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This is a very valuable book for medical students, medical writers and doctors of all ages. I found this book easy to use, informative and very lucid. I congratulate the author for this effort.

This is a very valuable book for medical students, medical writers and doctors of all ages. I found this book easy to use, informative and very lucid. I congratulate the author for this effort.

Of course this book rocks. I have read many parts of it, and even if you are not a doctor, the material is entertaining.

This is no ordinary volume of poetry. It is beautifully written, possessing the power to captivate the imagination, as well as the heart and soul, of any reader who has ever truly been in love.

This books is awesome! I finally bought my own copy of it - normally I tend to stay away from love oriented poetry - but I must say this collection has quite a depth to it! (And I'm not just saying this because you're my big brother!)
If you're reading this review, and have not bought a copy - go buy one now! You won't regret it!!!

I laughed, I cried ... it was better than Cats! Thank you, my love!

Subject presented concisely...easy to understand. Simple.

Offers relevant information on a variety of approaches to speechreading. Details the benefits of each method and outlines factors crucial to successful communication.

Highly recommended. Superb resource for those training to work as oral transliterators and recommended reading for those preparing for certification!

I've used this book for over 10 years with my students (both who are oral and who use sign language) who want to improve their ability to interact with hearing communication partners. A great book!

This book is intended to help in Oral Transliteration. I read this text for an OT course several years ago, and I still find myself using some of the principles regularly. This book, I am sure, would help in any OT professional use or OT certification. I never had a chance to take that certification exam, but I bet it wouldn't hurt.

I feel that it would help anyone who communicates with someone who is hard of hearing or deaf (who DOES NOT use any kind of signed language). It gives all kinds of tips about gestures and rephrasing, using key words. Say a friend is going deaf, and you notice they aren't understanding you as well as before, this book could help you. A member of my family has lost much of his hearing, and I use some of the tips in this book to help him understand me.

There are tons of exercises in the back- but they require having a partner who can read (without voicing) the sentences, so you pick up on how to speechread them.

I also have found myself out somewhere, speechreading people across the room. Speechreading is difficult and requires hours of practice. For so many people, this is how they get their information, by "reading lips". It amazing how much they have to concentrate and pay attention. The (deaf) man who taught my Speechreading course, read the lips of his professors for a bachelor and master's degree, without the help of a transliterator. Amazing! I have much respect for the speechreaders out there.

For me, this book was a renewed call to minister in the city. I pastor an urban church that has talked about moving to the suburbs. That might be easier, but there are already plenty of churches there, and the mission field is in the urban area. So now I have to figure out how to minister in the complex urban context. This book is a great place to start. Read this book so you can find out how to get involved in your city, looking for signs of hope and opportunities to serve.

It is refreshing to see men who have focused on giving up their leadership rather than owning it! So many organizations drive themselves into the ground due to the founder "taking ownership" of the work that started out being one that was born of the Spirit of God. This is must reading for anyone who intends to claim to "doing the Masters business". In a nut shell, Serving the Master is total ownership by the Master.
Curtis Sharpe

This book has challenged my assumptions and the way I look at urban centers. As one who great up in a rural setting and now find myself in a world-class city, Street Signs has provided traction for me to shift the way I view the city. Even now as I drive around the city I am learning to look at it differently with a new framework.

I enjoyed reading both authors' progression from small town life to city dwelling. I appreciate their love for the city and desire to see it impacted and changed. They presented a Gospel that was more holistic than found in many of our evangelical circles. This Gospel not only is for people's salvation (spiritual), but it empowers the church to social action that cares for people's physical, social, and emotional needs as well. I am recommending this book to all of the church planters I work with here.

Ted Kooser is the poet of the common man. He is known as a regionalist, though his poems speak to people from all over the country. And his selected poems show you exactly the skill of this poet. Kooser is the master of the short poem and of the simple poem. He is a pleasure to read. This collection contains such fine poems such as "Selecting a Reader", "Spring Plowing", "A Summer Night", "Carrie", "A Hairnet with Stars" and "Abandoned Farmhouses" (which might be his best poem). I highly recommend this collection.

Ted Kooser is able to take such everyday situations and discribe them in a way that make you melt. Beautiful!

I'm 32 and got into poetry late in life, probably because I didn't know what the heck a poem was or how, assuming the poem was even intelligible, it could change your life. But all that changed when I discovered Sure Signs.

What I like about Mr. Kooser's poems is that I can actually understand them. I was suprised to read a poet this readable, a poet who helped me to see the small, beautiful things in life, and, perhaps most of all, drove me to the library where I checked out more volumes of poetry.

