Stacey Luftig's "The Paul Simon Companion" is rich in information about the singing duo of Simon and Garfunkel. Tons of informative articles, a comprehensive bibliography, filmography, and listing of Simon's records and song titles. This is the book you'll want to read to, "make the morning last." Luftig is a treat!

If you are interested and intrigued by the music of Paul Simon, and have wanted to know the hows and whys behind his music, then this is the book for you. It is a compilation of interviews with and articles about Simon. The only flaw I saw is that there seems to be nothing written by Simon himself. (If my memory serves me). However the selection is fairly complete, but ends just before the Capeman play.I learned a lot about how he writes songs, and got a glimpse into what makes Simon so able to write songs that move so easily from the personal to the universal, and which have such a great mix of intriguing lyrics, and music to get your groove back. If you saw him in concert in the summer of 1999, you have to get this book.

I ordered this book and find out that it is the volume two. Obviously I only got the second half of Paul's songs. I don't understand why they didn't indicate that on the site. I guess probably no one knows anyway. The gentleman that wrote the previous comment didn't mention that as well... what went wrong?? Now I have no idea how to get the first half of the book set... Can someone help??

This songbook covers all the songs from beginning of Paul Simon's work with Art Garfunkel thru Still Crazy After All These Years. Well at least my version which might be an older version. None the less, the music is fairly accurate and the lyrics are situated with the music for the vocalists complete benefit. Paul Simon is indeed a talented song-writer as he writes music in many keys and uses many complex chord progressions.

This book presents a small collection of Mr. Strand's images, all titled and dated, and offers a glimpse of the entire span of his career. We are given a sense of his work through four of the major times and places during his life: his photographic apprenticeship in New York during the late 1910's, a sampling of his work done under commission in Mexico, his well known work in New England, and finally, images taken after his emigration to France, in 1950. A brief biography precedes the photographs that follow, and we are left to consider the images free from further didactic comment.

At first sight, one senses immediately the charm this man might have possessed in his relationships with both himself and those people and things surrounding his life. This sense is borne out in the wry humor of "Town Hall", with its off kilter framing, which we instantly recognize as Paul Strand. Ironically, a closer study of his personal life indicates Mr. Strand could be a difficult man. The well-known "Wall Street", an earlier piece of darkly shadowed monstrous windows overpowering passers by, is as close to the foggy pictorialist sense Strand will get, and the rest of the images show him breaking away from that style, and moving head first into the previsualized and almost straight photographic style that he was to help break ground for.

In this collection, several of the photographs stand out; but many seem rather innocuous, specifically the portraits of those he knew personally, and those he didn't - none seem to capture the viewers imagination like those of Mr. Strands' contemporaries might, Edward Weston for one. Instead, they seem unimaginative and emotionless. Furthermore, it doesn't help that, lacking that content, it may be that his reputation as an innovative technician in the darkroom goes unnoticed here, seeing these images only on the page (in small 7 inch by 6 inch reprint).

On the other hand, we are shown some photographs which show how powerful a view of quiet solitude can be. Of particular note,"Tir a'Mhurain" stands alone. A wide view of the silence surrounding three horses watering in the bay, and in the very left foreground, they are being watched from far above by a lone white horse. The leading of the three animals has turned its mane toward, and is eyeing the lone horse. The silvery water of the bay reflects the stand of horses, and more strongly, that of an immense and clouded sky, suggesting a powerful solemnity. Faintly, in mid-ground, wood buildings of a fishing village are left powerless in front of only a small mountain range. Taken in 1954, an American living in France (but not able to speak the language), Mr. Strand might have felt himself the lone horse. The obtrusive sky begging for silence. The artist contemplating his subject from afar.

"Driveway" was taken late in his life (in fact, three years prior to his death) where he lived in France. This poetic view leads us through an overgrowth, tunnel-like, of bare tree limbs and branches. Beneath this dark surrounding of hibernating growth, two parallel white cobblestone paths. Our eyes search the dark, shadowed background to where we are being lead; almost imperceptible, at the end of the driveway, we make out a decrepit structure: a country cottage, seemingly empty and abandoned. One cannot help but feel the author's probable recognition of the path of his own life, and the awful truth of life: of autumn, the oncoming winter, the drawing to a close, and of coming home to a place unknown.

