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The New York Knicks: The Official Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration1 review
Phil Berger

Idg/Macmillan, 1996

The ideal book for the ultimate Knicks fan!
Wow! This 250-page account of the Knick's 50 year history is spectacular. Recapping everything from Ned Irish's idea of a professional NY basketball team to the Knicks' signing of Allan Houston, this books is not only great to look at(thanks to George Kalinsky's pix) it is also insightful and nostalgic to read(this thanks to Phil Berger's text). If you love the Knicks, this book is a ... 		  
  







  
  
Mennonite Central Committee, Akron, Pennsylvania, fiftieth anniversary - reunion Akron headquarters staff of ...4 reviews
Robert S Kreider

Planning Committee Members, 1992

Stunning insight into a forgotten war
Irish Secrets provides a stunning insight into a now forgotten aspect of the Second World War - Nazi Germany's secret overtures to neutral Ireland, 1939-1945. Berlin sent a "dirty dozen" agents by parachute and U-boat to Ireland, whose wartime leader, Eamon de Valera, was striving to maintain strict neutrality in the face of strong pressure to join the war (mainly from British Premier, Winston ... 		  
  







  
  
The Fountainhead : A Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration2 reviews
David Kelley, Stephen Cox

The Objectivist Center, 1993

The Fountainhead from a young girls point of view
From being secretly admired yet shunned for his bizarre modernistic architectural style, from being loved and loathed alike by the only woman he will ever have, this story of Howard Roark is both compelling and heartbreaking. Set in the roaring 20's, though not any of the focus of the book, Howard Roark sets off to do what he loves, having no one stand in his way and having no one tell him how to ... 		  
  







  
  
Christopher and His Magic Powers: Travels in China during the Fiftieth Anniversary of the People's Republic1 review
Richard M Koff

AuthorHouse, 2001

A GREAT BOOK & FUN read for kids from Pre-teen to adults!
If you are a parent who prefers to pre-read the material your child is interested in. You will find this book an interesting & fun addition to your childs library. I actually read the orig. version when I was a teen & I LOVED the book! Its a good read for the preteen age. A great book to use for a kid thats not a big fan of reading because its a page turner. From the best of my recolection, the ... 		  
  







  
  
It's a Wonderful Life: The Fiftieth Anniversary Scrapbook3 reviews
Jimmy Hawkins

Courage Books, 1996

"A must-have book for anyone that loves the movie..."
I visited a friend that had this book on the coffee table and I spent almost the entire visit looking at this superbly illustrated and informative book. If you love the movie, then you will definitely want to keep this book in your literary collection. 		  
  







  
  
The Geology of the Carolinas: Carolina Geological Society Fiftieth-Anniversary Volume1 review
J. Wright Horton

University of Tennessee Press, 1991

A view from NC
A highly technical, comprehensive review of the geology of the Carolinas, this book is not an easy read, nor should one expect it to be. Prepare by having a good glossary available, and perhaps a good basic text in geology as well. Then brace yourself - the geology is extraordinarily complex. These authors provide good insight. 		  
  







  
  
Progress and poverty;: An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of increase of want with ...2 reviews
Henry George

Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1939

As relevant in 2003 as in 1879!
Progress & Poverty is the missing puzzle piece for those of us who look around at the combination of magnificent and accelerating technological progress and the increasingly distorted distribution of income and wealth in America, with many people lacking sufficient income to meet their most basic needs, and wonder what went wrong in a country which professes to be dedicated to the proposition ... 		  
  







  
  
Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination10 reviews
Pope John Paul II

Image, 1999

A great and humble human being
The words of Pope John Paul II have always captivated me, however, this particular book is very touching because we see first hand his humbleness for the people that shaped him into the priest he became. A man of such global stature writes thoughtfully about the individuals that helped lead him into the priesthood, protect him from the Nazis, and urge his following of Christ. This is a great ... 		  
  







  
  
New Worlds4 reviews

Jayde Design, 1996

Not the right review!
The above review isn't for this recently published anthology, but for one of the David Garnett edited New Worlds anthologies done through the 1990s. This new US anthology is a representational collection of stories and features drawn from the magazine New Worlds which flourished from 1965 and saw its last issue in 1995. It was closely associated with a development of sf which became known as the ... 		  
  







  
  
The Cloisters: Studies in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary1 review
Elizabeth C. Parker

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992

Ex clausura... Fifty Years and Many More
This academic tome is the best introduction to the many delights of the famed Cloisters Museum in upper Mahattan. Thoughtful and scholarly articles by leading authorities on medieval art make for wonderful reading for the medieval art scholar or serious enthusiast. 		  
  







