I'm a Mae, both of my grandmothers are my Mae's, and several of my 10 aunts. This book made me feel part of an even larger legacy of Black women than just the ones in my family. I have a niece on the way and she's going to be a Mae. I'm handing this book down to her to help her out just like its helped me through college (The University of Pennsylvania)...where there weren't too many black women and especially not alot of "Mae's."

Thanks, Sharony ;-)

This book makes you think of home, family, comfort, etc... The stories are warm and heartfelt. You can just open it and read a story and feel better, or just relate to that particular Mae. The art is wonderful also.

Cuttin' the Rug Under the Moonlit Sky by Sharony Andrews Green is a joy to read and to view. Ms. Green captures the dialect that she heard as a child, the women who touched her life, and the feelings of hope, joy, renewal, and dispair that are so very universal. Each story stands by itself as a tribute or a lesson to anyone wise enough to take the time to read it. Whether one be rich or poor, young or old, black, white red, or blue, whether one hails from city or most rural country, these are stories and people that you will recognize. Ms. Green has discovered the voices of the common and the eccentric, with equal ease and style. Her folk art alone makes the book worth the purchase. It is a great gift for a thoughtful person, and just as wonderful to keep in your own library.

This has the best cover! It has the best pictures!It has the best information! its the best! READ THIS BOOK!

I purchased this book while on vacation in New York for $55.00 at Barns& Nobel. I see hre that is $28.00 This book has about 3 pages for each car that has colour pictures, it gives all of the technical data on the cars, tells how many are in the world, Everything you want to know except the price of them. I has a whole article on each car telling you a lot of information about it. It includes most of the exotic cars new and old such as the Ferrari Dino, Lamborghini Mura, Countach, and Diablo SV, McLaren F1, Lotus Esprite, Astin Martin DB1, BD6, and the DB7. Ect. It has a lot of cars and I highley suggest it to everyone (espically auto collectors)

For most of us the cars Frankel show us we will only see in books such as this or our dreams. The 51 models shown here represent slightly less than 200,000 cars produced with 10 models representing 90% of that. Only a third of the cars are still in production - the others range up to 92 years (and still running - the original Rolls Royce Silver Ghost). The vast majority of these particular cars are plated in Britain so we won't see them on North American roads although many of their breathern may be found in Europe or over here. I have ridden in one of the models shown (an E Type) and have lusted over the few others I have seen. This truly is a car lovers dream book.

I don't read too many books by leadership or management consultants, because they usually offer pat, superficial advice. What I loved about Elegant Leadership is that it let me come up with my own answers about how to improve performance and lead more effectively, based solely on my experiences and corporate culture.

Mr. Neitlich does a great job providing frameworks to help the reader think about leadership issues, and then he asks structured, powerful questions so that we can think more deeply about how we lead. Also, unlike many other books, he provides a balanced, holistic view of leadership -- incorporating behavior, attitudes, conversations, and ways of thinking. I will refer to this book often, and give it to colleagues, managers, and direct reports. It has the ability to positively effect the way best business practices are conducted.

This book is what you need to be a leader - heads and shoulders above the rest!

I just started reading this and can already tell it is going to encourage me to become increasingly self aware. Kind of a leadership application workbook. Good stuff!

I'm a mother of a son, not a father, and I don't golf, but I loved this book! As a parent, it was a great story to read, and offered some wonderful life lessons. Andrew Shanley is a talented writer who truly opens his heart and soul to readers, making this a book with true universal appeal.

Andrew Shanleys book really hits home. I could see myself and my sons in every turn of the page. It's insipred me to do more and be more for my kids.

A deceptively simple beginning, the desire a father has to teach his two sons how to play golf, turns into a powerfully moving story told with eloquence, humor, and humility. If you are a parent or a child, and/or you love golf, this is a book that shouldn't be missed.

The book is about the financial trouble that fiat (e.g.,paper) money created in France during the revolutionary years. It also states clearly that the people didn't learn enough from a lesson they had 70 years early.

If you read this historical account you will very often wonder: 'Hey sounds familiar to me...'. Too bad - or?

