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Marilee Driscoll really knows her stuff. This book gives a great overview of why to plan ahead for the possibility of long-term care, and the options for funding one's care. It is true that she is a strong proponent of long-term care insurance as a funding solution, but so are most financial planners and elder law attorneys (those who really understand the issue).

To be fair, I am a long-term care insurance broker by profession, so I share Marilee's point of view. What I can say about this book is that if you are considering purchasing LTC insurance, this is a great education that will prepare you for meeting with an agent and buying a policy that makes sense.

I am a huge fan of the Dummies series. I own this book and had great hopes for a nice, clear, cogent and get-down-to business book on the subject of long-term care planning. Man was I disappointed! This book should instead be called The Complete Idiot's Guide to Long-Term Care Insurance. If you are looking for information on long-term care insurance then this is the book for you. I learned things I did not previously know about long-term care insurance from this book. If you are looking for other options, though, including how Medicaid can be used to pay the cost of nursing home and assisted living care may I suggest The Medicaid Handbook 2007 as a clear and concise up-to-date guide on using Medicaid in long-term care planning.

I needed information on Long Term Care, not only from a prospective of Insurance Options but on other options and programmes out there. Well, this is the one book which provides a really good overall view into this interesting topic.

I would advise not only consumers but financial professionals to read this book, and use it as a gift to clients!

David Leimkuehler, Missouri

I am an RN who works with Medicare and nursing home residents. I know for a fact that most people I talk to are astounded to find out that Medicare pays for a very small portion of a person's stay in a nursing home - if anything at all. I learned so much from this book and so will you.

Everything you need to know to help you wade through the morass of details involved in choosing long term care insurance. The author has done an excellent job of organizing her subject and making it easy to navigate from one topic to another. Although is is best to read the book from begininng to end, it is designed such that the reader can skip sections and hone in on the subjects of primary interest. All in all an excellent, thorough, and easy to understand treament of a relatively complicated subject.

Everything worked just like it should, used books shipped when they were supposed to in good condition.

A must by for new business owners! Practical teaching with easy to apply techniques. Existing businesses who've let their customer service fall by the wayside could also greatly benefit and be inspired to change.

We do training for companies in a service industry and use this book as part of our program. It has revolutionized the way we look at customer loyalty. The concepts in this book will help you identify and keep the right kind of customers

This book belongs on every company's bookshelf. Why? Because the business world is seduced by the promise of customer conquests when, in fact, customer loyalty is the real ticket to success. This book is chocked full of proven, easy-to-execute sales, marketing and customer care strategies. Its content should be (and is!) used as continual training for companies looking to attract and keep high-value customers.
Pat McMahan
Indianapolis, Indiana

This text is required for my Master of Science in Quality Assurance course. This text gives a very good overview of the essentials of developing and maintaining customer loyalty. It differentiates customer satisfaction and customer loyalty well. I think that everyone will find this a worthwhile purchase.

This is such an imaginative book. My 9yr old girl and 10yr old boy and I just LOVE this book. You find yourself going into the book yourself. It's a great book for children, without anything inappropriate, not too scary at all, great lessons.

My husband found this book at our local library and we started reading it to our 5yr old and boy were we all pleasantly surprised. This book is fantastic, sweet and intriguing, once you start reading you can't stop. My daughter even goes back and rereads the book all by herself now.

This is a very interesting fiction story about three kids who go to an
island and explore it, then they find a three-headed dragon. I like it a
lot! It is very intriguing.

This is from my son:

I give this book five stars because the kids use their imagination. I enjoyed the adventure on the island and the mysterious key that unlocks the secret room. I would like to visit the kind-hearted golden dragon's island because of the magical dragon's stories. All the childeren seemed to have learned lessons from the stories. My favorite scene was the silver-eyed story. Find out why...

The three Davis children Have to go to lonely island. Where thay find a cave and they find a great big dragon! They visit the dragon alot. Each time they meet a new dragon. It is a three headed dragon and each time they go to the cave they meet a new head and each head tells them a story.

McGoldrick promises to provide helpful tips for working with families of different ethnicities/origins, but falls short on delivering. The histories and backgrounds in each chapter are brief and general at best. There is no concrete info provided on counseling families...my advice is to find another textbook because this one doesn't give anything more than the very, very basics.

