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I bought this book a few weeks ago cause I run a in home daycare. The only book my kids want to read is this book now, they love too cook and make things that are non-edible like giant bubbles and dog treats too. I love that the recipes are all easy and quick to make and prepare. So if you are bored and looking for something for you and your kids to do I strongly suggest this book for ideas.

This is a great 1st kids cookbook. The book is constructed to withstand the normal wear and tear and the additional wear and tear of kands covered in batter and stuff. These features are great for the young cook and their parents!

The talented artist, Demi, has outdone herself in this latest book. It's a wonderful showcase of beautiful and brightly colored chinese kites incorporated into a story of chinese traditions that children can understand and appreciate. Imagine my daughter's surprise when she saw several kites in this book identical to those we have hanging on our walls at home. I highly recommend buying this book!

I love Demi's books! Not only are Demi's books beautiful but are filled with lots of wonderful facts and information on what different animals, fish and insects represent to the people of China! An awesome book to add to your child's library!

Letter in a Woodpile by Ed Cullen
Cool Springs Press

Reviewed by Kathryn Magendie (first printed in Roses & Thorns)

Letter in a Woodpile is 138 pages, but this slim collection is limitless in its lessons of life, love, family, and people quite comfortable in their skins, thank you very much. Although Cullen's essays are centered on citizens and places in South Louisiana, his prose concerns Every One and Every Place. From the boy, his father, and their homemade kite ("My Father's Kite"), to first crushes ("Tutti Frutti Girl"); from baseball, Hale-Bopp comet, gardening, and even hamsters and an armadillo, to the heralding of summer by its sounds ("Flip-flops"), one will be hard-pressed not to find an essay that touches on some aspect of their own lives. Letter in a Woodpile is nostalgia, a glimpse into a neighbor's backyard, a ride around the old block in an old blue pickup truck.

Cullen doesn't over-sentimentalize; he leads readers with a wink and a crooked finger to places he wishes us to go. And what are those places? A Baton Rouge full of interesting people and landscapes; a corner of New Orleans tourists may seldom, if ever, see; a farmhouse where chopped wood becomes a perfect place to leave messages for his son; his garden, where critters and people meet and call a truce, because that's just how it is sometimes.

Cullen's work on NPR's All Things Considered reaches the listener's ear, settling in warm and inviting, and his essays have no less effect on the reader's eye. In poignant slices of American apple pie and spirited dabs of Louisiana hot sauce, Cullen's essays span his childhood and adulthood, where he introduces readers to a life well lived.

Ed Cullen captures the spirit of South Louisiana in this wonderful, beautifully written collection of essays. Cullen is a very popular columnist for the Baton Rouge Advocate and a regular contributor to NPR. The book is a collection of some of his best columns and essays. Readers from other parts of the country will find the book just as delightful (and insightful) as those of us in Baton Rouge. Cullen's prose often rises to the level of poetry and he almost perfectly captures the spirit and mood of Baton Rouge and south Louisiana in his essays. Simply put, he writes beautifully; his powers of observation are marvelous; and he can turn a unique phrase as well as anyone I know.

Jim Gannon's new book, "A Life in Print", is obviously written by a journalist. The inverted-pyramid style of crisply writing the lead sentence, followed by information that supports the lead, reflects a lifetime of honing skills to meet deadlines. This well-written and open-eyed retrospective into the lives and times he covered as a reporter offers the reader insight into the jagged edges of life that has softened in our post-September 11 memories of the previous generation.

I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking glimpses of life of the average Joe, as well as the rich and powerful, that spanned 33 years capturing private and public moments in America's history.

A Life In Print is an anthology of columns from reporter, columnist, and editor James P. Gannon. Collected from the pages of The Wall Street Journal, The Des Moines Register, and The Detroit News, the author's heartfelt and candid opinions touch upon the highlights of his life, his passion for journalism, and his views of both America and the world. Flavored with Gannon's Midwestern charm and Irish hard-hitting honesty, A Life In Print is unafraid to level scathing criticsm against individuals or societies - whether decrying presidential canditate John Kerry's professed Catholicism when Kerry has repeatedly voted against pro-life platforms, or lamenting that the factionalized modern-day America is such a far cry away from the unified nation that came together and gave everything it had to support the war effort during World War II. Skillfully written, each short column offers a new slice of insight, both in the author and in the world that surrounds us all. An extremely readable book that captures one's attention in bite-sized morsels.

I am very happy with my purchases. I got both Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird and cannot believe all of the information, activities and ideas! Everything I need to teach my ninth graders the content standards, and the novels. I wish I had found these a few years ago--they would have been a lifesaver for me as a new teacher. These Literature Guides were recommended to me--and now it is my turn to do the same! Great product! VERY highly recommended.

