This book (and it's companion volume) are highly appropriate for families, children of most ages and for less than highly active adults.

Thoroughly Recommended!

We bought this book when my son was 3 and my daughter was still catching a ride in the backpack. We needed easy but nice hikes and boy did we find them. It gives good accurate directions and realistic difficulty rating. A big plus if you are hiking with toddlers. My kids are now 6 and 4 and is still our favorite hike book. You won't be disappointed and you will find a ton of hikes that are close to home yet you feel miles away.

This book will give possibilities for varying degrees of difficulty hikes and day spots to visit. The best resource I have ever found.

This collection is a triptych of poems that focus on culture, family, and the personal landscape of marriage. Logghe writes of the beauty of northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley and the problems experienced by an outsider upon entering this special place. She has lived in New Mexico for 18 years and spent 15 years writing these poems. Check out "Something like Marriage." Graceful, hopeful, and wonderful.

Joan is a very talented poet whose work is lyrical, fun, real, true! All of her work reads well.

No finite amount of stars could express how much I've gained by reading Logghe's passionate rythmic poetry. She makes each poem divine, yet accessible and wholly intelligible. Logghe is an honest poet who reveals her tenderness and love of the world and family through the most ordinary language. The material aspect of the book is also quite simple and beautiful.

I'm sure that this book will soon find it's way back into print after Knight's dismissal from Indiana University. Whether you believe that Knight was the greatest college basketball coach of all time, or the biggest bully of all time, you owe it to yourself to read Mellen's book. Say what you will, Knight is not a simple man. After reading this book, you may not have any symphathy for Knight, but you can't dispute his knowledge of the game, determination, and committment to excellence.

Joan Mullen's book is an eye-opening experience for the typical college basketball fan. She looks past all of the hype surrounding one of the game's greatest coaches and gets down to his true passion: The success and development of the young men trusted to his care. This is great book and illustrates the many facets of Coach Knight. I highly recommend it, especially for those of you who have already read Feinstein's book, A Season on the Brink. This book offers a more objective approach.

This book is a fascinating look at the general, Robert Montgomery Knight, one of the most interesting coaches in all of sport. This book follows him through a season to give you a total picture of the man. It shows you far more than the narrow, negative view John Feinstein took, and it also debunks many of the myths about Knight the media has created. Through it all you see Knight's humor, wisdom, candor, ability, and yes ocassionally his temper. You see why he is the character, and the winner he is. You also see why his players love him.

My two and a half-year-old niece has gone Boo and Baa crazy, and requests the Boo and Baa stories several times daily. She makes up little songs about Boo and Baa, and refers to them even when she's not reading the books. I think the appeal is that the stories are about things young children can relate to, and often have experience of, and the hapless sheep find the world as surprising as little ones often do. They may not know why things happen the way they do, but have fun anyway. Also, Boo and Baa are a boy and girl, and they are portrayed as equals. Both are enterprising, both can get a little scared or apprehensive, and they are not slotted into doing "boy things" and "girl things" respectively, but both can do everything, as opposed to many other children's books. This series is a great choice for young readers!

My three year old son loves vacuums. This little book is perfect. You can't go wrong buying it!

I bought this book for my son when he was 2 because he was infatuated with vacuum cleaners. It is a very cute book about two sheep who decide to clean their house. They have some mishaps along the way, but they get the job done. If your child loves vacuums, this book is a must-have. It is one of a very few children's books that mentions the vacuum cleaner! It is a cute book even for the non-vacuum-lover!

I loved this book! The characters were real and raw, the plot moved smoothly, and the elegance of the writing made the love story even more touching. I felt like I was transported into the story, and I never wanted to put the book down! I highly recommend this novel -- this is some of Wolf's best work. I cried more than once!

I had previously read another Joan Wolf book - The Road to Avalon - and quite enjoyed it. Actually, quite enjoyed it is not saying enough. It was absolutely wonderful and I laughed and cried and cheered and cursed and lived along with it. That was an Arthurian book. This book takes place almost 100 years after Arthur's death when the Saxons and Britons really start mixing, peacefully and at war. Definitely an engaging book, one that I could barely put down.

This book by Joan Wolf is part of a trilogy on the making of Britain, starting with King Arthur and Morgan in The Road to Avalon, this one, Born of the Sun, and ending with Alfred the Great in The Edge of Light. Born of the Sun is about the clash between the Celts and the Saxons in the 6th century. Although it is less based on outside sources than the other two (just the the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle instead of legends or historical records), it is a powerful, moving novel about what might-have-been, and indeed probably was. The main characters, the Saxon Ceawlin of Wessex and his Celtic wife Niniane, have a beautiful love story, set against the turmoil of the times. Ceawlin did exist, and, as Wolf says in her afterword, was one of the few kings in the AS Chronicle upon which the Saxon title of Bretwalda, or "ruler of Britain" was bestowed. BUT, don't read this book for the history. Read it for the writing, as always superb - Joan Wolf is in top form. Do yourself a favor and buy this book today!

I am a Spanish speaking teacher. I used this dictionary when I was a Foreign Languages student in my hometown. It taught me that, when learning a foreign language, one needs to REALLY know one's OWN mother tongue. It is a great tool for expanding one's language universe.

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Aunque no supera al Diccionario General Etimologico de la Lengua Española, de Roque Barcia, creo que no puede faltar en el escritorio de quien desee conocer a fondo la lengua castellana.

