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The Terrible Thing that Happened at our House was one of my favorites when I was a child. I now teach third grade and read it to my students.

From the eyes of the main character girl, whose name we don't know, we see the changes a family undergoes when mom goes back to work. The children are forced to eat in the school lunchroom which, "smells like fish or frankfurters". Dad takes over cooking dinner and they start eating fine frozen delicacies such as salmon croquettes and meatballs in wine sauce. Everyone gets busier and life becomes more chaotic. No one seems to care, listen, or even pass the milk when you need it. Eventually, after an astonishing blow up, the family works through the problem and finds a workable solution.

This book has simple, yet descriptive, language. It is believably and effectively told through the eyes of a child. The pictures are engaging and amusing. It also offers a valuable lesson in problem solving strategies. Thumbs Up!

I read this book before it was published and for sale on the internet...back when I was living in PaKham myself. I found this book really entertaining from the perspective that I was living in the same town, meeting the same people, and having some of the same experiences.
PaKham is one of the littlest known places in Thailand, but to me it will always be home. The book is very honest and humorous. It's a nice perspective on living in Thailand in a rural village in the poorest region of the country. There are good sections on the political history of the area (which is briefly mentioned in Lonely Planet...we had the monk that ordained a forest in order to save it from being harvested), information on ghosts and superstition (a big part of life in Essan and a favorite chapter of mine), plus Thai idioms and language (that are always useful when trying to impress your Thai friends).
I recommend this book to anyone thinking of living in Thailand, especially doing the volunteer life, and anyone thinking of travelling there as well (for more than 2 days that is). Or if you're just interested in travel writing.

Particle projection cannons streaking past smoking wreckage of downed 60 ton machines. Explosions tearing apart living mechs. this book is a great book, but I would not reccomend it for young children. this is because it contains fighting sequences and mild gore(knife fights,toxic poisoning) This book, however is a wonderful new series based on the Mechwarrior computer games. I started it a little while ago, and I couldn't put it down! I highly reccommend to anyone who likes action, adventure, and mystery to at least look into this book.

Mel Odom and Blaine Lee Pardoe are an outstanding pair together. They help to bring alive words, it is almost as if you were right their watching everything happen. I do not normally like reading sci-fi, but this type of book I just could not put down. I had to keep reading to see what happend next. Great plot and just a great over all story.

I enjoyed the laster one of Blaine Lee Pardoe's books (Roar of Honor) but I found it a little slow at times. Not so with this one, which I enjoyed all the way through. It was wonderfully realistic. The writing was outstanding and the story itself, while a bit guessable, was very well done. I've read this several times, enjoying it each one.

The is the only book I've seen where somebody admits that character counts in marriage and that love is sustained by working on meaningful projects--like parenting, for example--together. His angle is refreshingly subversive in a culture where most therapists discuss negotiating rights and communication skills. All that is good, but this book brings out the basics that are not fashionable to mention. Dr Fowers is the kind of guy I wish lived nearby; he comes across warm, humble and smart.

This is the first relationship book I've read that approaches the popular view of marriage as cultural myth. Our myth says that two people meet, "fall in love", then marry based on this feeling, and with the anticipation of marriage being basically a happy extension of dating, forever. With this unrealistic view of marriage, it's not surprising so few marriages last.

Dr. Fowers sees successful marriage as more than two people's ability to make each other happy. He sees marriage as a partnership where two people practice being their best selves, and work together for some worthy cause such as raising children well, promoting a cause, or supporting the arts. The book states that the four virtues necessary for a good marriage are friendship, loyalty, generosity, and justice. He defines each in detail. He goes beyond "good communication skills" as a foundation for a solid marriage. It's not as fun to read about a working partnership as it is to anticipate lifelong emotional bliss, but this view of marriage seems much more realistic and workable. He barely touches on why we choose the person we do, and sex is barely mentioned at all, again distinguishing this book from most others in the genre.

This book resonates truth like no other marriage book I've read (and I've read many). Marriages haven't worked in our culture because we have made feelings the primary judge of their quality. How liberating it is to realize that marriage is so much bigger, so much more valuable than any fickle feelings either individual might have. This book has completely changed my perspective and my marriage. I recommend this book to anyone who loves his/her spouse but feels generally unfulfilled or disappointed with marriage.

Building Classroom Discipline is a practical book for a college classroom; however, for the teacher looking for a "how-to" book, there are other books that are better. BCD is wonderful for learning about different theories or studies on discipline, but it doesn't get to the practical stuff until the end of the book. Therefore, if you are looking for a book full of "how-to's", read something else.

This book I believe is excellent for not only beginning teachers but also those teachers who are in a classroom now. It provides an unbiased account of Educational Theorist. The text looks at what each theorist has recommended from his or her own research in managing classroom behaviour. The book provides strategies for teachers to help control and prevent student misbehaviour. The book not only looks at old Theorist such as Dreikus, Kounin, Skinner but new Theorist such as Canter. It is a must for all teachers to read, allowing them to effectively use strategies suggested by the various theorists in their classroom. I have found the suggested strategies helpful in my own Teaching.

I've only read about 30 pages, but already I am not satisfied with it. What is this about Jesus somehow being too shy and affected by the labels given to him by those in Nazareth as the reason why He could not perform miracles there? Since when did Jesus become discouraged by what others said of him? I read this book because I am very very chronically shy to the point where I am depressed half the time, but I'm not so gullible as to be pampered by comforting words that are clearly out of line with what I think to be the true meaning of a passage. In other thoughts thus far, I think the author is trying to target too wide an audience, giving it a rather impersonal tone. I will finish it nonetheless, for hope that it bring some advice to me, but truly I think the solution for you and for me comes from a life of prayer and patience and acceptance for who God has made you and that He loves you.

