I can't see why an abridgement is necessary for Pinnochio under any circumstances. The book is very short and no chapter could fill more than two typed pages. Any child should be able to digest the unabridged translation. When you strip a story down to a mere plot summary, you remove the details which make literature exciting and stimulating for both children and adults. Perhaps this is marketed toward extremely busy parents who don't have the five minutes it takes to read an entire chapter aloud.

Indeed this is a "World's Classic." I would like to see it preserved as the author intended.

Collodi good, abridgement bad.

I indeed agree that this movie is a wonderful movie, it was funny, and sad...but that just makes it even more great....I was wondering if anyone doesn't mind helping me, I need to buy the CD Soundtrack to this movie..Can anyone help me???

Collodi knew how mischievous children can be.He was one himself when he went to school in Flroence.In his later years,he was a school reforms official,and wrote many textbooks.He believed the best way to teach is by entertaining as well.This certainly shows in Pinocchio.The little Blockhead gets into all kinds of scrapes because he rushes into things with little consideration.Pinocchio is tricked by the Fox&Cat, advised by the Talking-Cricket,helped by the Fairy with Blue Hair-and ultimately realizes that if he wants to become a real boy,his inner self must be transformed first.The final chapter is a true indication of how Pinocchio has fully become a son to Gepetto.Collodi's story has many film-television-stage versions,but the original is a true classic.

As Lentricchia's best-known work reaches its twentieth anniversary, its half-truths and caricatures seem more misleading than ever. For a long time this book together with Eagleton's Literary Theory served as basic introductions to undergraduates (and slow graduate students) into what was then current critical debate and the history leading up to it. How many must have been shocked to go on and later actually read the work of the critics Lentricchia caricatures only to find out how much richer and more nuanced their work was than Lentricchia had described it. And, alas, how many never went back to the originals because, so misled, they thought they now didn't need to. The disappointing intellectual life of late 90's criticism can in part be laid at the feet of Lentricchia and polemicists like him who reduced scholarly life and serious intellectual debate to comic book polemics.

I am currently reading After the New Criticism, and while casually surfing through Amazon, thought I'd check out what some others had said about it. I was very surprised to see a reviewer from Catania, Sicily give it one and star and an adverse review.

This is a rich, condensed, and lucidly written account of a vast topic: the 20 years in American literary criticism spanning the decline of new criticism and the advent of poststructuralism. Naturally a narrative which aims at traversing so vast a terrain will have limitations and will be unable to comprehensively address each specific theorist, school and philosophy it examines. Nevertheless, to condemn the book for being "inaccurate and ... misleading" goes too far. To my mind Lentricchia does an admirable job of concisely summing up the essential positions of the major players in controversies and battles of the 60s and 70s. Far from being dated, the book historically contextualizes many of the key theoretical ideas of these decades, thus allowing students of the current critical scene to trace genealogies of influence and reaction forward to the issues that engage us today.

This book is a good beginning point for learning about critical theory in literary studies. It is no substitute for reading the theorists themselves; however it provides a useful and comprehensible map for exploring regions notable for obscurity and intellectual difficulty.

This book represents an awesome performance of critical thinking. It traces literary discourse back to the thirties and forties, the period of the "New Criticism", which basically meant an abstracted reading of works from their original context. The new critics were in many cases formalists in that they look for internal coherence and unity rather than references to time and place. The book includes extented discussions of modern philosophies, including existentialism and phenomenology. A synopsis would show a move from myth criticism to existentialism to structuralism and concludes with deconstruction/post-structuralism,i.e. the advent of Derrida. Lentricchia is concerned throughout with showing the limitations of all these approaches and he claims that we need to find some sort of connection between life and literature. His touchstone is "History"--the way from thought to action. Alas, he hopes Foucault will show the way, but ultimately, as he admits later, he too succumbed to kind of formalism. Anyone who is curious about modern critical discourse will profit from a reading of this magnificant book

I have seen some wretched books on the market in my day, but nothing, absolutely nothing, is as offensive and as crass as this. First of all, psychoanalysis is not a science, which makes these authors' approach to Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum's respective ordeals cheap enough, but even with that, it's an abomination to put two women who were victims of the Holocaust under such horrific, over-analyzed scrutiny. As Richard Nixon once said, "I don't mind when people put me under a microscope, but when they use a proctoscope, that's going too far." Indeed! This book is so bad it's unbelievable.

