This inexpensive little book is excellent for any beginning rider, containing much information, nice illustrations. It is a little gem that any horse lovin' kid would like and would learn from.

I teach horseback riding year round and in summer camp. This little book is perfect for children. The drawings and explanations are accurate, clear, and easy to understand. While the book pictures children and ponies, adults who are just learning the basics of riding will find it informative and fun to read.

Have given this book out to U-6 and U-8 teams as an end-of-season "favor." The kids love it. And it teaches the basics in a way that even the most soccer-challenged parent can understand.

I have coached soccer for 4 years and always had the nagging suspicion that I had no idea of what I was doing. I knew the concepts and I knew the kids but I didn't know how to bring the two together.

This book is great for kids who need something to learn from and it is great for a coach who needs a quick and easy method of bringing a lesson plan together.

Good work!

Recognition of Mozart's mother is surely long overdue but it was worth waiting for this well researched, involving, and at times poetic fictional account of Anna Pertl Mozart. Not only did it make me want to read more about the Mozarts but also visit all the places in Salzburg that are associated with them. Ms. Norman is to be congratulated on illustrating so vividly why women composers (or women artists of any kind for that matter) have had to struggle so hard for recognition over the centuries. She has certainly succeeded in rescuing one ANON from obscurity.

Liane Ellison Norman's Stitches In Air is a compellingly written, superbly crafted historical novel about Anna Pertl Mozart, who was the mother of the legendary 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. An evolving, personal tale of conflicting family dynamics and the struggle to balance responsibilities to kin with individual freedom, Stitches In Air is a fascinating, entertaining, fully engaging read, and a very highly recommended addition to community library collections.

A mystery with a serial killer, a charming alligator, and a hurricane. This romantic suspense will keep you turning the pages on the edge of your seat--if that's possible:) Cheryl Norman scores again with Storms of the Heart after the success of Full Moon Honeymoon.

I thought Cheryl Norman's mystery, FULL MOON HONEYMOON, was good, but this is even better. More romance, more suspense than mystery, she has lifted a story right out of AMERICA'S MOST WANTED or UNSOLVED MYSTERIES about a black widower, and brought it to life with her characters. Stephanie is a strong, genius-level young woman who is naive in the ways of love. David is equally strong and up to the challenge of protecting Stephanie, in spite of his reluctance to come out of hiding (for which he has good reason!). And the villain...Oh, is he nasty, so believable it's scary. Set in the wilds of Florida most tourists never see, you'll feel as if you've landed smack in the middle of the hurricane that maroons Stephanie with the mysterious David. Don't miss this one.

...He is a product of his times - or perhaps an anti-product. He looks at the dominant culture that surrounds him, and he is mostly disturbed by it. Disturbed by the dehumanizing effects of mandatory technology. Will the Luddites in the audience without a cell phone please raise their hands? Disturbed by the wholesale abuse and slaughter of people and animals. Disturbed by media anchordroids who mindlessly spew the party line. And what is the party line? This above all: To thine own corporate parents be true. Consume. This is what it means to be American. If you want to belong, you better buy a GM and Keep America Rolling. Do your part. Fork over your meager earnings from your cubicle job so that you may affirm your patriotism. If you love your country, you will support its corporate entities. Because you are either with Us or you are with the Terrorists. In this time in particular, dissention is not allowed. Certainly you have the right to free speech, as long as you say the right thing.

Harold Jaffe doesn't say the right thing...everyone's [ticked] off...

Why does he do this? He likes animals; why doesn't he just write Call of the Wild II?

He does it because he can't help it. You see, "If you have love enough, then go on, rage, rage out of love." And Jaffe loves enough. And so he rages. He rages against a society he finds largely unsupportable, bloated, greedy, ravenous, jealous, demanding, hypocritical, entrenched, bulletproof, painted with hypnotic DAY-GLO colors.

Jaffe uses the same tactics as the media-frenzy culture we live in. He writes with a merciless efficiency and swiftness. He intrudes upon us with unidentified, disembodied voices, like in "Necro," parroting the in-your-face media fixation and regurgitation of warped "reality" programming. He doesn't linger on any aspect of his story for too long. He lights from flower to flower. Fast, list-like stories like "Carjack," "14 Ways of Looking at a Serial Killer," and "Things to do During Times of War" echo the need for the national attention-span to please not be stressed for anything longer than what would normally be broken, mediated, by a Word from Our Sponsors...Many readers would turn their ire back upon the author. But Jaffe's provocations are intentional. He's trying to get the reader stirred up, and then, hopefully, to examine this agitation and seek its actual source - the culture we live in, for that, in so many ways, is what is insupportable...

Jaffe seeks to get us riled up, but unlike most fiction, he does not allow resolution, satisfaction, gratification. If we seek release, we must look within ourselves, examine our own thoughts, our own responses, our own reactions.

Jaffe's tales are so extreme, so hyperreal, because such extremity is necessary to disassociate the reader from such an intense media-saturated culture, thereby eliciting a state of mind where it becomes possible to examine the network while standing outside the network, instead of being asleep inside the network.

Unlike satire, which establishes a norm and then ricochets against it, Jaffe uses pastiche, in which culture is unflinchingly mimicked, broadcasting every contradictory datum, commenting on the absurdity of it all by providing no established foundation of normalcy; we are instead left to flounder in a wicked distillation of our everyday world, an experience so intense that we shudder, suddenly awakened to the sewage with which we are daily subsumed.

