CONSOLAR A MI MAMÁ cuando se presentó el divorcio:
Bastante bronca era que papá se fuera de la casa, como para encima de todo, ver a mamá super deprimida y llorosa!
El sacerdote de la parroquia sólo me dio un consejo: "Ponle algo muy hermoso en las manos " Y así lo hice.
Me pasé una tarde copleta en la librería más grande de la ciudad,
y ESTE LIBRO ME CAUTIVÓ...
Mamá estaba verdaderamente deshecha y hasta sin ganas de leer, a pesar de su gran afición por los libros.
Todos los días, terminando de comer, yo le leía una de estas historias preciosas Y REALES... Ya casi íbamos a medio lbiro y yo comenzaba a perder la esperanza...hasta una tarde en que, buscando el libro, no lo encontré...¡hasta que entré en la recámara de mamá y ¡LA ENCONTRÉ LEYÉNDOLO !
A partir de ese día, su sonrisa no desaparece y me dice que nuevamente TIENE DESEOS DE VIVIR !!
Eso fue lo que TECITO DE CANELA HIZO POR NOSOTROS ! Si conoces y quieres a alguien que está triste, regálale este libro, y le regalarás esperanza y alegría !

lengua seca, cuarteada dentro de la boca...y el calor arrecia. Alguien te pone en la mano una jarra de agua helada, fresquísima de tanto hielo...¡Que alegría ! ¡Qué alivio !
Eso es EXACTAMENTE LO QUE SIENTES AL LEER ESTE LIBRO o su gemelo el de yerbabuena: Cuando las presiones del mundo están a punto de vencerte....simplemente tomas este libro:Como un enorme trago de agua fresca en el calor !
Te regresa el corazón y te devuelve las ganas de luchar !

TODOS TRATAMOS DE TOMAR UN DESCANSO FÍSICO... PERO EL RELAJAMIENTO EMOCIONAL ES MUY IMPORTANTE...
Y este hermoso libro REAL es el MEJOR INSTRUMENTO PARA HACERNOS DESCANSAR EL ALMA...
PRECIOSO !
MAS DE 50 HISTORIAS REALES QUE TE REFRESCAN EL CORAZÓN Y EL ESPIRITU !

EXTINGUIDORES Y LOS SEGUROS...!
HAY QUE TENERLO A MANO POR SI SUCEDE...Para que lo lea tu hija, tu hermana, cualquier mujer de tu casa que vaya a entrar a trabajar.
no ES QUE NECESARUIAMENTE VAYA A USAR SUS CONEJOS..PERO IRÁ PREVENIDA!
¿Mandarías a nadar a una beba de dos años ( por su falta de experiencia ) sin salovavidas o floaties ?
¡ ES LO MISMO, AMIGO !
ES IGUAL, AMIGA !
PREVELAS

Y NO QUERIAMOS DARLE PERMISO...
Pero su abuela la dotó de este libro y LA VERDAD ES QUE FUNCIONO..porque la chica detectó al agresor a las primeras de cambio...Y LO RECHAZO CON TANTA INTELIGENCIA COMO LE ENSEÑO ESTE LIBRO!
¡ES SU DEFENSA Y TU TRANQUILIDAD !
y le enseña a detectar a tiempo y a no dejar que las cosas lleguen mas lejos...

y me rei como tonta !
A mis 30 años, adopté la posición inmadura de una adolescente,me sentí Superman !
¿VIERAS QUÉ CORRETIZA ME PUSO UNO DE LOS ABOGADOS DEL DESPACHO DONDE ENTRE A TRABAJAR ???
Si hubiera leído esta obra, habría visto los "síntomas " a tiempo...no que, a la mera hora, perdí el empleo y el tipo me alcanzó a tocar un poco !

Read this book from start to finish. Although it's a reference work, anyone who reads it in its entirety will come away in awe at the miracle that is the human body, and perhaps with a revitalized reverence for life itself. It's written in terms that any literate person can understand, and the illustrations are fabulous. You're a wonder. This book will tell you why.

This book should be in every household in America! It is the epitome of what any inquisitive person wants to know about how the human body works.

The editors say that it "is intended to inform and entertain reader's of all ages with explanations of the miracles and mysteries, the foibles and frailties, of the human body...In question-and-answer format, in an easy-to-read, informal style,...this book answers questions you have wondered about your whole life."...

I have always been fascinated with anything having to do with the human body; I almost majored in Nursing in college. If you would like to encourage your child to become a doctor or nurse, become one yourself, or just be dazzled by God's creation of you; then this is the book you've been searching for!

