The music is fun - my kids (ages 3 and 1) love dancing and singing along (okay, only the 3 year old sings). The book is the song lyrics with interesting illustrations. So a little tough on the reader, in terms of hard to get in the rhythym of reading. And some of the song lyrics are a little odd in my opinion. But catchy tunes and cool pictures. Our favorite songs: Go!, Rollerblade to School, and I'll be an Airplane.

Catchy, fun, upbeat songs combined with a nicely illustrated book with large-print versions of the lyrics make this a book we could not live without. My 5 year old knows all the words and thinks he is reading when he sings along (it's certainly good practice!) and my 2 year old gets frantic for a turn with the book as soon as he is in his car seat. So many of the songs really seem to capture the sense of what childhood is all about, not from mom and dad's point of view, but how a kid might really feel, as in the song where a little boy plans to grow up to BE an airplane (not a pilot, not a mechanic, the actual plane) but plans to keep his family with him on board. So sweet, but also, as a mom of two boys, so true!

Grandma can give me a cd in a book where I can find a cd. My CD tells me about trucks...cars and trucks. I listen to it alot cause I like it, cause it my favorite CD. I listen to it lots and little. I shake my hands to it. I want don't want to touch the music part of the CD. I be gentle with the CD...

In 1990, Daniel MacMillan of MAC Productions, published the First Edition of "Golfing in Oregon" and from what I can see, he's mastered the course! From the first tee (the beautiful cover photo of Bandon Dunes Golf Course) to the 19th hole (the numerous indexes of courses in Oregon) this book hits a hole in one.

MacMillan shows where the courses are by map, geographical index, alphabetic index, and regional index. Each of the course descriptions includes a graphical layout of each hole with yardage information, driving directions, address and contact information, fees, rating/slope, cart and trail information, reservation policy, dress code, winter conditions, and amenities available.

All courses, whether resort, public or private are listed. 9-hole, 18-hole, and additionally, it lists driving ranges and golf specialty shops. MacMillan even included courses that are yet to be completed in 2001.

Macmillin includes personal notes about each of the courses, which is a reassuring touch. He's actually been to each of the courses and shares his personal comments both pro and con.

The book is sized to easily fit in a golf bag and for my money this is a perfect companion for any golf trip to Oregon. It would be a great addition for any golfer living in Oregon or coming for a visit.

This is a great book for golfers interested in a comprehesive list of all the golf facilities in Oregon. It has a full list of all courses, driving ranges, and other facilities. There is a state map, listings by course names and by city names. Each listing has a map to the course, a map of the hole layout for the course, a review of the course and it conditions, and other very usefull information. This will be my third copy of this must have book. I lost my first one and the edition I bought in 97 is about worn out. That's about the only negative comment I have, or is that positive because I use it so much. I also own the Washington and Idaho / Montana copies. Good books all.

I have used this book many times to plan golf outings or trips in Oregon. The author frequently releases updated editions with new courses and course changes. Since my goal is to play all courses in Oregon, this book has been my bible.

From directions to the course to course descriptions, almost all that you need to know is contained within.

Harrowgate is a dark, mesmerizing ride into an almost Lovecraftian labyrinth. A painter gets involved with a woman who is apparently very dead and is pulled into a bizarre, Hellraiser-like group of dark gods. I highly recommend this book to all horror fans. It has all the elements of a good story and is one of the real standouts from the short lived Abyss line. Unfortunately, just when Gower seemed to walk out onto the stage with two very strong books, he vanished. Where are you Mr. Gower? The genre needs you!

I have read both of this guy's books and I agree completely with the previous comments about the author. I can't wait to read his next creation. I would also love to see movies based on these books. Believe me, if you are a fan of scientific horror you'll enjoy this book.

