I already have "Take Care of Yourself" and I worried that it would be essentially the same information-- trust me its not, this is an excelent resourse for a home with children. It also includes a section on Parent Skills which covers Pregnancy, Labor, newborn care, growth and development, personality development, school, finding a health care provider,staying healthy and your home pharmacy. Then theres the section of common complaints (emergency, injury, poison, allergies, fever,ect.) And the third section is a space for family records. I'm glad I have both books, but I'm most glad I have Taking Care of Your Child. It was definatly worth it.

We too, received an earlier version of this book back when our first child was born. We have used this book so often the pages are worn down and out and we needed a new copy. We were both surprized and happy to see many more editions have been released and updated since our copy. We had absolutely no hesitation in purchasing a copy. We have used this book more often than anything and is a constant companion, also when we go on vacation. This is a great gift to give a first time parent and is very basic for the non-medical people in your household. An all round great book for reference and reading. Each area describes in detail the symptoms of common medical problems. The hospital should give you a copy of this book to every parent when they leave the hospital. I guess we will wear out this book too any buy another in 12 years.

I was a typical new Mommy in May of 99. I would panic at the smallest things in my son. This book lists various symptoms of ailments and has a decision tree as to when you must call the doctor. This prevented me from making unnecessary calls to my advice nurse and doctor's office. I LOVE this book and will give a copy to all my friends who are expecting or already have a new baby.

This was one of the books I read in a "teaching college history" course I took at Indiana University. Prior to that I had taught two of my own courses and been an associate instructor for two more. I wish I had read this book prior to my teaching because it asks a lot of very good questions and gives suggestions that you can use in the classroom. The variety of courses that can be helped by such tips is endless -- even if you don't think your particular field could use a particular chapter or really has a particular issue I found reading it always helped me devise new strategies for teaching. This is not, however, a model of how to teach (could there ever be such a model?), you'll have to read and evaluate what may work for you for each particular class.

On my instructional maiden voyage into the sea of communication, this text was my life vest. In 28 concise chapters, Wilbert McKeachie offers pearls of wisdom on everything from drafting a syllabus to dealing with excuses, and everything in between. His straightforward writing lends itself to quick reading and makes it a handy "flip-to" guide for refreshers.
Whether you're wrestling with a "discussion dominator" or trying to finesse responses from silent students, this book offers proactive approaches and solutions to unforeseen challenges.
Keeping things fresh and interesting for students and yourself makes the learning experience more enjoyable. Reading, attending workshops and talking to experienced faculty are some of the suggestions the author offers. As someone who used to teach natural resource seminars, I was pleased that he acknowledged the energizing power of an effective workshop. In addition, the text also offers tips on applying new changes learned in those courses to classes.
As any instructor worth their salt is aware, teaching is an ever-evolving process, that must be honed and refined to suit both instructor and student. For anyone adrift in some arena of college instruction, grabbing onto this 379 page text will prove a worthwhile undertaking.

This text provides college faculty with strategies to become a better instructor and to deal with the challenges of the profession.

Creating objectives, test design, learner goals, lecture formats, teaching to a diverse audience, grading, handling suspected cheaters - you name it and it is in there.

I believe it will be beneficial to any college instructor regardless of size of school. I teach at a small school and the text, though maybe slanted a bit toward the experience at the large research university, was tremendously helpful to me.

The book is easy to read. I have incorporated a lot of the strategies into this fall semester.

I am just a beginner, but this book inspired me to try hard to event. I loved the gymnastics in the back!

I was SO happy to finally read a book involving cross country with so much emphasis on good basics and snaffle bits. I am so sick of hearing trainers advocating bigger bits to control your horse. Mr. Wofford advocates better TRAINING to control your horse - what a concept. This book covers quite a range of topics; from choosing an event horse, dressage, how the horse sees jumps vs. how we see jumps, cross country, jumping, conditioning, cross country position and more. I think this is a great book!

