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Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day

17 reviews
Grist Magazine

Mountaineers Books, 2007

The little bible of good information
Well written, concise and precise in our fast moving world , of twoo much inofration.

Wake Up Now

16 reviews
Stephan Bodian

McGraw-Hill, 2007

Wonderfully Clear and True
In Wake Up Now, Stephan Bodian presents a wonderfully clear and true explanation of awakening and offers many exercises to facilitate the experience of one's true self. I highly recommend this book for those who are awakening or who have awakened and who want to understand that process better--because, as Stephan explains, for most people, awakening isn't an endpoint but is followed by a ...

Wake Up, World!: A Day in the Life of Children Around the World

2 reviews
Beatrice Hollyer

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 1999

Wake Up, World!
This is a wonderful, optimistic book to introduce the world andseveral of its diverse cultures to children in terms that they canunderstand: the lives of children like them! It introduces them to other children in 8 countries and takes readers through a day in the life of these children. The concept that children might have no toys, or that a girl may have only one shirt and one skirt, was ...

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made

173 reviews
Norman Cantor

Harper Perennial, 2002

Interesting, but uneven
This is an interesting book about one of the direst slice of history. In just three years (1347 - 1350), the Plague will have wiped out over a third of Western Europe. Some countries incurred lesser but significant recurrence of the plague centuries later, including England in 1665. England will recover its pre-plague population level not until 1750 or four centuries later. Gathering ...

Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)

193 reviews
James Joyce

Penguin Classics, 2000

It's not that difficult with a little help, C'mon!
Above all,this book must be read ALOUD-to oneself and/or to others, in a fake Irish brogue (or a real one if you're Irish); using this method, it is amazing how formerly incomprehensible references will come to light! This is the only way I have ever found it possible to read at all... Read the good key by Joe Campbell and don't try to understand every blasted drunken reference,as surely Joe ...

China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

53 reviews
Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn

Vintage, 1995

Indispensable aid to understanding China's resurgence
At the recommendations of friends, my wife and both read China Wakes before taking a 3 week tour of China in March 2008. We were sensitive to issues we might not have been. Their insights appeared to us to be "right on." This is a great book whether or not one plans to head to China because China is continually in the news and China affects us all.

Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel

44 reviews
Jonathan Ames

Scribner, 2005

Oscar Wilde's Cousin
Jonathan Ames continues his hysterical rampage with the delightful splash of "Wake Up, Sir!" When I read "The Extra Man," I thought I'd read one of the funniest books ever written. While "What's Not to Love?" and "My Less Than Secret Life" have their zany moments (Who can forget the "mangina"?), this second novel by Ames is pure delight. Ames' voice makes you think he's cousin to Oscar Wilde. ...

Wake

31 reviews
Lisa McMann

Simon Pulse, 2008

Love it, Great book
This book grabs you from the first page and you are drawn into Janie's story the way Janie is drawn into dreams. The writing style is very clean and not a word wasted; no flowery purple prose here. Can't wait for Fade.

Why I Wake Early: New Poems

13 reviews
Mary Oliver

Beacon Press, 2005

Pay Attention
Savoring Mary Oliver's poems bring me joy, they are a respite from the news of our times and a balm to my soul. The theme throughout this book is to pay attention, to stop and watch and be amazed. Look and See This morning, at waterside, a sparrow flew to a water rock and landed, by error, on the back of an eider duck; lightly it fluttered off, amused. The duck, too, was not provoked,but, ...

The Wake of the Wind: A Novel

90 reviews
J. California Cooper

Anchor, 1999

The Greatest Book Every Read
I have only a few words for this book, greatest, best, fantastic, and greatest, best and fantastic. I have never read or actually wanted to read a book twice, but I definitely have this book on my list to re-read. Every person that has read this book has the same reaction and all agree that this is the one of best books ever written. The characters struggle through post slavery times and the ...

