For years I have told the tale of the king, the mice and his cheese. I was so happy to find my favorite book from childhood available here on Amazon.com. I have been in search of it for years. This is a terrific book and you must get it today!!

We love this book! The artwork is excellent and inspires many funny voices and animal imitations! I read this book to my children's classrooms every year and it is a sure fire hit for every age (up to age 6 now) that I have presented it to.

I remember this from my childhood and kids today still love it. The artwork is particularly hilarious. A good segue into lessons about Middle-Eastern studies.

KING, by John Berger is a poetic novel written entirely in stacato. It is a urban tragedy that takes place in an imaginary city (Barcelona, Paris, Glasgow, London or the city where I live in Lisbon) somehow like the city of Troy in another one of Berger's novel. It tells the story of one day in the life of a group of homeless carachters, with lots of even more poetic flash backs. All this is told to us, like an ancient greek narrator, that participates, observes and tells the story, by a dog or someone that believes he is a dog because everyone there has to find a way in the middle of the wreck and this is King's way to stand this living hell that is called poverty, a kind of a plague that nowadays is getting to even more people in the world. Nothing happens in the whole novel at least till the last chater, where the tragedy reveals itself... there's a mist of a tragedy in this whole novel that never really takes form of a terrific drama. There is a dense but soft and slow (like the plague that is taking control all over the place) tension.

Why does Berger, that in his last books criticized with such a distant look the urban and capitalist way of life, take this "dog" and lets him sign a book about a couple of homeless that live the rest of their lifes in a city, a "desert of souls"? It may seem like he is living in a city like this for a lot of years and full of watching his life being drained he decided just to release a book that has a critic point of view about it. But if you know Berger's work you will know that this is his most isolated, exhilated, distant and critic book about capitalism, the deception of the urban dream and the globalisation. In fact, Berger has a strong influence of lots of other authors like Giambattista Vico (the name of the main carachter is Vico, the name of the great italian philosopher that, like a prophet, said that every civilisation had to pass through four stages and the last one - il ricorso - is in fact the one we are living in, the AGE OF DOGS), Marx, Pascal and Beckett (a strong influence in most of his works and specially in this one we can find some great similarities).

Resuming, KING is a book to read when a person is feeling good. Like Berger (or King) says: "To read a man needs to love himself, not much but a little."

King is a pearl and like Goethe said: "A well trained dog is worth the respect of the most wise man" and Mr. Berger has trained him well.

I recomend it.

PEDRO ALVEs

Mr. Berger uses man's best friend to describe the human existence of the homeless. The 24 hours of experiences the canine "King" relates, had to be told by an animal other than a human, it could not otherwise work. Man as an animal shares many commonalities with the rest of the animal kingdom. As time passes skills we thought unique to ourselves are becoming fewer, I would offer speech as an example. One only has to read of the care that Elephants treat their dead and dying, the ways they revisit their dead to understand that compassion too is something we have yet to master.

We can claim something that is unique to our group. We kill our own, we torture our own, we systematically exterminate and ethnically cleanse our own. And as King relates to us we lack the compassion for those we would prefer to ignore rather than to help. There is a moment when the act of dousing a sleeping man with gasoline and lighting him afire is described as the death of a heretic. King muses the heretic's crime, could it be he is poor?

This book can be easily dismissed as being nothing new and that perhaps is the point. We have become a group that is nearly impossible to shock, the youngest of our group now kill aimlessly, and older members kill the youngest with no more concern than swatting a insect. Those with power persecute the weak; it has become all but a sport.

Mr. Berger's book is important because it shows behavior that should be contemptible, but has become so common, so cliché, it is rarely even contemplated. He needed to use a dog to bring attention to a human problem because a person is not qualified to comment on how we behave.

An important book by a talented man who has lived a long life, and clearly is less than impressed with what he has seen.

Prose that is poetry. A must for any fan of John Berger. And for readers that don't know his work it should be a revelation. An extraordinary, moving, and passionately empathetic book.

Judging from these often humorous, sometimes poignant, but always brash and candid letters, it is probably safe to assume that few writers have had such widely varied experiences as has Larry L. King. Spanning over 40 years, King's fascinating and provocative letters--along with his no-holds-barred reminiscences interspersed among them--provide a virtual autobiography of this novelist, playwright, essayist, and commentator. What makes this epistolary volume especially interesting is that King suffers no fools lightly, appears to be intimidated by no one, and is always ready to prick the balloons of the famous--and oftentimes pompous. (His accounts of working with actor Burt Reynolds and dancer Tommy Tune are particularly hilarious.

Parents of small children desperately need sleep, so I cannot recommend that they read this book--it has kept me awake for two nights in a row. It's as hard to put down as any thriller, and a whole lot funnier than most.

