Wallace Books

I may be biased being a woodturner but this is one stunning book. Of course Binh's woodturnings are beautifully photographed. But it's the story that will stick with you. Hard to put this one down. I've always been a fan of Kevin Wallace's writings and again he doesn't disappoint. Great story woven in with all the photographs. This would make a wonderful gift for any woodworker or artist.

This book sat on my living room table for a month after I bought it. I then picked it up one evening at 9.30pm to browse it. It was three hours later, without a break, at 30 minutes past midnight, that I put it down at the last page. What an incredible story.

I am not given to superlatives, but this is a truly exceptional book, and Binh Pho's story is extraordinary. Everyone, but everyone, should have the pleasure of reading it.

The book is exceptional in that it combines visual images which are absolutely stunning with a gripping narrative which would do justice to the best of any of the world's great novels. All laid out in such a well-integrated way that the images and text flow together seamlessly. It was the quality of Wallace's writing which kept me glued to the page for three straight hours, and it was the scarcely-believable story of Binh Pho's life which led me to immediately lend the book to a friend, saying "you have to read this".

As stated above, the visual images are stunning. Binh Pho's art is unique, and is ground-breaking in that no-one has done this kind of thing before. He has essentially created a new art form. His use of colour is brilliant, as is the way he couples it with form and metaphor.

This is not just a book for wood artists to salivate over. It will be enjoyed and appreciated by readers from any background, and will serve as an inspiration to all.

And it has a happy ending.

The book is an incredibly beautiful book. Not only is the work magnificient but the story is such an amazing story! I just placed an order for 5 more to give as gifts to family and friends. I recommend this book to all. It brought tears to my eyes, just incredible!!

i curled up with this book one night, expecting to fall asleep reading it....i did not put it down, i did not sleep until i had finished the book. it is a wonderful story of love lost, and found, and perhaps found again.of redemption and renewal.of finding one's inner core and place in this world. set in a bed and breakfast in maine, the descriptions are so vivid i could smell the salt water and hear the gulls. the characters so real they are with me still. i have bought copies to give to friends, as i will not let go of my copy. i will be reading this again...and again.

This is a story of characters who find themselves when the ties that bind them are cut. Wallace creates a world in Maine so real you can see, smell and taste it; and characters so real that they even though they behave as they must, it makes the reader breathless to watch them. It is a stunning achievement for a first novel, and a story you will not want to miss.

Wallace has done, in a first novel, an excellent job of putting together a highly readable story about inn owners in Maine (and by inference all the rest of us) who seek to find ownership in their work, their sweat, their space, their relationships and love. And, of course, this is must reading for anyone who has the slightest thought of starting and running an inn! Thanks to Amazon.com for making a such a fine book by an independant publisher so easily and quickly available. Take your umbrella if you read this on the beach: you won't want to quit--rain or shine--until you finish.

In "The Rogue I Remember," Wally Ohrt has shown that rare talent among writers for telling an historic tale in a way that usually distinguishes fiction. Because fiction is make-believe, I tired of it long ago because a certain a certain sameness ultimately prevails. After all, how many ways can a pattern of themes be respun before they repeat? Ohrt has shown the truth in the old addage, 'truth is stranger (and more interesting) than fiction.' In "The Rogue," he makes history, and especially regional history, well worth the read.

The Rogue is a bird's eye veiw of growing up in the period before the depression and during the depression,on the Rogue River. It's autobiograghical story of the author's childhood and adolescencse. His father wanted to move to the Rogue River to get away from the city and had actually found an ideal estate to accommplish that task. Inquiring from the seller whom he later purchased the property from,some old gold miner,who owned the property some years, he said that he acquired it because a fortune teller in San Francisco said that there was gold in that land. A lot of interesting stories, espescially how the one room school house worked. I always wondered about that. I love the life they lived, nothing like today. The book ends about Mr. Ohrt going back to the Rogue as an adult, probably looking for what he remembers,a slower pace, a better life, closer to the land. I have to criticize the author(He is a good friend of mine) for not giving the Fortune Teller her due. Maybe there was gold in them hills

Understanding a different place and time through the reflective narrative of the author makes absorbing history delightful. Reading the book will make you want to go find the Rogue of Mr. Ohrt's childhood, but it is not to be found. We can only experience this fascinating place through the reflections of somebody fortunate enough to have lived there and sensitive enough to have preserved the memory. Thanks, Dad!

For all you Rusty fans and those who are not, this is a must read book. Received my copy during the holiday time and I could not put the book down. A lot of information about Rusty Wallace and how he got his start into Nascar.

Great photographs. A book you will not put down.

