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This is a wonderful little book, with spirit. For the best "how to" on holding a dialogue on race, I highly recommend this book.

I really enjoyed this book. Its lays out some great ideas to organize meaningful dialoge around how we perceive and respond to race related issues. The ideas and recipes are simple, fun, and motivating. Getting beyond the surface dialogue of race in this country is critically important. This book gives us some great ideas on how to get started.

I am so glad that I found this book. I have had many conversations about race, but almost all of them never went beyond the surface. People are so afraid to talk about this very important topic. The Anti-Racist Cookbook turns conversations about race into deep, meaningful experiences. I was really pleased with the results of the first conversation I organized using this book.

All I can say is that it's about time for this kind of book.

Race relations continues to be an important, pervasive, and difficult social issue in this opening decade of 21st century America. Co-authored by Robin Parker and Pamela Smith Chambers, The Anti-Racist Cookbook: A Recipe Guide For Conversations About Race That Goes Beyond Covered Dishes and "Kum-Bah-Ya" basic information on the problem of race relations and the authors' approaches and philosophy. It then goes on to provide practical, applicable information on how to organize and facilitate a small-group discussion on race. There are separate chapters devoted to focusing on an individual's cultural background and early messages about race and ethnicity; the different emotional experiences of race in everyday life and what work individuals can do to improve race relations; conversational oriented intervention strategies that individuals can use to combat prejudiced comments or statements that derail interracial understanding. The Anti-Racist Cookbook is ideal for community activists and non-specialist general readers with an interest in helping themselves, their families, friends, neighbors, and communities in successfully dealing with race relations issues.

Awesome book that gives very helpful tips about different locations in Oregon to backpack.
It was my first backpacking book purchased, and since then I havent found better.
He gives very personal accounts of each trail. He also rates each trail on a scale of 10 based on its difficulty, scenery, etc.
A must have for any outdoor-loving Oregonian.

If you are looking for a REAL backpacking trip guide - not daytrips - this is the best book I have seen for the diverse state of Oregon. It's unique organization style is by season, the perfect way to choose a trip in an area of widely varying climates. It gives excellent, detailed descriptions of 27 different trips, including elevation gains, difficulty, scenery, solitude and side trips. This is not a book for novices, no "how to's" here, just great trip analyses. Includes great maps and B/W pictures. Enjoy!

If you are looking for a REAL backpacking trip guide - not daytrips - this is the best book I have seen for the diverse state of Oregon. It's unique organization style is by season, the perfect way to choose a trip in an area of widely varying climates. It gives excellent, detailed descriptions of 27 different trips, including elevation gains, difficulty, scenery, solitude and side trips. This is not a book for novices, no "how to's" here, just great trip analyses. Includes great maps and B/W pictures. Enjoy!

This book is great for backpackers. Warning: it is not a how-to manual for novices, but rather a guide for experienced backpackers. It offers a wide range of backpacking trips thoughout Oregon. The author rates each trip based on difficulty, solitude, and beauty, and highlights any special advantages or drawbacks to each trip. I was excited to read so many suggestions for varied new backpacking trips (and I have been backpacking in this state for 15 years!) His ratings are absolutely correct for the trips I have gone on.

This book gives you the basic knowledge to undertand an organization, how is structure and how the internal process works.

Wonderful book in Organizational Behavior, this book has everything from leadership, motivation, negotiation, stress, and etc. This is a must have for anyone who deals with people or in a managemen role.

Thank you for sending this book quickly. I am a student and with its arrival I was able to get some much needed homework done. Thank you.

Introduces the essentials of organizational behavior with strong managerial theme. Section I covers organizational behavior and management, the new workplace, and the global economy. Other sections focus on: individuals, groups, processes, organizational goals and structure, design, culture, change and development. The section on motivation includes a good integrated model, that integrates several theories. This text provides a solid grounding in the subject. Includes notes and glossary.

If you teach this subject, or are a self-directed doing-it-on-your-own student, check out this text. Recommended. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, author of Stern's SourceFinder: The Master Directory to HR and Business Information and Resources, Stern's CyberSpace SourceFinder and founder, HRconsultant.com Management InfoCenter

We recently used this terrific book in exploring some wonderful and little used roads in Pasco County. It's great to have direction to unique Florida locales that aren't centered around Disney World or the beach.

We would like to take mini vacations on Florida's backroads. In reading this book, I can see that it will make planning our trips much easier.

Our family just spent a weekend following the trails of this book. It was so interesting and fun to read along the way. It's great to learn more about Florida -- especially how life was before a/c and the Disney era. Bravo!

