I was not even born when around the era of Patty Hearst. But having visited the Hearst Castle in San Simeon, it really caught my attention. After having read the book I now have a better image of what happened and from her side. If you thought she was guilty before, you wont after reading this I gave it only 4 stars because I thought she could have talked more about her life after the SLA and the trial so that we could know what she is doing now and how she managed to get her life back together.

Having been born a generation after anyone spoke of P. Hearst, I hadn't expected the bitterness of so many people after I praised this book.

Whoever Patty Hearst was, her insight and perspective of the SLA members and personal philosopies and ambitions ist truly worth reading. And if you're one to judge, it's an excellent opportunity to see the indivudal off the media's personal stage.

The SLA kidnaps her. The SLA locks her in a closet. The SLA has rifles aimed at her in the bank. The government tries to kill them. The government imprisons her.

Go figure.

This is an excellent book on learning the ins and outs of Real Estate Market Timing. It is informative, practical, and highly usable. Not only did it do a fantastic job of explaining the nuances of the Real Estate Boom-Bust cycle, but also more importantly it teaches you how to construct your own market charting indicators that are based on real estate "vital signs" which the author had done extensive research on. Moreover, the book also points out the common investment mistakes people make and offers plenty of explanations of early warning signs that any astute real estate investor would want to be aware of. This book is a must read for those who want to get a true feel of what the real estate market is telling you and then profit from it. Highly recommend!

How do I know whether it's safe to buy or not?
Shall I hold, or sell?
How do I make BIG returns?

After reading about The Campbell Method I feel confident! Real estate trends can seemingly be predicted with the use of certain statistics that the author has discovered indicates their presence, before others have caught on. By being able to time the market I'll be sure of my decision when I get in, knowing that the market has likely bottomed out, and I'll be able to determine the best time to sell.

Buying at the right time means being positioned to capture most of each uptrend's rise. Selling at the right time means I won't lose valuable equity as the market takes a step backward. You'll beat inflation with this method. Affording investments during a recession is another matter of course, although it's more likely because I won't be in at the wrong time!

First off, I just want to say that this is a wonderful book and has some really great concepts.

The essence of "Timing the Real Estate Market" is stated on page 6: "The Campbell Method asks you to look at the market objectively, not emotionally. It requires you to step away from your own personal beliefs, opinions and biases about what you would like the market to do, and focus instead on what the market is telling you to do."

Brilliant...this is not just great real estate investing advice...this is great investing advice...period.

Mr. Campbell went on to state (page 97): "Real estate timing is not about buying a home at what you "think" is a good time -- or what you "think" is a good price -- when the chances of the market rising higher in the very near future are only so-so. This approach is like betting on the spin of the roulette wheel. Instead, you want to use The Campbell Method to buy a home not only when prices are low, but also at a time when probability is high that home prices will appreciate almost immediately."

Then: "...once you buy a property -- whether it's a home you live in or a rental property, your entire focus must shift to the only thing that is within your control: knowing when to sell for the highest price."

Loved the book and I'm looking forward to utilizing the techniques.

Provides a good overview of world chant. You certainly can't go wrong starting here but if you are a serious explorer seeking to delve into the more esoteric realms of toning, chant, healing with sound vibration and the "sound current", check out my favorite new sound healing find: Travelling the Sacred Sound Current: Keys for Conscious Evolution" (book & cd) by vibrational healer Deborah Van Dyke...its a spiritual treasure.

We are seeing many artists "cross over" between the arts these days. Robert Gass is probably best known for his recordings on Chant. We might probably be most familiar with the "Merry Meet" song, which has been in .wav form for many years. Mr. Gass now approaches Chant from the literary side with this book.

Mr. Gass gives us a look at how he became personally involved in chant, and then explores the history and mystery of chant. He examines the roots of chant, the various cultures who apply chant in their everyday lives, even how we can learn to chant (Mr. Gass assures everyone they CAN chant). He also explores how chant can be applied to our own personal Spiritually.

I noticed this book can be purchased three ways. You can buy the book alone, or with the 2 CD set. You can also find a book club version with a single CD. I like the CD that accompanies the book. The CD gives you a very good overall accompaniment to the book and for those who are not musically inclined it gives a reference point, and an idea of the style of music we are discussing here.

I also found this book crosses over all Spiritual Paths. Wiccan, Pagan, Native American, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, so many paths utilize chant. Chant does not discriminate. I found this to be another "Celebration of our Diversity" and can be recommended to anyone on any Spiritual Path. I also found it to be a most wonderful tool to be utilized by anyone. Give it a try. I am sure you all know at least one chant from somewhere. How about:

We call come from the Goddess
And to Her we shall return
Like a drop of rain
Flowing to the ocean.

