I first read this book in 1977 when I had a "problem puppy". This book gave me insight not only into dog psychology but also into dog owner psychology. Paul Loeb's stories and ancedotes about his clients, himself and his dog Plum opened my eyes and mind and helped me to change my "problem puppy" into a model citizen and me into a happy owner. I have had other dogs since then and they and I still benefit from the wisdom contained in Paul Loeb's book. It is the book that I have recommended most to friends and family, bar none, regardless of topic. The best "Self Help" book around.

This is not my first Chesnutt book. Over the years I read the Marrow of Tradition, House Behind the Cedars and several of Chesnutt's short stories. PAUL MARCHAND FMS is truly a lost treasure. The introduction is extremely well done and gives an excellent explanation to new readers of this genre. All readers will get a true sense of the racial lines that exsisted in early 19th century New Orleans and how some of these same feelings exist today. If you have not been a reader of Chesnutt, this is a good place to start. I'm sure that you will come to love his writings just as I have. As a native of Cleveland, Ohio, I'm proud to remind all readers that Chesnutt spent most of his live in Cleveland and is buried in Cleveland's historic Lakeview Cemetery.

everyone should buy this book - everyone

This music book contains some of the McCartney repertoire. Both Beatles and solo matierial is included. It is especially unique because of the McCartney drawn pictures included. The guitar tabs are magnificent and it truly shows McCartney's musical diversity. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in McCarney's music.

Finally a book that sets the record straight and puts Morphy in the proper context. If you are sick of chess anthologies that provide one or two of Morphy's skittles games and try to pass this off as indicative of the style and quality of 19th century chess, you are going to love this book. Mr. Shibut totally destroys the popular misconception that Morphy was the "missing link" between Anderssen and Steinitz. The concept that Wilhelm Steinitz enlightened the chess world with new and revolutionary ideas of positional play is shown to be utter nonsense. By analyzing Morphy's serious games as well as those of other great 19th century masters Mr. Shibut does a fine job of showing that Steinitz's "theories" offered little that was new to the understanding of chess at the time. The main theme of this book is that Morphy's strength was not due to some unique understanding of the game that was later articulated to the world by Wilhelm Steinitz. Paul Morphy was simply the best chess player of the 19th century. No more no less. I highly recommend this book to any serious student of the game.

Found the book to be well written, also found a real hero in Paul Morphy. I highly recomend this book, great storys about Morphy's ability as well as letters and photo's from the time. Really a great read.

If you are into Nashy-Films this is defenitly a MUST-BUY. The Wolf-Man himself writes about his career, his family, his movie - and as this book is called "Memoirs of a Wolfman" it really covers the whole life of the man who brought Waldemar Daninski and spanish-horror-cinema to life.

It features a lot a strange and funny anecdotes wich will not be found anywhere else.

It's a great, very personal book! Go, get it!

This well researched photo essay on Paul Outerbridge is a wonderful addition to the pictorial history of the art. Elaine Dines-Cox does a marvelous job placing Outerbridge in an artistic context. Outerbridge draws from Cubism, New Objectiviity and Surrealism and translates them into his own visual language. She speaks not only of his art but the processes he used. An entire chapter is extracted from an Outerbridge publication from 1940 describing the Carbo process.

Dines-Cox book is beautifully oversized to bring to full advantage the magnificent work of this master. Outerbridge mastered both black and white and color during his lifetime. His life is briefly sketched but this book is not intended as a biography but rather as a homage to a great master.

Outbridge's name is not as well known as Adams, Weston, Cunningham, Brassai or Kertesz but as an artist he ranks with the best. Recent auctions of his work have fetched incredible sums.

While other great artists have innumerable books to their credit I have only come across two other publications on Outerbridge and they were both small paperbacks with inferior reproductions. With but one photograph per page this is one of the handsomest publications in years.

This is an installment in the Les Grands Chefs d'Orchestre series that Mousnier has been working on for quite awhile.

Mousnier doesn't hide the fact that his admiration for Paul Paray goes quite beyond what he has for others in the series. But there is no hint of the "groupie" boosterism that clouds so many such books. This is an impeccable, scholarly study that takes us--as far as we can go--into the world of artistic genius that Paray inhabited.

The writer offers considered probity into determining what it actually was that Paul Paray did to imbue his art with such enormity, such sense of occasion, such a sense of history. Paray concerts were unique in their electric atmosphere that palpably moved both audiences and musicians. Seating and acoustic diagrams, transcripts from key rehearsals, repertoire sheets and some cogent snippets of what Paray would actually say off the podium combine with telling analysis of where the Maitre fit into the international music scene. It all makes for absorbing, fascinating, "thrilling" (critics' favorite adjective for Paray) reading.

Certainly, Paray was a fascinating personality, too--a war hero and a racconteur equally--but while Mousnier acknowledges this, he stays somewhat away from it, too. This is fortunate because Paray never spoke of what his connections with the Resistance were, and what hold he had on the occupying Nazis that allowed him to get away with what he did. Mousnier lets it rest that the old man had mysteries and facets to his life that we simply aren't ever going to know about. Mousnier concentrates on the mystery of Paray's musical genius that, after all, is the greatest of all his genii, and the one he dedicated to the world.

I also find it telling the Mousnier has been the producer of some of the coveted releases of Paul Paray that emanate from the ORTF archives. I own these, and the live recordings are just as amazing as any of Paray's studio efforts.

I urge those who truly care about the art of conducting to find a copy of this book, have it translated if need be, and plunge into the world and the mind of one of the 20th Century's deepest and most alluring musical minds.

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