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I read many, many books as a child, and "San Domingo" has always stuck with me. I just found this book again, after reading it for the first time more than 20 years ago. This is a precious, lovely book, and I highly recommend it for any child, especially those who are adventurous dreamers.

This is a wonderful story. Marguerite writes superb books. This books is about a boy becoming a man and a father becoming a true father to his son. If there was a 10-star rating, I would give it to this book! Excellent story. I definatly recommend it to the horse-lover.

Marguerite Henry was, in my opinion, one of the greatest children's authors. Once again, with San Domingo, she creates a winner.
San Domingo is an exceptional horse, blessed with the medicine hat, considered sacred by Native Americans. He proves himself in the end of the book. There is a sad ending, but I think that even small children would be fine reading this book.

I thought this book was really good!!! I liked it a lot. I think that Marguerite Henry is a great author. I love her books! I thought this book was REALLY good. I would definetly reccomend this book to people!

Peter Lundy loves but two things in his home in Wyoming the mountians and his horse. His father has only one love and sells San for a Thoughbred. Can Peter forgive his father and get his horse back. Here is his story of bad times and good while he struggles to get back his beloved horse. He will not give up even when it seems inpossibe to find him.

I go to Highline Community College close to where the author works. He stopped by today to read some of his work. Now bear in mind that I am only 24 and a man. The last thing I ever thought I would enjoy was poetry about being a doctor.
From the moment he opened his mouth to the second I realized he had finished, I was stuck listening to him. I was stuck visualizing what he was doing.
It was absolutely wonderful and I give him my highest recommendation.

This three-part collection of poems offers powerful images and vignettes from the life of a family practitioner living and working among the urban poor. The first section is the most explicitly medical in theme, including poems that pay painful tribute to a mother after stillbirth, a hydrocephalic child, an addict covered with boils, a young man murdered at eighteen, an old man with a failing heart.

The second section weaves images from the writer's personal story together with those from his life as physician, and the third focuses primarily on life lived as a gay man among the sick and dying, patients to be treated and friends to be mourned while life remains to be claimed and savored.

Despite the pain and grief attested to in many of the poems, a lively voice of clarity, compassion, and consent to the goodness of life even on hard terms gives the collection a defining note of celebration. Pereira's lines about a bereaved Cambodian seamstress suggest something true about his own work: ". . . she joins the circle / of other Khmer women to sew. / Punctuating the fabric / with yellow thread, finding her remnants / into a piece that will hold." ("What is Lost")

Clearly the work of a physician whose heart has been opened by personal suffering, they are also beautifully crafted poems, unpretentious, frank, and accessible, but rich with memorable lines that offer a precision of feeling that is perhaps the best testimony of the quality of attention we hope for in a caregiver and keeper of words. Highly recommended especially to those who work where suffering is daily and visible.
-- Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

A moving and thoughtful book, Saying the World rewards the reader with insights into the precariousness and astounding wonder of each human life. Each poem is a journey into the fragile nature of love and connection, with the scientific preciseness that working as in a medical profession has given the author.

Pereira's poems are gems of observation, of reflection; they're resonance of the world in words. Every poem in this collection satisfies. They layer astute and acute observations--about people, relationships, and nature--often ending with with a twist or a point of summation that can almost take your breath away...in wonder, in peace, and sometimes, in shock. Pereira's poems reflect and explore a wide range of topics, from medical procedures and mysteries of healing and illness, immigrants' struggles, his family, gardening and cooking, and even something as seemingly prosaic as his household's car being stolen--which turns into an ode to a "love-lost" misguided teenage girl.
I highly recommend this volume. Pereira's poems are both very accessible and intriguing. They also offer complexities and subtleties that invite re-reading for more enjoyment and deeper understanding.

