This book is an incredible resource to preparing a world-class sales rep resume. I thought I had a pretty good resume until I got this book. I just received two job offers and in both interviews got great feedback on my resume. I got from this book what would have cost me hundreds of dollars in professional resume writer fees. A great investment for your future!

I found the book to be very helpful. It is well organized, concise yet insiteful. Very up-to-date with advice on how to get a job in the internet age. The resumes are very effective and offer good examples to craft your own resume from - much more helpful than other books I've read on the subject - most likely due to its targeted nature - sales and marketing resumes. That way I can look at almost any resume and find it helpful instead of wading thru a bunch of general resumes to find one that is applicable.

The consummate professional, Louise Kursmark provides not only expert resume- and cover letter-writing advice to the top-level sales professional, but details specific strategies for ensuring a successful career search! A well-respected professional in the job search coaching and resume-writing field, Ms. Kursmark balances common sense ideas with pragmatic advice from which virtually anyone in the sales or marketing field could benefit ... from those earning well in excess of $100,000 to those aspiring to! This book is highly recommended for every professonal job seeker AND professional resume writer or job search coach. Be sure it's in your library.

This is Moyer's second book. You need to understand her first book well before getting this one. But then DEFINITELY get it. Several other silk painting authors have followed a good first book with terrible 2nd and 3rd ones. That is certainly not true of Moyer. This book is every bit as excellent as her wonderful first book.

This book contains a lot of basic, hands-on info on equipment and practical aspects of silk painting technique. What I have noticed most, is that everytime I go back to this book as my skill and experience increase, I grasp and learn more. Things I didn't pick up at all on from my earlier readings suddenly become real and make sense. This book concentrates heavily on wax, gutta and screen printing techniques. Roketsu-zome and alcohol techniques are covered in a very step-by-step, practical way. There is a lot of surface design, as well as garment design info. If you are interested in block printing, bleach discharge, or shibori, you would do better to choose another title. Complex Cloth by Dunneworld is another fabulous textile book that covers almost every technique. Highly recommend!

If you are a serious silk painter, this is the book for you. Beginners need to start with the first Susan Moyer book which contains a plethora of info for those just starting. If you silk paint as a hobby or just for fun, this is it! Suusan Moyer obviously loves silk as much as you do!

I have to say that this trilogy has definitely become one of my favorite reads. I've shared it with several of my friends, and we all agree that this is a well-developed book that leaves you wanting more. You will be driven to go out and get all three books. I re-read them whenever I have time. This novel was well written and I loved the way the characters develop. Go out and get the book!

I could hardly wait for Sing the Warmth to come out, and now that I've read it, can barely wait for the next one. These novels make the perfect vacation read, in case you just can't put down your book to go to sleep! The characters live in your mind, and you can hardly wait to discover what happens next.

Great! I couldn't put this one down. A must-read for anyone who can read, escpecially science-fiction and fantasy fans

Just the way this book feels in your hand is enough to win you over. And that's a clue because it's a kind of magic wand in coaxing travelers to open up their senses. With its tactile quality and visual playfulness--and all these practical ways to store mementoes directly within the strong pages--this book reminds me of the feeling I used to get as a child opening up a new adventure book. Not only could I touch it and see it but I could almost hear it--almost smell the scents of new places.

My mother is turning 85 this year. She is a great history buff who has always wanted to travel and never has, but a dear young friend of hers, soon off to Europe, is planning to return with stories of her trip to relay to my mom. I picked up this book to send to the friend, as a way to keep her memories fresh for the telling. Meaning only to glance through it to be sure it offered plenty of blank space for journaling, I became entranced by the writing. I could hear Louise Kollenbaum's love of new places-those found within herself as well as along foreign sidewalks-within the tone of these graceful sentences. It's kind of a shocker actually--the writing is so brief yet it's replete with all the practical tips you'd ever need to help you gather, sort and fix your experiences into memory--details that both instruct and inspire.

Pervading these paragraphs I could discern a steady hum of pleasure and excitement, all the things you look for in traveling. She calmly and cleverly coaxes us into using our imagination, which she says is our best traveling companion. And in doing so, she makes this book an example of the kind of harmony within that a person can feel when opening up the senses to the extraordinary waiting for us in ordinary encounters.

I am more an auditory than a visual person, so I'm surprised at how much color came alive for me in the book. Now that I feel less intimidated by the visual, I'm going to try one of those collages myself. Kollenbaum's effort to encourage us to synthesize our senses--to blend them all together meaningfully in the heart as well as on paper--has been successful with me. This book is a great gift item--now I'm going to buy one for myself!

