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Rose, where did you get that red? Teaching great poetry to children
Published in Unknown Binding by Random House ()
Author: Kenneth Koch
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Written with Reverence and Fun
Mr. Koch will not underestimate children. He will not talk down, dumb down, water down, because a passion for the subject matter animates this book as it must animate his instruction. He carefully documents and shares children's work as if it is as important as the poetry that inspired it.

Like anything truly sublime, the unspoken lesson enlivens this book . If you really share what you love with students, guide them instead of showing them, ask instead of telling, and treat their products with the respect you'd give a visiting artist, they will produce art as amazing as Mr. Koch's students did.

Forget teaching poetry to children- teach poetry instead. Take the concept and apply it to all creative acts. Teach art from great and challenging art. Teach music from powerful, sophisticated music. They can not only take it, they'll take it and keep it.

Great for Elementary Kids
I used this book to introduce unrhymed poetry to a fourth grade class. They just knew that they were going to HATE poetry, but after they were exposed to these poems and had a chance to write their own, they were upset when the poetry unit was over. They loved the poems written by other children that Koch included.

Inspiring AND freeing
This book was one with which I was taught in high school twenty years ago, and not only did it help me to connect with a personal style, but it also enhanced my appreciation of Whitman and Ginsburg. It stimulated ALL my other classmates in finding a voice and appreciation.


Shadowed Ground: America's Places of Tragedy and Violence
Published in Paperback by Univ of Texas Press (1997)
Author: Kenneth E. Foote
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An Astonishing Book!
This is an astonishing book, one that defies easy categorization or even any categorization at all. It is by turns
thought-provoking, horrifying, and inspiring, and the buyer will never regret the money spent on it. This book will stay with the reader for a long time to come.

Shadowed Ground : America's Places of Tragedy and Violence
If you arrange your library by category you may have trouble with this book. History? True Crime? Cultural Geography? Anthropology? Sociology? American Studies?

The book covers the sites of disaster, assassination, murder and accident all across America, including nearly every site and shrine in Texas. We review it not just for it's interesting content, but its coverage of a most unusual type of geography. It's a thought-provoking book at how, why and in what manner we deal with the sites of violence (and tragedy).

The individual stories of the incidents are told completely, but without distracting from the book's theme.

It's a unique book and should remain so for some time. Foote's thoroughness guarantees that.

Excellent book on historic monuments and markers!
Thoughtful look at the role monuments and memorials in American society. Focusing on tragic and violent memorials, the book offers an interesting perspective on historical events.


Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners: Understanding Covert Incest
Published in Paperback by Health Communications (1991)
Author: Kenneth M. Adams
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Illuminating the Roller-Coaster Relationship
I was blown away by the down-to-earth descriptions of "psychological marriage" with a parent, how it develops and how it affects future romantic relationships. I was comforted to be able to understand, yet challenged to take action. It explained all of my recent relationship dilemnas with my partner so much that I felt it was written about us. I was comforted to realize that there were real reasons for our problems and yet, I feel scared to open up this topic for discussion between us. My partner has limited insight. Thank you for helping me see that I am not imagining things or going crazy!

Do NOT miss this book
The single most important thing I have read in my adult life. It's scary but helpful to find oneself being totally described in the pages of a book...and I found this happening to me here.

Wow.
This is the single most powerful book I have read on what it means to grow up in a household where the parents are not fulfilling each other's emotional and physical needs. The children become the receptacle for all the frustrated sexual energy the parents are experiencing, even if they are not talking about it. This is exactly what happened to me -- the oldest daughter of an alcoholic and his angry wife. Finally, I understand the "ickiness" (the author's word) I still feel every time I am required to spend time with my parents.

This book talks about the specific, sexualized emotions you experience while growing up in a dysfunctional home that don't get articulated because it's too squeamish to talk about them. And yet, it does so in a very safe and comforting manner. It's like getting the hug and shoulder to lean on that you never got growing up.

Facing the truth of being emotionally used by one's parents is a sobering experience -- but oh what a relief to have these feelings explained and validated. I feel extraordinarily relieved to have read this book -- it gives me new hope for my present, my future and my marriage.


Simple Prayers: A Daybook of Conversations With God
Published in Hardcover by Honor Books (1997)
Authors: Kenneth Boa and Karen Boa
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a better way for beginning every day
I find it very important to begin the day in the proper frame of mind, and the author's approach of centering my prayers in God's own words rather than my own ramblings have a unique effect. I find my mind is stilled and my heart comforted when I read and pray these passages. My day begins fresh with my mind above my own circumstances.

I've tried many prayer resources, but I find Kenneth Boa's the best for leading me to the mind of God.

