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Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.
"Tom Sawyer liked adventures, which means he was always getting in trouble." Searching for treasure, witnessing a murder, getting caught in a bat cave, tricking others into doing his work, running away with Huckleberry Finn--Tom Sawyer's antics and mischief-making are sheer, child-pleasing delight. Every boy and girl should experience the joy and fun of this classic tale.
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Great Books for Kids!.......2006-11-17
These are just fantastic books. Tom Saywer is the first of these classics that I read to my kids and they absolutely loved it. The book itself is beautifully bound and seems like almost a collectors item. I found that they really did manage to capture all the best parts of the original and kept the pace going so the kids couldn't get enough. Well done....will collect all the Classic Start books!
Great story if you love adventure!.......2006-11-10
My third grader loved this book, as well as the one about Huck Finn. He's not one to just pick up a book and start reading. He has to be motivated and encouraged! So, to see him WANT to read this book without me pushing him ~~~ means it MUST be good! He said it was full of adventure and he loves adventure. These Classic Start books are GREAT! I highly recommend!!!
Tom Sawyer.......2006-03-09
Think about this for a sec...
Your going to a grave yard at mid night with a friend to see if devils are really and if there take the body of a dead man who died a couple days befor. Any way you and your friend are waiting for the monsters to come and take the bait but as your waiting you hear a sound but its not what you expect. Its three intirely different people coming for the goods left in the cofin. But then out of no were one of them kills his partnerand blames the other one for doing it! Then you and your friend relize your in grave danger, if the murder finds out that you know what he did then he'll come after you and your buddy next!How did Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn do it? find out by reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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Desert Notes/River Notes
Barry Lopez
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ASIN: 0380711109 |
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Here, for the first time in one volume, are two of Lopez's masterpieces, River Notes and Desert Notes. From the thundering power of the river's swift current, to the stillness of clear freshwater pools; to desert springs, birds and wind, and rattlesnakes . . . and the terrible intrusion of man, Lopez allows us to share moments of intense personal experience as man tries to come to terms with the Earth's landscape, and with his own existence.
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Patience.......2004-06-24
This is one of most peaceful books I have ever read. Yet is it filled with tiny action of the desert and the river. I can hear the water flow over the river stones. I can watch the raven wait.
As usual, Barry Lopez's way with words takes your breath away but the words also stop the reader in his/her tracks as the full meaning of patience and watchfulness is displayed. To stop and be immersed in a place is something few people in Western society take the time to do. This book is a guide to what might await us if we dare to sit and watch with extraordinary patience.
Desert Notes.......2003-07-11
I think this book will appeal to people who spend a lot of time bouldering in Joshua Tree stoned at midsummer.
I was expecting nature writing, which this isn't. I'm not sure what it is. Maundering philosophy? Unconnected rambling?
It's so not my thing that I don't really feel that my judgment of whether it's any good or not is relevant. But for readers who are looking for nature writing in the vein of Arctic Dreams... this ain't it.
River Notes.......2001-06-17
I am a big fan of the old slim version of River Notes. It has such a beautiful flow, like rivers. I have lived all my life near rivers. My soul belongs to them. I am so greatful for this writing. Lopez takes you down this path that borders on lunacy, but having spent plenty of alone time on rivers, working out the various troubles of life as I roamed, I understand this perfectly. Not a book for the faint-hearted, I've found out. I have given copies to several friends who didn't understand it. But when I do visit with someone who understands Lopez, I know I'm onto something.
