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This is so touching. IT show s you should not assume something when you don't know for sure. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I read it in 2 hours. READ IT=)

I read this when I was in my teens and I thought it was kind of corny but I really enjoyed the book. Jenny and Kurt (especially Kurt) seem a little unreal but hey it is fiction! Both of my parents are pilots and my mom bought this book for me.

I HAVE NOT READ THIS BOOK, but I think it's a bit amusing that someone has written biography on Jesse Mccartney.

I am a fan of his and I though this book was great.

Absolutly the best book of one the finest "artists" in recent American history. Ken Cory's work, best described as "Play Disguised" has a wonderful childlike quaility to it. Written by friends and family after his passing it chronicles his life and work with great anecdotes my favorite being the "John Colt" letter to his teacher from abroad as a teen. Excellently published with lots of wonderful drawings and photos of his work, shop and home. This book belongs on every artist's shelf! It needs to be in print for ever! A hardcover would be welcome as well. Get it NOW!

An underappreciated text about an underappreciated artist. For anyone who's convinced inventiveness has packed its bags and left the country, this is the book that will change your mind. This is a comprehensive yet readable book about the Northwest artist Ken Cory's delightfully funky, perverse, and beautifully crafted jewelry - truly little gems that most of the art world knows little about. Mitchell does a fine job of giving Cory his due credit, and putting his life and work in a context that is entirely relavent to what we think we already know about jewelry and art and craft. Extensive photos and a beautiful publication from top to bottom. Check out Mitchell's Summer 03 article in Metalsmith magazine on another diamond in the rough, Don Tompkins.

This report by Elie Weisel on the Jews of Silence helped increase greatly Western interest in the Russian Jewish community. It helped rally the Jewish world in support of the emigration movement. And eventually it helped in the liberation of the Soviet Jews from their prison. Over one million were to come to Israel in the decades ahead.
It is rare that a book has so much influence. A courageous witness like Elie Weisel deserves great credit for this historical ' miracle'.

This book, is a classic testament to the brutal persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union during the dark days of Communist opression.
With both poetic and potent eloquency Wiesel describes the atmosphere of fear and silence, that reigned among Soviet Jewry during the 1960's when this book was written. The attempts to force Jews to abandon their faith and identity, and to cut ties with their brothers and sisters in Israel, by the malignant and brutal Communist tyrants. then there was the daily disparagement of the State of Israel and the maligning of Zionism by the State Media (something we see in may countries around the world today).
Indeed even though Communist tyranny in Russia has collapsed, the crusade of hate by the Left, formulated by Soviet propagandists has only got more vicious and irascible, in recent years.
In South Africa, for example, a hard-core Stalinist Cabinet Minister, (of Jewish descent) trained and educated in the old Soviet Union, daily comes up with venomous and ruthless attacks on the Jewish State and it's supporters, and is directing a campaign of ethnic hatred against Israel and it's Jews.
But the Jews of the Soviet Union refused to forget who they were, or to give up their faith or their love for the State of Israel.
Reffering to the violent anti-Israel propaganda formulated in the Soviet Union, the author explains : "The purpose of such propaganda is to make Israel seem hateful to the general populace but to the Jews as well, to undermine the esteem in which they hold the Jewish state, and to convince them finally to relinquish an idea which has failed, a vision of redemption which has somehow been made profane..."
But this form of psychological warfare, directed against the Jewish dream, and designed to divide Jews of the diaspora from their own people in Israel, failed in Russia.
Jews all over the world need to reject it, wherever it raises it's ugly head.
As Wiesel describes 'there are Jews who will under no circumstances let themselves be severed from their people'.

Stephen's writing is polished and clear--very refreshing for this type of book. This is an interesting read, one wishes they could sit next to the fire and chat with Jo Moro. A must for anyone's bookshelf!

What a rare find! What a loss for those who never knew Mora

This book is one of the best Joan Mitchell books I have. However, I found it for much much cheaper than 100 dollars. If you can locate a cheaper copy, I would recommend buying this book. The color plates are very good.

