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This is a lovely book that I look forward to reading to my first grandchild due to be born in August, 2007.

This splendid book should be in every nursery library. It contains hundreds of nursery rhymes, some very well known to American children and some not so familiar including the 51 rhymes with morals found in the original Mother Goose collection that was printed by Isaiah Thomas in Massachusetts in the years just following the Revolutionary War.
The book is printed on high quality silk-smooth paper and is printed in large clear type with charming black and white accent illustrations of children and characters from that era. Familiar and well-known Mother Goose verses as well as perhaps unkown verses are included. Many beautiful illustrations by the amazing Jessie Willcox Smith enhance this volume, a few in black and white, but most in full color, full page glory. Smith, born in 1863 is, in my opinion, one of the finest illustrators of children ever. She never used professional models and preferred to search out the right child for the picture. As a result her illustrations bring images to us straight out of history and capture with an appreciative heart the sweetness of childhood, unsurpassed.
This book is truly a treasure, one that is sure to be enjoyed for many years to come.

i actually found this at a book store for $3 and i thought of buying it, but i bought another book instead. this is a great book for anybody who likes Paper Dolls or the Kennedy's. you can outfit Jack and Jackie on their inagural ball or the way they looked on that fateful Friday in Dallas.
great collectible.

This is a great book. The costumes are fabulous! A must-have for collectors and people who like to play with paper dolls alike.

This is the most comprehensive book on holistic healing that I've ever found. If you've ever suffered from rosacea, or any disease where the doctors don't really have answers, I strongly advise checking this book out. Georgie's story is amazing, and there are several exercises, diet changes, lifestyle changes, attitude adjustments, and practical examples laid out for you that, with faith, will provide results.

A very uplifting book--filled with faith, joy and practical advice. Georgie's story is amazing. I really liked the way she explained deep emotional healing and gave concrete things to do on our own journey.

Awesome little Book for a really good Price. I believe every Piano/Keyboard Chord you can think of is in this Book. 900 Chords in Picture and how it would look on the MusicSheet. Very easy made to unterstand. They are sorted by the ABC. Use this book as a chord dictionary, as a fingering guide, as a music reading tool and as a resource for improvisers and non-pianists.
I can only recommend this Book.
Every Keyboard/PianoPlayer should own this book!!!

This is the best keyboard chord chart book that I have found in a long time! It goes through an explination of chord types and their symbols before showing the chords themselves. It includes pictures of how the chords look on the staff, a drawing of a keyboard with the notes shaded in that are included in the chord, and even an actual picture of how a right have would look playing the chord! They are arranged in an easy-to-find way and includes both the notation for treble and bass clef. This is a wonderful book for ANY keyboard player looking to expand their knowledge on chords, or to just confirm any questionable chords. I highly recommend this book.

This is a funny book written in a poetry like style.The amusing illustrations are inspired on old wood engravings.But it's not only the story an the illustrations that are interesting. The book itself, the way it was published and distributed is also verry interesting and even romantic.In 1928 'spicy' books weren't allowed, not even in Paris France. So it was privately published in a small edition of which about 50 copies were hand coloured by the author. All books were sold by Djuna Barnes and some frends in secret along the Seine.With the help of Natalie Barneys copie the 1972 edition contains an explanation of the names used in the story and who they were in real life.

Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 - June 18, 1982) played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing by women and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris.

Her novel Nightwood became a cult work of modern fiction, helped by an introduction written by T.S. Eliot, and stands out for for its portrayal of lesbian themes and distinctive style.

Barnes spent the last 40 years of her life as a recluse in New York city. Since her death, interest in her work has grown and many of her books, like this one, are now back in print.

Her books are lively, irreverent, and just plain fun to read in modern times. I highly recommend that you introduce yourself to this original author!

Ce livre magistral de Soupault contient en effet tout son siècle. Publié la même annnée que Nadja de Breton (1928), il offre au surréalisme l'un de ses plus beaux textes chargé d'onirisme. La poésie urbaine s'accompagne d'une vision apocalyptique propre à Soupault et n'est pas surchargé de passages théoriques que l'on retrouve dans Nadja ou dans les textes de Breton en général. Traduit par William Carlos Williams, il garde toute sa force, toute sa vitalité notemment dans son rapport au monde et aux gens. Les personnages de la prostituée ou du bookmaker ne sont décrits ni avec complaisance ni avec sarcasmes : Soupault se contente de les faire vivre. Comme le narrateur, ces personnages puisent leur énergie dans les rues de Paris. Avec eux le lecteur renverse le vieux monde dans les formidables incendies qui ravagent les quartiers de Paris. C'est cette même énergie que l'on retrouvera l'année suivante dans le roman Le Nègre où Edgard Manning assassine dans une violence sexuelle une autre prostituée nommée Europe... Mais à ne lire les livres de soupault que dans la seule optique surréaliste, c'est passer à côté de la modernité de celui-ci. Dès le Bon Apôtre, et cela se confirme dans les romans ultérieurs, la narration joue tout son rôle et prend tout son sens. On a pu dire que ces romans préfigurent déjà les techniques qui deviendront à la mode avec le nouveau roman... Qui autre que W-C Williams aurait été plus à même de traduire ce texte essentiel mais passé depuis en france sous un silence que l'on aimerait croire admiratif ?

emmanuel

For me, Nadja is only the second greatest book of the 20th century. Soupault's novel comes across the finish line a full length ahead, but for no discernible reason.

