After being disappointed by so many books that ramble and provide little guidance, this book is a real gem. It is practical, clearly organized, and the author appears to really care about making this process improvement effort work for the reader. It covers three areas: 1.Steps for Improving a process,including why each step is important and how to make these steps YOUR steps. 2. Tools for managing data, like Pareto Charts and much more. And 3. Tools for Managing team meetings, including special tools for managing chaos and ideas and more. This book is used in a master's degree program and I understand that the students love it. It has essentially everything a team needs to address and improve a process.

This is a great book on how, when, and why to use Process Improvement tools like, Flowcharts, Histograms, Pareto charts, Radar charts, and other Process Improvement planning and analysis tools. Dr. Montgomery also teaches you the pitfalls in the use of each tool. I have not seen this in any book and it has proven to be very helpful to my new practitioners of P.I. The book also teaches the tools in a "team" perspective.

PI projects done as a team need some attention to the team dynamics of group projects. The book does a good job of addressing this issue and has many templates to help your PI Team stay organized. I highly recommend this book.

Grady Tucker, Micrografx, Government Account Manager

Of all the dozens of quality tools books this is the easiest to use and understand. I have worked with the tools before but have never read and used such clear instruction of the tools. Dr Montgomery gives uses and pitfalls of the tools in each chapter and also includes some very handy forms for effective improvement meetings in the appendix. This best book is so good that my boss bought 10 copies to help improve our meetings at work.

This charming adventure tale, told in verse, is a pleasure through and through. The varied rhythm keeps it from sounding monotonous, and the lively story kept me turning the pages. A delightful bedtime read.

Unbelievable. A 'NEW' sort of book! Quite unlike anything else available on the shelves, this is a real family read. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I'm in the UK for a while, where I first read this and where, I'm told, its something of a best-seller. Should do the same over here.

I am 38 and I enjoyed reading this book myself although I bought it to read aloud to children (My nephew is 6 but it would be great for older kids-too hard for my 4 year old niece). It captures the best of the mystery of the sea and the brave people who sail it. It is also a deeply moral tale of a man, Bruno, seeking to right the wrongs he has done even if he has to wander through all time to do it. The book never preaches but draws the reader in, making you share bruno's quest. This story is made more magical by the verse used by the author to tell the story. Although it is set initially in England the locations are so reminiscent of the feel of the New England coast that you can readily imagine the characters walking through Gloucester or Edgartown.
A great gift for children but you will enjoy it most if you read it with them.

Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. The historic, courageous, terrifying bus boycott had started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person. Just what this meant to most people becomes very clear in this edgy, uncomfortable book. Alfa, aged 12, and his sister, age 15, live in dire poverty with their great-grandmother Merryfield. Alfa's mother left them there years before, and has never communicated with them since. Their great-grandmother is very elderly, some say maybe even ninety years old, and beginning to be forgetful. She makes about $40 a month; Alfa makes another $20 a month working hard in a grocery store. Rent is $50 a month, but part of the rent money is regularly disappearing. Alfa determines to solve the mystery, but stay within the system that keeps African-Americans perpetually in fear and victims of anyone who wants to get them in trouble.

The characters are so real and the story so well-written that I felt like I was walking right along with them. It's a wonderful book for children to get the feel of what it was like during the Civil Rights movement. I'm a middle school teacher, and I highly recommend this book for grades 4-8.

A mystery and historical fiction inspired by the Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks, 1956), tells a story about how the black citizenry were affected by the bus boycott. Alfa, a 12 year old black boy living with his grandmother and sister, Zinnia, helps support them with his after school job. They are accused of stealing money from one of their cleaning jobs for "whites", and in addition, someone is stealing their rent money. The boy and his sister use the scientific method and mystery solving skills (gained from reading mystery novels) to solve the crime. The reader sees Dr. Martin Luther King's and Christian precepts for non-violence put into action by Alfa, as he successfully confronts his white tormentors. Conveys the values and flavor of the times. Includes bibliographic references.

This is a great book for ER residents or medical students desiring a concise text of emergency radiology.

I am an emergecy medicine physician.I first bought this edition as a resident;I found it excellent then and now.It is written in an easy to learn format,with radiographs and illustrations side by side for comparison.As it's only 105 pages ,it can be read quickly. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to all students and residents.Hat's off for a great book.Buy it!

This book contains mysteries and spooky tales--not the kind of stories this author is famous for--but after reading the book I was pleasantly surprised! Lucy can write so many kinds of things. Also there are morals included which she does so well. There are stories that will make you laugh, cry, and shake your head at the actions the characters take! But also there are characters not unlike those in the Anne and Emily books Lucy created. The only part I didn't like was the one story called "Some Fools and a Saint", it just ran to long and some parts confused me (can't tell you got to read it) but I guess that's why their called fools! lol I loved the rest of the stories and its hard to pick the best b/c their all so good. But here are a few: "The House Party at Smoky Island" "The Tryst with the White Lady" (as seen on the cover) "White Magic" "The Closed Door" "A Redeeming Sacrafice" and many many more! 20 stories in all and I highly reccomend you get this book--it has totally sold me on getting more collections of short stories by this author!

One of the very very few chances to view Lucy Maud Montgomery in a darker light. These tales are all excellent and interesting, as L.M. touches on the supernatural, gothic, and mystery. "The Red Room," is L.M.'s attempt at a gothic story, and her powers of description and story-telling don't let her down. "Some Fools and a Saint," the longest story in the collection, is a truly wonderful mystery story - and you probably won't guess how this one turns out either.