King's book of letters take you inside the heart and head of one of America's most perceptive and humorous writers. Roy Blount once said that King writes like an angel would if it grew up in West Texas and drank. It's hard to improve on Blount's assessment. King's rollicking missives, directed to friends, family, politicians, critics, and fellow writers offer a fascinating portrait of the writing life. There's also the vicarious thrill of reading someone else's mail. Stories range from fellow author William Styron's run-in with "Mexican boo-smoke" to King's feud with the "alleged actor Burt Reynolds." The fact that a book this interesting has been published by a university press instead of a major trade house is as indicative as anything of the sorry state of affairs in the publishing industry these days. King's book, like himself, defies the mold.

In 1925 A.A. Milne wrote this charming story and now Isabel Bodor Brown has added her utterly delightful illustrations and the people at Dutton Children's Books crafted all this magic into a darling of a book. The book itself is a beauty, a compact little volume with lavender covers that are speckled with little yellow flowers and a spine stamped in gold. The dust jacket is embossed with gold letters and features the sweet little Princess Daffodil framed in flowers with a beautiful pink dress and a smiling face. Before we even get to page one we are captivated by this engaging child. The story is at times gently humorous and at others it is wistful.
Daffodil's christening gift from her Fairy Godmother is the ability to grow flowers wherever she steps. The King doesn't think this is too practical and limits her access to the grounds. She wants to run and play freely like other children and in the end a happy solution is found. The illustrations are just brimming with delicate beauty and glorious colors. Daffodil is a little wonder and the fairies in the book are satisfyingly magical with gossamer wings and hair, while the Queen is a delicate beauty as a Queen should be. I love everything about this book.

The Magic Hill is an old fashioned fairy tale, complete with a happily ever after ending about a young princess who makes flowers grow wherever she walks. A.A. Milne wrote this delightful story 75 years ago, but it is as fresh and charming now, as I'm sure it was then. The illustrations by Isabel Bodor Brown are very special, beautifully drawn and compliment the text. An old story that will become a new classic. The Magic Hill is a treasure for the whole family to enjoy again and again.

A beautifully written, wonderfully illustrated work. My daughter and son both loved it.

Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were the 2 most prominent African-American leaders of the 20th Century. In this book Dr. Cone explores how each leader rose to prominence. He also show why they did not win total acceptance from African-Americans. He compares and contrast their ideas and shows their strong and weak points.

Martin and Malcolm and America presents an extraordinary comparison of the two most influential figures of the Civil Rights movement. It is especially enlightening because it presents the sides of each man which the world has forgotten, that is, the militant nature of the later teachings of Dr. King and the more conciliatory nature of the later teachings of Brother Malcolm. James Cone also focuses heavily on the religious aspects of each man's teaching, arguing that neither man's philosophy can be separated from the religious doctrines he espoused.

If I had one critique of this book, it is that Cone relies too heavily on the Autobiography of Malcolm X for his Malcolm information. Almost all of his Malcolm info is quoted directly from that book, and like most autobiographies, Malcolm wrote/dictated with a bit of license. Having read the autobiography twice, it got a bit annoying at times to reread Malcolm's own words about himself. Malcolm was a far more complex (and more interesting) character than he portrayed himself to be, and that part was left out. (For more info, I'd recommend "Malcolm : The Life of the Man Who Changed Black America.")

All in all, though, this is a book that should be on your bookshelf. Highly recommended.

Cone presents an indepth review of how Martin King and Malcolm X complimented and connected in their efforts to address problems of race and class in America. Used as a text in undergraduate courses on "social problems", this work offer students new insight into the lives and visions of these two American leaders and their attempts to confront the problems of our time. Well written and easily understood, Cone's work is a useful and challenging tool for better understanding the issues of race and class in America.

This book is full of fun and informative exercises, cartoons, charts, checklists, boxes, little asides, and surveys presented in an easy-to-read format.

If I ever decide to teach a marketing class I'm going to use this book as the text.

The content is good; in some places it's excellent.

Two excellent worksheets focus on charting who your customers are & where your sources of business come from.

One of the best worksheets is "Worksheet for Potential Customers." It takes up an entire page and is the best way I've seen to target each group of your potential customers and decide how you will market to each of them.

Another idea made easy is putting together a 'sound bite.' Some people call it your 30-second commercial. King's step-by-step instructions make it a very easy exercise to do.

King also mentions "The Brand Called YOU" a concept that promotes making * yourself * the brand. You = your business in the sense that customers aren't buying your product or service, so much as they're buying you. This also works when you're selling yourself as an employee.

FAST COMPANY magazine spent a good part of an issue in Aug/Sept 1997 on this and I'm surprised that King's book is the only marketing book where I've ever seen it mentioned. The idea was (is?) so radical Fast Company gave it a separate web site.

