Weirdos from Another Planet!
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  • Life on this Weird Planet
  • Laugh after Laugh
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  • May Calvin never grow up!
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Weirdos from Another Planet!
Bill Watterson
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ASIN: 0836218620

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Life on this Weird Planet.......2007-07-13

Calvin and Hobbes has always been a great read. This was the first one in book form that I read and thoroughly enjoyed.

The book has many good strips and quite a lot of Sunday strips as well. The aliens show up towards the end and there is a good many strips on that series where he explores the Martian surface and rightly is told by Hobbes that if one is not potty trained would you invite them to your home? So of course after damaging Earth, men need not expect a welcome from the Martians or anyone else.

There is a lot of wisdom and good humour in the book. The opening splash page itself is attractive about why intelligent life hasn't contacted us - with a picture of deforestation.

Other favourites are of course being a tiger, or the tiger's welcome to the kid coming home from school, Dad's approval ratings in the election, the family outing, room service for the ill kid, etc.

The parents are delightfully tolerant of the crazy nutty Calvin. The family outing to the woods is a riot. Calvin wonders what kind of vacation is it if he has to be with his parents, LOLz. Even Calvin's vulnerability is explored when he panics after breaking Dad's binoculars.

This book is cute as hell - and especially a great gift to pretty young girls who thank me endless for making their day. You won't ever be disappointed, probably not with any Calvin & Hobbes collection - they are a gem, a treasure, a laugh riot, a piece of modern art and culture.

Beware of Captain Spiff, the T-Rex, the paleontologist, the incredible comic strip from the best graphic art has to offer.

4 out of 5 stars Laugh after Laugh.......2007-01-05

I am a Calvin and Hobbes fan. And this book did not dissapoint me.

5 out of 5 stars One of my favorites.......2006-10-19

I love all Calvin and Hobbes books, but this collection has a few of my favorites that never cease to make me laugh out loud, including:

"The Disembodied Hand That Strangled People" (I snicker just writing it)

The trip to Mars ("We're going in the wagon?" "Of course! What did YOU want to do? Flap your arms?" "I guess I hadn't thought about that part."
"Obviously."

5 out of 5 stars May Calvin never grow up!.......2006-07-29

Calvin is the kind of child that we all dread when they are a child and would admire and pay money for when they are an adult. His life and the life of his parents are summed up in the cartoon on page 77 when Calvin says, "Golly, I'd hate to have a kid like me." He is destructive, uncooperative, mean to his parents and extremely imaginative. Clearly, if he were to ever grow up, the quality of the entertainment that he would produce would be outstanding.
Fortunately, Calvin and his stuffed Tiger friend Hobbs are cartoon characters so they don't have to grow up. Cartoonist Watterson can keep them this age as long as he wants so that we can continue to be entertained by their antics. This collection of cartoons is funny, imaginative and is an exaggerated view of the life of a child. There is no question in my mind that Watterson was an imaginative child and probably got in a lot of serious trouble during that time. We should be grateful for that, as he grew up to be an outstanding cartoonist and this book is an existence proof of that.

5 out of 5 stars bed time favorite.......2006-03-22

I really enjoy these drawings! Simple but so touching!
It does to philosophy what high intellectual speculating cannot achieve: touch your hearth with the reality of everyday living. A treat every night before falling asleep!
European drawings are certainly known the world over as masterly executed cartoons; but here, in Bill Watterson's series of Calvin and Hobbes, the American's sense of humour express itself by reaching the intellectual and the down to earth feeling! It brings back memories of childhood and fundamental questions adults rarely take the time to ponder, even for themselves! Five stars for this delectable reading!
Women From Another Planet?: Our Lives in the Universe of Autism
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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  • A variety of approaches to self-realization
  • An eye-opening, powerful work
  • this book made me angry
  • wisdom from sisters i didn't know i had!
Women From Another Planet?: Our Lives in the Universe of Autism
Jean Kearns Miller
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Thank You For This Book.......2007-07-23

My daughter and I were diagnosed with Asperger's a few months ago.

I have been digging painfully through the literature, trying to find a book that "fit" her (our) symptoms enough to help her (us) out.

I am a scared father with Asperger's trying to understand what having Asperger's means to a young woman. I know what it meant to me when I was younger and I don't want any of that junk to happen to her.

Jean Miller and her contributors know and (thank goodness) they share what they know.

You cannot imagine how relieved finding this book made me.

