Woody Allen Books

This book is a read aloud for 4-6 yr olds and independent reading for 7-8 yr olds.

Katherine(5yrs old), loved this book. She read it with some help and loved the part when Chuckie said,"Hey! Leave him alone! He's not a nanner! We giggled throughout the book and you will too.

This is a wonderful rendition of the Bhagavad Gita--I have listened to it almost daily for many years. Deepak Chopra has a beautiful, calming voice, and the accompanying music is perfectly matched to both his voice and the text. The first half of the first tape explains how the sounds of sacred texts (and all words) have the power to change you from a spiritual level. And the rest of the two tapes are filled with Mr. Chopra reading Chapters 1 through 13. I wish he would record the rest of the 18 chapters!

I have read several different versions of the Gita over the years, and always come back to this--I've worn out several sets of tapes already! I was raised Catholic, and have been a spiritual seeker most of my life, reading and studying the sacred texts of a number of spiritual traditions. What I've found is that the Bhagavad Gita (and in particular, this version) distills the main components of all the others into an easily understandable and practical format for daily living. It is said that the answer to any problem can be found in the Gita, and so far, I have found this to be true. Do yourself a favor, and give this a listen!

This was my introduction to the Bhagavad Gita. I bought it two weeks ago and have not stopped listening to it. I take it on my walk with me everyday. It keeps me centered throughout the day. Deepak's voice is heavenly, the classical Indian music is hauntingly beautiful, and the verses are,of course, sacred! I have since bought Yogananda's translation of the Gita and can honestly say this sacred text is changing my life. My love to Deepak for this introduction.

One of the best complied books on The sufi Saint, Amadou Bamaba and all of the art that comes from his greatness. Beautifully put together and a must have for anyone who loves african art, african sufism, or african mysticism. Definently one to collect.

Senegal is a cradle of juxtaposed cultures and civilizations.
The contribution of Sufism art is well felt in Senegal.
The book invites us to appreciate such an influence. It has strong ramifications in our schools' system.
It is pleasing to see international writers spending their time to broaden the masses' understanding of our culture.
Sufism in Senegal is different from its counterpart in Muslim countries.
In Senegal, Sufism espouses our ethnic tradition and way of life.
The book clearly explained this harmonious unity.

This book deserves the highest praise for its integration of local knowledge with academic fisheries biology. It provides an excellent guide to Columbia River fish. That alone is worth the price of the book. The real "meat" of the book, though, are the Nez Perce testimonies: myths, folktales, personal reminiscences, views on local fish politics, and just plain good old-timer stories. We are reminded that the Native people often say in poetic or symbolic form what biologists say in academic polysyllables. Whether Coyote's encounter with beavers or excessive offtake of a fluctuating population is to blame, everybody knows that you can't catch too many fish or there won't be any more. The Native people add the critically important dimension of respect for the fish. You won't protect what you don't respect. That is why the politicians and even biologists so often fail to preserve the fisheries, even with the best intentions and the fisheries science--they lack that critical realization.
The book brings out the tragedy of damming the Columbia River. Hydropower is cheap only because nobody factors in the real costs, especially the hundreds of millions of fish a year lost to the economy.
This book is pure delight. I haven't enjoyed reading a book in a while, or learned so much.

Books about fish customarily fall into two categories: biology texts that treat the animals like biochemical systems and fishing books that treat them like cunning prey (the better to rationalize the angler's heroism). "Salmon and His People" is another kind of book entirely-a complex look at how the salmon has figured in Nez Perce tribal origin stories, tribal history, tribal religion, tribal stewardship, and how the animal has fared under the dubious stewardship of the Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and National Marine Fisheries Service.

The voices telling this complicated story are multiple, as are the perspectives: tribal storytellers, biologists, fishermen, children, policymakers. Salmon is not treated as an isolated creature but is instead viewed within a finely wrought network of other water animals.

