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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

54 reviews
Robert Kanigel

Washington Square Press, 1991

Perfect Demonstration Of How A Biography Should Be Written
As some of the other reviewers have pointed out, Kanigel does not dwell much on Ramanujan's mathematics. However, this is a spectacularly outstanding biography (this is not an exaggeration, believe me). Anyone who reads this book cover to cover will 'know' Ramanujan as well as they know their best friend. The many sides of this prodigy's personality - his affinity for mysticism, his need for ...

Faberge's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire

3 reviews
Toby Faber

Random House, 2008

Not Just Fancy Jewelry
There are many books (and even some websites) devoted to pictures of the jeweled eggs produced by Fabergé for the last two czars of Russia to give to their czarinas on Easter. _Fabergé's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces that Outlived an Empire_ (Random House) by Toby Faber is not like those. Sure, it has photos, but only of some of the fifty eggs that were so given. The point ...

Cinderella's Countdown to the Ball (Step-Into-Reading, Step 1)
RH Disney, Heidi Kilgras

RH/Disney, 2002

What will happen when the Prince finds one glass slipper? Count with Cinderella from 1 fairy godmother to the clock striking 12 in this Super Early Step into Reading book.

Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great ...

10 reviews
David E. Kyvig

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2004

A fast read, like an 8th grade social studies text
This was a great read. I like how the author highlighted the social and the economic and the cultural changes that took place during these formative years in 20th century America. You read about the genius, yet uncompromising Henry Ford, who designed the Model T, and later the Model A, but failed in his bid to create a winning farm tractor (they kept tipping over backward). You will also read ...

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

131 reviews
Margaret Macmillan

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003

Paris 1919
A wonderful, well written, comprehensive history of the end of the Great War.More importantly, a great review of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, the result of the Paris Peace conference causing perhaps most of the problems facing us today. An extensive looke at Palestine, the Balfour agreement and the existance of Isreal today.

The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew, Book 2)

50 reviews
Carolyn Keene

Grosset & Dunlap, 1976

Always A Good Adventure
Nancy Drew Book Two The Hidden Staircase Nancy Drew is on the case of the hidden staircase. The eighteen-year-old sleuth is busy with two mysteries to solve. Her friend, Helen Corning has asked her to come to her family's ancestral home to help solve a mystery, involving a ghost. Just before Nancy leaves, she is visited by a man who tells her that her father is in danger and she had ...

Rena's Promise

44 reviews
Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam

Beacon Press, 1996

Unbelievable but True
This is an incredible story of sisters in a concentration camp. I've done a great deal of research into the Holocaust, but never have I come across a book quite like this one. It literally changed my life. I found myself thinking about it for days afterwards, little things reminding me of Rena's story--eating a potato, walking outside with a coat on, seeing a young child playing. I found a ...

Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's (Perennial Classics)

28 reviews
Frederick L. Allen

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000

Contemporary AND historical!Recently while doing research for an exhibition on the 1920s, I purchased this fabulous little book
Recently while doing research for an exhibition on the 1920s, I purchased this fabulous little book called Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. Historian Frederick Lewis Allen wrote it in 1931, before Prohibition was even repealed! I bought it because I wanted a contemporary perspective on the decade from someone who was there. I was astounded at his insight into a decade that he ...

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection (Sherlock Holmes)

ignacio hills press (TM) www.IgnacioHillsPress.com, 2008

NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader. This edition contains all of the "Sherlock Holmes" stories (4 novels and 56 short stories) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The contents are: Including the novels: A Study In Scarlet The Sign of the Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear Short story collections: The Adventures of ...

A Life with Karol: My Forty-Year Friendship with the Man Who Became Pope

10 reviews
Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz

Doubleday, 2008

A story about a wonderful coragous man who became pope
Pope John Paul II was one of the longest living and most dedicated pontiffs of our time. This book is truly the book to read to see what it was like to be in the Pontiffs shoes. It tells of his battles with communism and with war. With the everyday struggles he went through up until his dying day. It is truly a book that will give you the full feeling of what a wonderful and gifted Pontiff John ...

