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A very Beautiful book. Sas Christian never disapoints and this book really shows the fine detail and beautiful of the artists work.
Its a great addition to anyone's book collection.

Sas Christian is an exceptional artist. Her paintings look like 3d. Those women with the big eyes and the glossy lips look so real yet you know they don't exist. At least not in this planet. Each painting is so unique and each time you get lost in those magnificent watery eyes! Just look in!

Detailed, vivid, emotional, unique and magnetic! Sas's gorgeous and unique body of work strikes you with its modernity, spunk and soulfulness all at the same time! First, the detail of the hair, the glossiness of the lips, the clarity of the tears...spark your curiosity...And you wonder `Are they real'? You are captured by each subject's magnetic stare. You can not resist but look inside.

The huge eyes of Sas Christian's subjects, reflect realness of emotion in which any viewer can find a bit of themselves. They tell a story without saying a word.

You will keep coming back for more to `look in' and try to solve the mystery of their lives! Because these paintings are like a good movie. When you see the images once, they strike you. See them twice and you will see something new. See them for the third time and you will find a whole new world as you continue..."Looking In".

Sas Christian is hands down one of the greats of the Pop Surrealist movement.
"Looking In" is a testament to her unique way of presenting an emotionally charged world through a simple gaze of the eye. This book eloquently chronicles the artist's enthralling body of work form her early beginnings to present time. A visual jawdropper that is sure to leave the reader gasping in awe of Sas Christian's skill, wit and, at times, tongue-in-cheek humor.
An impressive collection of haunting images by an already stellar artist at the dawn of her career.
You won't find better eye candy for your money.

I loved this book. Not only did the authors shed light on opportunities I had missed in my marriage but they offered a friendly reminder of the little things that should have been a part of our everyday life but do to the hecticness of our every day routine had somehow slipped away! This book provides valuable insight into marriage for those in marital distress as well as those who are happily and deeply in love with their spouse.

Regardless of your marriage journey, this book is a must read!

What a great book! The authors tell it like it is, the good and the bad. I bought this as a wedding gift for a friend, and plan to do so for all future weddings! Newlyweds and couples married for 50 years can learn something from this book.

It's small. It's inexpensive. It's a little nugget of gold. Here's a book that asks the question, "Can 'Happily Ever After' really exist." Well, apparently for these authors, it does. And they tell us how.

It is easy to be skeptical of a marriage advice book, but this one strikes a note of recognition on every point. The chapter on "Medicinal Sex" is something everyone should read.

If your marriage is working, read this book. It might give you insight into why it is working. If you know a young couple getting married, get them this book. It just might help them stay together, no mean feat in today's world. And if you think your marriage is not working, this book might help you decide if the relationship is really in trouble, or just needs some re-thinking.

It's very short, very easy to read. A gem. Get it.

I loved this book. The authors have managed to give good advice about a serious subject in a humorous way. The format is perfect for the subject. If you expect to get your husband to read anything of a self help nature, it should be organized in short paragraphs, suitable for reading in the bathroom! The tone should be positive and light. This book fits these two criteria so that there will be a chance MEN will also read things to help the marriage.

I got this for my 5th grade daughter. She was not having a very easy time in math and I was looking for anything to help. We both loved this book. It teaches both math and math study skills. She greatly enjoyed the book and was happy to read 5 or so pages a day to get all the way through the book. Though I certainly can't give total credit to this book, it deserves at least part of the credit for my daughter's improved outlook toward math.

This Math Smarts book is a great book for my 10 yr. old grandaughter. She enjoyed it so much and learned many math questions from it. It arrived quickly and in excellent condition.

Math is more than an academic exercise. Math is a survival skill.

So many girls seem to have a resistance to the subject, missing out on a great feeling of accomplishment. This is a subject at which anyone can excell, if the information is presented in the correct way.

Math Smarts: Tips, Tricks, and Secrets for Making Math More Fun is everything that the title promises and so much more. It will equip students for life!

I really liked this book! It helped me in math. I think that everybody who reads it will just love it! It had great tips for math, and it has fun ways to make math fun!! I would definitely
recommend this book!!!