The Perfect Way To Have A Daily Conversation With God
This is a great book for anyone who is interested in a daily conversation with God. It's easy to read and will increase your knowledge regarding verses in the Bible. The writers of this book did an excellent job in the layout and detail. This book is superb, and I strongly recommend it for everyone.

adds focus to your prayers
I use this book in my daily devotions as a means of focusing my thoughts and adding direction and Biblical basis to my prayer life. It gives you a topic and then four ways of application to your life, in the forms of thanks, study, request, etc..


Streetsmart Guide to Managing Your Portfolio
Published in Hardcover by McGraw-Hill Trade (15 June, 2002)
Authors: Frank Yao, Bret Xu, Patrick Adams, and Kenneth Doucet
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GREAT BOOK
I was trying to get a book that includes a great deal of modern portfolio theories and some practical examples to show me how to allocate my asset in a more scientific and knowledgeable way. This book has cached my eyes and I was very satisfied by the amount of knowledge I learned from it in a relative short period time. Here are some pro and con I want to mention about this book:

Pro
. Great amount of financial knowledge covered (asset allocation, risk analysis, etc)
. Easy to understand (practical examples present)
. Do not need to spend too much time on it, everything was concisely written (only 250+ pages)
. CHEAP comparing to other financial books

Con,
. Though ideas were clearly crossed inside the book, but some parts are poorly written.(Not a big deal, but still)

Conclusion: a MUST BUY for those entry level or intermediate level investors who want to learn modern portfolio theories in a relative short period of time.

A must read for today's investor
This is an excellent intro to the concepts of modern portfolio management. It is vital for today's investor to understand that he needs to take a portfolio view when making investment decisions and understand how the portfolio's assets are inter-related to each other. He must also realize that understanding how much you can lose is as important as understanding how much you can gain. This book clearly and effectively illustrates these and many more fundamental concepts that every successful investor should know. It's a great read.

great resource
In the current market environment, risk management is crucial. This is one of the only books I've read that explains to investors in plain English what "diversification" really means. A great resource for any market, this book is particularly helpful in managing money in the post-tech bubble.


The Origins of Tragedy and Other Poems
Published in Paperback by CavanKerry Press (2003)
Author: Kenneth Rosen
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In the begining
Kenneth Rosen doesn't hide the truth of the matter. There's no hiding in flowery language. At first glance I was hooked, I missed the first poem and landed on the second, "Friend of My Youth." When I read the true story of shame and heartbreak from too much honesty it made me feel better.

Even though I really was pleased to read a book of poetry filled with truthful emotional experiences I was frustrated by the eccentric words that he used. I guess a true lover of the language might get carried away and use words I don't know creating a learning opportunity for me I found it annoying.

Despite the occasional mysterious word. Kenneth Rosen talks to your soul. He talks about the mystery of existence in it there's pain, metamorphisis or perception, confusion and pleasure. In, "The Internationale Of Dog," I was pleased to see the correlation between the dogs imaged emotional reality and our emotional reality. Because we do pray to a God, we ask for signs, we question who this God is, is he a mean God, "Why can't we just be punished and then brought to that magical and safe place?" home.

For readers looking to get out of the ordinary, I definitely recommend it. It is an inspiring and touching read.

"Not For Skimmers"
Ken Rosen's collection of poems, The Origins Of Tragedy, is not a book for the skimmer of pages, not a volume for those incapable of or unwilling to keep the man and the work distinct and discrete. Rosen has been accused of chest-thumping egoism, a charge that will stand only if one skims the poems and assumes that the poet himself is indeed the speaker in every instance. This is an error only those who flunked Intro. to Poetry can make.
Origins refuses to ignore the cruel and the vicious in human history at the same time that it celebrates the basics--family, food, sex, death--with a whimsy that only seems cynical and a sense of humor worthy of a Whitmanesque yawp.

Tremendous Falls
It seems that tragedy according to Rosen, begins with unbelievable falls from happiness. This poetry talks to the sad, to the once happy, but somehow fumbling we can laugh at how unfair life seems to be, because it really seems unbelievable that we could once be happy and then so sad.

The third poem in the book really touched my heart, without a question the psychological trauma and embarassament of a mother lying to a child and what would happen if 60 years later they had met, wow.

And then later in the collection he talks about the confusion of romance, the shock of kissing and the sense of not feeling and then the primal nakedness that changes everything.

The read is painful, but someone makes me feel better, I am not alone, I am not the only one.

And the


A Peacock in the Land of Penguins: A Tale of Diversity and Discovery
Published in Paperback by Berrett-Koehler Pub (1995)
Authors: Barbara Hateley, Warren H. Schmidt, Sam Weiss, Kenneth H. Blanchard, and BJ Gallagher Hateley
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--Buy the second edition!