Fiat Money Inflation in France is as much about irrational human behavior as it is about financial crises and runaway inflation. White describes a dissillusioned public who, under the influence of increasingly self-serving public officials and orators, accepted more and more assignant printings even though the perils of such printings had been documented throughout history and were then blatantly obvious right before there eyes.

White presented this analysis of the runaway inflation in France to dissuade the US Government of printing its own paper money. He was successful.

A book worth reading.

A clear presentation of a governments desparate move using cheap inflated paper money to pay off old debts and its effects on france around 1790. This is not a dynamic novel, but mind bombs go off as the author hits the chain of events that occurred when money is inflated, and is backed only by only a promise to pay the debt it represents. The French find themselves mired in a cycle of ever increasing difficulty to pay that debt off. Although it is not a novel and at times a bit dry, you will definitely be talking to your friends and family about what this author has to say and comparing it to what you see happening now.

I liked this book, the photos are lovely and the text is nice, only the size is bad.

A beautiful little book for a beautiful lady

This small book is filled with pictures of Diana from the days when she was a kindergarten teacher to her marriage to Prince Charles. Also, she is shown comforting Elton John at a mutual friend's funeral in Italy just one month prior to her own tragic death. Some of the pictures which are shown in black and white, one has seen before in color.

This is the story of a young girl who grew up before our eyes in the glare of public scrutiny. She was born Honorable Diana Spencer, became Lady Diana Spencer upon the death of her paternal grandfather, and became Her Royal Highness, Diana, Princess of Wales, when she married. Sadly, when her marriage ended, it was agreed that whe would be addressed as Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana was the only child in the Spencer family who did not have a Royal as a godparent.

Diana, Princess of Wales, sponsored many organizations and took all of her duties seriously. However, she liked her role as MUMMY more than any other role. Her bedroom was within hearing distance of the nursery, and whenever she heard a cry, she was there instantly. This was certainly not in tradition in Royal Families. She was heard to say, "A Mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." Diana wanted her children to experience the wold outside the palace, as well as, in the confines of the palace. She tried to give them as normal a childhood as possible which she succeeded in doing.

Diana was known not just in Britain, but the world over. People from all over the world loved Diana, and she became not only a princess, but queen of their hearts.

This is a mini hardback book

The best thing about this book is the huge number of cases of varying kinds that are showcased. The reader just does never get bored of it and the excitement, intrigue and interest in the subject itself its enhanced by a thousandfold.

The book moves along the lines of a number of cases given in no particular order. The reader has the ability to read the case and come up with his own dignosis and then finally comparing it with the discussion presented after. The no particular order of presentation is greatly helpful in that the reader does not know what to expect and has to think and formulate his own differential. Most of the cases are well presented and though not classic like those showcased in books, they have the spice of being real cases. In other words, these are the same features you will be seeing in your everyday practice or psychiatry clerkship. If you wanted a specific case to read about, the index in the back clearly highlights where to find it in more than one different classification.

The biggest letdown of this book is that it fails to point out patient management. It is understandable that this is more of a case presentation book, but knowing how to tailor therapy for each individulaized patients is a great plus. This, however, is not implemented greatly in this book. The authors would mention the use of antidepressants or neuroleptics, but not mention exactly which type or kind of those does the patient respond to. Brief therapeutics and a follow-up discussion is presented most of the time, but that still fails to point out how management of the patient has progressed.

All in all, this book is excellent for learning in a more clinical type setting. Required reading before this book is a well established Psychiatry textbook to identify the diseases in general and after that, you're set to go. This aids the reader to independently identify the problem accordingly and to form an well established differential and final diagnosis. All in all, I strongly recommend this book as an adjunct to a Psychiatry textbook, if not the DSM-IV per se.

I bought a copy of this in my abnormal psych class. I will probably use it again when I study for my boards. It's a great book of vignettes, followed by a discussion of the case. Great practice for making DSM diagnoses. Indices allow studying material by disorder type, or the book can be worked through from the beginning. The cases are randomly ordered.

This all begs the question of the validity of the DSM or the usefulness of labeling people, but if you have to work within that system, this book will help get you up to speed.

The casebook is an excellent companion to the DSM IV. The casebook provides real examples of the disorders presented in the DSM IV and splits them into child/adolescent and adult categories. In addition, each case is discussed in terms of DSM IV diagnosis. As a graduate student in clinical psychology I found this book essential in the study of the DSM IV and abnormal psychology.

