Douglas Books

I can only concur with the reviews noted below: this is a great book filled with a generosity of spirit. Following every chapter are exercises to awaken the healing power of divinity that resides within each of us. Having used these methods for years, I offer a belated thank you, for making them available to a general readership. Healing is an inside job; when we take the perspective of higher mind anything is possible. This book is a hopeful message of self-empowerment. Drink deep, because change is within your grasp.

Being raised a Catholic with all the guilt connected to that religion, I found the Rabbi's and Ms. Stengel's approach to God/Higher Power to be not only refreshing for me, but very user friendly. They gave me a lot to think about and a lot to use. This book and it's contents ARE for everyone.

I'm not sure if it is because I am a Presbyterian, or in spite of it (it could have been Emerson and Thoreau), that I believe there is a little piece of God in each of us. My misconception was that we were to wait for the God in us to come out. Rabbi Goldhamer has shown me the way to the light and I will eagerly seek Him/Her out within myself. My review is that the book in enlightening and inspirational and my list of people to give it to keeps growing the more I reflect upon its content. Thanks for sharing what you know and practice with the rest of us.

This book was originally published in 1951 on the one year anniversary of the onset of the Korean War. Life Magazine photographer David Douglas Duncan was working in Tokyo when the war began. Within a few days, he was taking photographs on the rapidly changing front line. This book is a compilation of combat photos that he took during the first few months of the war. There are many memorable photos of battles around the Pusan Perimeter, the return to Seoul and the epic retreat from the Chosin Reservoir.

Duncan was a Marine combat veteran of the Second World War. His connection to the Marines on the ground is shown in the remarkable empathy of his photographs. Duncan was not afraid to get up really close to the combat. His close up portraits of exhausted Marines during the Chosin retreat are some of the most memorable images of the Korean War. This is a work of not only remarkable war photography but also of portraiture. If that were not enough, the text that accompanies the photographs is also a great example of combat reportage. This is an excellent book and I give it my highest recommendation.

My father, who was an artillery Captain in the Philippines during WWII, frequently pulled this book off the shelf to show me what war was like. He said that it was as close as you could get without actually being there. He died before he could see "Saving Private Ryan," but I think he would still say so even after seeing the movie.

This is THE most unforgettable view of the first days of the then called "Police Action" in Korea. Author Duncan lived with the men and portrayed all the comraderie, terror and fear that they did. His work makes an indelable image in our mind & is easy to grasp the magnatude of it. My now deceased husband was one of those young Marines and one of the walking wounded who lived in pain his whole life. He treasured this book and knew the subjects. He found it a way to bury his emotions and go on with a "normal" lifestyle. This book had to help Truman change and understand it was not a simple mop-up action....but This WAS War! Although out of print, my family is trying to get copies to pass on to their children to help us better understand their father. It is especially appropriate at this time when attention is being given the Korean Conflict's 50th anniversary. I wish they would reprint it and distribute a copy to all high school and college libraries.

The combined effort of Douglas C. Baynton (Associate Professor of History, University of Iowa), Jack R. Gannon (Curator of the History Through Deaf Eyes exhibition), and Jean Lindquist Borgey (Director of the History Through Deaf Eyes Project, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC), "Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History Of An American Community" is the companion volume to an acclaimed PBS television documentary based on a landmark photographic exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in 2001 celebrating almost 200 years of United States Deaf History. The deaf have been a cultural and linguistic minority in America almost from its inception. The more than 200 photographs, the many quotes, and compelling stories compiled in "Through Deaf Eyes" provides the reader with informed and informative insights into a fascinating and specialized aspect of American history with respect to deaf people in school settings, the workplace, during wartime, the development and impact of American Sign Language, and more. "Through Deaf Eyes" is a superb and appreciated contribution to personal, academic, and community American History reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

What a wonderful, well put together book about Deaf History. I am a hearing person, who is taking American sign language. I have been reading many books on Deaf culture to get a better understanding about the deaf people over time,and the opsticals that they have had/ and still have to overcome. I found this book very well put together and I enjoyed reading it very much. If you are intrested in American sign language, I would recommend others to include this book into your library collection. The photos were wonderful to look as as well.

What began as photographic exhibit at the Smithsonian from the archives of Gallaudet University evolved into the DVD by the same name as this companion book.

This is well done photo collection with written narrative of the 200 year story of deaf among us, with their accomplishments, frustrations and striving to be a part of the American mosaic.

They do pull it off, even against the obstacles of the oralism, and treatment as handicapped rather than language/cultural minority.

Worth having as companion with the DVD.

This is a delightful book that radiates goodness and an old fashion sense of values. Although it is written for children, it can easily be enjoyed by adults who have not lost their sense of wonder. It will be a pleasure to read this to our eleven grandchildren each Holiday Season.

