Five: Five Short Novels: A HOme for the Highland Cattle,The Other Woman,Elodorado,The Antheap,Hunger

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Five: Five Short Novels: A HOme for the Highland Cattle,The Other Woman,Elodorado,The Antheap,Hunger
Doris Lessing
Manufacturer: Panther
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NEHUY2

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A Home for the Highland Cattle & The Antheap (Broadview Literary Texts)
Doris Lessing
Manufacturer: Broadview Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1551113635

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This Broadview edition pairs two Doris Lessing novellas originally published in Five (1953), for which Lessing won the Somerset Maugham Award of the Society of Authors. Written during her first years in London, these two superb works (set in 1940s Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) elaborate upon the picture of settler society drawn in Lessing's earlier novel, The Grass is Singing.

The edition includes an introduction that emphasizes the relations between writer, reader, and history, as well as a selection of documents illustrating the biographical, literary, and historical contexts from which these novels emerged. The contextual material includes autobiographical commentary by Lessing, contemporary reviews, and excerpts from interviews and from work by contemporary African writers.

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The Fantastic Four's Human Torch earliest solo sagas are collected in their entirety in a single volume, some reprinted for the first time ever! See the Torch battle the Wizard, Paste-Pot Pete, Zemu, the Acrobat, the Sub-Mariner, the Asbestos Man, the Eel, Plantman, the Puppet Master, the Beetle and Kang, and team up with Spider-Man, the Thing, and Iceman! This is the last remaining classic Marvel super hero series to be reprinted in the ESSENTIAL format. Collects Strange Tales #101-134 and Annual #2

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Carrying the torch for the Golden Age........2005-06-29

A couple of weeks ago, I took a long look at my bookshelf and my complete collection of Marvel Essentials and I felt so many memories wash over me. I remembered when the Avengers blasted off into space to stop the Kree-Skrull War. I remembered when Mariko died in Wolverine's arms. I remembered when Howard the Duck ran against Jimmy Carter. I remembered how the first fight between Daredevil and Stilt-Man ended when ol' Longlegs accidentally shrank himself to the size of an atom and then the second time they fought Hornhead realized he could just push him over. And then I looked at my copy of the Essential Human Torch and my first thought was "Did I read this? I don't remember a thing!"

After I cracked it open and gave myself a few more seconds of introspection, it started to come back to me. I had read it last summer, but few of the stories had really stuck in my mind. I did some research on-line about the Human Torch stories in Strange Tales and I deduced that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby intended them to be a safety net of sorts. The Man and the King knew that their ideas about adding more realistic elements to whiz-bang superhero yarns were risky and untested (A husband-wife team, a blind man, and a working-class high school kid as superheroes, in New York City! Who'd read that?). Therefore, a year after the first Fantastic Four comic, they put the youngest FF member (who happened to share the name of the flaming android hero of the 1940's) into his own comic where he faced simple, old-fashioned comic mag predicaments as a way to keep traditional fans interested in their new lineup. However, with almost 45 years of hindsight, modern comic fans are likely to think that, against Marvel's deserved reputation as an innovator of the literary medium, those Human Torch tales are really, well ... old-fashioned.

The first things that you're bound to notice in Torchy's Strange Tales outings are the conflicts, specifically how anemic they are. Johnny Storm is an interesting character, certainly (he's a hot-headed thrill-seeking teen who's at times a reluctant hero, no matter how cool having superpowers is), but the same could rarely be said about his foes. While Marvel's other books featured villains like Dr. Doom, Magneto, or the Red Skull who had honestly sympathetic facets to their biographies and understandable, though sinister, reasons to do what they do, Torch could only find the kind of nogoodniks that were all like "With the matchless power of my magic paint/slippery rubber suit/tuning fork-shaped thing that can make plants intelligent somehow/paste gun, I could rob that bank/win the respect of Communists everywhere/rule the world! Muahahahaha!". Oh, I suppose I should also mention the Asbestos Man, an evil analytical chemist who built himself a suit of armor made out of solid asbestos. He never made another appearance after that one issue. I can think of at least two possible reasons why.