In 1984 I began riding in Jimmy's clinics and have accumulated numerous hours riding, watching and listening. During this time I took copious notes on his comments; measurements of his gymnastics; watched other riders and listened to Jimmy's critiques. "Training-the-Three-Day Event Horse" IS Jimmy Wofford. His concise, straitforward teaching comes through in his book just as though you are there listening to him. If I could only have one book, it would be this one. I recommend it to my students, I give it as gifts and I wouldn't leave home without it.

From someone who owns a collection of various types of tarot cards, I must say this is one of the best tarot sets available (or not so available as it were!) These come in a hard, shiny box that slides open and has the cards and a 98 page manual that is a great condensed version of the tarot in a nutshell.

Because these are no longer being printed, it is quickly becomeing a collector's item.

I have heard there is a new "Millinium edition" coming, so I would try to get ahold of one of these sets before they are gone! I'm sure the millenium set will be awesome as well. The artwork in this set is phenominal!

The minor arcana are cups and wands(as usual),then worlds and crystals for the other arcana. The artwork on the cards is made up of complex photo collages. The backs look like a kaliedoscope view that ends at the circumference with a 10 pointed star. These are amazing cards and I am eagarly awaiting the arrival of the new deck. In the mean time, I know these are becoming collector's items and have already gone up in value.

These are awesome cards! They might be alright for an adult beginner, but if someone younger wants to learn the tarot, I would still suggest the Golden Dawn deck and a good book to go with it (BTW the book you can buy separately on these is good as well, but seems to be a bit advanced for a beginner.)There is also a "Starter Tarot Deck" by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. that has a short explanation of interpretation of the cards on the cards for the upright and inverse position when reading them, as well as a booklet for beginners to get started easily.

On the other hand, there is also a discussion group on-line about these cards, and tarot in general that can be found using any search engine. This is one of my favorite decks! The round "mother-peace" deck is another favorite!

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I have about twenty Tarot decks, and this one is by far my favorite. The photo collages work in a much more immediate and intuitive way than those that draw on Renaissance symbolism and expect you to interpret them in contemporary terms. These use images that resonate deeply in contemporary terms, so you can meditate on them without referring to a third-party body of literature or symbolism.

I absolutely love the Voyager deck. It's a magical experience, filled with beautiful imagery and can be used either with the book or alone. The only other deck I'd recommend is the Osho Zen Tarot. Together, these two decks compliment each other perfectly, each one providing insights and ideas into the personality of the person.

TechnoFutures is written by Dr. James Canton. Dr. Canton is one of the leading technology futurists, and he is editor-in-chief of the Canton Technology Report. This book is about how technology will continue to bring impacts and changes, both economically and socially, to our lives. With the evolution of technological development, the interaction between human and technology will become inseparable.

According to the author, in terms of economic changes, e-business will eventually dominate the traditional business practice. The industries that will be transformed by e-business included stock brokerage, insurance, travel, auto, chemicals, media and entertainment, computer and electronics, telecommunications, real estate, medicine and health care, etc. As Dr. Canton suggested, if we want to survive through the 21st century, we must learn how to adopt e-business technology.

In terms of social impacts, technology will bring impacts at both the personal and collective levels. In the future, our personal lives will involve computers, robots and virtual reality. Robots and computers will play a role as a companion such as a housekeeper, a secretary, or even a friend to human. And as for human, we will engage more activities via virtual reality such as playing golf. For the latter one, educational changes will be a good example. Educational institutions will change their formats of teaching. Instead of the traditional classroom learning, students and teachers will meet via virtual schools.

By means of frequent sidebars, the author has provided readers an insight of our evolving technological world with vivid scenes and dialogues amongst the robots, cyber companions and human. However, the design and placement of these sidebars, often of similar fonts right in between the texts proper, could sometimes be confusing. Also, the author could have arranged the hierarchy, if any, of the sub- and sub-sub-titles of his chapters better, so that the readers can better digest the often far-fetched subject matters. Indeed, the subject matters discussed sometimes verged on science fiction rather than scientific prediction. This is most evident in the author¡¦s discussion of cyborgs and androids, all, perhaps coincidentally, also prominently featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation. I do appreciate, however, the author¡¦s efforts in making technical matters easier to understand for lay persons. There is, as far as I can see, no one single formula in the book. The author is also good in presenting moral issues for deeper thoughts, such as that concerning eugenics.

