books about: 1956

books about: 1956

books:

Effective Mel Ferrer Immortals Michael Dudikoff 1956

Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature

Andy Goldsworthy

Harry N. Abrams, 1990

"The achieve of, the mastery of the thing..."
Goldsworthy's creations generate awe. They are extraordinary, fragile, truly ineffable. Like the visions of mystics, words fail to describe them, but the exquisite photographs in this book don't. There they are. Revelations of mastery, patience, perfection. The ...

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

Jean Sasson

Windsor-Brooke Books, 2001

the effort to help women is still not done yet!
i am chinese and my great grandfather was a local judge and the wealthiest man around the area apparently. that would before the communists came. he had wives. i dont know how many but i knew it was more than 4. for thousands of years. chinese women had similar fates ...

H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The Complete Series (Library of America)
H.L. Mencken

Library of America, 2010

Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultural critic of the last century. To read him today is to be plunged into an era whose culture wars were easily as ferocious as our own, in the ...

Action Jackson

Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan

Square Fish, 2007

Art as process
When modern art is brought to the table, the question for the untrained is quite often: Is this art? What makes art? Can I do this? For such questions, answers always vary. It is art if you think it is art even if it may not be good art. The final consensus is that it ...

The Tao of Pooh

Benjamin Hoff

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1983

What is the meaning of life?
I had to read this book for my IB Theory of Knowledge class. It has truly given me a fresh perspective on life. The most interesting thing about this adorable book is the connections he makes between us and all the characters of Winnie the Pooh: Piglet, Eeyore, ...

The Threepenny Opera (Penguin Classics)

Bertolt Brecht

Penguin Classics, 2007

AN IMPORTANT LESSON IN OUR AGE OF CORRUPT GLOBALIZATION AND "FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS"
and our local crime as well. The Threepenny Opera is so well known and sought after (without many taking the time seriously to study it) that it can be pricey here on the open amazonian market. Don't go for the collector's editions; go for the one you can throw into ...

Here's the Story

HarperCollins e-books, 2008

Love it
I enjoyed reading this book. It did have enjoyable facts about The Brady Bunch, but I really enjoyed learning about what happened to Maureen before & after The Brady Bunch.

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007

Excellent abridgment
I originally read the three-volume "Gulag" while in college and then later read this abridgment. This abridgment is very well done; it definitely captures the meat of what Solzhenitsyn wanted to convey. The three-volume work had a lot of detailed accounts of those who ...

When the Game Was Ours

Larry Bird, Earvin Johnson Jr., ...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

"When the Game Was Ours"!
I enjoyed this book a great deal, and I learned a lot about Bird and Magic, hence the 5 star rating. But if you are a basketball fan, even a casual fan you should take my opinion with a grain of salt (maybe two or three). You see, I'd only heard of Magic Johnson and I ...

Who Do You Think You Are?: A Memoir

Alyse Myers

Touchstone, 2009

I Do Relate!
Fantastically quick read that had me hooked after the first paragraph in the prologue, and addicted by the end of that section on page 3. Man, what a nice way to wheel me in... so nice that what first wheeled me in... curious about what was in her mother's secret ...

The Vietnam War 1956-1975

Andy Wiest

Osprey Publishing, 2002

A clear, concise overview of the Vietnam War
This book is written in a clear style, with plenty of maps and pictures. It gives a concise overview of the Vitenam War in all of its major aspects. It doesn't limit itself to the war's military operations, but delves into the broader issues. For example, the book ...

Jackson Pollock (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)

Mike Venezia

Children's Press(CT), 1994

Pollock for kids.
I took last summer my two daugthers, age 6 and 9 to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They loved it and each one choose her favorita artist. The younger one, Isabel, loved Picasso. Who doesn't?. My older daughter, Camila loved the american artist Jackson Pollock, ...

West Of The West

Mark Arax

PublicAffairs, 2009

Best in the West
I recently moved from the midwest to southern California, and of course though I knew about stereotypes, I had my ideas about what life in the West would be like. Mark Arax's well-written book has more than balanced my ideas of what the Golden State is like. The book ...

Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

Robert Walser

NYRB Classics, 2002

Genius Worth Rediscovering
Although his novel "Jakob von Gunten" is a masterpiece, the maniacal genius of Walser is more easily discovered in his short fiction. If Kafka's vision is maddening and claustrophobic, Walser, who deals with a similar kind of surrealistic world, applies a lighter, more ...

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978

Kai Bird

Scribner, 2010

A peek at the Arab side of the Middle East mess.
I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Bird's biographical book because it does give one a peek at how the Arab side views the Middle East situation. As many have stated the biographical portions of the text are very good but having lived in the area Kai Bird gives us a somewhat ...