This is an excellent introduction to geometric transformations. It is very useful for Competitions such as the AIME USAMO and IMO. Also, it is a great book for those interested in Mathematics.

This should be a "must have" for every chocoholic! The recipes are positively lucious, and it is easy to get the necessary Ghirardelli ingredients by phone, or online for those underprivileged who don't live near a Ghirardelli shop. CAUTION: Reading these recipes can definitely be fattening!

I liked this book because of the way that Ghost Dog helped his friend to find his card that the bad man took by telling Arttie that he was a reporter and Ghost Dog came to help it was great!

I have used this book throughout the year as my gingerbread reference book. The book is more than a how-to-make a gingerbread house. This book has taught me that gingerbread is very appropriate for any holiday celebration. It has step-by-step instructions for using gingerbread for St. Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. It really isn't the best book to have if you are a beginner. It is a better book for intermedite or advance gingerbread bakers.

This is an excellent historical account of blacks in Glynn County and is a valuable tool for African Americans. It dispells the many myths that have existed for years concerning the quality of separate education. Many of the blacks featured here excelled in their efforts long before intergration. I applaud the
private schools that cared enough to give the best and I applaud those early settlers who demonstrated courage and valour. In addition I thank the author for having the insight to record the events that most history books refuse to tell. This is a first for blacks in Glynn County.

The book is essential for anyone who is truly interested in taking their game to the next level. It gives the goalies of the world a great guide to the position that not many understand!!

Whether or not you've read Madlands, you will love this Maupinesque story of those sorts of just-beyond-normal-so-that-they're-real characters you meet in life if you live in SF or NOLA or Madison, WI. If you've lived in or dreamed of a place where you can lie on the Capitol lawn and smoke pot (well, maybe once a year, years ago), where you can vote for (or against) a nudist-feminist-former Lesbian for city council, where you can hail a cabby with a Ph.D who is gay and the father of the city council aspirant's young son -- where you can indulge yourself in the most rigorous and Puritanical extremes of liberal political correctness, or else skewer PC and have good old libertine fun -- well, then, you must read this intelligent and always delightful novel. Oh, I'm signing this, so check page two so you'll know I read the book. Meticulously.

If you are in the habit of marking important passages of a book, you may end up highlighting every sentence of "God, Sex and Kabbalah" by Rabbi Allen S. Maller (186 pp., Samuel Weiser, distributor).

What makes this book appealing, in the first place, is Rabbi Maller's simple, lucid and down-to-earth style. At the same time, he writes with a deep understanding of, and respect for, the Kabbalah and the Jewish mystical tradition.

He explains his purpose: "This book is designed to reflect the character and personality of the various elements of the Kabbalah. It contains stories, interpretations of Bible and Jewish history, prophecies of future developments, translations of famous Kabbalistic texts, meditation exercixes and an advocacy of performing mitzvot, without which no book of Kabbalah can be considered authentic." He begins his book by telling the story of "The Golem of Rabbi Judah Loew," a felicitous choice in the age of interactive media, as the reader is offered four different endings. Rabbi Maller then suggests additional readings, depending on the ending the reader has chosen.

Maller points out that the purpose of Kabbalistic mysticism is practice, not theory. He, himself, avoids the esoteric approach to Kabbalah in favor of basic explanations and exercises which will allow the reader to develop and experience a Jewish mystical outlook on life.

Maller justifies this approach with a contemporary reference, illustrative of his style in general: It is not necessary to learn how a car works when you want to learn how to drive. You take driving lessons.

Maller studied to be a nuclear physicist before entering the rabbinate, now serving as the rabbi of Temple Akiba in Culver City, Calif. In "God, Sex and Kabbalah" he demonstrates how science actually supports a mystical view of life, in general, and such Kabbalistic concepts as reincarnation (gilgul), in particular. Maller makes the case for gilgul persuasively.

In light of today's permissive, hedonistic views of sex, Maller offers us a much more meaningful view, restating the Jewish case of sex as holiness. He also helps the modern reader regain a sense of a personal God.

Finally, he leads us to a messianic vision, suggesting that we are now going through what the tradition calls the Birthpangs of the Messiah. He gives us a vision of the New Age to Come -- and of God -- that is cosmically breathtaking...

A real page turner, God, Sherryl and Me is an extraordinary story of the triumph of the human spirit and divine intervention. It is reality tv on paper. This book reveals how miracles do happen and God is real and active in our lives. Often we try to be the pilot of our lives and heaven has other plans. The Gordon and Sherryl Perkins story leads us through their heartaches and triumphs. I was captivated by the very detailed telling of each experience they had. I highly recommend this book!

This book is a treasure! I discovered it while substitute teaching the music class at the local elementary school, and was impressed with the content, ease of playing and the complete texts of songs long forgotten that I had enjoyed so much as a child. This is a must have for home or school teaching. It has many wonderful lessons for teaching music and American folk themes. Even though it is aimed at children, I heartily recommend it to everyone. There should be one sitting on every piano!