Carole Feuerman's book on sculpture is actually a book on body casting. There is a difference. While she is obviously a skilled technician she has NOT sculpted the figures that are photographed in her book. Let the reader be aware before he or she buys.

There are few writers capable of making sculpture breathe-- Dena Merriam does just that. While many art books are heavy-handed and pompous, Merriam writes as if caressing the work, touching it as her own. Each photograph is taken with exquisite taste, and highlights the craftsmanship and genius of the artist. This book reaches far beyond the halls of academia and the narrow tunnels of critics; it is for anyone who appreciates the aesthetics of life-- the smell and touch of sculpting humanity.

This text is a must for everyone in the art world. Feuerman is a well known artist and has out-done herself this time!

The Adventures of Huck Finn is an outstanding work of classic literature. It's a must read, especially since schools all over have been banning it from their literary lists. The story focuses on a young boy who learns lessons about life and himself while helping a run away slave. There is much contraversey over the relationship between Huck and the man he is trying to save. Why not read the book and form your own opinion as to what is really going on.

An American Tail is a great book to teach children about the largest immigration in history. The author uses animated characters to tell about the immigrants journey to America and the struggles adjusting to their new life in the "land of the free".

As in most Disney books the story ends with a "happily ever after". This misconception that everything ends up great is the only real negative side of the book. So, I encourage parents and children alike to read this book. It's a writing that entertains and teaches at the same time. A must!

Silber, who is director of museums in Leeds, England, and a well-known Jacob Epstein scholar, does an excellent job of delineating Gaudier's development as an artist. Her prose is fluid and elegant, and her interpretations insightful and persuasive. Her prodigious research is evident throughout the work, especially in the much-needed catalogue raisonee. This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in 20th-century sculpture.

This is an important work. While politicians debate vouchers, schools defend programs, and psychologists analyze standardized tests, the inner-city youth are reduced to numbers, incentives, and statistical variables. This book approaches youth as people. Written and photographed by artists, the book offers fresh insight into the minds of children; what they think and feel. Whether a liberal or conservative, people should care about the thoughts of others, particularly society's offspring. The Gift of Imagination celebrates our greatest gift-- our ability to think as individuals.

David Finn touches on many key points with looking at photographs. He works with you in the book to try to create your own vision in looking at photographs. The book is very diverse, he pulls many peoples insights in this book which i enjoyed. As you read you find youself "seeing" not just looking...you grow as you read on. You will start understanding images as a form of art. Finn's information is far from boring..or dry( in which i was afraid of) The reading is very enjoyable. At the end you are places with a tool you use in your viewing of images which you can forever use and improve.

Why Nylund would choose to classify Huck Finn as ADD/ADHD is odd. Did he take other factors into account, such as Huck's physically and emotionally abusive alcoholic father, who is a criminal and often absent? Or the fact that he comes from a single-parent, broken home (having lost his mother at a very young age)?

Still, may be helpful to thopse dealing with ADD/ADHD (parents or therapists).

ADD is a real condition. How do I know? Because I have it. And while I do not take Ritalin, (There are so many other medications out there to treat my condition it's sad he only mentions one of them) I know all to well what life is like when I miss a day of my medication. NOTHING gets done. My parents (I'm 17) grow frustrated when they find me spaced out and staring at the walls instead of folding the towels, which they had watched me start some three hours ago.
Anyway, what I wanted to say is that ADD is not just some made up "disease" created to alleviate guilt of parents for not being able to "control" their children. It is all to real.

As a therapist and a father, I have found this book remarkably insightful. I have met many children (including my own!) who fit the ADHD description. People who pay attention to this book and listen to what David Nylund is saying will be more likely to find answers to the ADHD question.

Maybe I took the title and reviews too literally, but I think this book should be called "Things I Look At" -- a title which promises less interesting content, and delivers just that.

Here is a short excerpt (page 50): "The other day I saw a tree right in front of the office building in which I work; I couldn't believe that I had never noticed it before and I admired its wonderfully graceful branches. .... On a cold winter day I saw a policewoman directing traffic and speculated about the clothes she must be wearing to keep herself warm."

First, why should I trust this author to teach me to see things anew when he hasn't noticed a beautiful tree he passes frequently? Secondly, while the premise of the book rests on the idea of enriching one's visual appreciation, the author's decriptions are consistently impoverished. I would hope that the author would proceed to tell me what it is that makes the tree branches graceful -- paint a verbal picture and teach me how to look at the tree. Or tell me how to approach a painting, to see it from afar and then approach it -- what do I look for that makes it special and beautiful. This never happens; instead it is a series of personal anecdotes that rarely probe very deeply.

Pictures are interesting, some in color, but again they are not used to accomplish what the title promises.

A disappointment unless one is interested in the author rather than the subject of the title.

Once again Finn prompts a new way of seeing just as he did with museums, sculpture and photographs in his earlier books. His book will open your eyes to another way of seeing the world.

I believe that Mark Twain, the most discpicable writer of the modern era, has made a mockery of literature. This book incorporates both poor language skills and a prejudice towards slaves and young men. I believe that this book, along with every other Mark Twain book, should be burned. if Mark Twain was still alive, I would like to burn him as well.

Until I read TS Eliot's critique of Huckleberry Finn, I didn't understand the book. The point that Tom Sawyer is the actor/director and Huck the audience, wallflower, altruist--is a simple fact I simply overlooked.

Eliot's reading of the book's final line makes a thoroughly entertaining read deeply melancholy. And if what Hemmingway says about Twain is true, namely, that Huck Finn appears in one way or another in every work of American Literature thereafter, it sheds light on the melancholy and loneliness that is American literature in the modern age.