Foster Books

My son just loves this book! It's perfect for boys (and girls) between 7-10+. We have been giving this book as birthday gifts and the kids love getting them. The book has recipes to make lots of slimy gooey gunk (alien poop, barf, gooey eyeballs, dragon snot, etc.). It's a perfect gift if your son loves to burp, fart and make disgusting mixtures. Some of the recipes are edible, some are not. This book encourages giggles and lots of fun!

I am a social worker and I have worked with art therapists in the past. I have seen the power of art therapy in helping adopted kids and foster care kids. At the agency where I work, we were always looking for resources on art therapy for our kids, but there was really not much out there. I was thrilled to discover Betts' book. Finally, a book about the arts therapies and adoption and foster care! The book is a great resource and the staff at my agency have really benefited from reading it. It's also been helpful for parents, who are now asking about how to get arts therapy services for their children. I strongly recommend this book for anyone involved in adoption or foster care.

About the book:
Within this book we will describe some of the different types of loans available in the marketplace. An overview of information about financial services will be provided, so that you can select a program you feel best services your financial situation. Many of the rules and regulations that the financial institutions must abide by will be defined. There will be a section that discusses some of the pitfalls to avoid when entering into a financial transaction. There will be a section on how to maintain your debt. There will also be a section on credit bureaus, which will give you some education about credit bureaus. A section that explains what happens to your credit, when your debt is out of control, or you have a financially difficult time. There will also be an overview of what the financial institution can and can not do.

There are times in everyone's life when they would like to purchase something that they do not have the cash to purchase the item with. Therefore, there is an alternative; you can enter into a financial credit transaction. There are many types of loans and many ways in order for the financial institution to make money on your transaction. There is of course an acceptable level of cost associated with any financial transaction. The key is to understand loans and some of the terminology, so that you can make an educated decision. A simple credit transaction involves borrowing an amount of money in order to purchase something or spend money on something that you normally could not afford to purchase without the loan.

About me:
I have been in the lending industry for 21 plus years. I started as a teller, cashier, customer service, collector, loan officer and moved onto a branch manager position and then a district manager. After that to a director of compliance for a retail lending company. Then I went into operations management in the wholesale industry and on into a bank retail operation, first for sub-prime and now prime.

The most important thing about my experience with credit has mostly been on the job. I went to a 2 yr junior college and majored in finance but then found a position in finance and off I went to achieve it all. I have taken many classes on line during the past several years, which just keeps me up to date with technology and the industry. I have taken Regulatory classes but did not get certification. You could say that most of my experience is from being in the trenches.

This is a great resource book for anyone wanting to plan and implement meaningful outdoor activities for elementary or early junior high kids. The author lists activities along with materials and plans for carrying out the activity in an organized and easy to follow format. This book would be excellent for teachers, outdoor ed. staff, scout leaders, etc. who are building a personal library of materials to use while working with kids.

Finally, a much-needed essay by a bunch of godless guys. Thank God! It is very unlikely that Critique of Intelligent Design will attract folks who believe that Jesus wakes up every day in Heaven to ghostwrite the great book of nature down here on Earth. However, those of us who are at least a little skeptical about this notion will find Critique of Intelligent Design by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York most welcome. Posing as reasonable discourse about natural phenomena, the intelligent design hypothesis is not a hypothesis at all but fundamentalist Christian doctrine. The deeper meaning behind this posture by religionists to beat science at its own game is unsparingly exposed by Critique of Intelligent Design.

The authors locate the present battle between Creationists and Evolutionists in its proper historical context. This is the longstanding contest in Western civilization between those who abdicate the challenge and obligation of being human creators in order to enjoy the security and irresponsibility of being creations of God. Perhaps the chief achievement of the book is that it does not attack religious faith or spiritual aspiration as such. Rather, the materialist, secular, humanist outlook is advanced against theological escapism, excuse-making and the bearing of false witness in this world.

