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12 reviews
Michael Phelps, Brian Cazeneuve

Sports Publishing LLC, 2008

A Must Read for Any Swimmer or Parent
Although this book leaves swim training to the coaches, this book offers the incredible journey of Michael Phelps from childhood swimming to the 2004 Olympics. As a college swimmer, it was a relief to read about his training and see similarities with my own. He offers lessons for life that are necessary for any young athlete. Phelps had help writing the book, but his words and experiences ...

Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus

27 reviews
Charles Mingus

Vintage, 1991

Genius
Genius genius genius, with thriving spellbound ingeniousness, billowed with an ego that would knock the head of anyone who was within eighthundred of his forehead. If you are going to read this book please be prepared to pull your pants off and get wet like a tigress inexorably, repeatedly, being stabbed in the belly by a machette. genius genius genius.......

Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities

3 reviews
Alex Marshall

Running Press, 2007

Explaining the Underworld
A beautiful book, monumental piece of research, with clear and engaging prose and a great mix of maps, illustrations, capsule histories, lively facts, and timelines. If you ever stood over a manhole or at the dark edge of a subway tunnel and wondered, "What's down there?" then this book will tell you. Beneath the Metropolis describes what's underneath 12 world cities -- New York, Chicago, San ...

Beneath the Mask: An Introduction to Theories of Personality

6 reviews
Robert N. Sollod, Christopher F. Monte, ...

Wiley, 2008

The best written psychology textbook ever, period?
It has been thirteen years since I had to buy the Third Edition of Beneath the Mask for a theory of personality class in psychology graduate school in 1987. The book is now apparently in the Sixth Edition. And it is the only textbook I have ever kept over the years. Usually textbooks are so dry. We hate them. They are poorly written in most cases, since they are written usually by dry experts ...

Dandelion on My Pillow, Butcher Knife Beneath

13 reviews
Nancy Thomas, Terena Thomas, ...

Families by Design, 2002

Excellent
Unfortunately, those that give this book a negative review are sadly mistaken regarding what is involved in RAD therapy. TRUE holding therapy is NOT holding a struggling child down while he or she screams in rage. Holding therapy is very gentle, where a child is held lovingly like an infant is. Mother and child make eye contact and mother sings or tells child stories. I have seen holding ...

Beneath The Roses

7 reviews

Abrams, 2008

DO NOT BUY FINE ART BOOKS FROM AMAZON!!
The book is fantastic! However to my horror it was packed very badly and the book arrived scratched and a big chunk taken out of the cover. Amazon expects me to pay for all shipping costs to get a refund. Since I live in Australia the return shipping would surpass the value of the books sent. I emailed Amazon with this issue 2 weeks ago and NO REPLY! DO NOT BUY FINE ART BOOKS FROM AMAZON!!

Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens

8 reviews
Debbie Riley

C.A.S.E. Publications, 2005

Author of new novel about troubled teen in foster care "RETURNABLE GIRL"
As Debbie says in her preface, if you are a therapist who works with teenagers you are bound to work with adopted teens. Debbie offers sound advice for therapists and parents alike in navigating the sometimes turbulent waters of adopted teenagers. As a therapist, parent of two teens, and author of "Survival Meditations for Parents of Teens," I heartily recommend Ms. Riley's book. My novel, ...

Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America

5 reviews
Lars Schoultz

Harvard University Press, 1998

American Ignorance and Attitudes Toward Latin American
In this readable and comprehensive book Schoultz describes the relations between the United States and Latin America. He shows the domestic politics, attitudes and individuals that made Americas relations with Latin America. We see the ignorance and attitude of superiority that was first stated by John Adams, and never totally went away. He demonstrates how England's influence in Latin America ...

Beneath the Wheel

25 reviews
Hermann Hesse

Picador, 2003

1906 is not far from 2008
For anyone being crushed and canned within the (mostly) incompetant and self-serving system of American Educational Faculty personnel, this book is a fair warning to any prospective college student (of any age) as to what they are really signing up for. I would suggest it as required reading prior to completing applications for any US institution of "higher learning". I completed a BA, MBA, and ...

