This is a well written comprehensive guide. We are new museum owners and use Collective Vision on a regular basis. It really covers everything!

I recommend it highly to anyone who works with childrens' museums, education, and recreation.

After reading Gerard Patterson's 'Debris of Battle' and Robert E. Denney's 'Civil War Medicine', I was left yearning for more information on the role of Catholic Sisters in nursing during the Civil War. Sister Mary Denis has done an outstanding research job, not just with the history of their nursing, as well as otherlay female nursing during the Civil War, but also with popular opinion of Catholics and nuns, and why the Sisters were so uniquely positioned to be of such value. A welcome book on a subject too long ignored.

If love, as the cover claims, is the common thread in these nineteen stories, then love must be a strange fiction in the Irish sensibility. Most of the stories reek of disappointed, disaffected females: no harm in that either, now that I think of it. But hang on a minute. Why are some of the stories so badly written? Is there a suggestion that many of these pieces, because they were commissioned (as the introduction suggests), have suffered from being 'forced' out onto the page? That's how it strikes me. It was difficult to see any logical connection between the stories and the introduction of divorce in Ireland. A couple of the works really succeed, among them Ita Daly's genuinely-sustained, atmospheric 'Do the Decent Thing'. In this story, Rosa observes her stifling, oppressive family, and attempts to forge a sense of reconcilation within herself in relation to the father who has disappointed her. The thing about this story is that this family is a universally oppressed one, not peculiar to the Irish, nor proclaiming its Irishness as if this was a special 'condition' or 'disease'. Mary Morrissey's 'Clods' hits the mark with its splendid laying bare of death, a rural funeral, and the narrator's turmoil. Moreover, her dialogue and character-interaction is superb. And Mary O'Donnell's multi-layered story 'Passover' certainly taps into the global voice: Rosanna, freshly delivered from childbirth in Dublin, reflects on the experience both before and after. But this is no softly-contoured look at maternity. It is a work which drives hard in its use of language to lay bare the essential epiphany which has been the narrator's experience. The story is about pain and violence, not just in childbirth, but in war too, which the author deftly links to wars everywhere, including Vietnam. Connections are made constantly - some of them amusing - between America and Ireland, between pain and beauty, between birth and death. Otherwise, some of the stories are lighter and perhaps more predictable. The title could be re-thought if this book were to be reprinted. As it stands, it's corny, sort of softly-softly womany-sounding!

All of the stories in this book were easy to latch on to, some were more enjoyable than others and I wished they didn't end so fast. The Orphan, by Mary Dorcey, is without a doubt the most disturbing thing that I have ever read, and I wept while reading it. Is it possible that such evil could exist? Is it possible that this story is based on fact? This book made me definitely want to read more by these authors, most of whome were unfamiliar to me (with the exception of Maeve Binchy and Mary Gordon). However, I don't think their books are too available in the US. As I am planning a trip to Ireland this summer, I will surely look for them. I would definitely recommend this book.

This book is very close to useless. Bollettieri is thorough about personal goals in terms of what anyone should strive for but, he spends too much time defining aspects of personality rather than give practical tools for implementing them. I found the writing no more technical than a junior high text with very few insights about mentally preparing yourself for tennis or life. He should have included real-world examples of how he instituted his techniques with some of the world's best players that he's coached (i.e. Becker, Agassi, Courier, Seles, and Pierce). Instead, we are subjected to his general defenitions of aspects of personality and goal setting. These are things available in any self-motivation manual. The one saving grace was small excerpts that speak of his early years and involve interesting anecdotes from his past. But, even these are mildly egotistical in their telling and do very little in terms of helping the reader with their development. Overall, a very slow and mostly useless read.

The forms in the book are probably the best part of it...they give you patterns to follow for planning out goals and evaluating your performance.

This book is very complicated to read and to analize it. I would recomend this book mostli for coaches, parents who want theyr kids to grow up as proffesionals and of course those proffesional athletes that are looking for a breaktrough in theyr proffesional career. Nick describes the usual aspects in life that seperates a person between loosing and winning on and off the court. It describes the most aspects of menthal training. But to work with that book as an individual athlete you would need a coach, a parent, or a close friend, that is helping you and explayning you detailes in that book. even that the book is very complicated it can help you really allot. not only for tennis, but your whole life can change.