Tracks Books

Misconceptions about the Yaqui (Yoeme) people are widespread because the New Age movement has turned them into gurus. Carlos Castañeda has surely put this tribe on the map, but not in a way the Yaquis might have liked to see it. The one book which has been written from a Yaqui point of view (`Yaqui Deer Songs' by Felipe S. Molina) offers us a glimpse into a world which is, in many ways, very different from ours. You can read about the sacred deer and its meaning to the Yaquis, but I guess you have to be a Yaqui to grasp its full meaning. I would recommend this book to anyone who is truly interested in the world view of the Yaqui people.

The lyrics of the Yaqui Deer Songs are magical, moving poetry both in English translations and in the liquid sounds of the Yaqui originals. This book gives a sense of the true flavor of Yaqui culture and spirituality.

This book and its companion from the library of america, have everything that Hurston wrote - except some unedited manuscripts, and some articles and short stories.

Her interest in language, folklore and ritual, and the cult of local color comes through in all of her works. The personalities and struggles, failures and victories of all of her characters become real for the reader.

She is writing earlier in the 20th century, when people were starting to buy radios and automobiles -- she saw a lot of the south, and north, rapidly transform into the beginnings of the consumer culture we know today.

When I read Hurston, it is like I feel an anxiety to preserve. I sense a underlying insight, that she probably had, that within a couple of generations, the rhythm of life would radically change.

I think she saw that a lot of the folk traditions and rituals in North America would disappear, so she did what she could to demonstrate a vibrant african american cultural life, as she knew it, and interpreted it.

The two collections of Hurston's work show the span of her writing, over her lifetime. These pieces reveal how many of her imagination and many of her themes and character-types evolve over the years.

I recommend the two volumes.

The debate of whether Ms Hurston was a true Harlem Renaissance writer is does so little justice to her contributions to that scene that I spent an entire semester debating it. Of course she was and she was one of the writers who helped give it its significance. Just the scene in Jonah's Gourd where she is talking about the physical features of the male protagonist is important enough. Her "peope" are real and you wonder if she had interacted with them in real life because they are your neighbors, relatives and friends...they are just that touchable. Her pain in life comes through all her books but you are so busy savoring her prose that you only wonder about it after you are done. The best thing to do is to gather several authors from that period and read them all. She is among the genius of the era but you will see how far she stands out from the brilliant.

I touched myself for hours while reading this piece of literary genius. It was literally breathtaking.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Hollobaugh, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

That's what I was yelling. I want to meet him in real life and show him what it's all about!

PS: Does he have a beard?

I picked up this book in a bookstore, started reading it, went back to work and shut my door to continue reading it throughout the afternoon! It's full of good advice for anyone who works for someone else - lots of motivating, common sense tactics to get along in the business world. Perpaps business schools should offer a course on "Real Business 101" and use this book as a text!

This is an amazing collection of photos and a heartfelt plea to preserve tigers in the wild. Our Independent Publisher Book Awards judges were dazzled by the photography and the creativity of the presentation. It's the kind of awareness-raising nature book we need more of to help save the planet's endangered wild animals.

An excellent history of the pursuit of the 4-minute mile. I thought it would bog in the middle as the numbers and times kepting piling on, but I actually found it compelling to read. Bryant did a good job of distinguishing between all the various runners from various eras (and the pictures in the book help a lot!). He seemed to ignore what was going on outside England at times (for instance, he'd spend a lot of time on certain new records, then barely give on off-hand sentence sometimes when an American set a new mile record. In the second half of the book, however, he did a good job of covering what was going on simultaneously in the 4-minute quest on three continents.

When you start reading this book, you can't stop before reaching the last page.
Very interesting book on the developement of the Automotive Art and the artists that creates those fantastic artworks.
"Road & Track" and Bill Motta are certainly the pioneers who opened new fields for the automobile and art amateurs.

This book should be in every parent's/doctor's/educator's resource box. If you are like me you might take "listening to music" for granted and never really thought about how you can help yourself and your child make good choices--not limited choices--when it comes to selecting from the many different styles of music that are available to them. I found the book to:

1. be an easy, quick (2 hours,), entertaining read packed with valuable info and insights.
2. be appropriately written for Christians and non-Christians alike; i.e., not preachy.
3. contain several valuable resources I was unaware of and can make use of with ease.
4. provide clear, concise steps to evaluate music with your child. And, the identified "benefits" of doing so with your child were "spot" on!
5. get your young listener's attention with the snippets provided by his 13-year old son titled Nathan's Notes.

This book delivers!! This informative book gives solid information for trackers at all levels. It will give you many tips on map making and plotting your tracks. If you are starting out this book will help you demystify track laying. If you are a experienced track layer it will give you a fresh look at the sport you already love. Even if you never track lay it will give you an appreciation for this skill. It is detailed with out being complicated. It is a book I can recommend to my students without hesitation.

I can't imagine trying to run health care policy in any state without this book. From Alabama to Wyoming, this book has it all! Even the District of Columbia, which isn't even a state!