What amazed me is how Mr. Kooser can put the profound into very simple words. I can say that after reading these poems, and others like them, I am a better human being than I was before I started reading poetry. This wouldn't be the case if I hadn't found a poet I could finally understand.


Also recommended: The Gospel of Arnie

I own 30 or so books on tarot and symbol-systems and this is the best I have ever seen. I give this work a 9, and a complete index would make it a 9.75 or 10.

Mr. O'Neill is a research scientist and his research and scholarly experience certainly pays off here; the text is clear, well-organized, and properly annotated.

The author uses sources familiar to the orthodox student of Renaissance historiography (Burckhardt, et al) and the conclusions he draws are quite good. Do I disagree with his conclusions ocassionally? Yes. But the research he has done lays a wonderful groundwork for the reader to make their own critical assessment.

Well done, Mr. O'Neill. The standard for scholarly tarot symbology research has been set.

O'Neill's book is the seminal history of the tarot. While debunking fanciful occult theories, O'Neill marshalls an amazing array of sources to propose that the Tarot is a product of Italian Renaissance scholarship and Italian Renaissance culture and style.

If you're interested in the history of the tarot, you simply must read and understand this book. Nothing in the book makes the tarot less useful as a tool for today. but understanding the world view of its designers and understanding its original purposes can help the modern taroist form her own practice.

For many years, the tarot has been presented as an ancient occult artifact, encoding deep metaphysical secrets. In this century, historians have offered a contrary view: that the tarot deck is simply a Renaissance card game with no deeper significance. Documentary evidence tends to support the latter view, although the images on the cards remain as intriguing and provocative as ever.

This book represents a milestone in tarot scholarship; O'Neill presents the thesis that the tarot symbols *do* constitute a profound metaphysical system, even while he acknowledges and accomodates the historical evidence which debunks the fanciful speculations of the early occultists. Marshalling an encyclopedic array of sources, the author establishes that the intellectual climate of the Italian Renaissance was highly conducive to production of an emblematic synthesis of Neoplatonic philosophy and heretical mystical practice. He makes a sound case that the tarot was designed as a cosmograph, a map of the underlying spiritual structure of the universe, which might be used by those seeking enlightenment within the western tradition.

One of the outstanding qualities of this book is the thoroughness with which O'Neill addresses rival hypotheses about the origin of the tarot. He considers both the strong and weak points of all the major theories on the subject, so readers can follow the arguments for themselves, and reach an informed opinion about the strength of each theory. The book thus makes an excellent starting point for learning about these rival theories; the interested reader can then follow up by seeking out the books and articles O'Neill references.

There are some shortcomings, however. This book is not for casual reading. The style is that of an extended research paper. Alas, the manuscript did not receive the attention of a major publisher, so the presentation suffers in many ways: there is virtually no illustration, there are many typos, and many of the tables and lists could use the work of a good designer. Taken together, these things may discourage the less dedicated reader.

O'Neill is tackling an extraordinarily difficult topic, in that he is trying to fathom the intentions of the anonymous designer of the first tarot deck, using only the indirect evidence of the cards themselves and the cultural millieu which produced them. If, in the end, having exhausted the facts, he seems to follow his personal hunches, at least he does so with candor and tempered by humility. A person with different background and interests could well reach different conclusions.

This book is completely unrivaled as a scholarly attempt to understand the tarot as a coherent symbolic system. Some may argue that the tarot is not a coherent symbolic system at all, but no one makes the case better than O'Neill.

How historically plausible is it that the tarot was invented to embody a serious metaphysical doctrine? If this question interests you, _Tarot Symbolism_ is required reading, utterly indispensible.

This is an absolutely wonderful book! Exactly what I was looking for. It has a lot of pictures and instructions on how to do each sign. I have three kids and I don't have the time to just sit down to read. It's so great with this book to be able to just look up the word, view the picture and/or instructions, and I'm done.

This book is great. I was looking for something with easy to understand signs and easy to find in the book!
My husband and I already have the basics down and have started introducing them to our child. The signs are easy and large so I can print them and take them to daycare so they know what she wants as well. I searched all over for books and this is by far the best I have found.

I liked the layout of this book far better then most of the top rated books. It has a good blend of baby sign language background and easy to follow, commonly used signs. The book is also good as a quick reference if you forget the exact way to do a sign. Overall, a great guide for first time parents looking for relevent material that your baby can use. The only thing that would make this book even better is if it were spiral bound, so it could be layed flat for easier viewing for parents and their babies.

