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Financing Education in a Climate of Change (9th Edition)

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Financing Education in a Climate of Change (9th Edition)
Vern Brimley , and Rulon R. Garfield
Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0205419143

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This classic resource on school finance contains the most comprehensive and current information that effects school finance, including historical, economic, technological/mathematical, and legal points of view. The writing in this book is both scholarly and engaging, appealing to a diverse audience of students, educational leaders, parents, and legislators. Gives readers a broad overview of school finance in a clear, comprehensive, readable manner. School finance is an ever-changing topic and this book, now in its Ninth Edition, continues to cover all current trends to provide readers with a firm grounding in educational finance issues that administrators need to understand. In-service and pre-service teachers, administrators, legislators and parents.

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A keeper.......2007-03-08

In addition to being a textbook, this is a resource worth adding to your professional library.

Good book.......2007-03-08

This book was just what I needed for my class. It had all the info that I needed to help me succeed in the class.

Financing Education Review.......2006-01-29

Great book. Very helpful in my study of the school superintendency. Very practical and useful information.

Bergin and Garfield's Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change

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the bible on psychotherapy research

Bergin and Garfield's Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change
Michael J. Lambert
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0471377554

Book Description

One of the most important overviews of research findings in the field, this book has had an enormous impact on psychotherapy and has become a standard reference for citation and practice. This updated and revised fifth edition keeps pace with the rapid changes that are taking place in the world of psychotherapy and makes recommendations for future research and practice.

Highlights the many weaknesses of traditional science for understanding human dilemmas and emotional problems
Incorporates the latest developments and reflects important changes in the field
Emphasizes practice-relevant findings, as well as methodological issues that will help direct future research

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the bible on psychotherapy research.......2007-02-13

Yes, I know it's very expensive, but it is the single best resource for current research on psychotherapy...what works, and for which populations. If you feel a little squimish when you hear the words "evidence based practice" this will put you in the know. I would only recommend it for experienced psychotherapists who have some basic knowledge of research methodology. Would not be helpful for the general public. Especially helpful if you have to do battle with insurance company reviewers.

Garfield Blots Out the Sun: His 43rd book (Garfield)

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Same as the dailies
Garfield always makes me laugh.
Garfield Fans Will Love This Book
Showing his age

Garfield Blots Out the Sun: His 43rd book (Garfield)
Jim Davis
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0345466152
Release Date: 2007-01-30

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Garfield Blots Out the Sun: His 43rd book!

Gluttony on a Galactic Scale!

Like the Universe, Garfield is constantly expanding. Fans of the fat cat will get a big bang out of this all-new collection of comics, featuring Garfield at his funniest - and hungriest!

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Same as the dailies.......2007-03-24

This is a great book if you don't get the daily Garfield comic sent to your in box.

Garfield always makes me laugh........2007-03-24

This is a compilation of the Garfield comic stips from most of the year of 2003. They are all in color now when the book compilations used to be in black and white. They had a special series called the "Garfield Treasuries" which featured the Sunday comic strips in color.
Although it's nice to see the comic strips in color, it seems to me that they're slower in putting out these books than they were with the old-style ones. Hopefully they will speed up the production of the strips into books since it IS 2007, and they're still working on strips from 2003.
Still, I really like Garfield and always look forward to more of these books, even if they ARE so slow about putting them out. :)

Garfield Fans Will Love This Book.......2007-03-23

Just another classic Garfield book and exactly what you expect. Loads of fun as Garfield gets older and heavier!

Showing his age.......2007-03-09

I never thought the day would come when I'd consider buying a Garfield book a waste of money. Don't get me wrong, I love Garfield and will probably still buy the books, but only when I have extra cash and there's nothing else I want to buy.

This book feels like a repeat of all other Garfield books. Old gags are simply given a fresh coat of paint and Garfield himslef seems bored by it all. It'd be better to save your money and read the comic strips online. If you really want to read this book, try a library. You'll be glad you saved your money.

Parliamentary Procedure at a Glance: New Edition

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In the heat of the meeting, reach for this book!
Parliamentary Procedure at a Glance: New Edition
Parliamentry Procedure at a Glance bu Ossie Garfield Jones
Parliamentary Procedure at a glance
This is the one

Parliamentary Procedure at a Glance: New Edition
O. Garfield Jones
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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In the heat of the meeting, reach for this book!.......2007-06-25

The center pages of this little book are worth the book's purchase price all by themselves. Every kind of motion and amendment are listed in their priority, making it extremely easy to untangle the knots that many of us get into when the meeting we are leading suddenly has a flurry of motions. Keep it handy, open it to the center, and you will see at a glance what to do and who is right in their understanding of the way to handle a particular motion.

I was introduced to this book in a parliamentary procedure class - the copyright of my edition is 1971! I have referred to it ever since and given it to many friends and organizations.

Parliamentary Procedure at a Glance: New Edition.......2007-01-10

I found this very helpful and easy to understand.

