a very entertaining and exciting book to read. I thought the characters were very interesting and that the author focused on their interaction in a way that was suspensefull. At some points in the book it was impossible to expect what was going to happen next. The relationship between Georgia Hanover and Daniel Mulloney was especially hot at times and kept my attention through the whole book. They were both very interesting and exciting characters in a topsy turvey world of family legacy and greed. The relationship was one that could impact the town they lived in as well as the families they were brought up in. There is a lot of character development and the plots and sub-plots were developed giving each of the brothers real personality,charm and pride. For Peter too much pride resulting in circumstances that would later result in his eventual demise. I enjoyed Paper Tiger enough to look into another by the same author.

Stan Rice's inane poetry disgusts and repulses me to no end. The fact that no talent hacks can get published because their wives are famous is repugnant to me. His poetry is gibberish disguised as deep intelectual prose. The words do rhyme, which should entertain the likes of kindergarteners everywhere. There is no meaning to his poems.

- Golden silver copper silk. Woe is water shocked by milk.

What does this mean? If you can read meaning into this, then you're lying to yourself and everyone else. Please do not buy this book, I've seen better poetry on the stalls of restroom walls. Look I just made a rhyme... publish me.

Stan Rice was a highly successful, award winning PUBLISHED Poet years before his wife even wrote her first book. It is interesting to see such envious hostility in some reviews that clearly have nothing to do with the artist; stan rice.
Poetry is music, and there is music for the infinite tastes and desires of all people.
Stan's work is powerful, strickingly honest, with often dreamlike qualities questioning all things taken for granted. He has always remained genuine and strong in his delivery and insites.
And each of his books becomes more and more of its own world, you marval nervously as you dare to enter!
thanks.

This book is so amazing and so full of meaning and understanding. I am so in love with everything written in this book of poetry. Stan Rice is a phenom in that his brillance and feeling bleed through the words he had written. If you love poetry as I do, then this book is a must have.

I have read a lot of Burroughs, and this one is rather typical of his stories. The idea of the civilized man having to survive in a savage part of the world is an all too common plot line for him.

The initial idea of European civilization being severely damaged by World War I, while an isolationist North and South America growing to the height of civilization and peace was a brilliant one. The idea of someone from the Americas entering the unknown European realm is a fascinating plot idea. Unfortunately, the book was just not long enough to really develop the story.

Even if World War I had gone as badly as the story indicates, I do not believe that European civilization would have been so totally obliterated that no trace of it would remain. There should have been ruins, at least. It seems more as likely that some sort of Medieval-type society would have resulted, especially since that is so much a part of the history of that part of the world.

Further, when the Roman Empire fell, some learning was preserve in monastaries. It seems to me that something similar would have occurred if World War I had destroyed European civilization. I kept expecting the main characters to come across something of this nature, but they never did.

Third, I find it unlikely that the animals that Burroughs describes as thriving in England would be able to do so, unless the entire climate of the planet had changed, and there is no indication in the novel that this has occurred. Lions and elephants may be able to live in zoos but if turned loose with a few British winters (from what I've read of the British climate), they would certainly not become more populous than humans.

Finally, I felt that the end of the story was rushed. With the material that he had, Burroughs could have stretched this story out to a multi-hundred page novel. As it is, the edition that I read was under 100 pgs.

In all, Burroughs started with a great idea, but it just needed a lot of work.

First published in 1915, the motivations for this story are obvious. The nations of the western hemisphere have taken an extreme isolationist stance in the early years of World War I, to the point that 200 years later they do not even know whether anything or anyone has survived the massive armed conflagration that began in the early 20th century. The hero inadvertently gets stranded in Europe and makes all of the startling discoveries of the outcome of the conflict and ensuing 200 years.

The story is ERB's standard fare. However, like many of his books from this period, there are a few themes to the story that are of interest above and beyond the light adventure story. The elements foremost in this novel are the destructive nature of war and racism. There is also a certain amount of naivete from the period and the relative newness of the United States as a world power.

Most of Burrough's books are good reading for pre-teen to early adolescent, and nostalgic adults; this one is no exception.
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Typical Burroughs fantasy. Lieutenant Jefferson Turck lives in an isolationist world in which the United States and other North and South American nations have severed ties from the rest of the world for some two hundred years, the last credible contact around 1972. As a commander of a flying-submersible cruiser, his job is to cruise between 30d west and 175d west longitude; to go beyond those lines is to be stripped of rank - if you survive, which no one has.

