There is a saying that, "A Picture is worth a Thousand Words." In this case, that is more than true. Words alone could not describe the beauty and emotion that is alive in these pictures.

With this book, Jack Kotz takes the "reader" on a journey though his life, and the lives of people that have influenced him greatly. The title of the book concerns his grandmother, Myrtle Booth, and the garden is, to put it simply, her world. The photographs show a mixture of the desolation and the beauty that can be found in rural Mississippi and Tennessee. Words don't really describe the effect that the morning fog has as it slowly rolls across the gardens and the sunlight breaks through the clouds striking the differing textures of the vegetables in all their variety of colors so Jack has attempted this with his camera.

You are taken on a journey here with Ms. Booth as she visits the church where she performed her duties to the community and the Lord as organist for 70 plus years, You see the ladies and their quilts which vibrate with color. You meet what seems to be plain country folk who, as you get to know them through the pictures, come alive with a variety of experience that would astound the casual person.

You see the beauty that Jack has grown with as the sunlight reflects off the moss of the dark green pond and then note the lights of the few lamps as dusk slowly falls across the town or the storm approaches over the plains.

You are taken over a journey through a town kept alive by its grocery store and the church and then you find the strange beauty of a household freezer as you see the colors of all the vegetables spring into your eyes.

Finally you see the spirit of Ms. Booth as she is constantly on the move. Age seems to have slowed her but not stopped her. First she is with a cane, then a walker, then a wheelchair but always she is moving forward and facing life with a zest that seems to have strongly affected her oldest grandson.

I say that with knowledge and pride being Ms. Booth's youngest grandson. I received the book today and looked at it at my office. The pictures brought many memories and emotions rushing back to me. At times I just stopped and felt myself drawn into the picture. I felt the air as it closed around me, sometimes hot with humidity and sometimes cool. I heard the birds in the background and sometimes even the logging trucks as they roared down the highway. I smelled the air, sometimes redolent with auromas that can be found in the country and other times full with the smell of corn bread, fried chicken, and peach pies. I saw my grandmother as she would slowly march forward through life stopping to inspect and everything until she was satisfied and then moving on to her next stopping point. I also saw Jack. I saw him walking through the country and stopping as the mixture of light and shadows caught his eye. I saw him driving down the road and having to stop to take a picture as he saw the clouds slowly obscure the mountain that he was viewing. I saw Jack and Ms. Booth walking hand and hand through her garden...and it was breathtaking.

This hard-to-get catalogue beautifully illustrates a ground-breaking exhibition held at the Barbican Art Gallery in Fall 1998 of contemporary and historical Native American photography. The massive exhibition is well illustrated in the equally large catalogue of important historical images and the journeys or interpretations of these images by the authors is compelling. I especially enjoyed the contemporary Native American photographs by well known artists Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisgaa), Dugan Aguilar (Pit River/Maidu/Paiute), Lee Marmon (Laguna Pueblo), Shelley Niro (Mohawk), Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (Dine/Seminole/Muskogee), Jolene Rickard (Tuscarora Turtle Clan), and Pamela Shields (Blackfoot/Blood Band).

This teachers manual describes the role of teacher as coach and provides valuable tips for outdoor teaching. Each unit of the investigation integrates the other content areas of mathematics, language arts, and social studies in a manner consistent with the suggestions in the National Science Education Standards. This book will alleviate any fears about taking classroom instruction outdoors. There are 10 areas of investigation, each designed to take 10 days to complete at one hour per day; however, the lessons are flexible. These investigations include the senses, trees, birds, insects, ants, biodiversity, habitats, engangered species, and the food chain. A focus paragraph, background information, and sequence of activities accompany each unit. The unit on trees offers a creative way for students to act out the life cycle, which is described in wonderful detail. The student sheets include an overview that explains what is happening and presents a schoolyard challenge. Students collect data and graph and compare results. At the end of each unit, students create their own investigation. All copy masters are included with and without answers. Nature at Your Doostep provides a way to tap into children's curiosity, wonder, and upper level thinking skills. -Teri Cosentino, Science and Children, April 1998

I picked up Nature Calls for my father. Let's just say he spends a lot of time in the privy. On the first pass through, the pictures were appealing - funny, curious and down right bizarre! Reading through the second time, I found the facts, stories and poetry to be truly inspiring. Who knew there was so much to learn about the outhouse! The necessary, the backhouse, the privy. The author has done a great job of recording this important part of our American history. I'll never look at a port-a-john in the same way again! I'll be picking up this book for all the men in my life.

David James and Stuart Booth have excelled themselves in producing a book with superb Celtic artwork from not only the Celic countries but around the world. Really enjoyable text and wonderful artwork. I would recommend this book to any Celtic art enthusiast for its beautiful and high-quality work.

A wonderful book for breeders and pet owners alike. In-depth look at the breed as well as the standard for basset hounds. A must for anyone considering this breed.

George Booth's cartoons, often seen in the New Yorker, are collected wonderfully in this book. He has lots of hilarious things to say about dogs, automechanics, banking and living on the edge. Everyone in my family who read this laughed and laughed.

Catherine Booth captures not only the spirit of the Salvation Army movement, but the Spirit of the Living God that propelled that movement. She asks a very simple question: Why is the church today not living in the power of the first century church? Booth contends powerfully that the church has been deceived as to its own standard of religious life and as to its duties in the world. She preaches with power about the truth of God's power--how hungry are you? Don't read the book unless you're ready to be challenged.

This is the finest biography of the life of Jumpin' Jim Gavin, a legendary World War II leader. The other biography is written by Bradley Biggs and lacks the thorough research of Booth & Spencer's work. Read Biggs if you need a summary (and somewhat biased rendition) of Gavin's heroic life of service to the nation. Read this book if you want the details of Gavin's life in an impartial account - from his days as an orphan, then adopted growing up in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania to his WWII exploits, service as Ambassador to France under President Kennedy and his time as CEO of Arthur D. Little & Company. This biography presents the uncut version of the life of James M. Gavin.

Many former and current paratroopers still pay homage to the memory of this great man. Gavin is buried in the cemetery at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Each year on 6 June, his wife Jean, other family members, and members of the 82nd Airborne Division Association, both officers and enlisted, gather for a D-Day memorial to honor one of the greatest leaders of the war. Gavin led the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment on airborne drops into Sicily and Salerno, and later he led the entire 82nd Airborne Division on the Normandy and Market Garden jumps. It is a fitting tribute that the impact of his legacy still lives on in the hearts of the men and women who knew him and went to war with him. If you want to understand why his memory still inspires many of us in uniform, read this book. (You can also get more insight into the man by reading the several books that Gavin wrote himself, like Crisis Now, Airborne Warfare, and On To Berlin.)

Highly recommended for all paratroopers and anyone who interacts with military professionals.

I received "Paris in 3D" for Christmas and what a wonderful surprise! This book is exciting before you even open the front cover. The front of the book has a beautiful lenticular of the Eiffel Tower. But the wonder does not stop there. Each page reveals beautiful 3-D images which can be viewed with the viewers enclosed in the book. The paper is high quality and the reproductions are gorgeous! As if this weren't enough, the book is engrossing and full of interesting information. I have been interested in 3-D photography for six years. This is the kind of book that I would be comfortable recommending to anyone who loves beautiful, well produced books, regardless of their knowledge or interest in 3-D photography. It is truly a collector's item that the whole family would enjoy viewing.