Interactive Books

The authors have put together a totally enjoyable workbook for 2 people -- gay or straight -- to use in order to strenghten the foundation of their relationship. My partner & I are having alot of fun doing the exercises & are amazed at how much better we are able to communicate by using the suggestions in the book.

Being catapulted into the lesbian lifestyle, by chance; I sought the need to educate myself on the subject. Feathering Your Nest, seemed an appropriate place to start. It was apparent from beginning to end, that the authors went far beyond writing a compendium--they, indeed lived it first--and foremost. This publication is more than a "how to" guide, yet all the necessary instructions are available at your fingertips. Answers, only for the asking. I was so totally absorbed in it, from beginning to end, and I highly reccomend it to anyone who has the desire to live a fulfilling life the way it was intended.I Have proclaimed to any who will listen,"You will be reading "Feathers" again & again, because you want to...not because you have to".Deborah Nelson-Dubronski, Ph

This book is funny, warm, straight-forward, creative, and solution-oriented... a real breath-of-fresh-air when it comes to books on/about relationship. It is personable and often light-hearted while at the same time serious enough to be grounding. It is practical. All relationships can gain from it; I heartily recommend it for smiles and joy, and a grateful heart for that beautiful, special someone in your life--man or woman! An excellent resource, no doubt about it!

I have recently separated from my love of 6 years. Unfortunately I read Gwen's book too late to save that relationship. But...Wow....Feathering Your Nest will assuredly help me with potential and hopefully lasting lovers. I eagerly await any forthcoming books from this lady who obviously understands the problems and the pleasures that we lesbians experience in our relationships. LuAnn Mathia

I enjoyed this book! A great story about the journeys we go on and how they can impact our lives.

Chris has a great sense of humour, and his love/hate relationship with the Irish shines through ih book as I giggled my way through the pages. It is great to read a 'regular blokes' writing!! :-)

Looking forward to the next adventure!

Not only is this book written by my brother an interesting and funny account of his travels in Ireland - more to the point - it has ME in it! Woohooo I'm famous... (Note to self: tone down my narcissistic tendencies). In all seriousness though, I enjoyed 'a few Drops short of a Pint', because in many ways it reminded me of my time and travels in Ireland too. Ireland can be a frustrating place, that is for certain, but those are the kinds of things you get through and look back and enjoy in retrospect. This is what Chris has captured, an essentially personal journey (in many senses of the word) in a retrospective angle. I think, having been tested time again, his character has shone through in his writing. There is a truthfulness to Chris' book that you can admire, I highly recommend trying it and discovering everything in it on offer yourself.

A. Dowding

Very well written book with a lot of humour. I found myself laughing at the craziness of the people Chris and Kerryn came across in their travels. Can't wait to experience Ireland myself!

Would recommend it to anyone interested in funny travel narratives!

The book chronicles Chris and Kerryn's time spent living and working in Ireland. It is one of the few books about the Emerald Isle that doesn't read like it was written by Ireland's national tourist board. It's an honest account of the good times and the bad and you can find out more about it at Chris's website [...]. Peter Moore, author of 'Vroom with a View'

...while not avoiding the dark side of the Irish character, Chris also explores the humour. Gregory Stanton, 'weekender'

...a full bodied travel memoir that gives the reader a taste of Irish life and history. Jennifer Scott, 'Sunshine Coast Daily'

It's the sort of travel book you can read over a few beers. Linda Muller, 'The Redland Times'

Like so many others, I'm self-taught in Photoshop, InDesign ... and now I'm tackling Final Cut Pro.

Visual QuickPro Guides are quickly becoming my "go to" books for technical learning. I have found them to be:

1. Packed full of information;
2. Easy to read (the pages are set up perfectly for us visual learners);
3. Well indexed to find information.

Lisa Brenneis' FINAL CUT PRO 6 guide is quickly becoming well-worn as I learn the ins and outs of final cut.

If you're teaching yourself Final Cut like I am, this book is a must-have.

Enjoy!

Learning FCP by reading the manuals is like running in mud. Turning to Visual Quick pro is a great way to get a jump start on learning FCP. Using this book is perfect for finding answers to simple yet mounting tasks when editing with FCP. Great book to keep on hand weather you're new to FCP or an old pro. This book will save you time and cut down on the trial and error process.

I own most books written on Final Cut Pro. I love all the Apple Pro books. But.......this is the first book I always tell everyone to purchase. It is the essential FCP reference for most situations. Of course it doesn't go into everything like the manuals but I feel this book is a must read and is never far from my editing room.

The guys at the Genius Bar in the Apple Store in San Francisco recommended this to me, and I'm happy they did. It's simply excellent!

My daughter loves these books. The bright colors on the pages and moving finger puppet are fascinating to her.

My son at 6 months really was not into books. This series uses small puppets that can be wiggled with each page keeping kids interst. The stories are nothing special but the illustrations are bright and colorful. I have since bought a set as a gift for a friend.

