I first heard Andy teach on this subject over a year ago. It's a life-changing and necessary book, and I don't know any family that couldn't benefit from its message.

"Choosing to Cheat" is built on the premise that everyone cheats somewhere - there aren't enough hours for everything. Tragically, it's easier to cheat our families than than to cheat at work. Andy not only tells us why we should cheat at work; he also tells us how. Ironically, cheating at work can make us more productive.

I needed to read this message again, because it's always easy to return to old habits. Highly recommended.

This is the best handbook on a pain related subject that I have ever seen. While certainly not intended to be an exhaustive review, it provides a great deal of practical info in an 'outline" form.

I highly recommend the book to anyone who deals with back pain, especially in primary care.

Casper writes with great passion and originality. A truly gifted writer.

The publication of Stanley Hauerwas' Gifford lectures (2000-2001) is an account of what went wrong with theology in the nineteenth century and how to set it back on the right course. The author exemplifies the former with an examination of William James and Reinhold Neibuhr and presents them as "disguised forms of humanism." The right course for our particular circumstance is a recovery of Karl Barth's christological natural theology.

I have little quarrel with Hauerwas' picture of James but I am troubled by his treatment of Niebuhr. The difficulty begins with the author's opening statement about Niebuhr: "Sin! Not just sin, but original sin, is taken to be what distinguishes Niebuhr from Protestant liberalism." In a way that is unthinkable for James, Niebuhr has a theology and it is driven by the reality of sin. In spite of some broad similarities between James and Niebuhr, their pragmatism for example, Niebuhr lived an authentic form of Christian witness. One does not even have to go beyond what the author writes about Niebuhr to see that Niebuhr's theology is thoroughly "against the grain" in a way that James' spiritualism is fashionable.

It is peculiar, to say the least, that Barth is presented as an example of natural theology because of his adamant "no" to any form of natural theology. In order to make his argument, Hauerwas has to redefine what is meant by natural theology. It has nothing to do with the natural world and everything to do with Barth's "ability to tell us the way the world is." Immediately, some will be dissatisfied with the Barthian divorce between natural science and theology. It is unfortunate that Hauerwas flows with the grain and turns Christian faith further inward without regard to a Christian witness over against the dominant and reductive scientific description of the way the universe is.

The vitality and relevance of "With the Grain of the Universe" is the question about whether it should be James, Niebuhr, or Barth who inform our theology. I do not like the forced choice between Niebuhr's inclusive form of witnessing (social justice, building coalitions, changing laws, siding with the poor) and Barth's witness to the crucified and risen Lord. If Christian theology is going to embrace natural theology, then let it be as Hauerwas says, a confident and unapologetic proclamation of the way things, but as a witness broad enough to include the created order as well as the human soul. As usual, Stanley Hauerwas has provided a theological framework for a lively and meaningful conversation.

We're big fans of Stanley, so this book was a natural choice for us. The book is not as detailed as the stories on the television show, but the story is good nonetheless, and the facts on tigers are great. The only downside is the CD-ROM. I was hoping for something as cool and fun as the activities and games on the Playhouse Disney website. Unfortunately, the CD-ROM's contents were very basic and I suspect that my 5-year old would rather go online than boot up the CD-ROM after a while. Other than that, I definitely recommend the book - just don't get your hopes up for the CD-ROM.

Fun to read with your grandkids, and a good story whether or not they have pets, especially cats.

Got a kid who wants a pet? How about one who loves animals? If you are nodding "yes, please, help get my sweet litle boy/girl off my back" then TIGER TIME FOR STANLEY is the answer to your prayers.

Critter loving Stanley (also the hero in Griff's previous book, SHARK-MAD STANLEY) starts wondering if a tiger would make a better pet than his cat, Elsie. You read along as Stanley rates the pros and cons of tiger life (ex: they are more exciting than cats, but they'd need MORE than just canned food...)

As in SHARK-MAD STANLEY, Griff (aka Andrew Griffin) combines a whimsical story with real animal facts (did you know that tigers don't purr...?) The computer generated illustrations are marvelous. But best of all for my money, it comes with an interactive CD-ROM takes readers into Stanley's world, complete with games, tiger facts, a screen saver, and Stanley's notebook to name just a few. A wonderful series, especialy for young animal lovers.

It suffers from being slightly out of date. Obviously with the end of the Cold War much of Bull's thoughts need to be revised. I would also suggest that there is a fairly strong conservative element that weakens some of the analysis. Bull makes to many assumptions about order that I am not sure can be as backed up as he does. However, overall the work is fairly decent. I would recommend looking for something more recent however.

It was wonderful. I've never read something like that. I advise everyone to read it. Thank you.

The book is great. Like the show that airs on Disney - wonderful information on many different types of birds. It is geared for pre-school aged kids. Yet still intertaining for parents to read. The Interactive CD-ROM is just simple things. I think my daughter expected more. She has the new Stanley's Tiger-Tales CD-ROM Game and she was expecting this CD to be much more than it is - more like the Tiger-Tales game. The game on this CD is tricky - I haven't been able to win it yet.

The editor, Andrew Ross, describes this book as "an expanded edition" of a special issue of the journal "Social Text". Potential readers should be warned however that it is also an expurgated edition, from which Alan Sokal's celebrated parody of of recent socio-cultural jargon has been suppressed. One understands Professor Ross's chagrin at the cruel and unusual joke that Professor Sokal practised on him. However, the unadvertised deletion of Sokal's contribution is a hoax on the buyers of "Science Wars" who naturally expect to find in it the one item of the original publication that has received worldwide attention.

The subsequent reviewer found the current tome missing in scholarship, merely by not having reprinted Sokal's piece from the social text issue of the same name (science wars). If one cared to read through the book, however, one would notice a number of quite specific reasons for this: among these that the book is meant as a counter argument to Sokal, Levitt & Gross's readings of their fave foe: pomos and other dangerous 'leftists' (what does this mean?). It is no secret that these authors are fired by a profound hostility and unwillingness to engage with the material with which they are dealing. This has already been shown ad nauseam in the litterature (see for instance Callon's review in social studies of science). Nevertheless this book stands as a nice response to some of the worst nonsense that has come out of the sokal/gross tradition. Specifically one should not miss Hart's devastating analysis of Gross et al's 'scientific neutrality' and their analytical abilities in Higher Superstition. Other pieces such as Mike Lynch's are good too; some however, are merely perpetuating the current stand off in a nasty 'war' (among these both of Ross's pieces). So is this review, I presume. That said, I should stop. Read both sides before you judge, you might get to know a good bit about rhetorical wars from the putatively neutral and objective scientists (sokal, gross, koertge etc).