I keep telling people that aspergillus fumigatus, sporotrichosis, cryptococcosis neoformans were fun things- and Arthur Dorros and David Catrow have made it come to life. The illustrations are goey and as dimorphic as their real life branching hyphal counterparts! What fun for children to learn a bit about the ubiquitous world of mycology-- and end up in the Museum of Fungus and Industry to boot. As the administrator of a university-based of the Mycology Study "Unit" there are aspects to the "discovery" and "experiment" process that are truer than life, especially some of the zany characters and ultimate culminating dog and pony show! Thank you! Thank you! I can finally explain to my kids what I do every day! Fungus Fighters Unite! And what ever you do.....don't inhale!

This is a delightful book which you will definitely enjoyreading to your child. My second grader read this book to me and heloved it and was laughing and commenting on the pictures throughoutthe book!

The story is cute and nonsensical about fungus taking over and eating the school! The author, David Catrow did a wonderful job as his illustrations are most colorful, exagerrated and funny! They will sure keep your interest as you explore each and every page.

As a parent I loved this book!

This book is a winner and I thoroughly recommend it! ! It is sure to capture your child's imagination.

As the children's librarian at the community library, I'm always looking for a book that will appeal to the kids and when I read this one, I know for sure the kids would love it!

When three science students leave their fungus experiment unattended over spring break, the fungus grows and grows until it becomes out of control. It appears to be eagerly eating up the school. The illustrations are outlandish and a delight with full pages of yellow and green fungus that takes on various shapes.

The humor is contagious and I can hardly wait to hear the laughter of the kids when they begin to read this book!

I found the Galactic Warlord book by accident in the young adult section in the Quakertown, PA, public library. The year was 1982 and I was a sixth grader at Richland Elementary (Hi Mrs. Beason!). It looked kind of cool, so I took it home. I had finished the book by the next morning. I was hooked from the first page and couldn't put it down. I dreamed of hanging out with Keill and Glr. A few days later (after begging my parents to take me to the library), I found the Planet of the Warlord, which was also read in a day. I discovered the two middle books of the series a few days later - Day of the Starwind and Deathwing over Veyna. Over the next two years, those very same books were repeatedly borrowed from the library by myself and my friends. It's sad that they are now out of print, as I am sure that today's young adults would benefit from a positive role model such as Keill Randor. In addition, the Colsec and Huntsman series are also great reading. I miss being a kid and feeling the sense of awe and wonder that came over me while reading these books.

I first read this book when I was in 5th grade, and I couldn't wait to read the others. There are also other books in the series, and each and every one is a great work of sci-fi. A must read!!!

I read this book about 10 years ago as a child, and for some reason it haunted me enough to remember it enough to read it again as an adult. Lo and behold, I found more books in the series! The story was great fun, full of adventure and derring-do. I think I loved it so much because I'm a big Star Wars fan, and hungered for more stories in the same vein. Here we have the central character, Keill Randor, a highly trained warrior (reminded me of a Jedi Knight-errant without the mystical powers)who is only survivor (so he thinks) of his race. His quest to find the responsible party who destroyed his home planet and any others left of his kind is the core story for the succeeding books. I recommend this series as a jump-start to young readers who like science fiction.

We're not boat fans but really enjoyed the photography. Beautiful boats and lots of color, b/w and historic action and promo pics. Great

At the National Boating History Symposium in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 17, 2001, "Gar Wood Boats: Classics of a Golden Era," was selected as The Classic Boating Book-of-the-Year for 2001 by the National Boating Museum, Washington, DC. This prestigious selection is made annually to the book that contributes significant original research and valuable historic information related to boat building, design and performance. As the author of this book, I am pleased to share this information with potential readers.

A Wonderful Portrayal of Classic Wooden Boating A one of a kind historic journey with Gar Wood, one of the pioneers of motorized wooden boating. The author's insight and knowledge of the subject is quite evident in page after page of the book. The pictures and illustrations are exquisite and beautiful to look at. This is a must read for anyone who loves classic boating, boating in general and American history, as you are taken on an epic journey with one of America's leading industrialists of a Golden Era. My kudos to the author for a job well done and express my hope that boaters across the nation will add this tome to their maritime libraries!!!

