Allison Books

What can you say about one of the greatest theologists of all times? This book will bring new insight for all of those interested in spiritual growth.

This read is a must for anyone desiring a deeper prayer life and connection with God. Teresa, in her simple and most humble way, takes the reader through her trials, victories, and raptures in her relationship
with `His Majesty,' God. I enjoyed it immensely

I am a youth pastor and i purchased this book to go along with an apologetics study I was having within my youth ministry. It has been a great asset. It is a challenging read for those that are new in their walk with God but truly a great challenge to their faith to encourage them to grow.

For the serious teen digging deep in his faith, and for the bright teen tired of being talked down to or given trite answers to her questions, this book is an indispensable resource. It's simply laid out, but delves into the meatier subjects of Christianity, like the incarnation of Christ and God's requirement for personal holiness. Dr. Allison doesn't beat around the bush, yet he still presents this heady material in a conversational, genuine way, informed by his many years of experience on the mission field as well as in the classroom. I only wish I had had a book like this one when I was in high school.

Got the book---I LOVE IT! .....Better yet, I am using it!

I have referred the book to several other associates at Bank of America. I find great value in the concepts of Planners and
Sidekicks. I am leading a project in the deployment of a number of substantial changes to the Bank's Desk top Sales Tool platform. In discussion with the Design and Development Team, I have introduced the idea of developing planner and sidekick performance support tools as part of the Learning Solution.


Allison, you continue to engage and improve my results.

Thanks!

Jenelle Lozano
GCIB Learning & Organizational Effectiveness

Purchased and read your new book. Great examples! My favorite new learning was about the sweat-band job aids used by football teams. I'm trying to figure out how to use those as a training aid for new non-English speaking house cleaners . . . Will really help me sell my ideas to Sr. Management

Next I'll order a copy of your prior Job Aids book just to have it in my library. Thanks for gathering the examples and sharing.

Laura Handrick, Director Training Development, The Maids International

Written by a kid (with adult help) and illustrated by the kid's brother, JTG is a remarkable way to encourage creativity and get kids to do something besides watch TV or play on the computer.
This isn't an adult book, so some of the advice (how to make money, pawns, etc) might make grown-ups cringe and cry out that it is too crude or unfinished. So what? We're talking make-believe.
Buchanan goes step by step, offering advice and warning where difficulties might come in. His technique is simple and obvious, and any child can modify his advice to suit (soccer, favorite movie, family things). He even includes a super book list!
I bought this book at a local bookstore and even though I have no kids and have nobody to play board games with I think this is easily a five-star book. You can even use it as a birthday party event (directions included).
This is a marvelous edition to a family, school or church library. You won't be sorry.

This book teaches your child how to make a board game based on their favorite book, and it's interactive, like a workbook.

The premise of the book is fun. Instead of being a standard workbook, it's written in a style that mimics an actual journey, with "Postcards" that your child will fill in and "Guideposts", which are for the parent or teacher to read.

While a child reading and discovering this book will probably be gently tricked into thinking that they're doing nothing but having fun, as a parent or teacher, you'll realize how much they're getting out of the activity! They're thinking critically about their chosen book, finding ways to adapt it into a game using math and logic, and being artistic! What more can you ask?

This book is a great resource for kids who can't get enough of their favorite book, for parents who are trying to teach their child how to think critically about literature, and for teachers to help provide inspiration.

The standard texts on this topic are by Guyer, Barnham, Crawford, and Ginsborg (dissertation). The Guyer text is thorough and rigorous--a quite careful reading and interpretation of the Third Critique--I recommend it along with Allison's recent work. (Allison and Guyer sometimes disagree on important points....)

Allison is an astute and keen defender of Kant (see his Transcendental Idealism/Yale UP). This new book is aptly in line with his best scholarship and cautious reading. I highly recommend it.

Allison's text is divided into four parts. First, he deals with Kant's "Conception of Reflective Judgment," whereby I recommend that you also review B. Longuenesse's book on judgment (Princeton UP). Allison's interpretation here differs from L's, and he clearly states how his view is unique, as well as a more balanced comprehension of the conncetion between the reflective judgment of taste and the epistemic role of reflection.

