Reed Books

I was pleased to find this new calendar by Nelson - Reed, with poetic verse written by the artist to acccompany each image, as Ive bought her Goddess calendar for years. This calendar addresses a variety of shamanic subjects -shape shifting, shamanic journeying, dreams and visions. Men, women, animals and birds are incorprated in mythic themes exploring realms of the collective consciousness. Lots of new stuff for Nelson Reed fans!

Thanks for your help! The purchase went very smooth. I'll be back in the fall for the next addition.

If there has ever been any question about the legitimacy of Vonnegut's work as literature, The Vonnegut Chronicles dispell all doubt. Unlike other criticisms, the Chronicles is a page turner, and one that you will come back to time and time again...I know I have!

When most think about Dubois, one of the first theoretical formulations that come to mind is the oft-quoted "double-consciousness." In this work, Reed's central task is to situate African American political thought squarely within the material context in which it occurs using W.E.B. Dubois as the focus for this project. Along the way Reed slices and dices Henry Louis Gates and the new black intellectuals, as well as the troublesome concept of "double consciousness" that Reed shows to be overstudied at best. Clearly among the best works of its kind to come to light in some years.

This book is everything Victor Bockris's "Transformer" wasn't. This is a full-length review of Lou Reed's MUSIC. For seedy details about methamphetamine and transvestites, you'll have to look elsewhere. Jeremy Reed (no relation to Lou) is a published poet himself, and takes the approach of art first, personality second, throughout this well-written book.

If you're a Lou Reed fanatic and you don't have this book, why even have a bookcase?

Recently a British friend and I (Yank) followed one of the book's walks on the Somme. The details in the book helped greatly. Beyond the basic description, all the snippets of poetry, diary entries, official history, and photos of soliders and then-and-now battle sites added greatly to the walk. The only thing we felt missing is that the many walks so well described in the book and well-mapped individually are not shown together in one area-wide map, which would help orient the first-time visitor.

Anne Karpf is the English born daughter of two Polish Jewish survivors from the Holocaust. This book is a poignant trip into her parent's past as she struggles to come to terms with her own personal and still very present demons, inherited from her parent's war experience.

Simply written and never sentimental, this is a book about how the past can affect the future and how the children of survivors in turn must become survivors.

Jumping between her present and her parent's past, Anne gives us a vivid insight to two lives torn asunder by the brutality of war and their perpetual struggles to come to terms with the horrors they had both witnessed. Without meaning to Anne's parents passed a legacy to their children, a legacy that would culminate in Anne striving to understand her place in the scheme of Jewish survival not only in a Holocaust context but a Jewish context too.

With the birth of her daughters, Anne begins to understand her parents lives more and there is a wonderfully telling scene at the beginning of the book when Anne argues with her parents over the cold, her parents want her bundled up and kept warm, where as she sees her friends going about in thin coats and dresses. She doesn't understand why they are so preoccupied with the cold but she gives into their demands and in doing so perpetuates their fears and carries them into the next generation. Only when she begs her daughter at the end of the book to wrap up because it's "cold outside," her daughter gently responds, "No mama, I'm not cold, you are" that she understands that she has to let go of some of her fears.

This is a wonderful, well written book about Jewish lives in a non Jewish world. Anne Karpf is never accusatory or angry with her words; rather she is analytical and systematic. She writes about anti-Semitism with precise strokes, no one is blameless, both Jews and Gentiles come under her scrutiny and she puts every thing she writes in good historical context. Her life in Oxford as a student is seen through both a modern young woman's living through the 1960s as well as a Jewish woman going through an identity crisis.

I found this book an inspirational yet sombre read for a variety of reasons but the main reason was that it never tried to gloss over human fragility. Britain's lack of support for Holocaust survivor' is blunt and to the point, even Israel does not escape unscathed, as Anne's point's out, it is only recently that people acknowledge the effect the Holocaust had on a variety of people, not just those who survived the horrors of the camps and most of this has come about because of films like "Schindler's List" and "Shoah."

A final description of this book would be "an intellectual roller coaster of a ride through one woman's family history." A book worth reading.

At first I was sceptical of the 700 pages claim made by the author, but I soon realized that they included the CD-ROM with their page count. The CD is an enjoyable experience, but the real value for me was the 30 page insert: The Practical Guide for Understanding Wood Homes. This is the most educational book that I have read outside of Muir's Log Home Magazine. It speaks about the advantages and oddities of owning and maintaing a wooden home. This book is well worth the money.

I loved this book marking the 200th anniversary of West Point. It's full of beautiful illustrations that set it apart from most other books of this kind and the writing style made, what some would find a very dry subject, extremely interesting.

MO's family is hosting an exchange student from AFRICA and being the journilist MO is she can't wait to talk about things in AFRICA like politics and how they do things in the world.But when her across the world man shows up he's all about having fun and a good time,one of her best friends(KIM)is leading the way! I've watched MOESHA ever since I was 3 or 4,most likely 3 years old and I'm still watching it on the network called THE-N and I love her and if you love her and her show just as much as I do you need to watch all of her episodes and read all of her books including this one!