I've looked at and browsed through many marketing books, but this is the first one I've been comfortable with. King does an extraordinary job of making it all look simple, and I have to agree!

It's a highly interactive marketing workbook. It encouraged me to use my common sense and what I know about my business to develop simple, effective marketing plans that really seem to work! I was VERY surprised!!!

I also like the way it's written. It's very easy to read, has lots of graphics, and probably 100 or more mini-marketing plans, many of which I was able to put to use right away!

I figure if he's been successful at 6 buinesses, I'll try what he says!

Great book!

Before reading Mini-Marketing, my own marketing was like throwing darts at a board: sometimes I hit a bullseye and sometimes I missed the target altogether. This book makes sure I hit the target every time, and that everything I do fits nicely into a strategic plan. I have to admit that I was really shocked that one of the author's simple mini-plans worked so well. He suggested showing customers some gesture of special gratitude, so on a lark I brought one of them donuts and muffins. They have since switched all of their business over to me and have become my largest account! Mini-Marketing has a special place on my bookshelf, and I refer to it constantly!" Andrew Weiss, President Above Discount Companies "Where Savings and Service Connect" 800-599-9646

Dick King-Smith writes another fabulous book. This wonderful story of friendship and heroes is an inspiration to people of all ages. It speaks about friendship, family and aspiring to do your best. As always the characters come to life and become the readers new best friend.

I read "A Mouse Called Wolf" after several students in the elementary school where I am the librarian urged me to read it. They told me I'd love it and they were right!

This is a charming story about a mouse who discovers he can sing, in the process saving his sibling mice from the cat in the house and becoming the companion of elderly Mrs. Honeybee who teaches Wolf new songs on her piano.

It's a simple and appealing story line, but I applaud Dick King-Smith for tackling two subjects not usually found in children's literature. On the one hand he skillfully interweaves musical terms and concepts, and on the other hand he paints a sympathetic portrait of the life of an elderly widow living alone.

This delightful tale should be welcome in the home of musical families or where children need a glimpse into the life of a lonely senior citizen. The adult readers of this story will have many private chuckles over the tunes Mrs. Honeybee chooses to teach her singing mouse: everything from the Beatles' "Help!" to showtunes such as "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'."

A Mouse Called Wolf By: Dick King - Smith

A Mouse Called Wolf is a great story! Wolf's real name is Wolfgang Amadeus. Wolf lives with his mother and twelve other children in a mouse hole in the house of Mrs. Honeybee. In the book he learns how to sing, the songs are really cute. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes animal stories and funny stories. In the book Wolf composes a song. The book is easy to read. I really liked reading this book! By: Laura

It is a sad fact of life that most people will never achieve any notable success, even though the success they seek is within in the range of their grasp. Nowhere is this failure to achieve more evident, and more needless than in the world of network marketing. There are, of course, many books that promise to teach people the secrets of network marketing success, but few of these books actually deliver the goods they promise to their readers. Greg Arnold's The Multi-Level Mangler in King Arthur's Court is one of the few books on the subject of success in network marketing that fulfils its promise.

What sets Arnold's book apart from the majority of books on network marketing is not the principles it extols, but the way in which the principles are embodied, and illustrated in the life of the book's characters. Few readers will find themselves unable to relate to the fumbling Mangler as he struggles to learn the lessons of networking success from Arthur and Merlin. The reader of this book is exposed not only to the precepts that entail success, but, also, to the process through which the precepts become actualised in life. As Arthur tells the Mangler, 'Champions aren't strong all the time . . . In the beginning, they are only strong minutes at a time . . . . The difference between champions and average people is when champions are down and hurting, they, through self-discipline and character, replace their image of a defeated person with the image of a positive, vital, strong crusader and go out and do it again, even though they are hurting inside.' Most of us easily give in to feelings of defeat, but the readers of The Multi-Level Mangler in King Arthur's Court will learn how to develop the self-discipline and character required for success in network marketing alongside the Mangler.

This is a book in the Elizabethan tradition of mixing education with entertainment in a way that creates a 'talking picture' for the edification of the reader. The Elizabethan's understood, better than we apparently do, that the right end of learning is action. Given the historical record of success of Elizabethan authors to motivate people on to action, perhaps more contemporary success authors should, like Arnold, emulate the Elizabethan technique of creating stories that instruct and motivate. If you, or the members of your team, want to learn both what needs to be done, and how to go about doing it, then The Multi-Level Mangler in King Arthur's Court is a must read.

WOW, what a book! Every American should read this book. Not only does it teach principles of networking, but it teaches basic everyday principles of life; how to become teachable, become a powerful leader, powerful recruiter, work more effectively, teaches about human nature, and how to be a better person, friend, and how to deal with people more effectively. You will find out through reading the Multi-Level Mangler, that you, too, can become successful, and a better people person. Nothing is impossible. Winners and Champions will always come through, as they are taught the correct principles of marketing. If you are wanting to build a dynasty, this book is a MUST for you.