Although Dr. Canton¡¦s future world may seem too advanced for most of us, we are in fact living in an information society. This book has provided me a chance to be aware of our technological developments and dare me to envision our future world from a non-traditional perspective. Overall, I enjoy reading the book.

As a manager for the advanced technology practice of one of the world's leading executive search firms, I found Dr. Canton's book comprehensive, illuminating, and deeply insightful. It is a beautiful work of art, a majestic tour de force of what is to be, detailing how technology will impact our lives beyond our wildest expectations. The material is comprehensive, yet easily understood. I came to appreciate life in this era of aggressive change and discovery. Dr. Canton's book is a must-read for any inquisitive mind, young or old, and is actually difficult to put down. I have purchased additional copies as gifts for clients.

Dr. Canton is Heinleinesque in the way he weaves a coherent, congruent, knowledgeable and thoroughly entertaining story about the future of technology and its influence on our lives. I believe his predictions serve as a blueprint for where to position your career, investments and personal interests over the next half century. I was blown away by his insight into the future of medicine, specifically and quite selfishly, his prediction that I may clone my favorite dog right down to its personality. Dr. Canton forced me to my learning and dreaming edge, right where you want to be if your goal is to endeavor into the technological fray, but aren't sure exactly how and where.

I'm a creative writing student at Miami University, the Ohio school where Reiss teaches composition. I think the other reviews pretty much speak for themselves, so I'm just going to point out that the publisher of this book submitted it for consideration of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. And now I'm going to go log into our course scheduling site and try to get into one of his classes.

James Reiss' new book is notable for its verbal energy and play of diction and sound, an exploration of ethical and personal psychological situations and universal dilemmas. His wit is a way of confronting the sadnesses of our lives and times. His poems explore the inner and outer landscapes of a contemporary, deeply feeling and thinking human being. His most remarkable quality is the development of an engaging, confiding, colloquial style that is direct, down to earth and quite convincing in his unabashed and honest explorations of his subjects. At the heart of his poems there is an emotional, emotive voice without fear of sentiment. Yet the style is most interesting: a voice supple, flexible, personal and personable. This expansive expressiveness seems the basis of his ever-more (with each book) ambitious poetic explorations of forms and content, expanding into larger and more encompassing narrative elements. James Reiss' fine sense of emotional location "places" his active lines inside his personas' and his characters' psyches--and ultimately in ours.

Ten Thousand Good mornings by James Reiss is a modern day classic. Reiss' is eloquent without being pretentious and by using the rules and forms of a thousand years of english he puts his own life, todays ideas and situations, into verbal symphonys even the worst of philistines would marvel at. Poetry in this new millenium takes a strong second to the larger media of television and film but, it's writing like Reiss' that shows us the power that the writen word can still have. Reiss' poems show the beauty and poinency of one mans memory, real or not, comedic or tragic, each line and each page deliver vivid pictures and deep emotion; creating images that I will never forget.

I find it so sad that most of James Kirkwood's books are now out of print. I still have my copy of P.S. Your Cat is Dead. I lent out all of my others over the years and never got them back...now, I'm searching for copies. It makes me crazy to think that an entire generation and generations to come will miss out on this wonderful author. I first read him in my sophmore year of college and was immediately hooked and grabbed every book of his I could find. My college roomate and I fell in love with his writing; much the same way that we did with John Irving. I still feel the connection 25 years later. Each and every one of his books is worth a read. James Kirkwood's life was too short and his work should not be forgotten! HIT ME WITH A RAINBOW is another one not to be missed. Happy reading and good luck to all trying to locate his wonderful work...

