The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, the Fox and the Crow, the Dog and His Bone Review
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
To North India with Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur (To Asia with Love)
To North India with Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur (To Asia with Love) Review
To North India with Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur (To Asia with Love) Feature
Typical guidebooks can overwhelm readers with page after page of recommendations. Selectively, through the writing of more than fifty expatriates, travelers, and locals, To North India With Love presents a collection of thoughtful, unique suggestions. The fourth book in the exciting To Asia With Love guidebook series, its practical information is paired with personal essays that will inspire both seasoned globetrotters and armchair travelers.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Iliad (Arcturus Paperback Classics)
Iliad (Arcturus Paperback Classics) Review
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This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
In This Poem I Am: Selected Poetry of Robin Skelton (Voyageur Classics)
In This Poem I Am: Selected Poetry of Robin Skelton (Voyageur Classics) Review
In This Poem I Am: Selected Poetry of Robin Skelton (Voyageur Classics) Feature
In a country in which poetry has been largely private and apologetic, Robin Skelton played the part of poet with grand style: flowing beard, mane of white hair, rings on every finger, huge amulet around his neck, all topped off with a black hat that looked as if it came from a Venetian gondolier but was really picked up at the re-enactment of a Cariboo Gold Rush-era general store in Barkerville, B.C.
In this selection of his best verse there are poems of "high" and "low" art, spells and prayers, meditations, shemanic maps, and, in the centre of the book, "messages," those strange, inspired "gifts" at the core of Skelton's art. In making the selection for this volume, editor Harold Rhenisch, himself an accomplished poet, has held to the image that Skelton's themes repeat like the ripples of water spreading out from a pebble dropped into a pool, and has attempted to bring together the best ripple from each dropped pebble.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China (Studies on China)
Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China (Studies on China) Review
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Until now, China has been scarcely represented in the burgeoning comparative literature on pilgrimage. This volume remedies that omission, discussing the interaction between pilgrims and sacred sites from the tenth century to the present. From the perspectives of literature, art, history, religion, politics, and anthropology, the essays focus on China's most famous pilgrimage mountains as well as lesser known sites.
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Adventures of Timmy and Sherry, Book I: Losing Their Marbles
Adventures of Timmy and Sherry, Book I: Losing Their Marbles Review
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Join Timmy, Sherry, and friends on the adventure of a lifetime to save the world's colors in this fanciful children's story. Someone (or something) has stolen the Secret Sacred Magic Marbles that control the world's colors. If they are not returned by sunset today, all the world's colors will change to black and white forever and ever.
The story begins with the launch of the new high-tech space shuttle Colors to deploy its payload, the new high-tech space telescope Primary. This very special telescope can see all the colors of the world that the human eye cannot. The mission is to study the world's colors and try to answer the question, ''Would life on Earth be the same if everything was in black and white?''
Meanwhile, Sherry has been tasked with the search for the missing marbles by Lola, the Angel of Marbles, and Lolo, the Angel of Grapes. The angels have given Sherry the gift of language, allowing her to talk with and understand all life on Earth, to aid her in the search. Sherry, her brother Timmy, and her cousin Caleb, known as the ''Force of Cousins,'' team up with a colorful array of pets and wildlife to find the marbles. As they search throughout the day, Earth's colors gradually begin to change to black and white, causing great confusion around the world. Can the Force of Cousins and friends find the marbles in time to save the world's colors?
This unique, fast-paced mystery will keep you guessing all the way to sunset. Join Timmy, Sherry, and friends in the quest to find the Secret Sacred Magic Marbles before the world's colors are lost forever. This is a tough one to put down.
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Dr. Nancy Snyderman's Guide to Health: For Women over Forty
Dr. Nancy Snyderman's Guide to Health: For Women over Forty Review
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In this comprehensive health guide for women over forty, the medical correspondent on Good Morning americanca “offers authoritative, practical advice written with intelligence, humor, and wisdom” (Dr. Dean Ornish). Index.
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