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Bloom's Morning: Coffee, Comforters and the Secret Meaning of Everyday Life
Published in Paperback by iUniverse.com (January, 2001)
Author: Arthur Asa Berger
Amazon base price: $15.95
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Bloom's Morning is the wake up call Americans need!
Bloom's Morning is the wake up call Americans need to jolt them out of their somnambulistic parade through everyday life.
Berger's compelling examination of the "commonplace" in our culture exposes core American behaviors of consumerism and denial in an entertaining, insightful manner, in tandem with wry and whimsical humor.
Illustrating the book's 36 essays are Berger's own delightful drawings which are reminiscent of Thurber's in their simplicity of gesture.
His concise introduction and conclusion offers the reader background information on semiotics and postmodernist philosophy.
In Bloom's Morning, Berger peels back layer after layer of the "trivial" to reveal the myths of our psyches shrouded in the mundane, opening our minds to the mysteries of our lives.


Board Betrayal: The Weirton Steel Story: Failed Governance and Management Hand in Hand with Arthur Andersen: An Esop Fable
Published in Paperback by Wilderness Adventure Books (01 April, 2003)
Author: Phillip Hartley Smith
Amazon base price: $19.95
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Sad and Cautionary Tale
This story broke my heart. My family has served at Weirton Steel for over three generations from the ranks of the hourly to the in-house engineering staff, to the management team. The account of Phil Smith has been known for a while, but this is the first time I have seen it in print. Hopefully, business students will take these events to heart to prevent a future tragedy such as this.


The Body: A Study in Pauline Theology
Published in Paperback by Westminster John Knox Press (June, 1977)
Author: John Arthur Thomas, Bp., Robinson
Amazon base price: $3.95
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Hard to Explain . . .
But this is the best book on Christianity and its existential relation(s) to the embodied life that I've ever read! Every paragraph of Robinson's closely reasoned interpretation of Paul, the most prolific Christian enscripturated writer, opened whole new vistas on how the body, existentially understood, ties together every facet of Christianity. I'll have more to say about this book in a subsequent review . . . But, if you can find a copy of this little jewel, grab it and see what I mean. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this too.


Bodylife
Published in Paperback by Sidgwick & Jackson (March, 1985)
Author: Arthur Balaskas
Amazon base price: $12.95
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Best book on exercise I've seen.
Bodylife is written so that my puny westernized small town midwest mind could understand some ideas about health from an eastern view for the first time. ref to pain and healing are particularly helpful


Bomber Harris and the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939-1945
Published in Textbook Binding by St. Martin's Press (Short) (August, 1984)
Author: Charles Messenger
Amazon base price: $27.50
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Outstanding, unbiased and accurately portrayed.
This book on the Bomber Command offensive policy against Germany was a crucial research factor for my personal work. Messenger had applied the primary sources and analysis with unusual vigor, stating the flaws in the policy where blame should be applied, while never forgetting the larger picture: that the RAF strategy was a flawed, expensive, and almost futile concept. This should be read by anyone interested in aviation, history, or military policy in general. The humanists may also find a few choice pieces to contemplate as well. Superb work by a master in the field.


Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn: The Technology of Skeletal Materials Since the Roman Period
Published in Textbook Binding by Barnes & Noble (April, 1985)
Authors: Arthur Mac Gregro and Arthur MacGregor
Amazon base price: $49.50
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One of the best resources out there.
If one is a carver of any sort, read this book! Good, simple illustrations, good research and fairly well organized.


Bony and the Kelly Gang (A Scribner Crime Classics)
Published in Paperback by Collier Books (September, 1988)
Author: Arthur W. Upfield
Amazon base price: $4.95
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Caught in Irish rival gangfights, Bony becomes a matchmaker!
This is another Bony tale that gets better with each reading. And it has enough uprorious battling that it'd make a super movie. Somewhere in the south central hills, two Irish gangs are carrying on bootlegging operations. A govt agent gets murdered as he ventured to close, so Bony is called in. Patiently he learns more and more , bit by bit. As he gets nearer to identifying the villain, he also has to find a way to help the romance along between a gal of one 'gang' and a young man of the other, Along the way, Bony has to take on a mighty leader in a knockdown, bloody brawl - not just once, but twice. If you're ever thinking of going to Australia, this book will force you to go out into those hills and try to find remnants of these colorful settlers! This one is right up there for me with The Battlin' Prophet, The Bone is Pointed and Murder Must Wait. Hey: you don't have to be Irish to love this one"


Bonzo Beaver
Published in School & Library Binding by Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv) (February, 1980)
Authors: Arthur Crowley and Annie Gusman
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Great kids' book
Bonzo Beaver is my 8 year old daughter's all-time favorite book. She started reading it at our local library when she was about 3 years old. Now it is discarded and I am trying to find out how to purchse a new or used one.

It is a great book! 5 1/2 stars all the way!

Sincerely, Mary Ann Nalbone


Boogaloo
Published in Hardcover by Knopf (03 June, 2003)
Authors: Arthur Kempton, Erroll McDonald, and Randall Kennedy
Amazon base price: $19.25
List price: $27.50 (that's 30% off!)
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Hip, stylish and deeply insightful
Boogaloo is very cool - and in many ways stunning. Arthur Kempton has written a book that is simultaneously a treatise on black music, black culture, and american capitalism over the last century. And he has done it with great style - he is an amazing writer. On nearly every page there is at least one line (often many) that is totally quotable. I often would find myself re-reading a line over and over as I admired the combination of totally hip insight and wordsmithing. And it is that combination that largely makes this book so worthwhile. His handling of this vast subject is in fact deeply idiosyncratic - but it is through his own individual prism that the subject comes all the more alive. The selection of the photos parallel the writing, portraying the same eye for the ironic and revelatory. It would indeed have been totally cool to have an accompanying cd as the soundtrack of the book.

Boogaloo outlines the consistent threads that run through black music from the early 20th century onwards, from its early roots in blues and the church, to the soul and funk years, up to the hip hop of today. Kempton uses the lives and music of Thomas Dorsey, Sam Cooke, Barry Gordy, George Clinton, Tupac Shakur and other hip hop artists as the examples of the evolution of these threads. But this work is far more that a stylish review of different styles of black music.There are a number of broader themes at work here. One constant is a demonstration of the evolution of how black music has been marketed to young whites. Perhaps most importantly, Kempton sees popular culture as one of america's greatest exports, and black culture (in particular its music) at the heart of this, and his book is in part a demonstration of how this came to be.

One of the beauties of Kempton's accomplishment is that he doesn't always make explicit the connections in order to outline these themes, he allows the reader to do this for himself. With his particular selection of players and incidents from such a vast subject matter, combined with his own obvious love of the subject, and his wry humor and insights, Arthur Kempton has supplied us with both a revelatory and stylish treatise on black music, that in the process reveals much about american culture. He makes it clear in his short preface that this has been a life long study - and there is no doubt that anyone seriously interested in these subjects should take advantage of that study by reading this book. Besides that, it is totally cool and fun.


The book of Brendan
Published in Unknown Binding by Macmillan Children®s Books ()
Author: Ann Curry
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great quick reading with fantasy and detail
Loved this book for its ease in readability and its absorbing power. The story moved fast, was exciting, griping, well thought out and convincing in its fantasy. The research efforts of the author were also apparent encouraging one to delve into the Welsh folklore and Arthurian traditions, as well as into natural remedies for healing the body.


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