These little books are the first books that my 4 and half months old son was introduced to at an early age of 2 months. He was mesmerized by the ladybug book because the puppet was black in colour (The first colour babies can see are black and white) and he loved watching it moves while i read the book for him, now he is 4 and a half months and He loves all of them, i don't leave the house without taking one book with me to entertain him while we are out in a restaurant or visiting friends. I highly recommend this item.

What can I say! I work with kids for a living and they love it!

My daughter loves these lift the flap books. They are well made and don't tear easily (what she loves to try to do). Very colorful and fun to look at. Keeps her attention. Highly recommended.

Our children love the little people books. They are wonderfully illustrated with fun lift the flaps. The books are very durable also. They are great for small children.

My 2 year-old daughter has had 5 of the Little People lift-the-flap books. She loves them all. This is a great way to encourage learning in counting, shapes, colors, and animals. This is our newest addition to the Little People flip-the-flap books, but the ones we've had for over a year continue to be favorites and we read them over and over.

The Little People pop up books are wonderful...my daughter can never get enough! The pictures are great and there are a lot of flaps, which means more surprises. :)

a great book for any flash student with superb examples . a must for anyone connected to computers..

This is a quite thorough book that picks up where Mohler's intro book leaves off. It's written as if a Flash instructor literally transcribed his class presentations, which is good and bad. Explanations are long, but at times are wordy and dull. It will remind you at times of tedious homework assignments and drills. There is quite a bit of slogging through pages with only two or three long paragraphs with no Flash code. That's not bad, but it's a sign that an editor probably could have tightened up the writing here.

Also, these authors need to lighten up and learn to write! The tone they take is often "academic", with all the snobbiness and overuse of big words and long sentences that comes with that. Often it's clear that one or the other of the two authors has written a particular passage--and there are some awful clunkers there. Better instructors and writers strive for a more human, friendly tone.

Also, there are coding techniques that seem to me not to reflect current or common Flash coding practice, like the frequent use of the eval() function and the set() function (which I've *never* seen other advanced Flash authors use).

One good thing: the two long projects in the book are kind of neat, definately better than in some other big Flash books.

I'm a beginning flash user, and I picked this book up as a follow up to Mohler's first book. Even though it explores advanced scripting, the explanations are clear enough for beginners like myself to understand. I actually understand OOP because of the great dog class example. There are some really great examples on the cd-rom. It's so helpful to have an actual Flash file to play with, so I can see exactly how it works.

I bought this book a couple of weeks ago and I love it. It has tons of examples in the CD. It is a great book to learn complex actionscripting.

Cicely Mary Barker fairies are so innocent and sweet. My girls (ages 7 and 5) love them and this book allows them to create their own fairy worlds with the beautiful stickers. The pages are all very pretty and are interspersed with little written activities and outdoor fairy projects. The only negative I have is that the stickers are supposed to be scented. Some of the stickers have a smell, but it is not entirely pleasant. Overall though, it is worth the money.

This is a very lovely booklet! The pictures are adorable and nicely printed. The stickers have almost no scent, by the way, but the book was so lovely I really didn't care. :)

That was a gift for my 10 years old little sister, she loved it, for me it's not a big wow but good activity book in general. I loved the stickers so much.

Being an artist myself, I found this books extraordinary. I really love them. My only concern is that stickers tend to curl up out of the pages, and sometimes you can lost one of them.

I am 7 years old i like the book i like the fairy stickers.

New Day has a series of eight little action and rhyme books. This one is perfectly suited for a little children's Christmas play. The kids love the action and the repetitive and rhyming nature of the book makes memorization easy. The kids love it.

My three year old granddaughter gives it the thumbs up!

This is another favorite story from Bible in action rhyme. Stephanie Jeffs teams up with illustrator Chris Saunderson in this memorable story of the three wise men from the East, the Star of Bethlehem, and the giving of gifts to the Baby King, Jesus. The brilliant color illustrations, the action movements pictured and the simple narrative all combine to make this a delightful story for the Christmas season.

The search begins with the star, the vision of a new king, traveling from afar, and the discovery of the baby king. As the wise men worship the new found king they bring gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

"Follow the star with the Wise Men" is a good choice for the advent season. The story can be read by early readers themselves, dramatized, included in family time celebrations, or for bed time reading. A delightful reminder of the message of Christmas.
Reviewed by Richard R. Blake, a Christian Education Consultant

Action and adventures await the reader. The entire series are fun for kids. It is something kids and their parents can do together.

I love this series, Action Rhyme Books, from New Day Publishing. Each part of the Nativity story is accompanied by an action for toddlers through 1st graders to act out - "Point point" to the Star - "Search search" for the King. This could even be the script for a Christmas play; parents might even want a copy for themselves!