Original sales info fails to mention lavish, pertinent,colorful clever, detailed illustrations on every facing page which move right in step with the story. The kids spent much time picking the details of the illustrations and identifying the book's characters.
Ostensibly a Christmas story, I found it more universal because the problem to be solved can occur at any time, and the solution shows that where there is a will there is a way to accomplish things.
The children asked several times if and how Gustav would solve his dilemma.

A great Christmas or any time story for children. It holds their interest with the touch of a mystery. The illustrations are wonderful too.
My grandchildren loved it!

This is neat concept, that of "big dinner." Tom and his wife both knew what this was all about, everyone has their own job. Now, for Tom it means that everybody contributes something to the meal. What a great idea!

He starts it with helping us home chefs to "Basics" that is making stuff in advance and saving it, e.g. stocks,dough, etc. so that it comes in handy in putting together spectacular dinners.

Additionally cool about this are the some thirteen feats that are Tom's big dinner gang's favs. There is the rarified Wine Cellar Dinner with Chocolate Crepes for the finale, or the inviting "Merlot Release Picnic." This has as its continuous theme, you guessed it, "merlot." Included is yummy "Lamb Chop T-bones in crushed cherry marinade with tarragon mustard," with merlot in the marinade. This is great picnic or barbie fare.

The book is warmly written with great color photography and source info and wine & drink suggestions galore. Big dinners will be advanced significantly and funnier with this aid.

Tom's Big Dinners is a big ambitious cookbook, which will be perfect for all ambitious chefs out there who have plenty of friends and kitchen space. Tom Douglas has planned 10 wonderful dinners, complete with the wine and mixed drinks. The dinners are all fabulously planned and wonderfully varied. You could please vegetarians and carnivores at each of these feasts. These recipes, however, are not really for the kitchen novice, but certainly are something to set your sights on if you are one. Douglas provides some helpful "prepare ahead" tips, but not too many shortcuts. He tells wonderful stories about all of these meals--they certainly have worked for him.

I love this book. Tom's a legend in the Seattle area. You'll see his first book reviewed by many Northwesterners. I prefer this book to his first. It's beautiful, well laid out and has a wealth of information for those who seriously love to cook...or beginners who are at least willing to get put some effort into a few spectacular dishes. I find the variety of recipes accessible to people with varying skills in the kitchen. I have had about a dozen dishes from this book (made by me and friends) and each has been fabulous. Enjoy!

The recipes are very good and easy to follow. The basics in the back of the book are fabulous for making up ahead of time to keep on hand. The Tiramisu recipes is really easy to make and very delicious. The stuffed zucchini are very healthy and taste great, even the kids will these! I highly recommend this cookbook.

If you have been to Toscano and loved the food, then buy this book. Reading this book and looking at the pictures is just like being transported back to Tuscany. If you are looking to expand your collection of authentic Italian cookbooks this book will make an excellent addition to your collection.

The directions are well written and easy to follow. Each of the recipes that I have tried has been fabulous. The Mushroom Carpaccio is a knock out of a recipe. The recipe for Pureed Vegetable Soup with Parmesan Foam is also a winner. If you are fan of potatoes, the Mashed Potatoes baked with eggs and cheese is also fabulous.

There is a recipe in the back of the book for making your own wine vinegar that I am dying to try. Who knew that you could make a mother from broken spaghetti? That recipe has me really intrigued; I just haven't tried it yet.

I love the stories of growing up in Tuscany, and the beautiful pictures of the Tuscan countryside. This book is a winner for anyone that has traveled to Tuscany and fallen in love with the food and the people.

I highly recommend this book to anyone that loves Tuscany, or wants to.

Written by Umberto Menghi (a professional chef and restaurateur who grew up in Tuscany, Italy), Toscana Mia: The Heart And Soul Of Tuscan Cooking is a splendid cookbook that celebrates Italian (and especially Tuscan) culinary traditions with its savory and taste-tested recipes. From Deep-Fried Cauliflowers; Florentine Cannelloni; and Tuscan Braised Beef; to Pureed Vegetable Soup with Parmesan Foam; Saffron Risotto with Pumpkin; and Tuscan Ring Cake, the recipes come with extensively detailed instructions, as well as recommended wines and producers to accompany fine dining. Toscana Mia is very highly recommended for any kitchen cook interested in exploring exquisite Tuscan flavors and styles.

There are very few books that defend a "non-evolutionist" position and this one is, among them, without doubts, the most important and decisive. Dewar exposes, scientifically, all the maneuvers undertaken by those that intended to make of a thesis scientifically unviable, an unassailable law for the world. The truth is that nobody ever demonstrated scientific evidences that a species "developed" for another.Countless neologisms,incomprehensibles for the lay ones, reveal themeselves entirely insignificants and often nonsenses when examined by Douglas Dewar. What is more astonishing to us is that a book so important is inacassible since so many years.Other titles of the same author, especially the ones that denounce the fake "evolutionism", are equally almost impossible to be obtained. - Why ???

