How great is it when we are not afraid to look at the past with honesty! The Consultants Journey is filled with warmth and realism, it reminds us that we are human and we are often at our best when we remind ourselves of this all to forgotten fact.

I have been playing keyboards for about three years. I've taken a few lessons, but I'm mostly self-taught. The more I have learned, the more I want to know. You get to the point where you would like some structure. Both structure in the sense of an orderly accumulation of knowledge and in the sense of where does what I know fit in?

This is your book. It starts off very basic- how scales are constructed. Good comprehensible explanations of diatonic triads. The first explanation of modal scales that made sense to me. Good practice recognizing and writing inversions. Also four part chords, suspended and altered chords.

The best part is that after I completed this book I found my practicing much improved because I had a far better understanding of what I was playing.

I highly recommend this book for beginners or early intermediate players.

This book is a must for any serious student of intelligence, intelligence tests, and intelligence research.

Mark continues from Contemporary Music Theory Level 1 to take you through chapters on 'II-V-1' progressions, 5-part chords, substitutions, harmonic analysis, voiceleading, 'upper structure' chords, and pentatonic & blues scale applications in this Level 2 continuation. Again, like the Level 1 book, Contemporary Music Theory Level 2 has very detailed explanations and exercises to test what you've learnt. An excellent series of books by Mark Harrison.

I'm glad I found this book. I also bought the new "True Bones." You know a writer has finally made it when "they" start publishing books ABOUT him, eh? Very good!

Jim is a great writer, poetic in a totally accessible way. Don't like poetry? Read his and you'll be a convert. I've read nearly all his work.

Jim is a GREAT conversationalist. This book lets you into that world for the first time. (Well, the interviews are reprinted and gathered from other sources, so perhaps you've seen them already.)

I'm looking forward to "True Bones" as well: the bio-pics section of those longhair 70's days is just great! I see they now have a Jim Harrison Society, too. Cool.

For such a huge talent, I hate to say anything at all detracting, but we fans have our rights. : ) We might hold our heroes too highly and so feel overly free to grump about them on occasion. But artists aren't always the sweetest about their fans either! Each side says "Nag, nag, nag, it's always something." : ) Anyway, I have one complaint: he let some of the usual obligatory Hollywood vibes into his books. The old geezer gets the hot babes thing. Sure, it makes the Homer Simpson in us go "Wooo! Wooo!" And of course he writes it well. But I consider that his ONLY limitation. But Jim has always been up front about his need to pay the bills and play the ONLY game that writers are allowed to play if they don't want to teach or starve: the game with Hollywood. It's either feast or famine. (Something must be done to change this!)

His only other limitation isn't hardly his fault perhaps. And actually it's of course just as exciting to read about as is duffer-babe stuff. (--Until one senses the HABIT behind it.) Anyway, it's this jet-set stuff. Maybe it's unavoidable when H-wood is writing the checks. Hey, I don't know that world. Jim does the pinnacle of Everyman very well: but he loses it when he laterals into aristocracy. His dualism of cabin/mansion, stew/caviar is cute and he does work hard to confront it, but it's a slight sticking point.

Still, for me, he goes farther than others, so who could hold it against him.

In "Conversations" we get great insights into the guy and the game. How many top writers today hammer at MFA's like he does? He's pretty honest about Hollywood as well. Hey, his pals there helped him when others wouldn't. He's up front about that and about the banality of the place. At the same time, he gets high on the power, the talent and the $1000 dinners. Who wouldn't? He keeps the books as open as anyone anyway. And I really appreciate him for that.

We have to admit in this country that if someone wrote the actual literature that would keep our culture alive THEY WOULD STARVE TO DEATH. I think Jim is very clear about this. I'm not sure how many other writers who 'made it' are as candid. But he's a 'flyover' and values candor like so many here do.

