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This is a cute book about sheep doing winter activities on Christmas day. The number of sheep gradually decrease as they each end up in a snow bank, until the last sheep left standing rescues them all and they return safely home. It's a good Christmas story without any moralizing. It's also a fun winter counting book with a bit of humor and no scary parts. Altogether, the book has about 200 words.

I originally bought this book for my five yr. old but my one yr. old quickly made it his own. The dry humor and brevity of this book make it an extremely enjoyable read for kids. I'm just glad I can re-order one since our current copy is in shreds from so much use. What a great book!

This book is an absolute delight. Not at all a simple reference book filled with historical information, it rather reads like a good smoke itself; the pages contemplative puffs that needn't be turned too quickly, but lingered in as their meaning wafts skyward.
...and though it certainly warrants rapt attention, you'll no doubt soon feel a welling desire for a nice pipe-ful out of doors.

A pipeful of what? Likely, the very "weeds" at you feet, and within the pages of "Smoke Plants", you'll discover yourself surrounded by an intriguing world of medicine wherever the ground grows green.

A wonderful, wonderful book.

This is a good book written from her personal experiences. Anyone that likes to blend their own herbs will like mixes in the book. There were a couple of new ones that are not common blends but that were very good. Well written and easy to follow. Not a lot of in depth information but very to the point with good information. Worth adding to the library for future reference

This is the best book I have read in ages. It is a must read that will have you propping it up while you cook dinner so you don't have to wait to find out what happens next! The authors brings this hunting thriller to life and takes you across oceans, the emerald isle and the dark forest. I swear I was there!

This is an incredible book! Fast paced, with incredible twists, that are completely unexpected; it will leave you breathless. The main character; Sera Delaney is an intriguing, and mystically haunted creature...you will never forget her!!!!

I can't wait to read the next book!

This 2 CD set has sounds of 109 species, all of these species live in the rainforests of the New World. Disk 1 has a very large variety of mammal calls, some of these you wouldn't think would be made by that animal. For example, the Bush Dog makes a high squeaking sound. Other sounds you hear on this disk include: bats squeaking, squirrels chattering, anteaters snorting and screetching, etc. Disk 2 only has primate calls on it. The second disk also has some interesting sounds such as howler monkeys roaring, tamarins and marmosets chirping, night monkeys hooting, and much more.

You need to get this CD!

Produced by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology as a companion to a field guide, this remarkable two-CD set is unlike any other nature guide yet published. It is an audio guide to mammals, and only mammals, of the rainforests of the New World.

As the hot spots of the world's bioversity, rainforests have gotten lots of attention from naturalists and adventurous eco-tourists, who want to explore these green worlds for themselves. There have been countless field guides (both printed and audio) to birds in various parts of the New World tropics, but this audio guide exposes the voices of rainforest mammals, many of them retiring and rarely seen in the thick foliage, for study and appreciation.

The first disc is brief (about 40 minutes), but sound recordings of a lot of these mammals are not easily obtained. Over 50 species give voice to their unique sounds. Opossums snort and grunt, jaguars make a sound like someone sawing on a log, tapirs whistle like birds. There is even a recording of a river dolphin spouting, the sudden explosive noise almost out of place among the other jungle sounds.

The second disc, longer in length, features the most vocal of the rainforest mammals, the primates. Some of these produce sounds that could easily be mistaken for the sounds of other creatures. For example, some of the smaller monkeys, like the tamarins, produces squeaks and chitters that are surprisingly birdlike. The night monkey, calling after dark when it would probably never be seen, hoots exactly like an owl. The loudest of the rainforest monkeys, the howlers, produce roars of such intensity that they will literally frighten anyone who visits the rainforest but does not know that these are the sounds of harmless vegetarians.

"Sounds of Neotropical Rainforest Mammals" is off the beaten track, to be sure, but if you are traveling to the tropics anytime soon, I strongly recommend it. Even if you're not, I recommend it anyway. You haven't really lived until you've startled your neighbors with the loud, cackling chorus of the dusky titi monkey.

