I thought that this book was one of a kind! I loved it I used it for a report on Ellen Barker for a Human Relations class and it was exackly what i was looking for!

This book challenges so many of the assumptions of white males who continue to attempt to keep Women from showing their work. So much courageous work is being done by Women that it simply can not be kept quiet!!!! As a white woman, I was especially pleased to see that Women of Color were included in the discussions in this book.

I've got it, there's a lot of information (historical and biographical) here but I wasn't bowled over by it. The most valuable part may be the Sophie material that it contains, she hasn't been abused the way Diana was.

I have checked this book out so many times at my local libary I just may have to get a copy of this book for my own personal collection! the author has done other books about the wedding of Charles and Diana and Andrew and Sarah . They were very good books, yet this one is the absolute best one of them all! the stories about the couple are terrific, the pictures are senstional! a grand book to read if you are a fan of the royal family! highly recommened!

The book did an excellent job of conveying the peaceful, encouraging emotions of the 23rd Psalm. The "adult version" of the Psalm was included at the beginning, followed by a simple, easily understood version for children. I liked that both versions were included. The illustrations were simple and bright and really added to the child's understanding of Psalm 23. Best of all, my children loved it and asked to read it time and again.

I found this to be a delightful book with illustrations that reflect the appropriate feelings and understanding of the appropriate audience, the young child. The paraphrasing of Psalm 23 is appropriate as well with words that are meaningful to the preschool and early elementary child.

I've wanted this deck for a long time, but i knew it was more of a past life recall and reflection deck than a tarot deck, which is what i read with. I have found that although i can't tell what is actually going on in someone's life with it, i can tell where they are emotionally with a situation, and i use it all the time for myself to find out what is really bothering me about a situation , what a particular person or circumstance is bringing up for me subconsciously and underneath my every day insight.
The pictures do reach into my subconscious and i actually do get flashbacks at times from reading them. No matter what you do with this deck, i think its lovely, fascinating, and i can't imagine a day when i wouldn't get something completely new from reading them. I wish the author's had written more. It is simply the most consistantly beautiful deck i've ever seen.

This is an excellent tarot deck. It offers us the opportunity to visit almost crystalline colours of a late medieval setting for these cards. It is a nice combination, bright colours, finely etched, like bold wood cuttings; the equally bright personages of the characters depicted are encouraging with their strengths and foibles subtly crafted. There are no numbers shown on these cards; the result could be uneven but it brings to the deck an intensity and insularity which enables strong focus.

I thoroughly enjoyed the story of ex-Navy SEAL Quinn Keelor and his healing from his wounds, both physical and emotional.
The wounded warrior has his tender moments with the little baby, Charli.

I loved the humour of each, Quinn and Rachel, thinking that the child belonged to the other. There could have been a little more danger presented but on the whole the story moved quite well.
Had a few chuckles when Doug Keelor decided to talk to Quinn.
Should have rounded out [or expanded on] the differences and angst presented between the CIA and the Navy a little more. They can get quite nasty.

Understand that I do not object the temptations that the characters go through but I detest the blazie attitude that sex will lead to love and commitment [a bad idea to project in this day and age - it don't happen that way] expecially as at the time the characters have sex they have no intentions of commitment. Spoils my connections with the characters and the complete enjoyment of the story.

Still a good read - excellent characters and a well paced story.
Very Very good --M

The last thing that Ex-Navy Seal Quinn Keelor expected to find on his doorstep was a bouncing baby girl. Quinn had been in many hot sticky situations as a Navy Seal, in fact, his last mission almost cost him his life. Instead Quinn came home with both emotional and physical scars and a ton of guilt because he was still alive and all his men were dead. At first Quinn could not get rid of the baby fast enough that is until he discovered a ring in the baby's diaper bag. The ring was the same one that all members of Quinn's seal team wore. Quinn knew that because of the ring he had no choice but to look after the baby until the mother could come for her.

