Review:I found the ideas In there very similar to how I work as a crowd controller supervisor. It has given me more direction on how to refine my communication skills when dealing with the public as well as family members.
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Review:An amazing book with such sources mole tools. I have developed further from these tool sets to include a clean approach to exploration that holds the limbic emotional system in support to get to the human rational response. Well worth a read top shelf Read more

Review:I bought it on sale for a buck and regret it. These gimmicks won't help your social skills unless you are seriously inept. Staring at a girl constantly or pretending to do acrobatic moves everytime you enter a room will only make people think you are a creep or on drugs. One positive is that a lot of psychological studies are referenced, so it might be worth an hour long skim through. Read more

Review:My 3.5 year old daughter loves this book and I love hearing her cute little voice be able to identify "Avocado" and "Artichoke" etc. My plan this summer when both kids are home from school is to pick a new food from each letter and introduce it to the kids each week, using the book as the excitement to try something new. Would recommend for ages 2-4. Read more

Review:Chicka Chicka 1,2,3 is a good counting book, not quite as catchy as the alphabet version. I'd buy this book simply for the color-coded 1-100 section on the inside back cover. I find that part more effective than the book itself. My two kids (4 & 5) both learned to count to 100 with it. They didn't quite catch on to the book portion because it just counts by 10's, but they did still like it. Actually seeing the numbers all written out and separated by color made it click. The first thin... Read more

Review:I was looking for some mystery writing advice and this little book was just perfect. The advice is straight to the point. It assumes you know the basics of writing and sticks to information pertinent to the genre. There are books that go into much greater detail and I may need those at some point but for now I find them overwhelming. This book will get me started on my first cozy mystery and that's perfect for now. I would encourage other writers to give this book a try off they are interested i... Read more

Review:I did not find this book particularly helpful for me. I think if might be helpful if you want to write very generic SF hero-narratives written in first person or third limited. It is mostly SF, very little emphasis on Fantasy, and his discussion of speculative fiction feels shallow and perscriptive, for creating a product, rather than really getting in depth into the meaning of what is being written. His section on characters and POV are written in such a way to assume that Omniscent doesn't e... Read more

Review:I have to admit, I found this book a slow go when I had to read it as a Freshman in prep-school. But the fact that it was set in New England and that it dealt with a depressing winter landscape and a remorseless cast of characters, such as I was then encountering made it unbelievably relevant at the time. I can relate, however, to the preponderance of young readers at this site who have expressed their displeasure at having to read it. I would not wish this vision on a young audience unles... Read more

Review:We homeschool, and I just can NOT tell you how much trouble I've had finding a timeline for a history supplement that I really, really like! This is the closest I've found, and I'm happy to have it!

PROS
- LOTS of events are listed, all the way up to Felix Baumgartner's space jump.
- Gorgeous. Lots of pictures. Intriguing to just flip through.
- starts at 6.5 million years ago with the emergence of apes that walked upright. As a secular homeschooling family, finding a timelin... Read more

Review:I have used this book with third graders as they learn to hypothesize. Not wanting to make mistakes, they will change their hypothesis or make it "fuzzy" enough that it is safely generalized. This book shows great examples of people who made mistakes in their "hypothesis" and profited (chocolate chip cookies!). Read more