Morgan Books

This is the real one. Cheesy clones by Chopra and others, even using the same title, abound. This book actually includes a clear short and comfortable way to measure your own aging. Useful when you quit smoking, try a new diet, or enjoy a great relationship. Each time you can see how much younger (or older) it has made you. Everybody is different and this quiet self help tool recognizes individual differences. The hypnosis chapters are my favorite. Its been a great gift.

"The best self-help book I've ever read- wise, authoritative, hopeful and without the cliches and facile generalizations that often mar this genre."
- Judy Stoffman, Senior Editor, Today Magazine

"The first practical handbook for layman or researcher on the conquest of human aging."
- Raymond J. Prohaska, Chairman, Foundation for the Study of Aging

"An important, vital contribution... a wealth of information that brings past research into present-day perspective and focus... practical tools for developing, verifying and exploring our own abilities... Genuine food for thought to the scientist, layman, clinician and dreamer alike."
- Victor Rausch, D.D.S. and Hypnosis Expert

"An enormous wealth of information relating to human growth and aging process... They are to be congratulated for putting together an instructive, comprehensive text that reads like a novel."
- David B. Cheek, M.D., F.A.C.S.

"The enduring optimism that is the tone of this book leaves one feeling almost warm... Those who read it may soon discover a path to a longer, livelier and lovelier life."
- Stephen A. Chris, Ph.D., Waterloo County Board of Education

One issue that I grapple with frequently is the difference between "art" and "illustration". In the world of fine art illustrators are generally looked on as an inferior breed by the critics. In his introduction to "Hardyware" David A. Hardy expresses his reproof at modern art's derision of anything beautiful or representational.

This got me thinking. If SF art is "mere illustration" as an art critic would say, what about all those historical paintings of heaven and hell, the last judgement and armageddon? Critics seem to love those.

But I digress. SF art does have its place, and it plays an important role. The main body of "Hardyware" gives us a glimpse of the possibilties that await us in the future. If things turn out properly and we don't destroy ourselves, our descendents will become great builders with the potential to conquer the stars. Most of the artwork in this collection is done in gouache and acrylic, although more recently the artist has turned to digital media.

We see visions of the past as well as the future. One of my favourite pieces is a scene from "The War of the Worlds". I remember seeing that image on a cover jacket when I was 12, although I didn't know who the artist was back then. The image of a dinosaur looking up at a descending asteroid is hauntingly grim.

I often think SF artists are underrated. Though they are often proved wrong, their visions provide a valuable contribution to the development of our civilization, giving inspiration to those who have the ability to make fantasy a reality.

This super book contains well over a hundred examples of the work of perhaps our best living space artist, along with a fascinating text full of insights into his thinking and his modus operandi.

In "Healthy Living Made Easy", orthomolecular nutritionist Steven Whiting deftly draws upon his considerable expertise in the field of human nutrition to provide non-specialist general readers with an informed and informative introduction and overview of what they need to know in order to have a comprehensive and applicable basis for establishing a healthy diet for a sound body, engaging in effective exercise for weight management, and create a personalized supplement program that will best maximize their personal health and well-being regardless of their age or circumstance. "Healthy Living Made Easy" truly lives up to the promise of its title as Whiting explains how we can dine out in the restaurants of our choice and still maintain healthy eating standards, how to exercise for personal fitness in just 90 minutes a week, get everything we need by way of vitamins and minerals through selected supplements based on a single formula, and most especially, how to customize a diet and supplement program to an individualized need. "Healthy Living Made Easy" should be a part of every community library's Health & Medicine reference collection, and is confidently recommended reading for anyone seeking to master their own health challenges, preventing illness, and even reversing a wide range of ailments that currently afflict them.

I love this book!

I've been a health nut for 30 years during that time many things have changed and been learned about health and nutrition. The title for the book is perfect. The author really has made things simple and it's right up to date with what I know about health and wellness today.

This is the first book I have read that actually explains nutritional deficiencies and how to spot if you have any...AND what to do if you have. The exercise section makes perfect sense and fits in a fast paced modern society with room to spare.

But the part I like the best is in the second half of the book where everything about supplements and why we need to take them is explained in simple plain English. There's a list with dozens of common ailments, where the true cause of the problem is explained, and the solution in the form of the right nutrients, in the right amounts, to reduce or eliminate the problem is suggested.

This is the kind of stuff we should be teaching kids in school today.
It has much more relevance in a modern world that most topics.
I think every home should have this book!

E.M. Forster's novel is a wonderful allegorical masterpiece which deals with the need (or consequences of failure) to connect. Exploring the tumultuous interactions of the Wilcoxes, Schelgels and Basts, Forster is compassionate with his characters as they explore the question: "who will inherit England."

