Lady in the Water

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Originally written by M. Night Shyamalan as a bedtime story for his own children, the story of the Lady in the Water is an imaginative reading experience that inspires readers to observe the world around them and consider their purpose on earth. Like all of Shyamalans work, this story offers a dark mystery with surprising twists, a touch of magic, and a powerful message at the end.

Customer Reviews:

SSSOkay.......2007-10-10

Since I'm not a child and our own child is in mid-30's, I'll have to stay middle on this rating. It is OK, I think, but if/when a parent attempts to read this story to a child, there is a need for "fill"... so the parent will need to be adequate story teller and not just a reader, depending upon the book to do the parental work. In that setting, I rate it 5 stars, but in the real world, where parents desire more help, it's a 3.

Original & Wonderful.......2007-04-22

A truly original and wonderful children's story. It's the first one in a long time I've read that I didn't guess the entire plot and how it develops within the first couple of pages.

Enchanting .......2007-04-10

This book is a beautiful story and the illistrations are visual masterpieces. A must for everyone to read. I enjoyed the movie as well, a great companion set for every age.

------"Just keep an eye out for signs of things in your yard."-----.......2007-03-26

Lady In The Water is an intriguing story about a creature called a narf. Her home is under your swimming pool! She has a purpose! "She is swimming in the pool to be seen by someone in your house." She is a sea nymph and a good creature. Of course, to give some balance to the story, there is also another creature. Something that is called a scrunt and he is not so nice. He lives in the grass and would like to catch the gentle narf.

I find this to be a wonderful and very imaginative story; however, I think this is too scary for young children. I believe it's best for the parents to read it first before purchasing it for their child. Every child is different and parents are best at determining if the subject matter is appropriate for their own children.

I understand the film does not exactly follow the little book, but I'm really looking forward to seeing it. I'm a fan of M. Night Shyamalan's and loved The Village.

Judith Miller

Review for Lady in the Water: Book.......2007-03-09

This book is really amazing. But I think I would have liked it more if I would have read it first compared to watching the movie first. It also could have elaborated on the story more. But I also don't regret buying it.

Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill: Using Dreams to Tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious

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Great Book.
Dream Group Leadership
Transformational work
The method works; book ties together dozens of ideas
An excellent guide for beginning dreamwork

Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill: Using Dreams to Tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious
Rev. Jeremy Taylor
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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ASIN: 0446394629

Customer Reviews:

Great Book........2007-08-21

Taylor's erudition and vast experience in unpacking dream landscapes is without question. By my reckoning Taylor stands alongside of Freud and other seminal thinkers in the analytical psychological tradition for providing a map to journey on the serpentine and difficult quest to interpret dreams. If depth psychology holds your interest, this book is a good place to begin. And Taylor a guide worth reading. As the author notes, "dreams come at the service of health and wholeness." If this is your aim, you will find a wise guide to access the depths and richness found in the language of Dreams.

Dream Group Leadership.......2006-11-10

Jeremy Taylor's use of personal experiences to illustrate his points is very effective and adds interest to the book. The clear outline of his beliefs is expressed very well and reiterated throughout.
This is a wonderful guide for anyone interested in starting and facilitatingdream groups and otherwise being involved with projective group dreamwork.

Transformational work.......2002-08-16

This book is the essential guide to dreamwork. Taylor guides you with a loving hand through the labyrinths and mysteries of our dream worlds. And he brings us a joyous message: all dreams come in the service of health and wholeness"!

The method works; book ties together dozens of ideas.......2001-07-24

Having read the book with care, and having experienced the author live, I can and will testify that, for the group in which I participated, the processs works, and the book fairly represents the process. All dreams that can be remembered ultimately do seem "to come in the service of health and wholeness." Taylor-style Dreamwork combines a form of intimacy with respectful distance, because only by looking deep within "as if it were my dream" can a group member have anything to say about someone else's dream. So, each dream belongs to each member of the group -- in individual versions. This process is illustrated, with huge quantities of theoretical material tantalizingly presented. Quoting Taylor again, "I am a fanatic because I am convinced from 30 years experience. Don't take my word for it. I am the circus barker outside the tent, touting the wonders of 'Jo-Jo the Dog Faced Boy.' Come inside the tent and see for yourself." I agree. The book conveys more of the flavor of the live experience than one would think possible.