Beneath a Marble Sky

91 reviews
John Shors

NAL Trade, 2006

Best Book This Year !
Our book club chose this as our Spring selection and the verdict was unanimous. It was the best story we had read all year. We spoke with the author during our meeting and talked about his experience in Japan as a teacher, his motivation for the story line and his research into the real characters in this love story of persistence and courage. It reminded me of Memoirs of a Geisha, as the main ...

Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards))

2 reviews
April Pulley Sayre

Greenwillow, 2005

Surprisingly lovely, and informative
I enjoyed this lovely book very much, and think that young children will be astonished to learn about what dust is and where it comes from. Adults too!

Beneath My Mother's Feet

6 reviews
Amjed Qamar

Atheneum, 2008

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Which path should you take when faced with the choice between your own dreams and the needs of the people you love most? That is precisely the dilemma facing Amjed Qamar's fourteen-year-old protagonist, Nazia, in her debut novel, BENEATH MY MOTHER'S FEET. When her father is injured on the job, Nazia's world is thrown into chaos when she must quit school to help her mother clean houses in ...

Beneath the Pines

1 review
Janet Beard

Two Dollar Radio, 2008

Great story about a Blue Ridge Mountain family
This is a strong story with believable characters, rich descriptions of the location, and remarkably accurate cultural details of the 1950s in rural Appalachia. Lots of local interest for readers familiar with the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Blink-182: Tales from Beneath Your Mom

55 reviews
Blink-182

MTV, 2001

Pure Awesomeness.
A must-have for any true blink182 fan. If i could only have 1 item from blink182 itd probably be this book.

Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas

11 reviews
Matthew O'Brien

Huntington Press, 2007

Roger Born MyMac.com Review
Writing a book about tunnels under a city can almost always spark interest in readers. There are so many tunnels, and so many cities that have them - an astonishing number, in nearly every country of the world. However, most anything written about underground spaces of the cities that have them range from ultra-dry Corps of Engineer type-documents to historical works of varying merit, some of ...

Beneath the Ice (Perry Sachs Mystery Series #2)

8 reviews
Alton Gansky

Barbour Publishing, Incorporated, 2004

The main course is frostbite! The appetizers are chills. Enjoy!
This is Perry Sachs book #2, so I realize that I'm a little bit behind on a few Gansky thrillers. I guess I always have some catching up to do. But this was great! For me it took a few pages for this to pick up, but once it did it happened rather nicely. So, if you happened to read "A Treasure Deep," then you can expect appearances from Jack Dyson, Gleason, and if you know Gansky's writing, a few ...

Beneath the Surface: The Hidden Realities of Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Young Learners, ...
Ken Pransky

Heinemann, 2008

Beneath the Surface provides both a framework and specific pedagogical strategies for working effectively with students learning English?. Ken Pransky asks teachers to take an honest look at who they are, what they know and believe, and what they do in their classrooms. The result is to encourage teachers to be genuinely empathetic and - in the end - exactly the kind of teachers we need for the twenty-first century. - Sonia Nieto ...

Beneath The Texas Sky (Zebra Historical Romance)

5 reviews
Jodi Thomas

Zebra, 2001

A returning award winner -- Very highly recommended
Her first novel, BENEATH THE TEXAS SKY, published in 1988, won both Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice for Best Western Romance of 1988 and the National Press Women's novel of the year by a woman in its category. Now Zebra reissues BENEATH THE TEXAS SKY with a new cover. In 1865 Texas, redhead Bethanie Lane can no longer avoid the lecherous advances of her uncle whom also treats her as an unpaid ...

The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

112 reviews
Salman Rushdie

Picador, 2000

For crying out India
Michael Pakenham of the Baltimore Sun is quoted on the back cover of the copy I bought of this book by saying, 'It's the best thing ever written about rock and roll. It is rock and roll ..' One question: How much did this guy get paid to say that. Multiple too many times, now, I've been steered totally wrong from critics who are joltingly convinced of how good a piece of art/entertainment ...

Beneath a Blue Umbrella

2 reviews
Jack Prelutsky

Greenwillow, 1990

Beneath a Blue Umbrella, a melon seller sat.
This was my cousin's favorite book as a child. Jack Prelutsky did a good job of it. Even though the book is about as long as a novel, my baby cousin (now nine and a half) sat through the whole book. When she got up to Anna Banana, she would hold her hands up in the air like she was walking on them. The poems, (some based on familiar nursery rhymes) others totally original, are still staples ...

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