5 out of 5 stars A variety of approaches to self-realization.......2007-04-12

Disclosure - I received my copy of this book as a gift from one of the contributors, who has been a personal friend of mine for years.
As a woman on the spectrum, I am used to our views being constantly ignored. The female experience of autism is qualitatively different from that of the male. If we don't talk, we are "shy". If we don't socialize with others, or need to watch what they are doing before we can attempt to join in, we're "not socially adept". If we don't join in the backstabbing and constant talk about makeup, sexuality, and clothing starting in junior high and high school, we're downright weird.

It is both easier and harder to be a woman autistic. People who think we are just shy frequently try to find ways to encourage us to "join in". And a lot of behavior that people find threatening from males on the spectrum, while not precisely acceptable in us, is less socially inappropriate. If one of us likes someone and doesn't know how to approach them, but constantly hangs around that person, someone might find a way to introduce us, if the person doesn't notice us by him or herself. In a male autistic, this same behavior could lead to stalking charges and restraining orders.

The fact that so many different women contributed to this book is a big factor in its success - at least one voice in there is likely to speak to someone.

And as for being self-diagnosed and "trivializing" autism... it is very hard to get diagnosed as an adult. Most of us, even those who have documentation of our severel language delay, are either "too successful" to be diagnosed (i.e., we have a relationship, employment, or advanced degrees and doctors dismiss our concerns about ourself), or are just diagnosed "Asperger's".

Personally, I spent much of my childhood echolalic and couldn't speak in sentences until I was almost 8. I still flap, rock, and enjoy watching spinning objects, and am extremely auditorily hyper-sensitive. I can still heard dog whistles. Bright colors disturb me, and I still can't drink out of cups that are colors other than clear, white, or blue without throwing up.
My childhood "diagnosis" was elective mutism (now called selective mutism) with autistic features, because I could read and answer yes/no or multiple choice questions. At the time, to be called autistic, you had to be mentally retarded. Learning disabilities (such as my inability to do even the simplest mathematical calculations) do not count. As an adult, I am labelled Asperger's, even though I STILL meet the DSM-IV-TR criteria for autism, since I have Semantic-Pragmatic Language Disorder, and the speech of people with Asperger's is supposed to be intact.

I work with children on the spectrum. I love most of them very much, and hope that they can become at least as high-functioning as I am. But I cannot understand their parents (other than a few who are actually on the spectrum or close to it [ADHD, etc]) to save my life. I have a very succesful history of being able to connect to autistic children, including ones who "don't like strangers" who were climbing all over me within moments of being introduced, and even occasional words or eye contact from children who otherwise live in their own worlds. People on the spectrum recognize each other, and these children seem to mostly realize that I am like them on some level. At least one of the other women whose writing can be found on this book shares this kind of relationship with these children, and works in the caring professions.

Open your mind, and at least read what some of us think. For people who are supposed incapable of thinking about ourselves or others, or of empathization, I find that most of us actually do better at these things than at least some neurotypicals (people who aren't on the spectrum).

5 out of 5 stars An eye-opening, powerful work.......2006-08-03

So often we stereotype autistics as being very limited in their ability to do basic functions of daily life. While this is true of some autistics, this book reveals that autism is not a single,universal condition, but a spectrum with a wide range of abilities as well as disabilities (the book's editor, who is autistic, is a college instructor). This book opens both the mind and the heart, enlightening readers about the variety of people who fall under the umbrella "autistic".

1 out of 5 stars this book made me angry.......2006-06-29

I really disliked this book. It is unclear if these woman are even on the spectrum. It trivialized what having autism means. I felt it was a bunch of self diagnosed women writing an artsy fartsy ridiculous look on the world of autism. I have a child with autism, and this book just pissed me off.

5 out of 5 stars wisdom from sisters i didn't know i had!.......2006-03-10

I loved the multiple-writers approach of this book. Many of the stories were similar to my own experiences as an Autistic woman, some were different. it helps me to understand the variations within our variation. Jane Meyerding's "Growing up Genderless" essay summed up for me a lot of the insidious problems faced by autistic women: as females we're supposed to be the socially adept gender: smoothing the way and facilitating the school dance, the weddings, children, family, school, church, husbands' career, etc.. When (because of autism) we don't act or look like "real girls" we are subjected to extreme ridicule and abuse and a feeling of not belonging anywhere.

