I came across The Snow Angel while searching for a book to read to elementary students for Read Across America week. Although it is too long to hold the attention span of a classroom full of 1st graders, I fell in love with it. The simple idealism was gorgeous. It starts out, "Rose was a little girl whose eyes were full of dreams. Most people see things just as they are. Rose saw everything blanketed in dreams of what could be. The world was much more beautiful because of it." Rose lives in a town that has become so caught up in the little hassles of everyday life that they have forgotten how to dream. It teaches a lesson that everyone should learn, and is written in a clear voice that children will relate to and adults will wish for. It is the voice of someone who has not given up on changing the world.

My kids love Super Surf! It's great having so many websites my kids love in one handy, esy-to-use place - and all kid-safe and kid-friendly. I highly recommend this book to parents and grandparents: You'll love surfing the net with the kids! It's great, a truly unique interactive book with lots of fun stuff and educational websites too.

One of the problems I've had with implementing a Writer's Workshop in my classroom has been that most authors write about how to do a workshop in theoretical terms. Barbara Boone has written a book that will walk any teacher through running a Writer's Workshop in their classroom. From a first year teacher to an "old head," her book will enable you be a successful teacher of writing and reading.

She gives actual minilesson lesson plans on a day to day basis. Her plans start at the beginning of a workshop and walk you through each lesson. Her recommended books to use in the workshop are by appropriate grade level.

Even if you've never heard of Writer's Workshop, Boone's book will have you teaching workshops like a pro in no time.

It is the best book around for teachers who are interested in running a Writer's workshop. A great buy and worth every penny.

This book has the best wisdom of any book I have ever read except the bible. If you want to be the best man possible take this book and get ready to be the man you have been made to be. Practicle step by step rich advice for young singles and old married. Buy this book and enjoy life!

This text book is the most up to date and comprehensive text book available for radiology residents preparing for the ABR exam as of this date 3/12/2002. I have recommended this text for my most serious students and they have done quite well on the ABR exam. ( Most have scored in the > 90th percentile in the U.S.) For residents who want to just pass the exam, I recommend Sprawls text.
Edward J. Goldschmidt Jr., M.S., DABMP, ...

I currently own the first edition of this book, and after flipping throug this new expanded 2nd edition, I'll be upgrading soon. The first book is an excellent text to use for teaching radiology residents the principles of medical imaging. Now, this second edition with greatly expanded content and pictures looks like it would be suitable for teaching a course to medical physics students. All sections appear to be significantly expanded with the additional detail needed for medical physicists. Still excellent for residents, but might go into a little more detail than they need.

Opening the pages to this textbook is like stepping into a classroom. These authors obviously are not only experts in their respective subspecialties of medical physics, but they are also seasoned teachers of the art and science of this field of medicine. This is easily evidenced by the clarity of thought and completeness with which they treat each topic in this comprehensive, easily readable textbook. I highly recommend this textbook to all who have a need for such a clear, concise teaching of the many aspects of medical physics covered in this work.

This is a small book, easily read in a couple hours. Yet its impact is enormous. The author receives his new understanding of animals by babysitting a famour Hollywood dog actor, who ends up becoming his teacher. By sincerely and unreservedly acknowledging animals as equal to man, he learns that they too communicate and share this world as expressions of the Creator. From his beginnings with the dog Strongheart he builds relationships with a skunk, ants invading his home who leave the next day at his request, and he even befriends a fly for a short time who teaches him many things about man and his arrogance, prejudices and cruelty.

If I take this book to heart, I will have to treat my own "pets" (companions) in a new light. How can I pick my cat up and hug her when she makes it so clear to me she doesn't like being confined in this way? I will no longer be able to think of them as a subspecies, below humans, deserving our condescension and care. I hope some day I can bridge that gap between my species and theirs and hear what they have to think about the world and their place in it. I believe it's possible.

I read this book as a teenager, and my attitude toward and relationship with animals was forever altered. Now I am in my thirties, and I cannot even begin to convey the depth of my appreciation toward J. Allen Boone. What "Kinship With All Life" teaches is not simply Boone's personal experience with the animal kingdom: it is the human potential for unity with the natural world. Boone's deep respect and understanding of animals is very accessible and achievable as conveyed through his story, which is told frankly and from the heart. Anyone who is open to receive his message can expect to receive great spiritual benefit. By narrating the story of how he went from being a common dog trainer to having a profound connection with animals of all types, Boone taps into a level of reality and wisdom rarely recognized--a level that I believe is fundamental to our understanding of who we are in the larger scheme of things. I wish everyone could read this book, for the benefit of animals everywhere and, ultimately, the human race itself.