Beset by sabotage, Turck is cast adrift east of 30d in a motor launch. With a small crew he explores first Great Britian, finding a wilderness complete with lions, tigers and wild animals (ex-zoo residents, often as not). The humans have reverted to spear carrying hunter groups. The motorboat then travels to Europe, which is also a wasteland where nature has reclaimed all of "civilization". A great war - which the Pan-American nations of Turck's origin avoided - had devestated human life in Europe.

In Europe, Turck is captured by soldiers from a black empire from Abysinia who are bringing civilization back to Europe. As well as slavery. He is finally set free by yet a seperate invasion of Chinese troops, who being enlightened free the slaves and reunite Turck with his homeland.

As mentioned, this is typical Burroughs "sceience fiction". Turck encounters a "savage" queen in Great Britian who then almost by chance is encountered again in Europe where they profess their love and hence marriage looms - the same plot seen in many others of his books. He is betrayed by a dastardly villian or two. The technology has "dated" stamped all over it ("submersible flying cruiser"?). He has more than one Tarzan-like encounter in the wilds.

At the same time, it lacks much of the movie-stock plots; the hero's gun doesn't jam and in fact when he encounters lions he shoots quiet a few, only to be driven off by their sheer numbers. (If you've read stories of starved packs of man-eaters terrorizing villages, the idea of hungry prides of lions doing so isn't so far fetched.) His main character sometimes wanders off in introverted sidelights on various subjects but eventually comes back online.

Overall, a good Burroughs read. If you like old-timey adventure fantasy with a bit of man-woman attraction added and exploring lost lands of great forrests, this is a good book to try.

(The book I read was a 1977 reprint of the original 1888 edition, and some of the things I mention here might not apply to later editions.)

This charming book contains many folktales collected around Ireland before the close of the Nineteenth Century. As the title says, there are tales about ghosts, giants, pookas, the devil, etc. A distinctive feature of this book is that the author records not just the tale, but records it in the dialect of the teller!

However, I use the word "charming" because the stories are humorous, but rarely terribly interesting. Also, the author's use of the vernacular, while an interesting feature, requires the reader to pay particular attention when reading, and to be familiar with certain Irish words (e.g. shebeen, poteen, omadhawn, etc.).

As such, I would not call this a great book, but it is a good one - a charming one.

I gave this book 4 stars because I enjoyed reading it.. but the language was something I hadn't expected.. It is written exactly like Irishmen talk.. for an example: Tipperary, whos father was a farmer there, an' had a shmart bit av land wid no end av shape grazin' on it, an' the Tipperary boy was n't bad at all, only as shtupid as a donkey. This was taken from the story "The Rock of Cashel.. So if you buy this book.. be prepared to over look the obvious spelling/language problems but the stories are just as interesting. (I feel this pook should be given 3 and a half stars but I will go up a number instead of down. The book is interesting)

Great stories of Irish legend and folklore, written mostly as told by Irish peasantry in their native dialect.

I finished it, but it took some time. I found the all the characters dull and their motivations unbelievable. And I know I had read Cleo's sister Maya's story a while ago, but for the life of me couldn't remember one bit of it, so that book obviously had the same impact on me as this one. Hard to finish and easily forgettable.

Almost Perfect is a story which steps on a lot of taboos and twists some conventions into pretzels. I'm a supporter of all trailblazing, whether it's 100% successful or not, so I really liked this book.

This book picks up where Ms. Rice's Impossible Dreams left off (I recommend reading them in order, but it's not necessary), with a heroine who is possibly the least heroic character you could imagine. At least, so it seems.

Cleo Alyssum is a reclusive recovering addict who has lost her son's custody because of her past history and is struggling to rebuild her life so she can be worthy of having him with her again. She has zero interest in men, little interest in most people at all, and really just wants to be left alone to renovate her isolated house on the South Carolina coast. This is an anti-romance heroine for the ages and I liked her a lot, even when she did a couple really stupid things (they're in character, so I forgive her).

Enter the hero, Jared McCloud, who is a down-on-his-luck cartoonist with a history of swimming in shallow emotional waters and running when the water starts to get deep. At first he just wants to rent Cleo's beach house. Then he really wants Cleo too, who wants absolutely nothing to do with him. General conflict and mayhem ensue, including a hurricane.

Despite having a cartoonist for a hero, this is not an airy, light book. There are many funny scenes and moments, but this novel deals with some major issues, and for the most part handles them sensitively and honestly. To me, Cleo is a fascinating character of great depth, and Jared surpassed my expectations by turning into a man worthy of her trust. I found the emotional journey these two took - along with the two abused/neglected teenagers they take under their wings - to be affecting and real.