I believe I have read most, if not all, of James Kirkwood's books. It would be extremely difficult to pick out a 'favorite'. They were all favorites...they still are, though my dog-eared copies have long since mysteriously vanished! But my memories of the writings of this incredible man and the way he could reach into my heart and soul and make me feel so much will never dissappear. As with all of his books, this one pulled me (more than once) through very dark periods of my life, of which there were many. Thankfully, I am more comfortable with myself now. But I will never forget how all of Kirkwood's books provided me with a respite from whatever internal or external turmoil that was going on in my life. How sad that this brilliant writer is no longer writing. Even sadder that his books are so difficult to find. I'm seaching for them all, to read again from a different perspective and to remember where I've been and what lifted my spirits when I really didn't think I had any spirit left.

This was the first of Jimmy Kirkwood's books I read, over 30 years ago, and I was as hooked as I was to Salinger -- in exactly the same way. I related, I experienced, I lived the main character. "P.S. Your Cat Is Dead", will remain my favorite, and I have read them all, but Pony establishes a reader's line of communication with the author on an almost personal level. With one exception, I've read all his work in chronological order. That line, that level, that common bonding, both between reader and author, and between author and underlying content, threads itself through all the novels and plays. In the early 70's, while spending several seasons in the Hamptons, I was fortunate enough to meet and spend some time with Jimmy. To read his work is to know the author, and he, in turn, is a master of turning the mirror toward the reader. Any of his writing is a good place to start, but, in my opinion, Pony is the best beginning. . . and a sure guarantee that you'll search out copies of all the rest. Like his personality, his writing is addictive.

I bought the book as a gift for a cycling fan who has followed the Tour since the 1930s and while he was thrilled with the beautiful images and details, some critical years have been over looked. There is absolutely no coverage for the years 1935-1939 and the Maes brothers. Other riders and stories are missing as well. The book is good but maybe there are too many large pictures and too little text. If you're new to the Tour de France, it's a good starting point, but if you know the history of la Grande Boucle -- you'll find more meat elsewhere.

This book has wonderful old pictures of the tour plus a year by year history of the event. A "must have" for bicycle fans.

Every saga has a Beginning...Like the Tour de France. I think that only this book need more details about the other champions like Pedro Delgado, Laurent Fignon, Stephen Roche, Felice Gimondi,Marco Pantani, Jan Ullrich, Denmark Riss, same as the others super champions with more tour victories, because any rider that won the tour...All of they..are monsters and then, they have the honor that the world know the name of them. Congratulations to James Startt for this excelent book of the Tour de France History. Zomar.

I have yet to travel the Trans-Siberian, but when/if I do, I will take this along. It is well organized and has good basic info on both the planning particulars of the train (visas, tickets, weather) and points of interest along the way. My only complaint is that it has quite a few grammatical and spelling errors, which make me wonder about their attention to detail on more important facts.

I found this book to be of great help in planning my Trans-Siberian trip. It is organized and contains information that will definitely be indispensible along the way: basic translations of common terms, general info on departure cities other than Russia and things I would never think of adding to a travel guidebook.
I would recommend this guide to anyone aspiring to travel by train in Russia.
J

It does not cover adequately the dangers of the Mongol/Russian boarder that I'm told is a paradise for the bandit hybred race of bandit/Khan/Slav comprising the area that I will be visiting in seven days. Good luck fellow travlers! May you find what I hope to.

this is a good book for someone around the age of 5 to 7. the book is in really easy to read and in large print. there are 48 pages and it was done in 1988. i think the illustrations could have been a little better. but if you have young kids they might want to read this.

My 5 and 7 year olds LOVED this book! They could not get over the fact that this was a true story and there really is treasure out there to find. They even took it to the neighbor's house and read it to him! That says it all.

Great little book, perfect for the early reader. My then-first grader loved this story of the death and burial of an ancient Pharaoh and his subsequent discovery in the 20th Century by Lord Carrington. Chock full of photos and beautiful, almost impressionistic illustrations. Large print, easy to read.

Tut's Mummy proved to be a valuable part of our Egyptian study. Oh... My daughter's older siblings (then in the fifth and sixth grades) liked the book too!