After a long run of retro and pretty-darn-close-to-embarassing imbroglios, the Torch was paired with the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing full-time. Having Ben as Johnny's partner punched up the proceedings a bit and certainly increased the power level of the stories' enemies as high-tier menaces like the Puppet Master and Kang started stopping by. Although, I began to wonder if this made the mag seem too similar to the FF mag in the eyes of comic fans of the times. If I were a kid in the early 60's, would I have spent my 12 cents to watch all four of the Four take on the Mad Thinker or just two of them? As such, it was in July of 1965, while most comic readers were very much on board Marvel's other flagship titles, that Strange Tales discontinued its Human Torch stories after 34 issues and one annual (but not before Ben and Johnny met the Beatles, another foursome of some merit).

On its own, the series doesn't reach the same plateau of any other Marvel series of its time, but there is still some fun to be had. The high points in this volume come from some inspired team-ups: Torch and the mutant Iceman (the teenage masters of heat and cold, a natural fit), the monumental first meeting with Spider-Man (the first friendly meeting anyway), and a real blast from the past with Captain America (who was actually an imposter, but its been said that positive feedback from that story resulted in the Avengers finding the frozen form of a certain WWII hero in the north Atlantic). Plus these issues introduced two of the founding members of the Frightful Four (among my favorite villain teams), the Wizard (as mad scientists go, he was able to stand out) and the Trapster (the crook formerly known as Paste-Pot Pete).

Ol' Matchstick's solo adventures were pretty goofy but they still served as a foundation for the rich tapestry that is today's Marvel Universe. This is why I decided to reread the Essential Human Torch (which, of course, contains all the issues in one inexpensive volume). Those Golden Age by-way-of Stan Lee stories are rather passe, but they still aught to be remembered.

A LESS CYNICAL TIME.......2005-05-25

These wonderful stores hearken back to a time when irony and "dark and gritty" characterization were not considered all-important in comics. And yes, the stories unapologetically teach honesty, leavelheadedness (which the Torch sometimes lacked) and respect for proper authority. And who can ever forget whimsical villians like Paste Pot Pete? This strip, from early in Marvel's most successful decade, reminds us just how fun comics used to be.

Not entirely essential.......2005-02-10

Collecting Strange Tales #101-134 and the Annual #2, Essential Human Torch revolves around some solo adventures of the Fantastic Four member as he goes up against an array of lower tier villains, and naturally has some team up's with Spider-Man, Iceman, and his FF colleague the Thing. Written by Stan Lee, the stories collected here are pretty simplistic, and are a far cry from the stories Lee would weave later on that would make Marvel Comics a force to be reckoned with. Still, with the legendary pencils Jack "King" Kirby and his longtime partner, inker Dick Ayers, you can't really go wrong with this Essential collection, even though it isn't entirely essential.

THE TORCH GOES SOLO.......2004-12-29

I've always found it strange that the Human Torch was among the first Marvel Characters to get his own solo adventures, even if it wasn't completely his own title. Appearing in Strange Tales 101 in November of 1962, this was not even a year after the debut of Fantastic Four #1. I guess Stan must have really liked the Torch since he was a holdover from the Golden Age even though it's not the SAME character.

These very early Marvel stories from the early to mid-1960's are pretty simplistic and crude. The Torch battles a fairly ridiculous array of villians like The Beetle, Paste-Pot pete, The Eel, Plantman, etc...but there were still some interesting team-ups that included his teammate The Thing, Spider-man and Iceman.

This Volume which collects Strange Tales 101 - 134 collects all of the 12 page stories that appeared in those pages as well as Annual #2. The Stories are by Stan Lee, Pencilled by the Great Jack Kirby and inked by his long-time partner Dick Ayers. These are marvel comics of a simpler time...owing more to the Golden Age than to the revolutionary comics that Marvel would be making in just a few year.

Great nostalgic fun!

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Luke: I want to become a jedi like my father before me.

