I loved this book. It was interesting and kept my attention throughout. I feel it is a must for parents dealing with children on the Autism Spectrum.
As we all know none of our children in the autism spectrum are the same. The boy in this book was more "severe" as a child than my son, but it still gave me a better understanding into why and how my child thinks. Although never explicitly stated in the book it gave me insight to easily find ways to ask my son questions as to why he does certain things. I never would have understood certain issues about my child for lack of a good way to ask my son questions about his problems & confusion had it not been for this book! The book also comes with a happy ending and good closure to this inspiring man's journey living with Autism. Even if you are not a parent or educator with a child on the Autism Spectrum, I think you would find this book interesting and worth the read. As the Author grows, his determination to succeed is inspiring for anyone.

Having a son on the spectrum myself, I found this book to offer such a genuine perspective into the mindset of both the parent and the child. In particular, having the added insights and explainations of Sean Barron, himself, in reference to the often bizarre and seemingly unexplainable behaviors that are associated with autism, gave me a unique new set of eyes to see my son through. What a gift this,is in terms of the insight it provides and the hope it inspires.

I teach children with a variety of behavioral handicaps, and this book explains the behaviors of children with autism from the point of view of the parents and the child himself as well as any I have ever read.

I've taught AutoCAD for over ten years now - piecing together bits and pieces from one book and another. But no book ever covered the subject as well as the One Step at a Time series. With Sykes' 2002 book, I can cover both basic and intermediate classes. With his 3D book, I can complete my student's training in the same easy style they've become accustomed to.
Good job, Sykes! Keep it up!

Buy it today i have it and it tought me a now i am almost a pro buy it today

I was just starting out with CAD at work and needed a book to teach me AutoCAD. I couldn't have asked for a better one! This book explained a topic/tool thoroughly, but then it literally walked me through how to use it (One Step at a Time). (There is even a CD with video demonstrations of many of the exercises.) After that, the author provided several exercises for me to work on my own (from simple to challenging). I feel very comfortable working in two-dimensional CAD now and have produced several client-ready drawings. I even got a raise!

What more is there to say? I am not a religious person. But this book brought me to spiritual peace. I feel blessed to have lived during the time this woman walked the face of the earth.

Love to Mother was an action, not an emotion. Twice I was with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India. Twice I was in the presence of greatness.

She once took my hands in hers and said to me, "Love is giving, so go love. Don't use words where your hands can speak better." Mother was love. Her two gnarled hands stretched out to bring selfless, pure love to the orphan, the dying, the despised. At the entrance to the leprosarium there is a notice which reads: "Where there is great love, there are always great miracles."

This small, 116-page booklet cannot capture the immensity of Mother's love for all humanity, but it can give you a sampling of her spirit. The 35 black-and-white photos of Mother Teresa along with her words of wisdom make this an excellent gift or just a book to put in your pocket and read daily, while commuting, waiting in a line, or somewhere in our love-starved world. Highly recommend.

There is a profundity to Mother Teresa's deceptively simple theology that surpasses the understanding. Rooted in her own experiences, it spreads cheer and peace in a way entirely unlike more "happy" or "optimistic" religious affirmations of faith.

this brings on the imagination I can hear the music taunting and lilting you along with Connors quest..the magic, life and love....the determintation and the final simple answers, although this Television show is no more the story should go on the quest is unfinished, Sean should continue Conners legecy

I just read "The Cauldron" two days ago. I really loved it! It has as many twists and turns in the plot, just like the tv show! I generally don't like fantasy books, but I have been reading a lot of them based on Celtic legends and mythology, it has all that and more. Fans of "Roar" will love to add this book to their Celtic book library!

This is a fine fantasy novel; fans of the recently-cancelled show will enjoy it immensely, as will those interested in Celtic lore. Let's hope many more are planned in this series.

My Uncle was a just person who valued everyone. In a time when mostly guys were honored, he took me duck hunting. My brothers watched as I waited with my Uncle. We watched the ducks come in. My feet were freezing and he warmed them in his coat.We never did get a duck, but I have never felt so valued. I think I am the only one in my family to fly with Uncle Pat. He showed me how to do dive bombs on clouds. My brother Bob served in Desert Storm...He also died...There are precious people that we love..they show us what honor is about.