These stories from women outside the box are and important part of Autistic culture; both to serve as solidarity literature for other mature AS women and hopefully give today's AS girls some more accurate pictures of how we really are and how we navigate the world.

the essay format is easy to read in chunks and the variety of voices make it a broader overview than any single-author book. I recommend this to Autistic women of all ages, especially if you've just learned that your "weirdness" is really called "autism". You're not alone, let these sisters share their stories.
Planet Mars: Story of Another World (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Astronomy)
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    Planet Mars: Story of Another World (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Astronomy)
    François Forget , François Costard , and Philippe Lognonné
    Manufacturer: Praxis
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    Mars, like planet Earth, is a complex and vast world with a long history. The authors of this book give a new insight of Mars by adopting an original outline based on history rather than on subtopic (atmosphere, surface, interior). They focus on the past and present evolution of Mars and also incorporate all the recent results from the space missions of Mars Express, Spirit and Opportunity.

    This book goes to the heart of current planetological research, and illustrates it with many beautiful images. The authors describe the magnificent scenery on Mars including Olympus Mons, more than 20,000 metres high and the solar system’s biggest volcano. At Mars’ poles, glaciers, formed from thousands of fine strata, are evidence of past climatic fluctuations. Drs Forget and Costard and Professor Lognonné introduce a new world and reveal the workings of the planet Mars. They answer the questions: How was Mars formed? Why has its evolution followed a different path to that of Earth? What do its river beds, volcanoes and glaciers tell us about its past? Could life have existed there? Does it exist there now? What processes ‘drive’ Mars today?

    The five parts of the book trace the history of Mars. Part 1 examines its formation from the ashes of dead stars, more than 4·5 billion years ago. Part 2 travels through its early and turbulent youth and gradual, 3·5-billion-year long metamorphosis. Part 3 traces the creation of great planetary structures while Part 4 explores this active planet as it is today, with its dust storms, water features and atmosphere, and shows that Mars is subject to continual climatic change. Finally in Part 5, the story of the recent exploration of Mars and current research in laboratories and space agencies in preparation for the missions of the next twenty years is recounted.

    Another Planet: A Year in the Life of a Suburban High School
    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    • Asking All the Right Questions
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    Another Planet: A Year in the Life of a Suburban High School
    Elinor Burkett
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    Not many adults would be willing to go back to high school voluntarily, but Elinor Burkett was driven by the question that has been haunting Americans since the Columbine shootings: What's going on in our suburban high schools? To find out, she actually spent a year at a suburban Minneapolis high school, sitting in on classes, eavesdropping on gripe sessions, attending pep rallies and concerts, and insinuating herself into the lives of students, teachers, and officials. The result is a first-hand and first-rate account of the myriad factors that are alternately paralyzing and pulling apart public schools. In a vivid lesson in high school social geography, we meet preppies and partiers, hip-hoppers, jocks, and Christian kids, and especially, the loners and outcasts who were harassed and feared after Columbine--kids like Roger Murphy, the school's only black student who quotes Dante and wears chains and spikes; Ashlee Altenbach, a hyperactive cheerleader who uses her ADHD diagnosis as an excuse for her behavior; and Reilly Liebhard, the misunderstood and sorely underchallenged school genius. Even more enlightening, Burkett talks to those on the frontlines, the teachers, as they debate the need for greater discipline and higher standards, complain about being made "the clothing-and-drug police, the lateness brigade and the parent hand-holders," and voice their anger over being the first to be kicked in the game of political football. Over the course of the year, this cast of characters amply illustrates the impact of such hot-button issues as zero tolerance, grade inflation, Internet plagiarizing, and the self-esteem movement. In the end, this one school throws adult society--and the tangled web of social changes that have helped undermine public education--into bold relief. Burkett has brought a keen ear and a fresh approach to a topic freighted by contradictory exhortations and political rhetoric, and penned a valuable and telling contribution to the debate over education reform. --Lesley Reed

    Book Description

    With a novelist's eye, Elinor Burkett takes readers behind the school system's closed doors, revealing a world of mixed messages, manufactured myths, and political hype.

    In the wake of school shootings across the country, one question haunted America: What is going wrong inside our nation's schools? To find out, award-winning journalist Elinor Burkett spent nine months -- from the opening pep rally to graduation day -- in a suburban Minneapolis high school. She attended classes, hung out with students, listened to parents, and joined teachers on the front lines.