An excellent guide for beginning dreamwork.......2000-02-03

From Joan Mazza, author of DREAMING YOUR REAL SELF: A PERSONAL APPROACH TO DREAM INTERPRETATION; DREAM BACK YOUR LIFE; FROM DREAMS TO SELF-DISCOVERY, and WHO'S CRAZY, ANYWAY?

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New York City, the melting pot of the United States, contains the nation's largest West Indian immigrant population. Since the immigration explosion of 1965, the Afro-Caribbean influx has impacted the social dynamic of the United States and its native-born African Americans, often with volatile results. Black Identities, an important sociological work by Mary C. Waters, explores the question, "How similar or different is it to be a black immigrant or descendent of immigrants in Brooklyn in the late twentieth century from what it was like to be an Irish, Italian, or Jewish immigrant in the earlier part of the century?" Waters interviews blacks from Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad, and other islands and deconstructs the mutual myths, truths, allegiances, and distrusts between these communities and whites (as well as African Americans with deeper family roots in the U.S.). Among the stereotypes Waters addresses, the most dangerous one is the perceived superiority of Afro-Caribbeans to African Americans. She deflates this and other myths with a combination of sharp scholarship and dead-on analysis. --Eugene Holley Jr.

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The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is considered a great success. Many of these adoptive citizens have prospered, including General Colin Powell. But Mary Waters tells a very different story about immigrants from the West Indies, especially their children.

She finds that when the immigrants first arrive, their knowledge of English, their skills and contacts, their self-respect, and their optimistic assessment of American race relations facilitate their integration into the American economic structure. Over time, however, the realities of American race relations begin to swamp their positive cultural values. Persistent, blatant racial discrimination soon undermines the openness to whites the immigrants have when they first arrive. Discrimination in housing channels them into neighborhoods with inadequate city services and high crime rates. Inferior public schools undermine their hopes for their children's future. Low wages and poor working conditions are no longer attractive for their children, who use American and not Caribbean standards to measure success.

Ultimately, the values that gained these first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life in the United States. In many families, the hard-won relative success of the parents is followed by the downward slide of their children. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.

Fortune is a River: Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History
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Three Fascinating Figures.

A Renaissance Development Project

What could have been if the Arno river was tamed!

Fascinating study of little known details

A fascinating collaboration

Fortune is a River: Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History
Roger D. Masters
Manufacturer: Free Press
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History is sometimes made by seemingly insignificant moments that turn out to have been pivotal in hindsight--and sometimes what didn't happen proves to be as important as what did. One such moment came in the Florentine court of Cesare Borgia, when a civil servant named Niccolò Machiavelli recruited a local engineer named Leonardo da Vinci to devise a plan to change the course of the Arno River. Diverting that river, Machiavelli reasoned, would deprive Florence's enemy, the nearby city-state of Pisa, of a dependable water supply. It would also make the Arno River navigable for oceangoing vessels from the inland city of Florence, and as an added incentive, would help limit damage caused by the flood-prone Arno to the surrounding farmlands.

Machiavelli and da Vinci devised a hydrological plan for the river that was extraordinarily promising, at least on paper. The flood-prone Arno, however, made the task an impossible challenge. The pair's chances of success were further reduced by poor design, bad timing, and undisciplined workers. Their failure brought official disfavor on Machiavelli and da Vinci alike. Leonardo transferred his studio to Milan and then Rome, where he would produce remarkable work, while Machiavelli retreated from public life for a time and used his forced leisure to write The Prince. Roger Masters crafts an epic tale out of a historical footnote. Although some of his conclusions are speculative in regards to Niccolò's and Leonardo's relationship, readers will likely find his narrative persuasive and deeply informed.

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Few people know that Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli crossed paths when Leonardo worked -- ostensibly as an engineer, possibly as a spy -- in Cesare Borgia's court and Machiavelli was Florence's ambassador there. Soon thereafter, they formed a friendship and an alliance. Astonishingly, during the rich first decade of the sixteenth century, the pair joined together under the inspiration of one of Leonardo's most fantastic dreams: to build a system of canals that would make the Arno River navigable from Florence to the sea. Under Machiavelli's supervision, the Florentine government tried -- and ultimately failed -- to realize a portion of this plan in 1504.

