Henson Books

I am very happy with my purchase. It was given as a Christmas present along with the World of the Dark Crystal. If you are or know a Jim Henson or Brian Froud fan than this is a must have.

As always Brian Froud out did himself. He is so talented. The only thing I am not sure of is how long this book will last if viewed quite a bit. the stitching isn't uniformed through out the book.

I bought this book for my girlfriend, that loved it when she was little, but lost the book in a moving.

This book is really charming and very imaginative. The explanations and names of the creatures are very amusing, the illustrations are amazing, and the talent of the author shows.

However, it is more a goblin catalog than a fantasy book or novel, so be sure of what you are buying. It is an artbook, not a tale or a novel. It can be enjoyed anyway by young and old, I think, but it is what it is.

Brian Froud, the creative genius behind Jim Henson's The Labyrinth, presents his concept illustrations for the film in this beautiful book. Written as a long-lost "archeological find," this book catalogues a variety of different goblins who allegedly lived 60 million years ago. It was a delight to see some of the original sketches that would eventually evolve into puppets from one of my favorite movies as a child. The best part was the afterward. There's not too much content, but I love the idea of a whimsical brainstorming session with Jim Henson in the back of a limo and the evolution of David Bowie into Jared the Goblin King. This is a great coffee table book for any fan of The Labyrinth.

I order 2 books from the vender. To my surprise they came as if they were worth gold. Of course to me they were. but they were bound in heavy plastic packed to protect them and shipped in heavy in cardboard. I will order from this vendor anytime I see their name on a book I want, even if they are not the least expensive,because these 2 books I ordered from them have absoultely no tell tail signs of being used.
To see pictures of these books please go to laneiam@aol.com and see shared pictures dated 1/6/08

Delighted to receive this book in such superb condition. Quick and efficient delivery. Thank you.

Henson's coffee table book on pre-teen urban lassitude is a very pretty chapter in his long and lustrous career. Sumptuous nocturns, and interstitial urban zones for forbidden groping, underage drinking and driving - the alley, the drain, under the freeway - familiar props for Henson's fans. The painterly sfumato, the 'stagelit' trees and grainy, graffitied concrete walls seem impossibly tasteful and in exact measure to the questions we ask ourselves, thumbing the alternative pages of sullen-skinned, sombre adolescents of indeterminate gender. A long night's journey by the humming city, where, with the sun hinting on the final page, not much has really happened: crysallids awaken!

It's rare when you find a book that translates the quality of an actual photo print so well, each page looks as if it had just come from the photo lab! Lux et Nox introduced me to the genius and allure of Bill Henson's work. His use of composition, light and subject matter draw you in, craving more. The book is large enough to truly appreciate Bill Henson's sublime photography. If you ever walk into a normal book store, you most likely won't find this beautiful book, it's wonderful you can find it here at amazon. I would highly recommend you seek out Bill Henson's work, he's a native Australian that deserves much praise and celebration in the States.

I purchased "Mnemosyne" by Henson, which was published in 2005. Pages 446-493 of that book have color photos from various untitled series 1994/95-2003/04 of adolescents and outdoor scenes at night. They struck chords in me concerning innocence vs. experience, loneliness vs. togetherness, darkness vs. light, voyeurism vs. compassion, youth vs. age, and so forth.

Because this book (which is unfortunately out-of-print as of mid-2005) covers similar territory, I bought it. It has received a lot of praise (e.g., it's been described as "sumptuous," "hauntingly beautiful," etc., and the 10/2005 issue of Photo District News [PDN, a magazine for professional photographers] named it one of the 30 "most captivating and influential photography books" from 1999-2004). I agree with everything positive that's been written about this book.

In addition, however, I believe that "Lux et Nox" (which I'll call "L") is worth obtaining because it complements "Mnemosyne" (which I'll call "M") in many ways. M has 501 pages on a number of series of color and B&W photos, while L has 175 pages with only color photos that are thematically related. Some of the images are the same in the two books (e.g., M448-449=L84-85, M451=L105, M452-453=L168-169, M454=L45, M456-457=L146-147, M463=L25, M469=L139, M470-471=L54-55, M472=L165, M476=L76), and others are similar. However, L's reproductions are about 3 times larger, the color and brightness of some of L's reproductions are somewhat different than M's, several dozen photos in M are not in L, and many dozens of photos in L are not in M. L has hardly any text, while M has 15 interspersed articles etc.

