This is one of the quintessential golf atlases. Following on the heels of the wildly successful and equally exquisite "Great golf courses of Canada," the authors have identified and honored many of the most hallowed grounds in America.

Breathtaking photography is coupled with historical accounts and hole-by-hole analyses of close to 40 of the most famous and beautiful golf courses. Major championship venues such as Augusta, Balturol, Merion and Oakmont are represented as well as some of the great resort courses and lesser known private gems such as Prarie Dunes, Seminole, The Honors and Kapalua.

There are a few glitches. For example, Ventana Canyon's chapter features a hole by hole account of the "Mountain Course", but a map of the "Canyon Course." Also, the author need not have restricted himself to a rigid 6-page formula.

Everyone of course will also argue that many greats were left out; perhaps Coeur D'Alene, Sawgrass and Bethpage Black. Nevertheless Volume 2 is hopefully in the works. Maybe the authors might wish also to try "Great golf Courses of Great Britain and Ireland.

This book is filled with wonderful photography and interesting information on most of the great golf courses that the United States has to offer. If you are looking to find some information or take a look at a fabulous public or private golf course that you are not too familiar with, this is the book for you.

Yes, this perhaps the best anthology of surrealist poetry ever compiled. However, Rimbaud is not in it, and is not a surrealist, in any case, altho embraced by Breton through the surrealist time machine. Apollinaire being the only "precursor" appearing here. But also includes Artaud, Arp, and Daumal, who are marginally Surrealists, altho certainly influenced. Arp, of course, along with Tzara here, being of original Dada gang. Benedikt intro. and commentaries are worth the price of admission, if you can find a copy! For some reason, this is an amazingly elusive tome. Good luck.

And you thought surrealists only painted. Highballs can't compare to Verlaine burning on a streetcar at dusk in Paris; she is in the bath. The most complete anthology of surrealist poetry I've yet encountered. Rimbaud, Artaud, Reverdy, yum yum yum I eat it. Back order back order. Give me more!

Pursuit, by Michael French was 181 pages of suspenseful realistic fiction. It was great! The plot was flawlessly constructed, leaving no disappointments. It triggered one of man's most natural fears and changed enough to keep the interest of even the most demanding readers. This book is an absolute must read for anyone!
The book begins with four boys on a camping trip in the Sierra Mountains. Despite minor irritations and disputes between the boys, everything was going well until a tragedy occurred, turning the boys against each other,and sending them on a wild game of cat and mouse through the mountains. The plot could not be any more suspenseful. It simply sends the imagination soaring, and the emotions wandering.
Roger, the eldest of the boys camping and the most experienced camper out of the group, thinks that after getting this far in life wiggling his way through difficulties, that he could get himself out of any threatening situation, including the catastrophe that took place in this novel. Roger's natural ability of persuasion and his arrogance starts the cat and mouse. He thinks that he can solve everything to his benefit, and will go to any lengths necessary.
The constantly twisting plot and conflict between the boys are not the only things making this book worth while, though, Michael French describes the scenes with such vivid detail it seems like you are really there with the characters, while not using extensive vocabulary to the point where you would need a thesaurus to understand what is being said. You are always enticed, and on your toes while reading due to the forshadowing alerting you of what is to come, while not ruining the surprise of it. An example of this is on page 54 where Martin called Roger a "stupid queer." This statement didn't in any way ruin the surprise to come, but it did keep you on your toes.
This is absolutely a must read for anyone. I was at first hesitant in reading this book, seeing how I don't particularly like fiction. This was the exception, though. This is an enjoyable novel no matter what type of books you favor reading most. I would recommend it to anyone!

I thought the book Pursuit was a very exciting book. It started out as a hiking trip with four kids Luke, Gordy, Martin, and Roger. Roger amd Martin are not getting along very well. Roger complains that Martin holds up the hike while Martin insists that Roger is too bossy. The continuous bickering escalates with Roger doing something very life threatening to Martin. Roger cuts that saftey rope and Martin falls. When Gordy goes to tell the police the truth, Roger and Luke chase him. Now Luke is going to town by himself to tell the police his alibi, while Roger is chasing Gordy. They get stuck in a mountian and stay there until two fishermen come, when they leave Gordy has food but Roger is coming up behind him! Read this great and exciting book for yourself!

Frank Howell's work will take your breath away. This beautiful edition contains both poetry and a wonderful collection of Howell's sensitive and luminous work. You will find yourself looking at it again and again!

Here one walks into profound reveries of unraveled clarity. Davis's book is a powerful, inspired, and enormously thought explication which gives birth to new wisdom honoring the words of Rousseau. Davis knows that the only way to do justice to him is to faithfully and painstakingly follow Rousseau's path. He is the most fortunate of authors to have Michael Davis as his companion. Suffer the first four chapters; what follows, especially in the last two chapters, will justify your effort to understand. Anyone interested in philosophy should read this book.

This is one of very few books recognising the special features of French music of the Romantic Era, and in particular the important contribution of music written by Camille Saint-Saens. Following the introduction, the first chapter offers a 32-page insight into the composer's character and life. This, alone, is a rare encounter and comes eight years before the detailed biographies by Rees and Studd. The following ten chapters are split into two sections dealing with the "Concertante" works by Saint-Saens and the French Solo Concerto around the same time. Both sections are logically structured and equipped with references, comparisons and examples, while works by Lalo, Dubois, Faure, Franck, Chausson and Debussy, to mention but a few, are additionally addressed. The interested reader can gain even more knowledge by consulting the appendices complementing the main chapters. In summary, for anyone keen to explore French romantic music this is a valuable book, which has been extensively researched and clearly written.

I studied under Michael Dennis in graduate school and was strongly influenced by his approach to history. I think we'd benefit from rereading this history of a building type. It provides us with a format for analyzing the evolution of architectural and urban types over time, with proper acknowledgment of parallel developments in politics and economy. I urge students of architecture history and urbanism to look closely at this book and study the implications of Professor Dennis' argument.

This clear and easy to understand biography of Elie Wiesel is aperfect introduction of Holocaust literature for kids. It's especiallyimportant since many of the survivors are passing away and there is always the looming threat of forgetting this crime against humanity. I would recommend this book for kids 10 and over -any discussion of the horrors might be a bit too extreme for any younger children. Elie's courage and joy de vivre are a lesson for everyone, not just the children.

this was a awsome book of tricks told in a very simple way. I'm going to give this to my French friends.

Throw away Peter Mayle's "Year in Provence." Don't bother with Polly Platt's "French or Foe." Michael Johnson's "French Resistance" is the best book ever done in American-in-Paris genre. It is a wildly funny and engaging book that should appeal to francophiles and francophobes alike (as well as others who share some of both traits). It recounts Johnson's misadventures as the American managing editor of a French magazine staffed by French men and, more particularly, women, who don't want an American boss (or any boss at all). Apart from deftness of the writing, the book's humor and charm comes from the terrific perspective that Johnson has in telling his story. Not only is he perfectly fluent in speaking French, he has lived in Paris for many years as an American foreign correspondent, married to a French woman with two daughters, raised as French. For all that, when it comes to managing the French, Johnson discovers the true depths of French Resistance to all things American.