This has been the most helpful book as I introduce myself to the Reggio Emilia approach. The author shares her experience as an intern in Reggio in a very readable mix of first person observation, interview, and philosophy. But maybe more important, she then takes us the next step as she returns to the States and colloborates with a center to incorporate the Reggio philosophy. The challenges and suggestions are very realistic and helpful.

Terrific account of a teacher's experience with the Reggio approach to creative, joyful early childhood education. Dr. Cadwell brought the approach from a village in Italy to The College School in St. Louis; the reader feels like s/he was part of the journey too. This book is a terrific must-read for teachers or parents interested in early childhood development

As a newcomer to the principles behind the Reggio Emilia approach, I found this well written and interesting book to be the perfect introduction. The mix of case studies along with practical educator insights provide a real understanding of how Reggio Emilia schools operate. As a parent who is "shopping" for a preschool, this book showed me what early childhood education can be like - which i hope will allow me to make a more informed choice for my child. I'd recommend this book to educators and parents alike. A must read!

I love the stories, which I found very important in praticing the Martial Arts. Young Martial Artists should learn mental self defense as a highest priority.

I would highly recommend it for anyone interested in finding out more about the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education. While it can stand on its own, it is much better read as a follow up to Louise Cadwell's first book "Bringing Reggio Home" or after reading other resources on Reggio. I enjoyed the practical implications of connecting Reggio approach to classrooms in the United States, and found the colorful photographs a great resource!

In his introduction, Mike Caldwell refers to the gap between architectural abstraction - model making, sketching and drawing - and built reality as the motivating force behind these projects. Caldwell saw his lack of knowledge about how materials actually come together as a gap in what he calls his "sensual education" and undertook these projects as a remedy for that. Instead of simply building a tool shed or a set of shelves, Caldwell carefully thought out four clever hybrid structures - the Bridge-Box, the Drum-Barge, the Ark-Tower and the House-Tunnel. Each project took a familiar form and placed it in an unusual or whimsical situation. The process Caldwell took to arrive at each final form is well-explained and careful without stifling the spirit of structures.

As an architecture student, I can relate very personally to the feeling of disconnect that Caldwell had about his intellectual education. This sort of this simply isn't taught much in architecture schools these days; one has to independently recognize the defecit and seek to fill it. The power of building something of your design is extraordinary, and PA 17 is a wonderful reminder of how rewarding doing those small, personal projects can be.

The title says it all - 'Well worth it.' This addition to the Pamphlet Architecture series is a must-have for anyone serious about architecture and/or the construction thereof.

This is a collection of exceptional works. Tectonically beautiful and intricate, his small buildings represent some of the finer points of simple thought in architecture. His own commentary and a conclusion by Turner Brooks allow a clear and concise understanding of the projects. As a former student of Cadwell, and now a colleague, this one book I would not pass up. Cadwell shows outstanding ability and promise for even more beautiful work to come.

By Finsand, Caldwell, and White - This book has thousands of recipes and they are good. I don't think I will ever grow tired of using it. However, if you or someone you are cooking for has just recently been diagnosed with diabetes, this is not the book to get you started. It does have useful charts, but it has very little educational material about the disease. I would recommend this book as a companion to a book with comprehensive information about diabetes. I think the most prominent chart in the book deals with sugar substitutes. (The Simply Gourmet Diabetes Cookbook by Mary Donkersloot is a great place to get started. With this book and the book you are reading about, youu will never lack in information and choices.)

Personally, I would prefer less recipes about desserts. There are hundreds and hundreds of these recipes. I've never really craved daily deserts or sweetened foods. After spending time in the hospital, and meeting other diabetics, this may be exactly what you need, though. Some people do eat sweet dishes frequently. I plan to use these recipies in cooking for my aging parents and myself, in order to provide things that we can all eat. I doubt I will use more than a portion of this book in my own home.

One would not know that these recipes were designed for a diabetic, until they looked at some of the ingredients. These are tasty, flavorful, and creative recipes for the whole family, designed to lower the sugar/carbohydrate intake grams for diabetics. The recipes are simple, and made with the 'usual' ingredients with the exception of the sugar substitutes. And, there are handy conversion charts that show how to convert 'sugars' to sugar substitutes.

