Powell Books

It is easy to follow and gives a great deal of information that is best delivered in illustrations.The painting samples could be better but the content is useful and easy to access.

I am a very stressed/anxieous person and needed something to calm me down. The author immediately has you in a crystal, then breathing in certain colors to heal, calm, etc. There is not a lot of talking before hand to get to the meditation (which i like).

I wanted to DO something. The imagery had me feel "colors" and "light" relax my sore neck muscles, or whereever i wanted to direct the "light/colors" each time i played the tape. She has you deep breathing "in & out" the colors.
This tape is great as just the right amount of time: about 20 minutes to be in a quiet place.

The other side is ocean waves with subliminal messages you can also read on a card. I have not heard many relaxation tapes to compare this with but it's great as a starter tape or something different. The mantra's would be the colors. I feel everyone can visualize color and i find it soothing: orange, violet, yellow gold and pink (each does different things). The author suggests one can direct the healing to anything (part of your body/mind) or anyone which allows for great versitility. It's you that brings the breathing and color healing to you. She supplies the directions. The subliminals were all positive statements. I feel positive after each session; so feel the subliminals work along with the verbal repetitions of the sayings on the card. Its a short tape but effective. (short and to the point)

What a delight to discover Dawn Powell! This collection offers a selection of novels and short stories that bristle with well-observed details and uncanny insights. She writes with ascerbic humor about the "wanna-bes" and the "haves" in flapper society with sometimes chilling clarity. Like so many of her contemporaries, she was brave enough to make heroes of very flawed creatures indeed--and do it very well. I wanted to know more about her and read more. Discovering her makes me wonder why Dorothy Parker and Edna Ferber got all the breaks.

If you are an educator or caregiver who wants to teach young children about disability, Jillian Powell's "Talking about Disability" is a good place to start. Written in simple language and enriched throughout with excellent full-color photographs, this book should appeal both to beginning readers and to children who still need to have books read aloud to them.

Powell covers many important topics. She explains different types of physical disabilities, explains the need for wheelchair-accessible public accommodations, discusses guide dogs and other aids, and discusses sporting activities in a disabled context. Throughout the book the outstanding photography depicts disabled people as dynamic, positive individuals who are an important part of the general population. Also commendable is the fact that disabled people of many different ages and races are pictured.

The book has only a couple of minor drawbacks. Powell's prose, while very positive and considerate, speaks about the disabled without actually letting any disabled individual's voice be heard. I would have liked to have seen a quote or two from an actual disabled individual incorporated into the text. Also, although the notes for parents and teachers at the end of the book mention such disabled role models as Helen Keller and Christy Brown, such well-known individuals are neither mentioned nor pictured in the main body of the text.

These drawbacks aside, "Talking about Disability" is an intelligent and sensitive introduction to an important issue. I recommend this book with enthusiasm.

I have always had an interest in vernacular cottage architecture and the processes that shape it. While I am not a professional architect or construction contractor, I find that most books dealing with cottage architecture focus either on interior decorating in the "country style" or whimsical meanderings of "simpler times." There isn't much written (yet) about HOW these buildings came into being, who built them, and how they did it. This little book certainly makes an attempt to fill the void, and does a marvelous job (although it could have gone a bit further). The book looks at cottage building (in England) from it's earliest forms right through to the early modern period. It covers social aspects that influenced cottage construction, and gives detailed drawings and diagrams showing how cottages were planned and executed. Very clear, very succinct, VERY INTERESTING. It lost a star (only rating 4 stars) only because it's painfully SMALL -- literally a POCKET book on a subject that really needs to be covered with the kind of detail the book attempts (in it's limited space). Still, a refreshing read, and very educational/informative, especially to anyone interested in the more "nuts 'n bolts" aspects of when/where/why/HOW of cottage construction. A+

Powell provides a great review of theological thought for the reader who is looking for a deeper dimension from an intro to Theology text.

This book will hurt to read. The Eliot Porter photos show what has been lost to our generation by the grossly irresponsible act of damning Glen Canyon. However the book also shows what has been saved in pictures of the Grand Canyon. May we know by our failure at Glen Canyon what to protect, and why, in the future.

Powell's own narrative, of course, forms the main written portion of the book, and its direct, yet eloquent, writings should remain a strong part of the story of what it is to be an American. Equal parts dry text and awed wonder, it is a must read.

A spiffy book, in the same vein as the acclaimed Sierra Club format series, of which I suspect this book may have been intended to be part. Enjoy this essential part of any Western library.

Book is okay... Not exactly what I was looking for but it does have some excellent pointers.

This is an excellent book for introducing young children to drugs...both the good and the bad. It is very helpful if there is abuse in the family and it needs to be explained to small children. It is a great book to open the lines of communication.

My daughter loved this book so much we had to collect the entire set. They're cute little books, the first ones where she started "reading" the pages with me. My only complaint is that they're definitely baby board books, but aren't as sturdy as most. The pages get bent up easily, because of the fabric insert.