Y doy gracias al cielo de que mis niños sean lo bastante pequeños como para resarcir todos los errores que mi esposa y yo estàbamos comiento con ellos...¡sin saberlo !

No dejen de leerlo, amigos...Porque luego, ya es muy tarde cuando los hijos son adultos...¡Y tmis padres cometieron muchos de estos errores..Pero no puedo culparlos... Son errores insconscientes !

para nosotros, los PADRES. Es una barrera de amor que nos señala con amor los errores en que podemos caer y que, sin que siquiera lo sepamos, dañan a nuestros hijos.

SON LOS UNICOS QUE SIGUEN VIVOS PARA RECORDARNOS NUESTRAS EQUIVOCACIONES..

Un libro sabio, preventivo y oportuno.

Most Italian cook books are much the same. This one is fun because it has included the stories of Italian life.

I'm hooked on the asparagus and shrimp risotto recipe! I loved this dish when I lived in Rome. When I came back to the US, I tried many different recipes for this risotto and none of them tasted the same (they were all difficult and messy as well). The recipe in this book is fantastic - I make it, with or without the shrimp, about once a month. It is such an easy recipe that now I'm working my way through the other ones. The stories are also fun. It's hard to find a cookbook this easy and entertaining.

Though I've never physically been to Italy, I feel I travel there every time I crack this book open. The author has a way with words that transports the readers all the way across the ocean. I feel like I'm right beside her as she visits the markets and returns home to cook up the simplistic, but delicious Italian fare.

The recipes are easy to follow and the ingredients are straightforward. Many of the recipes are traditional classics. I tried the Bolognese-Style Meat Sauce recipe and fell in love with Italian cuisine all over again. One of the easiest, yet most flavorful recipes I've tried so far is a refreshing Bread Salad with Tomato, Cucumber, Onion and Basil, flavored with a touch of red wine vinegar. I could eat that salad every day!

My most treasured cookbooks are those that allow me to read for pleasure and cook from to enjoy. This is a wonderful book to curl up with a glass of wine and just indulge in the stories and history the author lovingly shares. It's also a great book to take into the kitchen and whip up some authentic, simple Italian cuisine. I'm so glad I found it!

I love this book! I can distinctly remember reading it from my childhood. Now, I want to read it to my four children and I am trying to get a copy. It is a special book - the story and illustrations are great. I actually can't remember the exact story line - just that I LOVED the book.

An American classic children's book that I read over and over as a child and will now read to my twins. The story is exciting and hart-warming. The illustrations are beautiful. Your child will not only enjoy the pictures but enjoy the story over and over again.

I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it now too. I wish I could find something else by this author. Beautiful illustrations as well.

In this classic, Oswald Sanders blends his own wisdom with that of others. The basic ideas come from the Bible, common sense, Sanders himself, and countless missionaries and leaders of generations past. As the cover says, these really are "principles of excellence for every believer."

The book is broken up into 22 relatively short chapters, the first few of which describe the motives for entering into leadership. Why do we need leaders? Is everyone called to leadership? There are several chapters outlining qualities a leader would do well to have and practice. I really enjoyed the practical chapters, such as "The Leader and Time," and "The Leader and Reading." The last several chapters examine many issues important for someone who has become a leader. These include the costs and responsibilities of leadership, as well as skills like delegation and replacement.

I found all the ideas very solid and I liked the many quotes and references. Sanders freely uses the ideas of others. At times the writing is a bit dry. I read it through on the second attempt. The first time I put it down because it was too dry for me at the time.

Often copied and quoted, J. Oswald Sanders has left us a treasure he entitled "Spiritual Leadership." The early chapters are a bit slow as they lay the groundwork for a book that gains momentum and leaves your thinking transformed. The twenty-two concise chapters focus on God's purpose and pattern for those serving as leaders. Throughout the book skills and techniques take a backseat to integrity and character. You will be challenged to leave the romantic and self-seeking notions of leadership behind to embrace the towel and basin mindset of the true spiritual leader.

Over five years ago a friend gave me a copy of Spiritual Leadership and it sat unread in my bookcase until I was compelled to read it for a graduate class. Too bad, it is an excellent book that presents the biblical basis for strong pastoral leadership. I especially appreciated the emphasis he puts on the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian leader. True spiritual leadership is not the result of natural charisma, but results from one giving his or her life totally to God.