Chief: Marine Corps Warrior is the candid and dramatic biography of Lieutenant Colonel John P. "Pat" Flynn, Jr., as written by his son Sean J. Flynn. With special emphases on John Flynn's loyal and courageous service in the Marines, as well as conveying his loving family life, triumphs, and foibles, Chief: Marine Corps Warrior is an inspirational military biography and a welcome, appreciated addition to the growing library of World War II memoirs and biographies.

Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen, the author of "Into the Tiger's Jaw", said Flynn taught you "how to rise above all the racism" without being "confrontational toward the Marine Corps . . . You had to follow him. Everybody respected him. Everybody loved him. I have never met another man with the sincerity, conviction, and strength of [Flynn]. Chief was a legend."

I personally know author Sean J. Flynn and was the first in line to pick up this book at his book signing in Mitchell, SD, where Professor Flynn is an assistant professor of History at Dakota Wesleyan University. In "Cheif - Marine Corps Warrior", Flynn follows the military life of his father, John P. "Pat" Flynn (also known as "Chief"), a direct descendent of Chief Spotted Tail, the uncle to Crazy Horse.

Pat Flynn's military career began as a Corsair pilot in the Pacific during World War II as well as a Corsair pilot during the Korean War, where he was shot down and taken captive for nearly two years.

Flynn's determination and Faith sustained him during his time in the hands of Chinese Communists where he was placed under enormous physical and psychological strain, which is greatly described by Sean Flynn.

This book is a tribute to one of the greatest heroes of South Dakota and the United States. If I could've given this book more than five stars, I would have.

This is a damn good book about a damn good American.

although initailly pausing at my mother's excitement for at least the opening passages read aloud to her in the kitchen for the first time home in three years birthday supper of chicken divan, oh what are you reading and start it safe for two to three paragraphs out loud and then hid the book from her in a second as these lips sloppily kissed memories of broken spanish arabic chessboard pieces floating across the room. the book, this book read as quick fast as can be and no wonder wonderful, chillingly, sinkingly plunge knifelike constant and swell with the rest of red and bulbous skinplump puckers. a sad analogy, rollicking heartstring ripping relentless piece of beauty but my goodness even the victims beg for more such exquisite homage to sad truth and otherwise plain endeavor to the mere task of simply enduring as one must and hopes for the next yes whiskey bar. Dear auteur mr. strickland one only can conive or conviviate for the next seven or eight years and the geography therewithin... your fan suzie Q

Yea, verily doth this bard shackle his song in a
prison of awkward poet-speak, a choke-stone
thesaurus weight clipping every obtuse metaphor-wing.
Dwelleth he in the realm of cliché hawk themes.

And yet, heaven's soulful exegesis was not a
twilight-empty wink in an ocean of sorrow-speak
but true passion was fate's casualty nonetheless!

Still ... would not a sage dwell in gloom's glassy word-shadow?
As a dove homes to cool stalactite mass,
safe surrounded by the blaze of desert's ignorance.
Silently do deep truth channels run.

5 stars! Thumbs up! A must imitate!

Most novels today come across as the bloodless rough drafts of writing
school inmates taught by spry bunglers; The Compass of that Sea strikes one
with such sheer delicate intricacy of immense artistry - a full nine years
of intense crafting went into its workmanship - utilizing high-wire
techniques begged, borrowed, bought or stolen from masters as diverse as
Beckett, Celan, Cortazar, Joyce, Schmidt, Simon, Stein and Woolf, that the reader
veritably shudders, stutters to describe it. In a word, profound!

Melvin Burgess's first novel,The Cry of the Wolf is without a doubt my most favorite book I have ever read! It is a compelling story about the greediness of a deranged man, also known as the hunter. But if I left you with that you would not have truely understood this novel. The Cry of the Wolf is also about the strugle that last wolf in England is put throught to survive. Even if you do not like wolfs this book is still one that should be on every young readers shelf. Although there is some vilonce and crude nature, so I reccomend that children should be ten at the youngest when they read this book. ...

WoW! This has been one of my favorite books since I got it a few years ago. I've read it at least 10 times and lent it to most of my friends. It's billed as a children's book, but it's fairly violent, sometimes chillingly so. I would wait to give it to kids until they're 12 or so. Evil is personified as the Hunter, who is never given a name, only his Occupation to identify him. Grey Cub, on the other hand, is a wolf who seems at times almost human. Between the Hunter and his prey stands Ben Tilley, who loves the wolves, and doesn't realize that he's opening the door to their extinction when he tells a stranger that they exist.........