This book is a delightful page turner! It shares treasured eateries and makes you want to indulge in the people, places and well indexed catagories of dishes provided. You can't help but make the "Home Bistro" meals--they ensure great creations that celebrate places, people and well proven finds abroad--right in your own kitchen, at home! The PLATS DU JOUR are great win--Vegetable Pudding XXIV is wonderful! Thank you Arthur Bloomfield for sharing your treasures!

This book combines great eating and great travel experiences into a unique reading experience. I can't imagine any reader putting down this book without either running eagerly into the kitchen or booking a flight to some of the romantic eating places described here. A wonderful bonus is the delightful writing style.

I was lucky enough to see an advance copy of this book and hear a reading from it. Bloomfield has the story-telling skills of Henry Miller or Garrison Keilor as applied to both the details and the romance of food preparation.

The background for the recipes is a range of travel, literary, and personal discoveries that give food and cooking a whole new dimension.

Starting with a table of contents laid out like a high-class menu with entrees salads fish meat chicken vegetables, and wrapping up with desserts, Bloomfield is like a Nabokov at the stove as he listens to the musical pitch of a simmering tomato sauce.

And that's a mere throwaway line in this welter of literary, culinary and travel interweavings.

He's like Miller in the way he includes multiple sensibilities both in his narratives and in his culinary instructions.

Bloomfield does for cooking what Miller does for sex--he makes it adventurous and really tasty again....

A great book to read to friends (before or after dinner).

Also recommended: Henry Miller Colossus of Maroussi

Copyright (c) 2002 by Daniel Duncan. All rights reserved.

This exhibition catalogue contains enlightening and thoughtful essays on seventeenth-century Dutch painter, Gerrit Dou. Dou, one of Rembrandt's students, was highly esteemed during his lifetime for his exquisite technique in painting, but as Arthur Wheelock explains in one of the catalogue essays, his work began to lose favor in the middle of the nineteenth century. This catalogue is a wonderful account of Dou's rise and fall from fame, as well as a study of his masterful painting technique. In addition to the informative text, the color illustrations are beautifully rich, and they do justice to Dou's incredible paintings.

Although Rembrandt and Vermeer are the two most discussed and honored of the Dutch Masters, and deservedly so, Gerrit (or Gerard) Dou had a far more dramatic influence on 17th century art in the Netherlands than either of his better known countrymen. It is Rembrandt's later work, with an individuality so far ahead of its time, and Vermeer's penetrating psychological touches that make them fascinating to us in light of modern movements in art. But the paintings of Dou, by the laborious nature of their creation if not always their actual subject matter, give a much deeper insight into the culture and times in which he lived, and the growing taste for luxury from the then newly-emerged Dutch middle class. His images were themselves like jewels, with beauty almost impossible to imagine coming from a human hand, and the artistic perfection that began with Van Eyck found a worthy successor. When such virtuosity became less appreciated in the late 19th century, however, Dou then suffered the fate that Vermeer had known all along, and his name was all but forgotten. It is to the world's benefit that recent showings at the National Gallery in Washington, as well as this flawless book, are begining to change that. As with all of the other volumes that Arthur Wheelock has compiled and edited, this book provides a thoroughly detailed examination of Dou's work, with the kind of objective insight that can re-emphasize his importance to all those just learning about this amazing painter.

This catalogue to the current Dou exhibition in Washington (NGA - 4/16-10/6,2000) is as splendid and intimate as the show itself - 35 small, exquisitely crafted paintings by the Leiden master who was Rembrandt's pupil while that master was himself still a teenager. Wheelock reviews the critical history around Dou's work - the minutely detailed paintings, with their startlingly accurate and refined light effects were highly valued and admired until Thore-Burger and the early modern critics heralded the taste for broad, expressive brushwork. They labelled his work as superficial and heartless, but more recent work has rediscovered sophisiticated and thoughtful themes in such works as the Quack (included) and the Braamcamp triptych (two closely related works are included). Baer's essay outlines the career, working method and subject matter of Dou, exploring some aspects of his extraordinary "reality effect" as well, while Boersema explores his extraordinary, painstaking technique, reviewing such technical evidence as paint samples and reflectograms from the Lady at her Toilet and the Young Mother, both part of the show. There's not a lot of new work on Dou, so this catalogue is especially welcome to those of us who love Dutch Art of the Golden Age. This NGA cabinet gallery show moves to the London National Gallery for Sept and Nov, and the Hague's Mauritshuis from Dec to next Feb. This catalogue's gorgeous reproductions and substantial bibliography make it a solid, up-to-date reference on Dou too.