I believe this book is vitally important to anyone in the field of Social Work. I have found it to be extremely helpful in getting to know a little more about some of cultural belief of the client I've been working with. I have also gotten their individual perspectives from just asking them a little about their cultural belief systems as they interupt them for themselves.

I ordered this book for a class, it is well written. The chapters are grouped by ethnic group which makes for easy navigation. If you are familiar with psychological or counseling terminology it is an easy read as well.

Excellent reference for doctors; clergy; as well as family counselors, therapists and practitioners. The material on individual cultural characteristics and patterns is well written, well organized, and easily accessible. The wide range of contributors represents the top authorities in each area.

Great resource for anyone involved in counselling someone from an ethnic group other than one's own. The various contributors brought germane observations for each ethnic group. I am a priest who serves many Middle Eastern people. I found the language of this text accessible as a "layperson" to Psychology.

I read this book about twenty years ago, and the images never left me. I started using this book in my classroom when I taught Animal Farm about ten years ago. My students are always shocked that these events took place and how the people survived or didn't survive such austere conditions. The book is easy to read and understand.

When Hitler was asked about the possible negative consequences of the "final solution" in gassing all the remaining Jews in the world, he is reported to have responded by asking the question of "Who remembers the Armenians" who were killed by the "young Turks" at the end of the Ottoman Empire. While the numbers are in dispute, the reality is that over a million were killed outright or died of hunger during the campaign to exterminate the Armenians. But the real hidden holocaust took place over a decade later, when the Communist jackals running the "Evil Empire" in Moscow set about to eliminate the Ukrainians by systematic starvation, in far greater numbers than Hitler was able to accomplish with his ovens in concentration camps all over Europe.
Whoever Miron Dolot is, since he wrote this under a pseudonym for some reason, he lived a horror for many years that is incomprehensible for normal human beings. His description of the day-to-day struggle to exist under a system so evil that it boggles the imagination was very eloquent. Dolot talks about the neighbors who starved to death, families who engaged in cannibalism in order to survive, mothers committing suicide after the last of their children had died from malnutrition, frozen bodies stacked like firewood, roads littered with the remains of those who died trying to find a kernel of corn to ingest, and many other horrors that bring tears to your eyes. The Soviets did everything they could do to kill their opposition, including killing dogs and cats to keep them from becoming the last remaining food source for farmers who had no other option to stay alive. Even birds were shot from the trees to keep them from the starving peasants. But it was not limited to the Ukrainians; just ask the relatives of the millions of Chechens, Ingushetian's, and others who wanted independence and were rewarded with death in Soviet concentration camps called Gulags. Most of this story deals with a small Ukrainian village, but it is a microcosm of what happened in the Communist utopia under Stalin. Some of the stories from those who returned to the village after the horrors of being transported in cattle cars and escaped from the gulags are no different than the pictures of the same form of transport shown in many Holocaust movies.
But this story is far better than many of the holocaust films we have seen from Hollywood that concentrated on the one committed by Hitler. And why have we not seen this book on film to put all of the holocausts committed in the last century in context? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that McCarthyism still exists in its original form, when the communists controlled Hollywood in the 30's and apologists like Walter Duranty of the New York Times, who carries the label of "Stalin's Apologist" won a Pulitzer prize for his misreporting from Moscow about how great Stalin was. Ken Billingsley and his masterful book "Hollywood Party" shows that the real "blacklist" existed when loyal Americans veered from Moscow's party line, and explains Ronald Reagan's contempt for the communists who controlled his union until he won election to rid the union of these lice.
This is a great book. Hopefully someone like Mel Gibson will convert this to film for those who do not read, but are mislead by the Hollywood elite who condemn the USA and would have lasted two minutes under the Stalinist regime they glorify.

This book is a record of what some daily life was like in the Ukrainian villages during the Great Famine.
It is his memoirs, so it cant really be judged for facts and such, but it seems very intresting to read, and accurate.
The numbers couldt be a tiny bit too high, but it might actually have been that, but we will never know due to the destruction of any documents concerning mass death in The Famine.
I say its a good book, but would only recommend it too people intrested in Russian History specifically, because its such a specific and narrow read on a subject, from a first hand account, which usually dont know everything. There are better academic books out there documenting the famine well, but this is nontheless a good read and history.