The first canal in the scheme had a military purpose, to cut off the water supply of Pisa, Florence's enemy -- but that was only the beginning. Leonardo dreamed of irrigating the Arno valley and controlling its water in order to fill Florence's coffers with tax revenues. He and Machiavelli foresaw the day that Amerigo Vespucci and other explorers would be able to sail from the city center to the sea, to travel over new lands and enrich Florentine merchants. Had the taming of the Arno succeeded, Florence might have become the center of a great world power. Unfortunately, in one of history's most tantalizing might-have-beens, the plans for the Pisa diversion were altered by the engineer in charge, not enough workmen were hired, and the ditches were not dug deeply enough. Not long after a sudden flood destroyed some of the work, the project was abandoned.

It was one of a series of failures for Leonardo, who ultimately would depart Florence for Milan, Rome, and France, newly convinced that political power was essential for an engineer and artist to thrive. For Machiavelli it was another military failure in a roller-coaster political career. If the project had materialized, the Republic might never have been overthrown, and Machiavelli might not have fallen from power and been imprisoned.

Roger Masters's account of the friendship between two of history's greatest geniuses starts with this tale of a magnificent lost dream and spirals outward to the art, politics, intrigue, and sexual scandals of Florence. Leonardo's preoccupation with the Arno project explains many of the tantalizing mysteries of his work. It is the reason for the startling bird's-eye view of the valley in the background of the Mona Lisa; it is part and parcel of both his obsession, in the Notebooks, with understanding the dynamics of water, and his work on canals and swamp drainage in Milan, Rome, and France. As for Machiavelli, were it not for his time spent in prison, he might never have been compelled to write The Prince. Fortune Is a River is at once a study of genius and a rich and delightful introduction to the wonders of the Renaissance.

Customer Reviews:

Three Fascinating Figures........2006-08-12

Da Vinci, Borgia, and Machiavelli. Could there be more different and yet fascinating people? This book has some rich details, but came across more as a lecture than a true history. Its focus is on the joint attempt to divert the Arno river away from Florence's rival Pisa. The colorful complexities of life in Renaissance Italy was the main appeal. The author gives the reader a visual show of a turbulent and fascinating era. The main negative is the idea that DA Vinci & Machiavelli knew each other? I was told when I was in Italy that they did not. Still this was an entertaining read.

A Renaissance Development Project.......2005-11-27

The archives of Western nations and modern ex-colonies are littered with records of utopian development schemes. Roger Masters shows that Renaissance Florence was truly modern, at least in its ability to devise idealistic projects designed to address political and environmental problems. From 1503-06 Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli had a mutual interest in changing the course of the Arno River to marginalize rival Pisa, reduce the hazards of periodic flooding and ensure Florentine economic dominance of Tuscany. This visionary scheme was problematic, perhaps hare-brained, because the Florentine Republic lacked the technology, manpower and financing to successfully divert a major river. The author fails to prove the collaboration of Leonardo and Machiavelli due to scanty sources; his arguments from negative evidence are plausible but not fully convincing. But he accomplishes the more modest goal of demonstrating convergence of their interests and outlook. Masters breaks new ground in bringing together some disparate but very important issues in early modern Italy, and the story itself is always engaging, at times scintillating. In showing two leading geniuses and their familiar city in an unexpected light, the Italian Renaissance once again appears fresh and exciting.

What could have been if the Arno river was tamed!.......2004-10-15

This book has an interesting theme and is an original subject. I am notat all sure what Masters writes is true, since this history is very long ago, and the sources are not there. It seems probable that Machiavelli met and knew DaVinci. It seems clear that DaVinci tried to use the Arno initially to cut off the water for Pisa, and later to improve the commercial position of Florence and the city's boss Borgia. The book does show how DaVinci was ahead of his time in trying to damm and control a river.
This book drags at time and has lots of related material thrown in. I did learn a little more about the characters of Borgia, DaVinci, and Machiavelli. An alright read.

Fascinating study of little known details.......2004-09-20

This book is a fascinating study of some little known historical events. Even to those who have taken a keen interest in the life of Leonardo and/or Macchiavelli, there is plenty of obscure information to add to your body of knowledge. That is the main attraction of the book (apart from recounting its main event, the planned canal, of course), that it lingers over facts that other biographies largely ignore.
The anecdotes, trivial though some may think them, were a big bonus in my view - source material that is otherwise very hard to come by.
As icing to the cake, it is nicely written thus making it a pleasant read - a real page turner actually!