I daresay, the second part of the book is the most important (Chs. 3-8); it deals with the quid facti/quid juris distinction in the domain of taste. Chs. 6-8 are quite useful, especially ch. 8, which is on "the Deduction of Pure Judgments of Taste." An understanding of this material is crucial to a more certain grasp of K's Third Critique.

Part 3 deals with the connection between judgments of taste and moral judgments. Ch. 10 discusses the mirror-like connection between 'duty' and pure 'aesthetic judgments.'

Part 4 discusses genius and K's notions on sublimity. For specific coverage on this topic, see Crowther on the Kantian Sublime (Oxford UP) in conjunction with this chapter.

Allison's book provides a wealth of interesting and semi-interesting arguments on the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment. The book is important in engaging with Guyer and the tradition of analytic aesthetics. It responds to many of the lacunas in Guyer's *Kant's Theory of Taste*, particularly as regards the status of judgments of taste as reflective. However, Allison by no means goes far enough in explaining the import of this status. Those interested in the 3rd Critique are adivsed to get Makkreel's much more readable work if they wish to understand the reflective character of aesthetic judgments, including their contribution to reflective interpretation. Also, Allison at times goes too far in attacking Guyer, leaving Guyer able to readily deal with many of Allison's points, and thereby continue his own critique of Kant.

Just a sentence or two a day. Inspiring, easy reading with delightful illustrations that will make it hard for you to resist smiling and be happy just discovering your self-worth all over again. And if you feel like it, you can color the illustrations, too!

One in a series of 'elfin' books that does one's spirit good. It's just the right size to put in a pocket - a big plus. Just open it at any page and read the thought and look at the adjoining picture and it helps to lighten the moment. Well worth the price.

My 7 yr old had a ton of fun figuring out the puzzles and solving the book. Very well written book. Wish there were more puzzle-centric books for the Lego Knight's Kingdom genre.

This is actually a side story to the Knight's Kingdom books, with puzzles to solve. The amulet is stolen from Sir Santis' castle (he's the red knight).
You solve word, number, or other kind of puzzles and put the results together to find the amulet.
My kindergartner needed assistance with many of the puzzles, but enjoyed the process thoroughly; probably a second-grader could do them alone. Now we just read through the story with our already-solved clues.
A very fun book for a Knight's Kingdom enthusiast.

LAUGHING BOY opens in 1969 California, a time of hippies and protesters. We meet Rock Singer Tim Roper and his band, but they are only the prologue as Tim is violently murdered.

Flash to Yorkshire in the present and murder is still the order of the day. Laura Heeley, an average thirty-eight-year-old mother of two, is stabbed in the back on the way home from bingo. Detective Inspector Charlie Priest and his team are, stumped except for a vague idea that her murder might be linked to the murder of teenager Robin Gillespie earlier. Then Colinette Jones, a popular and attractive student is strangled, her body dumped on the roadside.

Two females, one male, no connection to each other, however Charlie and his team soon begin to suspect the murders are part of a series, with more to come. And as they sift through red herrings and taunting letters they find a connection to long dead Tim Roper. The number of victims rises and it becomes clear to Priest that this could be his biggest challenge yet as he races against time to figure out what message the killer is trying to send through a childlike song Roper wrote for a friend's newborn a generation ago.

Stuart Pawson's police stories keep getting better and this, the eighth five star mystery in the series is one that held me captive for a whole Saturday. Not only does Pawson paint a good mystery, but his attention to detail, people and places, is second to none. His Detective Inspector Charlie Priest is both likable and flawed and an absolute delight to spend a weekend with.

Reviewed by Vesta Irene

Stuart Pawson had a career as a mining engineer, followed by a spell working for the probation service, before he became a full-time writer. He lives in the village of Fairburn, in Yorkshire only about four or five miles from where I live myself. A place I regularly visit to look at the bird sanctuary there with all the water birds and a welcome pint in the Bay Horse.

This is the eighth book in the DI Charlie Priest series: When Colinette Jones fails to return home and a body turns up not more than half a mile from her house DI Priest knows he has to make that house call that every mother dreads, and every copper for that matter. Further a field Laura Heeley is also found dead down a country lane, the only sign of violence on the body, a single stab wound.