I cannot praise the ambition and achievement of this book highly enough. Because the Nez Perce view the fate of the salmon as part of a regionwide environmental disaster, "Salmon and His People" also becomes an elegy for that lost river, the free-flowing Columbia. Several recent books (Blaine Harden's "A River Lost," Wm. Dietrich's "Northwest Passage," Richard White's "The Organic Machine") have addressed the devastation of the Columbia and its fisheries, but none of these is as heartful and creaturely an account of what the damming of the Columbia has meant to the peoples and animals of the river. The Nez Perce are particularly qualified to write an account of the Columbia's devastation because their lands are upstream of most of the eighteen dams on the mainstem Columbia and Snake, and much of their section of the river lies within the Hanford Reach, that unhappy zone once occupied by the federal government's plutonium-production plants. (The Hanford Reach is also the only undammed section of the Columbia River.)

Beautifully illustrated with color plates on almost every page (the registration could be better), "Salmon and His People" will challenge most readers to think about fish more deeply. The book is the second in a series of Nez Perce nature guides; it was written by Dan Landeen, environmental specialist for the tribe, and Allen Pinkham, a tribal elder and former chairman of the Nez Perce Tribe Executive Committee, and published by Lewis-Clark State College's Confluence Press.

I have no connection to the Nez Perce Tribe or the Confluence Press. I write for fishing magazines, and in my experience this is a singular book.

My husband used to read me this book when I was pregnant with my only child. The sound of the poems made her kick. Maybe the poems, but probably it was just the way he read them--in spanish--louder than he ever said anything. My husband never yelled, even when he was angry he just stayed by himself a bit, but he really used to get into these poems. From his childhood, I guess. He tried to translate them himself, but he wasn't very good at it. He would probably say these aren't very good either, no translation is your own after all, but I don't speak spanish, and to me these are close to the way he used to make me feel when he read them. Very lovely, and a little alarming.

I tried reading them to my daughter--she's having a baby in the summer--but it didn't really make anyone feel alarmed. I guess I need to learn to develop my own versions.

This is the book that everyone who loves FGL must have. I even started to learn it in spanish.

Dear Diary: I have fallen in love with a poet named Frank O'Hara. I started with "Lunch Poems," but needed more. This volume is divine. O'Hara sneaks up on you. His style is so simple, so conversational, that you often times are surprised by the sudden depth of feeling comminicated in a final phrase. I don't know enough about poetry to prattle on and on without betraying my ignornace in short order. However, I know what I like, I know what speaks to me. I know that Frank O'Hara was a great poet.

It's not exactly pocket-sized, but this volume can be conveniently and inconspicuously carried to lunch uptown, midtown, downtown, or out of town. There is a great collection of poems here (no plays), from the short and sweet to the longer and sweeter. All set in beautiful type on nice, formal heavier paper and with the inclusion of "Personism: A Manifesto" for an introduction and the cover art by O'Hara's personal friend. The cover is more than just interesting, however, it really informs some of the questions about confessional poetry raised by O'Hara's work. Just look at it for awhile... By the way, if you haven't yet read Frank O'Hara's poetry, this volume is an excellent and accessible place to start. Grab a fork, a cup of coffee, and dig in!

Poe's writings are the most stable part of his life. They are incredible, read over and over again. None dispute his genius and if you've only read "the Raven" or something the length of time of a pop song, read a good short story and see how you look at people afterward. What secrets they hide and in it's fiction Poe relates the truth of the human condition. Must have for anyone.

If you're looking for a "complete" Poe, you have two sensible choices, the first being Thomas Ollive Mabbott's 3 volume edition (richly annotated, and each of the works introduced with an account covering composition, publication, aesthetic aims and critical consensus), and the second the delightful and portable Library of America volume. I put "complete" in quotes because even these miss Poe's "Eureka" and some of his own reviews and sketches. The market offers countless other "complete" Poes, often available in the remaindered section of book stores, but these two options serve him (and you) best--if you want all his poems and tales.

