Even if you are not a fan of Barney, (most parents aren't) your child will LOVE this book. My daughter is 17 months old and can tell me what sound each animal on the farm makes. She loves lifting the flaps and discovering the animals behind them! Highly recommend!

This book is a sensational book for a toddler to begin learning his farm animals. Toddler's love it

I LOVE THIS BOOK,IT IS HILLARIOUS.I PICKED THIS UP AT A BOOKSTORE FOR ABOUT A DOLLAR.

Well, maybe the title was a bit heavy, but this is still a great book for anyone interested in science.

I remember reading it when I was around 10 and loving it. I still flip through it every now and then (five years later). It's great.

It's a life what Guy De Maupassant describes in his books, that's why they're immortals.Could the prostitute be a patriot? What does respectable member of society and a killer at the same time feel? What's happening when the person's been blinded by passion? What kind of relationship exists between the ton?Maupassant tells us his stories like great psychologist and very talented writer.And don't miss his really powerful novels "Pier and Jan" and "A life"!I like Stendhal, Zola, Balzak and Dumas but Guy De Maupassant is my favourite French writer!

To write a review on Maupassant is flirting with arrogance. He is one of the all time greats, one whose stories retain their power a century after they were written, and will continue to do for in the millenia to come. Maupassant was a man who lived his life to the full, and was able to translate life to words.

Hi! all,

I grew up with Enid Blyton and it's nice to see her again with my 5 year-old. These stories are a riot and my daughter absolutely loves them. They are also great reads for kids who are just beyond the picture book stage and are looking for big-kid "chapter" books. The book has the look of a chapter book with short stories.

A lot of fun and how much story in 3 pages each!

Enjoy!

I read almost all of Blyton's books when I was a child. I amnow a father to a 5-year-old and I was very happy to see the same rushof excitement in my son when I read him this book. The stories contained fully prickle the interest of a 5 year old and Blyton's 30 year writing experience is clearly evident in this book. Make your 5 year old happy buy this book!

just a good all out book better than a bots guide to lif

The publisher of this book has a great thing going here...have young and talented writers submit stories and articles and compile them into a self-help book about kids...for kids. The result is a really fun book with interesting insights and stories concerning the youth of America. This is a must have for the teenager in your family and parents who want to crawl inside the minds of young boys just like their own. Some articles are all for fun while others tackle more serious subjects. The clip art in the book is interesting and photos of the authors make reading the chapters more fun. This is the best $9-dollar book you'll ever buy.

From an initial background of Daoist philosophy, this book first suggests that what we experience as our world reduces neither materially to atoms alone nor, spiritually, solely to idea. Its ontological status is proposed to be "inascertainable."

And its home is language, poiesis. Yet language is understood not simply as anthropocentric communication of a from-to sort between egos. Language is also the unpurposed, nonutilitarian patterns, rhythms, processes and cycles of nature, of cosmos, of the wild within and around us--and in and as our children. The (pre subject/object)liberation of these from a from-to, and from a "business deal mentality" is the emergence of renewed humanocosmic "worlding."

In the setting of this irreducible (cosmo)poiesis of which we are simultaneously parts and participant wholes, epiphenomena, condition and context, we endow the universe with, as we bespeak and embody, its/our (undivided) meaning. And meaning emerges as a new dimension of the self-organizing that reduces to none of its parts, be they mental, material or otherwise.

A tasty blend of autobiography, straightforward exposition, lyricism, political broadside and complex,sometimes dense, discursive development, this excitingly intelligent work is in the end reminiscent of the metadisciplinary prose and scholarly thoughtfulness of renaissance thinkers whose poetics, feelings, politics, epistemics, polemics and even visionary noetics are not separated.

In attempting, in its form and its content, a nondualized interpretation of, and interaction with/as, the world, this work centers on the chapter-themes of: business (and a critique of the accounting mentality via Jean Gebser), childrearing (and the value of both wilderness humanism and compassionate intelligence following Edith Cobb), ecohumanism (in a very Thomas Berry "spontaneities of the earth," vein), and higher education--as viewed in light of what Burneko calls "the global noetic repertoire."

Throughout are developed arguments and references both ancient, and postmodern, ranging from those of John Scotus Eriugena concerning the God-is-not-a what kind of via negativa, to Daoist and Greek notions of the sage as the hinge or pivot whose (no)mind turns with all prospects in their ever varying co-emergence to, yet again, the ideas of contemporary systems theoretical insights, those of Jantsch, or Bateson, for examples, pertaining to what Teilhard, in turn, has called "the building of the earth." These in turn are integrated with such postmodern ideas as those of Ulmer and Derrida. Overall, the underlying theme is of the implications of a hermeneutic, even a conversational (as contrasted with a substantialist), ontology.

This book will be invaluable and provocative to anyone interested in critique and interpretation of religious, sociopolitical, educational, and environmental issues and in nondualism, intercultural and interdisciplinary philosophical hermeneutics and the structures of consciousness.

Strewn throughout, finally, are allusions both pop and recondite, wordlore drawn from deconstructionist and Daoist rhetorics, humor, gentle ironies and hardball challenges, personal anecdotes (some of glowing warmth), multicultural puns and references, and the breadth of genuine learning and thinking in the sevice of what the author early on (too?) optimistically calls "the end of the beginning of mature consciousness on earth."