This book seems to be a prelude to "Mazda MX-5 Miata: The Book of the World's Favourite Sportscar" both by the same author. I'd suggest the "....World's Favourite Sportscar" as a more complete history since it covers the 3rd generation.

Brian Long has in essence, fully researched the history of the Miata Roadster. This is a timeless keepsake which traces the origins of the Mazda corporation and the step by step development of an incredible automobile. I applaud his attention to the chronology and details of the car's history. From the initial design team sketches to the clay models to the smallest details which came together to capture the spirit of the old British roadsters. It's a great source of information and details which most enthusiasts aren't aware of. If you're a fan of the Miata, or of the simplicity of the British roadsters then this one's a winner!

Great Pictures and life story of the miata includes EVERYTHING!!! About miatas and fun to read.

This book was great! The perfect book for the Mazda Miata enthusiast. Great color pictures and the most complete history of the car Ive ever seen. Highly recommend. A+++++

Mary Ellen leaves her successful radio broadcast journalism career to earn the real Pulitzer Prize of life with this frank account of helping her mother deal with her father's Alzheimer's disease. Becoming a caretaker is challenging more than one can imagine, especially when it requires living 24/7 with the patient one loves. Mary Ellen and her sisters discover that their mother can no longer handle her husband's health care on her own, leaving the only single daughter to return home to Michigan. With vivid detail and description, Mary Ellen provides almost a daily journal of her and her family's desire to give Woody Geist, a life with dignity. Her emotional and sometimes humorous account offers the reader what it's really like to care for a loved with one, offering many practical questions and tips to consider when taking on the responsibility. The book is well-written and takes reveals what it's like to be one of the 10 million people caring for a person with dementia. "Measure of the Heart" is a must read for anyone considering or caring for a loved one. Mary Ellen, who has covered many difficult stories in her award-wining journalism career, discovers the most challenging one is right in her own family.

As lifespans lengthen, it's an unfortunate reality that more and more of us are likely to encounter the tragedy of Alzheimer's Disease. In "Measure of the Heart," ambitious, successful California and New York radio news anchor and reporter Mary Ellen Geist tells of leaving her career to help her mother care for her father as he declines in the clutches of this terrible affliction.

Both an exlanation of Alzheimers and a personal caregiver's memoir, this book explores the tragic effects of the disease on the vctim and his family. As the disease progresses, the author learns to let herself be guided by her heart rather than by the pressures of her demanding career.

This very personal story helps to explain the devotion of Woody Geist's wife, daughters, and other family members to this nice, kind, cheerful former CEO who loves to play tennis and to sing, activities he is able to continue long after the disease strikes. The family's selfless devotion and refusal to put Woody into a care facility seem puzzling as the disease progresses, and yet their extraordinary love is admirable.

In addition to telling the victim's and caregivers' stories, this book explores and lists various resources: helpful organizations, publications, and web sites devoted to Alzheimer's and those dealing with it. The book makes fascination reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the disease or marveled at the dedication of those dealing with its victims. For anyone faced with an Alzheimer's diagnosis in the famiy, it should be required reading.

After reading Mary Ellen's book, I started thinking about a photo I took a few years ago that shows a Buddhist monk sweeping away a Tibetan sand mandala that had taken a week to painstakingly create. The act of destroying that beautiful and sacred work of art is a lesson about the impermanence of life, which is best lived in the moment.

For me, that image sums up MEG's book.

"Measure of the Heart" tells the story of how Mary Ellen Geist left her high-profile media career in New York to return to her childhood home in Michigan to help care for her father Woody, an Alzheimer's patient. Mary Ellen recounts that while she used to introduce herself to strangers with her name followed by radio station call letters; these days it's "the measure of the heart that matters most."

Alzheimer's has touched my life, if only obliquely; my 76-year-old mother has at least three friends whose families have someone diagnosed with the disease. And, then, there's MEG's story about her father's experience. Sad to say, these stories won't be the last.

I highly recommend this book; it's full of great information, insight, humor, wisdom, comfort and compassion.

(Total disclosure: MEG is a friend and former colleague).

