Been there, done that and totally agree with Cherie Carter-Scott's assessments of "Motherhood." Having raised three children of my own I can relate to the journey discussed in these pages. It made me laugh, cry and feel so blessed for being a part of this very unique, "awesome" "passage" of life. I don't agree AT ALL with the editorial reviewers use of the word "corny" in relating to this book. It makes me wonder if the reviewer isn't male or maybe not a mother. Maybe if a mother, in the beginning stages. This is an excellent read for a mother-to-be a mother in the middle or a mother at the very emotional stages of "letting go." Thank you Cherie for touching my heart. You hit the mark in my book. "Awesome" as you said, is a good description of a part of a womens life that really has no words that can totally describe what it is to be a "Mother."

This book is ideal for all types of readers. After seeing the length of the book, I was pleasantly surprised at how well the characters were developed. I only wish I had read the book before I watched the movie. I couldn't help but picture Clint Eastwood as Josey Wales. I wonder how I would have pictured the main character had I not seen the movie. Oh well, the book was great anyway

Serious comfort food. Having been a customer of the restaurant since the beginnings when it was tiny and a haven of warmth and real food, I was quick to buy this book from the shop when I saw it. It contains reliable recipes that are savory and hearty. I always know the recipes, which allow for variation will be a success. The illustrations are delightful and set the country kitchen stage well. Family and friends are always blown away with my Good Enough to Eat creations. I highly recommend it even though I've always thought of it as a best kept secret.

This book is funny and insightful, sad and true. I grew up in the late 50's and early 60's listening to many of these great groups. At the time you did not know that they were being mistreated and beaten out of so much, not just money but writer credits. This is a great book with many factual accounts of what happened to The Spaniels and this book could also echo the plight of many of the other great groups from this era. Hopefully they will now start to get the recognition that they so richly and rightfully deserve. Thank you for offering this book.

My favorite gem in this book is an engraving by Paul Reverse showing a monument that the Sons of Liberty proposed building when the Stamp Act was repealed in March 1766. Each side of the monument has four portraits of various British officials, including King George III and William Pitt, who supported the colonists and helped bring about the repeal of the Act. The writing on the monument would describe the outrage caused by the Stamp Act as well as the gratitude and triumph the colonists felt when it was finally repealed. Of course, I have never heard of the plans for this monument, which was never built, but it is certainly indicative of the fascinating historical details you will find within these pages.

"Governing and Teaching" is a Sourcebook on Colonial America which contains a wealth of historical maps (Florida in 1564, Massachusetts in 1634), sketches (Columbus landing in the Bahamas, Patrick Henry speaking to the House of Burgesses), paintings (the Pilgrims signing the Mayflower Compact and Governor Thomas Gage of Massachusetts being thrown by his horse in a political allegory), and engravings ( and the Boston Massacre by Paul Revere) from the Library of Congress. There are also contemporary photographs of buildings from this period, such as the oldest synagogue in American and a library, both built in Newport, Rhode Island, as well as the title pages for some of the first books published in the New World, including a Bible in Algonquian and Poor Richard's Almanac, and various headlines from early newspapers.

This volume explores the roots of our government, the founding of the nation's first churches and schools, as well as the events that led to the movement for independence from Great Britain. This book is divided into three parts: (1) 1490-1649, The First Settlers, (2) 1950-1754, Change and Conflict, and (3) 1755-1776, The Way to Independence. Each begins with several pages of time lines, each of which looks at a specific period of years in terms of World History, Colonial Government, and Colonial Religion and Education. The two-page chapters consists of a couple of paragraphs of text and then one to three illustrations, each with its own detailed caption. Other volumes look at the same time period from different perspectives, such as "The Explorers and Settlers," "Battles in a New Land," "Daily Life," and "The Arts and Sciences." All of these sourcebooks are excellent supplemental volumes for studying Colonial America, supplying a wealth of details to augment what you find in your American History textbook. Again, I wish there was some way of making this material more accessible to the entire classroom. Fortunately, most of what appears in this volume is in black & white, which means that teachers (or students) can photocopy pictures for bulletin board displays or reports.

Too many grant seekers think that winning a grant is a job well done. The reality is that winning the grant is only a first step in a long process. This book has all the information anyone needs to effectively manage their grant programs. The text is well written and easy to read and follow. The examples and sample documents are worth their weight in gold! I would highly recommend this book to begining grant writers who have never had the opportuntiy to work on a grant project. This book will help you avoid the pitfalls many of us had to discover the hard way.

I do not own this cookbook, but used a copy in the library of the Boston Children's Museum in researching my own _The American Ethnic Cookbook for Students_. The Griots Cookbook was originally done as a fundraiser for the student radio station at Morgan State, a historicallym black college in Maryland. The recipes come from the families of the three co-authors, and from students including some contemporary African recipes as well as soul-food classics.

The recipes are credited to individuals, and have some individual eccentricities, as well as being very representative of that era and region.

If you can find a copy to buy, you will be very pleased with this cookbook, which is both usable and collectable.

From its review in Choice Magazine (May 2003)

Carter's book is THE resource for anyone wishing to explore all aspect of this issue. Each article ends with see also references and suggestions for further reading. A roster of contributors gives their qualifications and lists the entries they wrote. The book explores the historical, social, legal, and political aspects of the gun issue in the US, including personalities of the gun culture. Explanations of legal cases are particularly helpful, and there are entries on the gun laws of Finland, Japan, Mexico, Russia, and the UK.

