Refreshing new idea with cute basic plot. Two year old daughter w/shoe obsession giggles over the forgotten shoes and four year old son enjoys it too. Don't forget to add this one to your shopping cart :)

We got this book from the library, and now here I am buying it, because we've renewed it so many times they won't let us renew again and my 3-year old son can't get enough of it. My 4-year old loves it, too, and the too of them laugh out loud each time we read it. We are a family of readers, and our house is filled with children's books, but it has been a long, long time since any book struck such a cord with any of our kids.

One late night in a Detroit hotel room, I realized that I had slept in five different cities within the past seven days. The cities were nice and all....but I was sleeping alone much too often. I reached over, turned on the light next to the bed, and began the birth of "I sleep alone too much." Married, single, male or female, sleeping alone can be a figure of speech...or in my case, missing your loved one. Special care has been taken to note where I was during the writing of each poem to my wife...as she and the surrondings of life on the road truly inspired me. Enjoy what I have written and follow my observations in "Lonesome hugged me" and "By my side". See if you too, feel that most of us sleep alone too often. H.E.Harper

H.E. Harper was born in a factory town in Massachusetts, where young boys were told. "poetry is for girls."Not so for H.E. Harper.Since the age of 11 , he wrote his romantic poems in the basement, attic and lit closet..only to finally be heard 40 years later!

"I sleep alone too much" is for lovers and partners who are apart a great deal, but always a dream away.You WILL be moved.

Each copy is signed by the author.

In today's fast-paced health care setting, practitioner rarely has sufficient time to sit down and leisurely browse through the mirriad of pages in hopes of finding that one specific piece of information that he or she may need. Unfortunately, this is exacly what 99% of drug reference manuals available on the market today offer. On the contrary, this particular reference provides any health care provider in a critical care setting with an instant access to those bits of information about a particular intravenous drug that are so vital. Cross-compatibility is one of them. Within seconds, you are able to easily compare compatibility of a given medication with the rest of the drips already running into your patient. I have never seen a drug reference so concise, so "just what I'm looking for", so specific to the critical care setting!

This book is a must for healthcare professionals in the critical care and/or emergency units of hospitals. It contains individual monographs of approximately 100 frequently prescribed injectable medications used in critical care settings. In addition to frequently prescribed medications, the book also contains information on medications only found in critical care settings, such as hydrochloric acid infusions.

Each monograph contains practical information used by practitioners on a day-to-day basis. Dosing guidelines have hints for making rapid dosing decisions and the "tricks" of dosing conversions between different dosage formulations. A unique feature of each monograph is the Monitor section, which contains the common parameters that should be used to determine efficacy and safety of the medication. Practical guidelines for therapeutic drug monitoring are also included when appropriate, such as the timing for drawing serum levels and interpretation of the serum concentration value. Compatibility with other drugs is also listed. However, this reference only addresses Y-site compatibility issues since this is the most common compatibility information required by critical care practitioners. This pocket reference contains precisely the usable information essential for critical care practitioners.

This book is a great book. People all ages can read this book.

Jettie Stec

If you are looking for a great book, read Joey Pigza Swallowed The Key by Jack Gantos. To begin, the book shows a lot of sad things that happened to Joey. For example, when his grandma tells him to get into the refrigerator because he has a problem and he can't sit still. She also told him that his mom won't come back because he won't sit still in front of the window and not talk. She says she passes by every night and doesn't want to come back because she sees that he is not sitting still. Next, the book is very funny also. When he has to go to this special Education school because he as running with scissors in his class room at school. He tripped and fell and cut off this little girl nose, He swallowed a key, and makes fun of this guy because his name is Edd and people call him Special Edd. Last, the book shows feeling. For instance, on the first day of special Ed. School Joey was very excited because he thought it would be very fun, but it turned out that he had to do work and everyone else got to play. Then he was sad because he thought he would never get to go back to his school ever again. Last he is very happy because he gets to go back to school, but he has to stay in the special class at school but he is still happy. Now you can see because it shows a lot of feeling Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key is a great book.

Too often are works of historical note written with cold dispassion. You won't find any dry writing here. Hinton manages to encapsulate the drama and tension of the period in grand style. To those looking for simply a overview of the Harpers raid, be prepared for an information overload that includes biographies, primary excerpts and a rousing tale of cathartic proportions.

