Campbell Books

This was the first cook book I ever owned. I was a newlywed at the time and my mother-in-law bought me this book. She knew we were on a limited budget and didn't have much of a food allowance. I was working and quick, simple, easy to make meals were the perfect solution.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The plot is one that everyone can enjoy. It grabs you by the hand and leads you into a whirl wind society that you are hesistant to leave. The characters portray your best friend, and the man of your dreams. This book is great for all ages. The romantic setting is enough to catch your eye, but the comedy ropes you in for good. The word choice in this book was top shelf. Just reading the book you could hear the sounds of Hyde Park, and the waves of the ocean lap against the boat. I highly recommend this book to anyone.

a Brock (the Rock) Callahan private eye mystery. Brock knew right from the start this case would give him a headache. His fee was a $100 a day plus expenses. His client, Warren Temple Lund, III, has total assets of $32. But Warren is also not quite 12 years old and wants very much to find his father, Skip Lund. There are other people involved...like a wife who wants to divorce him, her boyfriend who would be happy if Skip never returned, Mary Chavez who does want him back since she's in love with him. Pete Chavez probably knows where Skip is but he's also missing. The San Valdesto police also want Skip on a murder charge. There is obviously something going on and Brock is now right in the middle of it.

I ordered this by chance, to read during a holiday in Lisbon. What a revelation! This is a great late XIX Century novel about bourgeois adultery. It belongs on the same shelf as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, but it is even closer to Emile Zola's "La Curee." Luiza, a lovely young wife, is led into temptation by her worldly cousin Bazilio, an awful rake. Consequently, Luiza is blackmailed by her ghastly maid Juliana. The struggle between the two women goes ever deeper. I won't betray any more of the plot, except to say that there are many wonderful secondary characters, several hilarious moments (although the whole novel is built toward a tragic ending), and a lot of political subtext. Reading it in Lisbon was a extra-special treat, as I carried the book through the very streets where it takes place.
Once I was done with it, I picked up another Queiroz at the Lisbon FNAC for the flight back, translated in French this time. Wow! What a letdown: all choppy and strangely overdone. That proved to me - a contrario - that Margaret Jull Costa did a fantastic job translating Cousin Bazilio. I never was conscious I was reading a translation. I will read more novels by Queiroz, but only if translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

In His first book to discuss the life and career of a local kids tv wraparound host/performer.Birmingham,Al. based kids tv historian:Tim Hollis takes the reader thru the life of "Cousin Cliff"Holman.The MC of "Tip Top Clubhouse!"/"Cousin Cliff's Clubhouse!","The Popeye Show"and "The Cousin Cliff Show!".From his humble beginnings as a amature magician.Who performed in High School and at local functions.To his appearing in radio plays and at entertaining nightclubs patrons and servicemen in the l940's and during The Korien War.To his early days in local Birmingham,Al. Kids tv as a puppeteer.Mr.Hollis gives us insight into this talented man's career.He also looks at the creation and development of his tv series and tells us all how the character of "Cousin Cliff"was created by an executive from The J.Walter Thompson Ad Agentcy.The story continues.As we learn about "Cousin Cliff's"Personal appearances,dealing with difficult kids and animals in the audiences of his shows.His years following the cancellation of his Birmingham,Al kids tv show.An unsuccessful attemp to revive his kids tv show on another tv station in Anninston,Al. and his post kids tv show efforts as a pollitcian and hotel exec.Filled with photos from the private collections of both the author and his subjects,plus copies of ads,rare artwork and some thoughts and photos from local fans."Cousin Cliff:40 Magical Years In Television!"is a wonderful biography of a career of a unique talent and a rare document of local Birmingham,Al.Kids TV History.Next To Mr.Hollis' latest book:"Hi There!:Boys & Girls!"..This is one kids tv history book worth having!

