books about: dickinson

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Dickinson

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

Brian Knight, Erik Veerman, ...

Wrox, 2008

Sql Server 2008 Integration Services is a Fantastic Book
If you have a need to learn SSIS or to enhance your SSIS knowledge base this is the book for you. Being a Sql Server BI consultant I have come across many opportunities that SSIS either solves or is part of the overall solution. Therefore I have a need to be as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas ...

Jennifer Michael Hecht

HarperOne, 2004

I Enjoyed This Book!
This is my first review for [...], but I feel like I need to share my thoughts on Jennifer Michael Hecht's survey of doubt because of my response to how she has done us a great favor in putting this before us. This is not intended to be a complete, in-depth treatise ...

The Backyard Astronomer's Guide

Terence Dickinson, Alan Dyer

Firefly Books, 2008

Stop Looking - This IS the best broad-coverage introductory book on telescopes
When I become interested in a topic, I typically go looking first for a good introductory book. I'm fussy, though. I want one that is broad but not shallow, as timeless as possible without ignoring major technology and trends, well-written, and good quality from a ...

My Letter to the World and Other Poems (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 ...

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 ...

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.

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. ...

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. ...

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.

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 ...

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 surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought At the close of the Civil War, the United States took a deep breath to lick wounds and consider the damage done. A Summer of Hummingbirds reveals how, at that tender moment, the lives of ...

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 ...

Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson

Sterling, 2008

I love this series
All the Poetry For Young People books are wonderful for all ages, for those who "want" to like poetry but just don't know where to start. Each has a biography of the poet, and the poems are guided by illustrations, background info, and helpful word definitions. So ...