Based on a lot of research and well-known ideas, McCarty's book is an excellent presententation of the "how" of learning. It looks into how different people learn in different ways (4 learning styles) and how we may use our knowledge about learning styles and brain-mind research to plan and create lesson plans/training sessions that enable use of the whole brain and the whole person (experiencing, reflecting, abstracting and acting). McCarthys 4MAT system is based on a lot of research in the "learning arena" (Dewey, Lewin, Bruner and her own research that seems to be quite comprehensive) and is presented in a way that really makes sense to anybody who is working with training/education. It is a book that may be read and read again and each time something new is discovered. McCarthy has just published another book, About Teaching 4MAT in the Classroom, that expands and further develops the ideas presented in this book. Another book I would recommend

As an undergraduate in Child Development and education certification back in 1990 Bernice McCarthy's work with the "4MAT" system of learning was at the very core of every lesson plan we had to create. We had to think her "4MAT" every time we developed a unit of study. I, now, as a Ph.D. student bless this background and understanding. About Learning reflects her more recent work with 4Mat and what she classifies as the "Learning Cyle". It is a wonderfully well written explanation of the cycle of learning that exists for all of us. It is a non-judgemental approach to meeting the needs of all learners. We, as educators, need to stop labeling children rather we must seek to understand and accept the different ways a child perceives and processes information. This book helps us understand. It includes beautiful, thought provoking, quotes to support its philosophy. I highly recommend this book to all educators and school psychologists who work with children and seek to create an environment for all to be successful, thriving, excited, involved learners; learners for a lifetime. Thank you Bernice McCarthy!!

This is a beauty-full, bounty-full, wisdom-full, wonder-full, joy-full book. With McCarthy's aphoristic and poetic writing style, as well as Carol Keene's complementary illustrations, this book can rest with the easy grace on the best of library shelves or upon any coffe table. In sum, About Learning conveys both the art and science of learning. McCarthy is obviously determined to instruct the reader by making adept use of the principles of her "4-MAT" system. here is a wonderful exercise in eclecticism, borrowing as she does from a wide range of sources. Indeed, her book would be worth the investment of treasure and time many times over for the wisdom drawn from so many sources. About Learning is a complete guide book, artistically rendered, packed with solid concepts and suggestions, possessing the power to help teachers and program developers create dynamic, balanced, holistic educational programs-and in the process, help teachers help learners in the use of their God-given or genetically-conferred potential: the ultimate learning state, or what, to use Ernest Becker's marvelous term, is: homo poeta, or "man as meaning maker." In addition to serving as a blueprint for holistic learning, this book is a browser's delight-reason enough to keep it always close at hand. There is no way McCarthy can be served up in a nutshell, but if placed under extreme duress, I'd settle for the following passage, taken from page 27: Unless we move out of experience,...into ordering our experiences, understanding what happens to us by classifying and naming, we nver learn, we never grow. It could be my imagination: If I just stop reading McCarthy's book and close my eyes for a few seconds, I swear I can hear the resurrected voices of John Dewey, Willam Kilpatrick and Leslie A. Hart. In a way this makes sense; Also, in an important sense, McCarthy is, after all, a "ghost writer" for these and many other pioneers of learning and human becoming. This is a landmark book in education. It deserves the widest possible audience.

It was a great book to devour, but it wasn't exactly bone chilling. It hadn't chilled me to the marrow. I admit the title sounded promising, but I guess you really can't judge a book by its cover as the saying goes. It was a good book,though, I've read it more than twice. But the ending seemed weak, a touch more action to when ........ (I can't give the ending away) and it would be more tasteful.

I would have liked a more satisfying ending. It may just be me, but after being set up for a horrible, devilish criminal, the ending was a bit of a let-down. The idea of a house attacking its residents is unique in an ND mystery, and it was well-written. I recommend it, but don't start reading with *too* high expectations.