I am a fan of modern horror-- Koontz, King, Saul, Farris, the Abyss line-- and I have been through a lot of it. Gower is unique. I've read both of his books, (Orpheus Project is the other) and both were fantastically well-done. For my money Gower may well be the best out there from the standpoint of originality and just plain fun. He holds nothing back...unafraid to go completely over-the-top in outrageousness without becoming comic or ridiculous. This is great stuff. My only complaint is the author's apparent lack of productivity or proper commercial sponsorship. I only know of two works by him; no others are listed with Amazon. If it's the former, then get with it DHG! You do have fans out here. If it's the latter, then some acquisitions editor out there should wake up and start reading because this guy is a major talent.

Short, insightful, highly readable, and mind-opening, this book sheds light, not heat, on such topics as diversity, individualism, and values. He helped me see the importance of taking personal responsibility for my actions, and the role story can play in helping me live up to my ideals. The idea of seeing myself as a character in a story gives me the perspective to do what I already know is right. Why is this marvelous book out of print?

This book is so good I kept putting off writing a review on it, afraid my words would not do it justice.

Daniel Taylor explores the ways that STORY has power in our lives. We have our master stories which shape the way we view our world. We have our cultural and community stories. They all are interwoven in the core of our beings.

Somehow, reading this book, I got an image of Daniel Taylor as a gentle little English professor (Me being over 200 pounds, it's not hard for me to picture people diminutively.) I met Dan last month, at my StoryCon meeting and he is a biggg guy. But gentle, very gentle, and soft spoken. Yet his stories and his understanding of story are so powerful. This book should be required reading for anyone who works with story, any psychologist or minister.

I mark up books with wise words. This one must have [drained] the ink out of two or three pens with all the quotable, wise words I triple starred.

This is truly a wonderful book, one to be read and savoured for the way that it shows us how important story is to our lives. I especially liked his section on character versus personality. Stories have the power to touch us in a way that nothing else can, and the only way that this book could have been any better was if it were a story.

Despite the seemingly disjointed narrative, I enjoyed this novel in its English translation. The characters that populate the book are colorful and make the Russian migrant experience in Israel come alive. Rubina writes with a ruthless compassion for her people and their situations so that I came to care for Zaima and Writer N on deep levels. She has a way of working philosophical rumination in with the story that elevates it beyond interesting anecdote. I am amazed at the smooth translation, how accessible the story became to me! I have read translations of Tolstoy and Chekhov in school that did not seem as graceful as this! Here Comes the Messiah! should be on college reading lists for students in European and Jewish Studies programs and also those doing translation and literature.

This book was an eye-opening read for a non-Jewish American who had rather lost sight of the fact that a novel can be at once a compelling personal and spirtual drama and at the same time a trenchant social satire. I would strongly recommend this book to any reader or writer looking to expand his or her definition of what a fictional novel can do. Also to anyone seeking a delicious glimpse inside Russian emigre life in Israel. Daniel M. Jaffe has done an admirable job of capturing Rubina's smart, slangy style in translation.

I read this novel in order to learn about the life of Russian emigres in Israel. And the novel was great for that. But it also taught me a lot about life on the West Bank, in settlements. What the daily life is like. I was surprised at how balanced the portrayal was of the Palestinian woman character as well as the Jewish ones. The author pokes fun at everyone and also makes you like them even though they're almost all really strange. I don't know much about translation, but the translator's introduction helped me understand more. It reads very smoothly. If you told me it was written in English, I would believe it.

I thought it was real good. I loved the part when the goat ran away from the special fence that they had made. I recommend it to anyone who reads this series or likes animals.

Houdini the goat is escaping from his owner and eating Sam Western's prize plants. I liked the book because it is very funny and interesting.

Mandy and James meet a new goat in Welford named Houdini. The only problem is, is that Houdini keeps escaping and eating all of Mr. Western's prize-winning plants. Will Mandy and James find Houdini before Mr. Western does something drastic.

This is an excellent addition to any library.

From the first page of this book I couldn't get over the idea that this whole exercise was some marketing guy's idea. "Hey, Cantor's famous. He could put drivel on a page and diehard soccer fans will buy it. Shouldn't be too hard to make a profit on this one. And just to be safe, we'll have it ghosted. That way all he really has to do is pose for the cover." Cantor's an entertaining guy, but his history of the World Cup is only marginally interesting. It's stiff, and difficult to hang with for more than about ten pages at a time. All in all it's pretty mediocre stuff. If you're looking for a book that captures the entertaining goofiness of Cantor's personna, this, regrettably, isn't it. Maybe next time. I hope so.