Excellent first hand account of the attempts of collectivization under Stalin; attempts that met with little or no success. I earned and received a Bachelor of Arts in History and this subject was never covered as well as it should have been. The "less hidden" Holocaust always seems to take center stage in this society. I became interested in the subject due to the flight of my paternal grandparents from the affected area prior to the full onslaught being felt.

It seems impossible that, in a place comparable to the American Midwest for rich soil, that the people who live there, millions of them, starve to death in spite of the bounty of their land. But their Ukrainian farms are collectivized by orders from faraway Moscow. The food is shipped to wherever the authorities decide it will go. This is not a dry history of bushels shipped and numbers of private farms collectivized, but a compelling depiction of lives progressively ruined as an ideology takes over. Families who resist collectivation are demonized as dirty, selfish kulaks, and are punished. The promises to the communities sound good, early on, but the resulting devastation of the Ukrainianian people that results ultimately reveals that there was not much in it for the people who worked the land.

Joyce Magure Pavao does what so few writers on adoption do: instead of taking sides with one member of the adoption triad or another, she treats all of them with warmth and compassion. Yes, this book is a wealth of concrete information about the adoption process, and about adoption as a lifelong form of identity and family structure. But most importantly, it is a book that reaches into the hearts of birthparents and adoptive parents, and helps them cultivate compassion and understanding for one another.

This book transformed my relationship to my son's birthparents. My son was adopted from foster care, and I spent a long time being angry and afraid of his birthparents. With Joyce Maguire Pavao's help, I managed to reach out to them, and found out that they were every bit as terrified and bewildered as I was. Now we have overcome our fears and we can work together to create an environment for our son that is focused on his needs instead of ours. We can give him the truth about his beginnings, and the knowledge that we all love him tremendously. Pavao has helped us change a situation that could have made our son completely neurotic into one that is helping him grow up healthy and strong.

The book is only ten bucks. And it's the best ten bucks you will ever invest in your kids or in yourself. Buy it.

I HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK YET BUT HAVE SKIMMED OVER IT. INFORMATION LOOKS TO BE WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. SATISFIED WITH PRICE AND PURCHASE.

My husband and I are in the process of adopting a teenage boy. I purchased 4 books to prepare myself for possible situations that may arise. This was by far the best one of those I have read. The book was very easy reading and quite enjoyable. The book describes actual events from different case studies and had alot of helpful info. I found most of the other books boring and hard to get through. This was straight to the point and offered real life solutions and explainations for certain behaviors.

This book is an excellent discussion of the ways adoption is experienced by all members of the triad, with particular emphasis on the normal developmental issues adoptees face at different times of their lives. Joyce Maguire Pavao is clear and forthright, sensitive and reassuring. Her wise insight is illustrated with examples and the poetry of adoptees. I highly recommend this book.

As the attorney for many adoptive families I sometimes find myself filling in information that social workers haven't provided, or at least haven't provided in a way that the family understood. A couple of issues that come up often are, "I've been told that adoption is not the same as birth parenting, but exactly how is it different?" and "How will adoption affect my child through out his or her childhood." I find that many families do not understand these issues before they adopt. This is the perfect book to put in the hand of a prospective family. It is also great for families experiencing adoption related challenges who feel that they are unique and alone. This book gives them comfort and understand. It is a great resource. It is short too, families like. Thank you Dr. Pavao.

This book is an action packed story of a cave man struggling to survive in pre-historic times. The main character is also a bit of an inventer who experiments with spear throwers, bow and arrows, taming wild dogs, etc. This book is a must read for young boys and will help addict them to the joys of reading.

One of my favorite childhood books. Just read it again flying back from Iceland.

Jim Kjelgaard's portrayal of Hawk overcomming adversity after being ostracized by his peers and then becomming more successful than they, is a lesson for all. To understand it is possible to think and act independently of your cohorts is critical for our youth. The book moves quickly enough for young readers and has lessons enough for adults in an interesting story. By way of testimonial, I am a 48 year old very successful physician raised in an area where more kids from my high school went to jail than college. I credit this book's profound influence on me. It should be mandatory reading for middle schoolers. Thanks to Amazon.com, I'm reading a copy to my kids.