I only received this book yesterday, and as of this moment, I have about 15 pages left. It was impossible to put down, as it contained so many little-known facts about Rusty, Kenny, Mike and the rest of the people close to Rusty. Family and friends contributed many photos, old and new. There is so much about Rusty Wallace that you'll never know unless you read this book. The whole Wallace family was fully engulfed in the world of racing, and "Rusty Wallace - The Decision to Win" is a rare opportunity to take a peek inside the box of memories that was Rusty. A wonderful, wonderful read. The book's format is also very nice, and is a lot bigger in size than I expected. This book definitely will not be spending any time on a bookshelf. This book needs to be displayed on my coffee table! A must have for any RACE fan. Rusty Wallace fan, or not. It's a fascinating look at the struggles and triumphs along the road to where Rusty is today. I'd give it 10 stars if I could!

If you are a Rusty Wallace fan this is one you have 2 own. His last book RACER has long been out of print and Decision to Win has it beat. Great photography! Photos from the time Rusty was a young kid up 2 today. Almost every question you could ask about Rusty, his career and family are answered. Get it now before it goes out of print 2!

Helpful guide for person who suffers from headaches. This was a gift for my daughter. I have had a copy for many years.

After suffering from migraine headaches for many years, not realizing the cause, my husband happened to see this book in our hometown pharmacy and bought it for me to read. I thank God that he did. This book is wonderful!!! I have not had another migraine headache since 1992.

Have used this book for years and sent numerous copies to others with headaches. It defines the different types of headaches and lists the common treatments. I used this book to help understand my problem with migraines. It is an excellent source for questions to discuss with physicians about headaches because most of them do not understand the different types or the possible treatments. I rate this an excellent source to help understand headaches

Mark has the innate ability to capture the subtle beauty in whatever he points his camera at. This collection is no exception. The mood that Mark achieves as you flip through the pages of gorgeous women is sensual and provocative. I have often wished I could join one of Mark's photo sessions and now I felt like I have. By the way guys, this book gets accessed as much from my wife's night stand as it does from mine!

I bought it as a gift for my husband and he loves it! The style and mood of the images is amazing. We have it out on our coffee table. A must for anyone who appreciates photography. Very cool buy, it made a great gift!

This book is the essence of what all erotic books should be: women enjoying each other's company in a voyeuristic, natural setting. It tells a story as you flip through each page; the simple yet provocative images make you feel as if you are right there in the room. High heels, beautiful masks, stockings and corsets, who could ask for anything more? From the black and white to the vibrant color images, this book is full of sensuality, women being playful and confident in their own skin. A must have for every coffee table whether you're male or female!

This book is an absolutely charming tale of sharing winter experiences with a child. The paper cutting artwork is beatiful and unique. It causes the pages to come alive. This book is a delight for adults and children.

I think the text and illustrations were very well intergrated and, therefore, this book reflected the highest level of quality. Incredible inventiveness on the part of the author in regard to presentation of pages, readability, color and composition.

We loved this book! One of our favorite things to do in the winter is build a fire, drink hot chocolate and read. We discovered this book by accident, and have found it an enchanting book, one that a 7-year-old can read to his mother. The illustrations have inspired our own attempts at this type of artwork, and a lot of fund daydreaming about "snowrabbits" nibbling at carrots! A delight for any young one (and their mother!).

I first read this book approximately twenty-five years ago, when it was first published. I remember that I had very much enjoyed the glimpse that it offered into the fascinating lives of nineteenth century conjoined twins, Chang and Eng, the original "Siamese Twins". Having recently read the novel, "Chang and Eng", by Darin Strauss, my interest in these twins was piqued, and I decided to re-read this book.

Time has not diminished the capacity of this biography to captivate and hold the interest of the reader. Truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. The authors provide the reader with a well-researched look at the interesting and unusual lives led by conjoined twins, Chang and Eng. Born in Siam, which is now known as Thailand, on a houseboat on the Mekong River in 1811, Chang and Eng were conjoined at the chest by a band of fleshy cartilage. It was this small band of flesh that would bind them in life, making the two as one.

Being forced to be together by their conjoinment, even in those most intimate of moments, did not prevent Chang and Eng from living full lives. Leaving Siam as eighteen year old adolescents, Chang and Eng were to travel to America under the care and guidance of a Captain Coffin, who saw the commercial possibilities inherent in Chang and Eng's conjoinment and fully intended to exploit them. In America, people clamored to view Chang and Eng, as they were considered curiosities. They would also travel abroad to Europe, where they were to cause a sensation. Chang and Eng were the international celebrities of their day.

When they reached majority, Chang and Eng disassociated themselves from Captain Coffin and his business partners and became their own men. They took charge of their own destinies and later became American citizens, adopted the surname of Bunker, married two sisters, Adelaide and Sarah Yates, collectively had twenty-one children, and settled down in North Carolina, where they became slave-owning, gentleman farmers. Still, they did not wholly give up touring and exhibiting themselves for profit. In later, leaner years, they would do so with some of their children in tow as part of the exhibit.