A fascinating collaboration.......2004-04-29

I have for some time been interested in the relationships between Leonardo Da Vinci, Machiavelli and Ceasare Borgia, and this work brings those characters to life in an enlightening and interesting interpretation of an historical event that resulted in a monumental failure. It illustrates the human side to genius and is a fascinating look at the politics of Florence and surrounding environs during the early 16th century. It is considerably more fun to read than most history books I have encountered. Thank you Dr. Masters.

Follow Your Dreams Care Bears Paint with Water Book (Care Bears Coloring & Activity Books)

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Perfect for 18+ months!
Follow Your Dreams Care Bears Paint with Water Book
A really colorful paint with water book

Follow Your Dreams Care Bears Paint with Water Book (Care Bears Coloring & Activity Books)

Manufacturer: Modern Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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The non-toxic and tear-out pages of this Care Bears Paint with Water Book is filled with happy thoughts from the cuddly Care Bears gang! Follow Your Dreams is book one in the series.

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Perfect for 18+ months!.......2007-09-15

My daughter loved these water color paint books with the paint already on the pages. She just dips her brush in water and paints! My daughter is 20 months, and LOVES this. And the fact that they are the CareBears reminds me of when I was a kid!!

Follow Your Dreams Care Bears Paint with Water Book .......2007-05-14

This is a great paint with water book. These are so hard to find these days. My two year old loves it! I like the bright/vibrant colors as well. Clean up is easy and she likes to paint away.

A really colorful paint with water book.......2007-01-12

Very colorful and high quality paint with water book for your toddler!

Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory

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Water is gold
Just about the best book ever
Great motivating story that will inspire you do follow your dreams...
Gold in the Water - Extraordinary Story!
The Essence of Swimming

Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory
P. H. Mullen
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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ASIN: 0312311168

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Gold in the Water is the highly acclaimed and mesmerizing tale about the remarkable two-year journey an elite team of swimmers takes to the Olympic Games. P.H. Mullen creates a fascinating world of suspense and emotion, where the human desire for excellence rules and where there are no second chances for glory. Above all, Gold in the Water is about the triumph of the human spirit.

Customer Reviews:

Water is gold.......2007-08-23

Very nice book about swimming as a sport and the people, swimmers and coaches and more, in and behind it. One of few great books about swimming.

Just about the best book ever.......2006-10-23

Seriously inspiring, got me through a lot of long practises.

Great motivating story that will inspire you do follow your dreams..........2006-06-20

P.H. Mullen's Gold in the Water is a story that i first came into contact with a couple years ago. It is a fast paced true tale about average men trying to accomplish their goals. Reading the story over and over has helped me get through the hard times in and out of the pool. You don't need to be a swimmer to appreciate this story, but it does help. As I am in film school now, this is one story that can inspire more people then Remember the Titans with the Olympic power of Miracle. I encourage every athlete, Olympic fan, parent, or anyone who has a goal to accomplish to buy a copy of this book and one for their coach or mentor. It is a book to read over and over again.

Gold in the Water - Extraordinary Story!.......2005-10-24

As an athlete and the parent of a swimmer who's "Gold" is making it to the NCAA Championships one day, I believe this book is one of the few that truly captures the highs and lows of the swimming world. P.H. Mullen brought tears to my eyes with his compassionate, yet brutaly realistic retelling of SCA swimmers going for the gold. This story helps you appreciate what happens everyday with every swimmer who truly dedicates themselves to being the best! The emotional and physical sacrifices made by swimmers all over the U.S. are not paralled in very many other sports. This book should be read by every athlete who has a dream!

The Essence of Swimming.......2005-01-03

If you are not a swimmer already, you will want to be after completing this book. If you are a swimmer, then you will be thankful that someone has captured the essence of what those elite athletes at the other end of the pool do while you slog it out at 5 AM in the morning.

Mullen does an unbelievable job capturing the unrelenting workouts, the devastating highs, the excruciating lows, and reality of what happens when you stick your neck out there to pursue a dream.

Finally, as a competitive swimmer, Mullen is able to capture the awesomeness of these Olympians and at the same time showing that these people are indeed mere mortals. Most of the Olympians that I have seen train and have had the opportunity are much like Tom Wilkens: hard working, determined people who love their sport and are very approachable.