Peter Pereira, the author of Saying the World, is a doctor. In an age where most drama is experienced vicariously through the television and movies, or through pre-packaged, safety-tested "experience products" such as theme parks and two-week package tours, the hospital is one of the few remaining places where the drama is real. Each of us shares in it for brief periods. The doctor lives it as a life.

Saying the World is presented in three sections. The first is dedicated to Pereira's experiences as a doctor and clinician. He has the good sense not to try to compete with high drama television shows such as E.R. As he reflects, in the poem "Nosophilia," which is given as an epigraph to the volume:

For one it's insomnia, tremor, migraine.
Another has hangnails, hives, boils.
Airsick. Seasick. Incontinent. Fat.
Such misery loves company: a listening ear.

The drama of the poems is as quiet as-generally, as inconsequential as-the drama of most real experience.

Even Pereira's own internship is as drab and exhausting as it is fascinating. One moment bleary, lectured on "the minutiae of Fluid Management," the next he is wide-eyed, marveling at having completed his first Cesarean section. The next he is delivering a postmortem baby, tending a junkie, giving a check-up to an open-heart patient.

It is all real, grueling, repetitive. At times it all becomes too much, and one is paid "The Wages of Mercy":

I wonder for a moment what all
the commotion is about,
nurses frantically starting IVs
and drawing blood and
placing EKG electrodes;
it's only death-

Perhaps it is not just emotional exhaustion. Perhaps it is wisdom, at last. After the endless round of systoles and diastoles, Percocets and morphine drips, hydrocephalic babies and congestive heart failures, perhaps it is both.

In the best poems from Saying the World, the doctor is listening to the obsessive, rambling soliloquies of the survivors who have lost loved ones. These are devastating poems. In "Litany," a Cambodian father who came to the United States to escape the terror of the Pol Pot regime loses his teenage son to a drive-by shooting. Between the description of a son being lost to the streets, of a father hoarse with chanting prayers to help his soul to be reborn, the poem has a refrain-an unusual thing for a contemporary poem-as the father repeats "If only I'd...":

If only I'd given him the five dollars
If only I'd asked him to stay, make his grandmother another cup of tea

The two go to the pagoda to pray the boy on his way. "I join him," Pereira recalls:

...singing the phowa,
and dwell for a moment in that radiant doorway
where birth becomes death
and death becomes birth:
one hand washing the other.

Such moments stay with him. His spare, unadorned style makes sure that they stay with us.

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School Hazard Zone: Beyond the Silence/Finding a Voice brilliantly exposes structural forces--which stem from self, school, and society--that have contributed to the persisting "achievement gap." Through Joyce's own critical reflection as a teacher who is concerned with culturally responsive education, the perspective she presents in her book allows for an inside view into daily pedagogical experiences of minority students, the ways in which the system perpetuates minority academic underachievement through practices that silence students and teachers, forms of agency that students and teachers do and can enact to resist systemic prejudice, and possibilities for alternatives that promote a democratic education for all students to close the racial achievement gap. Joyce's scholarship and creativity offer parents, educators, and concerned individuals a path for advancing an agenda of educational transformation, rather than simply superficial change that fails to address deep-rooted inequities. As a literacy specialist and education consultant, myself, I found Joyce's detailed analysis profoundly informative about the "what is" in contemporary education and inspiring as to the "what can be." I highly recommend this book for all those interested in the state of education today and the potential for how it can evolve for the future.

Dr. Joyce's conception of "spherical learning environments" (SLE) was even more fascinating than I had imagined (Joyce, 2008, p. 178). The multitude of ideas presented in this book for expanding learning environments is impressive, and I am in the process of incorporating some of them into my online teaching practice and course designs to create meaningful learning experiences for the students - and, ultimately, to promote positive change. I was at a loss for devising more than just a few instructional activities that would be applicable to the online setting until reading this book. The dozens and dozens of ideas have opened my eyes to the enormous number of possibilities, even given the space constraints online learning presents.

