Big Books

The book arrived on time with no damages to the books. I use this book at the recommendation of my occupational therapist to regain functional brain activities that were damaged in my car accident in 2005. I found the book very interesting and helpful for me. As it is for children, I also sent a copy to friends of mine for their children to have fun working with as they learn.
A great book for all the family.
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Jean Marie Naples

I use this book with 7th and 8th graders to get their brains working during class. I love it and use it often.

This Book is a fun and exciting book that varies from crossword puzzles to picture matches and many more fun games and puzzles. You should get this book.

Wonderful collection of games. My children (age 6 and 8) have thoroughly enjoyed this. Well thought out and great for the car too.

I purchased this book to use with my students to help them develop their visual perceptual, perceptual motor, and problem solving skills. The puzzles vary in presentation and level of complexity, so you will be sure to find something to suit. The kids are having fun, so they forget about the fact that they are also learning important skills.

This book left me breathless! I was stunned! A perfect blend of comedy, drama, and even science fiction! Everything was written just as it was should have been written. Genius. Simply genius. Pure genius.

I like Garfield. He is the greatest cat and funniest I have ever read. He is great and funny. He is MAD PHAT. He always makes me say WORD when I get a new book.

Eric Walston

The saga of Garfield, Odie, and Jon continues. This dramatic and moving yet highly disturbing portrait of late-nineties domestic suburban sexual denial forces the reader to delve into his/her own tortured sexual psyche, much like Catherine and Heathcliff but as a trio each exploring their own unrequieted desire. The tension is unbearable, and Garfield's repeated replacement of food for sexual yearning is telling of late twentieth-century sexuality. Odie's alienation as a result of Garfield's spurning for the love of his inanimate replacement for Jon, in the form of Pookie, is obviously a compelling metaphor for post-colonial AIDS isolation. Alone in the confusing mire of mixed signals that is their home, poor Garfield has no choice but to seek solace in the soft, safe, squishy bosom of Pookie, denying the pain and self-loathing so apparent in his everyday encounters. Odie, much like Hillary to Bill, pointlessly attempts again and again to win the affections of a reckless, wanton, yet powerful force who has become consumed by his meager life, ironically encouched in power. Jon's unrealized quest for gratification is symbolic of the fall of Communism and is a clever representation of the fall of the wall and the troubles of subsequent unification. Supplanted in a landscape of repression and denial, our three protagonists seek comfort in their base desires: coffee becomes the drug of choice, providing escape from the hell that is life, much like today's "raver" youth seeking comfort in "ecstasy" and "techno". Woe to he/she who proceeds beyond the cover of this prophetic tome! Another masterpiece accomplishment by Davis, sure to keep him in literary courses of the future.

Have been for a long time now and i'm glad that i decided to start back. Buying the books and its really convenient with them being released in a 3 pack. Its like a bunch of classics all wrapped together, love it.

My son recently became interested in Garfield, and he just loves the books. Its fun and very easy reading, so he enjoys it, while still practicing his reading skills. Its the best of both worlds! The service was great, the shipping was very quick, and the quality of the book was excellent. Thank you for putting many smiles on our faces!

I use these Jumbles in my English classroom on a daily basis, both as extra credit and team-building exercises. The students love the challenge of solving these puzzles, and the best part: they don't realize they are building vocabulary.

My Mom loves Jumble, and this book delivers the goods! Great deal compared to the smaller Jumble books. It could use some more of the challenge puzzles at the end though.

I was thrilled with this book. It was bought as a gift and was a great choice! The book has over 500 full page jumbles, each 81/2 by 11 inches in size. Worth every penny.

This is the second 500 puzzle book I have purchased. I use it every morning with my mom who is 93. We do the puzzles together and sometimes she does them by herself. It is great to keep her mind active. The large print is wonderful. We have had lots of fun over the years doing these puzzles in the daily newspaper. Now the book is terrific! We can do more than one each day and have the answers if we mess up!

I'm a huge Jumble fan and I've been doing the Jumble in the daily newspaper for years.

This book is lots of fun for Jumble lovers young and old.

