Ball Books

My boys have enjoyed this book. It's a fun way to illustrate counting. I would recommend it highly. We even do the voices of the cute animals!

I am a 21 year old college student. My mom read this book to me when I was little. The illustrations were always my favorite part of the book. The mouse finds her way to the ball in a very magical way. I read that book so many times that I can still recite nearly half of it. In my opinion this book was more a visual experience than about counting. Any child should be lucky to own this wonderful piece of work.

I also am the proud owner of an original 1976 copy, and I cannot believe that it is still in one piece. This was my favorite book as a child and cannot wait to get a new copy for my two daughters!

I'm 30 years old and I still remember reading this book as a child. Not only can I recite parts of it to this day, but so can my mother.
It is a fun way to learn to count. The illustrations are enchanting, as well as the entire story involving all sorts of animals preparing for The Butterfly Ball.

I'm 27 and have a very worn copy of the 1976 publication of this book. As a child, I read it so often that I have pieces memorized to this day. It's still my favorite book, and I was afraid I'd never be able to replace it. How wonderful to see such an enchanting and educational book is still in print!

This book, Kaleidoscope Eyes, was a really fabulous read! So much better than the first one, the first one was good, but just too much traumatic events for one book or one life for that matter for my taste. Annie, the main character is different, and through her life of loves and challenges a reader is really able to go on a great adventure. This book is about really love that makes you giggle and feel giddy. It is also about the important and serious jobs in the world that make a difference in other peoples lives. On top of that is is about the crazy people out there, who's actions just do not make sense in any mind. This book had me smiling, laughing out loud, and screaming at the characters to do or realize what I wanted them to. Karen Ball did really well with this one, every time I thought it was one way, something else jumped in to show me a different direction. It is quite the mystery that you really do not know until the end. Very glad I read this one.

I don't know why it took me so long to read this book ...

It came highly recommended by the sales lady (& that's why I bought it!), but, I don't know ... The title, the cover, the synopsis, I dunno, something ... Some THING kept me from reading it when I bought it so many months ago. But don't you know that GOD is right on time (just like He always is)? Because I picked it up a couple of days ago just because I needed something to read in the doctor's office &, as it turned out, it became just thing I needed to read at precisely this point in my life -- woo hoo, PTL, thank You Jesus! \o/

Because -- as an artist, a writer, an introvert, an animal lover -- I could really relate to the main character, Annie Justice, & the feelings she had about her life & the way she handled life situations, etc. And I wish I could say I've had as much luck as Annie had turning the liars in my life into lovers -- but I guess that's why these kinds of books are called romances? ;) I also wish I had her "condition" -- being able to see colors in everything! Now isn't that something? I'd never heard of that before. Very interesting.

I thought the book very well-written (although I was skimming it so fast that I really didn't get a chance to fully appreciate it! :P) & the action vs. romance was very well balanced & intriguing (although I was a little disappointed that I was able to figure out what was going to happen just as soon as all the main characters were introduced, darn it) & I'm SO glad that Annie Justice wasn't a writer by profession (although, sad to say, I am getting tired of seeing newsmen/TV producers & the like as love interests -- but that's just my personal pet peeve due to having worked in entertainment for a time).

And the whole reason I'm even on the Amazon website right now, is because -- this being my first Karen Ball novel -- I decided that I needed to buy a few more ... And that's a good thing :)

Well, written and excellant story of an unusal woman who loves the Lord
and people to help with search and rescue dogs.

Karen cooks on all burners with this one. This story has everything I like--adventure, intrigue, romance, sympathetic but flawed characters with interesting careers, plus a totally loveable little girl and a heroic dog. She mixes the recipe together with loving care, coming up with a read that's sweet but not saccharine and spiced with spiritual depth. Well worth adding to your bookshelf.

Annie Justice, artist and SAR participant with her canine partner, Kodi, has a colorful view on life. Literally. Yet Annie's synesthesia doesn't overshadow the story, merely colors it, if you'll excuse the pun.

The hero, Jed Curry, struggles with his own demons. Complicating matters is his reality series, Everyday Heroes. He wants to feature Annie and Kodi. When she denies his request, he lies his way into her life. Then against his own will, he's drawn to her and must decide which is more important--his career or Annie. Karen Ball's plots are without predictability.

