Lee Books

As an MBA student learning Economics, I found Dr. McKenzie's textbook and video modules to be an outstanding way to learn. The videos allowed me to conveniently review, pause, rewind and re-review specific points. The textbook was also very useful, and complemented the video modules well by providing in-depth coverage of the subject matter.

I'd recommend the course material to any MBA studying economics.

We are currently using this book in our EMBA program. Yes, it is not the same text books that we are used to but it shows new ways, microeconomic ways, of thinking which can be applied to our daily business and life.

I'm in an executive MBA program and this text was extremely valuable. I highly recommend it.

Professor McKenzie's book and lecture turned over a new leaf. His book is effective because he talks about scenarios (economical or non-economical) that the MBA reader can relate to. Who would have thought that microeconomics can be applied to the hiring process of a professor from 6 mile South Carolina to work at La Jolla, CA???? Anyhow, Professor McKenzie's course and text is exceptional and I recommend it to any economics enthusiast, MBA or non-MBA.

Wow! This book is wonderful! I couldn't put it down. The tragedies never seem to want to end but to Mr. Lee he rose through it all. I personally know Mr. Lee. I am 16 and live in a small town in East Texas, Mr. Lee has been a substitue off and on for the last 5 years of my life. Its amazing to see the spirt and joy in this mans life. He is optimistic on everything he does and has over came many obsticals. There are not enough words to express how Mr. Lee has influenced my life. I know without a doubt that he's an AMAZING ANGEL that graces us each day here in a small town in East Texas.

I just would like to say that I truly believe this book is about a tragedy - a tragedy that inspires all types to readers. This book is about not giving up no matter how bad the circumstances are. It's an amazing book with an amazing story. It is full of great details. I am happy to say that I am very lucky and blessed to know the author personally. I have known Mr.Lee as i called him for a period of 16 years. He is a very intelligent,kind,funny,and
interesting man. He's always willing to help anybody, including strangers. He loves children to the point that he's willing to fight for their happines and for their well being. It's truly amazing that this man has accomplished so many things after all the terrible things that he has gone through. He is loved by everybody around him.

This is one book in a million. It is a perfect example of good literature that is not XXX rated. It is an autobiography, but what a wonderful book. It tells the story of one family in Texas in the early 1900's So reminiscent of Little House. The author, born during a sleet storm in 1913, in a tent, grew to see his father kill his mother when he was 13. He lived, unwanted, in a foster home, yet managed to earn three college degrees, teach school 40 years, appear many times on national TV..truly a book to inspire its readers. Linda Robison at: LROBI8795@aol.com

This is a wonderfully written book that will touch your heart in every way. I would highly recomend this book to all ages, especially to the younger generation. The trials & tribulations of this family are absolutely heartbreaking , yet this aurthor Lee Roy Neal has been able to accomplish so many things from the drive & ambitions his mother passed on to him as a child. Her spirit has guided him on in life to his accomplishments, with the major one ,having written the story of his life with his family in the most unbelivable circumstances. Truely one you won't be able to put down. I have read it twice. Linda Robinson

...This is a great adventure story, but definitely has racist elements. However, like the racism in the Little House books towards the native American Indians, it may well be a result of ignorance rather than malice.

I read this book as a child and they helped me to get interested in reading. I then went on to read every book in the series. About four years ago, I attend an international school's meeting in the Hague Holland and was sitting with 4 other teachers supervising students in a hotel at night and we got to talking about our favorite children's book. I named this book and two others agreed. I think that it was this book that fired me up to want to have adventure and is responsible for me becoming an international educator. I have spent most of my life searching for that thrill of adventure that I first experienced in these books. I recommend this series to you.

