Insightful and Challenging this text will change the way you view the world and the females in it.

Being owned by 24 cats can present quite a challenge. With so many disparate personalities among the cats, I am always looking for books that offer insight, hoping that through understanding harmony can be achieved. While I can't report perfect harmony, I can report that matching the cats' sun signs to their personalities has provided interesting and useful information.

For persons who don't know their cat's birthday, behavior easily will match their sun sign. All humans will find the information useful in gaining a better understanding of their cat's behavior as well as insight into personality quirks. The illustrations are wonderfully drawn, and I admit to being quite delighted when I turned to the Taurus page. Not only does my Dickens match the Taurus description perfectly, but he's the match for the illustration as well, right down to the perfect black beauty mark over his mouth. SUN SIGNS also includes information into making successful matches between cat signs and human signs as well as amusing stories of cats to accompany each sign. A wonderful resource, SUN SIGNS comes highly recommended.

Bright Blessings,
Weaver

I can't say enough about this collection. This book includes a number of photographs that I have not seen in any other book. The large format allows one to see a lot of detail as every photo gets a full page.

Drs. Steen and Mirro and the many other contributers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have made a significant contribution to the clinical care of children with cancer in their editing of this new book. The chapters cover many topics to give parents an overview of the current scientific understanding of childhood cancers, along with state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment procedures. This will be an invaluable aid to the unfortunate parents who have to face along with their children an often overwhelming battle for their precious little lives. The authors highlight the magnificent progress that has been made in the past 40 years as many childhood cancers can now be successfully treated almost 80% of the time. It covers spiritual, psychological and social aspects of treatment and even the topic of alternative therapies. It includes testimonials of success and a chapter dealing with the hardest topic--letting a child die when there is no longer any reasonable hope for curative treatment. It informs parents about the testing procedures their children will have and talks about the research-related issues that they will likely encounter. It provides useful address and links for support groups and additional information. I would highly recommend this book for parents and the professionals who deal with those parents who have children with cancer.

Christmas in the Midwest! the very best of all! From Chicago's Miracle Mile with its myriad of gaily colored lights and its blazing store windows - to the small midwest cities with their downtown lampposts festooned with evergreen and silvery tinsel - to the small towns with their Season's Greetings bannered across the intersection of Main and Elm Streets - to the farm scenes with strings of red and green bulbs entwined round the spindly legs of long-unused windmills and the picture window curtains drawn back to let the tree lights gleam out over the new fallen snow.

And Christmas Eve in little frame and brick churches with "readings" and songs by the children - a decorated tree and some rosy-faced neighbor in a Santa Claus costume - Christmas mornings with families round the tree and the gaily wrapped gifts with their promises waiting to be unwrapped.

And then go over the hill to Grandma's house where all the aunts, uncles and cousins gathered for a gala Christmas feast!

These are images and recollections that M idwesterners and exiled Midwesterners share. You will find these memories and more in the pages of Christmas in the Midwest. Here is a rich assortment in poem, picture, and story, all done by the best of midwest writers and artists such as, Hamlin Garland, Bess Streeter Aldrich, James Whitcomb Riley, John Muir, Marjorie Holmes, Paul Engle, Hartzell Spence, Phil Stong and Susan Allen Toth. They share stories about the Midwest's very first Christmases, Christmases of the pioneers, and Christmases in this changing twenty-first century. Wether the stories and poems are real or imagined, or mixtures of memory and "might-have-been," this collection is guaranteed to stir heartwarming memories of Christmas in the Midwest, and the spirit of the season everywhere.

One of the most important books you will need for education in genetic counselling and interpretation of cytogenetic results. Its a pleasure to read and additionally, delivers insight into psychological problems rising from integration of cytogenetically "abnormal" individuals in the human society.

This is a lavishly illustrated abridgement of Grant's wonderful "Personal Memoirs" and of Confederate Officer Armistead Long's "Memoirs of Robert E. Lee", two of the major works of the Civil War (Lee never did get around to writing his own memoirs).

While it must be stressed that this is an abridgement, and the actual volumes themselves are worth purchasing on their own, especially Grant's, the clear text and the extraordinary and realistic illustrations makes this volume a perfect gift for the Civil War buff this holiday season, or a worthy addition to one's own Civil War Library even if you already have the separate volumes - as I do.

Tolkien, Lewis, L'engle, all of these writers wrote the fantasy books people enjoy. But Jordan has taken it a step further. With this series, he has introduced us to a world of imagination and glory, a place where a tale may never end. The charectors, including Rand, Perrin, Matt, Elayne, Aviehenda, Egwene and others, are so detailed and thorough that you believe you know them in real life. The details of the surroundings, the way things are described, all are Jordan's ways of painting the oh so perfect picture of the story in our minds. The series dosn't seem to tell about a made up fantasy, but instead of a historical invent witnessed throught the eyes of the author then relayed back to us, the readers. In every book, Jordan seems to know just how to add things in, and create a richer world for the charectors to explore. But the deatils arn't all of Jordan's talent. The plot itself is a unique tale. Many other authors have written fantsy stories, with wars and magic, but Jordan seems to do more than just tell a story, instead he allows you to enter it. The plot follows many main and non-main charrectors, each contributing a part to the story's patteren. It follows Rand, as the Dragon Reborn, with magical abilities, and trying to controll himself from going mad. Or Elayne, queen of Camylen. Or Matt, whose unusuall talent of gambling tends to get him in trouble. And Perrin, a wolf brother, and so many more. Jordan seems to let the charectors write they're own story, while he acts as the supervisor. All in all, this series is one no fantasy reader, correction, any reader, can put down.

Grant comes across as an overbearing, know-it-all who is resistant to change. Grant makes broad comparisons with children of today with those of the 1960s, stating that "today's young people appear to be more of a potential blight..". We are not in 1960 and therefore teaching methods from that time are not effective today! The last chapter does contains some helpful suggestions, but nothing earth-shattering. There are several passages that discuss how teachers were duped into working an additional 20 minutes a day and that a larger portion of the money for schools should go to teachers.(sound familiar?) It's interesting that the author chose not to discuss whether his/her experience is based on working in several states and school systems or simply one jurisdiction. No doubt that his/her stories are more accurate in urban systems than rural and most likely east-coast or west-coast and not in the rest of the U.S. I'm curious why the author chose to continue teaching if the children he/she taught were so ignorant and undisciplined? The future of our children is very important to the nation; however, this author comes across as a bitter retiree who's first love is lecturing and not nurturing.

I strongly recommend this book for anyone who feels that there are big problems in U.S. schools and can't figure out what to do about them. Grant was a teacher for 40 years and that experience shines through. There are solutions offered about the problems in U.S. schools but no easy answers. If your a parent trying to figure out how to ask for improvement in your local school board, this book has some great tips. But don't expect it to be easy. The author is really hard on parents and kids who lack discipline. Only for those who REALLY want to know what the problems are, even if they are problems within ourseleves. Plus the local school boards, Grants hard on them too.