As a professional interested in helping teens get their maximum potential out of the pre-college experience, I found this book to be most helpful and timely. Whether you're a high school student who is just beginning to think about college or a parent who is confused about all the new procedures and time tables, this book will guide and inspire you throughout the entire process. With expert information, a great, reader-friendly layout, and lots of practical advice, this book is the only resource you'll ever need to navigate the waters of the college admissions process!

I havent read this book but my Aunt Jill wrote it and i am sure its good

I recommend this book for all of my students who are planning to attend college. The book is comprehensive, easy to follow, and unlike other books on college it has handy examples of sample resumes, worksheets for listing college visits and contacts, sample questions for interviews, timelines for scholarships and applications, and a sample of a thank you note for recommendations. The book is easy to follow and is based on Mrs. VonGruben's own personal experiences with her children. The college industry has become a big business and wise students and parents need to explore all options. This book will help them to know when to begin the college planning process, how to go about it, and enable students and parents to make wise decisions regarding college.

I read this book at school. I was impressed by the language. The day before I read this book I found out that the author wrote this book about his three sons.

This was my favorite book when I was little. Now that I'm a father, I can't seem to find my copy (I managed to keep it for 20+ years, but I may have just had one move too many), so I was sad to see it was out of print.

Hopefully it will turn up, because this book is a real gem.

I was given this book when I was a little girl and it instantly became one of my favorite books which I still keep in my library today. The book is wildly imaginative and teaches children that limits only exist in your own mind, certainly not in the minds of others. It's a shame that this book is no longer in print because it's truly timeless. If you see it anywhere grab a copy and then torture yourself by giving it away to a child that's dear to you.

This book has got to be one of the most informative books that I have read on the subject of heart disease. A very easy read with so much information that you want to read it more then just once. I was able to understand what I was reading, which is a rare in this field. Thank you so much for sharing your information Mr. Watson!

Alan Watson's latest publication is an oxymoron to say the least.

The least being what our medical community has lead us to believe,that's what's killing us is an overindulgence in the products that we all feel BAD about eating, but love so much.

He mightly challenges the rhetoric that has been "shoved down our throats" (all pun intended) by the medical establishment.
To encourage us to eat MEAT, EGGS and CHEESE (lions, tigers and bears, OH MY!!!),is an insult to our mentality, yes??
I say NO!

Through years of study, fact-finding, and interviews with established nutrition specialists, he has published a guide that disputes the MYTHS and gets down to the real "skinny" with "21 Days to a Healthy Heart".

Emphasizing that through a scheduled plan of diet and moderate exercise, natural mineral supplements, and being cognizant of our health needs, we can live a healthy and (somewhat) indulgent lifestyle.

His particular concerns about sugar intake and Diabetes is a must read for everyone.
As an individual that has spent his life "riding the fence" between exercise and love of "dangerous" foods, I've found this book an invaluable tool in my quest of a balanced culinary lifestyle.

I highly recommend this to all, regardless of age, gender or country of origin.

Go ahead and read what you've been missing.

In this major work of narrative theology, Alan Lewis breaks new ground with his moving and comprehensive exposition of the neglected but vital place of Holy Saturday in the Paschal mystery. Writing passionately but with precision, during his own Holy Saturday experience of temporary remission from terminal cancer, he offers compelling insights into "God's powerful weakness." Prayer, for him, is the "posture of those who foreswear the idolatry of self-reliance and affirm rather the perfection, primacy and power of God." It is only because of God's self-surrender to death, "that those and only those who lose and give themselves away shall find and fulfill themselves." Lewis calls us to a Christocentric catholicity that defies the individualism, nationalism, and group conflicts nurtured by a "secular pluralism." When "power is the expression, not the opposite, of service," the Easter Saturday community will be characterized by "audacious speech as well as suffering silence." Not a book for the faint-hearted, this book, prayerfully pondered, will leave no reader's life unchanged. Lenora Black, OSB

I learned more theology from one course under Dr. Alan Lewis than from over 40 years of church sermons. He taught, as he wrote, from his personal knowledge and understanding of Christianity during the months he was living with painful, incurable cancer. As more fully explained in the last chapter of this book, healing is a gift from God. No one person is more deserving of it than another. Diseases are not God's punishments. They happen. I am renewing and reviewing my Christian beliefs during my personal struggles with my dad's end-stage Parkinson's disease and my young cousin's ovarian cancer.

I hope that amazon.com promotes this book because it deserves reading by all thoughtful Christians.

The original edition, hardcover with beautiful dust jacket, was printed in 1975 in England. It is one of my favorite all-time photo books, since in includes shots of Borobudur, the Ziggurat, the Red Fort in Delhi, Angkor Wat, Ctesiphon in Iraq - lots of photos hard to find even on the net. History all the way to the opera house in Sydney. A most fascinating book. Large: 9 1/4 x 11 3/4, 383 pages, a sound minimal text with each plate numbered and easily referenced - to me this is one of the great books. Everyone who has travelled, or who wants to travel, will enjoy this tremendously. (Many of the areas shown are difficult and often dangerous to visit, now.) Try it. You'll like it.

