Breton Books

If you are interested in purchasing new copies of this at a fair price (19.95 CAN), it's still available from Cranford Publications.

This is required reading for the Celtic music enthusiast with a bent for things Cape Breton. Although, it is a bit dated by now, it is still fun to see photos of young Ashley, Natalie, Dave and Jerry. Sadly, many of the old timers are no longer with us. Get it now before it goes out of print.

I love this book! it is fun and lovely and really quite cuttie wootie~

I thought that Cassie Loves Beethoven was good because she could talk and play the piano.Then when she here's Beethoven's music her whole life changes.So then she goe's to a concert and she decides she need's to play an instrument,she tries almost every instrument but nothing seem's to work.Then Hallie and David's dad Myles made Cassie a 40 foot long piano.Then Cassie became very famous,then got mad at a newspaper review and got in a fight.From then on she just played for fun and with no audience.

The writing is amazingly good. Her characters have a sharp sense of humor, and I found myself laughing the whole way through. But this book is a serious piece of literature that should be integrated into the canon and read by students. Especially ones interested in Science Fiction and Fantasy. One of the great female science fiction/fantasy authors, up there with Madeline L'Eagle.

If you are even remotely interested in fantasy that is more than just a bunch of wizards and dragons and cliches, then read this book if you can find it. It combines Surrealism, revolution, the power of dreams... The main character must find himself, realize who he is and what he wants out of life, while his friend, the historical father of Surrealism Andre Breton, tries to influence his writing and personality. But he has met a strange woman from the future, and followers her to the Paris Revolution of 1968, and eventually to the revolution to end all revolutions. A great mixture of historical characters and fictional characters. The writing is consise and beautiful, saying just enough for the imagery to come alive.

Ages 6-9 will find A Fiddle For Angus to be a captivating story of a young boy's determination to learn the fiddle. Susan Tooke's art is realistic and appealing as they tell of a young boy born into a musical family who learns how to participate.

There is something very magical about a child's first connection -- not exposure, mind you, but real connection -- with music. Children's writer Budge Wilson captures the feeling, as well as the frustration children can feel while grappling with techniques beyond their abilities.

As a counseling major in grad school, I have had the opportunity to examine and peruse a couple of texts that purport to teach the reader the fine art of counseling and intentional interviewing. This book is by far the best I have come across and here is why.

First off, it is logically structured. The authors start out with a very sound introduction to the craft, and metting the client for the first time. From this point the book gradually and systematically introduces the various and sundry microskills and techniques. But what impressed me about this is that along with introducing the microskills and giving examples, the authors provide in-depth process commentary on when, where, how, and why you could use a particular technique.

Beginning students need to be impressed with the fact that interviewing must be intentional. There should be a rhyme and reason, a method to your madness (no pun intended), and this book does an excellent job at getting the student started on the right track. Too many students come into beginning interviewing classes with preconceived ideas; you can tell they have been watching too much television!

This book is definately a keeper!

I used this book as the primary text in my "InterviewingSkills & Techniques" course at Bristol Community College inFall River, MA. It was very well-received by my students, who commented on its excellent format and in-depth, but easily understood, clinical examples.

An added "bonus" in the book was the authors' efforts at diversity, both in the type of clients presented and the backgrounds of the therapists.

We need more texts like Literary Polemics. Through careful readings and informed philosophical interventions, Guerlac has uncovered some hidden genealogies and hitherto-obscured proximities between authors that have all too often been considered separately. By reading them together, Guerlac skillfully and compellingly foregrounds debates and issues that reconfigure and reorganize the grid through which we now commonly grasp theoretical work. Her close attention to detail in the texts she reads permits her to make, on the one hand, a broader historical intervention regarding the centrality of the effaced yet once famous French philosopher Henri Bergson towards an understanding of the role of "theory" since Tel Quel and, on the other hand, a theoretical intervention that proposes a "rethinking of visuality for the 21st century" (via Bergson) as an alternative to the model of "writing" (or even, of a "visuality" nonetheless premised on "textuality") that informs post-structurally inclined thinking in American academia today. Insofar Bergson is often an unacknowledged influence on so many French modernists, Guerlac does a brilliant job of detecting his spectral presence in their texts, even as she highlights the fine points of their debates with each other. Like all great books, Literary Polemics teaches us how to think and how to read. By avoiding the repetition of commonplace theoretical moves of the past decade, by combining literary readings and philosophical speculation without ever losing sight of their broader historical implications, this book is nothing short of exhilirating.

We need more texts like Literary Polemics. Through careful readings and informed philosophical interventions, Guerlac has uncovered some hidden genealogies and hitherto-obscured proximities between authors that have all too often been considered separately. By reading them together, Guerlac skillfully and compellingly foregrounds debates and issues that reconfigure and reorganize the grid through which we now commonly grasp theoretical work. Her close attention to detail in the texts she reads permits her to make, on the one hand, a broader historical intervention regarding the centrality of the effaced yet once famous French philosopher Henri Bergson towards an understanding of the role of "theory" since Tel Quel and, on the other hand, a theoretical intervention that proposes a "rethinking of visuality for the 21st century" (via Bergson) as an alternative to the model of "writing" (or even, of a "visuality" nonetheless premised on "textuality") that informs post-structurally inclined thinking in American academia today. Insofar Bergson is often an unacknowledged influence on so many French modernists, Guerlac does a brilliant job of detecting his spectral presence in their texts, even as she highlights the fine points of their debates with each other. Like all great books, Literary Polemics teaches us how to think and how to read. By avoiding the repetition of commonplace theoretical moves of the past decade, by combining literary readings and philosophical speculation without ever losing sight of their broader historical implications, this book is nothing short of exhilirating.

This is a modern masterpiece, much neglected even in Canada. MacLeod's writing is full of the "blas" (gaelic for "taste") that is or was Cape Breton. These stories are contemporary and ancient. Though they deal with modern issues and people, you can't help feeling these stories are very old. They reveal things unearthly and magical without ever taking their feet off the ground or closing their eyes. And there is a sad sense of loss that everyone close to things old and beautiful must feel in our modern culture.

The raw emotional power I encountered within these stories sprang the off page like a fist, fracturing my complacency over and over. Nothing but Hemingway compares to Macleod's writing style.Uncomfortable truths lie here, expressed with such skill and economy that they elude memory, leaving the uneasy feeling that one has looked too deeply into a troubled soul and seen more than one should; it's hard to believe that the events described didn't happen, if not to the author, at least someone known to him.I believe there is no other writer in the English language with this mastery of short fiction.

This is the most readable collection of Andre Breton's poems. Unfortunately, it is out of print. Most of the other translated books just kill the writings with their wordiness.

The copy that I have is hot pink. I borrowed it from the library and am unable to return it. I'm emotionally attatched.

It's an incredible book. Small. You can keep it in your coat pocket and read it in the park.

A coffee house comrade told me to look into Breton--a French surrealist poet.

Normally I hate poetry. I hate surrealism. I even hate coffee.

But I adore this little book of lines. It's lovely and romantic and...did I mention it's hot pink?

It's an inspired collection.

Denise Breton and Chris Largent have written several books together. The Paradigm Conspiracy, and Love Soul and Freedom are two others I've read by them. They are packed with information but so eloquently written you don't want to put them down.

This is a must book for anyone who thinks that our economic system and civilization can be improved and is looking for the way to accomplish this. This is a very thoughtful book that suggests that we create our economies. We need not be slaves to "the system." The authors challenge the philosophical basis for ideas popular today.

Brilliant book - simple, useful and written by someone who went through the process from scratch