At the time of my first daughter's death in 1986, this was the *only* book I could find that was of any help to me. While other books at the time relied heavily on expressions of "faith" to guide and support bereaved parents, this exquisite book uses photographs of art and poetry from throughout history and cultures to illustrate and describe what a parent feels. It was so helpful to me to see that parents had always felt the same as I was feeling, and survived; and the book showed me this without relying on the organized religion that I felt so pressured to participate in by many well-meaning people but which honestly offered me no solace whatsoever. I found the book to be so validating of every feeling, every emotion, every terror that grief brought to me. The book was incredibly affirming to me and I appreciated the practical and honest approach it takes to supporting parents and advising their helpers.

This highly acclaimed and consistently best-selling book was written to help grieving family members and concerned caregivers learn to cope with the death of a child. While there are no easy answers to how to deal with overwhelming loss of this sort, this book offers understanding and support with explicit guidelines and helping techniques. The text is fully illustrated with works of art and poems that are able to express in a powerful way what words sometimes cannot. This caring, warm and thoughtful book will be enormously helpful to all those who must confront the tragedy of a child's death, both victims and mental health professionals.

CONTENTS:

Preface 1 The Meaning of Loss 2 Children and Parents: A Family Perspective 3 The Process of Grieving a Child's Death 4 Death Before Birth and During Infancy 5 Death of a Young Child 6 Death of an Older Child 7 Living Without 8 Siblings and Other Survivors 9 Caring for Grieving Families 10 For Caregivers Working with Grieving Families Appendix: Books about Death and Grief for Children and Parents

This is an excellent book in a time of despair. I have also read "A Broken Heart Still Beats", finding that book valuable, but frankly - for our family, "A Child Dies" better filled our needs. This book uses art and poetry to help the reader connect with the timelessness and universality of grief. It is a briefer read than "A Broken Heart" and the chapters are segmented into topics such as: death of an infant,young child and older child. I found that the chapter written for specifically for caregivers useful.

The authors exude compassion, wisdom and experience. They gently confront the gruesome issues the parents of a lost child will likely encounter (martial problems, interaction with others, etc). My 9-month old grandaughter was killed the first day of the new millenia, by a drunk driver, as my daughter was walking her in her stroller. Needless to say, our families are shattered. My daughter and I found this book the best of several which we have read in these two hearbreaking weeks.

I could not expect anything more from a thesauras. This has all the words I, through my preteen years, have needed, without boggling my mind with lots of words that I never try to use. I don't feel overwhelmed, but I DO find the information I need.

This thesaurus is:
Fantastic
Excellent
High Quality
Stupendous
Superiour
and least, but not last, very good!

All joking aside, it's a thesaurus. It's a good value and as good as any other thesaurus.

_The_Clear_and_Simple_Thesaurus_Dictionary is the most practical thesaurus I have found for use with my fourth- and fifth-grade students. Unlike many thesauruses, it is formatted in a style that students (and adults!) will find familiar and easy to use. While not as comprehensive in scope as those designed for college use, this thesaurus allows students the satisfaction of finding synonyms or associated words for almost any word they might need. I had not found this to be true of other "beginning" thesauruses, which was a frustration to both my students and to me. This gem was a major find, and is now in regular use in my classroom. I highly recommend it to any teacher of intermediate or junior high age students, as well as to parents who want a truly helpful resource for their school-age children.

This is by far my favorite cookbook! I've tried all 75 recipies in this book and loved them all! I hope Andy Ennis writes another cookbook on Cher's favorite foods!

I don't usually purchase celebrity cookbooks, but this is simply a must for people who want low-fat, great tasting food. The recipes are easy-to-follow, the ingredients readily available, and the dishes are fabulous. Cher's chef, Andy, also provides a witty inside-look into life with Cher.

I saw this at the library, checked it out, and now I'm buying it -- and I don't usually buy celebrity cookbooks. EVERY recipe is good, sensible, and something I can actually prepare and eat! All my favorite ingredients are included; I plan to cook my way through the entire book.

Although I've got a shelf full of every conceivable type of gardening book, there aren't many out there written specifically from the Midwest gardner's point of view. And this is the first gardening book that I would call a real page-turner! Joan takes the reader on a gardening adventure, giving us invaluable tips and opinions along the way, and showing us wonderful photos of her garden. Based on her perennial choices for sun and shade, I've already put together my wish list for next year!

The writing of this book was a self-fulfillment project. A graduate of Wisconsin's Master Gardener Program, I am pledged to do what I can to further gardening. Speaking to groups of people is nice, but a BOOK can reach many more people! I write to help beginners and intermediate gardeners come to terms with making gardens. I favor the organic way, but not exclusively. I love native and common plants, but not exclusively. I specialize in shade gardening, but, you guessed it, not exclusively! My book is meant to be encouraging. I am a senior citizen and I do all my own work. It keeps me young.

This is the first gardening book that I have read every word of. Joan Severa has a very easy to read, colorful style of writing which is both informative and humorous. Nearly every plant she writes about is photographed and displayed beautifully. She goes through her garden development step by step, so that if one were creating a garden, one could depend on the book to guide one through the entire process. Joan makes a point of stating in the books preface that she is expressing her own opinion and that it is not necessarily the only way to do things, however; in the books content she expresses her opinions so strongly that one feels one had better not stray from her advice. Luckily I happen to agree with her in most cases. I highly recommend this book to novice as well as experienced gardeners. It is so packed full of usefull information that everyone is sure to learn something new.