Parliamentry Procedure at a Glance bu Ossie Garfield Jones.......2006-07-10

Better than I expected. A very good general guide to meeting procedure with some very good ideas and notes

Parliamentary Procedure at a glance.......2005-09-10

I was buying this for our 4-H parliamentarian (10 years old), hoping it was kid friendly.

It is still very complicated and am not sure it will meet our needs.

This is the one.......2001-04-17

This is the one you want if you are a novice at parliamentary procedure. After experiencing several unruly church conferences I began looking for an easy to use book, this is it. The center of the book indexes all the basic procedures you will need. I compliment the author in making it easy to use and not making the reader drowsy.

The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

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attachment to emptiness
Excellent resource book!
Tough but Worthwhile Reading
great translation but mediocre interpretation/exposition
A precious resource, but I suspect it tames Nagarjuna

The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika
Nagarjuna
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For nearly two thousand years Buddhism has mystified and captivated both lay people and scholars alike. Seen alternately as a path to spiritual enlightenment, an system of ethical and moral rubrics, a cultural tradition, or simply a graceful philosophy of life, Buddhism has produced impassioned followers the world over. The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the first century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating metaphysical and epistemological treatises. His greatest philosophical work, the Mulamadhyamikakarika--read and studied by philosophers in all major Buddhist schools of Tibet, China, Japan, and Korea--is one of the most influential works in the history of Indian philosophy. Now, in The Foundations of the Philosophy of the Middle Way, Jay L. Garfield provides a clear and and eminently readable translation of Nagarjuna's seminal work, offering those with little of no prior knowledge of Buddhist philosophy a view into the profound logic of the Mulamadhyamikakarika. Translated from the Tibetan, the tradition through which Nagarjuna's philosophical influence has largely been transmitted, Garfield presents a superb translation of Mulamadhyamikakarika in its entirety. Illuminating the systematic character of Nagarjuna's reasoning, as well as the works profundity, Garfield shows how Nagarjuna develops his doctrine that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence and essenceless. But, he argues, phenomena nonetheless exist conventionaly, and that indeed conventional existence and ultimate emptiness are in fact the same thing. This represents the radical understanding of the Buddhist doctrine of the two truths, or two levels of reality. Nagarjuna reinterprets all of Buddhist metaphysics and epistemology through this analytical framework--"a systematic and beautifully elegant philosophical dissection of reality." In turn, Garfield goes on to offer the only verse-by-verse commentary based upon the Indo-Tibetan Prasangika-Madhyamika reading of Nagarjuna, the school most influential in the development of Mahayana philosophy in Tibet, China, Korea, and Japan. Written specifically for the Western reader, the commentary explains Nagarjuna's positions and arguments in the language of Western metaphysics and epistemolgy, and connects Nagarjuna's concerns tho those of Western philosophers such as Sextus, Hume, and Wittgenstein. A fascinating and accessible translation of the foundational text for all Mahayana Buddhism text, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way will enlighten all those in search of the essence of reality.

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attachment to emptiness.......2007-01-22

i have not studied all of nagarjunas logic carefully in this book, it seems that he is arguing for the underlying emptiness of all things on the basis of his assumption of dependent or mutual arising. perhaps its a bit more complicated than this though. a cup of tea is not a cup of tea in itself. nor does the teabag have any individual or inherent identity, rather the teabag is a collection of collections without any individuality. just as my finger is a collection of cells, so a teabag is a combination of dependent things. infact he believes that everything depends on the presence or absence of something else. tea leaves depend on the presence of tanins, flavins, cells, maturation, drying, there is nothing inherently existent that could be called the individuality of the teabag. this of course defies common sense, but is reasonable. why cannot a collection be at one and the same time an individuality. ie one in many, or many as one. such an argument though would be contrary to nagarjunas thrust, which is to emphasise the existence of emptiness through dependence. ie everything that is dependent has no individual uniqueness (or soul) since all individuals are merely collections.

i am still studying nagarjuna, it seems that a statement such as "walker is not the same as walking, nor is it different from walking" can be argued any way which can. "walker is not the same as walking, if it were how could the two be told apart, nor is walker different from walking, or otherwise there would be walking without walker." it could be argued on the grounds of oneness that walker and walking are one and the same, that structure and function are inseperable. you could just as easily say that walker is the same as walking and that is why there isnt walking without walker. if nagarjuna says that legs are not the same as arms because they can be told apart he is right, because they can be told apart, but wrong because arms and legs are all part of one body and cannot be separated. so paradoxically one can say that walker and walking are not the same, but one can also say that they are the same (the same body/oneness).

it can be argued that walker is walking, walker is not walking, and as nagarjuna says walker is not the same as, nor different from walking. infact whatever you seek to prove, if you are clever enough, you can prove it. this is the nature of reason and logic. a donkey that is lead by the carrot of the person who possesses it.

