"Lawrence the Laughing Cookie Jar" has something for everyone, it is truly a wonderful book. My grandkids love every bit of the book and make me read it over and over to them---they are especially fond of Reggie the dog. I also found it interesting that a jar is actually a jar in Will Marks' world, not a Safeway sourball. As a grandpa and erstwhile disciplinarian, I admire Marks' style by having the cookie jar laugh hysterically when the kids attempt to take more cookies. While my Phys Ed measures were far more draconian, Marks shows that you don't need to be Colonel Jessup from "A Few Good Men" to properly discipline kids. They are far better off learning from their own mistakes...the cookie jar is a kind way of teaching an important lesson in life.

This was a great 2nd book for Marks. As a bachelor for years, Marks provided me with many simple recipes in his initial epic instructional, "No More Mac and Cheese". The gazpacho soup recipe was my favorite, so easy I could throw it together in the back of my Vanagon or in the comfort of my PE office---although the aroma never overcame the jocks in the locker room!! Every meal was always finished off with a nice couple of jars, usually the ones left over from the glandular kids who got only 0+ on the pullup bar (apologies to Otis). I look forward to more from Marks.

The kids aren't happy with the ration of one cookie each; but they face an impossible barrier to more: a laughing cookie jar which loudly chuckles when they try to get more. Josephine Taylor's whimsical drawings enhances William C. Marks' fun story of trying to get the most from a cookie jar - through creative theft.

It's one of those books your kid makes you read over and over again long after you get sick of it (after 45 reads for me, which is a record). I give it as a gift to every new parent. You'll dig it.

Trail of the Fox was well written and precise to the facts. Having personally known "The Fox", I feel Mr. Taylor's descriptions of his character were right on target. Once you start reading it, you won't be able to put it down. You anticapate what will happen next, how will they find clues, will they ever catch "The Fox"? I feel it is a great book. You should read it!

A LONELY,BEAUTIFUL,WEALTHY WOMAN IS COMPROMISED BY A DIRT BAG LOUNGE LIZARD.SHE IS MURDERED ON ALONELY A MOUNTAIN TOP IN A WHITE MINK COAT.A RELENTLESS LA DETECTIVE AND PROSECUTER TRACK THIS CASANOVA KILLER ACROSS AND DONT REST TILL HE IS IS ONCE AGIN STARING AT THIS BLOODY MINK COAT AS IT SERVES TO HELP JAIL HIM.

I found myself devouring each word and picture in this book while flying home from Madrid to my home, Tucson, Arizona, recently. It is beautifully written and eye-openingly informative for any reader. The descriptions are also accurate, about which I can attest as an active inhabitant of this fronterra, living in nearby Tucson and often working in Nogales areas. The pictures (a big difference from photographs) draw you into the experience of the subject in tender ways, while also being technically excellent quality. This is perhaps the best writing and photography to date by the increasingly infamous Hickey-Taylor team. bravo!!
Kathleen Williamson, J.D., Ph.D, CD - prose and song writer, musician, anthropologist, lawyer, etc.,

In this well written book Larry Taylor explains how genetic hard coding of individuals is more consistent with crime statistics than politically correct root-cause theories would suggest. The centerpiece of the book is the chapter on twin studies which have been carried on in Minnesota for over 40 years. As Taylor points out many other locales in the world have engaged in similar studies with substantially identical implications; England and denmark come to mind.

The inescapable fact is that identical twins separated at birth and then reunited 30-40 years later end up showing remarkable similarity with regard to their personalities, there life choices, their habits and patterns, and a whole host of other characteristics too many to cite. It is from this observation that Taylor lends credence to the concept that some of us are in fact born to crime.

It's too bad that a politically correct major media, with its attendant liberal agenda, has failed to include reasoned arguments such as those advanced by Larry Taylor and many others. It has taken the intervening 18 years since this book was published in 1984 for some of the more honest Liberal critics on the Left i.e. Bernard goldberg, to gain sufficient traction to hold their own Liberal media establishment up to the proper scrutiny

Although Taylor never mentions Race he was castigated as a racist by the political Left after writing this book for daring to suggest that genetic makeup could be causitive of criminal behavior. It's well done and shouldn't be so difficult to get. A couple of years ago Taylor came to me to get my copy back as he had none left of his own and couldn't find one in the public domain. Such is too often the fate of books not adhering to a virulent political correctness, a child of totalitarian communism and far right wing religions, which has had such a damaging effect on American society in the last 30 years.

I love this book, I wont let my friends touch it. It's totallyworth the dollars, it tells you about the greatest NFL players ever. For example: Steve Young, the best left-handed Quarterback ever,and Jerry Rice, the greatest all-time wide receiver ever.

The Glory of Goodwood is a fabulous and essential book for any enthusiast of historic auto racing. This book, with its beautiful photographs, puts us in the paddock and onto the track with some of the greatest drivers and cars in the history of the sport. The book celebrates the beauty and art of auto racing, as well as its thrills and dangers. The images are rich and plentiful, but this is not simply a picture book. The essay (forwarded by Sterling Moss and The Earl of March) details 50 years of British auto racing at the Goodwood track and one man's fascination that evolved into a yearly cultural tradition dedicated to speed, the drivers, and their cars.

As I consider this book is really inspired by God, because for me Hebrew and Aramaic are languages that really originated from God - Himself. So using this as an incantation is really wonderful and very extra ordinary because million of His angels will respond to the invocation and guard and do the bidding of the conjurer. So I hope that all occult student who wants to know the wisdom of God may know his secret and never give to uninitiated idiot.

It's to bad this book was written so early on in Taylor's career, because there are many more chapters to his interesting struggle through life. Get an insightful look into Taylor's battle against drugs and how raw talent led him into the league. The league in which he invented a new position, the tomahawk chop and was the first ever to be double-teamed. A surprising read.

From El Planeta Platica Lawrence Taylor and Maeve Hickey's The Road to Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 1997) offers a delicious narrative and evocative photos on the blue highways stretching from Tucson, Arizona to Magdalena de Kino, Sonora. "The Old Nogales Highway is a road, like the fabled Route 66, shares in an American romance different from that of that of the interstate. Here, the up-to-date sits awkwardly, unstylishly cheek by jowl with the embarrassingly eccentric and the downright ugly." (p. 58) Proving that travel is best enjoyed when it's not rushed, the authors take time to talk to the people who live in the Sonoran Desert. Anthropologist Taylor quotes a wide range of people from American Automobile Association clerks "Lots of cars get stolen down there" to muralists to cattle ranchers. The book finds its voice in this regional chorus and turns its focus on picturesque characters, such as the U.S.-borne mariachi who won't cross the borderline: "Fernando was not about to risk the Mexico of his imagination, of his mariachi, by penetrating that border. He would consider flying over it, landing in the center of the nation, in the Guadalajara of Mariachi Vargas, but Fernando Sanchez was not going to take the road to Mexico." (p. 9)

- (Planeta.com Journal) The creative team behind the wonderful book The Road to Mexico return to the border to sketch an intimate portrait of street kids who work and live in the drainage tunnels that connect the cities of Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona. "It is their story of themselves and of the border, and it is our story of them -- of getting to them -- and of the border as it appeared to us through their lives."