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29 reviews
Elsa Holmelund Minarik

Harper Trophy, 1957

Playful stories about a little bear cub
Little Bear, first published in 1957, is a true classic in children's literature. The book is about a bear cub who is a good friend to Owl, Cat, Hen, Duck and Emily, the little girl who visits in the summer. Elsa Holmelund Minarik and Maurice Sendak teamed up to create these stories. The stories are filled with quiet humor, affection and imagination as Little Bear and his friends celebrate ...

The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (Norton Critical Editions)

2 reviews
Edgar Allan Poe

W. W. Norton, 2004

A generous selection of Poe's works and a full picture of his interests and achievments? For 16 bucks? Oh, man!
If you're looking for a "complete" Poe, you have two sensible choices, the first being Thomas Ollive Mabbott's 3 volume edition (richly annotated, and each of the works introduced with an account covering composition, publication, aesthetic aims and critical consensus), and the second the delightful and portable Library of America volume. I put "complete" in quotes because even these miss Poe's ...

The House of Rothschild: Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999

13 reviews
Niall Ferguson

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000

The House of Rothschild
Ferguson insults the purchaser of the Penguin Paperback by omitting the bibliography and only providing sketchy footnotes. "Serious scholars" who desire these items are advised to buy the Harcover edition. Other than that, it is a good read

The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin Classics)

4 reviews
Edgar Allan Poe

Penguin Classics, 2006

The essential Poe
This volume contains the essential Poe, the stories and poems for which he is most well- known. Like all American schoolchildren I had to read Poe when I was quite young. And I remember how his tales did not provide the kind of pleasure and insight I had found in other literature. "The Gold Bug" confounded me , and "The Tell- Tale Heart" frightened me, and the truth is even in adult years I ...

Zachary Taylor: The 12th President, 1849-1850 (The American Presidents)

3 reviews
John S. D. Eisenhower, Arthur M. Schlesinger

Times Books, 2008

Super American
Another home run in the superb American President's series. John Eisenhower paints a picture of Zachary Taylor that leaves us wishing he was among today's candidates for President. Had he lived, he may have been able to head off the Civil War, we will never know. In short, a great biography of a great man.

Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

12 reviews
Walter R. Borneman

Random House, 2008

High recommendations for Polk
I have read many of Walter Borneman's books and have come to anticipate a well-researched, interesting, and entertaining reading experience, This new addition is no exception and delivered what I have come to expect from this author. History buffs will find this to be an enjoyable trip back into the formative years of our country.

Macroeconomics

6 reviews
N. Gregory Mankiw

Worth Publishers, 2006

can I shed some light?
If you're confused about all the different Mankiw Macroeconomics texts floating about out there, lemme set you straight. The one you see on this page: "Macroeconomics" (ISBN 0716762137) is usually used in 2nd or 3rd year macroeconomics courses in college. This is because the exercises at the end of each chapter can be a little equation-intensive, and some of the exercises, such as the proper ...

Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

10 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Ecco, 2008

Joyce Carol Oates' Tour De Force
In a recent phone conversation I had with a friend, she informed me that she had just finished Joyce Carol Oates' latest book. I replied that I had heard her read from it at an event in Atlanta not long ago. She asked: "What short story did she read from?" I find out then that THE GRAVEDIGGER'S DAUGHTER is not Ms. Oates' latest and have learned since then that WILD NIGHTS will be followed by a ...

The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence

48 reviews
Deepak Chopra, M.D. Deepak Chopra

Harmony, 2003

Another gem from Chopra
"Through synchrodestiny, you can finally become the person the universe intended you to be--as powerful as desire, as creative as spirit. All it takes is an eagerness to join the cosmic dance, and a willingness to seek the miracles of the soul." ~ Deepak Chopra from "The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire" In this fantastic, wisdom-packed, yet quick-read of a book, Deepak talks about a state in ...

The Leopard (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

52 reviews
Guiseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Everyman's Library, 1991

Decadence and langour bathing in sublime prose
The vigour and audacity of this novel is never compromised throughout its scope and vision, and moreover it is persistently haunted by spectres of an apocalyptic doom loitering lustfully. To read this novel is to witness the expression of a community in distress as it finds itself fidgeting to keep its composure while arrested amidst a stalemate, as it were a cultural limbo. The author fashions a ...