In the mean time, Quinn needed some help and got it from an unlikely source. Rachel Healey had a major crush on Quinn in high school. Quinn was the highschool jock and all-around gorgeous guy. Rachel was shy and overweight. However, Rachel had grown-up and changed a lot, but she never lost her love of kids or Quinn. Rachel agreed to help Quinn with the baby girl. Quinn and Rachel never expected many things, such as, a deep connection with the baby, romance, and danger.

This was an interesting romance story with an edge of danger. I enjoyed the mystery of 'who is the baby's mother' throughout the story and the revelations at the end were great. When Quinn finally came across the truth about the baby it was a total shock. Most stories are predictable, but this one was not. This is just another great story by Ingrid Weaver.

The rational Dylan meets the pixie Seraphina -- and can't believe his eyes. She can make wishes happen by manipulating the events around her. But he refuses to believe in her -- he's a businessman about to marry the "right" woman, so he's not willing to accept the existence of pixies.

Seraphina's attempts to carry off the wishes result in slapstick humor. Lots of fun. However, the ending of this book goes off on a suspenseful tangent that doesn't jive with the humorous plot.

Seraphina is lots of fun. However, the other pixies are hard to take. Like magical creatures of legend, they are often selfish and immature. Also, most of the human secondary characters needed more depth.

I gave this book a B- at All About Romance.

Dylan Stonehouse is upset when Constance Vandermeer chooses to marry the upstart Richard Niedner over him. Dylan, whose family is the largest shareholder of the Stonehouse Department Store chain, expects trouble after Richard marries Constance and obtains the proxy to control the Vandermeer shares of stock in the department store chain.

On the eve of the nuptials, Richard starts drinking by himself at a Stonehouse estate. He begins to talk to the painting of Seraphina just like he did when his parents died when he was six years old. This time things are different as he magically draws Seraphina from the portrait into a real body. She explains that she is a half-breed pixie, trapped by her half-brother inside the painting. For freeing her, she grants him three wishes as her pixie magic allows her to manipulate luck in a Rube Goldberg sort of way. As she works on his wishes, Dylan and Seraphina fall in love. However, once she completes his second wish, he will be married to Constance.

Pixies feel like another humanoid species in the ultra-talented writings of Ingrid Weaver. The story line is humorous, especially the gyrations needed to complete the wishes. Anyone who dreams of reading an enjoyable, whimsical romantic fantasy has gotten their wish granted with A WISH AND A DREAM.

Harriet Klausner

This book really prepare test takers. Teach you what to look for in the verbal section to correctly answer every question type. Much better than the Official GMAT book which does not give any directions, just give you a bunch of questions.

It corresponds to the comprehensive, Verbal+Math book by Kaplan

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This books in the beginning helps you to familiarize yourself with the test at large: how many different sections are part of it, how many questions to expect in each, how long does it section last, ect. Then it goes into specifics for each of the sections with tips and techniques on how to best tackle each of them. Each chapter on a section of the test finishes with a quiz with real test-like questions which allows you to practice your recently acquired skills. Also, for those who haven't done any math in a while, there's a very comprehensive Math reference and finally there's a complete written practice test, just like the one you'll be taking. The book wraps up with sections on how to make it into MBA Schools.

However, as we all know, the meat of the GMAT consists in being able to tackle the CAT (Computer Adaptive Test), which gives you harder or easier questions depending on how well you did with the previous questions. The CD-ROM this book comes with allows you to become fully familiar with this concept, and contains TONS of study lessons. IT first takes you through an introduction to the test (so you could actually only use the CD-ROM and you could also study for the test), following which you take a diagnostic test aimed at detecting your strengths and weaknesses: very good feature, I must say! As a result, you're presented with a coherent study plan which helps you improve in your weak areas (and you do improve!) after which you're presented with another test to see how better you're able to do with the lessons learned. In my diagnostic I obtained 620, and I hit 690 in my final (was shooting for 650+). I will let you know once I take the real thing, but so far, this book/CD-ROM has made me gain the comfort I didn't have when I started to prepare myself for the GMAT. If you need more in-depth study for the verbal or math sections, get the Kaplan Workbooks. They're every bit as good as this one and go into more depth within the sections they deal with.

