Sherman Books

This is the most compact and comprehensive Tehillim (Psalms) in the market (as far as I know it). Power-fledged and as a Noachide, Tehillim is the prayers that we can recite daily. Included is the variety of Blessings and a concise translation of the Tehillim in modern English. A very useful volume for travellers and busy people who always out of space in their briefcase (or my bag). A must buy for every Jews and Noachides!

Hey, you have the author's name backward's in first mention. It is not James Hunter. It is Hunter James. And the book has been available for several years. Contact St. Andrews Press

This book is immaculate. It contains beautiful pictures of all the major regions in Atlanta. It also gives an in-depth description of these areas. If you don't feel as if you should move to Atlanta after reading this book, you haven't read close enough.

Chartered in 1849, only a few years after the Republic of Texas became a state, the story of Austin College is the history of the State of Texas itself.

The effects of change ... war, depression, economic boom, and social turmoil among them ... on the small Presbyterian liberal arts college, shows the state's development in microscosm.

Moreover, one story after another points to the importance of individuals who have the will to continue development in the face of adversity, from inaugural trustee General Sam Houston through the current day.

This is a truly inspiring book. It presents a way of understanding and expanding one's "autobiographical consciousness," and achieving optimum aging, through reminiscence about one's own life. Sherman presents an impressive, learned exposition of the relevant thinking of many great minds in his explanation of the meaning,elements and processes of aging and consciousness. He gives examples of ordinary people who are very much alive in their accounts of their lives and how they achieved an expanded and self-accepting autobiographical consciousness. This book made for a very helpful emotional and intellectual experience in self-examination of my own life.

THE BARON WAR is as big and bold as the land it is written about. Follow the continuing saga of Martin Baron as he strives to build an an emire in an unforgiving land. Along the way Martin must deal with an old enemy who is out to take back the land Martin has legally purchased as well as trying to heal the rift that has come between he and his son Anson. Jory Sherman has once again writen a book in this outatanding series that can stand alone. THE BARON WAR will leave the reader anxiously awaiting the next book in this wonderful series. Sherman shows why he is an award winning author.

A clear concise "matter of fact" textbook with excellent editing and no mistakes. Teaching is both a combination of knowing a material or subject AND being able to successfully explain and show it to others. I was fortunate to have Leonard Russikoff assigned to me as a guidance councillor and Allen Sherman as an instructor for a general chemistry course, and to have used there text book as material for a basic chemistry course at Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ

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Memphis Tennessee's fabled Beale Steet brings to mind "the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll", as described on the Beale Street website. Beale Street today is indeed a modern, vibrant district filled with music and nightlife with over 25 clubs and shops in the brief space of three city blocks. But the focus on the current tourist-oriented revival of Beale Street overlooks much of its historical character as "the Main Street of Negro America." This short pictorial history captures in text and photographs the music that pervades Beale Street. It also describes the community as a whole and the changes Beale Street has witnessed over the years. It is a remarkable history. The book, "Beale Street," is part of the Images of America series which offers the opportunity to get to know many local communities in the United States. The authors, Beverly Bond and Janann Sherman, are professors of history at the University of Memphis. They have selected a collection of rare photographs to show the history of Beale Street, and they have accompanied the photographs with good annotations and a particularly insightful introduction.

Beale Street began to grow shortly after the Civil War when, as a result of the migration of newly-freed black people, an epidemic, and other factors, African Americans became an increasling large portion of the Memphis population with Beale Street as its heart. Although most of the people were poor and most of the property on Beale Street was owned by white people, a small number of black people became involved in Beale Street real estate and were among the first African American millionares in the South. Music, entertainment, and black business flourished on Beale Street from roughly 1900 -- 1950 as the Street became known as "the main street of Negro America". In the late 1960s, Beale Street suffered a severe decline with neglect, unrest, and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., just blocks from Beale Street. Revitalization efforts stuttered and failed until, in the 1980s, Beale Street became known again as the vibrant area it is today. The revived Beale Street is different from the Street in its years of glory.

Bond and Sherman offer an eloquent picture of historic Beale Street in their introduction to this book. Beale Street was "the center for business, politics, and social and religious life, a vibrant collection of pool halls, saloons, banks, barbershops, dry goods and clothing stores, theaters, drugstores, gambling dens, jewlers, fraternal clubs, churches, entertainment agencies, beauty salons, hotels, pawn shops, blues halls, and juke joints". Bond and Sherman continue: "As lively at night as it was during the day, Beale Street thrummed with music and revelry....The street teemed with all manner of 'carefree humans' .... including sporting men, easy riders,steet-corner preachers, voodoo doctors, conjure women, snow pushers, river men, cooks and housemaids, showgirls, card sharks, laborers and yard men, guitar players, gamblers, country people in to see the sights, the famous, the infamous, and the unknown." It was a street unlikely to be seen or captured again.

In seven chapters of photographs, Bond and Sherman capture the growth of Beale Street, its glory days, decline, and subsequent rebirth. There are wonderfully contrasting photographs of old steamers on the Mississippi (p. 10), the busy, unceasing life of the Street (throughout),churches (p. 15) and mansions and desperately poor areas in close proximity.(pp. 20-21) The book documents the community of black lawyers, doctors, and dentists that flourished on Beale Street as well as the fraternal orders which attempted to improve the economic life and cohesiveness of the the Street, and the lively political life that flourished in the black community for many years, including visits by President Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Richard Nixon.

During the Depression, a group of cotton manufacturers established an annual parade in Memphis to boost their sagging industry. When African Americans were relegated to menial roles in this parade, the Beale Street community established a festival of its own known as the "Cotton Makers Jubilee." This event flourshed during the late 1940s to late 1950s and continues today in a modified form. It is amply recaptured in this book.

The music for which Beale Street is famous receives attention in a chapter titled "The Memphis Sound" with photographs and discussions of W.C. Handy, jug bands, Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith, Bukka White,Memphis Minnie, B.B.King, Howling Wolf, Ruby Wilson, and many others. It is a part of America's cultural heritage which is unique and precious.

The final two chapters of the book show the death and rebirth of Beale Street. The pivotal moment was the assassination of Dr. King at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968, together with the tension and destruction that both preceeded and followed this tragedy. Beale Street was demolished and deserted and withstood repeated attempts at its revitalization until with entreprenurial interest and civic involvement the Street gained its current identity as a tourist destination.

Old Beale Street can never be recaptured, but it can be remembered for its accomplishments and as a source of creativity and joy. Memphis blues singer Rufus Thomas observed that "if you were black for one night on Beale Street, you would never want to be white again."(p. 8) I enjoyed reliving the triumphs and the sorrows of Beale Street in this book.

Robin Friedman

A comedy for 4 men and 2 women in which Sarah hires an actor to play the Jewish doctor she has told her family she has been dating. His acting is so good that Sarah finds herself falling in love with him.