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This is a beautiful story about a little girl with a wonderfully optimistic world view. She is determined and focused on her goal and through her own efforts, and the enthusiasm of others, her dream becomes a reality.

I liked the book because it was a good story. Some people may not believe Wanda that her bush would not grow roses. But, Wanda believed it. The book made me laugh. The pictures are the kind that kids like because they are cartoonish and colorful. By Rachel grade 4

Wanda is a real heroine -- a girl who works hard in the face of big odds. Yet, Wanda is also the kind of heroine who helps us think we can be heros, too. She relies more on creative invention than fantastic luck. The idea of growing roses in a vacant lot is both beautiful and realistic. The illustrations convey the eccentric colorfulness of the story's characters and ideas.

This book is a good listing of the waterfalls in the North GA, Southern NC area. It provides photos for most, but directions, trail information, and descriptions for all major waterfalls in the area. If you enjoy waterfall hunting, I highly recommend this book.

Talk about a comprehensive summary of the waterfalls in the Soutern Appalachians! I think it has just about every single one ever discovered, with helpful pictures, perfect directions, good trail maps, and all you need to see some of God's best work. I couldn't be happier with this book!

I have used this book extensively in visiting many waterfalls in North Georgia. Mr. Boyd has done an excellent job in documenting trail descriptions and directions.

Although a children book; parents, teachers and adults will be captivated by this book. The customs of the Arabian Gulf region during the fasting month of ramadan is beautifully narrated and illustrated. Cultures across the globe will connect to the story telling. So timely and essential.

Though not a Moslem, I think it is important that we understand other cultures. I especially liked the illustrations for this book-in my opinion (biased as it may be), they "made" the book. I appreciated the colors and lighting effects, as well as the images themselves. I hope this artist does more books in the future!

This unique book is a must have for all families of Muslim faith and is an excellent and positive insight into Muslim culture for all children.

This book is a must read for anyone with an inquiring mind. Kuhn conclusively documents that the sublime wisdom embodied in Greek myth and Bible allegory is still not interpreted correctly by the western mind. As such, it will prove to be the weightiest psychological indictment of ignorance that history will present against the Christian civilization of this age. Indeed it is the root cause of conflict within and between societies - causing an unwarranted schism between conservatives and progressives.

He documents the source of the NT typology and allegory as being derived from ancient Egyptian systematization - the formulation for the individual of the virtuous and divine temple steps for the soul; to understand and apply to beome a creative worthwhile consciousness. His methodology evidences the real ancestral lineage of the OT and NT mythologies and he does this superbly well in tracing the image sources. He initially describes it as "revamped and terribly multilated Egyptianism" but recognizes there is much deeper layer of developed sentient meaning to be gleaned from the co-linking of scripture allegories, once perceived - that at least matches if not surpassing the original increment of the ancient mythologies. The co-linking of allegories provides conclusive evidence of layered sophisticated meaning. He starts by stating that Christianity must acknowledge its parentage in a pagan (called ancient primitive) past and that only by such recognition and regaining of its parentage will the sublime be comprehended - its true nobler splendor. Convincingly, he traces the Egyptian Jesus, Egyptian Lazarus, Egyptian Bethany, and the two Egyptian Maries. Egypt knelt at the shrine of the Madonna and child, Isis and Horus and Egypt had long known Jesus, Iusa - born of immaculate parenthood, circumcised, baptized, tempted, glorified on the mount, persecuted, resurrected, and elevated to heaven. Egypt had listened to the Sermon on the Mount, and the Sayings of Iusa for ages. But Egypt's Christ was not a living person and neither was it historicized in Judean times - but exists at all times. In other words the Gospels "life" of Jesus turns out to be out to be nothing but the garbled and fragmentary copy of the Egyptian and other prototypes, never lived. But the light of Egypt Occidental religion can now find its way from medieval darkness to sunlit truth. The Dark Ages can now be brought to their dismal end means there is more to the later-day allegories than former - a way for the construction by the individual of that long sought divinity requires a much greater comprehension of the allegorical methodology.