What a great guidebook this is to the back roads and the stories that await. Douglas Waitley has presented the Center of Florida in such a way that even those who have lived in these parts for years will find new places worth exploring.

Waitley is an advocate of getting off the interstates as much as possible, which is harder to do in Florida than most places since there simply aren't as many back roads as in other states that have had a couple of centuries more of transportation and travel. Then again, there is plenty to explore if you are willing to slow down and see what is around the next bend.

And around the next bend are places with exotic names like Chassahowitzka Swamp and Lacoochee, Micanopy, Mascotte, Okahumpka, Yalaha, Lake Beauclair and Hontoon Island. In these pages, Calvin Coolidge rubs shoulders with Elvis Presley and you will find everything from horse country and swimming holes to missionaries and the Honky Tonk Freeway.

The guidebook takes you on consecutive journeys of under 50 to about 125 miles each, and there is a lot of history and scenery and lore packed in to each of the tours. With Waitley we travel to places where Desoto wandered, to the dens of alligators and thieves, to early settlements that were so close knit ethnically that when the young moved away they became virtual ghost towns, and more.

We find out about J C Penney's lost utopia and Ma Barker's last stand. We hear about buried and yet to be found treasure and the best places to shop for antiques. Want to see the manatee or a 3000-year old tree? Waitley can get you there. The maps and directions are easy as can be. Suggestions for enjoying nature and for stopping for a meal are included in each of the tours.

The book includes lots of good black and white photos taken by the author on his rambles and travels. The people he met populate the text and make the region come alive for the reader.

David Waitley loves Florida and it shows. By the time you read this book, you will have fallen in love with it, too; with all of its surprise and mystery, its local color and eccentricity. A perfect guidebook for being on the back roads, it is also a great armchair traveler's companion.

An excellect selection of schizz-flows and machinic couplings, looking at this book is like watching a film by the Brother's Quay (and I believe the Brother's have made a new film based on one of the artists in this book, "In Absentia"). A beautiful and fetishistic stroll through the "Outside" of those who were locked up "inside". Take flight!

I am a senior student of fine arts at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, and I purchased "Beyond Reason" with hopes of injecting new influences into my own art. I cannot explain what this book showed me -- I did not anticipate being so taken by the works I discovered. On virtually every page, profound works of art are shown by men and women not seeing themselves as artists, but merely as human beings desperately needing to express their inner emotions. I was humbled, to the point that I am second guessing my own artistic ambitions. I was very, very moved by the works -- their frenzied grasps at order apparent with every stroke and line. Whether you are an art student, art historian, or student of the psychology, I highly recommend this edition. Beautifully reproduced and presented with respect for their creators ... "Beyond Reason" is among the finest art books in my personal library.

I first discovered the Prinzhorn Collection in late 1996 when selected paintings and drawings were put on display at the Hayward Gallery in London. The experience was extremely memorable.

More than just an art exhibit, "Beyond Reason" represented a provocative view into the inner workings on the human mind. (This is especially meaningful if you accept the argument that an understanding of the ailing mind can elucidate the functions of the healthy one.)

As you view the entire collection, patterns begin to emerge. "Circular" thinking, fear of being "trapped" in one's mind, and the desire to "escape" mental illness are common motifs. The cover of the book shows a great example. Painted by a schizophrenic, he successfully depicts his irrational fear of weightlessness; here, he must wear a blindfold and use hand-stilts to prevent himself from floating away.

Needless to say, I purchased a copy of the "Beyond Reason" book. Nearly 200 (mostly color) high-quality reproductions are presented, and the commentary is wonderful. I highly recommend this book.

Our first acquaintance with the Prinzhorn Collection of psychotic art at the University of Heidelberg was in the paperback edition of Ernst Kris, Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art (New York: Schocken Books, 1967), a book it may help to refer to while reading this one. This is the full-color catalog of a 1996-1997 exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London of more than 200 examples of artÑdrawings, paintings (some using "body color"), collages, and sculptureÑproduced by mental patients in European psychiatric hospitals. The full collection, which includes nearly 5,000 items from the period of about 1890 to 1920, was named after Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933), a German art historian and psychiatrist who did not initiate the collection, but was largely responsible for its promotion, use, and preservation. He became famous overnight when he published a book in 1922 titled Artistry of the Mentally Ill, which praised the "authenticity" and "primordiality" of psychotic self-expression. It attracted the attention of many Modern artists, especially Surrealists and Expressionists, and was used by the Nazis as proof of the underlying sickness of what they condemned publicly in 1937 as "degenerate art." Suppressed but thankfully not destroyed, the Prinzhorn Collection was stacked in a cupboard until the early 1970s, and has now been restored. These haunting yet fascinating inventions, all beautifully reproduced, are prefaced by scholarly essays about Prinzhorn, psychotic expression, and social conditions in Europe between the wars. (Review from Ballast Quarterly Review, Vol 14 No 1, Autumn 1998.)