I just finished reading this book! It took one evening to read => I think that it could be one of the most enjoyable reads that I have had in a long time => I read it because Doris Day said that she read it when she was young and it influenced how she relates to animals to this day.

I am going to get as many of my friends and family to read this as I can because I feel it is such a positive view on life and I am excited to use it more and more! Freddie the Fly - what a hoot! and and the army of ants! I tell ya - it's great!

I saw the Boone family in a live concert in my hometown. When I first saw this book by Cherry Boone O'Neil, the oldest Boone daughter, I was intrigued and wanted to read it.

Although I do not suffer from anorexia (in fact, I would like to lose a few pounds) my heart went out to Cherry Boone's plight. She lived such a public life as the child of a very famous man, and felt like her life was being controlled. Her description of the struggle with anorexia and the motivations behind it are heart-wrenching.

She also shows (helpfully or unhelpfully, depending on the reader) the challenges of growing up in an extremely strict home. The book does not flatter Pat Boone at all, although it does show him admitting that his own attitudes didn't help her problem. Whether or not her anorexia came from her home life can't be proven or disproven in the book -- perhaps some people with anorexia didn't have the same problems she did. I don't know.

However, it is good to know that she overcame the problem and is now helping others who have problems with anorexia. And I am sure that it will help others who struggle with this baffling condition.

Although this book is quite old, I really enjoyed it. I thought it may be out dated in the way that the anorexia was treated and thoughts of the disorder in general, but I didn't find much of that. The book shows just what an eating disorder can do to a relationship and how much hiding and lying an anorexic does in order to keep the disorder going. I really enjoyed that it ended with hope and a recovery.

I first read this book in college, when i was in the middle of what would turn out to be a very long battle with anorexia. After reading this book, for the first time, i felt like i was not alone in this fight. I highly recommend it to anyone that feels like no one understands what they are going through.

When I was born in 1953, my first memory of television consisted of Westerns Television shows as well as movies. I loved them at the time but after time, I grew blaise.

Just since last year, I have been faithfully watching "HGWT" each Saturday morning (like a child) and became fascinated and.... admittedly a little enamored of Richard Boone.

This month I have just read "Richard Boone: A Knight Without Armor in a Savage Land" by David Rothel. What a fascinating and complex man Richard Boone was, and I was delighted to have it affirmed how much I suspected that the character of "Paladin" was the real Richard Boone.

The book is filled with interesting photographs, interviews along with summaries of all the "HGWT" episodes. I was astonished to learn that Richard Boone was also starring in three others tv series. I had never heard of "Medic", and wish his anthology series could be televised. I always respect the work of repertory theate. And what a group of performers he had selected! Typically, TV execs aired this anthology series opposite "I Love Lucy"...unfair competition.

It was heartwarming to read of his wife's memories of her 30+ years with Boone. She has alot of guts and staying power!

This is the perfect book for any devoted fan of TV westerns!
I am thankful to the author for this labor of love.

Skilled with a gun, or with his fists, knowledge of subjects as
various as the Menonites to playing the Japanese game of Go, an
expert of fine wines, well tailored colthing, and of course a ladies man about town. James Bond? No Paladin! Paladin was James
Bond before James Bond hit the big time. Here was a series way ahead of it's time. Tell me which western produced in that covered such subjects of the mental illness and the conflict of
being a part of two cultures? Richard Boone brought life to the
roll as Paladin. It is sad that the series lasted "only six years" but maybe it is for the best because those six seasons
was some of the television the world has seen.

I was surprised to receive a large, very well researched book about Boone. Its pictures were also beautiful. It's build with interviews with those who have known Boone. I had doubts about this method, but it worked fine. I think Boone had the charisma to be a great star, but maybe his looks did not allow it. Anyway, if you are interested in Boone, you find all essential facts about him in this book. I recommend it.

I have to disagree with the other reviewers. Overall, this book was dull. While the subject is anything but dull, Faragher managed to lose my interest several times. Daniel Boone lived a fascinating life and was a legend but I struggled to finish the book. I probably should pick another author to read about Daniel Boone.

Although a member of the Revolutionary generation, Daniel Boone was at most an indirect participant in that historical event. Instead, Boone gets his fame from his contributions to the founding of Kentucky.

Faragher shows that Boone's contributions were less extensive than the myth of Boone would indicate. Nonetheless, Boone did provide important leadership during the early days of Kentucky's colonizations. Although a sympathetic biography of Boone, Faragher treats with great respect the Indians who Boone had numerous conflicts with.