Yes, this is a real unforgettable classic. I remember my dad reading it when I finished. I would think this would be great for any non-reading kid to get him or her interested in books. The character is a Forest Gump in that he is in on absolutely every invention of the stone-age world. Cool.

An extraordinary book. When I was a fourth grade teacher I read
it to my class, who loved it. It has a story telling quality and
is hard to put down when you start reading it. The story is
unique in that it shows the beauty of discovering new ways of
doing things -- inventing weapons to survive in an unforgiving
environment. A creative and curious child will love the story.
There's really nothing like it that I know of. Finally, the
concepts and vocabulary make it suited as a read aloud from fourth to sixth grade and as a good read for adults. Don't miss
out on an outstanding book.

This book was excellent. In perfect condition. Exactly what I needed for class. Got to me even quicker than I expected. Completely satisfied.

Pretty self explanatory, but the side coloration page layout is great and the book comes with a cd rom, so you don't have to lug it around with you.

The book arrived in new condition, but it took over 2 weeks to get here.

I'm a first year nursing student and I would definately recommend it to anyone going into the medical field

I like this mosby book for reference. It's very reliable and informative. Helps me in my hospital job.

That's so funny about the whistle and the dog. I just got myself a copy of the book from a used book store and have been reading it again after 2? some years. I remembered all the little details and the stories. I just read the whistle in the night and I got freaked out. My favorite story is the one of the white dove. This is a great book for young adults and teens. It is truly a classic.

As everybody has said here, if you were a kid in the 1960s or 1970s and read this, you remember STRANGELY ENOUGH!, strangely enough! It's like THE POCKET TWILIGHT ZONE.

But everyone here had the Scholastic edition, which proclaimed on the cover that it was the (ABRIDGED) version. I find myself wondering how many more stories were in the original, un-abridged, 1959 version.

Of course, some of the stories are just urban rumors, some were later shown to be hoaxes, but they're told well. Reading a random story from this book is sort of a virtual spooky-story-told-round-the-campfire. Short, two-page stories with an illustration that really gives atmosphere.

I came across a strange (and completely apocryphal) reference to this book in the recent Michael Chabon book of essays, MAPS AND LEGENDS, where it's referenced as part of a shaggy-dog story.

While in the midst of a LONG overdue cleaning of my basement the other night, I happened upon a box of belongings that my mother had foisted upon me at one point in time when my parents were cleaning out THEIR basement in advance of a move from my childhood home. Amidst the random belongings in this box was an old dog-eared, yellowed, tattered copy of "Strangely Enough" that I had unknowningly saved. I too, cherished that book fondly and had long assumed that I had lost it forever. I eagerly began flipping the pages, rekindling the memories of the forgotten stories contained within, when suddenly my heart skipped a beat and a weird chill went down my spine - it was almost as if I were in the middle of my own version of a story contained within this book! Why, you might wonder? Just one week prior to my basement-cleaning venture, I had been in the midst of telling a bedtime story to my five year old son. Recently he had started to enjoy stories that had a more mysterious/creepy tone to them and I had started adjusting my stories accordingly. I told him a story about a man who discovered a cave one day while playing on a stretch of a beach, and within the cave he found a small pile of clay balls, of various sizes, and without thinking much about it thought that it would be fun to try and 'skip' the clay balls on the water. After exhausting his supply (or so he thought!) he returned home. Later that night when taking off his shorts he found one of the clay balls remaining in his pocket and on a whim decided to chip away at it, upon which he discovered that contained within the clay ball was a small diamond. YIKES! what else had he thrown in the water? Anyway, why am I telling this story? I had NO IDEA where I came up with that kooky story that night, and a mere week later I find a box in my basement containing the book "Strangley Enough" and upon examination I find that the story of the mysterious clay balls was in that book! How funny. In any event, like the other viewers, if you are reading these reviews, you are most likely familiar with the book. I saved it (thank goodness) because like everyone else here, it left an (obviously!) indelible mark on my imagination. I too, acquired mine through SBS while in elementary school in the early 70's and still cherish it to the day. Like others, I assume they were as equally enthralled by the TV shows that mined this stuff endlessly (The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Night Gallery, Kolchak the Night Stalker, and more recently - the X Files.) It's great stuff, indeed relatively benign by today's standards, but nonetheless worth tracking down if you can find it. As for me, I fully intend to read a story from my tattered copy (held together with a splendid matrix of brittle yellowed cellophane tape)to my son at bedtime each night. If you're of a like mind, see if you can locate a copy of "The Blue Man" by Kin Platt, another book from this era that would appeal to those who are fond of Strangely Enough. "Fortunately" enough, it appeared that I had the foresight to save my yellowed, dog-eared copy of that book as well. Thanks for sharing your memories!

