Wood Books

This book is a MUST HAVE. The stories are touching and inspiring - bringing both tears and laughter. The author is a talented, gifted perosn and it is very evident in her writing. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for inspiration and guidance for their life.

This book was easy to read, while still having great depth and meaning. The stories are funny, sad and tales of daily life--all with words of inspiratation. Awesome book--I'd recommend to anyone!

I believe this book was incredibly well done. The story is great and the illustrations INCREDIBLE. Barry Moser did an incredible job with the illustrations. I really do recommend this book to everyone.

There aren't too many picture books or stories for children that deal so well with the issues of grieving and healing and the questions about life after someone you love has died. This book gently tells, in story and fable, the healing words of how to carry on and what it is to live, and why we need to remember. Any parent or child old enough to understand death can take comfort and healing from this story. I wish I had a hundred copies of this to give to all of my friends who have lost someone. In the traditions of ANNIE AND THE OLD ONE, and THE TENTH GOOD THING ABOUT BARNEY this is another work that deals with death, life, and those who must deal with the questions that surround them.

This is my absolute favorite book to buy for the new babies, older siblings of new babies or birthday kids on my list. The illustrations are fantastic and include a few flip open to GIANT illustration pages as the never-fully-revealed Tickleoctopus teaches each member of the depicted cave family something formerly unheard of in their lives (to smile, to laugh, to play, etc). At 6 months my neice was already responding to the visuals and my vocal play on the great writing as well. Kids are never too young to be introduced to books. This hardcover has a cut-out edge that kids love to hook their little fingers around while being read to. And while the writing includes some made up EXCLAMATIONS(!) of the cave people era ("Om Nah Gah! Ooglies Ooglies!") that may take modern day folk some time to get used to reading aloud, you'll learn to love them and the story itself. May it never go unpublished!!!!

This is one book kids will remember. It is very creative and funny. The made up names seem to stick with you. Highly recommend for children 3-8 YOA.

I truly enjoyed the biography of Tiger Woods by Bill Gutman. I thought it gave good insight into what makes him the champion that he is. It is the story of one family's search for the American dream and the glory of finding it. It details how the dreams of Tiger's faher became his own. All the sacfrifice that he and his family made are detailed and makes his accomplishments all the more spectacular. I think this is a great read for all those who are fans of drive and determination and not just for those who love golf.

This is an exciting, and compelling biography about the hottest player on the PGA Tour. This biography begins from when Tiger was two years old, and already hitting plastic golf balls in his front-yard. From not being allowed to play on certain golf courses, to being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to play in tournaments, Tiger Woods is the jump-start that the PGA Tour needed. The bond between Tiger and his father grows from when Tiger won his first tournament as a youngster to his record setting performance at The Masters Tournament. This bond is seen throughout the entire biography. This biography is thilling, and threaded with compassion. Definetly for the avid golfer.

When I started reading [TIME OUT] I couldn't put it down. I lived every page; marveled at the descriptions of scenes, people, animals, foods, smells - a culture so different from out own. Lindley J. Stiles The book has an immediacy and anticipatory quality that is compelling. I started to read it and could hardly put it down. I burned the midnight oil tellling myself I'd quit after the next page. Anita Swetland Every word, line, page, and chapter drove me to the next. An exceptionally readable book. Richard Matlhare (Botswana)

Woods has simply served up her experience, no frills, no congratulations.. . . She paints a picture of the village which can be both beautiful and dark, not always the storybook pastels of the overly quixotic Peace Corps posters and recruiting office. . . . We are shown the frustrations of dealing with corrupt school officials, the witchdoctor-related murders for body parts, the unsuccessful attempt by a village woman to escape her drunken and bellicose husband (she was later found hanging in a tree) and Woods' own physical problems. There are the alarmingly dangerous bus rides with besotted drivers, deaths by snakebite, tuberculosis. We're shown the omnipresent racism of southern Africa when Woods' African colleague, Kele, is forced by a white Zimbabwean owner to leave his campground.. . .Woods' prose style is concise but not pithy, not unlike the "twenty-five words or less" she might have given her students, yet her twenty-five words work.

I found this book to be very good for a timechart history, and its format was understandable and clear. It also provides a good list of airshows and museums for aviation worldwide in the back. An interesting book to have.

This is an amazing book that comprehensively covers the history of aviation. A must have for any aviation enthusiast, aviator or non-avaitor.

Where to begin? The menu suggestions and variations are so helpful. The pan seared tuna w/cilantro vinaigrette is so easy and a smash at my dinner party--they all thought I had prepared for days, ha! The coq au vin blanc is so rich, tasty and a very impressive dish to serve--made a true MEMORABLE MEAL. This books is a must have!

I love this cookbook because it is not just easy to use/follow, but the recipes have lots of twists so you can make the same dish a few different ways. It is great inspiration for entertaining...but also a wonderful treat for just a dinner for two.