With the expertise of a symphony conductor, Ball orchestrates the tension and suspense in a story. She uses pacing like the conductor uses his baton, creating an arpeggio of action then an adagio of rest for a moment before the next onslaught. As the stakes rose, I found myself flying through the pages to reach the answer. I thought I had Annie's enemy figured out. All clues pointed that direction--then Ball surprised me. And when it was done, I felt completely satisfied.

I've said it before--I'm not a fan of suspense, even romantic suspense. But I'll read anything Karen Ball writes, even if it's a grocery list. I know I'll find humor and insight--even in the vegetable aisle.

I can't recommend this book highly enough. I love basketball to death but have the misfortune of coming of age in the late 90's, well after the holy trinity of MJ, Bird, and Magic and WELL after the ABA.

This book is an oral history that gives some amazing insights as to how things were before the world of cable and internet and before the NBA was the marketing juggernaught it is today. It is also full of ridiclous stories about players, coaches, fans, and owners. It is facinating to see what aspects of the ABA resonate in todays NBA. Though some of the book is dated (the book was written in 1990) in terms of how things are relayed to the reader, the essense of the book has and will continue to hold up very well.

What can I say about Loose Balls that has not already been said??...Probably nothing...There is a reason why Sports Illustrated ranked this book Number 13 on the Top 100 Sports Books of alltime and why it is still in print 18 years after first coming out....That reason is it's a great book that is the definitive history of the ABA and at the same time has you literally laughing out loud at times...I had more laughs reading this book than I do at most movies....Most people in other reviews have noted the principals like Fly Williams...Marvin "Bad News" Barnes....John Brisker..Pat Boone.. Julius Erving..etc..etc so I won't rehash or spoil the tales but they are memorable because they are true....Pluto's genius in putting this book together was that he let the principals tell their stories and he just put them on paper in an orderly format and let the story tell itself...No need to do anything else...I was pretty young during the ABA Days so I only remembered a little about it,but after reading this book I felt like I was there for all 9 years of the ABA....I can't recommend a book any more than I do this one...Buy this book...you will not be able to put it down once you start and I guarantee you will get a ton of laughs

Great information about the good, the bad and the ugly of the ABA. Shows how the pro basketball turned from a stodgey, center oriented game, to the game of Michael, Magic and Kobe.

This book is a sports gem. The wild ride of the American Basketball Association from inception to its eventual collapse and NBA absorption of the San Antonio Spurs, Indiana Pacers, Denver Nuggets and New Jersey Nets.
The book is divide into 3 parts.Opening Gambits, Middle Game and Endgame.
The first part deals with the origins of the league from the hiring of its first Commisioner, George Mikan and the idea behind the red, white and blue basketball and the struggles of early ABA teams to stock their rosters to a great section on The Indiana Pacers, one of the leagues best organizations. Everything is told in a series of stories told by the people involved. It is a credit to author Terry Pluto's reporting skills and ability to edit that makes this so enjoyable.
Part 2 deals includes a lengthy section about the greatest player to come out of the ABA, Julius Erving. The Doctor must have been a wonder to behold in his early years as he is spoke of in awe by teammates, opponents, and coaches. Also the many stories of the often bizarre characters that inhabited the ABA are priceless in and of themselves.Of which the reader will often find themself laughing out loud. The section on The San Antonio Spurs is enjoyable in that you learn the humble origins of the current NBA dynasty.
Part 3 covers such franchises as the Kentucky Colonels who were considered underachievers until they finally won an ABA championship in 1975. Probably the most entertaining section of the book chronicles the story of the Spirits Of St. Louis. The tales told of this franchise often boggle the mind if one has any isea how professional athletes are expected to act. The antics of Spirits star Marvin "bad news" Barnes are some of the most outrageous I've ever heard of in my life and I've been a sports fan for decades. Great stories of All time great coach Larry Brown and so many others they are too numerous to name.
In the end the massive contracts the ABA gave out became their undoing and eventually forced capitulation to the rival NBA. It is a fun read and you learn so much about so many unheralded ABA players and coaches.

This is one of the best books ever written about sports. An oral history of the American Basketball Association, it is spare in style, which is a good thing because Pluto - a talented writer as he's proven in other sports books - lets his sources tell most of the story. His genius is in the reporting, finding all these people and getting them to tell him (and us) their stories. The ABA was a product of its times and those times will never come again. Even now, that period is becoming just a distant memory. But this is an important part of basketball history and, even better, a great, great group of stories and personalities.

