Barb's wonderful collection is a must for a vegan / vegeterian kitchen. Ingredients are presented clearly and instructions are easy to follow. The reader is presented a wide range of delicious recipes. They are so many beans with different textures, flavors, and appeal. Revel in them! Also highly recommend Louise Hagler's "Tofu Cookery" - the two volumes are a comprehensive start to a vegan / vegeterian cookbook library.

The Family Jewels, by Deirdre Rice, is the funniest book I have ever read. Stories from the childhood of Deirdre and her two sisters are so humorous that I couldn't put it down, laughing all the way through. My favorite of these short excerpts, well I would be hard pressed to choose just one. A friend of mine borrowed my copy and said, "This book is hysterical!" A bright red cover should tell us to expect something cheery inside and this one does. Everyone needs a good laugh... get this book and you'll have a lot of them!

As a graphic designer, I found the book a handy and valuable source of 19th century faces.

A true artist. Unafraid to search and share, to dig deep into his own heart.

This book is essential for those working with youth. It helps balance out the energy demands of youth work with principles and relationships necessary to keep a cool head, steady spirit, and a heart prepared for the long haul.

Borthwick bares his own heart and soul in this riveting book. One of the best management books for youth workers on the market, too bad it is out of print! Should be required reading.

Through Rice's own writing the book gives a nice history of one our centuries great leftist-Catholic activists, sampling Rice's writings from the thirties through the nineties. It has given me a sharp sense of the issues that were in the minds a generation of Pittsburghers who, like my working class grandparents, hung on Father Rices' words during his regular radio commentaries, and looked to him as a defender and educator through a period of great change. The paperback is nicely put together in a large format and includes many black and white illustrations.

This is one of the first science fiction/fantasy books I ever read and I couldn't bear to see it languish without a review. My copy (which originally belonged to my father) dates from 1931 and its story was originally published in six parts in the "Blue Book Magazine" from May to September 1930. It is wonderful to see these books reissued, as they are the progenitors of many, if not all of the heroic fantasy serials that take up so much room on modern bookshelves. Edgar Rice Burroughs (ERB) was the first and also (in my opinion) the best writer of multi-volume fantasies.

'Fighting Man' is the seventh book in ERB's Mars series and differs from most volumes in the series in that John Carter, gentleman of Virginia and Warlord of Barsoom (Mars) is only a peripheral figure.

The adventure is narrated in the first person by Hadron of Hastor, a warrior in the service of John Carter. Hadron's family is rich in honor but not in material possessions and when he falls in love with the wealthy Sanoma Tora, she snubs him. For months, the soldierly Hadron haunts the palace of Tor Hatan, Sanoma Tora's father, but his hope of winning her are vanishingly small until she is abducted one night by a mysterious flier.

The strange ship is armed with a weapon that disintegrates the metal of a pursuing flier, and the Warlord realizes that there is now a new weapon of mass destruction let loose upon the dying seas of Barsoom (it's hard not to adopt ERB's style after reading one of his books).

Hadron is promised Sanoma Tora's hand if he can rescue her. The Warlord dispatches the doughty warrior in search of his love, and asks him to keep an eye peeled for the new metal-disintegrator weapon.

Since this story was originally written to be serialized, there is a cliff-hanger at the end of every chapter. Hadron's flier is shot down by the terrible green warriors of Barsoom. He escapes and is trapped in a deserted tower by a man-eating white ape. He escapes, rescues a slave named Tavia from the green men and the two of them take to the air in Tavia's flier.

Unfortunately, they are forced to land in the demesne of a very paranoid tyrant. While Hadron is confined in the tyrant's Pit, he learns the secret of the invisible metal-disintegrating ray from a fellow prisoner.

Hadron, now under a sentence of death must escape to save both Sanoma Tora and all of Helium (John Carter's Barsoomian kingdom).

Our hero battles his way across the dead seas of Barsoom, evading or slaughtering cruel tyrants, mad scientists, formidably-tusked green warriors, etc. until the final reaches of chapter seventeen when he resolves all of the plot lines and finds his own true love (not who you might think).

'Fighting Man' has all of the color and breathless dash of its predecessors in ERB's Mars chronicles. It's okay to start your adventure on Barsoom with 'Fighting Man,' although I would strongly recommend beginning at the first volume, "A Princess of Mars." 'Fighting Man' can stand alone because ERB includes a long forward in which he describes the flora, fauna, principal races, and wars of Barsoom.

I have attended Evelyn's "Find Your Soulmate" workshop. Her warmth, wisdom and optimism have a profound effect on everyone who participates. If you can't attend in person - or want to get a flavor for her program - I highly recommend this book. There is also a companion journal.

It's always assumed that there were no observant Jews in America prior to the great Eastern European migration that began in the 1880's. Rabbi I. Harold Sharfman, the author of "Jews on the Frontier" and the founder of the "Half-Moon K" Kashrut Organization, has gathered a sampler of sermons, journals and synagogue records to show the rise of Reform and the resistance of Orthodox Judaism from 1840 to 1860. The only flaw I could find in this book is the lack of footnotes, although if citations had been included the book would be much longer than 750 pages! Nevertheless I highly recommend this to anyone who is studying the history of Judaism in America.

Excellent book. This book held my attention from the first page. It is very well written and has a gripping story line. Although you know that Kenji survives because he is telling the story, I couldn't wait to find out what happens next. The book also contains factual information of World War II, which is very interesting to read. This is a book that I couldn't put down and had me thinking about it when I did. A wonderful story, told in a very intersting way. Five stars...