About a year ago, I was exploring a relatively undiscovered island paradise in the South China Sea when I received a call telling me my father (age 92) and his wife (86) had been in an accident and both were in the hospital. As the only child, I naturally said I'd be there (rural western Michigan - more than 8,600 miles away) as soon as possible. When I commented something like "must have been a bad accident" the response was "the accident isn't the problem." Having an unstable VOIP connection, I let that comment drop and began making arrangement to head there (stopping off briefly at my home in Nevada). As soon as I got to the states, I had to confront the harsh reality: the accident wasn't the cause of the problem - it was the result of both of them having what was now diagnosed as "Senile Dementia of Alzheimer's type."
Flash forward 9 months. My life has adapted to a routine of flying to Michigan to spend a week or so each month with them -- while a couple wonderful paid 24/7 caregivers allow them the freedom to stay in their home. I'm fresh off a red-eye, driving a rent-a-SUV full of food and flowers and Depends heading to my parent's home when I hear on Diane Rehms' NPR show some woman addressing a challenging issue that I was also facing at the time (how to get an Alzheimer's patient to eat). Damn! She had some extremely helpful suggestions. As soon as I arrived, I implemented her concepts -- then went on-line with my laptop and ordered her book (Measure of the Heart) from Amazon. And I'm so glad I did.
More than merely a compendium of useful tips (even though it is also that) Mary Ellen Geist's book is an insightful and thought-provoking first-person perspective that will strike a resounding chord with anyone who has a friend or family member with this disease - as well as being a fascinating, touching story for any reader.
It is her very personal narrative of leaving the fast-paced, high-profile world of broadcast journalism in New York City to come home to Michigan and help care for her father who has suffered from Alzheimer's for 10+ years. With a delicate balance of humor and profound sadness, Mary Ellen gives voice to the heart-wrenching challenges that hundreds of thousands of us baby boomers now face in caring for our aging parent.
It is obvious from her book that her father was a brilliant, charming and gentle man. It also shines a light on the heroism of spousal caretakers like her mother, Rosemary. It weaves together this family's story with a very readable account of his slow transformation and deterioration. She addresses the complexity and array of emotions surrounding issues such as the loss of independence, unwanted personality shifts, struggle to communicate, and the unique power music sometimes has to transcend the pain.
This book is hard to put down. Then, on the other hand, there were times in reading her story (such as dealing with refusals to eat or patiently listening to the same story over and over) that touched me so deeply and personally, that I had to stop reading and put it down.
Mary Ellen acknowledges the difficulty of these situations honestly, while at the same time providing simple concepts that can help diffuse the issues by emphasizing a strategy of relating to patients in their own reality.
She used her fine journalistic investigative skills to learn everything she could about the disease's history and treatment options. The book is user friendly. It shows easy, day to day activities that can help patients feel a sense of connection and accomplishment.
This is book of courage, instruction, empathy and family loyalty. Certainly, there are numerous challenges that other families face which it does not address. Yet, it is what it is: her personal revelation of her family's story. This appears to be an exceptional family - she is certainly an extraordinary woman - and this is a book I can whole-heartedly recommend.

Even though our Proffessor wanted us to us the Bontrager Pocket book, I still invested in the Merrills version.. It is just so much better. Not only is ther positioning information, but on each is a good representation of a good quality exposure. Most student budgets are tight.. but the money spent on this item is well worth it. It is worth noting that it is much cheaper on Amazon than on campus.

This pocket sized Merrill's is great. I work at temporary assignments and find it very helpful when special views outside the routine are requested.

Great little book to keep by my side but i wish the pages were laminated or at least where the pages meet the spiral because they are so thin and seem likely to rip at any time.

A great little book. It has pictures of positions (and radiographs to match), and charts to fill in your own information.

I bought this for my 3yr old for Halloween and she loved it. The pictures are great and like other reviewers she's sad about the Count having no friends. I love it when children's books have a chuckle in them for the parent and this one certainly does.

This is one of those rare books that my three year old daughter requests over and over again at story time. "Read me the Monster book," she asks several times per week before snuggling into her bed.

