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I am very glad that I found these little books written by Petra Eiko. The author manages to cover serious topics while keeping the fun in reading intact. It is great to see something new and innovative on the crowded book market.

What kind of secret does 'Sound' share? It shows you that sound is only energy and that a 'more' of sound does not ensure a better understanding.

I highly recommend the whole Seeds of truth" series.

I've read all of the books in this series except for "Wisdom" and I just ordered that one. These books by Petra Eiko are so refreshingly different and fun to read. This is a great collection of information in a conversational approach that makes you think and feel good about yourself and helps you through problems in your life. I can't wait for the next book by Petra Eiko.

I just loved reading this book. A totally different and new perspective of sounds, life and ideas. Great for everybody to read.
I am looking forward to read more from Petra Eiko.

Reading this book was a pleasure. Eiko conveys a totally different point of view about sounds, words and their meanings. In a short time I got a new point of view. Very entertaining, true, unexpectatly joyfull to read. Thanks Eiko, I will be back with more......

20 Something Manifesto: Quarter-Lifers Speak Out About Who They Are, What They Want, and How to Get It

I've read lots of fitness books, and I think Laurel House did a great job at interpreting Rob's workout routine. I like Rob's perspective on easy-to-do workouts for the everyday person. All of the tips on food I also found helpful. This is a great book to buy as a gift or to use for yourself if you're interested in a casual but serious workout routine. And, of course, you can get a bit of celebrity gossip!

The advice in this book has been nothing short of genuis!!! I've tried many workouts in the past... but this book gives me hope that I can have arms like Madonna and a slender body like demi's! I've been following the plans for the last 2 weeks and have already noticed a difference! The plans are made for those of us who don't want to spend our lives in the gym or change our routines w/ simple challenges to get your body the best it can be! And with the celebrity insider information, this book makes for a perfectly fun workout!

You know how most "trainer guys" just tell you what to do? Well in this book Rob really keeps you motivated, he has a certain way to make you want to do the workouts. Amazing I know.

This book helped me realize that I was stuck in a rut with my workout. I wasn't pushing my body buy doing the same darn thing everyday. I kinda knew that but this was the kick in the bottom that made me realize that change is good. So since reading this book I have changed up my workout and can see results already!!!

Ms. Ching truly pays homage to author Cao Xuequin's Dream of the Red Chamber. Her photographs carry us on a personal sojourn exploring the central love story and the unfolding allegory behind it. Beautiful and evocatively enticing. A lovely coffee table book to share with my friends.

I really enjoyed this book! Wonderful and stunning to look at. I read "Dream of the Red Chamber" many years ago and thought this book was an interesting visual interpretaion.

Loved it!

Makes an impressive gift! The photographs were taken in China and give life and excitement to an old tale, Story of the Stone.
I would highly recommend giving this beautiful book to family, friends and clients.

"In the hands of Linda Ching the camera is a delicate paintbrush. The images she has created to tell the tale of "Story of the Stone" summons the senses--like delicate water paintings, opalescent colors emerge. In silky browns and beiges she arouses ecstatic figures; a wistful woman is caught in a gossamer mirror; a twig soars alone, overlaid in sunlit leaves. A fresh new look at an old Chinese masterpiece." -- Moana Tregaskis

Our daughter *loves* this book. I'm so grateful to have a book that emphasizes the lessons nature has for all of us, and in a subtle, "non-preachy" way. The pictures are beautiful and the message is a meaningful alternative to all the books explicitly trying to "teach" kids lessons. Our family loves all of Amy Powell's books, but this one is special because it encourages kids to keep learning long after they've stopped reading it. A great gift, too. This is a wonderful book!!!

"Summer School in the City" was a hit with my young cousins (ages 1 1/2 and 4)! The artistic watercolors really caught the baby's attention while the applicable and easy to understand lessons intrigued my older cousin. Most books are limited to certain age groups, but this one transcends all!

This is such a neat book based on such a great idea. We are nature lovers and think that learning from animals is not only a fun idea, but a very wise one too. We first read this story to our little girl when she was a year old and she loved looking at the bright watercolor paintings of the animals. Now that she is older, she is getting really into the story...so it looks like the book will last us through several age brackets.

What a wonderful idea -- teaching children higher spiritual concepts via the school of nature. Both my kids loved the colorful pictures and found the "lessons" quite interesting.

We bought this book for our 4yr old. He loves it! The illustrations are great and the concept is presented in an entertianing story that he is able to relate to. We will definitly be buying the other books in the series for him.