Luke's Fate (Step into Reading, Step 3, paper)
Jim Thomas
Manufacturer: LucasBooks for Young Readers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0679858555
Release Date: 1996-10-15

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Illustrated in full color. Readers are introduced to young Luke Skywalker, who dreams of being a star pilot but has to stay planetbound, helping his uncle run the farm. Then the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO show up...and Luke's destiny beckons irresistibly. Based on the beginning sequences of the original Star Wars movie and radio plays.

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Luke: I want to become a jedi like my father before me........2003-07-23

This is a fully illustrated 48 page, fully illustrated targeted to 7 to 9 year olds. Chapter 1 is Luke's Dream, an adventure with Luke and friends in Beggars Canyon. Chapter 2 is A Secret message and is the story of Luke meeting the droids that he will spend the rest of his life with. Chapter 3 is Runaway Droid and chapter 4 is Obi-Wan Kenobi which ends with the conversation in bens Home.

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This study identifies and explores texts of restoration in a wide selection of Early Jewish Literature in order to assess the variety of ways in which Jews envisioned Israel's future restoration. Particular attention is given to the expression of restoration in what is identified in the present study as the exilic model of restoration. In this model, Israel's restoration is characterized by the features of (a) a future re-gathering, (b) the fate of the nations, and (c) the establishment of a new Temple. The present work focuses primarily on the first two features. Through this framework Jews in the Greco-Roman period could draw on Israel's history and legacy, but re-appropriate `exile and return' in new and creative ways. Finally, the writing of Luke-Acts is investigated for its ideas of restoration and its indebtedness to Early Jewish traditions.

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Freaking Amazing........2007-02-09

All I can say is that, This book is better in person. The Dr. Fuller who wrote this book also is teaching my Judaism class. And hes freakin awesome. This book is way too in depth for me to even grasp. Very informative, and you can tell his years of study are shown through his writing.

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Bread Machine Magic

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Expand your breadmaking horizons beyond the basics

I really expected MAGIC

More Bread Machine Magic : More Than 140 New Recipes From the Authors of Bread Machine Magic for Use in All Types of Sizes of Bread Machines
Linda Rehberg , and Lois Conway
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312169353

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Bread bakers have been clamoring for more of Linda Rehberg and Lois Conway's magic. They've responded with More Bread Machine Magic, a collection of 140 of their best new recipes!More Bread Machine Magic offers perfected recipes for an array of baked delights, from sourdough and pumpernickel loaves to sweet, savory, fat-free, whole grain, and sugar-free breads. More imaginative than the generic recipes that come with the machine, each recipe-tested in more than a dozen machines-features step-by-step instructions, hints, and creative suggestions for baking the perfect loaf, every time. There are also recipes for doughs that you prepare in the bread machine, fashioned by hand, and bake in a traditional oven, such as pizza crusts, focaccia, flatbreads, rolls,and even bagels. All recipes are adapted for 1-, 1 1/2-, and 2-pound bread machines.Recipes include: cinnamon-raisin bagels, Scandinavian rye bread, Irish soda bread, pesto spiral loaf, New England maple syrup bread, heavenly herb rolls, petite brioche, butterscotch apple bread pudding, challah, sun-dried tomato mozzarella bread, and many more!

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Bread Machine Magic.......2007-07-28

Unknowingly having the first edition of these authors, I am thrilled to add to my collection this complete, informative, all comprehensive recipe book. It has easy as well as advanced bread machine recipes, some of which I have not seen anywhere before. I'd recommend it in a heartbeat!

thanks for the daily bread.......2007-02-23

Somebody wondered what the magic was in this book--well, I bought a Cuisinart convection bread machine and was terribly disappointed with the recipes from the accompanying booklet. Half the time I opened the lid to see an unmixed, hardened mess. Then I read customer reviews and people recommended getting another recipe book as the Cuisinart one was off in many of the proportions. I got Bread Machine Magic, and relatively speaking, it is. The loaves at least work, taste great (much better than store bread) and the recipes are pretty varied and interesting. My favorite: Oatmeal marmelade.

