books about: selected

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The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

Pablo Neruda

City Lights Publishers, 2004

A New Translation
"I became saturated with his poetry and began to translate his poems. Although there were many beautiful existing translations, many others did not flow as I felt they should and I often had interpretive differences with them." ~ Mark Eisner, translator "The ...

Devotional Classics: Revised Edition: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups

Richard J. Foster

HarperOne, 2005

Indepth discipleship
This is a wonderful, thought provoking, action evoking devotional. Because of its indepth nature, I use it as a weekly devotional, reading and rereading the selection throughout the week and working on one of the action items. Devotional Classics is an excellent ...

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

Billy Collins

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002

Chase von, And glad I am doing this review now vice when I first read this...
I have to be honest in writing this review because that's my nature. I bought this book years ago while on active duty in the military and it was a busy time, a time made even busier because I was burning the mid night oil working on my own book. I heard about ...

Physics: Student Study Guide With Selected Solutions Vol. 1 6th Edition

Joe Boyle

Addison Wesley, 2004

Best for use with Giancoli Physics 6th Edition but beware! This is only the first volume!
When I bought this item I thought I would get both the first and second volume of the study guide. However, amazon shipped to me only the first volume... I pretty much suspect that "Physics: Principles and Applications" by Boyle is the second volume because Boyle is ...

Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music

Nathan Nedorostek, Anthony Pappalardo

MTV Press, 2008

You can see how loud it was
Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music This is a beautiful book! I showed it to a friend who said "you can see how loud it was just looking at the photos", and I think that summarizes it very well. The power and passion shine on ...

Spiritual Classics : Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups on the Twelve Spiritual Disciplines

Richard J. Foster, Emilie Griffin, ...

HarperOne, 2000

Learning more about a relationship with God
Foster and Griffin have put together an excellent book for group or personal use. Readings are arranged according to spiritual disciplines, such as meditations, prayer or fasting. A brief selection of text from famous writers is followed by a Bible reading, questions ...

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays

Lionel Trilling

Northwestern University Press, 2008

Relevant moral issues....
On Sunday 7/30/00, The New York Times carried a review of "The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent" -- an article by Edward Rothstein entitled, "Dated? Perhaps, But His Insights Remain Powerful" -- Rothstein's insights are useful and I agree with most of them, but I ...

The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays by Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk

Nation Books, 2008

Superb studies of the Middle East
This book is a selection from Robert Fisk's Saturday columns in the Independent from 1998 to 2007. These writings cover films and novels, the World Wars, the first British war of occupation of Iraq, the wars in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan, the Turkish genocide of ...

Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008
Clive James

W. W. Norton, 2008

Opal Sunset marks the exuberant introduction of Clive James's poetry to an American audience. Inspired, through his vast reading, by the poetic voices of the past, yet always speaking in a voice unmistakably his own, Clive James ineffably combines humor and great tragedy (but never solemnity) to create poems that are at once traditional yet ...

Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

Michel Foucault

Pantheon, 1980

Illuminating Interviews
The collection of interviews contained in this volume is a great guide to anyone interested in examining the work of Michel Foucault, whose work broke new ground through his sustained examination of the interplay between the forces of pwer and the production of ...

Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

Raymond Carver

Vintage, 1989

A Storytelling Poet (for the everyman)
This ought to be called the Greatest Hits of Raymond Carver--with Bonus Tracks*. All of my own personal favorites are here: "Cathedral", "Fever", "Why Don't You Dance?". A few which appeared in previous collections are here restored to Carver's original conception. ...

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

Tobias Wolff

Knopf, 2008

Wolff Gold
Tobias Wolff's latest collection of short stories, written over a period of thirty years, contains twenty-one previously published in book form with ten new stories added. The characters and situations are diverse although a good many stories take place in the snow; as ...

The Rising: Selected Scenes From The End Of The World

Brian Keene

Delirium Books, 2008

ICING ON THE CAKE.
One of the stories was very gripping and very disturbing, but it all rocked and the ending made me very happy. For those who are a fan on Keene, you will be very excited!!!! You ahve to read this is you've read the Rising series.

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

Vintage, 1989

a lifeline
This is one book I cannot live without. I can't read German, so I am grateful for the translation, and Rilke's genius is not lost in translation. :) Favorites? I can't name just one. You who never arrived...For the sake of one poem...The Prodigal Son...Spanish ...

Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook)

Jorge Luis Borges

New Directions, 2007

Writings of a great reader
In "How To Read a Book" Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren describe the fourth level of reading. Synoptical reading challenges the reader who, having carefully and thoroughly understood several individual works, strives to hear the conversation of their ensemble. ...