L is better than M in two respects: it is larger in format (42cm wide by 29cm high), and its covers are sturdier than M's. Buy "used & new" copies from Amazon.com!

Bill Henson is, to my mind, one of the most suggestive and enigmatic photographers of his time. Interestingly he has not selected many of his pictures for this volume. All of them belong to the 1997-2002 period and this tells us of his painful effort to "forget" and renounce to his previous and doubtlessly excellent work. The photos depict landscapes (if possible to call them so...) and portraits with a superb reproduction quality, very akin to his original and fragile C-type prints.

Henson is a manierist as Caravaggio, Murnau or Lynch are. Their "marks" and mise-en-scène are self-evident on their works. Henson is a master of light but, rather than light, of darkness. Cinema and painting are Henson's sources. Critics talk of transition, metamorphosis, disappearance, birth. Henson's nox (night) has the fullest meaning possible and that is because darkness has an entity on its own: a fifth element. Poetically speaking, darkness shines in the same paradoxical way as a black hole devours light. Darkness made tangible. Darkness as a symbol of the mysterious unseen, of the unknown.

Some people are afraid of the dark and fear kills their human nature. Others look into the dark with eyes wide open, full of hope and emotion. If you see yourself in the latter, do not miss this sublime book. Images talk for themselves so no essays are added. [...]

I had to reorder this after loosing my original copy. There are two versions available. The red is Easy Play, and has all the pages zoomed in a little. The green has slightly more complex cords and a few are in different keys (as to be expected)

Songs I know and songs I don't know. This sheet music is really handy. I can now sing Muppet songs for auditions and voice performances at my command! It's great!

I only knew a few songs in this book and thought that there would bbe more that were sung on the "Muppet Show" eg Mahna Mahna etc

All the favorites that you will remember and want to share with your kids. Loaded with feel good memories and lots of fun.

This book includes the music and lyrics for some of the best and all time favorite songs of The Muppets. Songs from Sesame Street, The Muppet movies, and even "Muppet Babies" are included. Two of my favorites are "The Rainbow Connection" and "The Muppet Show Theme". Great for Muppet fans and useful for anyone who has a piano.

In rape cases, to point out some problematic facts in the story told by the plaintiff would often be branded as the second rape.

Still, as a Japanese, I must stand up here and make the argument for the sake of the honors of our own grandfathers who may have been falsely accused for this disgusting crime of "sex slavery" because, in fact, there are lots of suspicious inconsistency in this auto-biographical account of Maria Rosa Henson.

The followings are only few examples of the small-but-cannot-plainly-be-ignored problems in Ms Henson's account;

<1> The comfort station where Ms Henson was taken in and forced to be a comfort woman was also the Japanese Army headquarters and garrison. To be precise, the downstairs was the headquarters (and bathroom?) and the upstairs was the comfort station. But, that kind of arrangement is extremely odd for the Japanese Army who was renowned by their reputation of decency, at least for the facade, I would moderately add.

<2> Ms Henson says that the Japanese soldiers would shout "Miyo tokai [no] sora [akete]!" as they do their daily exercise and when the routine was over, they shouted "banzai!" three times. This is, again, very odd. The former is a song with nice melody that I do not think suits for exercise. And, although "banzai" can be casually used like, say, "hurrah!", it should be a special occasion when people shout it "three times". Similarly, the Japanese use the word "baka"(stupid) with some kind of affection even when used with a punishment of slap. So, again, Ms Henson's claims that evil Japanese torturing people shouting "baka!" seems quite odd.

