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We are using this book for an upcoming management training meeting and are very excited about that. The books were sent in multiple shipments which was challenging but they were in packed nicely and eventually we got all the books we ordered. Thank you.

This book is a quick read, and hits some excellent points which both an employee and manager can benefit from. It is written half from the employee to a manager reminding them we are all human and should be treated fairly, while the other half of the book is written from the manager to employee reminding that managers are people too, and subject to the same feelings and mistakes just like everyone else. I would suggest this book for anyone in the field of business looking to bridge the gap between employees and managers.

The book is a great business perspective from managers to direct reports and vice versa. Books were purchased for my Sales Reps.

The shipping was less than desireable. The box was saturated (delivered by USPS)and one of the 9 books was water damaged. This could have been avoided if the books were wrapped in plastic. I would have pursued a replacement but I did not know who to contact at Amazon.com.

The goal of this book and its companion 2-volume videotape is to encourage communication between employees and management. Read one way, the book addresses managers; turn it upside down, and it presents the employee's point of view. This clever format helps to illustrate the main point of the short volume: that employees and managers have a lot of common ground if they make the effort to improve their understanding and empathy of one another by seeing the other's point of view.The book raises important issues that occur between the two organizational groups, in a manner that is thought provoking, not finger-pointing. Prepared as a training manual, it may be most effective when used with groups interested in reducing polarization between management and employees.

My little girl loved the book, but after one day the binding fell apart.

My two-year old twins are obsessed with the 'Little Einsteins' so any book about them they'll love. Definitely a cute story, and like all the Little Einsteins episodes it was highly educational. Love the entire series and concept... for both my two year old and my six year old as well!

This is a nice book to read aloud to children who have moved to a new home, started preschool or otherwise just had a big change in their lives. The story? As June tries to get used to her new ballet shoes, the other kids discuss how it was hard for them to get used to new things, too. The book doesn't teach much, however -- just the shape of a hummingbird and the fact that a cow lives on a farm.

On a recent trip we purchased many activity and sticker books to keep our toddler occupied. Though this item was a big 64-pages, it was not very entertaining or educational. Unless your little one is a huge Elmo fan you would probably do better with another book, though for very young fans who like to color this would be a good choice.

The age group denotes baby-preschool and I thought I was ordering a book about clothing and getting dressed that I could to read to my toddler. It is actually an interactive coloring and activity book, with matching, finding and connect-the-dot games. The coloring book itself is well done but it is not for the baby or early toddler age. It does look like a fun and educational activity book for late toddler and preschool aged children. With no more than three pictures to match or 11 dots to connect, it makes an excellent first activity book.

Like the revolutionary "Steal This Book," and "Anarchist's Cook Book" of the 60's, the heroic Elmo weaves a tapestry of resourcefulness in modern America. The reader is left breathless as Elmo cuts and dodges his way through the street scene of his home, scoring various articles of clothing as well as other forms of life's pleasures. An important resource for today's American child facing a cold cruel world.

Being immersed in another culture is a difficult thing, and when you have to conduct business as well, it can be intimidating, as there are so many ways to make costly errors. This book uses cartoons to illustrate daily life in Japan and how the western mind processes it. It uses a fictitious family of a husband, wife and two children under ten to demonstrate the problems and joys of living in Japan.
It all starts with finding a place to live, which can be one of the biggest culture shocks. Apartments in Japan are smaller and congestion everywhere is a part of life. One of my favorite cartoons is called "Still Life With Lily", which shows a lily on a shelf next to a convenience place or toilet. However, one must temper the humor with the realization that this book was written in 1955, so it does not reflect much of what is modern Japan. Nevertheless, it is amusing and does provide some significant pointers on how westerners can adapt to live in a country where the culture is so different from what they are familiar with.

It's interesting to see this book 50 years after first written and to see what has (and hasn't) changed in the experience of an ex-pat family in Tokyo. The book simply contains several vignettes of life in Japan, as portrayed by the author's cartoons and captions. Interesting and amusing but not comprehensive or insightful enough for me to give it more than an average rating.

This very funny bookis about an American family lving in Japan and trying to accustom themselves to the differences in cultures. M's Cleveland uses black and white drawings to show the family, the Wests, in various situations.
One particularly funny one is Mr West goesto a geisha party. Mrs West's imagination runs overtime, imagining her husband enjoying himself more than she think he should. The reality of it is quite an eye opener. All the cartoons are funny but also educational.

I recommend this book highly for those of you how Japan appeared to Americans living there in the 1950s.

