jacques prevert is one of my favourite poets. this book is a great selection of his work & miss zinnes translates it all wonderfully.

Weisel uses his life experiences to teach and delight. BLOOM is a non-stop read! His vignettes are powerful and all can relate to his words of wisdom. The author's a lover of acronyms, and I soon found myself remembering the virtues of positive living easily. This book has been a wonderful addition to my life!

Yes, I'm the author, so I'm not the right guy to post a review. That was just to let you know the book has been reprinted and is now fully available Thanks

This book has the most beautiful photographs of spices and the growing and processing overseas. It is a coffee table book for spice enthusiasts.

John Cage was the first to introduce Pierre Boulez to the United States. In New York he took Boulez around visiting painters and musicians, this was the early Fifties. David Tudor(long a Cage friend) was performing Boulez's Second Piano Sonata for the first time. Bookstores were frequent stops and Boulez( we learn) never heard of the poet e.e.cummings, and bought a modest book of his poetry. Some thirty years later Boulez set a text of cummings for 22 unaccompanied voices. This correspondence was between two innovators coming from radically different places yet stopping at the same conceptual places. And it is a shame that this friendship fell out quickly,each going into radically different venues. Boulez although fascinated with chance procedures(which Cage had been working with the I Ching, Book of Changes at that time) Boulez was arrongantly fascinated by the aesthetic object,its history and attenuation, and has remained so since. This correspondence has frequent entries on the concept of indeterminacy, again Boulez comes to it via Mallarme, and aleatoric thinking, the throwing of the dice.Boulez sought a musical structure that contained the element of chance as in his Third Piano Sonata in the latter Fifties. Both however were at a creative place in modernity when the Western canon of structure and comprehensibility was falling itself.However it is odd for Boulez to this day thinks of his work as moments containing a "freedom" of something, when he conducts Mahler, he thinks of those passages that are freer than others,like a symphony is a dialogue between the two. Mahler's Sixth Symphony is the case in point. There are letters of Boulez to Cage, while in South America with the Barrault Theatre Company, one entry includes a description from Boulez that he is having a good time "milhauding" around, referring to Darius Milhaud the composer who frequently utilized folk elelments in his music by collecting them in volumes.Nattiez is a very sympathetic observer to this cause of modernity and the roots of things.

This graphic novel - really a collection of short stories - is one of the great anti-war artistic statements of our times. It's scope is very ambitious : nothing less than the human condition, and it succeeds by focusing on the individual, the ordinary guys in the trenches. It is without doubt Tardi's "oper magistrum" : he draws, formats the page and writes with economy and power, to stunning -literally! - effect. I have never seen/read/heard the daily reality of war portrayed with such intense compassion (for the poor [people) who actually fight it) and hate (for those who send them to slaughter). A very hard read, best taken in small doses. Will leave you shell-shocked.

I have borrowed this and many other books from our local public library. This book specially had become one of my favorites. Even though it's an old edition (1983) the instructions are so easy to follow that anybody can prepare a perfect puff pastry from scratch on the first try. I highly recommended it!! Unfortunately, this book has now a status of "lost" at the Library. I will consider this book a real cook's treasure for anybody that owns it, and hope the publisher presents a new edition soon.

This clearly-written, amply-illustrated work is sure to satisfy any cargo ship enthusiast. Although the photos are all black and white, Lesstrang captivates the reader from the beginning by relating fascinating facts and amazing tales by the boat-load.

This book is a great resource for the 2nd to 4th grade reader. Blashfield does an excellent job of making the material accessible to the younger reader. The pictures and illustrations help to keep the reader's interest.

I loved this book. It was very touching to me. I feel sorry for Catherine McAuley because she moved a lot in her life. First her father died when she was two. Her favorite word was Jesus when she was young. For her birthday she wanted books and things about Jesus. Her mother said, "You should be more like your sister. When she moved her mother soon died. She lived with people who were protestants for a while then she moved to the Coolock house. Now she was seventeen. She was giving to the people who were poor. When the people she lived with died she had the house by herself. She made a house for the poor there so they can learn and eat. She met some people who wanted to help others who are poor so they became the sisters of mercy. The first place they went to was Pittsburg. I thought the story was very sad but it was getting happier right along.