I read this book before my daughter did, to preview it. I really enjoyed the plot and the lesson that the story taught. It was just long enough to hold a 7 year olds attention without getting into deep confusing plot twists. If you want a book that is fun to read, easy to follow, and one that you don't have to preview before your child reads it, any of the books in this series will do. I will buy more of these books because I know I can hand her one to read and know that anything that comes up in discussion from this book will teach a lesson.

When the three cousins go Christmas shopping, they get more than they bargained for. First four-year-old cousin Patience shows up and starts telling crazy stories about another Titus. Then Titus gets a strange message from a boy. As they are heading out to do window shopping, they meet up with a boy who could have been Titus's twin! What is going on? Can the trio solve the mystery?

This is a fantastic book for kids. Only sixty-four pages, it took me ten minutes to read. The words are easy, the story fun and exciting and best of all for you parents, a moral is tied in.

The mysterys are great and support virtures like Patience. These books really are great!!!!!

It is hard to find the scarce published of Campbell's essays and this book delivers. These selections are full of Campbell's brilliance but leave you wanting more. It is a good thing it is only PART of his collected works! There is more to come!

One of the last projects he worked on, this beautifully illustrated book puts together Campbell's views on myth as manafested through art. This could be his very best achievement as a "comparative mythologist." Organized around the theam of the world-as-dream (from Hinduism to *Finnagan's Wake*), it discusses several universal motifs in art/myth (the virgin birth, the world axis, the death and resurection of the hero...) and gives Campbell's explainatons for for their commonality. Manny of the artworks discussed in his audio tape lectures are shown and analyzed here. I am an art educator, and I've found that I can build almost my whole (multicultural) curiculum around this book.

In the editorial review printed below from some audio magazine, the reviewer accuses Campbell of having anti-Christian biases. If anything, Campbell cuts Christians too much slack in this series of lectures. Here Campbell explores the reasons for the decline of Christianity in our culture, and concludes that the problem lies in organized religions tradition of emphasizing the Christian mythology as historic fact. Campbell claims that this diminishes the effect of Christian symbolism, because when we discover scientific evidence that proves the mythology could not have been actual fact, we abandon the underlying truths the mythology was meant to illustrate. Campbell calls this a problem of reading poetry as prose, of reading metaphor as fact. This is the only thing in this series that could be remotely considered anti-Christian, and then only by a myopic pinhead. Anyone--Christian or otherwise--whose head wasn't firmly embedded in the nether regions of his or her anatomy would realize that this line of thought was liberating rather than negating.

After having tried to get through Bulfinch's _Mythology_ with little luck, this little book came in very handy! It contains much of the same myths (although not as many), but it comes with a photograph every single time you turn the page. Depicted are paintings, statues, etc. that show various mythological figures. Remembering the myths was hard, and if you're more of a visual person, then these pictures really help you remember. And plus, the paintings are absolutely beautiful, and many of them are in full color. A nice companion to the Bulfinch _Mythology_--but I still haven't gotten to it yet! A delightful way to learn about mythology if you have a hard time with just text and need a little visual to perk things up.

This book is was very interesting. It told of lot of interesting things that tyra does does besides modeling. She is one of my favorite models. I think that is she very different from the other models out there and will always be.

This refers to the paperback edition. Robert Campbell joined Ashley's Fur Trade Expedition in 1825, and this little book gives his own account of his adventures in the American West up to 1835. Although Campbell is cited in many historical and biographical books, documents, manuscripts and journals, he has somehow eluded notoriety amongst the more famous mountain men and fur trappers of his day. After reading this book, one can easily see that he played a very significant role during this time period. Even though the book is only sixty pages, there are many interesting stories and events which Campbell relates to the reader. The historical notation and introduction are also well done.

David Campbell's book is a very well-researched application of the thought of Jacques Derrida and Emanuel Levinas to the decisionmaking in the former Yugoslavia...a topic once again sadly in the news owing to troubles in Kosovo.

Campbell argues that the very visible failures of the West in the war in Bosnia and the 1995 Dayton peace settlement was due to a very deep conceptual failure of policymakers...a failure that came with their education, and that they might regard as wisdom.

This is to oversimplify national affairs down to a misunderstood "identity politics."

Real identity politics would respect what Campbell describes as a basic moral demand the "other" makes upon us, with his different needs and views. Campbell's ethical view is that the "other" makes a moral demand upon us even if his suffering has "nothing to do" with us.

Campbell bases his deepest views on the thought of Levinas, an interwar thinker who radically departed from Western philosophical traditions in that Levinas regards ethics, not metaphysics, as fundamental to philosophy. There's a glimmer of this in Kant and in literary thinkers like Clives Staples Lewis, but Levinas is one of the few Western philosophers to show how mere coherence of thought depends on respect for the "other."

The deconstructive turn in philosophy is to center difference, and borders between people as the focus. This was not an attempt to be cute, or post-modern, on the part of the French beginning in the 1950s; instead, it was a serious response to the fact that placing concepts like man at the center hadnt liberated people in the period 1900-1950. Instead it had led to the Holocaust and the Gulag, for when ordinary people are told to implement some concept like man they immediately triage people into the prime and the secondary and the marginal examples of man. They simplify and the result is that people get hurtfrom downsized in corporations to killed in camps.

Western policymakers, educated outside this tradition, instinctively abhor this as "soft" thinking. Instead, the Kissinger school of *realpolitik* was brought to bear in Bosnia. In part, this simplifies complex and multidimensioned ethnic issues into Serb/Croat/Moslem, when even a hard-nosed mathematician can see that if intermarriage is permitted there are many more combinations possible.

This has had the result of further violence, both resulting from Dayton and now in Kosovo. However, for Americans to criticise this violence seems to get them in a confusing zone where "all parties are guilty", including the Bosnians and the Albanians.

Campbell helps to sort out the "bad" guys and the not-so-good but better guys by showing how the West, the Serbs and to an extent the Croats were able to victimize a state which, for all its real flaws, expressed respect for the ethnic Other in its constitution, and made an effort to live up to this committment.

The book IS hard going at times, but this reminds me of a statement Chicago's "Fast Eddie" Vrydolyak, made when a reporter made a suggestion about race relations: Vrdolyak said "yer talkin' Martian." Simplicity, in a complex world, can be as ideological as undue complexity.