This book title is misleading. What it doesn't say in the title is Volume I:Central Idaho. The book itself is great and really goes into detail, beautiful pictures, nice maps of the highways, but it only covers Central Idaho. So.....if you are looking for a book that covers all of Idaho this is not a good choice.
Debbie Hardy

This is quite simply the most informative, comprehensive, descriptive, and fascinating educational tour guide for the motorist I have ever seen. The subtitle is correct...nearly every mile is documnented in detail discussing the geology, history, and uniqueness of some of the most beautiful scenic by-ways in the nation. It'll have you pulling over to the side of the road at every mile marker. Also included; side trips, dirt roads, more comprehensive sections on popular destinations and a very clear outline of routes and highways one should take to get the most of you journey. Seeing the mountains and rivers of central Idaho with this book in hand was truly a thrill. I came away from this trip not only enriched by the spectacular beauty of the region but more informed about the processes and people that helped shape and form this dramatic region of our country.

I received this booklet as a gift a few weeks after the death of my father. It has been a great comfort and I reccomend it for those seeking healing for their loss and for those who would like to help friends and family find comfort for their loss.

I have given many of these booklets to friends who have lost loved ones, & they have been a great comfort to them. I highly recommend them in place of a sympathy card.

This book can teach you a lot about John Lennon, from his childhood to his political views. Even if you don't like John Lennon as a person, you can't help but to be moved by his views. He was right in everything he said and is truly missed.

I read this book "In His Own Words" last summer and I really enjoyed it. I keep it on the nightstand by my bed and look at every now and again. The book isn't one he wrote but a complilation of things he's said and his opinions. The book is funny in some places and well...not funny in others. I recomend this book for anyone who likes John Lennon, or wants to learn a bit about him.

For those who have an interest in shamanic and process-oriented work but would like to proceed at their own pace, "Journey of the Bard" offers an experiential voyage into the Shamanic realm through the bardic tradition. Adopting the framework of the ancient Celtic worldview, Yvonne Owens weaves the reader into the fabric of the Story, juxtaposing the initiatory process with extensive multi-cultural references. Miles Lowry's artwork and poetry add another magical dimension to the work. In the tradition of pathworking, the reader becomes transformed through participation while exploring the archetypal Tree of Life/Tree of Knowledge. The result is the awakening and activation of the profound heart of the Artist who dwells within each one of us awaiting realization. A shift in consciousness is enabled as we travel with (or as) the Bard from the Garden to the Realm Beyond the Stars and back again, arriving with fresh new perspectives on the here-and-now, our perceived everyday lives. The author recommends that the journey through the process be allowed to proceed over the course of a year, in the manner of initation, so as to allow for the awakening of subtle influences within the reader's inner consciousness, intuition and creative self. During this time, the outer life will synchronistically mirror the inner processes. Although I read the book somewhat more quickly, over the course of three months, I can attest to the effects firsthand. I have encountered and crossed a number of thresholds since I first began reading. According to tradition, it is the calling of the Bard ot entertain, educate and elighten through storytelling. To follow the course of this Story certinaly results in the entertainnment, education and elightenment of the reader. The beautiful circular poetry and dream-like illustrations of Milses Lowry provide a wonderful complement to the astute scholarship and story-weaving abilities of Yvonne Owens. To add to my personal pleasure, there is also a well-selected bibliography.

