Excellent, The Race Against Junk Food is a wonderful way to teach kids, parents and grandparents (like me) about healthy eating habits. My 5 year old grand girl loves this book. It's colorful characters and great story keep her interested from start to finish. She even tells other people about the book, and wants all her friends and family to order a copy right away. I highly recommend this book and encourage everyone to read this colorful guide toward good nutrition.

I have a 2 year old and a 5 year old and it has been a bedtime favorite for a couple of months. The story is fun and the characters are cool and colorful. Since the characters are fruits and vegetables, the book furnishes you with a fun way to talk about healthy eating.

My 3-year-old loves this book. He now tells me what food is SNAK Posse food and what food is junk. We work together to find SNAK food that will help him run fast, jump high and win races.

I highly recommend this book!

PS - I loved it, too!

This book is truly a must read for anyone who loves literature. It provides a vast down-to-earth collection of short stories, each containing its own complex and emotional scenario. The stories challenge the reader to consider his/her own beliefs, as well as the moral and ethical standards they cherish. The first story, Rain, gives the reader a glimpse into the struggles of a young boy in war-torn Africa. It truly is a great work full of beautiful metaphors. I would recommend this book to everyone.

This collection of short stories is both interesting and thought provoking. John Roberts uses extensive literary metaphores that are layered so that even if you don't know which month is the cruelest according to Elliot you still get some meaning.

The only weakness of the book is the editing is substandard. There are even some basic typos. Sometimes the metaphors seem to cerebral for a story about Africa (Rain). However, all in all this book is a lasting work of brilliance.

I have just heard about the book and I can't wait to read it. Mr. Roberts is the best author...go for it and read his book.
I'm proud of you Mr.Roberts :-)

This book takes us to places that we felt only we knew existed and thankfully helps us find our way back again better for having gone there. It has been said that clinicians are born not made read this book and you will know why.

"Relationship Pain" is an enjoyable book about romantic, family and workplace relationships, illustrated with case histories from the author's twenty-five years as a psychotherapist. It helps you understand the difference between "constructive" and "destructive" relationship pain, why early romantic and family relationships are so formative in our lives, why some relationship experiences create indelible relationship memories and how to put it all together to nurture relationship health and even joy. It is the meaty book after the light weights.

This book was really illuminating about my relationships at work and my relationship with my wife. Dr. Schillace really helped me to clarify my own needs and expectations of my coworkers and my wife. I discovered that my unconscious expectations often create problems in my relationships. Just following the book's guidance for changing these expectations has helped me make my relationships much more satisfying. The book is worth it just for the self-awareness that you get from the Relationship Theory Checklist. This book is called Relationship Pain. But really it's about how to find more closeness and gratification in relationships. I highly recommend it.

Book Review
Remembering the Death of a Child
By Robert R. Thompson, M.D.

