When you want to find out where some of the most interesting ideas on the planet came from, this book will help you out. I didn't agree with everything I read in it, but I still loved it. What a great overview of some of the most original thinking of our time.

I truly love the book and the author for her honesty in telling her story. It took a lot of courage to tell these private things about herself. She was down to earth in her details of what happened and that made it much easier to relate to her experience. Thank you for sharing Sylvia! I am sure your book will open the doors for many others to be honest about what happened to them in their lives when they were young adults. Doing this will help take you to the next level of maturity sooner.

When I reluctantly started this book I didn't think I would like it, but I was wrong. This book was so absorbing. I was drawn into this story and couldn't put it down. These two principal characters were in such close quarters on the ship that, despite his dark and tortured past and her naive ideas about love, they were inexorably drawn to each other. I was reading until the sun came up and hardly noticed. I highly recommend it.

Excellent coverage of the collection. Combines extremely nice pictures with excellent background information.

Sylvia Thorpe wrote this book in 1960. Described on the cover as a Georgian Romance, it appears to be set immediately before the Regency times. The heroine penniless Caroline Cresswell sets out to help her friend, dearest Jenny to elope rather than wed the odious Mr. Ravenshaw. The elopement doesn't go exactly to plan, Jenny and Roland get away but Caroline finds herself in a dangerous predicament that only the odious Mr. Ravenshaw can assist her. The action is set mostly in the country with only a few scenes set in London's high society.

You've heard of being a little mouse in the room or a fly on the wall? Well, Sammy is a spider on the ceiling! This is a good intro to Rosh Hashanah for small children, who will love the big, colorful illustrations. I also like the Sammy Spider series because it portrays spiders in a positive way. Spiders are our friends -- they eat flies and other annoying bugs, and are nothing to be afraid of!

This book introduces young children to Shabbat as a young spider and his mother watch a family prepare for Shabbat. The colors are bright and vivid and the text is clear and easily accessible to young children. Concepts introduced include sunrise-sunset,shabbat preparation and family togetherness. Don't miss the challah recipe on the last page.

Clause-Levi-Strauss is a reference for generations since the publication of his studies about kinship, in which he developed his theories about structure and after that, some of our intellectual fields have never been the same again. An intellectual like him can be very important for a science in a country, and he has influenced most of Brazilian anthropologists since then. But this marvellous photographic and literary essay reaveals that a country can also be very important for a young sociologist that would became one of the guidelines of the contemporary thpught. The young intellectual born in Belgium arrived in Sao Paulo about 1935 with his young wife, Dina. The Universty of Sao Paulo was in process of creation and he came here to teach antropology. Here, in contact with his students that were French speakers, with Mario de Andrade - the author of Macunaima - and going through the fields of a changing city like Sao Paulo and the forests of Brazil, he became an Antropologist. Now, he feels "saudade", this word that only exists in Portuguese. To fell saudades is to miss something or somebody, to be homesick, to feel nostalgic, but is a feeling beyond description. Reading this book, as Brazilian and Anthopologist, and looking at the photos LeviStrauss took here, I felt saudades as well. I could not write of saudades of a time when I was not even born. But of a lost city, the Indians we lost, the antrhopological hope of an understanding between men. During the thirties, Brazil and France were geographically far, but could dialogue in equal terms. Now all frontiers are fading and we can feel saudades of the promises that the modern thought has left without answer

I have had this book for 20 or more years. Have bought the kids all a copy and was trying to buy one for a new daughter-in-law. All the recipes are easy to follow. I have never made anything that wasn't excellent. The only thing I add is more garlic as her recipes are for the average and we Italian like more garlic. Sorry it is out of print.

This is the most entertaining book about Morocco ever written