Moore Books

Living in the Southwestern Chihuahuan desert, I am always on the search for sources of information regarding local flora and particularly ethnobotanical uses of plants. This is an excellent guide originally published in 1947 and edited by Michael Moore who I consider to be an expert on herbal uses of native southwestern plants. For anyone interested in this subject, a fabulous resource to have in your library!

Laura Curtin lived and worked among the curanderas and Native Americans of Northern New Mexico during the early part of the twentieth century. She fell in love with the plants and their lore, and later, at the prompting of a friend, decided to record them. Healing Herbs was first published in 1947, at a time when interest in traditional healing in Northern New Mexico was in decline. It helped preserve traditional information for a new generation -- when editor Michael Moore arrived in Santa Fe in the 1960s he found copies of Curtin's book as a prized possession in many traditional households. The book is unique in the literature of ethnobotany in that it was written essentially by an insider in the tradition, rather than by an observer doing interviews.

The journal received exactly the way it was described. The seller is honest.

This was the first Beth Moore Bible study I did and what an introduction! This is tied with "Jesus, the One and Only" as my favorite study of hers, with "A Woman's Heart: God's Dwelling Place" being second. "A Heart Like His" goes through the ups and downs of David's life, from childhood through death from old age and examines why the Bible calls him "a man after God's own heart." It was inspiring for me to learn about this man, who lived an imperfect life (think Bathsheba, Uriah, etc.), and was still a friend of God because he loved God in his heart. Most of the stories were familiar, but the author brings a completely different viewpoint and depth to the text which I have never experienced. Beth Moore delves deeply into the original Hebrew texts and gives a much more complete picture of scripture than reading it in English ever could. She has an inspired understanding of the Word of God. Although Beth is Southern Baptist, her studies are truly ecumenical. At my Presbyterian (PCUSA) church, we are about to start our fifth study of hers and I know the Episcopal church in town has done several of her studies, too. I've never met anyone who was disappointed in one of her studies. I HIGHLY recommend you view the video tape series along with the workbook. I would add my husband is currently doing this study and is enjoying it very much. I'm nor exactly sure why Beth Moore primarily limits her ministry to women, but I'm certainly not going to question her calling!

This book radiates with the beauty of Henry Moore, and helps us to recognize those more recent sculptors such as Donald Wright, who have perhaps surpassed the master.

Moore is one of the most beloved sculptors of the 20th century, yet his work has fallen out of favor with the modern critics: this seeks to reassess Moore's crucial contribution to art of the last century, examining his early experiments with primitivism and his later probe into modernist pieces. The focus on his early works in particular provides Moore enthusiasts with a body of works and approaches not seen in many other considerations of his works.

I bought this book as a gift for a child in my life. She enjoyed the book and I did, as well. It's definitely a conversation starter for a school-aged child who is interested in marching to her/his own drum.

Thank you, Anne Elizabeth Moore, for caring enough to write this irreverent and excellent book.

I borrowed this book from a friend and now I am ordering a copy for myself because it is excellent. My kids and I all loved it. I was using it for bedtime stories, and ended up reading two or three per night because my kids begged for more. The stories are very sweet, and appropriate for even very small children. This book is for families who are bringing up their children to think liberally about religion as the stories are about accepting different views of God. The book can help you teach children that although we do not all believe the same things about God, that doesn't mean some of us are right and others are wrong.

This book has wonderful, insightful, stories that make it easy for children to understand the various concepts of God. They are super starting places for conversations on the topic, and also interestng for the parent! The stories are not negative to any view point, other than showing that many views are valid.

Starts with an intriguingly traumatic near-death experience in San Francisco, and moves on to a search for sweetness and light across Europe and Asia. The opening is vivid, the odyssey is reflective. A beautifully written account of one man's wanderings and wonderings.

After a hit-and-run driver left him near death in San Francisco, Piers Moore Ede had to rebuild his life on several levels. Ede's painful recovery involved healing his psyche as much as tending to life-altering physical wounds. Shattered, shaken, and feeling utterly without focus, Ede began a journey to search for reasons for his continued existence.
During a stint working on an organic farm in Italy, Ede encounters a beekeeper who ignites his enthusiasm to visit hives around the globe. From the rooftops of New York to the cliffs of Nepal, Ede takes readers on a guided tour to places both familiar and exotic. The bulk of Honey and Dust details travels in the Middle East and Asia; African adventures are sadly and inexplicably missing from Ede's travelogue.
Using his formidable strengths as both a storyteller and a journalist, Ede cleverly integrates accounts of traditional ways of life now perilously close to extinction with humorous anecdotes of his encounters with a wide range of characters and experiences in faraway settings. Included in his fast-paced tale is the obligatory "confrontation with alarming foreign foodstuffs," which Ede describes with such clarity as to make the readers stomach churn slightly on his behalf, even while chortling over his clash of cultures.
Ede has clearly done extensive research for this wonderful book, citing a wide range of factual and literary sources. He masterfully intersperses historical facts about the role of honey in various cultures with his first-hand observations of current political and sociological events affecting the lands he visits. Honey and Dust is written with Ede's highly evident love for the planet and the myriad inhabitants that contribute to its vibrancy. Lamenting those changes that imperil the environment, as well as the negative impact that the increasing encroachment of Western way of life is wreaking on ancient civilizations, Ede provides readers with a bittersweet account of his adventurous quest. Thoughtful, engaging, and moving, Honey and Dust is an irresistible treat.

This is a really well-put-together book! Great instructions/lessons. Really good to use for anyone who does lapbooks!