The main notion of THE GIFT is that works of art must be permitted to flow through their own creative economy, affected by but not restricted by the world's market economy. The book itself has functioned this way, recommended by one writer or artist to another since it first appeared in the early 1980s. Twenty-five years later, it's as pertinent as ever. Hyde's wide range of references, from anthropological sources to lit-crit and biography of Whitman and Pound, is itself an amazing show -- not only of erudition, but of a kindled knowledge. THE GIFT is a variety show for artists, suggesting by way of all sorts of material how the writer and creator can survive in a mercantile world. There's an interesting perspective of the book at [...], and recently the major literary sections of UK publications, like The Guardian, have covered this new issue of THE GIFT. That's because the book has just now been released in the UK for the first time.

This book is the antidote to university education or years in the workforce. It is the same truth that broke my heart rearranged to buck it up again. Mr. Hyde, I only hope someday I can give it back again.

This book has been published under various subtitles since it first appeared in 1983: "Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property", "How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World" and "Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World". None of these quite captures what it really is, and that's probably because the book doesn't know what it really is, either. Lewis Hyde takes obvious delight in his work's ability to defy categorization or the pithy summary. Unique books have that quality. So do many that are poorly written. It took me a while to figure out which kind this is.

Hyde's central theorem - that true art does, and must of its nature, stand outside the market economy, and this therefore presents a serious problem for the artist forced to live in a world increasingly subsumed by the market economy - could have achieved its full elaboration in the space of a single chapter. In the first half of the book we get that, but we also get quite a lot of wide-ranging argument about economics and the traditional tribal life of gift exchange. Not all of this is relevant, but it's all admittedly fascinating. Less fascinating are Hyde's attempts to locate contemporary examples. For example, he argues rather unconvincingly that the scientific community is "a gift community to the extent that its ideas move as gifts". Fair enough, but the extent to which they do in fact move as gifts is negligible. Scientists are among the most egotistical, petty and jealously self-serving academics ever born. Science isn't about sharing ideas, or not only that. It's about promoting "my ideas" and having "my name" forever associated with them. It's about personal prestige and glory. Ask any scientist how he or she would feel about all work being published in journals anonymously, and used thereafter without attribution.

The second half of the book is given over to two long essays on poets, and here Hyde - a poet himself - is clearly on stronger ground. One is a very engaging treatment of Walt Whitman which traces elements of "the gift" idea through his poetry and sad personal life, though for some inexplicable reason Hyde doesn't quite want to state clearly what he constantly implies: that Whitman's charitable works had a good deal more sublimated homosexuality in them than they did Christian love for his fellow man. The other is an interesting analysis of Ezra Pound which traces the arc of his genius and generosity, and yet doesn't hold back from depicting him as a frustrated bigot and fascist lunatic who only recanted his vile "suburban prejudice" (anti-Semitism) at the very end.

The conclusion and afterword link elements of the gift argument to the support for the arts in postwar America and its relationship to the Cold War.

Margaret Atwood overstated the case when she apparently called this book "a masterpiece". It's very good, but it isn't that. It's overlong, weirdly structured, and in places poorly argued. Hyde often makes huge leaps in order to connect the "evidence" with his argument, or asks us to assume an assertion is true and then builds a case on the assertion without ever coming back to prove it. Disappointingly, there is very little synthesis here, nothing that binds all of these ideas into a consistent argument - and very little in the way of recommendations about how art might flourish in a market economy. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it. I came away from this book uplifted and refreshed, with a whole new way of looking at Whitman and Pound, and a new way of looking at art's place in the world. There really is no place for art in the market economy, and that's probably why art will outlive it. There is something primal and fundamentally human in art and "the gift" economy on which it relies. Both are necessary functions of human life.

well so far so good, I have not finished this book yet. it is a bit long for me, not being much of a book finisher. But it is a nice slow read if you keep with it. it makes me think alot and it takes me a while to apply some of his persectives to my life. Ah but when I do! it is a very rewarding experience and truly gets me far more excited about the digging through the rest of this book. It is a bit to filled with old world tales or obscure facts about the unusual scitzophrenic rate in scottland for my tastes. Yet these stories do work and I am reminded of my philosophy 101 teacher who said, "you can tell by how well someone can illustrate something, how well they understand what they are tallking about", so over illustration is not a bad thing to me, because I do sense and feel how deeply this author believes in what he is talking about. You get the feeling he spent his whole life thinking about it. The tone reminds me of listening to my beloved father inlaw who grew up driving tractors at 11 yrs old Nebraska. The authors heart like my Father inlaws heart is the real gem of this book. I did not major in philosophy, but this feels like my kind of philosophy. the book does stick to its promise to encourage bedroom musicians and artists struggling with their place in a capitalistic world.