In this collection, these are his strongest images, these landscapes. - whether "Fox River", from his acclaimed book "Time in New England", or the handful of New York cityscapes, or the country landscapes and village life scenes, such as "Marketplace", taken in Italy. Robert Adams has suggested that Mr. Strands work went into decline following his emigration to France in 1950 (1). In actuality, it is these images we wish for more of. Mr. Strand's capacity was not limited by time and place, but by subject and content. Seeing the images borne from his emigrated life, one is left wanting less of his still life's and portraits, and more of what showed a more genuine side of Mr. Strand through symbolic form. Not the modernist machine pictures like "Oil Refinery", or "Akeley Motion Picture Camera", but more of "Landscape, Sicily, Italy", with its bare, white birch trees having cloistered the villager's in their quiet homes.

However, in this book, as a simple compendium of Mr. Strand's oeuvre, the viewer is at least left with a closer understanding of a part of what this celebrated photographer was seeing throughout the varied stages and places, both known and foreign, of his life.

1. Adams, Robert Why People Photograph, Aperture Press, 1994. pg. 85

as a person who has been close with the Strand family for a long time, i have to say that out of personal relations and out of knowing the full potential for paul and his family, this book is amazing. you have to remember that there is a face and a mind behind this camera, and the amazing talent that people must have in the first place to even be able to spot beauty in the everyday things. if you can take the time to look at the power of these photographs as a human being with a powerfully capable mind and not as a critic, prone to hang on every little detail instead of fully trying to enjoy the pieces in question, i can garauntee that you will be completely satisfied with this collection. in my mind it will always be stunning.

This is another book on Paul's view of the Law and Judgment according to the New Perspective point of view (e.g., Sanders, Dunn, and Wright). Yinger's thesis is that Paul's opposition to the Law was not due to Jewish works-righteousness but Jewish exclusivism. Thus, according to Yinger, there is no real antithesis (as expoused by Luther and Calvin) between the soteriology expoused by Paul (and by implication, the other Apostles and Jesus Christ) and the one expoused by Second Temple Judaism (though STJ was not a homogeneous movement, all of the strands agreed that final salvation/justification at the Last Judgment is by one's God empowered obedience to the Law). For Yinger, Paul expoused essentially the same soteriology (with some minor differences) as ST Jews: final salvation/justification at the Last Judgment is by one's obedience to the Law (but in Christ). He also states that it is possible for true Christians to fall away from God's grace and lose their salvation (of course, he qualifies this by saying that only the elect believer will not come to that terrible end--how comforting is that to those who are not sure if they are ONE of the elect?!). How does one fall away from God's grace and lose his or her salvation/justification according to Yinger? By stopping to obey God's Law (this is contrary to Paul's view that obedience to the Law for justification actually estranges one from Christ [Galatians 5:4]). Yinger's book may be a good resource for those who want to do a research essay or thesis on Paul's view of the Law since it has lots of information on certain key Pauline passages on the Law. However, if one wants to find a book that provides an orthodox Protestant approach to Paul's view of the Law, definitely don't look here. Yinger's thesis on Paul's view of the Law, Judgment, and justification actually destroys the cardinal doctrine of the Protestant Reformation--justification by faith alone. Those who uphold the New Perspective should realize that justification by faith alone (the orthodox Protestant view) and justification by covenantal nomism (the New Perspective view) cannot mix and are totally irreconcilable...

Yinger's thesis is a fine contribution to the Paul and the law debate. The author demonstrates beyond doubt that Paul moves within the realm of Jewish covenant theology in his own teaching respecting justification as it relates to final judgment. When Paul asserts that the "doers of the law will be justified" (Romans 2:13), he is simply drawing on Old Testament and Jewish traditions to the same effect. This means that Paul's distinctive contribution is christological. It is "in Christ" that the faithful people of God will be vindicated in the end, not "in the law." The previous review of this volume misleadingly states that the New Perspective outlook on justification is "nomistic obedience" versus "faith alone." The reviewer has failed to distinguished between the "Already" and the "Net Yet" of justification. As Yinger argues persuasively, we are justified by faith alone at the present time. Nevertheless, the final phase of justification hinges on perseverance in Christ, not "nomistic obedience" as a method of self-salvation.