I teach 9th grade at a public high school in California. I am really pleased with the information and activities available in this guide. It really is helpful and challenging, unlike those others that call themselves "challenging" units. I would definitely recommend this guide for teachers, and would buy again.

Beautifully written, beautifully illustrated, and filled with detailed historical information. This book is a real find!

In my opinion this is a classic that fell through the cracks. I can't fathom how this book went out of print. It isn't possible to read Mein Kampf or a number of other books, inluding art, without reading Lives of the Courtesans for any kind of insight.

The price is high. I found a copy for about $60. It takes a little search.

*I recommend the Mein Kampf, 1943, By Houghton Mifflin Company if a person is going to read Adolf Hitler.

Why are beheadings so captivating in society and literature? Losing Our Heads: Beheadings In Literature And Culture tackles a gruesome topic, providing a healthy dose of anthropological, medical, social and literary insight to accounts of beheadings from antiquity to modern times. College-level audiences will welcome Professor Janes' studies analysis of decapitation over history and in literature. One would anticipate gruesome details; but the focus on more than physical details makes for an intriguing discussion.

Why are beheadings so captivating in society and literature? Losing Our Heads: Beheadings In Literature And Culture tackles a gruesome topic, providing a healthy dose of anthropological, medical, social and literary insight to accounts of beheadings from antiquity to modern times. College-level audiences will welcome Professor Janes' studies analysis of decapitation over history and in literature. One would anticipate gruesome details; but the focus on more than physical details makes for an intriguing discussion.

"Celebrate" is the perfect word to describe the content of this wonderful testament to creativity inspired by love. Poems, stories, artwork, and photographs testify to the perennial energy we call love. It's a bargain at the price, especially for those who want to give a gift slightly off the beaten path of crystal, china, and siverware. The book itself is a large, impressive hardback ("art book"), with a beautiful cover. Enjoy!

I just found this book at a book sale. It is like I have received a windfall apple. I didn't know what I was missing until I saw this. It is full of stories, quotes and fabulous art reproductions focusing on Love. The feeling you get when you look at and read this book is a profound longing for your loved one. It is really overwhelming. I was hooked from the author's introduction (and I rarely read the introductions). This book is a celebration of love between man and woman. Some of the stories are humorous sketches from authors such as Mark Twain, or poems from e e cummings or an excerpt from Hawthorn's Lady Chatterly's Lover. Overall, This book is a rare and powerful approach to such an awesome subject. (This would make an AWESOME wedding gift).

I am a kindergarten teacher who uses and loves this book. The kids get excited picking the page to 'make'....the illustrations are colorful and fun. This is a fantastic book.

I work with kids in my church, and have run into way too many "kid's crafts" that are anything but kid's stuff. This book, however, proves to be exactly that, a KID'S craft book. The projects are do-able, with instructions that even a 4-year-old can understand. My child liked this book so much that she would choose it for her bedtime story.

Advancead students working in Renaissance literature, especially English (though there is a chapter on Montainge, and a glance at Cervantes) will find the information quite helpful. The final chapter on Browne is particularly memorable. The theme of an aesthetic of anamnesis (drawing on Neoplatonic understandings of knowledge being predicated on memory)are presented "performatively," in a lively way that mirrors the content being discussed, thus involving the reader in the Baroque flow of ideas. The author serves as a tour guide in the hall of mirrors reflecting the other side of being.

This book, to borrow from the jacket blurb by Arthur Kinney (series editor and founder of Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies), combines the history of ideas with the history of consciousness in early modern Europe. "Engel has produced a groundbreaking study that is boldly original, richly penetrating, and revolutionary in its implications. No student of early modern culture can afford to overlook this extraordinary work."

This "rich and varied work," so termed by Tom Conley (Harvard University, Professor of Romance Languages), makes use of the critical work of Benjamin, Heidegger, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Eliade, to uncover subtleties of design in works ranging from Elizabethan broadsides, to Milton's epic poetry, to the essays of Thomas Browne. And yet, as the Review of English Studies noted, neither the wide range of topics nor the conjunction of old texts and modern critics should be read as merely fashionable gestures towards current academic obsession, "for the closely argued thesis has an overall cogency and a local subtlety."

Basically the book argues that early modern "metaphorics" was essentially mnemonic and emblematic.

George Rousseau in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine wrote: "Engel implies that an aesthetic of mortality lurked beneath the surface of the skin, so to speak, in that fierce world in which the death of the literal body was life's greatest certainty."