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COURAGE IN HIGH HEELS is a must read for women. It could also be an interesting read for men that are open to enlightenment on the sheer determination of women with courage. Joyce S. Anderson has pulled together an assortment of women with a story to tell. This book has eight separate life stories. Each story creatively pulls the reader in and holds their interest with ease.

It would be hard for me to pick out a favorite person in this book. Each showed unbelievable strength and had the resilience to land on their feet; in spite of the curveballs that life kept throwing their way. But I would have to say that Pearl touched my heart the most. Auto accidents kept playing a central role in her life. Born prematurely when her mother was hit by a car; subsequent accidents continued to haunt her life. A less courageous person would have quit when doctors said she would never walk again. She continued to fight and prove them wrong. Pearl's spirit and tanacity were sheer inspiration.

The eight stories were well written, poignant and easily brought back memories of the 50's and 60's. Taking a glimpse into the lives of women that are honest and forthcoming about the events of their lives will touch different people in different ways. Even though Pearl became my new heroine, I can guarantee that each woman will touch others in different ways. They are the epitome of what we all should strive for. Women share medical heartbreaks, infidelity, special needs children and their determination to charter their own destiny. I highly recommend this one for women that need affirmation on the strength and courage that exists in all of us. For the readers that already know this; it is a smooth, intriguing read. Well done!

Readers are accustomed to reading tales of wartime heroism and seemingly supernatural courage under fire. And we devour stories of the rich and famous and their exploits. Ms. Anderson's true stories of eight everyday women was a refreshing change of pace.

She chose for her subjects eight women from widely disparate walks of life. The common thread that bound them all together was the plain and simple courage each one had in the face of adversity. Some were from backgrounds of privilege, others from poverty. Some had long and happy marriages, others suffered sorrow and betrayal at the hands of faithless husbands.

Through interviews and family histories, the author skillfully reveals the heart and spirit of each woman She slowly draws out their hopes and dreams, crushing losses, failed aspirations, and victories won through sheer will and determination. It makes for an inspiring read, knowing that in the end such women persevered no matter what and came out winners.


Each reader will relate to one or more of these women and their lives. Courage in High Heels would make a wonderful subject for discussion groups or book clubs. To simplify such discussions, the author has included appropriate questions to explore. Women, in particular, will enjoy this book but there's something in it everyone can appreciate. True courage never goes out of style.

It is not often readers can find the life stories of individual women put together in one impressive book. Even the title Courage In High Heels sparks the interest. Who are these courageous women in Joyce Anderson's book? They are ordinary women from all walks of life, who have lived in extraordinary times. They are people like you and I, who faced stumbling blocks along Life's path, and turned them into stepping stones.

Courage In High Heels is an inspiring book for women. It shows the reader we are all have much to contribute, in wisdom and knowledge, in love and in loss, in triumph and in defeat.

By studying this book the day before the exam, I was able to get a 5.

Amzon is a good seller. I got my book in five days and am highly recommended.

I took both of the macro and micro exams this year. I had a kaplan guide from my teacher, which was very, very confusing and had very few graphs or visuals.
this aide explained concepts much better and had more graphs. I studied more for the micro exam (i didn't take a class in it - I think I easily got 4 just from this book), but what i reviewed from macro was also pretty good.

We received this book as a gift, and I am purchasing it on Amazon as a gift for another friend. It is one of the most beautiful books I have seen - both visually and literally. The illustrations are stunning - vibrant colors, slightly abstract nature, she even shows all races and ages when painting people - lovely! The rhyming text is wonderful - not your run-of-the-mill children's rhymes, but more like poetry...."empty crates, stack 'em around, button mushrooms on the ground...". She also gives an excellent story depicting the real life of an active farmer's market, and obviously has personal knowledge of Pike's Place Market, using some of the vendor's real names. I highly recommend this book for any age child - I am reading it to my 16 month old daughter and she loves it!

While the rhyming text to this book is fresh and fun, the real joy in sharing this book with your child comes from the amazing colorful pictures in vibrant colors that cover every page. Beautiful!

Sometimes you know a place so well, you memorize it like a song in your heart. Such is Anderson's obvious feel for Seattle's Pike Place Market, where she's lived and shopped and created for 25 years.

Open this dazzling book and plunge into the bustling farmer's market, where vendors hawk and customers scurry and even a hobo dumpster dives. Color explodes off pages of cut paper, with windows that offer peeps into other pages and crowded new vistas.