Here is a book that, founded on demonstrable research with ample pictures to prove it, pulls together a wild and wide body of folk tale and metaphor and provides the reader with a useful life tool they can use the moment they crack the cover. A stylistically direct writer, Owens leaps to her subject with a sense of delivering unadulterated and important information. The book is primarily about the journey of the soul along the time-honoured hero's quest, but it is much more than that: it is an examination of one's own conscious body and body consciousness; it is a self-directed journey toward personal creativity; and (best of all) it is a fairy story. Like all folklore, the information Owens presents is ancient and universal. What is unique here is Owens' ability to sew together myth, archaeology, symbol, and archetype to show forgotten ceremonial and shamanic relationships. Journey of the Bard is in the tradition of Maria Gimbutas and Clarissa Pinkola Estés: an effective revelation of what we always knew about our human spirit, but seldom perceived due to patriarchal cultural overlay. The structure of the book is based on a chapter-a-month programme that takes the reader through the chakra system and the Celtic realms of the earth/garden, underworld, and heavens. Each segment contains an analytical essay on the symbology of that stage of the journey (i.e. chakra) as well as the actual story text. The bard (an Everyperson creative type) makes her/her way through the Celtic fabled landscape, encountering myth, monster, and guide. The reader, in turn, is meant to be on their own parallel inward journey through their own interior landscape. Like every good heroic archetype, the protagonist has to pass through the pits of darkness and dance among the stars to fully aquire the magic potential of their beings. At the end, the reader/bard is returned to the earthly garden in full possession of their creative powers. Included in this volume are original poems, paintings and drawings by Miles Lowry. His clear, precise illustrations of ancient motifs and artifacts are an essential component of the book, but most notable are his errie illustrations of the bard's journey, which add a fey beauty much associated with things Celtic. Appropriately enough, Owens describes herself as a "cultural theorist" - a useful catch-all term for this kind of sociological research and assembly project. Besides a wealth of art criticism and cultural essays, her past publications include The Cup of Mari Anu, a coming-of-age legend for young women, beautifully illustrated by Kevan Lane Miller, and The Witches' Book of Days, co-authored with Jessica North and Jean Kozacari. She is also known as the past editor of Hecate's Loom Magazine which, under her regime, became an internationally-respected alternative arts and philosophy publication. She also has a bourgeoning career as a Celtic/early music recording artist, with her second CD, The Moor and the Dowry, scheduled for release in 1998. The Journey of the Bard is the cornerstone of Bardic Journeys Tours, which will combine imaginative journeying with more literal travel to explore ancient civilizations. The first of these tours will be to Crete in 1998 and will not only showcase Owens' storytelling talents, but will also include musicians and historians in a very full and entertaining package.

There is really nothing new in this book and yet the interview material it provides is first-rate and brilliantly presented by Ashby and Miles. After the Foreword ("Leading in the New Century: Storm Clouds and Silver Linings on the Horizon") and Introduction ("Factors Affecting Leadership and Human Capital Management"), they organize 49 interviews within five chapters, followed by an Epilogue ("Optimizing Human Capital with a 'People Operating System' Approach"). Actually, during their research for this book, they conducted hundreds of interviews with all manner of executives, selecting responses which, to varying degrees, helped to answer questions such as these:

• What gives companies competitive advantage?

• What are the burning issues for corporate leaders today?

• How do leaders lead in times of crisis or instability?

• How do companies identify, attract, develop, and retain the best and brightest people in the marketplace?

The title of each chapter correctly indicates the primary focus of the interviews assembled within it: Leadership, Managing Human Capital, Establishing Competitive Advantage, Strategic change and Transformation, and finally Chapter 5, The Stakeholder's View. The value of this book will no doubt be determined by each reader in terms of the nature and extent of material most relevant to the reader's specific needs and interests. Here are brief excerpts from a few of the conversations which were of greatest interest to me. Hopefully they give those who read this review a sense of the quality of the responses to important issues.

Jim Collins on leadership: "We [Collins and his research associates] concluded that the answer to making companies great was not leadership itself. The real distinction was that there is a special form of leadership that takes companies from good to great....Level Five leaders are ambitious first and foremost for the company and its long-term greatness, not for themselves as individuals. As a result, they tend to be personally modest, humble and reserved,, but enormously willful on behalf of the organization....They tend not to become celebrities. They don't have their egos wrapped up in making themselves well-known....We found that there is an inverse relationship between high-profile, charismatic, egocentric leadership -- the Level Four leaders -- and the journey of the company from good to great."

