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1 review
Viktoria Schweitzer, Robert Chandler

Noonday Pr, 1995

The Prisoner of Poetry
There are two broad categories of biography that you can read. One is the kind in which the author tackles a whole period in a country's history, bringing in the culture that created his/her subject as well as the influence that character had on the times. Good examples of this sort are Samuel Eliot Morison's "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" about Columbus, John Womack Jr.'s "Zapata and the Mexican ...

Ulverton

2 reviews
Adam Thorpe

Noonday Pr, 1994

I love this book
and refuse to share my old, tattered, paperback copy with anyone - it's just too hard to replace. I do not understand why this book isn't better known, and more revered. It's far superior to the likes of Edward Rutherfurd's Sarum, or Ken Follet's Pillars of Heaven, though the thematic structure is similar - a detailed history of a single place, as told through the experiences of a diverse cast ...

A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters

4 reviews
John Kisch, Edward Mapp

Noonday Pr, 1992

The black cinema comes into the light.
I doubt any future book will cover the subject of black cast movie posters as well as this one. As a designer interested in the look of popular culture I was surprised that there were so many posters for this niche market. Over two-hundred are shown in this very well designed book (thanks to Debbie Glasserman) they are all in color and each has a very detailed caption. I must say though that ...

The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil

4 reviews
Andrew Delbanco

Noonday Pr, 1996

Comprehensive, and Thorough
Books about the History of Ideas usually raise the ire of Conservative Christians; this book is no exception. However, it provides a very good analysis of the concept of Satan over time. The Conservatives who pretend to be Christian, whilst eschewing some books like this one, have no qualms in titling a very pro-Republican book THE GREAT RIGHTWING CONSPIRACY so that they can attract, or annoy ...

The Way We Live Now
Susan Sontag, Howard Hodgkin

Noonday Pr, 1991

The Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher

3 reviews
Hugo Young

Noonday Pr, 1990

The best biography of Mrs Thatcher
For Anglophiles and serious students of modern British politics and economics, this is almost surely the best full-length biography of Margaret Thatcher that has been written thus far. Young concisely summarises the major events in Thatcher's career and provides sharp analyses of her personality and policies (eg, the effect on her of her class background, her closeness to Britain's Jewish ...

Making Love During Pregnancy

1 review
Elisabeth Bing, Libby Lee Colman, ...

Noonday Pr, 1989

pregnancy
labour,everything about pregnancy at 39 a till 40 weeks

Getting What You Came for: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D.

80 reviews
Robert L. Peters

Noonday Pr, 1992

Helpful Infomation
This book really gave me the ins and outs of earning a PhD...From applying to finishing. I am just beginning to research PhD programs and schools. After having read this book I feel like I have a much better idea of how to select and apply to schools and what to expect once I am accepted. I plan to keep this book for reference throughout my academic career. If you are interested in earning a ...

Explosion in a Cathedral

1 review
Alejo Carpentier

Noonday Pr, 1989

One of the ten best books ever written
This thrilling, spellbinding novel is the single most important book about Cuba ever written. The editorial reviews have completely misssed the point. It's a prophetic account of the Communist takeover, set at the time of the French revolution. It describes in harrowing detail the role of the Masons in the fomentation of social destruction that became the reign of terror that has extended into ...

The Lost Steps

15 reviews
Alejo Carpentier

Noonday Pr, 1989

One of the most memorable novels I've ever read
I've read thousands of novels that I cannot remember clearly, and this is one that has stayed with me for more than 20 years. I have thought of it repeatedly the last few months while walking in the woods and observing how the trails change with the seasons (a crucial part of the plot) and thinking about what life would be like if we were cut off from civilization the way the main character in ...

Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts

1 review
Alfred Brendel

Noonday Pr, 1991

A classic of its kind from a great musician.
A must read for classical pianists, both amateur and professional. Brendel's writing is often quite funny, always sincere, and often enlightening on subjects as diverse as the worth of Lizst, making recordings, and his understanding of Beethoven's compositional procedures. And best of all, the reader gets a glimpse into how one of the great musical minds of our time works. While not a ...