i find his logic is clear (it is)infact, it is pure genius, but as with all logic one has to realise that at this moment logic is thoroughly illogical. though perhaps when he wrote it was thoroughly logical. logic being logical? logic being illogical? two sides of the same coin. if logical can be illogical why discuss something as important as emptiness using logic? this defies a common understanding of nagarjuna, unless of course he wished to impress buddhist emptiness upon the minds of the common people. or, perhaps he really did believe in the immutable logos (reason) of plato. that insoluble all pervasive notion of truth. personally i see that reason has its uses (many of them groundbreaking and earth shattering), but can often be used to say what you want, especially when it comes to philosophy.

i find the argument for emptiness grounded in dependent arising 'can' be compelling, or not compelling. its just how you approach it. in that a collection does not necessarily indicate an individuality, it could be seen as a collective, for example a sea sponge colony 'may' have no singular conscious individuality as the colony as a whole, but then a human being is a collection with a consciousness . but as i see it, dependent arising could be used as a proof against emptiness just as much as a proof for it. i believe that the buddha would have days where he took time out from such an approach, that is he would respect the agile logical display of nagarjuna, but have said "not on mondays nagarjuna".

i dont think that the buddha was about dogmatising certain concepts and words such as emptiness, as useful as they may be. even freedom can become an obstacle to relationship and his word "liberation" can be in buddhism taken to mean many different things. it may just be that mental freedom and freedom from suffering are synonymous. emptiness is representative of water and air, but one should not forget the presence of fire, or gold (earth)(male elements)that are representative of fullness/form. to argue away form for emptiness seems unbalanced. just as to argue away emptiness for form would be unbalanced, though it may be an interesting excercise (and not too difficult). infact rising to the challenge if one looks in minute detail/huge magnification at an area of space one will find it a quantum soup, and not nearly as empty as one expected. infact buddha is implacable when he says emptiness is form for this could imply that there is no emptiness, only form. or visa-versa one could argue that all is empty.

i have also read nagarjunas, i think its called the flower garland, which was less a discussion of emptiness and logical proof for such, though his approach in the middle way comes across in this book too. no, i remember now its called the discourse of the precious flower garland.

i realise that my comments on nagarguna's mulamadhyamakakarika may seem disrespectful regarding the buddhist saint, and have no desire to show disrespect, but i do feel that all in all, though brilliant his arguments are not compelling ground for emptiness. this is because i am aware of the bias behind reason. there are other ways to illustrate emptiness. the buddhas "emptiness is form" for example is a much clearer statement of anti-logic, that i find very elegant. also the prescence of the zero in any effective numerical system requires a hypothetical emptiness.

i have no doubt that in the original tongue nagarjuna was a marvellous poet, sadly this does not come across in this translation or in "verses from the centre" a different translation of the same work. perhaps, in his poetic form his genius would have shone out as much as it does from his rational genius.

this is an interesting book to read, a fascinating insight into the mind of an early buddhist saint and an example of how one can use logic to prove anything, even that which intuitively seems almost impossible. but personally i dont feel it tells me anything, other than showing patterns of logic, which are a useful thing to aquire. i must say though that i am 'astonished' by the mans logical dexterity.

i would have found nagarjuna more interesting if he had tried to prove the existence of form and balanced this with a proof for the existence of emptiness. for in truth it is not balanced to prove the existence of emptiness without proving the existence of form. and you cannot prove the existence of emptiness without proving the existence of form, for emptiness is form. it can be argued that all is emptiness, but it can also be argued that all is form. whatever you look for is whatever you find. such is the nature of reality. seek and you will find.

infact... making things fun, and killing the buddhas word, i would say that "form is not emptiness, form is form" is just as true as "emptiness is form". this is the buddas freedom. playing with logic, one does not take reason too seriously on mondays, but... aah, on tuesdays it is profoundly important.

thank you nagarjuna for the encouragement you have given many.

love, flakey xxx.

Excellent resource book!.......2007-01-09

For those desiring a 'meat & potatoes' study of the Middle Way, this is an excellent book.

Tough but Worthwhile Reading.......2006-03-19

I spent the better part of year getting into this book. Having begun to understand Nagarjuna's project, however, I have fond that this book has completely changed the way I think.

Basically, Nagarjuna works against two types of philosophical view: the view of the naive realist, which assumes, for example, that motion, perception, and causal force are inherently existing things, and the view of the nihilist, who would say that all these things are nonexistent or illusory.

Take causality. It seems that one event must surely cause another because of some sort of inherently existing causal force, right? The problem is that this causal power, if it exists, must either (1) appear as an essential property of certain events under certain conditions, or (2) it must appear as a property of those events mysteriously, for no particular reason. In the first case, causality itself requires a causal explanation--an infinite regress. In the second case, the explanation of causality, which is supposed to explain all regularities which we perceive in the universe, rests upon an ineffable mystery. So events do occur in a particular order with a certain degree of regularity. However, there is no need to posit some additional, basic force in order to explain this causal regularity.

