Ever since I have been dancing, it is the first time that I have come across a book which describes the tehniques of the vaganova method in detail. Every one who is an associate with ballet will benefit from that book. This official textbook of the vaganova school covering the basic concepts to the most complicated excercises. It is an outstanding reference work and a stimulating handbook.

This book is a complete and precise collection of Scott Joplin's works. The book also gives a summary of the composers lifetime.

I highly recommend this book.

This is a neat and smart piece of work on American film. The authors have done their homework, their discussions of seminal Sixties and Seventies films is outstanding. Once you've read about what they have to say about the "Lethal Weapon" series, you'll never look at it the same. Which is a good thing for modern film is a carrier of all kinds of ideas, some of them are obvious, some are subliminal and it helps to know how to recognize both. Obviously the authors have spent a lot of time thinking about certain kinds of films and their intellectual impact. Their style is accessible, and though the terms they tend to use come from the very specialized worlds of contemporary academia, one grows to understand not only why they are used, but what they really mean. I recommend this book for specialists who need to reify their own critical radar as well as for movie buffs anxious to broaden their understanding of the subtexts behind the films they have grown to love.

This is the first of a historic trilogy based on the lives of true characters, The central character is Sigrid of Bjarkoy. All three novels are well worth reading and follow the Olav Sagas of Snorre Sturlason's Heimskringla. The other two books of the trilogy are Jaertegn and Helgekongen. Highly recommended, but so far have not yet been translated into English.

This is the first is a new series of books being published by the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. Standard Speech isn't JUST about that - there are many more articles and many of them are peer-reviewed. The standard of this journal is top-notch.

For those interested in the debate on standard speech for the theatre, it continues here, with articles challenging and supporting the approach first developed by Edith Warman Skinner, and made popular in such books as "Speak with Distinction."

An important book for every voice and speech professional to own; there is also lots of interest for actors, directors, and teachers of all areas of performance.

Highly recommended!

Diggs and Paster created a wonderful tool for keeping your marriage together. Hitting on every subject of what marriage entails, they take you through basic scenarios and offer suggestions on how they should or should not be handled.

This book should be a must-read for every engaged couple. It's a great pre-marital counseling tool.

Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea by Vera B. Williams andJennifer Williams is a realistic and imaginative children's story.The format is a scrapbook that chronicles the road trip Stringbean and his brother take to the Pacific Ocean from their home in Kansas. The amusing text is written in the form of postcards the brothers send to family members as they make their way to their destination. The illustrations are unique, and are "photographs" and colorful postcards displaying Stringbean's experiences in a fun and personnal way. The reader feels s/he is actually looking at someone's scrapbook and as the story progresses feels like a family member to whom the postcards have been sent. As well as being entertaining, the book is a useful geography tool for children, allowing them to travel the journey on a map as the brother's make their way across country.

Based on their non-fiction book "Ten Sisters: A True Story" by Virginia Rackley, Deloris Hart, Rhita Brniak, Mary Hickmott, Irma Swierk Allen, Pauline Ariel, Phyllis Ferguson, Vera Barber, Audrey Alford, and Doris Wenzel, Ten Little Sisters is a truly delightful and original picture book about ten female siblings and the enjoyable activities they do together, such as fishing, climbing trees, or visiting a real courthouse. Years later, when they are all grown up they enjoy a grand family reunion in this happy tale with upbeat, crayon-style color illustrations by Lana Hill.

My twin 5-year-olds beg to have this book read again and again nightly. Wonderfully illustrated with charming watercolors and cleverly written, this book captures the essence of a fight between two best friends escalating way out of proportion. A sweet lesson, demonstrated by two friendly monsters.

This is a magnificent book. I read the English edition (pub. 1978) and couldn't get enough of it. There are three novels in here, each retelling an aspect of the Arthurian legends from the perspective of one of the female participants. "The Green Knight" and "King Arthur's Daughter" are both excellent stories, but it was "The King's Damosel" that really blew me away. Here is a re-telling of, and riff on, the tale of Gareth Beaumains, in which he is harangued by one sister and rescues another and marries. But what of this second sister, Lynett? Why did she have such an acid tongue? And what became of her? This tale goes far to answer this and, more importantly, gives a strong female character to the legends. Amazingly, she is not a witch, a queen, or a woman-hiding-as-knight. Instead, she is a messenger, one who loyal serves King Arthur, yet constantly stands against the limited role for women in society and the assumptions laid upon them.

Like so many books I have read since MZB, this is what "Mists of Avalon" wanted to be, but failed to produce, a true melding of the legends with a femnist slant, one that is not discordanant, but rather is an improvement upon the old tales well told.

If you can find this book, read it.