As I read though it, I was constantly amazed at the amount of Scripture containing leadership principles which I had overlooked in my studies of the Bible. The style, however, was difficult for me to get use to. Although I do not recall any specific place where his nationality is mentioned, he seems to be British, perhaps explaining his style.

Being converted, trained and preaching within the Christian Churches/churches of Christ, this book has given me great biblical insight into the subject of anointed leadership. Traditionally, Christian Church pastors have been very weak, serving at the discretion of the board in a chaplain role with every pastoral decisions, no matter how small, needing board approval. Woe to the pastor who showed the slightest sense of godly independence. This weak role has doomed many of our churches to a mediocre stagnation. The emphasis on anointed leadership is just what I needed to head. Spiritual leaders are appointed by our sovereign God. We can truly say, "I am here neither by selection of an individual nor election of a group, but by the appointment of Almighty God."

This little book and CD are inspirational, deeply touching and heart-warming. They will reach out to your soul, your spirit and bring out the best in you. The song is no stranger to music lovers; it captivates and is so true to life, it leaves the reader with the feeling the song must have been written just for them. The book contains some beautiful photos and a poignant message. This would make a perfect, all-occasion gift for that very special person in your life - lover, family, friend, or yourself. Be good to you and pamper yourself, you deserve it! It is a memorable treasure that can be kept and cherished for many years to come, and I do, indeed... "hope you dance."

This is a powerful yet small 68 page book that can truly inspire and reach the heart of a person. It can actually speak volumes to a person you care about while you yourself are inspired as well! I venture to say it may even help heal a wounded soul. Who of us has not been let down, betrayed, even deeply hurt at some point in our lifetime?

Mark Sanders and Tia Sillers along with the song lyrics (and CD!) of Lee Ann Womack's *I Hope You Dance* have put together a great package of an inspirational optimistic look at life. Such as asking "What is hope?" Then expounding on what hope means such as: to want, to desire, to expect what is envisioned may indeed happen, to hang on, hold out just a little while longer?..still they cover more thoughts then ask: "Can you have hope without faith and humility and wonder?" adding "What would you be without hope growing deep in your bones, thriving in every inch of you?" They share a truth: "Nothing." Then on the next page asking "What does it take to hope?" At the bottom the answer in capitals "EVERYTHING"

It is this simple yet to the core style that makes this book powerful! The song lyrics are incorporated with the additional writing and it hits home on life, our childhood wonder, love, hurt, caring, taking that 'one more chance' when you want to give up. This song/lyrics/book was brought to my attention by a friend I had not seen in several years. Finding me wounded, feeling betrayed and withdrawn he saw not only a heart broken but spirit crushed. He actually asked me if I still dance as much as I used to...when I replied I no longer dance nor care to, he played this song for me...*time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along*

This book goes the distance. (pg. 45. "Don't let some hell-bent heart leave you bitter" 46. "There are too many people too angry at a world that isn't in the least bit angry at them") If you know someone that needs a lift or you simply want to let them know you are always there for them, you care...no matter WHAT, this is the book! If YOU need some encouragement yourself, this book can inspire you! If nothing else you can search your own soul. For me not only the love I feel from it being given to me but for all the pieces of myself I was able to pick up and put back together, it is priceless! Like the author I agree "I liked being five" and if given the chance..I hope others wounded will dance once again too! Don't miss this book, its precious, powerful, priceless!

This song sung by Lee Ann Womack is set to a book & CD with lyrics & additional inspirational texts & photographs. This is my first review of a book inspired by a song & I recommend it to anybody wanting the perfect gift.

I Hope You Dance is filled with words of wonder & thoughtful photos. The song touched my heart when I first heard it, reminding me how much I liked to dance - when I'm glad as much as when I sorry. For both youngsters & oldsters & everybody in between, I Hope You Dance, is a soulful song, kindly given & beautifully presented.

Promise me you'll give I Hope You Dance a chance - it's a perfect gift for graduation, for somebody about to set out for fields afar, for anybody who loves to love for in the giving, you will have song, love & laughter in your heart. Do check out my full review.

This book is so well written becuase of the beautiful, intelligent, outstanding women behind all of it, Summer Sanders! You have written such a good book that teaches parents about raising a child not competitevely but well! Thank you so much!