Once again Arthur Ransome comes up with a grand adventure for the children he introduced in his earlier books. This time they are sailing a small schooner through little-charted waters in the China Sea. After a disastrous fire on board, they are washed ashore, along with Captain Flint (Nancy and Peggy's Uncle Jim if you are not familiar with these books) on a small chain of islands and captured by Chinese pirates. Those over-sensitive souls among us may find the depiction of Chinese natives, and the rendition of their accents, less than PC, but I read this book for the first time at the impressionable age of nine and I don't think it coloured my attitude to Chinese people in any negative way. What this books does, as superbly as all Mr Ransome's others, is convey the excitement that children feel if they are allowed a little freedom. Our poor children today, molly-coddled and over-protected by our anxious selves can only dream of adventures such as these. Luckily, they have books like this to transport them to such faraway places where we, as parents, cannot interfere.

I am Roger Bowman,it's been ten years since i've read these books.I'm now reading them again for my girlfriend,and enjoying them as much now as i did the first fifteen times as a child-teenager. Were it not for this series i would not know how or have the desire to read books today... Thank-you! My mother would read a few pages and say "Good-night Roger" and leave me alone with the book and i just had to know what happened next. That's when i learned to read. Maybe the fact that one of the children was named Roger gave me the incentive to follow these children on their adventures,i just had to see what happened to the boy Roger next.

MISSEE LEE is subtitled "A sequel to PETER DUCK" which should be a tipoff; this is another "fantasy" entry into the S&A series. As such, it has more exotic locations and real danger than the other books.

While cruising around the world with Uncle Jim, the Walker and Blackett children are thrown into serious danger when their sailboat burns and sinks, and then the two lifeboats are separated, while in the South China Seas. Eventually all are captured by Chinese pirates, who are lorded over by the title character, a young Cambridge-educated Chinese woman.

She's one of the most interesting characters in the series, a person with strong yearnings for Western culture and a Western way of life (her real ambition was to be a teacher), but also with a stronger sense of duty to her Chinese father's legacy of controlling the pirates on the three islands. The Blacketts are overjoyed to be in the hands of real pirates although Jim seems to be the only one cognizant to the fact that they could all lose their heads.

In fact, Missee Lee decides to have it both ways, keeping her English "guests" and starting her own Cambridge-style classes in Latin, while still maintaining her hold on the pirates. But things get messy (especially when she discovers the Walkers' father is a naval officer) and eventually Uncle Jim and the children engineer an escape.

It's quite dated in its view of the Chinese, although better than most of the period (that tended to think of the Chinese as all evil, period, end of sentence), and some of the Chinese characters are given some good dimension, including one of the pirates who's quite ruthless and violent but also has a soft spot for birds.

The typical S&A themes of courage, resourcefulness and self-reliance run through this book is more fantastic than the others in the series. Still, as all the S&A series, it's good fun.

Next: The D's return in PICTS AND MARTYRS.

Subtitled "Swallows and Amazons in the South China Seas", this tenth volume in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series is actually a sequel to the second, "Peter Duck". Those readers familiar with the background to the earlier volume will not be surprised to learn that the emphasis within this book is on rather wild and exotic high-seas adventuring for a group of six English school children, together with their middle-aged uncle, a parrot and a mischievous monkey, aboard their schooner, Wild Cat.

This time around, the crew of the Wild Cat (without Peter Duck) again find themselves face to face with pirates, although under somewhat different circumstances and of a rather different kind from those in their earlier adventure. They also face a fate that English schoolchildren probably once considered worse than death - a life of perpetual Latin lessons!

Anyone coming to this book without the benefit of at least the first three volumes of the series ("Swallows and Amazons", "Peter Duck" and "Swallowdale") may struggle a little with just who people are and why things are the way they are, so I don't recommend diving straight into the series here! If you've read the first three books, though, there is absolutely no need to leave this one until its place in the published sequence, as it does not tie into any of the intervening volumes. Anyone familiar with the earlier books will know exactly what to expect here; nor will they be disappointed. Whilst aimed at children, the book remains a delightful read whatever one's age.

If you collect the Swallows and Amazons series, you simply must have this book in your collection. If, on the other hand, you are just someone looking for a good book, well...this is a GREAT book. It is a classic that both children and adults will love and enjoy many times over.
Arthur Ransome is one of the greatest authors ever to live, and his books reflect that fact.

