"The Art of Falling Down," is a must read. I saw so much of myself in the book that I couldn't put it down until it was read from cover to cover and still wanted to read more. It helped me understand the reasons for falling down and the joy of getting back up.

"The Art of Falling Down: Graceful Recovery from Life's Natural Forces" is a motivational book about life's falls and how to deal with them. Instead of running from them, you can use these negative experiences to make yourself emotionally stronger. The book gives practical advice for your personal life and the workplace. I would highly recommend this book to all.

This is a wonderful book not only for spiritual warriors, but for everyone else too. Conflict resides within the kernel of all human relations and in nature too, and all too often we find ourselves overwhelmed by it and take actions that escalate the level of conflict rather than help to calm the situation. This book helps to remind us that in the face of conflict we do still have a choice, a position we can take that won't make us part of the conflict. It is the opposite side of the coin, or, as some would call it, the "divine view" that restores balance and peace.

A great solace in times of world conflict, a good medicine for all weary spirits dealing with conflict in the great and small moments of our lives.

This is a very special, subtle and real book that gets to the heart of the human problem of aggression and conflict. If the US government, the armed forces, and the bullies of this planet were all to read this book, war would seem as foolish as it is in truth.
Sadly, given it's gentle appearance, only the most discerning will notice it.

Excellent book for those who are grieving and for those who simply want an excellent book to read!

Every person born into this mortal existance will some day experience death. Most experience the emotional trauma of losing a loved one. I first read this book some twenty years ago. I have since referred to it several times to remind myself of the simple and comforting message of death being simply a birth into another existance of life we call immortality. With the understanding that death is not the end, there comes before us all a hope of the future. Sorrow, or mourning is but an expression of love. This book will enlighten that understanding, give clearer purpose to life, the value of death, and the hope for eternal life through the process of the resurrection. The book gives critical insight into the age old questions of "Where did we come from?, Why are we here?, and Where are we going? Pondering the messages of hope and understanding will give a sense of peace and purpose to the value and meaning of mortality and immortality. Since all have been born into this world and all must someday exit this earthly life, it bears reason to better understand the purpose of life as so beautifully described in "The Birth That We Call Death" The book compares exceptionally well with "The Gateway We Call Death", by Russell M Nelson, but more clearly and concisely focuses upon the critical questions as described above. Both give excellent examples of the purpose of life as defined by the meaning of death, now seen more clearly as an open door to life eternal.

When you hold this set of three books, it feels as if you are holding something precious and rare, and in fact you are. The three books are beautifully illustrated; an introduction to each volume explains that which you are about to read and the verses and text were chosen with care. The books are described as being produced to ". . . delight the senses and enlighten the mind." They easily fulfill that promise.

The books are a feast for the eyes, the mind and the soul. Beautiful artwork enhances every page of the insightful and inspiring text. The combination provides moments of pure enlightenment.

I haven't read this book but i have read another book in the same series.They are great.The manner of writing is excellent.They have humour and the ideas are great.Try them.I highly reccommend these books to anyone who has a good choice of books.

Caroline Zucker never has enough money and neither do her sisters. Caroline really wants her own Porta Tunes,but she does not have enough money. She finds an article to sell plant seeds and win a Porta Tunes. Her sisters sell all the plant seeds but they are going to pick a name out of a hat to see who wins a one hundred dollar shopping spree at We Love Toys. Then Caroline's sisters get in trouble.

For over 30 years, the Dunns have labored to help teachers to be responsive to how children learn. Much research (by more than 115 tertiary instituitions) and applications have been done using their Learning Style Model with very positive results. "Learning style is the way each person begins to concentrate on, process, internalize and retain new and difficult academic information (p.11). There are five basic stimuli with 23 elements. 1. Environmental (sound, light, temperature and seating-design). 2. Emotional (motivation, persistence, responsibility, i.e. conformity/non-conformity, and structure). 3. Sociological or people patterns (learning alone, with peers, team, adult or with a variety). 4. Physiological (perceptual: auditory, visual, tactual, kinesthetic; time-of-day energy level, intake and mobility). 5. Psychological (global vs. analytic, hemisphericity, impulsive vs. reflective). These are summarised in a sketch chart that is found in many of the Dunns' books. This book gives excellent up-to-date coverage of the basics and research studies and provides detailed material for teachers to experience the process of learning styles themselves. One query is the choice of the outdated and simplisitic Triune Brain Theory for much of the illustrations. It was first presented by Dr. McClean in 1949. However, its simplicity might help us to better grasp the different designs that will match different learning styles. If all in-service teachers could go through this system of personal development, they would be much better equipped to identify learning styles and design the challenging and much needed tactual (touching and manipulating materials) and kinesthetic (whole-body movement and real-life experiences) resources. So are the abilities to design Contract Activity Package (CAP) to help students to learn at their own speed and Programmed Learning Sequences (PLS) for independent small-step learning. Education will finally nurture the "giftedness" in every child--an overriding dream, I believe, underlying all the Dunns' books and work.

