Fay Ajzenberg-Selove first proves herself extraordinary in her ability to talk her way past a Nazi in her escape from Germany. The remarkable force of her personality carried her past bad physics grades and blatant sexism into a successful academic & scientific career.

The book is well-written and enjoyable.

This book is for people who either know someone who is terminally ill or who is terminally ill themselves. It is well written and uses humor to help people understand terminal illness. It puts emphasis on the fact that even though one may be terminally ill they are still very much alive and should go one living as such. It gives real life advice and provides you with possible (and humorous) ways to deal with people who don't understand the terminally ill situation. I found it enlightening and comforting.

The Right to Quiet group offers the following recommendation at their web site. "Is there evidence that noise can make us sick? Yes, though much of it is buried in scholarly journals. We know of only one book in print: Noise & Health, edited by Thomas H. Fay.... This book presents a critical and comprehensive review of available world literature on the effects of noise on all of the body's systems. It defines noise and its sources, documents the specific health hazards of noise on the body and indicates needs for further research."

The RN-MD team is increasingly important in today's complicated medical landscape and Drs. Whitney and Siegler have written an important book that all professionals should read. It is obvious that the editors have great skills and compassion. They will do us a great favor if they continue to make additions to the literature!

This book tickled me as well as the children I read it to. The bear and the alligator are very funny together.

A curious feature of the cinema is its ability to create stars retroactively. Fay Wray is a case in point. In her prime - during the 20s and 30s - she was considered a serviceable actress, but she never attained the front rank of stardom. Posterity had different ideas however. Her featured role in "King Kong" has kept her name before the public, and the advent of video has made much of her output more accessible than ever before.

Perhaps because one's expectations are not high Miss Wray turns out to be a compelling and insightful story teller. As an eye witness to Hollywood's Golden Era she speaks with authority but without a trace of bitterness or condescension. Her stormy marriage to writer John Monk Saunders is related in a matter of fact fashion, compassionate but not overly sentimental. Her assessment of her own work is exemplary; she is scrupulous in placing her achievement into context and throughout the book is clearly aware of the broader issues that have shaped her life and times.

Above all she shows an astonishing objectivity about the Hollywood she knew, which is a rare virtue in a book of this type.

Wray emerges as a woman of intelligence, wit - her open letter to King Kong that opens the book must be a model of self effacement - and above all humanity. Her account of the sad illness that claimed the life of her second husband Robert Riskin is almost unbearably poignant.

A revelation and a lovely book.

One Thomas Too Many is an unusual literary paring of a novelette by Fay Harbison with four short stories by Ellen M. Surber (The Forlorn Unicorn, For Whom the Bell Tolled, Aunt Nympho and the Family Bible, Bernie and the Super Bowl). An unusual love story involving senior citizens, Harbison's One Thomas Too Many is also a comic mystery of bizarre twists and turns culminating in a free-for-all at a gambling casino. Ellen Surber's short stories showcase unusual and memorable characters caught up in fatherless pregnancy, funerals, senior citizen necking, and a wife's devotion to her deceased football loving husband. One Thomas Too Many is thoroughly entertaining reading from first page to last.

My husband was catching a plane and I stuck it in his brief case. I had been desperate to just address some parenting issues in our family. I wanted him to be empowered to make some changes!!! The book has broken down the main parenting concepts from Love & Logic into short 2-3 page chapters. After his trip my husband came home to correct certain things I was doing. He changed his approach with our son to focus on his strengths rather than his weakness. It is a very insightful book helping you understand how to raise children.

This is perhaps ms. Weldon's most straightforward novel. The thrilling - and chilling - plot will have you on the edge of the seat as you feverihsly turn the pages to get to the end of the story. Do try to get a copy of this book. The plot? Well its about a woman who has an out-of-wedlock child with an american politician. All is well until he suddenly is in a position to become the next president of The United States. From then on the woman and her child is in deep trouble.

As a schoolnurse, this is an excellant book to present both sibling rivalry and disabilities. Patty Jean is jealous over her sister's special treatment by being in a wheelchair. Patty Jean takes the wheelchair one afternoon and she finds out that life in a wheelchair is not as wonderful as it appears. This picture book is a fun way to present a real problem in some students lives.