Well, someone has finally had the extremely good sense to give us a place to put the small, precious things we pick up when we travel. I do this all the time when I travel, and so by the time I get home these little objects are all over my luggage, squashed, crushed, torn and dispersed. This book, which is so beautiful in its own right, offers a place to keep these keep-sakes and gives excellent suggestions for what to do with them, for how to add to one's collection, for how to make the whole business of travel more enjoyable by concentrating on the creation of this collection. I find that these small things are, over time, more evocative than photographs and even better than pure memory but one has to have a place for them, a way to preserve and display them. I'd say: Don't ever again travel without it or let any friend or relative go off into the unknown without this useful and lovely gift from you.

For me, photos don't always tell the whole story when I'm trying to remember my last vacation. They just don't bring back the feelings, aromas, and memories that are always the best part of any trip. This book fixes that problem forever. It's a keepsake book, in more ways than one. First, the book itself --with string bindings and transparent sleeves to hold travel treasures--is a thing of beauty. You'll want to keep it on your coffee table whenever it's not in use. Second, and this is the best part, Kollenbaum tells you how to collect ordinary but meaningful reminders of your favorite adventures and places--ticket stubs, bottle caps, flowers, cancelled stamps, foreign-language menus--and turn them into a memory-filled collage of your trip. There are also lots of blank journal pages you can fill with sketches and/or a written diary. Her writing is clear and thorough. She even describes archiving techniques and gives advice on the right glue to use. The collage examples in the book are made up of her own delightful souvenirs from trips to Italy and other distant places, but she makes me feel that I can do it just as beautifully. Buy this book for your next trip. Your whole family will love it!

Why is all of my very favorite science fiction out of print?

Ah, well, do whatever you have to to dig up a copy of This Star Shall Abide. It's an amazing otherworldly tale of a society wherein superstition and tradition are followed as rigidly as possible, for survival's sake, and how that society deals with a man who is driven to question even at the risk of all his dreams.

Like The Giver, this story is sophisticated enough for an adult audience, but nothing is barring intelligent kids from reading it (except perhaps that their parents might not want them thinking too hard about some of the ideas about the nature of authority and the nobility of independence.)

BEing an avid Science-fiction lover, I was gleeful when I found this book. I first read Enchantress from the Stars, then the Far Side of Evil. Then I moved into the Star triology. I can't say what happened in the 2nd book because my library didn't have it. This book is captivating and wonderful and delicious in everyway. I recommend it to any person who calls themself a true science fiction fan like myself.

This is probably the best novel I have ever read (out of several thousand) - not just the best SF novel or best young adult novel, but simply the best. It weaves philisophical points about the nature of truth and scientific method into a thrilling adventure of defiance to a represive regeme, with many surprise plot twists. I have a copy that I have saved for over 4 years and will save for another 6 to be able to give it to my niece at the appropriate age.

Understanding Learning Disabilities is a wonderful book. I found it extremely informative. It is compiled in an easy to read format and it is thorough and well organized. I particularly liked the workbook pages, which you use to adapt to you own special needs. As a parent just beginning the special education journey with my child, I highly recommend this book.

I worked with the team of parents and professionals who wrote the original edition of this practical guide. It was a true labor of love involving many of us who began out work in this field prior to P.L. 94-142. It is so exciting to see that accumulated wisdom expanded and updated in the new edition. I especially like the practical tips on coping with the special education process ad the ideas for helping make the transition from K-12 to postsecondary settings. From preschool to college, Mrs. Trusdell and her team cover it all.

I volunteer for our local learning disabilities parent and teacher group. We view this book as REQUIRED READING for all parents of children with dyslexia or learning disabilities.

This book thoroughly covers all the basics -- explanations, case studies, resources and more. But the best asset of the book is that it is a true WORKBOOK where parents can use worksheets and templates to do things like keep schedules, record observations, track phone calls, plan for meetings with teachers or specialists, and record test scores and teacher comments.

Many of our parents use the book on an ongoing basis -- their copies are "worn and a bit tattered" which is evidence of the book's long term value to them.

I recommend the hardcover version, which is actually a three-ring binder format so you easily can add your own papers. You will quickly find that this book is an ideal tool for supporting your child's special education.

