When I read this book, it was unbelievable how accurate Jeff Jay was about everything, especially how affected family members felt and the things they tried to help the addicted person. He took a very serious and frustrating problem, and helped us deal with it, but with a sense of humor. He really knows what he is talking about and you feel that, and it gives you more confidence to do what you have to do. Once we started, we couldn't put it down. It is the ONLY thing I have really found to help friends & family, everything else seems to be written for the professionals. I strongly recommend this, if you know someone who has a problem with drugs or alcohol. Even if you don't go so far as an intervention, it will give you alot of knowledge to help you deal with it, things to do & NOT to do. It is so interesting and you can't help but laugh when he tells you all the things you've already gone thru and done wrong. It gives you ammunition to attack the problem without attacking the person, letting you know that this is a disease, just like heart disease. It's great, you won't be sorry you bought this. I LOVED IT!

This is a great, helpful book written in a clear and concisestyle. It is full of lots of suggestions and even has pages that youcan xerox to help keep your own journal of your illness. The appendices in the back are chock full of further resources, too. A good basic book that is packed with info and ideas.

This is a really funny tale, well written and great to learn and recite. I would highly reccomend this book

This is a great book! I find it embarrassing to take it with me to work though because people will wonder "what have you been thinking about that's so important that you need to stop?". But that's part of the challenge that the Holy Spirit has sent my way and I'm cool with that. I've always known that as a man thinketh so is he, but I've never come across such a practical study into that truth until now. Thanks Jay/Marilyn!

This is a beautiful translation of the Tao Te Ching. It is not mechanistic, as is so common among English translations of this book, but attempts to flow with the beauty and prose of the original Chinese. I think the only other translation that compares to this is by Stephen Mitchell; side to side Stephen's is more scientifically accurate, but less poetic. What is commonly missed in translating this work is that the free flowing and beautiful prose plays a great deal to accuracy, but contra wise it is true that English attempts to translate this work into prose inevitably at times narrow down what should be open ended. :) If you have an interest in the Tao Te Ching, reading more than one translation helps to firmly grasp what beauty the text is in the original Chinese, and how it can be understood in various ways.

For beginners, this was my first book on Taoism. Although I am a computer scientist who enjoys logic, the Tao Te Ching brought me to the other side (dialectics), and while I keep the Mitchell translation close at hand to resolve problems in this translation, this is the translation that I go back and read time and again, not Mitchell's.

This book offers a 40 page introduction explaining the history of the Tao Te Ching and offers details of the task of translating. About it's prose and construction I can really say no more than it is beautiful, but here are two balanced examples of comparison to help (from Ch. 11 and Ch. 5 respectively):

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This translation: " Thirty spokes on a cartwheel / Go towards the hub that is the centre / -- but look, there is nothing at the centre /and that is precisely why it works!"

S. Mitchell: "We join spokes together in a wheel, / but it is the center hole / that makes the wagon move. [...] We work with being, / but non-being is what we use."

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S. Mitchell: "The Tao doesn't take sides; / it gives birth to both good and evil. / The Master doesn't take sides; / she welcomes both saints and sinners."

This translation: "Heaven and earth /are not like humans. / The Tao does not act like a human. // They don't expect to be thanked / For making life, / So they view it without expectation."

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This is an excelent text to use both in the college class room and everyday teaching. The text covers all developmental point of effective teaching. It puts to teacher in a positve position that makes you want to teach and students to learn. If you are looking to sharpen your skills in teaching Math, or any subject you need this text. If you follow it closely "IT WILL KEEP YOU OFF OF A PDP(Professional Development Plan)"

Jay Johnstone memorializes his long and mirthful career for us in this and others of his books. He is a library of humourous stories about baseball, and it would be a cold soul indeed who got through this book without busting a gut laughing.

What makes it especially interesting is that he's by no means a dumb jock/buffoon--he just played one. Also visible is a hardworking, dedicated athlete who wanted very badly to win, and who cares about others--particularly his wife and daughter. When you finish this book you will probably wish you could meet him and just hang out with him.

This one is worth asking amazon.com to run a search for if you like baseball or laughter.

I found this book, as an active tennis player, to be very insightfull and enightening. This book would be good for anyone tennis player or not. Lifes secrets are uncovered by using the maetaphor of tennis. All and all a very worth while book to read.

The troll in this book is an unlikely hero. Although outcast and deformed, the lovable troll courageously rescues a village from tyranny. The text is playful, and the illustrations magical. I grew up listening to this story as told by my father, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a story that both teaches and entertains.

This book is necessary for anyone who studies terrorism and political extremism. It documents the activities of everyone from the anarchists of the early 20th century, to the KKK, to the left-wing groups in Europe, to radical Islam, to Oklahoma City. It has over 100 pictures and the tales of modern terrorism are exciting to read. Plus, there are also about 100 pages of every single terrorist attack committed in the 20th century from 1900 to 1998. It also has a list of every single terrorist group that has operated during the 20th century and what the motives of those groups are. To sum up this review, this is a great book!