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The Gothic Cathedral: The Architecture of the Great Church 1130-1530 3 reviews
Christopher Wilson
Thames & Hudson, 2005
The Gothic Cathedral is comprehesive AND readable!
How I ended up being the first to review this book is beyond me. I would've guessed that many a learned architectural scholar would've long since sung the praises of this wonderful book. I, however, am just a layman with a lifelong passion for Gothic cathedral architecture, which started in the Washington National Cathedral and became educated, at least partiallly, in this book. I consider ...
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Gathering Our Own: A Collection of Iaia Student Playwrights (Institute of American Indian Arts Anthology ...1 review
Institute of American Indian Arts, 1996
Native American Drama
This is a collection of three plays written by students at the Institute of American Indian Arts. How the Gods Kill by Jason Begay (Dine)looks at conflict between traditional ways and Christianity. Inidan Game Show by Wende Williams (Navajo)uses a TV game show format to satirize stereotypes. Reunion by Terry Gomez (Commanche) dramatizes a family struggling to define and maintain their cultural ...
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Civilization Past and Present, Concise Version, Vol. 2: From 1300, Chapters 11-301 review
Palmira Brummett, Robert Edgar, ...
Longman, 2000
World Civilizations 1311 & 1312 (I.II) Course Textbook
In 2004, we had already been using the tenth edition of this text, now this new version (eleventh) has just a few different things in regards to chapter placement and topic information. I have enjoyed using this textbook in my courses over the years, we have covered approximately 85-90% of the topics in the book during the regular semesters. We have broken the book down into two sections. The ...
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80 Great Collector's Garden Plants (Ken Druse's Natural Garde Guides)1 review
Ken Druse
Three Rivers Press, 1998
The future of gardening is here!
The world is full of wonderful and exciting alternatives to marigolds and petunias. This book shows exquisite examples and describes hundreds of companion plants for me to make my garden really personal and artistic. My garden doesn't look like anyone else's but everyone thinks it is beuatiful. I have all of Ken Druse's books.
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Beauty And The Brain (Blame It On Bob) (Desire #1130)2 reviews
Elizabeth Bevarly
Silhouette, 1998
The best of the trilogy!!
Comet "Bob" is back and the town of Endicott, Indiana is celebrating. Why the comet passes over this town is a mystery, but some still believe in the legend: when someone born in the year of the comet makes a wish when Bob passes over the town, the wish will come true on his next visit. Rosemary wished her nemesis Willis would get "what is coming to him" when she was 15. Now he's back to study ...
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The Ark of God: The Evolution of Foliate Capitals in the Paris Basin Before 1170--The Archaic Capitals Prior ...1 review
John James
West Grinstead Publications, 2006
The Creation of Gothic Architecture - an illustrated thesaurus
Extracted from the Burlington Magazine (April 2004) review by Prof Paul Crossley.
"THE ARK OF GOD is a comprehensive pictorial history of Early Gothic churches in the limestone region of northern France known as the Paris Basin.
THE ARK is presented as a five-part series that covers the crucial 150 years between 1100 and 1250 when Romanesque architecture was transformed into Gothic.
The Paris ...
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Die gotische Architektur in Frankreich 1130 - 1270.1 review
Dieter Kimpel, Robert Suckale
Hirmer, 1995
genious photographers
You don't need to read German to enjoy this book. It has hundreds of photographs of amazing quality by the Hirmer family who, in my view, are genious photographers.
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The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun 1130-11946 reviews
John Julius Norwich
Penguin Global, 2004
Fascinating history, great story
Norwich is a storyteller as much as he is a historian. He resembles Barbara Tuchman -- you might not base a doctoral thesis on his work, but he certaily provides a great read. In many ways, this work is superior to his Byzantium trilogy. This may be because he has bitten off a more managable slice of history. This allows Norwich to go deeper on the main personalities and events he is covering. ...
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The kingdom in the sun, 1130-1194,1 review
John Julius Norwich
Longmans, 1970
Great History of Sicily
The Kingdom in The Sun is an outstanding history book that effectively sorts out how the Normans conquered Sicily. The book is an amazing historical yarn about real people that knits together Norman, German, Italian, French, Byzantine and Papal history. If you have ever wondered why Sicilian history is different, then you should read this book. Also, Sicily was the site of the first the first ...
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About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times5 reviews
Robert C. Solomon
Touchstone Books, 1989
A genuine masterpiece.