This excellent book of "Support and Healing, Hope and Inspiration" is the story of a couple's grief journey after the tragic loss of their son, Paul Leslie Thompson. Even though Dr. Thompson is a physician and all too familiar with death, nothing could have prepared him and his wife for the acute grieving process that lay ahead of them. Dr. Thompson describes his experience with these words:
"The death of a child takes you on a journey like a hawk carries a rabbit through the sky. It eventually drops you either dead or wounded. What you see and do on the journey is up to you. The journey itself is not."
Dr. Thompson invites the reader to join him and his wife on their journey through grief. He explains their need to see, feel and hold their son after the accident. He tells of the funeral plans and how they made it through the ceremony in a zombie-like state. He admits that although he and his wife are practicing Christians, they sometimes felt too numb to pray and were not sure what to say to God. They tried to make sense of it all, but couldn't. "I thought then and still believe, that the pain of losing a child derives in part from the anger we feel that the natural cycle of life has been interrupted."
Dr. Thompson then gently lets us know what was helpful to the couple as they faced their grief. "We took consolation where we could find it," he remembers. Both were grateful to have each other and to be able to share the journey with their other two sons, parents and other family members. The recollection of last words spoken and the memories shared were appreciated and represented little drops of soothing oil on the wounded hearts. The loving and caring friends who took over in the house and who just sat and listened were of great consolation. Touch was also very important in the healing process. "Handshakes were not enough. Embraces were required and each hug squeezed out a new burst of anguish." Almost every decision was validated with the words, "Paul would have liked that." A notepad was put near the casket, so that anyone who wanted to could write a memory of Paul on it. Someone introduced the Thompsons to The Compassionate Friends who believe that "grief shared by many is grief borne by many" and who suggested that they use a memory box to collect memorabilia. The church family acted as a supportive community and relieved them of some of the burdens of daily life. The funeral director and the pastor helped by providing a "healing funeral." Patients, staff and colleagues "carried" them and allowed them to grieve as long as they needed to.
We would expect Dr. Thompson to also describe some of the physical and mental effects of grief. He describes that both, husband and wife, started suffering from throbbing headaches soon after the news of their son's death. Other symptoms were fatigue, numbness, sleeplessness, weight loss, gray hair and his wife's onset of menopause.
Depression was a concern, but Dr. Thompson knew that medicating grieving patients is not appropriate unless there are signs of serious melancholia and "involutional" depression. It took a voluntary decision to not "extend the acute grieving process and make a career out of it." Although sometimes marriages suffer from the grief experience, Dr. Thompson found that "a mutually supportive respect for each other's personal grief can result in a stronger marriage - one in which both partners rely on each other for mutual support and encouragement, as well as continued personal growth."
This grief experience has effected a changed in Dr. Thompson's attitude toward death. His patients and his own mortality have taken on new meaning. Both Dr. Thompson and his wife don't want to "move on" or "get on with their lives," but want to integrated moments of remembrance and appreciation for life and the living into their daily lives.

Death is a terrorist. Never is it more of a terrorist than when we see it strike our children. We are gripped by anger, frustration and pain in a way that none of us is prepared to handle.

Bob and Martha Thompson invite us into the world of their terror beginning with the first minutes after they received the word of the car accident that killed their son, Paul. From that call through the funeral and the loneliness that followed they guide us through their painful experiences and feelings.

Bob not only describes the desolation of his son's loss, but he also illuminates the way of healing that God gave to their family. As a physician he understands the way the body works to heal its injuries. His medical insight gives him creative metaphors for the healing that is needed in our heart following the death of a child.

One of the most important parts of this book is the witness that it gives to all of us who are marked by death. Bob and Martha write down their "remembering" to reveal how our wounds do not lead to hiding but open doors to healing as we learn ways to share them with others.

This book will help families who have grieved the death of a child do their own remembering. It will also be treasured by those of us who walk alongside these friends to understand how remembering brings healing over time through the presence of the one who re-members us, our crucified and risen Lord, Jesus Christ.

How does one go on with life after experiencing the death of a child or loved one? There is no single answer to this question, but in his book, Remembering: The Death of a Child, Dr. Robert Thompson carefully tells of the journey of grief (and eventually peace) travelled by he and his wife, Martha. From the first moments after the accident that took their son's life, to the depths of despair during the first year thereafter, to the subsequent ten years of learning to live again, the author takes us with him as he relives the most difficult and important experience of his life. Dr. Thompson offers no packaged solutions to grieving parents because he acknowledges that none exists. What he does offer, however, is hope through his own ability to find ways to continue to live without trying to "forget" Paul's life or death for a single day. He tells his story of learning to live by remembering and embracing Paul's life as a natural part of each day. He and Martha share their story in hopes of helping others as they were helped by many around them and throughout the country. Dr. Thompson's thoughtful and educated perspective is sure to lend one of many required helping hands to anyone living through his or her own loss.

I was very pleased by the large number of high-quality reproductions. Still, as far as I'm concerned there should have been *more*. The book contains (a rough count) about 280 pages containing text or mostly text, out of about 630 total pages. However, I'm very happy with the book.

Best book, I have ever bought

The problem with art books is that they go out of print too quickly. This is a beautifully presented book on Rauschenberg that was released with the big retrospective at the Guggenheim in 97/98. Barnes and Noble still had copies avaiable as of Sept. 99, so check there -- they were even discounted!