I've visited this national treasure only once, as a special treat for my 40th birthday. Our pixelated photos can't do justice to what Anderson captures with rhyming text that rips along in a syncopated approximation of street noises and market chatter:

Bakers baking,
heaven lingers ...
Plain or frosted?
Cinnamon fingers.

In a word: Yummy.

Well okay I'm the author so of course I loved this book! But seriously, it's a positive book about the celebrity world and I don't think anyone has written from that angle before. Also I include excerpts from my column, Dear Miss Know It All, so those are fun to read. Mainly, this is a book about how to cope in a tough job environment and is a good read for anyone with a pushy boss, not just a celebrity diva. We ALL know a diva or two in our world. Give this book a try. You won't regret it! Check out my website too: www.dealingwithdivas.com

This is a delightful book! Shelley has a wonderful sense of humor that shines through, and the anecdotes from her personal assistant career will certainly provide some chuckles for your day. On a larger scale, this book offers some powerful ideas on how to take charge of our lives, regardless of your line of work.
-Patricia J. Crane, author of Ordering from the Cosmic Kitchen: The Essential Guide to Powerful, Nourishing Affirmations.

This was a very enjoyable and fun read. I'm not a Personal Assistant, but I found this book to be very helpful in any working environment. As a matter of fact, I think the L.A.R.K. method will be very helpful in my everday life!

Dogged Persistence is Kevin Anderson's first book-length collection of short stories and provide a range of fine fantasies which cover everything from nanotechnology and questions of humanity to a horror story set in Africa. Whether it's hard science fiction or fantasy, Anderson's many talents and ability to weave an engrossing tale are aptly displayed in this collection.

Kevin J. Anderson is a seasoned and gift writer whose science fiction novels have won him a wide recognition in the genre and a very loyal readership. Now the Golden Gryphon Press (itself an outstanding small press publisher specializing in fantasy and science fiction) has published Anderson's Dogged Persistence, a splendid anthology of his short story writings that will prove to be a "must read" for the legions of his fans, and send those encountering his work within these pages for the first time on an enthusiastic search for the rest of his novels. The original stories comprising this superb compendium include: Fondest of Memories; Music Played on the Strings of Time; Tide Pools; Reflections in a Magnetic Mirror (with Doug Beason); Entropy Ranch; Dogged Persistence; Human, Martian -- One, Two, Three; Scientific Romance; Canals in the Sand; Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas (with Brian Herbert); Prisoner of War; Much at Stake; New Recruits; Final Performance; The Old Man and the Cherry Tree; Sea Dreams (with Rebecca Moesta); The Ghost of Christmas Always; and Drumbeats (with Neil Pearl).

Dogged Persistence (2001) is a collection of stories with mostly disutopian themes. All are well-written, but the accumulative effort is somewhat depressing. No wonder Anderson was selected to write X-Files novels.

Like all good SF authors, Anderson sees more than the obvious in new technology and scientific speculation. While many of the basic themes in these stories have been used by other authors, Anderson adds new directions and possibilities.

For example, the first story, "Fondest Memories", employs the themes of cloning and induced memories to bring us a quietly, subtly horrible tale. And the title story is a conspiracy tale that was later expanded to the X-Files novel "Antibodies", yet it is also a very private story of love and betrayal. The Dune story portrays the trapping of Atreides soldiers in the shield wall caves by Harkonnen troops, yet is really a story of homesickness and a miracle.

As Kristine Kathryn Rusch implies in the Introduction, the best story in Anderson's career may well be "The Ghost of Christmas Always". At least Dean Smith thought so. While next to last in the book, this fantasy of Charles Dickens and the ghost of his sister-in-law has a luminous presence that lingers. Like "A Christmas Carol", this story may well become a classic. Sometimes an author gets it exactly right.

Kevin J. Anderson can write a great short story. Don't just take my word for it; read these stories and see for yourself. By the way, his novels are pretty good too.

-Arthur W. Jordin

The following comments were submitted by a student the first time I used Dr. Hatch's excellent text--Jim Horn

This book provided a rich description of qualitative research and an easy to understand roadmap for students embarking on the process of conducting a qualitative research study. Hatch took a difficult subject and made it accessible to novice researchers by providing an in-depth, well-thought out presentation of how to go about conducting research step by step in a logical manner. It was thorough from beginning to end. It also spoke to the individual, unique personal qualities and characteristics of the researcher that is inherent to the research. Therefore, it offered us an opportunity to do some real soul-searching and see ourselves in a different light.

