Blair Books

This book includes 3 screenplays by Ingmar Bergman: "Scenes From a Marriage", "Face to Face" and "Autumn Sonata". They are translated from Swedish by Alan Blair. The book includes black & white still photos from the three films.

These translations are much better than the subtitles used in most versions of the Bergman films themselves, and they don't leave anything out (unlike subtitles)!

The Homecoming dance is just around the corner and the only thing the twins have on their minds are boys. The only problem is they have no idea what actually makes boys tick. Susan decides that Christine should dress up as a boy and find out what boys really think and do when girls aren't around. So Christine invents "Charlie Pratt", and says that he is the girls' cousin who is visiting the Pratt twins and going to school with Susan while Christine is out sick. This is a hilarious book that is timeless in its theme. Any young child would love Susan and Christine's adventure in what exactly drives boys.

My kids all love this book. I love the vibrant and imaginatively drawn pictures, and we are all big Blair Drawson fans. Sometimes when we go for walks in the part we pretend to be trees, just like Mary Margaret! This would be a very good book for teachers to read their children in the spring time.

As a Maryland resident, I've eaten at many of the restaurants included in the book. There are some great seafood dishes and for me, many memories as well.

I teach high school Algebra 2, and a little humor goes a long way towards making kids feel comfortable with math. But math humor is so hard to find! This book is a gold mine for any math teacher or math lover. It covers the gamut from the little kid looking for his "lost" negative to the politics within the college math department. I highly recommend it.

This book, first published in 1977, was the first (as far as I know) serious attempt to analyze the psychology of Star Trek. Karin Blair, herself a Jungian, takes up the question of how characters in The Original Series (TOS) represent various Jungian archetypes in the human psyche. Using specific episodes as examples, she explores authority, masculinity and femininity, inner dualities, outer opposites of good and evil, mind versus emotion, etc. Leonard Nimoy said of this book that it is "thorough, intelligent, and meaningful" (cover blurb.) According to Gene Roddenberry's biography ("Star Trek Creator"), the Great Bird was very impressed with it also -- which is what led me to track down a copy for myself.

Especially interesting to me was Karin's analysis of the Kirk-Spock-McCoy triad as representing past (McCoy), present (Kirk), and future (Spock.) Although my own analysis differs considerably from hers (mine is based more on kabbalah than Jung), her thesis is carefully thought out and well-presented. For many early Trek fans, Karin's POV became the lens through which they viewed the triad relationships, and it remains so for many Classic Trekkers today.

Non-Jungians and modern feminists may balk at some of Karin's comments about the symbolism of women in classic Trek, especially the "Monstrous Mother" and "Disposeable Female" chapters. But before you throw the book across the room, keep in mind that these are basic themes that occur in many classic mythologies around the world. Star Trek, in turn, drew inspiration from these mythologies for many of its TOS episodes. At the very least, Karin's analysis helps explain where some of these early Trek themes came from, and why they have such wide popularity. (The section on the sex appeal of Spock among women will raise a few eyebrows!) Dated or not, this book was a groundbreaking work in its time, and should be in the library of every serious Star Trek fan.

Meeting The Professor: Growing Up In The William Blackburn Family is the autobiography of novelist, essayist, editor, and academician Alexander Blackburn (Professor Emeritus of English, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs). Meeting The Professor provides a kind of dual portrait of Alexander and his father William Blackburn (a legendary crative-writing professor at Duke University and mentor to such authors as Reynolds Price, William Styron, Anne Tyler, and Fred Chappell). Born in Iran to mission parents, William Blackburn became a Rhodes scholar at xford and earned a Ph.D. from Yale. He was a brooding, taciturn and ultimately unknowable man who died blind and speecless at age 73, with one of his most beloved students, Reynolds Price, staying at the bedside night after night playing Mozart for him. Alexader Blackburn would follow the literary life, becoming a teacher of writing like his illustrtous father, as well as maturing into a novelist. Meeting The Professor is enhanced with 40 black/white photographs and is a compellingly written and inherently fascinating memoir.

My niece has ADHD and i think that this book if a great way for her parents to be aware of her situation and how to help her to overcome her problem with ADHD. I think that this will be a great tool for all parents of ADHD children and fun reading for the kids! It has a wonderful storyline that is cute and entertaining. I cannot wait until i get my own personal copy!

An absolutly enjoyable read/listen. Great entertainment! Hard to put down because you want to keep going!

This issue was soooooo good! I enjoyed seeing the "Star Wars" story. I found an error on the item description on this page. It says there is a story called "One dangerous Vacation!", but it is really called, "Double Danger"!! D'oh!