Denise de Costa has written a valuable and extraordinarily
intelligent interpretation of Anne Frank the individual behind the writer, as she presented herself in her original diaries and then in the revised manuscript she prepared in hiding. Reading between these texts de Costa's insights are dazzling, critical and thought provoking: she examines Anne's motivation to write, her growing dependency on the diary, her unfolding maturity and her troubled relationship with her mother. This is a compelling book and a major contribution to our understanding of Anne Frank.

the book about anne frank is truely marvalous! A wondfull biography for a teenager or young adult! Defently mworth reading!

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The reproduction quality provided by MIT Press was substandard. A new edition, with color of the extant work, is in the works for Spring 2001 publication.

This book is an edited version of the FLW Companion by the same author. Lacks the floor plans, some of the text, but adds color pictures. This man knows all the architect's works intimately, and he finds something interesting to say about each one. You may find some of the entries insignificant, like a design for an exibition or a remodeling for a shop. Spends much of each house's description on the arrangement of rooms, which is difficult to follow without the diagram that was meant to go with it. Even so, it's probably the best choice for the average reader; anyone desperate for the plans can get the other version through his local library.

This book is just what it says it is, A complete catalog of the
works of Frank Lloyd Wright built during his life time. The text for each structure, in most cases was taken from Mr. Storrer's book The FLW Companion except where new data has been added since the original publication. Each site is illustrated with a photo. Even lost or demolished works, and most are in color. In many cases new or additional photos are included. For me, the main benefit of this book is the Field Guide Maps section at the end. As clearly stated in the text the scale of the maps is compressed for ease of display, BUT the actual site locations is
so accurately shown that you can determine which side of the street the structure is on and if visable from public property.

From reading this book, and being a firm believer of Jehovah Witnesses it sounds like to me that this is just a sore priest that has a grudge against the witnesses. I say that this is all a bunch of chatholic propaganda. If you don't want Jehovah's Witnesses to come by, just tell them to, if you want information, I'm sure that they would be happy to tell you. This priest or so called "father" needs to step back and look where he is really coming from.

This is a great way for Catholics to be able to discuss with their Jehovah Witness brothers and sisters the teachings that we believe and hold true. If we are to live our faith, we must be able to share our faith and answer challenges to our faith. This is a great tool to help us on the way.

Jehovah's Witnesses may go away if you ask them to, but is that really what you want? The answer for many of is 'yes', but for those of us that would like to share out faith with others, this is an great guide. This text will show you how to defend the one true church established by Jesus Christ. If we truly believe in the life everlasting, we must try to spread the word to all of other brothers and sisters.

This book is truly a waste of time and money.What this man did is for the most part ludicrous if not down right bull... The author's hero worship of the subject is evident in the fact that the subject is potrayed almost as a saint.The really bad part is the somewhat warped view of history the author submits.Some of the events and people written about here just didn't do or act as potrayed in this book.I've read other J.Frank Dobie books and have been delighted by them.This one does not measure up to the others.Anyone interested in reading a great outdoor adventure book in the biography field,should read "Alaska's Wolf Man" by Jim Rearden.It is available from Amazon.com and is worth the price.

