Lloyd Books

I agree with everything in the review above - but want to add that the book is still in print. You can buy it with a credit or debit card from the publisher's website at musonix.co.uk, or order it from the same source from a library or a bookshop, including Amazon! Ulrich's guide to publishers should be updated any day now with the new information.

Music in Sequence is a book I found several years ago when I first began playing with MIDI sequencing. Written for a rank beginner, it briefly teaches the basics of reading music and finding notes on the keyboard. However, the heart of the book is making good music using a sequencer. The authors take you step-by-step through 15 sequences, each designed to teach you the techniques for making the most of the power inherent in sequencing. In addition to the specific instructions for each piece, there are suggestions for modifying the sequence in different ways, and additional pieces you can use as a seed for developing the ideas in each lesson further on your own.

Something I particularly enjoyed about this book is its use of a wide variety of musical styles, and the whimsical selections they chose--everything from baroque (Pachelbel's Canon and Bach's Crab Canon) to classical ballet, to marching band music (Sousa's the Liberty Bell), to Gershwin, to modern pop, to the theme from the Muppet Show. It would be hard to improve on what these authors have done in developing an intro to the complex world of MIDI.

"Music Is" was our introduction to Lloyd Moss. You can't help but move to the rhythm and rhyme in Lloyd's poetry. The book is fun and exporatory, flying through all kinds of music (opera to cha cha). We took this book out of the library, and my three-year-old reaches for it every day. She loves to bounce along to it and can recite parts. Illustrations are fun and simple. Definitey worth purchasing! A great intro to music.

Moss's gentle introduction to music is delightful. We always enjoy Lloyd Moss's books, and I often give them as birthday gifts to my childrens' friends. I believe in exposing children to the joys of music in every way possible, which is why I enjoy his books. We also are fond of his Zin Zin a Violin, an alphabet book with fanciful illustrations.

This brightly illustrated book does a wonderful job explaining different Christmas symbols: lights, Christmas trees, angels, and presents; in light of the true meaning of Christmas, Jesus' birth. My 3-year-old son loves this book and asks for it more than he does the Santa Claus books. This book has helped me to have conversations with my children about Jesus as we enjoy all of our Christmas traditions. I highly recommend it! For more ideas on bringing Christ back to Christmas, check out Lisa Whelchel's The Adventure of Christmas.

I am a mom to three (7,6, 3.5)and a preschool toddler teacher at a Christian preschool. I was so thrilled to find this book...it's the perfect balance in regard to explaining the religious AND secular aspects of Christmas celebrations! It really breaks it all down into things the young ones can understand without losing the religious meaning or sacrificing the customs and traditions that they have come to associate with the holiday. I highly recommend this book!

I really enjoyed reading everything in this book and found it hard to put down! It really shines light on the private practices that people go through sexually, stuff that you wouldn't normally find out about people are talked about in the open. I always wonder what kinks and fetishes everyday normal people have and this book has shown me that what people do behind closed doors might surprise you!

This book found its way into my hands, and I am so glad it did. My husband and I have a great and open relationship with one another and altough our sex life isnt horrible it wasnt off the charts! I opended up this book and read the first couple of paragraphs from the author and couldnt put it down. I am by no means a person who reads, at all, but this book really sucked me in. Every spare minute I had, I spent reading this book. It seems very strange to me to be intriuged by reading intimate storys from strangers, but it helped me to be more open (more so then I felt we already was) with my husband and to take the steps more often to initiate when I wanted to be intimate with him, which is something he has been wanting me to do more often for as long as I can remember. At the end of this book is a survey in which the people who's stories I was reading answered. I asked my husband all of the questions in the book, even if I knew or thaught I knew the answer and for the most part I was right about what his answers would be, in some instances I learned something new about my husband and I look at him a little bit different now, in a very good way. I really recomend this book not just for those who are looking to improve their sex life, but also for those who feel they have a great sex life!

This is a wonderful retelling of a classic Bible story by Sally Lloyd-Jones. The author uses simple, every-day language, and retains several of the key elements of the tale, such as forty days of rain and sending out a dove. The book closes with these two lovely sentences: "Come out," God said, "and see the rainbow! It's a promise of my love for you."

The illustrations by Trace Moroney are nice. Noah's wife is not included in either the text or the illustrations. Another fun book, Old Noah's Elephants, compensates and makes a good companion volume to this one.

This is the first time I've been able to read this story to a child without having to 'edit' about the world being covered with water etc - sweet pix, charminlgly retoold - excellent!

