This cassette seems mostly to reiterate the strategies in the Parenting with Love and Logic book. It gave minimum strategies and often made fun of common parenting mistakes. This cassette could be quite insulting if you have a difficult toddler.

Evaluate your child's personality before buying this. I have heard that it works like a charm for other kids, but my daughter is just too active and direct intervention works better than time-outs. I do like its main message--don't let your kids walk all over you and don't be afraid to discipline (positively, not spanking). If you feel your child will respond to time-outs, this is a good resource. However, I found the Positive Discipline series to be more effective for my child.

This audio cassette is a wonderful, no-nonsense approach to child-rearing. The narrators have soothing, pleasant voices and know what they are talking about. There is no better way to deal with children than this way: I have 2 children that strike awe in others because of how well-behaved they are (ages 3 years and 16 months). I also have a 14 year old step-daughter who is wonderful and mindful, and who has been raised the "love and logic" way. The only way you are going to be "insulted" by this audio cassette (as another reviewer implied) is if you recognize yourself in the anecdotes and are defensive about it. If this is so, perhaps some therapy of your own will help you learn why you waste energy being defensive of parenting practices that don't work, instead of being open enough to try common-sense stategies that will help you be the best parent you can be.

Excellent content!Poor printing quality!Graphs and charts are illegable and each page falls from the book as it is read!Buyer beware!

Very good book on managerial technique. Our dealership's profits have increased as a result of this book. Mr. McCormick is one of the great automotive authors of our time.

Good quality printing and binding, and well organized by chapters.

the onus is on the sales force to perform or close a sale but there was never a mention of how and what methods should the manager employ to keep walk-in traffic flowing.

While the book is alright and up to Weldon's usual standards, I'm appalled that she was paid by Bulgari to mention their line of jewellry and whatnot in her book. Read the book, count how many times "Bulgari" is mentioned, and then feel free to research these claims on the web. It's sick, and it's a disgrace to see a story developed because of a paid endorsement. Commercial endorsements are everywhere now - can we at least keep books as the last bastion of non-commercial thought?!

Despite its corporate underwriting, Fay Weldon's The Bulgari Connection is certainly not evidence of a sellout. After all, Bulgari's funding is undoubtedly a one time deal--c'mon Weldon fans, can you really see Fay writing about jewelry from now on? Her structure is unmatched and her vocabulary is robust; Fay Weldon's work, regardless of financial backing, is not factory-farmed like so much popular literature.

The plot is tight, typical, and right on. Stupid men fare badly in Weldon's world--but not as badly as annoying women! This book was a breeze to read and as enjoyable as a gorgeous little custom-designed bauble.

After all, isn't it kind of exciting to see if there's another underwriter in the wings? At least she's up front about where the money comes from.

In spite of, or perhaps because of, the corporate sponsorship of this book it's one of her best. Tongue firmly in cheek, funny characters, ridiculous and hysterical plot lines; it's really great.

To people who criticize her taking money to write the book; how else do you expect her to pay the rent?! How nice it must be for the critics to be so "pure", but authors don't make a lot of money and however they scratch out a living is fine with me.

Fay is the best.

I haven't read this book but every book like this is the same! They give you "tips" on how to get along with your teen. Like reading these books behind your kids back is gonna make them feel like being your friend. The reason some of us are rowdy and wild and whatever is cause thats the only way to get through to you guys sometimes. You sit there and totally disrespect our opinions and steriotype us, tell us you would be happy lving under those conditions. Were not 3 any more and we have lives other then listening to you, these books don't help and will nver help unless written by a teen. Thankyou.

I feel so blessed to have met Jim Fay, Charles Fay and Foster Cline in person and attend their seminars. However, this CD changed my life. We dont even have teenagers yet - but I could apply this to my toddlers, friendships and collegues. Vonny Kleveland (teacher and parent)

I discovered Hormones and Wheels through a friend and found the information and suggestions very helpful. Jim Fay presents the material in a humerous way that allows you to identify with common parenting-of-teenager problems while also adapting the suggestions to everyday life. I listen to the tapes in the car and it renews my beliefs that I will live through my 15 and 16 year old sons. Home has become a much more entertaining place to live since reading this book and listening to the tapes.

Peter Fay's book on the Opium War is one of the most detailed studies of the period between 1838-1842 one can find at anything like the price, and would be a valuable resource except for one major flaw--there is no time-line given, and dates are provided, at most, with day and month, not year. This may seem like an insignificant thing, but given that correspondence took at least six months in one direction from China to England, and that the war was taking place with sailing ships up and down most of China's coast, it quickly becomes impossible to tell, either from the footnotes or the text, what year precisely specific events happened. Since so few dates are given at all, it is impossible to get a good sense of the exact sequence of events, particularly as the fighting part of the war heated up. When the book is next released, it should have a time line!

Nearly three decades after it was first published, Fay's book remains the best single volume on the Opium War, and one of the best books on China in the 19th century. It is easy to read, but is scholarly enough for the most fastidious. Unlike the other reviewer I had no particular difficulties with the timeline, although that can be a problem with any historical narrative. Be advised that this is a narrative history and can be read with joy by those who find social or economic histories tedious, but the background of the war is covered in particular detail as well. Fay is not a professional sinologist, and came to this book through his studies of the East India Company, but the book seems none the worse for his wide knowledge. It was recommended to me by some very distinguished historians of China, and their enthusiasm was justified. It is not a weighty tome, like those of Mary Wright or Vincent Shih on China in the 19th century, but it is authoritative on its subject, and like the best of Fairbank, it is great fun to read. Can one say better things about a book? If you are interested in the Opium War, Qin dynasty history, imperialism, or just like reading a good narrative about a war, please indulge yourself-- and read this book.