<3> Ms Henson would ask herself: "Why did I not try to escape? Because they might kill me." But, according to Ms Henson herself, the only one guard outside of their rooms was kind to all the women there and seems to have showed no hostile intention to punish the women severely in the event of escape. On the contrary, he even helped her (maybe others, too) daily cleaning by scrubbing the floor with a wet cloth and some disinfectant. One would wonder if she really found no chance to escape while this only guard got on all fours scrubbing her floor.

<4> Ms Henson claims that some "twenty to thirty" soldiers "raped" her every day, however, I cannot help wondering if they really had such spare time to rape women when the situation of the war in the Pacific theatre had been drastically declining for the Japanese at the time in question and hundreds of Japanese ships were being sunk by the U.S. Navy in the sea near by.

Now, the followings would arouse more serious doubt;

<1> Ms Henson claims that she had become able to understand some Japanese by the time when she overheard Captain Tanaka and the colonel talking about a plan to conduct a zoning operation in Pampang, her barrio, because many of the residents there were guerrillas. She was able to understand that the colonel had said that the Japanese soldiers had captured guerrillas from there, and they were in the garrison downstairs. But, she was with the Japanese for only nine months, and, if it was only Captain Tanaka who liked her and taught some Japanese to her, it makes only 1 month or 2. I really doubt that anyone can ever become understand Japanese Language in such short time considering the fact that military terms are usually more complicated and difficult even for the ordinary Japanese.

<2> When Ms Henson was proposed by Domingo, she confessed to him that "[she] had been raped by Japanese soldiers, but [she] never told him that [she] also become a comfort woman." Why? Is it not because a "comfort woman" means a prostitute, never the same as being raped? If she regarded her whole experience in the comfort station as "rape" she could have told him so. And, is that not because why the subtitle of this book used the word "prostitution" although Ms Henson never says that she was in the business?

Apart from the fact that Ms Henson was working in one of the largest communist guerrilla organisation in Philippine at that time, who would spread Anti-Japanese propaganda in the civilian population to mobilise people as their combatants for the communist revolution, those inconsistencies made me assume her account is unreliable.

In reality, as the Japanese authority of this issue Yoshiaki Yoshimi publicly admitted, there is no single documented evidence to support the allegation Japanese Imperial Army kidnapped and forced them to prostitution, or more grotesquely described by the feminists as "sexual slavery".
Yoshimi's large volume of all governmental documents he could ever found on this matter shows that the women made at least 300 yen and at most 1,500 yen per month whereas the soldiers's monthly wage was 9 yen. The charge was range from 1.5 yen from 3 yen per 30 minutes for the privates. (Officers and generals were charged much higher.) Although the women had to pay back their advances to the trader by 50 percent of their earnings, still it was good-waged business to the women from poor countryside. The Japanese Imperial Army did not run the comfort station but paid great attention to the women's welfare so that their soldiers could profit in their morale and spirits by satisfaction of the earthly desire without any worry about venereal disease.

Because of lack of evidence that substantiate the allegation other than those unreliable testimonies of the ex-comfort women's and many evidences that support the Japanese Army's innocent, the government refused to recognise this matter as the issue of compensation. However, Maria Rosa Henson received one million yen (about 250,000 peso) for the "temporary money" from non-governmental organisation in Japan in 1996. It was two years before this book was published. I am just wondering why that fact was omitted. Maybe because this whole issue is a propaganda and Ms Henson is a victim of the ideological warfare.

This is the most terrible book I ever read. This is a book about a 15 years old girl, Maria Rosa Henson. Maria was taken by the Japanese soldiers and forced into prostitution as a "comfort woman" during the Japanese occupation in Philippines. She was captured and had been sexual tortured and abused for years. After keeping her secret for over half a century, she broke her silent and told the public about her painfully experience. I was stunned by her words and as well the illustrations in the book. However, I admired her courage--her courage to tell the truth and to face her family. Her truth words definitely offer hope and perspective to other survivors who need too heal from the wound.

Hiromi's review of "Comfort Woman" is important to respond to because the book's importance comes from the fact that it is a true story. Not knowing anything about comfort women other than what was presented in the book itself, I believe I can still refute Hiromi's points:

The position of the comfort station, and the "odd" use of the words banzai and baka are no evidence against the authenticity of the author's story. To put it bluntly, most of us were not living in Japan during the 1940s and even less of us were on the front lines. We cannot say with any conviction how odd Japanese behavior would have been in that time period and under those circumstances.