Interestingly, the author views World Wars I and II, and the Cold War, essentially as one extended conflict of the North Atlantic peoples, rooted in geography and climate.
Using the adventures of a World War II infantryman of the U.S. 66th Division, a busy Liberty Ship, and a peripatetic bottle of rum as unifying elements, Hatcher inventively reinterprets the conflict through themes of sky, sand, snow, sea, and shore, more specifically, the turning point battles of Britain (air), North Africa (sand), Stalingrad (snow), North Atlantic (sea), and Normandy (shore). Along the way he touches on some old traditions of the British Navy, assesses in passing the personalities of leaders, notes the function of music and the arts in the war effort, and traces the contribution of Humphrey Bogart!
This is such an entertaining and useful work that it seems churlish to mention typos and errors ("Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is indelibly identified with the Andrews Sisters, not Bing Crosby, and who could mistake the immortal Spike Jones hit "Der Fuhrer's Face" as the work of Vaughn Monroe?). These quibbles aside, Hatcher's work is recommended as an original and highly readable contribution to the understanding of World War II, which even old buffs will find worthwhile.
(The "score" rating is an unfortunately ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)

North Atlantic Civilization at War The World War II Battles of Sky, Sand, Snow, Sea and Shore by Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, M.E. Sharpe, Publishers, 1998

In this slender, 150 page, volume, Hatcher has created a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience. He leaves the reader with a feeling of having gained perspective on a subject which tends to overwhelm one with a wealth of information. This is accomplished by focusing upon those major campaigns, the air battle of Britain, the desert battle of El Alamein, the Russian Reversal, the Atlantic Supply Route and the Anzio and Normandy Landings, which proved to be turning points of the war. By foregoing the attempt at a complete history he spares the reader the numbing effect of detail so common in military history.

This avoidance of detail is amply compensated by a very extensive reading list which reflects the wide ranging research which has gone into this work. This reading list is complimented by extensive footnotes, which mercifully appear at the end of each chapter, sufficiently elaborated to make them meaningful additions, rather than testimony to the hard work of research.

But what makes the book so enjoyable, is the skill of Hatcher the Historian, as the consummate storyteller.

"The Snow. Russian snow is unlike ordinary snow, which consists of individual flakes that descend and, sooner rather than later, melt. Rather, Russian snow drops in shovelsful - seemingly unstopping and unmelting. Like swarms of winter locusts, snow squalls swoop down. Forget flurries swirling around Alpine ridges; think blizzards blasting across Soviet steppes. Once having crossed onto Russian frost, it is almost impossible to avoid at least one Russian freezing. ----- When Hitler ordered the attack on the Soviet Union, he overwhelmingly committed German power to that campaign. Of 3,800,000 men in the army at that date, Hitler sent 3,200,000 against the Red Army, assisted by 3,500 tanks and 7,184 pieces of artillery. ---- The impression lingers that this force rode into battle. Not so; most had to walk. And if something had to arrive by transport, often the transporter had four legs - over 600,000 horses accompanied the invaders. Of their number, half died in the first winter.---- Cruel, cold death under a white blanket; folly of the highest order had taken a generation of innocents on both sides to death's deep freeze. And then there was the snow, always the snow."

Another laudable trait of the author is his willingness to offer an opinion; for example, his occasional thoughts on the necessary ingredients of a successful strategy. This provides a frame of reference for the strategic decisions of the involved commanders and the conflicts produced by the political issues facing their superiors.

Finally, I am left to wonder about the use of the word "Civilization" in the books title. Popular entertainement is surely part of a "civilization" and provides insight into the attitudes of the peoples who stood behind the war effort. It is a very effective device for readers to identify with this history, to the extend of their personal experience. But if such encompassing considerations are deemed germane, how can one completely ignore the German preoccupation with racial purity which allowed influential and otherwise well educated (civilized?) people to endorse, accept or ignore the excesses of German policy, which dealt the most devastating blow to "Western Civilization" ?

The Oresteia is of course one of the most wondrous texts of Ancient Greek civilization; however, I will discuss the translation of the text instead of the story context here. I had first purchased the Robert Fagles translation published by Penguin at the local bookstore; however, as I read the Fagles text I became more and more confused. The language Fagles uses, although beautifully written, does not closely follow the text and is hard to understand, and sometimes I would find myself rereading the same sentence over and over to try to guess the meaning. When I finally got the Lloyd-Jones translation, however, the text became much clearer, as Lloyd-Jones follows the Greek closely; although the Oresteia is by no means an easy read, I found that I could finally grasp what Aeschylus was saying. Also, Lloyd-Jones has written footnotes directly under the text, and these footnotes are very helpful. The plays in the Oresteia, especially Agamemnon, is riddled with many mythological metaphors and cultural aspects of Greek life, and the footnotes address these particular points. Hugh Lloyd-Jones really does a fantastic job at translating Aeschylus, and I highly recommend this particular edition for a great read of Greek Tragedy.

