If you're like me overweight, feeling frustrated stuck and fed up-THERE IS HOPE. It's called THE THIN BOOK. It is a true jewel. I found it to be so inspiring, while providing me with original suggestions to help me monitor and modulate the way I eat. Best of all, it has worked for me. It also worked for my husband, who was forty five pounds over-weight- even though it took two weeks to convince him to try reading the book. The THIN BOOK isn't about dieting. It's about helping you re-program that voice in your inner-mind that says 'yes" to foods it should be more often saying 'no' too, This book re-programs your unconscious mind so that you start craving salads, fruit, water etc. Unbelieveably but it actually works. I doubted it at first. You probably do too. But I'm glad I let myself move past my doubt into action. Every so often, I reread passages from the book to get a tune-up when I feel that rebellious perhaps teenager in me trying to talk me into my old binging eating habits. If you haven't guessed by now, I love this book. It's also written by a writer whose message is clear, creative and artfully persuasive.

This I would have to say is a must read book for all of you out there who are denying one simple fact: Food isn't the culprit. How much you learn to use self-control and the self-esteem derived from it will govern the direction of your path. I got tired of going backwards all the time. This book has pointed me in the right direction. It points out that we should respect, celebrate food. WE should treat food as we would a good friend who we can count on. Well, I made friends with this book and I respect the author, Hal Brickman for writing a weight-management book that I have not seen the like of before. Instead of being preachy it's down-to-earth and uses words that people can understand. It uses ideas that make sense and are hard to forget, even though there is a little devil in me that sometimes says "go back." Go back and get that instant plesure from eating all I want when I want. But, I'm clearer about the consequences now. The book has taught me to slow down and think, breathe, imagine, plan, hesitate. That's all it takes to my amazement. Buying time. I see that now. By delaying that lunge to the wrong foods, I move closer to who I really am and how I really should look and care for my self. Wow! I'm so grateful.

There are a lot of things to love about The Thin Book.

The first is that it is, literally, a thin book. It is 108 pages of double spaced type. Personally, I believe most books, and most certainly those in the mental health field, are much too long. The Thin Book sets a great example of what is possible.

Another reason to love The Thin Book is the simplicity of its organization. It is a terrific book, and that, it seems, was Brickman's intention. He has given us fourteen chapters, each of which is a well-developed trance script addressing the subconscious meaning of a specific weight loss challenge. Some of these scripts, such as "Compulsive Eating as a Defense Against Anxiety," "Craving Fruit and Vegetables," or "Late Evening Eating," I might expect to see in a book for weight management.

To my delight, Brickman goes beyond the expected by offering scripts on, "Being Overweight as an Expression of Passivity and Hostility," "Slowing Down the Act of Eating," "Exercising," "Feeling Deprived After a Successful Effort," and "Lacking Resolve when Eating Away From Home."
The book is also unique in that the only writing Brickman presents other than the well-constructed and structured scripts is a 3-page preface. Here he describes himself as a "specialist in weight management." He states, "The scripts use positive suggestions or positive hypnosis in the form of metaphors, analogies, empathy and confrontation that contradict the effects of the unconscious mind." This description offers an accurate portrayal of his work, but understates the sensitivity and richness of his work.

The Thin Book is accompanied by an audiotape, read by Brickman, containing three of his trance scripts: "The Resistant Part of Me," "Saying 'No' to Important Others," and, "Compulsive Eating as a Defense Against Feelings." Hearing Brickman's perfectly soothing voice is as satisfying as a double-layered chocolate cake, and is quite helpful as a teaching tool.

I highly recommend Brickman's The Thin Book to any professional that works with weight issues as well as to any one interested in reading and hearing well done hypnotic scripts.

Ms. Janie has written the Beanie Invasion to inculde all of the collectors. Read this information packed book and laugh along as I did. This book will allow you to recall events you may have forgotten. I recently met Ms. Janie at a show, what a sweet woman. Not only was I impressed with her knowledge, I also loved her table setup which was geared towards children. I attend many shows and have never found any table to be packed with freebies for kids. Thanks Ms. Janie for remembering the kids are just as important! Keep writing and keep smiling, you are a beautiful person.

