I love the lyrics of John Denver. I always have. And to find them all in one neat little volume is great. The commentary that is provided on certain songs was written by John for his anthology songbooks. I recogonize every one of them. And I like that even the lesser (and downright UN-known) songs are included.

The little blurb by Tom Paxton is touching and to the point and was a treat to read.

However, Mr. Okun, if you're reading this, PLEASE, OH, PLEASE, do NOT perpetuate the "John Denver Never Wrote a Song In A Minor Key" myth! I can think off hand of at least two songs without blinking: "Wooden Indian" From "Poems Prayers and Promises" is written in E Minor. In fact that is the only chord in the entire song. (A very powerful song, at that). And "Aspenglow", best known from "Rocky Mountain Christmas" is in A minor. There are a few others as well. (That I'm sure John would have known about).

The inclusion of the myth is the only reason that I've given this 4 stars and not 5. I'm a stickler for accuracy.

I find this collection of John's lyrics beautiful to read...for John's unqiue ability to communicate was expressed not only in his voice and the music he wrote--but the lyrics themselves read as a good book of poetry. In fact, there is an interesting ability to deeply understand and ponder the meanings when you read the lyrics alone.

I am very glad Milt Okun put this book together.

In addition to the lyrics themselves, Okun has also included the inspiration behind songs in John's own words for many of the songs.

I highly recommend this book!

Christine Smith

Kleppner is the one name I think when I'm in a doubt regarding any stage of the advertising procedure. The book is not extremely intensive, but explains in a precise way each stage. It might be too USA oriented, but works fine for international students. Surely a must in every student's library.

Kleppner's Advertising Procedur

Zoey Phillips, Charlotte Moore, and Lydia Lane met just after high school while working at a wilderness resort in the Rocky Mountains. Ten years later at the reunion of the Jasper Park Lodger summer staff, someone speculates what fun it might be to look up the boy that led to their first heartbreak. Perhaps he's balding, paunchy, and boring. Then at the next year's reunion, they'd all report their results. While Zoey and Charlotte are planning wedded bliss, Lydia Lane doesn't pursue her first love; instead, he finds her.

When ex-wife Candace Penelope Downing invites Lydia Lane to be a guest on her afternoon talk show, Sam Pereira immediately recognizes the long legged beauty as his best friend's sister. She'd had a crush on him when she was fifteen, but with her being five years younger, Sam hadn't been interested. One look at this domestic goddess now, however, and he's more than interested. So when Candace suggest that Sam give Lydia a call and hire her to put his household in order, he places the call right away. Hawaiian pizza and soggy salad are getting old, and Sam's ready for a change. But he had best watch his step or Lydia may be organizing more than his closets and teaching him to sort laundry.

Lydia Lane's great-aunt inspired her business called Domestica, a service that organizes people's lives and teaches them household skills. For a hefty price, she creates order out of chaos. But she finds her emotions spinning wildly out of control as she spends time with Sam. He'd been the bad-boy with the motorcycle, and now he's making good, trading corporate life for working out of the office at his home and volunteering a third of his services to the down-and-out. Nevertheless, he still prefers a motorcycle to a BMW. Unfortunately, with everyone telling them each how perfect they are for the other, both Lydia and Sam get a lot of heat from external sources that threatens to smother their own burning desire.

Author Judith Bowen concludes the delightful miniseries Girlfriends with LYDIA LANE. A character driven romance that never shirks the value of the domestic arts, LYDIA LANE proves surprisingly entertaining. Well meaning friends that think Lydia and Sam are perfect for each other threaten their new relationship, as do the sticky ethical issues involved. Despite such complications, Lydia and Sam prove the way to one's heart is not limited to the kitchen. A delightful, romp with a terrific child propelling the action along, LYDIA LANE comes highly recommended.

Once a week, Attorney Sam Pereira and his eight years old daughter Amber faithfully watch her mother and his ex-wife Candace Downing on TV. Candace hosts The "What's New with Candy Lou show", which is Amber's almost only contact with her celebrity mom though Sam admits to himself that Candace loves and cares about her daughter. The guest is Lydia Lane, who runs Domestica, a firm that teaches household skills so people can have a nicer, more organized life and is the younger sister of Sam's best friend.
Candace hires Lydia to help Sam organize the chaos of his personal life. However, Lydia remembers Sam as her first crush when she was fifteen. Not expecting to follow the paths of her two best friends, ZOEY PHILIPS and CHARLOTTE MORE, who are getting married, Lydia admits she still finds Sam very attractive. However, Sam discovers that he is in love with Lydia and thinks she may bring out the passion he lacked in his first marriage.