To clarify my rating let me just comment briefly...

The first half of the book is five star quality, that is, the outline of Paul's missionary exploits through Acts. The second half, Reymond's systematic treatment of Pauline theology, is four stars. I went from reading Reymond's "New Systematic Theology" to this book, so in all honesty I was experiencing deja vu a bit. Had I not read the systematic before, I would probably give the second half 5 stars also.

The work of Reymond in this book is what you would expect from such an astute theologian. The various excursus' are insightful. And the amount of space given to them are neither too short nor too long; they are just right.

Bottom line: if you want a very readable, though challenging, book that will give you a great foundation of understanding for the missionary movements of Paul throughout Acts, this is your book. A caution is in order however... I felt convicted. The reader is challenged to really consider being a full-time, overseas, unreached people group, missionary.

If you appreciated Reymond's systematic theology, you will also appreciate this book. Based originally on his lecture notes, it has grown through several stages to the current publication. It's divided into two major parts. The first, "Paul's Missionary Labours", derives from his study of Acts and Paul's letters. He also argues for Pauline authorship of Hebrews. The second part of the book (Paul's Missionary Theology), treats major orthodox doctrines, based on Paul's writings. There is a thought provoking chapter at the end of this book, "Lessons from Paul's Ministry for Today's Missionaries". In it, I believe he underscores the necessity of sound doctrine as it relates to proclaiming the gospel to the nations. This book should be valuable to all who are interested in, or active in missions or evangelism in any way. There is an extensive bibliography, and scripture index which should be helpful for further study.

This book was interesting and cool. But it was stupid and unethical it made no sense what-so-ever. I believe in reading palms and other mysterious things but not this!

I loved this book ... not only did I love it but all my friends loved it ... I have 2 cats and read their paws and it was amazing how accurate the reading was as to their personality. This is a fun book and always sits on my coffee table for friends to look at. Highly recommended for anybody with a cat.

Provocative. Daring. A voice that electrifies. Yet, the book has to be seen in a wider lens. It is and isn't about Central America. It, might be, about writers in actual times, in a globalize world. The way to go farther than a sylable. It is also a begginer's work. It is an experimental text. The main idea is far stronger than the ending. The reading is recommended. Rey Rosa is at the moment the best Guatemala has to offer.

Reading The Pelcari project led me to read everything available by Rodrigo Rey Rosa; I am comfortable recommending any and all of his works.

The Pelcari Project is an interesting study of human individuality and social engineering ... both provocative and frightening in its social implications. Think of the tale as a cautionary tale of the behavioral scientist/neurosurgeon gone mad.

This text is very detailed, which is good, but is missing some important information, which is bad. If you want simple facts, the expense of this book is too much for the benifit you will get from it. If you want details, especially ones that are easy to find, this is not the book for you. It also does not do a good job of objectivity as the quthors political views are very apparent in the text.

I have found this book to be an asset for anyone looking to choose healthy eating as a gateway to a healthier lifestyle. As a nutrition major I have learned the essentials of healthy eating not only for people of my age, but for all ages. From pregnancy to the elderly, this book is designed to help everyone.

how i can see it detail before i buy it?

Scribner's fantastic book about Rubens is a must-read for any art student or art lover.

I reviewed this book for Learning A Living; A Guide to Planning Your Career and Finding A Job for People with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder and Dyslexia. Here is what was in the Annotated Bibliograpy

A comprehensive book on searching for vacancies rather than creating a job.Exercises to determine career interests, networking, interviews, and handling offers. Recommends that you contact people to review your plan for marketing your career. Suggests win-win negotiating techniques for salary negotiating. Most forms do not work for people who have dyslexia or learning disabilities.

Dyer guides you step by step through the job search process. With exercises that help you find your marketable job skills and interests, this book will show you where to look for the perfect job for you. I highly reccommend The Ultimate Job Search Survival Guide for people at any stage in their career.