American literature isn't dead. And it has a LOT MORE still to do. Well, of course, ALL the work that hasn't been done since the era when Jim and a few of his pals were in their prime. Maybe Jim has already hit his fiestiest home-runs. He has a champions legacy to lean on (even if it won't pay the bills!). But there are writers out there who have picked up the ball and have been moving it further all these years. They just haven't seen print yet. Due to the MFA lock. But not for long! "Flyover" spirit lives! Uh, not to doubleplug but: http://.....com .

I happened upon this book in the library and took it home with me. It has 70 pages and includes about 24 recipes, with many photos of different foods. It is one of those books that you pick up and immediately like the way it looks. The recipes are easy to read and instructions are fairly simple. That same day I took it home, I tried the recipe for Lemon Chicken Soup, which only required 9 separate ingredients,and none difficult to find. I have made plenty of thai soups and none came close to what I would get at a thai restaurant. I didn't expect a whole lot out of this recipe as it was simple to prepare, but when I tasted it, it was the best thai style soup I had ever made. I couldn't believe it was one of the easiest to make,but the best tasting. I then went on to try the thai fried rice. Their recipe includes using pork or tofu, but I just left those out. Once again, the ingredient list was simple and the technique not at all hard. The cayenne pepper was what made it nice and spicy and it was an easy and quick recipe to make. I made it twice in the 2 weeks I had the book. There was also a Panaeng Beef Curry recipe which I had to try. I can't say mine came out as good as I hoped, but it may have been because I used lite coconut milk instead of the regular, the sauce was thinner that I would have expected. Nevertheless I copied the recipe down and will try it again with nice fatty coconut milk. In the end, I copied onto 3x5 cards several recipes and think this book was a great find. I only wish they had more recipes in it.

My son received this book for Christmas and it fast became a bedtime favorite! The ten commandments are spelled out in easy language for pre-schoolers and the items on the bottom of each page allow for hands-on counting. It's double the learning in one great book!

I can't believe this book's out of print! It's still in libraries, though, I think. This is THE book to read if you love Viking myth (like me!). The rich flavour of the story is here, and good tale-spinning, and amazing artwork. The book should actually be for older readers, because I don't think children would grasp the concept in this old saga of love and blood and tragedy. A tale born of rage and wound with coiled bands of mysticism. This is the only retelling I've encountered which measures up to the grandness of the story. Beautiful wording and beautiful pictures.

Whether Lloyd's poems are good depends upon the reader. Robert Rimmer loved them enough to write a forward. The International Library of Poetry thought enough of them to publish a sample poem in "The Best Poems and Poets of 2001" (ISBN 0-7951-5174-8) that will be out April of 2002. You can visit his website, ... and find examples for free, or purchase Gran'Pa (ISBN 0-595-19560-1)at a lower price than this book, and read some fine examples.
Daemonic Poetry contains poems this author has penned over the course of his lifetime, which deal with a variety of subjects such as rebellious feelings against religious dogma, the state of mankind in a technocratic society, witchcraft, reincarnation, love, sex, demons, family life, romance, work, and more. Most of the poems are lengthy, a few are only one or two lines. Most have something to say, whether or not any of us would find them agreeable. Many people will find his ideas unsettling.
The allure of Lloyd's poetry led me into marriage with him; his wit and expressiveness about the depths of both our feelings has, over time, shared insights into the nature of our love relationship that have taught us both how to communicate without placing blame. It would be well worth the price of this book just to learn that.

Compiled and very effectively illustrated by Beth Harrison Schneider, Daily Blessings: Prayers For Children is a bilingual (English/Spanish) color picturebook of prayers children can read aloud. Each benediction is elegantly presented. A warm, thoughtful and loving spiritual book Daily Blessings/bendiciones Diarias is highly recommended reading for young people of all ages and backgrounds. "Come Lord Jesus, be our guest, and let Thy gifts to us be blest. / Por favor Dios se nuestro invitado y benedice los alimentos que vamos a comer."