This is a "to the point" review. This book is beautiful - in every way. It relaxes me after a dificult day, or when I need to come back to "Spiritual reality". I'm so sorry it isn't being published any longer - along with several other books by the same author & illistrator. the only one I have is "Spirit Walker"; dreaming I owned all the rest as well.

Like Dancing Moons, Spirit Walker is a set of jewel like reflections on what matters most, written with the sensitivity and sentiment of Native American wisdom which captured Nancy Wood some time ago. This book is not just for young adults as it is classified; it most certainly is for anyone who wants to hear the rhythms of the world a little more clearly. A great book to supplement one's morning meditations, prayers, etc. The paintings by Frank Howell are spellbinding. This is a rare gift for those who need to slow down, to listen, to heal.

this is the best book of poetry that i have read. I am 15 years old and i have read this book many times. i got it from my grandma when i was little. reading this book helped me though my fathers death in sept. my fav poem is three sisters. i think that people should read this book. now i am tring to get my mom to get me her first book.

Ancient Celtic Festivals deserves ongoing mention as a fine resource for kids ages 8-12 years, which explains how modern celebrations are rooted in ancient Celtic history and festivals. Links between the ancient rituals and how they are celebrated today require good reading skills but reward with many insights.

This is a fabulous read for anyone interested in Cleveland architecture. Johannesen does a wonderful job of describing the Walker and Weeks legacy, using both words and photographs to portray the work by these two men. Walker and Weeks truly defined the architecture in Cleveland for some time, and Johannesen's historical account is superb. The book also contains a fairly current list of buildings designed by the architects, and which still remain. A must read for any Clevelander!

Walker wrote this biography of an ancestor who is a remarkable figure in American history. Born a slave, Free Frank used his free time on evenings and Sundays to extract saltpeter from guano in Kentucky, as well as surveying land, and made enough money to first buy his wife out of slavery, then, with her income as a freewoman, to buy himself out of slavery. His industry, sterling character, and persistence eventually allowed him to become wealthy as a real estate developer on the Illinois frontier. He bought all of his children out of slavery, and upon his death, all of his grandchildren as well. And he did it all without ever learning to write.

While certainly atypical, he is a reminder that even though the legal system was set up to the detriment of blacks throughout the slave states, it was possible for a slave with a careless or sympathetic master to become free -- and once free, to become wealthy. This is an inspiring story. Just don't read this one book and assume that you know everything you need to know about American slavery. This is the encouraging reminder that even a bigoted legal system wasn't enough to keep a hard worker from moving ahead in the relatively free market of the American frontier.

I've been a linguist/translator for over 20 years (English is my native language). I've used literally hundreds of reference books in my life, and for the average user (H.S. and college students, parents helping kids with homework, people proofreading their own or colleaques' work...) I would rank this as one of the two best English grammar books I have ever encountered. It is well organized, so it is easy to find the right section. It is clearly written, so you don't have to decipher the text. It indicates whether particular items are required by grammar rules, or merely prefered, so you don't have to wonder if something could be phrased differently if you want to. I give it my highest recommendation!

I've been using Walker's for over 30 years, and it has never failed me. I recommend it to anyone who wants to estimate.

There are plenty of programs and books for estimating, but when you get right down to it there's only one Walker's -- an authoritative reference that shows you how to work up your own costs.

The estimating guides I've seen amount to little more than unit cost catalogs. With a cost data book, you wind up with someone else's estimate for someone else's job. This book is much more thorough. It's a "how-to" approach. You can do custom bids that cost out the job you are faced with, with real accuracy, and allow yourself flexibility and control.

I had the priviledge to study with Frank X. Walker when I was a student at Ky Governor's School for the Arts. At the time, I knew nothing about black history--so shamefully little that I didn't even know what Malcolm X looked like. Frank introduced me to the richness of black culture and showed me what I was missing. He is a man of great power; that power forces bare words into tremendous fluidity of motion. His bare bones personality comes across in his writing and the heartfeltness behind his poetry, while expressing the emotions of an African American, transcends cultural barriers so that even I, the whitest white girl alive, can begin to understand.

if you can remember how that first taste of southern cooking sat in your belly warm with the love that prepared it. If you have never had a meal sit with you decades after it was consumed get yourself down south. If you cannot, then buy yourself a copy of this book it's the next best thing.

These are the words of a Black Southern Poet. His words stick to the bones. My favorite pieces include Wishbone and Crooked Afro because of their concise language and focus on family. Walker's work is that of a poet in keen awareness of history, politics and African tradition.

I also love the honesty of Hummingbird and Taking the Stares. These two poems examine the state of our collective humanity. Affilacia is an autobiography, a claiming of space and identity and a lyric love story to family (African and Affrilachian).