I love the whole Swallows and Amazons series, but somehow I read Missee Lee only once -- perhaps it got lost from the library or something. So I had the pleasure of rediscovering it a few years ago when my kids were the right age for it. It's a wonderful "reading aloud" book (as are "We didn't mean to go to sea" and "Great Northern"), with a strong female character -- unusual in children's books from 65 years ago! -- and terrific storytelling and pacing.

(Some of) the Chinese in this book come off as crafty, selfish, barbaric, etc. That's quite intentional -- their characters are supposed to be crafty, selfish, or barbaric. Because we see them only through the eyes of the English, they tend to be a bit one-dimensional as well. Probably some people out there is saying that this book is politically incorrect; if so, I urge them to tell their children not to read it. (The children will, of course, promptly read it!)

In the meantime, enjoy this with your family.

This book was excellent. Not only does it relate the connection between addiction and anger but it helps anyone reading it understand where anger comes from. Additionally, this book helped me recognize the important difference between anger and rage and the necessity of feeling and expresing ones anger in a healthy way. This book is a must have for anyone in the mental health field as well as anyone looking for a better understanding of addiction.

This is a great book,I really enjoyed reading it. It gave me permission as a Women to feel my anger and also gave me an understanding that my anger will also pass, all I have to do was to stay present to it. Thank you John for your insight..and my new understanding that anger is a feeling to be respected and that I dont have to feel bad because I feel it, That life is a journey of all my emotions and expressions.
And I can now let go of that belief if I am angry...its not that I am not working in my recovery..its actually that I am honouring myself on my journey by feeling it.

I have followed John Lee's work for 22 years; he amazes me. And this book tops them all...

John exudes humility. His depth of writing is so heart-driven, I sometimes wonder if he even has a head!

This great book -- interest and easy enough for a one-session reading -- is for EVERYONE... Not just "Alcoholics, Addicts and Those Who Love Them! I encourage everyone to tap into its pearls...

Don't be fooled by the title, this book applies to EVERYONE! The honesty and truth in what John Lee describes and way he captures and words these truths is heart-opening, validating, healing and a huge relief. It is like he is describing the places we all know in ourselves but never talk about or want to own. I thought it would be too basic but honestly it is fresh and has really useful information that is easy to practice and apply to daily life. The realness and humility in John Lee's books always hit deep places in me and I am so grateful for his willingness to go before us and shine the light of his awarenesses for us as we try to find our own way.

Other great books by John Lee that I have personally found to be life-changing are "Facing the Fire" and "Growing Yourself Back Up".

This slender, graceful novel brings us as close to the artist's experience as we can probably hope for in literature. The book deserves a wide audience. A must for anyone interested in the feel and sensibility of post-war American art.

What an intelligent novel about an array of interesting, complex, troubled, and ambitious people. Yes, it's based on the lives on Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, but the writer is so inventive and astute, she brings much more than a borrowed story to this endeavor. This is a spare, sophisticated, deeply wise book about why women love the men they do, why we romanticize the past, why we create art, why we revere the people who do it brilliantly, why we need each other and, often, why we abandon one another. It's edgy and tender and spectacularly smart and well written.

Knowing the author was also an essayist and critic, I was prepared for a scholarly and rather literary work. Wrong! Though the central character, Belle Prokoff, is a subtle, fully-dimensional portrait of the long-suffering widow of an alcoholic genius (based on the Jackson Pollock/Lee Krasner saga), the world she inhabits is fraught with pretentious, loopy and/or greedy art-world denizens that Toynton dispatches with flair and obvious relish. The author has an gift for economical, vivid writing that wastes no time and is full of invention. This is a book about the art world that--rarely enough--needn't make insiders wince, but you don't have to care about art to enjoy reading it. An appreciation for colorful dialogue, for well-drawn, ultimately moving characters--in short, for excellent writing--is enough.

Evelyn Toynton is a wonderful, insightful writer. Her characters come to life and her powers of observation are first-rate. The New York Times reviewer focused on her dislike of the roman a clef genre, but praised the author's style and intelligence, which shines through on every page. This book deserves to be read!