My kid bought this book for me as a father's day present, and I only just got arround to reading it. I have to say, it's kind of tough. There were a lot of words I had to look up. But I feel like there's something in Jesse Ball's writing that isn't about it being complicated even though it is. He just has to write what he has to write, and now we get to read it. The best one of all is the last one in the long block. I don't know where he thought of it, but I read it twice, and I don't usually read poetry.

You will happen across Jesse Ball's poems in a trunk in an attic, folded carefully in a silk scarf, watched over by implacable maidenforms. It will happen. You will unwrap it, this perfect curio, this well-made old thing that suggests the time and the land that made it with such a force that you cannot help but know yourself as irreparably damaged. That is, you will want to die and go to the place where Jesse Ball's poems come from, even as the poems themselves acknowledge over and over the impossibility of such an arrival ("As if it were possible, this life with bees.") It is a terrible thing to have to say, and a terrible thing to have to read--this revelation of life as unresolvable longing, as one long encounter with the ache of a perfect line like "Please let prayer be true" or "I swore... we would live without a doubt, in grace," lines that destroy hope even as they express it, leaving you with "fragments that couldn't possibly add up to anything."

But you cannot turn away from it, because the process he describes--that of coming continually into the proximity of one's own imagination, finding freedom, losing it, falling awkwardly back into life, and coming back again--this "pulse and gather" of memory as he calls it--is life, more than any adventure or struggle or drudgery or moral code or years passed dandling a child on a knee. Any artist who does not begin from that point is not making art but mere "badges of their difference." Jesse Ball sets himself apart from these, calling himself not a contriver but a "machinist," and with March Book he has indeed created a machine, a device of torture as fearsome and beautiful as Kafka at his best--but he has also, as Kafka before him, earned the right to your attention by first lying down in it himself.

One can see the world through many lenses. I would choose the eyes of jesse ball to show me the world every day of the week.

This book is the real thing, a manifesto written by a master poet. Don't be deceived by Ball's youth. He is a veteran with a careful eye and a quick trigger finger. The most remarkable section is the Numbered Column.

One of the best new poets is the only way to describe Jesse Ball. I have met him in real life and the way he talks about his poetry is amazing!

I read this book many years ago and had very fond memories of it...started looking for a copy and bought one via Internet several months ago.
This book would make a lovely "period" piece of a movie. The book has so much to say about being open to new experiences and respect for other cultures--wonderfully nuanced as to the different points of view of the characters--and it is such a sweet love story.
Just saw Frances McDormand's new movie yesterday Miss Pettigrew lives for a day--which has much the same light-weight world within a bubble atmosphere and was totally enjoyable because it was so well done...
McDormand produced it so you know it was book she fell in love with--no studio would have touched it otherwise and married to the Cohen god she has lots of arms to twist ...

wish someone with that same type of clout would discover Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms...

As beautiful a book as its title. If you liked Memoirs of a Geisha, you will love this.

It is simpler and sweeter and possibly much more memorable than Geisha, more haunting.

I wish it were more widely known so I could reminisce about it with friends. I'm happy it is not because it remains a delicate memory.

This is a wonderful love story about a beautiful geisha and an 'everyman' (who considers himself an utter failure with women). After that it is a terrific story of the initial clash of two cultures, with people (from both) having misconceptions and prejudices about the other. In the end just about every character realizes how wrong those initial ideas were and that an open mind is a pretty valuable commodity. [Would love to see this turned into a really good movie...with Russell Crowe or Ioan Gruffudd perhaps as Richard Seaton? (It would have to be set in the '60s - before computers, world travel became so common and when isolationism was the norm in the US).] One of my favorite books, to be reread often.

John ball has done great job in narrating the experience of an American facing the Japanese culture with the fine tunes of romance woven in it. The characters of people are nicely built. The description of Japanese culture is excellent. The author has dealt the realationship with Richard and Miss One thousand spring blossoms with great sensitivity and very realistically. The supporting characters play a very strong but subtle role in bulding the story. A great reading.... Really a master piece from a great story writer. A Must read.

This is one of my all time favorite books. The descriptions of the cultures coliding are wonderful. The characters all grow and learn from each other. Richard learns to like himself and to enjoy the differences between life in Japan and Boston. The description of Richard's first experience in the Japanese bath totally describes the feelings of being overseas, alone, and totally confused.