Thanks for giving me material to use to teach my kids about saving and a good work ethic!

All of the Dave Ramsey childrens books are wonderful, teaching children about saving, spending responsibly and giving, and presented in an enjoyable and easy to read format. Of all the books in the series, this one is my 7-yr old son's favorite. Soon after reading it the first time, he was eager to start earning his own money for an item he has had his eye on. All of the books have been re-read several times through.

After purchasing the Financial JR kit, I found this book. It is great. My six year old son loved it and could relate with the boy in the book. We will be reading this again and again. I will be buying another in this series.

This is perhaps one of the finest unit histories I have read. It is a fine tribute to the men of an incredible unit -- the First Special Service Force. There hasn't been a book on this unit in over 30 years, and this book certainly sets the record straight. Everything you want to know about the Force is here. Not only is it full of never before seen photgraphs of the Force, it includes comprenhensive information on how the unit was organized and fought. There is information and photographs detailing everything from the weapons used to the uniforms worn. The text is quite excellent, and includes detailed footnotes (which is unusual for a book of this sort.) This book will appeal to all those interested in the Force, special forces, and WWII in general. I hope to see more work like this from the author. This book is truly a treasure!

This is a book about the unit with which I served in World War II. It's the book for which veterans of the Force, like me, have been waiting since Robert Burhans wrote the first Force history in 1947. It's a true successor to Burhans because it contains none of the bombast,mistruths and basic errors of many other writings. Author Todd Ross, in his first book, has proven what a careful, conscientious,and honorable researcher he is, and the book amply demonstrates that. During World War II, there was no other elite unit as unique as the First Special Service Force, if one were to consider only the fact that its Combat Echelon contained trained soldiers from the Canadian Army. They served alongside their U. S. Army compatriots, wearing the same uniform, totally integrated. When I and a fellow Canadian Sergeant walked into our pyramidal tent in 5th Company, Second Regiment, we found two trained American volunteers awaiting our arrival.Within days, it was hard to tell American from Canadian as we learned to parachute together, laughed over trying to integrate basic drill commands and actions. In his text, Ross covers this uniqueness, before moving on to our weapons training, demolitions, mountain climbing, skiing, unarmed combat, the use of German weapons,and the range of other training elements, including development of the Weasel, the first truly effective over-the-snow vehicle. He follows our path into combat, with the dry run at Kiska when the Japanese left before we and others landed. Our sudden shift to Italy: fighting in the mountains leading to Cassino;our 98 days without relief at Anzio holding almost one quarter of the entire Beachhead;the road to Rome--the first Allied troops to enter the Eternal City in force, two days before Normandy; our role in leading the invasion of S. France; and the saddest day of all when the Force was disbanded in December, 1944, in S. France. This is an illustrated history, with photos by Robert Capa, famed WWII photographer, as well as many others; maps which give battle details, charts, reports,an extensive bibliography, and a host of color plates showing our uniforming and equipment. This is the best-appearing and most complete book on the Force ever published. As veterans who lived through the life of the Force, we have nothing but praise for it, and heartily recommend it to Amazon.com readers.

Having just received my copy of this book in the mail, I can't say that I've read through the entire text yet. But this is not necessarily the type of book that you plod through dutifully from the first to the last page in rigid sequence. After all, as one veteran of the First Special Service Force commented to me, this is a "coffee table" book. And, as with the best of that species (whatever the subject matter), it's meant to be savored slowly and appreciated over time!

Lavishly illustrated in both colour and black and white, it presents a fine visual record of almost every aspect of the First Special Service Force. Numerous contemporary photos are complemented by frequent carefully constructed plates which meticulously document more than half a century later the uniforms, equipment, and insignia of the Force. (The author, incidentally, is present in more than one, photographed wearing the typical "kit" of Forcemen from various periods of the unit's short but significant existence.) Maps show the major areas of operations, and are graphically clean and easily absorbed. An appendix at the end even corrects omissions made in a previously published list of all men who served with the Force.

While the illustrations immediately catch the eye, there is also a detailed and rigorously annotated text. A quick examination of the extensive bibliographic notes at the end of the book reveals an impressive depth and comprehensiveness of background research. That matches the overall production values of this large book, which is simply a pleasure to hold in your lap and and enjoy the more you browse through it.

Well done!