    She soon discovered that, post-Columbine, fears about loners and misfits, "Smoker's New Year" (a pot holiday), "Zero Tolerance" policies, and school lockdowns have become as much a part of a teen's high school experience as dating and Clearasil. But Burkett goes even deeper and makes some startling conclusions in this poignant exposé of the real problems facing educators, parents, and the children they try to teach.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Asking All the Right Questions.......2006-01-30

    Usually I don't like reading the investigative writings of reporters which are so often dry, but Elinor Burkett's writing is anything but dry -- and has all of the scoop of the best of the best of investigative journalism. I first read her book "So Many Enemies, So Little Time" about her experience in Kyrgyzstan which interested me because I had worked in Kyrgyzstan ten years ago. Because I liker her style of writing so much, I wanted to read something else of hers and chose this book. A look into a suburban high school is not something that particularly interests me, but with Elinor Burkett, whatever she is writing about, she builds an interest into the reader with her way of asking all the right questions, and some that nobody else wants to ask but everyone is wondering about. I highly recommend this book to anyone who just like to see a good investigative journalist dig her teeth into a subject and chew and chew and chew until the final product is sometimes disburbing, sometimes beautiful but always, a little closer to the truth.

    1 out of 5 stars What was Elinor Burkett Thinking.......2005-06-01

    I could not believe Elinor Burkett used REAL FIRST AND LAST NAMES then follow them up with negative discriptions. Many discriptions had personal medical information. Oh yes, I am sure she got them to sign waiver's as they turned 18. She did not care about the students just the story. She got so many facts wrong. Many people were hurt by her inability to be factually accurate. This book should be in the fiction section. I found the book boring and I work at Prior Lake High School. She offered no suggestions to help the lifes she tormented

    5 out of 5 stars Watch for the Biased Reviews.......2003-05-08

    I am giving this book 5 stars even though I think it probably deserves 4. It appears as though a large portion of the negative reviews were written by students who were upset not to be included in the book. Also, one review appears to be duplicated, and I suspect that 4 1-star reviews were written by the same person - the atrocious spelling gave it away.

    I am not too many years out of high school (I graduated in 1996) and this book brought back a lot for me. Yes there are plenty of kids who do just fine, and yes there are some kids who just don't care and no matter what you do for them, they still won't. But what about everybody else? I myself had a bad time in high school. I graduated with a C average (a mix of A's in the classes with inspiring teachers, and F's in the classes with the other kind of teachers) and went on to graduate from college Summa Cum Laude. What would have helped me do better in high school? What would have helped me care? I don't know. Neither does Elinor Burkett. She doesn't offer any answers, probably because there isn't one simple answer, other than the fact that we need more well qualified, engaging, inspiring teachers who truly love what they do. They are out there - I have had some, and boy does it make a difference. But what person of that caliber is going to take a job that pays so little? One reviewer said don't let your kids in public school no matter what. The simple fact is that is not a financial reality for many people. I don't think that is the answer. We can't run away from the problem.

    I thought the book was very well written. It was a very quick and engaging read. I was drawn in by the characters, and I identified with so much of what they went through. I think one of the problems with high schools is simply a lack of maturity of the students. I felt myself wanting to reach through the pages to tell the students "hang on, it will get better. This is not real life, and this is not the way it will always be."

    4 out of 5 stars Scarier than Stephen King!.......2003-04-20

    Although it drags a little in the middle, this book ought to be mandatory reading for any parent about to send his or her child to public high school. No discipline, no values, no integrity, little education. I work two jobs so that I can send my kids to private school. Reading this made writing the checks a thousand times easier. The lesson of this book: even if you have to live out of your car, avoid public education!