I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in supporting high quality learning experiences that will help students reach their potential. Teachers, parents, counselors, administrators, instructional designers, or anyone who wants to make a difference in students' lives and education should read Dr. Joyce's book. As she asserts, "The old African phrase `It takes a village to raise a child' is pertinent..." (p. 79), and she shows, by citing her own experience during her many years as a teacher, how anyone who wants to make a difference can do so. Education need not be restricted to the four walls of a classroom. This book will open minds to the many possibilities, as well as provide practical guidance for planning and implementing some of the successful programs she has used during her teaching practice.

Wow. Dr. Joyce really hits home with this one. A practical and introspective look at the state of education in today's society, it is a must-read for every educator dedicated to student achievement. This is a powerful text from a woman whose voice needs to be heard.

This book gives a broad aspect of information from research about the continuous achievement gap, how and why it exists, and the many possiblities in closing it. Throughout this book, I read about student concerns, the faculty/staff concerns, and what seemed to be the hidden lack of concern and support from the administration, as well as things that have been done and can be done to change that. Dr. Joyce expresses deep concerns for the future of our children if we continue on the "norm" of the educational path we are currently on. One of my favorite excerpts from this book was on pg.216, where she stated," Acceptance of the norm is a disservice to the self, school, and society. Ultimately, we deny ourselves exposure to the untapped energies and abilities of these students and deprive the world of possible greatness." This book had a lot of interesting insight to the resolution of the achievement gap. Part of Dr. Joyce's main goal is to find results by ackowledging the complexities, forming positive outlooks, and reducing negative influences. In my opinion the bottom line was that there are a number of things you can do to help close the achievement gap and if we all work together, "proactive behavior is contagious," this change can be a reality. Her passion for resolving the achievemet gap was touching and informative. She states that her motivation comes from,"the realization that broken-spirited students are a part of the universe and within my power to heal." This was truely an unforgetable book. Thanks

This book is a must-have for teachers, administrators, college faculty, and anyone who has a vested interest in the public education system. Dr. Pamela Joyce is speaking from the inside on two fronts--both her classroom and her heart. When woven together with a strong theoretical grounding, this book provides a clear sense as to why we need to think differently about the minority achievement gap and the students who are stigmatized by this label. Not only does Dr. Joyce provide keen insights based on years of working with students, but she provokes the reader to ponder questions that they will be considering long after they finish her book. If you don't already own it, don't hesitate to buy it now!

I read this book till the pages fell out as a child! I was a horse crazy girl and loved everything "horsy". This fantasy story gave my friends and I hours of reading time, and hours of fantasy play time as we acted out the stories in the book.
I was very pleased with Book Rescue LLC as I received the book faster than expected and it arrived neatly packaged. Thanks for the memories!

I wish this book was still in print! It left a lasting impression on me,it litterally kept me company!

I have never forgotten this book since I read it as a child. The multicolored ponies and the wooded farm filled my imagination for years. What a wonderful book.

Lonely Pamela lives on Oak Farm with her two aunts because her father is always traveling for his work. After her father breaks yet another promise to take her away, he gives her an amulet that was passed down from her grandmother. Soon after, Pamela meets Ponyboy, a wild boy who lives in the woods with a herd of dainty pastel ponies. They spend wonderful summer days practicing circus tricks on the ponies. When Ponyboy goes into the sinister swamp to rescue the smallest pony, Pamela is forced to face her worst fears and things are never the same for her at Oak Farm.

I first read this as a child and the image of beautiful blue, pink, gray and gold ponies prancing across the meadow has never left me. Truly magical.

As a child, I read and reread the Season of Ponies, then tried to entice my friends to read it. It's hard to describe the author's ability to so subtly weave the magic, and the belief in that magic, into the thin novel, illustrated with just pen and ink. But surprisingly enough, the colors are what I remember most, the colors the story evokes with the hope of a beautiful magic. Now I have a daughter, and with some effort I tracked down a copy and read it to her. And again, after all these years, I was as affected by the magic of the beautiful cloud ponies as she was. The writing and the story are wonderfully rich and riveting.

