I bought it because my husband collects windup toys and this book comes with two! (surprised him with it - something very difficult to do!) Beautifully illustrated and a cute story - a hit for race fans young and old!

I may be biased because my husband collects windup toys, but the series of popup books by Michael Welply are adorable! Wonderful artwork for hands on fun, the little details are great. Thanks Michael, these are wonderful additions to the collection! A book you can play with using your hands and imagination... And kids will like them too!

Good stuff from the great freedom fighter. Rarely known texts are included with the famous "Narrative." "The Condition of the Freedmen", a look at African-Americans 20 years after the end of slavery, provide some sobering thoughts for American Blacks today. "The Heroic Slave" tells the little-known true story of Madison Washington, who led a slave ship called "The Creole" into freedom in 1841. I would also recommend "The frederick Doulgass Reader" and "The Life and Times of Frederick Doulgass" to make your "Dougology" complete!

Dr. Bruce Meyer's broadcasts on CBC's This Morning have taken the nation by storm and caused a major revitalization of the literary classics in Canada. All over the country, in schoolrooms, doughnut stores and coffee shops, people have been meeting to discuss the classics because of these broadcasts. The soon to be released The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books by Dr. Meyer is sure to take off following the overwhelming popularity of this, the largest-selling series of cassettes in the history of the CBC! This series, with its humorous, moving and extraordinarily brilliant observations on the Great Books is sure to make an avid reader of you and transform the way you look at both literature and the world around you. This is a "must buy" item for anyone who wants to get in touch with great ideas -- Dante, Virgil, St. Augustine, Milton, More, Machiavelli, Ovid, The Bible, Sophocles and many more.

Ibsen is often regarded as a "social writer", who, in his works, highlighted contemporary social issues. This is a great misunderstanding: Ibsen was a writer of visionary greatness, to be ranked with the likes of Tolstoy or Henry James. These six volumes of plays translated by Michael Meyer (also a distinguished biographer of the great man) are mandatory reading for anyone remotely interested in great literature. The very late plays, especially - "The Master Builder", "Little Eyolf", "John Gabriel Borkman" and "When We Dead Awaken" - take us to the rarefied heights of greatness.

This book presents hundreds of beautiful photographs of some of the world's greatest musicians. I highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in classical music. It makes a terrific gift!

This book is like the Guiness book of World Records. Easy reading and interesting while still being very funny. You can read it five minutes or 50 minutes at a time..... If you know what I mean?? :)

Miichael J. Meyer's anthology, _Literature and Ethnic Discrimination_, contains a superb essay by Eric Sterling entitled "Loss and Growth of Identity in Shimon Wincelberg's Resort 76." Sterling discusses how Wincelberg's drama portrays a convinced Nazi during World War II who is discovered to be the grandson of a Jew and who is forced to live in the Lodz Ghetto. The onetime Nazi's prejudices against Jews evaporate and he rejects his convictions in Nazi ideology. The topic of the Holocaust is also discussed by Peter R. Erspamer in his essay, "Women Before Hell's Gate: Survivors of the Holocaust and their Memoirs." He discusses German-language Holocaust reminiscenses by Jewish authors who are as-yet relatively unknown to English-speaking readers and makes a strong case for their importance and relevance. The African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston is discussed by the Spanish scholar, Anna Maria Fraile-Marcos. Fraile-Marcos challenges the view that Hurston was an apolitical writer and examines the development of ethnic identity in Hurston's folkloric writings. One of the most informative essays in this collection is Obodimma Oha's "What God Has Put Asunder." He discusses how the Niger river has divided the people of Nigeria into two ethnicities and how inter-ethnic cooperation is low despite subversive pressures from Christianity, urbanization, and Western education.

As a beginning student of CDA, I was pleased to read this volume, which almost serves as a personal valet welcoming one into this growing area of Linguistics. In a short and very readable book, we get the latest theories and methods in concise language that covers a lot of ground quickly. If you have read Titscher, Meyer, Wodak, and Vetter's "Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis" (Sage, 2000), you'll be relieved to see that this book is more focused and, for the most part, less technical. That's not to say that it's any less powerful, because the flip-side is that with this volume's emphasis only on CDA, we are reminded again and again of the ethical and emancipatory imperative of the CDA researcher.

Wodak herself introduces CDA's geneaology up to the present. Meyer then provides a concise discussion of methods, winding up his chapter with the admonition that CDA is not yet a unified discipline, but is nonetheless a constellation of approaches and methods that are likely approaching something resembling more of a singularity that at present - if more research is done in the field. Siegfried Jager's chapter on Discourse and Knowledge is a nice surprise from a lesser-known German analyst, who fortifies and corrects some of Foucault's conceptualizations about discourses and dispositifs and provides a trialectical model for looking at action, discourse, and manifestation. We then get a sound overview of Wodak's Historical CDA method and van Dijk's more social-cognitive method, followed by an overview of Fairclough's sociologically-oriented theory and Ron Scollon's micro-social critical discourse analysis.

The book is honest about CDA's "growth areas" and the criticisms it has received, and calls rather commonsensically for more research in order to shore up some of its weaknesses or areas that have not yet been fully explored. For the beginning researcher in CDA who is unsure about how to design his or her research proposal, this book provides solace via its characterization of CDA as hermeneutic rather than positivistic. In other words, there is always room for improvement.

Volume 1 includes the following plays: The Father, Miss Julie, Creditors, The Stronger, Playing with Fire, Erik the Fourteenth, Storm, and the Ghost Sonata