If I Should Die Before I Wake

82 reviews
Han Nolan

Harcourt Paperbacks, 2003

VERY REALISTIC and a great insight into the minds of both Neo-Nazi's and Jews (at the time of WWII)
It is the story of a young teenage girl named Hillary who was speeding on a motorcycle with her boyfriend, Brad, when they "crashed and burned," leaving Brad unharmed, but Hillary inches from death. She was rushed to a Jewish hospital, where she is slipping back and forth through consciousness, unable to contact anyone around her for the time she is in bed. When she is "unconscious," she is ...

Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain

14 reviews
Stefan Mumaw, Wendy Lee Oldfield

How, 2006

Caffeine for the Creative Mind
Both my daughter (a regional marketing analyst) and I (a high school graphics design teacher) share several graphic design texts, and we are very satisfied this text as reference.

It Wakes in Me

10 reviews
Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Tor Books, 2007

Thank goodness the third book is already released!
It Wakes In Me by Kathleen O'Neal Gear is the sequel to It Sleeps In Me. The first of the series began an intricate and erotic journey to the start of a scandal. Event after another create questions that seem to leave the reader even more puzzled. Theories are created only to find them incorrect and then reconsidered again. The end of the story drops off leaving you with so many unanswered ...

Before I Wake: The Nightmare Chronicles

5 reviews
Kathryn Smith

Avon, 2008

Amazing contemporary debut for Kathryn Smith
Dawn Riley is a Nightmare. She has always known this, but being the daughter of Morpheus, King of Dreams, and a mortal is not something that she is proud of or can speak about. So, she turned her back on the Dream Realm to try and live as normal a life as possible in the real world. She graduated from high school, went on to university and got her PhD in neuropsychology which helped land her a ...

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork

10 reviews
Joseph Campbell, Henry Morton Robinson

New World Library, 2005

night keys to the skeleton of a wake
finnagans wake is not comprehensible. it is not like reading or watching a film. Mr.Joyce spoke over a dozen languages fluently and this book is in English and french and Swahili and Italian and Latin, Greek AND mostly in his own language which is kindof like English. it is not understandable because some many words are derivative of others, the characters are always changing and the story is ...

A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake (Irish Studies)

4 reviews
William York Tindall

Syracuse University Press, 1996

One of the Best
Guides to "Finnegans Wake" seem to be a dime a dozen now a days, but rarely are they so insightfull and easy to use. Although perhaps it is not as good as Bishop's or Campbell's Guides, but it is shorter and easier to read, so it is good for the beginer. It also acomplishes this condensation without significantly marginalizing any of the great themes of Joyce criticism. Thus, perhaps this ...

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

63 reviews
John W. Dower

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

How Do You Transform A War Torn Nation?
EMBRACING DEFEAT is the historical saga of the United States occupation of war torn and defeated Japan following World War II. Japan had sent nearly 3 million men to battle the Allies throughout the Pacific but with the American usage of the atomic bomb, the Japanese quickly moved to surrender. Never before had this happen. In nearly 2,000 years the Japanese had never lost a war. Now not only ...

I Wake up Screening: What to Do Once You've Made That Movie

5 reviews
John Anderson, Laura Kim

Billboard Books, 2006

MUST READ - If you make a film you must read this book
Think of yourself running in a mile-long race - you kill yourself to finish the mile, and when you can see the tape, you find out you have four more miles to go! That's exactly how the authors frame the problem for a filmmaker. You got the money scraped together, you shot your film, you've been in post cutting the film, and then (and perhaps only then) do you become aware of the millions of ...

Hey! Wake Up!

25 reviews
Sandra Boynton

Workman Publishing Company, 2000

My daughter loves this book!!!
My daughter is 10 months old and this is her favorite book. I've read it so much that I know much of it off the top of my head. Just hearing lines from this book is like music to my daughter's ears. She starts moving her head. The colors are beautiful too. We picked this book out when she was 7 months old. We have 2 other Sandra Boynton books but this is her favorite.

The Wake of Imagination

1 review
Richard Kearney

Routledge, 1998

Imagination lives
Richard Kearney's philosophical approach to the question of imagination takes into account the related disciplines of history, sociology, political economy, theology, art, and art criticism. He investigates the concepts of imagination as they appear in the Hebraic and Greek traditions and as they emerged through the medieval, modern, and postmodern periods of our cultural history. This ...

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