Abbey Books

This is a wonderful little book! The suggestions for coping are short, easy to read and concrete. The illustrations are adorable!
I deal daily with chronic pain and this book stays on my nightstand for encouragement and a lift whenever it's needed. I always feel better after reading even a page or two, or just leafing through and looking at the pictures.
This would make a great little gift for yourself or someone you know who deals with chronic or short-term pain.

Copies are given to the youth group kids, too often! It is helpful to them.

Homeschooling Abbey is a treat for anyone schooling at home, a great read for those considering it, and insightful for anyone curious about this amazing lifestyle. I felt as if I was having a cup of coffee and a heart-to-heart talk with author Carol Plum-Ucci. Amidst a beautiful testimony of the greatest joy she has ever experienced, Carol is honest and straightforward, revealing her doubts, fears and insecurities. Carol tackles all those annoying but common questions. She captures and reveals the secrets every homeschool family knows and articulates them into enjoyable words and encouragement. Homeschooling Abbey is a fast read without sacrificing depth or details. Real life information and flavor kept me engrossed to the very end, sacrificing my usual bed time to devour it in one night- Excellent!

I enjoy the multiple authors who wrote this book, as well as their previous books. I am looking forward to book four and have pre-ordered it.

It is a nice change of pace from my usual choices.

I do like history and mystery and historical fiction and this book has it all and is light reading, nothing heavy, great to snuggle up with when getting ready to go to sleep.

Written with great style and humour this is one of the most intelligent books on running a small business and the art of customer service. A must read for anyone in the service industry.

Here are almost 100 black and white photographs by Marc Gaede taken 1986-1989 in several Western states, chiefly Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas. They are mostly landscapes, and while many are striking images, they're not intended as calendar art. Instead, they are a visual record of mountains, plains, and river valleys with literary and historical associations. There are the sites of massacres and battles: Little Big Horn, Wounded Knee, Sand River, Mountain Meadows, and the Chief Joseph Battlefield. And there are geographical points of reference for anyone who knows the West -- the headwaters of the Missouri River, the Black Hills, the Bighorns, Yellowstone River, the Big Blackfoot River, the Wind River, the Snake River, Independence Rock.

There is very little sign of humans crossing or inhabiting these landscapes. The exceptions are historical traces: petroglyphs of Native Americans, the marks of wagon wheels along the Oregon Trail, an abandoned church on open prairie, an inscription in rock left by "Wm Clark" in 1806.

The book honors Montana novelist A. B. Guthrie, who provides an essay with quotations from several of his books. There's also a brief tribute from Edward Abbey and a foreword by Charles Bowden. The book includes a sequence of photographs of other writers associated with the West: Wallace Stegner, Norman Maclean, Ivan Doig, Thomas McGuane, and James Welch. In an afterword, the photographer, Marc Gaede, tells a hair-raising and finally hilarious story of nearly losing A.B. Guthrie on a misadventure along the Marias River in northern Montana.

This is a great companion volume for readers of Montana literature and history. It portrays the natural environment that has inspired its best loved authors. And in many ways, it captures the land as Lewis and Clark would have seen it almost 200 years ago. For accounts of Chief Joseph and the Mountain Meadow Massacre in Utah, read Timothy Egan's "Lasso the Wind." Another book with many points of connection is "The Big Sky Reader."

The book can be a little over dramatic, but the author is trying to make a strong point. I think being a little over dramatic is necessary when she only has our attention for the short time it takes to read the book, yet she is trying to correct a message that society has pounded into our heads for our whole lives. It's a lot to undo in a short period of time.

I've read some reviews that say the book is anti-Christian.
I don't necessarily agree. It's true you can tell the author is not fond of the religion (or at least how most people practice it), but I'm Christian and I wasn't offended.

If you are sensitive about your faith you aren't going to like the book, but if you can take things with a grain of salt you should be okay.

This is not a book for those Christian women who believe women should be submissive and stay quiet and stay in their place. It's a book for strong women who think for themselves, and who realize that Christianity (and the medical community) may not have always served our interests as well as they should have. To me, it was more of a commentary about the people who practice religion/medicine rather than the legitimacy of either.

I thought it was an outstanding book. So five stars *****.

The authors bring years of academic and practical experience to this work designed as a college text. What sets it apart from other books in the field is its coverage of international organizations as agents in general, rather than specific histories and functions of particular, well-known organizations, although numerous case studies are presented to illustrate larger points. Specifically, it provides the basis for theoretical models concerning institutional behavior and provides something rarely reviewed from a comparative perspective in texts, international administration. The authors present well-built theories to explain institutional behavior and behavior of the individuals within them. It is a work that fills a gap and the revised edition will be welcomed.

It is rare to see such fantastic work from undergraduate and graduate students be so appreciated. David Krell's writing is thoughtful and responsive. This an incredible book.

I discovered the whole line of Elf Help books while on vacation recently and have since acquired a whole library of them. They are simple and profound at the same time....kind of like what you would get if you distilled a whole book down to its true message. The illustrations are adorable and the message in the book is truly helpful. I have found I can read this books over and over and never tire of them, and even get something new out of them each time. They also make great gifts.