Professors Rita Dunn and Kenneth Dunn are experience educators and experts on learning styles who have successfully collaborated to present a comprehensive one volume survey of learning styles for teacher training sessions that will enable the student teacher and experienced classroom instructor on how to identify adults' learning styles, understanding and use global and analytical approaches, design tactual and kinesthetic resources, design contract activity packages and programmed learning sequences, and manage the implementation of learning styles training. Highly recommended and "reader friendly", the step-by-step procedures comprising The Complete Guide To The Learning Styles Inservice System will prove invaluable for in-service coordinators in the retraining and retention of professional teachers at the primary, secondary, collegiate, and adult education levels.

These two are truely great entertainers. I have seen them in concert and they are something. They are themselves and I don't know them personally but from seeing them in concert they are themselves, and I like that and I am sure I am only one of many that do.

Brooks and Dunn are truly country's greatest duo as the title states. Jo Sgammato out does her self in this, her third country music biography. (She has written "Keepin' in Country: The George Strait Story," and "The Dream Come True: The LeAnn Rimes Story.") Both Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn were country performers on their own before they were paired up Music City matchmaker Tim DuBois. The author talks about the dynamic duo's touring with country music great Reba McEntire and the numerous awards the pair have earned over the past years. There are separate chapters on both Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn before they became Brooks and Dunn in 1991. Since then they have cut several CDs, all of which have generated several number one hits. The book is another book country music fans should place in their to-read list. The book is "an exciting story of a couple of guys at the top of their form: family men who love to make music, race cars and thrill fans of all ages and musical tastes.

This book is so good, that after 20 years since reading it, I remember the joy it brought me. As a young reader, the Danny Dunn books opened up a whole world to me.

Danny Dunn was my introduction to the excitement and wonder of books and turned me into a voracious reader. In this book Danny once again acts without thinking and creates a substance that will defy gravity and send a space ship (and himself as well) into outer space. Delightful and intriguing.

I'm shocked these books are out of print. I totally enjoyed them and I think I read every one. This book especially was practically prophetic from the standpoint of what the military is currently working on. Consider the year written, and it is quite remarkable.

I would highly recommend this book for young kids interested in imaginative inventions. "Creative inventors", so to speak.

Danny, loooooooong preceeding "Neuromancer", dons a helmet and gloves which give him sensations from an outside source--in this case, a mechanical dragonfly. He uses this technology to his own ends, of course. Prescient sci-fi from the team of Williams and Abraskin.

DORIE: WOMAN OF THE MOUNTAINS is an excellent example of new history-making, literature in which one person's story is representative of an era and its people. Dorie's narration of her life in the Great Smoky Mountains during the earliest years of the twentieth century evokes memories of our own old folks and their storytelling. Her account of the often hardscrabble existence she and her family endured in the mountains of East Tennessee is not a depressing one, but a testimony of the pioneer spirit that helped build this nation. Dorie's life straddled the fence between the old ways and the modern age, a time when many people still worked to produce everything their families needed even as other people discovered all the things that money could purchase at the local store or through the Sears or Montgomery Ward catalogues. Education was not always as easily obtained. Jobs became increasingly hard to find as the area was developed into a national park and with the onset of the Great Depression. Through Dorie's story, we get an inside glimpse of life in an isolated but beautiful mountain wilderness, and the ways in which modernity simultaneously improved financial situations and contributed to the destruction of a uniquely American way of life.

Dorie:Woman of the Mountains is an excellent book. Very well written - you feel as if you are talking with Dorie herself as she chronicles her life in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. This book is so entertaining you want to read it in one sitting. I would highly recommend this book to everyone. It is a most enjoyable trip back in time.