I took one of the square shawl patterns in this book and used it to make a triangular shawl. These patterns are unique and detailed. I've used other shawl patterns and none have had the detail of these. For experienced knitters with lots of time.

This second book of Modern Lace Knitting is great for the experienced lace knitter. I found the patterns in her first book more appealing and pretty, however these patterns are also excellent. The lace patterns are classic and are written for tablecloths and runners, however they work up very well in lace yarn for shawls or ponchos with few modifications. If you are not experienced with lace I would recommend Lavish Lace by Noble and Potter.

These patterns are collected from vintage knitting from over the years, and they are the best of the best. This book has a Rose pattern that looks great knitting up in wool yarn for a shawl, as well as in thinner cotton for a table cloth. This book isn't really suitable for a beginner; if you are new to lace knitting, I recommend Martha Waterman's book first, then move on to this one.

These lace patterns make great baby christening blankets for an important gift, or a wedding shawl.

If you make a tablecloth, you can take a simple cardboard decorators table, drape it with a plain round of colored or neutral polished cotton and then put a handknitted tablecloth on it and have an accent piece that is incredibly beautiful (a decorator table has a cross-base and round top made of particle board or cardboard. You can put a glass round on top, but it isn't necessary. They are very inexpensive.) This is especially nice if you have Victorian or country decor.

Marianne Kinzel has made a fantastic addition to her first book with "Second Book of Modern Lace Knitting". Like the first it is full of great patterns and stitches for lace knitters of an intermediate to advanced level. The patterns are flexible and while she has included great detail this is not the type of book for knitters that need everything written out line by line along with their charts. A beautiful reference book, the only thing that could make it better would be colour printing.

This book is a continuation of "First Book of Modern Lace Knitting" and if anything the designs are even more exquisite than they were in the first book. Neither is for the beginner but any lace knitter will enjoy the book which has the most wonderful all lace tablecloths and household linen.

The book is a joy to look at and read and the instructions are clear and well presented.

It was all "razzle dazzle" style, but some good simple ways to market when YOU are the product. I work as a professional entertainer, so I am always looking for good books on how to market ME and my services.
I highly recommend it!

Great practical aspects for every marketer.Be fresh or a pro.After the knowledge about diferent theoritical aspects of marketing and even if you have some experience in practical field ,this book is a great help to fine tune you.This book gives you a wholesome idea how a marketer should be.

Read it to fine tune your marketing and personal skills

The unique marketing ideas and concepts shared in this book are real winners! I can't wait to put many of these great ideas into action.

This is a gem of a book. It covers alot of material (maybe too much) and yet it is a relatively small book. I liked the book for its comprehensive coverage and links to entrepreneurship as a personal mission... as well as marketing.

The authors are Canadian and I'd like to say that their nationality interfered with the topics or slant of the book... but it didn't. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised that this Swiss-banking immigrant (Bender) and this successful radio broadcaster (Torok) in Canada really had their feet on the ground. They offered lots of practical marketing and strategic advice.

I would suggest that there are two major parts to this book. The first 1/6 of the book describes their concept of delivering value, tieing your products/services to personal values, and your vision/mission statements, etc. I thought this was truly great and apparently some of it flows from Peter Urs Bender's other book: Leadership from Within. I see that it is favorably reviewed here at Amazon and I will order it right away (forthwith in Canadian?).

The remaining 5/6's of the book is an encyclopedic account of marketing techniques that you can (and should) apply for your business. The target market for this book is a firm of 1 to 30 employees... a small firm. This book would also do well for an individual working for a big company, as it tells you how to market yourself to become more valuable.

There's a ton of good ideas here. You won't go wanting of things to implement. There are new ideas that you won't see elsewhere.