best book.......1999-06-19
this book, along with "the old man and the sea", would have to be my favorite books of all time. If you are looking for a great reading experience, this is definitely the book for you
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Seven Half-Miles from Home: Notes of a Wind River Naturalist
Mary Back
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Wild Apples: Field Notes from a River Farm
Wayne Curtis
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There is a dreamlike quality to many of the stories in this new collection from Wayne Curtis. In Wild Apples, he returns to familiar themes of love and longing, and the push-pull emotions which inevitably accompany any attempt to break free of the ties that bind. Simple pleasures abound in these evocative stories, be it fishing on the river, gathering beans for an evening supper (are they beans or has-beens?), or listening to the jukebox at the local diner. Curtis mines the shaft of everyday experiences, turning each one into a meditation on human nature. In the title story, an afternoon drive yields fertile ground as a father and son stop to shake down a gnarled crab apple tree for the sweet-sour orbs of autumn. With a seemingly effortless style, he casts his line into the river of the past, reeling in tales of youthful folly, the Christmastime birth of a little sister, and life on the Miramichi River, which could be any river, anywhere. In one of the bookÂ's poignant moments, his beloved mother Brycie describes her early life in her own words. The hardship she endured is underscored by her straightforward style. Curtis also shares his insight into well-known friends, including novelist David Adams Richards and Yvon Durelle, the Fighting Fisherman. His contemplation of the life and work of Robert Frost casts a fresh light on the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Wayne Curtis displays a unique sensibility; a talent for transforming the familiar into the unfamiliar, for making the old new again in this poetic blend of fiction and biography.
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Mystical Naturalist.......1999-11-04
Barry Lopez is a top-notch naturalist, but his writing is more mystical than scientific. His musings on the thoughts and dreams of herons are glorious, and he brings out the divine in nature like few can. You will want to join him at riverside after reading this book. River Notes is a mix of profound observations of nature and provocative human stories, united by the river that flows through it all in flood and drought.
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On a writing assignment, award-winning author Teresa Jordan spent twelve days traveling down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. As has happened to so many who have visited the Grand Canyon, this intensely verbal woman found herself speechless; she was filled with awe the whole time.
She had brought along a small box of watercolors and stole away from her group each day to paint an illustrated record of her experiences. The results are these field notes from a re-enchantment with the world. She believes the sketchbook was the river's gift to her; in turn she offers the sketchbook to help us find the river for ourselves.
About the experience she later wrote, "I expected the canyon to astonish me. It exceeded my wildest imaginings by at least a power of ten . . . On the river I found myself drunk with visual excitement, engaged in a gluttony of looking . . . Often I would try to recall something I had seen on the river. Other times I would focus on something directly in front of me: a family of barrel cacti in the late afternoon sun, a single cube of zoroaster granite . . .trying to isolate, to understand, the purity of that particular gold of morning light on the ridge, or the muddy claret of the redwall limestone."
The first in a series of Sketchbook Expeditions, Field Notes from the Grand Canyon is the perfect giftfor yourself, or anyone you care about. The paintings are lovely, capturing the canyon's unmistakable luminosity, and the book is produced on special paper with the look and feel of a watercolor sketchbook. This stunning little gem will be a cherished souvenir for anyone who's been down the Colorado River, and an enticement for anyone who has yet to make this life-altering journey.
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Teresa Jordan captures the soul of the Canyon.......2000-07-14
This is a beautiful book that not only explores the Canyon through words and watercolors but also our place in the world as human beings. Jordan introduces one to the rythyms of life on the river and shares with us her ability to interpret the daily wonders that make the Grand Canyon so majestic. She has created not just a journal but a moving piece of prose that carries the reader from the widerness of the Canyon to finding meaning in our daily lives. A wonderful journey.
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Birds of Sorrow: Notes from a River Junction in Northern New Mexico
Tom Ireland
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Details the author's experiences after leaving the East coast to live on a 10-acre farm called La Junta in northern New Mexico, where he built a house, fenced in land, lived, and wrote.
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Food for the Heart.......2000-09-22
There ought to be a name for this genre. The jacket blurb says "nature/Southwest literature". But Annie Dillard did this in the Northeast and Edward Abbey did it all over the Southwest and down rivers. Everett Ruess and Ann Zwinger did it in SE Utah with superb sketches and wood cuts. C.L. Rawlins and Gretel Ehrlich do it in Wyoming with sketches and photographs. Stanley Crawford did it with *Mayordomo* and *A Garlic Testament* a few miles SE of Tom Ireland in the Embudo Valley between Taos and Santa Fe (or halfway to Los Alamos - whichever way your crow flies).