I have her first cookbook, Memorable Meals, and it is WORN OUT from all the usage so I'm so happy to add to the collection of recipes.

I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to take some of Nancy's cooking classes and am happy to have the recipes all neatly bound in this beautiful book.

From virginal Eden to lascivious lavatory, this frightening photo-document exposes the moral corruption in its most vivid form. Consider yourselves warned!

"Long live the new flesh!" This quote from David Cronenberg's cinematic playground of perversion, Videodrome, announces the theme of Torture Garden, the inimitable London nightclub established in 1990. We are not allowed to categorize it as simply a fetish club, because it is "multi-dimensional, ever evolving and mutating." One way to get a handle is to peruse the strict dress code on its website. Your look better be: burlesque, fantasy, theatrical, period costume, glamour, drag, alien, cyborg, cabaret, mutation, cybersex, fetish, SM, body art, rubber, leather, PVC, or uniforms. Sounds like the East Village on a Saturday night.

You take the Angel Tube to get to the current site of Torture Garden's monthly parties. You really do. These partygoers don't engage in much actual BDSM play, although there is some walkabout bondage. It's mainly a Stand and Model venue, a nightclub/dance scene. There's no room to swing a cane anyway. There's a floor show by some of the top out-there acts in the world. There are performance photos here of (among others) Miranda Sex Garden, the Genitorturers, Ron Athey, Medieval Magick, and Angel Grinders & Chainsaws, who use industrial equipment to send fountains of sparks gushing from the groins of troupe members.

The production package of Torture Garden, the book, is superb. Chaplin's candids capture the feverish ecstasy of a world where nothing is true and everything is permitted. They are brilliantly grouped and sequenced. Sivroni's mostly larger format portraits bring you face to face with folk in costumes far beyond fabulous, exuding the potency of their homemade personas. The Videodrome quote above is one of many at the bottom of every page. These provide a quick, painless introduction to the TG philosophy. A few favorites:

"...sadomasochism enjoys all the forms of religious piety - kneeling, praying, worshipping, sacrificing, invoking and punishing." -- Terence Sellers, The Correct Sadist

"The first duty of man is to become artificial." -- Oscar Wilde

"The body is both a pleasure palace and a torture chamber." -- Charles Levin, Body Invaders

"It's your body, play with it." -- Fakir Musafar, Modern Primitives

"Your body is a battleground." -- Barbara Kruger

At Torture Garden, the concept of costume is raised to extremes of creative imagination, transcendent otherness and disgusting repulsion. By the time you get through this volume, your own definitions of these categories will have been severely mangled. On one night a performer named Franko paraded through the crowd on crutches, accompanied by a nurse. He was nude except for syringes, catheters, rubber tubes and various medical receptacles containing various bodily fluids. On the same night, completely independently, a female partygoer appeared wearing a brassiere consisting of two plasma bags filling with her own blood.

One man's features are covered by a remarkably lifelike effect of the flesh of his face pulled back and nailed to his skull. Hellraiser-style pinheads abound. Crazed male ballerinas, harem girls, rubber boys, sirens, harpies, transvestites, androgynes, hermaphrodites, naughty nurses, naughty nuns, naughty Nazis, welder's goggles, gas masks, catcher's masks, nine-inch nails, helmets, horns, spikes, wounds, rings through everything and to top it off, a spitting-image Laurel and Hardy. Happy Halloween in Hell!

Possibly best toymaking book in my collection of sixty+. ( I teach toymaking at retired teacher's ctr in nyc.) Excellent in historical
background & wide rangeing international coverage. Clear explanations
of operation and broad coverage all aspects toymaking. Admirable organization with excellent index. And entertaining illustrations and text to boot. Highest recommendation!

In "Traditional Wooden Toys: Their History And How To Make Them", woodworking expert Cyril Hobbins provides aspiring woodworkers with colorfully illustrated, step-by-step, do-it-yourself instructions for a broad range of traditional wooden toys, dolls and games from cultures and countries around the world. These are toys that have provided entertainment for countless generations of children. Informed and informative reading for non-specialist general readers with an interest in the history of toys and toymaking, "Traditional Wooden Toys" is especially recommended for personal, professional, academic, and community library woodworking reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

Outstanding content and fun to read! Sports in general and golf specially are a microcosm of life and business. Using golf as a metaphor the traits of champions guides you through a dream round of golf with the help of an engaging and wise caddy and real life examples of some of history's finest golfers. The lessons are practical and insightful and sure to guide you to breaking par on the course, in business and in life.

This great book is a must for both Golf fans and Personal Development buffs.It teaches,inspires,and motivates.There are some great golf stories mixed in with tips and techniques on how to be a success in business,golf and life.There is alot of valuable information in this well written book by two great authors who know a great deal about success.