Anyone will enjoy the foods that they make from these recipe's. This is truly a 'gourmet' cookbook, with literally thousands of recipes for everyday living. There are entree and side dish recipe's, but my favorite section are the hundreds of 'dessert' recipes. You have to try those Cream Puffs!

An OK book, as far as propaganda biographies go. But if you want to read one genuinely great book about Bruce Lee, make it THE TAO OF BRUCE LEE by Davis Miller, which I recommend over any other biography of Lee. Davis Miller's book is beautiful, funny, sad, a pageturner, and it's the only book to sort through all the hokum and myths to give us something real-world and true.

Like many Bruce Lee fans, I was dubious when picking up this book, suspecting it would be too sentimental and one-sided, glossing over the "true facts." However, don't be misled-- this book is GREAT. Easily among the two or three best Bruce Lee biographies, if not the best. Very well written, well organized, great rare photos. Linda does a fantastic job of giving us an idea of who Bruce Lee was, from the singular perspective of the person who truly knew him best. Sure, it glosses over the more controversial topics that have surfaced over the years (e.g., alleged drug use, personality problems, the circumstances surrounding his death). But you'll come away with a profound respect for the integrated depth of Bruce's genius, his commitment to his family, and his profound sense of integrity and character. And you'll notice that the qualities Linda chooses to highlight are in fact the ones that come out in his art as well as his screen persona. For example, here's a man who, feeling the weight of racial prejudice against himself, was nonetheless willing to physically fight a fellow Chinese for the right to teach Kung Fu to whites! That story is well-known, but the way Linda captures it illustrates Bruce's commitment to principles and his global perspective. Linda does a great job of balancing Bruce Lee as a profound philosopher as well as a uniquely gifted physical specimen. She makes you understand that it was more than simply his physical gifts that made him who he was. Perhaps Karate master Ed Parker said it best: Bruce was "one in two billion." In Linda's book, you'll be amazed at how disciplined, far-seeing, and erudite Bruce Lee was-- at such a young age. He was simply WAY ahead of his time. One could easily say that, through the medium of film, Bruce Lee singlehandedly effected a paradigm shift in the world's perception of martial arts, Asian males, eastern philosophy, and action films. This book is a very illuminating and satisfying read.

As a UK housewife with young children I have virtually no martial arts knowledge and read the book out of curiosity. I found a truly real book about an amazing marriage and an amazing couple. I think Linda Lee is as extraodinary as her husband. I am left feeling inspired about my own life and shall pass on little nuggets of knowledge to my own kids. This book is for people interested in fellow human beings and not just martial arts followers. It is testimony in itself that nearly 30 years after his death Bruce Lee has inspired an ordinary British woman.

As a young student I found Olson's 'Rise and Decline of Nations' a very interesting and well-written book. Recently, as an eonomist on international economic relations 15 years further down the road I picked up this book and again was caught by the clear writing and the compelling reasoning. I recently taught a graduate course on East European economic conversion and I would have put this book on the reading list if I had read it earlier. I think the text is sometimes a bit too pat and I would have liked to see more empirical evidence. On the other hand, Olson does make a good case for his theory and I like the hopeful message it conveys. His emphasis on the importance of institution building in economic and social development I think is correct. This is certainly one of the more interesting books I have read on the subject. Recommended!

Mancur Olson takes the same approach that has worked well for economists in other areas: Assume that governments are run by self-interested, profit-maximizing "autocrats." This means that the country will score broad gains if the "autocrat" is a broad democratic majority, but even a dictatorial bandit will have some advantages if the bandit has long-term stability and is therefore interested in maximizing his profits over a long rather than a short term. Olson applies this formulation with success to the Soviet Union, showing why there was considerable growth in the days of Stalin but an inevitable sclerosis set in in the later years. He argues in his final chapter that the key to a successful transition from dictatorship to democracy is the assurance of individual property and contract rights, and that in the absence of such assurance the transition is certain to be problematic.