I was searching for my ancestors through the Keagy line and found this book. In it, I discovered that John Henry Kagi, an earlier form of the spelling "Keagy", was one of John Brown's men. Later I found another book about John Henry Kagi entitled, "John Henry Kagi and His Old Log Cabin Home." I am interested in learning more about Keagy Family Line and especially John Henry Kagi. My wife and I traveled to Harper's Ferry, VA to visit the site of John Brown's raid. Unfortunately, the papers and photographs of John Henry Kagi were damaged in the Spring flood. It was a great disappointment to us. The only records that we have are the information that I gained through those books, "John Brown and His Men," and "John Henry Kagi and His Old Log Cabin Home." Both of these books covered the raid on Harper's Ferry and gave me a wealth of new facts about John Henry Kagi. It brought history to life and presented a hero to my family.

In ISLAND OF THE SUN, co-authored with Erik Jendresen, Alberto Villoldo relates his Peruvian odyssey in search of his teacher, Don Antonio. ISLAND OF THE SUN is a dramatic, poetic adventure -- a profound exercise in suspending ones disbelief, in expecting the unexpected, in stretching the imagination, and in shattering the boundaries of consciousness. In short, it gives a glimpse into the mind of a shaman. It has been said that to know and understand a shaman, one must become a shaman. Villoldo has become a shaman. His story is a captivating articulation of his journey into the unknown; its imagery, vivid and enchanting - "the Sun glistened in playful white sparkles of light on the green waters. I listened to the cicada hiss, the high-pitched cacophony of the birds and the insects, the whir and hiss and chatter and hum that bounced off its surface and filled the clearing with music."

Villoldo sees his mission as that of translating the ancient psychology and truths contained in the Medicine Wheel of the Incas into a Western framework - into a psychology of the sacred. He sees the Medicine Wheel as providing a neurological map for the evolution and transformation of our species by accessing the state of consciousness that informs life. He sees the Medicine Wheel as offering a path through which we can override the oftentimes violent survival mechanisms of our primitive limbic brain.

Villoldo presents the symbolic imagery of the archetypal energies contained in the Medicine Wheel. In the South (serpent), we confront and shed the past like a serpent sheds its skin. In the West (jaguar), we overcome fear and death. By experiencing ourselves as conscious energy, death loses its sting and becomes but a doorway to one of infinite phases in eternity. In the North (hummingbird), we experience the knowledge and wisdom of the ancients. We access a sea of consciousness as vast as time itself. In the East (eagle), we experience a transcendent, comprehensive, vision of what we have learned. We share our story with the world as caretakers of the earth. That, he says, is our return home.

The psychology of the ancients is based on direct shamanic experience in different domains of consciousness. Its approach -- of experience and exploration -- is from the inside out; its goal -- to know, understand, and be in harmony with the forces of Nature. In Villoldo's experience, that approach requires a new state of mind - one that allows but is not distracted by subjective experiences. The skills required come naturally in the process of "serving experiences." He explains that when one's intent is in harmony with the experience, it is served. Otherwise, it is just an experience.

In shamanic awareness, Villoldo experienced innumerable altered states of reality by shifting his perspective to unaccustomed dimensions. The most profound, for me, was his experiencing the integrity of a multisensory dream body awareness in which everything was reflected within him. He described it as like being a champagne bubble with all images of life reflected upon its inner surface. As his teacher later pointed out, in that, everything was reflected but the seer himself, for the seer is invisible.

Purity of intention is the key to shamanic exploration. Abandoning preconceptions is necessary and essential. To master the stillness required in the dream body, Villoldo says that one learns how to be conscious without being self-conscious. Through purity of intention, it is said to be possible to enter a realm beyond dreaming -- a wondrous, rich dimension of magnificent power and splendor. Maintaining purity of intention is the challenge.

Shamans of Peru practiced an alchemy of the soul. They were said to be able to influence the past as well as the future because they understood the relationship between time and light. It is said that in becoming light (an Inca, a Child of the Sun), time was dissolved. Shamans knew that time doesn't fly only in straight lines like an arrow - it also turns like a wheel. When those two kinds of time intersect, says Villoldo, that is sacred, ritual time -- one can influence the past and summon destiny from the future. The challenge is not to let knowledge of the future influence present actions or intent. Therefore, the shaman must be able to keep a secret from himself.

