The Sword in the Stone is a fiction book about a young, poor boy named Arther. He is a squire and is going to assist a knight in a contest. Auther meets Merlin, a magician. They become good friends and Merlin shows Auther all of his magic. Auther forgets the knights swords and has to find another sword quickly. Auther goes to the sword in the stone and pulls, and it comes right out. He is now hailed as King Auther.

My four-year-old son loves this book! He likes the "eye spy" aspect of the story and all of the clues that lead you through the book. The colorful and very detailed drawings will appeal to any child -- boy or girl. It is appropriate for his age, and I believe he will like it for a few more years. We recommend this highly.

What a great trivia book on the stones, it's a must for all Rolling Stones fans. I had a great time reading this book alone and with friends.

If your a fan of the band this book is a must! What fun I had reading this book. Some of the questions were a little hard and others were extremely hard but on the whole the book was highly entertaining. This book can be used as a learning tool or to simply vex friends and family. Enjoy this book - I did!

The Black Sabre Chronicles are awsome.
Cant't wait for Book 5!!!

I got this book sometime ago and I am very surprised that this author's books has not taken off in sales. In this fourth book, Willard takes on the horror of the Vietnam war. The story seems to be more edgey. The edge in this story is probably because Willard is a highly decorated paratrooper. The characters comes off as real people. And because TW has witness war firsthand, it really shows in the writing. TW deals with issues peculiar to blacks in the military with insight and compassion. This is a history lesson told in an adventurous, dramatic and sometimes a funny way. TW next book deals with a member of the Sharp family in Desert Storm. Those of you who have not read the Sabre Chronicle need to check out this great story for the first time. I recommend you start from the first book named Buffalo Soldier, then The Sable Doughboys and later the Wings of Honor. This story will not disappoint; guaranteed !!!!

I read this book in my French class. My French teacher is the mother of the author, so I may be a little partial to it, but it was really a good story. The values were great! I loved the sillhouette illustrations! It is a great book for all ages. I highly recommend it!

Ms Reichel's book, which she also illustrated, is a lovely, touching tale in the style of such well-known legends as "The Juggler of Notre Dame." It tells the story of Remi, a French stonecutter, and how he comes to fulfill the promise of his talents in his final sculpture. Although the book is for young people, like Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree," it contains truths that human beings of all ages should realize.

Omega is strictly a spoken word poem and has no guitar in it.. why does it say it's been tabbed out in the book? :P

I usually hate buying sheetmusic espically KoRn sheetmusic becuase the people just can't get it right. I mean even KoRn it isn't that difficult. I was looking through the editor notes and noticed that Josh Rand helped write out the music. So of course it's gotta be correct. All the SOLOs for Monolith, Blue Study, Get Inside are perfect down to setting the delay settings to the little notes about harmonizers. So over all I think its great. Its about time these guys put some SOLOS back into good ROCK/METAL. I love it! I'd rate it from easy to difficult depends on your skill level. I've been playinf for 4 years self-tought and its pretty easy. But if anything if you are beginner this book will help you out alot as it uses a lot of the standard stuff that you need to pick up.

I bought this book and couldn't put it down! It is an incredible story about a young woman who has decided to keep her body sexually pure until marriage. It also a book that discusses self-esteem,peer pressure, and stereotyping. It is very simple and easy to read. I really enjoyed this book! It is a great Christian book for teens and adults alike.

This book talks about a young lady's mission to talk to young people about being abstinent until marriage. She uses her life as a testimony of how it is possible to be abstinent until marriage. She shows her devotion to God in her powerful display of emotion that she uses to describe Him. She shows the reader that Jesus Christ is there for every young person that will recieve Him and trust Him with the outcome of his/her life. She reveals many of the questions that singles have when it comes to lonliness, isolation, and weakened faith when it seems as if dreams will never come to pass. She shows us in this book that anything is possible and that abstinence is achievable with the help of God. Excellently presented!

Yvonne Vera is an artist - a painter with words. The images she conjures, her amazing gifts to the reader, that grace the pages of this incredible novel, come straight from her soul - which is obviously filled with a deep love and compassion for her homeland, Zimbabwe, and its people. In these few pages (less than 200), she manages, through the related experiences, thoughts and emotions of her four main characters, to enlighten the world about the joyous/painful rebirth of Rhodesia into Zimbabwe, and to comment with cutting insight on forces as universal to all of humanity as love, hate, peace, war, kindness, unspeakable cruelty, and selfless, unconditional devotion.