But if you want a selection, this Norton Critical Edition is your single best choice. It's far from complete--30 poems, 35 stories, a novel and then a collection of letters and articles. But all your favorites are here, and they are also well annotated, which is not just scholarly fluff but a way of filling you in on all of Poe's now obscure knowledge of pseudo-science, his views about slavery (an issue in The Narrative of Gordon Pym), theories of the mind, 18th century gothic precepts, etc etc. These things really preoccupied Poe and they inform his stories, and knowing about them honors his intentions while only increasing our appreciation for the tales and poems. People in a huff about footnotes can just skip them, and people who wish to know what Poe was drawing on--what often inspired the tales--can read them, and if you know about it already, more power to you. Anyway, these notes are really useful and pretty thorough, often including info about publication, alternate versions Poe later wrote, motives for writing it, plus of course all that now lost cultural context that Poe was so much a part of.

This volume opens with one of my favorite features in any Norton Critical Edition I know, and that is a 37-page overview biography of Poe. It's incisive, analytical, and knowing, and it's broken down further into headings that cover particular segements of his life. It's also written in a lucid, engaging way, and it covers the American history and politics relevant to Poe's own life. It serves as a nice median between an ecyclopedia or anthology bio and a full-scale bio, and I've really enjoyed it.

So you get 65 works by Poe, a novel and other letters and articles, that awesome biography of him, but then you get a great selection of writing ABOUT Poe from the years when he was publishing, reviews and mentions by Whitman, Hawthorne, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Lowell, and many many others. How illuminating to hear the other great figures from the American Renaissance (and from Europe) discussing the man's works as they come out. This volume then offers more in-depth articles, both from the time and from later scholars, concering those "sciences" and brain theories and other issues that Poe filled his writing with, so you can read the sources from his day and voices from our day talking about what fascinated Poe as a writer. If you already just like sitting down and enjoying the stories and poems, this would be a great next step for you. I would liken it to listening to your favorite band's influences, or your favorite director's favorite movies--you read what Poe himself found so compelling, and it lets you "get" him more completely.

Finally, the volume concludes with a great number of more recent discussions of Poe, some of the articles covering a particular story or poem, and some discussing some aspect of Poe more generally. In short, this book offers a total experience of Edgar Allan Poe. While it offers a smaller selection of his writings than a complete Poe does, you still get 75 pages of his poetry and over 500 pages of his prose, and then all the other material! And that other material presents a full picture of Poe's interests, how his contemporaries thought of him, and some views from today. The book itself is handsome, with fine typesets and a generous but portable pagecut that stays open readily (especially when it's laying in your hands) due to a good, flexible binding. All this for 16 bucks? Why wait?

This book so proficiently articulates all my beliefs that I myself could never instill upon my children had I not taken the time to read. All in all, the book explains why and how society is sacrificing our own children's welfare and future for a pofit! A must read for any parent who really cares for America's future...Our children.

Many of my friends and I are so frustrated by the mindset of putting profits before values. When a child will stab another child to get something which the other child owns, it is obvious that this child needs better values! At last, here is a book that doesn't just talk about our concerns, it helps us take action. It is a great book and I recommend it very much.

I bought this for my two year olds birthday. She loves it. She loves Abby Cadabby and all of the Sesame Street friends, so it was a hit. This book is sturdy and withstands a two year old and her 4 year old brother.

My 20 month old loves this book and the flaps and pages are extra durable for her!

This beautifully produced cookbook features a wide variety of common and unique shellfish dishes... Some of the best (and acclaimed) recipes are: crown of shrimp in aspic, idonesian shrimp cake, spiced and sauteed soft shell crab, french scallops with saffron, galician lobster, boild beer shrimp, neptune souffle, pear and curry shrimp, specialty whiskey lobster, malaysian coconut prawns, and many more. Truly a wonderful shellfish recipe collection.

This beautifully produced cookbook features a wide variety of common and unique shellfish dishes... Some of the best (and acclaimed) recipes are: crown of shrimp in aspic, idonesian shrimp cake, spiced and sauteed soft shell crab, french scallops with saffron, galician lobster, boild beer shrimp, neptune souffle, pear and curry shrimp, specialty whiskey lobster, malaysian coconut prawns, and many more. Truly a wonderful shellfish recipe collection. (be sure to get the hardbound edition as the paperbound edition has some deletions)