A good way to appreciate Nagarjuna's perspective is to look at certain recent ideas from science and the humanities according to its light. For example, the theory of evolution tells us that the idea of "species" does not refer to some inherently existing type of essence, but rather that "species" is a handy designation for organisms which are of a certain degree of similarity to one another at this particular point in time. As organisms of a given "species" give birth to offspring, the very definition of this "species" changes, since it was never a monolithic, stable, inherently existing thing to start with.

I strongly recommend this book, difficult though it is. I would also suggest the Dalai Lama's commentary on the Heart Sutra (Essence of the Heart Sutra) and Chogyam Trungpa's book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism as partners to this text.

great translation but mediocre interpretation/exposition.......2005-05-10

i've read multiple english translations of the mulamaadhyamika kaarikaa and strongly feel that jay garfield's is easily the most lucid one available on the ancient text. but from the start i felt garfield's interpretation lacking in hard logic and so concentrated only on the translation. for an intellectual understanding on the subject i used trv murti's "central philosophy of buddhism" which imo is probably the best exposition on the subject in english (garfield himself cites murti's work as one of his references). garfield's translation and murti's exposition complement each other rather nicely. after a few years of study i feel amply rewarded and am thankful to garfield (as well as murti) for it. a piece of friendly advice for madhyamika students : don't be seduced by the subtle dialectic. most often it is the ordinary sounding verses (often sounding out of place in the chapters) which represent the true light in the text. you need to reconcile the dialectic with these verses for true understanding to dawn. to be carried away by the dialectic is like catching a snake by the tail - as the classic commentator chandrakirti warns. the day the "cries of the intellect" have subsided in you and your mind neither accepts nor rejects anything, you can set this book aside!

A precious resource, but I suspect it tames Nagarjuna.......2002-07-14

This book has been a treasure to those of us who had stared in consternation at K. Inada's translation or wrestled with the misprints in D. Kalupahana's edition. Here lucidity reigns. But there is something excessively dry and scholastic about Garfield's Nagarjuna. I think this is partly due to the fact that Garfield translates from the Tibetan, not the original Sanskrit. Compare his translation of Ch. 19, verse 1: "If the present and the future/Depend on the past,/Then the present and the future/Would have existed in the past", with Sprung's: "If what is arising here and now and what is not yet realized are dependent on what is past, what is arising here and now and what is not yet realized will be in past time" (which could be further improved by translating "atita" as "what has been"). So dry is Garfield's diction that his retention of a verse format seems pointless. The Gelug-pa Tibetan interpretation of Nagarjuna is a scholasticizing one, and loses some of the savor of emptiness and liberation which gives meditative point to Nagarjuna's laconic logic. Also, Garfield keeps referring to Hume and Wittgenstein in a way that further domesticates and scholasticizes Nagarjuna, making him a linguistic therapist who frees us from substantializations and reifications, but who also allows us to install ourselves comfortably in the conventional dependently co-arising world. It seems to me that in Buddhism this samsaric world is always painful, radically unsatisfactory, and that Nagarjuna is not just curing us of false theories about it, but is revealing it as radically self-contradictory even in its everyday pragmatic or conventional texture. To say that emptiness "is not a self-existent void standing behind a veil of illusion comprising conventional reality, but merely a characteristic of conventional reality" (p. 91) sounds very bland. Emptiness is not just any characteristic, but a radically subversive quality of our world, which it is by no means easy to realize. "The actuality of the entire phenomenal world, persons and all, is recovered within that emptiness" (p. 95) is again too bland. Only a Buddha can grasp the world in its ultimate emptiness and its conventional texture at once. The recovery of the conventional from the point of view of ultimate emptiness is not a comfortable restoration or even a disillusioned Humean resignation to conventions. It means realizing that the apparently solid world of experience is only a flimsy, provisional raft or skillful means, surpassed by the empty ultimacy which it can serve to indicate. "The eventual equation of the phenomenal world with emptiness, of samsara with nirvana, and of the conventional and the ultimate" (p. 101) is very, very eventual, so that only a Buddha can perceive it correctly. Asserted too early, too sweepingly, it can short-circuit the path to liberation.

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testosterone and boredome
Part IX of the Kirk Saga. What a great way to end the William Shatner Kirk saga!
James T. Kirk in all his "Glory"
Good action, and fun, but the end is dumb.
A decent inclusion to the Trek Universe, but self serving, too.

Captain's Glory (Star Trek)
William Shatner , Garfield Reeves-Stevens , and Judith Reeves-Stevens
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With the civil war on Romulus averted, Kirk is finally free to seek out the truth behind the death of his oldest and closest friend. Was Spock killed by the shadowy organisation known as the Totality? A generous offer from Starfleet provides him with the starship he needs in order to reach his goal. Their only proviso: that they can call on his help if they need him. But what happened to Spock is not Kirk's only worry: Joseph, his son, is rebelling wildly against the restrictions placed on him as the price of Romulan peace. Is the Totality somehow also linked to Joseph's rage? But before he can find the answers to either troubling question, Kirk receives a call from Admiral Janeway, telling him she needs him to save the Federation. Torn between his mission and his duty, the cause of the Federation must claim him one more time before he can turn his attention either to his friend or to his son.