Already printed in 10 languages and two editions since its debut in January of 1995, this book is essential reading for anyone feeling stuck in a job, a club, an organization, a church or any systematized group. (It's also a valuable guide for people who prefer the security of being stuck and feel pommeled by the wild beating of feathers around them.)

But, get the second edition, so you can take advantage of the 15 pages of identifiers, tools and processes that will take you from figuring out where you are to figuring out how to get where you want to go.

If you ARE a corporation or lodge or church or school, read the SECOND EDITION only if you're willing to be "dislodged" as appropriate!

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Diversity Without Defensiveness
I finally got around to reading this bestseller and now understand why it's sold so many copies. The beauty of this little book is that it gets at important diversity issues that are often emotionally "loaded" for people, but without making people defensive. I find that many people have set up psychological fences around their attitudes toward race, gender and ethnicity. They've been admonished often enough on these topics that they find it hard to listen anymore. By presenting a charming fable about a peacock and penguins, Hately and Schmidt avoid those fences and get directly and powerfully at the essence of the experience of being different--and about the ways that people respond to differences. This second edition contains the 111-page fable from the first edition, plus 15 additional pages of guidance and resources on how to deal with differences. Even with the additional material, it is a very quick read. Reading carefully, it only took me about 45 minutes to read the fable, and another 10 or 15 minutes to get through the new material. This book would be a perfect pre-work assignment for a workshop on diversity.

Accurately depicts the perspectives of the 'diverse'.
I couldn't believe such a complex issue was presented in such a simple manner. I think it should be required reading for all of Corporate America as diversity goes way beyond black and white. How about women, Christians, non-Christians, degreed, non-degreed, conservatives, liberals, moderates, etc? The list is endless. Excellent reading!


The Real 100 Best Baseball Players of All Time...and Why!
Published in Hardcover by Addax Pub Group (1998)
Authors: Kenneth A. Shouler and Ken Shouler
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Well-Argued and Well-Supported, but Not Perfect
Ken Shouler's list of 100 top baseball players comes with statistics and arguments to back up each of his claims. Shouler is particularly partial to onbase percentage and slugging percentage, as are most Sabermetricians. The list Shouler produces is convincing, and well articulated. The problem with Shouler's list is that he does not adjust enough for changes in the game across eras. The 1930's saw the highest offensive outputs of any decade until the 1990's. The big numbers put up by hitters in the thirties leads Shouler to vastly overrate Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx. Players in pitching rich eras are likewise penalized, most notably Mickey Mantle. Shouler notes that Mantle hit over 100 RBIS only four times. But if we normalize those stats to a league where 750 runs a years is the average, Mantle ends up with 10 seasons over 100 RBIS. But no system has been able to fairly evaluate these changes over time until the recent publication of the Win Shares system in the New Bill James Historical Abstract. While I found the Win Shares system more useful, I still found Shoulers' book an excellent reference and a good guide to judge against other lists of top players. Highly recomended!

Baseball's Greatest Players
No sport provokes arguments over its best of all time more than baseball, and this book is a great argument-starter. Ken Shouler definitely supports his choices for the greatest of all time, and wisely separates pitchers and position players. I think he believes a little too strongly on slugging average, but his choices are defendable. And he puts Cal Ripken Jr in the top 30, where he belongs, unlike The Sporting News, which placed him at 78. And although I think he overvalued players like Ted Williams and Pete Rose and undervalued players like Honus Wagner and Tris Speaker, I totally agree with Ruth #1 and Gehrig #3. Overall, a great baseball book!

A book for the baseball purest!
Baseball is by far the most discussed sport in America and with the coming of the new millennium everyone wants to give you the listing of the 100 best players of all time. Well stop listening to others and grab this book and let ken Shouler explain his choices.

In 320 pages you are blessed by the author's ability to not only give you the best 100, but also show you why they are the best. The book is broken down in the 75 best players and the 25 best pitchers and for the first time someone is right on track.

Using statistics rather than popularity, Shouler shows how Babe Ruth really is the best of all time. I read this book in just over two hours and have re-read it several times since. A fascinating piece of work and one of the most complete books I have ever read.

Greats like Ruth, Williams, Gehrig, Mays, Schmidt, Hornsby, Foxx, Cobb, Brett, Carlton and 90 others are covered in this certain collector items for every baseball or sports fans. This may be the one book all others are measured by - well done!