I've read several of Ms. Rice's previous novels, and Almost Perfect is my new favorite work by her. As Cleo and Jared learn, the risks in becoming emotionally involved with each other (and others) are great, but so are the rewards. It a lesson we can all stand to think about now and then.

With her record, Cleo Alyssum knows she needs to remain perfectly clean if she is to regain custody of her seven-year-old son Matty. Thus, she finds contentment and isolation from her past on a secluded South Carolina island until renowned cartoonist Jared McCloud of Scapegrace fame arrives asking to rent the dilapidated guesthouse. Cleo refuses until a teenage neighbor playing a prank causes an accident involving Jared. To keep thirteen-year-old Gene out of trouble with the law, Cleo rents the property to Jared.

Jared is very attracted to Cleo, but she rejects his advances, as she does not need a new man in her house except for her Matty. However, she admits that Jared is nice and seems to care about others when he begins to help Gene and the lad's sister with their personal problems. Still his efforts to reach Cleo constantly fail leaving it up to a natural disaster like the hurricane that descends on the island to show her that Jared is nothing like her deceased husband was.

ALMOST PERFECT is a superb relationship drama that stars two strong lead characters and a deeply wounded but a bit over-characterized support cast. The story line predominantly spins around Jared and Cleo, but also provides a deep look at other relationships especially when a caring adult gets involved with teens. Patricia Rice has written an angst laden relationship drama that hard core fans will fully relish.

Harriet Klausner

I would not recommend this book to anyone who is thinking about buying a giant breed dog. This book does not tell the cons of owing a dog of this size and stature. I never saw the word "drool" mentioned nor the potential weights of any of these dogs. Also, in my opinion, the author is very biased when it comes to dog food manufacturers. He states that many owners think they know more about nutrition than the dog food producers. In many cases, owners do know more. He doesn't say much about the positive affects of a raw diet and supplements for giant breed and how most commercial dog foods are not geered to the growth of a giant breed. He really doesn't get into the genetic disorders that plague most giant breeds but gives a group of common disorders that affect all breeds. I was very disappointed with this book.

An excelent guide to looking at health concerns of big dogs. The list of all big dog breeds in the back is very helpful. Read this book before obtaining a large dog.

The book is a wonderful source of information about what to expect when getting a big dog. It throughly covers all the possible diseases that strike big dogs. You learn all about the special care needs of your new big friend and your responsibilities that come with owning a large dog. However, nutritionally it does not provide any advice on home feeding but commercial food only. Gives great discriptions on large breeds from temperament to ease of training, as well as suitability for certain disciplines. It lacks to mention possible weight of each breed. Over all a great read and very informative.

I am a die hard Anne Rice fan, and an insurance executive. To pick up a book that purports to be written about her fans, and see only the bloodsuckers, goths and sub/doms was not a real picture of who her fans are.

Anne Rice's fans are moms and dads, teenagers, and goths. Her fans probably represent every single type of person in the world. She receives fan mail from Catholic priests, as well as those who want to become immortal. Doctors, lawyers and waitresses read Sleeping Beauty. Anne Rice has become mainstream - her work is not on the fringe of anything and neither are most of her fans.

So, my opinion was that the fans that were interviewed and published in the book attempted to put limits on a woman's work whose appeal is absolutely limitless.

This book gives an interesting glance into the world of Anne Rice fans; however, it may either affirm or disprove the notion that her fans are "weirdos." The book features college students, accountants, writers, exotic dancers, make-up artists, etc. While it features intriguing people from all walks of life, I don't believe it's an entirely accurate view of her fans, and I feel that the book still tries to perpetuate a certain fan stereotype, as though reading Anne Rice makes you estranged from the rest of society.

As a previous reviewer noted, Anne Rice is mainstream. Admitting you are a fan is not a taboo like declaring you are a dominatrix. There are fans who never made it to the ARVLFC balls when they were still going on; there are fans who have no interest in exploring New Orleans outside of the books; and there are fans who detest "Goth" culture but still devour every single book Rice releases. It would have been a far more representative book had it featured a larger diversity of fans. I have met prudes who are uneasy watching kissing scenes on television, yet they read the books over and over again without flinching. Now, if that isn't a testament of Rice's enormous talent and gift, I don't know what is.

However, the book is still wonderfully constructed. The photographs are nothing short of superb, the fan accounts a delight to read, and one really does walk away feeling that maybe those stereotypes are wrong.