Something about this book grabs her attention and holds onto it better than her other books. She feels bad that count Drac has no friends at the beginning and wants his party to be a big success. She loves to look at the silly bats, mummies, and cyclops as they make their way to the party. The zombies are wonderfully, "Yucky." She worries over poor Frankenstein, who has a cold. But, her favorite is the disco dancing wolfman. "He's almost as hairy as you, Dad," she laughs. (I look better in a leisure suit, though.)

The claymation figures are interesting to look at, the language is rythmic and the story of a monster party is just plain fun. This repeatedly requested book earns a five star rating at my house. I hope your kids like it, too.

This picture book follows the story of lonely Count Dracula and his attempt to make new friends at a party. The writing is rhythmic and fun to read aloud, and the claymation artwork is spectacular! There are visions to make both the young and the old laugh out loud! I have yet to read it to anyone who hasn't squealed with delight!

This is a very appealing book. Extremely well drawn, with charming drawings and very entertaining text. A very good gift for children. Nice for adults too.

LOVE THIS BOOK!!! IT CAN BE SAD AT SOME POINTS! MY FAVORITE DOG IN THE BOOK IS BUSTER!! I LOVED HOW HE SAVED THE LITTLE BABY NEXT DOOR!!! I HIGHLY RECCOMEND IT FOR ANIMAL LOVERS AND PEOPLE WHO LIKE STORIES WITH HAPPY ENDINGS!!! AWESOME!!!

Anyone who likes to read about dogs, here's a book for you! "My Dog, My Hero" is by Betsy Byers and is set in Mr.Frankie's trailer park. The main characters were Smiley, Bear, Munchkin, Old Dog, Buster, Blue, Little Bit and Dopey who were all great dogs. In the story the main characters saved people's lives and other dogs' lives. The main characters also ran into problems like: bulls getting out of gates, helping a man not to get a snake bite, helping another dog from frozen ice, preventing a car that almost ran over a baby who was in a stroller,and more. My favorite character is Dopey because when he barks it means that something is out of place.
Dopey reminds me of myself. I can relate to him because I also react when something is out of place. The only difference is instead of barking,I speak my mind. I have a connection that's a text to text: When our class read a book called "Escaping the Giant Wave," Pansy (Norm and Josie's pet) warned Bee Bee and Kyle that another wave was coming, just like Dopey warned his friend that a baby was in a car by himself.
I liked the book because it was about helfpul dogs who became heroes. The book was very interesting and it reminded me of the saying that "Dogs are man's best friend." Any kids who are 8-10 years old and loves dogs will enjoy reading about the adventures of these brave dogs.

My Dog My Hero is a collection of hero dog stories. All of the stories are true. Some of the stories are sad, but they all have a happy ending. I love this book because it is about dogs. It is easy to read and the pictures are nice. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who love animals like me.

There are many, many, many books that I love to read, but most of all I love to read the book, My Dog My Hero. It is my favorite book. Even though it is short, it is wonderful. One reason it is my favorite book is because it is an animal book. I love animal books, especially dog books. They just give me that feeling . That really good feeling. Next, I like this book so much because the dogs are so brave. One example is when a small dog is on ice, but the ice breaks .The puppy is stuck in the freezing cold water. Then, the big heroic dog leaped into the icy lake only to save the small puppy. I absolutely love this book. Finally, the third reason I like this book so much is because.......well......I don't know, I guess its because these dogs risk their lives for their owner or another dog. This is truly my favorite book.

Although weight-loss in dogs involves common sense more than anything else, such as reducing caloric intake and increasing activity, this small book offers most of the tips that will ensure safe weight-loss in any dog. The book is easy to read, and is medically accurate. But perhaps the best lesson to be learned is not to let your dog get fat in the first place. It's easy to succumb to giving your dog that extra treat or table scrap when you see see those pleading eyes, but this temptation should be resisted for the long-term health and longevity of your dog.

This book is exactly what it advertises itself as - simple. But that does not stop it from being a very valuable source of information on ways to improve your dog's life. There are no high-tech, high-expense suggestions for how to treat your dog just like Paris Hilton treats Tinkerbelle. Instead, Ms. Garvey uses a straightforward approach, giving detailed and specific information on how to improve your dog's general living habits, from diet to exercise and much, much more.

