Stewart Books

Award-winning children's book author Melissa Stewart presents A Place For Butterflies, a picturebook beautifully illustrated by Higgins Bond with realistic, full-color art of butterfly species and the lush natural environments they inhabit. Each two-page spread features a couple sentences about butterflies, a sidebar about a specific butterfly species, and artwork of a typical home for that species ranging from forests to lush open fields. A Place For Butterflies is written to instill love and appreciation for these marvelous insects, and a final section about helping butterflies warns against catching or keeping them, or spraying chemicals that could harm them.

Our daughter loves this book! She started to read it because she was interested in butterflies, but the text not only discusses butterflies, it explains how they have an enormous impact on other living things. As a result, the young reader comes away with a deep understanding of how the natural world works. The book is about more than just butterflies. The illustrations are also excellent. I highly recommend it.

When I first spotted this book in a book shop's bargain bin, I didn't have any high hopes or inclination that I was about to read a classic legal thriller.

The story twists and turns like a roller coaster and then when you think your equilibrium is nearing a state of normal, another twist throws it up in the air again.

Small town lawyer Oliver Gulliver is down on his luck and feeling sorry for himself, until his daughter returns home. His joy is short lived as he discovers she is now dating a fading rock star with an drug addiction, CC Gilley.

A strange friendship between the two men blossoms; Gilley is persuaded to go cold turkey and returns to writing songs for a comeback album.

Gulliver is quickly drawn into the tale, when he called upon to test his advocacy skills after one of Gilley's songs is plagiarised by another band.

His success starts him on a road to recovery, or so he thinks...

A stunning read and which prompted me to devour the rest of the William Deverell canon like a starving man. In fact, it was the first book I have ever read, where I sent the author an e-mail to praise him on his work.

Oliver Gulliver is a small-town lawyer beset with problems and worries. He's just turned fifty, old enough to know that he's never going to be a hot-shot lawyer , but now he's even losing his bread-and-butter work to a dubious competitor.

Family life is also fraught with anxieties. Oliver is a widower, having lost his wife eight years earlier to cancer. He's has sex once since then , and might never have it again. Just being a lone parent to two teenage girls is wearing him out.

Things seem to get even worse when his eldest daughter Elora finds a new boyfriend - C.C. Gilley , a wreck of a rock star, almost destroyed by booze and drugs. Oliver is horrified, but gradually accepts that they are a genuine loving couple, especially when Gilley writes a new ballad "Small-Town Girl", in honour of Elora.

When another band suddenly has a big hit with "Goin' Down for the Last Time", a track with very similar music and sleazy lyrics, Gilley is outraged and wants to sue for plagiarism. Oliver finally has his big lawsuit, his one chance for legal glory, his opportunity to sort out his life.

The plot flows smoothly , it has the right legal and rock-music details and there are twists all the way. The sex scene, when it comes, is funny and touching.

Buy this book, settle down with Springsteen, Tom Petty or Bachmann Turner Overdrive in the background, and enjoy!

This book gives the best break down of the political and economic thoughts that are currently being used in academia. This book gives a general synopsis of all the current thoughts that are out there, as well as those that were prominent in the past. This book does not take sides nor does it argue for a specific ideological path, it just gives the main arguments that each discipline promotes. The book then applies each of these discipline's thoughts to major areas such as labor. This is the perfect book for those that want to learn more about political economy without having to wade through the propaganda of the different ideologies.

Easy to read one does not need a college degree to understand the concepts in this book. The author breaks down these complex ideologies and theories into simple to understand descriptions. Important for all to read, and even the layman can understand fully the key terms that are being thrown around on the nightly news.

A truly superb book! Clark is kinder to economists in the Introduction to the 2nd ed. than he was in the 1st ed., though his criticisms of economists for their pretense of being "value free" and "objective" probably was more accurate in the 1st ed. We'll find unicorns grazing in the flower bed before we find value free and objective economists, or value free and objective science for that matter.

The 1st 2 chapters read very much like a text book and may be difficult to wade through for those with minimal backgrounds in economics and political science. But this should not discourage readers as Clark's discission of the 4 major schools of political economic thought--Classical Liberalism, Radicalism, Classical Conservatism, and Modern Liberalism--is excellent. Though relatively succinct and written at an "introductory" level, Clark does an excellent job of laying out the fundamentals of each of the 4 schools of thought as well as the evolution of thinking within each school through summary discussions of the "architects" of each school. He then offers a brief and very fair critique or each school of thought. For those unfamiliar with the diversity of political-economic thought, which is most people (and, sadly, certainly includes virtually everyone who majored or minored in "business school" economics in college), these 4 chapters alone make the book worthwhile reading .

But for most readers, the real forte of the book comes in Part III in which Clark examines the major issues in political economy today; such as, inflation, unemployment, poverty, inequality, labor, minorities (to include women within the political-economic arena), education, culture, the enviornment, and international trade. Within each of these areas, Clark identifies the arguments of each of the 4 schools of political economic thought in terms of what each sees as the roots of the issue, the nature of the issue today, and what should and/or should not be done about it.

For someone looking for a relatively brief examination of these issues, which gives a genuinely fair presentation of diverse and competing views, there simply is no other book published today. One important strenght of Clark's work is it does explode the myth of economics as a "science", as well as the myths of the discipline of economics being value free and not grounded in ideology, and the myth there is some kind of general consensus among economists.

