Weegee is best known for his photos of "rubouts, suicides and
accident victims", but I think those photos are his
least interesting. He has a talent for capturing ordinary
life as well. His photos are warm and real. Often times I
find old photos make the subjects appear remote and distant
in time, but Weegee's photos break through that barrier.
You don't feel like you are looking at old pictures.
His photos transcend nostalgia.

This wonderful book not only includes all of Weegee's (Arthur Fellig) greatest photos, but includes three in-dept essays on his work by Miles Barth, Alain Bergala and Ellen Handy. Weegee raised the craft of photojournalism to the level of art by his talent to show the essence of any situtation without any discrimination between social classes. Besides his pictures expressing the entire human condition, they also story-tell New York City circa mid-century. This is a book that is essential for anyone who wants a comprehensive photographic library.

The definitive book on boundweave. It is not easy to find any information on boundweave and this book has it all. It covers four harness to sixteen, written in an easy to understand format.

This is a large book that is a weavers course in boundweave. The introduction with it's definitions, drafts and excellent diagrams makes sure you know exactly what this weave is all about before starting you on the samples to weave. The author starts with plain weave, 7 different twills, 40 or so pages on rosepath then overshot. You could actually stop there and weave for years. But that isn't even half of the book. There's taquete' & sanitum & more. Terrific!

The short stories and poems in this book are amazing! They are written by some very interesting people. My favorite were the two short stories by Kevin Voss.

It always gives me a great feeling to see this book on a site... Why shouldn't it? After all, I'm one of the authors! My name's Michelle Lorenzo and about 2 years ago, I got a few of my friends together and told them I wanted to put a book together. We wrote a lot of stories just for us...why deprive the rest of the world? So we hunted around a found this publishing company called iUniverse. They're a web-based (tack .com to the end of the name and there you are!) vanity publisher...that means we gave them cash, they gave us our book.

So it's not terribly polished, but the people I've talked to think it's pretty darn cool. :) No one's bought it yet, our advertising is pretty weak, so buy and share!

And welcome!-Welcome To Our Minds.

Jac Weller's Wellington in India is a truly excellent book. It is very readable and flows extremely well. It is one of the few books of its kind that I've read literally cover-to-cover - forward, preface, body, and appendixes - everything. The detail of the book is also exceptional. He tells the reader why and how Wellington achieved his successes not just when.

When Wellington's name is mentioned, people tend to think first of Waterloo, then of the Peninsulars Wars. It is easy to forget that he got his start in India, and that is the period which Jac Weller covers so well in this book. This was a completely different kind of warfare than that fought in Europe, and Wellington (or Wellesley, as he was then) had to contend not only with far superior forces, but also with the climate, which caused Europeans to die like flies. Two things above all should be remembered: first, that when Wellington was asked what his greatest victory was, he said not Waterloo, but Assaye; and second, Weller's three books about Wellington's campaigns were named by Bernard Cornwell as the best source material for his Sharpe series.

This story really touched my heart in the end, when Arthur thought he was never going to ever going to be a pet of anybody, then all of a sudden a little girl comes and takes him. I'm sure that really felt good for that dog. This story is funny in some ways when he trys to act like another animal. That has a lotta laughs in it. This is a good story to a person who thinks they will never get accepted by anybody, because you know that someday you will always be accepted. Great story!!!!!!!!!

Arthur is a plain brown dog in a pet shop who sees pets of various kinds being purchased each day. When he sees several of a certain kind of pet purchased each day, he practices trying to be the type of pet that is in demand in the evenings after the store is closed, but each time, the following morning customers seem to be interested in a different kind of pet than what he has been emulating. Finally, someone comes in looking for a plain brown dog, and he realizes that he just needs to be himself. Just by being himself, and waiting patiently, he finds that someone wants him.

There are many people who go through life doing the same sort of thing as Arthur, but unfortunately, many of them never realize that they only need to act naturally for others to accept them. I think that there is a lesson in this story that people of every age can learn.

Well written and well thought out. For me personally, it filled in an enormous gap in my knowledge and greatly improved my understanding and opinion of Jacob Boehme. I would recommend Jacob Boehme's Way to Christ (Paulist Press) as a good "next book." Have fun with this; the vision is quite beautiful.

"Wisdom's Children" is a landmark work in the history of Christian esotericism. Thought mainly to be the domain of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestant mysticism has been marginalized for too long. Arthur Versluis takes us back 300 years and shows us that beneath its stern veneer, there has been, and still is, a vital current of the imagination and mystical understanding in and around mainstream Protestantism. Jane Leade, Johann Gichtel, Boehme, Freher, are all brought to life. The chapters on German theosophy, folk magic, and qabala in colonial Pennsylvania alone are worth the cover price. Highly recommended.