It has 12 Chapters: 1) THE HUMAN BODY 2) THE BRAIN & NERVOUS SYSTEM 3) THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM 4) THE HEART & CIRCULATORY SYSTEM 5) THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM 6) THE SKIN 7) THE BONES & MUSCLES 8) THE EYE 9) THE EAR, NOSE & THROAT 10) THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM 11) THE URINARY & REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS AND 12) PREGNANCY, BIRTH & GROWTH

The best reason to buy this book is it is the EASIEST BOOK TO READ ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY YOU WILL EVER COME ACROSS!

I highly recommend getting your hands on this book!

Never in my life have I read such a detailed and enthralling book. If you read one page, you can't resist going on to the next. I've read this bok front-to-back and am still fascinated and astounded by the way the world views science and anatomy today and how it was viewed centuries ago! I reccomend this book to anyone who loves science, anatomy, history, or anything. This book has something for everyone.

bueno, más bien a sus palabras armoniosas que me hicieron recuperar EL GOZO DE VIVIR DESPUES DE HABER SUFRIDO UNA TRAGEDIA

Y TAN EFICACES...
Te refrescan el corazonm y TE RECONOCILIAN CON LA VIDA Y TE HACEN ACEPTAR Y ENTENDER A LOS QUE TE RODEAN !

for soul, heart and emotions !
Just like vitamins !

This is a must have for any chicano especially with kids. It is a magnificant piece of art that allows us to talk to our kids and others about our latino heritage in the agricultural fields of America. I bought this book because I am a fan of Simon Silva's art work and this book is like having a selection of his prints to display on the coffee table instead of the wall. It is a great conversational piece as art or history, as a tool to teach our personal heritage or as an educational piece for those of different ethnic backgrounds, and last but not least it is great for young and old. I love it!

This book is not only a wonderful cultural asset it is very pleaseing to the eyes and the spirit. Children will learn valuable knowledge about the cultures the surround us and not even know they are leaning, beacause of all the beautiful drawings. You will read this again and again. I often use just one page in storytime and it sparks a whole hour of interest.

In this alphabet book, the author combines an alphabetic list of bilingual poems depicting themes of harvest, work, values, and home that both honor and celebrate the lives of migrant farmworkers. The book describes Spanish traditions and the Mexican heritage of the farmworkers with their families while introducing the letters of the alphabet in both English and Spanish. Each poem is presented first in Spanish and then in English. Zubizarreta's English poem on each page is not an exact word for word translation of its Spanish counterpart, but it translates the mood and essence of the original Spanish poem's message. Each Spanish target word describes how the plant, fruit, vegetable, person, or feeling relates to the lives of the workers. The illustrator, Simon Silva uses vibrant paintings portraying their farmlands and lives at work and at home. This alphabet book has great significance, because the poetry gives voice and pride to the experiences of Hispanic agricultural workers. The poems give strong mind pictures by using descriptive words that are attractive and meaningful to the experiences of the farmworkers. This book should be read aloud to a bilingual group of students by a reader who can skillfully use both languages to communicate the moods, otherwise maybe just one language should be read at a time. Adults as well as children will appreciate the poetry and artwork as well as the music that supplements this collection by Suni Paz. She captures the "Hispanic heart" with Spanish guitar music repeating phrases from the Spanish poetry.

Emmons and Thomas convert the "Tennis Technique" to a singer's manual for mental stamina. My favorite aspect of this book is the charts. There are charts to help you schedule, program, and maintain mental, physical, and emotional stamina throughout your practicing, preparation, and performance. The book contains many appendices that contain helpful reminders, charts, and tips for singers who teach and those who just perform. Using minimum to no scientific language, Emmons and Thomas communicate the importance of having a power performance by aiding the singer/teacher in "starting from scratch" to build up to the utmost potential of performance. Using techniques and advice from Olympians and teachers of singing, the witty language and motivating advice can help lead anyone to success.

This is a very good book. The area of the mental side of singing and performing is really paid too little attention to. There are so many books about singing technique etc. At last a good book on this subject! After having read only a few pages, it helped me already. The book is giving me very helpfull practical tips about selfconfidence on stage etc. The only thing is, that the English which is being used, is not so easy to read as in most American literature (I'm from Holland). But the positive thing about that is that I am increasing my English vocabulary...

This is a book with very down-to-earth advice. What amazed me most was that the most things I had always felt about performance, but didn't know how to put in words, are voiced accurately, objectively, concisely and fulfillingly in this book. Also, many things I had never stopped to think about are also dealt with nicely. You will learn how to make the most of performance problems, their sources and consequences in order to help you perform well. There is great joy awaiting you in this book. You will never regret buying it. Buy it. Buy it. Once more: buy it!

