Ingram
Все книги издательства IngramLittle Men - The Original Classic Edition
Youll laugh and cry: This is truly one of the two best books I have ever read. (The other off course is Little Women). <p> Little men is a book that can make you both laugh and cry. The morals inside are more useful than any of the ten commandments. Louisa May Alcott has definetly done it again. <p> Without giving away everything, these are some of the reasons why you will enjoy the book: <p> 1) You see Jo grow up. She is no longer the wild child whos impetuous and androgynous character often lead her to trouble. She inherits maternal qualities that you never expected Jo to have. <p> 2) You will get more insight on the professor. Although I truly wanted Teddy and Jo to get together, this book made me think otherwise. Professor Bhaer, with Jos help, makes a delightful father to the boys. He is the one you will get most of the life morals from. <p> 3) The boys in Plumfield are definetly the key figures in the book. They create both the mischievious and melancholy stories. As I said, youll laugh and cry. Reading about these boys will make everyone reflect on their own lives. <p> 4) Teddy grows up too. If you enjoyed the young scandulous Teddy, youll enjoy the new one even more. In little men, Teddy (like Jo) has grown into a real mature father. <p> There are plenty more exciting things in the book. It is truly a classic masterpiece recommended to anyone who needs a lift in their spirit.
Sonnets - The Original Classic Edition
A colleague advised that I assign my college students this edition, and I am glad she did. Rather than reading the few anthologized works together with some handouts, students now own the entire set. <p> For anyone not familiar with Shakespeares 154 sonnets, this gives an affordable and portable version. For anyone familiar with the works, this book offers them in a beautifully light, compressed format that itself enhances rereading and re-interpretation. <p> As an enthusiast myself–someone who studied at the Shakespeare Institute, England, writing a 310-page thesis on the Bard–I feel grateful to be able to help others to such an inexpensive and pleasant way to own and explore Shakespeares entire collection of sonnets. Because I could skim the poems in sequence so quickly and easily with this edition, the interrelationships among Sonnets 113, 114, 115, and the famous 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds, for example, struck me in a new way as I reread them in this book. <p> A highly- recommended edition.
De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries - The Original Classic Edition
Caesars Commentaries on the Gallic War starts with an account of Gaul and goes on to cover Caesars defeat of first the Helvetians and then the Germans under Ariovistus. The Introduction to this edition of the Latin text, gives background information on the Rome of Caesars time, on Caesar himself and on the composition and relaibility of his commentaries, on Gaul, and on the Roman Army. Useful Notes on the text, Index of names, and a Vocabulary are all included. <p> This book is very well put together. The glossary at the back is very helpful especially because there are words which werent taught in first year Latin. <p> Highly recommended.
Hawkins Electrical Guide - The Original Classic Edition
Gives a great picture of what was known in 1914-1916! – This is such an interesting book. These clearly document how many of our first cars were ELECTRIC and HYBRID before gasoline engines were exclusively used. Shows the Baker electric roadster, the Waverly electric, the Borland electric, the Babcock electric roadster, and the Studebaker electric. Includes schematics showing how to build one. <p> Most people today think that electric vehicles are something new…WRONG! There are also detailed schematics of many other electric devices, including telephones, switchboards, telegraphs, motors and high power distribution systems. One volume mentions how it is possible to transmit pictures, and this was before we had television! Another volume explains that electricity was not completely understood at that time, and that it was theorized that electricity was caused by a tension in the ether that surrounded the earth! <p> There are many interesting and sometimes hilarious experiments showing how to demonstrate many of the laws of nature, using their understanding at that time. Just the chapter on electric cars and how to build them is worth it all. <p> We should make sure this information doesnt get lost in the history of America, as it mostly has already.
The Worst Journey in the World - The Original Classic Edition
Robert Falcon Scotts scientific expedition to the South Pole in 1911 was like that famous medical cliché: the operation was a success, but the patient died. The Polar Party did reach the South Pole, but were 34 days late from being the FIRST party at the pole. The entire Polar Party died in a blizzard returning to home camp. Invaluable scientific, geographic, and biologic data were obtained, but the hideous Winter Journey to collect Emperor penguin embryos at terrible risk turned out to be useless information. They hoped the embryos would show a connection between the evolution of dinosaurs into birds. (It did not.) <p> Cherry Gerrard is a highly likeable, very human teller of the tale. He was the youngest member of the expedition, very much the gentleman and an Englishman to his fingertips. He shows us his human side (he didnt have the usual Englishmans fondness for animals and thought the dogs and ponies were miserable, exasperating beasts). He has a knack of bringing his fellow explorers to life, yet never criticizes at all. He has the highest regard for everyone in the party. He recaps from some of the other members diaries to great effect. The enthusiastic Bowers writes his mother, There is so much to see and do here; I just wish I could be three places at once! Bowers was the best of them, to my way of thinking, and I was appalled when he volunteered for the Polar Party (already knowing the fate of same). Cherry Gerrard had enormous artistic appreciation for the austere beauties of Antarctica, but no matter how brilliantly he described them, my enthusiasm was nil for such a bleak landscape. He shows his depressive side in remarking on the beauty of sleep in the Antarctic–sleep where you never need awaken. He was tremendously brave and endured what no man should have to bear. <p> This is the best kind of book for me to read for it sparks my interest to find out more. Cherry Gerrard is so deferential to Captain Scott, some of whose decisions seemed downright odd to me; I am going to read Huntfords Last Expedition on Earth that does a critical comparison of Scott and Amundsen. To find out more about the elusive Cherry Gerrard, I shall read Sara Wheelers Cherry plus her Terra Firma just because it looks so good. One heroic seaman who should star in his own movie was Tom Crean: Unsung Hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions by Michael Smith. <p> Highly recommend this book for all the right reasons: adventure, information and life changing.