Pop culture icon William Shatner returns with another breathtaking Star Trek adventure in which both generations must battle an unstoppable enemy for the existence of all life in this galaxy -- and beyond.

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testosterone and boredome.......2006-11-08

The only interesting part is that regarding the skills of Kirk against Picard: two of the most different starfleet captain engaged in a battle against one another, where the only goal is that of inflicting the lowest damage.
The story is virtually inexistent, it seems there's nothing more to say... but Shatner says it anyway

Part IX of the Kirk Saga. What a great way to end the William Shatner Kirk saga!.......2006-10-13

I have read everyone of the Shatner Kirk books since Ashes of Eden and I have greatly enjoyed everyone of them. There is nobody better to write a Kirk adventure than the man that invented Captain James T. Kirk. I've read a lot of Star Trek novels in my life time and none have fascinated me more than Shatner's Trek novels. With that said I want to review Captain's Glory.

One of the greatest aspects of this book is the pace of the story. There are hardly any slow times during the book where something is not happening. From the beginning to the end I was on the edge of my seat wanting to know what was going to happen. The creation of the Totality is absolutely superb and what makes it so great is there has never been a villian quite like them. Norinda is such a great character and the interaction between Norinda and Kirk is excellent.

One of the things that Shatner has done better than any other Star Trek author is bridging the gap between the T.V. shows. Clearly, Shatner is a fan of Next generation and Voyager because those are the main characters in this trilogy. I really hope that authors in the future are able to do half as well as Shatner has with this aspect, and if they do there should be plenty of interesting Trek novels in the future.

Some have commented that the ending is not that good or not what they expected. I thought the pace and how Shatner brings all 9 of his Kirk novels into a final "finale" was excellent and very well written. The ending was very satisifying for me and I don't think Shatner could have ended his saga any better.

It's sad this will be the last of his Kirk novels but I couldn't have asked for a better bookend than Captain's Glory. Well done Mr. Shatner. Well done. Thank you for 11 great years of Star Trek "Glory".

James T. Kirk in all his "Glory".......2006-09-20

To get down to it, this was, for the most part, a pretty good book. Up until the ending, I felt it was the best out of the "Captain's ..." trilogy and it reminded me a lot of the Shatner & Co.'s Preserver saga. For once, there's a fair balance between Kirk's characterization and those of the other characters. Picard is written to be Kirk's equal on many fronts instead of being his lacky or sidekick as he at times comes off as in the previous books. There were some good crossover moments as well, including Voyager's Admiral Kathryn interacting with Kirk and Picard's crews, Riker and the Titan being involved, a glimpse at the Enterprise-E's new crew, Voyager's EMH Doctor and McCoy and Scotty backing up Kirk.

This book did have its flaws which held it back from being a hit like earlier works. It's the classic Trek plot; the entire Federation and Earth are being threatened and Kirk/Picard are the ones who can make a difference. While the problem the Federation faces is somewhat original, it's been done in the novels before in small ways. Also, the book had a feeling of "The Search for Spock" part II in modern Trek times. The enemy, the Totality and Norinda who embodies it (sort of as the Borg Queen represents all that the Borg are) perhaps a true Original Series enemies; they have an idea of how to bring or offer peace to a troubled universe and offer love as an alternative. The book hits its slump toward the end with a few-chapter long tactical battle between Kirk and Picard. It was interesting for a few pages; by the second chapter, it seemed to drag on. While the characterizations were pretty good, I found Riker and Janeway to be way off. Janeway was written to be some brooding, angry, short tempered typical "admiral of the episode" type of character. Riker seemed irrational, angry and just not himself at all. Worf was written as always growling and basically disagreeing with anything said. The EMH Doctor didn't seem necessary to the plot at all and Scotty and McCoy barely seemed needed other than to give Kirk someone to talk to when he wasn't interacting with Picard.

With those and other flaws that a reader or fan of Trek would pick up on, it was still a good book and a big improvement over "Captain's Peril" that started this trilogy. It actually seems to wrap up the Shatnerverse to this date; the plot involves bits and pieces of the Kirk story since Ashes of Eden, The Return and on through "Captain's Blood". There were some appearances of characters from the past novels and it also seemed to serve as a small reunion of sorts for the TNG crew which I actually liked; it does spoil "Death in Winter" for Picard/Crusher fans, it seems like it reveals a little about the new crew members on the Enterprise-E, Counselor Troi has a rather big part as the counselor/diplomatic officer in the novel. There are references to Deep Space Nine, but none of those characters appear in the plot. Even Janeway seems to be given more material and attention here than she does in the Voyageer-Relaunch novels.

In all, I'd recommend the book. It's fun, and it does echo Star Trek's ideals and messages. There's a conversation between Kirk and another Original Series character (I won't spoil it) that really seemed to capture the moment and remind the reader what Star Trek is all about. It's high in action and drama and only loses its steam toward the end with a "that's it?" sort of ending and conclusion.

