Maxim Books

yes i want this book really bad but could you please wait for two,s days before you try my card i just payed on it thank you!

My family and I were comforted by this wonderful book at a very sad time of our lives. It brought a smile at times when reading some of the different quotes from people who understood how we loved our dear dog. She was a member of our family a very important member. It was a great help. Joan V.

My wife and I lost a Brittany Spaniel that was our child! This beautiful book has brought my wife and I a great deal of comfort as we try to cope with the amazing void "Morgan's" passing has created. A highly recommended keepsake!

I have a copy of the original hardcover edition, and the title is "In WILDNESS Is the Preservation of the World".

The photography in this book is spectacular! It is what you expect from a Sierra Club book. Put together with wonderfully thoughtful and though-provoking texts by various writers, this book can give even a hard-core city slicker pause. Wilderness at its best....words to salve the heart.

I first saw this book in the late 60s, I was young, it expanded my universe. Together with all of John Muir's work, others of Thoreau, Ansel Adams and a book named On The Loose, the effect was complete. In our cynical times what these artists have to say is even more important. A beautiful work.
The title says it all
In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World
I have no doubt that is true.

I bought "Jonah and Sarah" based on a positive review I read and I enjoyed this collection a great deal. The short stories are moving and offer fascinating perspectives on Jewish life in the Soviet Union, immigration and Jewish émigrés in America. The translations are superb. What makes the collection special is that it was edited by the author's son and is a labor of love. I recommend it highly. I think it would make a great holiday gift!

I am a very picky reader, the type who never gets past the first two pages if the book doesn't grab me. I want to share with the other readers out there that from the first page on I couldn't put "Jonah and Sarah" down. I absolutely loved it. I recommend this book very highly to all lovers of great evocative fiction. David Shrayer-Petrov is a wonderful storyteller. A handsome jacket and beautiful design make is a great present--for Chanukah or other holidays. Buy this book!

I have just completed reading this collection of short stories and am moved by their sheer beauty and powerful message. Shrayer is a first rate literary artist, and it is so wonderful that his author son, Maxim, was able to translate them so the English speaking world could benefit from their aesthetic power. It would have been a shame if Shrayer's stories had not made it to the west, because they have so many compelling and exquisite things to say about being human under extraordinary circumstances. This is a book that deserves a wide readership. Rarely does a work of literature strike as many high notes as this one.

Funny look at golfing. One has to have a sense of humor to
play the game anyway and these cartoons show the humorous
truisms associated with the "game."

This is a great little golf book with a great group of golf cartoons covering just about every aspect of the game. I produce a newsletter for our local club and I intend to use some of the material in the book in our monthly publication. Neat book and really good price.

This book "Just Fore Laughs" is filled with delightful cartoons about the world of golf. I think everybody that plays the game of golf will find him/her self in one or more sections of the book. The quotations that go with cartoons are cute and appropriate for the cartoon ... for example, the section on Seniors shows Beetle Bailey's General Halftrack leaping out of bed and proclaiming that he feels young and strong and that nothing will stop him from succeeding on this day while his wife stays in bed and says "You're playing golf, right?" The quotation accompanying the cartoon is by Michael de Montaigne and says "Let us take care that age does not make more wrinkles on our spirit than on our face." Another cartoon is Jeff MacNelly's Shoe hitting his ball into a water hazard while his fiend says his swing is instant bogey ... just add water. The accompanying quotation is from Henry Wassworth Longfellow .. "From the waterfall he named her, Minnehaha, Laughing Water." This is a gift type book and it's pretty thick for its' type with more that 150 pages and a lot or golf cartoons. It's priced very well at $14.95 so it makes a great gift for anybody that plays golf and realizes how absurd the game can be sometimes.

I just recieved this book today from our scholastic book fair rep for chairing a Book fair at my childrens school. It is such a fun book that I am ordering it for my mom, grandma's and 2 cousins. and the price was great on Amazon. fun pick for mothers day. or anytime..

My mom gave this book to me the day after my son was born. It is a great book! Lots of adorable pictures and thoughtful quotes. It would make a great Mother's Day or baby shower gift.

Stunning photographs of animal moms and babies with quotes to match. Every page creates a smile and warms the heart. I love it and look at it repeatedly, and my husband loves it too! For yourself or a gift, it's a failsafe purchase. I think everyone from age 2 to 100 will enjoy it.

Love this little book! No matter what difficulties you face, just read it for ten minutes and it will turn your outlook around - trust me. My Dad gifted it to me and I plan to gift it to all the people that matter the most to me.

my Daughter gave me this book for my 72nd birthday I am going to give my son a book for his 25 birthday the book is great

Here are a few of the best pearls of wisdom found in this book. There are an average of 3 per page so you are only seeing a small faction of the 310 pages of the book. So you don't have to worry that I have already shown you half the book!


Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Remember that the biggest challenge we ever face is living up to our potential.

Never resist a generous impulse.

Look for something positive in each person you deal with;
focus on that attribute when dealing with them.

Read between the lines.

Remember that everyone you meet is looking for affirmation,
direction, and hope.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next,
skill is knowing how to do it,
and virtue is doing it.
David S. Jordan

Remember that the benefits of a life lived with enthusiasm and graditude is always available to you.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Remember that everything that you cherish in life demands from you an obligation.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Remember that debt is always a bad companion.

