This is a beautifully illustrated book, with a fetching cast of characters. It is so nice to see a little girl in books who has short dark hair and is so competent in her abilities. We should all dress and entertain like this.

This very colorful book has lots of basic information about crayons and how they are made. The photographs used throughout the book help to make this seem like an actual visit to the factory. Included is the timeline of Crayola and sidebars of facts about crayons. There is also a short bibliography of books for those who want to know more about crayons.

In this excellent novel for young teenagers, Carter opens up aworld almost totally foreign to contemporary Americans, even though itis less than a century removed from us. Jeremy, his widowed father, and his father's uncle, along with all their neighbors in the north woods, are witnessing the end of a way of life-- the last cutting of one of the great forests of the northern Midwest and thus the last great logroll down the river to the mills-- along with the growth of a newer aspect of factory and working class life, the spread of the unions. Though Jeremy's father is a sales representative, he sympathizes with the needs and concerns of the lumberjacks and mill-workers, as does his uncle, whose way of life is also dying: he carves wooden displays for shopkeepers-- a wooden hat for a haberdasher, and so forth-- but knows that soon all those shopkeepers will be using words and not images to convey their messages. So Uncle Mac, with the help of two native Americans, turns his hand to one last great carving-- a full-body "Indian" maiden-- as a sort of apology for the cigar store Indians that demeaned native Americans. Jeremy is the focal point around which Carter casts these various themes, the maturing and sensitive youth who is ready to have his ideas of the world expanded.

Very informative, very good for people who are thinking of getting a hedgie. Basic care, breeding, travel, history etc. So if you are thinking of getting a hedgie, get this book.

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This is an outstanding book for anyone interested in carving gunstocks, or actually any type of relief carving. The author takes you through the entire process in a logical sequence, with well written explanations, and great photos. There are carving exercises that teach you the basics, and then advanced carving exercises where you will actually complete beautiful carvings. Included in the book are several great patterns that the author has generously granted anyone permission to use, even commercially. I highly recommend this book!

The worst thing about this story is the fact that the late author never wrote a sequal. A Dark Travelling involves a boy who gets extra-hairy during full moons, his adopted sister who is a witch, his brother who lives in a castle and the exchange student who lives with them, having been raised as a trained assasin. They are part of a group of families which together controlls the secret interdimensional commerce between parallel worlds, and who support a revolution on a Darkband... an alternate reality where forces of Dark have taken over. This was a fascinating novel for Zelazny's younger fans, with visible influences from A Wrinkle in Time and the Dark is Rising sequence

I am one of the illustraters. I loved doing the Illustrations to this book because I know the story is true,and I know all the people in the story.My family and I go to the Jemez mountains often to go camping and fishing and I allso went up with Dorothy and the kids and we went mountain climbing. This book was good because every one wishes they could meet Santa. I realy enjoyed working with dorothy and my class mates on this book.

These co-authors take you on a captivating journey into the complex relationship between these twin brothers. As children the twins share essentially all lived experiences and into adulthood the pattern perpetuates. They grow up to become esteemed gynecologists and share the successes of their work. What becomes evident however, is their marked intra-psychical differences as one demonstrates dominant and aggressive traits while the other twin, highly sensitive and submissive traits. Both end up in a downward spiral as they can not function outside of their powerful psychological and biological connection.

These authours write with a style that goes deep causing you to lift your taboos for the moment! They address the grey and very human factors within the characters that might on the outside only be labelled as good and evil. One identifies with the entrapment of the twin whose painful innocence and sensitivity leads us to forgive his inadequacies and make him the hero. One desperately hopes he can break free from his relentlessly, over-bearing brother.

This is truly one of the best reads I've ever come across and since I read this almost 10 years ago I've tried hunting down other works from these authors. I'm glad I discovered this site!

In this brief, but brilliant, text on the afterlife, the third in a series of Manuals written by Besant and Leadbeater between 1892 and 1896, Besant presents the theosophical perspective on the various stages undergone by the soul after the death of the body. Her writing is clear, focused, and careful as it introduces technical terminology from the Sanskrit. The basic model is straightforward: first the body dies as its energy system (the etheric double) leaves it behind; as this body in turn dissipates, the astral body solidifies into seven layers that must each in turn dissipate before the soul can move on (all of this in the realm of Kamaloka--the desire realm); finally, the soul rises up to its highest mental level and enters a realm of peaceful dreaming (Devachan) where it regathers its energies before becoming incarnate yet again. Besant raises the question: if reincarnation is true, why can't we remember our past lives? Her answer is fascinating; namely, that we can only remember the unconscious potencies of our past lives and deeds when we attain the highest levels of awareness in this life--levels that give us access to the hidden material that can only appear when the conditions for useful memory permit. The analogy here is to the life of the Buddha in which he was only able to remember his past lives at the moment when his final enlightenment was unfolding.
This Manual is a little gem and it is highly recommended for those who believe that the soul survives the death of the body--for it is one thing to believe in immortality, it is another to attempt to delineate just what the post-death state might be like. Annie Besant has done as well as anyone I know of in doing so. Readers of this volume will certainly want to read the other six in the series.