Powell Books

This beautiful book is a celebration of music and color. The creativity-inspiring poem and colorfully animated musicians and instruments give children words and visual images they can use to express their own physical and emotional responses to music.

This book is an excellent source for inspiration for children and adults and can be used to explore all the creative intentions that lie in music. What I like most about this book is that when I read it to my child I find myself being just as interested! Great illustrations. Great story. Great Book.

Rosen's 'Primary sources of Revolutionary Scientific Discoveries and Theories' set adds an important new contribution to the series with Hubble And The Big Bang, a 64-page survey of both Hubble and his contributions to astronomy. Opening with an introduction to astronomy as a whole, chapters quickly zero in on Hubble's theories and contribution to cosmology and conclude with a summary timeline of events, primary source transcriptions, a bibliography, primary source image list and index. Intriguing color illustrations pepper Hubble And The Big Bang but the text is the meat of this coverage and is suitable report material for grades 3-5. Even more notable is the fact that Hubble is seldom awarded his own in-depth coverage for this age group.

Rosen's 'Primary sources of Revolutionary Scientific Discoveries and Theories' set adds an important new contribution to the series with Hubble And The Big Bang, a 64-page survey of both Hubble and his contributions to astronomy. Opening with an introduction to astronomy as a whole, chapters quickly zero in on Hubble's theories and contribution to cosmology and conclude with a summary timeline of events, primary source transcriptions, a bibliography, primary source image list and index. Intriguing color illustrations pepper Hubble And The Big Bang but the text is the meat of this coverage and is suitable report material for grades 3-5. Even more notable is the fact that Hubble is seldom awarded his own in-depth coverage for this age group.

Wow! Ten years have past and this collection can still hold its own! I can across it during a sociology class--it offers a vivid snapshot of a generation of thinkers. Many like Powell and Anderson-Thompkins have gone on to write books and articles about race.

In the traditions is a good collection of poetry and short stories from african americans from the early 90's. Some of the writers included are even more known today for some of their other works since this collection was written.

I had read it for many times, and I could find something new every time I read.

This is my favorite volume of poetry. He writes with the fire and heat he praises. The poetry crackles and burns the whole way through. My fingers and eyes have been singed by his feverish words. While I am not as versed in the classical imagery he summons, the work is nonetheless powerful and accessible. His poems written in the form of letters to friends, lovers, relatives are particularly affecting. But above all his writing burns and reminds me of the fever I live with every day, of the immedicacy and hot thrill of being alive. He argues that "recalcitrance to change" may slowly wear us down, and that the battering of ourselves against rocks shooting downstream in dangerous rapids can preserve us... This makes sense to me. I could recommend no other text so highly

Killjoy: A Cop's Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse by business and surety consultant Corine Quarterman (in collaboration with former police officer and juvenile abuse prevention expert Rollie Powell), utilizes true life case studies to illustrate and document how child sexual abuse erodes the social contract which is essential to the foundation of a democratic and law abiding society -- and toxic to families both short term and long term. Especially appropriate for the non-specialist general reader, Killjoy is a timely and welcome contribution to the growing national dialogue about the prevention and punishment of familial and opportunistic child abusers and their victims.

As the mother of two young children, I recommend this book to every parent. I also believe that anyone working with children (teachers, social workers, law enforcement, camp counselors, baysitters)MUST read this book! You could help protect a child. Anyone interested in true crime books will also find this book fascinating. Not only was I quickly educated on what pedophilia and child sexual abuse are, I realized how big a problem this really is, and how quickly is 'spreads' like a disease. More importantly, I learned about the warning signs of abuse and realized I saw some of those signs in my own children. A closer look at my own kids revealed serious problems in their daycare and I removed them immediately. Thank God I read this book!

Although this book does not go into great depth about the subject, it is well written and will leave the reader longing to make a trip to the lake. The author presents the controversy about the damn in a well balanced manner and keeps the focus of the book on the existing treasures of the lake.

This is the best book ever written about this subject. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in the beauty and history of Utah.

I got this book for my first grade son, who is intrigued by stories of early settlers. We highly recommend this book! Over several evenings, I read this book to my boys (age 6 and 4). The story was very engrossing --there was so much that my boys wanted to discuss each time we stopped reading. They enjoyed thinking about what decisions they would have made on such an expedition. The story is written very well. The pictures are fabulous.