The Dalai Lama talks about Spiritual Activism - how we must all start to 'walk our talk' and take action for the good if we really want to be spiritual people. This book is a manual in how to do just that!
Heaven explains how the world we have created through our collective dreaming is not serving us, precisely because of the dreams, imaginings and intentions we have of it, and shows how we can change those dreams so that we make a better place for ourselves and for all life.
It's far from a 'worthy' book or a dry academic one though. Some of the examples and exercises he gives are exceptional, exciting, and truly life-changing. I felt liberated and empowered by reading this and I am using some of its exercises in my life on a daily basis.
As Heaven says, the first inclination of a spiritual seeker is often to run away from the madness and claustrophobia of the city but, like it or not, most of us are tied to the city by our jobs or our home loans etc, so we feel trapped and without an alternative. This book IS the alternative, showing how to cope with city living in a spiritual way that makes us healthier instead of more drained by the life going on around us.
Highly recommended.

Ross Heaven, British author, initiate of Haitian Vodou, shaman... has produced his second book, following "The Journey to You". This second work, "Spirit In The City", investigates the search for the sacred in everyday life. One chapter in this book is titled "A Different Reality: The Shaman and the Houngan - Specialists in Spirit". Another is titled "Worlds Within Worlds: The Energy Body and the City". Yet another, "Getting to Know the Spirits of the City". Ross Heaven provides a series of exercises, things people can do at home, to develop spiritual awareness, channel energy, rebuild personality, self-heal and self-evolve. Ross Heaven became Houngan sur point Ogoun Badagri in January 2000... He is a priest of Ogoun Badagris. All Ogouns are lwa of power, and Ogoun Badagris is specifically that power which comes from negotiation, diplomacy, the balance of power... In his spiritual investigations, Ross has journeyed several times to Peru; and participated with traditional shamans in ceremonies which included the use of the ayahusca vine... Both "Spirit In The City" and Ross Heaven's first book, "The Journey to You", are available on amazon.com . I strongly recommend both books. In fact, I have found the exercises in "The Journey to You" so useful that I am still working my way through them, taking my time to really savor them and derive the maximum benefit from each one.
Peace and love,
Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen

(Posting from Jacmel, Haiti)
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This story, about a girl who finds herself talking to dead people, started off with a concept that everyone seems to have jumped on. Sixth Sense Meets "insert any other concept here". Luckily for us, Antony didn't stick with the "Ghost Whisperer" angle. I highly recommend this overlooked indy gem.

I gave this dark, spooky thriller 5 stars because of the incredible illustrations by Ross Campbell. Emily is so expressive - you can feel her anguish. The story itself gets 4 stars because Johnston wraps up the ending too fast. I'm not really sure what road Emily is going to choose, but I sure do hope that he's writing a sequel so I can find out and that Campbell will be doing the illustrations!

This guy names names and details how these "sprawl shills" influence small town zoning boards and other manipulated gov't agencies. Besides the warning horn that Dr Hirschorn sounds for all of us to kill sprawl before it kills us, I would be a little concerned about reprisals if there's that much money at stake. A good read though. Entertaining and surprisingly useful. If we don't do something soon we'll be out of land in 25 years-- unless you want to live in Montana.

The other books on suburban sprawl never seem to have been written for real people facing tough decisions on where to live. For once, this is a book that tells the truth about why nearly all Americans have little choice other than suburban sprawl for affordable housing. But once you understand the many personal costs of living in "blandburbs" - which is the best word yet for describing suburbia - and have the clear guidance on what Healthy Place alternatives to look for and how to evaluate them, then you have gotten your money's worth. Sprawl Kills is so much more than a description of suburban sprawl; it is all about understanding the corrupt forces limiting our housing and transporation choices, and all about what the commonsense solution is for Americans. I really liked the material on the sprawl industry and sprawl politics, and all the facts about the negative physical and mental health effects of a sprawl lifestyle. This book will help me escape sprawl - finally!

