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Adiós, Borinquen querida : The Puerto Rican Diaspora, Its History, and Contributions
Published in Hardcover by CELAC (01 December, 2000)
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Absolutely Splendid
It's unfortunate this item is out of print . . it contains fabulous performances by Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth of "Keeping Up Appearances", for all you Britcom fans), Paul Scofield, and Miriam Margolyes (occasional star of the "Blackadder" series). This edition of "Private Lives" FAR excels the currently available audiocassette version, done by the LA Theatre Works; although it may be rather odd if you've seen Routledge and Scofield on TV, because they play parts suited for MUCH younger people in this comedy. If you're a fan of Coward's, I suggest you try to find this gem.
Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
Published in Paperback by Guilford Press (21 May, 1993)
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Projectile Points of the Midwest
I would highly recommend this book to other projectile point collectors. The drawings are very helpful and the descriptions are brief and to the point.
Reading Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury (Reading Faulkner Series)
Published in Hardcover by Univ Pr of Mississippi (1996)
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About The Sound And The Fury
After reading the Sound And The Fury,one cannot but describe Faulkner's book as a work of genius.It is so full of creativeness and passion that you just go on turning pages without realising.It is a story told from four perspectives, of the disintegration of a Southern family. Indeed the book presents a daunting challenge for all readers.Though difficult to read, the novel left me in awe at the emotions possible from a single string of words.The Sound And The Fury attains heights and depts of expression that are truly breathtaking, it is an unforgettable work that richly rewards the reader's efforts.
Building Construction Illustrated, 3rd Edition
Published in Paperback by John Wiley & Sons (02 October, 2000)
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Comparing _The Histories_ with the Primary History
Sara Mandell and David Noel Freedman have written an engaging comparison of two major literary constructions of Antiquity. Chapter 1 demonstrates via Analytic Criticism that the narrator of _The Histories_ is an implied author to whom the real author gave his own name. Whereas the first chapter ends with "the real author is after all a literary artist, not an historian and not simply 'a pioneer in Homeric higher criticism,' " chapter 2 contains a study of the construction of the Primary History until the work of Ezra. In the third chapter Mandell and Freedman show numerous common literary relationships. Most important among these are the "mode of law" and the attention paid to the divine. For Herodotus it was the god at Delphi. For the Primary History it was Yahweh.
Mandell and Freedman have written a brilliant comparison of these two major pieces of literature from Antiquity. This book should be the next step for anyone who has an interest in either
Herodotus or the Primary History.
Remembered Laughter: The Life of Noel Coward. Orig Pub in Great Britain Under Title: Life of Noel Coward
Published in Hardcover by Random House (1976)
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THE best read on Coward
from the title (marvelous!) on, this older (1976) book remains the best read on Noel Coward around. It's all here, consumately engaging, lovingly presented, with dignity, style, charm and all the other positive things that the incomparable Mr. Coward possessed. It's the sort of book one reads again and again and continues to capture the essence of Coward.
Savoring Southeast Asia: Recipes and Reflections on Southeast Asian Cooking (The Savoring Series)
Published in Hardcover by Time Life (1900)
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Awesome!!
You can't take your eyes off of the pictures. The photos are beautiful and rich. It's not just a cookbook. Of all the cookbooks on Southeast Asian cooking that we received for Christmas, I wish we had received this one. It's a great price. Other stores sell it for full price. The book gives wonderful details about the culture of various countries in the region. The recipes are very easy to follow and the food photography is sumptuous. All the food looks so tasty. I don't really like to cook, but I shall start trying the recipes as soon as I get the book.
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
Published in Paperback by North Point Press (1999)
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Savouring Tuscany
I found the recipies in this book very easy to follow and the majority of the ingredients were relatively easy to obtain. The photography work is exceptional; pictures of Tuscany are remarkably colourful and expressive of the lifstyle. The recipies are fantastic, tasty and definitely authentic.
Seasons on the Pacific Coast: A Naturalist's Notebook
Published in Hardcover by Chronicle Books (1999)
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Seasons on the Pacific Coast
Seasons on the Pacific Coast takes the reader by the hand - with childlike delight - to show us the stunning natural diversity of this vibrant shoreline world. To me, a gentle tone and wealth of scientific information make Seasons a volume to savor for the casual visitor or native naturalist. Tweit presents short, engaging profiles of individual species which, taken together, tell the larger story of "connection that binds humans and wild lives everywhere". Rather than preaching conservation, she instead encourages us to look at Seasons as a "family album", renewing our sense of kinship with a whole coast of fascinating characters. I particularly love the exquisite watercolor illustrations that highlight each chapter. It's a lovely read.
Second Person Rural: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer
Published in Hardcover by David R Godine (1980)
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fun Vermont back-to-the land stories
Noel Perrin is great. I love all his books about living the simple, back-to-the-land rural life written by someone who is not quite an outsider and not quite an insider.
Selected Poetry (World's Classics)
Published in Paperback by Oxford University Press (1997)
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A Portal Poet
George Gordon (Lord Byron) should be at the top of every eighteen-year-old schoolboy's list. He certainly was mine. If any human being ever summed up better what it was to be a misfit, romantic, self-centered spirit, I would give money to that individual gladly, as well as an eternal endowment. Having come across "Childe Harold," as well as "Childe Harold Revisited," and the supremely Promethean, Miltonic, "Manfred," at that tender age, I felt myself the principal target of Byron's message. With a healthy dose of Ayn Rand and Aldous Huxley to back me up, all I needed was Manfred's craggy peaks to provide the dramatic backdrop for my Napoleonic, Nietzschean ruminations. Throw in a bit of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Carlyle, and you have the perfect romantic in embryo, which I was at that age and which I believe is a healthy larval stage for any human spiritual entity at that stage, be it either male or female. Add a dash of Melville, any Bronte you choose and a touch of the Baghavad Gita, the Upanishads, the I-Ching, the book of Tao, and you have a convert to esoteric, at times misguidedly solipsistic, hippy philosophy. That was me.
So if you are seventeen or eighteen, don't overlook the romantics who are the necessary guides to our enlightenment at that impressionable age. I in no manner mean this disparigingly, as I now consider myself at least semi-enlightened, if only in the strictest, literary sense. Follow Keats, Shelley, Byron, Blake, Wordsworth, Goethe, Schiller, Carlyle, Melville, and Emerson to the ends of the earth. They shall take you there and beyond.
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