This book captures the behind the scenes grit, the preceding events and the lives of the individual wrestlers and coaches that produced such a fantastic season and team. Kim Parrish, has gone beyond just telling the story of the team but has deftly used the "power of the pen" to recreate the events in such detail the only thing you actually miss are the sounds and smells of each event. More than just a sports book this is a training manual on "How to Win"! Cowboy Up reveals the winning principles that can be applied to any life pursuit you may desire. This book will hold your attention, bring great enjoyment, show you what makes champions and what keeps OSU the leader in collegiate wrestling. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and heartily recommend it.

This book by far is one of my four year old daughter's favorites. It was wonderful to expose her to concepts about how a new world was created, the sacred pipe, Sun Dances and more. I found it a great introduction to a Native American point of view. This book has four short stories: Coyote Creates A New World, Coyote and Mice, Coyote and Woodpecker, and Coyote and the Buffalo Bull. They are perfect read apart, or cover to cover. The pictures are superb! The intro by the author even explains Coyote's role. I recommend this book for all ages.

Reeves and Campbell cut through all of the drug war crap in this superb cultural analysis. The role of the news -- especially the television network news -- is clear in the creation of a major "drug problem" and the need for a war on drugs. Need to know why the jails are overflowing with drug users? As this book points out, the Reagan-era news loved this "lock 'em up" story.

Ridge gives a candid account of his experiences in youth leadership. Ridge obviously has the gift of challenging teens about their relationship with Jesus Christ. He pulls no punches in sharing the highs and lows of youth ministry. It will make you laugh and hurt as you see him working through situations with his youth. He offers concrete principles for youth ministry that are based on solid biblical truths. This is a quick read full of stories, that will encourage everyone from full time youth pastors to part-time lay leaders

but from the insights, sentiments, thought, and vision of an adequate individual, loyal to his own experience of value."

The main thesis of this volume - the last and longest of the MASKS OF GOD series - holds that the distinguishing feature of the mythology of the Western world concerns the spiritual quest of an individual characterized not in respect to a social order but to that individual's own uniqueness and experience; and that this mythology grew out of a personal kind of love (amor), which is really quite different from the impersonal love (eros and agape) of the ancients and of the East. The central part of the book concerns a detailed discussion of two German epics of the last twelfth and early thirteenth centuries: TRISTAN by Gottfried von Strasburg and PARZIVAL by Wolfram von Eschenbach. These two works are a kind pivot point. By way of background, the author notes the subversive currents of the Middle Ages by citing, in particular, artwork of the mystical and pagan traditions, which in their celebration of Nature were a strong counterpoint to the authoritarian religion of the times. Then, on the other side leading to the present day, the author notes the break up of the old geocentric cosmology of the ancients by the findings of modern science and what effects this revolution in viewpoint has had on myth.

In the midst of some very horrific events, such as the Albigensian Crusade, in which the Church asserted it's power with a brutality not often surpassed in mankind's history of cruelty, certain parts of Europe in the twelfth century - like southern France and southern Germany - were roused by troubedours with poetry and song. The author notes that this outburst is truly a break with the past. Marriage is now not considered something exclusively preordained, as to be determined for the good of a social order, but that persons are actually free to choose whom they love. This realization through poetry and song elevates the status of women, and also brings about an emphasis on free will, which had not been there before. From the power of women to choose, there is born this idea of the noble heart, of one who has to prove that he is worthy through trial and perseverance. The author uses the Tristan legend to illustrate these themes, and also the Parzival legend to illustrate the quest of the noble heart, which becomes the quest for the Holy Grail.

The Grail quest involves a personal adventure on a path not previously taken, through the thickest part of the forest, into unknown territory. In tracing back through Arthurian legend to old Briton in the early sixth century, there are different strands, Celtic and Christian, that develop through a long period of oral transmission. In Wolfram's version, the guiding light for this adventure is not from without but within,"what the mystics call the Inner Voice", and all the standard or established guides are inapplicable because they do not point to the individual's own unique way. The Grail takes on the meaning of the "supreme spiritual value". The author contrasts this kind of "nature-rooted" orientation with the Biblically based way of the sinful being, separated from nature, with no choice but to turn to the social order and its sacraments, the only validated path to salvation, as every inner directed effort is considered valueless.