My experiences as a US Army family member in Japan were good and my memories are happy ones. This book reminds me of all the reasons I fell in love with the country and it's gentle people.

This is a wonderful love story.

I was the skinny white kid from maryland i wanted to be good but i
was a bum. So i bought this book. Before the 12 week program ihad a 10 inch vertical leap, iwas 5'2 and weighed 70 pounds after using the program i know way 97 pounds am 5'4 have a 28 inch vertical leap. ia m also a real dominant player on the court with my 8% body fat. i also worked on shooting during the program and went from barely being able to shoot form the free throw line to shooting threes whit an unblockable form. i recomend this book to anyone. All you need is a goo weight set or not it dosen't matter.

This book is terrific. It has lots of great exercises that will help you get an edge on your friends. The exercise are well planned out and the test system helps see how well you are progressing. This books a must buy for anyone who wants to be physically trained for basketball!!!

This book has it all! From Stretching, to Strength Training, to Plyometrics Power Training, to Agility Training, to Speed Training. This book delivers motivation because it is the same source the NBA players use to get in top basketball condition. This book will get you to the highest level, and more.....

Well, as a college basketball player, I can say this book is somethin' special. Every new bball player should read it, cause it will change your thinkin' about this game, well it changed for me. Stretching section is realy good, cause not many of the players or coaches attend their attention to stretching these days. Strenght training exercises are specialy designed for bball players, and you don't have to think anymore what to do in the gym, what to train in order to become better bball player, everythin' is in this book. Ok, one thing is clear for sure, if you wanna train and play pro, read this book!!!

This book is terrific. It has lots of great exercises that will help you get an edge on your friends. The exercise are well planned out and the test system helps see how well you are progressing. This books a must buy for anyone who wants to be physically trained for basketball!!!

Being involved with Programmable Logic Controllers and manufacturing, I found this book full of inspiring ideas and tips on the financing, personnel and operations of technology companies. Dick Morley invented the PLC. It is nice to be able to get it from the horse's mouth, as they say. It is an indispensable management tool. I keep this book on my desk just in case another management consulting firm comes here and tries to sell me yet another analysis and subsequent engagement. I would not need an analysis as long as I have this book as my reference.

I do have a slight problem with the prejudice that "We don't invest in a deal if the president has a Ph. D." That would have made companies like Apollo, Celeron, Cisco, Intel and Silicon Graphics non-financeable. People should be judged by their intelligence, not their degrees. Let's make a deal, Dick. If you don't hold my Princeton degrees against me, I won't hold your M.I.T. degree against you, OK?

Intriguing snapshots of the mind of Dick Morley. Each piece is a couple of pages, so they're great quick but deep reads (in the bathroom or otherwise) for the manufacturing (& innovation) professional. He packs a lot into each essay, and keeps 'em coming.

"Out of the Barn" is written by the "Harley-Guy" Dick Morley (Inventor, author, consultant, engineer and "Dad" to 37 children) he is also known as the as the inventor of the programmable controller, the floppy disk and other revolutionary and "world-changing" inventions. Dick is self-described "serial-entrepreneur" whose consistent successes in the founding of high technology companies have been demonstrated by over three decades of achievements.

Some of Dick's entrepreneurial success stories are used in the book "Winning Angels" a practical, hands-on guide to angel investing. Dick's inimitable style and character are easy to discern in this book about the fundamentals of early stage investing.

In his book "Out of the Barn" Dick gives us a collection of his published articles and candid thoughts in one easy to read compilation. He brings his unique way of thinking to discuss revolutionary concepts in his own style. His humor is entertaining and his prose is educational. He will definitely make you think. He challenges you to consider the possibilities and those things that may not (yet) be possible.

Through the short stories in the book you will appreciate his wide range of thinking and find yourself scrambling to catch up, as he moves on to ponder other great thoughts. His homespun vision is full of predictions and forecasts of the future and its possibilities. This book reads just like any one-on-one conversation with Dick. Anyone who has had the pleasure can attest that a chat with Dick can range from the ridiculous to the sublime. Sometimes deep and cogent and other time's light and airy, but never dull.

Dick speaks and writes with an earthy manner that is full of provocation and prevarication you can never be exactly sure, which is half the fun. You can read this book anywhere, at any time, and you will.

