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This is a vintage audio recording new in MP3 CD format.The recorded message of Eric Butterworth titled "Commitment of Love."Running time is 49 minutes.Presented by the Emmet Fox Resource Center and Golden Key Books. ... Read more

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Eric Butterworth's Seven Steps To Overcoming. These are 7 vintage audio recordings made by Unity's Eric Butterworth on seven audio CD's. Steps include You Gotta Wanna, The Need To Let Go, Get Your Faith Lifted, How To Get in Focus, Mind Mastery and Emotional Control, The Art of Human Nurture, and The Discipline To Keep On. Approx running time is 6 1/2 Hours. MP3 Format. We ship this item First Class Mail. Made available through the Emmet Fox Resource Center. ... Read more

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Printed 2007, 50th Anniversary Edition Paperback Book + Folded Map Included. Book and Map are incomplete without each other and should not be sold here as such. 790 Pages. Special Limited Edition. In English. ... Read more

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It's Little Frog's birthday, and Mama Frog gets a big surprise when the guests show up for his party -- all the animals are the wrong color! Little Frog tells her she's not looking long enough, and he's right.Amazon.com Review
Goethe (1749-1832) is celebrated as a great German poet,novelist, and philosopher. But in his eyes, color theory was his mostsignificant achievement. In 1810 Goethe published Farbenlehre,naming three primary colors--red, blue, and yellow--from which allother colors could be made, and claiming that each color had anopposite, or complementary, color. But how does this relate towell-loved artist Eric Carle's Hello, Red Fox? Well, it's likethis. On his special birthday, Little Frog's friends--Red Fox, PurpleButterfly, Orange Cat, and others--begin to arrive at his house for aparty. Imagine Mama Frog's surprise when she perceives Red Fox asgreen, Purple Butterfly as yellow, and so on.Each time, Little Froggently points out that she simply hasn't stared at each animal longenough to see his or her "true color."

At the beginning of the book, readers are instructed to stare for tenseconds at the boldly colored animal on the left side of the spread,then transfer their unblinking gaze (more like glaze at this point) tothe blank white page on the right. If they do that successfully, ashadowy image of the animal appears in its complementary color! Youngkids may think this is magic, but actually the phenomenon taking placebetween the eye and the brain is called "simultaneous contrastafter-image." No matter what you call it, it's amazing and fun tobehold! The story itself is simple and deliberately repetitive,appealing to very young children, but the optical illusions will be ahit with all ages. Carle's bold collage illustrations are perfect forthis playful spin around the color wheel, which ends with the greenLittle Frog turning red when Mama Frog kisses him in front of all ofhis friends. (Ages 4 to 8). Karin Snelson ... Read more

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A fun and engaging book
We initially checked this book out from our local library. My 6 year old son was so thrilled and mesmerized by it that I had to make it a purchase. He absolutely loves the tricks on the eyes that the book teaches and is so enthused to share this book with others. Another hit by Erick Carle!

Great Lesson on Light
I purchased this book to use with 7th grade students to do a lesson on light. The students got a kick out of it. I love being able to use picture books as much as possible within the classroom.

Cool, and Educational!
I have always loved Eric Carle's books, but this one is a particular favorite.First of all, it involves a fox (which happens to be my last name), but it also handles a subject most children's books don't touch - opposite colors.You could even use it for older kids to teach about the cone cells in your eyes, but for little kids it's a really fun "optical illusion" that helps them see the opposite colors.It's art, it's science, and it capitalizes on a child's curiosity.

Visual fun!
This short book is an excellent tool to use in a psychology class, in the area of biopsychology, and study of the brain, sensation, and perception.It is a fun book that engages the students immediately - no matter what age level they may be!

WUNNERFULL, WUNNERFUL
IT WAS SO GOOD WE EVEN KEPT THE DUPLICATE SHIPMENT.
GOOD BOOK, GOOD SERVICE.
KEEP IT UP. ... Read more

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Leroy recalls his childhood friend Matthew Barber. Peter and Matthew seem unlikely friends. Matthew finds little to like in life, and his outlook is decidedly blue. Peter finds much to like in life, though nearly everything puzzles him, and he is essentially sanguine about his future, no matter how groundless his optimism might be. Eventually the friends find, as most friends do, that each has added to his developing self a little of the other.