The point that Maria could have easily escaped cannot simply be proved by the fact that one guard stood outside her room. No matter how "nice" he was to her, it's unlikely he'd simply let her leave, and even if he did (or if he could be tricked as Hiromi suggests) it's not as if there was a route, free of Japanese soldiers, leading straight from the garrison to safety. Maria constantly refers to Japanese sentries and checkpoints throughout the region, not to mention guards *outside* the building.

The doubt concerning how many Japanese troops would be available to rape Maria doesn't seem to be well founded. The entire purpose of comfort stations was to increase morale, and a losing battle would require more "comfort". Certainly there were always large numbers of troops present at and around the garrison. If sexual services were considered routine for young men to receive, most of them could free up their schedules.

The "more serious doubts" do not hold any more water. The idea that Maria could not learn complex Japanese military terms from her captors is probably true. But it would be foolish to think that Maria did not hear any simple vernacular from the young soldiers reminiscing about homes and girlfriends in Japan. Besides, she did not claim to be able to speak more than a few words, and coming to understand a language is very possible - particularly under extenuating circumstances. She was completely surrounded by the Japanese language - not being able to speak to any of the other Filipino women - and her young mind would definitely be able to pick up a good deal of it.

The second point - that Maria's inability to admit she was a comfort woman indicates she was a "prostitute" - can be refuted simply by putting yourself into her shoes (as impossible as that must be). She told Domingo she had been raped, referring to the incidents out in the countryside. She never admitted to being a comfort woman because that implies that she was raped by a huge number of men while in captivity. Being raped once was shameful enough to Maria and she could not bring herself to inform Domingo just how frequent it had been. Besides, rape is any sex act that is unwilling on the part of one person. Whether we consider her a "prostitute" or not is irrelevant, because she was forced into it that prostitution.

Hiromi's final point - that comfort women were paid - I cannot argue against without more knowledge. What I do know however, is that many Japanese documents concerning troop activity in Asia were burned - including, undoubtedly, many that Yoshiaki Yoshimi would have found useful. Whether some comfort women in various locations were treated better is up for debate, but has no bearing on Maria's story.

I'm not going to claim like another reviewer that these arguments are simply the words of some right-wing ideologue. Detractors of comfort women's claims aren't saying that Japanese soldiers were right to rape women, they are doubting the severity of the acts. And that is exactly why this book is so important - because it offers a first hand account of just how terrible those acts were. Hiromi's doubt is probably the result of an education system, whether in Japan or America, that glosses over war crimes committed in Asia and one that accentuates the reform Japan underwent after the war's end. Hiromi should not feel a need to defend soldier's actions from sixty years ago just because they share the same ethnic background. The sins of our fathers are not our own. But we run the risk of letting them happen again if we refuse to accept that they happened in the first place.

The present day Japanese government did not commit war atrocities during WWI, and recent backlashes against Japanese citizens in Asia only serves to further intolerance and misunderstanding. However, modern Japan, being built from the wealth and infrastructure of an oppressive imperialist power, has a responsibility to do all they can to compensate those wronged by their predecessor, and to educate their own citizens of the truth. In 1999 this book was published and sold throughout Japan, making Maria's story known to the general public for the first time. It's a start.

This poignant memoir of a Filippino woman forced into prostitution by the Japanese military during World War II is moving and touching in its simplicity of style. Maria Rosa Henson teaches us truth in these pages, truth which we need to understand. We must all do what we can to see that our country votes properly in the United Nations on this issue. So far the USA is the only nation within the General Assembly of the UN which has refused to uphold that reparations be paid to the thousands and millions of sexual slaves who have been tortured and abused worldwide by the war machine and the various militarists who destroy our humanity everywhere across the globe. The one who has written this book is her personal testitmony to help other survivors.Read this memoir and its introduction. It's worth your education.

