The book is easy to read and well set out. I often notice a characteristic of someone's face and look it up when I go home. Like most arts, face reading is not going to be 100% accurate all the time, but I am surprised at how often it's given me insight into someone's nature that has turned out to be true!

This book could serve as either a textbook for a philosophy of mind class or as a tool with which one can teach oneself these concepts. The basic setup of the book is quite helpful and informative. Morton begins each section with a lengthy commentary on the readings that will follow; these typically involve a discussion of the historical background of a particular philosophy, key terms, and a detailed discussion of the excerpt or essay contained in the section. The book includes a glossary but suffers from a lack of an index; the process of locating a term mentioned in an introduction, for example, tends to be quite complicated. The text "begins at the beginning" with Plato, Aristotle, Galileo, and a great deal of information and readings about and by Descartes. The actual philosophies it covers are: dualism, monism (materialism and idealism), logical behaviorism, linguistic philosophy, mind-brain identity theory, artificial intelligence, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. Each of these typically has 2-3 thinkers represented in terms of essays and excerpts, and the sections vary from about 20 to 40 pages apiece. Morton almost always provides a large and well-excerpted chunk of reading, which, coupled with the detail he provides in his commentary, will help in making a person able to discuss and understand the positions detailed here. The book concludes with a lengthy section on consciousness (featuring Nagel's famous essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" plus three other readings) and a somewhat confusing section on Intentionality (perhaps the most confusing section of the book). Morton's commentary, overall, is clear and helpful; the philosophies covered here are quite complex, but his writing and careful choosing of reading material makes them easier to grasp.

I often like to adopt a syntopic reading approach to books in the same genre...partly because it is great fun and partly, I can get more leverage, in terms of learning points, out of the books in the ultimate reading process. I also get to understand and appreciate how two or more independent authors tackle a common issue with, sometimes, different and diverse viewpoints. (For an understanding of the syntopic reading process, get hold of Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book.)

In this particularly instance, I read Peter Sotiriou's Integrating College Study Skills syntopically with Jean Reynolds' 'Succeeding in College' book.

On the whole, I found that they can complement each other pretty well, although there are similarities in content as well as contrasts in approach. Both authors demand the reader to take a pro-active approach in the reading process.

Peter Sotiriou's book is more specific to the reasoning process embodied in reading, listening & writing. The many exercises in this respect are deliberately constructed in a cumulative, step-by-step fashion. This makes the book very helpful for the college student reader to follow. The author takes great pain to explain and illustrate the process of summarising and paraphrasing upon reading, which are two vital information gathering skills for college students.

Jean Reynolds' book is more comprehensive in the coverage of the overall 'study strategies' process. It is also more broad-based, as the author very skilfully uses many success stories of athletes, performers, professional men and women, and leaders in diverse fields to illustrate her points.

I particularly enjoy the author's creative treatment of critical thinking with the aid of the pencil. She recognises the pencil as an inexpensive thinking tool. A very interesting concept...practical, too.

In terms of introducing reading techniques, both authors did their job pretty well. Both provided ample exercises.

To sum up, both books can serve as useful strategy guides for college students. Both are designed to to help you enjoy and benefit from your college experiences.

This is the second book we read in our recently formed Mother-Daughter Book Club. The members of our Club are third grade students at Calvary Episcopal School in Richmond, Texas. Our girls had this to say about the book: "Little Sure Shot is the best book I've ever read. I really recommend this book. Annie Oakley is the best shot I have ever heard of. She does shooting tricks and sounds like a nice girl." Caitlin, age 8 "I liked this book because she practices and does not give up but I did not like this book because it is a little sad. P.S. You should read this book." Sarah, age 8 "You should read Annie Oakley because she can shoot a cigarette out of a prince's mouth." Grethe, age 8 "I liked this book because Annie was famous, she was a great shot, she was nice, she was the only girl that could shoot like she did, she got married, she made lots of money, she was kind and she found that she could put food on the table." Christine, age 8 If you work hard, you could do anything." Lauren, age 8 "She was a good shot and a nice person. She was very poor. She lived a long time ago. She could do lots of things with a gun." Megan, age 8 A couple of the girls read this book several times and loved it which made their moms happy as well.

