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Emma and Paul star in one of the most anticipated best-selling books for 2006. Teri Crane, The Potty Pro, will launch her new book. Potty Train Your Child in Just One Day (Simon & Shuster), on Good Morning America June 6th 2006. Teri will be using Corolle's Paul and Emma to explain that in order to make her program work you must have a potty training doll and her favorites are Corolle's Paul and Emma. Throughout the 20 city tour whenever Teri talks about her book, she will always have Paul and Emma with her!
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Great tool for potty training any child.......2007-10-10
I bought this book after my best friend and my son's pediatritian reccommended the techniques used by Terri. I soon learned that my bigest battle for potty training my son was my readiness not his. What an eye opener. So after having my husband take the parent readiness test, we discovered that it would be better if he threw my son his potty party. And I am happy to say it worked! Since we had the party a month or so ago we have only had a couple of accidents (too preocupied) and have just conquered the overnight step, and my son is 3years and 3 months, yeah! I have to also note that I am doubly impressed with Terri. My best friend has had a terrible time, and I mean drag out, knock down, in tears terrible time with her son (same age as mine). So with nothing to loose I emailed Terri and to my surprise she called me back to give more help and suggestions. Needless to say my friend is relieved that even if things don't go smoothly, there are still ways Terri can help. Terri has so much compassion and concern for both parent and child. I never thought that I would have such an amazing expireince from just one book!
A Must Read for Parents of Toddlers!!.......2007-09-17
Teri Crane, the Potty Pro is outstanding. We bought her book for our 2.5 year old son and IT WORKS! We met Teri at a Potty Training Seminar, bought her book and she gave us her e-mail and phone number. Teri has even called us answering our potty training questions.
We didn't talk about potty training with our son until the day of the potty party. He never used the potty before our potty party. And during that afternoon, he went #1 in the potty. It's amazing! He loves his dolly and is so proud that he taught Dolly how to use the potty. He has gone on the potty for the last 2 weeks, with a few accidents. We threw his diapers away and he's so proud that he is a "big boy" now like Dolly! He wears big boy underwear like Dolly and even carries Dolly around with him!
Teri makes potty training fun and easy! It's a must read for all parents going through the joy of potty training their child! We are so proud of our son and he's proud of himself, thanks to Teri Crane!
Too Overwhelming.......2007-09-07
I'm a party person, and a stay at home Mom, so I have the time. But this is a bit over the top. Even the author admits, your child will not be completely trained in one day. He or she will get there, and will be able to use the potty in one day. But for me, we'll go back to planning on several days of training, and a few weeks of consistant reinforcement. There are some great tips in the book, such as the doll to use, and the stickers, treats, etc. . . But the best tip was the little side bar leading me to the Huggies Big Kids web site. There's a ton of information there. Not a bad book, just a little over optimistic if you can't stay really exited about staying in the potty all day.
Thank You! Thank You! It works!.......2007-08-11
First off, how can ANYONE "review" a book if they have not READ it? The negative reviews on this book are just plain silly. Just because you don't like the IDEA? Try putting the IDEA and PLAN into action and then you can honestly give a real review.
I bought this book on a whim. I've been wanting to potty train my 2 1/2 year old son for quite some time. At first I was highly skeptical! I thought, "Maybe for older kids who just need that little push. This will NOT work for my son who is completely oblivious to what's going on in his diaper!" I waited a couple of months to let life settle down. During this time he became more aware of his body and met all of the requirements in Teri's book.
Some reviewers complain about how much money you HAVE to invest and I just have to disagree. You CAN go all out, buy the most expensive doll and buy every single item on the recommended lists..or you can simplify things. I simplified our plan. I purchased a $12 "Lots to Love" doll from Wal~Mart and lots of stickers. We made our own chart up and had a nice supply of underwear on hand. I spent maybe $10 in snacks and had plenty left over to carry on through the week. You don't HAVE to do anything the book suggests, I went with the basic model and idea and we had a blast! My son was thrilled by his new baby, he was thrilled with a few new boardgames (which I would have bought anyways). He loved the attention and the games and all the books I read to him.