As they grew older, their togetherness seemed to cast a pall over their lives, as Chang was a more phlegmatic sort of personality, while Eng was much more contemplative in nature. Moreover, Chang took to heavy drinking, and though Eng abhorred it, there was little he could do about it. He was forced, therefore, to suffer the consequential effects and indignities of Chang's drinking. These personal differences would cause them both to mull over the possibility of separation. There was, however, little medical support for such, except in the event of life or death, as surgical procedures were still quite primitive in those days.

Chang and Eng would die in their early sixties. Chang died first, while Eng, who was otherwise healthy, would die within hours, possibly from fright and shock at being tethered to the lifeless body of his brother. As they were together in life, so were they together in death. They left behind two grieving widows, a multitude of children and grandchildren, and an unending, world-wide interest in their lives. Never before and never since, has a set of conjoined twins so captured the imagination of the general public more than Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins.

This is a very well-written, well-researched biographical treatment of the lives of Chang and Eng. Their lives were, indeed, fascinating, and those who enjoy biographies will find much to like about this book. It is also an intriguing look at nineteenth century life in the context of the lives of Chang and Eng. The book also has sixteen pages of wonderful black and white photographs and illustrations, which will add to the reader's enjoyment of this book.

As a descendent of Chang Bunker, I found "the Two" a fascinating trip into my families past. The book chronicles their lives and the lives of their wives and children in a very thoughtful and honest way. A good read!

As a great great grandson of Eng I have heard all the stories that were passed down thru the years. This book captures the essence of the twins and the time in which they lived accurately and without exageration.

Outstanding educational experience within the confines of this book, created to be enjoyed whether you are a teen or an adult. You will get something valuable and rewarding from the pages you read. The book is written through the eyes of those who know nature best...an animals point of view...spoken through the lips of a leading conservationist of his time. Someone who gave back as much nature invested in him. He soaked in years of knowledge, spilled it upon these pages and not only delivered this outstanding and educational works, but created areas of preservation through his lifetime and in the days since he passed. A true nature lover at his best. Scattered throughout the story are detailed accounts of how animals strive day by day, only concerned with the now and not the future for the cycle of life for them could end in a moment. It guides us season by season, generation by generation of animals, giving details of survival and death as they occur in nature in such a wonderful way of showing us all the details leaving no remorse in those sorrowful moments because it is life's cycle explained in a way only spoken by someone who has lived with and observed firsthad the beauty and pattern. A great read for any age group!

As with many of the books that I read, I picked up Those of the Forest on my travels, this time through the great north woods. The book is now over 50 years old, but it has a freshness that is so encouraging, especially in light of the politicization of issues surrounding the environment.

Grange tells the story of the forest from within. The voices are those of the inhabitants of the forest. He tends toward anthropomorphism, but is also very careful to remind us that we can only guess at what the animals and plant life is experiencing. Through Grange's eyes, a world that surrounds us is exposed, because it is a world that we don't stop and investigate often enough. We are exposed to the intricacies of nature and the interdependence of all of us on each other. This is a very spiritual message which opens eyes to the miracles of creation.

The prose is very clear and is appropriate for anyone from high school up. This would be an excellent introduction to ecology for younger readers and help them to have a greater appreciation for the world that surrounds us.

Huddled within a "sheltered cavern beneath the evergreens" is Snowshoe, a timid rabbit whose small world is analyzed by the thoughtful and intrinsic authority of Wallace Byron Grange. Sometime before 1930, by the age of twenty-two, our author became the first Superintendent of Game for the Conservation Commission of the State of Wisconsin. To quote the back-flap of my edition: "[Grange] became engaged in the business of live-trapping and shipping to New York State thousands of snowshoe rabbits for restocking purpose. It was in this way he...gained the experience upon which this book is based" (Abercrombie & Fitch, 1967).

Perhaps his snowshoe experience was derived from live-trapping, but an obvious fair amount of time must have been spent in the wilderness, submerged in nature, noting every minute aspect of dozens of animal and flora species, as well as studying the soil, erosion, wind and water, and weather, and the interrelated balance of life and death: the fundamental basics of ecology and biology. In short, Grange was a genius with nature. It is perhaps a shame he gave us only one book, but he departed the world leaving the state of Wisconsin a 9470-acre wildlife haven, among other accomplishments.

The book opens on a dreary night, one filled with wind and snow and darkness. Enough to drive any animal into the recesses of underbrush for shelter, huddled for warmth. Should we feel sorry for these creatures of the winter? As Grange exposes the world to us, he is possibly provoking that instinctual human reaction: sympathetic sorrow. One quickly learns to disregard these feelings and allow Grange to re-introduce us to a world that can, and does, take care of itself.