For example, they speak about the need to write articles to establish your expertise. They then go on to list many different kinds of articles you can write. Under this section, one sub-topic was Tips Sheets. There they listed about 10 different kinds of tip sheets you could write. I knew about writing articles and tip sheets, but they provided excellent lead ideas to get me going. There were many other such new things in their book that greatly extended the topics I was already familiar with.

Because it was encyclopedic in coverage, I was worried that it would repeat alot of what I already knew. But, instead I learned a lot of new ideas that I can implement. Overall, I highly recommend this book for any small business owner, or marketing chief... or any individual who wants to shine and promote himself within a corporation.

Now if we could just figure out some way to get these good business thinkers out of the cold socialist northern territories! I found the book in a Vancouver bookstore and have never seen it in the U.S.

John Dunbar

This book is an excellent one-stop source for developing your own unique "brand." It covers the obvious and not-so-obvious things to consider as you differentiate yourself in the marketplace.

As a consultant for the past ten years, I found this book to be a wonderful affirmation for the things that I am doing well and a gentle nudge to consider/do specific actions in promoting my business. I read this book right before I began a comprehensive review of our marketing strategies and the timing was absolutely perfect. Just one tip proves itself WELL worth the cost of the book as well as the time invested to read it.

I love this book! I first saw Sex Flex when I went to a friend's house. He had it on his desk right next to his muscle mags. I laughed when I saw it. A guide for working out with your partner while being intimate? Hah! No way!!!!! (In all truth, I was a little excited by the idea.)

A week later, I broke down and bought it, especially since my girlfriend and I had been having some problems budgeting quality time. Now, we can't get enough of Sex Flex. We've worked our way through all of the exercises - and we've even made up some of our own. (If the authors are interested, they can contact me at the above e-mail address!)

Thanks to the authors for their great info and the solid base on which to build new exercises. My relationship's the better for it!

This book was great! My wife and I are very busy, and this is great for us to spend some time together. We get to do something that we both enjoy. We are also more limber than we have been in a long time! The pictures were great. Nina and John really looked like they were having a good time, which actually made it easier for us to relax. Reading the credits, I was pleased to see the use of an actual couple for the photos, and not just two models who didn't know each other. That way when I see them smiling in the pictures, I know it is genuine.

This book offers creative and unique approaches to enhanced intimacy for couples. Not only does it offer techniques to improve personal physicality, it gives couples the opportunity to better themselves as a pair. Having been married for less than a year, my husband and I found this book to be a way to bond and improve the more intimate aspects of our relationship. The husband and wife models did a great job and were easy to identify with. We will incorportate this into our lifestyle for years to come.

Last summer I bought Mr. Frediani's GOLF FLEX, for my husband, to help him improve his flexibility for golf. He loved it! This year he bought me SEX FLEX for us!Since I don't golf doing SEX FLEX gives us intimate time together. Not only are we getting a wonderful workout(and lots of giggles), as shown in the SEX FLEX PLAY chapter, we really enjoy the stretching routine.We have found that doing the stretches together is not only improving our posture and fitness but also our communication skills. We highly recomend it!

I have read several books that Mr. Frediani has authored. His focus on flexiblitiy leads a trend quickly becoming integrated into all aspects of body maintainance. The strength of this particular book is the use of flexibiltiy training as an avenue to develope and/or increase communication between cupples. The directions are easy to follow, the picutres informative, and this quiet time spent with your partner invaluble. I have been married for over 25 years. I highly reccomend this book. It provides yet another way to meaningfully interact with your partner.

Fantastic book! Egan is one of my favorites and this book doesn't disappoint.

I cannot review this item. The incorrect item was ordered and returned to
seller. The return went very smoothly with no snags or complications at all.

I was well pleased with the way transaction was handled, although, I thought
the freight charges were rather high on an item that weighed as little as
this one.