I work in an analytical lab and usually borrow my texts from the Univ. of WA library in Tacoma rather than have my corporation buy them. This text is easy to read and comprehensive. I showed it to our senior scientist asking if our company should buy this text instead of borrowing it. He looked through it and said yes, that it's always good to have good references.

This book is an excelent reference source for all aspects of modern GC analysis. It covers topics in great depth but is still easy to read for less expirienced chromatographers. The important parameters are covered in depth (column, optimization, inlet systems) providing enough information to solve most problems. The end of the book has several chapters on application specific techniques such as pharmaceutical or petrochemical analysis. You will probably learn more from this book then you would taking a short course on the subject, and the cost is much less.

One of the most useful reference book in gas chromatography. The book is written in a fashion that is easy to understand by novice and experienced chromatographers. Wonderful details about mechanism of separations, valuable information on flash vapourization process, and the utilities of the various detectors. All in all, a must have book for those who seriously like to be good in gas chromatography

This book is comprehensive and comprehensible. The information presented is quite current. An excellent job was done updating for the latest edition. The references listed appear thorough, allowing for further investigation of a particular subject of interest. Good balance of theoretical explanation, and also inclusion of commercially available technology. Highly recommended

As one who has CP as Lee did, I can indenify with some of the things he says. Although I disagree with his assertion that disabilities are from God, the book shows a disabled perosn ways in which they can improve thier lives by the way they think. I would recomend this book to parents and friends of people with disabilities to gain better insight and understanding of our world!

It has a very good poem at the end and it has a very good review on how you can deal with life with motavation and self esteem.

I love this book more than anything I have ever read. No I am not just saying this. After the passed away this Halloween, I decided that it was important to read the WHOLE thing. Well I did, and I never realized that I said some of that stuff! No I'm just kidding, I think that his message has helped many people. One family said that he was their hero (now in heaven) because they have a downsyndrom boy of 22, and this message has helped them deal with many critical issues. I am extremly glad that he wote this book and got his message out to all of these people. I hope that it reaches more.

This book is wonderful for anyone that may be raising a handicapped child. It will give you a look at what the possibilities are and start off by getting you to think of all of the potentials that child may possess.

This book is great for Middle School Students or even High School Students who want to review the events leading to the Constitution. I am a Middle School Teacher and plan on using the book to review my lessons with my students. Next year I plan on using it to introduce the topic!

This book gives an understandable view of how our Constitution came to be. It is good to read in context with studying other aspects of the colonial time period as well as the Revolutionary War. There is a great map at the beginning and resources at the back with the preamble as well as an explanation of the Articles and Amendments. There is a list of all the signers, a summary of important dates and bit of interesting facts about the convention and delegates. Definitely a good resource.

Maestro reviews the reasons for the Constitution, but fails to mention the Articles of Confederation. The text includes the Virginia, New Jersey, and Connecticut Plans. The book can easily be read as an introduction to the Constitution in one class period. Students could complete a drawing or group of drawings on a picture web to narrate the important details from the story.

I came across one book by Betsy Maestro "The Discovery of the Americas" and I loved it. The text is simple and the illustrations are great. It is historically accurate as well, a must in my checklist. I didn't realize she also wrote the historical series "You Wouldn't Want to..." They are my favorite!! I recommend all of her books, especially for teachers.

This book is full of great ideas
Some tried and true
Some brand new
A must, especially for new writing teachers!
Elaine Badoian, Texas teacher

Mrs. Lionikis and Mr. Stevens put alot of heart into their teaching. I am 12 and I never thought I could create fantasy characters and turn them into action heros published in my own Comic Book! What a great book of ideas for kids to use for success.

This is a book that was obviously written by people who live the classroom rather than study it. There were ideas that I could use right away with minimal preparation. Although it is targeted for middle schools, it can easily be adapted to any grade level. It really will get your students to be motivated writers.

This book is incredible! I am using some of the great ideas in my classroom right now. The activities motivate my students to create quality projects. This book is a must have for all upper grade teachers!!!!