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Getting Ready to Negotiate: The Getting to Yes Workbook
Published in Paperback by Penguin USA (Paper) (1995)
Authors: Roger Fisher and Danny Ertel
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Beautiful and has fun actions
This book is about a girl showing her little brother how to dance. The text is a poem, with a fun, dance-like rhythm. For example,

"I stomp my feet. I clap my hands. Arms up, arms down, I spin around."

A child can imitate the actions, and expand on them with their own creativity. The colors are vibrant and the artwork is beautiful. I like the family context also, because it is modeling an older sibling teaching a younger one.

A good baby workout book that's cute and entertaining
My daughter loves this book. She tries to do the dance moves as I read each page.


The Roots of Consciousness: Psychic Liberation Through History, Science, and Experience
Published in Paperback by Random House Trade Paperbacks (1975)
Author: Jeffrey Mishlove
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DANCING TO HIS OWN BEAT: ALVIN AILEY
Readers may have heard the name "Alvin Ailey" but this book makes the man live. From the time he was a kid his life was music: at first in church. Alvin's moving, leaping body is caught perfectly in the scratchboard illustrations toned with watercolors and acrylic. A fine top choice biography of an African-American artist!


The Floor Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Practical and Decorative Floor Techniques
Published in Hardcover by Trafalgar Square (2002)
Author: Dominique Coughlin
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A must for Christian adoptees!
The format of this book provides an opportunity for adopted children to read about a fictional character, Brian, and how he feels about adoption. It is a positive perspective about some difficult challenges that adoptees face. It also provides a prayer by Brian after each of his comments about a particular issue.

This book can be a springboard for conversation, as well as a tool to help an adopted child deal with some of the challenges he/she might face. I would highly recommend it!


The Gardener's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trees & Shrubs: A Guide to More Than 2000 Varieties
Published in Hardcover by Rodale Press (1987)
Author: Brian Davis
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great for all!
I am a beginner gardener and this has been my bible! The best part- Color photos of every tree and shrub. Complete descriptions, uses, soil requirements, pruning, everything you need to know. I lost it once and panicked! Luckily it was returned.


Ibsen: Four Major Plays (Great Translations for Actors)
Published in Paperback by Smith & Kraus (1995)
Authors: Rick Davis, Brian Johnston, and Henrik Johan Ibsen
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Ibsen, by Rick Davis
This multi-volume set of Ibsen's work, edited and compiled by Chicago/Evanston author Rick Davis is a little masterpiece.

The new adaptations are marvelous, and Mr. Davis' commentaries show us how Ibsen is a master crafsperson, and how his work may be best contrasted with Strindberg -- who is anything but a master editor and foundation layer.

I think Mr. Davis shows us how important precision and planning can be to the writing process. Therefore I think this book is a must have for screenwriters, as well as fiction-writers -- not to mention playrights.


Insiders' Guide to Yellowstone and Grand Teton, 3rd
Published in Paperback by Globe Pequot Pr (1901)
Authors: Brian Hurlbut and Seabring Davis
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essential for any visitor to the parks
i can't imagine not having had this guide on my recent trip. it enhanced the experience immeasurably with tips about what to see and how to see it. this is the best of the insider's guides i've ever read. a necessity on your trip - make sure you pack it and leave out the spare socks!


Mim's Christmas Jam
Published in School & Library Binding by Harcourt (2001)
Authors: Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
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A Belly-hum of a story!
It's 1915 and Pap is working on the new subway in New York, keeping him from his family on Christmas. His wife, Mim, and children, Saraleen and Royce, miss him very much, so they make and send him some of the family's traditional holiday recipe - Belly-hum jam. This jam is so good, Pap is able to use it to sweeten the sour attitudes of the foremen, Mr. Mead and Mr. Evans, who send the men home to celebrate with their families. Luckily for us readers, the recipe follows the story.
Once again the Pinkneys have brought us a wonderful, meaningful story, this one a touching holiday tale. The scratchboard illustrations are beautiful. I always look for new books by this family of authors and illustrators to add their work to my school library's collection.


MORE Windows® 98 Secrets®
Published in Paperback by John Wiley & Sons (1999)
Authors: Brian Livingston and Davis Straub
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Lots of wheat, very little chaff
I recently installed windows 98 second edition on several PCs at home and work and have been looking for a useful reference manual. This book is full of easier, quicker ways to use windows 98se, including many simple ideas that are easy to implement. Virtually every page offered something helpful. Amazingly, there was very little obvious stuff that most books spend most of the pages regurgitating.


NATO Forces: An Illustrated Reference to Their Organization and Insignia
Published in Hardcover by Blandford Press (1989)
Author: Brian L. Davis
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is magnificent, excellent
Is one excellent book, information detail about Nato and insignia of all armed forces, is complete


Peoples of the World
Published in Hardcover by National Geographic (2001)
Authors: David Maybury-Lewis, Brian M. Fagan, and Wade Davis
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Celebration of Ethnicity and Diversity
Within the realms of contemporary concern and interest about ethnic identity and global diversity "Peoples of the World" provides excellent presentation and commentary.The book starts with "Introduction: Ethnicity and Culture" by David Maybury-Lewis
which offers one of the best dicussions I have ever read on trying to identify these elusive concepts and how they relate to the contemporary world. From there various specialists discuss a sample of about 150 groups and cultures from all six continents. Their text is supplemented by excellent photography of some of these groups/cultures which portrays them not in their traditional pasts but as they live today. The text closes with "Afterword: Cultures in Crisis" by Wade Davis which establishes an interesting concept of the"ethnosphere" and how many of its components (cultures) are imperilled by the onrush of contemporary technological and societal development. The book closes with an extensive list of groups/fcultures and their locations around the world, perhaps one of the largest such list ever published (although not totally complete).
The book offers an excellent summation of the peoples of the world at the dawn of the twentyfirst century. It strikes a good balance by presenting the realities especially of smaller indigenous ethnic groups/cultures around the world but largely avoids the contemporary fashion to patronize them. Although I disagree with some points in the Afterword I highly reccommend this book to anyone who is interested in the nature of mankind.


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