Good action, and fun, but the end is dumb........2006-09-15

Ok, so I LOVE to read about Kirk and his new adventures; THE RETURN is probably my favoritre trek book ever.
However, all of this "tying together" all of the old adventures is getting on my nerves. And the end result of this book is really kinda stupid.

That being said, I THOROUGHLY enjoyed reading it- and the Picard/Kirk starship fight is AWESOME.
REALLY well-written, and the "enemy" in this book is inventive.

So, in the end, I recommend READING it, but don't expect too much depth.

A decent inclusion to the Trek Universe, but self serving, too........2006-09-07

I consider myself a big Trek fan -- I have never dressed the part nor attended a big convention, but I still love all the series and sorely miss the recently cancelled Enterprise (which receives a small mention). Of all the Trek theatrical releases, I consider Trek V the Final Frontier to be the all-time worst... and guess what? It was written and directed BY William Shatner. After that horrible outing, it took some desperate need to read something before I relented and bought a copy of 'The Ashes of Eden' in the bargain book section some years ago. I gotta tell you: it was instantly one of my favorite Trek novels. The resulting series with Judith & Gar Reeeves-Stevens have been seriously some of the best Trek fiction bar none ('Preserver' still remains my all-time favorite Trek novel). While the Mirror Universe trilogy was sub-par compared to the rest of Shatners books (but was still great) I found the Totality Trilogy that began with 'Captain's Peril' to be a slow start to an otherwise pretty good series. 'Captain's Blood' was better in all respects, and I was VERY anxious indeed to see where 'Glory' would lead the United Federation of Planets after a full-scale invasion from the Totality, quite possibly the most dangerous foe ever featured in all of the Trek Series.

One of the great strengths of the Shatner version of the Trek Universe (strongly influenced by his co-authors) is how almost all of the series crossover. Some fans strongly disagree with this, but I happen to VERY much enjoy storyline's from the original series that link together with Next Gen and soforth. Especially when it happens to be done as clever as Shatner has been able to pull it off. The Totality, which was introduced during Kirk's original 5-year Mission is slowly re-introduced beginning with 'Captain's Peril' and sits center stage here has become a most formidable foe indeed because how can you fight an enemy who can seemingly take over the bodies of literally anyone they choose without you even being able to tell, and does it all from the perspective of Love. How can Starfleet fight that? At the end of 'Captain's Blood' Spock was taken by the Totality, but is he truly gone? Well a quick reminder that this is Science Fiction and that Spock has on more than one occasion died on us only to come back, so the answer to that doesn't exactly require an intellectual leap. Some of the best sparring between Picard and Kirk happens here. Pitting both Captain's against one another DOES make for some entertaining reading. Unfortunately I found it to be a bit tiring overall. How many times can Kirk & Picard find themselves on opposite sides and still remain friends? Sure, their bond is a hard one to ignore, but it is precisely because of their bond that I found some of the scenes where they were reluctant adversaries to be a tad hard to swallow. I still enjoyed the novel a great deal, but Shatner needs to find a more fitting enemy for Kirk to overcome than Picard -- who ultimately ISN'T the enemy at all.

I also have to say that as I came to the end of the book I found it difficult to see how everything was going to be solved with so few pages left. The Totality seemed to be such an incredibly complex and huge danger to Starfleet that with so few pages left, I found it VERY hard to see how Kirk could possibly wrap it all up so quickly. It happens to be a minor gripe at best, but for me anyway, it was a valid one. You may believe differently. In ANY case, I still find Shatner's version of Trek to be one of the best, regardless of whether or not he follows previously established Trek lore. Give it a shot, I know I certainly am glad I did.

Financing Education in a Climate of Change

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Informative, detailed information
A complex subject is introduced well.

Financing Education in a Climate of Change
Percy E. Burrup , Vern Brimley , and Rulon R. Garfield
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0205287832

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This comprehensive book on school finance encompasses historical, economic, computer/mathematical, and legal points of view and is an excellent reference for both the practitioner and academic. The writing in this book is both scholarly and engaging, appealing to a diverse audience of students, educational leaders, parents, and legislators. School finance is an ever-changing topic and this book has continued to cover all current trends to provide readers with a firm grounding in educational finance issues that administrators often misunderstand. For educational leaders, parents, legislators, or anyone involved with school finances.

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Informative, detailed information.......2002-08-03

This book provides detailed information on almost every aspect of school finance.Updated charts and easy to follow chapters outline budget, business, accounting, state, and federal programs in both public and private schools.

A complex subject is introduced well........1999-08-07

This newest edition remains a popular book in educational finance courses in Texas and elsewhere. Information has been updated to reflect new legislation and current trends. The book has evolved well over the years, and this latest update does an excellent job of introducing EDAD majors and others to the complex world of school finance.

