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I was impressed that this book helps and leads you through the "Maze". An excellent reference book to add motivation and make you think about what you are doing and where you wish to go.
This would make a great stocking stuffer!!!

Entrepreneurial consultant and motivational speaker JoAnna Carey's Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze Of Life is a presentation of 52 brief yet helpful keys to dealing with the stresses of daily and professional life. A relaxing and practical self-help guide, Rat Race Relaxer offers invaluable tips ranging from "Love others for who they are NOT for who they can Be", to "Exercise regularly!", to "Look to the future, plan for the future, but live in the present." A welcome addition to any personal self-help/self-improvement reading list, each idea captures the essence of a positive note in this first-rate motivational guide.

I had the opportunity to read "Rat Race Rleaxer" one recent Sunday afternoon and although I have found other self help books to be informative, this one seem to fit into many aspects of my life at the moment.

Instead of being long and drawn out to make the author's point, "Rat Race Relaxer" was consise and brief. The points that the author wanted to get across were apparent and not filled with excess fluff. I was able to read its entire content in just an hour so that I could grasp its message before putting into use some, if not all of its suggestions.

I now find myself remembering comments or points within the book that relate to current situations in everyday life. I will be using the author's recommendations as they apply to me. For the reader looking to gain some insight into existing within the rat race, this will do it without coming off as preaching.

Everyone should purchase this book.

It is a chapter that contains information about the murder of my maternal grandfather, Walter Gunn.

Norrell's book gives a detailed story of the movement in Tuskegee, the home of Booker T. Washington. It clearly shows of the Macon County's progress away from the accommodationist views of Washington. For those who are not familiar with the movement outside the realms of Martin Luther King and others, Reaping the Whirlwind is a great source to fill your mind.

The struggle for civil rights was a long and argous process, and Robert Norrell's Reaping the Whirlwind, is an example of how the movement progressed, grew, and eventually was successful. In his book he traces the lines of leadership at Tuskegee Institute in Macon County, Alabama. As the novel progresses, society increasingly adapts to the ideals behind an integrated community. The struggle for equality was not won as easliy as the court battles suggested rather, true equality could never have existed due to the white exodus of the "model city." This is an excellent portrayal of the events in this small town, and this novel should be mandatory reading in any civcs or Civil Rights History class

A different take on FDR and race. Interesting hisory of the New Deal era and the Supreme Court. The short Political Science sections are not thrilling, but still were digestible.

This fine book will interest students of supreme court decisionmaking. Those interested in the presidency, the New Deal and/or the evolution of civil rights policy will benefit from reading this book.

Specialists will enjoy the academic perspectives. General readers can learn a lot of history because the book is not suffocated by the jargon that harms many university press books.

This well written book will be enjoyed by a variety of readers. It presents a fascinating account of important political struggles in the New Deal era. While focused on judicial politics and civil rights, it covers many aspects of American politics in the Roosevelt era. The book refutes the notion that FDR did not advance the cause of civil rights. Through judicial appointments and the creation of the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department, FDR sought to undermine white supremacy in the South. The author argues convincingly that the Roosevelt administration did much to engender the Brown v. Board of Education decision that changed America forever.

This book will be most valuable to those interested in American politics, history, and race relations.

Religion, Race and Reconstruction -- much has been said on the subject. Mr. McAfee, however, tells us about the time period in a surprisingly easy read. If you're looking for historical non-fiction, this book is easily digestable and a good read while making you rethink previous notions about our country's history.

Simply the best book on the subject written to date. Mc Afee has taken a complex and all too often simplified historical period and identified the underlying struggle that existed. His look at the societal conflicts of the 1870's allows the reader to identify with the conflicts we see today. The benchmark for other historians to shoot for.

With Religion, Race and Reconstruction, Ward McAfee has birthed something as yet unknown to his contemporaries, and in doing so, has illuminated them to factual, concise histories that will prove to be the standard against which other histories of the era are measured.

One can reach the pinnacles of law, yet Williams forces us to question everything: the structure of power, the continuing inequities, the superficialness of progress....

It's depressing really yet the author makes it fun to read and learn about unspeakable realities.

This is hardly the sort of book that is going to impress everyone with revelatory arguments, or even offer a new perspective upon contemporary cultural discourse, but Williams is at least occasionally lively in her discussions of feminism. I'm afraid I don't find her disucssions of education even the least bit compelling, and we need to turn to more radical and inventive/transgressive voices for that. Perhaps this book could be of use to high school students, however, in that it would promote classroom discussions without presenting any difficulties of argument such as that produced by more progressive thinkers. Prof. Williams is best at short, snappy chit chat regarding race and feminism, and I'm surprised that she has taken it upon herself to author entire books which might dilute the field. However, as an African American who is challenging the contemporary paradigms of race in this society, I'm pleased to discover all the help I can get.