I rank this book so highly as I do all such type of literature. It may not bring long philosophical answers but it does make us look at who would appear to the man on the street if he saw Ben Lilly as someone uneducated and ingnorant when he is quite the contrary. I spent a lot of time traveling the US and Europe years
ago and made it a point to stop and talk with people doing what might seem menial jobs. I talked with a gardner in Madrid near the Pardo Museum who had worked a rose garden all of his life, he was then eighty years old. Ben Lilly brings to life a person who lived in a time of interesting characters of this country. He reminds me of the early market hunters found on the east coast of this country. Do some research through the Georgia Historial Society in Savannah, Georgia. They provided fresh waterfowl and game for the local resturants. All of these men were of a unique and misunderstood nature. Ben Lilly was one of these men.

Ben Lilly lived in the wild, and he was as wild as the predators he hunted. No animal in the woods was more at home than the bearded, eccentric Ben Lilly. He and his hounds never slept in a house for over 40 years. A grim destroyer of bears and mtn lions, working with an Old Testament fervor? Or a keen observer of nature, a naturalist that benefitted modern science and a pioneer of game management? A little of both perhaps, but doubtless the greatest bear and lion biologists of our day could learn much if able to sit at Mr. Lilly's campfire in the rugged Mogollon mtns of the Southwest. Lilly could have hunted with Bridger, Carson, Old Bill Williams and the best of them. No man is said to have matched his endurance, tracking skills or marksmanship. He lived into a modern age but remained as wild as the forest primeval.

I have to admit I slight bias in favor of this book as I attended a publication party for it at Dallas's Club Dada a few years back. It was a great party -- one of the highlights of the '90s for me -- and as a result, I had very warm feelings towards this book for nearly a year before I actually bothered to sit down and read it. Upon reading it, I found myself both pleased and disappointed by the final product. Its an uneven book and its written for a very narrowly defined audience but that doesn't necessarily mean that its the great artistic fiasco that so many critics seem to believe it to be.

Anyway, it tells the story of social dropout Frank Mann who cynically navigates the New York performance art scene and, in order to win his dream girl, becomes a performance artist himself and descends into a world of increasing weirdness. Much of the book's humor does tend to fall flat and sometimes the plot's deliberate attempts to be quirky can leave the reader a bit weary. Its not a perfect book by any means. But it still presents a finely drawn portrait of a very insular world that will be familiar to anyone who has ever gotten involved with any local metropolitan arts scene. While many reviewers found the performance artists satirized within the book to be shallow stick figures, they are actually very accurately drawn portraits of the type of poseurs who have managed to infiltrate and, all too many times, dominate many otherwise idealistic artistic communities. If the book at times seems to be superficial, it should be remembered that Black is deliberately trying to expose just how superficial much of modern-day intellectual life has become as of late. So, in short, an uneven book but still one that many readers will find very worthwhile.

i don't understand the sniping evident in the above 'editorial reviews' (way to be impartial, there, guys). the characters here portrayed aren't well-rounded, the guy from kirkus says. well, of COURSE they aren't well-rounded. that's the whole point. these people (and i've known people just like them, far too many people, in fact) are portrayed in didactic terms because that's how many of the ones i've met live their lives- everything is a struggle and a sacrifice for art, lookie here, i've made a sculpture out of my own feces, isn't this design great? look at the typography, it's stellar! don't you think frank black the one from the pixies is really into dadaesque poetry because he smells like he is to me- i've heard all of these things. and i've only been to art college. god only knows what actually gets bandied about when these performance artists get together and throw ideas around. i'm a firm believer in the concept of everything deserving a voice, no matter how banal or seemingly ridiculous, but i don't believe that something is art just because it's presented as such (witness jeff koons, for example). and so of course these people are silhouettes. of course this book snipes. how can you not? rational discussion of the cons of sitting naked in a tub of macaroni to protest the war in kosovo gets you nowhere, dismissed as a cynic or soulless and 'well you wouldn't understand anyway'. is this discussion open-ended? only if you've never had one. frank's decision is to crucify himself for art, ostensibly, but what i get from it at root is that he's pushed himself as far as one can go in order to refute the artistic drivel that swirls around him. how much farther can you go, not only to make a statement of purpose but one also of denial, than being nailed to a cross in public? here it is, you fools, do something with it. the only thing that keeps this book from eternal classic status is the curiously toothless ending. however, the book of frank is indeed a holy book. it nourishes and sustains. get it however you can. i've read mine five times. and sometimes, i've got to admit, crucifying myself seems not so outlandish, when i'm forced to listen to somebody, yet again, detailing the 'artistic struggle' and 'how much i care, i'm a pumpkin!' and 'lo, i am an orange and why must you prod me?'