I've always admired this book, and it seems I go back to it almost every day, and try to peek into it. I first read it twenty years ago, and still don't feel that I know what it is about, and I don't think anybody else does either. The French criticism doesn't go into the obvious Spenglerian feeling of the title, nor does it go into detail concerning the strange murders and deaths that take place within a double love-story. As the Seine winds through Paris, so the narrator winds, with a strange and curious indifference as well as passion. This book details odd meetings with thieves, prostitutes, and the clock at the top of what is now the Musee d'Orsay (but was then a major train station). But why? The book is so strange, and yet so familiar, like walking in Paris at night, and yet more vividly observed than one would believe possible. Nothing happens in the book, and yet everything happens. This book is a freak that no one will ever understand. It just has to be experienced, like a dream that seems to have a mysterious cogency that one can never formulate into anything that can be logically understood.

-- Kirby Olson

here. it's simply a great book, in the introduction i believe paul bowles mentions that a great narrator keeps his narrative thread equally taut at all times and this is precisely what the authour has done. the book is a compelling view of a life in a part of the world that differs wildly from where i was born, told with a coolness that should not be mistaken for detachment. it's a rewarding read and it hleps when trying to put things in perspective.

Paul Bowles first began translating the stories of contemporary native Moroccans in 1952, transcribing by hand the tales of Ahmed Yacoubi, several of which appeared in Evergreen Review. In the early 1960's, with the aid of a tape recorder, Bowles decided to pursue the preservation of Maghrebi oral literature. This decision was prompted in part by Bowles' acquaintance with Larbi Layachi, a young Moroccan who was working as a watchman at a café at nearby Merkala Beach. Layachi, although illiterate and not a "storyteller" in the true Arabic tradition, proved to be a master of the tautly spun narrative, and his story, obviously nothing more than thinly veiled autobiography, is told with the same stark, unembellished point of view that formed the basis of the Italian neo-realist cinema, yet virtually without pathos, sentimentality or moralizing of any sort. Basically left to fend for himself at the age of eight, Layachi works a series of jobs as shepherd, baker's helper, laborer, watchman, houseboy to a "Nazarene" gay couple, and as a petty trafficker in kif in the rough-and-tumble streets of Tangier at the cusp of post-colonialism, eventually winding up in jail, sentenced to hard labor in a rock quarry. Adversity raises its Medusa-like head on every other page, in the form of betrayal, denunciation, false accusations, uninformed decisions, corruption, or just plain bad luck, of which Layachi obviously had a very generous helping.
Whereas the typical westerner might have difficulty supporting Layachi's dogged fatalism in the face of constant defeat, failure, frustration and setbacks, the majority of which do seem to be of an unjust nature (despite Layachi's at times pathological tendency to blur the parameters of right and wrong), it's Layachi's very determination to go on no matter what that gives A Life Full of Holes its extremely positive and life-confirming slant. To survive such an uncompromisingly negative chain of events without becoming a burned-out, apathetic nihilist is a true test of faith. And while the Koran is frequently cited to explain or justify particularly heavy blows of fate or irrational human behavior ("It's the will of Allah," etc.), it's also Layachi's ironic and cynical sense of humor that serves as a buffer between himself and life's harder edges and as a comic foil against the perpetrators of ill will. Compellingly told and packed with detail, Layachi's story of survival is also one of simple poetry.

As a past active Mormon (for over 50 years), I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Like the majority of active Mormons, I was in denial about what the true church history was until I decided that I wanted to find the truth for myself. Mormon church history has become so watered down by the general authorities and other church leaders that it hardly has any truth left in it.
Reading Beadle's first hand experiences of coming to Utah (before the Salt Lake Temple was completed....only the foundation was present when he moved there), mingling with the Mormons, listening to Brigham Young speak and traveling around Utah was fascinating and confirmed everything I'd already learned or suspected about Utah and Mormon history.

An excellent book covering the mid 1800s of Mormonism as the church was coming out of the horrible days of the Reformation and Blood-atonement. Beadle, an editor of the Reformation spawned Salt Lake Tribune tells of incidents, big and small, fostered by Brigham Young's Theocratic hegemony.

This books is a perfect tool to edify those people who are at the lowest point in their lives. It shows God's amazing grace and power through biblical characters who overcame the worst through Jesus Christ. The books shows how God uses "nobodies" to lead/create huge amazing goals. God is good:-).

Rick Godwin encourages people to not allow any inadequacies they may have to hold them back from receiving all that God has for their lives. He speaks the truth in plain English that everyone can clearly understand. Read this book for yourself and share it with others. I would highly recommend it to anyone.

I seemed to stumble upon this book when I needed it the most. It's been helping me rediscover who I am. I am very grateful to the Lord for sending it my way. It lays out very plainly the steps to take and the things to think about when you are trying to discover your mission in life. I keep telling people about this book, thinking everyone should be reading it, but probably some people need to wait to read it until they really feel they are ready to take the plunge and really search their heart for what breaks it and what breaks God's heart. Loved it!

This is by far the best book I have read on purpose. Jan Johnson addresses the topic with great wisdom, examining both the superficial and internal realms of purpose. Stressing that being is more important than doing, and that the journey means more than the destination, she provides a much needed perspective in our task-oriented, step-driven society.

I have led three small groups for college students and young adult women using this book - it is excellent for group discussion for women of any age. There are thought-provoking discussion questions at the end of each chapter, as well as bible studies at the end. Its concepts aren't beneficial strictly to women, though Jan Johnson does use mostly female examples.

This book was so good, I tracked down all of Jan Johnson's other books, and have found them equally insightful and full of depth, lacking the platitudes and shallowness of many female Christian writers. It isn't just a "follow-Jesus-and-you'll-know-your-purpose-for-life" kind of deal. While she offers specific, tangible suggestions, they aren't formulaic or stale. For those looking for a challenging, thought-provoking, non-stereotypical perspective on purpose, this is a must read!