  
  
The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary3 reviews
Reynolds Price

John F. Blair Publisher, 1997

Paint and Pen
On March 26th, 2000, I visited the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, where I found this marvelously creative book in their gift shop. Prominent North Carolina authors were asked to choose a work of art from their permanent collection and comment on it. How I love connections! This book contains a beautiful poem and a scholarly article both inspired by F.C. Frieseke's painting "The ... 		  
  







  
  
The Four-Minute Mile, Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition7 reviews
Roger Bannister

The Lyons Press, 2004

Great runner, accomplished human, literate read
Short read, perfect for the summer vacation on the beach. A really talented man, amazing what he accomplished considering some of his training ( smoking and hung over collegiate). The book is very literate, and illustrates a personal side of an accomplished doctor. 		  
  







  
  
Opera as Drama: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition3 reviews
Joseph Kerman

University of California Press, 2005

a different look on opera
The comon view of opera is recitative=drama, arias=music, and therefore not drama. Kerman makes a different (and therefore genuine) claim. he says that in opera the music IS the drama. To illustrate this, he enters a thorough venture in the world of opera, from the first masterpiece - Monteverdi's "orfeo" to wagner and modern operas. The work includes a discussion of the works of such giants ... 		  
  







  
  
Half Magic: Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition8 reviews
Edward Eager

Harcourt Children's Books, 2004

Plenty of fun
These days, when so many of us are reading the Harry Potter books, it may be good to remember some of the more classic fantasy tales of a couple of generations ago. Yes, one could try "Peter Pan" and all the Oz books, but there were a bunch of other books such as this one which I think were excellent as well. I think that "Half Magic" is about right for kids around eight or so. The language ... 		  
  







  
  
The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology4 reviews

Tor Books, 2000

The Best of the Best
Terry Bisson, Ray Bradbury, Paul di Filippo, Harlan Ellison, Esther Friesner, Elizabeth Hand, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Reed, Bruce Holland Rogers, Bruce Sterling, Kate Wilhelm, and Gene Wolf are all writers whose name alone would qualify at least serious consideration for buying an anthology. This has them all. F&SF has long been a testiment to the greatness of speculative fiction ... 		  
  







  
  
Hollywood Revisited: A Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration1 review
Sheila Graham

St Martins Pr, 1985

Old time Hollywood
Read about the juicy tidbits of the stars' lives. For example, Jerry Lewis's wife told the author, Shelia Graham, that the secret of their happy marriage was, "We never allow Jerry Lewis into the house." She meant the show business side of him. Soon after that they got divorced. There is a chapter on "Children of Hollywood." The daughter of Gene Kelly is now a psychiatrist. Shelley ... 		  
  







  
  
The Borrowers: Fiftieth-Anniversary Gift Edition51 reviews
Mary Norton

Harcourt Children's Books, 2003

The Borrowers by M. Norton
Whoosh! You see a hat pin sail across the room, much like a javelin, and pin onto the lace curtain. Then, a small man no more than six inches tall scurries across the room. Welcome to the world of the Borrowers; Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock. They live under the floorboards and borrow anything from potatoes to blotting paper. The tiny people live in an old country house, inhabited by ... 		  
  







  
  
The Seven Storey Mountain: Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition95 reviews
Thomas Merton

Harcourt, 1998

After "The Confessions," maybe the best-ever 'autobiography of Faith'
Today I delivered a gift copy of this book to a widow, "Grace" whose husband had been my late father's closest childhood friend. A week earlier, Grace had asked: "Have you ever read Thomas Merton's SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN? I read it in 1953; and found it very moving. I'd love to find a copy and read it again." When I presented her with a new copy of this edition, I asked if I could read aloud ... 		  
  







  
  
This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition37 reviews
T.R. Fehrenbach

Potomac Books Inc., 2000

The Classic Military History of the Korean War
T.R. Fehrenbach's "This Kind of War" is the classic military history of the Korean War. Fehrenbach addresses the strategic and operational aspects of the conflict, but much of his focus is on the tactical experience of U.S. units. His book is a searing indictment of the U.S. military and of the United States for having failed to maintain combat-ready forces less than five years removed from the ... 		  
  







  
  
The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition181 reviews
F. A. Hayek

University Of Chicago Press, 1994

Why freedom must be saved over and over again
Hayek gives us a step by step development from well meaning socialist ideals to the cataclysm of their results over time. Hayek, a Nobel Laureate and Medal Of Freedom winner, writes from his life experiences in Austria during Germany's completion of National Socialism with the ascension of Hitler, whereupon he moved to Britain seeing the same social principles dominate there. Italy, the USSR and ... 		  
  







  




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