This is my favorite collection of L.M. tales, because it's diverse and adult, and for once L.M. lets darker characters and events have their way, instead of her tales with the more upbeat, romantic, happily-ever-after plots. Although I love all of her other books, I think "Among the Shadows" is a compelling group of stories which shouldn't be missed - especially by any L.M. fan.

This book is a must for all Lucy Maud Montgomery fans...or anyone who enjoys a good read. Anne Shirley is full of life and imagination, making every page more exciting and enjoyable than the last. Anne's adventures through school and finding a family keep the reader interested with every page turn. It is a wonderful story and should be read by all.

I first read L. M. Montgomery's classic novel "Anne of Green Gables" after having stumbled across the Kevin Sullivan production on PBS. I then proceeded to work my way through all of the Anne books and everything else written by Montgomery that I could get my hands on (this was before everything got reprinted in paperback). The chief charm of this particular edition of "Anne of Green Gables" is for those who will always think of Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst and Richard Farnsworth as Anne, Marilla and Matthew. This storybook version, with a more than adequate condensation by Fiona McHugh, is illustrated with photographs from the exquisite television production, which captured the captivating charm of the novel. So what if Dewhurst is not as skinny as Montgomery describes Marilla or that Patricia Hamilton is not as large as the Rachel Lynde in the Anne books? I am one of those countless admirers who consider these performers to be the "real" characters from this beloved novel. I read one of the original reviews of "Anne of Green Gables" from way back when that complained Anne did not change over the course of the novel. Of course the point is not how much the imaginative red-haired orphan changes once she comes to live at Green Gables; the point is how she changes those around her. Who would not fall in love with the endearing antics of this glorious child, who comes from one crisis to the next with such dramatic and comic flair? That is why this is an enduring classic that we pass down to our children at the earliest opportunity. Whether you start with the television film or this storybook, be sure you enjoy both and eventually get to the complete original classic novel.

Known simply as "The Blue Book", this is one of the best reviews for the Gross Anatomy shelf exam. It has 1000 Board-type questions, with detailed explanations. Has some beautiful illustrations.

I found this book to be very thourough. It does a good job of hitting on all the major points and also giving some depth. I haven't taken the boards yet, but it has helped me a great deal on practice tests.

The relationship between Hetty King and Gus Pike that begins in "Aunt Hetty's Ordeal," reminds me the time on "Roseanne" when David moved in and Roseanne warned him: "I consider you family now. And you've seen how I treat my family..." Given how Hetty treats Sara, Olivia and everybody else in the extended King family, you have to worry about poor, uneducated Gus. The problem is that everybody in Avonlea knows to take Hetty King with a grain or salt. But Gus thinks everything Aunt Hetty says is carved on stone tablets and now when Hetty makes a heated offhand remark it has significant reprecussions.

The title of this episode has a couple of meanings. At first we think "Aunt Hetty's Ordeal" is that Muriel Stacey, who has been appointed school superintendent instead of Hetty, is coming for a visit. Hetty thinks it is an inspection, but, of course, it is no such thing. But that does not stop the old hens in town from ruffling Hetty's feathers. Reminded that kids flocked to be in Miss Stacey's school, Hetty goes out to the cannery to recruit and reels in Gus Pike. He can neither read nor write, smokes and plays the fiddle, but he wants to learn and this touches Hetty. Gus had been a minor character in previous episodes, and "Aunt Hetty's Ordeal" is where he starts becoming more important to the show in general (and Felicity King in particular). This is also the point where Hetty King, who tended to be a bit insufferable for my money, started to thaw, because the big difference between Gus and Sara, is that Gus is not family and Hetty ends up opening her heart to him.

This storybook is written by Gail Hamilton from the teleplay by Marlene Matthews, and continues the transition from Lucy Maud Montgomery's novels to more original storylines (although clearly Gus Pike replaces Peter Craig in "The Story Girl" and "The Golden Road"). Note: Do not try to figure out how Hetty King and Muriel Stacey are contemporaries and where this all fits in with the Sullivan Productions of the "Anne of Green Gables" books. Hetty has supposedly been teaching forever at Avonlea School and Anne was teaching there a year or two after Miss Stacey. "Avonlea" had a proud history of bringing back both characters and actors from the "Anne" movies and this is just another nice example of the practice.

Based on an episode from the second season of ROAD TO AVONLEA. Aunt Hetty decides to put her teaching skills to work and gather all the poor uneducated boys in Avonlea and teach them. She meets Gus Pike who is eager to learn. She teaches him how to write his name and proper manners as well as the school subjects. Then, rival teacher Miss Stacey (played by Maryilyn Lightstone, Miss Stacey in Anne of Green Gables/Anne of Avonlea) arrives for a visit! Miss Stacey taught Anne Shirley, Gilbert Blythe and many other famous people and Hetty is angry and she almosts breaks her back! Miss Stacey steps into her schoolhouse as a substitute teacher and sparks fly as she proposes a benefit concert AGAINST Miss King's wishes! I loved this story because it makes you think and laugh and it's good soul food because of it's heartwarming theme. These stories are very heartwarming and set at the turn of the century in the town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Presents documented case histories of seemingly miraculous healing with energy plus some comments by Mr. A of how blocked energy can cause illness. I was totally fascinated by the stories even though I was frustrated that there wasn't more definitive information.

I first got my hands on this book years and years ago. It was powerful then, and remainds one of the most awe inspiring books I have ever read! The medical profession, and scientific field will someday acknowledge Mr.A and the life energy's power to heal.

Not only are the recipes great tasting but also fun for parents and children to enjoy cooking together.

This book helped me immensly while I was in need of African recipes. The authors did an impeccible job and I congradulate them.