She does all of this by utlizing language that is some of the most poetic and beautiful I have ever been blessed to read - her prose is by turns stark and loving, sheltering and illuminating, protective of what is fragile and precious, and unflinchingly revelatory about what is shameful and despicable. Her writing style varies so subtly as the story demands that it sometimes shifts imperceptably between long, graceful, sweeping word-strokes and choppy thought-bursts that could be described as literary pointillism. With some of the incomprehensible violence that occurs in this story, the beauty of Vera's writing is even more of a blessing - without, it would be a great temptation to turn away. That being said, there are also examples within of some of the most wonderful depths of the human spirit.

On the first level a story about the effect of the struggle for (and after) Independence on four people - two women, sisters; and two men, one compassionate and one a killing machine - the novel expands in depth to address multiple layers of human emotion and experience. In just one example, Vera's work here delves deeply and inspiringly into the types and purposes of memory - its coexisiting roles that aid us in understanding, protecting us, connecting us with our past and our environment, and healing us.

A word of warning, to those who might be tempted to mentally shelve this wondrous novel in 'African fiction' - to do so will do a horrible disservice, not only to this author and her work, but to yourself. This is a novel that can - and should - be experienced by sensitive readers regardless of their ethnic or national background. It speaks to the universality of the human soul - I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Yvonne Vera is an extraordinary author. Stone Virgins is beautifully structured and every word is essential as Vera weaves this exquisite Zimbabwean story from every angle. I agree with Ama Ata Aidoo in the editorial reviews: this book deeerves to be recognized as one of the most notable novels of the twenty first century.

No building material is as hallowed as stone and few have been so misused in contemporary architecture-as a paper-thin veneer over a steel or concrete frame. The architecture of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates demonstrates that stone can be used inventively and convincingly in buildings that address present needs and budgets. Holzman's anthology of his firm's buildings is astonishingly varied and shows how they were inspired by the past and by the material as it is cut from the quarry.

Emerson wrote, "He builded better than he knew - The conscious stone to beauty grew." Of course, the poet was referring to the architect of St. Peter's in Rome but the idea of growing beauty out of stone also applies to the awe inspiring work created by American architect Malcolm Holzman. It is this work and his dedication to the use of stone that is the focus of "Stonework," a meritorious addition to the annals of design.

A vocal and convincing proponent of stone as a versatile building material, Mr. Holzman shares his three decades of experience as a practicing architect responsible for such admired structures as the Louis Stokes Wing of the Cleveland Public Library, the West wing of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Highland House in Madison, Wisconsin, and many more.

His Texas credits are numerous, including the Murchison Center for the Performing Arts at the University of North Texas, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, and a master plan for the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. In addition, Mr. Holzman currently has four Texas projects in various stages of completion.

With a storyteller's grace the author relates how stone is as important today as it was in centuries past, a thread if you will, that flows throughout all of civilization.

"Stone work" holds 220 stunning color illustrations that serve to underscore Mr. Holzman's advocacy of the use of stone as both aesthetically pleasing, environmentally appropriate, and economically sound.

- Gail Cooke

Any true Stones fan (sarcastic sense of humor required) will LOVE this book!-Howie T

THE BOOK IS A CONTAINERSHIP OF ABSOLOUTELY FABULOUS PAINTINGS OF (OF ALL THINGS) THE ROLLING STONES - THIS BOOK IS NOT ABOUT THEM SO MUCH AS ABOUT ART - THE STONES SIMPLY BRING OUT THE BEST IN PORTRAITURE ART - AND IF YOU NEVER LIKES THE STONES BEFORE, YOU WILL NOW. MIND YOU, TO THE UNINITIATED (IE ALL NON-ARTISTS) -THIS BOOK MAY SEEM POINTLESS SOMEHOW. BUT WAIT! COULD YOU POSSIBLY PORTRAY ANYONE WITH THE AMAZING ACCURACY THAT KRUGER HAS???- EVEN REMOTELY?? KRUGER HAS TAKEN THE QUINTESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF EACH ARTIST AND TURNED EACH PICTURE/CARRICATURE INTO A MINDBLOWING SENSATIONAL VISUAL FEAST-ENJOY! I DID! - AS AN ARTIST - IM COMPLETELY ENVIOUS OF KRUGERS ABILITY - AND I WANT TO WIN THAT $100- SO I CAN AFFORD TO BUY THE BOOK! - I READ A FRIENDS COPY AND DONT OWN ONE MYSELF (boo hoo!!)...ALTHEA (FANCY A PORTRAIT ARTIST NOT OWNING THE BEST PORTRAIT BOOK ON THE MARKET!!)