I disagree with your dismissal of this book. I found it very serious and thought-provoking. As a feminist theorist I am concerned with reading everything available on matters of gender and bias; Williams' book was valuable for the many things she says of which I was not aware of or which I had not previously considered.

Your concern that Williams' book "dilutes" feminism, or that it is not "radical" enough in its treatment of education, shows more about your particular concerns than it does about her work. Dismissing Williams' thought in the way you do, in fact, suggests to me that you have a particular bias of your own concerning what is properly part of "women's interests" and are unwilling to confront Williams's work seriously and allow it to affect your view of race and gender prejudice. I can hardly imagine anyone better placed, or better able, to diagnose and analyze the "persistence of prejudice" than Professor Williams, and I think she ought to be listened to even though there are specific contentions within the book with which I disagree. Her style, which combines personal reflections with wider theorizations of race, gender, and prejudice, is quite germane methodologically, and her insights are productive ones. I believe that anyone seriously concerned with understanding issues of education, prejudice, law, and culture could derive benefit from serious reading of Williams' work.

An excellent book, well written and meticulously researched. Not only does Nadine George-Graves provide fascinating and useful information about the Whitman Sisters, she also discusses, in great detail, the social and cultural circumstances surrounding their historical moment. The information on Toby, the black vaudeville circuit, is invaluable. Much of what George-Graves writes about hasn't been written about elsewhere, making her book all the more unique and important.

This is a short book - only 118 pages - but the amount of information it contains makes it indispensible for anyone interested in vaudeville, dance, or African-American theater.

Like Alice Walker, who resurrected the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Nadine George-Graves has unearthed the lost story of powerful African-American women: The Whitman Sisters. Profoundly talented entertainers, these women were also astute entrepeneurs, whose company formed the springboard for many musical and stage luminaries. We are in Ms. George-Graves debt for bringing this lost history to light.

Like Alice Walker, who resurrected the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Nadine George-Graves has uncovered the lost story of powerful African-American women: the Whitman Sisters. A powerful force in Vaudeville, these profoundly talented entertainers were also astute entrepeneurs, whose company formed a springboard for many luminaries of the stage. We are in Ms. George-Graves debt for bringing to light this important history.

Lena fourth grade


In this story The Runaway Racehorse has a mystery. There is a horse name Whirlaway that is missing. Three kids help the owner of Whirlaway looking for the horse. The kids are from Green Lawn but one of the kid's grandpa. This book has a great mystery. I think you should read this book because you can like the story from the mystery. My opinion on this book is really great. I couldn't wait to get to the end.

The racehorse that ran away was a good book. I liked it because it was great and wonderful. I like horses and I want to ride my own horse someday. Josh was funny because he kept dropping ketchup on his shirt.

I am in Kindergarten and my name is Grace.

You should read this book. It is all about a racehorse, how he got lost and how they found him. It is a really cool story. You should read it sometime.
I'm 8 years old, my name is Lizzy, and this book is just the right level for me.
And I'm not going to give away the whole book to you, but it wasn't too scary that I didn't want to read it. It was just the right amount of scariness.

The story is great the perspective in which it is described brings and catches the attention of the reader, as well as enforces strong family ties, and values, and help us realize and cherish our own family and relationships. You will just fall in love with the characters, and truely care for their will of survival!!!!!!!

SAY YOU ARE MY SISTER is a beautifully-written book about family, hardships, loyalty and conscience; yet it is full of good humor and suspense. Mony is an endearing character--a literary cousin of Scout in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. She's frank and funny and brave.

This is the kind of book that could spark some thoughtful discussion in the classroom about our country's history of racial discrimination. I bought a copy for my children's school library.

You won't be able to help yourself as you follow their struggles to survive a series of heartbreaking tragedies that leave them to fend for themselves in a small town in the deep south still caught in the grip of the Jim Crow "Whites Only" laws.

Told in the wonderfully fresh, funny, and spunky voice of 12-year-old Mony Keddrington, I found myself laughing one minute and wiping tears from my eyes the next.

I felt like I was right there with Mony as she and her sister Georgie used ingenuity, guts, and spirit trying to survive as a family, all the while harboring an explosive secret that threatened to destroy everything they ever held dear.

This is the best book I have read since Cold Sassy Tree at evoking the genuine feel of the south. I can't believe Laurel Stowe Brady is a first-time novelist, she writes with so much authority. I will be looking for everything she ever writes as it comes out!!

I haven't read this book yet by Saidiya Hartman, but, if this is a poweful as "Lose Your Mohter'", it must make people very uncomfortable, which it should, regarding the genocide, rape,and torture of Africans in the land of bigoty, racism and hypocrisy.