Real Life Notes: Reflections and Strategies for Life After Graduation
Published in Paperback by Double Rose Books (2002)
Author: Kenneth Jedding
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One more book before you leave college & it's good!
REAL LIFE NOTES will help you take back your authenticity, your originality, your passion & your life after years of being molded & manipulated by the education system.

REAL LIFE NOTES deals with the five basic terrors ahead of every student who is finally graduating from the American education system - Career, Perspective, Relationships, Parents & Yourself.

Kenneth Jedding has written one of those lively self-help books that doesn't have a pompous opinion in it, although it has a slew of quotes from world renown writers & thinkers, like Winston Churchill, Lin Yutang, Aldous Huxley, Helen Keller, Oprah Winfrey.

A perennially perfect gift for everyone graduating into real life.

Great for College Students!
As a junior in college, i simply loved this book! it offers wonderful ideas on how to deal with life after college. from career paths, to dealing with your parents! what i liked about it so much, was that it wasn't like other college grad books. jedding explains that finding a career that you like will be more successful down the road rather than a job that will only make you money. Reading this book really gave me a new way of thinking about my futre and i would recomend it to anyone who is graduating and heading out into the job force.

You have to buy this book !
This book is a "must have" for newly graduated students looking at entering the working world, for young adults who are trying to find their way, or to anyone wanting to be entertained and informed at the same time. The book is an easy read, and the author shares his personal experinces and philosophies in a way that is engaging and helpful.


Starship & The Canoe
Published in Paperback by HarperCollins (paper) (1983)
Author: Kenneth Brower
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Explore two frontiers with one family.
The Dyson's, Freeman and George, are father and son. Freeman, a nobel laureat physicist, has his sights set on the stars. George lives in a tree house in British Columbia and has combined modern materials and ancient techniques to build the largest canoe on the inland water way. See what happens when they reunite in the company of a pod of killer whales.

This is my second read. Not my usual practice.

My one major disappointment is the exclusion from this paperback edition of a section about Freeman Dyson's work on a "safe" nuclear reactor. I found this section particularly interesting because of the specific subject and because of the learning and work principles illustrated. This was an inappropriate job of editing.

Read, enjoy and learn about learning and living and relating in our complex and conflicting world.

splendid look into the lives of an eccentric father and son
The Starship and the Canoe is not a book on kayaking, any more than A Tale of Two Cities is a Victorian travelogue. I felt as though I had to correct that impression created by Amazon's page on the book. Although it is twenty-five years old now, it remains a vital and engrossing tale of a father and son separated not only by the familiar gulf of misunderstanding and culture shock, but by their remarkable journeys, some through the vast and perilous estates of the mind, some through the cold and sparsely settled inlets and bays of the Queen Charlotte Sound and the Pacific shoreline of Alaska and British Columbia.

The father and son are celebrated physicist (and author in his own right) Freeman Dyson and kayaker, tree-dweller, solo marine traveller (and also an author) George Dyson. In the wild, anarchic 1970s, author Kenneth Brower (who, it turns out, is also a friend of George's) takes us along with George and Freeman as they explore and plan explorations. His book is engrossing and one feels as though one has actually spent time with these fascinating, sometimes incredibly eccentric and singular men.

Freeman Dyson, an influential theoretical physicist, spent a great deal of time in the optimistic 1950s and 1960s preparing to push the New Frontier outward on nuclear explosion-powered spacecraft. This work, Project Orion, was supported and funded by NASA and the US Air Force until the atmospheric nuclear test ban, competition for funding from Project Apollo and the Vietnam War finally killed the project's funding leaving him and fellow physicist Ted Taylor to develop the concept further.

Together, the two men pushed the original project's concepts to their ultimate limits, and Project Orion grew to become spacecraft the size of Chicago leaving for nearby stars - so far, however, only in the minds of Dyson, Taylor, and those of us who have become enraptured by the concept of Orion.

Later, son George Dyson ventures up and down the Pacific Coast from California northwards before finally settling (sort of) in the area between Vancouver and the glaciers of Alaska, sometimes living in a treehouse at the top of a tall and spindly fir, sometimes setting off from southern British Columbia up the Queen Charlotte Strait, meeting people on the islands of the strait in voyages oddly reminiscent of Antoine du Saint-Exupery's Le Petit Prince. Brower narrates these journeys with unobtrusive wryness, allowing the reader to chuckle at the interplay between author and subject as they paddle to and for between Alaska and Canada.

Buy this book. Read it. Few other books reward their readers as richly as the Starship and the Canoe.

How two very different people are so much alike
As both an outdoor loving ocean kayaker and an ardent supporter of space exploration, I found this book a synthesis of two different worlds that are difficult to unite in today's political climate. This book was way ahead of its time.


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