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Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition)

23 reviews
T. S. Eliot

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991

Truly, one of the giants
When you think of the best poets ever, T.S. Eliot is one of those that comes to mind. His work is well crafted, intelligent, beautifully written, and has a flow to it that few poets can match. And this is a fine collection for the Eliot lover or for the reader unfamiliar with Eliot. It's divided into several sections. The first section is his Prufrock section, poems from 1917, which contains ...

The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion

23 reviews
Mircea Eliade

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987

A brilliant introduction to the study of religion
I decided to read this book for a religion-course I'm taking, and I must say I'm happy I did! Mircea Eliade was a Rumanian historian of religions, philosopher and author, in addition to being a vaguely religious man himself. This book was written to serve as an introduction to the study of religion for new students and the interested layman, and it does so excellently. Eliade was interestingly ...

English Composition and Grammar : Complete Course

12 reviews
John E. Warriner

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988

Don't leave home without it!
This book was issued to me in my senior year in high school in 1976. I have kept it by my side, has helped me through my college years and then with my children, and now that I have decided to go back to school and am studying translation, I have taken it out of the bookshelf once again because the books we were assigned do not even come close to the perfection (in my idea) of this book. It has ...

The elements of style,

385 reviews
William Strunk

Harcourt, Brace and company, 1934

a concise review of grammar rules, extremely useful!
William Strunk's book "The Elements of Style" was recommended to me by an American friend, whose linguistic abilities I value very high. I ordered the book immediately and was surprised, when it arrived, by how thin it was. It turned out to be a compendium, which would best be memorized (I am not joking!). This American English writing style guide was written in 1918, but has not aged at all. The ...

Yanomamo (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

12 reviews
Napoleon A. Chagnon

Harcourt Brace, 1996

a different culture [in danger]
this book is a good introduction to the Yanomamo people of the Amazon rainforest, in Venezuela & Brazil. There's so much literature on these people; this book really is just an introduction. One thing Chagnon communicates very well in it is how terribly tragic he thinks what's happening to them now is, with western influence, especially in the last chapter. Anyway the way he writes is great.

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

189 reviews
C.S. Lewis

Harcourt Brace & Company, 1980

C.S. Lewis's Masterpiece
The first time I read Till We Have Faces, upon finishing the last page I immediately returned to the first page and began reading it again, something I have felt compelled to do only one other time in my life. It was Lewis's last work of fiction and, in spite of being written in first person from the viewpoint of ancient queen in a largely mythical past, his most personal. His deepest thoughts on ...

Free to choose: A personal statement

78 reviews
Milton Friedman

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980

The principles of economic freedom are found in this book. A must read!
The relationship between freedom and economics is undeniable. Also undeniable is the relationship between government and freedom. Milton Friedman brilliantly makes a clear persuasive case for the perpetuation of free markets and the elimination of big government, as a means of augmenting freedom worldwide and as a result expand prosperity. Although this book is over 27 years old, the ...

Animal farm

1154 reviews
George Orwell

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983

Animal Farm is instructive for our presidential election.
2008 is the ideal time to apply the principles that we have learned from Animal Farm and apply them to November's 2008 Presidential election. Just as Napolean, the pig, instigated a rebellion against the owner of the farm (Jones) by talking about how great things will be once the animals ruled the farm, today we are told by the Obama Democrats that once Bush and the Republicans are thrown off ...

Cosmicomics

33 reviews
Italo Calvino

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968

A home in Cosmos
Ever since our ancestors started looking into the night sky, the saw patterns and connections between the stars, moons and planets, and used stories and myths to imbue those patterns with meaning and structure. With the big hindsight of the scientific worldview, all those ancient stories may seem quaint and naïve. And indeed, the advent of modern astronomy and astrophysics has greatly enriched ...

All the king's men

175 reviews
Robert Penn Warren

Harcourt, Brace, 1946

The Web Of Things
I put off reading this novel for almost twenty years from when it was first recommended to me for the simple reason that I dismissed as a "political" novel and, ergo, not of the first water. - How wrong can a prospective reader be?!? - To begin, this is not a "political" novel, per se, and the character of Willie Stark, as compared with the odyssey of Jack Burden, not very gripping. As another ...

The hundred dresses

99 reviews
Eleanor Estes

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971

A powerful, direct antidote to racism and prejudice
When she was young --- this was almost a century ago --- Eleanor Estes went to school with a Polish girl who was so poor that she wore the same dress every day. Kids are cruel; the girl got teased. And then she moved away. In 1944, Eleanor Estes took that memory and turned it into The Hundred Dresses, a short novel --- 80 big-print pages, with many illustrations --- for children. It was named ...

The general theory of employment, interest and money

48 reviews
John Maynard Keynes

Harcourt, Brace, 1935

Keynes proves mathematically that the Speculative demand for money creates involuntary unemployment
Keynes presented a generalization of neoclassical theory.Keynes starts the GT in chapter 2 where he analyzes the neoclassical theory of the labor market.He notes that the most advanced technical treatmant was presented by Pigou in his 1933 book,The Theory of Unemployment.Keynes demonstrates in the appendix to chapter 19 that Pigou's model of his theory is a special case of Keynes's general model ...

Stellaluna

104 reviews
Janell Cannon

Harcourt Brace* Co

My favorite children's book
Note: My reviews are plagued by cyber stalkers who distort votes totals. If I HAD to answer the question: What is your favorite children's book?, I would have to pick "Stellaluna." There, this children's librarian committed, but I think my students would know that. It's one of their favorites, too!! What makes this book so special? E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G!! The story line, the embedded lessons, ...

Le Petit Prince
Antoine De Saint Exupery

Harcourt, Brace and World, 1971

The Color Purple

1 review
Alice Walker

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982

Book redefines classics
I did not enjoy parts of the book because of the style of writing. The part of the book that was enjoyable is when Celie and her sister shared numerous letters. Celie's sister, Nettie, is in Africa while Celie is in America. Celie and her sister have not seen each other in thirty years, since Celie got married to Mr.___. Celie finds out that her husband has been hiding her sisters letters from ...

The Seven Storey Mountain

97 reviews
Thomas Merton

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1948

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 ...

The Four Loves

72 reviews
C.S. Lewis

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960

A Wonderful Overview
This is in my opinion C.S. Lewis's best nonfiction work. The premise has been done before, but rarely with the sort of insight given here. His overviews of Affection and Friendship are much too often overlooked and glossed over as unimportant, but here they're given a status they really deserve. The section on friendship, and the idea that people are bonded through mutual passions, and his ...

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