This is a valuable book for anyone who is personally involved, or knows someone who is involved battling breast cancer. This woman was mis-diagnosed and fought thru the courtroom and chemo-room to save her life. I've talked with her and she takes Tamoxifin daily and has been living every moment for the past thirteen years!

Swiss photographer, Mathias Braschler, shoots the denizens of New York's famed Madison Avenue. Taking his camera, over an 8 month period, up and down this one avenue, he reveals an urban portrait in naked black and white. These portraits show all the flaws, addictions, energy, broken dreams, fatigue and hopes of the myriad of people who live or work on Madison. Braschler shows us "the good, the bad, and the ugly", the immigrants, the executives, the old, the style-makers, and the rich. Most portraits are enhanced with one line quotations by the subjects, authenticating Braschler's stark vision. Although a "coffee-table" style book, the realities are occasionally sufficiently distressing to make strong social comment. At other times there is amusement, poignancy, and poetry.

This is a wonderful example of how a child's mind works. It brings the reader on a trip through a little girl's imaginitive world and illustrates just how many places her little mind can take her all before she has lunch!

Milton Babbitt is the most intelligent and articulate of the serialist propagandists. He is very often dead wrong, but he is always worthwhile to read. His monographs published in "The Journal of Music Theory" and elsewhere have been very influential, but as far as I know they have never been collected in book form. This is a valuable compendium of his thought. The last lecture reprises the argument of his notorious "Who Cares If You Listen?" article. For a reprint of the original article and an apposite rebuttal, see "Music in the Western World: A History in Documents" edited by Piero Weiss and Richard F. Taruskin.

I also recommend (very much) PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.

I FIRST STARTED USING THIS BOOK FROM A LIBRARY AND AS I READ AND RESEARCHED DIFFERENT AREAS OF IT I SOON REALIZED THAT I WAS READING ABOUT MY MOTHER'S FAMILY. THIS WAS THRILLING TO ME....ONE BECAUSE I HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO LOCATE THIS PART OF MY FAMILY TREE AND SECOND IT WAS EXCITING TO SEE THAT MY FAMILY HAD MADE AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION IN ESTABLISHING THE COMMUNITY WHERE THEY LIVED. I THINK THAT THE AUTHOR DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB IN RECORDING A PART OF HISTORY THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME IF NOT TO MANY OTHER PEOPLE. HOPEFULLY SOMEONE WILL WRITE ABOUT OUR LIVES AND OUR COMMUNITIES SO THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL HAVE THE SAME THRILL THAT I DID IN DISCOVERING MY LOST FAMILY IN MR HARDEN'S BOOK.

Great plot, really liked it (according to my notes from 1996). Not as good as "ten indians" or "year of silence" but still, quite spellbinding.

I read the book call Suzy Who?, and I thought that it was a good book. It is about a girl named Suzy, who is starting her first year of high school. Ever since she was in grade school, she was teased about her clothes, hair, and about being unpopular. She prays that something will change this year, and it does. She meets the most popular guy in school and ends up falling in love with him. She goes into costume making for the upcoming play Oklahoma, which Peter, the most popular boy, is in. He ends up breaking up with his girlfriend Melissa a week before the Spring Fling, and so he asks Suzy to go to the dance. She goes with him and she does not have as good of a time as she thought she would.

During the Civil War, James Madison Page was a prisoner in different places in the South. Seven months of that time was spent at Andersonville. While there he became well acquainted with Major Wirz, or Captain Wirz, as he then ranked.

Page takes the stand that Captain Wirz was unjustly held responsible for the hardship and mortality of Andersonville. It was his belief that the Federal authorities must share the blame for these things with the Confederate, since they well knew the inability of the Confederates to meet the reasonable wants of their prisoners of war, as they lacked a supply for their own needs, and since the Federal authorities failed to exercise a humane policy in the exchange of those captured in battle.

" The attempt by an ex-prisoner who was very accommodating toward Confederate captors to rebut other accounts of Wirz. Vehement, detailed, sometimes convincing." Nevins, Allen. "Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography. Vol 1. Baton Rouge: LSU Press 1970. Pg.199.

This digital reprint edition was created from the original Neale Publishing Co. As Published in 1908. This titles is also available in hardcover and tradepaper editions.

I thought that the book was very informative. But what i disliked was the anount of time it took the authour to reach his point.I enjoyed reading the description and detail of what her life was all about but felt that it was sometimes hard to tell where the facts ended and the fiction began. Why did i read this book in the first place?I read it for a school paper and outlined the whole thing. I loved the stories about the characters that she met and how she climbed her way up from the bottom. I thought that this book was great for showing her life and how she as one woman can make such a huge difference. I reccomend this book to all those who are interested in the aftermath of the revoulutionary war and want to know what went on behind the scenes at the white house.

It was true to life. It was well written. And aside from all that, it was a very good book.