John Hagel on how to respond to increased performance demands, shifts of surplus from from a structural advantage to a human capital advantage, and a bottleneck to value creation caused by shortages in key skill sets/experience: "What can companies do about these trends? As talent increases its ability to capture value, companies will need to rethink their businesses on a profound level. This includes even the most basic question of all: What business are we in? What business are we really in? Perhaps the most significant challenge involves the need to adopt a different mindset. Rather than looking at cost-cutting and automation as ways to cope, businesses will need to focus on accelerating growth as a way to reward talent and increase returns to the business at the same time. Rather than focusing on attracting and retaining talent, companies will need to concentrate on developing privileged relationships with talent, wherever it may reside."

Michael Dell on the New Economy: "The most essential trend, indeed the trend that spawned the New Economy, is the transition from atoms to electrons and now photons as a medium for information. With each of these transitions, the vehicles upon which information rides have become lighter. Thoughts, ideas, and productivity now flow with less friction than ever before, decreasing transaction costs and removing barriers to communication. As a result, it's now as simple and inexpensive to communicate a world away as it is to send a message across the room."

David M. Rubenstein on Jack Welch's leadership: "When he took the helm of General Electric 20 years ago, it was a well-respected company. At the time, no one thought that GE had any significant problems, yet Welch, in a mere two decades, transformed it into a completely different organization by building on existent strengths. Now, ha he just [in italics] presided during his period and not [in italics] led, GE would still be a reasonably successful electrical appliance company. But by dramatically expanding its mission and turning it toward a path it would never otherwise have taken, he set the gold standard for business leadership. Welch will be remembered for asking questions that others hadn't asked, motivating people, asking employees to dig a little deeper and work a little harder, and giving them a sense of why that was important to them, to their families, and to their communities."

In the Epilogue, written in collaboration with Jay A. Conger, Miles and Ashby present what they describe as a "new method of managing talent -- a systemic, holistic approach that leverages upside potential in the day-to-day workplace by translating it into sustainable value." It is called a People Operating System (POS) and is, in effect, a human capital management team. They suggest that there are seven specific attributes to be considered when identifying leadership talent. The seven are sensible enough and the points of emphasis, insofar as the attributes are concerned, are appropriate if rather obvious. However, I was unprepared for the introduction of the POS in the Epilogue. There is no indication that the POS was significantly influenced by what was learned during the interviews, from what Miles and Ashby call "leadership vignettes." I question the appropriateness of the Epilogue. Frankly, I had expected and would have preferred some correlations between and among the responses from those interviewed which suggest how the five chapter subjects may be separate but are also interdependent.

Whereas the Foreword and Introduction are eminently appropriate to the material in this volume, the Epilogue is not...at least not as Conger, Miles, and Ashby present it. Perhaps they will write another book which focuses entirely on the design, implementation, and subsequent development of a POS.

Top CEOs give their views on all that matters in business.
Strong on visionary leadership of talent, these top execs all view employees as their most valuable assets. You'll find innovative thinking on finding, hiring, developing, challenging, retaining and continuing to motive workers in demanding, volatile environments. User-friendly format with helpful Contents and Index tables allow you to dip into this book just to glean your favorite moguls' musings. But most readers will probably devour it in one sitting, start to finish. It's that captivating.

As a teacher of history, one of the most important lessons I hope to convey to students is why the study of history is of such importance. One reason is, the study of history helps us to comprehend why we are the way we are. In other words, we must look to the past to understand why we eat what we eat, wear what we wear, and view the world as we do. This book admirably supports, with clear, concise prose and colorful illustrations, why the China's history is everyones' history. It is also great fun to read!

This book is awesome! I have used it and others in this series with my students grades 1-3. The text is appropriate for both independent and read aloud, and the use of real photography is very effective. The kids were fascinated and loved learning all the neat things invented/ discovered in China. I was surprised to learn some of them myself. I would highly reccommend this book!

