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If you love Shirley, the cutest child star, you will definately want this in your collection. This would make a great gift too. I enjoyed this book and have read it many of times.

This is one of this companies better paper selections. The company supplies top quality paper to enhance your acid free scrapbook. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to get started scrapbooking.

I read this book in a class on Modern Chinese Literature, and it was the best book in the class. Truthfully, it was not for everyone. I know at least one member of the class who found the style daunting and difficult to swallow. But I loved it. Wang is a professor in Taiwan of modern European literature, and it shows. Traces of many modernist and post-modernist techniques show up in Backed Against the Sea, as well as a complex take on things uniqulely Chinese and Taiwanese. If you like Chinese fiction, European modernism and/or post-modernism, I highly recommend this book. It is not an easy read, but I find it well worth the pleasure

This soft cover book is the best collection to date of Bacon's instinct's on photo's as "a record" for motion and emotion, which led, as far as I am concerned, to his "violent colours and form's" that produce an "incredible, emotional charge which is "an impressive sort of violence".People often speak of Bacon's work's as violent, but Bacon said himself that he never saw any violence(in terms of a negative, painful meaning) in his work's.Bacon did see a violent execution in Picasso's work's through colour and form.
Bacon did state his work's were positively charged with incredible emotion's through his colours and forms which might be veiwed as violent ,but in the positive.I also feel, as Bacon did, that word's diminish an artist's work's, so that is why I am qouting him so often from the book "Francis Bacon In conversation with Michel Archimbaud".Bacon's Eye is full of photo's, some of his early unseen work's, and his use of colour and form after veiwing the photo's in the book.There is also an interview with Barry Joule, a close friend of Bacon, at the end of the book.
Bacon gave Joule a thousand never seen work's on paper before his death.This book has only some of them, and I would love to see the remainder if ever published some day, but you will get a much indepth look at Bacon's work from the one's supplied.This book is not to be passed by if you want something rare and intimate of the artist.If you were to compare this book to the one other book featuring Bacon's drawing's, which name I can not recall right now, Bacon's Eye is ten times better.It also has different textured paper for the plates and the interview section.

I can't imagine a more painless way of learning about 19th century ballet than Tom Tierney's Ballet Stars of the Romantic Era. True to history, the four ballerinas have the matching costumes they wore for their famous Pas de Quatre -- when all four shared a single stage. Careful details include Marie Taglioni's trademark pearl necklace: she thought her neck was too long, and always wore a pearl choker to disguise it. The four ballerinas share a partner, dancer/choreographer Jules Perrot, so there are five dolls in all. My dancer daughter has had these paper dolls for years, and still treasures them.

Carus presents a simple argument with a complex and serious consiquence. Namely that the logistics of ballistic missiles favor their adoption by developing nations, and that the low accuracy of these weapons favors the use of nuslear, biological, or chemical warheads.

The notion that an air force is essential for defense is met with the reality of cost and foriegn dependencies in the developing world. Counter to this is the notion that ballistic missiles offer an affordable solution, compounded by a quicker reaction time than aircraft.

Carus demonstrates through review of recent events and the missile and space programs of various developing nations to show a trend to acquire ballistic missile capabilities. Through a comparative discussion of weapon capabilities and effects, he then makes a convincing arguement that the inhernet deficits of ballistic missiles over aircraft is in effect driving the same nations to develop chemical and biological weapons.

superb political science and military analysis.

My four-year-old loved this book! I also enjoyed it as well. The story is a tad long, but it was a great book. I like how there were many different children in the book and how they got along together. A book for any baseball fan!

"Baseball's Best: Five True Stories" tells about some of the great moments in baseball history that got some of its greatest players into the Hall of Fame. Andrew Gutelle tells the story of Babe Ruth's "called shot" in the 1932 World Series, Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak in 1941, opening day in 1947 when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, the tragic irony of Roberto Clemente's 3000th and last hit in 1972, and Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's career home run mark in 1974. Each story is illustrated with historic photographs and paintings by Cliff Spohn. Like Gutelle's book on "All-Time Great World Series Games," this Step 4 Book (Grades 2-4) does not shortchange the young readers for whom it is intended. A lot of times authors skimp on the details and provide a mere sketch of what happened, but Gutelle really does tell the complete story. When it comes to writing about baseball for young readers, Gutelle is an all-star.

This is no longer the most current edition of this text book. The Gleitman text is definitive, comprehensive, a classic. Gleitman is now over 70, and writes from extensive and broad experience in many areas of psychology. His wife is Lila Gleitman, one of the foremost living linguists in America, after Chomsky.

Henry Gleitman is a true humanist in the traditional sense. He writes with a deep sense of humanity. Within the field of psychology, he is rekowned for his teaching of intro psychology courses at Univ of Pennsylvania. When you read Gleitman's text, you get a great introduction to psychology from a true scholar who has stood at the forefront of his field for decades. His survey is taken from close personal acquaintence with many of the history-makers whose research is discussed in his book.

If you are assigning an intro psych text, this is the one. If you are taking an intro psych class, with this text, bother to do the reading.

Oliver's work shows a maturity that has been lacking from many basketball evaluation books--John Hollinger's "Basketball Prospectus" being another exception. Not only are players evaluated statistically but their roles on their teams are considered in context in relationship to their numbers. If you want to gain an understanding of basketball as perhaps you've never had before, and are willing to accept the ambiguous nature of numbers themselves, this is the book for you!