Scenes of Subjection provides a fascinating view of slavery and its effects. Hartman applies her brilliant intellect to this terribly important subject, providing the reader with insight and understanding that is sadly missing from other academic and non-academic treatment of slavery. This is a "must read."

Saidiya Hartman, with "Scenes of Subjection" has penned a well-researched and insightful look at the interior life of enslavement, power, and personal freedom. Using copious first-hand resources, Hartman creatively considers how the every day life and rituals of enslaved African Americans demonstrates that one can enslave a body, but never a soul.

Reviewer: Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., is the author of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction , Spiritual Friends, and Soul Physicians.

This is a very personal book in which a renowned scholar and thoughtful Christian confronts with honesty and integrity the three biggest challenges to his faith. The text is very well-written and devoid, thankfully, of trite stories or simplistic allegories. As another "doubting Thomas" myself, I found this book helpful for my own struggles "groping" for God.

I benefit in writing this review from having read the review of F. Kurt Messick. Messick's reviews are among the best I know. They are usually careful and often profound readings of the texts in question.
He points out that Hubert G. Locke's title is somewhat misleading as the focus is not on Racism, nor the Holocaust but rather on issues of religious faith and doubt occasioned by Locke's loss of his parents.
I found this work to be a sincere and moving one. Locke writes beautifully about his mother and her religious faith and what this meant to him. The doubts raised in him by her loss are I am sure familiar to everyone who has lost a loved one. In the Jewish tradition a person who has lost a close relative is freed of religious duties before the time of the burial. It is understood somehow that this is a time of tremendous questioning and turmoil.
Locke sets out the story of his own intellectual journey. He seems to an especially sensitive and understanding person. When he speaks about the way he conducted so many funerals without understanding really what the people must be going through(Something he could only understand when suffering his own loss) he shows his modesty and awareness of human failing.
No one I believe can answer the questions raised by the seemingly disproportionate suffering of good people, the questions of the reality of the Afterlife in a clear and decisive way. The great teacher Maimonedes taught us that it does not make much sense to speculate on such questions.
In the end as Locke understands we are left with our need for God and the faith which may not abolish doubt but contends with it and at vital moments overcomes it.
This is a profound book by a very noble and admirable human being.

Hubert G. Locke's text, with the somewhat daunting title of 'Searching for God in Godforsaken Times and Places: Reflections on the Holocaust, Racism, and Death,' is an interesting and spiritually engaging text. It is not what I expected from the title. Locke does address the Holocaust, and does address Racism, and certain covers Death, but in fact, I found the primary theme that runs through the entire piece to be the interplay of Doubt and Faith, grounded in a very Christian context.

This context is, like many things in life, a double-edged sword. It is good in the sense that it explains for Christians who may be unfamiliar or uncomfortable with issues like Racism and the Holocaust a way of looking at these historical realities in a way that begins to make some sense, not necessarily from these things themselves, but rather a sensible way of dealing with the way they make us feel about the reality of doubt and faith in God. The down-side of this being so completely a Christian text is that certain audiences (such as Jewish readers) may be unable to engage the material fully.

Locke begins the text by being thoroughly personal in his presentation, talking about his own periods of crisis with the death of his parents, recasting these as periods in which the persistence of doubt and the threat of losing faith were very present for him.

Ironically (given the title), the chapters dealing with the Holocaust and with Racism proper are rather brief additions; though they form interesting examples, I was never quite sure they served as more than primary examples, rather than issues worthy of top-billing in the title, for the important direction of Locke's text. The Holocaust is dealt with again from a very Christian perspective for the most part; Locke speaks of the Hamburg preacher Helmut Thielicke, who was eventually forbidden to preach by the German authorities; his silence enforced from the outside echoed the silence of God he preached upon from the pulpit. Locke's experience with Racism, apart from his personal experience as an African-American, extends to visits to South Africa and research he has done on the wider problems of Racism world-wide.

Locke comes back to the primary focus of his text, the interplay of doubt, certainty, and faith, addressing it from the standpoint of several particular scriptural examples, such as Job, Thomas and Peter. He then comes round to dealing with various Pauline passages, talking about some inconsistencies in interpretation and statement (how can one have the assurance of things for which there can be no knowledge?) and later developments in Christianity.

Overall, this text was not what I thought it would be, given the title, but I was pleasantly surprised by what I did find. Beyond the specific topics highlighted, the broader aspects of doubt and faith are brought together in a manner that does not definitively resolve the difficulties (for such is unlikely if not impossible), but gives the reader a deeper understanding of the relationships of God and humanity, God and individuals, and our relationship to each other. A good text.