the book of frank is a work that should be on everyone's must read list. frank is the epitome of the classic alienated, existential "everyman". i strongly recommend that this book become required reading for the masses.

I ordered "Chees and Fermented Milk Foods" on the 19 September 2001 and I have not yet received it. Can you please check where my order is. The estimated delivery date is between 24 Oct and 12 Nov and today is 15 Nov and I havnt heard anything yet. Please advise or give me a telephone number that I can check where my order is.

Thanks

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Frank's book is an essential read for anyone thoroughly besotted with milk and the endless possibility of products that can be made from it.
Highly readable for those with an interest, incredibly informative for those who need to know. The science and lore of milk fermentation in one beautiful tome (or tomme).

Cheese and Fermented Milk Foods is an excellent book that can be useful to anyone involved in the dairy in the United States or abroad. It is definitely useful to dairy manufacturers and also to farmers that are interested what happens to their milk when processed. It is very educational and easy to read. Even the most technical information is easy for anyone to understand even if they are not familiar with the dairy industry. I highly recommend it for any student or representative of the dairy industry.

Have you ever been cursed? You know, the usual: You're walking down the street minding your own business when, suddenly, you smell brimstone. The cement below your feet starts to heat up, and then the vague outline of a lesser demon appears. I hate it when that happens. So you whip out your trusty St. Vitus' charm, a ragged copy of the Good News, and a long, pointed stick and prepare to do battle with the forces of evil.

Above all else, this book will make you feel a lot better about yourself, knowing that there are so many much sillier people out there who might actually believe this hokum. But it is also scary, in that they might be your neighbors.

I ordered this one while on one of my demonology trips gathering all types of information to prepare myself for war against Satan. Curses and demons around every corner. Fortunately, the book contains a good amount of scripture. A bit too sensational now that I sit down to review it. Begins with the premise that curses are real and follows by describing different types that exist (generational, personal sin, accursed objects, witchcraft, etc.) He then goes on to describe eight laws that govern each category of curse. He concludes with a four page chapter dedicated to steps in breaking curses. Writing style identical to "Pigs in the Parlour."

This is the BEST book out there on the breaking of ANY curse or witchcraft spell, written by a minister with a great deal of experience on casting out demons, Rev. Frank Hammond. If you own Frank's classic book "Pigs in the Parlor", you MUST have a copy of this alos great Bible based book on the breaking of all curses. As a person who has gone to a number of churches that help those afflicted with demons, this book is read by all, and highly recommended. With this book you understand God's spiritual world, you understand that curses are REAL, and you learn about word curses, generational curses that lead to illness and emotional problems, and also learn about witchcraft curses, that actually go on today. This is a MUST for all church and town libraries. Higly recommended by a born again Christian.

I haven't read this calculus text, but based on the quality of the last review (and in consideration of who the reviewer claims to be), I've got two words for ya: "STAY AWAY!"

We are currently using this text in a graduate course in Mathematics & Modeling. We are completing the first chapter in Modeling Change. Some of the definitions are vague. The examples are good; although, I would like to have seen more. Exercises are good--prehaps add more "warm-up" exercises. The sidebar items relating to the corresponding use of the TI-89 is good, but the cooresponding variables between this and the text is confusing to some degree.

This is a new calculus text that incorporates: - computer algebra (TI-89/92/92+), - cooperative learning, - group work, - reading mathematics, (I'm one of the author's so I'm biased.)