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An injured bird is nursed to health by a poor Korean farmer. When he recovers he rewards the generosity of the young man by giving him rich material rewards. The evil, rich, older brother goes out and injures a bird so that he can nurse it back to health and get a like reward. Instead he gets a just reward. A similar folk tales is the Grimm Brothers ­ The Turnip, available in an edition illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.

Path to the Middle is a presentation of the teachings of a great Tibetan scholar and monk, Kensur Yeshe Tubden. Formerly abbot of the Drepung Loseling monastery, Kensur-la displays amazing erudition in his explication of the most complicated philosophical topics in Tibetan Buddhism. His wisdom is clearly marked with a penetrating feeling of compassion, and this is mirrored by the gentle and moving account of his life Professor Klein provides in her introduction.

This book is ostensibly a commentary on a few stanzas from the Perfection of Wisdom chapter from Je-Dzong-ka-ba's commentary of Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara. The book does not limit itself to the specific passages under analysis, however, but instead ranges freely and gracefully through numerous difficult questions that arise when closely analyzing the Prasangika-Madhyamika interpretation of emptiness.

Kensur Yeshe Tubden's analysis is unique among Western works on emptiness in at least two counts. Firstly, this is a close and careful analysis of this material at an extremely high level. For those who have already looked into the basics of Prasangika-Madhyamaka, this book will raise many questions about the real meaning of numerous stock phrases, like dependent-arising and valid cognition. Most valuable to me was a rare, in-depth discussion attempting to pin down what is meant by nominal designation or valid imputation.

The second unique point about this book is that Kensur-la is willing to freely discuss points of doctrinal contradiction and conflict and to report different positions that have been held be different scholars. He is also willing to frankly state his own opinions, and admit when he feels his understanding is not clear. Many presentations of Madhyamaka give the impression that its interpretation in Tibet is monolithic and unproblematic, but this book clearly shows this is not the case. It is an exciting foray in into the jungle of reasoning and argument that brings these ideas to life.

We owe a debt of gratitude to Anne Klein who, as editor, clearly spent hundreds of hours sifting through material in order to make this book what it is, a precious, unique, fluid narrative revealing the dazzling inner life of one of the great Tibetan teachers of this century.

As a novice in pharmacogenomics, this book is very organize and concise. I am happy with the format and excellent references cited. I strongly recommend this book.

I have read a great many philosophy books but none that made the adventure of discovering new ideas as rewarding as this rare work, Philosophy That Works. The writing is excellent and clear, but more than that, it resolves a subject, the nature of truth and its importance to philosophy, better than I had hoped was possible. With all the new talk about "philosophical counseling" and "philosophic cafes" (a French innovation), one hopes that practical effects of ideas on education and on life itself are not far behind; here's a book that makes the practical values in philosophy at once palpable, accessible, and readily undestood. The downward spiral in society requires a revolution in thinking; this work provides a plausible text for a just and a meaningful transformation.

As a middle school teacher I have found a small number of students who, after 6-8 years of school, are still nonreaders. These students have normal or above intellegence, and yet cannot decode words. They almost seem to not be able to see the words on the page, and instead, guess what the word might be. I have been working intensely with one such student using this book. The book is a series of lessons that begin with the short vowel sounds, and introduce one new sound for each lesson. By the end of the lessons (lesson 76) the student is reading compound words. The lessons are carefully sequenced and easy to use. After 2 months using this book, my student is now reading. He went from guessing the words from context to actually reading the words on the page. This 8th grade student is now a reader for the first time. This book is meant for a one-on-one tutoring situation for students who have not acquired sound symbol relationship. In my experience with my one student the program works. I would recommend it to teachers working with special education dyslexic students. They CAN learn to read, and this program does work for them.

