The author gives you an intellectual idea of what manking truly will accomplish, and that we are standing at the threshold of new voyages of discovery.
Spare poetry and black-and-white photography capture and chronicle the quaint village where giant redwoods and the turbulent sea inspire the artists, writers, and musicians who fled here during the back-to-the-land movement of the sixties.
Beautifully rendered from book illustrations, pottery, metalwork, carvings, and other sources, these 280 black-and-white designs include geometrics, florals, and animal and human figures in circular, hexagonal, rectangular, and other shapes.
Offers an introduction to Malory, and shows how to go about reading the "Morte Darthur" and to outline aspects of its basic character. This book shows how Malory worked and the extent and nature of his individual contribution and puts Malory and his book in their historical context.
A Guide to the I Ching" is an interpretive manual to the classic Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching. Now a classic in its own right and translated into other languages (German, Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian, and Italian), the "Guide" is recognized by teachers and long time students of the I Ching as indispensable to its understanding and use. Developed from notes taken over many years, the Guide mirrors the reader's true inner feelings,...
Setting forth formidable arguments for racial equality, Cable's novel of feuding Creole families in early nineteenth-century New Orleans blends post-Civil War social dissent and Romanticism.
LESSONS, Level One, from the DAVID CARR GLOVER METHOD FOR PIANO reviews the basic concepts presented in LESSONS, Primer Level. New concepts are introduced and reinforced sequentially through the use of original compositions, folk songs and the sounds of today. This book, combined with the recommended supplementary materials, continues to assist the student in developing the ability to read and perform musically through interval recognition, si...
When a big betail (big animal) intrudes into the swampland on a gloomy day, the bayou critters are fearful. But the bayou creatures learn how strangers can be helpful friends.
These poems on European themes by the author of Her (his Paris novel) and the enduring A Coney Island of the Mind were mostly written during the last seven years and, in the poet's words, are "transformations and transitions looking westward to America and beyond." Flowing from France to Italy to the Netherlands, on to Germany, back to France, and finally toward America, they follow Ferlinghetti's own recent journeying. The poems progress geog...
