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I actually took Brady's class at the University of St. Thomas that is based around this book, and while not being the most religious person myself, I still found the class and the book to be remarkably wonderful. His writing style as well as style of teaching are very unique, and he offers many insightful ideas that everyone should incorporate into their own lives.

Brady has given us an historical tour of biblical and Christian commentary on love. My own favorite section is that on Augustine. Brady also covers that other great of the Catholic tradition, Aquinas. Brady also collects the thoughts of modern, lesser known theologians on the theme of love. The excerpts from theologians William D'Arcy and Edward Vacek are thought-provoking. Reading this book will lead you to ponder the quality of your own friendships and relationships.

My 7-year old son picked this book up from the school library. When we sat down to read it, he was laughing so hard, I actually had to read it for him! He laughed harder and harder with every page. I plan to order every "Morris and Boris" title I can find. This is the kind of clever, silly story that my kids can pass on to their own children some day. Even my husband, two older sons, and I laughed! I wish I had discovered this book a long time ago.

I'm a veteran school librarian who spent years working at an elementary school that used a literature based reading program. Story Time was HUGE at our school, especially around holiday times--Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter. This book was ALWAYS part of my arsenal of Christmas read-alouds. For one thing--it's not sappy--the way some holiday books tend to be. It features the familiar characters of Boris the Bear (grouchy) and Morris the Moose (goofy) and plays on their friendship. Morris is terribly ignorant, Boris is fairly impatient--and in this book Boris explains Christmas traditions to Morris--with the help of two children they meet along the way. It's not a perfect book, but it's not bad at all. Students of all ages love the Boris and Morris stories, and they always enjoy this book. Dialog is both familiar and clever. There is silliness here, but kids like silly. At one point Morris is under the mistletoe and one of the chidlren tells him--"You are under the mistletoe--you must get kissed"--and does so, saying--"Merry Christmas!" Morris says, you MEAN "Merry Kiss Moose!" This book will put children in a merry mood. I am still using it for story time. It works with 4-year-olds and 4th graders alike.

This is a wonderful book full of not only intimate details of the artists but the time they lived in, including advances in technology. I have read it over and over.

This survey of the history of Impressionism includes more than 400 illustrations of paintings, photographs, drawings, and posters made between the 1860s and the 1920s. The book provides discussions of art events, exhibitions, specific works, and sales records, as well as details of the artists' personal lives. Also included are a biographical index of over 100 entries, complete with photographs of the artists, their models, friends, dealers, critics, and collections; maps and descriptions of significant Impressionist locales; and a chronology of western art from 1863 to the present. A detailed listing of important Impressionist collections throughout the world is sure to interest tourists and serious museum visitors alike. All of the material is presented with great clarity in an interesting and intelligent manner.

Leon Katz's volumes of classical monologues provide an excellent resouce tool for actors and educators. Some well-known, some deliciously obscure, these rich monolgues can expand and deepen an actor's repetoire of audition and class material. In addition, Mr. Katz's introductory notes to each monologue provide a wonderfully astute historical and theatrical context for each selection. A superb addition to the theatre practitioner's library.

Leon Katz's volumes of classical monologues provide an excellent resouce tool for actors and educators. Some well-known, some deliciously obscure, these rich monolgues can expand and deepen an actor's repetoire of audition and class material. In addition, Mr. Katz's introductory notes to each monologue provide a wonderfully astute historical and theatrical context for each selection. A superb addition to the theatre practitioner's library.

I read this book to my daughter's kindergarten class during the week of Chinese New Year. It highlights how skills are developed at different rates and the wonders of cooperation.

After reading the book, the teacher requested a copy to read to her kids at the beginning of school each year. She felt it was a perfect way to demonstrate the need for sharing and the value of differences.

When reviewing the book Cleversticks, I feel that children will find this book very appealing. Many children can relate to the conflict that occurs in the story and find it comforting when they realize that other children go through the same difficulties. The pictures are also very vivid and bright, which is very eye catching for it's young readers.

I'd wanted to read THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING for years. I'm so glad I waited to buy and read this translation, because it is excellent. The writer is, of course, unknown but the translator has managed to preserve the writer's intentions, yet make the text readable, understandable, and compelling. I would heartily recommend this translation to anyone serious about meditation, for this fourteenth-century monk surely was 'way ahead of his time.

A very interesting description of a contemplative discipline conveyed intimately from an unknown teacher to an unknown student. The text is a mystic exploration of the divine that rejects the use of the intellect and the imagination, preferring an inner knowing, like a numinous experience based on feeling, a gnosis of the heart. An important theme is the difference between the active and the contemplative personality; others include the awareness of self, death of the ego, and advice on leading the contemplative life. Although this writing is deeply embedded in Christian tradition and I disagree with many of these beliefs, I still admire the author's gentleness and sense of humor. All spiritually-minded people will benefit from a study of this almost poetic text. The most beautiful sentiment is this: "For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes, but what you would like to be."

I recommend this book to ALL Health Care Professionals, as well as health enthusiasts. The sick and the well can both prosper from the content of this publication. Come Alive is well written, it is full of interesting information, and it is written in a way that everyone can understand. Water, salt, antioxidants, minerals, enzymes and electrolytes, are a few of the topics that are detailed in the book. The effects, the benefits and the hazards of our dietary choices are all eloquently explained. The philosophy of the book is that healing begins from within. Come Alive takes the reader through a step by step analysis that explains the disease fighting elements that we can experience through diet.