If you are looking for the new Atkins diet for your dog, steer clear. But if you want to help your dog improve his or her overall health for, as the title says, "a long and happy life," you should absolutely buy this book.

The first time I met a dog on a diet, twenty or so years ago, I felt nothing but pity for the poor thing and scorn for its owner. How dare she enforce human standards on her sweet, good-natured lab? Sure, he was a little barrel-waisted, but so what? Let the dog be free!

That was twenty years ago when I was a young pup myself and hated society's pressure on me to be thin. I have a bit more perspective now. I also have a dachshund. I've read that dachshunds are prone to back problems as they get older, and that excess fat aggravates this unhappy condition.

But it's so easy to slip him a little extra dog food or drop a bit of my dinner into his dish after I eat. He loves people food. He also loves training snacks, and the mini-treats in the car, and the food stuffed into his kong to keep him busy when left alone.

He began to expand. I knew I had to take steps. To paraphrase that notorious radio psychologist, Dr. Laura, "I am my dog's owner." I bought this book to help me be a better guardian of my pooch's girth.

It's a very nutritious book! My favorite tidbit is how to know if your dog is really fat of just, ahem, "big-boned." And I also know how much food to feel my dog, and how to read dog food labels. No more dumping food in his dish according to how hungry he looks or how especially fond I am of him at that moment. I guess one of the things I need pounding into my head is that overfeeding is not the same as love. If I want my dog to live long and prosper, I'd better control his diet and give him enough exercise. The author gives lots of ideas on exercise for all kinds of different types of households. Just do it! It matters.

Halfway through the book, there's a startling picture of a fat daschshund with my dog's face and coloring but a lot more pudge. I look at my dog and see his still boundless energy and healthy spine, and I know that picture is what I want to avoid.

I'd like more discussion of different theories of nutrition, because a perusal of the Internet discloses fierce argument over this point, and it seems hard to figure out. But so is human nutrition.

I am the author, and I hope you like this book. I was inspired to write both My Fat Dog and My Fat Cat because I had a fat dog, and I know, first hand, how easy it is to overfeed and underexercise your pet...and how it can affect your pet's health and life span. (Our dog is now 12 pounds lighter and lots healthier.) I tried to make the book fun to read, and offer a lot of ways to get your pet started on the road to good health. It can be done, and I want to help. Please visit me on the web at http://www.myfatdogbook.com, and share your stories.

But I also want to tell you that I will be donating a portion of books' proceeds to organizations involved in rescuing and sheltering pets in the devastated Gulf Coast area. Every little bit helps.

Whether you're new to poetry or a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, YOU WILLL NOT REGRET BUYING THIS BOOK! In fact, after finishing it for the first time, I immediately ordered copies for my closest poetry and non-poetry friends. And uniformly they report enjoying it, poem after sparkling poem.

Moreover, if the world is just (though who's naïve enough to believe it is?), then Mystery, So Long will win at least the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, or the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. I claim this because this book is a seamless masterpiece of the noblest intent, achieving that oft-sought-but-rarely-found fusion of high ambition with artistic accomplishment. And, most amazingly, it does so from the book's preface (Jaime Sabines: "¡Bien te vaya, ladrón, con lo que robas a tu dolor y a tus amores!") to its epistemologically lucid final note:

Was this the wisdom come to him at last?
That nothing could rid him of his isolation
His toys no longer hid what was there: himself
And the night and the only entry into the night.

In other words, line by line, across these seventy astonishing poems, Dobyns sweats and strains to gift his readers with essential meaning (i.e. "Should I regret my death if it is inevitable? / Should I regret my life if it is always passing? / How to be both arrow and bow.") And like an ascetic, he has stripped bare each poem in the collection, thereby cleansing it of any traces of self-aggrandizement or ornamentation. In this way, he generously offers to us the struggle to live with clear vision (i.e. "So often in this world what is rejected / crawls back to the heart, what is cast off / again crowds the brain"), even though some of us might prefer the cozy lair of our delusions....