I had the pleasure to meet Mr. Cantor during his book signing in Washington, DC. He was very affable, and we had a pleasant discussion about our common passion of world football.

Within the international soccer broadcasting world, Mr. Cantor is without an equal. I have heard hundreds of his broadcasts, and was always impressed by his encyclopedic knowledge of the sport. He seemed to take great pains to learn how to pronounce the names of every player, and to provide his audience with an entertaining narration. His attention to detail and research skills are aptly demonstrated in this book. If you were a Martian who landed on Earth, you would read this book to learn about our most popular sport. :-)

This book is a comprehensive discussion about the evolution of soccer, and how politics often hastened its development. Mr. Cantor provides us with a history of the World Cup, along with detailed accounts of specific games. He also presents the reader with several intriguing interviews with world-class coaches and players. For me, these discussions were the most enlightening feature of the book. This book will entertain the serious enthusiast, yet also educate new fans about the sport.

The archive of photographs is compelling. We see the fascist salutes of Mussolini's Azzurri (1934), the precocious 17 year old Pele scoring a goal in Sweden (1958), along with the tears of Diego Maradona after Argentina's loss to Germany (1990.) Whether you call this sport football, soccer, futbol, or calcio, this book will inform, educate, and entertain. As Pele of Brazil would say, this is about "The Beautiful Game."

Thank you for the opportunity to review this book.

Writing about the World Cups is similar to writing about politics: it is difficult for the author to write objectively. But as in love, politics, war and soccer, opinions turn out to be the heart of the matter. Cantor and Arcucci have done an excellent job of recounting the World Cups yet at the same time letting their Argentine passion for the sport express itself on the pages. This is a book all soccer officionado should read. All the chapters have a great interview with a great figure from each World Cup. For all of you who think that you know everthing about the Cups, this book will open your horizons to a South American point of view. For those who don't know enough, this book will infuse you with the passion for the greatest sporting championship of all time.

The book is a very precice book. there are many chapters covering many of the major subjects of art. My skill have improved a great deal from reviewing this book. The book is a very long piece but its worth the time if you need too, or want to improve your artistic skill in every which way.

It's very clear and the best is that the examples are based on large recognized artist's draws not on author's draws.

I have two older versions of this book which was a required college text for a course a friend of mine taught. This is a thorough and up-to-date volume on the elements of drawing: line, shape, texture, value, gesture, shape, form, etc. What I like best about it is that it is illustrated with a wide array excellent contemporary and historical master drawings that make great examples when teaching a particular concept. I only wish it came with a companion volume of large prints or slides for teaching.
I have many books on drawing but this has the best visuals. Much better than many other drawing books are illustrated with only the author's drawings or perhaps a few Renaissance sketches and focus on only one small expect of good art: rendering representationally. This book brings gets to the heart of what makes good drawing is designed for professionals teaching at the college level but would probably make a good home study course for those without access to college courses.

I also liked the sequential exercises given and have used or adapted some for my own students. Covers a wide array of media from charcoal to pencil to pen and ink and colored pencil.

This book provides an assessment tool of 50 questions for ranking and teaches two sets of skills for emotionally intelligent leadership. 1. 5 Core Skills for the individual: knowing yourself, maintaining control, reading others, perceiving accurately and communicating with flexibility. 2. 5 Higher-order Skills for leadership: taking responsibility, generating choices, embracing a vision, having courage and demonstrating resolve. Reasons for the usefulness of these skills, stories and exercises are provided. There are also action techniques. For the Core Skills: we have PaRC Formula--pause, reflect, choose, Core Connecting in focus, Syncing-In with intuition, Focused Listening, Re-Framing, Process Communication. For the Higher-order Skills: Responsibility Checklist, Choice Building, Vision Linking, Lighting the Fire of our courage and Firming Up in finding support, network and new ways to get things done. People who use the book in the context of a workshop may be attracted by the simplicity of these skills and gain much through practice, sharing and the facilitation by the author. As a book, it seems to consist mostly of common sense and the content is a bit slim.