Jana Marcus did Anne Rice fans a favor by putting this book together. She showed us that we are "normal" (even if the rest of society/literary world doesn't appreciate Anne Rice and her writings.) When the average reader thinks of Anne Rice fans, s/he has the image that the fans pagans, eccentrics and just plain weird. (Usually these are folks that only know the author by her reputation only.) In the Shadow of the Vampire dispells this myth is dispelled. In one book, Jana Marcus has been able to show there is a large cross section of society that calls itself "Anne Rice fans." These fans DO NOT fit neatly into a mold as others would prefer, rather they make their OWN mold. I know, I'm in the book.

If you've read "A Princess of Mars", don't bother with this one. The sequels a all the same... boring.

"Llana of Gathol" is the 10th of 11 John Carter of Mars books that Edgar Rice Burroughs left to the world. This book is comprised of four linked short tales that first appeared in "Amazing Stories Magazine" from March to October 1941. Each of these stories is around 50 pages in length and is made up of 13 very short chapters. In the first tale, "The Ancient Dead," John Carter goes for a spin in his flier to get away from it all, and winds up in the ancient Barsoomian city of Horz. This long-dead city, however, turns out to be anything but. In "The Black Pirates of Barsoom," Carter discovers an enclave of the First Born (last seen in book 2, "The Gods of Mars") and is forced to fight in their gladiator-style games. In "Escape on Mars," Carter goes to the aid of the besieged city of Gathol, and winds up stealing a battleship and putting together an untrustworthy crew of mercenaries and assassins. Finally, in "Invisible Men of Mars," Carter and his granddaughter, the eponymous Llana, come upon the lost city of Invar, and its invisible inhabitants. Space does not permit me to go into the remarkable plot twists and surprises that this book offers. Each of the tales is a little gem of swift-moving action, but this time presented with a decidedly lighthearted touch. For all the serious goings-on, this Carter volume features the most humor yet seen in the series. This combination of deadly action, presented with a light tone, is a very appealing one. The book is also something of a nostalgia piece; of all the books in the series, this one refers back to events in previous volumes more than any of the others. Indeed, I can hardly see how a reader could really enjoy this collection without a thorough knowledge of ALL the previous entries in the series. And in addition to previous events being referred to, we also see, in "Llana of Gathol," the return of several characters from earlier volumes: Ptor Fak from "A Princess of Mars," Tan Hadron from "A Fighting Man of Mars," Zithad from "The Gods of Mars" and so on. This harking back to old events and characters strikes me as being not repetitive, as some readers have claimed, but a nice, almost nostalgic tribute to past events. The book also features one of the longest and nastiest sword fights that Carter has ever engaged in; the one with Motus, in the city of Invar. This is one memorable sequence, indeed. Carter is told several times during the course of this novel, by one or another of his many enemies, that "Resistance is futile." I can't help wondering whether the creators of Star Trek's Borg menace were Burroughs fans! Anyway, these short-story gems will certainly entertain any lover of fast-moving sci-fi/fantasy.
All of which is not to say that the book contains no problems, however. Like ALL the previous books in the Carter series, this one contains some doozies. For example, the use of outrageous coincidence, while frequent in past volumes, is waaay overused in this book. I refer here to the coincidence of bumping into Llana in Horz and the coincidence of meeting the brother of Janai (heroine of book 9, "Synthetic Men of Mars"), not to mention the coincidence of meeting all the other "old friends" mentioned above. Worse still is the fact that by the book's end, the fate of several of the main characters remains unknown; e.g., the fate of Hin Abtol, the main villain of the saga, and of Tan Hadron and Fo-Nar. We are told by Carter at one point that he will soon explain how the First Born have come to be in the lost rift valley, but he never gets around to it. There are the usual inconsistencies that pop up, too: Why do the CLOTHES of the invisible inhabitants of Invar become invisible also? Why haven't the CLOTHES of the living dead in Horz not long since disintegrated? How is Carter able to read the hieroglyphs on the king's crown in Invar, when in previous books Burroughs has told us that each city has its own written symbols? Why is it necessary for Hin Abtol's ships to drop men with equilibrimotors (flying belts) into the besieged city of Gathol, when these soldiers could just fly in themselves? I should perhaps add at this point that I have been told by one of the founders of the ERB List (the best Burroughs Website that any fan could ever hope for) that many of these errors and discrepancies are absent from the original versions of the Carter books, but only added later by addle-brained copy editors. I can only speak of what I have read (the Ballantine/DelRey paperbacks from the early '80s), and these books are something of a mess. Still, the vision of Burroughs does manage to shine through, and despite the glitches, this book is a veritable packet of wonders.

This book (in my opinion) is very good and i wish that the series would have ended here because the eleventh book, John Carter of Mars (again in my opinion) is one of the worst books that i have ever read.