I read this in 1974, in fourth grade, and the stories still give me the willies today! With the success of the Goosebumps series, and Robert Arthur's "Three Investigators" still in print, I am baffled as to why this is out of print. I guess that just makes it more of a treasure if you can find it! The moody illustrations added nicely to the macabre tone of the book - many fine, small details to pore over. Mr Arthur's writing reads much like an old time radio play would, which is not surprising...he wrote several scripts for the "Suspense" radio show towards the end of its' run. Also, if you like this book, try "Mystery and More Mystery" by the same author.

WHEN I WAS IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MYSTERIES AND GHOST STORIES WERE MY FAVORITE TYPES OF BOOKS. MY FAVORITE AUTHOR WAS ROBERT ARTHUR. I CAN REMEMBER READING "FOOTSTEPS IN THE FOG" FROM THIS BOOK IN THE SOUTH ST PAUL, MN PUBLIC LIBRARY ONE EVENING AND I WAS SO SCARED I HAD TO CALL MY MOM TO COME AND PICK ME UP BECAUSE I WAS TO SCARED TO WALK HOME. THIS IS AN EXCELLANT BOOK FOR ANYONE WHO LIKES TO BE SCARED. THE STORIES ARE FAIRLY ADULT, WHICH WAS THE APPEAL FOR ME. I AM NOW FORTY-FOUR YEARS OLD AND I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN THIS BOOK.

I discovered this book when I was the perfect age for it, and I *still* enjoy it today. It's a collection of ten stories about ghosts and the supernatural with a little fantasy and science fiction (i.e., Time Travel) thrown in. Some of the stories are scary ("Footsteps Invisible", "The Rose-Crystal Bell") while others are funny ("Mr. Milton's Gift", "Don't Be a Goose") and yet others are best described as wistful ("The Wonderful Day", "The Marvelous Stamps from El Dorado"). This was one of my favorite books as a kid, and I still think it's very good.

I was, and still am, a devoted daily reader of "God Calling", by A.J. Russell. I was ecstatic when a friend from my Bible Study Class/Group, informed us that she had found the companion volume to "God Calling", being "God At Eventide", in a Good Will store, of all places. I immediately tried to buy and order a copy from one of our bookstores here in town. Astonishingly, I was told that it was no longer available. I quickly searched Amazon and found a used paperback edition. (Thank you God). Anyone who thinks that a mortal human being could write a devotional such as this, surely is in denial about the reality of Christ, Jesus, our Savior. This is truly the work of our Lord, our Savior, reaching out to us, to give us encouragement, hope, faith, comfort, and understanding in this nonsensical world in which we live. He gives us the answers to thoughts and questions which could, (if we did not have his guidance), torment our souls and make us into bitter pitiful human beings. Every single word must be read to comprehend his message to us. However, one must be fairly advanced in a personal relationship with "Him" in order to remotely understand what he is trying to tell us. Some people, or rather a good number of people, do not seem to connect at all with this book and it's companion book. This is a tragedy, for here is "His" wisdom, comfort and guidance. The words speak to you as though Christ, himself, was sitting in your living room or walking with you along the ocean as your best friend, giving you counsel. Also, you begin to understand the actual "Man, Jesus". He gives you glimpses into his character while being our teacher here on earth. He loved to prepare a feast for his disciples along the lakeshore, as a surprise! Jesus liked to cook! He also loved giving the wine gift at a wedding festival. For anyone who hungers and longs to know the Christ, Jesus, intimately, this book is a window into "Him." Also, he intended for this to be read in the evenings; thus, the meditations are shorter than those in "God Calling." "He" knows that we are tired at night and sometimes could fall short of the deep understanding for which he desires. He understands us. If one loves Jesus, you will love this book.

See "Review" for "God Calling". "Truly beneficial to the spirit's well-being!"