If you`re looking for a good read, the book `MAD AT MILES` is a good place to start. Pearl has a lyrical flow to her writings. She caputres her audience attention & keeps them from wanting to put the book down. This book is about battered women such as Tina Turner, Cicely Tyson and many other women. Miles is a jazz artist. A question Pearl wants her audience to keep in mind while reading is, SHOULD WE purchase music by Men whose lyrics consist of how they`ve beaten or plan to beat their wives/girlfriends even if the music sounds good?? I personally, don`t think we should because we are condoning to their behavior making it seem that what they are doing is okay. I feel that most people (like myself) aren`t really `hearing` the lyrics while listenin to what they think is good music.

I had never heard of Pearl Cleage until 1992, when a friend saw her in a lecture she gave on the campus of Central Missouri State University. My friend gave me her copy of Mad at Miles to read. It sat on my table for 3 weeks before I finally got around to reading it. Being a fan of Miles Davis, I couldn't figure out what reason anyone would have to be mad at him. When I finally read the book, I understood. This book is excellent!! Cleage writes sort of a handbook for women to guard them against being the victim of abuse. She talks about her own abuse at the hands of a former lover, and the abuse suffered by Cicely Tyson at the hands of her former husband, Miles Davis. This book should be read by anyone who has been the victim of abuse and even by those who haven't been abused. Cleage's strength comes across to the reader. She makes me proud to be a woman, an African American, and a strong human being. I admire her for her courage in speaking out against such a beloved music figure, such as Miles Davis. I have become a fan of Pearl Cleage and recommend her to anyone looking for a new and exciting author to read.

Every parent knows that children depend on certain books being read to them ritualistically nearly every evening at bedtime. This was for a very long time one of those books for my daughter and me. The story is delightful. Miles lives in a swamp and loves to play music. But his mother hates his music, and chases him away from the house whenever he plays. Going further into the swamp, he finds a number of others who also can't play their music at home, and they form a swamp band. As they are playing, they are overheard by an alligator, who instead of eating them, invites them all onto a riverboat to play for the alligator ball! They go, they play, are a bit hit, and are about to become a bigger hit, because the main item on the menu that night is Swamp Band Soup! The band escapes.

The illustrations are just extraordinary. My daughter's favorite were the two pages that showed first all the alligators going onto the riverboat, and then the two pages that showed them all dancing at the alligator ball to the Swamp Band singing their song "Mama Don't Allow Any Music Playing in Here."

I have recommended this book to other parents, and they all report that their kids loved it just as much as mine did. This book is best suited for children between the ages of two and six. Good story, great illustrations, and it helps if you can come up with a nifty little tune to go with the lyrics of the song.

My kids love this book -- each of them, in turn, has been enthralled by the story of Miles, the little badger whose saxophone playing is too awful for his mama to allow it in the house, but who lands a gig playing for some hungry alligators. By dint of his clever and melodious playing, Miles saves himself and his band from becoming the soup du jour, and mama hears the swamp lullaby he's playing and says, "Oh, how nice..." The pictures are richly colored and amusing, and this should take its place among your favorite books.

I borrowed this book from the MS Society library and was disappointed it was out of print when I tried to buy it. The section on Baclofen was especially helpful to me. Also the sections on bowel/bladded management.

As a recently diagnosed patient with MS, this book summarized and explained some of the feelings, both mental and physical, that I am dealing with on a daily basis. The fact that it was written with the help of MSers gives it a humorous slant that is so different from other "serious" texts on MS.

I've read this book countless times and I still love it! A great plot, showing the barbaric, hurtful lengths that some of us will go to in the name of keeping our children "pure". Filled with emotion, this book is a must-read. There were times I wanted to cry, and several times that I was cracking up! Great for sparking thoughtful discussions in a classroom or family.

I read this book when I was in middle school and have reread it several times since then. This book shows how simple misunderstandings can lead to great heartache and sorrow. Ms. Miles writes her characters with intelligence and her story is well thought out. I wish this book would be taught in schools but I'm sure that it would find itself in the same predicament as the books in the story. I plan to have my children read this book when they start middle school.