The Double Horror of Fenly Place is one of the best Nancy Drew books ever written! The book begins when Nancy's friend Bess gets a part as a screamer in a horror movie. Right next door to the house where the movie is being filmed is another house. But this wasn't an ordinary house, it was a mansion that looked like a horror movie was already taking place in it! And there was! Everything that was supposed to be filmed in the movie happened for real at the house next door, the Fenley Place. Nancy starts investigating the house and its grounds, and starts questioning people. The end of the book is very different from the other endings of other Nancy Drew books. But you'll just read the book to see what I mean. Caution: Do Not Read This Book At Night!

This review concerns the original 1956 edition as well as the revised 1975 edition, which is a shorter version of the original. Nancy reads an magazine article about an Englishman who is offering a reward for a centuries old stained-glass window believed to have been brought to the U.S. many years ago, but it has since vanished. Believing that the window could be located around Charlottesville, Va, near Richmond, Nancy, Bess and George set off to stay with Nancy's cousin who lives in the area. While there, an actress and her daughter beg Nancy to solve the mystery concerning the mysterious noises that they hear in their new home, Ivy Hall. How Nancy locates the hidden window and discovers the truth behind the ghost of Ivy Hall is a rather interesting story. Personally, I feel that this is the last of the really great books of the series. From #35 on, the books are typically nothing more than horribly-written, boring mysteries that (if Nancy goes to an actual place) read more like tour guides than anything else. The exceptions to this are few and far between. Thankfully, this book is nothing like that. The mystery is interesting, there is plenty of action and the book is fairly well-written. The book also manages to keep you wondering just who is friend and who is foe. I enjoyed reading this book and I would be surprised if other people who read this book couldn't say the same.

If you hven't read this book you've got to!! This exiting book starts out when Nancy sees an article saying that whoever finds an old stain glass window will get a big reward. Nancy and her friends soon find themselves going to vist Nancy's cousin Susan to see if they can find more information concerning the window. Nancy soon gets aquinted with Mark Bradshaw who makes stain glass windows. While learning to make stain glass windows Nancy watches a suspect who is also workin there. Well if that isn't enough Nancy and her friends get aquinted with Sheila Patterson and her daughter Annette. Sheila and Annette recently bought the old mansion "Ivy Hall". They've been hearing strange sounds during the night and wonder if Nancy and her friends can stay at Ivy hall with them for a few days to see if they can solve the mystery. Of course Nancy agrees to help them. Soon she finds herself thinking up a plan to trap one of the suspects. If you want to find out how Nancy traps the thiefs, and whether or not she'll find the stain glass window you'll have to read the book!!!

"The Hidden Window Mystery" finds Nancy, Bess, and George visiting Nancy's cousin, Susan, at her beautiful home outside Richmond, Virginia. The young sleuth is soon tracking down a beautiful stained-glass window, several centuries old. Along the way Nancy, and the readers, learn about the painstaking process of creating leaded stained glass.

Secret panels, hidden passageways, and double walls figure into this story. It's a rip-roarin' adventure for Nancy, her girlfriends, and Ned Nickerson. Highly recommended.

Nancy and a group of friends go on a ghost hunt to 5 different locations, each of which is supposed to be haunted. This is an average book of this series. The mystery is somewhat intriguing and Nancy and her friends come into contact with their enemies quite often, so there was a moderate amount of action in the book. One thing that I did find strange though was that all of the places that Nancy's group visited were randomly chosen, yet, in each case the same person was responsible for its being "haunted". This is, in my opinion, one of the better books from #35-56. I find that the books from that period generally read like tour guides, not mystery stories, and have way too much educational material which takes away from the mystery. While this book has a lot of interesting educational material about shells, I didn't think that it took away from the mystery; although, it does seem out of place at points. The thing that I liked least about the book was the ending. In a word, it is awful. Nancy's enemies walk into a room were Nancy and some police officers are hiding and unknowingly confess to everything before being captured. How exciting is that? It's not! It's a unfortunately terrible ending for an otherwise not bad book.