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life

4 reviews
Andrew Motion

Noonday Pr, 1994

Humbug
Ignore the previous writer. This is one of the handful of truly fine literary biographies from the last fifty years, maybe more. Unless Larkin himself was fully devoted to falsifying the record, he was every bit the unrelenting prig Motion has made him out to be; and not only does Motion show how Larkin as an artist transcended this, Motion personally knew and liked Larkin. Nowhere does Motion ...

Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer's Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears and Outmoded Rules of ...

4 reviews
Theodore Menline Bernstein

Noonday Pr, 1991

On the mark as usual
One by one, Bernstein goes through the rules given to many people "in Eighth Grade" and demolishes them: "Never split an nfinitive," "Never end a sentence with a preposition," and so on. He also lists a great many words and phrases and disucsses their points of usage. His categories are "Witchcraft in Words," "Syntax Scarecrows," "Imps of Idioms," and "Spooks of Style." He discusses each case ...

Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present
Arthur C. Danto

Noonday Pr, 1991

Danto's absorbing essays probe the meaning and inspiration behind the work of some of the 20th century's most influential artists, including Georges Braque, Gustav Klimt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pablo Picasso, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. Broader themes emerge within each essay. In his discussion of Warhol, for example, Danto declares, "[T]he significant art of this extraordinary period . . . has to be assessed as much on grounds of speculative ...

The Flight of Peter Fromm

12 reviews
Martin Gardner

Noonday Pr, 1989

Peter Pious Loses Faith
Gardner's book captures what the ordinary reader misses. The letter-writing form, to a beloved colleague, imitates the epistles of the early apostles, both in form and in content. Peter Fromm (the German form is Peter Pious) travels the gamut of 20th Century theology, with a crisis moment on Easter Sunday. The krisis is at once Kierkegaardian and Barthian. Our primary interlocutor skeptic is ...

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

36 reviews
Walker Percy

Noonday Pr, 1992

BULLSEYE
Walker Percy is very much a modern-day Pascal, in that he is wrapped up in the project of waking up modern man from his numb, jaded, over-entertained stupor into realizing what a predicament he is in. It's an existentialist concern, in the Christian-existentialist sense of Kierkegaard, especially insofar as both Percy and the Melancholy Dane are obsessed with the problem of subjectivity, and our ...

Majoring in Law: It's Not Right for Everyone. Is It Right for You? (Majoring in Your Life)
Stefan Underhill, Charlotte Morrissey

Noonday Pr, 1995

Signposts in a Strange Land

6 reviews
Walker Percy, Patrick H. Samway

Noonday Pr, 1992

Great introduction to a great American thinker
Though better known as a novelist, Walker Percy began his writing career with non-fiction pieces of a philosophical bent. He remains one of the most philosophical novelists of the late 20th century, and his first novel, The Moviegoer, is widely acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of contemporary literature. This collection covers Percy's major interests over the span of his career: the ...

The Slam and Scream: And Other Powerful Strategies and Career Moves for Secretaries, Assistants, and Anyone ...

13 reviews
Carole Fungaroli Sargent

Noonday Pr, 1996

Review from subversivesecretaries.com
Here is the book you've been waiting for. It lives up to its title. Who hasn't felt like slamming and screaming? And the slam and scream is actually a strategy that Carole recommends but only for dealing with lawyers who are used to confrontation and screaming as a way of communicating. She used it once with an attorney and got promoted. She has other more subtle strategies that won't get you ...

Taking Time Off: Inspiring Stories of Students Who Enjoyed Successful Breaks from College and How You Can ...

2 reviews
Colin Hall, Ron Lieber

Noonday Pr, 1996

Indispensable Guide for the Uncommon Student
Hall and Lieberhave successfully entered unchartered territory with their New York Times bestseller. While parents may scoff at the notion of their kids taking time off either before or during college, the experiences of students that Hall and Lieber chronicle suggest that valuable experience and new insight can be gained from a student sabbatical. Hall and Lieber emphasize that ...

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