This book is one of the few which takes a deeply compassionate look at young people and their feelings about coping in this confusing and complex modern environment. He courageously questions the assumptions which parents and adults take for granted as being in the best interests of youth. He even has the guts to openly confront their sexual oppression. He defines sexuality, "in the full sense of the word", as "mankind's instinctual drive to relate pleasurably with others" regardless of age (Ibid. 99). In his book, he discusses the need in all human beings, including young people, for sexual intimacy:

"Tenderness is a quality of response or empathy between people. As with openness, the capacity for play. and being with and enjoying loved ones. Tenderness is developed in infancy and must be cultivated (Ibid.)

"...as a person moves toward another, anything that generates anxiety' or is rejecting creates a crisis. The individual moving forward is stopped: stopping her results in frustration, tension, and anxiety'. This experience begins when parents impose limits on the child's behavior that has been heretofore aimed at pleasure and satisfaction. The prevention of satisfaction is destructive... to the individual as a whole person" (Ibid. 100-1).

"The family and school severely cripple young people's capacity to relate in pleasurable and in intimate ways. Fears about the opposite sex and about one's own sex are inculcated in children..." (Ibid. 102).

"The oppression of young people.. .is best exemplified by the repression of sexuality" (Ibid. 98).

Mrs. Goose was such a dizzy, scatter-brained, yet funny character to me. There was always a surprise ending and you never knew what she would do or why she did it in the first place. I simply remember most all her stories as a child, and never tired of listening to them. When I read any of these to the children of today, they are equally amused and want to hear them again. Unfortunately, I have lost touch with my childhood original. I still spend hours looking for a copy in antique book stores.

This excellent Oxford anthology edited by Michael Harrison presents a great choice of mostly classic, well loved poems and some newer works. The poems are accompanied by lovely, funny and effective illustrations in black and white or colour by diverse artists, which capture the tone of the poems very well.

I think the younger children will especially enjoy the nonsense verse by Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll or the funny poems by Hilaire Belloc. Children and parents can read this anthology together and let the cadenzas and rhythms of the poems suffuse their minds and hearts. Since for me, on these pages Blake's 'Tiger' again burned bright, I felt the tragedy of Noyes's 'Highwayman', was enchanted by Tennyson's 'Lady of Shalott' and Keats's 'La belle dame sans merci'. Shakespeare cast his own spell with his beautiful sonnets and I had great fun with Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. As a sailor's daughter I enjoyed the sounds, smells and sights of Masefield's 'Sea fever' and Yeats's 'Wild swans at Coole' and 'Innisfree' have always been favourite poems.

A great introduction to wonderful poetry and not only for children.

This dictionary contains all the verbs, all the adjectives and all the nouns one dictionarys of it's size can hold. Very convients for the home or the classroom. If any, this is the dictionary to get!

Sugiero que, además de mostrar la portada de este tipo de Diccionarios, también se muestren fotografías de su contenido, con el objeto de ayudar al cliente a decidirse por él y, así, producir la venta con mayor certeza de satisfacer a dicho cliente.

Since I enjoyed reading David Clark's "Dialogical Apologetics" and "Apologetics in the New Age," co-authored with Norman Geisler, I had to read "The Pantheism of Alan Watts," especially since it was referenced in the co-authored book above. Although, admittedly, I'm not well read on Alan Watts (which is my weakness in reviewing this book), the fact that he is a popular author provided incentive to my reading, and probably to Clark's writing, of this book. Clark's mastery of the Watts corpus is apparent, and the analysis is intellectually engaging. He is obviously careful in his presentation of Watts' evolving ideas, from his early belief as an Anglican priest that Christianity was compatible with (Zen) Buddhism and "the perennial philosophy" to his later admission of its incompatibility which resulted in his abandonment of Christianity. Clark also shows how Watts can get around some of the intellectual objections of his critics. But he also shows how Watts and other pantheistic mystics face an intellectual dilemma when making claims such as "God is unknowable by intellection". According to Clark, "Not only is Watts unable to explain human existence with its sensations of finite individuality, he has built a system which cannot be meaningfully affirmed." He continues: "It is always logically possible that there is more to 'the universe than normal experience can understand or comprehend,' but if this universe is pantheistic, there remains the thorny problem of how and why human beings came to exist, speak, think and feel as they do. Watts cannot eliminate all experience as false and conventional because his knowledge is based on experience. Neither can he differentiate between valid mystical experience and conventional pseudoexperience (i.e., our experience of finite existence) because that distinction would be a rational one. It seems that a mystical pantheism has difficulty eliminating the overwhelming experience of being a finite ego from the realm of valid experience" (pg. 104).

Clark admits that this argumentation may not convince some mystics and quotes D. T. Suzuki as an example. But he points out that dismissing logical incoherencies out of hand means that any world view becomes impossible to criticize, including the theistic world view of Christianity. Even if admirers of Watts aren't convinced by the analysis or conclusions of this book, I would find it hard to believe that they would walk away from this book without a deeper understanding of both Watts and his critics. I challenge avid readers of Watts to locate and read this book and if, after doing so, they found it lacking in any way, to provide a well thought-out critique ... I look forward to reading your reviews. This book is highly recommended, along with Clark's other two books mentioned above, and requires careful reading and reflection. For those who consider themselves "panentheists" instead of "pantheists," see Norman Geisler's critical analysis of this world view in his book "Christian Apologetics".

This quick reading book will help you boost your child's confidence while uplifting your own. I wish this book were available when our children were growing up. I'm recommending this book to the thousands of people I network with in conjunction with the newly published "Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul" and while working on the upcoming "Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul."

I am just ordering this book to read, but I welcome writing a critical review. It has been highly recommended me to me by the Chaplain of a major hospital who uses it with children. I am especially looking forward to receiving insight from the section on psychological needs of children who are facing illness. I intend to use this in my ministry of caring for children in our congregation who are ill.

My daughter loves this book & has been asking to have it read a dozen times a day since she got it last week. The storyline is simple & clear--maybe too simple for 4-8-year-olds; my daughter's only 2 & she understands what's going on & will tell us what's happening next if we ask her. What really makes the book, in my opinion, are the illustrations. The dog & cat are both adorable & lifelike & the colors are bright without being garish. The cover of the book is attractive too, w/its patchwork of different colors--my daughter enjoys naming each block of color on the cover. The pulltabs are easy for little fingers to operate--if you're right-handed. If you're a lefty (as is my daughter), it's more difficult, because all the pulltabs are on the right-hand pages. But all in all, I would definitely recommend this book to other parents.

The authors take ten Asian leaders from five countries (China, Indonesia, India, Cambodia and Vietnam)and studies their lives and their leadership qualities. After a wonderful introduction of each country the authors attempt to answer such questions as: What motivates people? Is their an "Asian" way to lead? What makes a leader good or bad? Often in each country they take leaders of opposite viewpoints such as Diem and Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam. Diem was the Anti-Communist leader of South Vietnam and Minh was the communist leader of North Vietnam. The book also looks into why people follow certain brutal leaders such as Mao and Pol Pot. It looks at the establishing of personality cults and how the leader used that to his advantage.