June 2012 | Quotes From Hitch

Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Especially in the early (pre-NBA) portion, this book shines. There are excellent stories about Jordan's singular desire and drive to win, absorb coaching, learn, and improve. And as any reader should expect from David Halberstam, it is literate, readable, and free of vapid gush.It would be hard to read...

Your Road Map for Success: You Can Get There from Here Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The following is what I liked best: The section on Goals They MUST be activities that are: written, personal, specific, achievable, measurable, and time sensitive.The Quotes: "You can not make any progress when you are facing the wrong way." & the another one by Charles 'Tremendous' Jones who said...

Choosing Happiness: Life and Soul Essentials Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Happiness is a by-product of how thoughtful and generous your own choices are! Current research has proven that the happiest people in all societies including this one are the people who have relative peace of mind and are above all generous and good-humored. This book lives up to its claim that making...

The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art Generally, and on Appreciation (Icon Editions) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)My friend who was an artist gave me this book to read. Now it is one of the few that I carry around at all times. Robert Henri saw that there is no division between art and life. To be an artist, or trully alive for that matter, one has to experience life to his fullest. This means finding yourself and...

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)when i first heard about this book several years ago, i could not wait to get my hands on it. the story attracted me as it is my own story. and i was not to be disappointed. never before had i read a book that so expressively described my own illness. since it first came out, i have read it many times....

Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Journalist Roya Hakakian's beautifully written memoir of growing up in pre- and post-revolutionary Iran makes a striking contrast to another journalist's Iranian memoir, Azadeh Moaveni's "Lipstick Jihad," a contemporary portrait of Tehran from the viewpoint of a Californian-Iranian, looking for identity....

Readings In Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Thales To Aristotle Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In my reading I frequently come across references to Greek philosophy. When I go to the bookstore, though, I see an entire shelf of books for Plato, and another for Aristotle. Presocratics are separate. How to choose? Fortunately, there is this volume. It is a large collection, filling 890 large pages,...

The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In 1832, Prudence Crandall ran a private girls' boarding academy in Canterbury, a small Connecticut town located between Hartford and Providence, R.I. When a young African-American girl asked if she could attend Prudence's school, the teacher gladly took her in - much to the chagrin of local residents....

The Tao of Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett's Words of Wisdom: Quotations and Interpretations to Help Guide You to Billionaire Wealth and Enlightened Business Management Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is in a class by itself, almost without equal. There are several reasons. Most of the time you have to read a whole book to find that one gem that made the book worthwhile. Sometimes it's one page you are looking for, once in a while, it's a paragraph. I have read many books for that one sentence...

Quotations from Speaker Newt: The Little Red, White and Blue Book of the Republican Revolution Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Some awesome quotes by a guy who was on his way to put America back on track when he decided to resign. Many of his points make so much sense, you wonder why the man didn't run for President himself . . .Click Here to see more reviews about: Quotations from Speaker Newt: The Little Red, White and Blue...

Everything Is Grace: The Life and Way of Therese of Lisieux Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Everything is Grace is a remarkable, yet readily accessible, book in which Brother Joseph Schmidt shares the fruit of his deep and intimate knowledge, of the life and person of St Thérèse of Lisieux. The author not only knows Thérèse, he understands and obviously loves her. However, he never lets his...

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've read several reviews of this book and found that, despite Quinn's careful attempts to get his message across clearly and unequivocally, many readers misunderstand the finer points of Ishmael's arguments and end up praising or condemning Ishmael for the wrong reasons. Here is a short list of common...

Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I must start by saying I only read the first 65 or so pages (about 1/3rd of the book) before the author lost my attention. She filled the first several pages with a shallow discussion of commom tenets your parents or teachers probably already shared with you. I paraphrase: 'Stop and think before you...

No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Riveting! I read it in one day and couldn't wait to recommend it to my high school students. The author, and the prisoners themselves, allows readers to glimpse life on the other side of prison bars that many of us know little about. The stories are poignant, truthful, painful, and insightful. The material...

On Playing a Poor Hand Well: Insights from the Lives of Those Who Have Overcome Childhood Risks and Adversities (Norton Professional Books) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you are learning disabled, if you know a child who is learning disabled, if you know an adult who is learning disabled, this book will teach you all you need to know to understand the suffering a learning disability creates. At the same time, the book provides tales of inspiration and lots of practical...

Otto from Otherwhere Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Otto From Otherwhere was one of my favourite books as a kid and remains so to this day. Set in San Antonio, its about an extra-terrestrial boy found by two children and adopted into their family until he can find a way home. Due to his unusual appearance (three fingers, no nose, ears, or hair) he is...

The First Amendment in Schools: A Guide from the First Amendment Center Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The First Amendment In Schools: A Guide From The First Amendment Center is the collaborative effort of Charles C. Haynes, Sam Chaltain, John E. Ferguson Jr., David L. Hudson Jr., and Oliver Thomas, and provides the reader with a straightforward and well-researched discussion of crucial important First...