Is there a link between the two young women, apart, that is from their unfortunate death? And what if anything is the link with a sixties rock star? In a small town to all intents and purposes cut off by the foot and mouth outbreak DI Priest knows that he must apprehend the killer before he or she strikes again.

THE LIMITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY is ground-breaking in its originality and range, dramatic in its intensity and depth, and endlessly surprising in its illumination of six fictive autobiographies (SHOT IN THE HEART, WRITTEN ON THE BODY, BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA, ANNIE JOHN, LUCY, and MY BROTHER). Leigh Gilmore weaves a thrilling variety of approaches into her interpretations. Psychoanalytic, Feminist, Post-Colonial, Post-Structuralist, Trauma and Legal theories all inform her readings but never dominate the discussion. Theoretical knowledge is elegantly integrated, rather than applied, allowing Professor Gilmore to achieve a miraculous balance in her use of language: her work will challenge scholars while remaining accessible to any curious reader. I believe this is an ideal text around which to organize an undergraduate or graduate course in the study of fiction and/or autobiography; but Leigh Gilmore's knowledge of psychology and law is so impressive this remarkable work should find its way out of traditional English departments. I hope this is the case. Her understanding of trauma and the creation of imaginative texts--"autobiographies" that break the rules of form and bear no allegiance to literal or verifiable "facts"--could change the way victims of trauma are understood and treated by legal and health care professionals. Leigh Gilmore's ability to enter and unravel each text is testimony to her compassion and wisdom--and proof of her genius. This is profund and daring work, limitless in its vision of the human heart and the hope of transformation through the redemptive power of our own imaginations.

In The Limits Of Autobiography: Leigh Gilmore (Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University) offers astute and compelling commentaries in relation to the social and psychic forms within which selected autobiographers told their personal stories in literate and unconventional ways. The informative, thought-provoking chapters comprising this unique and highly recommended contribution to the literary study of the autobiography include: Represent Yourself; Bastard Testimony: Illegitimacy and Incest in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina; There Will Always Be a Father: Transference and the Auto/biographical Demand in Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart; There Will Always Be a Mother: Jamaica Kincaid's Serial Autobiography; Without Names: An Anatomy of Absence in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body; Conclusion - the Knowing Subject and an Alternative Jurisprudence of Trauma. The Limits Of Autobiography is enhanced further for the student with a bibliography and index.

While this is definitely a mystery novel, having a British inspector seeking to identify a killer in an English town, it is very different from an Agatha Christie whodunit. Don't read this book expecting it to follow Dame Christie's rules. For one thing, we first encounter our hero, Gregory Summers, having an incestuous affair with his deceased son's widow. If you can accept this, you will probably find him one of the more likable sleuths. Still, it has little to do with the actual mystery.
That has a family of gypsies, New Age hippies, good and bad cops, a gay photographer, some typical middle-class suburbanites and the lone traveller of the title. All of these people are well-drawn and none is as predictable as they seem.
Except for locale, this book has more in common with Georges Simenon's Maigret stories than the typical British cozy. A good undemanding read.

In Hungerford, Thames Valley Police Superintendent Gregory Summers has no time to rest on his laurels after successfully handling a dangerous hostage situation. Six year old Jordan Abbot is missing with the only clue being a good Samaritan stating he saw the lass heading towards the nearby Gypsy camp. The police soon find the corpse of the little girl.

Pictures surface showing Jordan with a Gypsy boy Lashlo. However, instead of being able to fully investigate the murder, Gregory and his subordinates struggle to keep the locals from lynching Lashlo. Still Gregory manages to make some inquiries among the Gypsies, the locals, and an encampment of New Agers. As more deaths occur and the victim's mother encouraged by the media blames the police for not finding the killer, Gregory continues to search for the truth.

The first Summers police procedural is an interesting tale not so much for its investigation, but for its relationships. The story line is filled with dysfunctional pairings that make for a more difficult case. Gregory is a superb character who learns life's basic lesson not to star with a precocious child because invariably the kid owns the book. Susan Kelly's adroit ability to make her charcaters seem real through their problematic associations, which will send readers searching for her previous novels (see the author's "Hope" books).

Harriet Klausner