It is quite common for children to see things in black and white terms and not worry about the details caught up in the shades of gray. In the book, Waiting for Christopher, the main character, Feena Harvey, a high school student who doesn't quite fit in, decides to act. She sees a young boy named Christopher being physically and emotionally abused by his mother. When Christopher's mother seemingly abandons the young toddler in the parking lot of a small amusement park, Feena doesn't consider the shades of gray or what can happen to her, she acts. Feena "kidnaps" Christopher and begins to secretly take care of him. Feena immediately recognizes that this young boy shares the name of her deceased brother, whom, she has never been able to grieve for.

Feena has never had many friends, and books are her constant companion, but after a mishap involving a young, popular, African American student in her school, Raylene, she thinks she may have met someone that shares her love for reading. After finding Raylene's copy of a book by Zora Neale Hurston, Feena decides keeping the book and reading it will be much less embarrassing than trying to return it. After kidnapping Christopher, Raylene and Feena form an unlikely bond of friendship and the two young teens try to care for the boy as best they can and protect him from his mother.

This is an emotional book that really sheds light on some of the complexities of child abuse and neglect. It was about two brave girls who made countless sacrifices to protect a child that they felt adults would not. It is also a story about friendship, as the two get to know each other they learn that in spite of their cultural differences they share a lot in common. This is a touching story that reminds us that sometimes we have to deal with what is in front of us and not worry about the shades of gray.

Reviewed by Stacey Seay of
The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

Teenage Feena sees a small child being abused by his mother. With no thought for the consequences to herself, she rescues him. But oops -- in the eyes of the world, this is called kidnapping. Now what? Louise Hawes tells us what, in a story that is subtle, nuanced and achingly plausible. Before it is over, Feena confronts: 1) the day-to-day worries every mom knows, 2) some frightening insights about herself, 3) an adult world with a skewed idea of right and wrong, and 4) her own powerlessness in the big, bad world. The story ends ambiguously, but as it must. This will give teen readers plenty of material for probing thought and discussion.

Hawes achieves the perfect balance in her writing, while throwing the reader off theirs. Waiting for Christopher is moving but not overly sentimental. Heartrending but joyful. Promising but realistic.

This is a novel about child abuse in all its complexities. Feena, an intelligent 14 year-old, struggles with her invisibility at home and in school. This condition forces her to make a decision on her own when observing a woman hitting her two year-old son. However, Feena?s invisibility also empowers her to take the situation into her own hands. She takes Christopher into hiding but soon finds she needs help. An unlikely ally appears in the form of the most popular girl at school. Together they need to decide how to take care of Christy in the short run and what to do with the child and each other in the long run.

This is a hardhitting novel that deals with the fuzzy lines of abuse and neglect, race, and family. Waiting for Christopher forces us to question how we make judgments about intervention, each other, and forgiveness.

This book is one of the keepers - even when my kids get too old to be read to - this one is staying on the book shelf for my grandkids! Wonderful message, goofy characters, great illustrations!

Absolutely wonderful, if children can grasp the message in this book then when growing up and beginning friendships it will be a whole lot easier. I loved it! The graphics were brilliant and story simple but true!

If you're child is between 3 and 8 buy him/her this wonderfully told and illustrated book. The child will love it (and so will you!).

This is an outstanding haggadah. I will use many of the ideas at my seder this year. Adults and children can learn a great deal about Passover by reading the detailed, yet very clear and simple explanations about the traditions, seder items, etc. The author also includes many interesting perspectives on the different parts of the seder.

Rahel Musleah's Why On This Night? will reach a wide range of ages, with parents reading aloud to the younger set, as it celebrates the rich traditions of Passover through stories, poems, and activities. There's a lot of text here but the entire family can participate in the book's revelations.

The Passover Haggadah, Why on This Night, written by Rahel Musleah and illustrated by Louise August is truly delightful. After searching for an appropriate Haggadah for my family over the past few years, I finally feel the search is over. The Haggadah is beautifully written and illustrated and the text is engaging for all ages. Throughout the Haggadah the Hebrew transliteration is available as are the melodies of the songs. We can't wait to use the Haggadah this year and for many, many years to come.

Louise L Hay cannot fail to please. I found this tape very relaxing and useful as background reassurance and support whilst doing chores. Both Louise and Dr Wayne W Dyer offer positive thoughts and an alternative way to conduct your life. There are many examples of how we sometimes choose to behave and there are suggestions on how we may approach change, if that is what we want. The overall message invites the opportunity to live a truly free life and offers guidance to help find YOUR way.

These two cassettes changed my life! I listen to these tapes on my way to work and everytime I listen I get something new from it and experience another life transforming idea. These tapes opened up the pathways for self-love for me which was the doorway to my self-enlightenment and spiritual journey.