Amy Sutton wants to be in the Booster cheering squad but the other girls are determined that she will fail

Out of all the sweet valley Book this is the best on!!! Elizabeth's best friend Amy Sutton try's out for the booster's cheerleading squad. Jessica, Elizabeth's twin and her friend's called the unicorn's are to determined Amy is no good and try to get her to drop out. But Amy is determined to make the team! Even though they are mean to amy, amy belives in herself and it pays off in the end!! read this book and but it!

In this book, the twins' friend, Amy Sutton, wants to become a cheerleader. However, Amy isn't popular as the other cheerleading girls, and she faces a lot of harrassment from the cool crowd. However, Amy proves herself and never gives up, and gives it her best at try-outs. This book is a great book in the series and I recommend it! The reader learns a lot about Amy and her friendship with Elizabeth. It's fun and the reader really wants to know the outcome.

Read "a course in miracles" as a prerequisite to this book. "A course in miracles" is a dusty 19th century folk-art/religious cult of Millard and Myrtle Fillmore,a typical pre-Freudian, highly artistic interperatation of Man and God. Joan's book is no less pre-Freudian, and certainly less dusty. New age writers have no proffesional credentials other than their lofty artistic impression of man's (and, ahem..., womans) divine nature. Don't bother with this one.

I've read all of Joan's works and I find them and her to be "on point" with regard to human relationships--be they intimate or familial. The temptation is to negate Ms. Gatuso's findings because he doesn't mention any "professional" credentials (whatever those are). The fact that most find the book too artistic is (by and large) a justification for the books existence. If there is anyone looking for simple ways of finding the love that is inside each of us (without the expense of therapy or prescription drugs) this book is a must read. Indeed, you will find it so useful that you will want to read it more than once.

Joan Gattuso's book "A Course in Love"is the best book on relationships I have read . The book deals basicly with finding a spiritual base for the relationship with ourselves, clearing out all the blocks to our own good, forgiving our past , and taking full responsibility for our lives. Sounds like other spiritual books on relationships? In many ways ,most new thought books like this one , do ask the reader to assume the responsibility for what occurs in his/her life. I like Joan's book because she gives the explicit tools to accomplish all of the above.She incorporates many mystical traditions , Sufi, ACourse in Miracles, Unity and many more to remind one of their spiritual inheritance. I do feel, one has to be ready and open to this understanding ,and willing to do the work she has laid out in the book. The spiritually hearty will welcome this book.The forgiveness techniques, the opening the heart meditations,and the 10% of the pyramid clearing are a few of the reasons I continually workwith the book. I am now ordering it for my daughter. Thankyou Joan, for this wonderful reminder.

I bought this book for a college-level course on HTML Programming. The text is fairly easy to follow and provides clear examples and "modules" to learn from. I didn't really need to take the class to learn. This book taught me more than my teacher did. If you read the text and attempt to do the activities as the book explains them, you learn quickly. Drawbacks...the book isn't as organized as some of the others in this series (New Perspectives) It's a little harder to look up a specific function. Advantages...like the other books in the series, it does a good job of preparing you to take the MOUS certification exams, or just to give yourself a basic knowledge of the subject. I would recommend this and the other books in the series.

I had the pleasure of using this book in a upper-level web page design class. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. The following are a few comments on the glitch side of things:
1) On 2.24 there is a serious error. I think the authors switched "rock" and "links".
2) RGB triplets in decimal were introduced without sufficient background on p. 3.49.
3) Case 3 in Tutorial 4 was more of a chore than I think was useful. More on this later.
4) I'm left unclear about how the underlining occurs bottom p. 6.48-top p. 6.49. Presumably this has to be done by the HTML coder.
5) The expression "background-image:repeat-x" is wrong.
6) I think it might have been better to have initialized XDay's day and month the same way that its year was initialized, i.e., using "setDate()" and "setMonth()". Or the student could be encouraged to find an alternative to what was proposed in the text.
7) The dense array technique for population an array seems easier to grasp than the one offered on p. 8.36, although I am not objecting to the authors' way of populating that array. Again, the existence of alternatives could be underlined.
8) I didn't see any use made of the javascript roll-over, which seems a pity.

