Blair Books

Very easy read. Great information with something for every level.
It's all about learning and having the right attitude.

Poetry should touch the soul. That is often forgotten in academic reverie. So much work is put into looking at how words are strewn together and technique, sometimes the passion is forgotten. For me, it must have more than just beautiful form; otherwise it is beautiful but cold and un-alive.

Depta has found a way through sensual language to craft an intriguing story through a poetic series. The characters Garvin, Judith, and Caleb are intriguing, and coolly passionate.

Caleb's honor is rare and attractive; he is also remarkable and sad. The relationship between Caleb and Garvin punctuates the compassion for Judith and her mystical religious doubts. However, it's Garvin's sexuality that I identify with. His expression and need is so honest, raw, and deeply beautiful.

His yearning is innocent yet dark: "...the giant men; white giant between their legs; and the giant, lopsided sac." However, instead of a wild crazy-eyed emotional being that breaks himself against the un-crumbling stones of bathhouse, bar, prostitute and "the stalls with holes in the partitions"; he can somehow feels such images as: "honeysuckle, cream and orange-yellow, and its faint scent; and the mockingbird's white feathers as it bound away."

The reader is privileged to see Garvin mature beyond yearning of flesh, into the hollow yearning to simply place a hand on a sleeve. Garvin becomes a creature so full of love and desire; he becomes the epitome of what we yearn for: If only I could find him... What a fruitless act that would be: "a waste of love". Others have been there in physical form, through the motions, but Garvin will only ever love just one person.

The characters must have found passion and some level of depth from the author's own experiences. They are given authenticity. The balance between love and the absence of physical touch create rivers, valleys and hills for desire, compassion and longing. The poetry is imagistic with powerful language. True depth can only be shown by true honesty.

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The Pratt twins are at it again. It's almost Halloween and the girls get caught up in romance & a real life ghost story in this book. The twins are excited about the upcoming Halloween Dance at school. They begin match-making among their friends and then are surprised to find out that they both have a date with the new guy in school, B.J. Wilkins. The twins come up with an identity-switching surprise for B.J. the night of the dance, only to be surprised themselves. This a great book filled with laughs & suspense and it is sure to please.

Randy Zak is starting to get homesick for New York City, even though her mother wants to remain in Acorn Falls, Minnesota. Can her male friend (Sheck) from NY, who's coming to visit for Thanksgiving, help her make up her mind?

Out of the four girls in this series, Randy is my favorite, and I could empathize with her in "Rebel, Rebel" (though I'm not sure why it was titled that). While reading this book, I kept flashing on another series character: Stacey McGill from The Baby-sitters Club, who shares quite a few similarities with Randy--they're both from NYC (and miss it), they dress a little wild, both of their parents are divorced and they live with their mothers, etc. Young readers who like that series will probably like Girl Talk as well. (But what's up with the pink-is-for-girls, Pepto Bismal book coloring? It's an eye sore.)

a must read for the the romantic at heart

Great book, extremely helpful if you want your house to look great. The author must be some kind of genius!

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Nicollet's great cartographic work preserves a legacy of American Indian place names, stemming from the intense interest Nicollet had in the linguistics and ethnography of the peoples with whom he came in contact. The map breaks with everything that came before: It is the first really modern map of Minnesota. Centered on the wide region between the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers, it shows lakes and rivers, trails and plateaus in a new way three dimensionally. Nicollet's work changed mapping in the American West ever after.

French by birth, Nicollet traveled extensively in the United States after leaving France in 1832. By 1836 he had traveled up the Mississippi from St. Louis to Fort Snelling. Beckoned by the wide and largely unknown lands between the two great rivers, he was intent on exploring and mapping this region, which had only begun to be revealed in the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804?06, and Stephen Long's military expedition up the Red River in 1823. By 1838 Nicollet had convinced the U.S. government to fund his exploration, which allowed him to make the "mother map" of Minnesota.

The modernness of Nicollet's mapping comes from precisely locating features on the earth's surface in three dimensions: latitude (position north or south), longitude (position east or west), and altitude (elevation above or below sea level). Earlier explorers and mapmakers had tools to locate latitude and, with greater difficulty, longitude. Nicollet made use of a new invention, the barometer, to estimate rough elevations above sea level. He relentlessly dragged his precious barometers through the wilds, gathering thousands of observation points of altitude.

Nicollet's travels weakened his health; he died in 1843 while completing his map. But his meticulous mapping techniques made a great impression on his colleagues in the U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers, who used them in creating detailed and accurate maps of the American West in later years.

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Nicollet's great cartographic work preserves a legacy of American Indian place names, stemming from the intense interest Nicollet had in the linguistics and ethnography of the peoples with whom he came in contact. The map breaks with everything that came before: It is the first really modern map of Minnesota. Centered on the wide region between the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers, it shows lakes and rivers, trails and plateaus in a new way three dimensionally. Nicollet's work changed mapping in the American West ever after.

French by birth, Nicollet traveled extensively in the United States after leaving France in 1832. By 1836 he had traveled up the Mississippi from St. Louis to Fort Snelling. Beckoned by the wide and largely unknown lands between the two great rivers, he was intent on exploring and mapping this region, which had only begun to be revealed in the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804?06, and Stephen Long's military expedition up the Red River in 1823. By 1838 Nicollet had convinced the U.S. government to fund his exploration, which allowed him to make the "mother map" of Minnesota.

The modernness of Nicollet's mapping comes from precisely locating features on the earth's surface in three dimensions: latitude (position north or south), longitude (position east or west), and altitude (elevation above or below sea level). Earlier explorers and mapmakers had tools to locate latitude and, with greater difficulty, longitude. Nicollet made use of a new invention, the barometer, to estimate rough elevations above sea level. He relentlessly dragged his precious barometers through the wilds, gathering thousands of observation points of altitude.

Nicollet's travels weakened his health; he died in 1843 while completing his map. But his meticulous mapping techniques made a great impression on his colleagues in the U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers, who used them in creating detailed and accurate maps of the American West in later years.

This book is dense. Perusing it is taking a trip through a Van Gogh exhibit. When I looked through it, I realized that these Scottish Fellows were not only great inventors of science and technology, they were also great speakers (above all, they were truthful...not practitionars of "valid" sociopathic, yet still pleasantly enthusiastic glossolalia, ja dwmn sophist). This co-incidence alone should make one wonder just how closely these two schools of thought might be complementing each other.