Not sure about these.......2007-01-21

Havn't tryed any of these yet but will soon. The recipes are well writen ans seem to be easy to follow.

Expand your breadmaking horizons beyond the basics.......2006-09-09

First of all, someone below posted "I've found so many other books that are much better..." (or something to that effect). If so, please recommend them!

I love this book. I was a novice breadmachine user when I bought the authors' first book. The second was given to me as a gift after having become a breadmachine ONLY bread household for 1 1/2 years. (The only thing we buy are artisinal loaves and sourdough...I just can't get the hang of it.)

Every loaf I have made from this book has turned out superbly. The introduction has been very useful, as well. It seems like the authors learned a lot since their first book was published, and passed along some really good hints.

For sure try the tomato pesto mozzarella. YUMMMMMMYYYY!!!!

I really expected MAGIC.......2006-03-17

I was hoping for something more unusual ... but then I still believe in the tooth fairy.

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Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling You Avian Companion

Great book but beware ...

Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion (Pets)
Bonnie Munro Doane
Manufacturer: Howell Book House
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0764563270

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In paperback at last — the definitive guide to parrot training.

Originally published as The Pleasure of Their Company: An Owner's Guide to Parrot Training, this amply illustrated book is just what parrot owners need to bring up happy, well-behaved pets. You get:

Hands-on advice from one of the nation's foremost parrot authorities
A thorough explanation of "normal" parrot behavior and the benefits of training
Coverage of everything from gentling fledglings and basic obedience to potty training, speech, and tricks"

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Excellent Book!.......2007-10-09

This book was a godsend for me. I was blessed with a beautiful 19 year old parrot that was given to me. Fortunately I found this book. It addressed all of our problems. I'd recommend this book to anyone looking for advice.

GREAT BOOK.......2007-02-06

This is a great book dealing with parrot training. People can find any information for various problems relating to parrot behaviorism.

Great book.......2006-03-08

I'm so glad I purchased this book. It gave me the information I need to raise a happy, well-adjusted bird. The information on body language was quite helpful.

Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling You Avian Companion.......2006-03-05

there is a lot of information in this book.

Great book but beware ..........2005-11-11

I have had my African Grey for about a three weeks and have been reading everything I could get my hands on before I brought her home. I really loved this book, but wanted to let folks know that this book is a reprint of the book by the same author titled "The Pleasures of Their Company: An Owner's Guide to Parrot Training [Hardcover]. Don't make the same mistake I made and order both.

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Commercial Fish Decoys: Identification & Value Guide : Collectible Decoys and Implements Used in the Sport of Ice Spear Fishing
Frank R. Baron
Manufacturer: Collector Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1574322672

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Collecting spear fishing decoys is rapidly gaining popularity. Over 350 color photos of commercial decoys from both major and minor manufacturers. Decoys from more than 100 companies in both the United States and Canada. AUTHORBIO: Frank Baron grew up fishing with his dad and uncles in Detroit, Michigan and has always been intrigued by winter ice fishing, its methods, and the related tools of the trade. He is chairman of the Fish Decoy Division of the National Fishing Lure Collectors Club and co-founder of the Great Lakes Decoy Collectors and Carvers Association. REVIEW: This book documents major and minor manufacturers of commercial decoys and commercial ice fishing items. The author wanted to preserve and document the history of these items and companies, many of which are unknown. Details on the sport of spear fishing begin the book and give the reader a better understanding of the sport before studying the collectible items associated with it.

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A great book for beginners.

A-z of Quilting: The 10th Book in the Highly Successful A-z Series
Various
Manufacturer: Quilters Resource
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Creating Your Perfect Quilting Space: Sewing-Room Makeovers for Any Space And Any Budget

ASIN: 1889682381

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A great book for beginners........2006-03-20

The pictures are terrific and the instructions follow the pictures perfectly. If you are a beginning quilter this is a must have book. If you are already a quilter, it is a great reference book for refreshing a technique you might not remember well.