This is a good book as it illumiinates the horrors of war and the strength of human courage & dignity. Unfortunately, people such as 'Hiromi' who have reviewed it below, in typical right-wing Japanese fashion end up denying or trying to cast doubt on events that undoubtedly took place, but unfortunately there are still a fair number of Japanese who like to deny this, which is why there is still so much mistrust of Japanese in Asia even today. Read this book, it will give you an insight of the good & bad of human conduct in war.

My daughter loves Elmo and Cookie Monster. I was excited to get this book for her since Cookie Monster items aren't as plentiful as Elmo.

Unfortunately, we both find this book a bit on the boring side. The wording is good and in true Cookie Monster fashion. But there's no story. He's just eating different foods. I guess it's what he does best.

And though I like the illustrations as an adult, they are not enjoyable for my daughter. They are rather artistically done, so they are toddler-friendly. It just doesn't look like the Cookie Monster that my daughter recognizes and loves.

This was a gift for our niece on her first birthday. She loves it! Came in great condition and on time - bonus points with the family.

Cookie Monster tells young readers all about the things he likes to eat, and there are plenty. The illustrations are really cute and show Cookie having fun in lots of different places. It uses the familiar Cookie Monster voice to the text with me instead of I and such and the sentences are short making it great for the youngest of readers/listeners. My son liked this book a whole lot since Cookie Monster is his new favorite Sesame Street character, but there are several other familiar faces in there as well.

Simply wonderful book to read to your children!

It's short but can be read again and again!

It's the perfect book to read aloud in Cookie's voice!

This book has tons of information about Global Warming and Climate Change, however as someone who has no knowledge of the science behind weather and global warming, I found the book a bit hard to understand. It was a bit complicated and overly scientific for a "global warming beginner". I found it a bit overwhelming - the font is super small, pages are crowded.

The Rough Guide to Climate change was a surprising masterpiece. It presents complex scientific concepts in a highly readable manner. It is extremely informative, with more perspectives on the climate change debate than other sources I have checked out. And it makes sense of the diversity of opinions in the scientific community about the ways in which global warming is and will be effecting the world. In this sense, it is a very balanced sourcebook. Most of all, it is incredibly interesting. Not only does the formatting make for constantly intriguing reading, but the content itself is very interesting. Is it too much to say that on top of it all, Henson is a great writer. Making a book like this a Rough Guide really downplays what a gem this book is. Even if you already know a lot about climate change, this book will have a great deal to teach you.

I am using the Rough Guide to Climate change in a college course that I am currently taking about global warming and climate change. The second edition wasn't out when I started the class, so I started with the first edition and then switched when this edition did come out.

The book is a perfect example of how to write a science book for nonscientists. I have a degree in environmental science, but climate science involves so many disciplines that it is hard for even a trained professional to keep up and digest the information from all the various fields. Henson has done a remarkable job of taking the science and laying it out in an easy to understand way and in a very logical sequence.

The book is broken into parts in a flow that works well. The first section is about the basics of climate change, the second is about the symptoms we are or will be seeing as a result of climate change, the third is about the actual science behind climate change and the fourth presents a nicely balanced set of solutions and some of the detractors from those solutions. There is also a very comprehensive further exploration section at the rear.

The book is up to date and is, by far, the best source of scientific information available to the general reader about global warming. Buy it now...it might change your mind!

What a remarkable book this is - disguised as a simple guide to climate change, but actually a very sophisticated, balanced, thoughtful analysis of the many aspects of climate change: the physical causes of climate change, the symptoms of a warming planet, what the average person can do, and the politics surrounding the entire issue.

Loaded with great information and highly readable, although it never talks down to the intended audience, which is aimed at everybody (may be too difficult for people under the age of 12). Lots of photographs and charts to help explain what climate change is, what causes it, and what the symptoms are.