Hungry

Great Colonial American Projects is the dream book for teachers to help their students understand what real life was like in Colonial America. The author not only provides an array of inexpensive models for kids to build to "recreate" objects colonists used in their daily lives, she has also manages to write about history and historical figures in a way that will connect with kids and have them asking questions. I love to read history, and I enjoyed the spirited and informative style with which Bordessa writes.

I bought this book the other day to suppliment our homeschooling curriculum. I was SO impressed. It was so much more than I was expecting. I thought it would just be a few projects and crafts that you could do with your kids to give them some impressions of Colonial life. I had no idea it would be so well thought out, with so many great historical facts. I really got the feeling that I had learned SO much more about how the Colonists had lived, in an everyday-type of perspective, after reading this book. My son and I are getting ready to start a Colonial History Unit and I am so excited. We are going to start reading the book together and do the projects as we go. And because there are so many interesting things in this one book, I'm sure it will take us a bit longer than I had originally thought. I can't wait to get started!

I purchased this book expecting "great colonial projects" for my homeschooled kids, and it delivered. A friendly tone draws young readers in, while drawings and graphics make the text visually appealing.

However, this author has created a far more powerful resource than that. Ms. Bordessa includes bonus features: a timeline of the Colonial period (divided by both colony and year), background of voyages, maps, a glossary, and text boxes with interesting facts and charts. "Spotlight on Famous Colonists" provides a biographical reference. "Colonial Words to Know" are helpfully placed near the passages where they're used and are also highlighted in the text. Facts are in a frame of reference children can identify with. (For example, the colonists traveled 2,700 miles across the ocean at 2 m.p.h., about the speed of a skateboard!) In this way, the projects link to the larger colonial world.

Even adults who flip through the book will learning something new. I only wish this book had been available the first ten years I homeschooled my children! But what a treat for those mothers with young children who want to bring the colonial period to life for them.

Connie Lapallo
Author, Dark Enough to See the Stars in a Jamestown Sky

This is a really great resource! I wish it had been in print when I was a teacher. Most books on colonial America tend to be a bit dry. This one is visually appealing, lively and would be very useful if your child had to do a report or was just interested in this time period. It covers all the usual things like who the colonists were, what they ate, wore, did for fun and so forth, but it also covers unusual stuff like crime and punishment and fire fighting. In addition, there are directions for dozens of easy projects such as making your Liberty Bell puzzler, marigold dye, dipped candles and a tin lantern. None of the projects take a lot of time and use easy-to-find materials - both big pluses.

An index and glossary help add to the book's usefulness. Overall, a definite pick if you're studying American history.

Hi from Down Under,

I had been casting around for some months for a user friendly New Testament Greek programme, a sort of 'Teach Yourself Greek - for fools and the gramatically ignorant' was what I was after. The Parsons CD 'Greek Tutor: Interactive Learning System' has more than adequately met my wish. It is a clear, FUN (believe it or not) interactive programme which - with much built in encouragement - leads one step by step without making the mistakes of other programmes I have tried, of either expecting prior knowledge or amazing intellegence. I can't recommend this programme more highly - Greek is hard work but this way it is also addictive. Buy and enjoy!

rosalene@clear.net.nz

If I could, I would give this software seven stars. I doubted that I would be able to learn Biblical Greek (they must say "it is Greek to me" for a reason after all). However, after just about an hour I know the alphabet and can make out several Greek words.

Greek Tutor was easy to install on my computer, it was done in about 45 seconds. It works great with XP, there are one or two very minor problems, but those do not impact the operation of the software.

Before today I had no background with Greek and was not sure I could learn it. However, I believe that using this program I will be able to read my Greek New Testament in a much shorter period of time than I thought possible.

Learning a new language is always difficult. Learning a language that is no longer in common use is even more so. But Parson's Greek tutor reduces the effort with fun interactive exercises tied to both of the most popular Biblical Greek books. In a matter of hours I was able to pick up my Greek NT and start reading many passages in their original language. Quickly getting into reading and memorizing scripture in the original is an encouragement to read and learn more. A great resource perfect for the layman wishing to learn a little Greek or the seminary student looking for a little extra help on the side.

This tutorial from Parson's is excellent. If you need to learn Biblical Greek this is a good starting point. Note that it is ONLY a starting point but a very good one at that. Of course nothing beats a live classroom environment for learning a new language but this tutorial comes close. The key is practicing and reviewing every lesson till you are sick and tired of the stuff. I've found that extensive practice is the only way that one can retain the stuff specially if one is 61 years young.

Another benefit of this tutorial is that after learing it I read the corresponding topics in Mounce's "Basics Of Biblical Greek Grammar" AND do the exercises in "Basics Of Biblical Greek Grammar Workbook". Just doing the tutorial may get you going as far as reading simple passages but for a deeper facility with the language one has to use Mounce or a similar text.

All in all this is an excellent product to get you started on a fairly difficult but immensely rewarding journey.