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Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is today. This fascinating and original book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focusing on the marketplace and such related topics as middle-class to courtly consumption, the provision of foodstuffs, and the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. The book investigates how men and women of different social classes went to the streets, squares, and shops to buy goods they needed and wanted on a daily—or a once-in-a-lifetime—basis, during the Renaissance period.

Evelyn Welch draws on wide-ranging sources to expose the fears, anxieties, and social possibilities of the Renaissance marketplace and to show the impact of these attitudes on developing urban spaces. She considers transient forms of sales such as fairs, auctions, and lotteries as well as consumers themselves. Finally, she explores antiquities and indulgences, both of which posed dramatic challenges to contemporary notions of market value and to the concept of commodification itself.

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A Familiar View of an Unfamiliar Locale.......2006-01-19

Given that much of the lives of us relatively wealthy people is devoted to finding things to buy and then buying them, it is fun to find out how people of different ages and places arranged financial transactions to keep their lives going. It's no surprise that they did a lot differently in Italy five hundred years ago, and not much of a surprise that much is the same. In _Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400 - 1600_, Evelyn Welch has drawn on letters, legal records, paintings, price lists, inventories, architectural plans, and a wide range of other sources to make this basic human activity visible. A problem is that it remains largely invisible; those Italians didn't shop mindlessly, but almost instinctively as we do, with the intricacies of social values involved well below the level of consciousness. Shopping can be opened up, Welch shows, to show the society's thinking and its emphasis on themes like artisanship, labor, honest dealing, and social strata.

In Renaissance Italy, shopping was fraught with possibilities of sin. One Lenten sermon reminded hearers that shopping involved misuse of the time God had sacredly granted us, and involved usury. Merchants would habitually do such things as claim their goods were better than they actually were, perhaps even swearing oaths in verification, or they would use false measures. They might even dress misleadingly; in Venice, for instance, it was illegal for a merchant to dress as a peasant to fool buyers that the offered produce was home grown, and those who were re-selling goods on behalf of others were to wear a red "R" on their clothing for _revenditrice_. Dressing wrong was an offense to God: "O merchant," ran one sermon, "if you wish to appear as a merchant, then wear the garment that is made for you." Governments and churches supported efforts to have true weights and measures. This was often difficult, as even within one market merchants would use different measuring systems, and measurements and coinage varied from city to city. It was important for such transactions to be visible, so that both sides would have reason to keep honest, but also would keep to their places. The standard shop was open but had a counter in the front of it; the counter might directly face the street. There was no door or other barrier to prevent a customer from going behind the counter, but it just wasn't done. The customer had to ask to see the goods on display in the shop behind, and the vendor would bring them to the counter, starting the transaction.

Who did the shopping? Decent women did not, at least usually. They sent courtiers out to do it, and the courtiers were generally men. The Marchioness of Mantua wrote to her servant Zigliolo in 1491, "These are the kind of things that I wish to have - engraved amethysts, rosaries of black, amber and gold, blue cloth for a camora, black cloth for a mantle, such as shall be without a rival in the world." The household accounts and expenditures were the work of the men, too. A review of account books in Florence shows that only men kept the books, except for widows that no longer had a man to do it for them. Wives, after a few years of marriage, were allowed to make small-scale decisions about buying day-to-day items, but they still did not interact with the sellers; of course, women of lower status had to do such face-to-face negotiations and did not risk dishonor. Welch's book is a detailed academic work, but given the topic, there is liveliness here, emphasized by the many gorgeous illustrations of sellers and buyers in action, and the goods which made it all happen.

Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture

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Lavishly illusrated, thought-provoking commentary

Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture
Chantal BEret , Robin Hunt , Rudolf Schmitz , Slavoj Zizek , Donna deSalvo , Mark Taylor , and Chantal Béret
Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 3775712143
Release Date: 2003-01-02

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Shopping--the word nowadays signifies more than the mere purchasing of goods. From the Paris arcades to the suburban mall, buying has been an essential part of urban life throughout the 20th century. As a ritual, shopping has both created and transformed our identities. For artists, consumer meccas and all their forms of presentation have long been a source of inspiration and criticism. If Walter Benjamin's description of the flaneur in turn-of-the-century Paris was the turning point in our understanding of the complex interchanges between consumer society and art, the cultural productions that followed his theorizing hardly proved him wrong. Consider only Pop Art, a mode of art making created by a generation of artists who themselves were designers of advertising materials, and who used those same products as source material for work that now hangs in museums. Shopping is the first publication to be extensively devoted to this topic. It documents and analyzes the fascination and influence of the fine arts, architecture, film, and music on the aesthetics, structure, and environment of consumer culture. Numerous illustrations reveal the crossover work of artists like Eug ne Atget, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Christo, Duane Hanson, Barbara Kruger, Jeff Koons, Andreas Gursky, and others, as well as pieces conceived by fine artists, architects, and film makers. Complete with contributions by internationally renowned authors, Shopping serves as a diversified basis for the discussion of a topic more dear to us than most of us would admit. You simply must buy this book.

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Lavishly illusrated, thought-provoking commentary.......2003-08-12

As part of my research into 'Shopping', I came across this incredibly well thought out book. Filled with lavish illustrations from the 2002 "Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture" exhibit, in additon to thought-provoking, informative background essays by selected artists themselves, this book stands out on its own.

The perfect coffee table book - and makes a welcome addition to anyone curiously fascinated with the 'art' of shopping. Highly Recommended.

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At first, Donna Marie Williams resisted the title that her editor gave this book before it was assembled; she feared that it would seem like a rip-off of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Yet as she gathered inspirational stories from African Americans she began to see the wisdom in the title. "Black-eyed peas are not a comfort food like chicken soup," Williams explains. They are a hearty bean, representing grit, determination, and wisdom, "an excellent metaphor for the sojourn of the Africans in America." This collection of real-life stories, which includes contributions from Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, and Andrew Young, has the heartiness of unstrained truth while still managing to be satisfying and uplifting, just like a steaming bowl of hoppin' John.

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To tell a story well, you have to live a story well -- with courage, persistence, and faith that everything's going to turn out all right. Black-Eyed Peas for the Soul is a collection of stories that reveals universal themes, as well as the unique perspectives of African Americans. The first collection of its kind, Black-Eyed Peas for the Soul boldly dispels the myth of a homogeneous Black culture. Diverse voices -- including those of Zora Neale Hurston, Dawn Turner Trice, and Frederick Douglass -- tell our stories of beginnings, wisdom, patience, hard work, excellence, joy, and miracles. Stories about love, healing, and atonement are told with insight, humor, and gritty honesty. Arising from these distinct voices is the call for hope. Enjoy these stories and let them guide your soul to a place where you can find solace and draw nourishment, a place that can warm and soothe you, like a bowl of black-eyed peas.

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Stories for the soul.......2002-05-18

If you are a fan of the Chicken soup books, You'll love Black-eyed peas for the soul, a collection of inspirationl, and stories of hope from african americans of every wake of life.

The readings offer rare wisdom, knowledge and humour........1999-05-29

This unique book carries the reader into many worlds through the experiences of the writers. A reader is inspired by stories of faithfulness in varied relationships. Lessons about the kind of persistence that leads to life altering achievement are included from unexpected authors like George Washington Carver. It is good to read perspectives from African-Americans from many different disciplies and philosophies. I don't think we have heard enough about the presence of this book in the literary world. My suggeston to everyone is read it and improve the quality of your life. BLACK-EYED PEAS FOR THE SOUL IS A TREASURE.

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Black Eyed Peas for the Soul
Donn Marie Williams
Manufacturer: Bantam Doubleday Dell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1568659199

Black-eyed Peas for the Soul: Tales to Strengthen the African American Spirit And Encourage the Heart

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Black-eyed Peas for the Soul: Tales to Strengthen the African American Spirit And Encourage the Heart

Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback

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