You know that one, don't you? See how simple? Sit for a few minutes, singing it over and over. See if you don't feel better. The book has some chants, with music in the back Resource Guide. For those with some music skills, it would be easy to pick up the tunes. The rest of us can sing along with the CD till we have it memorized.

A wonderful exploration of a subject we are probably familiar with but never really explored. I do hope you at least pick up one of his CD's and give this a listen. I think you will be very happy with them.

This book is a rare find. Most writing about Chanting is based on a single religious doctrine/path. Gass, however, covers Christian, Jewish, Sufi (and other Islamic), Buddhist, Goddess/Pagan, and First Nations (aka American Indian... if you want to be inaccurate...) chants. Whew. The book is written in a very conversational manner. It's easy to read and has a personal feel. I was (pleasantly) suprised to see how much of the book is geared towards teaching the reader to chant. There are "exercises" in nearly every chapter, as well as ideas on how to incorporate chant in everyday life.

Occasionally Gass's shifts to New-Agey lalala kindof material that some people may find off-putting (I kept getting the feeling that he was going to start talking about Astral Projection any moment...) The bulk of the book, however, is pretty down-to-earth and definately recommended. It is respectful to all religious belief systems and is very thorough and is sure to have you chanting, whether Alleleuia or Ommmmm.... (or both...)

I just started teaching kindergarten this year. It is a good book when you're embarking on the exhausting task of teaching this grade level.

As teachers we are required and driven to expand our knowledge and fullfill professional development courses. Unfortunately, all to often when trying to do so we run up againt the notion that the information may be useful, but "I teach kindergarten and this doesn't apply". This obivously is not this case with Peggy Campbell-Rush's book "I Teach Kindergarten". I found her writing clear and direct. Some of the ideas I have applied in the past and now feel validation, others will be tried out next school year. Especially helpful are the reproducible pages for assessment and the student samples showing specific tasks and skill levels. This will be one teacher's aide text that will go on the shelf behind my desk and more importantly come off many times.

Three hours ago I received the book, "I Teach Kindergarten" and I just finished reading it cover to cover. The minute I opened the book I could not put it down. I just graduated from college and have accepted a position as a kindergarten teacher. Before reading this book I was overwhelmed with all that I needed to figure out and do before the beginning of the school year. After reading this book, I have several good ideas and my brain is in kindergarten mode. I am so excited about this position, and this book has given me several great ideas which I will incorporate in my classroom. All first year kindergarten teachers HAVE to have this book. I know I will use it for many years to come.

It's hard to tell from the title, but this is neither a conspiracy book nor (entirely) a whitewash of Adm. Kimmel but a fairly good overview. The book covers the comprehensive blind spots, especially those in Washington, that lead to the surprise at Pearl Harbor. Gannon writes entertainingly and covers detail well. However I think his (deserved) admiration for Kimmel leads him to soft-pedal the parts of the evidence that suggest his culpability. The admiral deserves, although not the whole blame for being unprepared, a sizeable amount of it. Gordon Prange's relatively hard to find "Pearl Harbor: the Verdict of History" covers much the same ground as Gannon but does not hesitate to point out Kimmel's and Short's mistakes alongside everyone else's. And Prange (himself a WWII vet) knew and liked Kimmel personally. I don't regret buying Gannon's book but I would hate to use it for my sole resource on the subject.

It's hard to decide which is more disturbing: the oversights, omissions, and bad decisions that led to America's unpreparedness in the face of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor ... or the desperation, speed, and skill with which senior military and political officials unjustly made Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and General Walter Short the scapegoats for what happened.

Both elements are exposed to view in Michael Gannon's excellent book -- a fine addition to the Pearl Harbor bookshelf.

Gannon does a very good job sorting out who was in possession of what intelligence information in the weeks and days leading up to the attack. The 'betrayal' -- one of them, anyway -- was that, for a variety of reasons, much of that information never ended up in the hands of the on-scene commanders, who needed it most.