An excellent presentation of the trilogy. Way back in 1970, Sir Lloyd-Jones had come out with the three plays in individual format and filled with annotations. Now, all three plays are together. And all three plays should be required reading for new students at a university. The first play in the Oresteia trilogy (the only extant Greek trilogy) is "Agamemnon." The trilogy won First Prize at the Greater Dionesia in 458 B. C. Agamemnon returns to Argos from the Trojan War. He is killed by his wife Clytemnestra and his first cousin Aegisthus. Clytemnestra's reasons for the murder of both Agamemnon and Cassandra were questioned even in ancient Greece: was it for revenge for the death of her daughter Iphigenia or was it for her adultery with Aegisthus? In one of Pindar's odes (c. 474 B. C.), "Pythia 11", Pindar asks: "Was it Iphigeneia, who at the Euripos crossing was slaughtered far from home, that vexed her to drive in anger the hand of violence? Or was it couching in a wrong bed by night that broke her will and set her awry?" The Oresteia trilogy is a study in justice. Agamemnon's death must be avenged; but, this means matricide. Orestes, in the next play, should not have been the hand of vengence. The second play is "The Libation Bearers." It is the earliest known play containing an intrigue as the main plot. Electra, sister of Orestes, has been sent to the grave of Agamemnon to offer a libation. Clytemnestra is attempting to placate the spirit of her dead husband. When she and Aegisthus are killed by Orestes, Orestes finds that now the Furies will pursue him rather than his mother. The final play is "The Eumenides." The Eumenides are daughters of Night who avenge crimes committed by offspring against parents and who punished people who fail to keep their oaths. In this last play, Apollo purifies Orestes by washing him in pigs' blood. But the Erinyes reject Apollo's order to leave Orestes alone. The conflict is resolved via a trial overseen by Athena. This play is the earliest known drama containing a complete change of scene.

A brilliant, subtle, thought-provoking study studded with insights on every page which, thanks to the author's intimate acquaintance with the existing literature on Nazism, achieves a density and refinement worthy of the very best history books. Traverso is equally good whether citing antecedents he admires (especially Arendt), laying into those he does not (he shreds Goldhagen's already dubious reputation), or laying out his powerful but clearly still unpalatable arguments about Nazism as a crazed extension of European political trends -- colonialism, eugenics, revolutionary nationalism, industrialisation -- not an aberration contradicting them. Highly recommended.

The short commentary on this book notes, "A leading social scientist's depiction of the Holocaust as the culmination of liberal, European modernization." That's a little misleading and this very interesting analysis of the Holocaust is not as such a postmodern indictment of modernity, but an attempt to see some of the precursors of the tragedy in the deviations from true modernity such as imperialism, colonialism, instrumental rationality, etc... In all the theoretical endeavors here, amid the demands for honesty on this question, few authors dare even mention the place of Darwinism (yes, Darwinism, and not just Social Darwinism)in the picture, yet the echoes are direct once some of the real statements of Darwin and Wallace on extermination, imperialism, primitive peoples are brought out of mothballs (easier to do in France). These and many other useful insights make for a very cogent book, whether or not this is the final or best approach.

March right out and get it! It's a delightful book. This is the second book by the author that my nieces and nephews have enjoyed. The book has made music come alive for them and given them an appreciation for the challenges and joys of making music. The text and illustrations work seamlessly!

Wonderful learning book that's FUN. Our 2 year old grandson has already learned the musical instruments in a marching band. The illustrations follow the band through the four seasons and the kids' final triumph of performing in the 4th of July parade.

"Out of Hiding" is a brilliant account of a soul's journey. Honest,funny, spiritual and true. A lotus blossoming up from the mud.

This incredible collection of poems reflects Dr. Rice's profound appreciation of the depth and breadth of the human condition. His poetry reflects his unflinching attention on the enormous joys and terrible struggles facing all of us on the journey towards wholeness.
Tackling subjects as varied as Suffering ("Suffer the Suffering") to Love ("Chunky Love") his poems are sometimes passionate, sometimes funny, and always poignant.
This book is truly a gem-- a collection of deep and meaningful poetry to be read aloud with friends and loved ones again and again.
-Dolph Arniar