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By John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin. 2005
Relates the mystery and magic in Pullman's trilogy, beginning with The Golden Compass (DB 44343, BR 13276), to real-world scientific…
concepts. Covers topics from cosmology to string theory to explain such objects as Will's subtle knife and Mary Malone's amber spyglass. For junior and senior high readers. 2003By Robert Thomas Fallon. 2005
Concise guide to understanding aspects of Shakespeare's plays that can seem unfamiliar and troublesome to contemporary readers or theatergoers. In…
simple, direct prose, the author elucidates daunting language, convoluted plots, and oftentimes perplexing theme, staging, and character issues, frequently referencing episodes and quotations from the bard's work. 2005By Graeme Gibson. 2005
A compilation of stories, poems, essays, and scientific observations exploring human fascination with birds. Selections span the centuries from Aristotle…
and Ovid to Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Peter Matthiessen, and Margaret Atwood. Dorothy Hartley explains in "Goose Grease" the characteristics and uses of this fat. 2005By Aldous Huxley. 2000
Series of essays in which the author examines various threats to human freedom predicted in his 1930s satirical novel Brave…
New World (DB 47108). Discusses overpopulation, government propaganda, brainwashing, chemically induced as well as subconsciously suggested persuasion, and education, along with possible countermeasures. 1958By Nancy Whitelaw. 2006
Biography of award-winning horror writer. Discusses King's difficult childhood in Maine, a setting for many of his stories, as well…
as his adolescence, college years, marriage, and eventual success. Describes King's struggles with censorship, fame, and the creative process. For senior high readers. 2006By T. R Pearson. 2006
Chronicles the life of German-born sailor William Willis (1893-1968), highlighting his voyages aboard small crafts of his own design and…
construction. Describes his 1954 115-day, trans-Pacific solo journey (with a cat and a parrot), during which he endured injuries, ailments, storms, and other calamities and survived by drinking seawater. 2006By Camille Paglia. 2005
Concise interpretive commentaries on forty-three of the world's best poems. Ranges from well-known works by Shakespeare, Donne, Wordsworth, Shelley, Dickinson,…
and Yeats to more modern pieces by Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Sylvia Plath, Wanda Coleman, and Joni Mitchell. 2005By Rainer Maria Rilke. 2005
Philosophical nuggets selected from seven thousand letters that convey the early-twentieth-century poet Rainer Maria Rilke's contemplations on topics such as…
work, solitude, death, language, art, love, and enjoying a full life. Selections, translations from French and German, and introduction by New York University professor Ulrich Baer. 2005By Rainer Maria Rilke. 2002
In ten letters written to an aspiring poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) reveals his own creative genius. Rilke's correspondence provides…
insights into his greatest poetry as well as his ideas of art, love, and death. Translated from German and introduced by Reginald Snell. 1903By James Shapiro. 2005
Professor highlights a seminal year in Shakespeare's life that included the writing of four plays--Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You…
Like It, and Hamlet--and the building of the Globe Theatre. Portrays turmoil surrounding rebellion in Ireland, creation of the East India Company, and political intrigue. 2005By Joseph Lanza. 2007
Surveys the twentieth-century development of background music--a subdued, unobtrusive genre such as that used in elevators, hotels, and restaurants. Chronicles…
the history of the Muzak corporation from the 1920s and the parallel growth of easy-listening instrumentals, while discussing prominent musicians, various applications, and cultural prejudice. Includes discography. 2004By Paula Fox. 2005
Memoir of the young writer Paula Fox, who in 1946 earned enough money to sail from New York to London.…
She recounts her travels in post-war Europe with little money but many adventures and encounters with interesting people. Sequel to Borrowed Finery (BR 14313). 2005By Edith Hamilton. 1993
The author of Mythology (DB 20026) explores the accomplishments of Greek intellectual life in the fifth century B.C. Discusses customs,…
philosophy, religion, and art, referencing the era's noted writers--the poet Pindar; dramatists Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles; and historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon--with excerpts from classic works. 1930By Shaunda Kennedy Wenger. 2003
Nearly two hundred recipes cooked up, served, or mentioned in novels and works of nonfiction, interspersed with anecdotes about writers…
and writing. Includes "Behold! Ichabod's Slapjacks," John Grisham's "Good Life Veal Piccata," and "Mr. Wonka's Strawberry-Flavored Chocolate-Coated Fudge." 2003By Chris Raschka, Paul B. Janeczko. 2005
A guide to twenty-nine poetic forms including haiku, limerick, roundel, sonnet, elegy, and ballad. Provides examples with narrative explanations of…
each form from simple rhyme schemes--couplet, tercet, quatrain--to more-complex combinations like the pantoum. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2005By Gary Paulsen. 2001
Author of Hatchet (BR 11525) relates how falling in love with the ocean at age seven evolved into a later…
love for sailing. Describes boats he has owned, his adventures up and down the Pacific Coast, and surviving a killer storm. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2001By James R Gaines. 2005
Describes the encounter between young Frederick the Great and the elderly kapellmeister Johann Sebastian Bach and examines Bach's masterful response…
in "A Musical Offering" to the warrior-king's compositional challenge. Combines the history of music and of eighteenth-century culture with biographies of these two notable figures of the era. 2005By Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner. 2004
Cincuenta poemas de Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), el poeta chileno y ganador del Premio Nobel, que abarcan la amplitud de su…
estilo, temas y periodos. Este esfuerzo colaborativo de academicos, traductores, y poetas incluye selecciones de sus obras publicadas entre 1924 y 1964 y postumamente. Editado con una introducción en inglés de Mark Eisner; prefacio de Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Texto de los poemas en ingles y espanolBy Peter Lamont. 2005
British historian specializing in magic researches the famous but fictitious trick that supposedly originated in India in the 1890s. Discusses…
the journalistic sources of the hoax and previous efforts to debunk it, as well as the western world's gullibility and fascination with mysteries of the East. 2004By Mark Twain. 1980
A humorous account loosely based on the celebrated author's life during the years 1861-1867. Mark Twain tries his hand at…
prospecting, speculating, laboring, and, more successfully, reporting. His exaggerated adventures take him across the frontier plains to California and then to Hawaii. 1962 foreword by Leonard Kriegel. 1872