To paraphrase W. H. Auden, this is exactly the sort of thing you'll like if you like this sort of thing - an overview of the musical life of London and provinces in the late 1800's. It's big. It talks about a lot of people and places you've probably never heard of, and could lead a full and complete life without hearing of. It's informative. It's tremendously funny in places.

Shaw was a master of English prose, and he was writing about a subject he knew and loved. If you are interested in music and good writing, this is a must-read, if you have the endurance.

"...I loathe nothing more than the commonplace that the truth always lies between the two extremes (truth being quite the most extreme thing I know of)..." (page 814

Lomart is a violent criminal who is serving a long sentence. His wife is free and has been having an affair. One day, during a visit, she confesses that she's pregnant - a fact that Lomart cannot live with. He breaks out of jail with his cellmate, with just one intention........to gun down his wife! A tale of betrayal and revenge. Made into a film starring Oliver Reed in 1972.

I had the pleasure of studying with Larry at Skidmore College. He gave me a copy of this book, and I thoroughly enjoyed his work. The poems in this collection (as are all of his poems) are well-written, beautiful pieces. I am sad to mention that Larry passed away this past summer. The literary community has lost a fine contributor.

This is a wonderfully sweet book. It shows how a family prepares for the arrival of a new baby, and does an excellent job showing the passage of time, through beautiful illustrations of the seasons. It also addresses the frustrations and anger a young child feels when the new baby gets all of mom and dad's attention. The dialogue is simple and sweet - my almost 3-year-old really liked it and "got" it. I love that it depicts the mother nursing the young infant in a natural way. This is a GREAT book!

I read this book in fourth grade, four years ago. It is a great read for anyone who is interested in Williamsburg or just wants a great adventure story that takes place a long time ago. Unfortunately, it's out of print, which means most people won't be able to read it unless they have a copy of it. But if you see it at your public library then I'd GO FOR IT!

Still Life With Fish And Other Stories is a highly recommended anthology of stories by Laurence Klinger that toy with the boundaries of reality with chilling and transcendental effects. From office clerks who use archery to alleviate the tedium of their dreary lives, to a fig tree at the center of the Universe that is the site of traded fantasies, to a prostitute who is offered great wealth to expose her naked soul, Still Life With Fish And Other Stories pushes literary boundaries to give the reader new and unusual ways of looking at this old world and we struggling creatures who populate it.

"A brilliant, totally enthralling book." - Edward Abbey, author of The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire

"Laurence Gonzales is one of the very few truly brave writers of narrative I know." - Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

Strange Animals, New To Science by wildlife expert Laurence Pringle is a truly informative and beautiful book highlighting new mammal, bird, and fish species discovered by the scientific community in the last decade. Ranging from the Jacotoco Antpitta of Ecuador to the Marmosets of Brazil, gorgeous, full-color photographs bring these exotic animals to life, and the text is easily accessible to lay readers. Enhanced with an enlightening introduction to the subject of strange animals that are new to science, chapters on "Undiscovered Treasures" and "Protecting Earth's Biodiversity, Strange Animals, New To Science is a genuinely fascinating book of wondrous creatures, and very highly recommended for school and community library "Pets/Wildlife" reading lists and reference collections.

This book is great! It provided everything I needed for putting together a full blown strategic plan. Consulting perspectives were really on the mark. I highly recommend the book.

Laurence BonJour offers here a powerful critique of "foundationalism" and a careful, cogent presentation of a "coherentist" account of justification. His thesis is weaker than Brand Blanshard's; BonJour does not wish to defend a coherentist account of truth itself, nor a version of coherentism in which every fact is entailed by literally _every_ other. In one important sense this is a strength rather than a weakness; it would be a shame if coherentism were simply _identified_ with its strongest version, for coherentism itself could then be summarily dismissed if its "strong" form failed. On the other hand, in my own view BonJour devotes insufficient attention to the "strong" form, which I find more defensible than he does at least as a theoretical ideal. (He is right, though, that Blanshard's own account of "strong" coherentism requires a more detailed defense than Blanshard himself provided.) At any rate, BonJour's work belongs on the shortlist of top philosophical works in the rationalist camp. Together with his _In Defense of Pure Reason_, it is required reading for anyone interested in understanding and defending the role of reason in philosophy and elsewhere.