In this astounding series of Nancy Drew the Invisible Intruder is one book that will keep you on your tip-toes. In this story Nancy and her friends go on a ghost hunt to look into five different haunted houses. At first they incounter a supposely haunted canoe that propels itself through Lake Savenee.In the end Nancy captures the invisible intruder in the fantastic room of skulls in the last house. I really loved this book not once did I get bored.

In this book, there was a lot of action and suspense. It wasexciting and interesting. It was the first Nancy Drew Book I read,and it made me want to read more. The Invisible Intruder was something you would have never guessed.

many modern chess books look like telephone directory print out-not this book. it is full of brilliant games, queen sacrifices, dashing attacks,all annotated in a liveley fireside manner.

leonid stein was a ukrainian grandmaster who won the ussr championship three times as well as winning two of the strongest ever international tournaments. this book is a fitting memorial for him!

this is a wonderful book packed full of games , results, biography and miniatures by the brilliant soviet chess champion who died at a tragically early age. the games are annotated in depth and include wins against such titans as botvinnik, tal, petrosian, smyslov and keres.

leonid stein was a genius of attack who beat botvinnik, tal petrosian, smyslov, keres and a host of others. the games here are annotated very carefully and in highly readable form by the grandmaster correspondent of the london times and the international herald tribune. every game is a joy to play over. some people have claimed that some of the games are not by stein. this is simply untrue. every game is well authenticated and there will be some marvellous sacrificial treats very lucidly explained for anyone who buys the book. there is also a biography of stein with his most important results spelled out in detail.watch out for stein's immortal game against krogius!!

The Paris Connection was a fabulous story. It was definitely one of the best Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Super Mysteries. It was probably one of the more difficult books in figuring out who the bad guy was. I liked how this time there was two separate mysteries instead of one intertwined one. Sometimes they try too hard to make the mysteries intertwined and it does not work out as well and in this case having two separate mysteries worked out perfectly. They both had to deal with the Rock Star's tour but they had two different culprits. I think that the bad guy was also pretty hard to figure out and I had no idea who it was until the very end. It is always nice to have a surprise at the end of a good book! I recommend this if you like Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys!

I really like mysteries and I love Paris. However, this book didn't explain the character Jules well enough. If you like this series read this book!

Nancy and the Hardy Boys are at it again solving another mystery

I like this book like every other Nancy Drews. IF you read this book you love it too. I have almost read all the Nancy Drew books. I have known Nancy when I was in 4th grade, but I never really bothered for it. I Started Nancy Drew at the age of 11 and and I really love and at the age of 12 I am reading them all from Book# 1 to Book# 59

I loved this book. I have read other books , but this one is one of the bests I've seen so far! I loved how Carolyn Keene wrote the intrigueing plot! I couldn't stop reading , "The Secret Of The Golden Pavilion" until I was done! I loved the Hawaiian scenery and the suspense! The book had me at the edge of my own bed. I love the ending. Very nice mysteries! Go get THIS book! Your money won't be spoiled! ;)

I thought that this book was very intruiging so I took it off the book shelf.On course,I started reading it I must say that i couldn't stop reading it.It was an exellent book so i read more books from the same Nancy Drew series.I now have the whole collection and I certainly recommend it to everyone.

It was a good book, but not as good as several other Nancy Drew books.
In this mystery, Nancy is hired as an intern at a news station, and finally, after a week of sitting around doing nothing, things begin to heat up. Nancy is sent to the zoo where Bess is working to see 4 new baby cougar cubs born. But... the baby cougars are GONE! After a string of scary events, Nancy must find the cougars if she wants to be more than a cougar's meal.

