The Centennial Exhibit of the Nobel Prize is brought to life in the pages of this beautifully rendered oeuvre. I bought it happily thinking that it would serve as a coffee table book and was more than pleasantly surprised to find that this book is so much more than that. Dr. Larsson has done a superb, creative job in selecting inspiring, thought-provoking essays that enhance the visual experience of the carefully chosen, high quality photographs. I keep coming back to it, and each time I do, I find something new of interest. Splendid.

A truly remarkable full color European quality paperback, divided into sections dealing with the history of the prizes, selected Nobel laureates, and various creative milieus in which they worked. Altogether fascinating. Should be in every library, both personal and public.

If Disney is your thing this is a wonderful book for you. It takes Disney characters and puts them into their own little Christmas stories. The stories iclude 101 Dalmations, The Little Mermaid, The Aristocats, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Winnie the Pooh, Bambi, Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Oliver and Company, Dumbo, A Bug's Life, Lady and the Tramp, Mickey Mouse, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tarzan, Robin Hood, and Toy Story.

Each story is enchanting in it's own way, and the illustrations are incredibly beautiful. Bring this book into your home this holiday season. You won't be disappointed.

This storybook is an elegant (complete with silver-edged pages) companion to other Disney stories. We have a 2-1/2 year old daughter who loves reading and is enjoying longer, more envolved stories. This book places her favorite characters in holiday stories that are consistent with what she is familiar with.

For example, the story of Snow White is set with the seven dwarfs during the time she is staying with them. It is easy to simply say that she stayed with them for some time before the Queen and Prince finds her in the forest.

Plenty of stories with all your favorites including Cinderella, Little Mermaid, Hunchback, etc. Each one is 10-20 pages long, so this isn't for kids with short attention spans.

I can tell you that this book has insight to life withoutreligion as its base for the person that needs a little guidence hereand there. What a fantastic book!! Children can read this as well as Harvard professors. THANKS!!

I think this book is one of the best motivational books I have ever read. Anytime I am feeling down or stressed I can look at this book for a few minutes and I feel like I can go out and conquer the world. I am often wondering what is the true meaning of life and this book helps answer that question. I highly recomend this book for anyone who enjoys uplifting life quotes or self-help books.

Gustave Dore first published these intricate and beautiful wood-engraved book illustrations for Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" in the 1860s. Though many, many fabulous illustrations have been created for the legends of King Arthur and his Court these still remain among the finest. This book contains 36 black and white plates, each 7 1/2" x 10" and thus nicely sized for optimal viewing of the exquisite detail. A corresponding excerpt from "Idylls of the King" is printed on the facing page of each plate. Dore captured the grandeur and opulence of courtly life, the mystery and magic of the legendary times of Arthur and Merlin, the medieval costumes, furnishings and architecture all with a brilliance that will transport you. Highly recommended!

Dore's art is fascinating. He matches his illustrations to the beauty and mystery of Idylls of the King.

"Driving Miss Daisy" is a play that shows how somebody can overcome their initial reactions towards a situation and how that situation changed their life forever. Thus is the story of Daisy,a Jewish woman living in Atlanta. Her son, Boolie, hires a chauffer to drive her around the city. Hoke, an african american man that Daisy wants to have no relation with, gets the job.

Opening up in the 1950's and running all the way to 1975, this story tells of the growing friendship between Daisy and Hoke. For the first few years Daisy is embarassed to being driven around by a black man but they soon develop a lasting friendship that will last forever.

"Driving Miss Daisy" tells one thing. It tells about changes in people. Daisy was a Jewish women who wanted absolutely no part with Hoke. Throughout the play Alfred Uhry is able to develop on each character from Daisy and Hoke, to the maid Idella, to Daisy's son Boolie, to Boolie's wife, and everybody else that appears. This is a very short play and Alfred Uhry had to have some skill to pull off the awesome character development in this.

"Driving Miss Daisy" is a story of change in people and of true friendship. This play went on Broadway and became a movie. This play won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and four Academy Awards for the movie. I recommend this play to anybody that would enjoy a touching story of two people that were everything but friends at first who became best friends for life. Pick this play up and you will appreciate this story and the friendship that is depicted in it.

Happy Reading!

Made into the 1989 Best Picture-winning "Driving Miss Daisy", one sees that, when comparing the two, they are relatively the same. So, then, it's no wonder that it won Best Adapted Screenplay for that year as well. The play is warm, humane, funny, and one of the best you'll ever come across. I believe the terminology "short and sweet" applies to this play. Read it!

It is the second time I have had the pleasure of reading this novel and weeks later I am still thinking and talking about it. Alfred the Great...what a man! I was so enthralled by the life and times of this English King, his insight, morality and courage, an inspiration thanks to Joan Wolf. Alfred was not expecting to become king of Wessex, one of the four kingdoms in England, with five older brothers. Different to his brothers, Alfred was well educated, sensative and very pragmatic. When the threat of a Danish invasion caught England on the back foot, Alfred united his kingdom and led the only kingdom to withstand the Danes. Entwined with passion, love and heartwrenching suspense, the reader is captured by the characters and their lifestyles. This novel enables the reader to experience the thoughts and issues of the time and gives insight to the only king of England to be called "Great". Do yourself a favour and read to your heart's content, you won't regret it.