If you are a shyness man, this book can help you.
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This book was quite disappointing. Granted, I was not expecting to see a definitive history, but it seems every mediocre poet made it into the book. Yet Flanders Fieldsm arguably the most well-known poem, does not make the cut.

The book talks about a 19th century war with 20th century weapons but ignores discussing the weapons, poison gas, tanks, barbed wire, airplanes. Few maps either.

Very disappointing.

First and foremost, this is NOT a historical review of the facts and events surrounding WW 1. There is more attention given to poetry and art from the period than the actual conflict. The naval and air wars are barely mentioned. On the other hand, there are lots of great pictures and the stories themselves are interesting, if a little disorganised.

This book is a wonderful companion to the excellent PBS series of the same title. If you are looking for a book that tells stories of the all the military actions, this is probably not the book you want - Check out John Keegan's "The Face of Battle". This book (and the video series) tells the history from a more personal perspective through both famous and ordinary individuals and explains how one event has had profound impacts on the rest of the century. The reviewer who said this book focuses on Art and Poetry is correct. Winter, Blaggett and the others are trying to show the impact of war goes beyond politics and does not end with the signing of a treaty. It follows along the lines of work such as Paul Fussell "The Great War and Modern Memory" and Modris Eksteins "The Rites of Spring". The series is great classroom tool for introducing WWI to students from middle school through college and to explore topics beyond the destruction of Europe including the effects of mourning and memory, art and music in our 20th Century society.

As a top session drummer since the late 1950's, Hal Baine has played on over 40 number one hit records. You would think he would have enough material from all that experience to write five books the size of this one.

There are a few insights here. For example, Hal Blaine played on some of the Beach Boys' records, and he describes Brian Wilson's unusual piano style. Rather than play a bass line with his left hand and chords and melody with his right, like most piano players, Wilson played chords with both hands and the notes he played with his right hand were the harmony parts for the rest of the group to sing.

More often the book disappoints. You would think that the studio band was called the "Wrecking Crew" because they were unbeatable musicians right? Well according to Blaine they were called the "Wrecking Crew" because they didn't wipe out the ash trays and left the recording studio untidy when they were finished for the day.

The biggest problem with this book is what it leaves out. There just isn't as much new and interesting information here as there should be given the number of sessions Blaine played on. I suspect that the author is holding back. He seems like he doesn't want to disclose too much in his book because it might jeopardize future drumming gigs, so his loyalty is primarily to his past (and possible future) employers rather than to his readers.

The book is pleasant and easy to read, but if you are interested in this subject I would suggest that you read Earl Palmer's book first. Palmer is also a drummer and a contemporary of Blaine's. While Blaine is bland and pleasant, Palmer is swaggering and arrogant, and decidedly more interesting.

As much as I enjoy a lot of the music Hal Blaine has contributed to, I found little to enjoy about this book. Blaine offers nothing interesting or insightful about himself or the music business, just superficial outlines of his life and some of the people he worked with. He's curiously vague about the details of his own life (he either got his own birthdate wrong or consistently misstated his age by a year in the early part of the book, and he talks about women he married without even mentioning their names), and he seems to have little real knowledge of the performers he worked with (he repeats the erroneous claim that Mama Cass died from choking on food, for example, and a whole chapter about working with the Monkees actually covers a Mike Nesmith project that had nothing to do with the Monkees). He also played with some of the most popular pop/rock groups of the 1960s and 1970s (the Byrds, the Carpenters, Simon & Garfunkel), but none of them merits even a single mention in the book.

If Blaine had an interesting story he wanted to tell, he should have found a better collaborator.

This is a great book if you are a fan of '60s music. Hal helped lay the foundation for much of it. He also heavily influenced many drummers who followed, including Keith Moon of the Who. He outlines his musical training, inspiration, and dues paying. He features amusing anecdotes about working with legends of the industry, including Phil Spector, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, and Sinatra. It makes you realize how much credit he, along with other members of studio musicians known as the "Wrecking Crew", deserve for shaping their artists' visions, as their improv and input helped make those records so great. A must-have, especially if you are a drummer or ever wished you could be one. They don't make 'em like Hal anymore.

I wasn't sure if I was reading a new novel, or just re-reading one of several of the last Catherine Coulter novels I've waded through. I think that I am truly sick of the big, strong man caring for sick, injured woman bit. The story was dumb; there was no real mystery. I love the "Song" series and most of the Sherbrooke Brides series. This was plain disappointing.

How Does Catherine Coulter continue to get these awful books published? Does ANYONE read this stuff before it goes into print? I've been reading historical romances for 20 years, and this is, without a doubt, the worst reading experience I've ever had! The flat characters and convoluted story line were bad enough, but the ridiculous, dithering, twit headed dialogue that has become Ms. Coulter's hallmark of late, aggravated me so much that I read not even half of this book before I threw it across the room in disgust! Mad Jack is much worse (if you can believe it) than Coulter's recycled regencies that she keeps revisiting on the world, and quite frankly, I feel that this book is not worth the paper it's printed on!

Is is my imagination or has Catherine Coulter started using the same hero and heroine in, oh say, the last 5 or 6 books? This was the most boring by far. I have other Catherine Coulter books that I love and re-read over and over. This is not one of them. Ever since The Wyndham Legacy (which is one of my favorites) the characters have begun to seem like they are all the same person. Even the minor characters. They are no longer entertaining and humerous. Now they are stilted and repetitious. Of course, the last couple of her novels that I've purchased were re-written older novels that were good the first time around. Maybe she should start off with a fresh book and see what comes of it.