Set in 1854, some forty years or so after the bulk of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe books, this first entry in Kilworth's"Fancy Jack" series finds the British Army in rather dire straights in the Crimea. The hero is a Sergeant in the 88th regiment (the mainly Irish Connaught Rangers aka The Devil's Own), who is an outsider in more ways than one. Born and bred a gentleman, "Fancy Jack" Crossman has done the unthinkable and renounced his upbringing and entered the army as a ranker. While in the Sharpe series, we see a lowborn orphan rise though the ranks, here we have a highborn Scotsman in much the same situation. Mostly hated by those below for his education and manners, he's also mostly hated by his superiors for being a class traitor.

Kilworth seems to be attempting to emulate Cornwell's template in presenting an unvarnished ground-level view of historical military exploits. The book is full of details on equipment, procedures, social composition of the British forces, et., plus a parade of real historical figures. However, it's not done nearly as smoothly and seamlessly as Cornwell (or George McDonald Fraser's Flashman series for that matter). Clunky prose and exposition somewhat mars the storytelling, as Fancy Jack is sent on a few secret missions behind enemy lines with a band of misfit soldiers. For example, we're told three different times that the Allied (British/French/Turkish) forces number 55,000. We're also privy to a number of scenes of high-level commanders bickering that don't have much to do with anything other than to get across the historical reading Kilworth's on the ineffectiveness of the leadership. And in case you didn't get how devastating cholera was to the army the first time it's discussed, don't worry, you'll get several more chances to absorb the information. Kilworth has apparently written a number of children's books, and often the prose reads as if it's intended for a younger audience.

But the battle scenes are plenty gory, and there are plenty of "adult themes", and a requisite love interest. All in all, it's a decent page turner, but not nearly as good as the Sharpe books. The Fancy Jack saga continues with Valley of Death, Soldiers in the Mist, and The Winter Soldiers, and perhaps in these later volumes Kilworth touch becomes more subtle.

Excellent story line, developing characters throughout the book. Douglas keeps the reader involved with the twists and turns in the same high paced, detail as Cornwell, Cussler and MacNeill. Fancy Jack Crossman is here to stay - let's hope for a complete series to come.

if you like the Richard Sharpe novels then your going to love fancy jack

Or What Happens to Love? What can wrench apart a seemingly destined union? Why do so many marriages fail? What can we learn from the experiences of others about our own marriages? What questions would you ask of your divorced friends to find out why they think their marriages ended.

Dr. Bond put out a Divorce Questionnaire & women in droves told their stories which she presents without comment.

In my eInterview Dr. Bond answers a number of my questions which came up as I read each woman's story. This is not an easy book to read - the voices of the women vibrate from the pages in a rainbow of emotions - fury, sorrow - wry appraisal - wise hindsight - petulance & glee!

I was praying Dr. Bond would give us some Conclusions & she does, both statistical & thoughtful with Appendixes in which she reprints the Divorce Questionnaire that started it all - it was an eyeopener to answer those questions myself!

Not for the faint-hearted or for men - they'll get so wounded & angry! It's not to hurt the men that these women spoke - rather it is to heal their own wounds!

Anyone who knows me understands that I seldom read non-fiction. The few non-fiction books I accept for my book review site are reviewed by my other reviewers. However, the title of this one was so unexpected that I found myself giving it a second glance, then a third, and a fourth. Curiosity being a weakness of mine, I opened it. I only wanted to convince myself that, to me, it would be boring. This would put an end to all my curiosities and I could get someone else to review it. Instead, I found myself reading the first page and never putting the book down except to grab a soda.

Dr. Alma Halbert Bond seems to share my weakness. She wanted to know why one out of every two marriages ended with divorce. Did the divorced women love their husbands when they married them? Did they marry because they were "a couple" and family or friends expected them to? Did society press them into it? Did they marry someone like their parents for security instead of love? Was there a connection between an unhappy childhood and a failed marriage? Dr. Bond interviewed 71 divorced women for answers!

The book is broken down to several categories and each have sub-categories. Dr. Bond covers:

The Physical Abusers, The Verbal Abusers, The Withholders, The Need For Space, The Unfaithful, The Abandoned Ones, The Homosexuals, Married For The Wrong Reasons, The Narcissists, He Changed After We Married, The Control Freaks, and The Good Marriage.

All her findings are within these pages! Using her experience of 30 years in psychoanalytic practice, Dr. Bond created a book that people (men or women) should read if they have been divorced, considering divorce, having problems in their marriage, or about to marry!

I proudly submit this book to my viewers and consider it to be highly recommended reading!

A wonderful book that showcases women's points of views of what happened to their marriages. Great conclusions. Dr. Bond does a great job of having each woman have her input and have their answers to her lengthy questionnaire shown. Highly recommended.

Overall, this was an excellent book. It does not differ much from the english version, and it is, as is the english, wonderfully illustrated. It is not perfect, however. I thought that it was well translated into spanish, however, the words are not as easily read and understood as the english version. Also, it was very disappointing to me that the character's names are the traditional, english names, and were not translated into their spanish cognates. That detracts from any feelings of non-ethnicity and partiality that good literature nees.

