Bonds Books

The Archetype Of Renewal: Psychological Reflections On The Aging, Death And Rebirth Of The King by D. Stephenson Bond, (Faculty Member, C.G. Jung Institute, Boston, Massachusetts) is a learned treatise on the eternal theme of "the King is dead, long live the King", and all that such transitions metaphorically symbolize, including exorcizing old processes and systems of understanding for new views and perspectives that are more accurate and effective. From ceremonial renewals of the King practiced in ancient Babylon, to the ever-changing challenges of the modern day, The Archetype Of Renewal embraces both Jungian psychology and the evolving human spirit. The Archetype Of Renewal is a welcome and very highly recommended addition to Jungian Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

The illustrations alone make this a worthwhile buy, whether you're a gastroenterologist or just extremely interested in colonoscopies. Ever since Katie Couric's live colonoscopy on TODAY, I've been intrigued by the procedure, considering it something of an art form as well as an intrusive medical procedure. But Abraham Dachman and his team of writers make a compelling argument for the use of Virtual Colonoscopy in lieu of long tubes, nano-cameras, and liquid barium. It's a brave new world.

Julie Gregory was carrying a child for her cousin Loretta/Tom Callahan the 1st of the 8 Callahan brothers to bite the dust.
Problem Loretta a Tom divorced three yrs ago.
Loretta had told Julie she & Tom had only separated because he wanted a child & she couldn't have a child. Lorette had saved Julie by giving her more blood than she should have right after her (M) cycle.(Why the doctors didn't catch this I don't know)but because of it Lorette can't have kids.
Loretta had stole frozen sperm cells Tom had given hoping they would be used when/if Loretta's problem were solved. She got Julie to a doctor who gave her artificial insemination.
After finding out about this Tom got Julie to marry him, only to find Julie is bleeding, he first accuses her of tricking him into marriage, until he takes time to see her face.
They rush to the doctor a friend of Tom's brother Dr. Adam another Callahan. They find out the baby is fine, but the baby girl isn't alone in the womb, she has a sister.
Twin girls born to loving mom & dad who now love each other. This is first funny love story by Lilian Darcy in the (now dearly departed [not Lilian]) Silhouette Romance #1390.
Read more about the Callahan brothers in He sister's child #1449 & Cinderella after Midnight #1542.

This well written story begins with Julie Gregory meeting her friend Loretta's estranged husband, Tom Callahan, to offer her condolences after learning of Loretta's death in a car accident. Julie had never met Tom before and with Loretta's death was faced with telling him that his wife was not alone in that car accident; she was with another man who was also killed. Even more difficult, Julie has to tell him that because she was a friend and relation of Loretta she had agreed to act as a surogate mother understanding that this might help save Loretta's marriage. Julie now understood that it was probably all a sham on Loretta's part; however, she was now pregnant - with Tom's child!

Though stunned, Tom persuades Julie to agree to a marriage in name only to protect both of their parental rights. While the story follows with the usual "marriage of convenience," it is made more interesting by the impending birth and Tom's evident, gentle care as Julie's pregnancy progresses. They decide to make it a "real" marriage and well, they fall in love of course. The big surprise - Julie is having twins!

This is a warm hearted, uplifting story which I enjoyed very much, and I highly recommend it to you.

This is a great book! It is a concise blueprint of how to create a successful bail bond company. There's no boring filler, just the meat. I've never seen anything like this before in the bail industry.

This is a great book for anyone who likes baseball. It tell all about Barry Bonds one of the greates baseball players of all time. trust me i am one of his biggest fans and this is a good book about his life.

nobody is touching Barry Bonds and the Greatness of his Baseball Genius. this Book explores his great 2001 season and also touches on his hard work deidication and all around greatness as a player. who cares if endorsers pass on him or so called journalist don't like him..etc.. what he does on the field is all the talking and understanding we need. nobody has ever played the game better than him ever. i've always been a fan and always will be. He is the Baddest Cat to ever play Major League Baseball. 5 tool and beyond one of a kind SuperStar.

this book tells about barts amazing career and the up's and downs of motorcycle racing in the days when the purses were very small.his amazing determination and love of racing is clearley defined by joe scalzo the author.barts day's of racing included sleeping outdoors because the money was very poor compared to today's purse's.this book is a "must read" for any fan of motorcycle racing.a good example of a true racing legend.

