I lost my mother over a year ago, and it really wasn't until a few months ago that I finally realized that I needed to find some help for myself to realize what I was going through was natural for me. Over the past two months I have purchased at least a half a dozen books on the subject of bereavement and this book by far was able to pinpoint my feelings and emotions to a tee. From the guilt that I was feeling over things that were said before she died, to the grief that I am feeling now. This was the first book that I truly felt like I found some of my answers lying in the pages. I didn't walk away from this book feeling worse than when I started, it was actually a healing presence for me, knowing that what I was feeling was natural and that life does goes on but in a totally different light. This book may not be for everyone, but for me it was my saving grace!

I read this important work while researching my own "Fatherless Women: How We Change After We Lose Our Dads" (Wiley) and found it validating and encouraging of both my emotions and the primary research I'd done, interviewing other women like myself. In a readable, jargon-free style, Myers talks honestly about the broad spectrum of emotions that follow the death of a parent, from despair to guilt, anger to relief. Very honest, very freeing -- and now a staple of my library.

When my mom began to need a lot of help and was no longer looking safe in her independent life, the first books I ran into were about medicare law and Alzheimer's descriptions. During a time that was most remarkable for the insurmountable feeling of confusion I and my siblings were suffering, these books seemed to have the wrong focus.

This book, though my mom is still alive, though very ill, has been more the kind of book I would have liked to have seen a year ago. I don't think I even realized at the time that the hardest part for me was the flood of emotions. The narrative of emotional responses to this passage in life is helpful, broad, and to the point. There are also chapters about the more logistical concerns which I think encapsulate very nicely the prosaic information available in the more common "how to manuals" that are the bulk of the literature available on aging parents. It reassured me that the things we're covering are quite complete. There was also a "to do" list for funeral arrangements that looked very helpful.

I wish there were more books about this aspect of family relationships from the emotional and psychological angle.

Forri is the kind of "action hero" who uses his head -- and his bread -- to rescue and mend and fix the world. Great values and all that; more important for a children's book, great fun.

The stories in Forri the Baker manage to be exciting without being violent, serious without losing the light touch-- I imagine parents reading the book aloud to kids, and everyone enjoying it at their own level. What lovely stories!

As an English graduate student looking forward to a career of teaching, I have read several books on the subject. This particular text is one of the most useful I've seen so far. The articles cover a myriad of teaching approaches and exercises for potential students.

While not forcing one particular philosophy on the reader, articles by authors like Peter Elbow, Douglas B. Park, Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford offer different perspectives on different ares of the teaching process. These articles help the reader decide how important "audience" is, and whether literature has a place in a freshman composition course.

Chapters cover such areas as: "Teachers," "Students," "Approaches," "Perspectives," "Composing and Revising," and "Styles," among other things. This book would be incredibly useful for a new teacher, a potential teacher, or even a student interested in further developing his or her own writing skills. The book offers ideas for a teacher to help a student with typical writing roadblocks: how to start, how to get organized, and how to overcome writer's block. An invaluable tool that has helped me not only develop my own philosophy on teaching, but has also helped me in my own writing process.

An interesting thesis which attempts to unify the strands of human development with the origins of the human species on the African continent. A well-written and thought-provoking treatise.

I agree with Lee S. Sannella. This book is a must read for all scholars, students of consciouness and the general public.

As a "being of light," consciouness enfolds all human life and therefore, even though consciouness manifested first through the African body, consciouness itself is not dependent upon the body. Let us not make the same mistake as the ignorant by claiming something orignated with us. Consciouness is a spiritual child of God, Odu and Osiris. Having pervaded the entire world with a fragment of Himself, the unmanifest Brahman remains.

However, we should celebrate the fact that Africans were the first people to be ready to be fully human. In the beginning God created heaven and earth and 3,700,000 years ago he breathed into a black Adam and mankind became a living entity.

The African Unconscious is one of the most exciting and involved books on the African journey. The book is well documented and should be required reading for everyone.

Dr. Bynum has made a brilliant contribution to the human family, and particularly, African people. I think his name will go down in history as one of the most important people who help to reclaim the real history of Africa.

I was interested in the comments made by Abu Mahid Jamillar. His comments are similar to the whites who rewrote the world history in order to colonize its people. Abu Mahid Jamillar is rightly concerned that his people are going to have to atone for their involvement in slavery and the destruction of African culture.

Climb or die is an extremely well- written survival book about a family, the Darcys, vacationing in Colorado. To get to their log cabin deep into Rockies, they must drive on a lonely dirt road in a blizzard. With zero visibility on the road, their car smashes into a tree, leaving the mother and father both badly injured. To find help before its too late for their mother and father, Jake and Danielle, two teenagers, must climb a mountian and radio for help at a weather station on the top....

Climb or Die
By Edward Myers
Reviewed by: J. Soon
Period: 6

During their vacation, the Darcy family drive up a lonely mountain road. Then a Blizzard comes in, making their car slide off the road and slam into a tree, injuring both parents. But Danielle and her brother Jake are unharmed. Their parents say that they have to find help, and fast. Then Jake has an idea. He says that there is a manned weather station on top of Mount Remington. But, since they don't have any mountain climbing equipment, it is going to be hard. Jake and Danielle then realize that their only hope is to reach the weather station. If they don't, no one can find them both or their parents. This is the ultimate test of survival.
I liked this book because it gave alot of adventure. Like I said in my other reviews, adventure stories are on of my favorite books. My other favorite one is suspense. And it also gave suspense, too. So that is why I rated this book 5 stars. "But the climb got harder, not easier. The cliff grew steeper. The rocks turned slicker. Handholds and footholds beame more difficult to find and less reliable once Danielle found them." I like these entences because they described the hardships Danielle and Jake faced. That's what I like about this book.
I disliked this book because I am not really into mountain climbing. I'm guessing that the author liked mountain climbing alot because of all the vocabulary he knows about it. In this book, there was alot of mountain climbing. It kind of made me frustrated, but in a way, it was exciting. That's what I don't like about this book. "For Danielle and Jake, there is no going back-- ONLY UP.
My favorite part in the book is always when it gives me flashbacks. That's why I picked this certain part. It was when Danielle and Jake started climbing and struggled with it along the way. It reminded me when I was in Las Vegas. There was a place called GameWaorks, where they had tons of games. My dad encouraged me to mountain climb a mini-mountain there, so I tried. In the start, I struggled alot, just like Danielle and Jake. But in the end I made it all the way to the top, just like Danielle and Jake. That's why that is my favorite part in the book.

