It was one of the best books I've read in a long time. It was very funny and it was a type of mystery where as you read the book, you find more and more clues.

this book is very good for rainforest lovers

This is a beautiful story about the rewards of and the necessity for conservation. The country described is so full of forest that it is said that a squirrel could leap from branch to branch from one coast to the other. But over time the forests are replaced by homes and buildings until there is only one forest left. Everyone has forgotten about it except for .... the children. They gather there and play throughtout the four seasons until one day a sign is posted that could change everything. This book is sweet and satisfying and may even inspire your child to "make a difference". The illustrations are lively and colorful and bring a feeling of magic to the story.

The "Hamlet" that Edward Gordon Craig directed in tandem with Konstantin Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre has taken on mythic status in theatre studies in the West.
In this fascinating study, Laurence Senelick shows what went into the making of this event. The author makes extensive use of various previously untapped Russian sources and reveals the conflicts, both personal and artistic, underlying the mixed succes of this epoch-making production. The goings-on behind the scenes turn out to be at least as dramatic as the action on stage! Especially the story of Craig's assistant and interpreter Suler(zhitsky) is very poinant. The book provides a very detailed description of the eventual production with the famous screens and describes its impact.
In his "Hamlet", Gordon Craig aimed to create a highly personal, almost hermetic symbolist drama. Stanislavski directed the actors on the basis of what he believed Craig's wishes to be -- and this at a time when he was still feeling his way towards his "method", which was much more naturalistic. Perhaps their approaches could never be reconciled, but at least they made this valiant attempt...
Subsequently, both men proved to be seminal forces in 20th century theatre: Craig became the prophet of the director as the pivotal figure in stage production, three-dimensional and abstract set design, and proper stage lighting (instead of shadows painted on canvas backdrops). He also helped to get theatre history off the ground as a respectable occupation. Stanislavsky needs no introduction, of course.
This study is essential reading for anyone interested in the grass roots of 20th century theatre. Moreover, this is no dessicated academic study. In places, it's as entertaining as a Robertson Davies novel.

Titus has fled Gormenghast and adventured out into the world. I won't tell you about what happens to him out their, but I will tell you this: Titus's conflict between his pride in his linege and his desire to be free breaks out into all out war. He desires to be home with the people he loves but the person he love's most, Fuchsia his sister, is dead and he loathes the mind numbing ritual and arbitary laws of Gormenghast. As he travels out he finds oppression everywhere, a police force that holds terror in the population of the unnamed land he visits, a thug who tortures and oppresses a refuge woman. Titus makes and looses friends, enemies, and lovers. His sanity is questioned (Peake was falling pray to hereditary insanity when he wrote this). After much pain and grief, he finally comes to terms with himself and his heritage and finds independence. This is the story of Titus's growth to manhood. In the end we are shown what makes us who we are.

Because Henry David Thoreau's work is in the public domain, it's easy to run across any number of compilations of his most profound or most quotable words. Perhaps these mini-anthologies are simpler to digest than, say, every single page of _Walden_, or every one of the 14 volumes of his _Journal_. Let's face it: most people don't get or take the chance to read either one. So it's nice that Laurence Stapleton took the time to read the _Journal_ and select crucial parts for us to study. Here Thoreau is at his best in describing his neighbors or his walks around Concord and his art of observing Nature. His recordings are mostly made under what most people would consider adverse conditions: in fog, in rain, in snow, or at night. He notices phenomena reflected only in the water of a pond or the ice-covering of a wintry field. He is a practiced "seer," and his writing inspires the reader to see as well.

His writing. Of course! This book is subtitled _A Writer's Journal_ for good reason. Stapleton specifically picked out many entries where Thoreau ruminates about his own writing and the creative process. To this end, this book reads like a 19th-century _Chicken Soul for the Writer's Soul_. Anyone who writes can identify with considerations like these:

"The best you can write will be the best you are. Every sentence is the result of a long probation. The author's character is read from title-page to end. Of this he never corrects the proofs." (Feb. 28, 1841)

"We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto. The body, the senses, must conspire with the mind. Expression is the act of the whole man, that our speech may be vascular. The intellect is powerless to express thought without the aid of the heart and the liver and of every member." (Sept. 2, 1851)

"Write often, write upon a thousand themes, rather than long at a time, not trying to turn too many feeble somersaults in the air,--and so come down upon your head at last." (Nov. 12, 1851)

"I wish that I could buy at the shops some kind of india-rubber that would rub out at once all that in my writing which it now costs me so many perusals, so many months if not years, and so much reluctance, to erase." (Dec. 27, 1853)

"Time never passes so quickly and unaccountably as when I am engaged in composition, i.e. in writing down my thoughts. Clocks seem to have been put forward." (Jan. 27, 1858)

"The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands." (Feb. 13, 1860)

(Is he speaking to *us* or to *himself*?) We also see publication notes of the two books released during Thoreau's lifetime, _A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers_ and _Walden_. We read discourses and ramblings that will later become essays like "Slavery in Massachusetts" and "A Plea for Captain John Brown." The latter are served without any intrusion from the editor, so the savvy reader might need to brush up on pre-Civil War history to put the words into context. Thoreau's discussions about putting pen to paper make the audience feel almost guilty for spending time reading, not writing. A volume that can be appreciated by nature-lovers, contemporary transcendentalists and writers alike.

The consensus amongst the medical community is that HIV/AIDS is a death sentence. In this important book, Dr. Badgley, a medical doctor, prsents his unorthodox approach to AIDS. The book includes information on the immune system, how to naturally strengthen it, and the true causes of AIDS. Anyone with AIDS should not take any medical drugs. They should take this book seriously and apply the methods in it.

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Srikant "Steve" Hemmady

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My 19 month old son actually chose this book at the library. He absolutely loves it! It is packed with wonderful drawings of babies doing all sorts of silly things, such as "Babies kick and babies crawl, slide their potties down the hall." He enjoys the rhymes, but he LOVES all those pictures of the babies playing with things like "shoes and hats, sleeping cats,...an empty box, and Daddy's socks." It is a great book for beginning readers (especially those expecting a new baby brother or sister) because the print is large and well spaced. Smaller children will almost certainly relate to these little babies. I will definitely add this one to my list of "great gift books."