Albert The Great..what a man. I have read this novel twice and what a thrill. Albert, the youngest of five princes in line for the throne of Wessex, different from his brothers, being well educated and sensative yet strong and forthright never expected to be king. The tale unfolds as this young, extraordinary man finds himself the leader of a realm threatened by the devastating onslaught of Danish Vikings invading England. These torrid times of the mid to late 9th century are softened by the passionate, accidental union of Albert and Elswyth. Being both down to earth and haughty, Elswyth captivates the reader by her eternal strength and aggressive personality which compliments Albert's thoughtful and assertive nature. Together, they hold the West Saxons together in a totally captivating and heartwrenching read. I was so absorbed in the lives of the charachters and the trials they faced, but Albert, King of Wessex is the most enthralling charachter I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.

With simplistic answers for our education problems' coming from our politicians, it is relief to find someone who has thoroughly thought through the education process.

Makiguchi asks the question seldom asked; what is our goal when educating a human being? His answer is someone who is happy. The kind of happiness that one can only achieve when they have realized the value of their own lives.

This book may be out of print , but I would highly recommend doing whatever you can to find a copy.

-Joe

joe@bohlken.com

"Education for Creative Living" is a translation of position papers and notes, written over a thirty-year period and published in the early 1930s by Japanese educator Tsunesaburo Makiguchi.

Born in 1871, Mr. Makiguchi achieved his first success at the age of thirty with the publication of Geography of Human Life. He went on to establish the forerunner of Soka Gakkai in 1930. The Soka Gakkai International is now the largest Buddhist organization in the world, with over 12 million members in 128 nations.

Mr. Makiguchi believed that Japanese education, far from creating a democratic society of responsible, independent citizens, turned most youths into morally and socially irresponsible automatons. In fact, he blamed education for many social ills and agonized over the force-feeding of information to students. He professed that students must experience happiness, even at school, and that education should be relevant to their lives.

As the book outlines his inspiring philosophy and revolutionary proposals, one can well appreciate his basic argument that education ought to engage interest.

This translation is a joint effort by Dayle M. Bethel and Alfred Birnbaum. It has been called a milestone by concerned parents and educators and, as such, it seems appropriate for those nations in which social mores seem to be eroding, especially among the young.

This book is really a captivating mystery disguised as an artful novel. The main character, a doctor, has a mystery (or really, several), hidden in his past. As his story unfolds, we are riveted by the plot -- what is in his past? How did the action happen? I would call this book a "reverse mystery" -- the events happened in the past and are only now being revealed by the main player.

The very fine writing makes unravelling this mystery a pleasure. I had to read the book all in one sitting because I couldn't wait to find out what had happened. I would recommend this most highly to anyone interested in an artfully told story.

THE EIGHTH DAY OF THE WEEK is an extraordinary first novel. Both my wife and I were mesmerized by its dark, barroom moodiness, its many poetic passages, and, of course, the mystery and intrique. The narrator, a doctor, tells his story, which we gradually realize is a confession,to a young woman in a bar. In a booth nearby, another woman watches and waits. We slowly gather clues about who this woman is, and what her relationship is to the younger woman who looks like her, or as she might have looked years ago. The story the doctor tells, in what has become a ritualized retelling, involves his wife, his troubled children, eventually his wife's lover, her child by him, and, as we slowly and painfully discover, an unimaginable, almost unpardonable sin. The air of mystery, and growing tension, between the story he tells and the barroom frame story in which the story/confession is told -- this is what kept us hooked from page one. In fact, it's almost impossible not to read the novel straight through. I recommend it to anyone who's interested in clear, expressive writing, and in the strange workings of memory, guilt, and loss -- and also love, how it weaves its delicate web to catch and hold us.

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before there were contraols put in place on his person, alfred gained intimate access to the great elvis and captured truly beautiful images

This is one of the best photo-books I have ever read and I'll tell you why! First, the book contains lots of never before published photo's and they are from a very high quality. We can see Elvis on stage and off stage (e.g. with his family). Second, the story Mr. Wertheimer has written is accurate and special, because he witnessed Elvis' early days himself and was one of a select group to be able to talk to Elvis in private and hear his opinions about his career. Third the book has a really beautiful lay-out and so I can only recommend this book to, not only all the Elvis-fans around the world, but to all people interested in the beginning of pop-culture!

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i have purchased an elvis calendar for every year for the last - oh, i'd say five years or so. when i saw this one, i was amazed. what a beautiful job these great people have done! the pictures are remarkable, and i would have paid virtually any price for it. it wont let you down, month after month there are classic black and white photos of the man who became a legend. this calendar tells you exactly why. rock on.