The Survivor In Us All, by Erna F. Rubinstein, was a great book about the Holocaust. It told the dramatic story through a teenage girl's point of view. She, along with her four sisters, dad, mom, and brother, had to try to stay together and support each other in order to survive and remain hopeful. The book, through great detail, explains what happened in the concentration camps and the hardships the family went through. The family had to suffer through multiple camps and near death experiences, in which only the author survived.
The author explains not only the physical hardships that the victims had to endure but also the mental ones. The author tells about how hard trying to grow up and mature is, while being contained and restricted. Another thing the author realized was, when she found love in one of the camps there was no guarantee that she would ever see that man again. That made her very cautious because she didn't want to have even more sorrow while she was struggling to survive.
The book not only captured your heart through what the people had to endure, but the book takes you to the site of where everything is taking place and makes you feel as if you are there. The book contains great detail and is very descriptive. The great detail in the book encourages the reader to continue reading and makes them wonder what will happen next and who will survive. I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted to learn about the Holocaust because it tells the story through a weak awkward teenage girl trying to discover who she is while growing up. This book would get four out of five stars because some parts were boring while most of the book was very vivid and expressive.

The book "The Survivor In Us All" was a heart-filled story written by Erna F. Rubinstein. She was a teenager during the Holocaust. Erna and her family were sent to many different concentration camps. This book helps you understand the reality of the camps. Her writing in the book was very descriptive. At times her writing was so detailed that it felt like you were right there with her. She opens up her heart in the book and her true feelings show through. I recommend this book to anyone interested in reading about true stories of Holocaust survivors. I really enjoyed this book.

I thought the book "The Survivor In Us All", by Erna F. Rubinstein was a very good book. On a scale of one to ten, I would give this book a eight. The reason I would give this book an eight, is because I thought at some points of the book it needed to be told in more detail, so you understood what was being talked about. I particularly liked the fact that this book was told from the viewpoint of a teenage female, because it showed me how I might have acted if the things in the book would have happened to me. I thought that this book was very emotional. Some parts of "The Survivor In Us All" I really felt like I was there, because of the rich writting. This book really changed the way I think about some things. It also helped me understand a little bit more about how horrible the Holocaust really was. I encourage both males and females to read this book. Once again this book is a very good book!

This book is almost an apology for the so-so predecessor "Warriors of Cumorah". It introduces plenty of that classic Tennis Shoes adventure and awesome characterizations as it explores that crazy time period of the Tower of Babel and the days before that final battle of Captain Moroni. Again, Heimerdinger goes overboard with some hokey plot devices, but it's all so well-written that I was able to forgive him.

I'm sorry, but I have to admit it publicly: I'm starting to be disappointed with this series. Blasphemy, I know. How can I possibly remain a faithful Latter-day Saint and have such an opinion? I don't have an answer to that.

However, as to why I didn't really care for this book I DO have an answer. The book on its own is a fun ride through ancient Jewish tradition, ancient Jewish myth, and the scriptural accounts of Genesis and Mormon. The characters we've all known and loved are still there, and the pacing is tight and fast. What's not to love?

Well, for me the story is simply TOO big and TOO fast. The first book in the series presented a story told with attention to detail and archeology. To me, the most impressive idea behind both the first and second books was the author's attempt to portray the Nephite civilzation as both small and barely into the Iron Age (which would be accurate for the time periods invovled).

Over the next books, however, we've seen a continuing change between using archeological records to using cultural traditions. In the first book we see that most of the Nephites are poor agriculturalists with few urbanites. We are told about how they grind corn, how the cloth they wear is simple, and how their swords are nothing more than wood and volcanic glass. It seems the most impressive building Jim and Garth see on their journey is the Temple of Nephi, which was basically a large box of a building (no offense is meant by that, either).

Contrast this with the city of Jacobugath with it's nearly impossible architecture and the Hollywood-sized pyrotechnics of the destruction of said city. Compare this to the Tower of Babel being so high that the air at the top is thin, with a base so huge in area that it takes DAYS to walk around it. Compare this to a huge flying City of Enoch that seems to circle the Earth every few months.

In Holywood, in order for sequels to be monetarily successful they must be BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, and just plain MORE than their predecessors. In my opinion, Mr. Heimerdinger has fallen victim to this line of thinking in his books. No longer must the past be somewhat accurate, it must be AMAZING. We're no longer dealing with what people have studied, dug up, or what we think we know about the people of the past; we're dealing with what ancient Jewish myths have said about the past. Suddenly we're no longer protecting Captain Moroni from a secret combination (something that we know could have easily happened), we're protecting the only copy of a Gospel from destruction, we're saving the Baby Abraham from destruction by his father and by the all-powerful Nimrod, who apparently rules the Entire World with an Iron Fist (and flying machines!). I'll give you that all of these situations could be *possible*, but for me I've lost the respect I used to have because they are no longer even *probable*.