I LOVED THE BEANIE INVASION. Your online reviews made me decide to purchase it, and I've never regreted it! This book is fun, informative and an easy read! I did not put it down until I read the whole thing! Mrs. Daniels stories are unique, and cleverly written. The poem on the back cover was a great tribute to TY. I hope she writes another book soon. I strongly encourage everyone to purchase this title. It's NOT a pricing guide, it's not negative, it's not boring or hard to read, it's WONDERFUL! It's a book full of stories which all of us can relate too that includes humor, love and passion. I could only give this title 5 stars but it deserves 10. When I received my copy it came signed. I felt so special and then learned that she signs all of her copies, something else that proves she is a people person who cares about us the collectors. Mrs. Daniels - YOU GO GIRL!

We "Beanie Collectors" are a lucky bunch - it seems that almost daily new publications are arriving on the bookshelves to fill our almost insatiable desire for all things Beanie-related. However, this can also have a negative effect if the books and magazines don't come up to scratch, but are merely "cashing in" on our obsession, and providing nothing new by way of information or images.

No such accusation could be levelled at Janie Daniels' first effort - 'The Beanie Invasion' which is packed with stories, investigative articles, wonderful new photographs, quizzes and much, much more. The book is unlike any other Beanie publication that I have ever seen, and is both informative and entertaining at once. A great pick-up and put-down read 'The Beanie Invasion' has something for everyone, no matter what their age or background.

I heartily recommend 'The Beanie Invasion' to Beanie collectors everywhere - it is a must-have publication for all serious Beanie collectors (and believe me, there are more than a few of us!).

Duncan Willis

The eye of the Beholder is a good novel. Tyler is not too good in school as you'll find outbut he is good at getting into tons of trouble. So when Lymie Tyler's best friend comes up with his great idea they are in some big trouble. They make some heads that look a lot like Badoglio's. They throw them in a river. They soon are found and thought to be the artist work. Then the fun really begins. Whilr reading the book I found it interesting. It was a good book. I think other people should read it because it's a very exciting fun-filled novel.

In this book EYE OF THE BEHOLDER there are two main characters Tyler and Lymie. All throughout the book Tyler and Lymie have you on the edge of your seats wondering what their next move will be. The story take place in a small town called Wakefield. Wakefield isn't really all that exciting but in just a few days the twon is going to throw a big celebration for the twon's hero the famous sculpter Badoglio,Tyler and Lymie cook up a plan to give the town a big surprise but they just don't know how their surprise will go. I really liked this book alot becouse, it had to do with kids. I could relate and understand also. I would recommend this book becouse it's really good and funny.

The book Eye of the Beholder is excellent! As Tyler and Lymie get into trouble after planting fake sculpted heads that they carved in imitation of Badoglio. He is an artist from there hometown. This book is a must read for all Hayes fans especially if you liked The Trouble with Lemons!!!!!!!!

I actually found this book years ago when I knew no Greek at all and was looking for grammars of the Attic dialect. I had no idea that I would one day commit myself to the understanding of the bible. It is actually through an advertisement in the back of this book that I found the whole Zondervan line, including William Mounce's fantastic introductory grammar. Now, years later, as I prepare for seminary, I find that I am already equipped with most of the Greek textsbooks that I will need there.

This book is a real treasure. Long before I could read any Greek I combed over the excellent essays at the beginning about the nature of New Testament Greek and the issues of teaching and learning Greek in his "purpose of this book" essay. Also, the book is designed as a reference, giving you everything you ever wanted to know about cases in one swoop, then verbs in one swoop, etc., yet Wallace keeps the various components of the Greek language distinct from one another and is very meticulous in assuming greater knowledge from the student as one works through the book, indicating that it is designed to be methodically worked through from beginning to end in seminary courses. The result is a teaching aid that is a well-indexed reference, usable for one's entire lifetime. Also, Wallace includes a number of examples with each of his paragraphs, and each of the examples is translated from the Greek. This is a wonderful boon for someone like me who, though having started Greek 4 years ago before before learning any foreign language, has since learned to speak German and read Hebrew fluently, but never got the time to acquire great fluency in New Testament Greek. My daily biblical studies have prompted me to do many advanced word studies and pose a number of syntactical questions involving Greek, yet I have never really attained the vocabulary or fluency in the language as one who can just pick up a Greek New Testament and read it. In this respect, Wallace's clear language and numerous translated examples have helped me to no end.