In stating this Kuhn deeply comprehends that the NT largely replicates and enhances the types in the OT in a particular Hebraic way of thought and that the original stories in form came from early Mediterranean/Eastern sources and that the final culmination and apocalyptic scenes of Revelation point back to and remember OT precedents ("historically" referenced and allegorical conjoined links) and these then become motifs for higher perception of both the virtuous and disreputable psychological elements in all ages at all times. The purveyors of the OT and NT were taking very real but mythological, portrayed precedents and elaborating these with partial "historical" recollections of the elements in all events, to portray the forward and backward steps that living creativity confronts - the divine focused element and systematization of the creative element within each individual - the Christ within - the temple covering of the soul and heart. This is as far removed from the literal and historicized ruse Christianity that we are duped with in the mediums of today. Readers are capable of taking this knowledge much further and seeing the real message in Scriptural writings (yet to be disclosed) if allegorical appreciation is developed. This strictly opposes the static legalism, literalism and deadly indoctrination of the illiterate purveyors of a so-called naïve truth and this opportunity has been more starkly available since the pick struck the Rosetta Stone in 1796. Kuhn has traced original Hebraic meanings and documents that many others have seen the same revelations down the centuries of time - but the poetry of deep allegorical meaning has remained in the hands of a few. The tide has turned. A great read for anyone with an open mind and willing to sing a new higher song of joyful and inspiring eternal hope in divinity - we are yet to revive.

Alvin Boyd Kuhn really gets his facts straight when he reviews Christianity's origins as being not from Palestine, but ancient Egypt! Alvin Boyd Kuhn describes the myths of Egypt and demonstrates the fact that Jesus of Nazareth is a typical savior-type, which was quite common to the ancient mind. His pronouncement that Jesus is non-historical is not presented to destroy Christianity but to unlock the secret meaning and by doing so introduce the reader into the deeper meaning of the Gospels.

This book is not intended for the individual who is content with the common view of a historical Jesus but for the individual who struggles with a faith that seems like an impossibility. I would recommend this book to any theologian or spiritual seeker.

Alvin Kuhn presents an extensively researched study of the origins of Christianity in Egyptian and Greek history and of the tragic efforts of the early church to cover up those origins and to adapt the gospels to the ignorance of the people; people made ignorant by the burning of libraries and closing of universities by that same church. Despite the present day trend toward fundalmentism, I think the educated public is ready for the truth, for a faith that is believable, and for a Cristos that is centered in the heart of the individual. Since this book was written in 1943, most of us would have been deprived of its wealth of knowledge concerning this important aspect of our lives had someone not chosen to have it reprinted. The studies by Egyptologist, Gerald Massey, on whose work Kuhn bases much of this treatise, is now also available and is a work of fact and truth supporting Kuhn's revelation of a corrupt church.

Whether you are a school, public librarian or someone who works with children, this creepy craft book is for you. Spiders, skeletons, ghosts, witches and more are all created from easily found materials. You can make the projects easier or harder depending on what age group you are working with. Get craftin' with your kids with this boo-tiful book. Other books in the series are just as great.

The crafts in this book are great. There are so many projects in this book that everyone is bound to find one they like. Some are so simple that they are almost ridiculus. Even if you do not think you are a crafty person you will find a craft you can do in this book. As a pre-school teacher I have used various crafts in this book as patterns for larger or more detailed class projects. This is a great buy at a good price.

Detroit, Mo-town, city of automobile and industry, vibrant or dying? This book of wonderful poetry written by Detroit poets during the early and late 20th century is alive with feeling and emotion both specific to this working-class town and yet also universal in its appeal to the humanity and emotion in all of us. Detroiters and former Detroiters will recognize the people and places in these poems with specificity. They will have been there and lived these emotions. But so too will have anyone who has lived in any community that has felt the excitement and the hurt of change, both local and in society as a whole.
This book collects the poetry of over 100 poets with an enormity of diverse backgrounds and voices yet all with the common bond of having been a Detroiter. They reflect this yet also reflect a broader bond that we all have in our common humanity. The poems are generally short and easy to read. Pick up the book, flip it open to any page and begin reading. You will feel the honesty and clarity with which the poets write and likely these poems will stir up some very realistic feelings that have been buried deep within you. This poetry will help you to see within the soul of a city and its people whose microcosm may represent us all.

