Everybody should read this book. We are all well informed by the media on what the current situation is in our culture, or so I thought. I am upset at some of the things George Grant said in this book; not because they are untrue, on the contrary.

I think many people are as uninformed as I was. I was a 9th grade public school teacher when I bought this book, and I have many horror stories that would make some parent's hair stand straight up. And yet, this book goes beyond that. Because of my experiences in the government schools, I know that the chapter entitled "Dumb Certainties" is completely true.

The reason I believe that everyone should read this book is because unless we become informed on the truth of the situation, we will not be able to do anything about it. George Grant backs his statements with quotes and notes from many sources which make the content very credible and interesting. This was a real page turner.

This a darker tale than a usual fantastic Four Book. It tell of Dr Doom giving the Thing,Invisible woman,what they want and taking out fantastic and torch. He leads them to belive doom is a construct created by reed. He turns the ting back to old ben. To invisible woman he gives namor who she always had athing for.But he wants to give moleman torch as a slave reed turns it all around when a giant doombot tries to destroy the city.

This book is a good introduction to the overall principals of geology as well as to the specific geology of the eastern US. There's lots of diagrams, maps, photos and an easy to read text. Sections include background information about geology, the major geological features of an area and what you would see along the major highways of that area.

Another angry reviewer slumming at Kirkus collecting rejection slips from the small circulation little magazines while booking guests at MSNBC as a day job. Nice capsule summation of western literature though. Molder in obscurity no-name. Or at the 100th annual proceedings of the Modern Language Association, whichever comes first...

The basics of grant writing from start to finish, including locating funding, internet choices, and project management, are packed into a reference which is filled with advice from grant-writing professionals. Plenty of examples of successful funding efforts are included throughout, from sample forms to analysis of the critical components of a proposal. Highly recommended.

I've read a dozen grant writing books, and this one offers the whole package. Notable strengths of this book include:

1) Get the organization behind your fund raising effort. Barber hits where others miss by consistently illustrating the importance building support for your grant internally, throughout the organization. Only experienced grant writers know how important this is.

2) The dreaded budget. The bottom line in proposal evaluation is the budget. It must be easy to comprehend, be realistic and professional-looking. This book offers important tips on calculating overhead, in direct costs, and bottom-up budgeting that I have seen in no other grant writing text.

3) "Comprehensive Guide": This book (and accompanying disk) offers template materials as well as the historical and philosophical back ground of public funding and philanthropic giving. The book as a whole is important to understanding the nature of fund raising through grants while providing practical advice on how to get that important project funded.

I keep this book nearby and use often for reference.

I had to write a grant in order to keep my job. I was clueless, and bought this book sight-unseen because of the title. I couldn't have been happier with the step-by-step format, easy examples and plain language. Anyone, even me, can write a grant with this book. I wrote the grant and got funded! The examples in the book are great. I wrote my grant to cover art supplies for my therapy work. Now that I know how easy it is to write a grant, I've got plans to write more and expand our program.

Flex Mentallo, in one sense, was a spin-off of Grant Morrison's work on the Doom Patrol. In another, it was a compression of his entire five-year run on the Invisibles shot through a superhero comic.

People who aren't intimately familiar with comic book mythos might be a bit confused, if not outright lost, by the sheer volume of references that give this book a lot of its kick. However, there is still a damn good tale about madness, death, isolation, love, magick, the people we could have been and the people we were.

The fact that Morrison manages to cram this into four short comic books is a testament not only to his skill as a writer, but also to the power of the medium.

Of course, that's all a moot point, because due to copyright issues, this trade will probably never be published. Still, if you can find the individual issues, they are well worth it.

I met a Swede and fell in love. After his visit to me in New York, we decided I would go visit him in Stockholm. I had never flown anywhere on my own before, let alone to Europe. This book saved me. It gave me the details I needed to know to get around the airports. I carried it in my carry-on and referred to it when needed.

Ohhhhh...we are engaged and I am living in Sweden now..that is the "changing life" part!

This is one of the best books that I've come across. Richard L. Collins does a great job of covering the basics of weather and what is really going on in order to build on real useful knowledge. Once he completes that, Richard takes you on 40+ actual flights where he talks about the briefing that he got, what the weather is really like and what the NOOA maps showed after the flight (since they always look at the past).

You learn more than just about weather. You learn about how to work with FSS, what to ask, and why forecasts are sometimes so different than actual when they shouldn't be. After reading this, I felt a lot more confident about my IFR weather planning and flying and look at the weather with a whole new mind set.

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