Bailey Books

Thank you Dr. Hale for an excellent text on an issue of critical importance! This is a great text for teachers, administrators and parents.

Janice Hale writes about her experiences being a single mother and an educator by profession who was trying to ensure that her son was not only treated fairly, but taught in such a way as to ensure his success since she wasn't able to spare the time to do it herself. Although a lot of what she writes about is ethnically-specific (i.e. dealing with her son's teachers pre-concieved ideas about Black youth), there's one part that is applicable to children of any ethnicity: Parents who have the time or the resources to tutor their children had kids who were better students.

I am the parent of an African-American male entering kindergarten this fall, and this book is an excellent tool to help me deal with the school system. Thank you, Dr. Hale!

I have made the Chicken and Dill Soup recipe for our family and also for 2 sick friends. It helped "cure" these two wonderful ladies of their respiratory illnesses. I really do believe it has medicinal qualities.

I have also made the carrot soup which is delicious. And, I have made the 4 cheese Fettucine Alfredo, also, very rich and delicious. A little serving goes a long way!

I've made wonderful soups from this book and sometimes I make the accompanying recipes also. Everything has turned out well. I've never tried making any of the breads though. Who has time?

It is a great soup, dessert, bread receipies. Everything I tried was excellent,. I now want a copy of my own, and I can't find it anywhere. Do you have any suggestions??

This is the most fascinating book I've read in years. Though structured around one pivotal event in the author's life -- her experience in a utopian commune -- any moment or facet of her life as a whole can come up in the telling at any time, in vivid synchronicity. As an impassioned personal quest (the "Lost" aspect), the story breathlessly sweeps you forward like a thriller. But as "Found"ness, the book also has blissful built-in non-linearity and can be read the way one reads the I Ching -- jumping in anywhere. (As a matter of fact, the Ching itself keeps popping up throughout the story.) One reviewer has said "You don't want this book to end", and that's true, but luckily it doesn't have to end.

Hollenbach has an astonishing ability to get the cadences of natural speech onto the printed page. This is one of the great pleasures of the book: The characters and the protagonist-narrator herself speak so livingly off the page it can be almost eerie.

"Lost and Found" is a rich, profound, enlightening book.

very interesting first person account of a young woman who spent a short time [several weeks (?)] living in one of the many short lived 60s communes. Based on my personal experience living in groups, it gives a very realistic picture of the confusion of the new person trying to understand the rules and gain acceptance, and the inevitable discovery that things aren't as rosy as they were presented to the outside.

The book is quite short, generally well written, although there is a fair amount of what one might consider 'filler'.

Tom Wolfe meets Margaret Mead -- in the first person. From inside the head, body and soul. Evocative and familiar. Sexualy revealing and honest. A piece of the 60s told in the most intimate and reflective of voices. One word to this author, "MORE!"

Everything said in my review of the first 6 books in Loeb's Martial I No 94) is true with greater force here. Book XI is the peak of the poet's nasty, often obscene, humor. Again, the 1993 translation is much more timely than the previous Ker edition by Loeb in the first part of the century. Reading this shows that in spite of almost 2000 intervening years, the crudest elements of decadent societies still run closely parallel. Read it, you'll be amazed.

For some sad reason, people think the classics are boring and dull and dry. They should read more things like this spicy, sassy collection of epigrams and poetry; Martial would certainly change their minds. When I was a high school student struggling to learn Latin, I bribed myself with Martial: learn enough, and I could read the naughty bits. It worked.

These short poems are laugh out loud funny. This is a very readable translation. Forget that these are considered "classics." There is nothing stuffy about these ribald, sarcastic, hilarious poems about Roman life. It is amazing how little people have changed! I spent a very enjoyable afternoon reading through these.

There aree some weird grownups in Bailey city but could the singing track coach with long hair really be a magical mermaid?

Mermaids Don't Run Track is a good book for 3-5th graders. The characters are action oriented from the first page, and immediately face two interesting mysteries concerning the camp director and the track coach. The Bailey School kids suspect one is a werewolf and the other a mermaid. The art work is also very good and adds detail and interest to the story. The book is approximately 7,000 words long.

A similar book for the same age group which I would recommend is "Abby and the bicycle caper."

My name is Leigh. I liked that Eddie tried to be always a smart aleck. And how he said that he would prove that Mrs. Waterford wasn't a mermaid. And whenever they got in the lake, Eddie would try to splash her. And I liked when Eddie pulled Liza in the water.

The authors are Marcia Jones and Debbie Dadey. The main characters are Ben Kilmer and Annie. In Monsters Next Door, people just moved in to a new neighborhood. The kids that lived there are suspicious about them. The story is a spooky story. The setting is a small town where strange things happen. The theme is a couple of kids think a family is weird. My favorite part was when Kilmer made a scary pumpkin. The book does not start in a in a exciting way but it gets suspenful.

I would recommend this book for kids ages 9-12. It would be hard for younger kids to understand it all.

I give this book 4 stars. Hope you like it.

By Sean

"The Monsters Next Door" was a funny also kind of scary book in the beginning. This book is about a boy named Ben and a girl named Annie they also have a friend named Jane. Monsters move in to their next door from Transylvania. Their names are the Huntley's. The lady and her husband moves in with their son Kilmer. They have a Inn called Hauntly Manor Inn. Kilmer's dad loves to bury things in the mud. They get to meet them more and start thinking that they are very nice people!

I think this was a really good book and I know that a lot of other kids would like it too! I really liked the part where the kids went into the Hauntley's house and saw eye balls and other neat stuff!

