Cohen Books

IT WAS ENTERTAINING AND FUN TO READ AND I ENJOYED THE PICTURES VERY MUCH.

This is a book of photos that represent the Jewish Ceremonial Art Collection of a Chilean Couple;Jacocbo and Asea Furman. Each page has a full size photograph of the object and a detailed description of it on the other page. The art is beautiful and the range is wide. The only slight flaw in this book is that I would have included more of the collectors notes. They were fascinating. This is a top rate book and I am pleased it is in my collection. Libraries should include this as an art reseach item and it is fabulous for a coffee table.

This beautiful book met nearly every expectation and desire I had for it when I first heard of it and requested it. I was looking for authoritative and definitive text and photos of this wondrous event, the 1939 New York World's Fair, and this great, big colorful book has it all. There are many unusual views of the various exhibits, buildings, details and paraphernalia (collectibles) from the fair. It is an absolutely fascinating reference for anyone interested in this slice of cultural history. Thank you for it!

This is a wonderful, large & colorful volume full of interesting and often unusual photos. There are pictures and text of everything about the fair from the greatest, most popular exhibits and events to the smallest details. Included are color photos of posters, collectibles, toys, souvenirs, postcards & etc. Trylon & Perisphere is an authoritative and definitive book recommended for anyone with an interest in the subject matter of the 1939/40 world's fair. If you can find a copy, let me know; I would love to own it myself! Thank you for this great work.

'Ya gotta' love this book. Why? Simply because it is so silly and campy that it provides tons of entertainment for a very little price. TUSH will make you laugh, cry, wince, cheer, and groan. At times I found myself wanting to slap Joel, our hero, silly, and plant my foot into the respective tushes of a host of characters in the book. Good Fun.

Joel Eisenberg is a thirtysomething gay Jewish astrologer who uses (and embellishes, to the point of fraud) his destiny-forecasting expertise to feed his obsession of luring young men with shapely posteriors with new-age "bodywork" sessions that simply allow him to feel their butts. On a weekend trip to Provincetown with the current focus of his "tush" obsession, Joel runs into Dennis Fairchild, a local artist who everyone admires, and most gay men want, and instantly "falls in lust" with the younger man ... or, more accurately, with his shapely butt. Joel takes advantage of an opportunity to stay in P-Town, by accepting a job as the live-in caretaker for his dog, Bunny, and so begins a series of attempts to seduce his employer, who considers Joel (dubbed by locals to be the "a**-troleger" based on stories some of his "victims" have told) to be more of an eccentric home accessory.

Joel also meets Bill Doyle, the older alcoholic handyman who lives in Dennis' guest house, who is instantly attracted to Joel, apparently the image of his deceased lover at his age. Bill also seems to meet the description that Joel's "psychic advisor" said was his "Twin Flame" (truly destined life-partner), but Joel prefers to interpret it in a way that allows Dennis to be his intended.

Gay comedian/screenwriter/author Jaffe Cohen spins a madcap, very amusing tale of obsession, manipulation, love, lust and jealousy, complete with bitter drag queens, a gay former child actor, aggressive hunks who want to be spanked, a scene-stealing dog, advice from ghostly spirits, and a gay camp version of "The Sound of Music." A delightful, light summer read, perfect for the beach. (If you're going to P-Town it can also double as a kind of travel guide!)

This book contains hundreds of useless and fun trivia questions about the older (and some of they newer) Disney characters, films, shorts and attractions. From `Can you name Daisy Duck's three nieces' to `What was Mickey's Starland originally called when it opened in 1988', this book has enough easy trivia mixed within the very picky, unusual facts to keep any type of Disney fan entertained.

The book is also organised very well, with the index listing the character's name, the movie or the attraction. So, want to find questions on Peter Pan? Check out page 57. How about Walt Disney? Page 171 for you!

And of course trivia books are always interactive - one game I played with my little ones was to ask them the questions for a particular movie and then watch that movie so they could find the answers they missed.

Great fun for the family!

I love this book and the 3 other ones. It is full of funny infomation that you never knew you needed to know. If you like this book buy the 2nd and 3nd version. Note: When Your bored you won't put this book down!

This 500 page account of the life of Hubert Humphrey is an exhaustive look at the man would would be President. He was the liberal's Liberal, the early champion of civil rights, worker's rights, Medicare, the Peace Corps, the Test Ban Treaty, etc. The book gives a thorough account of his life and of course what really happened in 1968, and what might have been.

HHH becamse VP under LBJ and though he was an early opponent of intervention in Vietnam, he was forced by Johnson to kow-tow to his policies. In 1965 he was the sole opponent of intervention in Johnson's inner circle; hence he was exiled until he towed the line. So he convinced himself the war was right for a while promoting it enough to get under Lyndon's good graces. By 1967 Humphrey was off the record saying "we are throwing money and lives down the rat hole of South Vietnam". And such was the political tightrope he walked. Had he come out against the war before the convention LBJ would have destroyed his candidacy. Furthermore the top US negotiators of the Paris Peace talks told him to keep silent lest the major breakthrough would be spoiled.

So while the demonstrators shouted, "Dump the Hump", they unwittingly were helping Nixon to squeak out a victory. After the convention Humphrey cautiously let his private views be known: he wanted peace ASAP. But the message wasn't strong enough or soon enough for those opposed to the war.