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I'm a Picture Person
Fascinating surreal images coupled with lack of substance
Disappointing

Dream Pools & Gardens
Francisco Asensio Cerver , and Francisco Asensio Cerver
Manufacturer: Stewart Tabori & Chang
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ASIN: 1556709072

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From the hills of Hollywood to the lagoons of the Caribbean, from European jacuzzis to Asian tidal pools, from the Australian outback to America's Eastern seaboard, here are 45 of the world's most spectacular swimming pools and gardens.

Published in an oversized format to best showcase more than 400 stunning color photographs, Dream Pools & Gardens features nature-inspired shapes, classical designs, and modern pools where the water appears to tumble off the end of the earth.

An engaging text details the basic design form of each project, highlighting their innovative features and imaginative details, including the surrounding gardens and landscaping, which are often as glorious as the pool itself.

Perfect for homeowners searching for design ideas and interior designers looking for fresh inspiration, Dream Pools & Gardens is both a useful tool and a gorgeous wish book.

Customer Reviews:

I'm a Picture Person.......2000-05-07

Well, I am totally a picture person, and I found this book to be astonishing, I loved almost every pool I saw, there was some gardening pictures, but not that many, but i was personally looking for pools, that's probably why they titled it "POOLS and gardens". But if you love pictures and seeing other people's interpretations of beautiful scenery and living dreams, then i assure you that you will love this book!

Fascinating surreal images coupled with lack of substance.......2000-03-19

Dream Pools and Gardens does not supply any intelligible narrative and merely bombards the mind with image after image of mind-boggling pools. Was that the book's original purpose and goal? I certainly hope so.

Disappointing.......1999-07-22

I eagerly awaited the arrival of this book. Unfortunately, I found it to have little garden information, pictures which lacked good perspective and a narrative which was weakly written and included only sketchy details. "Reflections on Pools" is a much better book.

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The ultimate competitor
Great Read
a rogue read...
Gets dull
kelly slater pipe dreams

Pipe Dreams: A Surfer's Journey
Kelly Slater
Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
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ASIN: 0060096314
Release Date: 2004-07-27

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Six–time world surfing champion, actor, and US heart–throb Kelly Slater tells of the struggles and triumphs he's experienced throughout his life and how they have helped him to become one of the world's most loved sports figures.

From beach blanket bingo to Baywatch, surfing has fascinated people for years, and Kelly Slater is the sport's newest star. He's one of the world's most popular surfers; his radical moves have revolutionised the sport. Born in Cocoa Beach, Florida, in 1972, he found surfing to be a great way to escape problems at home. When he was 11, his parents divorced. Slater and his brother, Sean, were raised by their suddenly single mother, who struggled to support two young sons. After Slater's surfing career took off, he made the transition into acting and modelling. He spent a season starring on the popular television show Baywatch, where he won the hearts of women young and old, including Pamela Anderson, whom he dated for about a year. He has also been featured in Versace ads.

In Pipe Dreams, he shares the stories that have influenced his life and have inspired him to overcome both personal and professional hurdles and achieve his dreams.

Customer Reviews:

The ultimate competitor.......2007-01-09

Great read for any surf fan. kelly is a sharp guy from humble beginnings who is very modest and very, very talented athletically. Now if only Laird would write a book. Only Tom Curren would be more interesting.

Great Read.......2006-11-12

I really enjoyed this book, it told us about how Kelly Slater got to where he is today and it had a lot of information on heats and different contests around the world, that Kelly won and lost. My girlfriend would have liked a bit more personal information though as she bought the book purely because she thinks he is gorgeous.

a rogue read..........2006-06-08

In all honesty, I didn't expect to enjoy this book. After all--what do I, a gal scientist, have in common with a surf legend who trumps his peers to float somewhere up there with Kwan, Woods, and Jordan?

Instead, I found myself unable to put it down. Well written and wonderfully candid, it promised everything that goes into a unforgettable biography--and then some.

Slater imbues his writing with gut-wrenching, broad-appeal emotion--a notable accomplishment in crafting a story around a sport and way of life not accessible to most of the world. By the end, I felt like I could play a round of golf or have a beer with Slater and relate to him on a level that surpasses lines of class and celebrity--one that is simply, human.

My only complaint? I would've liked captions for the photos.

I hated to say goodbye at the end. That should say it all.