LYDIA LANE, like the first two novels in the "Girlfriends" trilogy, is an engaging contemporary Canadian romance. The story line is fun due to the strong cast. Judith Bowen completes her super romantic mini series with a delightful tale that still leaves a few secondary characters deserving books of their own.

Harriet Klausner

This book doesn't have a lot of "weird" monologues in it. I liked the variety of styles, and lesser known playwrights. These are some monologues they haven't heard!

This Book has given me the best audition pieces.

Overall the book itself is worth the price. However I'm not very fond of all of her songs. I was mainly looking for her song "Kind and Generous." If you really like her songs then I would suggest purchasing the book, however if you only like one then i would suggest looking for a site that has the music.

I love this book. I just learned how to play guitar, and this book shows exactly what chords to use to make it sound the best. It includes all the songs on the CD except for "Effigy".

This is a college-level philosophy text in which the words naturalism, etiology, epistemology, ontology and so forth are used without definition, but it is perhaps the most profound book of philosophy in a generation.

The preface would have been better if it had defined such terms for the uninitiated, but reading the text with a dictionary will solve most of these problems. I personally felt that Chapter 2 was writtem in much more of an introductory style than Chapter 1 and should have preceded it for that reason. For these reasons alone, the book gets four stars instead of five. The book itself it excellent.

The book contains 10 chapters, each written by a different author, as follows:

1 - Farewell to philosophical naturalism - Paul Moser & Dave Yandell

2 - Knowledge and Naturalism - Dallas Willard

3 - The incompatibility of naturalism and scientific realism - Robert Koons

4 - Naturalism and the ontological status of properties - J.P. Moreland

5 - Naturalism and material objects - Michael Rea

6 - Naturalism and the mind - Charles Taliaferro

7 - Naturalism and libertarian agency - Stewart Goetz

8 - Naturalism and morality - John Hare

9 - Naturalism and cosmology - William Lane Craig

10- Naturalism and design - William Dembski

In subjecting naturalism -- the rejection of all things supernatural -- to a critical analysis, the authors expose in convincing fashion the complex incompleteness of our current naturalistic thought processes. William Lane Craig's chapter on Naturalism and Cosmology is particularly excellent in this regard and should not be missed by any serious student of physics.

It does not take long while reading this book to realize that the authors may well be erecting a new philosphical structure for the 21st century. They show repeatedly that we ignore some types of information when the information doesn't fit the standard naturalistic model. They emphasize that we cannot hope to achieve our full potential as a species unless we can overcome these self-imposed bounds.

This is a first-rate academic dissection of naturalism, which is the view that nothing exists but the natural world -- i.e., the world without God in the picture. The essays in this volume explore the consequences of naturalism on morality, free will, consciousness and other areas. Each essay is top-notch and written by a theistic philosopher.

There are so many problems with naturalism one hardly has to look far to find them. For one thing, naturalism entails physicalism, which holds that our mental states and physical bodies are one and the same. Physicalism, however, seems unable to explain the non-physical properties possessed by our mental states (beliefs, memories, desires, etc), for how can my recollection of last Thanksgiving be explained as existing 2 inches behind my right ear, 4 centimeters in length and smelling of cranberry sauce? Also, J.P. Moreland pointed out in another book that while a brain surgeon may know more about my brain than I do, he is not privy to the fear I experience before I'm opened up or what I dream about while I'm unconscious. Moreover, it seems almost impossible for physicalism to account for the intentionality of our mental states. Our mental states possess the property of intentionality, or "aboutness." That is, they are directed as certain things. People don't just "desire"; they desire something. Physicalism seems unable to adequately explain this.

Genetic determinism is touched on as well as naturalism implies genetic determinism. Genetic determinism is self-refuting, as the belief that genetic determinism is true is itself determined. Believing genetic determinism to be true is no more rational than picking your nose. If a determinist has genes that determine him to be a determinist, how can he convince anyone of anything given that everyone else's beliefs are putatively determined by their genes? Also, accepting genetic determinism would mean acccepting a radical re-evaluation of morality. If genetic determinism is true, then all we are is a collection of accidentally arranged atoms. When a bomb hits them, they become rearranged. Ergo, any gut feeling that such acts as murder and rape are evil is illusionary. The type of morality naturalism prescribes is an evolutionary morality. For instance, murder wasn't socially-advantageous at one time in the distant past, so it became taboo; but there is nothing really wrong with killing someone. It is not hard, then, to understand why naturalism provides a very, very poor foundation for morality.