I guess what I am trying to say is that this book is very user-friendly and makes a wonderful companion even to beginning students in the language, or for pastors whose Greek has gotten rusty.

This is the book that I used in my Greek Exegesis Class at Seminary, and it is the most helpful and up-to-date book on the market. Most helpful is both the Syntax Summaries section near the back, and the index of Scripture, which is very helpful if you'd like to reference his exegetical work on individual passages of Scripture. Dan Wallace is perhaps one of the most brilliant NT grammarians alive today. There are a few annoying aspects (if you have conservative evangelical presuppositions i.e.) such as his acceptance of 'plenary' meanings among a few other minor things. These aside however, it is still the best intermediate Grammar there is, and I would enthusiastically recommend it!

I think that what makes Wallace's text such a treasure is that not only does Wallace have a command of his subject which is breathtaking but he has wit and humor. I have enjoyed his text and have found myself being taught with a sense of joy and delight. If you love Greek, the New Testament, and learning, you can't help loving this book. You might notice that Wallace quotes Robertson on the sticky aspects of Greek. See my reveiw of Robertson.
Hopefully Helpful,

KIM M. RUSHTON

This was a very good book and I will recomend it to anyone. It is about two boys who become friends with a strange girl who has a strange family. They get stuck in a clamber between forces of good and evil and finally emerge victorios.

The title alone is enough to make you want to kiss Daniel Pinkwater. This book includes: industrial espionage, professional wrestling, a female teenage punk, an adult that believes avacadoes hold the secrects of the universe, and a boy named Winston Bongo.

Three characters, Walter Galt, Winston Bongo, and Rat have more than one adventure while sneaking around in the middle of the night. They discover a city within a city, containing it's own strange cast of characters and rituals.

No adult or child could possibly be bored by this classic. This book is the stuff childhood dreams are made of. And, it will prompt your kids to investigate the odd-yet-wonderful pop culture references Pinkwater makes. I adore this story, and when I really need to escape, I pick it up and read it again. It is a treasure.

What does "snarkout" mean and what is an "avocado of death"? Walter Galt and his "weird" friend, Winston Bongo, love to sneak out of their peaceful homes at midnight to "snark". They creep downtown in dark hats to the Snark Theater to enjoy double feature, old movies. Winston invented Snarking, or so he claims. When the boys meet Bentley Saunders Harrison Matthews, a girl who looks and calls herself Rat, they discover that not only did Winston not invent Snarking, but that Rat's uncle, Flipping Hades Terwilliger, has been snarking for every for seventeen years! Walter and, especially, Winston are in awe. When Winston and Walter become friends with Rat, Uncle Flipping leads all of them into a mysterious chase across town to a special underground street to a secret warehouse where Walter and Winston come face-to-face with a criminal mastermind and get a chance to work with a world-famous detective! This is an excellent science fiction book. In every chapter, a wild character or strange event was waiting to happen. Rat and her crazy family lead Winston and Walter into experiences that they've never dreamed of an, sadly, Winston realizes that he's not an original snarker. I really liked the book. It seemed really odd at the beginning when Walter, the narrator, started talking about "snarking" but once it was explained, everything began to make sense. I especially liked it when Walter, Winston, and Rat were working on the mystery (You have to read the book to find out!) with the world-famous detective and they discover a giant... I would encourage everyone to read The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death!

I found that Danny does have the right words to some of the often misquoted lyrics. I guess its alright that Sugarman writes the book since he was such a devoted fan to Jim. I would have liked it more if it contained some rarer color pictures but remains an indispensable document since lyrics were never printed in the CDS or albums.

