I can't say this about many art history books: most of them are either dopey and cute or way over their heads. They loved this one, and so did I! I has lots of interesting details about Bruegel and his time. Lots of good reproductions. The man in the red hat hook works pretty well. I read it to them, but they've been re-reading it to themselves for the past few weeks. Highly recommended!

Peter Koestenbaum has integrated centuries of thought and knowledge into a coherent easily understandable and practical guide on how to lead your life, manage your business and consult to leaders. The elegance of his work is that he integrates much of mankind's wisdom with his own business experience in a manner that is easily applied in a community or organizational environment. Peter Koestenbaum and The Philosophic Consultant are gifts to you and your clients--take the time to read and reflect on the wisdom that he provides so freely to each one of us.

This is only book that mushroom lovers need. It has over SIX HUNDREDED fully colored AMAZING photos!! The chapters are organized beautifuly as well. It goes from propper tools needed and locations of mushrooms, to storing and drying mushrooms. Then there are the two glorious sections of edible and posionious mushrooms. Then the final section is the cook book! It has sections for "wild mushroom breakfast", "soups, starters and salads", "poultry and game dishes","beef pork and lamb", "fish and shellfish", and "vegitarian dishes". Each section has well over 20 fully pictured recipies! Then it concludes with a glossary at the end of the book. What a wonderful book! It is excellent for and artist referrence book as well!!

I got a copy of this book after reading a review of it in an in-flight magazine. The review told of another one of those self-help books that's not just another one of those self-help books, one that took the position that problem bosses are the norm, not the exception, that serious problem bosses are not just misguided workaholics, they are sadists. I had to read this book immediately. It turns out that it is written by a couple of psychologists who have been writing books and conducting seminars for years, not to help employees with problem bosses, ironically, but to help bosses with problem employees. Why, then, the seeming turn-about? Grothe and Wylie tell in their introduction how, while on an airplane, a businessman who was familiar with their work commented on how he could have used a book written from the other perspective as well. They realized immediately what a huge audience they had overlooked and got to work right away. The resulting book is a very well organized, very easily understood guide to organizing one's thoughts and observations about the employment situation one is in and how to most effectively use the conclusions that result. Grothe and Wylie's program does not simply tell the reader what to do, it carefully examines the world of the problem boss, where he comes from, how he got the way he is and why he gets away with it. Then, through a series of exercises, it prods the reader into reaching his own conclusions about his employer/employee relationship. The exercises are built around a system that Grothe and Wylie call TRAC, which stands for Trust, Respect, Affection and Confidence. With the TRAC method and various other rating devices, like the Chemistry Analysis, the reader determines what it is he really wants or needs from an employer, much in the same way one might list what he or she wants out of a personal relationship. Finally, all of the book's philosophies are brought together by extensive detailings of twelve actions one can take to better his or her employment experience. Actually, these detailings, complete with drawbacks and possible repercussions, take up the bulk of the book. I noticed as I read the book myself that, in almost every case, the word "boss" could be replaced with the word "coach" without affecting the meaning or the usefulness of the text. This sentence from the book's promotional copy, for example: "Do you know what it's like to bust your butt to do a good job and have the boss take all the credit?" Athletes and parents are not, of course, employed by their coaches, but I've met so many who seem to have forgotten this fact. One thing I'm sure all readers will like is Grothe and Wylie's list of boss types: The Tyrant, The Bully, The Credit-Taker, The Paranoid, The Company Man, The Jungle-Fighter, it goes on and on. It's actually fun to check off the ones you've met. Boss, coach or otherwise. But be warned, Problem Bosses is not just a boss-bashing marathon. Through the book, and this its greatest value, you may find that you have no problem at all. Or maybe even that YOU are the problem

In Psychoanalytic Conversations: Interviews With Clinicians, Commentators, And Critics, Peter Rudnytsky presents ten substantive and challenging interviews with leading psychoanalysts Enid Balint, Charles Rycroft, Stephen A. Mitchell, Roy Schafer, Jessica Benjamin; and theories from allied fields Mary Ainsworth, Peter Lomas, Peter Kramer; as well as Freud critics Frank Sulloway and Peter Swales. The result is an engaging, provocative, informative, thoughtful, and insightful compendium of commentary laced with personal and professional anecdotes and reflections. Psychoanalytic Conversations is an important, unique and highly valued contribution to psychoanalytic literature.

This was thought-provoking and very interesting - really gave me a different perspective on how to understand the Chronicles of Narnia, and tied in Schakel's new way with all the chords Lewis' books have ever struck in you.

Lou Prophet rides in to Luther Falls with the bodies of two outlaws drapped across their saddles. Then he finds out he has to wait a week to collect the bounty from Wyatte Earp for the two hombres Wyatte sent him after. One day Lou is relaxing in a saloon when gun shots erupt in the normally quiet town. When the gun smoke has cleared, a hold up has taken place, two citizens & the sheriff have been gunned down and a girl is kidnapped. The result is Prophet's relaxed wait in Luther Falls is over as he is the only one available to go after the gang and bring the girl back. While in the town of Campbell, Lou finds an unlikely ally in Louisa Bonaventure. Louisa's family was murdered by the same Red River Gang in Nebraska Territory and has been on their trail for a year. In that time Louisa has dispatched several gang members. What bothers Lou about his new "partner" is the fact she is only seventeen. RIDING WITH THE DEVIL'S MISTRESS is another MUST READ from Peter Brandvold and a refreshing western set in the Dakota Territory.

Great talk from the classic era, with great interviews with Led Zep, Dylan, Neil Young, Stones, Joni Mitchell and Billy Joel by writers Ralph Gleason, Jonathan Cott, Timothy White, Cameron Crowe, Bob Greenfield and more rock scribes. Neat time capsule.

This book is really impressive. It is a gorgeously bound book with some incredible images and drawings. If you have some interest in the "Pride of Baltimore" or just love tall ships, you'll love this book.

Comprehensive, deep, perhaps even intellectually orgasimic. The Science of Knowledge contains the most stunning criticisms, elaborations, and evolutions of the Kantian line. Anyone who is disenchanted with modern philsophy and thinks that critical metaphysics is dead should read this book first. Practically every significant problem that is posed in modern philsophy of mind is addressed and solved! Fichte's Transcendental Idealism should become a western Zen Mantra!

Oh yeah, and follow the white rabbit.