The Poe Shadow: A Novel

85 reviews
Matthew Pearl

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007

I liked it just fine
These types of historical novels are always an interesting way to pass a long plane ride. If the verdict is for "Poe fans only" then I happily include myself in that category although I must confess this is the first I have read of the author. I loved the attention to detail of the city of Baltimore in the 18th century and the depth to which the author went to create a plausible scenario of ...

The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849

14 reviews
Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith

Penguin Group, 1992

"Low lie the fields of Athenry"
"By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling 'Michael, they have taken you away For you stole Trevelyan's corn So the young might see the morn' Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay..." THE GREAT HUNGER is the definitive history of the Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1849. When the Englishwoman Cecil Woodham-Smith published this book in 1962 she was vilified and branded a ...

The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

4 reviews
Charles E. Rosenberg

University Of Chicago Press, 1987

A Classic!
This book is truely a classic work of history. Although I also read it for a class (Medicine and Society in America), I recommend it to anyone with an interest in medicine, public health, religion, and general social history. In three parallel sections, the book relates the details of the 1832, 1849, and 1866 cholera epidemics. This structure results in some repetition but is needed to fully ...

Graphic Classics Volume 1: Edgar Allan Poe - 3rd Edition (Graphic Classics (Graphic Novels)) (Graphic ...

4 reviews
Edgar Allan Poe, Antonella Caputo, ...

Eureka Productions, 2006

Gothic comics - An outstanding blend of words and pictures
Edgar Allan Poe is a natural choice as the first volume of the Graphic Classics volumes, a series partially inspired by the Classic Illustrated collection of comic books, which attempted to lure young readers into reading respectable, "classic" authors through the comics medium. This new incarnation, however, takes an entirely different tact, combining fantastic literary stories with equally ...

The Man Who Was Poe

105 reviews
Avi

HarperTrophy, 1997

Flashback!
I read this book when I was in middle school (I'm 25 now!), and I remeber LOVING it. I want to go back and read it again just to see if I still find it entertaining. Any kids out there thinking of picking up this book, please do! And look into the real works by Edgar Allen Poe, America's greatest author, although know that this book is 100% fiction.

Abraham Lincoln : Speeches and Writings 1832-1858 (Library of America)

4 reviews
Abraham Lincoln, Don E. Fehrenbacher

Library of America, 1989

Great volume culminates in the Lincoln-Douglas debates
Abraham Lincoln was a great President. Where he falls on your list is a private judgment, but most put him at or near the top. It is true that there is a more vocal element of detractors nowadays, but those voices tend to also advocate versions of America that most of us would not recognize nor care to legitimate. This volume begins with Lincoln as a young man of twenty-three beginning ...

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New ...

11 reviews
Eric Foner

Oxford University Press, USA, 1995

IN THE HEROIC AGE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
In the year 2007 it is quite easy to dismiss the American Republican Party of one George Bush and his cabal out of hand as a gang of yahoos and incompetents. And one, frankly, would be right in those characterizations. But the book under review tells a tale of a different Republican Party, a party forged among other things in the crucible of the battle against slavery in the immediate pre-Civil ...

The Big Balloon Race (I Can Read Book 3)

3 reviews
Eleanor Coerr

HarperTrophy, 1992

This is a true story for balloon lovers!
Do you like balloons? If so, this is the book for you. The story is true and took place in 1882. I loved it. There were four characters: Carlotta, Ariel, Bernard, and Mr. Myers. I think kids and their friends should read this book. It did take a long time to read, but it was good.

Miss Julie and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

2 reviews
August Strindberg

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

preferable for annotations, but a few minor problems
I read The Father and the first part of Miss Julie in the University of California translation and then the rest of the plays in this one, and as far as I can tell neither seems more awkward than the other--but the Oxford translation holds the major advantage in that it contains copious notes on the many obscure literary and sociocultural references throughout the plays. I noticed that in at ...

The Titanic Coloring Book

5 reviews
Peter F. Copeland

Dover Publications, 1997

If you judge a book by its cover
A book that invites children to color in scenes from a well-known disaster is probably as horrifying, as sinking in the ship itself. After being exposed to the media hype and all of the other coverage surrounding the film release and the Oscars, the last thing I would want is for children who color, which means they are usually of pre-school age, let their imagination run wild with a box of ...

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