Carter (sociology, Bryant College) has written or edited nine books, including The Gun Control Movement (CH, Feb'98). This work is a fair, balanced assessment of the issue. Both volumes are indexed; the general index that concludes volume 2 prints page numbers in bold face to denote main entries. Appendixes list organizations and cover key laws and state constitutional provisions. Summing Up: Recommended. All libraries. D. M Buckley,[Reference Librarian], University of Dayton

It was Foucault who in a onetime interview with Pierre Boulez had remarked how music has kept pace with the innovations in technology;Spectral harmonics at IRCAM,Just Intonation in the USA and I'd imagine not only innovation but subversion of concept would be great spots to transcend Foucault.For I find this(for Foucault it is our loss that music was not a realm he ever pursued,only as a spot of culture,the radical aesthetic and the end of man, where is he/she) a double entendre/ side here to this for technology does create obscurity as well The most exciting composers have been those who have continually challenged the traditions of reigning ideologies(the 18th and 19th Centuries) or the circumventing the magnetic attractions of the cash box(our own age)after the eclipse of modernity.Those who simply conspire to write serious music masquerading as film music(minimalism included) will be forgotten. All the John Williams's,countless permutations now by 2002,Phil Glass Clones out there will join the 747s in the Mojave Desert standing baking in the sun, bleached for Road Warrior to one day find.
I suppose Lacan would have or Zizek would find now something fascinating to say with the indulgences in today's new music,what is it, what does it represent, what incomplete dimension of your unconscious does it reside in.
Perhaps music creativity existing within the realms of the modernist language,post-Ferneyhough is harboring an aesthetic in exile,afraid to come out of its embattled neglected shell, like the intimacy of a Dutch lens grinder,a forgotten art.
Today it is actually more interesting, at least with new music, to discover the creative pathways of a work than the actual work itself,like an elaborate dinner setting where the food never comes(John Tilbury,pianist said that on radio) a new work for much of the time under-rehearsed,and played once,perhaps twice never to be heard again, and never recorded for consumption. And then there are primary new works which the citizens of a free democracy never get to hear at all. This the cause of cultural marginalization, we simply never hear some aspects of the creative spirit,even though the Silicon Valley has fashioned a saturation point of image,icon,aesthetic and place. Someone, some human body politically does decide who will get a Pulitzer,or what new premiere work the Chicago Symphony will play this year. In fact we seldom remember the Pulitzer winner's actual prize music,Can you name the work or even remember a moment from it??we listen more to the opaque cultural power a Prize represents, who cares about the music.Well Habermas said opacity"Undurchsichtlichkeit" is what this age is all about, New Age complaisance.

Carter has received numerous prizes but for his body of work the prizes seem to be arbitrary and marginal, we forget them because he has so many of them,like Oscars,who ever has more than one we forget about. We go(should go) directly toward the creative vigours structural or otherwise to the music, its incessant shapes, and convoluted designs,its virtuosic displays and its long range topologies of poly rhythms and other global durational frames.

The Harmony Book here, (actually Two Volumes sewed into one here)began as a fairly modest endeavor, a practical accounting means, a way to remember certain configurations of tones, or intervallic transformations. No one can remember everything, so Carter began making these large 14 inch long sheets of these tones. All of this creative odyssey is retold within the interview with scholar John F. Link, who has devoted his analytic work to Carter's polyrhythms,and also this Harmony Book.A wonderful interview here with Carter. Volume One is a Catalogue/Synthesis of three note, four note, five note etc chords, and their tranpostions. It seems easier to contemplate these chords here as 1+2=3, or 3+2=5, for one isolated tone then followed by 2 more tones can powerfully direct the best,evocative,crisis moments in music, anyones.. This becomes especially relevant when one needs to account for 55 six note chords distribute graciously over the durations of a work,or controlling the succession of 80 or 90 tones followed, staggered, accelerated as the work's discourse unfolds. Volume 2 then is Analysis, a means of looking more deeply into the relationships of all this stuff, the tones, the intervals, the chords. There are moments of pure illumination as in the discussion on Carter's provocative/evocative Night Fantasies or when for instance one learns as in Carter's Third String Quartet, a work shaped by the Duets,One Violin with Viola, One Violin then with Cello, One group more stationary reduced to Five tones, the other Duet ensemble is free to explore all interval rows. I can't help thinking this is how international capital functions,in Argentina, in South Korea in today's neo-liberal mileau.

There are also elaborate yet functional means of simple symbols, as a four note chord represented with a box, four point, then five note pentagon, and six, then what is referred to as the Sigla controlling and defining the entire array of tones,220 intervals and chords with all their additions.... There is a Glossary to help one wade through this fascinating Naming of the Father- game.

There are also nice excerpts from Carter's music that helps embellish a point,much like conceptual menus for creativity. Then there is the dimension as to who or what controls whom. Does one need this Harmony Book to decepher the structural complexity within Carter's oeuvre. Does Carter need his own Book? And the answer is sometimes! for Carter said that he did break the tyranny of these alloted configurations simply to make the music more interesting. I guess that is the last horizon, the music must be interesting, how one got there is also interesting,perhaps more so or less so, it may become part of what we may now think of musical philosophy and the creativity, the last bastion known.

Grandpa Jack loved jazz- in fact, he called it "heavenly". So, now that Grandpa Jack has died, his grandson (who narrates the book) imagines his Grandpa in heaven with all the American jazz legends he loved- John Coletrane, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, etc. This is a place where Grandpa Jack can step up on stage with is heroes and add his own touch with his famous "spoons solo".

"Heaven's All-Star Jazz Band" is a great way to introduce kids to the Jazz greats that may have died, but will always live on through their music. The unique illustrations (which aren't described, but look like oil paint on canvas in a wonderful 3D effect) are brilliant. The last page gives a small bio on each legend mentioned in the story. But the greatest gift this book gives is the obvious bond that has been created between a boy and his Grandfather simply through a love of great music. This is a must-have.