As the Director of Women's Ministries at my church I plan to give this book to many. This is a story of a young woman whom no one really found to be anything to write home about. Her family and friends didn't find her to be the prettiest or most likely to find a good looking husband. She wouldn't have been the most likely to catch someone's eye. However, she did catch someone's eye. Someone whom everyone would long for. Someone no one dared believe they could ever have. Someone everyone found terribly hard to believe she, of all people, would come to know. To see the progression of this relationship; to see the ending of this relationship; is heart stopping, frustrating, elating, and the empathy you feel for all her many changes draws you in until you refuse to put this book down. What a gift God has given Kay Arthur. This book came straight down from heaven to minister to your heart and life. God Bless You!

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY. IT IS PERSONAL AND SPIRITUALLY EDIFYING. IT IS VERY MOVING AND UPLIFTING. I HAVE READ ALL OF KAY ARTHUR'S BOOKS AND MANY PRECEPT GUIDES AND DEVOTIONALS, ETC. THIS LITTLE BOOK IS PACKED AND STILL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, MY FAVORITE. IT IS SO BEAUTIFULLY DONE.

probably one of the best true crime novel I ever read. definitely purchase this book and I promise you will not be sorry.

To let this book go without a review would have been a "true crime" and possibly caused many people to pass up "one great read". It's the story of a beautiful woman, and mother of two who suddenly disappears. Not a speck of evidence to be found. No leads for the police to follow. And if not for her loving friends, no one would have ever looked beyond the surface. Mr. Herzog's easy reading, enjoyable writing style and attention to detail gives you a clear picture of exactly what is taking place. Each page holds intriguing information about an unbelievable crime committed by an unbelievably arrogant criminal, who almost got away with it. This is one of those "tattered" books on the shelf that is taken back down and re-read every couple of years. It will keep you just as fascinated with every read. A definite "must have" for a true crime buff.

Arthur gives an insightful and suggestive account of political conservatism and something like a Rawlsian liberalism, and draws out a dialogue between the two. Arthur argues for a 'democractic contractualism' which partially reconciles the two extremes (although what he is really up to is trying to accomodate for some of the standard lines of criticism of contractual liberalism). I think that Arthur's position depends greatly on a Kantian ontology of political subjectivity that leads to inescapable absurdities, but the author is completely aware of them and breaks new ground in responding to them. Arthur is very sharp on the historical antecedents of this debate, and his treatment of Rawls' notion of a 'veil of ignorance' is very useful if you're trying to figure out Rawls. Arthur's best talent as a writer is his ability to work through a concept or argument in a practical context; he explains the legal reasoning behind some of the most (in-)famous cases in American legal history, and shows how his account of democratic contractualism might better address the issues at stake. This is a first-rate book, and anyone interested in contemporary political theory will find it very useful. I think Arthur's conception of critical legal studies is best forgotten, though.

Words That Bind is an amazing book! The book is clearly written, easy to follow, and uses examples to demonstrate every point! Another great one to add to your collection, Jon!

For someone with no formal instruction in philosophy this is a very good book to begin with. Schopenhauer avoids the use of pretensious "philosophical" jargon and writes in a predominantly literary fashion.

The main value in this book is its ideas. Its basic premis is simple, yet the range of topics that Schopenhauer delivers treatises on is quite astounding - art, gambling, contract theory, sexual love and ascetic renunciation, to mention but a few. Only a man of his genius could have found a thread to link these diverse topics together. One does, however, sense at times that he distorts his philospophical beliefs in order to express his revulsion about his least favourite types of human activity.

I found the discussions on art the most insightful and rewarding. The book is a good dissection of the blind striving and willing of our world and has the potential to alter the way you view the nature of things.

WWI is a pure joy to read. Scopenhauer tackles metaphysical questions with clarity, wit, and style. His insights are both profound and illuminating, but patience is needed. Several readings may be necessary to fully grasp his ideas, but it is worth the extra effort. Schopenhauer is the rare thinker who can change the way you see the world.

While it is not necessary to have read Plato, Hume or Kant before reading WWI, I would at the very least, read some secondary literature on those thinkers before starting a journey with Schopenhauer.

The Everyman version is a great introduction to WWI. It cuts the fat but leaves the substance of the ideas intact. Prepare to meet pure genius!