Wallace Books

Ed's book offers a very new and exciting approach to how we approach relationships. The first half of the book is full of clever and interesting stories about Max the cab driver, and the second half goes on to put these lessons into actionable next steps.

In many other "business" books I have read, the subject matter and lessons seem to only benefit to a small group of people - be it investment bankers, real estate gurus, or marketing professionals. This book has a much broader appeal and certainly offers suggestions and insights to a variety of professionals.

Ed,
My congratulations to you on writing such a meaningful book on business and life. Don't let it go to your head,
but I rank it toward the top of all business books that I have ever read. One of the things that makes it great is that it is immediately applicable in both business and life in general. It is an easy read in a style that doesn't let you put it down.
Dave Curry, Director, Process Management, Vertex Inc.

A very concise how-to book on strategic planning for today's fire department whether it is volunteer or paid. Step by step plans as well as forms and other useful information to use. Very helpful for first time strategic planners as well as those updating their plans.

More often than not, we look to business and industry for answers to fire service problems. Most business strategic planning models have limited application to our profession. Mark Wallace has developed a fire department specific model that provides an excellent template in identifying medium and long range strategic planning issues. I have read this text and highly recomment it to the proactive planners of the future.

Freedom from Lust is vintage Wallace White...it is frighteningly frank. Pastor White walks boldly where few Christian writers dare to tread. He addresses a topic that few men willingly discuss, though most men will read about it. The book provides insight and encouragement to virtually all Christian men while offering help and hope for those in the thick of the battle. White's writing is laden with applicable scripture accentuated by illustrations from real life. He shares his faith in Jesus Christ through this unlikely topic.

The book can be read in one or two sittings. When the book is laid down, the truths continue to stand tall in the mind and spirit of the reader. It will be thought provoking for some, life changing for others, and appreciated by all who have the courage look for Freedom from Lust.

Wallace White's "Freedom From Lust" is aptly titled! This a topic that men, particularly those who call themselves Christian, wish to keep in the dark closets of their lives.
White's openess and candor help men facing lust (and who doesn't) feel more normal about their desires. More importantly, for those who wish to make some changes, thoughtful and scripturally based reasons and ways to change are provided. And the depth of the book doesn't stop at lust. The freedom to love your wife more wonderfully than ever before and to be much closer to God are natural outcomes of a thoughtful reading and application of this book.
Pastors, lay leaders who are called to help others and individuals honest enough to recognize the damage caused by acting on thier lustful desires will benefit greatly from White's book.

I'm sure many of you will have noticed that board games are becoming popular again, and also collectable! It is invariably in times of good economy when people seem to enjoy playing and collecting games. The times in history that the best games were invented were the Victorian era, the Roaring 20s, pre-war economic recovery (late 30s), post-war (50s), and off and on until the late 90s current recovery. Because of this, finding game collector's resources such as this one is very useful.

I have several of the board game books which refer to the history, have images of, and list the values of collectable board games throughout their history. "Games: American Boxed Games and Their Makers, 1822-1992: With Values" is, by far, the best written and most useful in starting a collection. I feel that Bruce Whitehill's pricing is very accurate and that the exhaustively researched history of each game and every game company has lead to some important insights about my collecting.

I have found that I use this book most often in conjunction with another good book, "Board Games with Price Guide," by Desi Scarpone (also available on Amazon). The main benefit of the Scarpone book is that there are full-color photographs of every game he lists. He tends to list more pop-culture games, while Whitehill highlights nearly all of the Victorian and traditional games like the Parker Brothers classics, etc. The Scarpone book also doesn't price as accurately; with prices generally being stated as a range, and being more wholesale oriented (half retail).

This book has only eight pages of color plates and only 1/3 or fewer of the games listed has a black & white picture, but there are far more games listed, priced, and described (with contents and histories) than any other book. I refer to it three times as often as the others. It also has great, detailed sections on game history, collecting games, and how to price them, and a GREAT games resources section!

Above all, I think this the best single ! book about board games that I have discovered. I would like to see the publisher/author do a version that has color images throughout, but I love the book for what it is even without the color.

If anyone reading this review would like to contact me with questions or comments, I welcome them.