This book is the source for most astrology - the ancients as well as the moderns students - who have respect for the art. Claudius Ptolemy was born in Egypt and lived in the years 100-178 (ref. Tetrabiblos)and left the scripts which is presented here in the four books "Tetra Biblos".

It is from this scripts astrologers through the times has found the descriptions of the strength of dignities and debillities of the planets, the methodes of making predictions, subdivisions of the science of nativities, bodily descriptions etc.

The wonderful thing about this translation of Ptolemy's seminal work in Astrology is the conscientious and painstaking work to adhere to the original text which appears on the opposing side of the english text translation. I am in a position to corroborate myself its accuracy. As a result however the English text is not an easy or flowing contemporary style. This is not a quick read, and probably should be used as reference. It covers a multitude of Astrological areas and can serve as a springboard to further inquiry. The book is a compact size, typeface and spacing pleasant and non-fatiguing.

Astrologers and astronomers searching for the Star of Bethlehem have long overlooked this primary source for an important piece of evidence: Aries the Ram ruled over Judea. This helped me reveal the Star that pointed the Magi to Judea where the King of the Jews was born on April 17, 6 BC - two years before King Herod died. My book, The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi also made use of other astrological primary sources which showed that to understand the Magi's Star, we need to understand astrology as it practiced as Ptolemy described.

The Tetrabiblos belongs on every classical historian's bookshelf. It is a major primary source on astrology as it was praticed in Roman times.

As one would expect from A. A. Attanasio these are mind blowing, entertaining and thoughtful stories. Some stories are short but still convey the spirit and mood of the full-length novels.

Wow, what can I say? This anthology relates to the reader the varied styles of AA's storytelling. It's a collection of rare and previously unreleased stories to which I can't even accurately describe the adventures you'll have when reading this book. Rest assured its pure Attanasio, and that's why we're all here right?!

Hopefully an anthology such as this isn't a precursor to the end of a brilliant career. I'm not sure of AA's popularity, but I for one would be terribly disappointed if this was the last release from this genius. If it has to be so, at least we are left with a list of some of the greatest adventures ever written.

This latest collection by A. A. Attanasio is a wonderful way to see the many diverse styles of writing that he has used over the years. All the stories are well written and keep you entertained for the length of the story. The last tale in the book "Twice Dead Things" is an example of Mr. Attanasio in his prime story telling mode, using vivid imagery to make the story come to life on the page. Overall, a great collection and an easy way to get introduced to his varied writing styles.

How is it to be a sexagenarian and still working a menial job? Mezei takes us through what is an average day, nothing exciting, simply two old men performing the tiresome seemingly insignificant job of changing street signs. Oh but there is significance in those changing signs. Through the reflections, of Valdo and Tomas, we see life is not only what you put into it but circumstance plays a grand role, disappointment comes, dreams amend, and governments revolutionize. Mezei shows us that there is a lot to be said for simply surviving. At the end of the day if you have a friend who will lend a hand and share a laugh perhaps this is all that really matters. This is a worthwhile read.

If you search the American news media for information about post-communist Czechoslovakia, you will find superficial information or no information at all. The typical reporter knows nothing about the history of that country, the causes for the rise and fall of communism, the subsequent upheavals of capitalism, or the eventual division of the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Adam Mezei is not a typical reporter.

Using the medium of fiction, Mezei invites the reader into the daily lives of two aging street workers in Prague. He lets us hear both their words and thoughts. The writer then disappears and lets Vlado and Tomas tell their own stories, which are similar in some ways and very different in other ways.

Vlado has always held working-class jobs. He misses the simple pleasures that communism gave him.

Tomas has a different work history. At one point, he had been an evolutionary biologist at Charles University, but he lost that job through no fault of his own.

Now Tomas works on the streets with his new friend Vlado. They remove the signs that give the names of the streets. Streets named after old heros will now have the names of new heros.

But, I wonder, aren't Vlado and Tomas the real heros? Haven't they spent their lives serving their fellow countrymen?

The story of Vlado and Tomas asks them and us one difficult question: Which way are the signs pointing?

Adam's portrait of two elderly men in Prague who have seen it all and have little left but the menial work that has fallen their way after fifty years of turmoils and disappointment is both funny and affecting with Samuel Beckett overtones. Not much happens here, but then not much is supposed to. It is a classic "slice of life"
portrait, told with affection and an ironic tone. Very enjoyable.