Mr. Heimerdinger, if you ever read this, please don't think that each book must contain a hundred million more dollars worth of special effects than its predecessors. I read these books because I want to see how modern saints react to going into the actual past as far as modern archeology knows, not into the mind of an imaginative third-century-BC rabbi. I read them because I like the characters, not because I want to be blinded with the idea of "Wow! That idea is SO COOL!" I've been blinded so much that I'm starting to not see the point.

The Tower of Thunder is another great book in the Tennis Shoes series. In this book, Mary, Joshua and Becky have ended up in the time of the tower of Babel. They wander upon a woman who is dying and leaves the baby in their care telling them to bring him to Shem.
Akish, who had dropped his sword in the previous book, wants his sword back and the sword causes trouble for the group, trying to warp the mind of whomever uses it.
Harry and Megan end up in the times of the tower, too. They arrive during a battle and get captured when a spy bird calls out their position. They get accused of being angels sent from heaven by the king who is preparing his armies to wage a war on heaven.

We hear nothing about Ryan, Megan, Apollus or the others who were sent through time in this book.

I don't want to give out too much about this book so you will just have to read it yourself. If this is your first tennis shoes book, you might want to start with number one or two. This book does require you to know some characters from the older books.

A Walk In My Shoes by Gwynita Leggington is a book of lyrical verses, almost song like; poetry depicting the journey of a woman's life. Ms. Leggington shares her experiences with love, death, relationship with God and friends.

One particular poem stuck out to me, because I believe anyone can benefit from reading it, but most of all teenage girls. "I'm Happy To Be Me" begins with "I'm not a size two;" made me smile and say exactly, me either. Many young ladies need to hear the message written within this poem.

Ms. Leggington offers a book where healing, coping and joy and devotion can be found within the pages. The only downfall was the usage of the same meter in just about every piece. I would have loved to see the burst of color from the three pictures within the book. I recommend A Walk In My Shoes to young adult women, women struggling with everyday issues, and anyone who can appreciate good poetry.

Jennifer Coissiere
APOOO BookClub

A Walk In My Shoes, is an amazing book! Gwynita Leggington, is such a brilliant poet. She writes from her heart and soul. It was hard for me to put down this book. I truly enjoyed every poem and I recommend this book to everyone!

Applause to Gwynita for her soulful verses that will provide readers renewed hope and focus. A recommended book to add to every woman's library. Truly an inspirational uplift.

I love this book and was excited to finally find a hardback version. However when I received it, it was in fact a paperback version. Maybe the price should have clued me in on the binding but I assumed that Amazon was being truthful in their description. I have never had a problem with Amazon before in their product descriptions. If you don't mind a paperback version, this book is great. However, don't buy this assuming you are getting a deal on a hardback version.

"What can you do with a shoe?", Is a great little kids book. I really enjoy the type of books that get the children involved in reading with you and answering questions. This book does just that. It reads as though your child has answered the questions they ask, and they probably will! They are silly questions.

I found my 3 year old was making up his own "What do you do with's?..."

Very cute and lively, and entertaining to read. I enjoy Maurice Sendak's simple illustrations that go along with it.
If you like books that get your children involved, you may really like this one.

Maurice Sendak's lively little pictures hit just the right note for this playful exploration. It's great for getting children involved ... "Do you put pickles in your hat?" "Noooo!" Lot's of fun to be had with this one.

Excellent Book!!! A wonderful story for all ages. When Rachel and Hillary's parents die, they are forced to live with their mean aunt. The aunt, who treats Rachel badly, favors her spoiled perfect daughter Darcy. Darcy also hates Rachel. Rachel cannot dance but knows Hillary has talent and encourages Hillary to take formal ballet dancing. But Hillary wants to dance in the fun tumbling manner like all of her friends. Rachel gives her last efforts to save Hillary's dancing when she finds a talent of her own. Absolutely wonderful book I would give it 10 stars if I could. Every girl interested in dancing or acting should own a copy!

A very good book for young girls, who will strongly identify with the main characters. Rachel, (the serious, shy, intelligent child who is forced to dance and behave in ways which are out of her character), and Hillary,(the more impetuous, not-at-all-ambitious dancer in the family), cope with being orphaned and living with distant relatives in a dancing school. The glimpse of life in England 50 years ago makes this book well worth reading.

very old information in the book, no new information.

This book is very helpful to those clinician's who want to evaluate and fabricate foot orthotics in the office. Easy to read and follow. The author must be very good.