I didn't think my son would get into the roleplaying aspect, but he did! He fed his baby and showed his baby the potty and watched videos and read books with his baby. He named him George and he would say "Good Job George!" everytime George was successful. It was a wonderful morning and we celebrated George becoming a big boy by going to McDonalds. We got some strange looks over my SON carrying around a half naked babydoll wearing Thomas the Train underpants..but I didn't care! I proudly looked people in the eye and said "He's learning to be a big boy and is teaching his baby how to use the potty!"
I was VERY nervous about the second half of the day. Again, I was still skeptical. My son, obviously, LOVED having so much juice and treats and really got into racing Mama to the potty! He was successful the first time we tried it! Everytime he'd sit on the potty, he'd make sure George was sitting on his potty too! We went through 3 pairs of underpants that day and had a successful poo-poo in the potty! All the juice actually helped with my son's constipation problems!
We celebrated with just us. We ordered a pizza and gave our son a couple of small presents. He loved them and he loved his small little cake! You don't have to spend tons of money to teach your child simple concepts.
It has been almost 2 weeks since our party. He didn't magically train in one day, but the party kickstarted the process. He has good days and bad days..and the bad days are due to MY attitude and not being as excited about the process as I should be. He has learned so much and makes more and more advances with each passing day! He's gone from waking up in a SOAKING wet diaper, to sleeping in big boy underwear and waking up to go pee in the potty. He has gone from NO awareness to telling me in the middle of a fascinating movie "Mama I have to go pee pee!" We are on day 2 of NO accidents and I couldn't be prouder of my son! I may feel a little silly doing the pee-pee dance in a public restroom, but seeing the satisfied and happy look on my boy's face is worth all of the embarassment in the world!
The best part is the personal attention and assistance I received from Teri. I had emailed her, asking for advice on using public potties. My son was NOT interested. Imagine my surprise when I received a personal phone call from Teri herself! We had a wonderful conversation and she gave me some very helpful insight and encouragement. I told her I had recommended this book to all of my friends and the internets.
THANK YOU Teri for all of your help! I look forward to implementing your advice and am excited about my Big Boy! He is so proud of himself and I owe it all to Teri Crane!
Even if it takes more than one day...............2007-08-10
This book has helped us in so many ways! We tried to potty train our son with no success several times. In desperation, I read Teri Crane's book and tried the potty party. Although it initially worked, after the novelty wore off, my son somewhat regressed. I went to the web site and emailed Teri Crane, and she contacted me immediately with many more helpful ideas and suggestions!
In the past year I have found invaluable help from the book, especially the back section with information with the experts, and most of all from Teri Crane. She is an author who believes in her product and is willing to help. She has given me, more than anything, empathy, understanding and peace of mind.
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In this book, respected military analyst Anthony Cordesman provides the first in-depth examination of the key issues swirling around the most significant U.S. war since Vietnam. Finding answers is essential if we are to understand the United States' awesome power and its place in a new age of international terror and regional conflict. Finding answers is also essential if we are to draw the proper lessons and understnad the new challenges of conflict termination, peacemaking, and nation building.
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Lessons Still Being Learned.......2004-12-25
With Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons, Anthony Cordesman has produced the most throughly researched work to date on this subject. Thoroughly sourced (although not indexed), Cordesman provides a near-encyclopedic view of the early phases of the Iraq war through mid-2003. This is not an easy read, dense, and often dry. But Cordesman offers a wealth of analysis and criticism.
Much has changed since this book's publication, and the proof of Cordesman's analysis is that his critique of what had gone wrong in 2003 and could go wrong in the future remains on target at the end of 2004. In particular, in the chapter "Conflict Termination, Peacemaking, and Nation Building," the list of 38 problems and failures (pp. 497-504) is a truly damning summary of the way the war has been managed to date. "Managed" not "fought" -- our military forces are doing their best, but have been placed in an impossible situation by the Bush administration.