You may have heard of Lake Powell, the man-made reservoir on the Colorado River found on the border between Arizona and Utah, that was created by the flooding of Glen Canyon. The reservoir is named for John Wesley Powell, a one-armed veteran of the Civil War who explored the river on a pair of boats in 1869, and is considered one of the most scenic lakes in the United States. "The Last River: John Wesley Powerll & the Colorado River Exploring Expedition" by Stuart Waldman, illustrated by Gregory Manchess, tells the story of an unlikely bunch of explorers. The ten men that boarded four row boats in Green River City, Wyoming in May 1869 included a one-armed geology professor, an emotional disturbed Civil War veteran, an Englishman whose knowledge of the west came from dime store novels, and a group of free-spirited westerners who did not take kindly to orders. Their mission was to explore the Colorado River, the last unexplored river in America, which flowed through hundreds of miles of canyons. Three months and a thousand miles later, only two of the boats and six of the men would emerge from the Grand Canyon.

After covering the geological origins of the Colorado River, Waldman tells how Powell, who lost his arm in the Civil War, became a professor of geology interested in the Rocky Mountains, and how the expedition was organized. The expedition itself involves running rapids and "lining" boats along the more dangerous ones, losing boats and men along the way. In addition to the paintings by Manchess there are black & white photographs of what these men saw, such as Flaming Gorge and Desolation Canyon, taken by John K. Hillers who traveled on Powell's later surveys of the Colorado River and its canyons. Often in the margins you will find sidebars containing quotes from the journals and letters of expedition members. The result is a solid introduction to the history of the expedition that will give young readers a sense of how difficult it was to explore the Colorado River. The main text ends by talking about the series of scientific expeditions Powell organized over the next decade that completed the first geological study of the Grand Canyon in 1880, so that by 1882 the map of the United States no longer had any blank spaces.

The Lewis & Clark Expedition is the greatest story of exploration and discovery in the history of the United States, and while the effort and consequences were decidedly smaller in scale, the Colorado River Exploration is in that same tradition. Waldman focuses on the story of the expedition, thereby emphasizing the journey itself rather than its results. One of the nice touches of this book is that the title page opens up to display a map of the area that traces the route of the expedition so that students can read about Powell's travels and follow them on the map at the same time. The back of the book has a section that tells what happened to the ten members of the expedition after it was over, and a list of sources, including Powell's own "The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons." Consequently, young readers who are inspired by this book to find out more about the expedition and its leader will be pointed in the right direction.

Andrew Powell is the founding chair of the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP). A fellow of the RCP, he practiced medicine as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in London and Oxford for more than a quarter century. Dr. Powell was educated at the Braynston School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He attended St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London for his clinical training and received his bachelor of medicine degree with distinction and his bachelor of surgery degree from Cambridge in 1969. After working first in psychiatry and then in general medicine, he took two years of post-graduate training in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London, followed by three years of post-graduate training in psychotherapy there. Dr. Powell served as a consultant psychotherapist and chief of the department of psychotherapy at St. George's Hospital, London, and a senior lecturer in psychiatry at the University of London from 1978 to 1989 where he was co-director of the master's degree program in psychotherapy. For the next eleven years, he was consultant psychotherapist at Warneford Hospital in Oxford and honorary senior lecturer in psychotherapy at Oxford University. He served as co-director of Oxford's introductory course in psychodynamic therapy. A member of the Royal College of Physicians, the Institute of Group Analysis in London, and the British Psychodrama Association, Dr. Powell has published numerous papers in scientific and medical journals. He is also the co-author (with Bisong Guo) of Listen to Your Body: The Wisdom of Dao, which was published in 2001 by the University of Hawaii Press.

Dr. Bisong Guo, MD was born in China and studied Western medicine at Fuzhou Medical School before specialising in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She later joined the staff of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. For more than twenty-five years she has intensively practised qigong, studying with Buddhist qigong masters and Daoist monks in remote mountainous regions of China. In 1989 she moved to England and established a TCM practice in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where over ten years she treated more than five thousand patients. She has collaborated on research projects in Germany and now travels widely overseas conducting seminars and workshops. Dr. Guo continues to teach qigong in the UK, continental Europe and the U.S.A.