"The Fox and the Clam is a wonderfully wacky ringing of plot changes on the kind of idiotically moralistic fables that used to fill the pages of elementary school readers." — John Stark Bellamy II, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"The Fox and the Clam tells us how Peter learned to read, with many versions of the Fable of the Fox and the Clam; here Peter plays Candide to his cynical classmate Matthew Barber; it is all about happiness and despair, and it is exceedingly wise and exceedingly funny." — Lee Pennock Huntington, Vermont Sunday Magazine

"Clamming is the chief industry of Babbington; the town’s driveways are paved with crushed clamshells, and shapely shells are recycled as knickknacks by Bivalve Byproducts. . . . The apotheosis of clamdom is reached in 'The Fox and the Clam,' in which the clam clearly represents only one thing — being happy-as-a — but does so in a set of thematic variations (ranging from a Saturday-afternoon cartoon about a happy hippo and an unhappy one to a deadly competition having to do with skipping third grade) that raise complicated farce to the level of calculus." — Anna Shapiro, The New Yorker

“[Kraft’s Peter Leroy] series is smart, funny, warmly inviting, and delightfully impossible to define.”
Kate Bernheimer, The Oregonian

“Eric Kraft’s essential subject is suburban boyhood—in particular, that moment when it loses its innocence. . . . Like Lawrence Sterne, Kraft is unashamedly sentimental, digressive, and extremely funny; like Proust, profoundly nostalgic and obsessed with loss.The typical Kraft novel is a laugh-out-loud read with undertones of grief and ruefulness.Almost all of his books revolve around a single individual, Peter Leroy, who is now . . . as fully realized as any character in current American literature. . . . Under the surface humor, Kraft’s take on the national experience is thoughtful, disturbing, and unlike that of any other American writer.”
Anthony Brandt, Men’s Journal

“The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy is one of the biggest, funniest, sweetest, and looniest undertakings in contemporary American fiction.”
John Strausbaugh, New York Press

“[The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy] is one of the cleverest and most charming literary enterprises in recent American fiction.”
Mahinder Kingra, The City Paper (Baltimore)

“Is there a more beguiling writer today than Eric Kraft?”
Publishers Weekly

LENGTH: novella, approximately 20,000 words, 96 pages in the trade paperback edition ... Read more

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A personal, and sometimes controversial, selection by three jazz critics of the "best" 250 jazz records - mostly LP collections of 78 rpm originals - from the earliest roots of music to the beginnings of the modern jazz era. Each record is placed in its musical context and reviewed in some depth. For each disc, full details of personnel and recording dates and locations are given. ... Read more

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A great, but not current, guide to recorded jazz
The first volume of the Essential Jazz Records (I'm not sure if the second volume ever appeared) is a very strong guide to early jazz on a number of accounts. Perhaps the most important reason for its succes is the fact thatthe three authors are sufficiently alike in their predilections for thebook to be cohesive, but are sufficiently particular in their passions fortheir to be a wide net as they attempt to gather in "the essentialjazz recordings."There are enough recordings here to support thetitle, and they are spread over a wide enough stylistic range (from Africanmusic, to field recordings of African American performers, to blues to theearliest jazz through swing to Charlie Parker's earliest recordings) sothat no one will find any gaping holes.These three reviewers togetherprobably present a better feel for the breadth and beauty of early jazzthan any of the dozens of guides I have read. Anyone possessing all ofthese records would certainly feel satisfied they had captured the essenceof early jazz. Another fine thing about this collection of reviews is thekeen insights they offer into the recodings themselves. I have often foundmyself returning to recordings on my shelf and listening to them with newears in response to something written in this book. I do not always sharethe views of these British jazz experts, but they do certainly inspirereevaluation. The fault that many will find with the book is that theparticular recordings listed here are all long-since-disappeared LPs. Manyof the major label recordings have reappeared in pretty much the same formon CD, but some have not. Nevertheless, almost all the music here isavailable somewhere. By using this book as a guide to the music one shouldbe looking for, and another guide to help decide which reissue might havethe best remastering, etc., the explorer of early jazz won't go wrong. ... Read more

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Leroy recalls his childhood friend Matthew Barber. Peter and Matthew seem unlikely friends. Matthew finds little to like in life, and his outlook is decidedly blue. Peter finds much to like in life, though nearly everything puzzles him, and he is essentially sanguine about his future, no matter how groundless his optimism might be. Eventually the friends find, as most friends do, that each has added to his developing self a little of the other.

""A set of thematic variations (ranging from a Saturday-afternoon cartoon about a happy hippo and an unhappy one to a deadly competition having to do with skipping third grade) that raise complicated farce to the level of calculus.""

Anna Shapiro, The New Yorker

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These are vintage audio recordings made by Unity's Eric Butterworth on two CD's. Containing thoughts on -Guilt, Disappointment, Worry, Inferiority, Loneliness, Indecisiveness, Grief, Depression, Unhappiness, Fear, Procrastination, and Pressure.Running Time Approx 2 Hours. Good quality. We ship this item First Class Mail. Made available through the Emmet Fox Resource Center. ... Read more

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Great
This book is destined to be a classic book that will be remembered long after it is out of print. It has great detail on individual low water use plants on how to grow them and care for them.If I could only have onebook on low water use desertplants, this would be the book.

Excellent information for the novice
This is an excellent book on information about desert plants.Not much inthe way of pictures, but heavy on information.I refer to it constantlywhen I need information about the desert plants in my yard or ones I'mbuying.Has a grid on pruning times, flowering times, etc. ... Read more