There are no humans in this book. The dreaded "hunt" does not come from modern weaponry. It comes from the root of life: survival. There is no intellectual within this story. Snowshoe et al. do not band together and fight the ever-evil wolves and hawks. The rabbit is a rabbit. And Grange goes about describing what the rabbit knows as a simple thought process, one so realistic, the reader will begin to understand the rabbit for who he is, and who he isn't. At one point, Grange brings up a curiosity regarding the brain:

Lepus [a rabbit], as a mammal, has the power of motion; memory; sight; hearing-and he has a brain. But where is the brain of the jackpine or of the pitcher plant? How shall it be that plants, apparently not possessed of any central nervous system, nevertheless grow, have species identity, sex, inheritance, habit, preference; that they compete with one another; struggle, have natural enemies...and the will to live? (161)

The book begins in winter, and takes us through the four seasons. Grange shows us the interrelatedness of weather patterns, migration patterns of species (those that pass through the rabbits' little world), and how each creature manages to survive one moment to the next. Grange's style (as seen in the above paragraph) comprises of reflective questions, posed to bring the reader to an awareness of certain natural elements he may have never thought of before. Simply, why are things the way they are? The author will often delve into the surprisingly scientific route to answer some of these questions.

Grange also fills Those of the Forest with page-long glances at different critters or plant-life or even components of the weather. One of my personal favorites concerns the firefly:

Now, in the darkness of each night, it is almost as though a million stars scatter luminous fragments of themselves to float and drift elusively...For who shall explain the firefly? Has a beetle the need for a lantern?...Is the strange light of the small creature an aid to mating? Then why do some firefly larvae-and even eggs-also glow? (129)

In this poetic book, you will find, and learn about, elements regarding the hawk, the grouse, the snow, the rain, the birch, the jackpine..."[t]hose of the forest-its living things, its rocks, its chemicals, its sky, its untold billions of stars in the firmament; all its materials, processes and laws..." (164).

And while the first 3/4 of the book is a look at Snowshoe, his life, his family of rabbits, and the natural world around them, the last 1/4 of the book takes a fantastic turn. The subject is temporarily replaced by Ancient Rabbit who takes the reader on a journey spanning 500 million years. Grange will show you the rabbits' world as it is carved by glaciers and Ice Ages, the struggle of many different forests, the geologic history, the introduction of life, forest fires, and rabbits, leading up literally to Snowshoe's world.

As Georgius Agricola's De Re Metallica is essential reading for the contemporary miner, so is this book, Those of the Forest, essential reading for the contemporary soul. Let Grange's words embody your spirit and love for nature. Those of the Forest is one of the most beautiful books ever written.

This is THE book about the longest-running show in TV history (and rightfully so.) All the profits from it go to charity. I bought it a few years ago. It includes a chapter (biography and photos) on each of the show's four decades; what happened after the show ended; song lyrics ("I watched the tube today, Wall-boy/Captain Super didn't make the grade..."); fan comments; and sections on some of the show's behind-the-scenes people, other performers like Dan Horn, and regular guests like Officer Harry, celebrity guests; and more.

The best thing about this book is all the photos. I loved the photos from the early years. I didn't start watching until the '70s, so those '50s and '60s photos are fascinating to me. I also liked the photos of their live shows (remember Legend City and the state fair?) and the photos of the set. Too many of them look a bit grainy or out-of-focus. It would've been nice to have more photos of Pat McMahon's hundreds of different characters. (That could've been a book in itself!) But since more/better photos probably don't exist, I can't fault the book for not including them. This book is as good as it could possibly be.

It will be of interest to anyone interested in TV history and/or Arizona history. I think it should be required reading for all the masses of people moving here. And if you're a Wallace and Ladmo fan, how can you live without it?

Damn, I miss these guys. Even Gerald. They make me proud to be an Arizona native. Here's to you, Ladmo!

When I was a young child in Arizona, I used to watch Wallace and Ladmo every morning before I went to school up until I was 7 and moved to California. I didn't move back to Arizona until I was in my 20's and by then the show had gone off the air. But just because it is no longer on the air does not mean it has to fade away. This book was the greatest gift I could have ever received. Not only could I reminisce about the show I loved as a child but I also learned about how the show started and what happened in the years after I had moved away. And this book is filled with hundreds of photos that bring back so many memories. Even though I only watched the Wallace and Ladmo Show for a few years, it will always have a big place in my heart and I will always be able to relive those happy memories with this great book.

If you grew up in Arizona like I did, and grew up watching the Wallace and Ladmo show after or before school...religiously as I did, you've got to get this book which chronicles the show wonderfully and really brings back very fond memories. KJ Chandler, AZ