The Cry of the Wolf is my all time favourite book, I loved it! I thought it was really awesome, and have read it at least eight times! I totally recommend it, especially if you like wolves! It's really sad in some parts, but I think the ending was good. :)

It says a lot about contemporary poetry when a prize-winning collection's frame of reference is 40s and 50's jazz music -- a form not popular since, well, the 1950s. The Singer book skillfully drops all the requisite jazzbo references, which must make people like W.S. Merwin, the Yale Series judge, ache for his youth or at least feel hep for the hour. But how long can poetry crutch on such shop-worn referentiality? Certainly not long enough to earn poetry a general and appreciative audience. My quibble here isn't with the skill -- that's all there. It reminds me of the question the late poet William Matthews, also a jazz fan, once posed to a lecture audience: "What did posterity do for us lately?" In the case of this book, not much, I'm afraid. Just seems freeze-dried.

Many poets would sell their souls for one true poem. Sean Singer has a different relationship with Mephistopheles. He gives his soul away--and it's given back--and so his poems are freely his; and they are true. Some are purely lyrical; some are written in tongues; they are all written in poetry. Too much verse in either tradition--the tradition of meters and the tradition of free verse--isn't written in poetry at all. Much 'poetry' isn't poetry (thus the need for deals with the devil). Too much of it is thematics or contrivance. Not Sean Singer's poetry. Mr. Singer isn't afraid to write metaphor (dark planed & luminary), to test the voice--that poor arrow?, or to try to write beautiful lines. A reader may think, while reading Singer's poems, of the improvisations of jazz. A reader will be reminded of the beautiful motions of the mind. Sean Singer's book is a revelation.

Moving between himself in the third person and others in the first, Singer interpolates the line that wavers between degradation and redemption and is itself art. His poems are like fragments of jazz crystallized out of music and into language. The whole that emerges from these fragments is more than just a literary analog of jazz; it embraces the history and power of the movement to enact change, the ability of art to transform. This book succeeds at the impossible project of showing us ourselves as individuals while revealing the sameness that holds us together.

Moontide and Magic Rise is the only thing of Sean Russell's I've read so far but definitely will read more. The big draw for me was that it was very original in what has become a deluge of Jordan/Goodkind themes. The first of the two books took off pretty slowly, there was a bit much detail spent on the mundane. Maybe by the second book I was used to it but I definitely thought it was the better of the two. With only 100 pgs. to go I was thinking there's no way this will wrap it up and then found myself disappointed that it did because I wanted more! Good story.

This book is full of interesting political intrigue!!!!!! I am 16 years old, and I think politics is boring and stupid, but Sea Without a Shore's old-world-ish politics were fresh, interesting, realistic, and altogether entertaining. The way Russel integrates the old legends of mage lore into the Moontide and Magic Rise series is great because it is very believable, and interesting as you follow the characters, on either side of the Farr court, discovering more and more about the legendary mages. Tristam's part in the book is being the modest hero, whom everything seems to happen to because he is special, no doubt. Russel accomplishes much with the long dialogue of the characters and their subtle movements. Never a dull moment, enough intelligent conversations intertwine with exciting action. In this book, the Swallow finally reaches Varia, a seeming tropical paradise that provides ample culture, tradition, natives, and mysterious places for much adventure into the unknown. The Dutchess is always a source of mystery, her strong yet vulnerable character revealed yet never fully understood. The characters made this book, as does the great ending that involves most of the main characters. A must-read! I can't wait to read their predecessors, the river into darkness series!

Book Two of Moontide and Magic Rise is good for the same reason as its predecessor: fascinating characters, locations, and intrigue. Russell is excellent at weaving an intricate tapestry of storylines, leaving the reader in just enough darkness that he or she will want to read on to solve the mystery. I'm glad to have stumbled upon Sean Russell, as I was beginning to think there were no more writers left, only people very poorly copying very poor ideas from television.

My mom bought this for me and I just finished it.
It was really good.

There is nothing in this book that is improper for children. This is a book specifically designed for young readers with no foul language and nothing indecent. Tony is a very moral and respectable person and a great role model for children.

My oldest son is 15 years old, and he loves Tony's books Occupation Skateboarder. The problem was that my 8 year old wanted to read the book too, but it was too hard for her. Thankfully, Tony came out with Tony Hawkk Professional Skateboarder which is an easier to read version. She read it all by herself one Saturday---I can never get her to read! When she was done my 15 years old read it--there were new photos and stories, he was so happy. Thanks, Tony, for getting my kids to read.