_The Transformist Illusion_, first published in 1957 and republished by Sophia Perennis et Universalis, by Douglas Dewar is a fascinating debunking of the Darwinian account of evolution from the perspective of a noted creationist. In recent times, the debate between evolutionists and creationists (as well as those who advocate "Intelligent Design") has become particularly pronounced and politicized. Public denial of evolution often leads to the permanent branding of noted scientists. However, the proponents of one school of thought, the Traditionalists, followers of thinkers such as Rene Guenon and Ananda Coomaraswamy, have long maintained that evolution conflicts with traditional metaphysics and involves an acceptance of the fallacy of progress. In particular, thinkers sympathetic to the Traditionalist school such as Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, Marco Pallis, S. H. Nasr, Lord Northbourne, Huston Smith, and Wolfgang Smith have argued against evolution and have often cited this work of Dewar to support their case. Douglas Dewar (1875 - 1957) was a British biologist and ornithologist. He studied under Sedgewick at Cambridge. In his youth he believed in the theory of evolution; however, later he came to doubt this theory. He was a founder of the Evolution Protest Movement in London in 1932. He also debated leading evolutionists including H. S. Shelton, J. B. S. Haldane, and Joseph McCabe. However, as a scientist opposing the Darwinian account, he was relegated to the sidelines and thus this book (which assembles a vast amount of palaeontological and biological evidence against the theory of evolution) had to be published in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and has been relegated to obscurity. Nevertheless, the points made in this book are important and should not be naively rejected out of hand.

First, it should be noted that Dewar regards transformism as "The doctrine that all organisms are derived from a common ancestor, or two or three ancestors." (from his Glossary). To begin with Dewar considers biology in light of the physical sciences. From the very beginning, two immediate difficulties arise for the theory of evolution. To this date these difficulties have not been resolved (despite various experimental attempts, including the "Miller experiments"). The first is the problem of the origin of life (a difficulty so great that evolutionist J. B. S. Haldane refused to debate the topic of evolution unless it was not part of the debate) and the second is the issue of entropy (evolution appears to fly in the face of entropy and the evolutionist must maintain that while the universe is like a "clock running down" the living world is like a "tiny clock running up" within that "clock running down"). Following these obvious objections, Dewar turns to the evidence from the fossils, noting that the fossils remain "hostile witnesses" to the theory of evolution. Dewar states "Not a single fossil of vital importance for support of the theory has come to light." This is the issue of the lack of transitional forms in the fossil record. Indeed, Darwinism rests largely on the following three alleged evidences: 1. structural, 2. physiological, and 3. historical, and Darwin himself largely dismissed the evidence of the fossils. For example, Dewar brings up the issue of the lack of pre-Cambrian fossils (in the Cambrian period a great marine fauna appears abruptly). Darwinists have searched for such fossils in vain and have variously tried to explain this lack of fossils all to no avail as Dewar shows. Dewar next considers the succession of the faunas, showing the fossil evidence from each of the respective geological periods. Following this, Dewar discusses the origins of the families and evolution of the families, discussing for example the cases of the sea-cow and the horse. After this discussion, Dewar turns to the alleged fossil links between man and non-human ancestors, showing each of these alleged links to be problematic. Dewar also discusses transformism versus the geological record, showing the absurdity of such ideas as "clandestine evolution". Following this, Dewar brings up evidence from experiments (showing the failure of breeders to prove the transformist correct) as well as evidence of the geological distribution of animals. Dewar also considers the case of nascent and vestigial structures (such as the appendix in man) showing that while these structures are often assumed to be vestigial that they are often not so. Next, Dewar considers the case of blood-precipitation tests which were used as evidence for evolution in the Scopes trial; however, he shows such evidence to be faulty. Dewar also considers the development of the animal embroyo, fully refuting Haeckel's claim that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" (now not accepted by many evolutionists) and shows Haeckel to have been a confabulator in other cases. Dewar also considers the cases of metamorphosis and parasitism and the alleged evidence they offer for evolution. Dewar also considers some transformations posited by the theory of evolution, mentioning the alleged transformation from fish to amphibian to reptile. However, as he shows this alleged transformation is problematic, despite cases of lung-fish and pteradactls (or archaeopteryx). Dewar also considers some characters incompatible with evolution and the role of instincts (which also offers evidence against the theory of evolution). Dewar ends by concluding that the transformist hypothesis is discredited as an illusion and that while the theory of evolution claims to do away with miracles, it in fact involves more miracles than the creationist account (which only involves one miracle). From this Dewar concludes, that the creationist account of the origins of life makes more sense. Dewar includes several appendices and a glossary of useful terms. The first appendix deals with the issue of classification, the second appendix deals with the dating of geological deposits (something which Dewar also calls into question), the third appendix deals with some characteristics of birds that are apparently incompatible with the theory of evolution, and the last appendix deals with some discoveries concerning early man (including the case of the Piltdown man, which ironically, for the evolutionist, turned out to be a forgery!).

