Reading this book has helped make nine very enjoyable. This series of books is great. Understanding the different stages takes out the frustration and makes watching and helping your childern grow and develop a JOY.

When you know what behaviors are "normal" for your child's age you can relax, stop the worry, and focus on appropriate solutions. This whole series of books accurately defines the ages and stages of children. These books keep your expectations realistic and allow you to avoid anger caused by a lack of understanding of your child's developmental stages.

This book not only helped me but it changed me. Being quite like the author I believe that people that go through traumatic experiences should do the best that they can to pick themselves up and go on with life as best they can. It is true. Darkness is the touch of death and would be extremly hard to deal with if you were in the same situation. David Bisson is a very forgiving man and should be known as that sort of person. He rose above his past and went on. People do not apresiate what they have until they don't have it anymore. They don't realise how fortunate they really are until they read something like this. People get sick of each other and wish that they never see them again. This is natural but I think that this book should begin to show others what some people's lives are really like. Mental pain will always be more powerful than physicall. David faught for the acceptance of his parents, the acceptance of his brother, the acceptance of his peers and the acceptance of the darkness. DARKNESS KILLS...

The work of this medieval sculptor rivals anything produced by Michaelangelo or Bernini centuries later. The prolific photographs and details of his work contained in this volume help illustrate the richness of his sculpted pieces. The views from many different angles make one eager to examine it in person, in the round. Biographical information about Claus Sluter, his times and the political influences give clues about the freedom given Sluter to create so individualistically. Sluter's work is part of the medieval world in which art had a powerful message to convey and his did so in an effective and appealing way. The early reform movement, Modern Devotion, is discussed in connection with Sluter. Other superlative works of art were inspired by this movement which appealed both to the intellectuals and common man of the day. I appreciate being able to read this book and highly recommend it.

Many guide books are long on information and short on readablility.This book by David Piper,who was for some time the head of the National Portrait Gallery is both erudite and witty.He covers all the essentials but puts on a gloss of wit and lards his facts with sotries and comments which compliment the text.His chapters on the Wallace Collection and St,Pauls would be hard to beat.I lived in London for many years and read many books about it.There are some very fine guide books on London but this is among the best that I have read.If you take a chapter you can generally walk the chapter in one to two hours and although some of the landmarks that he mentioned in the earlier editions have since gone, thank God the Salisbury is still there on St.Martin's Lane although sadly the Lyoon's Corner houses have quite disappeared as has the cafe where Yeats wrote his poem.In the fifties this cafe was owned by Cypriot and was a local working class restaurant known to LSE students at the nearby Pasfield Hall as the Greasy Spoon.The owner infuriated my American and Canadian friends by bringing water without ice(wanting ice on an English winter day seemed bizarre to we Brits)and smothering the apple pie with custard.After they had tasted English ice-cream at the time the gladly went back to the custard.

A joyous book that will make kids and adults laugh

Swartz has done a masterful job in bringing Bourdieu's complicated thought and style to an Anglo-American readership. But he has gone even further in demonstrating the ways in which Bourdieu's work is problematic and/or falls short. Truly, a remarkable work of sythesis, scholarship, and critique.

This is a superb look at Paris. First catching the eye are the gorgeous watercolor sketches of the city and its people. Then the text grabs one's attention... a carefully considered, affectionate and very personal description of a Paris thet is not only a repository of culture but also a vibrant, ever-changing city. A delightful book in every respect! I couldn't give it enough stars.

In this book, written in 1959 when memories were still fresh, David Howarth presents the human face of D-Day through the experiences of its participants. Each sector of the operation - airborne and seaborne - is covered and given its full due. Mr Howarth has no bones to pick or axes to grind. Instead, through the stories of a small number of individuals he shows us how 'ordinary' people can, in extreme circumstances, often behave in extra-ordinary ways. He shows respect for all those involved. All of this is presented in a most clear and readable style. Despite its age this is an inspiring book and a must for any student of Operation Overlord.

I was amazed at how Bromwitch drew all these great connections to the work of Romantic Poet and Baretta star, Robert Blake. I had no idea that the plot to do away with fellow poet Bonnie Lee Blakey was actually inscribed in Tintern Abbey. This is Bromwitch's great insight, and boy, did I lose a lot of sleep over it. I am also impressed with the claim that all of Wordsworth's poetry grew out of his own obsession with the female reproductive system, particularly that of his sister, Dorothea. After reading this book I quickly decided to disown the book, and lent it on purpose to a friend with Alzheimer's, so he would not remember from whence it came. So, I say, thank god for disowning memory!

This book covers the German army from D-day to D+7. Each day begins with an overview by the editor, David C. Isby. The OKW war diary comments on the conflict follow. These summaries are helpful, but the real meat on the coconut are the specific descriptions of the actual German units doing the fighting and the problems they faced as well as successes and failures experienced for each day. Most the the narratives are based on recollections of the officer participants whose rank varied. They are dominated by the general officers, naturally. The volume closes with some overview comments by some of the senior German officers involved in the fighting.
This book is a useful addition to any library concerning the Normandy campaign. Despite the many German units involved, the organization of the material is easy to follow. There are interesting tidbits spread through it as well as some opinions about the quality of the allied forces. No surprise, they didn't think much of the competence of the British leadership although the courage of the British soldiers was admired.
Pride in the German army is evident, and its ability to respond to the invasion described through these dispassionate commentaries is impressive. Example: despite taking the brunt of the attack at Omaha Beach, the 352nd infantry division was still a cohesive entity at the end of the eight days. Even though its losses were terrible, it remained in the line fighting the invaders.