My wife and I can't stop singing these songs in the car. We love Anne Murray, and are so glad we've found this tape again -- all the songs from childhood. She prefers the song "Animal Crackers" and I like the "Inchworm" song. We strongly recommend this album -- if not for your kids then for the kid in you.

As someone who works privately with students, helping them with theses and dissertation, I highly recommend this book. When students contact me in regard to assistance with their thesis or dissertation, I recommend that they buy this book and use it as a reference. As the title states, this book guides students through the planning, research, and writing process, every step of the way, from proposal to completion.

I've used this series with ESL students, basic skills, special ed., and regular and gifted students. They've all loved it and learned to read quickly. The book is small and easy to hold, the pictures are clear and inviting, and the step-by-step learning of basic sight words gives guaranteed success. The cost of the books will not strain any school's budget.

Thunder in the Dawn shows history in a fictional sense from the American Indian point of view. It's defintely nice to see people writing on things from a different perspective

In Time And Archaeology, editor Tim Murray presents a unique and comprehensive survey of thought on the concept of time as perceived by archaeologists within their framework for interpreting the archaeological records, and how our understanding of time plays a role in actually creating archaeological phenomena. Chapters draw from a broad, international range of contributors who combine theoretical and empirical material to illustrate and explore the diversity of archaeological approaches to the concept of time. Time And Archaeology contrasts a scientific understanding of time with social, cultural and religious ideas of time, showing how all of these diverse approaches are important to the theory and practice of archaeology. Time And Archaeology is an important, seminal contribution to the study of archaeology, anthropology, and science.

In A Time Of War: A Northern Chronicle Of The Civil War, Stuart Murray draws upon Berkshire County, Massachusetts diaries, letters, newspapers, military reports, church journals, and gravestones to tell the stories of the black Union soldiers drawn from New England factories and farms, and comprising the 54th Regiment whose exploits and ultimate fate were vividly portrayed in the film "Glory". Here the reader will encounter Medal of Honor winners, Confederate generals, women volunteers, prisoners of war, leading abolitionists, pacifists, shopkeepers, poets, writers, artists, politicians, and a host of others, all contributing to a vivid portraits of the horrors and glories of the Civil War. A Time Of War is an outstanding contribution to the growing library of Civil War literature and a "must" for all dedicated Civil War buffs.

After perusing through the contents of this textbbok, I have two words to describe it: Superbly Written! Blum serves as the editor of this superbly written scientific text and it gives the reader more than expected.

Unlike many other textbooks and novels written on this same subject, this text goes deep and gives the reader an abundant supply of educational information in the Ecotoxicity fields dealing with terrestrial and marine organisms.

Moreover, this text does not attemnpt to bore the reader with a proliferation of huge words and non-connecting statements, but rather it breaks down each ecotoxicological reaction to its simplest form so that reader will be able to follow along as to what is actually taking place. This text also gives detailed explanation for all reactions taking place within a biosystem as to allow the reader the chance to experience what is actually taking place.

On a scale of 1 to 10 with 5 being an average rating, this textbook rates an whopping 10+ because it leaves basis of ecotoxicity uncovered and it gives a scientific explanation for chemical exposure of selective agents in the terrestrial and marine systems.

The 40 "translations" in this collection integrate a complex set of ideas about consciousness, language, God, and our relationship to the earth, in poems of great linguistic and formal inventiveness. The poems demonstrate why Joseph Brodskey said of Murray that "he is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives" and Jonathan Bate calls him "the major ecological poet writing in the English language." Murray's language is continually inventive, sometimes densely, almost irritatingly so. He uses forms from dramatic narratives to sonnets to free verse, weaving rhyme, meter, strange and convoluted syntactical constructions, sound, and inventive naming into poems that richly repay careful reading.

Murray "translates" into English the "language" of an amazing range of natural phenomena. The subjects are not just animals, although there are plenty of those; he also takes on plants, insects, reptiles, birds, mammals, cell DNA, evolution, the bole on a tree, and the migration of birds. To each one he brings a keen eye and a newness of language that makes each poem both a discovery and a lesson. The language becomes strange, even quirky at times, but the strangeness is necessary to shake preconceptions. For example, in the first poem in the group called "Eagle Pair," Murray shows us the world through the eyes of the birds:

We shell down on the sleeping branch. All night
the limitless Up digests its meats of light.

The circle-winged Egg then emerging from the long pink and brown
re-inverts life, and meats move or are still on the Down.

Right away, by using "shell" as a verb he's moved into a language of raptors. Eagles don't lie down, they hunch over with heads buried in wings, covered like the eggs they came from. And I have no doubt that if an eagle used words, it would refer to Up and Down, not sky and earth; and that creatures on the Down would be food (meats), and nothing else.

The poems also contain meditations on change and transformation, how these minds and beings came to be as they are. Transformation has its origins in the cycles of eating, being eaten, and reproducing that binds the lives of all species together. Plants change in reaction to the animals that graze on them, and in return their dung feeds the soil in which the plants are rooted. In "Mother Sea Lion," the female notes that "My pup has become myself / yet I'm still present. // My breasts have vanished. / My pup has grown them on herself."

The two ideas, translation and transformation, illuminate a world made up by the action of what Murray calls presence. Murray's translations point toward what he means by presence: the beautiful, terrifying, fecund ground of existence, stranger and more wonderful than anything human mind ever invented.

As Wallace Stevens said in "The Comedian as the Letter C": "his soil is man's intelligence." Murray's poems give us what the soil might say, if humans could understand its language. In these poems, human language is supple enough, tough enough, high-flying and deep-diving enough to say things from the earth, instead of saying things about it as a way of talking about ourselves.

Lovely little find with personal touches and thoughts this book is cool. Now, I am involved with the green party in Canada and have often thought art serves politics. While the book is not political it does focus on trees. I never have written a poem about a tree. These authors do it well. One can submerge in the green and wooded sublime with this book. I highly recommend it to environmentalists and others needing to see some focused poetry. Personal relations with nature are well expressed. I know I'll be buying more copies of it.

This updated classic of Andrew Murray gives the reader a 31 day devotional study of John 15:1-16. Through it the reader learns the keys of abiding in Christ. This tiny volume was packed with material that challenged me to live out these verses in my daily life.