Once upon a time, before "Dot-Com" and "Dot-Bomb", there was Dick Morley. This gentleman and his book hearkens back to a time when value was measured by utility, and less by flash. Mr. Morley, the inventor of the staple of industrial automation, the PLC, has touched all of our lives with his practical and creative views of the chaos within which we live.

As a renewed sense of value reemerges in our post-Dot economy, Mr. Morley's insights are again proving to be most timeless.

Get this book.

The format of this book is a series of vignettes. And not to be dis-appointed there is plenty of wisdon to be had even in a fireside chat with Dick.

I have done it several times in person and find it VERY stimulating. For those not so luck try this as a premier.

Listen to Dick and LEARN.

FINALLY!! True baseball fans now have available a scorebook that doesn't look like a ten-year-old's exercise with a ruler. This book is obviously made by a baseball fan for the baseball fan. It has the most intuitive format of any scoresheet I have seen, and makes full use of the whole page, giving individual scorers -- and their individual scoring methods -- the most flexibility. The scoresheet contains so much information that the reader could create the most complex of boxscores -- indeed, could practically recreate the game in its entirety -- long after the original event is forgotten.

The only downside to this volume is the lack of a linescore, but where would you put it?

Scorebooks are history books, perhaps the only pencil sketched accounts of our past still widely applied in modern American culture. If you're looking, as I am, to keep your baseball autobiography, I highly recommend doing it with this tablet.

A terrific value for any baseball fan who keeps score at games. Easy to use and fits my old fashion style as well as other approaches to scoring.

This is a solid, workmanlike scorebook, concentrating on the fundamentals. I particularly like the fact that it is printed on good quality paper, adding to the sensuous pleasure of the experience. I give it four rather than five stars simply because the only perfect scorebook would be one I designed myself, and it would only be perfect for me. Scoring baseball is such a personal, idiosyncratic activity that no two people want exactly the same book. For example, I like having space to track each hitter's count. This is not included here, though there is enough room to fake it. Instead there are boxes for each hitter to mark an out or an RBI. To my thinking this is a poor use of space, as these are derived from the main scoring space. These are nits, however. Short of designing and printing your own, this is a good a book as you are likely to find.

As a lifelong baseball fan, I have always wanted a good scorebook where I can chronicle all the games I attend in one place. But all the books I found were either designed with softball in mind, or used a design that emphasized one particular style of scorekeeping. I had just about given up my search and resigned myself to a life of buying team programs at 5 bucks a pop when I came across Play Ball.

For my purposes, it is perfect. With 170 scoresheets, you know it's going to last for quite a while. And the design provides for plenty of space for substitutions, with room for over 70 substitutions per game! And best yet, the design is not intrusive, it does not try to force a particular style of scorekeeping down your throat, but let's you dictate your own style.

If you like keeping score, this book is a bargain.

I have always thought of scorekeeping a baseball game as an artistic endeavor. Everyone has their own style, making hundred of scoresheets done for the same ballgame unique. Each one revealing different aspects of the game just played. The description and detail that go into each one can be truly remarkable.

The Play-ball! Baseball scorebook by Eric Enders provides the scorer with the structure to properly score a baseball game, but enough space and flexibility to to include their own flair and panache. I've already scored a few dozen games of this year's baseball season and am amazed at the results. The orgasmic feeling of pencil hitting paper to record Pedro's 16-strikeout game or Aramis Ramirez's 3 home runs at Enron Field has only been enhanced by the Play ball! Scorebook's design.

Take this opportunity to start up the hobby of scorekeeping or enhance the one you already have.

this is too awesome.. I think I'm goonna crrry... uhhhhhhhh... huu huu. Okay calm down, you're a pimp, you're a pimp. This is too awesome I'm gonna barf uhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I'm fine.

This was a gift for our son for Christmas!It was great he has read most all of them and now wants most of the series.

I think that this is one of the best manga/anime comics that I have ever read.

This is easily the best collection of Americanized manga out. As most know, Shonen Jump was at one time a Japanese exclusive magazine that made its hop across the Pacific in 2003 for American fans to enjoy. Since that moment, it's become the best in manga and now contains a majority of the manga juggernauts.

This collection is a great start for those of you who are interested in reading manga, or for those of you who missed out on some of the earlier issues of Shonen Jump and want to catch up on what's going on. It also has the beginnings to the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z mangas, which can't be found in Shonen Jump.