If you need some wholesome optimism, I can say it is working for me.

"Freely you have recieved, Freely give" maybe easier than you think.

I may do an actual review later after some more reading, but some people may want to know, as I did, what relationship this book has to some other slightly differently named books by Lewis Hyde that were published under starting name "The Gift".

On the copyright page it states: Originally published in hardcover as "The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property" in a slightly different form in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and published in paperback in a slightly different form in the United states by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York in 1983.

Update #1: This edition has a three page preface from 2007. It also has a 16 page chapter from 2007 entitled "On Being Good Ancestors: Afterword to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition".

as a new mother and new to veggie tales, I really enjoyed the book and I'm looking forward to reading it to my son.

My four year old loves this book. He likes the look of the overall pages, the color, the veggies. He likes that the pages rhyme. All in all, you could not ask for a beeter book that explains how much God loves you. We do devotion time at our home each evening and this book works its way in almost everytime even though new books have been bought. I love it and I know that you and your family will also.

This book, by Cindy Kenney and Brian Ballinger is a very honest book. It doesn't get into Jesus or faith or scripture. It could be used by anyone that believes in a God that takes a personal interest in your life.

Each character recounts a few of the things that are right and wrong with them and says that God loves them anyway. The French Peas say "We once were fish slappers, we've even thrown shakes. But God loves us even though we make mistakes." Laura Carrot talks about her parents taking care of her when she's sick and God being there, too. And yes, Junior Asparagus is in this one.

It's a page per character and simple to read. It's fun to do voices, if you know them or just make them up, if you don't. We started reading this one before our kids started watching Veggie Tales and some things were confusing, because they didn't know the characters, but they quickly accepted that the characters were each unique, but God loved them that way. I will say, though, now that my kids are watching Veggie Tales, they get more out of the characters.

As a parent and Sunday School teacher, I have used this book over and over to communicate the simple message of God's love in a fun way. The author does a great job of communicating this and the illustrations are bright, colorful, and children are drawn to this book.

My son likes reading this book. He's 3. He's not crazy about the movies, but he likes the books and CDs. I think he likes this one because it really talks on a kid's level. I also think he likes looking at the "kid" artwork of the characters.

This book contains some of the best Italian Greyhound photos ever! As anyone who owns them knows, their personality can be hard to capture. Amanda Jones shows a true connection to the dogs that she photographs.

Whether you are a greyhound lover or iggy lover, this book will tug at your heart. The pictures are beautiful and show so many sides of the breeds. If one of these owns your heart, then you need to own this book.

Beautiful pictures capturing the character of the two breeds and some lovely captions to go with them. A great coffee table book

I just picked this book up at my local Barnes & Noble. The photography is wonderful and if you are an Iggy parent (owner of an Italian Greyhound) you will definately appreciate the captions that go along with some of the photos. Their quirkiness comes thru brilliantly. If you are unfamiliar with the Italian Greyhound personality they are very silly little guys and gals!!

I appreciate the contrast between the Iggies and the Greyts. All around this is a greyt book that any dog lover will enjoy.

This book is full of great pictures! Actually, I ordered it for my husband well before Christmas and to my surprise he also bought it for me as a birthday present. We love our IG and love looking at pictures of them. They are such beautiful dogs.

Guerilla Retailing has helpful information on all aspects of a retail business from paint colors to display to hiring staff. It was also a very easy, quick read.

A word to the Big Boys - look out - it's the ones you don't see coming that get you. Your big budget marketing plans won't save you now. It's a whole new world out there, thinks to the unconventional advice from the Guerrilla Marketing success team.

Guerilla Retailing gives entrepreneurial retailers a delicious unfair advantage. It's the advantage of time, energy and imagination: the Guerrilla Retailer's greatest assets...if they know how to use them. Get your copy, keep your to-do list handy, and prepare to thrive.

Guerrilla Retailing is your instruction manual for retail success. The Big Boys won't know what hit them.

If you're a retailer, you need this book! It covers everything you need to compete with chains and big-box stores. Some of the topics include how to differentiate your business, affordable marketing tactics and sales promotions, ways to improve the customer experience and how to hire, train and motivate employees. I was impressed by how detailed and specific it is. It's filled with real-world examples and practical ideas. Buy this book and get ready for your sales to soar!