A masterpiece, magical and elegant in style.

In this 1910 story of Edwardian England, Forster illustrates the conflicts between the superior attitudes of the aristocracy and a developing feeling of obligation toward the "lower" classes which World War I will soon bring into sharp relief. Margaret and Helen Schlegel are intellectual and sensitive to the arts, with compassionate hearts for those less fortunate.

When Margaret, at age twenty-nine, is affianced to a much older widower, Henry Wilcox, this conflict of attitudes is brought to the fore. Henry, insensitive and believing himself actually entitled to his family's privileges, is cold and reserved, though Margaret believes that "Henry must be forgiven and made better by love."

Helen, her sister, a 21-year-old with an enthusiasm for the life of the imagination, has no sympathy for Henry's staid pronouncements and failure to pay attention to the people "below him" who are dependent upon his whims. When a young clerk finds himself out of his bank job as a result of something Henry has said, Henry refuses his wife's entreaties to give the destitute Leonard a job.

Immensely sympathetic to the economic position of the poor and women, Forster illustrates their financial dependence on others. Margaret, who secures the reader's total sympathy, must try to educate a close-minded dolt like Henry, but she achieves only limited success. Later, his belief that Helen reflects negatively upon himself and his family inspires a disaster with far-reaching consequences.

Filled with incisive observations and great wit, the novel follows the narrative pattern of a melodrama, but Forster's sensitivity to both sides--the practical and conservative values of Henry vs. the emotional and idealistic sides of Margaret and Helen--elevates the novel above the tawdry. With the action centered around the Wilcox home at Howard's End, the reader realizes that the estate is a microcosm for the conflicts of the nation.

This edition, thoroughly annotated, is the definitive critical edition containing resource material and an explication of references. Comprehensive background material for the period, critical analysis of Forster's themes, and careful notes throughout this novel provide a wealth of research materials for the literary critic and historian. Mary Whipple

When I read this book I felt a certain nostalgia, because the "Howl" obscenity trial took place fifty years ago when I was a kid, and the Beatnik writers, of whom Ginsberg became the most famous, seem so rarified to me now. It's as though they had been filmed in black and white and the movies now jump and rattle as we watch them, the images scratched, browned and antiquarian. Also, it gave me considerable pleasure to know that the government censorship that the "not guilty" judgment in that trial abolished had remained abolished ever since.

In October, 2007, however, I learned that this is not true.

For the fiftieth anniversary of the trial, Pacifica Radio, the organization made up of the community-supported radio stations KPFA, KPFK, WBAI and others, considered the possibility of broadcasting a reading of the poem "Howl". It happens that, besides being the object of a landmark First Amendment freedom of speech judgment in a court of law, "Howl" is one of the truly remarkable poems of the twentieth century. So a commemoration of it seemed altogether laudable. But because of feared Federal Communications Commission rules on what constitutes obscene or unacceptable speech on the public airwaves, Pacifica determined not to do the broadcast on its stations. They worry that if the FCC fines them for broadcasting unacceptable speech, they will have to involve themselves in a freedom of speech trial, the costs of which could bankrupt Pacifica and put the stations out of business.

So the problem is subtler now than it was in 1957. You don't have to wait for actual censorship itself. The very fear that it will come causes organizations to muzzle themselves now. Perhaps you'd win in a trial. But you don't test the waters willy-nilly because you'll drown in the attorney fees that will result, no matter the judgment in court.

Luckily, though, we have the internet. The rules regarding broadcasting do not pertain to webcasts, and Pacifica has posted a reading of "Howl" by Ginsberg himself on their site (http://www.audioport.org/audioport_files/specials/Howl-Final-128.mp3) as part of a longer program in which a very illuminating discussion of the history of the poem's publication, the 1957 trial and the importance of the poem as literature can also be found. Besides the poem itself, the highlight of the program is a conversation with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, now eighty-eight years old, the San Francisco poet and bookseller who originally published "Howl."

The First Amendment right guaranteeing free speech is the issue here, even though it's being obscured by the FCC's self-important view of what constitutes "acceptable" speech. But even though the situation highlights the true dunderheaded silliness of the FCC's point of view, all is not bad, because the censorship of an artistic event by the government usually results in unruly fame for that event.

Poetry is not much read in the United States, and without the 1957 trial, "Howl" would probably have remained an important work by an obscure poet, read only by students in the academy and the struggling few who actually write poetry themselves. But because of the trial, Howl, And Other Poems has now sold almost a million copies, and continues to sell briskly. Happily, it is such a fine poem, so terrifying a view of contemporary society, and one so beautifully written that it is my opinion that few who read it will be unaffected by it.

