I've been studying French for about 5 years now and this book has been extremely helpful. Like the book "501 French Verbs", this book contains french verbs and a table of conjugations for every possible tense that the verb can be used in. Although it doesn't have quite 501 verbs, it does have every verb that a student would ever use. One reason why I like this book far more than "501 French Verbs" is that this book contains example sentence for the more common tenses. It also includes translations of these sentences. "501 French Verbs" does not do this. The price of this book is also a lot nicer than 501's book. Again, this is a great buy!

To Swallow a Toad is a 1st-person account of a teenage boxer who enters the New York State Golden Gloves competition. We are offered a brilliant view into the psychology of a fighter as we follow the hero through his fights and tortuous workouts. However, we also experience the hero's daily struggle to cope with the problems of dealing with his dysfunctional family, fitting in socially, and growing up. We find that underneath the tough outer shell of a fighter lies the fragile ego of a young man. Few books have offered such deep insight. This book instantly struck a chord in me, because perhaps we are all like the hero in some way.

This is a book I have read again and again to my children. It is the perfect summer time book that introduces children to meaning of the word "community" and the fears associated with learning how to swim. Grab a glass of lemonade and enjoy!

Why drill your own well? Because it's useful to have free water where you need it, especially if you have no water on your property or are using expensive city water to maintain a large garden. Bringing in a professional well driller can be expensive, and, besides, why should he have all the fun?

Unlike old-fashioned, large-diameter wells that put you in the bottom of a hole that might collapse, modern wells are small-bore affairs, and you stay safely up on the surface.

WATERHOLE describes with perfect clarity the process of digging a modern four-inch-diameter well using only hand tools. In doing so, he not only shows you how to drill your own well for practically nothing, but he gives you a complete course in doing so safely and correctly, so you end up with a well that's safe to drink from and doesn't vector contaminants into the water table.

He then shows you how to install PVC pipe as a well casing and how to select and install your pump. This slim little volume has everything.

The text is fun to read and is lavishly illustrated.

This book will keep you on the edge of your seat. Each chapter runs right into the next without stopping making it a book that can't be put down!!!

Lee Marsh's careful research and description of the town's history really shows through the use of photograph captioning. I thoroughly enjoyed the book; it adds to the collection. I would definitely recommend this book for history buffs young and old alike!

This book contains fun learning ideas on turning your preschooler on to the love of words. There are fun activities using magnetic alphabets, making pancakes into letter shapes, rhyming games, grab bag tales, alphabet soup, alphabet books, writing tips, and on and on. It's a little gem of a book, but one you'll refer to whenever you're stumped for a teaching idea.

Dr. Price hoped to influence the world to change their dietary habits. With just his wife and whatever bearers, guides, and drivers he could find, he single-handedly proved the diet-health link and backed it up with meticulous records and photographic evidence. He traveled to the far corners of the world to find the most primitive cultures on each continent, and compared their traditional diets to the standard Western diet. Photo after photo in his book points up the glaring difference between the health and APPEARANCE of the natives of whatever culture nourished on their traditional diet and those whose diets had been disrupted and "displaced" by the "white diet"...a diet high in refined foods like white sugar, bleached white flour, polished rice, and synthetic fats. He also carefully laid out the guidelines for a natural unrefined diet that would be suitable for modern Americans. Too bad all that careful research and excellent advice has been ignored. Today's SAD (standard American diet) is a god-awful, unbalanced grain-heavy (65% "complex carbohydrates") piece of tomfoolery that bears no resemblance to the diet that nourished and nurtured our ancestors. If you never buy another book about nutrition, you owe it to your children and your grandchildren to buy THIS book, READ AND REREAD IT, and pass it down to your posterity.

I recently read a summary from a report covering functional foods released by the Boston Consulting Group where the statement was made that there "is increasing scientific evidence of a diet health link".

The primitive peoples studied by Weston Price knew that long ago. Their diets were finely tuned in with their genetic inheritance accumulated over tens of thousands of years of evolution.

Over the past 100 years or so, that inheritance has largely been either ignored or forgotten. We now have diets based on far too many food products which are not in tune with our genetic requirements. Minerals and vitamins, along with other complex natural components, are refined or "farmed" out of many foods.

We live longer but do we live more healthily? The huge increases in lifestyle related diseases (obesity, heart disease, diabetes etc.)and psychiatric problems suggest that is not the case.

Weston Price was an amazing man who saw and understood the cost of this deviation in our nutritional patterns from our inherited path. The old adage "one picture is worth a thousand words" is particularly applicable to this book. The photo records have an inestimable value for all time.

This book is as relevant today as it was when first published in 1939.

This is one of the great classics of nutrition, and deserves a wide audience. See how Dr. Price travelled the globe and saw first hand how whole foods promote health, and refined ones destroy it. Learn also about "factor X," an important nutrient which can only be found in certain animal foods, and which is essential for optimal health according to Price. Filled with extraordinary pictures, this book should be in every nutrition library and be read by everyone who values their health.

