The Lavettes-Torn by divorce, dissension, and warring passions, the Lavettes face their most painful truths, mirroring a nation divided in the aftermath of Vietnam. The loves that seemed inviolate, the unquestioned loyalties, are struck down in an era of broken promises and lost ideas.

Barbara Lavette -Trapped between her own heroic past, her family's needs, and the shadow of her own encroaching age, Barbara is at the crossroads. Embracing the challenge of a congressional race, going out to face war - and love - in El Salvador, she must become the inspriation of her embattled family, the microcosm that is her ultimate testing ground for courage and strength.

Not only are the stories exceptionally well-chosen. but there is a very perceptive introductory essay title "Kafka and the Modern Parables." I use his essay in a storytelling apprenticeship program, and encourage my students to orally learn some of these stories for the telling. I encourage you to do the same. The stories are powerful, the essay is insightful, and Schwartz judgment in selecting 100 parables is superb.

Dr. Robert Béla Wilhelm Director, School of Sacred Storytelling

This lovely game is a great learning tool for children seven and up. Based loosely on the card game Go Fish, the young ones can all learn about beautiful art painlessly.

This is a very useful book for any level conductor. It contains interviews with the established generation of conductors, divided into chapters of all the conductors' answers to individual questions on auditions, repertoire, women conductors, vocal technique, and much more. If you have a question about your conducting or your choir and wonder what Howard Swann or another of the greats thinks about that issue, this is a great resource.

This book collects most of the written material available and includes actual person-to-person contact to document the Primitive Baptist Universalist church in Central Appalachia. Well-researched and well-written, this book describes a religious group that is remarkable for its openness and extreme forgiveness in a region traditionally viewed as fundamentalist, crude, and harsh. Readers must wade through excessive detail at times but if they persevere, the detail helps to color in the shades of this unique group.

Published posthumously in 1987 as a series of uncollected texts seven years after Barthes' death, "Incidents" unfolds an intriguing bricolage of observations, memories and homoerotic desires in a journal-like fashion.With "The Light of the Sud Ouest" Barthes traces back his childhood years to the rustic french countryside anchored between the Pyrenees and the "Silver Coast" of the Atlantic Ocean. Writing the country as a literary body, Barthes portrays his marking adolescent years in sensuous details. His "royal road" of childhood is paved with memorable fragrances, meteorological peculiarities of the Southwest, the charming splendors of the little villages in the Bearn region, and the natural and rich Basque countryside. The powerful images and oberservations evoked in "Incidents," the second text in this compilation, unmasks stunningly Barthes' most inner and profound desires. The random fragments of the text from various cities and regions of Morocco exhibit Barthes' homoerotic lust in an affectionate and passionate manner. The overt, sometimes emotionally charged segments reveal his love for the Moroccan people, the richness of its language diversity, and for young men. The reader turns into critc when strolling through the text and is incited to assemble the various fragments of perceptions that unveil not only Barthes' love for men, but also his sensitive insight into the "Maghreb" region. The reader will be seduced by descriptions of the terrace cafes overlooking the "Djemmaa el Fna" square in Marrakech or the oriental "savoir-vivre" in the souks. "Soirees de Paris," a chronological journal kept in Paris, depicts Barthes' emotionally charged evenings in Paris during the August and September of 1979. From his attraction to young hustlers to intellectual writers like Jean Genet, "Soirees de Paris" comprises the language of a sometimes sad, desperate, but motivated author/critic during the last stages of his life. Since his publication of the "Death of the Author" in 1968, Barthes performs with "Incidents" a framgentary, open-spaced text requiring the reader's participation to be fully appreciated. The performance of a discontinuous text invites the reader to actively engage in one of the most ardent and passionate journals and descriptions of one of the most influential critics of this century. "Incidents" offers compelling individual histories and insights into Barthes' intriguing life.

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The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, And The Politics Of Culture by Carl Freedman (Professor of English, Louisiana State University) is a thoughtful and scholarly examination and analysis of the role of Marxist theory plays in the study of human culture. Part I delves into a solid groundwork of Marxist thought, and Part II applies the Marxist vision to a wide variety of popular culture works, including the novels of Philip K. Dick and the television series M*A*S*H. An absorbing look at human culture, lifestyle and entertainment, The Incomplete Projects is a welcome and highly recommended contribution to 20th Century Cultural Studies reference collections and reading lists.

Jaime de Angulo was a truly Californian character -- wanderer, poet, wastrel, anthropologist, linguist, and wild man; and near the end of his life he started retelling to his children the stories he'd learned from years of field work (and just hanging around) with the Pit River Indians of northern California. Out of those stories came this enchanting book, a semi-novel for children and wise adults, a series of stories both hilarious and profound told and experienced during a family's journey to visit relatives by the ocean. De Angulo's luminous vision gives us as intimate a picture of a Native American vision of life as any book I can think of. That this classic is not better known is a mystery....

If you haven't come across the ICP-MS technique before, this book is a very good introductory guide. Topics such as instrumentation, theory and interferences are well-written. I trust the book is well worth reading.