What Will People Say? - The Original Classic Edition
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. <p> This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. <p> Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: <p> Forbes noted, too, that the people she bowed to in other cars or on the sidewalk seemed to be important people, and yet to be proud when her hat gave a little wren-like nod in their directions. <p> …The men who pay for these things are not here: they are in their offices or shops or at their tasks somewhere, building, producing; or in their graves resting from their labors, while the spendthrift sex gads abroad squandering and flaunting what it has wheedled. <p> …The scarlet woman on the beast, the pink girl with the box of chocolates, the white matron, the widow in the most costly and becoming weeds?they were all more important to the world than any other of mans institutions, because they were pretty or beautiful or in some way charming?as useless, yet as lovely as music or flowers or poetry. <p> …He crept into a tub of water as hot as he could endure, and simmered there, smoking the ache out of him, and imagining himself as rich as Haroun al Raschid, instead of a poor subaltern in a hard-worked little army, with only his pay and a small sum that he had saved, mainly because he had been detailed to regions where there was almost nothing fit to buy. <p> …Forbes sat in the dark room in an arm-chair and muffled his bathrobe about him, watching the electric signs working like solemn acrobats?the girl that skipped the rope, the baby that laughed and cried, the woman that danced on the wire, the skidless tire in the rain, the great sibyl face that winked and advised chewing-gum as a panacea, the kitten that tangled itself in thread, the siphons that filled the glasses?all the automatic electric voices shouting words of light.
Julius Caesar - The Original Classic Edition
Julius Caesar is a tale of honor and betrayal. Pompey, a beloved Roman leader, is defeated in civil war with Caesar. A small brotherhood, let by Marcus Brutus, is still devoted to him after his death, and wants nothing less than the assassination of their new leader. I had expected Caesars death (Et tu, Bruté? Then fall Caesar.) to be near the end of the book. However, it turned out to be within the third of five acts. The rest of the book is devoted to the attempts by Brutuss followers and Marc Antony (a dear friend of Caesar, and Brutuss enemy) to get the populace to believe in and follow that persons views, and turn them against the other peoples ideals. Marc Antony, an orator with the ability to, in essence, brainwash an entire city with a short speech (Friends, Romans, Countrymen, / Lend me your ears!), convinces Rome to turn on Brutuss brotherhood. How their conflict is settled is, by far, the most captivating and entrancing parts of the play. <p> With the plot discussed, I will move on to what makes this a challenging read: dialogue. Being a work from the Elizabethan Era, I (naively) expected words such as forsooth and manye more wordse endinge ine e. As it turned out, this was not the case. There were archaic words that would elicit cocked heads of confusion from the average person. My saviour from the confusion turned out to be the footnotes in one of the versions I read. The phrase They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades / Sink in the trial becomes They let their necks droop and, like weary nags, fail the test (Brutus, A4 S2, L26/27). One is forced to scrutinise every single word, in order to receive a complete understanding of the goings-on. <p> The unabridged version of Julius Caesar is definitely not a piece one reads in ones free time; rather, it should be considered a serious task. Once you put the book down, you transform from reader to philosopher. You will instinctively begin to ponder the issues in whatever part of the book that you have just completed. I, personally, read one act at a time, then closed my eyes (or reread the act) to mull over what had just transpired. <p> I was left with a better understanding of that portion, and a greater respect for the genius of Shakespeare. <p> I highly recommend it. So, what are you waiting on? Get to it!