Most of the information is common sense, so common that in business we forget to do these simple but vital things. The book is required reading for our employees.

A terrific, comprehensive manual for anyone who sells anything! Whether you hawk hot dogs on a corner or sell diamonds to debutants, this book has everything you need to know about the art and science of retailing. I got some great, inexpensive promotional ideas and learned how to find and keep the best people for our restaurant.

This book is the standard for airline interviews, particularly Cathay Pacific. Very technical but hey, so is the interview! Good luck and don't confuse the title of this book. This is where Cathay pools most of their questions from.

"When I'm setting down over 200,000 pounds of 707, I want something under my wheels that's plenty long and mighty dry." Captain William Demerest (aka Dean Martin, Airport)

I acquired my first copy of "Handling the Big Jets" during my university days when studying aeronautical engineering (at Loughborough University of Technology, Leicestershire, England) in the early 1980s. This was an excellent reference book then on handling jets as it covered all the major topics that I needed comprehensively, in simple and easy to read language and explanations.

However, decades later, it is difficult to find a similar definitive book on the subject. This makes "Handling the Big Jets" an important part of my library which I consult on subjects ranging from aerodynamics to aircraft control and stability.

This is a timeless classic which should be an indispensable part of every pilot and aircraft engineer's library.

A top notch choice for the experienced pilot who decides to fly very large jets. For those who are applying for an airline pilot position, this guide makes sense of the new-hire pre-screening flight simulator check on the B-767 or DC-10. The book earns it's keep on the book shelf as a nice review for the twice yearly proficiency checkrides. An excellent refernce guide for high speed aerodynamics and heavy-jet flight characteristics. Captain Davies writes in a way which allows pilots of all types of craft to add to their knowledge of flight. This is a classic book, buy a copy if you can and do not let go.

Despite its age, this is still the definitive book on handling jets. Comprehensive coverage of the widest range of topics, and to the deepest depth needed to satisfy any technical enquiry. Davies has an unmatched writing style that is highly readable, and right up there with the likes of Bill Gunston. If you prefer reading fiction more than textbooks, then this book is just about as readable as fiction.

Excellent sections on landing and takeoff. Davies makes full use of his background as Chief Test Pilot of what was then the UK Airworthiness Authority. He puts all the topics into the context of proper engineering and aviation fact, shows how the rules evolved from there, and generally gives you complete confidence that you've mastered the full range of the subject. PPRUNE Tech Log has always got one or two side references to this book.

Chase it up hard - it's still around - and keep it at the front of the bookshelf. My copy sits between 737-700 manuals and 4th edition Horonjeff.

I am a technical recruiter, and some of the sales prinicipals that he outlines in his book are truly thought provoking. I would recomend this book to anybody who works in high tech that needs to hone their sales skills.

I am a big fan of this this series and I have ordered this book. I cannot wait to receive it so I can read it. After I read it I will give a detailed review.

This book was a great read! As I read it I learned things I didn't understand about the selling process. Having read a few of the books in this series I have become even more excited about starting my own business selling into the pet care industry.

In just 7 steps, you can achieve sales success. For example, the first step in compassion. What people in sales talk about compassion as being part of the process? Interesting prospective. This book will help you achieve better sales.

We all sell. Now, buy this book for less than $20, and improve your sales in seconds. Regardless of what you sell, and even if you are not a salesperson, you have to read the simple suggestions in this book. The Make it Big with Yuvi series has done it again. Great book.

It was my favorite as a kid now I hope to read it to mine in the future. Great book.

A hysterical lesson in the old adage that cleanliness is godliness. My children loved it!

Story is soooo cute and teaches a great lesson I have not read the book, but have heard the story..when my younger brother was approx. 5 years old (15 years ago) he had a copy of the house that had enough on video..not sure where my mother got it, but it was more like a book anyway, because it was not animated..it was just the pictures from the book, and then someone was narrating.

My tattered old copy from when my youngest was a boy is now hardly readable. So I wanted a new copy for my first grand child and I can't find it anywhere! Western, reprint it please!!!

Here's a message that every parent wants to send to their kid -- Clean up your stuff! The way P. E. King gets that message across is sheer brilliance. My daughter asks me to read this one over and over again. Then she just laughs and laughs and laughs. . .