To achieve his aims, Dobyns writes with bold language, rich metaphors, good pace, trenchant wit, and a tender heart. Underpinning these is always his fierce intelligence, and the result is a poetry that is endlessly re-readable. For, technical excellence aside, the poems exemplify the highest service of poetry: the dogged, selfless pursuit of our deepest questions about the human condition. In this sense, I don't feel hyperbolic in locating this book's ambition alongside Milton's Paradise Lost or Dante's Inferno; Dobyns, too, in his humble but powerful way is thrashing about in language to claw and scratch for moral meaning. More specifically, Mystery, So Long asks questions such as, What is belief?, What is art?, What is grief?, Why does forgetfulness exist? What are the origins of our myths?, and, What's the purpose of mystery?

In summary, throughout the book, the poems are masterfully written and arranged, moving as rewardingly through a personal maturation as they do through received forms such as the sonnet and villanelle. So if you're looking for a book loaded with humor, insight, force, and humanity, then you've found the perfect purchase for your next opportunity to read.

Simply put, Stephen Dobyns is sassy, irreverant, honest, and appears to have had as much fun writing this collection of poems as I have had reading them. After hearing the poet at a reading last week, and enjoying this collection, I have already ordered "Velocities." It is impossible not to smile or even guffaw while reading Stephen Dobyns.

I will not quote a selection of lines from Dobyns' work as I feel the title alone encapsulates the duality inherent in all of Dobyns' poetry, a duality he has sharpened to an even finer point with his present book, "Mystery, So Long". The title presents the reader with a seemingly comic quip disregarding mystery as surpassed like the exultant words of Little Caesar as he escapes from the cops-so long, suckers. But it is just this comedic stance that modulates with the empathetic and disarms the reader of any preconceived notions about the inaccessibility of poetry and in turn, the mystery of life that poetry wishes to acknowledge. So, with this offering, Dobyns invites the reader to explore the mystery not as a disjunctive enactment of emotion, a contemporary fashion that mumbles from one disjunctive moment to the next, but as, for the most part, a meditative narrative on the absurd and gritty moments, moments not acceptable as conversation at the dinner table, as they happen in the private bedrooms and bathrooms of our lives. And so, Dobyns serves us a distasteful moment from a comedic stance that he is somehow always able to digest into a brutal truth. I say brutal because these are the moments we would rather not talk about, moments of socially unacceptable events or thoughts that he is able to raise to a level that speaks to the importance of every moment to not understand the long mystery of life that we have not enough life to understand but to understand that nothing is to be overlooked if we are to understand, of life's mystery, the brilliancy of every moments' telling part. And so, Dobyns' book does not say "So Long, Mystery," but "Mystery, So Long," in affirmation of his continued effort to reach a more brutal truth, a fuller life.

Usually, Stephen Dobyns is at his best when writing in a meditative mood. One thinks immediately of the character of Heart from PALLBEARER''S ENVYING THE ONE WHO RIDES, of the narrative interpretations of the paintings of Balthus from THE BALTHUS POEMS, or most recently, of the prose constructions of THE PORCUPINE'S KISSES. MYSTERY, SO LONG, Dobyns' twelve volume, is not (at least explicitly anyway), that kind of book. Which is not to say, however, that it's not without its own meditations. Most notably, MYSTERY'S energy and success stem from the constant interplay between formal and free verse, between Biblical and other ancient mythologies. Some of Dobyns best poems can be found in these pages, too: "The Exegencies of Art," "Functional Forgetting," "The Mercy of Lazarus." Notice how Dobyns controls the penultimate six lines of "Poem Ending with a Line by Su Tung-Po," a sonnet:

Ahead waits a dark night with a single star.
Behind extends the long view down the mountain.
Should I regret my death if it is inevitable?
Should I regret my lift if it is always passing?
How to be both arrow and bow. Released, the arrow
flies past the dead oak at the end of the path.
'One must make certain the mind never clings.'

Those lines, like many in this volume, read as if scripted in stone. All told, this is an outstanding effort from one of America's finest poets. And, like many good books, its grandeur begins with its title. There'a playfullness at work: Is it that the mysteries of human experience are inexplicable, and meant to endure? Or, is the book instead an act of resignation, a giving in to such mysteries? Is it both? Here's where we find Dobyns once again in a meditative mood: Read it to find out.