Villoldo's teacher, Don Antonio, points out that in all the great cultures developed north of the equator, God is a descending god -- the Divine comes from the heavens and descends to the Earth. For the Incas, the only great culture to develop south of the equator, the god-force is ascending -- it "rises from Earth to the heavens like the golden corn." Antonio envisions the new caretakers of the Earth as coming from the northern hemisphere. ( A prophecy of hope and perhaps even a vote of confidence, I think, for those of us in the northern hemisphere.)

Villoldo points out the paradox of psychology -- that when we study the human mind, it is the mind studying itself. He adds that modern science has failed to identify the psyche or subject of this study. The mind continues to evade us. From his extensive laboratory research as a psychologist and his inquiries as a medical anthropologist, Villoldo testifies that mind cannot be derived from the neurology of the human brain. He believes that psychology is like physics in that the act of studying the psyche alters it . Villoldo strongly believes that now is the time for humankind to turn consciousness on itself and step into a grander consciousness in the evolution of mankind. He sees the path of the shaman as giving us clues for this process of exploration, discovery, realization, and transformation. He sees the path of the shaman as offering hope for a better world and a new humanity.

This is a great tale, and fairly accurate and instructive. The Western world is sorely lacking in instruction about the non rational, can't put your tongue on it realities of which the author speaks. While what I know of Peruvian shamanism is very small compared to the author's knowledge and direct experience, I suggest that this effort to capture End Journeys is both admirable and riveting. I have used FOUR WINDS as a guide to non ordinary reality since my discovery of it as a legitimate map; my work in the Celtic otherworld supports what the author here describes in terms of the Peruvian landscapes of non ordinary reality. But personally, from a shamanic perspective, I want more of Antonio's accurate and real mentoring, and less of the neophyte journeyer's somewhat predictable story line. As a tale, the book is not as finely crafted as FOUR WINDS either. Nonetheless, a great read, but just not as instructive or as easy to read as I found FOUR WINDS. /D.L. Smith 12/12/98

My parents, David and Anne Harper, have been by far the most influential individuals in my life. They have constantly shaped me and instilled within me these 7 Virtues and are the parents I want to be for my children one day. These key tools have molded me more than I could ever imagine into the man of God I believe He wants me to be.

This book allows the parents of thier children to grasp a firm and well understood method of the procees to which raising your children should happen. The seven virtues taught in the book encourages parents to be involved and to guide their children through a walk of Faith with Christ!!!

One of the better books written on automated theorem proving.
The author gives a very clear and lucid treatment of areas such
as propositional and first-order logic, resolution, proof theory
(including Gentzen's cut-elimination theorem), logic programming, and typed logic. This book represents an ideal place to begin for anyone who is interested in developing a deep understanding of the foundations of automated reasoning. Careful detail is given towards Gentzen's tableaux methods for obtaining structural proofs, and the other takes great pains to provide rigorous proofs of the results.

this book is excellent and reading it one can clearly see galliers geometric insight influenced by the great french mathematicians cartan and serre! -kurt reillag

A one-of-a-kind story. Excellent plot with a fascinating setting for anyone who loves the old West and the romance it evokes. A wonderful story with excellent,strong characters.

this book was great i could not put it down. i ahve read all of carolyn lampman's books and this is one of her best.

This is another time travel novel that was well done, but not quite as good as Autumnal Lord or the Storm books. It is about a young woman living in present day Minnesota who is transported back to 1811 Regency England as a Gypsy ancestor. A magic ring is responsible for this feat, as she casually wishes to meet Her Own True Love. The ring has a wicked sense of humor and an agenda of its own that makes it endearing. The first hundred pages were slow paced, until a plot twist kept the pages turning! The ending was excellent, tying up loose ends in an amusing and creative manner. The book is definitely worth reading, though not her very best.

This was the first Susan Sizemore romance I had read, and it immediately became one of my favorites ever. What I love best about Susans writing is the snappy wit she gives her leading ladies, no lilting lily here. In this story we have a young woman not being careful what she wishes for, literally, and finding herself plunged into the middle of an early 19th century intrigue involving a pre-James bond 007 and herself as his unwilling, post adolescent, gypsie-theif side kick. But who ends up outwitting whom as these two struggle against criminals, in-laws, politicians and...gosh, could it be...love? Read on as this 'love/hate' fire really gets burning. You'll want to slap him and kiss him yourself! A fantasy so close to ones I've had that I thought I'd written it! With just a touch of magic, Renaissance and Rock 'n' Roll, this story took me right where I wanted to go.