Over and again, Cordesman returns to a key refrain: "...The U.S. military needs to fully accept that conflict termination, peacemaking, and nation building are as much a part of their mission as fighting. These must have the same priority as combat if terrorists and unstable countries are not to mutate, change tactics, and reemerge in a different form. No strategy for asymmetric warfare can be adequate that does not address these tasks as being as critical as the defeat of most enemy forces in battle.... The U.S. military did not learn this lesson from the first Gulf War, the Balkans, or Afghanistan."
Anthony Cordesman is no bomb thrower; in many ways he is the consummate think tank insider, and in fact, after laying out list after list of failures and problems over the course of 500 pages, he waffles near the end: "There is no way to predict how well the United States will do in the near term." On the contrary, when this book was published in September 2003, Cordesman had effectively made his predictions, and they are still coming true. The only thing upredictable is the final outcome.
Although I have not read it yet, I suspect that a more recent book by Cordesman, "The War after the War: Strategic Lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan" (June 2004, 96 pages) is the "lite" version, and may prove more readable for the reader who does not have the patience to wade through nearly 600 pages of sometimes dry analysis. But analysis it is, not unsubstantiated speculation or cant.
A thorough, information-laden presentation.......2004-02-09
The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, And Military Lessons is an extensive study of the second war against Saddam Hussein's regime. Expert military analyst Anthony Cordesman knowledgeably dissects the course of the war as well as the interaction of joint forces day by day. He then draws lessons from the forces' interactions and conduct as applied to army land forces, marine corps land forces, naval forces, including intelligence concerning weapons of mass destruction. A thorough, information-laden presentation, The Iraq War is a very highly recommended and timely addition to Military History reference collections and reading lists.
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War taken to pieces........2001-08-16
This book is the second of a series of 4 books chronicling modern conflict.
Vol 1. The Arab Israeli Conflicts 1973-1989. Vol 2. The Iran-Iraq war. Vol 3. The Falklands and Afghanistan. Vol 4. The Gulf war.
These books provide an in depth analysis of the various forces engaged in the conflicts and the losses sustained by both sides. The authors have studied the weapons systems employed and the tactics used, and from these have drawn their conclusions on what was the route cause of success or failure in these modern military conflicts.
The authors conclusions are hardly mind shattering but they are sensible. Based on what happened and without an agenda.
Aside from errors concerning the Blowpipe missile (which manages to make an appearance in nearly all the wars) and its vulnerability to flares, (it isn't vulnerable at all) and the failure of this type of missile against crossing targets. (The operator's not the system itself) The books are quite accurate and thoroughly researched.
These series of books are a valuable tool for any student of modern conflict.
A comprehensive look at the longest war of the 20th century........1999-09-05
This is THE book to get for a nuts & bolts look at warfare. An exhaustive study of weaponry, tactics, leadership, systems effectiveness, and combined arm tactics. I highly recommended this book to any diehard milatary history student.
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The Lessons of Modern War: The Gulf War (Lessons of Modern War)
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The Gulf war reviewed.......2001-08-16
This book is the last of a series of 4 books chronicling modern conflict.
Vol 1. The Arab Israeli Conflicts 1973-1989.
Vol 2. The Iran-Iraq war.
Vol 3. The Falklands and Afghanistan.
Vol 4. The Gulf war.
These books provide an in depth analysis of the various forces engaged in the conflicts and the losses sustained by both sides. The authors have studied the weapons systems employed and the tactics used, and from these have drawn their conclusions on what was the route cause of success or failure in these modern military conflicts.
The authors conclusions are hardly mind shattering but they are sensible. Based on what happened and without an agenda.