Ginsberg was culturally prescient as well. In the second section of the poem, a long accusation of American industrial/government rapaciousness, he uses the figure of Moloch as a symbol of corporate indifference to the individual.

"Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose
blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!"

The biblical Moloch was one of the princes of Hell. A terrifying demon, he is described by Milton in Paradise Lost as "besmeared with blood/Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears," a fearsome devil who eats the children of the faithful. Ginsberg's Moloch is the self-serving corporate entity who, for money, foments armed conflict. A more accurate metaphor for the current war footing of the United States cannot be found.

Perhaps the muffling of "Howl" in 2007 will bring about the same firestorm of wild enthusiasm on the part of a general public that the 1957 trial caused. As was the case as described in this fine book by Nancy. J Peters and Bill Morgan, this would be a humorous and good thing, and it may just happen. One hopes that imaginative minds will prevail against the FCC watchdogs of your public morals, in the way that Judge Clayton W. Horn prevailed, who officiated at the 1957 "Howl" obscenity trial. He wrote in his opinion, "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemism?"

The answer, of course, is no.

Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets)

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl and Other Poems", Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression presents the inside story of editing, publishing, and defending the poem Howl in the context of censorship of literary works, and the 1957 obscenity trial in San Francisco that supposedly represented "the people" versus City Lights, the bookshop that published and sold "Howl and Other Poems." Howl on Trial includes correspondence between Allen Ginsberg and numerous others concerning the poem and efforts to censor it; a selection of newspaper reportage, magazine essays, cartoons, photographs, and letters to the editor that reveal the cultural climate of the mid-1950s; excerpts from the trial transcript; ACLU defense counsel Albert Bendich's reflections on the Howl case; and much more. A fascinating examination of the battle for free speech in microcosm, offering insights into the ongoing struggle for the right to express ideas without fear or harassment.

As a mom of two and a former elementary school teacher, I can fully and whole-heartedly reccommend this wonderful series by Katie Evans. Your child will ask you to read this delightful easy on the eyes and ears book again and again, all the while developing phoenemic awareness and other vital reading skills. TRUST me - you will love this book as well as Hunky Dory Ate it- Ms. Evans' first book- Happy Reading!

My discerning 3-year-old loved this one. The story is interesting enough to keep the listener's attention, yet repetitive enough to let him or her participate (e.g. screaming out the title, every other page). Illustrations are great, too. I'm going to buy this for my friends' kids.

I'm Ready For My Rainbow is a collection of thought provoking, heart warming poetry. The reader is ispired and uplifted for having spent time with this small volume. It is a book worth reading many times over.

Excellent Christian poetry. Joy speaks of heart issues that we, especially women, deal with. She doesn't stop with identifying the areas of struggle, but completes the circle by leading us to Christ where the answers are. Makes a great gift especially high school age and up.

I've used this in my classes and students enjoy it. Fits counseling, clinical psychology & sociology, social work training.

"This collection of essays is on a theme which should interest every mental health practitioner: the ilnesses caused by our very attempts to cure people. It gives the reader a valuable humility."
- Dr. Rollo May, celebrated Existential Psychologist

"This is the sort of book which inspires hope... it presents considerable basis for hope that self-examination and public scrutiny will lead to a moderation in the negative consequences of receiving help."
- Dr. Nelson Jones, University of Denver

"An interesting, varied and valuable collection."
- Dr. Bertram P. Karon, Michigan State University

"This is an unusually alive book... we learn about the innumerable situations in the healing arts where the cure is worse than the disease... A feisty book that keeps up interest throughout."
- Dr. Ernst G. Beier, University of Utah

"Something every clinical therapist should know prior to starting a clinical practice."
- Dr. Roland Garcia, U.S. Public Health Service

"Like all anthologies, this one offers variety. The result should please Morgan, whose aim is to debunk sacred cows. It is this goal to which the book is joyfully dedicated, and if the shoe fits, it will hurt."
- Dr. Hans Toch, School of Criminal Justice, New York State University

...Then buy this book! A keeper

The best book on Idaho since Vardis Fisher's classic over fifty years ago, and quite possibly the best travel guide ever written.. A blend of coloful history with unusual current places to see, stay, eat, and visit. Includes great color maps by cartoonist Don Gill.

This book is the required text for a course I am taking in a DBA program. I have taken quite a few courses in research and read many books, but this is the best book I have ever used for research. The book is actually enjoyable to read. I will rely on this book for as long as I am in the program and throughout my dissertation research.

This text is an top notch tool for understanding both research design and data analysis. The authors take an excellent approach to helping one understand the research process. As a professor of research design, I use this text in my classroom and recommend it wholeheatedly to anyone teaching research design or trying to learn it on their own. The text is well organized and the concepts are clearly developed.