Below is a listing of the manga in this box, as well as a small description of each:

(1) Dragon Ball: This is the start of the Dragon Ball world. It explains the origins of Goku and his relationship with the Dragon Balls.

(2) Dragon Ball Z: The beginning of one of the greatest animes ever in its purest form. Unpolluted with minutes-long shouting and infested with excellent action and story, this details the story of Goku as a father and a husband, as well as following some of the other favorites of the Dragon Ball world.

(3) Naruto: Probably the best in Shonen Jump, Naruto is a tale of a boy fox-demon who wants nothing more than to earn his place in the world, and does so by training to become a ninja, despite the mistrust directed at him by some of his teacher and the hatred he receives from his fellow students.

(4) One Piece: A boy eats the mysterious Devil Fruit at a young age, making his body into rubber and also cursing his body: should he ever fall into water, he would sink instantly to the bottom. Despite that, he wants nothing more than to be the pirate king of a world of oceans.

(5) Shaman King: Yoh, a boy who can not only see ghosts but control them, comes to Tokyo to train to become a powerful shaman in the hopes that one day he'll win the title of Shaman King.

(6) Yu-Gi-Oh!: A story of constant morals and themes, it details a young, pint-sized, pointy-haired boy's struggles with a mysterious puzzle/necklace that grants him dark super powers as well as an alter-ego.

(7) YuYu Hakusho: A juvenile delinquent dies saving a child and finds out that his next was entirely unexpected and therefore gains a chance to come back to life. What he later finds out is coming back to life also makes him a spirit detective.

This pack is totaly awsome!If your obsessed about anime than this is the thing for you! I collect and read Shonen Jump magazine, and I kept getting curious about how all the stories had started. So I got this and it answered all my questions.

As a long suffering back patient and physician, i have read many books on exercise and back problems. Stablization is key. This book is clear but not a simple review. For many, the assitance of a physcial therapist/Chriopractor etc might be wise. The progressive exercises allow use from acute injury to advanced prevention. I have given the book to two experienced physical therapists who both wanted a copy. I believe this work is the best on spine stabization but I also combined some ideas gained from "Breatheworks". In addition, any chronic back pain patient should read "Healing Back Pain Naturally". I wish I had followed this approach 10 years ago!

As a busy physiotherapist working in a elite training centre for high performance athletes, I am thrilled to be able to recommend to my fellow physiotherapists and patients a book that reinforces the concepts of lumbar stabilization in away that is unique and effective. Mr Jemmetts inovative approach to proprioceptive training incorporating stability exercises is revolutionary and highly effective. The feed back from my patients placed on this innovative program has been excellent. As a avid reader and someone who makes a great effort to stay informed on the latest therapy techniques and research,I have read all the most recent books on stabilization and have found them lacking in terms of explaining the concepts in away that is practical and easy to follow for the layman. Mr. Jemmett lays out a program that is easily followed and adaptable to many clinical pathologies effecting the lumbar spine.

I had been diagnosed as having everything from strained back muscles to a slipped vertebrae to a bulging disc. Finally I saw a PT in Colorado who had taken a course in Hawaii from the author of this book. The technique of contracting the transversus and multifidus muscles together seemed too 'gentle' after all the various treatments I had tried before. As they say though, the scientific research supports this form of treatment moreso than anything else. Highly recommended.

If you have a back problem (or are an athlete wishing to avoid one) then this is a must have. It won't replace going to a qualified Physical Therapist but it'll be a useful resource to draw on at home and in the gym - yes, I actually take my copy to the gym with me! I've been coping with two herniated disks for about 6 years now and this is the first book that's actually made a difference for me.

The reasons for doing stabilization exercises are well presented and easily understood by a layman. The descriptions of the exercises are concise and intuitive. The example programs are a great starting place for all levels of ability. Lastly, most of the exercises require minimal equipment, minimal space and are actually fun.

I completely recommend this book and hope that it helps you as much as it has helped me.

Rick Jemmett has done an excellent job of discussing basic back problems in layman terms, as well as putting together a variety of exercises that start out extremely easy and progress to high-level challenges. As a physical therapist I have been trying for years to teach concepts that are covered in this book, as well as create home exercise programs consisting of many of the exercises that are illustrated in this book. Core strength, proprioception and an understanding of what is happening with the trunk are essential components of any exercise program, and are explained well.
The only drawback is the price, on par with medical texts, but overpriced for the general public