Morris Bishop's Two Volume Survey of French Literature is a must have for the French scholar. The first volume covers the Middle Ages through the 18th Century, and the second tackles the 19th and 20th Centuries. Morris is the authority in French Literature! This set includes the works of all major French poets, playwrights, novelists, and authors as well as a synopsis of the major French literary periods and short biography of each author. Great gift for college students majoring in French or other persons interested in French literature.

Morris Bishop's Survey of French Literature in Two Volumes is the Best Buy available in French Lit textbooks. The first volume begins with Middle Ages French Lit and covers through the 18th Century. Volume II encompasses the 19th and 20th Centuries. Bishop's texts have been the major college text in French Literature for years because of the attention he gives to all major authors, playwrights, poets, and novelists. Each work has a piece introducing the author and the book includes synopses of all major periods of French Literature. A must have for any scholar!

Even if you're not enrolled in a psychology class, you may still want to read this text. Its lively writing style and reader-friendly interface make it easy for ANYONE to learn about how humans work. Although it lacks the cartoons and "wow" of Myers' text, I believe this is still one of the most authoritative psychology textbooks on the market.

At my school we use this textbook for our AP Psychology class. It is very clear and understandable, a great introduction to Psychology.

First of all, I am a computer scientist and I picked this book without taking a course. I was reading books like "Your erroneous zones", "Too much control", "Do what you are" and some others like those, when I decided I wanted have a deeper understanding of psychology.

This book is great. I was first surprised to discover there was much more to psychology than Freud, Jung and the psychoanalysis. Just look at its table of contents.

1. The Science of Psychology.
2. The Biological Basis of Behavior.
3. Sensation and Perception.
4. States of Consciousness.
5. Learning.
6. Memory.
7. Cognition and Language.
8. Intelligence and Mental Abilities.
9. Motivation and Emotion.
10. Life Span Development.
11. Personality.
12. Stress and Health Psychology.
13. Psychological Disorders.
14. Therapies.
15. Social Psychology.

Reading this book helped me understand myself and other people, and it has a lot of sources. There was not a chapter I found uninteresting. A great buy.

All entries come with helpful tips: gender, example phrases, pluralization and the like. Nicely layed out with tutorial sections.

Morris Bishop's concise survey of medieval Europe covers nearly everthing of primary importance that may be found in the Middle Ages. Bishop's work is an introduction to the general themes of the Middle Ages, and will be a useful resource for beginners. One will discover an excellent representation of every day life in medieval times - the art of war and politics, thought and religion, are treated with uncanny precision. This book is better than most for its clarity and general grasp of the times.

I was inspired to learn more about the middle ages from a fiction book I had read. I am very lucky to have found this book. In my opinion, it is a great survey of the middle ages, but more importantly, to those of us who are not historians, it reads more like a novel than a history text. Indeed very well written and a delight to read!

The Middle Ages is a very good introduction to the period, and I thought it was a great book overall. In nearly every paragraph there's a little kernel of knowledge that caused me to go "Wow!". Bishop explains everything from medieval outhouses, the origin of the word "bank", the origin of European last names, to the average day for a monk. There is a lot missing (the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim empire are barely mentioned for example) but there is enough to keep a historical novice interested. I heartily recommend it.