Bruce Whitehill has written a terrific reference work that belongs in the library of any serious game collector.

I read this book as a child in the 1970s. It was one of my favorites...Then, a few months ago I saw an old copy at a flea market and couldn't resist looking for a better copy. I highly recommend it; even though it was written in 1965 the setting is still neutral enough for todays kids...this is a good book for a child you're trying to get interested in reading.

My husband and I both remember reading this book as children. Many a time, we have sat around campfires with our children trying to retell this story from our memories. We have searched many libraries, but never found this book. Now we can read this wonderful tale to them.

From the Jacket: Business is booming at the Everleigh Sister's club in Chicago - until a newly reelected mayor tries to shut them down. When he sends the gorgeous Karen Grant to investigate, she finds a lot more under the Club's gilded roof - including love...and murder.

The story is a THRILLE

My Grandparents bought this book for me when I was born. Even when I was very small, nursery rhymes had little interest for me. However, the illustrations in this book always held me riveted. Unfortunately, that book was lost in a move at some point. Now that I have a boy of my own, I'm buying a copy of it for him.

If you want your child(ren) to be prolific readers, the first step is buying books with detailed, interesting illustrations. This is a great place to start. I highly recommend it.

This is a book for the nursery rhyme set that erudite parents will enjoy as well. It has one or two standards (some not so standard) per page, cleverly illustrated with a wide range of the cutest anthropomorphic animals since Walt Kelly's "Pogo". The rhymes and pictures alone would make it a three-star book, a good standard collection. But there's more. Mr. Tripp has his animals make little asides, much like the penguin in "Oliphant", and scatters sight gags liberally throughout his illustrations.

For "Higglety-pigglety, my black hen, she lays eggs for gentlemen", for instance, a happy bear admires the hen and says "egg-squisite".

A list of four dozen contestants at a pie eating contest includes "Sally Forth" and "Robin Banks".

Scattered about the clouds for "There was an old woman tossed on a blanket" are a pretty complete set of milestones from aviation history; spitfire, sopwith camel, X-1, mercury capsule, and a fellow with a dozen swans in a silken harness.

I was glad I bought the hardcover edition; the paperback would have worn out.

This book, a follow up to Hallmark Ornaments, The First Twenty Years, is an absolute must have for Hallmark Ornament collectors. This wonderfully illustrated book contains large color pictures of all the Hallmark Ornaments 1994-1998, articles from Clara and pertinant ornament information. WONDERFUL!!

I have owned this book for many years & I still find myself flipping through it again & again. They just don't make Collectors Guides like this anymore. Beautiful large hard bound book w/ excellent year by year pictures,discriptions & cost of the original ornaments all in one book.It also shows various ways of using your Hallmark Ornaments in other ways of decorating besides your typical Christmas tree. I rate this a 5 star book & a must for any collector

This is one of those rare volumes, like the 'Lyrical Ballads' of Wordsworth and Coleridge which announces to the world the arrival of a new major Poet. Not all thought so at the time. And many found Stevens too dandified and precious to be a major voice. But among the poems of this collection are among the most beautifully colorful musical creations in Modern Poetry.

This volume contains the following Poems:
Earthy Anecdote
Invective Against Swans
In the Carolinas
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage
The Plot Against the Giant
Infanta Marina
Domination of Black
The Snow Man
The Ordinary Women
The Load of Suger-Cane
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
Nuances of a Theme by Williams
Metaphors of a Magnifico
Ploughing on Sunday
Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges
Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores
Fabliau of Florida
The Doctor of Geneva
Another Weeping Woman
Homunculus et La Belle Etoile
The Comedian as the Letter C
From the Misery of Don Joost
O Florida, Venereal Soil
Last Look at the Lilacs
The Worms at Heaven's Gate
The Jack-Rabbit
Anecdote of Men by the Thousand
The Silver Plough Boy
The Apostrophe to Vincentine
Foral Decorations for Bananas
Anecdote of Canna
Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds
Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb
Of the Surface of Things
Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
The Place of the Solitaires
The Weeping Burgher
The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician
Banal Sojourn
Depression Before Spring
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
The Cuban Doctor
Tea at he Palaz of Hoon
Exposition of the Contents of a Cab
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Sunday Morning
The Virgin Carrying a Lantern
Stars at Tallapoosa
Explanation
Six Significant Landscapes
Bantams in Pine-Woods
Anecdote of the Jar
Palace of the Babies
Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs.
Jasmine's Beautiful Thoughts Underneath the Willow
Cortège for Rosenbloom
Tattoo
The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws
Life is Motion
Architecture
The Wind Shifts
Colloquy with a Polish Aunt
Gubbinal
Two Figures in Dense Violet Night
Theory
To the One of Fictive Music
Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Nomad Exquisite
Tea
To the Roaring Wind
Poems Added to Harmonium (1931)
The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad
The Death of a Soldier
Negation
The Surprises of the Superhuman
Sea Surface Full of Clouds
The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade
New England Verses
Lunar Paraphrase
Anatomy of Monotony
The Public Square
Sonatina to Hans Christian
In the Clear Season of Grapes
Two at Norfolk
Indian River