Morgan is the daughter of Igraine and Gorlais, the Duke of Cornwall. When Uther Pendragon seizes Igraine and kills Gorlais, young Morgan is thrust out into the wider world. Trying to find her way in the world of Dark Ages Britain, her fate proves inescapably linked with that of King Arthur (her half-brother) and his Knights of the Round Table.

This book is a sequel to In the Shadow of the Oak King, but can easily be read as a stand-alone book. As with the previous book, magic is limited to telepathy and telempathy. Professor Jones' use of the old customs that would have been present in Arthur's Britain makes for some fascinating and informative reading. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any fan of King Arthur.

Author Courtway Jones takes us once again to the Kingdom of Camelot. This second installment is this time told from the prospective of Morgan, daughter of Igraine and her first husband. Morgan becomes half sister to Arthur when King Uther takes the Lady Igraine for himself. Morgan's story of being trained by the Lady of the Lake, going off to raise the sons of a widower, and then returning to the intrigues at Camelot keeps the reader riveted. Jones develops his characters so well that you can see them in your minds eye and you find yourself swept up in the intrigue as though you are there. This book leaves the reader with a true sense of what the characters of legend might really have been experiencing. They are very realistically portaited. There are simple reasons for the way the story plays out, rather than the mystical stories usually spun around Camelot. This reader hopes that the next book is as good as the last two.

Mainly, I took the book out from the shelf on the library because it was in paperback and I did not want to carry some heavy hardback book along. The cover made me curious as well. Something that had been filmed could not be all that bad.

Although I've already read several of Ms. Weldon's books, this one was new to me. I find that some of her books that I've read pass above my horizon and only belong to the generation of my mother's. Well, I was in for a surprise.

Starting up in London in the early 70's: See Stephanie and Layla on their way home from putting up posters reading "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle", and incidentially bump into Nancy (or rather her boyfriend Brian) who is really only visiting London. However, they part again - at least for the time being.

At a rather chaotic gathering in Stephanie's house the same evening, a publishing firm, Medusa, is founded. Meanwhile, Stephanie's husband Hamish is upstairs having sex with a not so political correct sister, Daffy. Joining the meeting as well is Zoe with her baby daughter Saffron, and Alice who is some kind of guru for the group. The meeting ends with a lot of pot and naked dancing, during which Zoe's husband Bull comes along in order to drag Zoe back to the kitchen where she belongs according to him. Stephanie rushes out of the front door - still naked - as a result of Hamish's physical exercises upstairs, leaving behind her boys Rafe and Roland.

From that moment we follow the fate of the group of women (wimmin) during the next 25 years.

This book is extremely successful in describing the climate of the 70's, Scandinavia not being very different from the UK in that respect. It gives an equally accurate description of the yuppies' society of my own time. And does so without condemning either generation. What is more, the book is really hilariously funny.

This text provides a quick, concise review of the pimary topics covered on emergency medicine exams. I found it to be a good way to prepare for inservice exams and the written boards.

"Boot Weather," with story and pictures by Judith Vigna, is certainly something we can relate to up here in the Northland, where Winter lasts from Halloween to Easter. When her father announces it is "Boot Weather," young Kim steps into her favorite boots and heads out into the backyard. Only young readers will discover that Kim goes much farther than that in her imagination. For each two-page spread, Vigna has a small picture on the left of Kim in her backyard (climbing her slide) and then on the right a full page picture of Kim in her imagination (climbing up a mountain while a goat watches). This is a charming little story that will have your little ones ready to put on their snow boots and head off for their own adventures.

Having thoroughly enjoyed the author's other works "The Life and Loves of a She Devil" and "Remember Me", I was looking forward to more of the same. Unfortunately after I had got about a third of the way into this dreary tale of woe, the only sensation was one of annoyance.

The "heroine", Annette, starts out as being slightly neurotic and then proceeds to totter, quite willingly it seems, to full-blown co-dependency via whinging, whining and manipulation of her (admittedly dreadful) partner. Hasn't the woman got any choice but to stay with Spicer? Is this able-bodied, upper-middle class woman really so bereft of other options?

Granted, the supporting characters are very nicely drawn, more interesting than the central ones, alas.

And as for Spicer, a more two-dimensional hiss-boo musical hall villain has seldom been committed to print in modern literature.

Add to the mix some ludicrous impossibilities (would the two psychotherapists really have been allowed to set up a practice? Would no-one have checked into their past?) and you're left with a dull, tedious pot-boiler that leaves you wondering what such a talented writer was thinking of...

Despite the fact that the characters in "Trouble" are mostly more or less normal post-modern professionals going throgh typical identity and relationship conflicts, it does not feel at all like a "soap opera" or other fodder for daytime television. Weldon could easily teach Seinfeld and Tarantino a thing or two about gritty, realistic dialogue and making the trivial fascinating. Annette seems like such a real person that I could scarcely put the book down and read it in about two days. Spicer's pseudo-Jungian New Age obsessions were also so hillarious that I had to keep reading just to see how irrational,deluded and self-obsessed he could become.

This novel, entitled "Affliction' in the UK, was torn apart by most critics over here when it first appeared. The reason? It was too close to the truth, which is a rather odd criticism of a novel. Weldon's own marriage of 30 years had ended in a bitter divorce that was more or less carried out in public. In my view this actually adds fire to the book, which is breathtakingly unputdownable. The mental torture, the phoney therapy, the increasing impossibility for the female protagonist of distinguishing fact from fiction, the negation of memory and the horror of isolation ring absolutely true, and make for a gripping read that will pierce the heart of anyone who has ever experienced the breaking-down of a relationship. Through all of this, Weldon maintains her inimitable ironic detachment and her blacker than black sense of humour. A fiery, miniature masterpiece.