If only one word could be used to describe Todd Ross's book the Supercommando's, that word would have to be awesome! Ross's book is the most definitive work about the unit known as the 1st Special Service Force since Robert Burhan's book War History of the North Americans. The book contains many never seen before photographs of the force and is worth the price of the book alone. Maps are in vivid color, and are very easy to read and understand. The Force equipment and weapons are authentic and not cheap reproduction look a likes. A real highlight of the book is Ross's attention to detail and accuracy. Ross is to be commended for the outstanding layout of the book and its smooth transition from one point to the next. This book traces the force from its inception to its heartbreaking disbandment and shows the force for what it really was, a tough, daring, resouceful, highly specialized special force that had few equals in WWII. This book dispells the myth created by the highly entertaining but highly inaccurate movie the "Devils Brigade and the book by the same name, No Dirty Dozen here! This is a must have book for those interested in Special Forces, and military history. This book is a must have reference for the professor of military history and historians. This is not a book to be read once and then put away, this is a reference book to be used over and over again. If you have Robert Burhan's book and Ross's book the Supercommandos, you have the history, expolits and unparalleled view of the 1st Special Service Force. I salute Mr. Ross for a job well done!

Just for the record there are MORE than 12 books. Furthermore, yes, they are incredible. It's an ongoing adventure with a fantastic plot. I've used them to get my students into reading allowing them to DO something with their reading. But yes, there are more than 12, I DO in fact have them all and am NOT in fact interested in parting with them.

The Lone Wolf series is a great series. I have all 12 books and am going through them all again. Get this book.

The book basically brings you right smack into the surreal world,whereby evil and good fight for control.I can say joe dever moves you with all the vivid memories of how lone wolf journeys through the land to arrive at durenor to get the sommerswerd.The book made me think about life in fact and could even control my feelings[angry,sad,etc.]with the vivid descriptions of the situations.UNFORTUNATELY the books are all out of print.I just wish joe dever would actually consider reprinting new issues,as i never had a chance to find out how lone wolf developed in the later issues.PLEASE DO REPUBLISH THE BOOKS.

The Sword of the Sun is also the name of the book that encompasses both The Tides of Treachery and this The Sword of the Sun. That book is extremely hard to find. This volume of Lone Wolf Legends chronicles the results of Vonotar the Traitor's betrayal to Sommerlund. Vonotar the Traitor, after failing to overthrow the Guildmaster of Toran and exploding one of his brethren's heart (The Guildmaster had named Vonotar to be his successor, ironically) fled to the Darklands, with both advanced knowledge of good magic and a rudimentary knowledge of the Nadziran arts, the black magics. Upon arriving in the Darklands, the sorcerer was met by a pack of Giaks, the stupid and evil spawn the Darklords breed for slaves. Befriending a Giak, which he named Carag (Vassagonian for "cesspool"), Vonotar flew to the Darkland fortress of Kaag, the citadel of Archlord Zagarna. Vonotar exchanged with the evil being knowledge that could destroy Sommerlund for knowledge of the Nadziranim arts. Now skilled in both black and white magic, Vonotar had effectively married both together. His magical prowess was enough to make him the most powerful sorcerer in Magnamund, the world Lone Wolf takes place upon, but Zagarna had exacted a price for the exchange: should Vonotar turn on him, the Nadziranim sorcerers would scatter the sorcerer's body to the four winds. Vonotar had manipulated all of the other Darklords in believing that he was superior to all of them but Zagarna. He slowly insinuated his power, and Zagarna grew weaker and weaker... With the Darkland army poised to conquer Sommerlund, the Kai hero Lone Wolf must journey far to take the Sommerswerd, the Sword of the Sun. Vonotar has learned of Lone Wolf, the last of the Kai, and has made preparations to make sure the warrior never reaches his destination of Hammerdal... But another entity, Alyss, who thwarted Vonotar's attempt to destroy Lone Wolf, and raised the warrior from death, also waits..

Rosemary Sutcliff will always be one of my favorites. I am seventeen and been reading them for around seven years. (The first year may have been more like listening :>) This story is great. I love how her books aren't a series, yet some of them are connected. This one is connected to The Ninth Eagle and The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers. Her books are not about the romance though they usually have a girl. This one I think is especially sweet in "the girl" area. I started to read these not to long after Chronicles of Narnia. I will always love the Chronicles , and they have some amazing truths in them that you understand more as you grow older, but they are directed to a younger adience. Don't get me wrong, I love the Chronicles, but I don't think I'll ever get too 'old' for Sutcliff's 'young adult' books. I am a Christian and read few non-Chritian books outside of school reading unless I deem them Appropriate. :) I reccomend these books to everyone. they are such a good read.