This Nancy Drew rocks! Nancy gets hired as an intern in a news crew. Her boss wouldn't let her do anything. All she and George ever did was sharpen pencils.The boredome gets spicen up when Bess, who was working at the zoo, annouced the endangered cougar cubs' arrival to Nancy. Imediately her boss wanted to do a story on it. But, soon the courgars were missing. All of Nancy's suspects lead her to nowhere. Besides that,Nancy was nearly drowned by the cougarnapper and dinner for savage courgars and deadly cobras. This mystery is not an easy one. Do you know who-done-it? Read this juicy mystery to find out!

This book is the 2 best book I ever read! While Nancy and George are working at a news place Bess is working at a zoo Were there has been a litter of rare cubs! When the newsman gose there the cubs are stollen. Its up to nancy to take the case! You have to read this book!

NANCY VISITS A TROPICAL PARADISE AND FINDS HIGH CRIME ON THE HIGH SEAS
Nancy's in Belize, on the Caribbean coast of Central America, to visit Ned on holiday - a perfect opportunity for romance. But perhaps not with each other! While tensions rise between Nancy and Ned, a different and more pressing kind of threat approaches from offshore - a gang of pirates hijacking millon-dolar yachts.
Nancy's never heard of a more bizarre band of buccaneers. Setting the yacht owners adrift in fully stocked lifeboats, they also pierce the right ears of the men aboard and insert a gold earring. The pirates may not be as polite as they seem, though, as Nancy soon discovers. For not only is her relationship with Ned at risk - so is her life!

This is a very good book, and I did like it a lot. Nancy and Ned is going on a holiday trying to make their relationship work again. But they have to fight with not only their own problems but mysterious pirates who steals yachts. Those pirates are leaving the people on the boats in the lifeboats with a good supply of food and water. Very wierd! The mystery doesn't come to it's end until the last pages. Read it! The problems between Nancy and Ned are also coming to a solution.

It was about Nancy and Ned in the carribeans. There is a pirate gang around that steals people's ships and wierdly they pierce people's ears. The whole process is very efficiently done. The gang is very polite, they leave food and water for the victims. While this is happening, there is also a lot of tension between Nancy and Ned. Wanna know the rest? Sorry, I can't tell you! Read the book and find out!

The Clue in the Old Stagecoach
By Carolyn Keene
September 20,2002

In the book The Clue in the Old Stagecoach Nancy Drew is a detective. Nancy has gold hair and blue eyes. She is also tall and slender. Her best friend George also has gold hair but her eyes are brown unlike Nancy's George is tall and slender and has a personality just like Nancy. She loves adventure and likes to get things done and over with. Bess is way different from both girls. She has brown hair and green eyes. She is told to be short and stubby.. She is Goerge's cousin and has the same great trate of loving mysteries.

The book The Clue in the Old Stagecoach is an great mystery book. If you like mysteries you will enjoy this book. At the beginning of the book ,all of these girls are best friends and do everything together. One sunny day the three girls were climbing up a hill when they saw an old stagecoach rolling down the road. When they noticed that nothing was pushing or pulling it they started to chase after the old stagecoach. The girls were running after the stagecoach they ran into a truck driver. The truck driver was searching for an old stagecoach in the bushes behind tree's and on the side of everything. The girls told him that they had seen a stagecoach and it was probably the same one. By this time the stagecoach was far out of their sight. When they finally build up the courage to tell the lady that had just bought the coach they find out the coach had rolled its way to her house. When the carpenter she had hired came they replaced the carpet and you won't believe what they found.

My opinion on the book The Clue in the old Stagecoach is that the book isn't all that great at the beginning but near the end it all comes together. I would recommend this book to a mystery reader. I would recommend it to them because there are a bunch of mysteries going on at once. If you like reading mysteries and adventure than this is the book for you.

This book has many surprises in it. When you think that she has almost solved the mystery, she finds out that she is on the trail so starts over and reviews everything from the begining . Well I suggest that if you like mysterys, read the clue in the old stagecoach. Also read all the other Nancy Drew books.

This was a great book! In my opinion it deserved 5 stars. Plenty of characters made it an absolute page-turner!