Great book! A very descriptive story about a boy growing up during the war and facing hard times. I finished the book in two days and could not put it down. This book would make an excellent movie; It's a story that needs to be told. It's definitly a story for posterity.

Rogers descriptive memoirs were brought to life in his book. You feel like you were living his life and his struggles during the war. It is an awesome book and I would recommend it to everyone.

It's all there. From women who turn to prostitution, to men who join the French wing of the Gestapo, De Anfrasio describes how war destroys the fabric of everyday life, resulting in citizens' distrust of one another. A Garden of Thorns is also a crackerjack story of a kid who just couldn't keep still. Despite the monstrous fears the Germans inflicted upon the occupied French, young Roger could not be deterred from doing his part to help out the French Resistance. A Garden of Thorns is truly an inspirational book.

With so much to absorb in so few hours during the day, this beautiful book allows us to glean the jewels from ACIM and immediately receive the full benefits of its purpose--a gift of peace and healing with generous reassurances of love. It is thoughtfully compiled and offers delightful food for thought for so many of us that are short on time, but still long for spiritual sustenance. I plan to include it on my holiday gift list for friends and family. Peace

I found the Course to be too dense. This, however, is just right. It has all the essential truth in a much easier to digest form.

Thank You Marianne and company,

Daniel

I'm not a serious student of ACIM, but have a passing familiarity from the books and tapes of Marianne Williamson and others. This volume, which I found purely by accident (are there accidents?), is a beautiful collection of quotes from the course. Reading it serially, or picking it up and opening to any page leaves one with a true sense of peace. I would absolutely recommend it for those who find the full text of the Course too much to take on.

I have to say i am a little biased in my opinion about the book....my oldest daughter Lauren is the author of the poem in the front of the book...of which i am very proud...my younger daughters Emily age 71/2 and Katie age 3 absolutely love the book...Emily is a beginner reader and loves to read the book to her younger sister..it not only helps her with her reading it encourages her younger sister to do the same as well as teaches them about listening to your parents and the events that follow all your choices...I am trying to place the book in Emily's school library of which i am certain will make a wonderful addition. Emily is already anxious to read more about Roger and Rosie, of which I am glad to hear her say...Mom...i want to read it again! We need more books to stimulate reading in our children. Thanks again for this wonderful addition.

I am a Speech Therapist for the Lafourche Parish School Board and enjoy reading this book to all my speech impaired children! (They also love it!) It is a wonderful book to teach vocabulary, problem solving, critial thinking, predicting possible outcomes and comprehension skills. The book takes you on a journey that is taken by 2 little raccoons. This journey is taken after their mother tells them to stay inside their home while she is away. The 2 explore the outside world alone and learn about different dangers. They are very scared and realize a very valuable lesson of listening to their mother. They are also taught that dangers are harmful and should be avoided. I recommend this book to all speech therapists, teachers and parents! Your kids will love to hear about this wonderful adventure!

I consider this book to be a 'very good life learning tool' to assist parents in teaching kids the difference in wrong and right. In order to accomplish that mission in teaching through reading, one must create a character (roger the raccoon) that will capture and hold the attention of a child. A raccoon is an animal that is easily identified by a child due to the black rings around its eyes. The character must be unique for that specific animal to be identified as the only one of its kind (red-banded tail); such as Big Bird. When a child thinks of Roger, he or she will remember the lessons learned by Roger and his life experiences that relate to the child that is reading or listening to the book being read.

I work as a computer artist an animator, and constantly search for good books on lighting. In my opinion, this is one of the best lighting books available to the artist, along with the classic from John Alton "Painting with Light". Still Life (PLS) gives simple explanations of light setup, digramatic views of the situation, as well as comments from the photographers about what they were trying to achieve, and why they did certain procedures.

The light setups here are easily adaptable to suit whatever still life (including products) you are photographing/rendering, and I have found it easy to adapt certain lights used into the realm of 3D computer graphics (soft boxes etc are easy to recreate....)

This book should really be part of all film/photographers/artists/animators reference material... I only wish they did a hardback version, as i fear this is going to get used very often.

Oh, the book is extremely well printed, in full colour, on good quality paper, giving an exceptional calirity of image, something unique for the price... All too often books on lighting and colour are in black and white... hahahahhahahaha.

When you thumb through this book, your are immediately impressed with the lighting subjects included. Many are not the usual cliches found in books of this type. The diagrams and text are clear and easy to understand. Good book, glad I bought it.

This series has the clearest diagrams to help you understand how to set up your lighting for all types of problems and challenges. Anyone serious about learning studio lighting techniques should have these books as references and idea generators.