Although most Ryan devotees focus on his more famous "film noir" vehicles as evidence of his skill, Jarlett illuminates his performances in scores of less known films. In Horizons West, Ryan's interpretation of a disgruntled ex-Confederate major achieves more in his portrait than the sum of the film's parts.
Return of the Badmen also featured Ryan's grim portrait of a cold-blooded bank robber that elevates an otherwise pedestrian horse opera to something nearly sublime. Other choice Ryan vignettes can be found in such early Ryan enterprises like Marine Raiders. Made in 1944 when America was fighting the Japanese, Ryan gives a stout performance that achieves real range, again raising a programmer to cult status. The author provides detailed film critiques from major publications (Time, The New York Times, Variety, etc.), providing readers with a glimpse at what critics of those time periods said about Ryan. I was pleased to note upon reading critical reviews of Ryan's character in Marine Raiders that film critic Manny Farber of Nation magazine compared Ryan with Gary Cooper, though in all honesty, Ryan easily outclassed Cooper as an actor. Perhaps Farber was referring to Ryan's quiet magnetism.
Jarlett addresses the question of Ryan's status as the cinema's epitome of the "noir" protagonist, noting his contributions in such "noir" gems as The Racket, Act of Violence, The Woman on the Beach, Beware, My Lovely, Caught, On Dangerous Ground (John Houseman lauded his portrayal of a disillusioned cop as a "disturbing mixture of anger and sadness"). I cannot think of another actor who deserved a book devoted to his life and works besides Ryan. Kudos to Franklin Jarlett for giving us his gift.
Jarlett illuminates the off-screen actor's life, noting that the actor and his wife founded the Oakwood School in California, which stills remains viable today as a solid, academically oriented institution of higher learning.
Besides the fifty or so movie stills, Jarlett's book features interviews with those closest to Ryan, and a glowing preface by John Houseman, who worked closely with Ryan on various stage productions before they became a fad.

When I saw this book at a local book store, I was ecstatic. I had long hoped that someone would write a biography on Ryan, and wondered why this amazingly talented actor never was recognized for his range, versatility, and talent. The picture on the book's cover grabbed my attention immediately: it was none other than Ryan's psychopathic Montgomery from the film noir gem, Crossfire. Oh great!!! I thought; someone finally decided to take on the task of researching material for a book about Ryan.

After purchasing the book, I rushed home to read it, along the way quickly perusing the scores of stills the author included. I was in my glory, since Ryan was my favorite actor growing up. The book is a fully researched tome that seems to have gotten to the heart of the matter. Yes, the book depicts a man whose performances seemed to exemplify the "art" of film-making, rather than the glitz of fame. Herein one can find definitive examples of Ryan's "art". Read Jarlett's reviews of early Ryan gem performances to understand just how great he was: Act of Violence, The Woman On The Beach, Caught, Beware, My Lovely were just a few examples of film as art, and the author seems to understand the ethos that drove Ryan.

I marveled at the author's ability to write with the same sort of artistic merit that Ryan endorsed: the book contains reviews culled from scores of cinema retrospectives on Ryan's films, including Cahiers Du Cinema, Films in Review, and so on. Jarlett's sources of information were first-rate. Who can deny the opinion of John Houseman, whose preface lauds Jarlett's acumen in discerning Ryan's talents?

I agree with one amazon reviewer who noticed Ryan's subtle touches of brilliance in The Racket, a film which portrayed him as a ruthless racketeer who nevertheless garners a degree of pity. The scene where Ryan's Nick Scanlon jauntily munches on an apple while trading words with Robert Mitchum's stalwart cop was a sublime melding of actor and prop.

But The Racket is just one of countless films in which Ryan lent his talents to make good films better. I wondered why Ryan never went after the blockbuster roles that contemporaries landed. Jarlett clarifies this point: Ryan simply didn't care about them, instead searching for artistic expression. The book discusses the great Hollywood directors with whom he worked, in classics such as House of Bamboo, The Naked Spur, On Dangerous Ground, Lonelyhearts, Odds Against Tomorrow, Billy Budd, The Wild Bunch, and his last most trenchant portrait in The Iceman Cometh. Who else but Ryan could have been better as Eugene O'Neill's anarchist Larry Slade?

The book is a one-of-a-kind, definitive exposition of Ryan's life and films, and I applaud Jarlett's commitment to finally bring the actor's life to the forefront. My only regret is that Ryan was not alive to have placed his imprimatur on Jarlett's superb biography.