The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield

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Cat and the Human Imagination
Broad ranging,entertaining,work by a scholarly cat admirer

The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield
Katharine M. Rogers
Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
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ASIN: 0472087509

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The Cat and the Human Imagination is a fascinating historical survey of the changing cultural attitudes towards cats and the myriad ways that they have been depicted in literature and art. Feline images have permeated civilization since the time of the ancient Egyptians, and during this time the status of the cat has changed dramatically. The book examines the changing images-- fertility goddess, sly little predator, agent of Satan, avenging witness, aristocrat, friend, spirit of the home, bloodthirsty killer, seductive female--and relates them to the contexts in which they arose. It also analyzes how human attitudes towards cats seem to have evolved in parallel with attitudes towards animals, towards authority, and towards gender.

Western literature and visual art have reflected this change, developing from bare sketches to richly varied expressions of feline personality and human interaction with cats. Katharine M. Rogers seeks out the cats who make appearances in an impressive range of literary and artistic works, providing the first critical look at the symbolic functioning of cat characters in Poe's "The Black Cat," Dickens's Bleak House, and Zola's Therese Raquin, among other literary works. The historical and artistic range covered is impressive, creating a rich compendium that is the ideal book for the cat lover seeking a refreshingly substantial and scholarly work about this fascinating animal.

"This book is a classic-- something every cat-loving intellectual will have to own. (No one, of course, ever really owns a cat--but everyone should own this book.) It's the kind of book you want to quote from at the vet's, or cocktail parties, or whenever you get the urge to convert a dog lover to the true faith." --Emily Toth, Louisiana State University

Katharine M. Rogers is Professor Emerita of English, City University of New York. Her previous books include Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England and Frances Burney: The World of "Female Difficulties."

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Cat and the Human Imagination.......2004-06-05

"God made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger."
So said Fernand Mery, and so it is. The cat has shared our home since the age of the pharaohs. In that span of time she has been the subject of artists and poets, cartoonists and fabulists. By turns she has been depicted as either self-absorbed or self-possessed, maliciously rebellious or innocently mischievous, incorrigibly wild or something like Mery's tiger.
In The Cat and the Human Imagination Katharine Brown offers a fascinating overview of our changing perception of the cat. Brown analyzes the works of artists from Lorenzo Lotto, whose 16th The Annunciation includes a sinister, almost rat-like cat which seems intent on fleeing the holy scene to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, whose paintings of young women with cats were studies in languid sensuality. It's a pity there are so few paintings included in this book.
The writers who have felt motivated to write about the cat are too numerous to mention. Baudelaire evoked the cat's "physical beauty and grace" in his mid-19th century poem "The Cat" and shocked bourgeois society with his decadent tastes. The Bronte sisters made cats the mainstay in the well-ordered household and so pleased Victorian society. Poe stressed their mystery....
My favorite is Rudyard Kipling's "The Cat That Walked by Himself," the best of his Just So Stories. As Brown writes: "We not only tolerate the cat's resistance to human authority and take vicarious pleasure in its freedom from the conventions that inhibit us-we idealize its independence. Rudyard Kipling wrote the classic tribute to the cat's quiet insistence on keeping true to himself in the brilliant fable "The Cat That Walked by Himself." After Woman has domesticated Man, Dog, and Horse, Cat smells warm milk and presents himself at the cave. He persuades her to admit him by amusing the baby, putting it to sleep by purring, and killing a mouse in the cave - all of which he would have done anyway to please himself. Thus he wins his point without making any concessions: "still I am the Cat who walks by himself."
After reading The Cat and the Human Imagination it occurs to me that we need something akin to a quantum theory to account for our various perceptions of the cat. Is it a merciless predator or an epitome of solicitous motherhood? Is it the companion of haggard old crones or sensuous young women? Is it affectionate or aloof?
Physicist asked whether light was a wave or a particle and decided that the answer depended on who asked the question. Maybe it's so with the cat as well.

Broad ranging,entertaining,work by a scholarly cat admirer.......1998-07-30

The comprehensive scope and depth of Rogers' work reflects her long standing personal regard for and civilized society's varied view of the domestic cat over the centuries. Rogers' earlier studies of women in literature are woven into this work in insightful but possibly controversial ways which challenge and interest the reader. There are dozens of references to art and literature that provoke one's interest in learning more, and do not bore the reader. This is a work for adults, a gem that anyone at all interested in the societal history of the domestic cat will admire and return to.

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Childhood Favorite...
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Great book for kids
A 6th Grade Class Favorite
A worthwhile read

Follow My Leader
James B. Garfield
Manufacturer: Puffin
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Childhood Favorite..........2007-06-13

This book was my favorite book in 3rd and 4th grade. My best friend and I took turns checking it out from the school library, and often explored the concept of "disability" by taking turns pretending to be blind. This story is a classic story of overcoming adversity - it probably would made an excellent tv movie as well. It also is an excellent book for teaching kids about disability awarness, and that kids with disabilities can do lots of important things (like the challenge the main character overcomes in the story). My 9 year old daughter recently read it, and loved it too. She brought it to her 3rd grade class, and the class took turns reading it during free time. So, I think it is timeless!