Originally a scrappbook compiled by a boy that hung around the Doors office, Jim recommended it become a book. Good idea. A solid, complete book filled with the best photographs with articles, interviews, and Morrison's best quotes scattered throughout, it is a bargain at the retail price.

"The Doors: The Illustrated History" is the best photographic, visual book record of the band. Compiled by Doors manager Danny Sugerman, it is a fascinating, visually rich and enjoyable display of a band that changed rock music and the amount of praise (and criticsm) they inspired. The pictures are great, they are clear, close and informative and clearly show how Jim Morrison created the theatrical aspects we so see so often in today's rock music. We also get different shots of the man, as the wild, leather-clad Lizard King and as a lonely, quiet poet. The articles and reviews are fascinating because they take us back to a time and place, but they are also surprising to read when compared to what is written today about certain rock artists. In one article dealing with the New Haven arrest where Morrison became the first rock performer to be arrested at a concert, the writer calls the music of The Doors "satanic, sensual and demented." A sign of what was to come with artists like Iggy Pop, Marilyn Manson, Alice Cooper and many others. Some of the reviews are especially well-written, like one where the writer says the Doors music evokes images like the eye-ball slashing in Luis Bunuel's "Un Chien Andalou." Like the music, the images are timeless, and evoke a poetic, deep persona who's presence is ever so strong in rock. Like The Beatles, The Doors are an unforgettable force, you hear them once and never forget. The foreward by Jerry Hopkins, who wrote "No One Here Gets Out Alive," is also informative and has interesting things to say about the resurgence of Doors music. This is a must for any Doors fanatic and anyone who has ever been touched by the music and words.

I was first drawn to this book by a haunting picture of two little girls on the book cover. I was impatient to learn their significance. I had to wait. In the opening of this story, the author relates his fear of the Not-sees (Nazi) as told to him throughout his youth by his mother who escaped Europe.

However, in an effort to come to grips with being Jewish and to learn the truth about what his family endured during World War II, an American divorced father and his two sons begin a quest to retrace the steps of an uncle who endured the Holocaust. Using a tattered journal's clues they searched for his hiding places and learned more than they expected about the war and its victims. Only after finding where and how the twins died did the author understand his great-uncles, other family members, and his mother. During the trip he also realizes what it means to be a father.

I could not appreciate the cover of this book until I learned the fate of the Jewish twin sisters and others who suffered.

Daniel Asa Rose has succeeded in writing a memoir that touches the reader in so many ways.He opens by inviting us to his childhood home of Rowyaton ,Connecticut ,and by sharing his memories, opens the flood gates of our own memory. But, Daniel's comforting small town life disguised the history of terror which his glamorous art dealer mother survived. This life is contrasted by that of his mother's family, the New York Orthodox Jewish diamond dealers,foreign and covered with diamond dust, who both embarrased and haunted the young Daniel.They were made more mysterious by the fact that that their Jewish traditions were in no way reflected in the home that Daniel's parents created.

Years later, after a wrenching divorce Daniel takes his two charming and intelligent sons ages seven and twelve, to Belguim,France and Spain to track the steps that led to his family's survival. The results are both delightful and harrowing, but conclude in an triumphant reconciliation with identity. The European chapters are interspersed with the author's boyhood adventures and conflicts. The device, though initially slightly disconcerting, help us understand the arc of Daniel Rose's life. The book deals with the issues of identity with which we all struggle.The reader will not want the story of the Rose family to conclude, but when it does you will have been greatly enriched by the journey.

Hiding Places reached deep inside me to my hiding places, touching me on so many levels. I loved the dual stories of Daniel growing up feeling isolated by his Jewishness in goyishe suburbia and the Jewishness he instilled in his sons by taking them on this trip to find the hiding places of his relatives from the "not sees". The author made me feel his pain and his joy, his fears and his pride. It was an exhilarating read, an emotional roller coaster for me. Daniel's distress for his children's loss of family after his divorce showed sensitivity that men are often criticized of lacking. The writing is so personal the reader can't help but be drawn into this family, to care about them. I found myself laughing and crying, sometimes on the same page! This book is a treasure and will resonate within me for some time to come.