Best Regards to all,

I recommend this book to ALL Health Care Professionals, as well as health enthusiasts. The sick and the well can both prosper from the content of this publication. Come Alive is well written, it is full of interesting information, and it is written in a way that everyone can understand. Water, salt, antioxidants, minerals, enzymes and electrolytes, are a few of the topics that are detailed in the book. The effects, the benefits and the hazards of our dietary choices are all eloquently explained. The philosophy of the book is that healing begins from within. Come Alive takes the reader through a step by step analysis that explains the disease fighting elements that we can experience through diet.

Best Regards to all,

Not all families are disfunctional. In fact, Shelly Reuben proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt. What a wonderful portrait of a loving father as told through her eyes and through his own letters. Reuben paints a picture in words that creates images of a real father. One who lives in a houseful of love, surrounded by his five children, tolerant and loving wife, friends and crazy relatives. One readily sees why Reuben has selected words as her vocation. Her father created, plagerized, quoted and paraphrased the thought provoking guidence and evocative sentiments with which he communicated to his offspring. Written on stationary, or on the back of landlord-tenant court documents, these jewels of creative writing tell of a romantic soul. He is clearly adored, not for his incredible inventions or tenacity regarding real estate investments, but for his character, strength, concern and consideration. Those of us who can relate have surely had fathers of similar noble quality. Those who cannot fathom the beautiful relationships between father and child have missed an incredible experience. Reach back into childhood, read this and enjoy the experience.

If you want to read something that makes you feel good about life, read Shelly Reuben's book, Come Home Love Dad. With so many books flooding the market about serial killers and political espionage it's a pleasure to read something about an actual person that really touches you. Miss Reuben expertly uses narration as well as actual letters written by her father to gradually reveal his personality to the reader. I came to know a man who was an inventor, a landlord, and a salesman, but first and foremost - a father.

This book and his "The Practical Woodworker" are fantastic resources for the hand tool craftsman. This volume is filled with well written, useful procedures. The instructions are "complete" and if you follow them the results will be just what you wanted.

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Get both of these books as well as Aldren A. Watson's woodworking books and you'll have an unbelievable source of woodworking knowledge at your fingertips.

Originally published around seventy years ago. An excellent well illustrated reference for the various hand planes and the use and care of other basic hand tools. Thourough instruction of sharpening, joinery and the proper design and constrution of furniture. Like sharing a shop with a master that speaks only when you ask.

I am so glad I purchased this cookbook. I've made over a dozen recipes from it, and they've all been excellent. There is an extremely wide variety of soups and stews included, from all over the world. I highly recommend this cookbook. I live in a rural area, so for some recipes, it is difficult to locate certain ingredients unless I order online. But we love to try a variety of food, so for us it is not a big deal. I am very pleased with my purchase.

I don't know how Clayton's most excellent soup, stew, and chili recipe book could have been made better.

Other than the new look, I really can't see how it has been updated. I used the prior edition almost exclusively for my soup and stew cooking for over fifteen years after an Amazon.com recommendation. Probably the best testament to its usefulness is that I've given it as a gift to friends and relatives several times (with 100% positive feedback).

What I've said about the prior edition can be said again:

This is a great source book for all types of cooks. Fledglings, those with limited success or confidence, bachelors or recently-divorced men, folks who delight in one-dish meals, and even soup afficionados like me will benefit from having it in their collection.

Clayton gives us an excellent introduction to the craft of soup-making by covering such important basics as stock preparation, use and selection of soup making tools.

He is happy to share the difficulties and delights of soup-making with his readers, by supplying helpful information for each recipe; sometimes to explain the source or history of the recipe, or to share information about uncommon ingredients or variations. It's almost like having him in the kitchen looking over your shoulder, gently dispensing his knowledge and advice. He prepared these recipes himself, so the directions are clear and easy to follow, even the complicated ones.

But what about the recipes? I've had this cookbook for over fifteen years. I've prepared over twenty of the recipes and have not yet found a bad or mediocre one yet. In fact, I prepare several of them regularly enough to call them my cooking favorites. Here are the best ones I've made so far:

Borscht : I make this at least once a month. Friends and family have raved at its stew-like quality and robustness. Although I can't get the Russian fellow at work to try it, I made it at a Boy Scout campout. I was floored when the boys raved about it. The best compliment any soup can receive is from boys whose favorite vegetable is ketchup.

I've tried three of Clayton's chili recipes. President Lyndon Johnson's mild, simple, and straightforward Pedernales River Chili made with meat, onions, and spices. I now follow the `chili puree' method from the Hernandez family chili recipe for every chili recipe I make because you can customize the spicing for each individual in the house. "Mom Unser's Chili" is a quick one, and made with pork instead of beef.

Old Fashioned Cabbage Soup incorporates frankfurters, and I was able to get my then very young children to eat it because I billed it `Hot Dog Soup'.

Irish potato soup. Absolutely delicious! I once thought a potato was a potato, but in his tips Clayton explains how using different potatoes brings different flavor to the soup.
Shaker Bean Chowder----"Good, smooth, and flavorful. Excellent for the vegetarians among us.

Saiman' soup, a Hawaiian pork-bone, sea kelp recipe which both Clayton and my spouse insist has curative powers.

Pick up this most useful volume and cook up a delicious meal tonight!