Warren Books

Comprehensive, beautifully illustrated with botanical drawings. A stunning work of scholarship, it is the ultimate reference for Hawaiian flora. Two large volumes. Intended for professionals, but amateurs like myself who persist (and use the glossary at the end of volume two) find it fascinating. Be sure to get the 1999 edition rather than the one from a decade earlier.

The 1990 edition has been superceded by the 1999 edition. Be sure to get the current one.

I don't like poetry. It's mostly boring and too dense or I am. So I did not want to read this book. My friend kept insisting that I read her copy. I took it to the bathroom and started reading it. I couldn't put it down. It wiped me out!! It's about this woman, a slave, who kills her kids. It's based on a true story. The story is chilling.
Some of the poems rhyme, one poem is a sestina and some other forms are here too, but really, the story will grab you. A must read.

It was different to read poetry from the characters point of view rather than the authors. The characters perspective provides a different view. In reading the poetry I felt as if I had been transported back in time and was actually there feeling the characters pain. The poems were inspiring yet sad at the same time. Excellent reading.

Martin Scorsese's book takes the reader on a musical journey of the blues. He really provides several blues perspectives from musicians, writers, film producers, and several other sources. I am using this book for my thesis in literature. Dr. Reginald Martin from the University of Memphis often references this book in his African American Literature courses. This book really captures the true essence of the blues people, culture, and music. It is also a companion to several films. It is an invaluable resource!

"The blues - it's kind of like religion, really." - Peter Green

In this companion book to MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES: A MUSICAL JOURNEY, a PBS/DVD series, numerous music historians and period writers take on the task of capturing the very essence of the genre that gave birth to rock and roll. Peter Guralnick says in his introduction that the purpose of the companion book was to "reflect and refract the spirit of the blues" and to compile "something deeper and more spiritual than a mere recitation of the facts."

Mainstay blues historians such as Christopher John Farley, Peter Guralnick, Alan Lomax, Paul Trynka, and Robert Gordon have their place in the companion book by contributing their biographical and historical research as well as adding some new information to the blues arsenal. Excerpts from Gordon's CAN'T BE SATISFIED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MUDDY WATERS and Trynka's PORTRAIT OF THE BLUES are included alongside new entries such as Christopher John Farley's "Bessie Smith: Who Killed the Empress?" Present day fiction writers like Suzan Lori-Parks and Toure also offer their contributions on the blues and the legacy it left behind.

While the usual historians are included in the book, there also are many mainstream writers who have come across the blues at times in their lives. Among others, there are excerpts from Ralph Ellison's acclaimed INVISIBLE MAN, James Baldwin's FIRE NEXT TIME, and Faulkner's SOLDIER'S PAY. All of these pieces relate to the blues within their own context, and the result is a first hand account of how the blues have affected many.

The blues is an element of American culture that has spawned the genesis of many things from R&B to rock and roll and everything in between. Although the televised version of Martin Scorsese's chronicle of this genre is excellent and informative in its own right, this book affords an experience that can only be garnered by turning pages, scrutinizing photos, and reading and re-reading the bottom line, which turns out to be the blues.

Reviewed by CandaceK
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IT IS AN EXCCELENT BOOK FOR THE TRIAL ADVOCACY COURSE. I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK NOT ONLY FOR THE LAW STUDENTS BUT ALSO FOR THE PARCTICIONERS, WHO MAY FIND IT VERY HELPFUL FOR A TRIAL PREPORATION.

In Matthew And The Margins: A Sociopolitical And Religious Reading, Warren Carter (Pherigo Chair in New Testament at the Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City) provides readers with a new, informative, challenging, and thought provoking commentary emphasizing the roles of marginality and empire in the Gospel of Matthew. Verse by verse, Carter presents this key gospel as a counter-narrative shaping the followers of Jesus as an alternative community, resisting the authorities of both synagogue and state. Highly recommended for students of New Testament studies, Matthew And The Margins reveals and documents how the Gospel anticipates the time when Jesus' return will establish God's reign over all -- including the imperial powers of the state.

Matthew and the Margins: A Socio-Political and Religious Reading by Warren Carter is a stupendous book that I would recommend reading for anyone looking for greater depth than Mel Gibson's movie The Passion or Rick Warren's pop book The Purpose Driven Life, both of which are in vogue as of the writing of this review. The book is a verse by verse introductory commentary to the Christian Gospel of Matthew and could appeal to believer, nonbeliever and agnostic alike, although it is written from social scientific and religious viewpoints. The focus of the book is on the social marginality, or alienation, of the Christian figure Jesus as depicted in the book of Matthew. By marginality, Carter means living on the fringe of society rather than being a part of the political and religious established center of society. The author, I believe rightly, contends that the book of Matthew is a book of resistance against th Roman imperial control and the Jewish synogogue leaders of the day, although certainly not the Jewish people. The author avoids being a know it all and admits he doesn't know who wrote the book or who Matthew was. Unlike most relgious commentaries on books of the bible, this book is highly readable. Even if you just want to gain a better appreciation and understanding of the Christian story without necessarily becoming a believer, I would commend this book to you. Nonetheless, Carter points out that the book of Matthew was originally written for "consenting readers." However, Carter doesn't write what he believes his audience wants to hear - which he calls "cheap assent." True to the social marginality theme, this book probably won't be a best seller like some of the pop Christian books currently in vogue (Prayer of Jabez, Purpose Driven Life, etc.), nor will it gain the acclaim or wealth to its author such as a movie like The Passion, but it is an indelibly "experiential" book just like a good movie is. I highly commend this book to skeptic, agnostic, and believer alike. As this reviewer likewise aspires to a marginal role, I have elected to remain anonymous to hopefully allow the interested reader to find this intriguing book on his/her own possibly through this review.