Follow My Leader Review.......2007-03-21

Follow My Leader is a book written by James B. Garfield. There are different settings in which the story takes place such as a baseball field. The main character in the story is a boy named Jimmy.

Jimmy becomes blind due to a fire cracker. A kid had lit up a firecracker and when he realized that he was in trouble he threw it, but it exploded in Jimmy's face. The kid who threw the fireworks is named Mike Adams.

Ever since the accident Mike became meaner and all of Jimmy's friends stopped hanging around Mike. Jimmy started learning about things that blind people had to do such as learning Braille, how blind people walk in doors, and how to walk with a white cane. But, when Jimmy got a guide-dog he didn't need the cane anymore. Jimmy went to the guide-dog school and after enough training Jimmy got a guide-dog that he named Leader.

At the school, Jimmy's roommate was Mack. Mack had told him to forgive Mike. Mack was a blind man and before he was also mad at the person who made him blind. Then he had learned about how sad the person who made him blind felt so he forgave him he told Jimmy about all of this but, Jimmy didn't, know what to do. What will happen, will Jimmy forgive Mike or will Mike have a guilty conscience forever?

Great book for kids .......2007-01-16

It is a good book because it makes you understand what it feels like to be blind.
I liked it a lot.

A 6th Grade Class Favorite.......2006-04-18

My 6th grade teacher read this book to my class back in 1973. It was a class favorite!
What stands out most vividly all these years later is a complete lack of a whiny, self-pitying tone, while still dealing honestly with the anger and bitterness that Jimmy at first feels upon going blind. The book also honestly captures the tension between Jimmy and Mike, the boy who threw the firecraker at Jimmy (not on purpose), and how the strain between them is eventually resolved.

The book is also a fascinating look at the world of the blind, and of guide dogs. I've never forgotten the scenes of Jimmy at the school for the blind before he gets his dog. Even eating can be tricky; the teachers use clock face references so the blind students know where the food is (e.g. meat is at 3:00, the peas are at 6:00, and the glass of water is at 10:00).

I am glad to see this book is still in print.

A worthwhile read.......2006-01-29

I rated this book four stars instead of five for one reason -- I thought the characters in the book were somewhat wooden, not so well developed as they would be in a truly great book.

Never the less, my children were quite facinated learning about how the blind compensate for their lack of sight. It was quite interesting to me. It was also interesting that it was written nearly fifty years ago, so there were a few things, like the novelty of a straw (made out of glass, no less) during his hospital stay that reminded you of how old the book was. (Also the job Jimmy got at a newsstand was a job belonging to a different day and age.) But these things added to the charm of the story.

We were genuinely sorry to see the story come to an end, and my son asked if there were a sequel. That shows how much he enjoyed it. It is a great book with educational value.

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If you collect - you must purchase this book!
GARFIELD IS BACK!
Garfield Pigs Out: Oh yeah
Still funny - most of the times
The Best Book Ever!

Garfield Pigs Out (Garfield)
Jim Davis
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ASIN: 0345464664
Release Date: 2006-02-07

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When in doubt, Pig Out!

“To eat is human; to pig out, divine!” Garfield’s glorious, gluttonous philosophy is on full display in this new collection of comics. As everyone knows, when it comes to food, the cat just loves to make a pig of himself!

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If you collect - you must purchase this book!.......2007-02-09

I have every single Garfield book beginning with #1 - this is just another wonderful addition to what will surely be a cherished collection by my children when they are old enough to appreciate it.

GARFIELD IS BACK! .......2006-06-03

This is the best Garfield book ever released. I got it before it came out in Australia. I had the previous book Garfield Older and wider. That was a funny one. His 42nd had not lost a beat. I loved the book. You should to. It contains comics from the 28th July 2002 until February 2003. I reccomend that you get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Garfield Pigs Out: Oh yeah .......2006-06-02

BERTHA LOST WEIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, that isn't the highlight of the book (You remember fat Bertha from a previous collection? She lost 200 pounds in here!), but it doesn't mean it isn't a great strip. The book contains really great strips, including diner scenarios, christmas and others, with quoteable slogans and laugh out loud gags, this is one of the best collections this side of Loses His Feet. Funny extras (Garfield's favorite games to play with spiders), funny logos, funny cover, even (Two pigs looking bug eyed. There's something you don't see every day!). An all around good buy and great read.

Still funny - most of the times.......2006-03-05

Okay, so this is book number 42. I have felt, at times, that Jim Davis was running out of funny stories when it comes to Garfield.

This book, however, has been refreshingly funny. I enjoyed the read and found myself laughing out loud quite a few times. The bright colors and the nice compact size of the book helped also.

Still too short - as always (this is a theme for me with comic books), but still a good purchase.

The Best Book Ever!.......2006-02-28

this is without a doubt the best garfield book ever!

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