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The Apple Corps Guide to the Well-Built House

3 reviews
Jim Locke

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1988

Great book for home builder and home owner
Gives practical, detailed, understandable descriptions of the main systems of a house and the process of building a new one. Invaluable reference for anyone building or buying a house. Very unfortunate that it is no longer in print (2002).

Culture Made Stupid (Cvltvre Made Stvpid)

6 reviews
Tom Weller

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1987

A neglected masterpiece
Why on earth is this book out of print? Why wasn't it a huge bestseller? It was and remains one of the funniest books I have ever read, worth rereading over and over again to get the bits you missed before

The Journals of Lewis and Clark-The American Heritage Library

26 reviews
Bernard DeVoto

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1981

Fascinating Story, Can't Stop Talking, Use Google Earth!
I read books in a wide variety of topics. I decided to read about Lewis and Clark because I felt I just did not know enough about it and I felt that I should. When I received the book, I opened it and was fearful that I made a mistake because it was made up of journal entries, day by day in Lewis and Clark's own words. I started reading and I found myself immmediately engrossed in the story. I ...

Smashed Potatoes a Kid's Eye View of the Kitchen

4 reviews
J. Martel

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1974

Smashed Potatoes
I checked this book out many times as a child from my school library. As an adult, and a professional chef, it still brings me to tears. Anyone who cooks, teaches, or raises children will find it MOST amusing!

The World As I Found It

9 reviews
Bruce Duffy

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1988

forging flesh and blood out of the artifacts of history
I certainly wasn't hampered in my enjoyment of this book by a lack of familiarity with (or, until now, interest in) twentieth-century philosophy. "The World as I Found It" taught me what makes a great fictional characters: such compassion and detail that I feel I know them as I know myself. Duffy's Wittgenstein, Russell, and Moore are forged from such different materials and live such different ...

Who Are You When Nobody's Looking?

6 reviews
Marc Marsan

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1999

Waiting for a book like this
I would like to thank you for writing this book. I first found out about it through the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper in the book section, the title caught my eye. It represented exactly the question that I've always asked myself, "who am I when Nobody's looking" and why don't I show that side of myself to others. This is the first book that I have read, (and I read many books!) that ...

Lost Chicago

8 reviews
David Lowe

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1978

A Lot of Memories
There is much to enjoy here even if one does not have a special interest in architecture. As a lifelong Chicagoan, I especially liked the photo of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church (p. 79) which occurs in the formerly Polish neighborhood that I grew up in. I also enjoyed the old maps of the Chicago area from the 1600's.

Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers

5 reviews
Stan Augarten

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1984

Besides an Illustrated History, an Enjoyable One
A good source of data for those who want to know how the Industry of Computers began. If you want to understand why the Computer Science changed the world, and if you'd like to speak as an expert in all those fantastic words of the luckiest people on the 50's, 60's, 70's and even the 80's who had the opportunity to grow and deal with this technology, and feel how these people had to accept new ...

Lee: The Last Years

21 reviews
Charles Brace Flood

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1983

The Lee many do not know
I've long considered myself a student of Southern history and the Civil War. Heck, I've been a historian at museums so I think I have a pretty good knowledge of the Civil War era. Furthermore, I live in Virginia and have been to the campus of Washington and Lee University. However, nearly every page of Charles Bracelen Flood's work on Robert E. Lee's post-war years is full of information I've ...

Health and Healing

7 reviews
Andrew Weil

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1988

An excellent overview of the history of alternative medicine
This book is required reading for all students at the Clayton College of Natural Health. It should, in fact, be required reading for anyone entering the field of health, as it convincingly drives home an important point: just because allopathy ("conventional" or "western" medicine) has the most powerful medical lobby in the US, its history is far from flawless, and is often downright ...

Principles of Accounting

3 reviews
Belverd E. Needles, Henry R. Anderson, ...

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1987

Great intro to accounting
I liked reading this book for my accounting 101 class. The text is clear, well organized and well written. The typography makes liberal use of color, which makes reading _much_ easier when compared to a monochrome textbook. There are copious examples, illustrations and exercises. The book comes with a workbook (purchased separately) which contains template pages to write in your answers (trust ...

Zoe's Zodiac

3 reviews
M. J. Stephens

Houghton Mifflin Co (P), 1974

The VERY, VERY BEST
This book is so great! I am absolutely in LOVE with the charaters of this book, fabulous, absolutely fabulous!

Meditations from the Breakdown Lane: Running Across America

2 reviews
James E. Shapiro

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1983

Excellent account of a transcon run
I have read Shapiro's book several times. It details the very dispute that goes through his head as he runs 40+ miles per day from Coast to Coast. His book helped inspire me to run across the country as well and his words were with me each day. An excellent book well worth finding.

A.K.A. / A Cosmic Fable

2 reviews
Rob. Swigart

Houghton Mifflin Co (P), 1978

The funniest, science fiction book ever written!
If you know anything about the Bay Area, or William Reich, you can't miss this book. If you are a massage deep tissue junkie, you need this book too. Orgones are the brain child of William Reich, arguably the most influental Psychiatrist of this century. See what the author has done to validate Bill's work. A VERY funny thing!

Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography (The Writer's Craft)

3 reviews
William Knowlton Zinsser

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1988

So, You Want to Write a Biography
This book gives its readers new insights into the lives of some of this nation's most prominent figures, through the eyes of six well-known biographers. In "The Unexpected Harry Truman," David McCullough shows the life of Truman through new eyes. McCullough stresses that a biographer must genuinely care about his [or her] subject because you are living with that person every single day. The ...

Wizard of the Upper Amazon

3 reviews
F. B. Lamb

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1974

A beautiful and enthralling story
An authentic account from the early twentieth centry of villiage life in the Amazon jungle. Told in a simple and direct manner, one is captivated by the sophisticated and complete social life of the Indian people. Since it is a first hand account , non-anthropological, one gets a glimpse of a way of life rich in religious, cultural and human acheivement. It offers insights into the way of ...

Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race

3 reviews
Edward S. Curtis, Victor Boesen, ...

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1986

Deeply moving photos and text, tell a sad story.
After viewing on PBS, a documentary of Edward Sheriff Curtis, I was moved to purchase this excellent work. I was touched to my soul, by the photos, and how well they conveyed a race of people who have all but vanished. The text that goes with the pictures is also quite good, and tells a remarkable story of a man obsessed to tell the world a story which we all need to hear and see. Curtis ...

Love Poems

2 reviews
Anne Sexton

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1969

number one on the list of this century's greatest poetry
although all anne's work has moved me to contemplation (and often tears), love poems has been the most gorgeously presented and emotionally draining collection of poetry any author i have before seen published. i challenge all readers to find a more beautiful reflection of inferior self-perception than in 'for my lover, returning to his wife.' anne's poetry is as once angelic and crude, ...

American Album

1 review
Oliver Ormerod Jensen, Joan Paterson Kerr, ...

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1985

Beautiful collection of photographs of America.
"American Album" contains over 200 photos of every aspect of life in America from the late 19th Century to the early 20th Century. The selection ranges from staged portraits to shipyards to bustling cities to small towns and, finally, to Americans at work and play. These images will haunt you as you look into the face of a vanished America, but still see your own reflection looking back at ...

Court and the Constitution

2 reviews
Archibald Cox

Houghton Mifflin (P), 1988

Must Read
I read this book for a class on American Government; it is extremely interesting and well-written. I enjoyed it immensely.

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