Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was perhaps the greatest orator of the 20th century in the matters of morality and the like. His writings displayed a great inner creativity and understanding of the human mind. Archbishop Sheen never lowered himself to the heathen practices of finger-pointing, and profanity. Instead, he reinforced his beliefs with Biblical texts and comedic anecdotes of his own life. His ninety-one books and innumberable radio and televsion broadcasts allowed us a glance into his mind. The Pope John Paul II declared him "a devoted son of the Church." Very few reviews carry as much weight as that comment. I highly recommend this text to anyone of whom finds morality to be the spice of life against the dull pallet of sin.

Although this book is nothing more than the scripts from a number of the most popular "Life is Worth Living" shows, it is an excellent read.

Bishop Sheen has a way of saying the most profound things with an easy-going, conversational style in most of his books, but especially so in this one--probably because he was talking to the television audience.

I haven't seen most of the episodes that are in this book, but I still enjoyed reading the chapters of even the few episodes that I had seen. It gave me a chance to capture the nuggets of wisdom sprinkled throughout the episodes.

A newbie's guide written by a cynic. Extremely helpful information to the newcomer wanting to buy a telescope, even useful for the experienced observer thinking of buying a second scope. But what REALLY makes this book special are the hilarious anecdotes and on-target descriptions of familiar companies with the names thinly disguised. Far and away the funniest book on amateur astronomy ever published. A must read!

This is the book that kept the hobby in perspective for me when I first was captured by the wonders of the night sky. This is a fun, quick read and should be mandatory reading before someone can buy a telescope.

The book is even better than I expected. The authors packed a lot of highly useful and easy-to-find responses and techniques that will help me succeed in handling tough questions and personal attacks. great ideas and a fast read.

Excellent book. Complete and readable. Helped me with problems in communicating. Excellent suggestions of how to answer difficult questions.

I took the time to review this book because I feel strongly that it contains excellent photographs which deserve a wider audience. Michael Smith is one of the best living photographers and a national treasure of the US. He is known well in the photographic community but remains fairly obscure outside this group. I recommend this book to anyone interested in excellent photography.

Michael A. Smith has traveled many miles photographing the land, the cities, and the people across America, and is possibly the greatest photographer of our time. Not only is his subject matter interesting, every picture in this publication reveals his mastery of seeing, composition, and print quality. An excellent book.

I am not a huge fan of old "nursery rhyme" type poetry, but this book caught my eye and my 3 yr old boys and I love it! The illustrations are simply amazing as each page unfolds from 2 children visiting an eccentric, storytelling neighbor to the children becoming the owl and pussycat. My boys immediately noticed the firepole in the man's house among other curiosities. As the children enjoy a snack and the man reads the poem, the floor turns to water and the window seat to a pea green boat. The bespeckled little boy becomes an owl and girl becomes a cat. The poem is read a second time with them as the main characters and the illustrations cleary 'telling' the story. Just as fluidly, the children return to human form and their mothers call them for dinner as the poem winds down. This book would certainly be a wonderful addition to a classic nursery rhymes collection.

If you're a fan of Hilary Knight's artwork (and if you're not, you ought to be), you will definitely want this book. Those who are only familiar with Knight's wonderful pen and ink drawings for Eloise and Mrs. Piggle Wiggle will be amazed at the beauty of his full color illustrations. This book is good enough for either your child's/nephew's/niece's bookshelf, or (in my case) your own. The illustrations of a young boy and girl slowly becoming part of the tale are beautifully rendered. I am glad to see so many Knight books on the market again, and hope that i will get to see some more.

Let's preface this review with an explanation -- I'm not an intellectual, and if it wasn't for my perverse sense of humor mixed with my young ambition to take as many courses in mathematics as possible, I would probably never have picked this book up off of a friend of mine's shelf.

That being said, I did pick it up. I opened it, and I had to read the first poem three or four times to make sure it was really as good as I thought. Then I moved on to the next, and the next. Long story short, I bugged the book's owner so much, now the book is mine. I have been thouroughly impressed with each successive poem. Since this (poetry) is not my usual thing, I lack the vocabulary to adequately describe this book.

It appealled to me, a (then) computer science and anthropology double major, and it appealed to my firend, who had a phd in literature.

Bottom line: No matter who you are, buy this book.

It seems like Alice Fulton can bring anything into a poem and make it work. In these poems, for example, there's Elvis Presley, faked orgasms, TV-reruns. But she's not just grabbing images from popular culture to make the poems accessible - she's using them, it seems to me, because they're as much a part of our world, our ways of knowing and feeling, as classical myths, which are also here. (See her fantastic reinterpretation of Daphne and Apollo in the sequence called "Give:") And what's as wonderful to me is the lushness of these poems, the extravagance of language, the way Fulton builds up these crystal-like surfaces from line to line or stanza to stanza and makes them tilt, twist, dance. Alice Fulton's poems are exciting!

Sensual Math is an exquisite book. Alice Fulton's love affair with language is thrilling; it's also important. Sensual Math can make you believe (again) in the power of every syllable, and not to "capture" or "master" experience, but to give ourselves up to the hearbeat of the world.

This book is an awesome journey into what CAN happen when marriages break up and wives are vindictive. This man is so innocent he CHOOSE prison over walking away and saying he did something he didn't do.

It can be used as a text book on False Allegations of Child Abuse and should be read by anybody falsely charged with this henious crime. By reading this book, you could save yourself years in prison. Buy one for yourself, your family and your attorney.

Mr. Berry's story is typical of a national crisis of child abuse hysteria in America today. The false accusation, an incompetent attorney, a prison sentence for a crime he didn't commit - it CAN happen to you! I highly recommend this book not only for the compelling story, but for the reader to learn how to protect themselves.

This book consists of 59 short essays that will assist the principled Catholic as she or he struggles in the whirlwind of the modern world. Written in 1954 or 1955, this observations and sententiae remain sharply relevant, even after nearly half a century.

Archbishop Sheen does not preach a gospel of evasion from moral absolutes, but neither is he a humourless rigorist. During his lifetime, through a ministry in the media of both print and television, he reached more souls than Cardinal Newman did. In "Way to Inner Peace," the believing Christian will find not only a challenge but perhaps a restoration to sanity and sanctity (arguably, the same thing).

This book is packed with valuable insight for those who are not afraid of looking into the mirror for a change. The book offers short chapters filled with wisdom on the ways of man. The language is simple enough for anyone to grasp, yet so lofty that the reader has no choice but to long for heaven on Earth and the peace that comes with it. I highly recomend this book to anyone looking solid spiritual reading which will lead to growth as a human being and as a child of God.

Wormser's When is an absolutely stunning and wondrous collection. In these poems you will meet unforgettable characters, and experience heart-breaking episodes of life in this late 20th Century. As deeply crafted as they are felt, the poems in When reward rereading without requiring it for understanding. If you teach, use these poems--students respond to them, and they are solid, graceful and worthy models. If you just love poetry, don't waste another day deprived of the excellent company of Baron Wormser's When!

I love this book. I have heard Baron Wormser read twice, which makes it all the better (he's a great guy) and the book is worth it for the last poem alone, A Quiet Life, which is affectionately known as "the egg poem". Everyone needs to read that poem. The rest of his poems are honest and well written, not cloying or in excess. And as for the egg poem, there seems to be some sort of deep, meaningful philosophy portrayed in a few wonderful lines.

And just as the book claimed, in just ten minutes, it really helped make difference. One of the best self help books out on the market. I keep it right on my desk for easy access. I'm glad I found it.