It was easy to read and understand and organized well. I thought the section about writing and Hatch's personal experiences were very valuable not only for researchers but for those who wish to write or improve their writing skills in general. The data analysis chapter was extremely helpful during the data analysis process because it provided clear, easy-to-follow steps. I used it as a guide and a reference for my project.

One suggestion is that the section on research paradigms might be a little difficult for some students who are not familiar with the meaning of ontology and epistemology. In our class, a number of students noted they had a hard time understanding these concepts so it might be helpful if there was a paragraph that explains these concepts leading into the connection to the various paradigms.

Overall, this is an excellent introduction for students to the various steps in the process. It was enjoyable to read, enlightening and it gave me a solid foundation for conducting my own study. I loved the book and I enjoyed doing qualitative research. It was also helpful . . . to enable us to delve deeply into the challenging and exciting experience of conducing qualitative research. The book and Dr. Horn also provided a good contextual framework for different methodologies as well.

The importance of qualitative research in education settings can not be underestimated in world in which children are often reduced to nothing but a number on a standardized test score. Thank you, Dr. Hatch, for giving us this wonderful gift and thank you Dr. Horn for sharing it with us.

Judy Rabinowitz
Monmouth University

As a new qualitative researcher, finding Dr. Hatch's book "cleared the clouds" and provided an easy to read support for all the processes necessary to be successful with a qualitative research project, especially for dissertation students. After reading all the classics (Yin, Creswell, Denzin, Lincoln, Stake, Miles and Hubermann, etc) Hatch brings it all together and provides solid questions for you to evaluate your own work before sending it into your committee. Must have for new qualitiative researchers!

Dr. Hatch's book should be required reading for all doctoral students planning to do qualitative research. His clearly written step-by-step methods have proved invaluable in my own dissertation data analysis and reporting. Do yourself a favor and read this book BEFORE starting your qualitative research!

This is the first book in an overlooked "future history" series by author Poul Anderson. Essentially, it postulates: 1) mankind develops cheap interstellar travel within a few centuries; 2) there are quite a few worlds inhabited with sentient beings; and 3) humans and aliens are just as greedy in the future as humans are right now here on earth. Anderson takes these three postulates and projects what I have found to be the most plausible extrapolation about what an interstellar human civilization would be like that I have yet found.
Those familiar with the broad range of Anderson's work know that he believes that the market "functions as effortlessly and as inevitably as gravity." The Trouble Twisters deals with interstellar merchant-adventurers out to make a buck. No "Prime Directive" here. Human civilization is dominated by the Polesotechnic League ("League of Selling Skills") and is unabashadly capitalist. Private corporations and merchant-adventurers dominate space travel for the very good reason that they plan to make a profit by it. (Something to think about in itself. NASA hasn't gone to the moon lately.)
Anderson's characters are well-developed, and the stories will make you think and make you laugh about the predicaments people (and aliens) manage to get themselves into. Recommended.

Another in Anderson's Polysotechnic Universe, the book is three novella's from the career of interstellar horse trader and protege' of Solar Spice & Liquour's Nicholas Van Rinjh, David Falkyn. I remember these stories fondly from my college days and I'm afraid that Anderson's cowboy capitalist view of interstellar relations has forever prevented me from joining the Trekkie's cashless society of the future camp. It puzzles me that no television producer has jumped on old Nick and David for a sci-fi series. The stories in the series are ingenious looks at cultural collision with a distinctly (almost) conservative Republican bias. In each story, it is not figuring out how to outshoot some nameless menace that makes the story. It is rather the struggle to figure out how two very different cultures can make money off each other without killing each other. I love the whole concept. Hollywood may not be ready for that yet. In Anderson's stories, Van Rinjh is not an altruist and Falkyn is a bit of a chauvinist. What a wonderful antidote to Star Trek's "we've eliminated all want & any need for money" fairy tales as well as the equally "extreme the other way' doom and gloom futures that are tossed at us on the toob. This is the future as Wild West and what a lot of fun it is. Violence tends to be personal and immediate without the unlikely "intergalactic empire" liberal futurists envision (whether benign or evil). Very satisfying and you don't have any magicians mucking up the works (except for the local fraudulent hedge wizard types). I like my sci-fi technical, intellectual and pure like this. Poul Anderson is one of my all time favorite reads and this was a good book! Tom Kin