Having seen most of Ryan's films when I was a child, I was again drawn to seeing them after purchasing Franklin Jarlett's authorized biography. I saw the book at a local book store, attracted by the book cover featuring the familiar scowling features of Ryan from 1947's "Crossfire", which earned him an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor that year. Before purchasing the book, I perused the fifty or so stills from his films, and the detailed filmography, which convinced me that I had made a smart buy. I can happily report that the book is an inspired piece of writing: Jarlett's literary skills make one want to read more. He obviously has gotten to the quick of the man, drawing from scores of film critiques from Cahiers Du Cinema and other esteemed cinema circles.
I read Jarlett's book with fascination after many years of waiting for someone to write a book about Ryan, who was one of the most undervalued talents in Hollywood. I always found it curious that although Ryan came up through the ranks at RKO as one of its contract players from the forties, along with Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and Robert Mitchum, he never garnered the stardom that they achieved, as least with mainstream audiences. Jarlett amply elucidated the reasons for this phenomenon: Ryan simply didn't care that much about fame; he would rather appear in a film for artistic merit instead of for box office success. I only needed to look at Ryan's films from the forties, which Jarlett reviews in detail, to see what an amazing list of films there were. He obviously spent long hours researching the book, which contains behind-the-scenes stories that Jarlett elicited from Ryan's close circle of friends (John Houseman, John Frankenheimer, Lamont Johnson, Robert Wallsten, Arvin Brown and Millard Lampell).
I noted one Amazon reviewer to remark that the author captured the actor's essence in such performances as the racketeer in The Racket. I was likewise mesmerized by Ryan's quirky interpretation of the psychopathic ex-G.I. in Crossfire. I especially liked Jarlett's analyses of Ryan's other unsung gems, such as in House of Bamboo when Ryan says to his friend after killing him, "Why did you tip the cops, Griff?", or Beware, My Lovely, Act of Violence, The Naked Spur, to name a few. Another interesting fact that Jarlett brought out was that Ryan was the "film noir" king, with fourteen trenchant portraits in that genre over the years. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to delve underneath the surface of Ryan's screen presence since in real life he was the opposite of what he portrayed on the screen.

This book is entertainingly and enthusiastically written and gives excellent information on how to eat to avoid prostate cancer or counteract prostate cancer--help slow or stop its growth--once you have it. I was apalled, however, at how Arnot started his chapter on "surgery," describing two groups of couples in which the men had prostate cancer. The one, happy giggling group was composed of couples where the decision was to "watch and wait" regarding the prostate cancer--in other words, not have radiation or surgery for the present. In the other group, the men had had surgery within the previous year and "These men appeared morose, even depressed. Many complained of the need to wear diapers. Months after the operation, many no longer had any sex life at all."

This picture is biased, black-and-white, unrealistic and I beleive cruel to people who are trying to decide what to do about prostate cancer. Surgery IS the gold standard treatment for younger men with cancer detected early--men who might die prematurely and very painfully if they did not have surgery, which has a better than 90 percent chance of curing them. And certainly men like Bob Dole, General Schwarzkopf and thousands of others who had surgery are not morose and feeling as if their lives are over--in fact they probably feel a lot better than the 30 percent of those who watch and wait and after ten years have cancer spreading throughout their bodies.

People have to make their choices as best they can, and both watchful waiting and surgery can be appropriate. Arnot's description painting surgery as totally black was neither good journalism nor good medicine, and as the wife of a 59-year-old-man who will probably have surgery, I did not appreciate the depiction. Less than 8 percent (some say 2 pwercent) of men wear diapers after recovery from surgery and all who have surgery are certainly NOT MOROSE compare to all who wait being giddy and happy. For the fifty to thirty percent who cannot have natural erections, there are several good alternatives that will make the penis errect--and the nerves that cost erections DO NOT hinder sensation or orgasm in anyone--men may not get errect but they can feel and have orgasms! Many people take the lemons of this experience and the surgery and make lemonade, glad to be alive and have a chance at a cure. Making a blanket and untrue statement that suggest surgery leads to moroseness is neither helpful, accurate or true. The next edition of this otherwise very good book should correct that.