Hicks and Shultz do an excellent job in describing the various types of lens and their uses. The book is easy to read and well documented. The illustrations are excellent. A "must have" book for both the novice and professional photographer.

Lens angst. Do all photographers suffer this affliction? Those who don't probably have enough money to buy all the lenses they want. Those who do, however, should buy this book. It begins with a good guide to lens optics in general, and then discusses 35mm lenses according to focal length, explaining what they do and the applications to which they are best suited. Hicks and Schultz obviously know the world of lenses. They give good advice on putting together a well-rounded collection of lenses, helping you home in on the kinds of pictures you want to take, and your needs and desires as a photographer. They also provide helpful hints on purchasing used lenses. This information is particularly soothing to the angst-ridden soul contemplating expensive new equipment. The used market isn't all that bad, it turns out, and you can save some money and still accomplish your goals. But the best thing about this book is the photographs. Taken by the authors to illustrate the various points they make about the lenses, the pictures are well chosen to illustrate their points. You see clearly that a 14mm wide angle lens really opens up an interior, and that a short telephoto works best for portraits. Better still, all of the pictures are well taken photos. They are a pleasure to look at, and the book is brimming with them. You'll find yourself picking up "The Lens Book" again and again just to browse (wishing that you could take pictures that good). Beware, however, if you suffer from brand-name angst on top of lens angst. Hicks and Schultz make no manufacturer endorsements in this excellent, unbiased discussion of lenses. That's another of this book's valuable features.

I found this book to be very good. I am a professional photographer and still found many usful things in this book. It includes multiple different lighting senerios from the simple to the very complex. It even had many exterior/natural lighting examples for those who prefer natural lighting or just don't have a money tree to buy all the fancy studio lighting. It also has many equipment illustrations for those looking to buy some equipment for studios. Overall a very nice book from a reliable series.

As a starting photographer, I was well aware of the author's reputation for great lighting of subjects--e.g. glamour shots, still life, etc. This book gives starting photographers--in detail--a masterful way of setting up nude shots. I highly recommend this book

Another November seems like it might be short and simple. But its unembellished prose carefully and powerfully conjures up images and memories of a troubled history. It is a serious story narrated by a man looking back on his childhood and young adulthood in a small town in southwestern France, and reflecting on the indelible mark left by the German Occupation on young lives. The author masterfully captures the complexity of political reality intersecting with childhood friendships and relationships -- political reality that includes class differences at first and extends to the clash between collaborators and the resistance, signaling the end of childhood. Though the narrator's style, on one level, seemed to keep me at a distance from the characters, seemingly uninvested in their personal struggles, ultimately I was left haunted by them and their choices and by the unsettling combination of normal everyday-ness and profound evil of the Occupation. Grenier makes us feel the way the war would change things forever; yet, he reminds us how some things remained business-as-usual. Eschewing detailed descriptions, he makes us feel the characters' pain and sense the reality of the war. The book is so effective and rewarding, I think, because of the sparse tone and careful turns-of-phrase that stayed with me even after I finished reading, and because of the subtlety of its cues as to what it meant to resist and what it meant to collaborate. It refuses to speak of the war in grandiose, familiar ways; instead, it focuses delicately on its effect on people who were neither its overt victims nor its villains. It makes the reader ponder the ambiguity between how the war changed the life of this small town forever and how life seemd to go on as before. It is a rich memoir of childhood and of war, where much of what was so disturbing about the period remains below the surface for the reader to uncover.

We have been to, and will be relocating to, Provence. We are therefore attentive to books on the regional cuisine. We own three books devoted specifically to Provencal cooking. This one is clearly the best of the three. We use it at least once a week, and have never been disappointed. We arte it a 9 only because there may eventually be a better one. 8'

This book is superb for historians of all levels who want to find out more about the 1848 revolutions in France, the book focuses on opinions from all classes of the era and is arranged in a highly navigable way. A great read!

Having bought a second hand SLR last year and shooting nearly 70 films in 8 months in a crazed passion for photography, I decided it was time to understand some of the intricacies of various photography techniques and jargon.

This book is a good choice for amateurs wanting to understand the relationship between the right kind of film for the right kind of output. Rogers and Frances use a lot of examples from their photography work and illustrate with their experience what worked or didn't work well for them, what were the thoughts in the mind when they chose a particular kind of film for a particular mood and setting. The book covers a broad array of discussion on 35mm negatives, slides, etc. and gives a lot of helpful tips and tricks for working with different kinds of film (both colour and black & white).

I am a total beginner and it has helped me critique my own work in an extremely constructive way.

there could be no better recommendation for any book!