Hunt Books

This book is very useful for teenagers and adults who want to be able to pronounce any English word whether they have seen it before or not. It integrates phonics with the reading of interesting selections. Very good for the improvement of spelling as well.

Editorial - Johnson means business in Vietnam
Letters to the Editors
The View from Here - Our encounter with Mars
Long Guns Flash on the China Sea - US Seapower strikes at the enemy in Vietnam

Items in the News
Russia's Lethal Surface to Air Missiles - Sophisticated antiaircraft weapon is a new factor in the Vietnam War. Startling Pictures of a deadly accurate test firing in the U.S.S.R.

White House Council of War - How Pres Johnson and his advisers arrived at their decisions on Vietnam

Big Row over Texas Gulf Sulphur - An SEC suit questions of investment ethics

Chip off the old Hemingway - Close-up of novelist's son Patrick in Africa

A Lovely Island called Dominica - Unspoiled beauty of an island that few men have ever seen

The Terrain of Mars - Spectacular Mariner IV pictures show surface features in detail

Spain's Great Beatnik bullfighter - The triumph of El Cordobes in the ring--and the carefree life he leads when he's not facing the bulls.

Brotherly Boom in Burglaries - A one family crime wave in Chicago

Teenage Fashions for Fall - High School Girls and a computer team up to predict fall trends

Miscellany - The Monster of Bogey Lake

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This is a great unit for teaching gifted students; however, be careful ordering. The ISBN numbers listed above are misleading. The teacher edition, which sells for $49.95, is 078729392X. The student edition, which contains the short stories, poetry, etc. is 0787293938. These are normally sold in packets of 10 for $49.95. Neither is hardcover. Someone needs to change the ISBN information listed here so that it is accurate.

In the series Little Bill is serious and funny. Little Bill is a main character of the stories. Bill Cosby wrote the books about Little Bill, and his friends are good friends because he wants to have good friends. They played baseball. I like The Best Way to Play. Little Bill wanted to play a video game. In Little Bill's other book, he practices baseball for the game to win.

In Superfine Valentine, I like Little Bill because he was writing a valentine letter to Mia and that was very nice. Then he went to school and gave Mia the valentine.

2nd Graders like to read Little Bill books. I like the book of Money Troubles. I like that book because he tries to get a job.

By Jonathan W.

This is a great book, as well as series. Bibical scriptures on each page, followed by an appropriate child's prayer to compliment the scripture. Short prayer on each page. Really cute and appropriate illustrations. I have been reading these with my 10 month old son, since he was just a couple of months old. Durable cardboard type construction, makes them an indestructible addition to the nursery.

Greats books (We have 3 of the 4), but EXTREMELY hard to find. I've tried specially ordering the remaining book from several bookstores (both Christian and secular).

I highly recommend as additions to a child's library and as gifts.

Lucinda Harvey's story, a Quaker girl of 10, was written by Indiana author Mabel Leigh Hunt in 1934. It was her first published book. She continued being published almost annually till the early 1960s. The author's original appeal was to pre-teenage girls. In my opinion this book is not just for girls or youth--adults will enjoy it.
The story covers the Civil War years and how they impacted the Harvey (Harvey being the author's maiden name)family and their pioneer Quaker way of life. It is delightful to get a glimpse of the central Indiana woodlands through the story as well as the struggles of characters forced to make decisions. Some decisions would go against what they were taught as youth. I can't help but wonder how much was fact rather than fiction.
The Civil War is not dealt with through battles in this story, but with the events of the war on Indiana farmers, families, Quakers in particular, and sympathizers on both sides. The Harvey family location is 20 miles SW of Indianapolis. Their pioneer ancestors traveled there after being disowned by a southern family when the early brothers decided slaves should be free. That history is told by Lucinda's mother in the story.
Participation in the Underground Railroad involved the Hoosier family. Activity is shared not only about how it was accomplished but also the risk taken. Inner moral and religious resolutions are expressed.
Hunt offers a very accurate picture of what rural folk faced while living in the Midwest between 1860 and 1865. She wrote other stories about Quaker life.