As Gannon summarizes, 'An Army Chief of Staff orders that no operational intelligence drawn from Magic be sent to his menaced commander in Hawaii, then later states that he was unaware that enemy intelligence was denied him ... An Army intelligence chief, representing the service specifically charged with defending the fleet at Pearl, punts on the grounds that fleet ships, after all, belong to the Navy ... A Navy war plans chief states that any transmission of operational intelligence of this kind should have been sent out by ONI [office of naval intelligence], something he himself never permitted to happen ... A director of naval intelligence discerns in bomb plot messages no more than Japanese curiosity and "nicety" of detail about the time required for ships to sortie from harbor ... and a CNO [chief of naval operations], as uninformed at the time on this espionage as was the Army Chief of Staff, states four years later that ONI should have sent the information to Kimmel -- in direct violation of restraints that his own OpNav office had placed on ONI ... Surely, if ever there was a "fog of pre-war," it hung over Washington in the fall of '41' (p. 195, ellipses in original).

(Gannon firmly rejects the 'Roosevelt knew' hypothesis. He also treats Stinnett's 'Day of Deceit' to only a paragraph or so of scathing analysis, noting in italics, 'It is important to recognize that no naval operational message text in JN-25B [code] was read by the United States prior to 7 December' [p. 206].)

But the intelligence failure was only part, albeit the largest part, of the 'betrayal.' Early in the book, Gannon lists a damning catalog of the ways higher-ups in D.C rejected Kimmel and Short's pleas for men and materiel. More patrol planes? Denied. More AA guns? Denied. Money for more airstrips, so planes could be dispersed more widely? Sorry. Not in the budget. More radar installations? Maybe in the future. More trained gunners and patrol pilots? Sorry. We need them elsewhere. And on, and on, and on. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, don't give us the tools and we can't do the job.

And yet, Kimmel and Short were scapegoated precisely for their alleged 'failure' to do the job. In the end, Gannon explicitly declines to draw conclusions, leaving that, on his last page of text, to the reader. It may not be too much of a reach, though, to suggest that Gannon seems to agree with Admiral Raymond Spruance, whom Gannon quotes at the start of his final chapter: 'I have always felt that Kimmel and Short were held responsible for Pearl Harbor in order that the American people might have no reason to lose confidence in their Government in Washington. This was probably justifiable under the circumstance at the time, but it does not justify forever damning these two fine officers' (p. 261).

Personally, I think losing confidence in the 'Government in Washington' is precisely the conclusion that *should* be drawn from Gannon's analysis, 'circumstance at the time' be damned. As an illustration of bureaucracy's ability to shift blame away from itself and sweep unpleasant facts under the rug, the story of Pearl Harbor is unsurpassed. And Gannon is an excellent and insightful storyteller. I recommend this book to any student of Pearl Harbor.

December 7, 1941-Who was to blame? This book attempts to answer this burning question and does a pretty good job. There are several different points that the author makes in this book, but his main thesis is that Admiral Kimmel, Commander-in Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, was denied valuable information which, in his mind, could have prevented or in the least alerted the U.S. forces to the impending Japanese attack. The author brings up several points to prove his case. For instance, Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, chief of the war plans division, believed that Kimmel had in his possession a "Purple" machine, which could decipher the Japanese diplomatic code, and that Kimmel was reading all of the information that Washington was receiving. This was not true. The Purple machine that was supposed to go to Pearl Harbor was instead sent to the British. Admiral Stark and General Marshall are also singled out by the author. No "clear" war warning message was sent to Kimmel by Washington, and on the Day of the attack, Marshall was out horseback riding and did not arrive in his office until approximately an hour before the attack began. A warning was sent when he arrived, but it was delayed by atmospheric problems and could only be transmitted as a telegram. Kimmel received this message about an hour after the attack began. In retrospect, Washington must shoulder some of the blame for failing to keep its Hawaiian commanders informed, but Kimmel and his subordinates must share some of the blame as well. For example, the author tells of the story of the Japanese submarine that was spotted and sunk off the harbor entrance. Why was there no alert after this sinking? Also, two army privates spotted the Japanese attack planes on radar while they were still over 100 miles from Pearl Harbor. Still, no alert was issued. This book also has excellent excerpts from the Congressional Hearings held in 1945-46. Overall, I think this book is a excellent, although short, examination of Kimmel and Washington.

I am not a psychologist. I am a curious reader who wanted to know more about Jung's psychology. I had not read any of Jung's work before, and now, having read the book, I feel I have a good grasp of Jung's major concepts.

Joseph Campbell edits this volume and writes a nice introduction, explaining briefly Jung's major achievements. At the end, he's included an outline of Jung's complete works, which catalogs the amazing fecundity of Jung's mind. I was hoping that Campbell, hero of mythology that he is, would have included some of Jung's mythological work in this book, like a clip from "Symbols of Transformation," but he didn't. What a pity.

After Campbell's intro, the book consists of three parts: one focusing on Jung's theory, one on Jung's application of his theory, and the third part contains some curiosities that demonstrate the range of Jung's thinking.