An important book.

I read this book thinking that it would be just ok, but it was really better than I thought it would be. Touching and sweet, its gave me a glimpse of the plight of the Navajo Native Americans that I didn't have before. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read romance novels with Native American characters, anyone interested in Navajo history, or anyone who wants a quick read.

HISTORICAL SETTING FOR NAVAHO SUNRISE BY ELIZABETH LANE
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In 1863 General James Carlton ordered the removal of the Navaho, under Kit Carson, to a reservation founded by him called Bosque Redondo in eastern New Mexico. (Carson was Colonel of the New Mexico volunteers; the removal utilized a force of 600-700 men.). Carson's tactic for removing the Navaho from their land was to destroy their means of survival; sheep were killed, wells contaminated, crops destroyed, along with orchards, and anything else of use to the Navaho. This meant of course that the Navaho possessed little or nothing when they arrived at the reservation; they were helpless and utterly dependent upon the U.S. Army for sustenance.
More than eight thousand Navaho were forced to walk three hundred miles to reach Bosque Redondo; those that could not keep up were shot. In May 1868 a Government delegation under Gen. William Sherman visited the reservation, and it was decided that Bosque Redondo should be abandoned and that the Navaho be allowed to return to their land; the Navaho were given food and sheep to take back with them. In 1868 a treaty was signed which outlined the new boundaries of the Navaho nation; the education of Navaho children in white schools was a condition of the treaty, as was a prohibition on the possession of arms .
The 1868 treaty provided a reservation of 3.5 million acres. (Copied)
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Navaho Sunrise is the account of two love-struck lovers who are caught up in the cruelties of Bosque Redondo. Miranda Howell, the major's daughter, came from the East for a brief visit before marrying a proper gentleman. Ahkeah, a grieving Navaho leader and his orphaned daughter, came into Miranda's life. Through moments of intense danger, the Navaho and the young nurse turned Navaho schoolteacher become engaged in an intense romance that should never have taken place. Lane is able to build the love scenes into a furnace that threatens to destroy the reader's very sanity. This is one of the best love stories I have ever read. Words like drama, suspense, intense lovemaking, hatred, and understanding can only begin to describe this novel. A must read.

My fourth grade class loved this book for our read aloud sessions. It has great appeal for both boys and girls. The story is exciting, funny and charming.

This book is for children of all ages. It truly captures the spirit of the holiday season. Oliver's indomitable persona is a model for us all. Read it to your children, with them, and share in the joy it evokes. Roger Dahl

............ with these genuine texts from the early Christian era. The documents contained within this sourcebook were written primarily by saints, emperors and philosophers and help us clearly envision life during the early Christian period (100-425 C.E.) as it was truly experienced by Christians and Pagans alike. There are texts describing the management of temples and shrines, cults, hymns, religious attitudes, missionizing (non-Christian), and perception by outsiders of Jews, Christians and Gnostics. The most fascinating sources are those pertaining to personal accounts of conversion and various edicts that persecute, at different points in history, Jews, Christians, and Pagans. Also interesting are the sources describing the impact of Constantine's conversion on the spread of Christianity. I highly recommend this sourcebook to anyone interested in early Christianity.

Macmullen and Lane have done a service by presenting a treasure of texts revealing primarily the religious attitudes and experience of non-Christians during the formative years of Christianity. Christians today often assume that the language of faith in the early church was the exclusive domain of Christianity. The authors prove otherwise. The titles of some of the chapters demonstrate the range of experience and language of "pagans." For example: "Magic, Dreams, Astrology, Superstition," "Healing Shrines," "Hymns," "Cult Groups," "Holy Men and Women," and "Hermetism and Gnosticism." The sentiments contained in these texts are mirrored in early Christian churches, naturally, since these attitudes and languages were part of the religious atmosphere breathed by all peoples of the time. The unbiased reader is helped to easily appreciate the cultural and religious kinship between followers of Christ and those of either the Mysteries, philosophy, and mythologizing theologies such as those of the Gnostics.The last six chapters of the book are especially helpful in appreciating the dynamics of conversion and persecution. While I generally do not favor of history-of-religions approach to the study of historical phenomena, I make a strong exception regarding this book. I recommend that the reader use this book as a companion to Keith Hopkins' "A World Full of Gods."

I would recommend this book to all music lovers who had a grade 3 and above.Fantastic,I love the tunes and some of it were soothing.Keeps you relaxed too!

As a singer and pianist, this music book was very exciting as well as helpful! I would recommend it to any piano player, as well as piano teacher!