This book of postcards lambasting the legal profession says it all. A wonderful way to share the wit and timeless humor that captures the spirit of how today's public feels. Simon Bond takes his brilliance from "101 Uses for a Dead Cat", his blockbuster first book and applies it mercilessly on the Legal community. Great fun and a clever way in postcard form to share the laughs with friends and associates.

Memphis Tennessee's fabled Beale Steet brings to mind "the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll", as described on the Beale Street website. Beale Street today is indeed a modern, vibrant district filled with music and nightlife with over 25 clubs and shops in the brief space of three city blocks. But the focus on the current tourist-oriented revival of Beale Street overlooks much of its historical character as "the Main Street of Negro America." This short pictorial history captures in text and photographs the music that pervades Beale Street. It also describes the community as a whole and the changes Beale Street has witnessed over the years. It is a remarkable history. The book, "Beale Street," is part of the Images of America series which offers the opportunity to get to know many local communities in the United States. The authors, Beverly Bond and Janann Sherman, are professors of history at the University of Memphis. They have selected a collection of rare photographs to show the history of Beale Street, and they have accompanied the photographs with good annotations and a particularly insightful introduction.

Beale Street began to grow shortly after the Civil War when, as a result of the migration of newly-freed black people, an epidemic, and other factors, African Americans became an increasling large portion of the Memphis population with Beale Street as its heart. Although most of the people were poor and most of the property on Beale Street was owned by white people, a small number of black people became involved in Beale Street real estate and were among the first African American millionares in the South. Music, entertainment, and black business flourished on Beale Street from roughly 1900 -- 1950 as the Street became known as "the main street of Negro America". In the late 1960s, Beale Street suffered a severe decline with neglect, unrest, and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., just blocks from Beale Street. Revitalization efforts stuttered and failed until, in the 1980s, Beale Street became known again as the vibrant area it is today. The revived Beale Street is different from the Street in its years of glory.

Bond and Sherman offer an eloquent picture of historic Beale Street in their introduction to this book. Beale Street was "the center for business, politics, and social and religious life, a vibrant collection of pool halls, saloons, banks, barbershops, dry goods and clothing stores, theaters, drugstores, gambling dens, jewlers, fraternal clubs, churches, entertainment agencies, beauty salons, hotels, pawn shops, blues halls, and juke joints". Bond and Sherman continue: "As lively at night as it was during the day, Beale Street thrummed with music and revelry....The street teemed with all manner of 'carefree humans' .... including sporting men, easy riders,steet-corner preachers, voodoo doctors, conjure women, snow pushers, river men, cooks and housemaids, showgirls, card sharks, laborers and yard men, guitar players, gamblers, country people in to see the sights, the famous, the infamous, and the unknown." It was a street unlikely to be seen or captured again.

In seven chapters of photographs, Bond and Sherman capture the growth of Beale Street, its glory days, decline, and subsequent rebirth. There are wonderfully contrasting photographs of old steamers on the Mississippi (p. 10), the busy, unceasing life of the Street (throughout),churches (p. 15) and mansions and desperately poor areas in close proximity.(pp. 20-21) The book documents the community of black lawyers, doctors, and dentists that flourished on Beale Street as well as the fraternal orders which attempted to improve the economic life and cohesiveness of the the Street, and the lively political life that flourished in the black community for many years, including visits by President Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Richard Nixon.

During the Depression, a group of cotton manufacturers established an annual parade in Memphis to boost their sagging industry. When African Americans were relegated to menial roles in this parade, the Beale Street community established a festival of its own known as the "Cotton Makers Jubilee." This event flourshed during the late 1940s to late 1950s and continues today in a modified form. It is amply recaptured in this book.

The music for which Beale Street is famous receives attention in a chapter titled "The Memphis Sound" with photographs and discussions of W.C. Handy, jug bands, Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith, Bukka White,Memphis Minnie, B.B.King, Howling Wolf, Ruby Wilson, and many others. It is a part of America's cultural heritage which is unique and precious.

The final two chapters of the book show the death and rebirth of Beale Street. The pivotal moment was the assassination of Dr. King at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968, together with the tension and destruction that both preceeded and followed this tragedy. Beale Street was demolished and deserted and withstood repeated attempts at its revitalization until with entreprenurial interest and civic involvement the Street gained its current identity as a tourist destination.

Old Beale Street can never be recaptured, but it can be remembered for its accomplishments and as a source of creativity and joy. Memphis blues singer Rufus Thomas observed that "if you were black for one night on Beale Street, you would never want to be white again."(p. 8) I enjoyed reliving the triumphs and the sorrows of Beale Street in this book.

Robin Friedman