Gets dull.......2006-04-30

This book is ok. It starts out really well, but it starts to die out after a while. The problem is that he goes on about each world championship title, and each one isn't that much different from the last. I would agree with Jacks that this book "Reads like a chronology of wins." If this book were 20 pages shorter, it might be better.

kelly slater pipe dreams.......2006-03-11

When he was a little kid he surfed on a boogie board and at age 8 won his first contest in 1980(salick brothers contest) his first sponsor was Dick Carti surfboards.
. Later winning countless contests throughout his life nothing compared to becoming the youngest world tour champ in history in 1992. He became the world tour champ every wear from 1994-1998 and beat mark Richards consecutive world title record be wining 5 in a row. Through out his life he has dated many girls and even in high school achieved the nickname minute-man to acting on the TV show Baywatch. It was there where he met palala Anderson where she was able to dumpm him 3 times.
N October 17, 1995 a girl that he had dated earlier that summer gave him the news that she was pregnant and that she was going to keep the baby, Kelly's child was named Taylor. Although Kelly was dating somebody else he still took responsibility for his child and although he isn't around for her all the time he didn't block her out of his life completely. In his life he was been In a band with other fellow surfers, took up golf, had a child, dated Pamela Anderson after meeting her on the Baywatch show, to growing up in the spotlight of being the greatest surfer who ever lived.
This story was interesting to me because I look up to Kelly Slater. Not only is he considered the Michael Jordan of surfing but in person he is a really down to earth guy. About 3 years ago I met and surfed with him in a select surf spot in Maui Hawaii. After meeting him and studying his surfing for quite sometime that in turn got me to read his autobiography known as Kelly Slater's pipe dreams.
I recommend this story to anybody who is interested in surfing or a story of inspiration to an up and coming surfer, much like myself...Justin Taguiped

The Village of the Water Spirits: The Dreams of African Americans

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The Village of the Water Spirits: The Dreams of African Americans
Michael Ortiz Hill , and Mandaza Augustine Kandemwa
Manufacturer: Spring Publications, Inc.
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ASIN: 0882145533
Release Date: 2006-10-01

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In researching the patterns black people's dreams about white people, Ortiz Hill dug into the literature of the African worlds that black Americans came out of and found that those worlds were intact in their nightly dreams. Weaving scholarship and interviews with the Shona medicine man Mandaza Augustine Kandemwa, Ortiz Hill offers the recognition that, at the most intimate level, Africa has kept faith with the African-American soul.

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Not just a history, Almost a tour book
Enlightenment on the history and splendor of the Susquehanna

Susquehanna, River of Dreams
Susan Q. Stranahan
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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ASIN: 0801846021

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"An eminently readable, nicely researched tour de force that goes on my must-reading list for anyone interested in knowing the Chesapeake Bay."--Tom Horton, Baltimore Sun.

"This excellent book about the Susquehanna River is as good as, and maybe better than, the celebrated Rivers of America series books... Much more comprehensive than most river histories published before the recent rise of concern about dangerous water pollution."--John Goodspeed, Easton Star-Democrat.

"Susan Q. Stranahan could well know more about the present natural state of the Susquehanna River and its 27,500-square-mile watershed than anyone... She has written a fine book, well-researched and detailed, a thrilling account."--Richard L. Stanton, Philadelphia Inquirer.

Customer Reviews:

Not just a history, Almost a tour book.......2005-03-30

I've lived within 10 miles of the Susquehann River for the last 19 years. I have driven along(or near) the entire length from Baltimore to Williamsport and then all of the North Branch and most of the West Branch. Anyone traveling along US 15 has seen the features mentioned in the book.
The book does a wonderful job of conjuring images of the land and people(past and present) along the river. I am leaving the Susquehanna behind due to relocation and I am glad to have the book to bring me back whenever I need to "see" the "river of dreams".
A must read for a someone living in the watershed, or anyone interested in one of the truly most beautiful areas of North America. The Susquehanna River Watershed in its glory rivals other, more celebrated, rivers such as the Columbia, Mississippi, Ohio, Yukon, for beauty and soul.

Enlightenment on the history and splendor of the Susquehanna.......2000-07-26

I've spent the last 23 years enjoying the beauty of this river; not quite understanding how it has been tried and tortured over the last 400 years. Great writing, and a wonderful story to be told. For those in the Tri-State (PA,MD,NY) area, a must read.

WIthout this knowledge, you won't truly appreciate what Philadelphia, Columbia, Baltimore and other areas are today, or how they achieved their stature.

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