Remember that big problems are often little problems that were ignored.

Be an example of what you want to see more of in the world.

What is the use of living if it not be to strive for noble causes
and to make this muddled world a better place for those who
will live in it after we are gone?
Winston Churchill

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

The young men know the rules.
The old men know the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Homes

Give serendipity a chance. Be flexible and let some things "just happen."

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something
that will outlast it.
William James

Celebrate victories; analyse defeats.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

Remember that when you take inventory of the things you treasure most, none will have been purchased with money.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility;
every opportunity an obligation;
every possession a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

Remember that your attitude as you begin a task often determines how well you finish it.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

Live your life so that someone's always speaking well of you.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. - Age 66

I've learned that if you keep doing what you've always done,
you'll keep getting what you've always got. - Age 51

I've learned that there are no unimportant acts of kindness. - Age 51

I don't know much about Helen Nearing, having just begun to read books by and about her and Scott Nearing, her husband. Among a bunch of such books I checked out from library, this is a second title I picked up and read, following *Living the Good Life - How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World* (1970). Reading this title (Living the Good Life), it was really great to know that the Nearings were no simple folks when it comes to intellectual matters. So far from it. Both Helen and Scott Nearing were clear, elegant, and forceful, in their thinking and writing. To such an extent that you soon begin to trust them as your teachers.

And this book shows how--how Helen Nearing became what she was. The "Foreword," which was written when Helen was 91 and near her own death, is almost startling in its, yes, wisdom and profundity, which are clad in simple and clear words. In this regard, the opening words--"There is much speculation about life after death. What about life before death? To learn how to be old is one of life's last lessons. To learn how to die is the very last lesson of all"--sound almost like Rilke, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, who could be unfathomably profound in clear, simple, everyday, words.

The quotes in the book can very well stand on their own as the "wise words" about aging and dying, words that are "too good to lose," as Helen put it. On the other hand, they show us the *reader* Helen Nearing was. You realize early on that many of these quotes do really come from her reading of the books tht contain them. Such realization can be quite refreshing, considering that very many people make quotes (good or bad) from, well, quotes, or book of quotes. The authors and their books that contributed to the making of this gem-like collection of wise words on aging and dying were ones that inspired Helen and led her to what she became.

*My favorite comes from Edith Wharton: "In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy, sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."

Helen Nearing's galaxy of quotations from the likes of Ghandi, Freidan, Woolf, Einstein, Wharton, and Lao Tzu (and scintillating many more) on the subject of aging and dying is somewhat like meditating under a summer sky's meteor shower, each new light a brilliant, breath-catcher. With this collection, this "study for eternity" (Nearing quoting Emerson), Nearing restores elements of wonder and mystery to living and dying , rescuing them (and us!) from the pervasive and monotone hellfire school of western religious tradition. Among my many dozens of favorite Nearing choices is this from Hazlitt (Table Talk, 1821) : "To die is only to be as we were before we were born".

As the subtitle notes "An inspirational gathering of thoughts on living a good old age into death" this is a book of quotes from elder on subjects from Good Old Age to The Art of Dying and Death the Great Good. I find its value is simply in talking about death in a positive and not a dreaded manner. Quotes from all walks of life and belief systems.

A wonderful mix of view points from children on what would make for a perfect world. Both funny and touching, I was amused and amazed.

The first time I read this book, I wound up laughing so hard I cried! It is an endearing book of how children see the world. It includes several humourous answers and a few, tender thought-provokers. I recommend this book for all "kids at heart!"

I love Mr. Bendars book of what children, like i was when I wrote my entry, think would make the world better. My entry, which i made 2 yaers ago when I was 12, was something like: The world would be a better place if photosynthesis could work for people to prevend hunger. Some of the entries are serious like mine, and sone are funny. Three other people in my school have their thoughts in this book. I would recomend that everyone has a copy of this book!

I love this handy compilation. Whatever the occasion, there's a quotation that will fit. It makes a thought provoking read on it's own, encouraging one to think creatively and so inspirational. Rilke, Disrali, proverbs, and even Joni Mitchel. Truly a wide array of outstanding individuals and thier thoughts on the one thing we all have in common. Love.

This is a thoughtful book that is easy to read and full of pleasant surprises. Comments on love range from humorous to provocative. "Love Notes: Quotations from the Heart" is a compilation that celebrates the human spirit.

I like to use this book as a reference book. I never tire of reading it because of all the enjoyable, insightful and funny quotes. I like the short quotes. When I don't feel like lengthy and heavy reading I just pick this up, delight my soul, then go on about living.

Ever need to make a toast? Enjoy the occassional glass? This may be the book for you. The Magic of Wine is a pocket sized volume which contains some of the best (and most unusual) wine quotes I've ever come across. The price is right,and the tone is perfect.

This tucks nicely into a wine-basket you're creating for a friend. While it's small and relatively short, it's chock-full of interesting quotes and timely quotes. It covers everything from Alcaeus ("The best medicine is wine") to Leonard Bernstein ("Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge and part bluff.")

In fact, be sure to grab yourself a copy too. It's great to read by a fire, with a glass of wine in your hand!

witty & thoughtful quotes from Aeschylus to " Yugoslav Proverb" cleverly divided into categories of wine, moods of wine,etc.This book is fun to read and pretty to look at;a nice gift even for those who " talk with more claret than clarity ".