The book quotes Humphrey confidante Averell Harriman and head Paris Peace negotiator: "I know that, as president, Hubert would have stopped the Vietnam War in 1969....His election would have avoided the extended tragedy of the Vietnam War as well as Watergate. In addition, I believe that period would have been a time of economic and social progress under an irresistibly optimistic, wise, and determined president."

1968 was the focal point in time. I remember the elections, though I was only four. Humphrey was the one who would not only have prevented Nixon's destructiveness, but given us a constructiveness we could only imagine. I hope critics of Kerry take these thoughts into account.

This is a great book about a great man. Hubert H. Humphrey was an amazing human being - someone who championed numerous progressive causes well before anyone else would even touch them, even when doing so was at great political and even physical risk to himself. The fact that he is reviled by so many modern liberals is unfortunate, to say the least, for our nation would be a far worse place today had Hubert Humphrey never been born.
This book is a celebration of the man, his life, his times, his accomplishments, and his philosophy; it is rich, informative, gripping, and even inspiring; and the photographs themselves (which are strewn throughout the text) are nothing short of beautiful. When American liberals remember their greatest champions from the 1960s, they rightfully include men like John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr; by all rights, Hubert Humphrey should be included on that list. For those of us who already knew that, this book will serve as a pleasant reaffirmation of that conviction, as well as a welcome journey back to a time when liberal wasn't the infamous "l-word"; for those who either dislike Hubert Humphrey or are generally unaware of him, you should read this book before drawing any further conclusions about either him or liberalism in general.

This is a very brief prescription for the next administration to overhaul the U.S. foreign policy. It is surprisingly practical and can almost be described as bland. No counterintuitive or radical ideas are proposed. It is also 180° from the morons in office until 2009. I would have liked to have seen something on third-world birthrates and female empowerment and how we can contribute (low and more, respectively). These items seem critical to preventing countries that are full of unemployed and angry males. As for the U.S., college education gets a brief mention but nothing on K-12 and how it can be elevated to world-class standards. I think anti-intellectualism plays a huge part (see Susan Jacoby) along with weird boomer attitudes that privilege the child over the teacher and shortchange teacher education, and where safety trumps everything. Being under the eagle's wing is moot if the populace is dumb, scared and superstitious.

Once again, Senator Hart gives a very understandable outline for a sensible national security strategy for the next president. I hope Senator Obama reads it well. This and Senator Hart's other recent books are the best, since George Kennan's work that led to the "containment policy," to clarify a role for the U.S. in the world that has a chance of working. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. has been without a centering strategy, subjecting our country to the whims of individual presidents. This is dangerous, and Senator Hart's thinking should help the next president to adopt a unifying theme, based on our unique principles.

I have read parts of this book in its pre-publication stage (because the publisher hasn't released it yet) and it is vivid, exciting, moving, personally inspiring, life changing -- everything you could possibly hope for in a book. I hope the publisher realeases it very soon so that the rest of the reading public can experience the eye-opening and heart-opening truths that this story reveals.

The day we wrote this, Anthony had just stopped by our library on the last third of his adventure. He is a wonderful young man, friendly and warm and willing to answer questions I am sure he hears every day of his trip. As soon as he left, we ordered this book, knowing that it will be a very important addition to our collection. How nice to read about this subject written from the point of view of someone who has actually retraced the steps of his forefathers! Highly recommended!

Professor Cohen (Now a vice-dean at Columbia University) presents a very easy to read and understand framework for interpreting environmental issues. To illustrate this, he applies his framework to a number of cases - toxic spills, the New York garbage crisis and more which underlines the different policy angles from which a specific environmental issue can be viewed. I highly recommend this book to any undergrad studying environmental policy and any graduate student looking to use a specific methodology for research.

College-level students of environmental science will find Understanding Environmental Policy a scholarly, detailed analysis of the structure of such policy development around the world. Cohen uses his background as a director of the Master of Public Administration program in Environmental Science to analyze not just scientific policy development, but its global political ramifications and influences, with chapters surveying policy implementation, political issues, regulation strategy approaches, and much more. Political science students - especially those working on the global scale - will also find it invaluable.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

very interesting and efficient book on wavelets

This book is the original source for reading about the use of numerical methods from signal processing in wavelet constructions, with an eye to applications. Mathematically, it is especially elegant, and its author speaks the language of applied math, and numerical analysis. By now, it has in fact become a central area in numerical analysis. The book is actually an updated translation[by Robert D. Ryan] of the French version [RMA, v 25, by Albert Cohen in the Masson book series], and I can recommend both. I can also recommend the several other wonderful translations, from French to English, of wavelet books by R.D. Ryan, for example his translation of French language wavelet books by Yves Meyer et.al. In the years since Cohen's book, we have seen a handful of books stressing the interface of
signal processing and wavelets which are very suitable for classroom use. I have taught from some of them, but always find pearles in Cohen's original book when I take it down from my

shelf, or when I need to remind myself of the elegance of the presentation from the original source.

This was the only real gay themed book in my high school library. I remember reading it in the isles for a long time before I actually got the nerve to check it out. I gues sthe best part for me was the chapter with life stories. It sounds very cliche, but at that age for everything, gay or whatever, it always feels like your the only one and this made me feel a little better about myself. I highly recommend it for HS kids struggling with their own identity or friends trying to deal with homosexuality of their peers.

This is a very good book that answers many questions that people have about the gay lifestyle. It is worth spending the time reading or giving to someone that is having problems dealing with the fact that you are gay. It answers many of the misconceptions of religion, cross-dressers, gay relationships, and AIDS. It is a good resource for a gay person who has friends that are having problems dealing with people accepting them