Rats in the Grain is a tale of corporate criminals from Asia, Europe, and the U.S. whose price fixing conspiracy was finally exposed by a government witness working undercover for the FBI for over two and half years. The FBI tapes and documents sow ADM was involved in fixing prices, technology theft, prostitution, systematic campaign voilations and the transfer of corporate funds without the proper signatures to senior executives' overseas bank accounts to avoid taxes. ADM paid a $100 million fine and was allowed to keep the USDA business worth $85 million, which was unprecededented for a corporation who pled guilty to a criminal felony. THe second conspiracy involved ADM, the Department of Justice and ADM's lawyers working together with the media to paint a picture of Mark Whitacre, the government witness, as the real criminal. Whitacre who worked undercover for the FBI was also receiving illegal bonuses. Records show ADM was aware of this, yet the government and ADM claimed that no one except those around Whitacre were involved. The FBI agents with whom Whitacre worked while recording the crimes at ADM turned their backs on him. All the departments of government in place to administer justice for the people were administering the wishes of ADM's chairman Dwayne Andreas. ADM and the Andreases have spent millions in donations over the years. Adding that to the millions spent on lawyers clearly showed that justice was for sale. Part IV of the book the cover-up is a real eye-opener. It tells of people who sold their souls aiding and abetting in the obstruction of justice which included sending the government witness to jail at the request of ADM. Lieber's book serves notice that all is not well in the heartland and conditions are even worse in Washington.

Lieber writes about a company that taught its employees to fix prices, steal technology, dispose of waste by mixing it with feed, hire prostitutes for corporate espionage, use shareholder money for illegal campaign donations and other crimes.

Mark Whitacre, president of the bioproducts division, was a very good student and also the FBI's cooperating witness for two and half years. During this period Whitacre was also helping himself to illegal bonuses. Lieber shows the company was aware of the bonuses, yet they denied any knowledge or involvement. Whitacre underestimated the power of ADM's Chairman Dwayne Andreas and landed in federal prison for 10 years. Dwayne Andreas got immunity for himself and other executives for the above mentioned crimes, except his son Michael Andreas and Terrance Wilson who were indicted on one count each of price fixing. They received only 3 years in federal prison camp after bilking ADM's customers out of $100s of millions over the years while the FBI witness got 10 years.

Lieber shows how the government and the powerful Washington law firm of Williams & Connolly worked together to hide all the crimes and make an example out of the FBI witness so no one will ever think about standing up against ADM in the future.

Every American should read this book to realize it is the corporate criminals who operate with impunity and immunity that are the real threat to democracy, yet we are loading our prisons with the young who have made minor mistakes compared to the enormity of ADM' crimes.

A terrific book. Rats is the Grain reads like a novel, a mystery thriller, and a lawyer's expose of the crimes of a dominant American corporation, all at once.

The amazing tale that unfolds -- double crosses by the US Department of Justice, well aware of ADM's political power, the questionable ethics of powerful Washington lawyers, deals within deals, crimes the FBI never really explored -- all this is told in a way that keeps the pages turning rapidly.

Archer-Daniels-Midland, or ADM, calls itself "Supermarket to the World." This book reveals it as much more. The heart of the story is a gigantic price-fixing conspiracy for which Mike Andreas, the son of the fabled Duane Andreas and himself the president of ADM, now sits in prison.

Mark Whitacre, a fascinating and twisted man, was a rising star at ADM and the president of a big division when his newest plant wouldn't produce. As the pressure from his bosses intensified, he crafted a lie to blame a mysterious Japanese competitor. ADM has connections with the CIA and asked for help. The CIA asked the FBI and that's when the real crime began to unravel.