This is a great book for those of us who want to raise our children bilingually and equally wonderful for Spanish-speakers. The Spanish is fun--I also love the repetition of "el día terrible, horrible..." The fact that the names are not translated is fine--not all English names have a Spanish translation and vice-versa. I believe it keeps the integrity of the original version and the Alexander character.

Qué dice un niño al que TODO le sale mal ? "Me voy a Australia !". Los dibujos - en blanco y negro - están espléndidamente ilustrados, la cara de Alexander es indescriptible por su picardía. Un libro para leer y ver con los hijos a la hora de dormir. Un libro alentador, especial para aquellos niños "difíciles"

Professors, even visiting ones, have one rare luxury. They live and work in a place where everyone stops and listens to their opinions. Did P.F. forget to mention all the fawning adoration that was his lot in tiny Gambier? Tough life. This book was accurate in what it did record (I was there too, after all), but by synecdoche presented a part to be taken for the whole. An easy for example; it's convenient to present anecdotal evidence that the entire student body was lazy and spoiled, since this excuses the professor(s) from having to pay attention to or bother about the ones who are not either of those things. And it gives an old fellow something to gripe about and be nostalgic for. There's excellent mileage in such an opinion, without a doubt. Maybe even a book. And, after all, Alma Mater is on my bookshelf, reminding me of my undergraduate days and of the coot on Middle Path who used to reply to my passing "good morning" with outraged glares and once a tirade about perfectly decent looking young women who chose to dress like hoboes. Ah, nostalgia. Who gets that much bang for the buck in a big city? Such thoughts are a comfort while paying student loans. If you are connected with Kenyon, this is an amusing read which raises corollary questions about the relative laziness or degree of spoilation found in the professors at a small, expensive liberal arts college.

As a professor at a small college (Muhlenberg, in Allentown, PA), I found these descriptions of Kenyon to be instantly transferrable. When Alma Mater was sweeping Muhlenberg a few years ago, my faculty colleagues swore that Kluge must have been hiding behind the drapes, so perfectly did he capture the scene here. Of course, friends on other campuses said the same. Kluge has hit upon something universal about what it means to be a faculty member at a liberal arts college in a book that is at once funny, moving, and spot-on accurate.

Every autumn, I make a point of pulling Alma Mater off the shelf to recharge my professorial batteries. In so doing, I remind myself of both the peculiarities and the nobility of this profession. And I remind myself, as well, of what excellent writing sounds like.

Liberal arts colleges evoke a certain image in the American imagination: ivy-laced little cities on a thousand different hills; places rich in tradition, where teachers teach, students learn, and smallness encourages community and accountability. As compared to big research universities, their professors are less likely to be distracted by big-city pretensions and obsequious grad students. The small-college ideal is what much of America likes to think higher education once was and should be again.

Kluge, in this touching, sardonic reconsideration of his own alma mater, Kenyon College (the book is essentially a diary of the year he spent back in Gambier, Ohio, as a visiting professor), shows us that the reality of a real liberal arts college -- its ghosts, aspirations, conceits, compromises -- is far more complicated. Its history and traditions are as much a curse as a blessing. The dignified, self-knowing exterior it presents to prospective students and the public may mask self-doubts, intrigues, identity crises. For faculty as well as students, small size and intimacy means academic and cultural debates are more difficult to avoid, the stakes higher, the joys and sorrows more intensely personal.

Though not the author's primary purpose, Alma Mater provides a rich and interpretive portrait of contemporary American academic culture. Today a college like Kenyon, isolated though it may be by geography, is awash in the same turmoils as the biggest and most unwieldy Research I institution: race, gender, fraternities, curriculum, faculty roles and rewards, and, as always, money. Just as TV and computers have virtually wiped out traditional regional cultures, so journals, conferences, and faculty mobility assure that professors in vastly different settings will be wrestling with the same ideas, controversies, and alienations.

Kluge's vivid, indeed exquisite, writing draws out larger truths behind quotidian events and observations. Office corridors strangely dark and deserted in the middle of a weekday become a metaphor for faculty overspecialization (increasingly treated like free agents, professors ply their little projects in solitude from home) and the consequent loss of campus collegiality and sense of community. Figures at a faculty meeting seem to come from some central casting of academic types and images. And anyone who has taught a college course would empathize with Kluge's take on grading: "Splattering comments on papers, you sense you are working harder on grading than they ever did on writing, that you are obliged to take seriously what they took casually."

To his bemusement, Kluge, ultimately discovers he can't go home again. But he gives us a loving and richly detailed portrait of the inner life of a college he still loves, a "good place," and we understand why.