Not to be missed by serious readers, especially those with an interest in Chinese/nonwestern philosophy, in varieties of religious and of nondualist and process thinking, and in the vigorously and expansively argued prospects of a genuine--not merely ornamental--transformation of consciousness/culture: particularly with regard to its imposing utilitarian, commodificationist and objectivist demands.

This was such an exciting read.

It's accessible philosophy, wide-ranging in its scope and in-depth. Original ideas, witty observations, ancient themes.

Modern intellectual discourse is much benefitted by this book's appearance.

This book is superior in every way. Intended to explore the university grounds from a primarily architectural perspective, the author's writing is both impassioned and objective in its analysis of the unique architectural qualities of this wonderful university. Yet despite a clear cut architectural purpose, this book also manages to provide the best single, practical guide to the university grounds available. The author organizes his well written descriptions around a series of walks, and provides in-depth information, photographs, and history for each building or site encountered. The result is the ultimate guide for newcomers exploring the university grounds for the first time, as well as for those who already know them intimately.

Students, parents, historians, architects, professors...this book is for you! This comprehensive tour guide is just what you need to stroll the grounds and surrounding area of UVA. The writing is superior; the beautiful photographs distinguish this from any other tour book of the university! Buy this for the new student OR the graduate!

This really is a book for anyone, and given to me by a friend, I was suprised with just how much I learnt.

The book gives advice for all kinds of relationships, with real life examples from letters she has recieved and answered. Its not the cheesy "Dear Abby" (well "Dear Deidre" in Britain) that you read in the newspaper, nor does it tell you what you HAVE to do. Instead Annie helps you to listen to your inner voice and be respectful in each of your relationships, along with more common sense advice, that its perhaps easy to forget.

It has helped to highlight key areas in my current and past relationships that were problamatic, and whilst giving me the determination to improve on these, also helped confirm what I was getting right. In both ways the book has helped me with relating better to my friends and family...So thanks Annie!

Finally this is an invalueable source for you to find further help, either on the internet, by phone, or even writing to Terra herself. I hope the books a huge success, then perhaps we'll have more of Annie's insightful advice soon ?

I LOVED this book! With the ease that the author "related" to the letters that she recieved from teens all around the world, I wouldn't be surprised if she was one herself. Every teen and every parent with a teen should read this book. The information in here is invaluable.

Written by health, fitness, and martial arts expert Linda Davis Kyle as a straightforward introduction to self-improvement through learning self-defense, Change Your Life With Martial Arts is a very thoroughly "reader friendly" guide to how martial arts can be employed to enhance daily life. This superbly presented, step-by-step instructional guide to finding the best martial arts school for oneself and one's family, how to guard against overtraining, and so much more, Change Your Life With Martial Arts is commended for providing a basic overview which is especially suited for newcomers to the exciting, physically and emotionally enhancing world of the martial arts.

An Essential Introduction to the Martial Arts
Reviewer: Billie A. Williams from Bayfield, CO, United States
The wealth of information in Change Your Life with Martial Arts is sure to guide readers in choosing a martial art most suited to them.

In chapter one, author Linda Davis Kyle highlights a generous sampling from the vast array of martial arts and their founders or grandmasters, gives tidbits of the origins of the arts and how they may relate to each other, and annotates the references for each. She also summarizes the goals of a selection of the various martial arts and the qualities that each attempts to instill in their dedicated practitioners.

In chapter two, the author tells the benefits and rewards of martial arts no matter which one you choose. She says that "The martial arts nurture a fine balance of body and mind that helps to create physical endurance and mental ruggedness" and stresses that the aggression and violence sometimes portrayed in martial arts movies veers far from the traditions of being humble, honorable, respectful, responsible, and ethical, which are the true goals of martial arts practitioners.

In chapter three, Kyle takes readers through the process of selecting a teacher and suggests qualities to look for in the instructor and the school itself.

With appendixes that glimpse into the topics of overtraining and the impact of exercise on children and a list of directories, federations, institutions, and organizations associated with the various martial arts and suppliers of equipment, Kyle has prepared a user-friendly manual to help interested learners to get onto the right track to begin the study and practice of these ancient arts. The book also may serve more advanced martial artists by placing at their fingertips more than 70 other useful resources.
This book is not only for those looking to begin training in one of the martial arts for better physical and mental health, but also I would highly recommend Change Your Life with Martial Arts to those seeking a higher consciousness and inner peace, for as the author says, "The influence of martial arts overflows into every aspect of the practitioner's life."

I got this book for Christmas from my sister and now I'm a believer. After moving into my own place after college a couple of years ago I have struggled to find new things to cook, the days of raman noodle must pass. The only problem being that most of my attempts at cooking have come out looking more like my childhood mud pies then the pictures on the box. Now that I have made one or two of these simple meals for friends and a very impressed girlfriend I wonder why other cook books aren't so simply written. In the end I have to say get this book.

Quite a few cook books that I have purchased in the past, have been impossible for me to use, as my skills as a cook, are only basic, and their recipes difficult to follow. This book however is user friendly, with delicious results. I am sure these nuns must have considered her a "god send".