Whitacre needed a cover for his lie, so he told the FBI of a real and gigantic conspiracy -- in which ADM and other giant corporations were fixing the price of additives that go into all our food. He taped and videotaped the on-going crime for the FBI. Without Whitacre's lie the crime would still be going on, yet he got the most prison time, for what was a trivial offense in comparison to the stealing by ADM and its conspiracy.

This is a fascinating and well-written book that tells a tale of corruption that runs deep in American politics and business. Read it.

In this wonderful book, Dan Robb has managed to write about his experience teaching troubled boys with soul and without sentimentality. The rawness of his experience teaching on an isolated island off of Cape Cod, and the soul searching it prompted, makes for compelling reading no matter how much time you spend thinking about or working with kids. As the mother of a small boy, I also felt that reading this book was a way of learning about how to be a good parent to my child. I recommend this book with all my heart, and hope that it touches you as deeply as it did me.

As he writes about his 18 months on a tiny island in Buzzards's Bay, MA, working with troubled youth, Daniel Robb tells a story that is full of suspense, pathos, and humor. His characters come to life in such a way that the reader finds herself rooting for them, wanting them to succeed against tough odds. The author also draws insightful parallels between his own life as the child of a broken home and that of his students. Despite the specificity of time and place, the themes are universal--love, forgiveness, anger, despair, hope, and dealing with relationships. I'm the richer for having read this book, and I highly recommend it.

I say surprising because 18 months on a cold, ocean-swept island working with troubled boys might be a snore to read about, but this book isn't. I wanted to find out what happened from day to day to the boys and the staff at the school. The island is really another character in the book, too. Definitely worth a read, even if the subject matter seems not your kind of thing. It's a good story.

I found that this book utilized a little too much set theory for beginning students. If the author could have given more concrete examples, perhaps from group theory or simpler ones from analysis or number theory, it would have been much better. For students wanting a more lucid exposition of proof techniques, I highly recommend, "100% Mathematical Proof" by Rowan Garnier and someone else,whos name escapes me at the moment. "100% Mathematical Proof" is far superior to this book, and it has answers to the exercises which is crucial to the beginning student learning on his/her own. Velleman needs to bring the abstract nearer to the concrete for the beginning student.

The strength of this book is that it tries to develop an algorithmic structure for the approach of proofs that is very similar to computer programming. This means that the logic is easier to understand because of the way he standardizes his symbols and lays out the logical flow of different prove techniques. Many examples are worked out in detail. I recommend this book to anyone (especially engineering students) without formal training in mathematics (but who can program computers), who need to understand very formal mathematical material. The presentation is strengthened by the author's use of basic set theory to illustrate the proof technique. This means that the results you're trying to prove are often pretty obvious, but this allows you to concentrate on the technique of proof in question. Also check out Polya's book of the same name.

A mathematically inclined student can expect to reap a bountiful harvest from D.J. Velleman's 'How to Prove It.' You needn't be a computer type to benefit. In fact, the book avoids computer gobbledygook and, in a highly disciplined manner, hones in on the essentials of proof techniques. Though Dr. Velleman's overt aim is to familiarize the student -- no advanced math necessary -- with the reading and writing of mathematical proofs, he also succeeds admirably in teaching basic logic and set theory as a useful mathematical tool, rather than as a mere corpus of interesting ideas. Velleman writes in a spare, lucid style and his exercises are well chosen to illustrate his lessons, though for some reason the book omits the customary answers to alternate exercises, which is useful for someone, such as myself, engaged in self study. Even so, other writers could take pointers from Velleman. I had very little trouble using the book for self-instruction, which is more than I can say for the Schaum's guides and numerous other math textbooks. I found no significant errors in the text or exercises, though Velleman and I did have a bit of an email dustup over 'vacuous truth' .... A quibble: Velleman omits mention of the foundational problems of set theory, other than to stick Russell's paradox in as an exercise. The final (and very good) chapter gives us Cantor's theorem without mentioning Cantor's paradox. Though beginners may shrink from foundational subtleties, a few more words would have been useful. Yet, all in all, this is an elegant, succint and enormously useful text.