General observations:
1) The authors should have been more generous with their bibliographical material. There are some wonderful online tutorials which could have enriched the textbook.
There are also some wonderful historical materials about the internet to which students could have been refered.
2) The problems were imaginative, but too spoon-fed. I guess it's really up to the instructor to ask the students to put in their own text, etc. For the instructor, this makes checking to what extent a student did his own work well-nigh impossible.

I plan to use this book next time I teach this class, but will have learned how to work around some of its weaknesses. It is, however, far and away the best book I have seen for a classroom situation. Patrick Carey et al. are to be congratulated.

This is a practical self study book. The author" Patrick Carey"
takes you step by step to learn the proper HTML syntax. Each chapter is full of hands on examples. The first 6 chapters are
designated to HTML, and 1 chapter about Cascade style sheet, which covers almost all CSS1 and CSS2. The author teaches you the basics, and then moves you to more advance topics. There are also 2 chapters geared to Java script. The book is a solid gold book, I recommend it to any one that has no knowledge of HTML and wants to learn it 1 step at a time, you'll also learn CSS which will take your web site into a higher stage. You'll learn some Javascript as well to make your web site Dynamic. I wanted to put 10 stars for the book, but there were only 5 available!

This was a quick read for me. I was able to finish it in one setting. The plot line is dark and mysterious and kept me guessing. I found the characters to be fairly well developed but I would have liked to have the "Shadowing" explained in a bit more detail. It was a bit weak in that respect. The love scenes were wonderfully written. I enjoyed the struggle that both main characters had to go through to finally find happiness.

I would like to read more from this author in this same style. Great cover art as well. It's what first drew me to the book.

I really liked this book. If you're a gothic romance fan like me you'll want to read this late at night snuggled under the covers with just a book light on. I thought it was well balanced with just enough love scenes and suspense to make a really good story. The hunk on the cover doesn't hurt either!!

THE SHADOWING is all a reader could want in a Gothic romance and more. Of course, I LOVE "woo-woo" (better known as paranormal ) stories, and this is one of the best, IMO.

Strong characterization, believable and sympathetic characters, a fresh and original storyline, all kept me reading at break-neck speed.

Thank you for a wonderful book, Ms. Overfield. Write on!!

Morgan's book wasn't what I expected, but it brought up a number of points that can't be ignored in the Black Community. She writes about how many independent women negotiate their dating relationships as well as how she deals with sexism in Hip Hop culture.

this book is LITERALLY one of the best books I have EVER read... Morgan tackles issues such as "the strong black woman" and "the endangered black male" in ways that allow younger feminists or just younger black women in general to access her ideas. A GREAT READ.

I have bought this book three times now, because my students and friends keep borrowing it and "forgetting" to return it. They love it, and so do all of the black women I know who read it.

This book is truly an insightful and elegant attempt to explain the complexity of black womanism (most black women reject feminism, which places gender at the center of an experience, and place race/gender/class at the center, and understand these things mix). She discusses the disgust "strongblackwomen" have for "chickenheads", whose conservative philosophy of using their bodies as a shortcut to monetary and sexual achievement hurts other black women, as we are accused of the same manipulative behavior. She also articulates what most educated black women have thought, over and over again, as we confront black women and men who want our (middle class black women's and black men's)help, but who then criticize us down for being responsible, disciplined, educated, and successful. She also deals with white racism, and how irresponsible people use it to tear down responsible black women.