It has been awhile since I read this book and have been looking to read it again. That alone is one of my criteria for whether a book is any good or not. The main characters have plenty of depth and history but what still grabs me still today is the situations the author places them in and that they have to think their way out. In one instance they have landed with a crippled ship miles away from a repair depot. The depot has the equpment to fix the ship but it is very heavy and needs to be transported. The hitch is the locals consider a circle to be a religious topic and doesn't allow them to be used as wheels (Sacrelige!) How do they transport a few tons of equipment without using a wheel? Not only is it approached from a scientific angle but also how this discussion affects the local population who have lived under the church's limits on thinking about circles. My explanation doesn't to the story justice. Anderson is a master at this type of delimma and tells the tales very well. I'd recommend this book in a heartbeat. Now if only I can find a copy.

i learned so many things. each chapter was so helpful. everyone dealing with this situation is addressed. i am sending copies to my parents and also my children. thank you for your expertise, dr. spickard.

I have a book ministry. ( I give helpful books to people) I considered the first edition one of the best books on alcoholism. I consider this second addition even more helpful.
Elaine R. Williams

As the child of an alcohol dependent father who has since passed, I was able to better understand his sickness. From this book, which I have recommended many times over to providers who treat the alcohol dependent patient, I gained an education in 14 days of reading that would have taken many years otherwise. Thank you Dr. Spickard

This was the first book I ever read to myself, when I was first learning to read. I have re-read it many times over the following 25 or so years, each time finding it as poignant as ever, but also finding new layers of meaning as I have grown up and been able to understand those meanings. This is highly recommended for all ages, especially if the reader enjoys animal stories.

The unlikely friendship between the black lamb and the black leopardess is charming but also made believable by their difficulties in understanding the different assumptions of their lives. In many ways, this is a story of foreign cultures meeting and trying to get along, although the main characters are animals.

Suitable for older children and adults. A story about relationships and self-discovery, using animals as characters. Doesn't avoid harsh realities of life (deals bluntly with death) but emphasizes the triumph of a gentle spirit which somehow benefits every creature it encounters. Very well written.

--a young lamb is driven from the place of others like herself by a rabid shepherd's dog. A young leopardess & other creatures of the forest, predators & prey alike, endeavor to protect her & guide her back to her own.

--a haunting story, an allegory about peaceful-coexistence that will stay w/you forever.

Carol's book is an excellent insight into how the struggle for human rights was hampered by the motives of so many players who ultimately brought the force of human rights in the United Nations from a roar to a soft meow. Her voice is fresh and very well informed. I will also admit to a personal bias because I heard Carol speak at the Truman Presidential Library in July of 2006 and it was the passion of her presentation that brought me to read her book. In my opinion, her writing is a close second to seeing her speak in person and I am thankful for having had such a privelege. I look forward to reading her next books and being her personal groupie- Carol Anderson ROCKS!

This book was incredible for several reasons. As an African American, I struggle to understand why so little has changed in relations between blacks and whites in this country and more importantly, why there seems to be a deeply entrenched systemic barrier to real progress (economic, political, social and cultural) for many African Americans. Eyes off the Prize highlights the enormous difference between struggling for human rights versus concentrating solely on civil rights-I'd never really thought about the fact that those aren't the same struggles.

Further, while it is obvious that the author did a tremendous amount of research, this book is a real "page turner." Much of what I learned by reading this book was far beyond what I've known previously and the book dispelled many of the myths surrounding civil rights leaders in this country. Lastly, the conclusions made sense to me-I didn't feel like I was reading a distant, scholarly book-I felt as though the author brought me along on an incredible journey of the African American struggle for dignity and fairness in a hostile land.

I really enjoyed the book and gave it to all my friends and family for Christmas last year.

For full disclosure, I went to high school with the author--that's why I was curious about the book--but it is certainly not why I read every word!

For the sake of full disclosure, I'm a colleague of Carol Anderson's at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Yet, notwithstanding our friendship, I can objectively state that EYES OFF THE PRIZE is must reading for individuals seeking insights as to why America's racial problems persist.

More than a generation after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a disproportionate number of African Americans are undereducated, unemployed (or underemployed), and incarcerated. Anderson's exhaustively researched book persuasively suggests that the reason for continuing black inequality is that, during the crucial period covered in her book, African Americans changed (and were forced
to change) their focus from achieving HUMAN RIGHTS to achieving CIVIL RIGHTS.

This is not a book for the faint-of-heart. Anderson pulls no punches in telling her story of how African Americans lost sight of the "prize" of human rights. No doubt, some will find her analysis at times to be quite provocative. Yet, as a good historian, Anderson has not written a book to make people
feel good. She has written a book to make people think.