Blair Books

Anyone working in or near government should read this book! It offers instights into how government can work and should work with a little leadership and a good team. It is possible for government to achieve meaningful goals!

I am an artist doing work based on kufic calligraphy and am always looking for materials that present information on said calligraphy. The items covered in Ms Blair's book are wonderful, and I learned much more about the culture that produced them as well. A wonderful book.

In the 11th book in Cynthia Blair's series about identical twins, Susan & Christine Pratt, the girls travel to New Orleans for a National History contest. The twins use their super-sleuth skills to investigate the disappearance of their new friend Caroline and it leads them into the world of voodoo, black magic, and the secrets of New Orleans. This book vividly describes the city of New Orleans and the exciting drama that the twins embark upon. This is an engaging story that children will love to read and it will encourage their imaginations to go on an adventure of their own.

Product was as described, well packed, very fast on shipment, will most definitly order from again! A+++++

I purchased this cook book about the time of its second printing in April 1966. Over the years I have constantly referred to this little paperback jewel of a cookbook over any other Jewish cookbooks that I own or have looked at. You have the REAL recipes as your Grandparents or Great Grandparents used. No mock this or mock that. The real deal!!! I moved recently and could not find my little gem - I thought I would never see this book again and I could not recall enough of the title to enter it into the computer properly. My son knew how much this book meant to me and searched box after box. He found it and I just reordered a copy from Amazon. If you want to cook well and do it the "old" way then get this cook book. You will get RAVE reviews from your dining guests.

Another fabulous , wonderful, and insightful book authored by Mrs. Nobisso! Do not stop with just one or two of her books. All of her books are to read, enjoyed, and passed down!

Co-edited by David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Marty, Joining In: Exploring The History Of Voluntary Organizations by Karen J. Blair is a remarkably informative introduction and an impressively in-depth study of many significant, reputable, and successful voluntary organizations from the past. Drawing from particular materials to address issues not generally or sufficiently covered in the heretofore available literature on organized volunteers, Joining In addresses a compendium of relevant topics important to community, social, and cooperative studies. Very strongly recommended and instructive as a cultural anthropology textbook for its multitude of sources and citation of particular documents pertaining to previous studies of voluntary organizations of all categories and themes, Joining In is enhanced with fifty book lists helpful to researchers and a core addition to academic library reference collections.

Joseph Cornell has become a favorite of many art-lovers. His assemblage boxes of materials on topics ranging from rabbits to Lauren Bacall to the ornaments and symbols of childhood make for fascinating viewing. Cornell is a curious personality. On the one hand, he self-documented to a far greater extent than many artists, so that a relatively rich record of "what the artist was thinking" exists. On the other hand, he lived his life in a reclusive, introspective, elusive way, so that the viewer never quite feels that s/he has "gotten one's arms" around his perspective.

Lindsay Blair's "Joseph's Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order" uses as its critical basis the foundations of Cornell's beliefs and influences, in an effort to help make the more elusive aspects of his work a bit clearer. She writes excellent passages about the way in which Cornell was influenced by, but certainly not at all co-opted by, the surrealist artists. She adroitly uses passages from Cornell's own writings, as well as analogies from his personal history, to provide cogent criticism which is less "art critic projection" and more a sincere, highly readable attempt to "get into" the mind of a man whose mind assiduously resisted such invasions.

Ms. Blair recognizes that Christian Science, Mr. Cornell's faith, has an impact on his work. In this respect, her writing is less revelatory, as her summation of the new thought ideas of Christian Science are a bit reductive. Mr. Cornell's work obviously has strong religious roots. Although Ms. Blair seems to have read up on some basic ideals of the faith, the passages in which she discusses Mr. Cornell's faith's influence on his work seem much less insightful than her discussion of the effects of other aspects of his personal life upon his work. One wonders if Mr. Cornell had been from a more "mainstream" faith if the explicitly religious motivation for some of his work (as revealed in his own writings) might have gotten a more comprehensive and detailed treatment than Ms. Blair accords here.
This is a very fine book, certainly one worth owing, but ironically, the reader is left wanting a bit more discussion of the actual "vision of a spiritual order" and perhaps a bit less traditional art criticism.

This book has wonderful photographs of Cornell's work, and functions well as criticism, as biography, and as a thought-provoking piece on Cornell's curious place in the art world. If one is familiar with Cornell's work, this is a fascinating inroad further into its meaning. If one is, as I am, less a hard-core Cornell devotee than one who has encountered his work relatively recently, this is a well-done introduction to his art and thinking. The book is relatively free of that self-serving "look how smart the critic is" art talk that besieges so much of this genre. Despite my quibbles about its "flaws", I highly recommend this book.

This true-to-life narrative gave me an insight into the early explorations of our country's vast interior. The actual people who made these journeys are well represented by the characters in this well-written novel. Reading this book made me feel a part of the great adventure -- I didn't want to put it down!