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I found this book to be a very helpful reasource. I am currently studying psychology in college, but psychoanalytically oriented papers are usually interesting and useful. The essays were pretty easy to read and understand. I used the essay on the Holocaust for a paper, and then read 10 more of the essays for my own information. Overall, I would highly reccomend this book!

Captivating pictures and prose paint images of a silvery Christmas Eve seen from a pussycats' perspective. I have read this book over and over at Christmas...with or without my Grandchildren to share it with me. But a delight to share with friends whether old or young! The colorful illustrations capture perfectly the essence of the old-fashioned Chreistmas Eves that I remember with my family. Nostalgic sweet memories that are not to be missed!

It's hard to peg the exact age range for Johnny Gruelle's Raggedy Ann readers: they require good reading skills or parental assistance but will appeal to a wide age range. Patricia Hall writes a retrospective celebrating Gruelle's creations with Raggedy Ann & Andy. Includes the traditional Gruelle illustrations and is suitable for gift-giving.

Reclaim The Fire: A Parish Guide To Evangelization by Martin W. Pable (Retreat Director, St. Anthony Retreat Center, Marathon, Wisconsin) is a straightforward, "reader friendly" guide to bringing new life and followers into the Catholic parish. Individual chapters address a brief history of evangelization, evangelizing active and inactive Catholics alike, reaching out to people when surrounded by the distractions of modern culture, and a great deal more. Reclaim The Fire is especially recommended reading for Catholic activists and a welcome addition to the bookshelf of every parish.

Susan Wheeler's first novel is one of the best American fictions of recent years -- yet it's been criminally neglected. Though I've already had many good things to say in print about RECORD PALACE, I must also praise it electronically, in order to do something about so dismaying an injustice.

The plot works us through a timeless drama of the sick made well by the encounter with those still worse. The neglected Califiornia girl Cyndi arrives in Chicago to study art, as the '70s turn to the '80s; however, she expends most of her mental energy on jazz -- when not wasting it in alcohol. These two avocations seem at first equally unhealthy, because Cyndi depends on such a skin-of-the-teeth source for her jazz, a seedy North Loop store called RECORD PALACE. But the Palace does carry sublime and hard-to-locate music, among its tottering stacks of records. More importantly, the place is presided over by the girl's improbable eventual savior, Acie. 60ish, sleeping on a mattress in the back room, Acie is bloated and missing an eye, otherwise ailing, and above all burdened with brains and spunk far beyond his status. He's an astonishing character for a white poet (Wheeler has won a number of awards for her verse) to have come up with, and often he's rendered via his own voice, a great poetic bop voice, full of razor wit while also meditative.

The plot concerns some forged art, a couple of hopeless love affairs, and above all a fractured African-American family coming part of the way back together. In this reconciliation the later mayor Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, plays a small put important role. The whole of Chicago, in fact, figures in the drama. In the final pages, after Cyndi's and Acie's smaller drama is done with -- they're never lovers, incidentally; Wheeler has a far better imagination than that -- with Washington's election in '83, "the spirit of the city, in sidewalks, in the stores, shifted overnight, wholly, perceptibly..."

Few novels risk a portrait of such a varied and divided community, and fewer still bring off that panaorama while also remaining true to the least flutter of hurt feelings or the subtle ascent of a Coltrane solo. Yet such is the accomplishment RECORD PALACE, in which a poet fulfills the novelist's highest ambitions: "so much of a brawny city, so many lives coming together, pivoting in this beat."

Throughout the twentieth century, women have burst through many barriers of professions that are exclusively male. "The Red Wall: A Woman in the RCMP" is the author Jane Hall's story of breaking through that gender barrier to become one of the first female Canadian Mounties. A dedicated and detailed telling of her story in the organization that the Canadian nation upholds as a national symbol, "The Red Wall" is an informed and informative tale of tradition and transformation.

I really got a lot out of this book. It is a lifesaver for the beginning wood worker like myself. I have referred to it countless times, and I thoroughly enjoy it every time I open it.

Maggie Oster is one of the best kept secrets in the world of photography today. We share her wonder as she makes us stop and see the miracle of growing things, and the art created by a thoughtful mind and a patient hand. The gardens she shows us are some of the most magical places on earth, serene yet vibrant, still and quiet yet energized with life and promise. Don't treat this like a "coffee-table" book - give yourself over to her "magical mystery tour"!

This small book is a plea for a long term corporate strategy against the actual short term vision of the business officers, who are hounded by financial analysts only interested by short-term capital gains.
The task force gives some excellent recommendations, although it admits that it will be difficult to change the actual mentality.

The report also contains a very good analysis of the state of the US economy and of the real challenges: sluggish productivity, decline in real wages for four-fifths of American workers, poverty, unequal income distribution, deteriorating savings, poor education.

It reminds us of Pigou's fundamental analysis of the irrationality of the human behavior: 'human society tends to place too high a discount rate on everything, due to an irrational impatience, a foolish desire for pleasure now relative to the future.' (p. 97)

A small but important book and a must read for every economist.

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