I wanted to preview a few chapters of the book before I gave it to my 10 year old daughter for Christmas. Needless to say, I read it from cover to cover. Summer Sanders writes, in plain English, about her parents' roll in her successful swimming career. This book should be required reading for any parent who has a child who participates in sports!

I really enjoyed this book and Summer has helped me keep my daughter's goals in perspective. I have a 9 year old over achiever who doesn't need pushed but needs encourgement and wants us as parents to comment on her achievements. I have learned that not only verbalizing our comments but showing her through our actions that we approve of her achievements. I learned that through this book. I picked this book up because of the attachment to swimming, but it definately carries over into all corners of our lives.

As a freelancer who has been writing for publication almost all of my adult life, I admit that my bookshelves are crammed with books about the business of writing. Some of these books are excellent resources, and I return to them again and again in order to learn and relearn the "ins and outs" of the literary marketplace. Others, that I bought in moments of impulse because their titles or coverlines promised fame and fortune to all who opened their pages, proved, upon further perusal, to be downright disappointing. Often they were very lofty in tone and "talked down" to experienced writers and beginners alike; usually they presented very little new information, and instead rehashed trite old "saws" in a horribly boring, pedantic way. But there is absolutely no book on writing that I have ever encountered that presents such a wealth of material in such a fresh, entertaining manner, as THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO GETTING PUBLISHED by Sheree Bykofsky and Jennifer Basye Sander.

Now how often does a writer come across a manual about writing for publication that's a real "page-turner," one that she simply can't put down, even at 3 a.m. when she's dead-tired and has a business function to attend early the next day? I picked up this remarkable book at a bookstore one day last week, and ended up staying awake most of the night reading it---something I've never done before with a book of this nature. Bykofsky (an agent) and Sander (an author and former editor) obviously know their stuff, inside and out. They offer a virtual encyclopedia of practical information from their combined thirty years of publishing experience, but the style of the book is anything but that of a dry academic tome. The authors include many fascinating personal anecdotes and zillions of sidebars (serving up detailed advice, liberally laced with humor), which make this book a very interesting and enjoyable "read."

Among the many topics covered in great detail (besides the usual ones like query letters, contracts, and ways to avoid the infamous slush piles) are publicity and marketing ideas, ways of extending the shelf life of a book, and even a blow-by-blow description of a harried book editor's typical day.

For the aspiring writer, reading this book should prove as invaluable as taking a University-level marketing course, or attending a top-notch writers' conference. Yet enough solid information is presented to satisfy the most seasoned professional.

I wish so much that a book of this caliber had been around more than twenty years ago, when I was a fledgling writer. If I had only had a chance to read something like it back then, maybe I wouldn't have made so many mistakes when I tried (by countless trial-and-error methods) to market my work. I wholeheartedly recommend---no, I URGE!---every writer, whether novice or experienced pro, to run out and buy (or order from amazon.com) THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO GETTING PUBLISHED. I consider my own purchase of the book a solid investment in my writing career.

I have dreamed of writing a book for over thirty years but hadn't a clue where to start. I took a leave of absence, bought a home overlooking the Mississippi River and moved in hoping the "spirit" of Mark Twain would somehow penetrate me by osmosis! Luckily my sister had enough sense to send me off with "The Idiot's guide To Getting Published." This strated my research on how to accomplish that dream. I learned which one of my topics was the most marketable, hoe to package my topic, and the actual nuts and bolts of writing a query letter. I know that my topic will help others and I am feeling so proud that I have done all of this work...work I didn't even know existed one month ago. Thank you Jennifer and Sheree for helping me to put into process my dream of writing. I will be eternally grateful.

Book Review The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published

Have you ever been in the position of having someone say to you "Do you have any more questions?" Have you been frustrated because you didn't have enough knowledge of the subject at hand to enable you to ask intelligent questions? Well, if it is "getting published" that is plaguing you with unanswered "how to", I have found your answer. It is appropriately called "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published."