The only weakness of the book, which is ironically one of its strengths, is that it is refreshingly free of a certain preachy tone that can creep into some books on the environment - however, because the book is studiously non-political, only half a page is dedicated to "lobbying for change" in the chapter titled "What You Can Do - Reducing Your Carbon Footprint and Lobbying For Action". Most of that chapter is dedicated towards small things everybody can do (adjust thermostat properly, drive hybrid cars, walk or bike, etc.). However, real change will probably only happen when entire countries set policies and laws into place that mandate fewer greenhouse gas emissions. (This is a scholarly bureaucrat writing this, after all.)

Having pointed out a minor weakness, I can wholeheartedly recommend this book to anybody wishing to learn more about climate change and global warming. The book doesn't actually let "big business" or current government leadership around the world completely off the hook - the book duly notes that conducting business as usual has gotten us into this mess, and that most businesses, and most governments have no real reason to change business as usual - after all, if they are still in business, or still in power, the status quo must be working well for them.

The book starts by noting some of the twists and turns in Heidegger's life and thought; and by showing the importance of Being in the beginnings of western philosophy (but only in the beginning and then quickly forgotten -- according to Heidegger).

The main question in the book (as you probably already know from the title) is whether Heidegger's thought is compatible with Christianity. Of course to answer this question we first needed to know what Heidegger's thought consisted of, which takes up most of the book and makes it worth while even if you don't care if Heidegger can be 'Christianized'.

Although the book is brief (only 121 pages) it covers everything from Being and Time to Time and Being and beyond (which is a long and mystifying way -- or at lest it is without this book). Heidegger's Nazism is also dealt with very briefly, but the main concern in the book, after giving a tour of the philosophy, is the relationship to Christianity. Others before Macquarrie have seen this relationship Etienne Gilson, for example, clamed that Heidegger ' is taking us to the only real metaphysical problem. I believe he could... help us not only to deeper insights into his own thought, but even into that of... Thomas Aquinas'.

It is difficult (at lest for me and I suppose others with similar obsessions) to read Heidegger's attempted retrievals of Being -- that light by which all existing entities are viewed. And not think of biblical passages like Exodus 3:14. I supposes in the end some of Heidegger's thoughts are good for Christianity while some are not (or less obviously so). The ontological difference for the most part probably is; while all the twisting and turning of Being would probably be the end of anything like an orthodox Christianity.

This book doesn't say that Heidegger's philosophy was Christian -- in fact Heidegger said a Christian philosophy was nonsense 'a round square and a misunderstanding' -- but if you want an intro. to his thought or see some potential parallels between his thought and Christianity this is a good book.

This book is a bit of a disappointment. The author, John Macquarrie, is a distinguished Anglican theologian and the translator of "Being and Time." It would be natural to expect that any book by MacQuarrie entitled "Heidegger and Christianity" would analyze the religious implications of Heidegger's philosophy, or discuss Heidegger's influence on Christian theologians such as Karl Rahner. Instead, the bulk of this short book simply summarizes the main themes and conclusions of Heidegger's best-known books and lectures, which were mostly of secular interest. Religion is discussed only in the final chapter, leaving the reader feeling cheated.

On the positive side, MacQuarrie writes clearly and takes a balanced view of Heidegger. He regards the German philosopher as one of the great thinkers of the 20th century, while acknowledging that his tortured language is difficult to interpret, and that his tendency to substitute etymology for logic can open the door to nonsense. It's good to read a writer like MacQuarrie who knows and respects Heidegger's works but who avoids the extremes of Heidegger-worship. This book would be useful as an orientation to the Heidegger corpus. But readers looking for theology, or even for a critical analysis of Heidegger's secular thinking, should look elsewhere.

MacQuarrie's little monograph should be called "Heidegger Demystified". It is perhaps the best thorough and concise study of the main features and the significance of Heidegger's thought by one of the translators of Being and Time into English. Considering what an industry Heidegger studies have become in American and European universities, this little volume is a wonder how it cuts to the essential features of his thought. I know of no better introduction to the significance of Heidegger. Even George Steiner's little study, a fine fluff piece for the non-philosopher, will have to take a back seat to this treasure

This is a great & very simple introduction to what your child's day will be like at preschool. :) It refers to "Nanny" dropping him off at school, so I just changed the word to "Mommy" to make it more personal for my son.