(Part I) Introduces Jung's Big Ideas. The collective unconscious; archetypes; the psychological types (introversion/extroversion and all that jazz). Most of this section is easy and stimulating to get through, until you hit the psychological types, which get very technical. If you think about how the types apply in real life to people you know, it makes plowing through Jung's dry descriptions a little easier.

(Part II) Jung in action. Campbell gives us a healthy serving of Jung's dream analyses, which I recommend skimming, unless you're really into alchemical symbology. The two essays on contemporary life are still fresh.

(Part III) The essay on synchronicity is a mind-bending read, and it makes you suddenly aware of all those little coincidences in life. "An Answer to Job" starts off as a playful, almost Nietzschean essay where Jung performs a psychological deconstruction on the god of the Old Testament. Then it degenerates into a discussion of the psychological development of the idea of god as traced through the Bible, which turns out to be not exciting as it sounds.

Even if Jung occasionally crosses the boundary of credibility, you get the sense that he's a true scholar, dedicated first and foremost to seeking the truth. This volume is a good peep into the mind of one of the twentieth century's most daring thinkers exploring the uncharted depths of the human psyche.

Another good intro to Jung that's easier to get through is "Man and his Symbols."

This concise little book was my initiation into the ideas of one of the founding fathers of psychiatry, Carl Jung. I found it to be as clear & complete as possible outside of actually going through Jungian therapy itself.

Any beginning psychology student wishing to understand Jung's emphasis on symbolism & archetypes would do well to pick this up (along with Man & His Symbols). The highlight of the book is the text On Synchronicity, with Jung, himself, detailing how we ascribe meaning to events we consider "signs", and the impact on our lives.

This book can also provide an understanding of Jung's infamous split with Freud, who had been his mentor. Jung's theories show themselves to be much more adaptable to the spiritual & individual conflicts of a person rather than the primitive bestiality of Freud's "id". Jung acknowledges a person's capacity to reflect & restore, therefore empowering a patient to find guidance & direction in harmony WITH his beliefs.

Edited by Joseph Campbell, this 650 page book does a phenomenal job of encapsulating the essence of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung's psychological concepts. The Introduction gives us an overview of Dr. Jung's life and published books which is no small task. The book starts out by describing the functions of the psyche and how it develops from childhood and throughout the lifespan. The role of instinct and the unconcsious are described next. The role of archetypes and the collective unconsious is given a thorough review. The psychological types: of extraversion and introversion are connected with the feeling, thinking, sensing, and intuitive functions as theorized by Jung. Dream symbolism and alchemy are analyzed in depth. The roles of transcendence, the anima, animus, shadow and synchronicity are examined in the development of the psyche, as man creates meaning in life. This is one of the best introductions to Jungian psychology on the market. It provides a great sampling of his works and simplifies the concepts for the average reader. Most readers will delve further into the vast universe of Jungian psychology immediately after reading just this one book. Erika B. (erikab93)

This is not a microwave cookbook. I don't know why it is in this section. Waste of money since I only have a microwave.

I am a non-cooker, but with the variety of recipes and the ease with which they are prepared, I've fooled a lot of people. This is a great book! I've ordered several as gifts.

A great cookbook for those of us on the go. We have a dinner club here at the university I am studying at, and this book is a lifesaver. I highly recommend it to everyone!

This book does have a lot of good information, but the drawings are sketchy and inadequate for a beginning woodworker. Even worse, the drawings are rarely next to the relevant text. For instance, when you're reading the Purple Martin house instructions, you're looking at the Phoebe house.

This book is very helpful for making birdhouses. Not only does it give you several plans for birdhouses it also provides detailed information on different bird species. That information will help you know what type of house to build, opening sizing and more.

I got this for my nine year old daughter and she really likes it. So, it's pretty easy to read and other than the charts is not too dry to read either.

This book is short and to the point, well researched and documented. There is a bibliography in the back that is helpful for further reading.

The plans in this book are for simple, unadorned, basic shelter for birds. Even if you want to build fancy "designer" birdhouses, you need this book to discover the entrance size, location and interior requirements for dozens of species of birds. He even gives great tips on how to locate your completed shelters, including population density for most species covered. There is an amazing amount of information in this 48 page book.

I would highly recommend this book for anyone contemplating building birdhouses. Your success as a bird "landlord" will be assured!

