"Puppy Kisses" is an enchanting combination of good reading and good instructions for raising puppies. It is also the tender touching story of Howard and his dog Annie, and their life together. "Kisses" tells the reader all the things breeders have ever told a puppy buyer, an interested person on the telephone, or anyone else who has inquired of you: "How would you handle this, or what is your advice on that?" Now there is a manual with all your advice written in black-and-white, and easily understood. The book takes you from the dreaded chewing stage to adolescence to adulthood -- to the last battle at age 14+ of Howard's beloved Annie. This is something we've all gone through, wish we didn't have to...but after reading Mr. Weinstein's book, we know that while it's a sad time, it's also a time every dog owner has to face. Part II of this book gives useful information on selection of the right breed, puppy vs. older dog, mixed-breed or purebred, discusses the costs of owning a dog, etc. For breeders, I heartily recommend this book to be given with EVERY puppy you place. You will be doing the new owners and the puppy a great service.

This book is great for first time dog owners who have no clue how to raise a puppy. I was at wits end until I hired Howard Weinstein (the book's auther) for a one hour session. He sold me his book Puppy Kisses at the end of the session. After three days with my dog, Sandy using Howard's techniques and lessons in his book, Sandy and I are understanding each other and enjoying a wonderful life together. I highly recommend this book for anyone trying to train their dog. The other half of Howard's book is a heartwarming diary of life and times with his dog, Annie. Howard's wonderful writing style takes you on a journey where you laugh and cry. I hated for it to end. Puppy kisses is a must read for dog lovers.

This 200 page softcover book answers a long-standing dilemma for us. Pembroke breeders since 1967, we are also obedience trainers. Here under one cover is the first book we have seen that truly describes the delights and tribulations of living with Pembrokes; and provides excellent current training techniques to help any Pem owner guide their beloved puppy into well-behaved and mannerly adulthood. The author's touching, funny, and perceptive history of his 15 year relationship with Mail Order Annie provides humor and insight into the special world of those who choose to share our lives with the Pembroke Welsh Corgi. His practical and well designed training chapters are very well laid out and include much more than basic obedience. This little book is a treasure that we will be proud to include with every Tim Tam Corgi puppy.

Claire McClure Tim Tam Pembroke Welsh Corgis, Training Director, The Oviedo Dog Club, AKC Obedience Judge Emeritus

We had received this book from a friend when our daughter was born. We started reading to her at 4 months of age, and this has always been one of her favorites. She is now 19 months old, and this is the only book she wants us to read at bedtime. We try others, but she always goes and gets this one. It is such a nice story, and a nice way to end the day. The illustrations are beautiful as well. This should definitely be a "must-have" for every child's book collection.

My 2 year old daughter received this book for Christmas from her great-grandmother. It's sweet, innocent, and an excellent way to incorporate God into your night time routine. The pictures at beautiful. We enjoy reading to together often.

I was so pleased the first time I read this book to my son. He received it as a Baptismal gift. The story is so sweet and the illustrations are beautiful... great detail. This book is an important part of our bedtime routine.

The way the author entwines the characters in this novel are so interesting that you can't put the book down.You become part of the Doodletown resident population, feel the tradegy that faces those caught up in the draft riots of the civil war. The lives of of a young teacher, widow, boatbuilder, black man and their families are richly joined together in a story about struggle, love,respect,hope and caring.I loved the characters and the story they had to tell.

I highly recommend this quick-reading novel to all. It incorporates many aspects of life: coming of age, love and marriage, death, the turmoil of war, decision making, and tolerance of others. This captivating novel is a wonderfully written historical fiction piece. The true-to-life characters are cleverly introduced and are fully developed so that you cheer for them during triumphs and have true empathy for them during sorrowful events. The rich descriptions make this novel a pleasure to read. You actually feel that you are on a sailing vessel out on the Hudson River or walking about in the surrounding areas of the novel's many settings. Many fascinating historical facts are delivered within the story. Get hold of this novel and enjoy the adventure!