Erik Peper, Professor and Director of the Institute for Holistic Studies at San Francisco State University is an international authority on biofeedback and self regulation. He recently co-authored with Katherine Gibney and Catherine Holt, "Make Health Happen, a book essential for health care professionals and their clients in learning how to optimize self healing and wellness.
"Make Health Happen" provides necessary, theoretically grounded information for developing a holistic program. Chapters in each of the 4 sections progress logically and sequentially towards the learning of essential foundational theory and relaxation, imagery, and cognitive skills. Each chapter introduces and builds upon holistic concepts and strategies that are then reinforced with practice exercise sessions. Daily log keeping and group discussion formats are provided to further facilitate self awareness and experiential mastery of content. The ultimate goal is to develop ones own unique, meaningful, healing program towards wholeness. Nursing students have used this book's first edition (Creating Wholeness) as a main textbook for a university holistic nursing course; several students reported: "I now have a variety of ways to relieve stress." "This awareness has allowed me to intervene earlier and to stop some of the general overload." (Stetson, 1998)
Nursing students (in one holistic nursing course) quickly and successfully learned and applied the holistic, healing principles and methods into their own lives as well as with clients in various health care settings. For example, students helped reduce clients' pain, stress, and anxiety by remaining calm, creating relaxing atmospheres, and teaching stress reduction techniques from the textbook's relaxation scripts and/or use of relaxation audio tapes. Stress reduction techniques were especially helpful in reducing anxiety for clients on ventilators (Stetson, 1998).
Learning self awareness and inner skills were reported by students as rewarding and fun to do, particularly when learning more advanced self regulation skills such as hand warming. On the average, students learned to warm their hands 5.70 degrees Fahrenheit in about 5 minutes.
Nursing students rated the Creating Wholeness book highly. Students reported being able to reduce their self reported stress with these techniques, from an average of 4.29 to 1.95 rating, on a scale of 1 (no discomfort) to 5 (maximum discomfort).
"Make Health Happen" can be used by health care professionals in many ways. The book chapters can be assigned selectively according to what the professional deems important to learn, and can be taught on an individual or group basis. This book is definitely a "how to" manual and easy for professional use.
The first half of the book teaches fundamental relaxation skills that incorporate relaxation theory and principles. The reader is introduced to relatively easy relaxation exercises which progress to more advanced skills. Practice sessions include relaxation scripts and exercises; also, audio tapes (duplicating the text's relaxation scripts) can be purchased for additional learning. The last chapter of the relaxation section requires the reader to write a personal relaxation script. Nursing students reported particular enjoyment using this exercise since it individualized their relaxation and stimulated them to creatively recall and write beautiful, healing images of special places promoting their own inner peace and relaxation. Personalizing relaxation also helped to integrate and master previously learned inner skills. For example, student comments in their summative papers half way through the course were: "I have become more focused and aware of myself and the environment." "I've channeled my worries from frustration into relaxation." (Stetson, 1998)
The second half of the book focuses on the development of cognitive balance and use of imagery. Many students reported the cognitive exercises to be useful in helping them recognize and change their own negative thought patterns and less assertive ways. Learning of imagery continued to deepen the journey of self enlightenment. Positive changes in these areas reportedly helped increase student self esteem and confidence.
"Make Health Happen" is an essential, consciousness raising book for all health care professionals, students, and clients, particularly relevant in caring for self and clients in our rapidly changing health care system today.

This is a book about storyboarding.

Unlike most other storyboarding books which cover only applications in the film and TV production world (essentially because of its origins from Walt Disney Studios), this one is geared primarily towards business/organisational problem solving - in a group or team setting. It's very well written and graphically illustrated, with a lot of real-world examples.

If you want to apply innovative, practical ideas to speed up your group decision making, group planning and group problem solving, this is an excellent guide. However, be prepared to have a lot - I really mean a lot - of Post-It Notes, large and small. The ideas and techniques expounded can also be applied to group project planning and management.

Compared to David Straker's Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes, this is a much better book, because of its depth of coverage and many real-world examples, including nonprofit outfits. I must add that David S!traker's book, though also well-written and illustrated, is geared primarily towards more and other innovative uses of the common Post-It Notes in the field of problem solving, business or otherwise.

I also found his new book, Maximize Your Inheritance for Widows, Widowers, and Heirs. Am currently reading this.

the book came in great condition. some highliting but the binding and all the pages were in great shape. i received the book promptly.