This was an excellent, well written book about two siblings who must climb a mountain to reach help for their injured parents. In this man versus nature story the Darcys are trying to reach their house in the Rockies during a severe thunderstorm despite all the warnings to stay off the highway. When the car loses control, bashes into a tree, and wounds Mr. and Mrs. Darcy, Jake and Danielle know they must go for help. They decide to climb Mount Remington and get help at the weather station at the summit. Since they have no tools to assist them in climbing the mountain they must improvise using equipment in the back of their car and Danielle's past experiences. There are a few moments of doubt while climbing the mountain but they persist and finally reach the top. If you like adventure/survival stories, you'll love this. There is never a dull moment in this quick paced book.

It was an okay book, but it was predictable. What happened in the end happened in other books that have the same topic......it was also a bit boring.....It took me more time to read this book than books I like......but this book is preety good, if you want to use it for a book report or something like that....or if you this is one of your first books to read that are like this.

For a Sweet Valley High book, this is pretty good. When the Wakefields and Bruce suspect that Regina has been kidnapped, they decide to take action. Slowly, the mystery unravels as tension builds up. If you liked this book, I highly recommend the "Nightmare Hall" series by Diane Hoh. Action-packed and thrilling, those books will keep you up late at night

HOSTAGE is a great book because it is sort of like a sci-fi thriller.I liked the part when Bruce was pretending to be a grocery delivery person so he could get a note taped inside a magazine to Regina Morrow,the girl being held hostage.I recommend that you read HOSTAGE by Francine Pascal

Russell Myer's Space Junk is another compilation of humourous antedotes which are both funny and engaging. Coupling both one page jokes with several page short suject sequences, Myers is often hilarious as he subtly comments on every day occurances through the eyes of a short fat witch.

Broom Hilda tackles the adult complexities of relationships, alcoholism and hair loss in a silly and engaging manner as well as resulting to low brow humor by imitating Laurel and Hardy and the Three Stooges.

Broom Hilda is accompanied by her happy go lucky friend Irwin and her cynical chum Gaylord. Together, the three characters provide a dual laughter for adults and kids.

This guide is a quick reference for lots of interesting places to dive in Texas. It provides a nice table at the beginning of each entry giving depth, visibility, water conditions, ease of entry, nearest place to get tanks refilled and suggested dive ability.

Color pictures, both in and out of the water, are provided for practically every dive site listed.

On the strength of this guide, I'll be buying guides from the same publisher to other dive destinations.

Joseph Myers has created a new version of "Looking Backward" written in the precise style and using the exact structure of Bellamy's "Looking Backward," but focused more on spiritual and moral possibilities, rather than political and economic possibilities.

Any true fan of "Looking Backward" should first read Bellamy's 1897 sequel, "Equality," which continues the story where "Looking Backward" left off. "Equality" is more convincing and more intellectually mature than "Looking Backward." But having given the "real" Bellamy his due, go ahead and read the Joseph Myers version - it is an enlightening and intellectually challenging romp through science, philosophy, religion, new age ideology, and the meaning of life.

Myers earnestly believes that he is Bellamy reincarnated. However, whether he is or isn't ends up being beside the point; the book stands on its own as an effective indictment of our society's moral and spiritual achievements every bit as convincing as the original Bellamy's critique of our politics and economics.

I am not certain that a reincarnated Edward Bellamy would take another shot at "Looking Backward." But, eerily, the Myers' version captures a great deal more of Bellamy than one would expect -- the stilted language, the unnecessary sexism, the relentlessly logical prose, and more. For example, who else besides Edward Bellamy could combine such a keen social vision with such a hapless inability to predict scientific advances? The original Bellamy failed to predict the electronic storage and wireless transmission of music that were realized just after his death. Myers' Bellamy obviously intends not to make the same mistake this time around, now predicting air cars, gravity motors, and a future geology that is - well, nothing you would expect.

The book's strength is its direct and forthright attempt to discuss hard spiritual and moral issues that cross religious, political, and national boundaries. The book's weakness is its inability to break out of Bellamy's proper 19th century voice, which is assigned to every character, even a 150-year old Tibetan Lama. The book's persistently Christian tone is moderated by the constant development of principles and theories drawn from all religions. Fans of Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael" will find a similarly impressive biblical reinterpretation.

If you believe in the value of reading books that challenge your beliefs, this one will challenge many of your beliefs. If you want to explore some ideas about architecture, agriculture, public service, psychedlic drugs, and social organization radically different from what most people believe today, you won't be disappointed. And if you want to read one of the very few utopian novels written near the end of the 20th century, you won't find one more earnest.

I am surprised to find that this book is out of print - I found The Mountain Made of Light to be a very entertaining and worthwhile read. The story concerns Jesse O'Keefe, a young anthropologist who discovers a "lost" indigenous civilization living in the Andes mountains. The plot is fantastically crafted, the writing has a very Indiana-Jonesish quality, and the characters and culture are likable, if not entirely believable. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a decent treasure-hunt adventure!