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 book starts out with a mood of pure sadness. Andrea's boyfriend, Neil, dies in an accident. Andrea begins to fall for his brother, Grady, but not because of love, but because she sees so much of Neil in him. She even says that she only loves him because he is the next best thing. Andrea has to learn to get through her tough times and depend on God for everthing because he is the only thing that truly matters. I thought that this book was a great, inspiring book that teens should read. It reminds us that God should be the center of our lives. This book portrays the reality of love in good times as well as in bad. It shows that though it isn't perfect, love has beauty in itself.

First off the there are some beautiful pictures as part of the Book, the cover shot and 3 full page shots in the book as well as some smaller shots. The Book has a section for lyrics only first which is great, its much easier to read the lyrics hear then it is in the liner notes of the CD, where there too small. Following the lyric section is the chord and note section (with lyrics as well) so we can play along as well as sing along. The bonus track lyrics and music on the DVD (and also included on some of the import versions of the CD) Tornera La Neve is included as well.

This is an amazing book with quotes and images.

WOULD LIKE TO GET THE PICTURES FOR MY SON ANT, REPORT ON PAGE 8 & 14 & 15,

The format of this book makes it relatively simple to go straight to relevant information. Cross-referencing between chapters could be better. The overall picture generated by this tome allows one to get a handle on this disorder and provides a strong foundation on which to build when updating the knowlege using journals.

The notion of community in the past is one that has previously been underexplored. This book takes innovative new ways to look at how society can be explained and understood from a bottom up rather than top down model. I liked the articles on Cahokia and the idea of community, although the book itself incorporates many archaeological new world societies, such as the Aztec and the Maya. If you get frustrated with the usual way of looking at the past this may get you excited again.

This book contains perfect examples for today's architecture, sorted in the various concepts and ideas, which are also desrcibed, some by their inventor or, one of their followers. Dozens of excellent photos visualize the buildings, and drwaings and plans help to establish an even clearer picture. In my opnion an interesting book for all you achitecture freaks out there.

Robin Osborne, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, praised this book lavishly in *The Classical Review*, saying it was "a highly enjoyable book" that posed questions "classicists as well as non-classicists should better ponder". I find myself in full agreement with Mr. Osborne. Kinneging, a professor in policial thought at Leiden University in the Netherlands, has indeed written a bold and brilliant book. The book is indispensable for political theorists, as it frontally assault the common literature on modernity, by pointing out that remants of classical wisdom -e.g. the ethics of honor- stayed with us for much longer than some of us thought. For thoughtful conservatives and those who are interested in the French Revolution, Romanticism & Enlightenment, Roman social and political thought, French and pan-European aristocratic thought or Montesquieu will find many provacating remarks and witty ideas. Elegantly reasoned, this book emphasizes Romans over Greeks. Following the trail of Herbert Betterfield (the author of *The Whig Interpretation of History*, J.G.A. Pocock and Q.R.A. Skinner, Kinneging rejects the teleologial study of the past. Confirmed by a wave of recent studies (e.g. Jonathan Dewald's European Nobility) Kinneging holds that the nobles were dominant much longer than we suspected. Their political and social thought was heavily influenced by their diligent readings in the classics and that showed. The books is especially rewarding for its central cluster of chapters which analyze in depth and with rigor the thought of the Romans, Cicero in particular. Classical thought thus founds its way into our own epoch. Students of, for example, Leo Strauss will find much in this study with which they will agree, as well as finding a host of issues of contention. In a way, this book is programmatic. Aspiring political theorists in need of a topic need not look further. A rich mine has been laid open by Dr. Kinneging. This book deserves a much wider audience than it has since received, and I warmly recommend it to all those who are concerned with the works of humanity in the current darkness.

---Michael Murra

This is one of the more unusual books on my shelves, in that physically it is designed to bear a resemblence on its exterior to some travel guides. The photograph above doesn't do it justice. The material is kivar-like, and his famous photograph of the entrance to the Moulin Rouge is tinted in red and yellow. Inside, the photographs are arranged thematically, according such topics as Salesman and Traders on the Streets of Paris, or Trades, Shops, and Window Displays, or interiors of Parisian homes, or, my favorite, Old Paris.

As the introduction of the book points out, Atget was the great photographic recorder of Old Paris. It is to Paris of the turn of the 19th to the 20th century what Weegee was to lower Manhattan. The pictures in this book are nothing short of remarkable, and to look at them for any length of time helps transport one, to the extent that that is possible, to a world that no longer exists. This is not beautiful, genteel Paris. It isn't the Paris of Proust. It is more the Paris of Baudelaire fifty years down the road, the Paris of Toulouse-Latrec.

This without any question the finest inexpensive edition of Atget's photographs currently available, and since Atget is the predominant photographer of the Paris of a hundred years ago, the best inexpensive book of photographs of Old Paris.