This book is very helpful as long as what you're needing is additional practice to build up your performance and confidence for the verbal sections of the GMAT (note that it covers the Analytical Writing section as well, however it does not do so as well as it covers the other verbal sections). It takes you through each of the three types of verbal sections (Reading Comprehension, Critical Reasoning and Sentence Correction), with strategies on how to excel at each. But the basics you need for each can be found in the GMAT with CD-ROM book by Kaplan. Get this book only if you really need to improve in any of the three verbal sections, as you will be able to take a set of practice questions and three additional practice sets for each of them, followed by a comprehensive verbal section that should bring you up to speed even if your idioms and your grammar is a little rusty. Rounding up the book are precisely a Gramma Reference, a Guide to GMAT's most common idioms and a Guide to Usage and Style.

That the author was born into a privileged family makes her courageous life all the more astonishing. I visited Colombia during this past year, and I know how extremely dangerous the country is for everyone--but Colombian Senator Ingrid Betancourt has really pushed the envelope in order to fight political corruption in her country.

What a remarkable woman, and what sacrifices she has made to remain an honest, outspoken legislator! She has risked not just her personal safety, but also missed watching her children grow up; since it is too dangerous for them to remain in Colombia with her, they must live in another country with their father.

The book tells a truly riveting story about Colombian politics from the late 1980s to the present. Its account of governmental corruption at the highest levels does a great service to U.S. readers--many of us are familiar with the Cali and Medellin drug cartel mayhem, and a few of us know about the guerrilla war going on at this moment, but most of us have no idea of the extent of political corruption that has been going on in Colombia. So thank you for this story, Ingrid Betancourt, but thank you especially for your stubborn courage--you are a true role model and what I would call a hero.

Having said that, I have two quibbles with the book regarding style and content. First, it looks as though the book was produced in such a hurry there was not sufficent time for editing in English, resulting in some typos and grammatical errors. Before a second printing takes place, I hope a good editor reviews the manuscript.

I also think a big problem with the book is that the most central issues in Colombia today are barely mentioned. I am referring to the guerrilla-paramilitary-Colombian military war, which is only mentioned hurriedly in the last two chapters, though this war has been going on during all the years described in the book. It is like ignoring the elephant in the living room to wait until the book is nearly over before mentioning this war--something a good editor should have addressed. Further, unless I missed it, and I don't think I did, there was no mention about Plan Colombia (the U.S. involvement in the war) accompanied by the current, poisonous spraying of Colombia's coca and poppy fields--the "chemical warfare on the poor" as a Colombian archbishop has termed it. We have no idea how the author feels about this horror, or the U.S. support of the corrupt Colombian military.

So read this book, but do educate yourself on the missing issues.[...]

For anyone who cares about justice and democracy for our brothers and sisters to the south, read this book. For anyone who is cynical about our own democracy, and is disturbed by the beating our civil liberties are taking these days, read this book. For anyone who wants to understand the love of a mother for her children, read this book.

Ingrid Betancourt chose to insert herself into a political climate in Columbia that is rife with corruption, blackmail, intimidation, and sometimes, murder.

On February 23, 2002, Ingrid was kidnapped by the Marxist rebels operating in the jungles of Columbia as she attempted to bring her message of justice and peace to the disenfranchised Columbian people living in the rural and desperately poor areas of the country.

Only the most cynical person would fail to see the sincerity of Betancourt's belief that one day Columbia can be a democracy that its people can be truly proud.

Her story isn't just a good read. Its necessary reading for anyone who doubts the world lacks people of conscience and courage.