Agricultural history threatens to be dull and tedious; hence this highly personal account of the adventures of the author from age 9 to 19 on a family farm in the Northeast. A series of vignettes describing chores and other farm work are interspersed with high humor, pranks and harsh physical effort.

The farm setting was the family home of aggricultural leader, economist and teacher, Howard E. Babcock, for years Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Ithaca's Cornell University. Introducing many new farm practices, he told readers of his popular page "Kernels, Screenings and Chaff," in the American Agriculturist magazine of new ways to manage grasslands, employ used auto tires to ease operation of farm equipment. He counseled them to buy open-formula farm feeds from the huge farm cooperative he organized and managed, The GLF (now Agway).

Babcock also introduced farmers and ultimately all consumers, to prepare and consume frozen farm produce and meats. Home freezers were one of the most important contributers to improved diet and life style not only of farmers, but all consumers.

Young John Babcock tells of shooting woodchucks and rats, tending livestock, and operating new farm machines that his dad started to promote in the midst of the Depression decade. After the 1933 Bank Holiday, loan rates fell to the lowest in many years.

Life was hard, but this farm family never missed a meal, nor the chance to enjoy life to its fullest in an era marked by sweeping change. I submit it as a high spirited and readable account.

I've never written a review before, but I am compelled to do so for this book. As a clinical psychologist who occasionally works with kids, I found this book a few years ago and have used it with many parents. I must say this is simply the best self-help book available on the topic of handling child behavior problems. The programs outlined in the book are derived from behavioral research and thoroughly explained. Following the programs is a lot of work, but if followed consistently you will have great results. Thanks to the author for an excellent resource.

Arthur Murray is perhaps the most acclaimed teacher of dance technique EVER. This book offers detailed text, illustrations and diagrams on a wide variety of basic and unique dance styles. A very usueful instructional/reference book!!

Illinois Issues, devoted to Illinois politics, has published its second edition of this collection of sketches of Illinois governors. A colorful and sometimes idealistic lot.

I picked this book up on a whim and thought it very helpful in getting over a past relationship. The authors treat the broken heart as a universal phenomenon, one that every human goes through at least once in their lives. I found this insight very comforting, knowing that there were millions of other people with similar feelings. The authors clearly speak from experience. They are consequently sympathetic towards the broken heart, but that does not stop them from offering a gung-ho program for people finally to start healing themselves and learning to love again. This book also offers helpful advice on how to establish an effective physical platform from which to initiate the psychological healing process: eating right, exercising, etc. Highly recommended!!!!!!!!

I have found this book to be very supportive. Its part friend, part therapy as it guides you through the first month of a break up. Good suggestions without being corny or having alot of psychobabble theories. It also has been great company when I have felt like I just can't drag a friend through the dicussion another time! However I think its best if used when relationship broke up somewhat amicably - as mine did (he doesn't want marriage, I did and hoped that he would in time). There is not enough consoling/understanding what went wrong for break ups that are more traumatic and non-mutual..yeah, I've had those too!

This book really helped me. I found it very difficult to stop myself from reading forward beyond the day's chapter. Sometimes it felt as though the authors new me personally when they were writing. Some things are comforting and other subjects really enlightened me on where I probably went wrong. It's true that the book has several typographical errors, however, the content more than makes up for those mistakes. I am going to read it again, and I highly recommend it.

