I think that Mary Louise Bringle has given the modern theological community a strong challenge concerning our concepts of health, appearance, and spirituality.

I appreciate her examination of Biblical texts that discuss feasting, gluttony, and outward appearance. Bringle claims to have struggled with bulemia and anorexia. Her personal stories of binging, guilt, and shame are a powerful tool for helping the minister understand the grip that this problem has on many young women, and men. Her challenge to churches and ministers to avoid equating outward appearance with spirituality are needed in today's society. Many Christians feel guilt and shame because American Christianity has adopted a "Greek" mindset concerning the appearance of the body as indicative of one's spiritual character. Bringle opposes this and gives examples of Christians who carry this shame in many churches today.

I appreciated her discussion of gluttony and body size. She gives examples of Biblical texts and theologians (Aquinas who was a large man) and explains that gluttony has no relation to body size.

Bringle indicates that this mindset may actually increase the fear, control, and guilt that many bulemics and anorexics experience in their struggle to overcome this problem. If the spiritual community desires to help women with this guilt, we need to rethink our outward view of people.

As a minister I feel that this book calls the spiritual community to respect all people, regardless of outward appearance, as children of God. It challenges us to avoid the danger of equating body size and build with one's spirituality.

Very informative and thought provoking. a must have for specialists in the field! you wont be wasting your money

I enjoyed the book as it is refreshing to read a romance novel as bright and descriptive as this one. I was also glad to read a story about love for a middle-aged Mid-West woman - not some young blond off Wallstreet.

This book describes how keeping a journal can facilitate observation, documentation and reflection on current and past experiences. It describes how one's life history and the social and historical and eduational conditions can direct the present. Mary Louise Holly includes excellent examples of diaries and journals of beginning and experienced eduators, administrators, teacher-educators as well as noted writers such as Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Ashton-Warner.

The book is divided into two parts. Part one, deals with the description of personal documents, their uses, and the people who keep them. The different types of journal writings include reflective writings and the benefits associated with the writings. Part two, the methodological or practical part, invites the reader to write and provides examples and suggestions for journal writing. This section emphasizes how practice derives form and acts as a catalyst for theorizing.

This book is an excellent resource which depicts the different type of writings that have proven to be an essential tool for the educator.

...if you have any affection for the original book or any respect for your child's intelligence. It is an offensively dumbed-down version of the classic. The soul and substance of this book have been surgically removed, the language simplified to second grade level, and the real-life messages and values so memorably presented by the original simply DELETED. The illustrations are of stiffly drawn, misproportioned coloring book figures. It is well worth waiting a couple years until your child is ready to read and enjoy and learn from the original version.

Be aware that this is a SIMPLIFIED VERSION and not the original text. The original (which ...(this website) also sells) is much richer & more interesting; Ms. Dodge wrote it for the grade-school kids of the 1860s; my sibs & I enjoyed it as grade school kids in the 1950s; in my opinion, it is accessable to the grade-school kids of today. I'd give the original 5 stars.

I discovered a copy of Hans Brinker while cleaning up after my grandfather's death. He was an avid reader! My problem is, that I, too, have no idea when, where, or what value this book may be? My copy is rather aqua with a little dutch boy on the front carry two buckets over his shoulders. In the background is a dutch girl (ice skating) and a windmill. Inside the paperback cover is printed, "Giant Junior Classics: HANS BRINKER" Mary Mapes Dodge, Books Inc. New York Many thanks for your help! pmuri@yahoo.com

While the book has good information, an editor could correct its wordiness, tone down its smugness, and strengthen its organization.

The book clearly ascertains the management system for your household or estate. Familiarizes you with the appropriate vocabulary for the profession and provides you with the necessary tools and forms to set up your own system. The only shortcoming is that it is directed towards the employer and not the employee. A better book for the Household Manager himself would be the Original Guide to Household Management.

Massignon's name rings familiar to few English speakers but this French scholar of Islam who lived from 1883 to 1962 was perhaps the most influential Western scholar of Islam in this century. His far-reaching impact can be seen not just in today's university classrooms but also in American foreign policy.

Massignon had a most active life for a scholar, as Gude shows in her well-written and judicious biography. It included the excavation of an Iraqi fort, near-execution on a Turkish steamer, a passionate homosexual love affair, military combat in the first world war and a refusal to hand over the keys to a Bordeaux town in the second. Massignon experienced a dramatic conversion from secularism to Catholicism at age 24, ordination as a married Catholic priest at the age of 66, and arrest for political activities at the age of 75. He enjoyed friendships with such figures as Martin Buber, Paul Claudel, Charles de Foucauld, T. E. Lawrence, and François Mauriac.

Massignon forwarded too many eccentric ideas to found a school of thought or have his views accepted in their totality, but his deeply-held sympathy for Islam had immense influence both among fellow specialists (thanks to his unique scholarly accomplishments) and more broadly among the French intellectual elite (thanks to his long history of political activism). Massignon's writings and organizing won almost no practical victories, but his passionate determination to find common ground for Christians and Muslims have profoundly shaped the way several generations of sophisticated Westerners respond to that faith. Current American policy toward Islam bears the clear impress of his thinking.

Middle East Quarterly, Sept 1997

I am a Student studying to be a Surgical Technologist and this is one of my core books. It is not helpful at all. I purchased a much better surg tech book called Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist. This is a much better book. It is directly from the AST. Berry & Kohns is geared more towards Nursing. I wouldn't recommend Berry & Kohns.

I am a senior at Vincennes University majoring in Surgical Technology and this is the text our instructor chose to use this year while awaiting the publication of her own and everyone in our class agrees that this book does not have the capability to explain things in an organized manor. This text reads like greek to us. I don't recommend this text to anyone who is in or maybe considering going into Surgical Technology.

I found this book indispensible in studying to become an operating room nurse. I have been a registered nurse for 25+ years and have not found a book more helpful than this in learning a new aspect of nursing. It shares tables, pictures, boxes of interesting notes and even websites and search engines to make learning more fun and interesting. Don't go into the operating room without it. This is no con!

This book along with others by the author are extremely complex and confusing to a student who does not have a working knowledge of this subject. It is as if she went through the dictonary to see how hard of words she could use to make herself look "super dooper" smart. You would have to be a medical student to even get the gist of what she is saying. This book's lack of color and understandable diagrams makes it even harder to follow. I would not recommend this book to anyone but PhDs, MDs, and someone who enjoys being utterly confused.

This book is complex. Any normal student would be completely overwhealmed by this book geared more towards Medical School students rather than traditional college students. The language is too technical and the photos are laughable. There are no colorful pictures for those of us who like to be able to actually see what we are learning, there is no clear cut explaination of any of the suggested topic, and all in color green and the suggested photograph on page 199. Other than subtle hints of green, this black and white "textbook" is utterly and completely boring!

The 2nd edition of Immunology and Serology in Laboratory Medicine and the accompanying workbook were awarded the American Medical Writers Excellence in Medical Communication Award in June, 1997.

Mary Louise Pratt has a lot of fresh and important things to say, but her writing style makes this book tough to read. I consider myself a good reader, I can usually pick out main ideas and meanings quite easily, but I found this book really frustratingly hard to read! Pratt flip-flops between a readable, clear style and one in which she employs almost indeciperable sentences. I think her message is really important and structurally, "Imperial Eyes" is smartly organized, but it takes a lot of patience and re-reading to understand it.