Redtwister's review denigrates her solutions as simplistic and symptomatic of her status as a middle class black women. He calls them "bootstrap" and "Nation of Islam." This reveals his lack of experience with the non-academic black community, and especially with the black inner city. He recommends a class analysis that leads to governmental solutions that just are not going to happen, and does not understand that this work is conscious at all times of "reality" and feasiblity. He does not understand that middle class black men and women are the key to fighting problems in the black community, for they understand the reality, and are the only ones who can fashion realistic solutions from experience. For too long the old jibe about middle class self help and education being oppressive has been used to silence the black middle class from effective discussion and influence. Her discussion of solutions is strong, feasible, and most importantly realistic and proven. Middle class black America has been hard at work at the business of saving poor black America for decades. Morgan's list of solutions not only has a history of common sense and success behind it, but also comes from the one group who has successfully escaped the ghetto.

I recommend this book, and hope that the people who it is aimed at (non-academic black women finding their way in the world) read it. Every teenage girl who worships at the House of Lil' Kim and Destiny's Child needs to read this. The true problems with "chickenheads" (the materialism, the refusal to do things the right way, the view of their bodies and sex as cheap ways to manipulate men and gain material goods) hurts other black women as some black men (commercial gangsta rappers) attempt to pin these behaviors on all black women. The chickenheads don't understand that eventually, age and gravity means you need a brain. Too many are left hard and poor at 30, and alone. But these women will not read this book. Too bad.

Sociologic insights are important in understanding the nature of policing and how officers are viewed. This book is a good resource for criminal justice students and scholars. Women in policing face worldwide stereotypes in addition to the day-to-day struggles of working within our criminal justice system. Fortunately for society, a growing number are succeeding - even in the face of a still discriminatory system. The more we understand how society views officers, men and women - and the more we understand their own struggles and disappointments - the more we can do to create a stronger and better system.

I have been a police officer in Northern California for 15 years. I started out young and idealistic. Throughout my career I have gone through different stages and I have seen other officers go through these stages. I was given this book by a coworker and I read it on my weekend off. I totally saw myself in this book and others I work with and others who are now gone. The one chapter hitting the wall was the most interesting because that period was the most difficult for me in my career and like in the book I sought outside resources to save myself, mainly my family, promotion and finishing my college education. If I had stayed in that rut of hitting the wall I most likely would have quit the job all together because i was burned out.

I encourage anyone who really wants to understand the job and what it can do over a period of time to read this book and those others can read it to think what is going on in the mind of that officer as you see him pulling someone over in the middle of the nite.

Joan Barker has taken her anthropologist eye and given us all a peek into the world of the Los Angeles Police Department. For those of us who are non-professionals but curious about the world we inhabit, this book satisfies that curiosity. I, for one, have often wondered about the true nature of the police department. Who are the men and women doing this difficult, and often thankless, job? Read this worldview of the LAPD and find out. This ethnography is a fascinating and scholarly work.

This is another book from the barrow on 14th Street. I've read all the other reviews and I have to agree with the reader who said what was the publisher thinking of.

Nijinsky was a wonderful dancer by all accounts. [Though, you know, if he came back tonight and danced Spectre de la Rose at Lincoln Centre we'd be rolling on the floor, screaming with laughter, and Isabella Fokine would be there, too, complaining that he hadn't done the right steps - but hey, don't get me started on her.] I digress.

I am not studying schizophrenia/dementia whatever, so it's all a bit lost on me. I love to read about Nijinsky dancing, and his extraordinary creativity both as a dancer and a choreographer, but his ramblings in this diary make me wonder if a mad person's ramblings worth the ink. Is he Nijinsky or a mad person? I'm sure there are people who read these ramblings and see it as a sign of Nijinsky's genius. I read it with increasing frustration. If someone came and sat next to me on the subway and babbled on like this, I'd move away. [And, believe me, I do.]

I am alone, I'm curious about this, in finding Nijinsky offstage just a tiny bit of a prig? I gained this impression, little by little, from reading his wife's [so bad it's a sin] book, Buckle's "Nijinsky" and, oddly enough, from Bronislava Nijinska's early memoirs.

this book is highly through in it's full translation of Nijinsky's diary, but best part of this book are the inclusion of the never before published "fourth book" which included poems and letters written by Nijinsky as well as an introduction which helps to clarify not only the historical background but also delves into the mental state Nijinsky was in as he wrote his diary.