Warren Carter's MATTHEW: STORYTELLER, INTERPRETER, EVANGELIST is a one volume introduction to the Gospel of Matthew. Carter intends it primarily for those studying the gospel in an academic setting. He divides the book into three sections: the first called before reading Matthew, the second reading Matthew, and the final after reading Matthew. Carter includes a good deal of historical research in the work, but looks at the gospel in the context of its original audience, which he believes to be the ostracized Jewish Christians in Antioch. He spends a good deal of time looking at the genre of the gospel and how its first hearers would have reacted and responded to it. He challenges those who are studying the gospel to try and do the same. Finally, he looks at how the gospel influenced other areas and what this can mean for believers today.

Carter includes an extensive bibliography which will make it helpful for anyone researching Matthew. It also has a biblical reference index that will aide the preacher or teacher in finding specific information on texts from the gospel.

This book was not available when I was formally studying scripture, so I never read it for a class or used it for research. I purchased it at a later date and have used it as a reference for preparing homilies during the Matthew cycle and in the preparation of Bible studies. I have found the book to be informative and helpful from a pastoral perspective. What I have done in the past is reread and reviewed the book in November in the years that Matthew's Gospel will be preached. Carter's scholarly information helps me understand the gospel better and his focus on the culture and people who would have first heard these words helps me better gear my homilies toward the people in my congregation.

Warren Carter has produced an introduction to the gospel of Matthew which should be both accessible to a wide audience and instructive to biblical specialists. Carter's concerns are primarily narrative. He has made significant progress in applying Chapman's model of narrative structure along with the narrative theory of Iser to Matthew's gospel. For those who are not initiated in issues of narrative hermeneutics, Carter explains and applies his method very clearly and deliberately. While interpreting the final form of the text, Carter does not ignore historical concerns. The implied reader of Matthew's gospel is the intended audience of the first century. Therefore, the informed reader of Matthew's narrative should know what they knew. To this end, Carter supplies a reasonable reconstruction of this audience and attempts to bring twentieth century readers as close as possible to the same reading location. A good example is his explanation of the likely tensions which existed between Jews and Christians at the time Matthew was written. The often harsh anti-Jewish polemic of this gospel is then carefully placed within this context. At the same time, Carter is aware that twentieth century readers bring their own life experiences to the text. This is not a verse by verse commentary, but a thorough exploration of the gospel's plot, characters, and events. Some readers may feel that certain parts of the story, particlarly the resurrection and crucifixion, receive too little attention. Nevertheless, this is a first-rate application of narrative criticism to the gospel of Matthew, which may also serve as a model for reading the other gospels.

It has been a lot of fun going down memory lane with Warren and to hear all his tales about the famous and infamous people and their pets that he met in his travels. How nice and thoughtful of Warren to share these very personal and poignant moments with his readers and fans. Whenever I read a book written by Warren I feel as though I am having a personal chat with him over a cup of coffee or a bottle of Schlitz ! While reading this wonderful book I have caught myself laughing out loud and I have also been saddened and brought to tears. This has been a true education for me as with all his books and I really appreciate all the hard work and love Warren and Fay, and now Warren and Denise have gone through to help God's creatures. In reading the book I feel this is a tribute to Fay and a healing for Warren. A wonderful tribute to Fay and all her hard work on behalf of the animals and her love for Warren. Yes, the circle certainly from his wonderful parents who gave us this wonderful and caring man work to Fay and now to Denise.

Warren Eckstein and Denise Madden, both self-proclaimed animal lovers have outdone themselves in composing their new book.

It is a personal, funny, sad, and loving look at Warren's colorful life. He is unlike other celebrity dog trainers. He is progressive in the way that he approaches animals and way ahead of his time in his attitudes toward animals.

This book captivates his love of animals, his experiences both as a child growing up in New York's Long Island and as an adult training celebrities' animals.

Warren's autobiography is entertaining and delightful. His love of animals and animal welfare comes accross very clearly. He is definitely not like his colleagues who talk the talk, but don't walk the walk.

I hope that you will enjoy the book as much as I did and think of giving it as a gift for that animal lover in your family.