The most important message Harold Jaffe leaves us with is not one of his fictions, but in fact a Public Service Announcement he created for NBC's "The more you know" pre-advertisement segment. In it, Jaffe brilliantly explains to children and adolescents that sex is deadly. With equal deftness, he illustrates that commercial sex is very healthy. "Let the Corporations be your guide," Jaffe croons while plucking his banjo...

I'm a Jaffe enthusiast: I admit it. I read whatever he writes, and Straight Razor is him at his best: an uncanny series of innovative stories with perfect pitch dialogue and extraordinary passion--both personal and political.

I am looking for a cd rom of thisbook, may be you can tell me if this cd exists? if yes how can I get it?
best regards Dr` Roman Korobochka MD

As a woman who has had a history of difficult pregnancies (including unexplained fetal demises), Williams Obstretrics was indispensable to me in my search for the causes of my missed abortions (late miscarriages). Many doctors feel the less patients know from firsthand sources (such as this book), the better it is. But for me, Williams Obstretrics answered many questions not only regarding my losses but also in my uncomplicated pregnancies. OBGYNs don't need to be told about this book; they swear by it. I think their patients should too.

Having sampled quite a range of Christian apologetics and theology works, I think I can say safely say Norman Geisler is a crucial addition to any thinking Christian's library.

At a time when liberal scholarship is adrift in a sea of desperation, the cool, calm analysis and breadth of knowledge of Geisler is an asset to a faith in need of revitalisation and energising.

Like Todd Vick, I think Geisler is at his best on issues like inerrancy and inspiration, but his thorough background treatise on the varying paths of liberal and fundamental thought is just as vital to understanding where Christianity has been and where it's going.

Systematic Theology is highly recommended as a solid grounding for evangelicals. I'm looking forward to the next installment.

There is no perfect systematic theology text. However, this volume from Geisler is a very good one! Very few systematic theology texts have a 'prolegomena' and that alone sets this text apart from others.

Geisler begins this volume (there are others to follow) with a section on the "preconditions" of theology. This is typical Geisler style (since he did this in the classroom as well) and I believe it strengthens the whole "doing" of theology. In like fashion, Geisler also includes philosophical and apologetical preconditions for doing theology. This is another feature that I thought set this text apart from others. Thus, in the "Introduction" alone, Geisler has set the stage for his "doing" theology quite well (I can't wait to read the volumes that follow).

From the "preconditions," Geisler then moves into biblical theology. Not theology that is biblical, but Bibliology, or perhaps better put, The Bible. This section covers the truth claims from and about the Scriptures, the history of the manuscripts, Church history and the Bible, and also those aberrant teachers and their teachings who try and distort or alter traditional views about the Bible. Geisler is pretty thorough in this section. Of course, I think that this issue (the Bible and its inerrancy) is one of Geisler's strongest fields of expertise.

This text is a great "Introduction" text. What I mean by this is not that the text is for beginners (while it is written clear enough to be understood by anyone who never studied the issues previously and also for those seasoned readers), but by "Introduction" I mean just what the text actually is. It is an introduction to his overall systematic theology series which is to follow this text.

There are several areas of controversy in the text itself (of a more philosophical nature). For instance, Geisler is very much a Gilsonian Thomist. As such, Geisler believes and teaches that "beings" have a real distinction between their being and their essence, but God does not have this real distinction. This is a very hot Thomistic topic in current philosophy of religion circles. The debate rages mainly between those Thomists who follow Gilson's teachings on this issue and those who side with Wippel. While Geisler does not touch on the issue as controversial, he does address it in nice Gilsonian fashion. And I for one am in agreement with Geisler (and Gilson) on this issue.

Overall, this is a great text which demonstrates Geisler abilities and knowledge in these specific areas. I look forward to the volumes that follow and I highly recommend this volume.

Great book! My son and I loved this mystery from the gold rush era in California. The descriptions are marvelous. It is a good book to learn about the Gold Rush in an interesting way; with a young boy and his day to day adventures. This book makes history come alive. It is wonderful way for young people to learn about the history of the Gold Rush in California.

A fun mystery for kids with a lot of California History. I highly recommend it!

A MUST FOR ALL HORSE LOVERS. HAVE A GOOD LAUGH AT READING THE HUMOUR SIDE OF HORSEMANSHIP, FANTASTIC PICTURES/WORDINGS. THIS AUTHOR IS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT AT HIS OWN CREATION OF THESE LITTLE CREATURES, THIS BOOK IS A MUST-BUY FOR ALL AGES - YOU'LL NEVER GET TIRED OF IT. I LOVE THESE BOOKS EVEN SINCE I WAS INTRODUCED TO THEM WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, AND HAVE A COLLECTION OF THEM. LIKE I SAID YOU'LL NEVER TIRED OF THEM.

The ponies were cute and funny and I loved their expressions

I got my first copy of Thought Conditioners when in college. It inspired and motivated me then and has continued to help me keep the faith through 20 years of life changes. This booklet contains 40 Bible verses each with an accompanying uplifting paragraph that helps the reader apply the message. The Bible verses selected for this brief booklet can help anyone facing tough times whether a cancer diagnosis, heartache because of a child or spouse, problems at work--whatever. It keeps the mind at peace becuase it is focused upon the powerful, positive messages found in the Bible.

THIS pamplet has been a life saver for me,when life comes tumbling down on me ,I always go to my thought conditioner pamplet..It is made to tear out and take with you,I've torn and retorn thru the years,I'm currently trying to find a new one to replace this one that has been used out''I like how the coditioners refer you to books of the bible,for more knowledge of the word. The pamplet is so easy to read, understand,and take with you anywhere..