Three Ghost Stories - The Original Classic Edition
So often we get caught up reading The Great Dickens. Its easy to miss these smaller gems that endeared him to so many readers of his day. <p> Dickens writing is to the eye, what satin is to the hand. <p> <p> This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. <p> This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. <p> Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: <p> On my trusting that he would excuse the remark that he had been well educated, and (I hoped I might say without offence) perhaps educated above that station, he observed that instances of slight incongruity in such wise would rarely be found wanting among large bodies of men; that he had heard it was so in workhouses, in the police force, even in that last desperate resource, the army; and that he knew it was so, more or less, in any great railway staff. <p> …In a word, I should have set this man down as one of the safest of men to be employed in that capacity, but for the circumstance that while he was speaking to me he twice broke off with a fallen colour, turned his face towards the little bell when it did NOT ring, opened the door of the hut (which was kept shut to exclude the unhealthy damp), and looked out towards the red light near the mouth of the tunnel. <p> …Without prolonging the narrative to dwell on any one of its curious circumstances more than on any other, I may, in closing it, point out the coincidence that the warning of the Engine-Driver included, not only the words which the unfortunate Signal-man had repeated to me as haunting him, but also the words which I myself?not he?had attached, and that only in my own mind, to the gesticulation he had imitated. <p> …I had got into the train at midnight, and had fallen asleep, and had woke up and had sat looking out of window at the brilliant Northern Lights in the sky, and had fallen asleep again, and had woke up again to find the night gone, with the usual discontented conviction on me that I hadn?t been to sleep at all;?upon which question, in the first imbecility of that condition, I am ashamed to believe that I would have done wager by battle with the man who sat opposite me. <p> …Now, although I regard with a hushed and solemn fear, the mysteries, between which and this state of existence is interposed the barrier of the great trial and change that fall on all the things that live; and although I have not the audacity to pretend that I know anything of them; I can no more reconcile the mere banging of doors, ringing of bells, creaking of boards, and such-like insignificances, with the majestic beauty and pervading analogy of all the Divine rules that I am permitted to understand, than I had been able, a little while before, to yoke the spiritual intercourse of my fellow-traveller to the chariot of the rising sun.
The Galaxy Primes - The Original Classic Edition
Belle Bellamy (green-haired super-babe) and Clee Garlock (super everything else) are the two people on Earth with the highest innate degree of that amazing psionic-thingie. With it, their minds can hurl them between star systems, detonate nuclear blasts, and do lots of other neat tricks. In their interstellar gadding, they discover other intelligent and psi-capable humans. In fact, those others are so human-like that they are reproductively compatible. And, since the Earthian guys are obviously such superior beings, offers to test that compatibility come often. <p> Its not all good times and spread-the-genes, though. Dozens of star systems harbor human life, and psionic Primes, all at nearly identical levels of development social (except that some have decidedly inferior tobacco). Unfortunately, theyre not all as easy-going and altruistic as Earths Primes. As a result, Earths Primes need to rough them up in their easy-going and altruistic way, to unify them under the newly-designed Galaxian banner. The Galaxian inner council consists of one Prime pair from each of those dozens of planets, in Noah-like male/female couples. How do we know theyre the finest of each star system? Well, for one thing, the ladies of those planets are super-babes, too. Not only are they as mighty of mind as their men, they are also mighty in their womanliness and eager to prove it by racing the others to a demonstration of fecundity. <p> This is a wonderful artifact of its time, as close to Buster Crabbes Flash Gordon as it is to the current day or maybe closer. It has all that cowboy exuberance and technological optimism, with gender relations a bit past the neolithic. (He and she both seem to long for a little more of the caveman/cavegirl between them, but even Doc Smith smelled womens lib in the air.) Despite the cultural imperialism and shallow sterotyping, or maybe because of it, Smith brings us space opera at its very finest.
Chronicles of Avonlea - The Original Classic Edition
Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery, In which Anne Shirley of Green Gables and Avonlea plays some part, and which have to do with other personalities and events. First published in June of 1912 when Montgomery had published Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard, and The Story Girl, it is my understanding that the author revised some of these stories to work in references to Anne and Avonlea, which would make them more palatable for her growing audience of readers. <p> This volume contains my favorite Montgomery short story, Old Lady Lloyd, which is actually set in Spencervale. The title character is thought to be rich, mean and proud but is really only the last that is true. But then she hears of the plight of young Sylvia Gray and Margaret Lloyd finds there is something more important than her wicked pride. Montgomery does some nice twists with what is basically a fairy godmother story. Old Lady Lloyd also provided the basis for one of the first season episodes of the television series Road to Avonlea, as did the comic romances Aunt Olivias Beau and The Quarantine at Alexander Abrahams from this volume. <p> Although Old Lady Lloyd is a love story of sorts, many of the dozen stories found here are more traditional romances. The Hurrying of Ludovic is about Anne Shirleys plan to help the ironically named Ludovic Speed to hurry up and ask her friend TheodoraDix to be married. The Winning of Lucinda and The Courting of Prissy Strong follow suit as well, although with Montgomerys wry sense of humor coming into play. But another strong theme in these stories starting with Old Lady Lloyd is the love of music, which comes into play in both Each in His Own Tongue and Little Joscelyn. Old Man Shaws Girl fits into neither camp, but is one of the better stories here as well. <p> This collection was followed by a second, Further Chronicles of Avonlea, and if you take these two, The Story Girl and its sequel The Golden Road, then you have the four books that served as the basis of various episodes of Road to Avonlea. But if you are a fan of Montgomerys writing then you already know that even in her novels she often worked in various short stories and might even have come to the conclusion that she was better at short stories than at novels. Still, for those who found seven Anne books to be far too few, this collection is the first place to turn to find her in other stories.