A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today

14 reviews
David A. Andelman

Wiley, 2007

Those Who Don't Remember The Past.....
David Andelman has written a very compelling historical account that vividly illustrates the eternal principle that those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Individuals & nations can only overlook it at their own peril, as his book so powerfully illustrates. I sometimes coach executives on how to become global managers. It often needs to start with an undistorted ...

Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age

1 review
John E. Bowlt

Vendome Press, 2008

A lush, invaluable reference guide to the Silver Age
This lushly illustrated volume captures the artistic explosion that was Russia's Silver Age. From Blok and Akhmatova, to Stravinsky, Bakst, Repin, Pasternak, Vrubel and Meyerhold, the first two decades of the 20th century were a time of exciting and colorful artistic experimentation in Russia. As Bowlt (a member of this magazine's Advisory Board) writes in the introduction: "there was something ...

The Cafeteria Lady from the Black Lagoon

4 reviews
Mike Thaler

Scholastic Paperbacks, 1998

Great tool for kids
Wanda Belch is the new cafeteria lady at school. Rumor has it that kids found shoes in her food at her old job and that she now drives a garbage truck. But the kids at her new job soon find out that lunch and their new cafeteria lady aren't as scary as they thought. This is a great book that not only teaches kids how untrue rumors can be and how silly some fears can be, but also that ...

Houses of Los Angeles, 1920-1935 (Urban Domestic Architecture) (Urban Domestic Architecture)

6 reviews
Sam Watters

Acanthus Press, 2007

CALIFORNIA DREAMING
As with all the books Acanthus Press puts out this one is fantastic. The images are crisp and beautifully executed and the text is well layed out and flows well. Los Angeles is graced with many elegant pre war mansions and this book showcases some of the best, although some of the houses picked are perplexing, and some omissions were shocking, like the Warner estate; but Greystone, Green Acres, ...

John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father

41 reviews
Peggy Noonan

Viking Adult, 2005

Indeed Pope John Paul II, the Great
Noonan brought me to tears several times while reading this book about one of our greatest faith leaders and best Popes. She captures him and his inner spirit well.

Goodbye to a River: A Narrative

21 reviews
John Graves

Vintage, 2002

Unique look at a specific area and history of the Lone Star State
I was very impressed with this book. Graves does so much in this enjoyable volume. As he takes a canoe trip down the Brazos near where he grew up, he shares the history of the land--both recent and not-so-recent. Through him, we learn the reality of life for the average settler on the edge of the frontier. He also seems to be detailing a life that in his time was declining and in our age is ...

Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940

3 reviews
Roland Marchand

University of California Press, 1986

A Probing Account of Advertising 1920-1940
Roland Marchand's book is an excellent analysis and history of the advertising industry's move towards modernization from the 20s to the 40s. Beautifully illustrated and entertainingly written, Marchand's book lays out important paradigms for the analysis of advertising of the period. His accounts of the different advertising "parables" created during the time to sell more and more consumer ...

Black Wind (Dirk Pitt Adventure)

129 reviews
Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler

Berkley, 2006

Another good story
Clive Cussler continues to produce well written yarns with Dirk Pit and crew. I was initially concerned with the introduction of Dirk Jr. and Summer. Clancy was not able to pull it off very well, but Cussler improves the story by adding the kids. It is somewhat confusing tracking the two Dirks, but that does not really detract from the story. Well Done!

Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II

58 reviews
George Weigel

Harper Perennial, 2005

Pope John Paul the Great
This was a fascinating book that covered the life of Pope John Paul the Great as well as his Papacy. Many of the details of his efforts especially his world-wide pastoral ministry, an outgrowth of his work as a pastor and Archbishop of Krakow, were not well covered by the world media. Most of what we gleaned was the political-diplomatic side of the Vatican. The press, especially the U.S. ...

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

19 reviews
Brenda Maddox

Harper Perennial, 2003

The most brilliant female British scientist of the 20th century
Probably the most meticulously researched biography I have ever read. Maddox`s accounts of the personalities, not only of Rosalind, but of all the famed scientists she came into contact with,are breatktaking. And Rosalind,herself,comes across as human and humane besides having a brilliant mind.

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