Aside from errors concerning the Blowpipe missile (which manages to make an appearance in nearly all the wars) and its vulnerability to flares, (it isn't vulnerable at all) and the failure of this type of missile against crossing targets. (The operator's not the system itself) The books are quite accurate and thoroughly researched.
These series of books are a valuable tool for any student of modern conflict.
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In Chance, celebrated mathematician Amir D. Aczel turns his sights on probability theory—the branch of mathematics that measures the likelihood of a random event. He explains probability in clear, layman's terms, and shows its practical applications.
What is commonly called luck has mathematical roots and in Chance, you'll learn to increase your odds of success in everything from true love to the stock market. For thousands of years, the twin forces of chance and mischance have beguiled humanity like none other. Why does fortune smile on some people, and smirk on others? What is luck, and why does it so often visit the undeserving? How can we predict the random events happening around us? Even better, how can we manipulate them? In this delightful and lucid voyage through the realm of the random, Dr. Aczel once again makes higher mathematics intelligible to us.
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Probabilities pulled out of nowhere.......2007-06-19
This book started out somewhat interesting with high-level discussion of the basics of probability. A nice refresher course of things I imagine most people reading this book already know. Things started to heat up with a neat and surprising example of how many people in one room it takes to have a high probability of two people having the same birthday (26 - can you believe it?!). The explanation and back-up statistics were detailed and easy-to-understand.
Then, when it started to get into more interesting topics such as love and the stock market, there was much less statistical back-up. In most cases the explanation was along the lines as follows: "Important people doing complicated research have said you should date 45 people before you find your soulmate." While that is an interesting factoid, I purchased a book on chance to see the statistics and math behind the numbers, not just for cocktail reception fodder.
The book felt organizationally incoherent and quickly jumped from topic to topic with little introduction leading into or conclusion smoothly summarizing individual "lessons".
There are many better books on probability.......2007-05-28
A short book describing in non-technical terms some standard topics in mathematical probability -- e.g. gambler's ruin, coincidences, birthday problem, secretary problem. The writing style is reasonably clear and accurate. But this type of material has been covered in many other books with more breadth and flair, not to mention value for money. Read instead Rosenthal Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities.
"Probability" is not a four-letter word!.......2007-05-12
Amir D. Aczel, Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004)
Chance. If you play poker, the ponies, the market, you're well acquainted with it. Or, if you don't, consider the truism that you risk your life every morning when you walk out of your house. What are your chances of getting struck by a bus? Or by lightning? How about that you'll get mugged? Or find a hundred-dollar bill in the gutter? No, Amir Aczel won't actually tell you the probabilities of these things happening, but reading this will likely make you think a lot more about such things.
Chance covers a lot of the same ground as Clio Cresswell's Mathematics and Sex, but from a more, shall we say, platonic viewpoint. If you've read one, you're going to be seeing a lot of familiar stuff, but some things don't overlap, so both are well worth your time. Recommended. *** ½
What luck is all about!.......2006-05-02
Surely, this book about propability is written for the
layman. But even if you are little more expert than that,
it is quite good. I certainly enjoyed walking through memory lane
in theory that I once learned in a probability course at
University.
The examples are many - and very thought provoking. From
time to time the theory is only touched upon lightly - but no
problem - Wikipedia.org (or other internet sites) might help
you with the finer details of e.g. Bayes theorem,
the secretary problem or what ever you might
want more details on.
And isn't it nice to know that you will have a
0.0005 chance of dying in a car accident if you live
5 years in France, or a 0.9999984 chance of surviving
20 flights this year. Or if 10 people gather in a
room there is a 12 % chance of a birthday match. With 23
people in the room there is 50 % chance of match.
You can't live without that kind of data!
-Simon
CHANCE.......2006-03-20
This book covers alot of ground in discussing topics in probability without becoming too technical. The book is succinct, easy to read, and seems that is was meant to pique one's curiosity in probabilities teaching some interesting principles and ideas. These ideas could be further expanded with more of a specialized and more technical probability textbook.
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