Back in my day, we had what was called "Nursery School." Unfortunately, I was a drop-out. All I can remember is that we played Cowboys and Indians with the Kindergarten class, and they always got to be the cowboys. Naturally, at the end of the game the Indians all got shot. I also remember falling off the monkey bars and getting my mouth rinsed out with soap. Sheesh!

So what does this have to do with the delightful little book, "I Can Go to Preschool?" Just this: Had I been able to obtain a copy of this book, which does such a great job of dispelling fears about preschool, I might have been able to tough it out and stay in school. Kermit sure seems to like it. Any kid facing preschool would do well to prep with the frog before that first big day.

If nothing else, the happy times that Kermit has can help you to forget about your own, somewhat less happy, experiences.

My 3-year-old just started preschool, and this book was a wonderful introduction. It is written from a child's perspective and uses clear, simple language to describe a typical day at preschool, including rules and activities. It made my child feel comfortable about preschool before her first day. The adorable, captivating muppet baby illustrations enable her to read the book to herself, which she does over and over!

This is a great story book. Very colorful and the references to Elvis songs make it a lot of fun. We loved it... don't pay attention to the School Library Journal Review above. It sounds like the reviewer didn't have the Elvis spirit.

What an absolutely charming counting book! The rhyming phrases make it fun to read and the illustrations are vibrant. It's a delightful way to introduce Elvis to children. Adult fans of the King will enjoy looking for all the references to Memphis, Vegas, Graceland and all other Elvis trivia. A definite must-have for any child or child-like fan of the man.

Fun book. Although classed as a children's book, adults will be amused with the clever verses that make reference to 10 of Elvis' best songs. The pictures are bright and with lots of activity to encourage conversation with any child too young to read the book by themself.

Most of this big book consists of 407 photographs in mainly untitled 1974-2004 sequences and series (S&S). About half the photos were in Henson's two 2005 solo exhibitions in Australia. Amazon's new 300-word limit does not allow discussion of all the S&S, so here are my observations on selected ones grouped by the emotions they may produce.

The sexual content of at least three black and white S&S may be disturbing. "Untitled sequence 1977" (pages 36-51) has photos of a young man masturbating. "Untitled sequence 1979" (68-99) has photos of a young boy, a crowd, and parts of a boy's body. "Untitled 1979/80" (176-191) shows photos of a nude boy.

Two series provoke a sense of mystery. "Untitled 1980/82" (135-175) contains B&W photos of people in a crowd looking worried. "Untitled 1977/87" photos (192-217) are highly manipulated (e.g., streaked, multiple-negative) B&W images.

"Disgust" was my reaction to "Untitled 1983/84" (243-281), B&W images of paintings in museums, baroque architecture, etc. juxtaposed with staged images of teenagers (some naked, dirty, "bleeding," and/or "dead").

I'm not sure what three color S&S mean. "Untitled 1985/86" (284-327) switches between young people and architecture. "Paris Opera Project 1990/91" (359-381) alternates pictures of "opera-goers" and the outdoors. Pages 403-435 have cut-and-taped 1992/93-1996/97 photocollages.

Finally, the awesome color photos of adolescents at night (446-493) are similar to Henson's 2002 book "Lux et Nox."

My only minor qualms about the book are: (1) The hardcovers should have been thicker and stiffer. (2) There are no "installation views." (3) The font size (for the commentaries interspersed among the photos and the interview of Henson) is small.

Mnemosyne represented memory in Greek mythology, and this book is certainly memorable. Use Amazon.com to buy it!

Haven't seen a Bill Hensen photograph? Then you haven't been to the right places. Bill's imagery is a breathtaking expression of Human Art; his startling use of light and shadow is incredibly original. I'm absolutely sure that he is the next photographic discovery for fashion and editorial. In the realm if not ahead of photo-light masters like Paulo Reversi, Andreas Bitesnitch or Lindbergh, Bill's work is ethereal and transporting.

This particular volume collects all of Bill's work, which is a great study of how a world class artist comes to be. A must have art photo book. Really, this is essential art.