What a wondefull book, although not the normal fare of my usual reading I certainly enjoyed the most clear and uncluttered way that the author takes us back in time to his youth as a soldier in the Korean war.


What we are talking about here is a soldier, a real soldier that is, at a time when a soldier did his duty without question, anxieties or conflicts. The Korean war, ridiculously called a police action may perhaps be a harbinger of our current events where on the heels of a major war with Germany even the most stalwart of a politician in the 1950's did not have to guts to clean out North Korea and finish the problem once and foreall ....


See how easy the reader may fall into the trap of being judgemental drawing critical parallels that the author marvelously manages to avoid.


Written in a diary style this biography carries the reader along a vicarious journey back to simpler times where there was still some unquestioned purity in true patriotism...


For the reader that has often longed for their own fathers to write about his 'life' story this certainly makes up for all those dogs of war that 'never got down to it' .... Wonderfull I really enjoyed it ......

Korean War veteran Warren MacDonald has authored a wonderful memoir of his own experiences in that war in his book called, "Mid-Century Warrior: A Soldier's Journey To Korea". In it, he takes the readers from his high school days and how he cheated the system to enter the US Army at the young age of 17 years old, to the cold battlefields of Korea and his own personal hell. He shares with us the rigors of training and the people he meets along the way. He paints his memories with simple wording and phrasing that makes it is easy for the reader to picture what he went through and how he felt.

He gives us a look back at a time and a place long forgotten by the world. This was a war that brave men fought in; but a war that Americans never embraced, nor the men who fought there. It is said to be the "Forgotten War" but as his book points out it should really be called "The Forgotten Victory" as the tide of the war had changed enough to force North Korea and China into wanting to negotiate a settlement before things got any worse for them.

The author gives vivid details of the action he was involved with. He doesn't play himself up as some kind of big hero and I feel he actually understates what he did. He did get two Purple Hearts for his wounds and had to spend 18 months in the hospitals recovering and trying to heal to get his young life back together. He talks about real heroes and men who fought, got wounded or killed or came back greatly changed by their experiences--but he is one of them himself. His book reads like a dairy that someone might write for their grandchildren or for future generations to read. It is a narrative that is comfortable to read and follow and allows you to gain an insight on what it was like for not only this author but for a lot of veterans of that war.

The book is not too long and can be read in one sitting (107 pages). It is entertaining, educational and inspiring. Well worth spending a little time with. This is real history from a man who lived it. I personally recommend this book if you have any interest at all in the Korean War, military subjects, history or just want to better understand the men who fought there.

This review refer to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare -Naxos Audio Book(CD) Full Cast With Complete Text From New Cambridge Shakespeare

Who better to tell you a story than The Bard himself? And in this one he takes you away to a fairytale land of magic potions, fairy dust and "rare visions". Add some lords and ladies, some romance and delicious comedy and you'll be smiling all the way through.

All the elements for an enjoyable romp are here. Impish fairies spreading their magic turn the lives of four young lovers upside down with their mystical spells. A bumbling acting troupe finds one of it's members turned into a donkey, yet the object of the fairy queen's affections. All taking place in a beautiful moonlit forest. Will these sprites make everything right for these mere mortals? You'll have a merry time finding out!


Warren Mitchell as Bottom, Michael Maloney as Oberon, and Sarah Woodward as Titania lead a terrific full cast performance that will take you on this enchanted journey. Music between the scenes programmed by Neville Jason will have you caught up in the time era as well.

The audio book consists of 3 CDs and is an excellent quality. All dialogue is clear and distinct and sounds great on the stereo. Naxos has done a wonderful recording job. It also comes with a booklet that has cast bios, track listings for each disc and some notes on the play and it's stage history. Total running time of the entire play is 2 hours and 19 minutes. Naxos has this listed as a classic drama,although I've always considered it as a romantic comedy.


Recommended for a delightful way to spend a couple of hours around the house or in the car. Would also make a nice gift for the audio enthusiast
Thanx and...enjoy the read....Laurie

This recording of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Nights Dream"

is part of a series of recordings on the Naxos Audiobooks label.

Slowly they are putting together some very good to excellent

recordings of the plays and sonnets of the "Bard of Avon"

This recording perfectly captures the spirit of the play and

the music in the background brings a new feeling to the play.

All the perfoming versions of the plays released so far are based

on the Cambridge Shakespeare Edition. All can be easily

recommended.

Good book, solid characters. I particularly enjoyed the dialog and interplay between the characters. It drove the story forward and kept the book at a good pace.
Definitely recommend the novel and look forward to more Jake Falcon mysteries!

I have to say Missing in Paradise was better than I thought it would be.
It looked male driven and non-engrossing me to me, but I read it in one shot and was thoroughly involved with the characters and wanted to know what happened next. I think the book has some interesting dialogue which fits the characters well and you feel you're in the scenes, that they're not a creation but a retelling. My dad read it too and loved it. He's ex-military and I definitely think this book appeals to that demographic but still keeps itself open.
A refreshing mystery! I definitely recommend it and look forward to more in the series.