books about: dickinson

books about: dickinson

books:

Dickinson

Exploring the Night Sky: The Equinox Astronomy Guide for Beginners

Terence Dickinson

Firefly Books, 1987

Young Minds Latch onto the Stars
My eight-year-old grandson practically ate up this book, he was so excited and interested. He had gotten a telescope for Christmas and this book brought his explorations of the night sky to life.

Astronomy 2009 (Calendar)

Firefly Books, 2008

Majestic spiral arms of a remote galaxy shimmer from the combined light of 50 billion stars. The ethereal curtains of the aurora borealis ripple across the night sky. Vast clouds of gas and dust, 10,000 times wider than the solar system, pervade the galaxy. Captured by the cameras of talented amateur astronomers and by the world's most powerful ...

101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, ...

Dover Publications, 1998

The American school anthology
This is a wonderful collection of American poetry classics. It contains most of the poems that have been taught through the years in American schools as the ' classics ' of American Literature. It does not really touch the American poetry of the past fifty years. ...

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
Brian Knight, Erik Veerman, ...

Wrox, 2008

The new edition of the successful previous version is 25 percent revised and packed with more than 200 pages of new material on the 2008 release of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Renowned author Brian Knight and his expert coauthors show developers how to master the 2008 release of SSIS, which is both more powerful and more complex ...

The Backyard Astronomer's Guide

Terence Dickinson, Alan Dyer

Firefly Books, 2008

Excellent for Sorting thru What Can Be Bewildering at 1st
If you are new to astronomy, THIS is THE book. I have read it and re-read on a regular basis as questions arise. It is comprehensive and covers every main topic of concern and interest to amatuer astronomers from what telescope would be right for you to how to use it ...

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Back Bay Books, 1976

Great collection of poetry!
Dickinson is probably the one poet who best personifies mood, emotion, fears, hopes, dreams, and time and eternity with such few words and in the most illustrative way. Most of her subjects are ones we readily identify with--love, death, nature, religion, passage of ...

My Letter to the World and Other Poems (Visions in Poetry) (Visions in Poetry)

Emily Dickinson

Kids Can Press, Ltd., 2008

Because you will not stop for this book, it will kindly stop for you.
The great children's collections of Emily Dickinson's poems... I'm sure they exist. They'd have to. We're talking about one of the greatest (THE greatest?) American poets to put pen to paper. It would be patently ridiculous if there weren't a couple collections for ...

NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe

Firefly Books, 2006

Hurry Buy THIS book
If you are a beginner, buy this book immediately. It is probably fabulous for the rest of you, too. :) I am just getting started myself and have spent just a short time with it. I look forward to learning and appreciating it even more. Beginners absolutely need ...

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils (National Audubon Society Field Guides)

Ida Thompson

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1994

Over the fence
Nobody does it like the National Audubon Society. Read the other reviews for more in-depth criticism. As an amateur rock hound, it serves my needs just fine.

White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Brenda Wineapple

Knopf, 2008

a stellar biography
Brenda Wineapple's expertise as a biographer is evident on every page. She knows how to handle her massive research without intruding on the main narrative. She knows how to balance conflicting views of her two protagonists, evoking sympathy and admiration for both. ...

The Kin

Peter Dickinson

Puffin, 2003

FIREY FANTASY
I read a lot of books but, this was the first book I had pulled out of the "Teen" section at my local bookstore. I just have to say I wasn't disappointed it's a great book but, it could be improved(oh so now I'm the expert). Lets start with Book 1 "Suth's Story". ...

Emily Dickinson's Poems

B&R Samizdat Express, 2007

All three series. (Reformatted 2/24/2008, to eliminate problems caused by Kindle's automated conversion program and to add a brief table of contents with links to each of the three series. If you bought an earlier copy, you should be able to get the new corrected one from Amazon at no extra charge -- it has the same product number).

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Camille Paglia

Vintage Books, 1991

An Erotics of Art
Way back when Susan Sontag was still an important critic, she said, "In place of hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." Well, here it is. The basic thesis of this book is simple, though its consequences are far-ranging. She maintains that aesthetic principles are ...

The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition

Emily Dickinson

Belknap Press, 2005

One of the most important poetry collections available
If you know Dickinson's compositional method -- with almost no publication in her lifetime, often with many versions of one poem, and with poetic significance altered by the paper and exact handwriting -- you will recognize that any printed edition of her work cannot ...

A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, ...

Christopher Benfey

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

a summer reading jewel
Hummingbirds! I would have never thought of them as some kind of ambiguous stand-in for a number of concerns of the period (marital infidelity or bliss, abolitionist arguments of freedom, a hint of tea totaling or the pleasures of a sumptuous life) but I'm sure I'll ...