Accessible to the average reader - I ought to know, I am one - Critique of Intelligent Design, examines the combat conducted on this front by the classical Greek thinker Epicurus, the natural philosophers of the Enlightenment and especially the influential modern figures so reviled by the believers of intelligent design; Darwin, Marx and Freud. The book also takes seriously - and apart - the leading proponents of intelligent design on the contemporary scene. Supposedly a position pertaining to questions within the natural sciences, the teaching of intelligent design is actually an ideological attack on the implications of certain social sciences; indeed, on any sort of social science in general.

Critique of Intelligent Design confronts this ulterior ideological intent head on. Without grinding any particular political axes of its own, the book vehemently insists on a basic philosophic orientation that in and of itself discredits the authoritarian agenda of the biblically-minded right-wing today. That this conservative campaign is currently pursued in the name of liberal principles about fairness in education, free speech and so on makes the publication of Critique of Intelligent Design that much more necessary now.

It is worth noting that Foster, Clark and York have all published extensively on the environmental crisis the presently confronts our species. While Critique of Intelligent Design does not address ecological politics, one of its unspoken purposes is to clear an adequate intellectual space for the anthropological rationality we need to maintain the biosphere. If we are going to figure out and fight for genuinely sustainable ways of reproducing ourselves on this planet, dogma about God's great plan will not do. Little kids make messes they do not have to wipe up, but eventually they have to grow up - do their duty and clean up their duty. Intelligent design is designed for the unintelligent, the childish among us. It's a cop-out for any grown-up with citizenship on the third rock from the sun. Read Critique of Intelligent Design, confirm your own maturity as well as your solidarity with other adults, and then roll up your sleeves for the work of ecological stewardship that is your calling as a human being.

Great resource to have as a teacher. Quick and concise daily activities for my students to do.Easy to follow directions are a plus. Interesting topics which makes it good for the students.

I purchased this book for my son for a book report and decided to read it myself. It's a wonderful book for all readers and we're looking forward to purchasing the set.

I am a B.Communications University student currently working on my dissertation. I am using quantitative techniques and am new to the subject. After reading a few books regarding statistics, a friend of mine recommended this book and I just want to say that it really helped me in times when I felt there was no way out with these complicated statistics. The reasons why I truly love this book is because every detail, that some people take for granted, is explained in clear simple English. This book is very user-friendly and therefore encouraging in times of despair ( which is usual when stuck in front of a computer programe for hours). This book explains everything very well and simply and therefore helps beginners and people who are not familar with this kind of program.

If you haven't used statistics since college or graduate school and if you are unfamiliar with SPSS but want an excellent introduction to SPSS, this is a must have book. It is truly a beginners book for SPSS for windows. This is not a book that explains statistical concepts, it is a book about SPSS and how to use it in the real world. For those of us that don't like thick books this is a thin volume, only about 220 pages. But Foster crams a lot of useful, practical information into his thin volumn. Get it and you won't regret it.

Though this book stands on its own, as the final volume of the ler trilogy it is a knockout. M A Foster is a wonderful novelist, sorry he is not around (professionally)to deliver more quality material.

The Ler Trilogy. Thomas Szaz wrote about deciphering and entering the world of the schizophrenic to establish the bridge back to health. Foster creates the bridge to the beyond human in a way that takes the reader into the other almost without our being aware. There's a seqence in Zan that is almost a dream state which captured me - took me in. Zan - the tale of the near human leaving earth to find freedom. The Warriors of Dawn carries on centuries later with a love story between human and near human. And Klesh, centuries later still, with the convergence of minds bringing the history together in an unimagined fashion.

These books have everything you look for in Sci Fi: character, morality, plot, sociology, relationship, humor, and a touch of technology. I always regret that I did not ask the woman on the stair stepper with the tattoo of the pterodactyl on her arm if she had ever read the Day of the Klesh. Read it and you'll know why..