Among these are a number of the signature- poems of Stevens: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, The Emperor of Ice- Cream, Peter Quince at the Clavier, To the One of Fictive Music,Anecdote of the Jar, Bantams in Pine- Wood, The Snow Man, Sunday Morning.
My own personal favorite is : Peter Quince at the Clavier . The poetry of its music is among the most deeply felt and colorful in all Stevens work. Its concluding Stanza rings in my mind at this moment.
"Beauty is momentary in the mind-
The fitful tracing of a portal
But in the flesh it is immortal.

The body dies; The body's beauty lives,
So evenings die, in their green going,.
A wave interminably flowing
So gardens die their meek breath scenting
The cowl of winter
done repenting .
So maidens die to the auroral
Celebration of a maiden's choral.


Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings
Off those white elders: but escaping
Left only death's ironic scraping.
Now in its immortality it plays upon the clear viol of her memory
And makes a constant sacrament of praise."

Stevens intense musicality, his love of color, the delicate intricacy of his long lines, his precise intellectual playing in searching for the Ideal in the Real, his seeming to make even Beauty a necessary fiction- all these and more- make him one of the most interesting and greatest of twentieth- century American poets.

Wallace Stevens first revealed his genius in 1923, when his first collection of poetry "Harmonium" was released. While it was only the first part of his career as a poet, Stevens' first book is in some ways his best -- despite being a little uneven, "Harmonium" has a rough, passionate quality.

"At night, by the fire,/The colors of the bushes/And of the fallen leaves,/Repeating themselves,/Turned in the room,/Like the leaves themselves/Turning in the wind," writes Stevens in "Domination of Black," a display of the beauty and eerieness of his work. And Stevens sticks to that in poems like "Infanta Marina" ("Her terrace was the sand/And the palms and the twilight"), the steamy beauty of "O Florida, Venereal Soil," or the eerie surreality of "Tattoo."

While lush, rich poetry was what suited Stevens the best, "Harmonium" also has some more minimalist poetry, such as the sparse "Gubbinal" ("The world is ugly,/And the people are sad"). And one of his rare strikeouts is the confusing "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad." Even these are not bad, just not as good as they could be.

Virtually anyone can write poetry -- the trick is writing something that stirs the reader, or at least makes them think. Stevens had a rare gift for poetry, and that gift propelled him into fame during his own lifetime. It isn't much of an exaggeration to say that he was one of the great poets of the twentieth century.

Stevens dips into both free verse and rhyming poetry, without sticking solidly to anything for any period of time. At times his poetry is just an intellectual pleasure, without any rhyme or rhythm. But in "Le Monocle De Mon Oncle," he creates a poem with an almost hymnlike quality -- solemn, ornate and thoroughly beautiful.

It's the descriptions that really make his poetry shine. He paints almost everything with color -- sapphire seas, gilt umbrellas, electric fireflies, rotted skulls, and how a "red bird flies across the golden floor." And with lines like "the light is like a spider./It crawls over the water," Stevens also gave his poetry a note of the dreamlike.

Richly surreal and beautiful, "Harmonium" is a remarkably polished first collection. Wallace Stevens wasn't yet at his peak in the years before 1923, but with "Harmonium" he became a must-read.