Nijinsky, hombre posesionado por el genio, hace algun tiempo visiti en el museo de orsay, en Paris, la exposicion sobre él, de lo mejor al igual que su apasionada vida

Contrary to the other reviews I browsed, I did not find this book particularly exciting. And I found the ending somewhat anti-climatic.

I bought it with the hope it would be better. I told my husband not to waste his time reading it.

This is one of the few books I've ever read where when I finished the last page I turned right back to the first and started over. Lots of plot and character crammed into a slim volume. It's a thriller that's worth rereading even after you know the plot, to see what you missed along the way. Like "Blackwater," the other of Ekman's books that I've read, it's enormously evocative of the Swedish north country and a great read for that alone. Despite the uniquely Scandinavian milieu, thecharacters are universal, even if not particularly sympathetic.

A man is dead and the police are called in to investigate a small isolated Lapland community. The police have to use all their wits to sift through the information they are given from the local people and come to their conclusion. All the locals have something or someone to hide.

It is a very atmospheric novel, with the scent of the birches as glaring as the crunch of snow underfoot. Great to read snuggled up somewhere warm!

After being on the lowfat, low-carb, zone diets of the last decade I am forced to admit that my grandmother was right all along. Moderation in all things was her motto and she died a very active 82 year old.
This book is deceptively simple. We have been deceived by the food police into thinking that eating should be complicated. Americans tend to have an "all or nothing approach to eating". But when you look at other cultures (the Europeans for instance)they eat what they want but in moderation.
I began eating this way in November and I have gone from a size 14 to a 10. I don't feel deprived or obsess about what I would love to eat but can't have. I feel like I have been freed.
Update - I bought my first pair of size 8 jeans in 12 years last week!

This is a rational way to diet. It works, it is easy to follow, it doesn't cut out entire food groups (and honestly, how could that be good for you?). I disagree that the bite-counting encourages eating disorders. The meal plans are satisfying, versatile, and have helped me lose a few pounds already.

I disagree with the previous reviews in the respect that this diet will cause more of a disorder. Yes, you are to count your bites, but that is only until you have trained yourself to eat small amounts. I have been on this diet for 10 days. I did weigh myself and lost 7 lbs. The thing is, is that I am not hungry and I don't obsess about food as much. I eat quality not quanity amounts foods. I would highly recommend that you try this diet or more correctly a new way of thinking about food, less is more.

Only two articles were worth-while reading: one about Doris Lessing and the other about Hollywood. The others were totally unimportant.
The author doesn't play in the same league as, for instance, a Simon Leys (about China) or an Ian Buruma (about Japan).

I can't remember what I did with my copy of this book. I either gave it to a friend or threw it in the garbage. Didion is a whiner - she comes across as the poor little rich girl, complaining about being in the studio when Paul McCartney recorded Why don't we do it in the road. Sorry Joan, I wish you could have been there when the Beatles recorded Ob la di, ob la da if the other track wasn't significant enough! Her other noteworthy tidbit is being in the recording studio with the Doors when Jim Morrison showed up late and either too high or too mental to record. Joan should know that life is full of disappointments. However, I know lots of people who would have felt it was exciting to see Morrison in person, even at his crazy worst. If you're looking to revel in the pseudo heartbreaks of a neurot, I recommend this book.

This book is definitely the "Part 2" of a series that begoins with Didion's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" and each time that i return to it I feel like I am sitting down with a dear friend that I haven't talked to in a while. Other reviewers seem to have covered the title piece quite well, but I am intrigued that nobody seems to have mentioned my favorite -"Holy Water"- a fascinating look behind the scenes at the California Water Authority. I assign this essay again and again to my environmentalist students, both for the immediate content and for the intriguing window into the seductive nature of technology -one feels that Didion comes to be horrified and walks away enthralled. You will be too.