Normally books with content of this quality tend to be long and heavy in weight!

Whilst this book is short and so great for most of us who only have time for long books on airplanes on the way to meetings or on vacation, it offers a clear,tothepoint perspective on emotionaly intelligent leadership and how to develop it.

Nowadays you find a lot of convoluted explanations how to become effective in the workplace - with its explicit and relatable to examples and practical techniques, this book is a breath of fresh air.

Whether you are an employee or employer you would wish that ypour coworkers wouldlearn and employ the basic but important skills imparted here.

I attended one of Dr. Feldman's workshops recently and this was the pre-reading. This book provides outstanding advice on how to understand and control your emotional reaction in difficult situations. The insight I gained from this book is invaluable.

I had expected something with a little more depth, but perhaps that's because I'm a member of a vanishing species (someone who majored in literature in college). Harris' novels are arguably the most "literate" crime thrillers around, displaying not only loving research of forensics and police work but a command of European literature and culture much deeper than mere "props" for the erudition of Hannibal Lecter. I have seen very little commentary on them that discusses this, or the deft mingling of "our common squalor" (a phrase from "Lambs") with images from Donne, Eliot and Dante. Lecter is also a character with a grand ancestry in history and myth, and I would have loved to see an exploration of what he owes both to genuine killers and the demons of fiction and tradition.

What I got was a book that would have been half the length had it not been padded out with the resumes of the films' stars, producers and directors. While it's interesting to know why the first Red Dragon movie, "Manhunter," contained some puzzling alterations and omissions, I don't need to know everything about the filmography of everyone involved, or the minute studio politics -- that doesn't do much to elucidate the novels or the finished pictures.

By contrast, author O'Brien's appreciation of Harris' abilities and intentions as a writer is culpably shallow. One example: his interpretion the title-page quotation in Lambs, "Need I look for a Death's Head in a ring, that have one in my face?" While he sources it correctly (Donne's Devotions) he doesn't even bother to connect it with the Death's Head Moth used by killer Jame Gumb to mark the flayed remains of his victims and to represent his ambition to be transformed through wearing their skins; instead he suggests it is chiding the reader for interest in fictional killers when so many real ones can be found in the newspaper. The deeper implication that Lecter's monstrosity parallels something that might be mined out of all our psyches (given greater play in HANNIBAL) doesn't even occur to him. I throw up my hands.

As for the all-but-operatic repetition of theme, imagery and incident that occurs throughout the novels, or the delicious subtle parallels between characters -- such as Will Graham's relationship to his family as a stepfather versus Francis Dolarhyde's as a stepchild, pointed up by Graham's facial mutilation at the end of the book -- well, let's say I was hoping to see a good critic go to work on that, and I'm still waiting. In fact, it's clear that O'Brien is interested in only the most banal conventions of storytelling (allowing Graham to "be a hero" versus the sometimes scalding insights Harris includes in his internal monologues) and doesn't much care whether the author was trying to do anything other than keep the reader's attention.

An intriguing book for a student of cinema, but not much use to a reader.

This book is just great. It is a must-read for every fan of the Hannibal Lecter books/films. I would be truly shocked if i discovered that there are any important (or not so important) information about the Lecter - phenomen that is not in it. If you are a hardcore fan of Hannibal and have not read this book: do it.

Alright Hannibal fans here it is, the unauthorized guide to the Hannibal Lecter trilogy. After just finishing Yvonne Tasker's excellent book on The Silence Of The Lambs (BFI, 2002), this book showed up on my doorstep. I was in heaven. Daniel O'Brien has done a great job of covering all three books and films. With 32 pages of color and b&w pictures, this book sets the record straight. I was especially impressed by O'Brien's giving Manhunter a fair shake by letting the facts speak for themselves. A must have for all true fans. Pass the Chianti.