The reason I chose this book is because Greg Maddux is a good player and one of my favorite players. Greg Maddux has won Cy young awards and many others. He's played for the Chicogo Cubs and one of my favorite's the Atlana Braves. He has been playing baseball for 18 years. First he was a out feilder and then a pitcher in the Major League Baseball. He was an outfeilder in High school, too. I liked it when the author told me that Greg started playing baseball at the age of 20. I would recomend this book to people who like Greg Maddux . The book is a sport book that tells alot about how brave he was to start playing baseball at the age of 20. He thought positive not negatively. Being positive is also important when you make good friends, and do homework

Outler has a thorough knowledge of Wesley's life, teachings, and impact. He does more than present a summary of that, but he gives insight as well. One of the greatest is of Wesley's grasp of both Protestant and Catholic theologies, that creates something new (or old, i.e. in the 'primitive' church).

This book is an inspiration for me it tells me that I can acheive anything if I put my mind and hardwork into it. Showing how this great athlete achieved such fame and tanasity at a young age is very astounding. I'm proud to say I respect this person a lot.

The excellent value, although this is not the among the less expensive books. A perfect photography (digital) reconstruction made this book/atlas as very valuable guide to clinical experience and practice. In combination with the newest informations and literature of the world (reference cited are just few months old before printing the book), provides a genuine scientific and in many instances confirmed current concepts in premalignant conditions of the female reproductive tract. All and all, the book evryone in obstetrics/gynecology should have in their own libreries.

A very extent textbook on maternofetal medicine. Current chapters with a wide and complete revision. Of interest the chapter about recurrent pregnancy loss with explanation of phisiopatologic aspects. The chapter about fetal anomalies and ultrasound diagnosis are extent with clear explanation many graphics of high resolution sonography the best that i view in many recent textbooks. Is today the most usefull book in my library and in my hospital library.

This is a wonderful collection of short 1-2 page writings on many different topics in life. Love, time, how to live with passion for life, friendship, history, you name it. The writings are so eloquent and thought-provoking that you could spend an afternoon talking about each one. A joy to read! Learn to be alive, not to just go on living! This book helps bring meaning to life. You can't ask for more than that.

John A. Murphy's rendition of the Indian wars north of the Ohio, belies the tale of General St. Clair's men "throwing down their guns and running for their lives." This exciting historical work depicts not only the American side of the battles but brings the reader into the Indian nation to view their perspective. This author brings the reader right into the battlefields to feel the bayonet wound, the tomahawk's swift cleaving of a skull, and hear the screams of the men and women as they are scalped while still alive.

The reader finds himself becoming angry at the lack of training, food and clothing that faced these frontier soldiers who were sent to do battle hundreds of miles from home. While sharing the trials with these soldiers, the author shares excerpts of letters that they've written before and after the battles to bring the reader to a more personal level with them.

General St. Clair underwent bitter resentment from the family of his second-in-command for the remainder of his life. They sued him and left him to live in poverty and dispair. Our historians in the far past weren't too keen in their reports and too many papers were lost, burned or stolen, leaving our history poorly recorded. It is to men like Mr. Murphy, that we extend our gratitude for their relentless pursuit of the truth.

"Shattered Glory" is a must purchase.

This book gives you a complete rap up of Dikembe's life. You feel as if you are there with him. You will never know a sports star better than this!

This is the best introductory exposition of relativity theory ever written. As a book, it occupies that strange middle ground between fiction and non-fiction, much like the Magic Schoolbus books (where should the librarian put them?), but it is for a somewhat older age group. By somewhat older, I mean only that it has fewer pictures: I'd put it in with all the Milton Bradley/Parker Brothers games, and say it's for ages 8 to 80. For ANYONE who is interested in relativity, no matter what their age, this book is a perfect place to start. Check your library, and if you can't find it try to place an "out of print" order. This book is a gem.

John Gatto received the "New York State Teacher of the Year " award for 1991. He describes what he feels is happening in the state of education and the changes he feels need to occur. He writes of seven lessons that he believes are taught all over the country. His first lesson is confusion, which means teachers teaching everything out of context. He also talks about the lesson of class position. This is the belief that all students belong in a certain class and the is no space to move from one part of this system to another. The next lesson that he discusses is the issue of indifference, wherein children are led to believe that the only thing they are to believe in is what the teacher teaches. His next lesson is the issue of emotional dependency, meaning that students do not have rights within the walls of the school. His fifth lesson is the intellectual dependency wherein students depend on their teacher to make all the decisions. Provisional self-esteem is also one of these lessons. These means that students are dependent on adults for the way they feel about themselves. Finally he talks about the lesson of one can't hide, meaning that students are constantly under surveillance.   All of these lessons lead to Gatto's total disbelief in state of our educational system. He sees the national curriculum we use as producing paralysis in the educational setting. He sees students being taught how to remain within a caste system and never being given the chance to move out of their placement. He observes students as not being able to find what they are special in or their strong areas. The whole book supports Gatto's beliefs in providing sound evidence of why there needs to be a reform in our educational system. This system needs the student have a choice in their education, designing a self- curriculum that best matches their personal needs not the needs of a nation.

You may be able to read this book in only a few hours but it may just change the way you view public schooling forever. John Taylor Gatto makes a compelling case for eliminating public "schooling" and returning education to the parents were it belongs. In one profound paragraph he neatly sums up the reason public schools don't educate. "The debate about whether we should have a national curriculum is phony. We already have a national curriculum locked up in the seven lessons outlined (Confusion, class position, indifference, emotional dependency, intellectual dependency, provisional self esteem, and one can't hide) such a curriculum produces phisical, moral and intellectual paralysis, and no curriculum of content will be sufficient to reverse its hideous effects. What is currently under disscussion in our national histeria about falling academic performance misses the point. Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid." Clearly Mr Gatto knows the difference between "schooling" and real education and how to achieve the latter.()

John Taylor Gatto was an award-winning public school teacher when he wrote much of the text for this book. He reveals the curriculum of public schools nationwide under the headings: Confusion, Class Position, Indifference, Emotional Dependency, Intellectual Dependency, Provisional Self-Esteem, and One Can't Hide. He asserts that the true goal of childhood learning should be to discover some meaning in life...a passion or an enthusiasm that will drive subsequent learning pursuits. Instead, schools cram irrelevant facts into young minds, substituting book-knowledge for self-knowledge. This book explains a lot for anyone who got good grades, went to college, and then didn't have any idea what to do with his life. It's also a wake-up call to parents with school-age children. Do we really want our children to grow up to be good factory workers and do as they're told? Do we really want them to buy into the "Good grades=good jobs" myth? Do we want them to believe that the goal in life is to acquire more and more stuff to fuel consumerism? Or should we give them more reflective, unstructured time in childhood to find out who they are, what they like, and how they can contribute to their communities? Dumbing Us Down is a quick, worthwhile read.