This is a book similar to "Dena'ina Legacy", it just describes different people in a different language. Well, I tried to compare the text and translation - it just won't work for Athabaskan, but the texts are interesting, there are pictures, biographies of the informants in English only, bilingual mythical texts, and bilingual stories taken from life. Tone is marked. The texts together are quite long, not just examples. If you are interested in Northern Athabaskans, this book is worth reading.

Frank Wallace's 'Neocheating...' was written over twenty years ago. At the time, it discussed a revolutionary method to 'Neocheat' your way to success at card games.

So what's 'Neocheating'?

Wallace describes it as white hat cheating (as opposed to the obvious black hat cheating). A method where, by sleight of hand and sleight of mind, you can take from the rich and give to the poor (or, more accurately, take from the cheats and give to the non-cheats). Why? because it keeps them in the game and, eventually, gives you the opportunity to (honestly) win the money off them.

But Wallace's book is about far more than card-sharping. It's a metaphor for life itself. In fact, Wallace went on to write many books and articles based on the 'Neo-Tech' way of life - to live to the fullest without usurping the values of others, without coercion, without mysticism. Though many of these books are now difficult to obtain, I recommend you make an effort to do so, since the message they contain is worth every cent you'll pay for the printed word. My five stars are not for the book itself, rather for the message that Wallace puts across.

Wow! Finally a book that contains the text I need with the magical illustrations of Frank Netter. Any medical student or practicing physician will know what I mean when I say Netter's art is without peer. I've been searching for a quick-reference book in this field and now I've found it. The writing and format are precise (no wasted words here!) and the illustrations really bring it to life. I've used a few of the 5-Minute Consult books but they don't compare to this. I hope there are more Netter books in the pipeline. . .

My daughter, while barely four, devours books. We've been working on phonics and found the basic level of this beginning reader wonderful. She was reading it back to her Father the same night! The author repeats words throughout the book making words easier to identify for young readers. Truth be told, it was the illustrations with their brilliant colors that first captured my daughters attention. The frog experiences a range of emotions that open doors for conversation about how she might have felt in the same situation. Even as an adult, I enjoyed the book and the feeling of watching your child develop a new skill is priceless.

In his book, The The New Dollars and Dreams, Frank Levy provides a comprehensive and rigorous history of the distribution of income and wealth in the United States, focusing in detail on post WWII development. The book is readable without sacrificing depth, with appeal to scholarly and non-scholarly audiences alike.

Conservative readers and/or those with a neo-classical economic philosophy of life may find some of the author's assumptions, conclusions, and prescriptions for change off-putting. But it is not an ideological polemic. It presents an enormous amount of data and information along with its judgments, allowing the reader to contest the author's opinions.

Highlights of the book include: the gini coefficient measure of wealth and income inequality, the important distinctions between wealth and income, trends in both wealth and income inequality, how education and the service economy have interacted to affect the distribution of income (but not wealth), and the importance of the distinctions between among the experiences of African American men and women's, as well as African American and white women.

Immensely useful and enjoyable--a rare combination.

Being a Minister in New Jersey and a Minister in the oldest Denomination (the Reformed Church in America) with the longest, continuous ministry in America, this book was a quick and eager purchase for me and I was not disappointed. Greenagel certainly took the time to research the churches listed in the book and did a "beautiful overview" of the denominations in the area.

Any lover of church architecture will surely want to pick up a copy of this book for his/her self and reference. The pictures are clear and the commentary on each church is enough to raise your interest as you read through the book.

The recipes in this book are easy to prepare but complex in taste! One would never know that the recipes are designed to be healthy since they taste so great! Loved the wine match for entrees

It is obvious that the present day photographer, John Dugdale, has been greatly influenced by the 19th century Transcendentalist writer, Henry David Thoreau. In this superb book of Dugdale's photographs and selections from Thoreau's journals, it is as if the writings were done specifically for the images, not over 100 years previously.

Dugdale has, for many years, been one of my favorite photographers. He uses a process for printing his photographs called cyanotype which was invented during the time that Thoreau lived and worked. The wonderful elegance and simplicity of his subjects and images fits perfectly with Thoreau's philosophies of life. Dugdale, because of HIV, is 80% blind, but, somehow, uses what sight he has combined with a pure spirituality and sight beyond the physical to create images of rare beauty.

So, we see a single rose alongside these words of Thoreau: "Love is the burden of all Nature's odes..." A still-life of flowers, two birds, which may be made of milk glass, and a human hand are viewed with Thoreau's "Perhaps what most moves us in winter is some reminiscence of far-off summer...;" a solitary man with one hand against an old, tall tree by a pond and a field are perfect for Thoreau's "Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each..." And perhaps most moving of all, part of the back of a nude man is used with Thoreau's "My life was ecstasy. In youth, before I lost any of my senses, I can remember that I was all alive, and inhabited my body with inexpressible satisfaction..."

The book begins with two short, wonderfully written appreciations of the artists by Frank Crocitto.

This collection is magnificent beyond any contemporary words. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

This book was used to teach a New Testament Ethics Seminar at the Taiwan Baptist Theological Seminary in Taipei, Taiwan. The students found the author to be stimulating and fair in his handling of ethical issues related to the New Testament. Although the author made several suppositions based upon critical issues about dating, order and authorship, he insightfully presents a balanced comparative ethical summary of the material. He skillfully identifies key issues and then cogently presents them.

R. Maurice Hollingsworth, Ph.D. Taiwan Baptist Theological Seminary Taipei, Taiwan

I thought that this book was totally awesome because it has a lot of deeper meaning in it. You would have to read it to fully comprehend what I am attempting to relay to you. If you like books that can capture all of your imagination & get you engrossed in the characters, you'll love "Nico the Unicorn".