The Multi-Level Mangler In King Arthur's Court, by Greg Arnold, is one of those unique, rare and creative books that gives new perspective to principles in effective and successful recruiting, leadership and business-building techniques and strategies that keeps any reader, from any background, entranced through the entire book! Being an educator, I have read my fair share of a variety of books, but never one quite so cleverly and superiorly written by a proven master of the art of human nature,individual motivation, vision and high expectations! Mr. Arnold takes the MLM learning arena to a whole different level in his book by using his brilliant writing skills to convey the essence and fundamental principles of ultimate, entrepreneurial success. His keen insight into human nature, and his off-beat humor make his mentoring techniques a style all of his own. Using an unusual story format, Mr. Arnold is able to effortlessly keep the reader enthralled with each page, utilizing profound words of thought in an easy-reading format of marvelous and spell-binding word pictures, conveyed to each reader on different levels through individual readiness and personal enlightenment....that miraculously re-emerges into new truths for each new stage and insightful growth periods experienced by the reader. It is truly one of the best, most valuable, instrumental books that I have ever read and re-read, and I continue to use and re-use as a valuable growth and business-building tool! This book should be required reading for all....it will change your outlook on life and success!

Marking the coming-of-professional-age of Drinkwater, this book better than any other describes the sheer drudgery of blockade and small-ship work in the Age of Sail. Undoubtedly be best of the lot.

A King's Cutter has its biggest disappointment in its opening: ten years have passed since the first Nathaniel Drinkwater novel, An Eye of the Fleet. I couldn't help but be disappointed that Woodman had squandered ten years of possible adventures for Drinkwater. Given the time scale of the novels, that amounts to 4-5 novels that could have been written and won't be. A King's Cutter finds Drinkwater no further ahead than he was at the end of the first novel. He has married but has not advanced in the Royal Navy. However, a bloody war is not far off and Drinkwater has some apparently minor opportunities.

A King's Cutter features some of the same characters from An Eye of the Fleet, most notably Lieutenant Devaux and seaman Tregembo. The vile sodomite Morris is missing although it was implied that he would be back. Drinkwater has a new nemesis in Edouard Santhonax, an enemy who Drinkwater will face in subsequent episodes. The novel covers a period that begins just before war with Revolutionary France, includes the mutiny at Spithead and culminates with the Battle of Camperdown. Intrigue and subterfuge are as much a part of A King's Cutter as broadsides and boarding parties.

Like its predecessor, A King's Cutter has gothic elements. There are mysterious forces at work, which are neither fully understood nor explained. Even Drinkwater, who is as decent a human being as any in the RN, has a dark side to him. While graphically violent scenes are not present as in its predecessor, it is clear that life at the time is nasty, brutish and short and that warfare is not a sport of gentlemen.

Woodman has carved out a different niche from other writers of the genre; one that is unique, appealing and an interesting contrast to earlier series.

This may be one of the better books in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series, dealing with the hazards and slow promotion of a young officer in the Royal Navy. It covers his duties as an acting lieutenant, then sailing master, of the cutter Kestral from 1792 - 1797. The book was well researched by the author, and fits in well for that historical period, giving details of the mutiny within the Channel Fleet, the events leading to the Battle of Camperdown, etc.

I very much enjoyed this book. It presented the history, archaeology and architecture of Tikal in a clear fashion. Harrison wove the various threads of evidence together skillfully without getting bogged down in details. After an introduction to the site and its environment he proceeds in a chronologic order telling the history of this ancient city. He takes two breaks in his story to describe the city's architecture. Because there is dispute in the field of epigraphy you cannot take this book as the last word, but that is the nature of writing about something which is an intense subject of research. I must also say that I found some of Harrison's assertions about architectural alignments dubious. Certainly, I could not see how his maps could support all his claims. Nevertheless, I would heartily recommend this book.

I visited Tikal last Feb. I had read about it for years and still wasn't prepared for the magnitude, the scope the complexity of the civilization it was a small part of--it is a place you have to visit and see for yourself to even begin to really grasp. When I got home I found this book--I really wish I had read this BEFORE I WENT, the trip would have been better for it. In any case, I was happy to read it after the trip. This is the single best work I've found for sharing part of what I discovered at Tikal with people who haven't been there. I recommend it--especially if you are considering a visit--but also if you just like to armchair travel...It is a nice place to go either way.

this book on tikal is essential for those going to the ruins. not only does it take you back in time, it also helps orientate the traveler so he can use the best of his time, money and efforts. Don't leave home without it!