I have used this book more than any other. I teach workshops all over the state and have shown this book countless times. When it was not returned to me after a workshop I was sick when I heard it was no longer available. When it came out in reprint I bought 3 copies, just in case one was taken again. Well worth the money.

I read "Hypersentience" in 1978, and it's stayed with me all these years. It's probably the best and most *down-to-earth* book on the subject I've read (still to this day), and I highly recommend it to anyone who's interested in the subject.

I read HYPERSENTIENCE shortly after its publication in 1976. It is a fascinating book, full of interesting case histories based on Marcia Moore's work with past-life regression, and full of information on techniques which she used in the course of her work. Interest in the therapeutic value of past-life regression has spread widely through the psychological and psychiatric community and resulted in the invaluable research of Raymond Moody, Roger Woolger, Brian Weiss and others. All of them - not to mention their clients - owe a powerful debt to Marcia Moore.

The book, frankly, is a how-to guide for past-life regression, and debunks many of the myths surrounding that particular discipline. First of all, it emphasizes that, contrary to the work of sensationalistic authors like Frank de Felitta (author of AUDREY ROSE), one cannot be seriously harmed by it. If Marcia's techniques are used, the client (whom she calls the sensor) remains totally in control at all times, and if the memories that come up are so painful they can't face them, the subject can come out of his or her trance at will. (I had this happen more than once with my clients.)

The second myth she debunks is that the facilitator (the regression therapist) simply plants suggestions into the mind of the sensor. In Marcia's technique, the facilitator bends over backwards to avoid planting suggestions. There are ways to "prime the pump" and bring up memories without planting suggestions.

The third myth that Marcia dashes is that the memories that come up are always to be accepted as gospel truth. No facilitator worth their salt believes that. It's not that the technique is faulty. Memory is faulty. How well can you remember everything that happened to you last week? But Marcia did believe that even if regression material was mistaken, or off track, or even faked (and yes, people do fake it - but a good regression therapist can spot a faker easily) it still told the therapist something valuable about the sensor. So even if one doesn't totally accept reincarnation, studying HYPERSENTIENCE can shed light on new ways to learn more about the human psyche.

Marcia Moore died long before enlightened and open-minded scientists, primarily students of modern quantum physics, took a second look at the questions of immortality and reincarnation - and began to wonder if there wasn't something to it. Some have even formulated theories that Marcia knew about way back in the early days of the New Age. Wherever she is, I'm sure she is gratified that the latest discoveries about the nature of the Universe are beginning to coincide with the theories surrounding immortality.

I worked with Marcia Moore from 1976 through late 1978, shortly before she died - and with her encouragement wrote books of my own about reincarnation and its implication for society. Yet whenever I give a workshop in past-life regression, I still use HYPERSENTIENCE as a text - even though it's been out of print for a long time. Would that some enlightened publisher would bring it back into print.

Is this what the psychiatrists mean when they speak of character dissociation? Throughout a day spent in the emotionally vulnerable state of premenstrual stress, the protagonist continually runs up against reminders of the most trying times of her life, with disastrous emotional echoes.

An amazing book. The story of Mary Dunne's life is told in the space of just one day's meetings and memories. And over and over she asks herself the same question throughout the book that you must ask: Is she losing her mind? Or is this just a bad and shaky moment, exacerbated by hormonal changes?

Any woman that has ever suffered through a day with the glibly labelled PMS will recognize Mary's Mad Twin. And among those, many of us must also identify with her fearful sense of lost identity, and fears of the wide open edges of mental dysfunction.

Frightening, internal, true-to-life - this is not a book to read in an off-balance moment. But it is an amazing internal portrait of a woman. It would be an amazing portrait even if it was written by a woman; how much more so when written by a man! Yet Moore seems to effortlessly empathize completely and realistically. He has once again created a wholly believable and poignant character whom we must follow through the toils of her personal hell.

On a whim, I purchased a frayed copy of this book in a thrift shop because it was published the year I was born, and I wanted to get a peek into the culture of that time. I certainly didn't expect to aquire one of the most affecting novels I've ever read. Moore, who also wrote the wrenching JUDITH HEARNE - - filmed as THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE with Maggie Smith in 1987 - - has an elegant and inviting voice that immediately draws you into the persona of his heroine. (The book is told in the first person.) The writer displays subtle but complete authority as a storyteller, alternating humor with pathos, and reading this poignant and eerie character study is (to use a cliche) a treat....one that I would highly recommend.

I Know Some Things: Stories About Childhood By Contemporary Writers is a compilation of engaging, individual literary tales about childhood that cut across gender, age, class, ethnicity, and geography. Here to be found memorable stories of heartache and joy, growing up, and viewing the world in new and different ways. The authors include Glenda Adams, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Charles Baxter, Catherine Brady, Harold Brodkey, Charles D'Ambrosio Jr., D.J. Durnam, Max Garland, Spalding Grey, Jamaica Kincaid, Richard McCann, Peter Meinke, Leonard Michaels, Susan Minot, Alice Munro, Catherine Petroski, Sheila Schwartz, Amy Tan, and Stephanie Vaughan. I Know Some Things is highly recommended, rewarding reading.

Even a glance through the table of contents in Lorrie Moore's newly reprinted "I Know Some Things" demontrates its utility for the teacher of creative writing. We tell our students to write about what they know, and what they know at least is their own life history. The stories in this collection, representing a range of today's talented writers, also represents the range of experience the writers had between their early childhood and their middle teenage years. The volume thereby would come in handy as a set of models for young writers in a secondary or college creative writing class.