I am a family nurse practitioner. I found the book to be very clear and comprehensive. If you're male and over 40, this is required reading!

This book could very easily save your life. While it reaffirmed things I know about fiber, insulin, and exercise, it gave me a lot of new information about how to keep from getting prostate cancer (like my father had), and other important information. It also described "insulin resistance", which is something that I have and has baffeled my doctor for well over a year! Dr. Bob, thanks for writing this great book.

If someone had told me I would enjoy reading a book about a revolution set in the far future that included supernatural characters, I'd have been surprised. Both ESP and FTL are standard fare in SF, but vampires and even a werewolf aren't. What makes it all the better is that author, Robert Sloan, makes it work. Raven Dance is an epic following a host of characters who battle "against all odd" the faceless, impersonal tyranny of the entrenched, hierarchical bureaucracy of supposedly egalitarian Utopia. With a nod to Heinlein sensibilities and values, Sloan crafts a tale of intrigue and espionage leading to a cultural revolution for personal liberty. His descriptions of FTL (Ander's run) and psionics are fun, engaging, and exciting. I hope you enjoy this action-packed novel as much as I did.

This book was a wonderful read. Not only was it suspensful and exciting, it was also rich and smooth, with a pleasing cadence. It is beautiful.
It also put a strangely sweet spin on familiar topics: vampires, for example, and werewolves.
If you like quality, read this book!

It takes a lot of imagination, but also a good grasp on what might be possible or could be credible in a fantastic world to write SF. Mr. Sloan shows both in Raven Dance. It's a classic storyline about rebellion, about the fight for freedom. The scenes are action and dialogue driven. Crisp writing, a fine plot, well drawn characters and sumptuous imagery, but best of all: a hero who is ultra-sensual, wise beyond age and capable, immortal and frail, intelligent and still human enough to have ideals and compassion. I particularly enjoyed the flashes of humour...Mr. Sloan surprised me with very funny lines he sprinkled into his narrative. All of this makes for a treat. I can't wait to read Malcolm's next adventures.

I was an economics major in college and a practicing republican. Reworking Success challenged my previous learnings and opened my eyes to a world I didn't know existed. Theobald doesn't push his views, he brings you along for a ride that you didn't even know you got on. Recommend highly! Julie in Seattle, Washington

I am come Taiwan.Though I read this book in chinses. it is translate from English.But I still can undertand auther' idea and very approve it.Now I feel that I'm not alone.I hope more people to read it.Through changing people's idea and this world will change.

... And how to change it as a citizen. A great base for discussion. A good way to form discussion group. Read it, experience it!

This book was a tragic, candid look at the lives of everyday soldiers caught up in a hellish conflict. This reality is so unimaginable for my generation today, yet these men confronted it with honor and dignity. The author's affection and admiration for his companions makes his memoir both powerful and moving.

An incredibly detailed, truthful, moving, and painful personal account of war as experienced by a front line soldier in the Vietnam War.
This book was obviously written from extensive notes taken by the author when he had the time in the field to write down his feelings and experiences. For reasons of his own, the book was not published until after his death in April 1994.
This book will have immense meaning to anyone who has experienced the hell of war, as well as, anyone who wishes to understand the sacrifices our fighting men and women in battle must endure. President Bush and his top advisors should read this book before they send our treasured youth to fight another war. If those in positions of highest political authority, after reading Sgt. Peterson's war memoir, still decide we must go to war then they will understand we must fight the war to the finish with the best military tactics and strategies available not hindered and defined by vague political considerations.
I recommend this book to all. I sincerely thank Mr. and Mrs. Peterson for their service to our country.

one of the best memoirs i have read on the vietnam war.
maybe even one of the best books i have ever read.
peterson's daily account of his vietnam experience is meticulously described,providing a view of his metamorphosis from an average midwestern farm boy to combat-weary grunt that is brilliant. reads more like a novel in the sense that the character in the first few chapters could not even fathom the feelings,thoughts, and experiences of the character at the end.
also provides compelling illustrations of the frustrations and inner conflicts felt by an average american required to follow orders which he is morally opposed to and intuitively wary of.
the book grows darker by the page and the reader is drawn into his sense of impending doom and constant fear.
i highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the vietnam war.