Having worked for America Online 6 years ago (right before that I worked at a restaurant by the murrah building in okc when it was blown up by mcveigh), I feel I have a pretty good perspective on this kind of stuff. Quoting Gasset "The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select...anyone not like everybody runs the risk of being eliminated.."
The book in a sense tells about two types of people. Those who care about others, and those who care about themselves. Unfortunatly in a world where the competitive nature of man always leads to violence (be it physical, or of the subtle, mental sort) the bad will almost always win out. Having lost a number of friends (literally) due to the operant conditioned nature of life today, and through the media forcing kids to be "cool" to fit in (...)
Anyway, the issues presented in this book, which essentially are an argument against Skinner's promotion of "blank slate" minds that are to be conditioned through "experience", are good ones...however, if you truly understand that you can never, ever do enough to combat the hate and the evil that is so prevelant in the world today, you might want to not read this book...however, if you are aloof and like to buy products and watch movies that the critics agree are "explosive" and, if a sequal "twice as explosive as the first", you might find this book interesting...but probably a bit too academic, and will feel that it should be reserved for Intellectuals or whatever...(...), what do i know.

I was intrigued by the title of this book and really wanted to like it, but found myself struggling to stay focused while reading it.

The three contributing authors have impressive academic credentials and I suppose this work will be used in university classrooms throughout the country, but I think the people who really need to hear the message that technology, economics and ethics can (and should) co-exist will not be attracted to this format.

The authors define people who do good work as: "People who do good work, in our sense of the term, are clearly skilled in one or more professional realms. At the same time, rather than merely following money or fame alone, or choosing the path of least resistance when in conflict, they are thoughtful about their responsibilities and the implications of their work."

The authors spend a lot of time discussing Journalism and Genetics and how ethics and good work in these two arenas are under seige from a market-driven economy. They offer up solutions on how to restore good work to the world and they share their methods of studying good work and their interviewing protocols, but the subject matter is just too academic for the average worker who struggles with ethics v. economics.

Maybe the book will reach university professors...and they'll share it with their students...and they'll go out into the world and strive to do 'good work.'

Let's hope so.

I am a special education teacher and bought this book so I could better understand why some teachers refuse to give learning disabled a chance. I wanted to better understand how some teachers forget the commitment they have to the students they serve. Well, I wished I never read the book. I now understand why people are not commited to their jobs and why administrators asked teachers to "fake" paperwork. I felt lonely while reading this book, because I understand clearly that there are very few people willing to have ethics and excellence meet in their job performance. I am one of those few people and it is a lonely place. The book is a bit dry, much like a college text book. Read it slowly with a dictionary by your side.

This behemothian piece of excrement is a slap in the face of any ligitimate work on insects in general, or growing organic gardens specifically. The book is fraught with inaccuracies and outright misinformation. Case in point, the kissing bug did not get its name from biting people when it accidently flies into your face, it got it from its habit of biting sleeping people on the lips. This information is not critical to the book, but it exemplifies the slothful approach to gathering information the authors obviously used to write this book. The "Stories" are nothing more than opinionted drivel, although some of them are slightly humorous. The authors have no credentials in Entomology (they state that in the Introduction) and although they claim to have consulted "...many other books and research papers..." on the subject, nowhere did I find a reference to such information when something other than common fact was stated (as is necessary in REAL science books), such as aphids "...help to eliminate unfit plants." That is the single most ludicrous thing I have heard in a decade or more! Fortunately for me I didn't buy this waste of sawdust or recycled paper (whatever the case may be), but obviously some did because this "thing" is now in its fourth printing. The one good thing about this book is that the authors advocate the use non-chemical control. Believe me, save your money, you can get much better, less opinionated, advice from a simple Internet search.

I never knew bugs could abe so interesting. The authors combine factual information on insects with entertaining stories of buggy encounters. This book reaches my kids on a level they can understand (they are 8 - 12 years old), yet provides me with plenty of good factual information that helps with gardening. The kids were thrilled to discover that the funny things they had seen "growing" on the fence were actually lacewing eggs. We are eagerly anticipaing their hatching. I also appreciated the recipes for home-made, natural insecticides.

When my two and four year olds starting bringing me bugs from outside, I decided it was time to determine if they were harmful. This book had excellent photographs that helped me identify the bugs. I used it as an educational tool for my two little bug hunters. I am happy to report we have had no dangerous bugs gathered.