It's very interesting to realize that under Dao De Jing scripture, there is a way to inteprete and adapt into real lifestyle modification.
In fact, Traditional Chinese Medicine wisely use Nature as a real mind-body medicine preventive approach.
After reading this book, ones should practice "Qigong" or "Yoga" everyday to get "In" the system.
Observe carefully while you are relax and doing mind-body exercise, then messages(vibration) will send back to you if you need to adjust any things for your lifestyle.
Simply read but do not practice will not expose to any progress in health promotion.

This is the best book I've found that explains how the Chinese view the body and how to get well and stay well without taking pills and seeing a doctor all the time. I've been trying to figure out how to get well and keep well as it seems in the last several years my health has been on a roller coaster. Guo and Powell clearly describe the nature of "chi" (our body's source of energy) and give simple ways to build it and conserve it in every day living. What I liked the most was their non- judgemental and non-preachy tone. They give suggestions in a very gentle way, thus allowing one to act on them or not act on them without feeling like one must do or die. This is a must read for anyone on the alternative healing path.

Margaret Mitchell's Models in Gone With The Wind is a thoroughly original detective story. Its author penetrates a delicate web of fact, fiction, old (very old) rumor, myth, and fantasy. He proceeds unhurriedly, with sympathy and cool judgment. As he journeys into the living backgrounds of Mitchell's novel, Hardman introduces new truths into the rarefied, elusive climate that has traditionally surrounded Mitchell's great romance. After reading this work, I can never again view Gone With The Wind in quite the same way. The author has made Margaret Mitchell and the Gone With The Wind subject much more interesting.

According to Samuel Hardman's new study of Margaret Mitchell'smodels the first enthralled readers of Gone With The Wind foundMitchell's magnificent characters and their story much too real to be fiction. They assumed that she must have based her work on the lives of real people. Who were they? Where was Tara? Thousands of her readers demanded to know.

Some of Atlanta's most prominent citizens thought they knew who Mitchell's models were and where they had lived. The regent of a local D.A.R. chapter told Mitchell who she had been talking about in her book. In 1939, using Gone With The Wind as his sole guide, the distinguished Atlanta historian Franklin M. Garrett published the location of Scarlett's Peachtree mansion in an Atlanta newspaper. The new mega-star Mitchell responded to Garrett's model by denying the content of her published work to heap scorn on the historian and to silence him on the subject of Gone With The Wind models for the next fifty-six years.

From Hardman's work it appears that
Mitchell's famous characters and their homes were indeed drawn from life; further, it appears that when writing Gone With The Wind, Mitchell plagiarized the published work of another Atlanta writer, Miss Ella May Powell (1863-1955).

Margaret Mitchell's Models in Gone With The Wind seriously questions the veracity of Margaret Mitchell's statements concerning the origins of her famous novel and brings to light a persuasive and heretofore unknown literary model for Gone With The Wind; explores Margaret Mitchell's early reputation and history of plagiarism, dating from her school days at Washington Seminary, and inquires into the sensitive race issue by recording a fresh sub-text of anti-Semitic sentiment.

Here is literary skulduggery of the highest order. Hardman's unique view of Mitchell and her work is very much that of the ultimate insider. His fascinating portrait of Mitchell as an irreverent chain-smoker addicted to hard pornography is startling.

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Examines Director Martin Scorsese's career from the beginning to Cape Fear (although it seems that the book had to go to press before Cape Fear was actually released, as there's a discernable lack of substance in that chapter).

To gather wonderful tales of how Scorsese works, Kelly interviews the director's friends, family members, casts, and crews. Oh, and the Secretary to the President of Cyprus!! (See details about The Last Temptation of Christ). Quoted stories, observations, and comments all contribute to a fine portrait of one of our greatest active cinema artists. (And, to the delight of film buffs everywhere, text shows that Scorsese is first and foremost an unabashed movie fan)! Kelly's system provides the reader to form own opinions about Scorsese, rather than making a lot of critical conclusions.

In pursuit of my undergrad degree, I used this book quite a bit for research toward essays I wrote about Scorsese's films. Not at all a chore to read, it was a very enjoyable book, great for the fan as well as the film scholar.

Good index, good filmography. Brief forewards by Michael Powell and Steven Spielberg hint at more than a bit of pure jealousy!

this is one of the best, in-depth bio's that I have read. And what a subject! Martin Scorsese is a god-like director that has made such films as Good Fellas Casino and Taxi Driver. The book is filled with interveiws from fellow directors and drew/cast etc. Great format! It's like reading a behind the scene's documentry.

BUy it!