Boone himself is portrayed as even-tempered and intelligent (though not well-educated), a man elevated to a legendary status by a contemporary biographer who was interested in Kentucky land speculation. Faragher's biography, sometimes exciting and sometimes slow, does a good job at separating myth from fact.

Since most biographies of figures of this era focus on people who were in the more developed areas of the colonies/states such as Philadelphia, Boston and New York, this biography is good at showing what life was like on the 18th century frontier. ...

Although a member of the Revolutionary generation, Daniel Boone was not really a figure in the Revolution. Spending most of his life in the frontier, the war had only an indirect effect on him. Boone's contributions to history were to lie elsewhere.

Faragher writes a good - sometimes exciting, sometimes slow - chronicle of a life that is almost as much myth as fact. Boone is depicted as a generally even-tempered and intelligent (though not well-educated) man who acted as a leader in the colonization of Kentucky. His true significance is more based on myth, however, as he became the subject of a contemporary biography aimed at encouraging people to move to Kentucky.

In this fashion, Boone becomes a semi-legendary figure, alongside other Americans such as Davy Crockett and Kit Carson, for whom the fiction is more important than the fact. Faragher does show that the real Boone was a relatively admirable person, though not without his faults.

One final thing I enjoyed about this biography is that Faragher includes a final chapter that acts as an epilogue and shows Boone's impact after his death. I like these sorts of epilogues and find them too rare in biographies. For a different look at U.S. history, this book is a good way to go.

although i certainly appreciate the above reader's take on bataille's work, there really aren't that many parallels between georges bataille and friedrich nietzsche. they have a distinctly different writing style, very different ideas, and almost diametrically opposed visions of the future. (i would also say, although this would be nothing more than a personal opinion, that in terms of the quality of his prose work, bataille is nowhere near nietzsche's league, however much we may debate the legitimacy or merit of nietzsche's controversial ideas.) while bataille is more about apocalypse and exploring the possibilities of extreme decadence, nietzsche was about nothing of the sort. indeed, he would have in all likelihood abhorred bataille's work, and more than likely written him off as a "decadent" of the worst kind, although i would certainly not agree. the similarities are small, if any indeed exist at all. while nietzsche will certainly have a place in history as one of the greatest philosophers to ever live, it would not surprise me if bataille faded into obscurity, as shock value lessens as sensibilities become more hardened.

bataille's "on nietzsche" is at times incomprehensible and far too much like the author talking to himself than the reader, but it is nonetheless a must-read by any standards. like heidegger, at times we find ourselves lost and simply not knowing what the hell he is talking about, but every once in awhile we achieve a moment of understanding that made all the mental confusion and frustration worth it and then some. bataille takes the death of transcendence to the ultimate conclusion, absolute meaninglessness and hedonism, reaching far different conclusions than nietzsche did about how the individual should live in the absence of any underlying metaphysical meaning. indeed, bataille, while many see him as a kind of modern nietzsche, might be called an anti-nietzschean in that he not only rejected the idea of 'the superman' but, through his novels and philosophical works, created characters for whom the ideas of discipline and so called 'becoming' flew out the window along with any sense of morality or sanctity. bataille says, 'ah, to hell with some future! the future no longer exists, anyway', and the frightening thing is that for a moment we are tempted to say it with him. as with all of bataille's work the intensity of his aggressive amorality is chilling, but it is perhaps among the best literature ever written if we want to gain insight into the nature of the intelligent rebel and the sadean libertine. to make a long story short, read it.

No disrespect intended, but the above review's take on this text was just so radically different than how I read it that I felt compelled to make a few comments. Bataille is in some sense writing "on Nietzsche", but more/instead of that he is using Nietzsche's work to explore the dynamics of communication and the limits of language, to question at a very fundamental level whether communication is even possible and if so how it takes place. In this exploration, of course, pain, suffering, loss, lack, desire, etc. all come into play, as they must since this is a work of Bataille's. But to speak of this pain as "sadistic" might be misleading... for (to essentialize perhaps too much) Bataille's "argument" centers more on what the individual must do to itself, its own subjectivity, in order to even approach community. When one inflicts pain on onesself, is that sadism? Masichism? The intense introspectivity of this work, much in tune with Nietzsche's, opens the door for the destruction of these very types of subject/object relationships, perhaps even to the point of obliterating the categories altogether. So despite the biographical and stylistic quirks of the author, which some might find troubling, others amusing, others entirely inconsequential, and yet others absolutely essential to the questions at hand (a la F.N.), ON NIETZSCHE is quite a provoking work if any of the issues mentioned are of concern.