Regardless of a person's political-economic ideological orientation, readers will become more aware and more appreciative of alternative and competing points of view. And they will be able to see more easily what passes for "economic" reporting and analysis in the news media and by government officials is little more than propaganda--the promulgation of the favored econmic world view as truth. This is extremely important because, even (especially) for those who agree with "mainstream" economic analysis, there are numerous dangerers in falling into the trap of believing the fundamental ideological/value questions of economics and the relationship between the economic and political system have been asked, answered, and agreed upon. Such tunnel vision is a prescription for disaster which Clark's book can help us avoid. So put on the hip boots; wade through the 1st two chapters (heavy but necessary); and then enjoy.

The Politics of Bones is a fantastic read. Tim Hunt masterfully tells the story of the struggle of two brothers, their family and their countrymen in a battle against a corrupt government and an oil company ignoring the destruction of the Nigerian environment. You'll be outraged by the forces encountered by these two great men, yet inspired by the courage of the brothers Ken and Owens. This story will open your eyes to a tragedy that has been ignored for too long.

This book packs a wallop: it a heart-racing, eye-opening account of corruption, bravery, and the restless search for justice. The tale of two true modern day heroes who are brothers; the book will keep you engrossed, outraged, and ultimately, enlightened. Hunt expertly tells his tale with intelligence, anger and lyricism. The book will change your understanding of the world in which you live.

Faery tradition tends to be trivialized in recent books on celtic spirituality, though without malice, this is a harmful practice.

Not the case here! RJ Stewart knows his celtic history and spirituality. Yet, his books, including this one are still practical and inspiring.

Some of the things you can learn about by reading this book include:

Methods you can use to deepen your connection with the land.
Ways of interacting spiritual with beings of the land.
Practical ways of performing techniques inspired by ancient practices.
This work is an opportunity to transform and to heal your connection with Earth and the beings around us.

The follow-up to RJ Stewart's "Earth Light", "Power Within the Land" leads the reader (through practical exercises) to the deeper realms of the Underworld, including the Hidden Orders and Temples.

An in-depth look at the Underworld tradition with empowered visualisations such as "The Sleeping Maiden" and the "Temple of the Four Winds".

Excellent.

PRELUDE TO DEATH Sharon Zukowski Signet, Jan 1997, $5.50, 271 pp.

Trying to find truth in a matted web of lies, Blaine find's herself in sticky situations. Could not put it down!

The points he makes are valid, backed by fact in the writings of Locke and Freud. A wonderful book.

This is a work to be strongly considered for university courses in ethics, philosphy of psychology,and ethics in psychology. Professor Justman adroitly pulls together the historical roots of contemporary psychological practice to call into question not only its epistemological foundations but the endeavors (i.e.: clinical and commericial) that lay claim to its supposed authority and the cultural consequences resulting from their application. Arguably a more precise place to start, as opposed to Locke as Justman does, is with Aritotle's Nicomachean Ethics. All in all this work is an accessible depiction of the disparate and fragmented paths that the field of psychology has taken in contradistinction to the utopian dreams resulting from the Enlightnment.

This is a good book about a dog named Wishbone! I love it when Wishbone thinks he's Hank Morgon, and they try to burn him at the stake, and the guards stack piles of firewood around his hind legs to burn him at the stake! Read it!

A Pup in King Arthur's Court is about a dog named Wishbone who loves to read and imagines himself as Hank Morgan, a Connecticut Yankee who goes back in time and goes to King Arthur's court. Kids who like stories about dogs should read this book because it is like a 2 in 1 story-book. I don't want to spoil the ending. So get this book if you want to know the ending!

Obviously, the boook 'Puzzle Craft' has got to be good,deserving the Five Star rating.His(Stewart T.Coffin's)'Puzzling World Of Polyhedral Dissection' is great.It roused my curiocity at very first time I saw it in Oxford University Press showroom in Mumbai, India ten years ago.Eversince, I have learnt to make number of geometric shapes,by studying from the book, both in cardboard and wood.
I have been on the lookout for this book of his all this long, only to find it's unavailability.Your ad about the CD ROM containing both of it's versions, gave me hopes,only to find I am required to write a review and rate it without even getting a glimpse of it,let alone reading it.

Both versions of Puzzle Craft are included on The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections CD-ROM, which is available on amazon.com.

ISBN: 0966636104

I felt like going back to my childhood, trapped by this amazing, wonderful epic tale. So simple, at the same time, so deep. I highly recommend it, give it to your children too. Once they start, they will not stop until finish. Full of excitement for children and moral values so needed nowadays.

Normally I would not buy anything that is abridged. However I have several copies and translations of this epic. I would not buy a secondary paraphrase of the epic, as it is too important to the telling of the message(s) across. Take a few minutes and look at the samples offered by amazon. The back cover describes "Ramayama as 'Rama's Travels'.

This work is divided in the established six books and tells the tail in a smooth manner so that you would knot know what is missing. There are charts and tables to help you know who the players are and lots of colorful pictures. There is very little distraction of someone trying to tell you want you are reading. Ranchor Prime distributes many books of similar quality.