There is just no way this title should ever be out of print. In "Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football," Paul Zimmerman creates a category: the literate analysis of professional fotball. We have plenty of this stuff in baseball -- from Angell to James, Boswell, and the whole team. But football has always been overlooked as a place for intelligent analysis delivered with wit and graceful prose. What do we have instead? It's either: "Bullets, broads and bullies: My story," or "Coaching the Interior Line." If you're a fan who appreciates "inside the game" insights, and who plain likes football, Zimmerman's first book, written in 1970, is a vital link to understanding the evolution of football from dock workers to the glory days of the 70's. His second book, published in 1984, decodes how the game has changed as a result of the passing rules changes in 1977 and the West Coast offense, which has in turn begat the specialist packages and situation schemes of today's game. If you're a pro football fan, get these!

I was introduced to this book by a visiting British teacher. She shared it with my fifth grade class. I began reading the tales to my students and I was hooked! The stories are entertaining and perplexing. The endings surprise adults as well as children. After reading part of "There's No Such Thing" to the class, they created their own endings to the story. Their work was the best writing they had created all year!

My 3 year old memorized this book before I knew it. He knows all his opposites- long: short, many lights:no lights, gas powered: soloar powered! Get this and Collicut's 3 others "This Train", "This Boat" and "This Plane." Perfect for the toddler/preschool boy.

Paul Malone is a native Texas writer and visual artist. This House Of Women is his novel about the courageous heroine Hannah Hayward. She was pregnant at nineteen in 1942 as the man she loved went off to war. We follow her journey to forge a life for herself and her offspring through the decades of Texas history. This House Of Women is a powerfully narrated, stalwart story rife with emotion and full of life. Highly recommended.

My boys (aged 3) love this book. The illustrations are bright and detailed. The text that accompanies each picture describes what the plane in the picture does that makes it different from other planes (ie. "This planes takes off with a catapult."). My kids can flip through the pages of book for ages. On the inside cover there are additional illustrations of all sort of planes with their official names- a great help for parents who don't have a clue about planes!

This collection of essays deals with a useful array of topics that will be of special interest to those of the Anglican theological tradition. This book serves as a needed balance to the biography from MacCulloch that paints Cranmer as a rabid protestant with no real interest in the beliefs of the early church. It also helps to dispel many of the misconceptions about Cranmer's sacramental theology that are widely held by both "anglo-catholic" and puritan "evangelical" alike. In these essays Cranmer emerges as the chief reformer of a church that he envisioned as one founded on the Scriptures, the ancient Fathers, and right reason. Rather than being against the concept of a "via media" church (as MacCulloch claims) Cranmer is the very author of it.

Raymond Paul, as far as I know, wrote three books. I have read two: The Tragedy at Tiverton and The Thomas Street Horror. Both are based on true crimes which took place in New York in the early/mid 19th century and both, unfortunately, are out of print though you should be able to find them in most libraries.

I recently reread The Thomas Street Horror because I had finally finished a book about the crime that this novel was based on: The Murder of Helen Jewett by Patricia Cohen. Helen Jewett (AKA Dorcas Doyen and many other pseudonyms) was a young popular prostitute working in New York City. Early on the morning of April 10, 1836 she was discovered murdered in her smouldering bed. Suspicion fell on one of her clients, a young clerk, who was eventually tried for the murder. Cohen's book deals not just with the crime and trial but also the attitudes toward prostitution, tabloid journalism (the murder became a nationwide sensation) and the criminal justice system. While the book is very interesting, it is also hard going at times because the author would pause the narrative to delve into the fine points of various aspects of life during the period-- for instance I learned a lot more about the state of Maine than I would normally be interested in. I actually put it down for several months before I finished it.

The Thomas Street Horror is a much livelier, if fictionalized, account of the murder. The veiwpoint character is a young reporter who has just arrived in New York City in November 1835 with a letter of introduction to the proprieter of the journal, the Sun, Benjamin Day. New York journalism at the time was not concerned as much with reporting the news as garnering readers by any method available including elaborate hoaxes and pandering to mob mentality. And the competition between the papers becomes red hot, as they choose up sides as to whether or not Helen Jewett was a wronged woman driven into her way of life or a degraded harpy who preyed on her young clients and was the young clerk accused of her murder guilty or not? David Cordor (the journalist) is caught up in the center of events, both reporting on and participating in what was happening. The fictional investigation into the events surrounding the murder is lead by Lon Quincannon, Paul's Irish attorney-detective who first made his appearance in The Tragedy at Tiverton. Quincannon finds himself not just defending his client against the state, whose minions have no qualms about manufacturing evidence to support their case, but also against public opinion.

If you enjoy 19th century mayhem then I would definitely urge you to try this book.

I really liked, then immediately lost it. I only have vague memories of what happened, so I won't spoil the finish.

I find this to be an excellent overview of the modern Aikido world. The author presents a very even-handed review of the major "styles" of Aikido that would help someone decide which path appeals to them. I wish I'd had this as a source many years ago! P.S. This book is mainly text and is not a picture gallery or a step-by-step technique walk-through.

Paul Celan is one of the greatest poets of the century, but also one of the most difficult to translate. His writing is incredibly condensed and full of difficult vocabulary, including numerous neologisms. Yet the poetry is so beautiful, so deeply rewarding that we should be grateful to anyone who attempts to translate it.

Perhaps we should be most grateful to Pierre Joris, the only translator I know of to tackle whole books by Celan, rather than making selections (such as the very fine selection by Michael Hamburger). Not only does Joris take on the complete books, but he has taken on two of the most difficult books -- Breathturn and, now, Threadsuns.

His translation of Breathturn was a stunning accomplishment, for he managed to stay both accurate and readable, or at least as readable as the original was to the average reader of German when it first appeared. All of the great qualities displayed in Breathturn are also on display in Threadsuns.

Joris provides a comprehensive introduction to the book and many helpful notes along the way. The German originals of the poems are provided on the left-hand pages. The production quality is high -- the book is beautifully designed. This is not the best introduction to Celan (for that, see either Michael Hamburger's or John Felstiner's selections from his complete works), but if you want to get to know Celan better, and if you want to really sink your mind's teeth into the marrow of his dreamworlds, then Joris's translations are what you want to read.