Accurate, clear and enjoyable. Three ingredients necessary for cutting through the fog of yesteryear's grandiloquent, ho-hum reference works.

Connelly offers a general overview of each Bible book and sets a context allowing the passage to make sense. Like, the passage MAKES SENSE because we know who, what, why and where! Doug provides the skeleton on which the story comes to life revealing the intended meaning of the authors to farmers, kings and Internet surfers.

In covering three huge bases, Connelly hits a home run!

With a title like "Bible for Blockheads," you might tend to think this book is a bit too dumbed down for all but the totally biblically illiterate. And though it's true that a newcomer to the Bible can immediately profit from this book, it has much more to offer than first meets the eye.

Connelly is sensitive to the historical and literary context of each book, letting it speak for itself and address the original audience's concerns, rather than simply supporting church dogma. Sure, it has cute pictures and avoids technical theological language, but behind its simplicity lies a rather profound understanding of the nature and purpose of a biblical text.

A refreshingly straightforward everyman's guide to the Bible.

This book has a great layout, with little columns off to the side featuring bits of extra info. The print is large and the layout is uncluttered, so even though there's lots of ground to cover, you can skim thru without getting a headache. Each chapter has a good amount of information, not too much to bore the reader and not too little to make it not worth reading. Written in a carefree but informative style.

Accurate, clear and enjoyable. Three ingredients necessary for cutting through the fog of yesteryear's grandiloquent, ho-hum reference works.

Connelly offers a general overview of each Bible book and sets a context allowing the passage to make sense. He provides the skeleton on which the story comes to life to reveal the intended meaning of the authors to farmers, kings and surfers.

In covering the big three bases, Connelly has hit a home run with "The Bible for Blockheads".

The author of this book, as well as other incredible books she has written, was previously my boss as a preschool director. She is so creative and has the best interest of children truly at heart. I can not begin to express what an incredible educator Kathy Douglas truly is. She is the Mother Teresa of educators!

As a new teacher of mentally handicapped children I was happy to find a good reference and idea book to use in my classroom. This book is well organized into catagories such as Science, Language Arts, Math and has appropriate activities that are easy to use and were adaptable for my special students. There are reproduceable pages with many of the activities that encourage learning of basic subjects. This book was a lifesaver for me as a new teacher of handicapped students as I have no "textbooks" for use with my students. I recommend this book to all teachers searching for new ideas.

i would enjoy useing this book for prescool class of ten children

What a wonderful book! With over 300 pages, this infomative book is just over flowing with activities. And it was broken down into sections, so you could concentrate on Math, etc.

As I read Blind Ambition, I was struck by the parallel between its plot: the ... of surgical data to drive of the stock price of a surgical laser manufacturing company, and the growing scandal behind Enron's collapse. Blind Ambition is as engaging as it is timely.

As I read Blind Ambition, I was struck by the parallel between its plot: the faking of surgical data to drive up the stock price of a surgical laser manufacturing company, and the shady practices of Enron before its collapse. Blind Ambition is as engaging as it is timely.

...but a bit basic in the plot. This book dares to tell it like it is -- refractive surgery is all too much about $ and not about patient safety. I commend Dr Greer for speaking up when others in his field are afraid to do so.

I agree with what medical technothriller king Robin Cook, M.D., says on the front cover, "I love novels which are not only fun but teach you something ... Blind Ambition is one of them." The novel delivers what it promises on the back cover, "Blind Ambition is a page-turning medical thriller, yet more: an insider's view of the world of impaired eyesight and laser eye surgery which offers readers - particularly the millions of nearsighted afflicted with glasses or contact lenses - a disturbing look at what may lurk behind high tech "miracle," and a larger understanding of what makes some modern doctors behave the way they do." Don't miss this page-turner, especially if you are nearsighted.

My family and I have eaten at this restaurant many many times and it is always fabulous. You have to buy this cookbook if only to get the recipe for their blue cheese cole slaw which is elegant and delicous. If you ever visit Isle of Palms, call ahead to make a reservation. If you can't get there then this is a superb substitute.