About Love is a welcome burst of genius on the topic
most in need and deserving of it. "Relationship"
books are a category where sloppy reasoning abounds
and where simple selfishness is often offered as a
legitimate approach to meaningful intimacy. This book
however, is a genuine masterpiece. More than any other
writer on this topic, and more than most writers
on any topic, Mr. Solomon ...
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Three Incredible Weeks with Meher Baba September 11-30, 19541 review
Malcolm Schloss, Charles Purdom
Sheriar Foundation, 1979
Finding faith without the boundaries of religion.
For many years, I have been reading aticles and books by and about Meher Baba-- a compelling spiritual figure who lived 1894-1969 in India. I specially like this book as it recounts, in simple and clear terms, the day-to-day experiences of several people over a three-week period when they stayed with Meher Baba (born Merwan S. Irani in Poona, MS, India). This book provides an insight into ...
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Mysterious Stranger (Silhouette, Special Edition, No. 1130)(Triple Trouble)1 review
Susan Mallery
Silhouette, 1997
Great rescue romance!
A woman washes ashore at a millionaire's beach and has no memory of who she is or where she was. The rich man keeps practice to protect his property from all the unusal antics greedy people will play. But is she really a fake? Soft-boil heating going on. Really well written, great characters, terrific ending.
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The Nutcracker1 review
Patricia Whitehead, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Troll Communications, 1988
Ignore the editorial reviews -- They're for different books!
If you look closely at the editorial reviews assembled by Amazon, you'll see that they are actually for other books about the Nutcracker. As best I can tell, the authors and illustrators of these books are named Schulman, Graef, Merentseva, Mennekaev, Freeman, Innocenti, and probably a couple of others I missed! The book in this listing is actually written by Carin Dewhirst and illustrated by ...
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Rotation Diet,the 35 reviews
Martin Katahn
Bantam, 1987
lost almost 100 lbs!
I used this book back in 1994 and lost 99 lbs and kept it off for almost ten years. Went back on it about two weeks ago and already lost 11 lbs with little to no exercise. It works best if you follow his menu exactly.
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The River13 reviews
Cheryl Kaye Tardif
Trafford Publishing, 2005
great characters, tons of action, cool technology
Michael Crichton fans will enjoy a ride on THE RIVER: like Crichton, Cheryl Tardif's suspense/near science fiction is all about what happens when you mix way-cool technology with bad people.
Biotechnologist Dr. Lawrence went missing on a northern Canadian river trip seven years before. His anthropologist daughter Del is surprised when one of his traveling companions drops two bombshells: ...
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The Jewel In The Crown20 reviews
Paul Scott
Granada, 1983
Don't miss this book
Jewel in the crown in the first novel in a series of four that are collectively known as the Raj Quartet. I had to struggle through the first hundred pages or so but after that was completely engrossed in the story right till the end. Paul Scott not only had an amazing gift to understand the complexities of human emotions but also to articulate them in a fashion that one finds it hard not to ...
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A Husband of her Own (Harlequin Superromance No. 1130) 8 reviews
Brenda Novak
Harlequin, 2003
One of her Best...
I am a Brenda Novak fan and this is one of her best. Often the endings of books are not the way I'd like to see them. This one ended just perfectly and left me feeling warm and fuzzy.
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School135 reviews
Louis Sachar
HarperCollins, 1985
Wayside School by Louis Sachar
The book Sideways Stories from Wayside School is about the kids on the thirtieth story, in Mrs. Garf's and Mrs. Jewel's classroom. The original teacher, Mrs. Gorf met an untimely end which set the stage for this strange book of stories. Every chapter in the book gives a detailed description of each student's unique characteristics. Throughout the book there are several students that were silly ...
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James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories28 reviews
James Herriot
St. Martin's Press, 1996
Dog Stories
James Herriot's Dog Stories is an interesting collection of stories from Dr. Herriot's actual experiences as a country veterinarian. I like this book because it includes a variety of characters and settings. It was delightful because I could read one story at a time or many stories. Each story had a special impact. I like his style of clarity and honesty, with pleasant dashes of humor or ...
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No Wonder They Call Him Savior: Chronicles of the Cross28 reviews
Max Lucado
Multnomah Books, 1986
No wonder They Call him the Savior
Anything Max Lucado write is an understanding of the Bible that helps a person to find it easily understandable. He makes it easy for people to read and under Jesus a lot better and plus his bible study at the end of the book makes it easier to share the knowledge with a friend
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