This poetry compilation achieves its goal by capturing whatever it means to be "Detroit". I sometimes close myself in a room and read loudly poems from this book to the wall just to remember what it feels like to live in an area not built on doubletalk (I live in Washington DC now).

I could never speak to whether this book would appeal to somebody who doesn't understand Detroit's turbulent life over the 20th century. I would certainly tell anybody who asked that they should at least flip through this book every so often because it tells the story of America, its pinnacles of glory and how they can get ripped right out from underneath without a moment's notice.

The poetry in 'Abandon Automobile' is beautifully visceral. There are no "thou"s or sappy sonnets about flowers in this book. It may seem simple and plain to people more accustomed to coffeeshop poetry, but it isn't once you let the words meld together. Much like Detroit is defined by what many people have done as a collective rather than what any particular individuals have done, these words together form Detroit. The language is practical, impassioned, riddled with strife and hope and somehow happiness. It has stories told through the grit of abandoned sidewalks that were once the busiest in the world, but now only support a couple averted-eye strangers passing one another.

Everyone I know who understands Detroit lives with an uneasy love / hate for it. It is the love of the automobile mixed with an utter disdain for what it has done to destroy its own city. This poetry captures that. The poems throw up an impassioned defense for all Detroit has quietly contributed to society and reveals a deep rooted frustration over its potential in a world that no longer cares about it.

Anyway - even if you've never found yourself saying 'Detroit' over and over until its images were wiped away and it settled deep in your throat as an entirely new and strange word, read this poetry. Some are better than most, but you'll find the really good ones and you'll find Detroit.

The average doctor does not offer the full help that a diabetic really needs. So you sit out on this log ready to fall if you do not seek further. Not only do doctor's not help they often don't even bother to give you a direction. I do not think any one book is an answer either, but cetainly the American Diabetic Association has an obligation to fill that large hole left by the medical profession. Go for it.

I bought this book for my 71 year old mother who was newly diagnosed with Diabetes, and she loved it. She found it extremely informative and easy to follow.

Wilhelm Reich was many things in his lifetime- a student of Freud, a political activist, a research scientist, and an inventor. His work was decades ahead of its time and is finally being rediscovered and reevaluated by the public. If, like me, you are interested in Reich and his work, you might want to check out a novel called We All Fall Down, by Brian Caldwell. it draws heavily on Reich's theories, particularly Listen Little Man and The Mass Psychology Of Facism. It's a great introduction to Reich's work and the entire novel draws heavily on his theory. It's very interesting watching an author explore his theories in a fictional setting. Well worth reading.

American Odyssey is a lush garden filled with the innermost thoughts of Wilhelm Reich during the period he was establishing himself in America in the 1940's. He will have you smiling one moment and welling up with tears the next as you follow him through the maze of his lifework that evidences his being one of humanity's most creative and harrassed thinkers. Reich's concepts are certainly in line with free-thought today. His legacy of leaving his archives to the "children of the future," since they alone would most likely be the ones to understand and accept what he discovered, is falling nicely into place - exactly as Reich knew it would.

This book is a treasure for all ages. A child's love for his pet is perfectly matched with his faith in the kindness and beauty of things he cannot see. Matthew is positive his pet cat, Yin, has gone to heaven and become a winged angel. Is his faith rewarded? Read and see. Each picture and each page is a visual and emotional treat for your whole family.

This book is a treasure in our home. It has helped enormously to explain death to my children. The book provides support for statements such as: the dead person's spirit can remain with you, you can look forward to powerful "visits" by the dead person's spririt, but the dead always stay dead since their body is gone, "just like the Angel Cat." When I told my four year old son that my 94 year old grandmother had passed away, he asked to read the Angel Cat that night. I even spoke of this book at her funeral!

I lived in Tanzania for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Now that I have children I want to read stories to them about life there. This is the best children's story I have found that accurately depicts life in Tanzania and also tells an engaging story.

This moving story is enhanced by the beautiful illustrations. My five year-old daughter and I both enjoyed this book very much.