FO Books

Intended for use with children in grades preschool through 2, Fee Fi Fo Fum: Puppets & Other Folktale Fun incorporates the theory of multiple intelligences into lessons that re-enact popular folktales. Each project includes black-and-white reproducible samples for paper puppets with directions, and a handful of ideas for activities, creative writing sessions, math exercises, and physical exercises. The folktales themselves are not provided, but all are based on commonly known and available stories such as "Cinderella", "The Tortoise and the Hare", or "How Brer Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail." An excellent and constructive activity resource for babysitters and day care centers as well as school teachers.

It's funny. It's smart. It's hard to grasp at the start but the plot tightens up after the first 50 pages. It's got a senile bent making it's characters operatic. I've learned to appreciate this kind of thing. It drops the right phrase in their mouths with comic timing. It lampoons the Reagan administration by someone with the age and credits to do a proper job of it. Fifty pages left; see you.

Dr. Howell must have spent many hours on her excellent research of an area not so often written about in our country. Her in depth knowledge of the Cumberland Plateau and the Big South Fork of Tennessee and Kentucky is evident, and the way she handled her presentation is outstanding. To a native of the area who has fished the river and its many tributary streams and who has climbed its many rugged hills the reading of this book was nostalgic.

G.G. The Diary of a Space Case is an outstanding fictional novel that appeals to both adolesents and adults. G.G. will make you laugh out loud and cry at the same time. This story has endearing characters that you will fall in love with. This is a very fun read!

I wish this book would be updated.

Very interesting, exciting journey leads to discovery of hepatitis B virus, its test and vaccine.
Must read for any researcher

This is by far the best book on orchid history ever written. A wealth of information on each historical orchid people that deserve to be there and with their corresponding photo!! It's all here!

All the other chapters are simply a delight to read. A must have for any orchid people with a sense for the past.

This book is great for all ages, it has pages to color that are full of excellent information about the sea and tides and how to surf. It keeps the feeling light and fun, just how surfing should be!

THIS AUTHORATIVE AND WELL DOCUMENTED ENCYLOPEDIA WOULD BE THE ONLY RESOURCE AN INDIVIDUAL WOULD NEED, TO BEGIN AN APPRECIATION OF THE FASCINATING WORLD OF WINE. ALSO , OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO THE EXPERIENCED WINE ENTHUSIAST ,ARE THE COLLECTION OF GROWERS AND PRODUCERS OF EACH CONTRY AND REGION ALONG WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE ADDRESSES.

MY OWN SPECIAL INTEREST LIES IN THE HISTORY OF WINES AND THEIR CURRENT STATUS. MY FIRST EXPOSURE TO WINES FROM MADEIRA ; PORTUGAL, CAME FROM MY FATHER WHO LIVED THERE AS A YOUNG MAN IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF FUNCHAL.

PLEASE CONTINUE THE UPDATING OF INFORMATION AS YOU HAVE DONE SO THOROUGHLY IN THE PAST . THE BEST OF TEACHERS HAVE ALWAYS REMAINED THE BEST OF STUDENTS AND YOUR CONTINUED EFFORTS WILL MAKE SURE ALL OF US REMAIN THE BEST OF BOTH.

MAY GOD CONTINUE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THE BEST OF HEALTH IN SPIRIT, MIND, AND BODY. I LOOK FORWARD TO MANY YEARS TO COME OF ENJOYING THE 'SIMPLIFIED WORLD OF WINE ', AS YOU PRESENT TO ALL OF US.

BEST WISHES TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

RESPECTFULLY YOURS, DAVID G. ANDREWS

One of the striking things about Humanistic Buddhism is how similar its tenets are to Western religious teachings. As one reads about the sanctity and importance of "filial obedience" to one's parents or that "lusting after beautiful women and raping them" is the wrong approach to love, these notes of familiarity turn acute: The morality of East and West have more in common than we knew.

This, however, raises a serious question: What can Humanistic Buddhism offer the reader that, say, a reading of the Bible or a study of the Koran cannot? The book's subtitle, after all, is "A Blueprint for Life," which suggests that within its twenty chapters are contained step-by-step methodologies for living in our fractured, fear-fraught world. Here the book's accomplishments are uneven. One positive instance can be found in a chapter on good health; citations of the Visuddhimagga's eight reasons for why we fall ill or the six reasons mentioned in the Mohe Zhiguan are the kinds of philosophical statements unavailable in other religious texts.

At the same time, if one is new to Buddhism, citing such texts -- and there are lots of them discussed -- can be a frustrating experience. Indeed, citing this or that Sutra means very little if one does not possess a strong, basic working knowledge of Buddhism, and the more we read and get a taste of the philosophy, the more frustrated we become without a foundation of information to guide us. For this reason, it should be made clear that this is not a primer, despite the impression given by a smart subtitle. This book is more a smart and savvy secondary course guide for the already engaged.

Taken on these terms, the book is exceptionally thorough, and seventy pages of footnotes (plus a long glossary) affirm the book's scholarship.

Finally, two chapters particularly stand out. "On Cause and Effect: The Way of Depending Origination" is a spectacular exploration of the karmic notion -- how actions and reactions have less a positive or negative quality than an interlocking, inevitable one. And "On Life: The Way of Birth and Death" not only demystifies the cycle of existence, but does so by avoiding the use of too many technical terms, opting instead for meaningful metaphors and, perhaps best of all, plainspoken language.

Leonard Jacobs

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