Not as HOT as The Illusion of Life, but a MUST-HAVE anyway, this book gives a thorough insight into the making of one of the greatest animated feature films ever, by the animators of Bambi and Thumper...

Sleeping Beauty was, of course a good movie for those Disney fans who love the great artist's works. The three good fairies, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather offered a single gift to the newborn princess. But the evil Maleficent crashed the party and cursed Aurora by pricking her finger to the venomous spindle of a spinning wheel and die at her 16th birthday. As a Disney fan, I'm considering that this beautiful young princess will be saved at last by the third of the fairy trio, Merryweather, who had given to her this almost tiny gift: When Aurora pricks her finger into evil witch Maleficent's spinning wheel, she cannot die. Instead of death, the princess will sleeping into a deep slumber until a charming prince wake her with the true love's kiss. So Maleficent turns herself into an evil black fire-breathing dragon to stop Prince Phillip to rescue sleeping Aurora. But the good fairies combine their magic to the mighty Sword of Truth, chanting "Now, Sword of Truth, fly swift and sure. That evil die and good endure!", and the prince throw his magic sword straight as an arrow into the dragon's heart. I'm sure that's a nice movie and I strongly recommend it to all the children beginning from 5 to 12 years old.

I must admit my bias right up front. The authors previous book entitled Border Fury, which combined a photo study of the Revolution with a history of the postcard industry, drew heavily on my collection of period postcards. That one was excellently done by the UNM Press and so is this one. This covers the phases of the Mexican Revolution in the northeast around Matamoros, right across the Rio Grande del Norte from Brownsville. Located as it is downstream from the Big Bend country and seperated by mountains from the central valley between the two main chains which run north and south, this area was little settled on either side until the Anglos built a railway to the border around 1900. With the opening of access to markets for tropical agricultural crops in the North this semi tropical area began to fill up with Anglo towns on the north side of the river. This area became known as the Lower Valley to distinguish it from the El Paso, Juarez area of the upper valley. The sparsely settled country had always been a hotbed of banditry, dominated by the enormous King Ranch, which was almost as large as Delaware. Race relations were typical of the times, in a word, bad. The area was politically dominated by the cacique or patron (godfather) system. If you have seen the film Lone Star with Kris Kristofferson, you will see that things had not changed much by the fifties. Social unrest, and border raids were exacerbated by the unsettled conditions south of the River; although the campaigning in the area was not decisive in the fighting between Villistas and Carranzistas in 1914 and 1915. The notorious Plan of San Diego, which called for reconquest of the old area of New Spain taken in the Mexican War and a general massacre of all Anglo males over the age of puberty, became a highly charged issue between Anglos and Chicanos. This fantastic plot was taken seriously by the Anglos and the Texas Rangers became highly feared as they carried out a race war to keep down the Chicano population. Right in the midst of these doings was Robert Runyon, a professional photographer located in Brownsville. Probably the most famous image of his atelier was one taken after the Norias raid (a group of bandits laid siege to a remote ranchhouse) in which a mounted Ranger is shown dragging away the corpse of one of the raiders at the end of a rope. This made a sensation in the press as it was not apparent from the photo that this episode was not a typical lynching. This book can be read with interest both by the general reader, the photo historian, and the local historian. It is a well made book typical of those sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association.

This book provides answers to common water treatment problems, Industrial and Commercial purposes. The specs are generic and backed by 30 years experience. The section on how to clean foulded systems is worth the price of the book.

The paintings of Edward Seago, Edward Wesson, Douglas Treasure, John Yardley and others more well known to Americans, such as Frank Webb and Claude Croney, are featured in this book. Ron briefly touches on each artist as a person and what inspired or inspires them to paint, and illustrates it all with a representative selection of their works. A very informative book and a good one to have for reference in one's art collection, as there aren't many watercolor impressionist books around.

Here are irrefutable truths, written as mystical, poetic expressions, that stand the test of time, applicable even today, although written in the 3rd century B.C. Erika B.

Rich, powerful material by some of the best, Hemfelt, Minirth & Meier! Worth listening to!

Four Plays receives translation by Lynne Alvarez and presents the modern Mexican playwright's strongest works. These are theatrical productions, choosing situations and people uniquely Mexican, but easily understood by all cultures.

A great book about one of the best cities in the world, that noone cared about.

This quite possibly has to be the most deplorable book I have ever had the misfortune to read. How antiquated is this useless info. anyway? "Keep your head down so you don't look the boss eye to eye"? What??! "Don't take your shoes off in the office"?! The advice is either geared towards uncivilized savages who have never stepped foot in an office before, or workers interested in becoming unthinking machines who bow down to their master (err, boss) at every turn, without the capacity for individual thought or creativity. Is this George Orwell's vision of 1984? Read it for comedic purposes only, because it does not contain an ounce of humor, making its serious tone of draconian office "do's and dont's" unintentionally comical. Annoying, at best.

Our poverty-to-work program uses this book as a resource in our workshop that prepares job seekers for the world of work. The book is written in a way that keeps our job seekers' interest and that can be easily excerpted by our trainers to illustrate important messages. This book is a must for anyone who is in the job coaching, employment training, or welfare-to-work business!