I too read this book when I was quite young. I'm 50 now and am still remembering it. Spooky but not too scary for young readers.

I fondly remember ordering Strangley Enough from Schoolastic Book Services in 1970 and somehow I managed to hang on to it. It's loaded with the neatest short stories covering a little of everything from UFO's, Hauntings, Sea stories, that will cause goosebumps and The Battle of the Cheeses that will get you laughing. Now I'm 53 and last summer the girlfriend and I sat on a park bench while I read her Strangley Enough. She was instantly hooked and we have a new hobby. She liked it so well she ordered a few copies from Amazon to give friends for Christmas. The stories are short 2-3 pages. We now have a collection of "spooky story books" and have a great hobby to do together of just sitting down and reading and having a chat about the stories. CB Colby's Strangley Enough is our favorite. It's amazing the book is as old as it is, my copy is dated 1959 It's a great book for anyone from Jr. High to Baby Boomer age. I or the girlfriend and I highy recommend it for your enjoyment.

Great job! This book is a wonderful insight of how to best support teachers and students about inclusion in a manner that allows all students to LIVE life whether on the Autism Spectrum or not. Paula shares a lot of personal lessons she has learned through her years of researching what is best for one may not be best for all. Learning how to best address the unique talents and challenges of students with Austism is a continued journey and I look forward to future books from this author. The humor throughout the book just adds to the enjoyment. Strongly recommended! A must read for the entire school staff.

As an elementary teacher and a mother of a child with an autism spectrum disorder, I found this book to be one of the most practical yet thought-provoking texts I've read yet. Ms. Kluth gets right to the heart and mindset of what true inclusion is. Her ability to inspire us all to value the child with special needs as well as to respect and value the input of caregivers is crucial to successful inclusive schooling. In addition, this book has really helped me to keep an open mind about how every child, regardless of the severity of his disability, can and must play a key role in the success of any classroom community. Most importantly, Ms. Kluth addresses the importance of positive attitudes, perseverence and personal reflection in one's own growth experiences as an educator. It was great to read this book. Thanks for the wonderful anecdotes that so vividly helped me visualize how I can create a more effective inclusive environment in my classroom. Can't wait!

I LOVE the chapters on teaching strategies and behavior. Lots of great tips for helping challenging kids. The teaching strategies chapter has ideas for getting ready for transitions, preparing the classroom, and teaching lessons effectively. The planning-in-reverse strategy is really effective!

I have recommended this book to many -- the philosophy is sound but the practical suggestions are the highlight for me.

Brilliant, eloquent, and helpful, this book is not only eye opening, but gives a clear grasp and understanding to the broad spectrum Autism occupies. Dr. Kluth's book clearly explains the way parents and teachers can impact children not only at home, but in an inclusive classroom.

"You re" Going to Love this Kid" is written in a clear, no non-sense style capturing the unique challenges that can occur between school systems, teachers, parents and the special child with autism. Dr. Kluth brilliantly gives examples and steps to help overcome the obstacles so many parents face with educational professionals who may be ignorant or unaware of the promising and doable outlook of inclusive teaching.

Dr. Kluth's book is not only creative, but easy to follow and useful. It is information on routines and other helpful ideas and all done in an easy to follow creative way. This book is inspiring and touching with the many stories she includes from actual students.

I borrow Dr. Kluth's book out regularly and strongly encourage teachers, administrators and parents to attend Dr. Kluth's seminars regarding inclusive teaching and understanding autism.