"People who bond with 'place' and then write about it with philosophical comments and profound/funny/zen-like observations along the way" is a bit cumbersome. These people out-Thoreau Thoreau (and I'm from Thoreau, New Mexico [heh heh]; I ought to know). All these authors (and more) do this thing superbly well, in their own unique voices, but all the same, the genre deserves a better name than "nature/Southwest" or "nature/Northeast."
Ireland has added a new dimension with Angie Coleman's joyful paintings of exactly this same country round about. [I've debated about extracting and framing these paintings - still debating. Think I'll have to buy another copy of the book.]
This author reproduces his encounters with his Spanish and Indian neighbors (sometimes poignant, somtimes frustrating, always funny). These little essays/vignettes stand by themselves, but at the very end, the writer includes a story about La Pascualita - a real person who sweeps the roads with her broom and is housed and adopted by the entire community of La Madera. Ireland weaves her into a story that is reminiscent of Rudolfo Anaya, but very much his own.
And his piece about Magdalena, the magpie he adopted, is an original for sure.
"Walking around with a bird on your head is like watching life from a tenement window." "What's the collective noun for magpies? How about 'complaint'? There's a complaint of magpies in a cottonwood on the hillside across the river."
He watches the ravens of La Junta: "I was still standing there when the raven blew up over the cliff and almost into my face. It must have scared him almost as much as it scared me, to be riding the blast sixty feet off the ground and then all of a sudden to be facing a man. He shat, climbed up over the reach of harm, and held there at the closest safe distance to look again, reassembling his world into the kind of order he trusted it to have. (Ravens up. Men down.) Then he spoke. It was a sort of rattle, as much from the bowel as from the throat, and in it there was both fear and outrage: 'This cliff is taken. You are not wanted here.' He drifted north, riding the thermal, checking to see if there were any more of me around, then fell up and away into the bottomless sky."
About roosters: "...their voices make me think of the smell of joss sticks because *things mean things:" the rooster means incense, and the helicopter means searching the river for the body of a dead man, and I deceive myself that at eight o'clock this morning the real work will begin. Things mean things: the substance of faith, what we live for, those meanings, those coincidences of sky & rain & thought that jump at us."
He makes you feel like you're perching on his shoulder, looking through his eyes, seeing what he sees, hearing what he hears, and understanding through his mind and heart.
"Towards evening, the sun dropped into a corridor between the clouds and the little valley was filled with pink light. I put down my shovel and stood under a juniper to witness the change. It was like being in an aquarium: immersed, the bare cottonwoods, the hillside, the vacant house across the river, the fence posts, my own hands acquired a light of their own. The air filled with sugary spines of ice, and a rainbow appeared, its northern pole planted in the willows of a neighbor's cow pasture. I could see impossible distances in every direction; up the valley to La Zorra, down the crooked Valleciros, up the canada behind Vigil's store - as if I could see around corners."
All through these reflections are little personal musings:
"What is it about the presence of parents that makes us feel something less than alive, when they're the ones responsible for bringing us here in the first place?"
About dreams and water: "To wake in the dark and peel off the skin of your dream: to go out in the dark in the wet yard where drops of water hang from the asparagus berries and the night sounds are swamp sounds, sounds of water. And this our dry land smells like water and the creek runs brown."
And about work: "Ulceration of the spirit. It seems that when I have a job, my life becomes the job and not much else. There is no true rest and no true work until it's over."
"...we have made our joy depend on our work, and having come this far, we can't renounce it, can't be free from it, but only look for freedom in it."
"When I stand outside watching the clouds and the birds, I'm doing my work. These things need to be studied and praised, at least reported on."
And report he does. The title of the book comes from a quote by Malcolm Lowry, "You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair."