This volume should be among the first 5 books anyone interested in the history of landscape must buy, no wonder it's included in the academic readings in many fine schools. The B&W photographs are remarkable, and it's filled with plans and diagrams from all over the world. In the last revised edition, covers the actual trends in landscape architecture, as well as asian and pre-columbian cultures. As an architect starting out in this field of study, I found it very helpful, and I'm sure others will!

My school gave many students who attended an event a copy of this book. Since that day, my roomates and I read it every night, as a way of keeping up faith that although college is difficult, through the grace of God, we will make it through. I reccomend this book to any college student in need of inspiration, to any parent of a college student, or to anyone in general. This is a wonderful presentation of stories.

"Nobody on latrine duty ever got the Medal of Honor." This truism may be found in the wonderfully titled _The Day I Fired Alan Ladd and Other World War II Adventures_ (University of Missouri Press) by A. E. Hotchner. Hotchner may have done some latrine duty in his time, but it wasn't latrine duty that kept him from getting a Medal of Honor. It was show business. It is hard to be a hero, he reflects, but his book is a chronicle of how he sincerely tried to get a chance to show some heroism, and how (though he did his assigned Army Air Force duties with aplomb) he never got that chance. There are many fine memoirs of World War II service, with the last ones coming out now as that "Greatest Generation" passes on. This one is a funny, unique tale of typical military snafus that often sounds as if it was a chapter in _Catch-22_.

Hotchner was eager to do his duty, and he knew just what he wanted to do, become a combat Navy pilot, because he admired the naval attire Dick Powell had worn in a movie. He persuaded a friend to join him in application to Navy pilot training. The friend got in; Hotchner failed his depth perception test. He then persuaded another friend to join him in regular naval officer training. The friend got in, and Hotchner was disqualified for flat feet. But he did get to enlist in the Army Air Force, and was overjoyed to apply to bombardier school. But somehow, his personnel file indicated he had written a musical in college, so he was required to write one for "I Am an American Day." He wrote as badly as he could, and the troops loved it. Hotchner got accepted to bombardier school, but General Fickle liked the show so much, he ordered Hotchner to perform it in all the states under his command instead. Eventually he was going to go into combat, but since he had theatrical experience, his next commander figured he was just the one to make a film about patrolling for U-boats, instead of actually patrolling for U-boats. When he finally was shipped to Europe, he learned in passage that Germany had surrendered.

Hotchner may have turned his repeated disappointments into amusement after many years, but his slim volume reads wonderfully well as one big joke on himself. He has breezy raconteurship for so many funny stories, but there are some episodes that are serious reflections on his times. He has a meaningful encounter with Clark Gable, for instance, going through excruciating military training as a way of getting through the pain of the death of his wife Carole Lombard. He tells us about how New Yorkers wouldn't let a man in uniform pay for his own dinner and drinks, and he shows how women were liberated at the time occupationally and sexually. It isn't his fault this isn't a memoir full of battle heroism, but the war effort was diverse, and his is a unique story.

A friend of mine who met Mr. Klevit a few years ago, gave me the book for my 18th birthday last week. I have already read it and loaned it to a friend, with several others waiting. It's kind of a science fiction book with messages for improving your life. It doesn't preach to me, and I like that, which some books and shows do. It lays it out there. Be anybody you want to be. Respect. Self-love. Where you fit in the scheme of things--the Big Picture. This book is full of hope, while it is exciting. I plan to get some books on meditation and zen, thanks to the author. Not only can this book get you thinking about your life, and what you can do to improve it, it is a fun read. The divisions--chapters are clever, too, "In the Grotto," which is as exciting as Stephen King's "Pet Cemetary", "E=MC2," and other names to get you curious. I hope they make this book into a movie. It would be a hit.

Sometimes a "quest Book" is boring or tired. Sometimes, it's credility is suspect. Not this book on either count. I bought Three Days in Sedona based on some reviews I read. Although they were all positive, the readers were not sure if they believed all of the author's "wierd" experiences. Well, I have seen a spaceship (in Idaho--twice). And I have "travelled in space." And I don't think these things are wierd. I admire the way Klevit describes his unusual experiences with child-like wonder but with no excuses or apologies. And he is right on. Best of all, his observations about his life helped me examine mine. I think I am a better person for it. Thank you, sir.

By the time I finished the introduction, I already had enough ideas to change my life. That was the author's intention, I guess, as he pointed out, very cleverly, that once you believe that just about anything is possible--like science fiction becoming reality--then it applies to your own life, too. I like his style. It is straightforward, very conversational, like he is sitting there talking to you. Even though some of things he claims he did seem pretty far out there, like space travel, aliens and the like, his sincerity makes it hard to not believe him. And whether you do or not doesn't matter, because he uses his experiences as tools. Creative visualization, open mindedness, seeing the big picture, loving yourself, and a lot of things authors are writing about now (14 years later), give this book a lot of credibility. Klevit was ahead of his time. And he doesn't just talk about stuff. He gives suggestions I have been able to implement and improve my attitude and my life. Where's the sequel, sir?