Great mix of robots in this book--some "standard" variations on familiar prototypes (using UBS parts) and some pretty out there ones as well that I would have never thought of. Excellent book. I've seen the RIS one that came before this but didn't buy it--I'm going to go back and get it now.

For all of you coin collecters out there, here is aninexpensive coin folder that holds a good amount of coins. This is agood item for beginners or people that have been collecting for a while. These folders are very durable and attractive. I've bought a few of them and I am completely satisfied. END

John W. Hartmann's American Partisan tells of one Henry Lee, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War from 1776-1780 and who fought in many famous battles. His account is also the story of the struggle for independence.

This is THE foundational text for anyone interested in the one of the most important (if not THE most important) periods in U.S. literary/cultural history. Published in the early 1940s, this book was a groundbreaker and a milestone in that it helped establish the idea of an "American" literature at a time when most academics scoffed at such an idea, believing that U.S. novelists, poets, and essayists were inferior to and/or derivative of Anglo-European authors.

Matthiessen is very much concerned with the idea of a native literature, and connects his own project with the concern of Emerson, Hawthorne, and Whitman over this notion--the idea that America could stand on its own, apart from Europe, artistically and intellectually, as an independent cultural force to be reckoned with (for this reason he does not include Poe, whom M. views as outside the main stream of American culture and essentially aristocratic and European, rather than democratic and American, in his outlook).

Elaborating upon the relationship of the Puritan's spiritual/intellectual/aesthetic concerns to similar (if secularized) concerns to the intellectual preoccupations of mid-19th-century writers, M. makes his case that the roughly contemporaneous achievements of Emerson, THoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, and Whitman represented a true "American Renaissance" following the earlier, more austere periods of Puritanism and the Enlightenment.

In the last 15 years or so, scholars and critics, like William V. Spanos and the New AMericanists, have begun to turn a more critical eye toward M.'s foundational text, focusing on the problematic political implications of the book's valorization of American exceptionalism and its complicity in COld War ideology. And David Reynolds has made a compelling case for the close relationship of these "great authors" to the popular culture of their day, a relationship M. largely refused to acknowledge.

These are legitimate concerns and valid arguments. In spite of the flaws in _American Renaissance_, however, it is a beautiful book, written with great insight into some of the most confounding (but nonetheless magnificent) texts ever produced. Matthiessen illuminates works like _Moby Dick_, _Leaves of Grass_, and "The Divinity School Address" with such clarity and intelligence that you can't help but be swayed and spellbound. It is a refreshing, if slightly nostalgic, break from the torturous, cold, and impersonal prose of the poststructuralists. If you are a student of American culture, you owe it to yourself to read this book. It will make an indelible impression upon you.

I do not want to review this book, but I do want to call your attention to the peer review book review that was published in the journal: Archives of Pediatrics in the May journal I believe. Dr. Safer said that this book was unique and belonged on a bookshelf right next to Russell Barkley's book. He said that from a biomedical standpoint it had no equal. The title of the book is Attention Deficit Disorders and Hyperactivity in Children and Adults.

There is an unfortunate idea current, that sex was invented in the 20th century and before that Victorian ideas held sway all the way back to the dawn of time. This book is a refreshing antidote to that idea, with its merry quotations from over 2,000 years of erotic writings. It also has some examples of bowdlerized and direct translations, which are interesting not only in themselves but as a way of recognizing stealthy censorship.All in all, this is a marvelous resource.

Big Fat Liar is a movie that teaches values. The theme of the movie is, "Don't lie because it can get you into trouble!" This book is believable because the main chacters are just like normal kids. They have this talent that they can change their voices like anyone! Well most people can do that but nto everyone. Their names are Jason and Kaylee. The setting of this story takes place in a small town in California and Los Angeles. I think the plot of this story was interesting because it was funny. Big Fat Liar held my interest. The actors did a good job of making their characters seem believable. I highly recommend this book!!! I liked the book better than the movie because it describes what they are thinking better.

My three boys and I really enjoyed this book. They particularly were fascinated with the pictures and all the different color blues that exist. This the second book of Candace Whitmans that we have read and we look forward to reading many more.

In this wonderful book we get to know the young men whom Whitman loved, and who loved him, beginning with Fred Vaughan, who inspired the Calamus poems -- the cycle in which Whitman celebrates "manly attachments", "athletic love", and the "dear love of comrades".
Charley Shively has collected and edited letters to and from Whitman and his young, working class lovers, and has provided his own introduction and commentary. Some of the letters are very moving, especially those from Fred Vaughan, in which he describes his life, married and with family, after leaving Whitman.
The book ends with "Bathing My Songs In Sex", Shively's own selection of Whitman's gayest poems. His guiding principles: "Out of all the versions of a poem, I have opted for the most erotic reading; otherwise I've incorporated the version which reads best." The approach works splendidly. We get Whitman's best poems as he really intended them -- not suppressed or
emasculated, either by editors or Whitman himself. (Whitman's revisions were often a form of bowdlerization, in which the poems became progressively less personal and erotic.)
This is an absolutely essential book for every Whitman lover.

This book was amazing! If you like Walt Whitman this is the book to buy! A true classic.