Rosemary Sutcliff's fleshing out of Kipling's fictional treatment of British history (Puck of Pook's Hill), concludes with Sword Song. Chronologically, her stories range from the Iron Age just before the Romans came, to the English Civil War, although it appears she did not write them in that order.
Her books are called "young adult" novels because the themes are simple and the good guys are generally good, while the bad guys have little to recommend them. There is violence--she writes of dark times--but no sex.
The bulk of her stories are on the edge of the Roman Empire, either geographically, taking place on the fringes of Britain, or in time, as the Empire disintegrates. In either case, individuals have to take care of their own business.
Most young adult novels have as their primary theme the change from child to adult through danger and difficulty.
Sutcliff's characters face dangers, and, most importantly, do so voluntarily. There are any number of times when they could choose to retreat, but go forward, for honor, for their friends, or for an ideal.
This, I would submit, is a terrifically important lesson to teach. Current pop literature for children seems to be trying to emulate Catcher in The Rye, where a perpetual loser is....a loser. Losers seem to be heroes.
In Sword Song, the young man leaves home due to having accidentally killed a man. It's clear that Bjarni has a good deal too much energy, not enough judgment, and perhaps doesn't even know enough to be afraid. Not surprisingly, he finds work as a hired sword, although he begins to give his loyalty to one of his employers, and gets loyalty back.
Later in the book, he is trying by himself, with no friends at his back, to facilitate the escape of a woman, herself an outcast, from danger. To do so, he has to back off from an encounter, to keep from being discovered. He informs the woman that for her he has, for the first time in his life, run from a fight. We all make sacrifices in our way and Bjarni is now growing up. He will fight, in the future, we don't doubt, but with somewhat more discernment.
The scope of the book is around the littoral of the British Isles, as Bjarni is a fighting man on the ships of various Isles warlords.
I would strongly, highly, unreservedly recommend any parent to supply Sutcliff's books to any child from about age fourteen on. The inevitable difficulty is that the parent is going to have to teach a history course in order to place the story in our own world. Given the state of education these days, without that primer, Sutcliff's stories might as well be fantasy or science fiction.
It is too bad. Sutcliff's stories tell important lessons about how we came to be who we are; through the stubborn courage of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances.
We are not through needing such people,and, although a number of Sutcliff's people are military, many are not. She tells us that we have to look to ourselves as we are, and not necessarily to depend on others who, as when the Empire fell, are no longer available.
In addition to the lessons which I, at an advanced age think are important, I can also say the stories are terrific reads. Sutcliff is particularly good on the seemingly unimportant detail which sets a scene and draws the reader into her world.

I bought this book as part of a home schooling curriculum for my ten-year-old son. Although the book is recommended for young adults, my son reads on a much higher grade level than most of his age group. That being said, he still wanted this to be a duet read;I would read for a while, then he would. It's a challenging read, but well worth the effort. We had been studying Vikings in our history lessons, and I chose this book as the companion reading for these lessons. It really brought home the tumultuous, often violent, and complex times of the Viking world. I highly recommend it.

I helped my twelve year old choose this book to read. He found it humorous when I started reading it. "It's a book for Young Adults", he said. That was funny for several reasons, including the fact that he considers himself a young adult.

The book really is not just for kids. This is the first exposure I've had to Sutcliff. I was very pleasantly surprised to find the high quality of her writing to be focussed on kids.

This tale, wonderfully written, tells of a young man and a bad decision. It is a terrible decision in which some one dies. The treatment of the murder is very light. That may be the one criticism that I have for the story. Today, of all days, our kids need to know the very serious consequences of their actions. The setting of this story is far removed from our own, and is probably the way it would have been.

Through the life events and challenges resulting from the accident, Bjarni becomes a man. He learns the hard way how to do just about everything. This forging process helps him to grow physically and mentally.

This is a good story. There is a little death, a little love, and a lot of life.

Tarot Says Beware was one of the best books I've read in a long time. Herculeah is the new Nancy Drew. She brings mystery to the new age with her curiosity. This book is suspenseful and exciting. The answer lies with a bird and the simple word "BEWARE". I think that this book is great and you should read it

Tarot says Beware is about a girl named Herculeah and meat Herculeah's best friend.Herculeah finds out that Tarot is outside so then Herculeah calls Meat and tells him to come over and go to the house with her.When Meat arived at Mandom Rosa's house they went to find Madom Rosa but Herculeah found Mandom Rosa dead underneath the table. So Herculeh called Meat to the table and Herculeh showed Meat the dead body.Then the night that Madom Rosa got killed a person called Herculeah's house and said "bring Tarot over to my houses so then Herculeh did and found out that it was the puppeter that killed Madom Rosa.

