This book seems to have really helped my daughter! Now, when I'm getting ready to go somewhere and she starts clinging to me I remind her about Matthew (the boy in the book) and she accepts the separation better.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I would recommend it. Very entertaining, enjoyable, and warm.

This book is a compilation of articles by the world's experts on muscle pain syndromes, including fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome based on presentations during the 1998 Myopain conference in Italy, sponsored by the International Myopain Society. It provides an excellent overview of the current knowledge base of these syndromes, the etiology, treatment options, etc. The book is intended for persons with some medical background and may be a bit too technical for others. Highly recommended!

I am an American ex-patriate who regularly sails on the Craotian Coast-- Fantastic. I stumbled across this book in a small Croatian book store. My english version on the book is ISBN 953-6036-87-8. This is the ONLY english language cruising guide for the area to the best of my knowledge. Information is concise and useful including pictures, weather, and ancorage information. information is current for what I have checked. It is a MUST HAVE book for cruising in the area.

A fabulous and profoundly insightful book that answers some very significant (and perhaps unconscious) questions: Why are we compelled to scare our children? And why do children delight in being terrified? An absolute must for both parents and students of folklore.

While this book is written for boaters who land and then might do a dayhike, it is a great guide to the state and county parks in the San Juan Islands, Skagit and Island counties and areas on the water in the Olympic Pennisula. A solid book that delivers information on areas that are not widely known.

Amante Marinas is an amazing martial artists. He is the most published fillipino martial artist, and reading this book will tell you why. Master Marinas is clear and to the point. He does not waste any time teaching or showing "pretty" moves. Just as "PO" says, "I teach my student things that they would use for a free fight." A MUST READ!!!

Very good translations of the great, hard-to-translate Russian poet. The six long poems that comprise the collection, On a Red Steed, Poem of the Mountain, An Attempt at a Room, Poem of the End, New Year's Greetings, and Poem of the Air, retain the compressed power of Tsvetaeva's short poems. Tsvetaeva's tormented spirit shines through. There is also good selection of Tsvetaeva's short poems in the back. A must read for all who love modern Russian poetry.

A haunting and twisted drama set in modern day Ireland that throws the audience in the life of a close, dysfunctional family as they struggle w/ the the tragedies of life. I HIGHLY recommend it to any "twin" or those interested in bizarre familial relationships.

Gene Sharp's The Politics of Nonviolent Action is a landmark study of nonviolence in three volumes: Power and Struggle, The Methods of Nonviolent Action, and The Dynamics of Nonviolent Action. Power and Struggle begins with an analysis of the nature of political power. Sharp, Senior Scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution, reveals that political power is not intrinsic to rulers but derives exclusively from citizens. Thus political power requires social support. And therein lies the key to nonviolent action: "Political power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support" (pg. 63). Next Sharp attempts to correct some common "misconceptions" about nonviolence. Among these corrections, he insists: "Success with nonviolent action does not require (though it may be helped by) shared standards and principles, a high degree of community of interests, or a high degree of psychological closeness between contending groups" (pg. 71). Finally, Sharp outlines a brief history of nonviolent action, from plebeian noncooperation in ancient Rome to modern movements like the Czechoslovakian civilan resistance of 1968. Power and Stuggle is an important step in the study of nonviolent political change and an indispensable reference for its practice.However, many scholars and activists criticize Sharp's otherwise execellent model for its deevaluation of nonviolence's spiritual dimension. All societies will inevitably require change not only at the political level, but also the social. And to believe political change will, in turn, affect a social change is to deny Sharp's model of political power, which states that the political power of states resides in their citizens. Therefore, in order to affect social change it becomes necessary to utilize methods of "shared standards and principles," that is, to utilize the spiritual dimension of nonviolent action. Indeed the required depth of spirituality appears proportionaly equal to the depth of social change to be affected. If government is the will of the people manifest, then the nonviolent activist must change the will of the people, not the government. When viewed in this light we see why both Gandhi's and King's movements ultimately failed. Both successfuly affected political change but were assassinated before social change could be completed. Thus the strained relations between Hindus and Muslims in the Indian subcontinent and the remaining emotional segregation between blacks and whites in our own nation.Is then the aim of nonviolence not to change the politics but the people, or will Sharp's model work to successfully affect social change?