In a two-week period in 1999, four commercial clamming boats sank off the Atlantic Coast costing ten lives. The author, a journalist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, recounts the known facts of the sinkings, the lives of those who drowned and those who survived, and the interrelated circumstances. Many of the elements of the tragedies are familiar: heavy weather, Coast Guard helicopters, survival suits, men vanishing into the night. Campbell intelligently weaves in the real economic and commercial pressures on fishermen with details of the lives of hard-working men. These clammers have no illusions about their dangerous trade. They know they risk death, but most could not earn nearly the same wages elsewhere. The efforts of regulatory agencies to protect workers, preserve breeding stocks, and stabilize the markets come under scrutiny as well. An excellent choice for those interested in commercial fishing or sea stories.

Campbell's latest addition to the "disaster at sea" genre, while a good read, isn't quite as gripping as works by his contemporaries such as Spike Walker ("Working on the Edge", "Nights of Ice," and "Coming Back Alive") or Sebastian Junger. Nevertheless, he does a masterful job of recreating the stories of four separate clam boat disasters in the early part of 1999. He also does an excellent job of describing the work of clam boats, as well as the problems encountered by those working in the profession. Campbell sheds a great deal of light on the problem with unseaworthy boats that are so common in the northeast fishing industry. In sum, this is a good addition to the library of anyone who loves stories of disaster at sea, but don't expect the intensity found in more popular works.

I AGREE WITH ONE OF THE OTHER REVIEWERS THAT THIS WAS A PRETTY GOOD BOOK BUT NOT AS GOOD AS SOME FROM SPIKE WALKER AND THE PERFECT STORM BUT NONE THE LESS A GOOD READ ESPECIALLY TO LEARN ABOUT THE CLAMMING INDUSTR I DO BIELEVE THAT THE THE SHIP WRECK STORIS ARE JUST AS GUT WRENCHING

By TT reviewer Cindy Vallar [Full review on our website]

"Bleeding Kansas" aptly describes the struggle over whether Kansas would join the Union as a slave state or a free one. In May 1856, John Brown and his followers viciously kill several Kansas farmers on a raid at Pottawatomie Creek. Fourteen-year-old Hy Wilcox witnesses the aftermath of those brutal slayings. Although his father and he return to St. Louis, Hy cannot forget that fateful day.

With the surrender of Fort Sumter to the Confederacy, Missourians split on which side of the war to support. For Hy Wilcox there can be only one choice - the South. He and two friends help raid the Union arsenal in Liberty, where they meet Captain Jacques Verbow. Under Verbow's ironhanded tutelage, they become a crack group of raiders, visiting destruction on Unionists.

Franny Moone is Hy's sweetheart, but her mother frowns on their association and refuses to allow them to wed. During her mother's absence, Franny takes matters into her own hands and weds Hy in secret. Only after they consummate their marriage does she begin to wonder if she's made a serious error in judgement. As Hy's wife, she helps the raiders gain entry onto a steamboat, the consequences of which put her in serious jeopardy with the law.

Josiah Scarborough, a lieutenant in the Union Army, arrives in St. Louis with orders to run the Southern raiders to ground. Although initially mistaking Franny for a harlot, he soon realizes that their pasts are intertwined. He stays at the Moone's boarding house, and soon finds himself falling for Franny, even though her mother discourages this romance as well.

The irrevocable, yet seemingly innocent, decisions each makes and the secrets they keep set Hy, Franny, and Josiah on a collision course with each other and death.

Most novels that depict the Civil War choose arenas well known to readers. Ms. Campbell does a commendable job of picturing a less unfamiliar one. Righteous Warriors is a well-researched tale whose characters have all the inherent foibles humans wrestle with each day. Ms. Campbell allows readers to peek into their lives and forces us to wonder about the paths we take and the consequences we must face as a result of the choices we make. This is a realistic portrayal of how the intrusion of war can alter our intentions and forever change us.

One Classy Book and one classy writter. This book will not disappoint the reader. it has just the right mix of romance and intrigue to hold the reader captive throughout the entire book! Nicely done.

Righteous Warriors is an original and superbly written novel set in the turbulent times of the American Civil War. Like all Missourians, Irish immigrant Franny Moone and her mother, Deidre Moone must chose sides in that troubled border state and elect for the Union. But there is a complication when Franny secretly marries Hy Wilcox, a local farm boy whose loyalties to the Confederacy compel him to join southern nightriders. Then there is the Union Calvary officer, Captain Josiah Scarborough, who has come to Jefferson City to capture a rogue member of his regiment who has turned to outlawry and joined the nightriders to raid and terrorize Union sympathizers. Very highly recommended reading, Meredith Campbell's Righteous Warriors is a complex story of relationships and loyalties, of political passions impacting on matters of the heart.