The other book that compares is the Whitney Museum book:

The Paintings of Joan Mitchell (Whitney Museum of American Art) by Jane Livingston

The narrative is interesting, but the main purpose for this book, at least for me, is a collection of pictures of her work. This book has the most complete collection of her work that I've found. The plates are large, beautfiul, and very well done, allowing you to see lots of detail! If you are interested in Joan Mitchell you should absolutely get this book.

I saw her retrospective when it came to Alabama a few years ago. It was the best show I have ever seen. It blew me away. Transcendental and sensual and alive. Up there with Rothko, Bonnard, late Picasso.

I am sure that this book will decrease in price, but if you are a lover of Joan's work, some of you won't wait. The book includes, oil, pastel and charcoal works on paper. All of the work is abstract and alive.

However, for those beginning to view Mitchell's work, you might look at this other book first. It has more of her large oils, which she is best known for. In addition, it contains more images and is cheaper.

The Paintings of Joan Mitchell (Whitney Museum of American Art) (Paperback)
by Jane Livingston (Author)

Since I wrote this review, the book of Joan Mitchell's Works on Paper has gone up to a ridiculous price. I do not know why.

This is an amazing, luscious Italian baking book. It highlights traditional expected recipes and ones that are rarely known, most often used only in Italian home cooking. The results you get are ecstasy and there is not the overuse of sugar that is so often found in baking and sweets. The pictures are wonderful, I only wish each recipe had one. Basically, that is the only flaw with this book. The orange tart is one I had never heard of, but was amazing. The cheesecakes & various other fruit and citrus tarts are wonderful. The author provides clear, concise instructions and details about Italian baking and life that's fun to read about. This book is also a pleasure just to look through.

We tried several recipes and all of them were absolutely wonderful. This is by far the best dessert cookbook I have ever owned. I'm looking forward to trying one of her other cookbooks.

No more Ms/Mr. Nice Guy, yet so nice to see good guys/gals come out n top by being humble leaders and giveing credit to the employees and not themselves all the time, this book is just a wonderful real Leders view... thanks for the "refresher course!"

I am overwhelmed at what this superior book has taught me...and I REALLY ENJOYED the read. I have to go...got to read it again...Michael Brunie

In this collection of scathing essays from _The Underground Grammarian_, Richard Mitchell took on the educational establishment and tore it to bits.

Though his ostensible target was the slipshod use of language, he did not limit himself to the niceties of grammar; far from it. He shredded the popular theories of "education" that threatened (and still threaten) to turn children's minds to mush; he defended children's literature that didn't talk down to kids, didn't emasculate their stories into plotless little sessions of feelgood warmfuzziness, and didn't treat young readers as subjects for indoctrination into the latest forms of political mumbo-jumbo; and in e.g. his attacks on "bilingual" education, he decimated "political correctness" before it was called that.

This collection includes what I think is the absolute cream of Mitchell's _UG_ essays, among them some that deserve to become classics. For example, his profound love of intellectual liberty, and his corresponding loathing for any obfuscation that threatened it, make his "Politics and the Eglinsh [sic] Language" a worthy successor to Orwell's famous essay.

For my money, this is Mitchell's best book. I bought and read it when it was new -- and now that a reprint is available, I'm about to buy and read it again.

I remember perusing shelves at the University of New Orleans' library and finding a book with this intriguing title. I leafed through it idly until I came upon an essay with the title, "To be to Some chewed Books Tasted Are Swallowed to Digested, and Others be, and Some be Few." In it he was describing a workbook exercise in which children were to un-garble garbled sentences. Mitchell pointed out, "Even the dullest students should be able, as instructed, to 'rewrite each group of words to make a clear and sensible sentence.' But *why*, dammit? *Why*?" I laughed out loud-- this was the first time my objections about undemanding schoolwork had ever been vindicated, and by a professor at that! He then went on to point out the inherent (and multiple levels of) absurdity of several examples of time-wasting foolishness in virtually every single essay in the book. I was, and am, hooked. URLs are forbidden from reviews, but website names aren't. If you've enjoyed any of Professor Mitchell's work, got to the Sourcetext website and you will be pleasantly surprised.