R.Brown

Somehow, Egan talks about things I have also done or thought about, and uses just the right words to describe them...Amazing. Like the others in the series, these are repeats from Road and Track. Even though I have read most of them before, that does not diminish the joy I feel in reading them again (and again!).

This is one cool book by a very witty writer who digs mostly vintage English cars. If you're in to British cars, or any cars for that matter, you should read it. Peter Egan is wonderful.

Another splendid offering from Sir Peter Egan. Once again Egan has delivered a compilation of our favorite columns - this time from Road & Track magazine. Egan has the uncanny knack of capturing the essence of the open road and transforming it into the written word. The book is full of his tales and ancedotes of driving, restoration and racing. A brilliant book and a must for any automotive enthusiast.

A must have book. Without a doubt this is the most comprehensive book available in the industry. Great authors! Experts in telecommunication industry. Check out their other publications, all invaluable resources.

I highly recommend this book to everyone. This book is pertinent to the library of any Telecommunications Personnel. It's quite thorough and equipped with the most recent information from the telecommunications industry.

I have 32 years in telecommunications. This book is an exceptional resource. Every essential topic is covered and provides specific and detailed information.

Amazing book. Best source in MAN arena. A must have!

Besause they have been written by the same person. Perhaps by friends of the authors or by the publisher (I don't want to blaim the authors because they have may good books published so far and I own most of them). On the other hand these reviews don't change the fact that this is a really good book on MANs with sonet (though it is not the MAN bible). Warmly recommended.

This is a great book and must read for all. Winners do not do different things, they just do things differently. And, Peter guides us on how we can achieve our goals and realize our dreams by taking few simple steps to get in the "winner circle". It is an easy read to provide anyone turbo charged motivation!

After reading Spell Success in Your Life, I realized that my goals keep changing as I get older. Peter's book helped me organize my goals according to what I want and can achieve NOW and keep those other goals on the horizon (just within my reach). The stories helped bring everything together. Success and failure will always be in our lives and Peter's book helps us feel as though no matter what happens we CAN and WILL achieve our goals and survive the success that comes our way. Peter's book is pure, truthful, inspiring and motivating. Les Brown was right when he said "Pure motivation from start to finish!" I will continue to re-read this book as my goals change, for every goal and dream that is achieved leaves another in its place just waiting...

I loved Peter's book! The book inspired me and motivated me to live my dreams now! As a matter of fact, Peter's material inspired me to write my own book! Thanks Peter for your contribution! You have made a difference in my life!

Like many people, I never thought that I would read a self-help or motivational book that could actually help me in any way. It so often happens that you see people who have read and then implemented into their lives the techniques outlined in "How to get rich quick" or "How to lose weight fast" books and subsequently don't become any richer or thinner, that you become skeptical of any book that claims it can change your life for the better. I believe that 99% of the self-help books out there fall into this category, and will do absolutely nothing for you. However, one book that would certainly fall into the 1% of books that CAN improve your life is Peter Colwell's, Spell SUCCESS in Your Life. After reading just the first few pages, you can literally FEEL how passionate Peter is about what he is saying, and that he is truly committed to helping anyone become successful in their lives. You also get that sense that Peter realized long ago something that most motivational writers still have not...that everyone's idea of what it means to be "successful" in life is different. He doesn't outline a get rich quick scheme, or give you instructions on how to start your own business, or to own the home of your dreams. Instead, he outlines specific and practical techniques that ANYONE can use in order to become successful at whatever it is they strive for. This book has certainly helped and inspired me, and I would recommend it to everyone, as I can't think of a single person who wouldn't reap at least some benefits in their life from reading it.

Written from the point of view from a person, who has definitely been there and done that, Peter Colwell's "Spell SUCCESS in your life" has made me realize things that were already smack dab in my face. Peter's comforting writing style makes you feel as though you were talking with an old friend.
Used as a goal setting guide or a user manual for a happy life, this book has been by far been my wisest purchase of 2002. I give it two very enthusiastic thumbs up!