Rebecca Books

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This book is a great refresher for anybody coming back to math after a long break. Very simple and clear. Worth a look. Borrow from your library.

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The poems are delightful and the illustrations, reminiscent of those in the Cheerful Cherub books, are charming and clever. Annabel has glorious adventures that would spark any small child's imagination, and the poems are fun for adults as well as children. These books were favorites of my Mom and my Auntie Duff when they were little, in the early 1930s. I do wish these wonderful, wonderful books were still in print - it's woeful that they aren't available to modern audiences. HIGHLY recommended.

Reviewed by Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson for Reader Views (10/06)

Tony White's "Another Fool in the Balkans," subtitled "In the Footsteps of Rebecca
West," is a book that I had to read twice. Let me start by saying that it is a book that hit very close to home. Having been born and raised in Yugoslavia it is definitely a work that talks about the country of my youth, of people and places that are near to my heart and that are very well known to me. I had to read it twice, since I found it hard to believe that a `Westerner' could gain such deep understanding and deep appreciation of the melting, bubbling pot that is called the Balkans.

Tony White's collection of essays, dated between 1993 and 2005, touches on some of the most disturbing and difficult times that this part of the world went through. White tries to make some sense of the whole senseless mess, delving deep into history and talking to people who lived through the horrors of war. He tries to keep his descriptions balanced and fair although I am afraid that he will still manage to make some people upset. Such are the results of a political, fratricidal war, I am afraid.

His descriptions are vivid and colorful. I have a distinct feeling that he really immersed himself in the places he visited and events he participated in. At times he sounds slightly surprised, sometimes even amazed, but he never sounds judgmental or condescending. His descriptions of post-war Beograd and Zagreb made me cry more than once, his sketches of night-life and parties made me chuckle time and again. Both are so much part of my beloved Yugoslavia and both are written with infinite grace. White maintains a poise and elegance regardless of which facet of the Balkans he is writing about.

Obviously well researched and written with sensitivity and tact, this book should prove extremely enlightening to anybody who is brave enough to try and comprehend the Balkans. If this book whets your appetite to learn more, White included an absolutely fantastic Bibliography at the end of it. If it is not there, you probably don't have to read it. Once again, kudos to Tony White - "Another Fool in the Balkans" is by far the best work on the Balkans that I've ever read. And it made me put Rebecca West's Black Lamb and the Grey Falcon on my reading list - if it so greatly influenced White's writings, it should be real good.

A straight forward book - good to read to your children to help make separation from friends easier. A good food recipe in the back too!

This book is great for first-time anthropology students; it teaches basic as well as advanced concepts without seeming overly preachy or didactic. Its ethnographic examples focus mainly on so-called "primitive" societies, and allows the discerning reader to visualize the supernatural world time and time again through their eyes. A fantastic read!

Ms. Baines is quite possibly the finest author we have seen since William Shakespeare. Arctic Tale is a breathtaking look at the life of a polar bear family. Baines' incredible detail made it seem as if she had lived among these creatures, as a Polar Bear herself. Her eloquent use of rhetoric was pleasing to any reader's palate and is unparalleled by any other modern literary champion. Although I was crying throughout the entire book, page 11 definitely hit me the hardest. If you read this book, it will change your life. I got my copy two days ago and I have already read it 38 times. Ms. Baines deserves 100% of the profits from this book as well as the movie. She is truly a genius and I can't wait for more of her work to be released.

For those who wonder what they are seeing on a casual walk in the desert, this book is very welcome. It profiles 50 wildflowers and makes mention of the locale of dozens more in the course of the text on the 50 hikes. In this way, one can make flower identification moving from the book to the trail or the other way around. The photos, over 100 in all, are of very high quality.

The author, Christine Maxa, is well-informed and concise. By the time you've read through a few of the hikes and profiles, you realize she's every bit as at ease with wildlife as her portrait with an elephant would imply. She shows not only a familiarity with the flowers, but also a wide knowledge of the pollinators and predators and parasites that dwell among them: the cochineal insect, source of the rich red dye prized for centuries by aboriginal Americans and Europeans alike; hummingbirds, which carry pollen on their heads; bees, which carry it on every part of their bodies; forest rangers, which carry the full force of the federal government when charging the spectacular parking fees described in the "Special Considerations" section of the hiking guides.

One of the nice things about learning about desert flowers is that there are relatively few of them, so that one can become well-versed and appear authoritative in a relatively short time. Even so, surprises abound. American carrot, which appears on many of the hikes, is a real carrot of the genus Daucus, though Maxa does not say whether the root is edible. Scorpion weed and rattlesnake weed, despite their ominous names, are benign and pretty, while larkspur, a beautiful type of delphinium, is highly poisonous.

This guide's greatest strength, fittingly enough, is its information. I had wondered in the past whether teddy bear cholla and jumping cholla were one and the same plant. A quick trip to the handy 2-page index of common and scientific names confirmed that it was. This sort of detail may seem simple, but it's often surprisingly hard to come by, given the widespread fear among Americans of Latin binomial nomenclature. And despite the title's reference to Arizona desert, the flowers discussed are by no means restricted to that state. Eleven years ago in the California part of Death Valley I noticed a widespread infestation of a parasite that resembled a tangle of orange string. Thanks to this book I finally know what it was: Dodder (p.134), a plant related to morning glory that lacks leaves and roots and chlorophyll. Of further interest in the profile are two common names for dodder that at first glance seem to describe mutually exclusive traits: love vine and strangleweed.

Travel around the world in your armchair. See the world from the comfort of your own home. Have an exciting and beautiful trip around the world. You will visit places such as Singapore, Rio De Janeiro, Jerusalem, Giza, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Australia, Stockholm, San Francisco, Rome, Prague and many more destinations. The many photographs are stunning and large-size.