When Herculeah checks over at Madem Rosas home she sees that Tarot [the bird] is out of its cage which is very rare. She walks into the house and... 'IT WILL KEEP YOU TURNING THE PAGE FOR MORE' 'A MIX OF NANCY DREW AND GOOSBUMPS'For ages 10 and 13

Tarot Says Beware is a really great book for kids 10-14. it is about this girl herculeah who looks out her window one day and sees madame rosa's parrot outside, and she knows that madame rosa would never let tarot out because how much she loves the bird, so she goes to madame rosa's and no one is there and the bird is saying beware beware! you will have to read it to see what all happens!

For generations, the people living in North Mobile County and Southern Washington County have been lied to, persecuted, and discriminated against. They were forgotten by everyone until this author came along and tried to help them find out who they are.

It was rough growing up in a community where only a handful of people ever had a college education, and only a few more even graduated high school. There were only a few people to reference who had been there and done that.

Mrs. Matte shows the reader why.

Today the children of those who remain are struggling to have themselves identified in a system that desired clean, neat records that provide a near-perfect paper-trail.

The reality is that many of these people were illiterate up until the last 70-80 years. There was no school for indians.

They were not counted in the Census unless they were tax payers.

They were referred to as Cajans or Cajuns, mixed by blood and called Whites, Blacks, or Cajans based on skin color alone, however many people in the same family had features that to the unitiated appeared as all three.

My family shares these traits... My father's father had light colored eyes and light skin. My father is of a terracotta skin tone and my sister has a "tanned" skin tone and both have brown eyes, and I am blond and blue. Yet we are the same family.

My cousins and their cousins are the same.

Thank you Jackie for taking the time to chronicle some of the stories of a people who are truly fighting for their very survival.

This book tells some of those stories.

Sincerely,

Darby Weaver Jr.

This book tells the story of my family and other native peoples whose identities were essentially taken from them by Alabama politicians who over several decades mischaracterized them as "Cajans." My great grandfather (Seaborn Reid) and his extended family were living in post-Civil War Washington and Mobile Counties in southeast Alabama where, as free mixed Indian people, his ancestors had made their homes for many years, before the state began to deny their Indian heritage. Eventually, Seaborn would bring his whole family to Mississippi to escape the arbitrary and discriminatory treatment they experienced under Alabama's laws and practices respecting his people. Once in Mississippi, he and his clan were treated as white citizens, and his progeny slowly loss their awareness of their heritage as years went by. Until I read "They Say the Wind is Red," little of this history was known by anybody in the family.

So, whether your interest lies in the genealogy of Washington and Mobile County persons, or in the history of that region, or in what is a great telling of how native peoples' identity was taken from them and how they are now seeking to reclaim their rights as members of a tribal community, this is a must-read book.

All I can say is this book helps you understand the difficult, yet enduring tribe of Choctaw that live with honor--- in a harsh country they once owned. This book makes you think and feel for a people who were treated unfairly by their country and their government. This pearl of literature might have been lost in the biased written history books of America if J.A.Matte would have accepted anything less than the truth. Born in a time when women were struggling to be regconized & heard...J.A.Matte became an educator as well as a champion for American history...recorded correctly. This book really touched me & my family. Read it & know the truth.

Now in a newly revised edition which include a resource guide for Southeastern Indian genealogy, They Say The Wind Red: The Alabama Choctaw Lost In Their Own Land, by Jacqueline Anderson Matte (who testified as an expert witness before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Hearings for federal recognition of the Alabama Choctaw) is a compelling and accurate history of those Choctaw Indians who successfully remained in Alabama, when other southeastern Indian tribes were compelled to relocate to the American West during the 1830s. The Alabama Choctaw were a small band of Native Americans who were often mistaken as being either blacks or cajun, and who stayed in the swamps and pine woods of Mobile and Washington counties in spite of federal government's efforts to remove them. An invaluable addition to the growing library of Native American Studies, They Say The Wind Is Red is very highly recommended history of pride, love of land, danger, and a people's determination to endure and preserve their way of life in spite of severe and enduring hardships.