POPULAR AMERICAN RECORDING PIONEERS: 1895-1925, by Tim Gracyk, has detailed biographies of singers/musicians on old records! 444 pages. This is the ONLY book ever published to give biographies of early recording pioneers. Learn facts about the singers who made records of "popular" music before 1925! The book's opening essay gives a summary of the history of the early recording industry, the "acoustic" era. Rare sources were used--trade journals like TALKING MACHINE WORLD, memos from the Edison, Victor, Zon-O-Phone, U-S Everlasting, and Columbia record companies, etc. Following the long intro are detailed encyclopedic articles (organized alphabetically): 100 artists with separate entries in the book include the American Quartet, Billy Murray, Ada Jones, Cal Stewart (Uncle Josh), Nat Wills, Steve Porter, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (other "jass" bands of 1917 covered, too), Paul Whiteman, George J. Gaskin, Carl Fenton, Sam Ash, Aileen Stanley, Henry Burr, the Peerless Quartet, Arthur Collins, Byron G. Harlan, the duo Collins and Harlan (separate entry--new info!), S. H. Dudley, Al Bernard, Edward M. Favor, Rudy Wiedoeft, Sousa, Walter B. Rogers, Vess L. Ossman, Sam Lanin, Bert Williams, Frisco Jazz Band, Olive Kline, J. W. Myers, Ben Selvin, the Green Brothers, Haydn Quartet (the quartet that sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" for Victor), Marion Harris, Arthur Fields, Irving Kaufman, Will F. Denny, Frank C. Stanley, Nat Shilkret, Frank Ferera (did his wife and fellow recording artist Helen Louise die of foul play? she vanished during a ship voyage in 1919!), James Reese Europe (Jim Europe), Victor Military Band, Victor Light Opera Company, Werrenrath, Shannon Four (Revelers), Richard Jose...many more! Rare info here from descendants of the artists, from old letters sent to historian Jim Walsh (some never published by Walsh), from rare primary sources like birth & death certificates, from archives! This is the ONLY book that covers artists who, from the 1890s to the mid-1920s, made records of music that was "popular" in nature, as opposed to records of operatic arias, symphonic works, or concert pieces. A pre-electric method for recording was used, with musicians performing into a horn, not a microphone. This encyclopedia covers American artists who recorded Tin Pan Alley numbers, Broadway show tunes, ragtime, "coon" songs, novelty numbers, quartet arrangements, parlor ballads, early jazz (sometimes called "jass"), blues, dance music, hymns, and early country. This book makes a distinction between stage personalities who happened to make some recordings--when they found time in their busy schedules--and artists who made their living largely by recording regularly, perhaps finding a little time on the side for theatrical performances, vaudeville, or concert recitals. Few stars of the stage made records regularly, exceptions being Bert Williams, Nora Bayes, and Al Jolson--even their output is minuscule compared with that of Henry Burr, Harry Macdonough, Lewis James, Vernon Dalhart, Irving Kaufman, and others who, for a long time, earned a living by recording. Over 100 of these kinds of artists covered in detail, with info available nowhere else! This book has a GREAT INDEX if you want to look up specific records/songs.

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The Rain Maker is an extraordinary book in every sense. Many will read it as a wonderful flight of fancy into the "Magic and Magicians" territory of Asian journeys, many with a more complete background to this book will recognize that this book as the authenticate and true account of a Tibetan Lama of the old school of Buddhism - telling us his life story. In either case the journey through the book, narrative and personal life story is truly remarkable.

The book treats the extraordinary with a matter of fact attitude that turns it into the mundane - this creates an intimacy and a closeness which gives the book its power. We are told of the Zombies that the Nagakpa must conquer, the fierce onslaught of black magicians that must be destroyed and the ardeous reality of the life of a wandering Magician and Master of the Tibetan Old school of Buddhism.

If this book were fiction it would be one of the best fiction books I have read. As Dr Marsha Woolf presents us with it authoritively as fact it calls into question the world we live in. As we read our notions of the world collapse just like the dark forces that Lama Yeshe Dorje deals with in his humbly presented account of the world he lived in.