    4 out of 5 stars If only the public knew.......2002-12-18

    Elinor Burkett's eye for subtle detail will open yours to the state of education in the American suburban landscape. One could not imagine a more sensitive 'fly on the wall' to the sociology of American education. As a retired educator of thirty years [in an adjoining school district from which the saga transpires], I can attest to the painful features of an institution which has far more concerns than education on its plate. Students, administrators, teachers, cooks, and everyone else caught up in the impersonal nature of the American high school are given free rein in their reactions to, and coping with, the 'beast among us.' You may shake your head in reaction to Ms. Burkett's reporting, and you may oftentimes laugh out loud at the antics portrayed, but I can guarantee that you will be amazed at what you didn't know about our most important social institution for our nation's future. With great humor and understanding, the author has done a service for anyone interested in that future.
    TOM SWIFT AND HIS PLANET STONE OR DISCOVERING THE SECRET OF ANOTHER WORLD
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      TOM SWIFT AND HIS PLANET STONE OR DISCOVERING THE SECRET OF ANOTHER WORLD
      Victor Appleton
      Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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      The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: Includes Cartoons from Yukon Ho and Weirdos from Another Planet
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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      The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: Includes Cartoons from Yukon Ho and Weirdos from Another Planet
      Bill Watterson
      Manufacturer: Andrews Mcmeel Pub
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      The week it hit the stores, Weirdos from Another Planet! touched down at No. 1 on Walden's and B. Dalton's bestseller lists and No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list. How do you top such success? With The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, a large-format treasury of the cartoons from Yukon Ho! and Weirdos from Another Planet! (including full-color Sunday cartoons) plus a full-color original story unique to this collection. Its reservation on the top of the national bestseller lists is already confirmed! Millions of readers have responded ot the tremendous talent of Bill Watterson. His skill as both artist and writer brings to life a boy, his tiger, and the imagination and memories of his ardent readers. After five years of syndication and six bestselling collections, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes picks up where The Essential Calvin and Hobbes left off - bringing more of the irresistible antics of Calvin and his magical sidekick Hobbes to millions of eager fans around the globe. As the strip's phenomenal success witnesses, Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes is the authority on humor.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars C&H FTW.......2007-09-12

      If you love C&H, you'll like this book. For me, Calvin is like pepperoni pizza... when it's good, it's really good, and when it's bad, it's still good.

      5 out of 5 stars More Calvin.......2006-10-19

      This book combines material from both Yukon Ho! and Weirdos From Another Planet!. Perfect to read with a blanket and a cup of tea on a rainy Sunday afternoon. It lifts my spirits up and makes me laugh, even when there's no one around. Really, that could be said about any Calvin and Hobbes book, though!

      3 out of 5 stars The creator is a God........2004-11-03

      Unfortunately, I say it rather cynically.

      My, there are so many monsters peopling this strip. The kid's a monster. His parents are monsters. The tiger's a monster. The teacher's a monster. The babysitter's a monster. And the only character who's not a monster (and more of a victim) is naturally enough, a young girl who is never bad or gets into any trouble. And the strip, while a rugrat's fantasyland, also smacks of extreme adolescent rebellion.

      The strip is so overrated even after its demise a decade ago that it's been ensured that no cartoonist alive or yet to be born would ever create a strip as well-worshipped as it is for all eternity to come. So why not just remove the whole comic section from the news for good?

      5 out of 5 stars A walk through someone else's imagination.......2004-07-25

      Calvin is a beam of light, a dinosaur, Spaceman Spiff, a pollster on the election of new parents, a robotic explorer from Jupiter (in search of chocoloate) -- well lots of things. He's all the best and all the worst a boy about five can be, and that covers a lot of ground.

      If the others around him never quite see things Calvin's way, that's really not his problem. Hobbes will always understand, and generally offer some understated commentary on events. I prefer not to say too much about Hobbes. It's really best if you let him introduce himself.

      This book is a treasury of daily and sunday color strips. It captures a part of one of the best strip comics ever. If you already know C&H, you'll surely want this collection. If you missed the strip when it was still in the papers, this will give you a wonderful introduction.

      It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and Calvin offers his for your enjoyment.

      //wiredweird

      5 out of 5 stars Another anthology of laughter.......2004-05-30

      Whether the collection is the "Indispensible" or "Essential" or "Quintessential" Calvin and Hobbes, it doesn't really matter. Watching this hyperactive, hyperimaginative child and his willing though wise accomplice, Hobbes, take on evil babysitters, Susie Derkins, the class bully and all creatures (real or imaginary), is a pleasure and laughter without stop. "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes" is another in a long list of the great comic work of Bill Watterson. This is an indispensible/essential/quintessential collection for all Calvin and Hobbes and humor fans!
      Weirdos From Another Planet Calvin and Hobbes
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        Bill Watterson
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        Abduction to the Ninth Planet : A True Report by the Author Who Was Physically Abducted to Another Planet
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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        • Abduction to the Ninth Planet
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        Abduction to the Ninth Planet : A True Report by the Author Who Was Physically Abducted to Another Planet
        Michel Desmarquet
        Manufacturer: Bookpeople
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Paperback
        ASIN: 0646159968

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars You can't make this up!.......2006-12-04

        Thao thank you for showing Michael all of this. I am greatly inspired by the truth being shared in this manner.