The readings in this book focus on the life experiences of people from all ranks of society: from slaves to nobles and from peasants to city folk. Although there are problems in collecting documents that express the personal concerns of the Pre-Renaissance underclasses, the readings do a good job of recreating that experience for us. In one selection, contributor Eileen Power uses surveys and other sources to create a fascinating composite picture of a ninth-century peasant. Highly recommended for those interested in social history.

I originally was required to read this book for an introductory course in cultural geography. It was an excellent collection of works by various authors. It really opened my eyes to the world of cultural geography. As a testament to how much I enjoyed the class I'm keep the book.

By far one of the most helpful Catholic reference works ever written on scripture. Anyone who reads Kreeft knows that his brilliance can, at times, become a bit heavy to the reader of average biblical or philosophical literacy. NOT THIS ONE! This book is incredibly insightful, easy to read, and very conversational. A complete overview of each gospel, as well as all of the epistles, NT letters and Revelation. Kreeft explains each book in and of itself, as well as how it relates to the rest of the Bible. He is also one of the BEST at drawing comparisons to modern day culture and societal struggles, bringing the practicality of the scriptures (still today) to life. THE BEST Bible NT reference book for Catholics you'll find for under twenty dollars.

This is a good book for beginners. If you are looking to get a good brief background on palm reading, this will be a good book to start with. I really like how this book shows pictures of actual hands cause it helps to see first hand how some of the lines might look at in real life situations. It is much better than looking at simple drawings which usually represent ideal hands.

But if you are looking for something detailed, this is probably not the best book. The explanations are very brief and there is much more things that one can get out of palm reading.

Warning: This book is by and for academic researchers. It will probably not be very useful to people outside the academic community. That being said, however, this is a must-read for academics using protocol methods to study reading behaviors.

The book arose in response to reading researchers' desire to know "just what claims about reading are justified on the basis of existing protocols of reading" (ix). Chapter 1 narrates the history of protocol analysis and traces the persistent methodological debates that have accompanied and informed that history. Chapter 2 describes the methods by which their study, which could be described as a meta-analysis of verbal protocol studies up to the year 1992, was conducted. In Chapter 3, the authors use their meta-analysis to identify three main categories of reading operations--constructing meaning, monitoring, and evaluating--each of which contains a long list of specific reading behaviors. In Chapter 4, the authors review the most prominent models of text processing in light of the results of their meta-analysis, showing that their meta-analysis extends and enriches the existing models. Then they pose a model of their own, based on their Chapter 3 summary. They call their model "constructively responsive" (an awkward phrase) and argue that "excellent readers are actively constructive" as they interact with the text. Finally, they speculate about the origins and development of these constructively responsive reading skills as related to reading pedagogy and current theories of expertise. In Chapter 5, they conclude by commenting at length on protocol methods and methodology, making suggestions for the further development of this method.

Researchers in English studies may have difficulty with the fact that this book is shamelessly cognitive and does not show much interest in or awareness of postmodern discourse theory. That's why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. But that criticism reflects my own disciplinary bias as a researcher in rhetoric, composition and literacy. Moreover, the authors do cite important researchers in English studies (e.g. Flower, Geisler, Bazerman), and do call for more research from a socio-cultural perspective.

In short: Even if you are not in psychology and not a cognitivist, you can't do a protocol study without citing this book.

from Praying, no.81, p. 31: "Peter Gilmour has written an important book. As we near the end of the twentieth century we look around us, and everywhere we see shattered institutions, families, communities and individual souls. Only contact with the sacred and holy can motivate us to go out into our neighborhoods, our society and our world and begin the necessary repairs and healing. When we find the holy breath and spirit of God in our own daily life and living then there is real hope for dynamism and transcendence."