Emerson is a genious. His words in this small edition are just as sweet and easily accessable. It is handy to have a small version to keep close at all times. Everytime I look at the night sky I think of a quote of Emerson, "But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile." That alone is a reason to own the work of Emerson.

John Elder is a genius! The spirituality of Emerson's "Nature" is a perfect compliment to the deep philosophical naturalism of Thoreau's work. It just came in the mail an hour or so and i can't put it down! I'm going to reccomend it to all of my friends.

The Nixon Recession Caper involves four couples impacted by the Nixon Recession. They belong to an exclusive country club. One member decides that the only solution is to rob a bank. Can he convince three other club members to join his gang? Will the wives find out? What happens then? What happens when the banker calls on a club member? A very clever yarn that is complete with logic, planning, action, sex and other misadventures. Many plot curves occur at the end, which are fun and make sense. An easy read which is hard to put down. OK, these were all clichés but valid clichés.

Ralph Steadman. You may not know the name, but believe me, you'd recognize the art style at a glance. His furious, spastic pen-and-ink drawings laced with blown inks and blots of thick black-- as if someone snuck up behind him and yelled BOO! and his pen nib got frightened and let loose-- have been featured in perhaps every magazine and graced the covers of more than just his own books (the old cover for "Fear and Loathing" by Hunter S. Thompson comes to mind...). What's fascinating is the amount of books he has written himself.

With such a jumbled style of illustration, you might find it odd that he's written a childrens' book. Published in Australia in 1989 and currently out of print in the States, it exists in "No Room to Swing a Cat."

Our tale opens when our hero, Tom, announces that his room is too small (hardly surprising considering it's stuffed to the gills with blocks, cars, checkerboards, stuffed animals-- including a moose and dinosaur-- and Tom himself). His mother asks what he means, and Tom says that it's not even big enough to swing a cat in. NOTE: Tom doesn't WANT to swing a cat in it, he's merely pointing out that you CANNOT swing a cat in it-- a distinction that should probably be made to children who get this book read to them.

Thereafter ensues some Steadmanian fun-- mainly two page spreads of Tom swinging various animals to his mother's enquiry of how big his room SHOULD be. "Big enough to swing a pig?" his mother asks, and there on the page is a teeny Tom swinging a large, stunned looking pig by the tail. Tom goes through a number of different animals, each getting larger and more ridiculous looking as they're being swung, until it's revealed that he want's his room big enough for HIM to swing in. At which point he and his mother go outside to Tom's swingset.

If you've seen Steadman's artwork, you'll know it's quite chaotic and sometimes almost sinister-looking. Big blobs of ink are splattered pell-mell across the canvas; if the ink were red, you might think he had been brained right there at his easel. Tom himself is depicted with a big frown-- a simple upside-down semicircle line across his face that gives him a somewhat haunted look. For the last decade or so, the trend in children's books have been towards self-esteem and conflict resolution and away from chaotic illustrations of cockeyed kids whizzing stunned dogs around over their heads. The British phrase use as the title and genesis of the book may be enough for many people to pass up the chance to search for this one, but I personally don't see much harm in it.

Firstly, most of the animals Tom flails about are already taking up space in his room at the very beginning of the book, and it seems reasonable to me that any room that you can't successfully swing a stuffed moose in IS too small.

Secondly, for older children it can help to explain the complex world of adult phrases and simile ("guerrilla warfare" was the one that always stumped me when I was a child; I had visions of half-man, half-ape creatures fighting it out with American soldiers).

Finally, in a world where children have ready access to handguns and Pokemon has our preschoolers running amok pretending to shock, zap or burn each other to cinders, the amusing (if queerly drawn) pictures of one child swinging a stuffed elephant around to show how small his room is pales by comparison.

It gave me lots of extremely rich vacation experiences. I visited listed locations in Ontario, Arizona, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and California.

EVERYTHING you wanted to know about The Honeymooners' "Classic 39" episodes! Plenty of behind-the-scenes stories, last-minute script changes, on-air ad-libs (such as Gleason's surprise crash ending to the "Core A Apple" episode, and Norton's "Rx" exclamation), interviews with cast members, crew members, etc. If you love The Honeymooners or not, this book is an absolute must-have! There has been no better book written documenting a television sitcom! Zip-Zip, this review is done! ;) - Paula Martin -

If you're interested in old telephones, you need this book! Plenty of photos to help you identify old phones and their parts and much more importantly, wiring diagrams so you can make 'em work again. Also has a section on how to clean up old phones and make them look and work like new. This book is available in-stock elsewhere as a reprint edition, but is worth the wait if you want to order it here.

The Old Trails West is a vivid account of the original pioneers who blazed the first trails into North America's western wilderness.

Travel with Spanish conquerors as they claim the American West; share the agony of the catholic priests who literally walked thousands of miles to bring the gospel to an untamed land; experience excitment and danger with the men who brought civilization down the Missouri River.

The book reads like an adventure novel, and Ralph Moody's mixture of history and folklore captures the true spirit that made America great

One Thomas Too Many is an unusual literary paring of a novelette by Fay Harbison with four short stories by Ellen M. Surber (The Forlorn Unicorn, For Whom the Bell Tolled, Aunt Nympho and the Family Bible, Bernie and the Super Bowl). An unusual love story involving senior citizens, Harbison's One Thomas Too Many is also a comic mystery of bizarre twists and turns culminating in a free-for-all at a gambling casino. Ellen Surber's short stories showcase unusual and memorable characters caught up in fatherless pregnancy, funerals, senior citizen necking, and a wife's devotion to her deceased football loving husband. One Thomas Too Many is thoroughly entertaining reading from first page to last.

Extraordinary book. Not a long book, but very rich and deep. Synthesizes many philosophical texts and ideas in conjunction with an examination of metaphors and analogies used to describe breakthroughs, awakenings, cosmic realizations and the like. A pleasure to read, with many valuable and leading footnotes. I could often anticipate his lines of thought, but they were so well-stated that they served to bring me further illumination, as well as affirmation of thoughts I already had. It's hard to convey how good this book is. Metzner very closely associated with Leary, but this work deals very little with drugs.