Mrs. Jeeper's Batty
Vaction!
This book is Fiction, It is called Mrs. Jeepers Batty Vaction. This book is all about 4 kids thinking that Mrs. Jeepers's family is vampires. The characters are Howie, Liza, Eddie, Melody. It is also about them going to Transylvania to visit to see Mrs.jeepers family. They were running from the family all the time cause they were so scared. One more thing about the summary howie is the main character in this book. That was the summary.



Howie's description is okay. He has brown eyes, the color of his hair is light blond, He thinks he's the boss of everything and everybody his friends do not like that. He thiks he is king or something. Me and him are the same in one way that way is I have brown eyes to. We are different to I don't think I am king or be Bossy. That was howies's description and his personality and comparson.

I really liked this book. I was interesting to read, because I like to read about stories that you think something is going to happen. My favorite or best part in here is when Howie, Eddie ,Liza and Melody was running away from Mrs. Jeppers's brother Boris and said oh look vampire bat theeth is coming. I would not recommend this book to a friend cause they d double of o not like witchcraft. I also liked when Howie said I think I am seeing double of Mrs.jeepers one is enough I don't call that a VACTION !

I liked the book because it was a hair raising story. It was the best book I have read out of the super specials. I liked when the kids were on the plane to Transylvania because the kids thought Mrs. Jeppers was a vampire and she was going to suck their blood until they were nothing but skin and bones. I also liked when they were in Transylvainia and they saw a secret passage that went to Melody and Liza's room. Melody and Liza started hitting Eddie and Howie on the head with pillows. That was funny I liked the book alot!!!

My name is Leigh and I liked the part when they met Uncle Boris, and Mrs. Jeepers said, "The only time when you have to beware of Uncle Boris is when he's hungry." And they all got scared because they thought he was going to bite them on the neck.

The book is about where Eddie,Melody,Howie,and Liza walks down the street and smells something good.And they go inside a building and found a ninja baking pumpkin pies. Read the rest of the book to find out more it is really good.

There are csome weir grownups in Bailey City but could the new baker who makes the best pumpkin pies really be a ninja in town trying to steal some valuable Japanese art? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out!

This was the first Bailey School Kids book that my son and I read together. He is in the 3rd grade and found this pretty easy to read. We both enjoyed it and will be reading more Bailey School Kids books in the future.

i think it's quite helpful and gives you some " experience" and more confidence before dealing directly with the exams themselves.!

the questions make you more acquainted with what types of questions u might expect for the exams..and thus you hve more chances of doing better!

if you're taking o chem, then you need this book. the summaries are helpful for review of chapters or in the worst case scenario, in substitution of the chapters. but the most important part of this book are the solutions to the problems. the only way you'll learn organic chemistry, like it or not, is by practicing problems. this solutions manual is the only way to know if you're doing those problems correctly - the text book does NOT contain solutions for problems in the book, beside the worthlessly easy ones contained directly in the chapters. in addition to the solution, it contains an explanation for all problems that require one.

THIS BOOK IS WELL WORTH THE MONEY! you won't be disappointed. if anything, go in on it with a friend that is also taking the course. you WILL need this book.

This was a last minute purchase for school and the book was shipped quickly and arrived on time.

I have read several translations of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and each has their distinctive commentaries. Vyn Bailey's gift is not so much the actual translation and commentary, but that he provided each Sanskrit word with the various ways it can be translated and then highlights which translation that he used. This allows the reader with meditation experience to participate in the translation process and experience nuances that are missed in the "actual" translation. Translations into English often are "smoothed" to fit our syntax and concepts and some subtle meanings are lost. I recommend this book less for the translation and commentary than for the Sanskrit translations for each word - a wonderful gift for people who do not know Sanskrit.

I have read several translations of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and each has their distinctive commentaries. Vyn Bailey's gift is not so much the actual translation and commentary, but that he provided each Sanskrit word with the various ways it can be translated and then highlights which translation that he used. This allows the reader with meditation experience to participate in the translation process and experience nuances that are missed in the "actual" translation. Translations into English often are "smoothed" to fit our syntax and concepts and some subtle meanings are lost. I recommend this book less for the translation and commentary than for the Sanskrit translations for each word - a wonderful gift for people who do not know Sanskrit.

I have read several interpretations of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra. After a while this one became the only one I referred to and I sold the other books. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a lucid and unbiased explanation of this key text.

Vyn Bailey is a christian priest who studied meditation and advocates meditation for people in any religion. The book therefore deals only with the philosophy and practise of meditation. As such it confines itself to the subset of the aphorisms that deal with meditation, and excludes those that deal with religion. Believe me, this is not a weakness of the book. If you want a primer on meditation, this is it. I believe many other interpretations give too much detail on too many irrelevancies. If you want to learn sankhya philosophy, ayurveda, or about vedanta, Patanjali is not the place to learn it, but to learn meditation, i.e. through experience not description, there is no better source of help. Bailey's version is short but I believe people will learn more than from a cluttered text.

Each sutra is given two pages, the sanskrit is provided both in devanagiri and english with an explanation of each root word and the translation given. Then a very clear explanation of what Patanjali was saying. It is obvious that Bailey has a deep undersanding that comes from experience of Yoga and he conveys it in a charming manner.

One criticism from the viewpoint of persons who can read sanskrit is that the original script is handwritten in something like a child's not too confident handwriting rather than being printed, but it is not unreadable either. Probably this is Bailey's handwriting. He writes that he started learning it around the age of 70 to read Patanjali in the original, which I thought was pretty amazing.