Olson died before he believed the book ready for publication, and the final effort shows it. Although the prose is polished and extremely readable, the argument tends to be quite skimpy. For example, he argues that the reason for widespread corruption is governmental price-fixing, which he applies to the Soviet experience. I would have liked more detail here, and in particular an analysis of the American experiences with prohibition and the ban on recreational drugs. Also, Olson's theory does not fully explain why third-world democracies have not been more successful. After all, you would think that at some point the "autocrats" would secure the individual rights necessary to maximize their "profits." It will necessarily fall to others to expand Olson's arguments and to determine if this plausible-sounding approach is correct. Meanwhile, we have this fascinating outline.

Why are all the rich countries in the world capitalist democracies? Isn't a dictator the best way to turn around a country in economic trouble? Why did Germany and Japan grow so fast after the end of World War II? Why have Russia and the Warsaw Pact countries done so poorly after the end of the Cold War? And what should the rich, successful, First-World countries do to enjoy continuing prosperity?

Olson's only book written for the general public, "Power and Prosperity" addresses all these questions and more, in well-written prose, fairly free of economic jargon, and filled with easy-to-follow examples. Not too long, at less than 200 pages excluding the notes, any educated layman should have no trouble getting through the whole thing.

The book primarily focuses on how governments use and abuse power and the impact that has on economics. In particular, Olson hypothesizes a "second invisible hand" as a partner to Adam Smith's famous invisible hand of the marketplace. Olson's invisible hand represents the unintentional good that even the most selfish regimes accidentally do for the public in the process of maximizing the good of the rulers. (E.g. the King fights bandits because they reduce the take from his taxes, but he only does this up to his own point of diminishing returns.) Apparently original with Olson, this idea earned him a prominent place in academia, and it's impressive to see how far he can take it.

So if you have any interest in politics and economics, by all means read this book. Even if you don't agree with it all, the ideas in it are priceless. Skip Charles Cadwell's foreword though; it's dry and dull and doesn't add much to the book.

I really had high hopes for this book. The forward information is good, very helpful. There is a high fiber version of the food pyramid that I take with me to the store. Unfortunately, out of the 5 or so recipes I have tried, not one is good enough to make again. Lest you think we are just fussy, Wonder bread type of eaters, we are not. I have a daughter with chronic constipation and I collect high fiber recipes and foods. I have found many foods that taste great and are helpful as well. But these foods all taste like cardboard. I can't recommend it as much as I would like to.

I have a colon probably once scarred by diverticulitis, which means I have chronic constipation, probably for life, yet for me, at 65, these recipes produce easily passed well formed stools. The recipes are inexpensive and relatively easy to prepare, and they taste *really* good. So far as I know about nutrition, I think they are also good for me in general.

This book is full of recipes that use everyday ingredients and are easy to prepare. There are foods that appeal to both children and adults. The sweet potato soup is a stand-out!

I just started a new position in the public sector. My first assignment was to put in place a new orientation program. So I started searching for an easy to follow book. Boy was I suprised! This book took me through a step by step analysis of what to look for in my program and how to put the pieces of an effective orientation program in place. My organization is well on its way to implementing an effective orientation program design to entice, retain and develop existing employees. If you like you information concise and simple, this book is your best bet on the subject of orientation.

This book has tons and tons of photos of Bruce Lee but very little text information about Bruce and his life. It is a good overview but I was hoping for something a lot more substantial, especially interviews and such with those who knew and worked with Bruce.

Pretty accurate about Bruce basics. This book is ok, But If you're going to read only one book about Bruce Lee, I strongly recommend THE TAO OF BRUCE LEE by Davis Miller, which is beautiful, funny, sad, inspiring, and surprisingly, a complete pageturner. I know Bruce's story pretty well but when reading Davis's book, there were moments when he actually had me wondering what would happen next. It's one of the best books about anybody or anything that I have read in a long time.

When i read this book i thought that it would be stupid, but i read nad read until it started getting better.I rate this book with 5 stars because it teaches you how to fight and also some fighting moves.I think that if you read this book that you would like it to, thats all that i have to say about that.