Judith does a masterful job of educating on the fine art of communicating effectively and constructively with actors. Many of her insights and recommendations translate very easily into the "real" world, allowing you to not only practice these techniques more frequently, but also hone you communication skills with those around you. A series of "quick fixes" are offered up that are effective ways of getting you to think "outside of the box", and each is elaborated on and folded into more in-depth techniques. All in all, one of the best of MANY books I have read on directing and communicating with actors!

All I can say is "Look no further!" Before you think about reading another book, make sure you pick up Directing Actors. I've read it about five times, and keep finding of useful information. Whether you're an actor, director, or simply interested in the craft, make sure you pick up this book. It'll be the best money you'll spend this year...I promise!

'Directing Actors', is absolutely fantastic. I tell every Actor I know to "Read it! Devour it!" I've read (it feels like) everything out there - & so much of what's out there makes me feel like they really don't get it or know what the heck they're talking about - but they're supposed to be an expert?! I know the Actors I'm watching and admire can't be doing this (...stuff). Too technical, too manipulative, too analytical, too cerebral - NOT PLAYABLE - & if it is - the Actor is anything but real & truthful.

This book more than any other book or person out there gave me permission to trust my gut, be simple, be real, be truthful to the 'real' moment in front of you, as opposed to some imagined or contrived one...

God what a beautiful world it'd be if the directors I audition & work with would "Get it"! (...)

I refer back to this book often when I need to revalidate myself & my approach after a few of those auditions were the gatekeepers start getting me to doubt & question myself... (What do they know? I've always maintained that if one could control and summon up their emotions at will, we'd have no need for all the therapy & medications out there. But, we're human beings and we don't work that way. We 'feel' and are 'moved' unimpeded, freely and innately when we are truly involved with things outside of ourselves and not aware of ourselves (self-conscious). And to do that one can not be following a mental game plan in their head of what to 'pretend' to feel at this, that, or some other moment in a scene... That's called pretending NOT "Living Truthfully" in an imagined blah, blah, blah...)

The bottom-line: This is a must read for Directors AND Actors who want a better appreciation of what the DeNiros, Pacinos, Walkens, Streeps, Langes, Brandos, and the like are more likely doing when they're Acting rather than what the academicians would have us believe... Read or listen to these actors in interviews discussing their approach and more often than not they'll sound like they're paraphrasing much in this book.

I rolled off my bed one morning and peered at the looking glass in my room, and guess what I saw? A hideously textured face, graphically disgusting body shape, a flat clump of hair. And that's not the end of it. You bet all young girls go through the same ritual each morning, don't you? Well, at least that's what happened to me during my first few years of high school. What had I done except for whining each day about my genetically-determined hopeless physique? However, I remember reading 'Girltalk' and some related books when I was 15 years old. Carol Weston has offered me some of the most essential and practical skills in coping with my life --- from school to sex to relationships to friendships to family, and much more. Its content is the kind of stuff you'll read in an ordinary teen magazine --- only in a condensed manner. And there are these quizzes, tips, sharing of Weston's own diary clips... you name it. Of course this one book alone had not and would not have turned me into a saint overnight, but it has made its part in my development. If I have to criticize the book, it would be the lack of graphics (but I guess the text alone is good enough). Although 'Girltalk' may not be able to make a major twist in your life or mine, it is nonetheless a very useful handbook for girls like you who are going through the doubts and traumas of adolescence

I'm a 12 year old girl, and I loved the book Girltalk by Carol Weston. Girltalk really makes sense to teenage girls. It talks about everything: sex, drugs, money, families, and more. At the end of every chapter, there's a letter section, where Carol answers girls' letters and gives them advice. Girltalk isn't a really nerdy book the way some teenage advice books are. It doesn't tell you to do stuff nobody who's actually a teenager would ever do, and it's written in an upbeat, interesting way. It's funny a lot of times. If you're a teenager, reading this book will make you feel normal. I think the best part is that Carol Weston includes little bits from her diaries when she was a teenager, and it's cool to see what she wrote. There's not really a worst part of this book, except that sometimes it gives advice that's a little too old lady-ish. Mostly, though, I loved this book!

to put it simply, i love this book. i received it as a gift from my sister the christmas after my 11th birthday. about two months later when i got around to reading it, WOW! i was amazed at how great this book was. carol has a way with words that makes you want to listen. i like how she doesn't pretend that a teenager won't have sex,it shows she has an ounce (more like a gallon) of sense about her. she doesn't beat around the bush, she tells it like it is in a warm and comforting way. it helped me understand what was happening to my body, and accept it. because of this book, i have gone from an unhappy and chubby adolecent to a girl who is growing confidence, loosing weight, and learning some of the many questions i had about sex and other things. it is REALLY my bible in every way, and i think that anyone age 10 to age 19 absolutely MUST own this book. you just might wonder how you ever got along without it. i love it so much, i'm considering buying a new copy to replace my very worn one! so, get this book! you won't regrete it