        5 out of 5 stars Abduction to the Ninth Planet.......2005-07-31

        I am blown away by this book, and what the author describes he was shown during his trip. His account confirms living in lower gravity, in harmony and love, the way of living, all serving one intention without monetary system, the dwelling places, Earth politics compared to true governing, the history of our planet, so much of what many of us have seen ourselves. The loving light energy he describes is very real. I bless and thank Michel for publishing his report. Read it, you will love it, it will open your eyes!

        5 out of 5 stars Amazing.......2003-04-02

        The book advises us that we should understand and know using your logic rarther than blind believing.There are military secrets that were classified that the author shouldn't have any knowledge of them when it was written.The proof exists in your mind.The book is great to be read along the freedom of choice.(thiaoouba.com)

        5 out of 5 stars This book gives you a goal to strive for.......2003-01-02

        There will always be sceptics. No matter what proof you give them they won't believe you. This is why Michel Desmarquet from Australia were given no physical evidence about what happened to him in 1985. Instead, he wrote a book about his experience: A journey to another planet on the other side of the galaxy. There he met advanced beings, the supervisors of the planet Earth, and was told to write a book with a message they have to the people of our planet.

        The beings watching us won't make our homework for us. They would love if all people on this planet woke up and if the leaders knew the direction to lead the people, but it doesn't work like that. People need to wake up individually, and realize by themselves that going against nature won't bring anything but misery to this civilization. They would never show themselves openly here, because it will just create another flock of followers.

        When you read this book, aside from getting explained about Earths history from the first man on Earth to present time, you will know what can be done and what you can achieve all by yourself, and together with people, without having to surrender your free will to anyone. If you can push the sceptic aside and realize that proof need to arise nowhere else but in your own intellect.

        Remember that the sceptics have limited knowledge. Whereas your imagination is unlimited...

        5 out of 5 stars Abduction to the Ninth Planet.......2002-10-25

        This book is incredible!. You will have a hard time putting it down on the first read and having to come back to it for 2-3 re-reads to fully digest the content. For those who can fathom a reality as outrageous as the size of our universe (billion stars in each of a billion galaxies etc) you will find the details in this book give perspective on earth and human history on it. It also gives a spiritual perspective beyond a single life giving perspective to one's soul journey. The cost is small and the effect on the reader's paradigm shift is immeasurable, buy it, read it, consider its truth's. Even if you take it all as fiction your life will be profoundly affected by this story.
        Princess from Another Planet
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          Princess from Another Planet
          Mindy Schanback
          Manufacturer: Holiday House
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Hardcover

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          ASIN: 0823418472

          Book Description

          Growing up is hard enough, but when your mother is convinced that she's the Queen of Pannadeau, well, that makes it all that much harder. Fourteen-year-old Gracie Wright's life has been as far from royal as could be: She lives in a rundown trailer on the wrong side of the tracks, wears hand-me-downs, and has to work at her father's shop. But then weird things start happening. Strangers turn up who seem to know an awful lot about her family. They also seem...a bit out of this world? These mysterious visitors show up at the shop. And after her little brother is kidnapped, Earth doesn't seem so safe anuymore. Will Gracie accept the mantle of her birth? Or will she decide to remain eartbound?
          Another Day in the Milky Way
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
          • My son loves this book!
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          Another Day in the Milky Way

          Manufacturer: Putnam Juvenile
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Hardcover

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          ASIN: 0399245480

          Book Description

          Monty's world seems a little different this morning. For one thing, he can't help noticing his mother suddenly has three heads. And is serving liver flakes for breakfast. Then there are the unusual animals he encounters, who all seem to be talking and . . . wearing costumes? There's no way around it—Monty has definitely woken up on the wrong planet.

          The problem is, he has no idea how to get home. He needs advice. But from whom? The scatterbrained donkey? The no-nonsense ant? Or the old man on the mountaintop?

          Readers will delight in joining Monty's journey through this oddball alternate universe, packed with funny details.

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars My son loves this book!.......2007-09-19

          My son (3 1/2) found this book at the library. He is facinated with outer space and aliens. Since we took it out we have read it each night - at least once. He loves this story. And now when he goes off to pre-school I have to say "Don't lose your head. Don't eat anyone" every day as our good-bye. It is a really sweet, immaginative story with great illustrations. And we just love that the "horse's" real name is Tulip. Having loved this story so much, I will be checking out the other titles by Mr. Milgrim. I highly recommend Another Day in the Milky Way.

          5 out of 5 stars Excellent.......2007-09-02

          I really enjoyed this book. I bought it for my son (18 months) to enjoy when he gets a little older. It is about a boy who is dreaming and goes to space.

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