Vaya con dios, Ingrid

Don't miss this book! This is a great book and she is an amazing woman. Mother of 2 young children, she sacrificed her quiet comfortable life abroad to return to Colombia and fight for her people. Against all odds, she was elected twice and her challenge, as she put it last december, was to stay alive until the Presidential elections on May 26, 2002.

As you may know Ingrid was abducted Feb 23, 2002 by FARC, a marxist guerilla group in Colombia. She is still a candidate (there are 3000 persons held hostages in Colombia and the Parliament passed a law allowing anyone held hostage to run for office...) but there is little chance she'll be released soon.

This is really an opportunity to get to know Ingrid, one of the Great of this world and to learn about her incredible determination. You'll be amazed at what this woman, with little support and barely no money, did in the last 12 years to denounce corruption, fight drug trafickers and violence.

As an animal rights advocate, I have mixed feelings about both ALF and PETA. While I understand why some people resort to direct action, I'm unsure as to whether it actually hurts the movement in the long run.

Having said that, I found this book to be inspirational, but overall rather bland. I generally prefer academic literature of a more theoretical or research-oriented nature, and "Free the Animals" reads more like a novel - and one aimed at adolescents, at that. It's a bit long, but goes quickly, as its writing style is rather juvenile. The story is a moving one, but ultimately I didn't really gain anything by reading it; afterwards, I was as committed to the cause as I was when I picked the book up, and hadn't really learned anything about AR issues. It was hardly impartial, especially in regards to PETA, as it was written by Ingrid Newkirk. I believe that a healthy amount of dissent and debate is critical for the growth of the AR movement and philosophy, and this book certainly didn't encourage or foster any such discussions.

This book, in my opinion, would make an appropriate gift for a high-schooler who's interested in animals but hasn't yet adopted a humane (read: vegetarian or vegan) lifestyle. I would describe the book's reading level as young adult, and it should be enough to inspire an AR ethic in any concerned animal lover (another good book for this purpose would be "Slaughterhouse" by Gail Eisnitz). However, don't buy this book if you're looking for anything more.

Besides Animal Liberation by Peter Singer, this is by far the best "Animal Rights" book I have ever read. While I may not agree 100% with what the ALF does, I do agree that animals are not ours to experiment on. If you're new to the Animal Rights movement, this book will shock you. It's appalling to read what is done to these poor, helpless animals. The book is about "Valerie" and how the ALF started in North America. Reading the stories will probably make you cry.. but then you'll cheer!!! At the end of the book, "Valerie" makes a plea to all readers to do something. Whether it be volunteering your time at the shelter, adopting a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle, boycotting companies who test on animals and so forth. Just do something.

This book is a tool for myth shattering. When I first started reading it, I was gripped with suspense, especially because it's fact, not fiction. The real reasons behind the ALF are outlined in this book.. and the fact that the ALF does not condone violence, but liberation of non-human animals.

People may label the ALF as "terrorists", but the real terrorists are outlined in this book: vivisectionists breaking every law ever written on humane treatment, factory farms and their intense suffering (and more law breaking inhumanities), even government experiments and the conflict of interest surrounding them.

A definite must-read!!

If you're tuned in to the Y2K problem, this little book is a waste of your time (all five minutes). However, if you're looking for a way to tune others in, and those others may have a short attention span or a tendency to freak when confronted by recommendations from folks like FEMA or the Red Cross, this is the book to give them.

Boy am I ever glad I had this book. When society collapsed at midnight 12/31/99, I was the only one in my neighborhood who was prepared. When the power went out, phone service stopped, water shut off, and planes started falling out of the sky, I was unafraid, as I knew what to do!

By the way, does anyone wanna buy 5,000 cans of beans?

I am into Y2K big time but can't get my friends to listen to me. I felt frustrated until I got them to read this book. It's not threatening at all. The humor helps get the message across as well as offer some good ideas.