For anyone trying to understand the debate of the origins of life, this book remains an important one. Today, evolution reigns supreme among most scientists; however, many of us secretly harbor doubts. Too often evolution is accepted as simply fact merely because noted scientists say so. However, as Dewar's book shows, the theory itself (the transformist hypothesis) has a lot to account for, which it cannot. This is essential reading for those trying to grapple with this issue and is highly recommended.

I'd like to tell Amazon and people who reads our rewiews about traditional books that I am the author of the review you can read about this great Dewar's book since some years.
My old e-mail was irget@zip.net and now my e-mail is lpontual@terra.com.br.
I am Director of the Rene Guenon Institute of Traditional Studies and my site is www.geocities.com/irget.
Seek for my book "DO YOU STILL BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY?", that will be aviable in USA next december.
I ask Amazon please to respect people who rewiew.
I've never received even a cent about various books my site sold for Amazon.com. Never.
We have name. We are not just a "Amazon Customer". Thank you.
Luiz Pontual

I purchased this as a gift for my daughter's teacher. I love the poem-like story explaining how everything is connected to something else. The pictures are very beautiful with a lot of detail.

Come into a deep, old northern forest where trees reach for the sky, hundreds of feet high. Where their roots beneath the duff, spread out in vast tendrils seeking food, creating food for voles & mice, who, in turn, are fattened up for the owls hunting for food for their owlets.

Carol Reed-Jones has created a lyrical story of life around an old-growth fir tree, & Christopher Canyon's illustrations are bright, powerful & absorbing.

A keeper, its story is delightful & its images memorable.

"The Tree in the Ancient Forest" depicts the"circle of life" concept in a beautifully presented, easilyread format. The author, Carol Reed-Jones captures the essence of the importance and beauty of an ancient forest, presenting a different element on each page. Christopher Canyon's illustrations offer additional beauty to the ideas penned by the author. A wonderful book for children and adults alike -- a great gift book for the ecologically-minded, nature-lover! Highly recommended!

This book covers all of the details that are so often left out while training waitstaff and associated restaurant employees. We use it extensively for initial training and reference.

This is an excellent book. It's very thorough and the section on alcohol service was especially good. Highly recommend!

Opening a dining establishment is complex. There are many different things that need to be taken into consideration from food costs to training of employees. For those who have never had a restaurant before, the training of employees could be a little intimidating, especially when it comes to those who interact with the customers and whose service could make or break the business, the wait staff. This book takes the bewilderment out of hiring and training these very important people.

The book is comprehensive and follows a logical pattern which eases the reader into the business almost effortlessly. It is an all inclusive book which details different jobs which make up the wait staff from hosting to bussing. Most of the book is centered on service of the tables though. It explains everything from how to set the table to presenting the check at the end of the meal.

There is a special section on how to deal with the youngest of the customers as well as important issues which the customer does not see such as side work and dealing with customer complaints and the difficult customer. There are even tips on laws that regulate the industry such as alcohol and IRS laws. As with any other job in the restaurant, safety and sanitation is also a very important part. Taking the complexity out of hiring and training of these employees is bound to help everyone out.

This book is truly fascinating, both for the information written about artist Walker Evans and his life as well as the photographs from his work. I love it for the subject matter that Walker Evans chose. There are a lot of photos of places where very poor Southern people live and also photos of very poor families and individuals as well as small town scenes, signs, etc.. Evans really has a talent for capturing the despair and souls of his poverty-stricken subjects, and you get to see how beautiful they are in their simplicity. There are also a lot of interesting photos of American architecture, including some cityscapes.

This book is the "first full-length study" of Evans and uses information gained from his "diaries, papers, and negatives of Evan's personal collection." There are 6 essays written about Evans revealing information that was not previously understood about Evans such as his relationships with other artists, his intellectual development, what his goals and methods of procedures were, etc..

This first full-length study of Walker Evans offers insights into his artistry and a fresh look at every state of his career.

Walker Evans' photography rates amongst the best. His ability to capture a scene of everyday life and extract from it the beauty often overlooked by others is remarkable. The skill displayed in taking these photographs demonstrates why he has earned an enduring reputation as a master photographer. An inspirational must have for amateurs and professionals alike.