This book tells the whole story of how the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade has become America's number 1 parade. It tells how it has grown. The story of the floats, the ballons and the guest artists. A book the whole family can enjoy.

This is a good photographic book celebrating the Macy's Parade. The pictures of the balloons and floats over the years are great--my nephew has enjoyed it as much as I have. A good gift for kids and adults alike--I'm giving a few as gifts.

"A lovely, elegant book containing a coherent, progressive series of poems about the steady sliding away of someone beloved dying of AIDS...The whole gamut is covered in a tight series of works that proves that sheer elegance of writing is not yet gone from literature."

"Poet Whitney Scott's LISTEN TO THE MOON is elegant, compassionate and fine."

I already have scott's first book, "Isaac", and just got his newest book, the Little Skyscraper yesterday. This book is wonderful! The illustrations are captivating and colorful, story line is simple, and easy to follow. Children once again will love this book, as well as the parents. You'll cheer when Jack comes back and saves his old friend, the skyscraper. This book is one to put under your tree this year, and in your collection.

In an age where technology is moving us ever-faster into the future, as well as the uncertainty that has been brought with war, people are turning more and more to the security and comfort of the past, of things closer to home, of memories that bring joy and peace to their hearts. The Little Skyscraper does exactly that. It conjures up images of a simpler society, simpler life where it was routine to help others, where character, integrity and hardwork were still the keys to success. Where the old was not destroyed by the new -- but where the value of both was seen and combined to make a better world. The Little Skyscraper learned he didn't have to be tall and ultra-modern to make an impression -- that the greatest gift he had and could offer was just to be himself. The easy-to-read text and wonderful illustrations present this valuable lesson in a way that will bring readers back to this book again and again!

I read 40+ pgs of this book in the bookstore alone. I just moved to Nogales, AZ in January and I have found this book to be very helpful in providing me a background of the Ambos Nogales areas. The book is very well written and keeps you interested from cover to cover. Living in the area and being able to directly relate to the book is a plus, however anyone interested in the US-Mexico Border would find this book to be a spectacular read. Enjoy!!

must also read Miriam Davidson's "Lives on the Line." Maybe I'm a bit biased since I live here in Southern Arizona twelve miles north of our border with Mexico. But Davidson writes such sweet, firsthand-experience prose about other realities I see here -- like the Mexican migrants who have, for decades, crossed the border to keep Americans fat and sassy. The risks they now are taking have become obscenely dangerous, with the US spending billions upon billions to protect-- futiley -- our southern border.

Davidson's book is the first one I've read from cover-to-cover in one sitting since I read Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." She's actually the better writer who shares the same themes.

But one does not have to live near the border with Mexico to understand that our friendly, much older, south-of-the-border nation's problems are really ours.

Besides, the Mexican border is now up in Minnesota -- isn't it, really?

This is a must read.

This review is for the book: Living Heart Diet
by Dr. William Debakey, et al.

This is an excellent book for those who have had heart problems and for those who do not want to develop heart problems. Poor diet (high fat/cholesterol) is one of the main risk factors for heart disease -- excess cholesterol lays a foundation of plaque in your arteries that can eventually cause heart attacks and/or necessitate heart surgery. This book was developed to help us all eat right and help avoide disease. This book contains recipes, education about heart disease, and nutrition and sodium tables for most of the foods you eat. This is an excellent resource! Use it in good health!

I'm a diabetic and recently had a quadruple bypass. After being introduced to this book, I devoured it and now live it.

We own all of the books the Nearings wrote and this one is a gem. There are those who may think that what they did and wrote about from the 50's to the 70's has no bearings on todays world (2003) but nothing could be further from the truth. Their wisdom on building a stone home, organic garden, composting, and simply realizing that one doesn't need as much materialism as one may think is timeless. The book is out of print but you can buy used copies here on Amazon.com and I urge you to but a copy if you have the slightest interest in simple living, frugality, inner peace and tranquility, preventative health issues, healthy eating, a positive mindset to age one hundred or energy conservation.

This is one of the best books I have ever read. If you can find a copy, get a hold of this book to learn about how these counter culturists lived their lives in health and peace. Some folks may believe that the Nearing's style is bolder than they are used to, and this is because these people did not sit in ivy towers writing theories, they lived their lives based on their principles, which is admirable in my eyes.

A great book for those who want to spend a few months covering the entire region. Though a few geographical and historical errors are there, the good tips and listings give a great start for the intrepid traveler.

I am stationed in Germany and therefore have the opportunity to travel frequently throughout E. Europe. For several years now I have been looking for a travel guide that offers detailed travel info as well as historical and regional information. I finally found it all in Lonely Planet's E. Europe. Although it was an older version (1995) with often outdated prices, it provided an excellent source of maps, key sights, as well as a good, country-by-country historical brief. This book was so good, in fact, that someone in Ljubljana, Slovenia, decided they needed it more than I did, forcing me to buy the latest edition. I'm looking forward to seeing this updated edition.

This is a marvellous novel from the late fifties, which deserves to be better known. Set in Malaya after the second world war, it is narrated by Tom Brent, who is still in the British army after having served throughout the war. Throughout the later part of the book, the jungle itself becomes a brooding symbol of Saxby's tortured mind. The book is superbly written, and contains passages of searing intensity. The end is desolating. If I had to choose ten books to take to a desert island, this would certainly be one of them.

This is one of the 10 all time best books I have been lucky enough to discover.

From Bombay to Malasia characters are viewed in transcendental clarity as a supernatural thread connects Tom Brent to Brian Saxby, a mysterious British seeker of truth.

When Saxby's predictions of Tom Brent's life and personality inadequacies become realized, a search for Saxby in Malasia begins. The voyage of discovery leads to some remarkable encounters with a Eurasian prostitute, some British soldiers and a band of Chinese and Malasian guerilla fighters.

The search for the elusive Saxby continues into the Malasian Jungle. His desire for revenge against Japanese collaborators haunts those left behind after the occupation, as does Saxby's own spiritual evolution . The influence of Saxby on the lives, loves and consciousness of those he has touched becomes their final fate in this remarkable story.

I first read this book at the age of 11. Ludell & Willie is a young adult love story that you will love forever. Ludell lives with her strict grandmother who hardly ever give her and Willie time along. Willie is the star athlete, so Ludell is alway worried that another girl will take him away since she's can't go out on dates, but Willie alway prove his love. I'm trying to find the sequal for this one, but it's a hard to find book.

I think this book was a great example of what children go through in life. It tells not only the bad things about growing up it also shows some of the problems that young adults face during the first years adolescents.

I remember Scott as a baseball trivia genius from our times in John Dewey HS in Brooklyn NY.. He'd always call in and win the Sportsphone trivia questions.. I was fascinated when I saw this book and realized who the editor was, I had to buy it.. It was well worth it.... Scott, If you ever read this, hope you remember Kevin who used to hang out with you in the lunchroom going over baseball stats and history... Good luck to you...

Of all the baseball trivia books that I have read, this has to be the best. Its questions are superb and run the gamut from being relatively easy to very hard. The book does not insult your intelligence nor does it make you never to want to read another baseball trivia book in the future. Just a great book. Mark Kanter