This rock musical is an amazingly well written playwrite, fast paced and entertaining. The epic adventure of the Starmites and Milady and Shak Graa in Innerspace is breath taking and a masterpiece! The storyline is incredibly developed, too. Not only that, but the music for the show is incredible! It has a slight rock sense to it and is up to beat. I give it FIVE STARS!!

I think that this book is very good. The harmonies in it are incredible. I have done this show and Amazon.com has been the only place I can find the sheet music and soundtrack. It's incredible! =)

This terrific book is a real find. Here's the scenario -- a pilot knowing some of America's most sensitive tactics is missing over enemy territory, a cunning enemy intensely pursues the pilot on their own territory, and a rescue mission is promptly organized and conducted despite ambiguous information. Ross Simpson shows a true story can be more exciting than fiction, if told by a skillful writer. Sure, Tom Clancy or Joseph Heller (the masters of combat fiction) would work such a scenario differently, but Mr. Simpson does even better -- he has written an exciting and factual account based not on conjecture, but on gaining credibility with a military unit and telling their story. Unlike fictional narratives or secondhand journalism, this work gives the reader a rare opportunity to see the depth of the unit's human side, and he shows how concern and compassion support the values the press normally associates with the military.

This book has three advantages over the usual military book. First, he appeared to have earned considerable credibility from the people involved in the story. Fighter units will not give this credibility lightly, and it helped Mr. Simpson project an almost palpable feel for the daily life and working relationships of the unit he covered.
Second, this book shows how a good unit responds to a crisis outside their normal training pattern. Many books give a good account of America's military and how they train with what they use, but this one shows the head-scratching flexibility when something happens outside the instruction manual.
Last and not least, the author showed the critical importance of the families and how they help one another maintain and improve their spirit. The families responded to this emergency with the same degree of leadership, competence, flexibility, and caring as did the frontline units. Good show! -- and one we rarely see in the press.

Stealth fighters are pretty high-tech, but the edge enjoyed by this unit had less to do with technological superiority and more to do with old-fashioned integrity, competence, consistency, excellence, and unit spirit. A good commander from WW II might not recognize the shape of the F-117, but would certainly appreciate the leadership, unit cohesion, and family support. This was especially notable in Mr. Simpson's picture of the Stealth unit commander, who epitomized what we think of as Professionalism.
Disclaimer: I'm a military retiree but cannot imagine how I would have any commercial interest in anything connected with the book.
... It's worth finding.

I had the good fortune to help in the editing this book, although the majority was down by Robert Stockton. I was stunned that Ross Simpson was able to obtain the details of virtually every minute of this operation. Ross worked closely with the military to obtain never before published pictures, and to get information that had never been released before. Even with the backing of a number of generals, Ross took over a year to write it and then we worked on it for a year. Ross Simpson is an award winning journalist and is currently the morning anchor on AP radio in Washington. You listened to him of 9-11. In fact he won the Edward R. Murrow Award for his spot reporting of that tragedy. The effort Ross Simpson put into this book was absolutely worth it. It is a great book. There is no question that "Stealth Down" deserves to be made into a major movie. In fact, it is clear that the military would love to see it, as this book is both accurate and compelling to read. You need to read the stories of the brave men and women involved in this action.
E. Lee Spence

The Undertaker, an amazing book of intresting facts of the Phenom himself. If your looking for some tremendous adventure this book has it all.

I've been a follower since the "Mean" Mark Callous days, and idolize the Undertaker and what he represents. I found this to be a pretty cool short read of interesting facts and stories of some of the best matches from the Undertaker's career from the "Mean" Mark days, up through shortly after forming The Ministry. Has some cool pictures, vintage and semi-present. Wished it would have mentioned more on his infamous Hell In The Cell match with Mankind(briefly mentions it, almost in passing), as well as gone into some depth about his appearance changes throughout his Undertaker career. Some old-school fans like myself, miss the original and vintage Undertaker. Overall, I'd recommend this for any Undertaker fan as a nice read for the collection or for anyone intrigued by the Man from the Darkside!