On a recent trip to Charleston, my 16-year old daughter and I ate at The Boathouse on Isle of Palms. We tried the Smoked Gouda Macaroni and Cheese -- a fantastic twist on the tried and true recipe. Luckily, the recipe is in this elegant cookbook! Haven't tried them all, but the Pecan Crusted Chicken is also very good.

Incredible photography, writing that reads like the finest in historical anecdotes and recipes that will keep the whole family smiling through dinner. Just a great addition to any cook's kitchen.

I bought this book for myself and gifts to some favorite people. All of us thought both the historical and recipes were excellent and blended so well together. This book is a treasure.

Before there were digital "glass" ########, before each passenger had a private TV screen, three jet aircraft brought long-distance air travel to the flying public. They were the Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8, and the Vickers VC-10. They were not the first jetliners, however; that distinction goes to the De Havilland DH.106 Comet, Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle, and Tupolev Tu-104. Not included in this volume are the long-range Convair CV990 and Ilyushin Il-62 or the medium-range Convair CV880, Hawker-Siddeley Trident, and BAC-111. Nevertheless, the author's choice of airliners offers interesting comparisons, especially as the Boeing and Vickers products have had long, illustrious careers as tankers.

The 707 is presented - along with its sister designs, the 717 (KC-135) and the 720 - both in military and civilian guises, though for some reason the military versions are presented first. There is also an amusing story about the 707 in early Qantas service, which was a joy to read.

The DC-8 is presented, in all its variants and subvariants, including the Super 70s, DC-9-60 series aircraft that were re-engined with modern CFM-56 turbofans. The DC-8-40 bears the distinction of being the first turbofan-powered airliner, as well as the first airliner to break the sound barrier.

The VC-10 did not sell in the numbers that the 707 and DC-8 can boast, but this airliner was the favorite of the three among many pilots and passengers alike.

Mr. Wilson precedes each chapter with a historical overview of the manufacturer's heritage, offering a context for the design discussed. He also provides charts for each airliner, covering original delivery customers and major variants. A final chapter covers how the three types were "shrinking the world" and their roles in aviation today. Lacking are photographs of the flight decks and interiors; they would have provided a glimpse of the era in which they carried passengers. I would have also like to have seen a list of preserved examples of the three jetliners on display in museums. Nevertheless, this fine book presents a highly readable history of a period of aviation slipping ever further into the past.

This is an excellent book about three first generation four engined commercial airliners. The interesting part is about the VC10, a scarcely known british master. I hope they will isuue other books about "flop" or rare aircraft, like Mercure, Trident, C990. A reccomanded book.

If you loved the early days of jet aviation, then this a book for you. Filled with wonderful photographs and great artwork of the aircraft in operator color shemes, this book will be hard to put down. Form the history of each aircraft, including the early propliners that these jets replaced, to their demise in later years. It's all here in one volume. The text is fluent and the technical aspects of each aircraft is explained nicely so as not to get too confusing. Having flown in many a 707 and DC-8 in Pan Am colors in the 1960's as a child, the photos bring back lots of memories. This book would make a perfect gift for anyone who was affiliated with those magnificant jets. The VC-10 section is not as lengthy as the American planes but it is solid and informative. Each military variant is captured too. I think these three types of aircraft where hijacked in the early seventies and blown up in the desert. The sight of the VC-10 tail section burning in the sand was a sight for sore eyes!

Stewart Wilson's volume 6 in "Legends of the Air" discusses the three great first-generation Western jetliners. While it is not an enormous book, and is thus not able to offer the range of data and photos that a book concentrating on a single aircraft might, it nevertheless is invaluable to both the serious and the casual enthusiasts.

Wilson includes chapters that, while they aren't directly about the 707, DC-8, or VC10, give excellent background material. Particularly strong are "Birth of a Dynasty" and "In Uniform 1: The C-135 Family" which cover other Boeing products that contributed to the engineering and commercial success of the Model 707. I had thought of myself as something of an airliner buff, but I was surprised to learn that the "Dash-80" prototype, the C-135, and the 707 all had different fuselage cross-sections, and thus differed strongly despite their similar appearance.

Another interesting feature of this book is the chapter "Pioneer Days -- Qantas and the 707" which tells a Qantas pilot's story about the introduction of that famous company's first jet aircraft.

Finally, the photographs of this book are striking for their uniqueness and thoroughness -- there is a wide range of operators and variants represented. Overall, this is an excellent book.