You are guided down the road from "wannabe" writer to becoming an accomplished professional. Each step of the way is carefully detailed and you are very quickly brought to the realization that although writing may be fun, publishing is a serious business. You learn what to do and what not to do when writing your letter of query, and your proposal, or in submitting your manuscript. Each step in the process has a definite procedure and learning the tricks of the trade is half of the battle when the victory is a published book. I have concluded that non-fiction is the way to go! Do a year of research, a query, a proposal, and if the publisher likes your idea, then- you can write your book.. Fiction is a little more difficult. Write the book, write a synopsis, and then sell the publisher on the idea that it is "the" book of the year. However, do the selling through your agent! You only need a successful query to obtain the agent. The up side is that the agent works on the commission from your sales, and requires no money at the start.. Seriously, the book is the answer to all of the questions that you weren't aware that you needed to ask, when you decided that you were a "writer." This is just a sample of the pearls of wisdom, sample letters, and resources shared in this book. It is, without a doubt, a "writer's Bible" whether your aspirations are fame and fortune or the pleasure of self publishing. The authors have participated in all aspects of the game and willingly and unselfishly share their combined wealth of expertise and experience. Phyllis Fowler Sheree Bykofsky1999 Jennifer Basye Sander Alpha Books Macmillan General Reference Books A Simon & Schuster Macmillan Co. 1633 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10019-6785

This book made me love drive-ins even more! The photos tell a wonderful story, as does the lively text. It will make you remember a better time.

Don and Susan Sanders have captured the essence of the drive-in movie theatre and packed all of the magic into a really great book. I flipped hamburgers at the now defunct Belknap Drive-in when I was in high school and turning the pages of this time-machine brought back many memories. Forget about multiplex cinemas and theater complexes at the mall. The American Drive-In movie theatre lives!

The best book of its kind, bar none. Photos are excellent, and it is obvious that the authors really know and love their subject. Anyone who has ever spent an evening at the drive-in would love the memories this book evokes. Anyone who never had the opportunity to participate in the golden age of drive-in movies can experience it vicariously through The American Drive-In Movie Theatre. I've given several copies as gifts -- Everyone loves a Drive-In !

This is a fun book. It walks readers through real life situations. Unfortunately it does not have enough coding examples. I understand that it was not intended to be a Flash Communications Action Script primer, but this is more book is more scenario than code. I already had a solid understanding of the FlashCom server when I got this book ( FlashCom experience is required for this book). It was fun to read but what I needed were advanced coding techniques not useless details about the author's former clients. The book actually gives the floor plans of the office of one of the clients which you are instructed to make a site for. The office layout was entirely unrelated to the application. With the single exception that limited space made video conferencing essential. I would buy more books in the Reality series. However, in the future they will not be the second book I buy on a topic. As a third book I think they would work great. Its all fun and no code. Sometimes I felt like I was waiting my time. If you have a solid grasp of FlashCom get the book. I am sure you will enjoy reading it.
andrew-simmons@andrew-simmons.com

To steel myself to learn FlashComm, I went through the Macromedia Documentation for both client and server side communication ActionScript and I counted the objects. There's only about 9 client and server objects! Some, like LocalConnection are just for, well, local connections and really don't need FlashComm. On the server side there are only 5 objects; so there's not THAT much to it.

The trick, it turns out is using the client side and the server side together. This is where this book is a gem. Every single application in the book shows how this is done, and some of the applications just use the client side--very effectively, too. In showing how to use the server and client side together, the authors place the two sides in juxtaposition and arrows show how the two sides connect. This is the first time I saw that connection.

I had to use a lot of sticky labels to bookmark where key elements are. I have a decent ActionScript background, but not extensive, and while certainly not for beginners, you don't need to be a genius either. FlashComm is very doable, and this books makes it that way.

This book dots all the i's and crosses all the t's for me. The book itself is well done with applications that actually work and represent an excellent cross-section of what FCS does. The artwork is top notch, and the stories are lots of fun and resonate with clients I've had. (I swear one was identical.)

What makes this book stand out, in my opinon, is that the author really took the trouble to support the reader. A couple of emails I sent got immediate responses, and all of the apps in the book were available for downloading at the author's site. (The book is divided into 5 parts, and each part has an applicaiton.) When I went to download the book example apps, they were all there. In addition, the author put up 3 more apps -- a 60% "bonus" for the reader. So instead of getting 5 applications, I got 8. So the book and the author support make a complete package, something all too rare today.