This is a continuation of God Calling. It was written by the same Two Listeners who and A.J.Russell edited this also. The readings tend to be a little shorter than God Calling, but the same warmth and love is evident. It is simply written, and will speak directly to the reader;there is noting vague about the messages. For those who enjoy a daily devotional that always seems to be right on target with where they are today, this book, like God Calling, will hit the mark.

The Grandparent Guide: The Definitive Guide To Coping With The Challenges Of Modern Grandparenting by child and family therapist Arthur Kornhaber (who is also the president and founder of the Foundation for Grandparenting) is an extensive and informative resource written especially for grandparents, and covers everything from adoption and baby-sitting, to gift giving, legal issues, parental and grandparent divorce, religious differences, mentoring, visitations, estate planning, and much, much more. The Grandparent Guide is strongly recommended for personal and community library Parenting Reference collections and guides as an in-depth, highly practical tome of solid wisdom, greatly needed in today's diverse and fast-paced world.

This book will help any brand new or veteran grandparent keep up with the changing face of grandparenthood. A must for every coffee table.

This is the latest, most up=to-date grandparenting book. Well-written and arranged in easy-to-reference chapters. Dr. Kornhaber covers a vast specturm of situations and circumstances. A must read for present and future grandparents.

This is a case of Dialectic Materialism approached through a Nietzsche perspective, a woman as an idealist scholar with an extraordinary Jewish background whose brother suffers the loss of his life at the hands of Nazis! Simone Petrement, Simone Weil's biographer and classmate [Ecole Normale et al], clearly presents the defeating struggles with which Ms. Weil must but stealthily reveal! To say she deplored her Jewish background would be to deny her devotion to her parents which could not completely be. Her struggle is not her with Jewism itself but with the affliction of her father, Dr. Bernard Weil (1872-1955) and her mother, the daughter of Mme. Reinherz. Try the perils of the afflicted Russian Jew who no longer finds palatable the mere potatoes which she herself chose. She subtly [quietly]pleaded for her parents' assistance and then rejected their offers through her inner anxiety, a struggle to preserve Humanity amongst those who spoke Omniscient Salvation in other languages but offered moral support to Russian Jews who didn't appreciate the blasphemy of stating "Jesus Christ" over and over again! Thus is the subtle and controversial attitude.

Simone Weil's writings were impenetrable for me in the fifties. Now I have most of her works and I am frequently amazed at how penetrating are her ideas and thoughts, and how contrary to most thinking today. That in itself recommends her. She understands people, life, and suffering, and sees its purpose. She sees through all falseness to the goodness. Simone Weil is the most honest person I know or have heard of. Yet while her classmate, Simone de Beauvoir is famous Simone Weil is relatively unknown. She loves Plato, Buddhism, Geometry, Jesus, working people, her homeland, France, but she rejected the Catholic Church, baptism, and Judaism (her background). She is a saint if there ever was one. I am profoundly grateful for having known something of her, her diamond mind, and her beautiful soul.

This young lady's writings and personal story blow away most other 20th Century thinkers. These are mainly short blasts. Provocative. Accessible. Yet push you further than you've likely been. Lots of ancient Christian desert hermit influence (St. Theresa, St. John of the Cross, Philokalia) on this revolutionary, radical mind. Timeless. Challenging. Simple. Confounds modernism.

A fascinating collection of essays that reveals, often in unexpected ways, the effects of the Irish famine on both sides of the Atlantic. Ranging from the loss of life to the loss of music among the Irish peasantry, from the pages of the Dublin University Magazine to the pages of American newspapers, from Chef Alex Soyer's famine soup to the famine graves at Grosse Ile, from Irish memory to Irish American rage, this scholarly but readable book provides us with the broadest understanding of this far-reaching event. (William H. A. Williams, author of 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream)

This book is a major contribution to its field. It contains important details that are missing from many of the previous works on the subject of the famine. The scholarship is sound and is often based on primary sources that have never been examined in this context before. The data are consistently compelling, fresh, and well documented. . . Any college with an Irish studies program will find the book indispensable. (Mary Ellen Cohane, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)

As a contributor to this volume on the Great Famine in Ireland, I think that this book makes an important contribution to the historiography of the Famine insofar as it may be the only volume to trace the linkage between the U.S. and Ireland during that tragic era. Neil Hogan, author of THE CRY OF THE FAMISHING, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society.