This is a beautiful little gem of a book with lovely paintings, anecdotes and musings - the kind of book to keep by your bed and pick up and read at random. It's also a book to read all the way through from the beginning - more than once. In a word - delight. Five stars - easy.
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Some Notes on River Country
Eudora Welty
Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi
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ASIN: 1578065259 |
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Over 1,500 pictures, 240 pages (24 in color), and 35 years of heart and soul are in this book. Contains explanations of each Hyung (form) and its characteristics, as well as detailed step-by-step illustrations with feet diagrams, different angle shots and traditional pictures.
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In's & Out's of Tang Soo Do.......2007-08-03
The book was well written, illustrations are clear & concise for the student who has had hands on training. Is a good reference book for learning forms & techniques, also for the advanced student to reference. This book is not written to teach without the assistance of a certified instructor but to aid that student.
Finally a superb manual.......2007-03-08
This book i a very good manual for learning Tang Soo Do. It gives an understanding of both theory and the practical applications, organized in belt by belt levels describing the requiremnts for each level. One of the greates things in this book (which I have not seen in any other Taekwondo or Tang Soo Do book) is the applications or rationale behind each of the patterns for each belt level.
This book I will really reccomend for all practionairs of Tang Soo Do specially, but also for those practicing Tae Kwon Do (WTF style).
Great Book on Tang So Do.......2006-12-15
I have been taking one form or other of Martial Arts most of my life. This book is a great resource for any Tang So Do student. Although many of the techniques are not practiced in my dojang, or the patterns are slightly different, I found this book to be interesting and informative. Your not going to finnish reading this book and be able to defend yourself but with a membership to a dojang and daily practice this book will definately help you understand why you practice the forms and basic movements.
Excellent Book.......2004-10-22
Excellent Book on the art of Tang Soo Do - Beautifully illustrated with detailed pictures and diagrams. Grand Master Ho Sik Pak is an exceptional martial artist and instructor who has dedicated his life to the study of Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan.
Best book out there!
A Must Have Addition To Any Tang Soo Do Collection.......2003-01-03
I enjoyed the Complete Tang Soo Do Manual by GM Ho Sik Pak very much, I thought the layout of the forms was very well done, I especially liked the intermediate photos to help see how the framing was done,and the interpretations for the applications of the forms was very nicely done as well, I can honestly recommend this book to anyone who practices Tang Soo Do
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Like.......2006-08-30
This is a good workbook, the class I used it for I was a little upset with, because I only used the workbook twice. But it was good.
Gregg reference, comp worksheets.......2006-02-28
This book is the 9th edition. TO be up to date one would need the 10th edition. Hopwver, most of the worksheet info is still the same. Tedious and long.
"reference" and "worksheets".......2006-02-03
I have found the drills in this book extremely helpful in developing speed and accuracy.
To the first reviewer, by nature, reference manuals and worksheets are meant to be used in conjunction with other learning aids and/or in class. You'll find answer keys in standalone manuals and how-to books for beginners.
GREAT..........2005-08-30
This is a great book to help you.. The only thing I didn't like about it was some of the exercise, like the sports topic however the exercise must be open to every one. Its easy to follow. It helps alot to develope your skill or talent. The text is written so it is easy to understand, and follow. I suggest this book if you write alot because with out a plan there is no way...
No answer key.......2003-09-19
The worth of this book is diminished in my eyes because it has no answer key. After doing a worksheet one has no idea which answers are correct. Perhaps a teacher's manual as a companion volume exists somewhere but I haven't yet found it here at Amazon.
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Provides exercises that cover all 18 sections in the manual. Includes problems involving the formatting of letters, memos, and other business documents.
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Comprehensive Worksheets for the Gregg Reference Manual
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Perspectives Set 1 : Search and Rescue, Horror of Montauk Cave, Dirt Bike Adventure, Planet of the Robots, Deadly Oasis, Danger at the Flying Y, voyag (High Noon)
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