This book allows you to know everything about him. His failures and his successes. If you want to know what he was really about, this is the book you'll want to read.

This book reflects all issues involved in running a business in Latin America. Despite its mexican scenario, the stories about Emilio Azcarraga Milmo may be well shared for most of leading entreprenours in all Latin America: political influence, monopolistic tendency, autocratic managament and aristocratic style. More than a biography, El Tigre is a excellent book for understanding how companies must be managed in Latin Amrica for succeding.

In an impressive narration the authors make Azacarraga's life so interesting that it is possible to read the whole book in just one day. Reading this book with not only make you understand the history of TV in Mexico or Latin America but the history of Mexico itself. Since the early beginnings of Telesistema Mexicano to the development of all kind of business this book narrates all the problems Azcarraga and his team had to face, not only with the Mexican government or people, but with foreign agencies such as the FCC among others to expand. This book takes the reader all the way back from the XEW to the must recent challenges Azcarraga's son has faced to stop TELEVISA's debacle, recover its position in the communications world, and make it once again an international leader enterprise totally independent of the Mexican government and actually good for the Mexican or international audience.

This book is very useful to any reader interested in all the difficulties involved in the creation of such a business empire and the strength, temper and attitude a real entrepreneur has to have in order to achieve success. This book is very clear in showing the reader that not everything of what was done in TELEVISA was for the good of the audience and the incredible amount of power an unregulated enterprise can achieve by manipulating the government, advertising agencies, artists, and the audience.

I just met and spoke to Professor Manis today at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville. His presentation of the work made me run out and buy it. Though I have not yet finished it, I am already very impressed.

The story of Fred Shuttlesworth is a powerful, dramatic story that everyone interested in the black freedom movement should read. Manis' compelling portrayal captures the spirit and spirituality of a great unsung hero. The book has been honored by the Lillian Smith Book Award, the South's oldest literary prize, and deserves a wide reading.

A compelling portrait of a real unsung hero. Emerge Magazine says it well: "The greatest battles of the civil rights movement come alive in this biography of the man Martin Luther King Jr. called "one of the nation's most courage freedom fighters." Manis is to be congratulated for bringing us this powerful story.

I'm a first year science student and found this novel very helpful for a science report on the hydrogen fuel cell. High recommend!

This book is a must read for anyone wanting to get into the fuel cell industry. I am a graduate researcher at a fuel cell lab and after borrowing my copy several colleagues have purchased their own. It gives a complete survey of the major fuel cell technologies and additionally covers many of related issue effecting fuel cell commercialization such as fuel storage. This text is very suited for a undergraduate course in fuel cells.

Fuel cells including their ranging balance of plant, are quite difficult to write about in usefully technical fashion, because the authors must have expertise across so many various disciplines: i.e. chemistry, engineering, materials, thermodynamics, systems theory, etc.

Yet Larminie and Dicks are clearly up to the task, and we are the more fortunate for it. They've done the trick of not only writing a technically-inclined and broadly encompassing work for a fast-growing field (one that's much in need of such books now)--but they've also done it in a way that's surprisingly quite readable.

This book could serve as an excellent self-instruction text for those new to fuel cells, or as a very helpful text for experts in particular fuel cell types who wish to brush up on other systems. And it could be used in any university level class. Should I be pursuaded to lend my copy briefly to someone I know well, then I shall also take care to ensure that I get it back promptly!

It is quite reasonably up to date and highlights for instance Basic Principles; Efficiencies and Voltages; PEMFCs, AFCs, PAFCs; MCFCs; SOFCs; various possible fuel types; compressors, turbines, fans, blowers (etc); delivering FC power, among other topics.

Remarkably, this book even happened to cover a very wide swath of topics that are of a personal interest--despite their diversity. I might suggest more discussion on just a few quite developing topics like sodium borohydride as an H2 storage/generation medium. Yet I note too that near-term emerging topics like that (and much farther off, potential blue sky topics like carbon nanotubes) are likely best left for a future edition of this excellent book.

In sum, I highly recommend this book. It's usefully technical yet readable, essential for fuel cell enthusiasts. Though rather dear, it is I believe well worth the price...