The poems in Affrilachia are like the Southern pecan tree: enduring, real and tasty.

I could not put this book down! The author wrote a personal and honest story which seemed believable. I recommend it to all.

My family came to the U.S. from Austria in 1907. If we had stayed, the majority of us would have been killed. This book is the personal account of a young man from a well to do Jewish family in Vienna. When the Nazis came to Austria his family fled, and when he could no longer flee, he decided to join a partisan group to combat the Nazis in Northern Italy. This book is honest and to the point. As a person who spent six years in the Marines and has a degree in History, I found Burger's accounts to be very real. His first-hand experience with resisting the Nazis is something everyone should read so it never happens again. If the world had reacted to Hitler the way Burger did as a young man, WWII probably would have been avoided. This book should be included as part of the curriculum of every WWII History course.

What struck me with this book was its honesty, the warts-and-all view of a boy's attempt at dealing with a nightmare by design; his incredible survival instincts and the places they took him. This book stands as testimony to the reality that Jews did, in fact, stand up in the face of Adolf Hilter through whatever limited or even extraordinary means opportunty presented. You can't write fiction like this first-hand account, though people like Herman Wouk have tried with great market success. The author, for example, chances upon people like Louis Armstrong giving us milestones as a frame of reference, but with a sincerity the best historical fiction writer sorely lacks.

Walker's shows you how to work up a price and customize your bids. It takes some computation of your own (you definitely have to know your local labor costs) but it's definitely worth the effort because Walker's explains how jobs wind up costing a certain amount. A great book for sure.

This book is unique in that it gives you the tools to obtain an accurate cost for your project with its own specific data. Having control over a project, and its BUDGET, depends on how well you know your estimate; and this book will teach you most of what you need to know about estimating.

This is like five books in one. I think it's an amazing value. My father used this book for about 40 years and, as a result, I became a disciple of the Walker method. I just picked up the new edition and I found the concrete and masonry chapters vastly improved. It teaches you how to factor in all those variables and to account for the unexpected and how to put together your own bid, something that estimating software has yet to do.

I don't normally read celebrity biographies but as a die-hard I Love Lucy fan, I wanted to find out more about the woman known by the world primarily as Ethel Mertz. Vance's talent deserved more regognition than she's gotten and this book helps to shine the light on her a bit more. It's a well-written, entertaining book which explores Vance's life fromchildhood to her death a few yearsago. It tends to drag a bit after Vance's exit from show business but overall, it's definitely worth reading and a nice tribute to a fine actress

As is observed in this book, I LOVE LUCY without the Mertzes would probably not have been an immortal show, and more properly it was Vivian Vance who was key to the chemistry that made this show such an icon. It was high time there was a book about her, and what we get is a solid narration of an interesting story. Vance was a working third banana on the New York stage of the Golden Era, respected and dependable but never quite hitting the top, just missing getting Mary Martin's spot in LEAVE IT TO ME, just missing a key role in CAROUSEL, etc. One can read quite a bit about musicals and straight plays of this era without realizing that the future Ethel Mertz was one of the people regularlly filling key character roles on the Great White Way. The "slice of life" of one of the "state-of-the-art" performers in this world is great reading.

After this we get to Vance's work with Lucille Ball, and at this point, if one has already read the growing number of books on Lucy and her television work, there is really only so much more to be said that hasn't been said before. This is not the authors' fault, however, and they more than compensate with fascinating information about Vance's two main marriages and her bout with depression.

If there is one flaw in this book, it is that the authors appear to lose interest in their subject after Vance leaves THE LUCY SHOW. Vance was quite distraught that she was forever associated with the Ethel character, and yet for the last fifteen years of her life, the authors -- belying that what they are at heart is Lucy fans who came to wonder what was up with Vivian Vance -- seem mainly interested in her life to the extent that it occasionally reconnected with Lucy's. Yet during this period Vance did several theatre tours and stock appearances and television productions. Things like this can make interesting reading as well -- witness William Henry III's book on Jackie Gleason, THE GREAT ONE -- but the authors seem to consider all of this mere "postscripts", not having gone to the trouble to view the TV appearances, dig up info on most of the plays. I now feel like I more or less knew the Vance of her New York days, but the post-LUCY Vance remains a kind of footnote.

However, overall, hats off to the authors for bringing this wonderful performer to light. Now it's time for someone to give Eve Arden similar treatment...

Castelluccio and Walker do an excellent job chronicalling the life of Vivian Vance. It was easy to follow, sometimes sad, but at a few points I found myself laughing out loud! It was an amazing journey through a life of a person that most of us know from I Love Lucy but do not know anything about her private life. From the quotes in the beginning to the triumphant end the book did not have one boring moment. Packed with little-known facts it is a must read for any I Love Lucy fan. You'll never look at Ethel Mertz the same again!