After years without picking up a novel by Dickens (memories of starchy classes at school), I decided to plunge into "Bleak House", a novel that had been sitting on my bookshelf for about ten years, waiting to be read. Although I found it heavy going at first, mainly because the style is so unfamiliar to modern readers, after about ten pages I was swept up and carried off, unable to put the hefty tome down until I had finished it. This book is a definite classic. The sheer scope of the tale, the wit of the satire (which could still be applied to many legal proceedings today) and the believable characters gripped me up until the magnificent conclusion. One particularly striking thing is the "cinematic" aspect of certain chapters as they switch between different angles, building up to a pitch that leaves the reader breathless. I can't recommend "Bleak House" too highly. And I won't wait so long before reading more Dickens novels.

This is the second book by Dickens I have read so far, but it will not be the last. "Bleak House" is long, tightly plotted, wonderfully descriptive, and full of memorable characters. Dickens has written a vast story centered on the Jarndyce inheritance, and masterly manages the switches between third person omniscient narrator and first person limited narrator. His main character Esther never quite convinces me of her all-around goodness, but the novel is so well-written that I just took Esther as she was described and ran along with the story. In this book a poor boy (Jo) will be literally chased from places of refuge and thus provide Dickens with one of his most powerful ways to indict a system that was particularly cruel to children. Mr. Skimpole, pretending not to be interested in money; Mr. Jarndyce, generous and good; Richard, stupid and blind; the memorable Dedlocks, and My Lady Dedlock's secret being uncovered by the sinister Mr. Tulkinghorn; Mrs. Jellyby and her telescopic philanthropy; the Ironmaster described in Chapter 28, presenting quite a different view of industralization than that shown by Dickens in his next work, "Hard Times." Here is a veritable cosmos of people, neighbors, friends, enemies, lovers, rivals, sinners, and saints, and Dickens proves himself a true master at describing their lives and the environment they dwell in. There are landmark chapters: Chapter One must be the best description of a dismal city under attack by dismal weather and tightly tied by perfectly dismal laws, where the Lord Chancellor sits eternally in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Chapter 32 has one of the eeriest scenes ever written, with suspicious smoke, greasy and reeking, as a prelude to a grisly discovery. Chapter 47 is when Jo cannot "move along" anymore. This Norton Critical is perhaps the best edition of "Bleak House" so far: the footnotes help a lot, and the two Introductions are key to understanding the Law system at the time the action takes place, plus Dickens' interest in this particular topic. To round everything off, read also the criticism of our contemporaries, as well as that of Dickens' time. "Bleak House" is a long, complex novel that opens a window for us to another world. It is never boring and, appearances to the contrary, is not bleak. Enjoy.

"There is little to be satisfied in reading this book"?? I couldn't disagree more. Bleak House left a profound impression on me, and was so utterly satisfying a reading experience that I wanted it never to end. I've read it twice over the years and look forward to reading it again. Definitely my favorite novel.

I don't know what the previous reviewer's demands are when reading a novel, but mine are these: the story must create its world - whatever and wherever that world might be - and make me BELIEVE it. If the novelist cannot create that world in my mind, and convince me of its truths, they've wasted my time (style doesn't matter - it can be clean and spare like Orwell or verbose like Dickens, because any style can work in the hands of someone who knows how to use it). Many novels fail this test, but Bleak House is not one of them.

Bleak House succeeds in creating a wonderfully dark and complex spider web of a world. On the surface it's unfamiliar: Victorian London and the court of Chancery - obviously no one alive today knows that world first hand. And yet as you read it you know it to be real: the deviousness, the longing, the secrets, the bureaucracy, the overblown egos, the unfairness of it all. Wait a minute... could that be because all those things still exist today?

But it's not all doom and gloom. It also has Dickens's many shades of humor: silliness, word play, comic dialogue, preposterous characters with mocking names, and of course a constant satirical edge. It also has anger and passion and tenderness.

I will grant one thing: if you don't love reading enough to get into the flow of Dickens's sentences, you'll probably feel like the previous reviewer that "...it goes on and on, in interminable detail and description...". It's a different dance rhythm folks, but well worth getting used to. If you have to, work your way up to it. Don't start with a biggie like Bleak House, start with one of his wonderful short pieces such as A Christmas Carol.

Dickens was a gifted storyteller and Bleak House is his masterpiece. If you love to dive into a book, read and enjoy this gem!