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 On Beauty and Being Just.Best Price: $6.80 This is vintage Scarry. The book's purpose seems to be an attempt to create a mental switch in... |  Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings, Third Edition (Norton Critical Editions)Best Price: $13.17 This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the texts of Walden, Civil... |  The Complete Works (Everyman's Library)Best Price: $18.32 Six months ago, I got into the habit of losing my mind. No day passed without some evidence of... |  The Best American Essays 2006 (The Best American Series (TM))Best Price: $5.55 One would expect that a collection of essays that aspires to contain America's best would be... |  Strange CandyBest Price: $6.95 It's a decent collection of short stories, with the dark sensual atmosphere that one expects... |
 What Moves at the Margin: Selected NonfictionBest Price: $18.69 What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison's writings about her work, her... |  The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of WrathBest Price: $3.34 Readers seeking a full experience of John Steinbeck's literary style won't want to miss Harvest... |  Letters to a Young Therapist (Art of Mentoring)Best Price: $7.89 If you are a therapist in training or maybe even a seasoned veteran, this book offers... |  Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help BookBest Price: $7.79 One of the worst things a reader can do with a book I did with this one. I seeing the title... |  For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn RandBest Price: $3.34 Ayn Rand presents her philosophy as an alternative to the two philosophical cul-de-sacs, which... |
 The Boys of My YouthBest Price: $6.74 I rarely do reviews of books, but Beard's "The Boys of My Youth" has forced me to make... |  The Selected Essays of Gore VidalBest Price: $16.39 It all comes down to what you want and what you have read. For those who are exploring the... |  The White AlbumBest Price: $7.88 4.5 stars I read this when it first came out; it opened my 13-year old eyes to many things. One... |  Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, BelongingBest Price: $12.14 This is not a good book. No contextual background is given for Butler and Spivak's theoretical... |  Essays and Aphorisms (The Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.25 A. Schopenhauer and Ralph W. Emerson deserve to be read together. I remember reading these two... |
 The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays by Robert FiskBest Price: $11.00 This book is a selection from Robert Fisk's Saturday columns in the Independent from 1998 to... |  Naked Pictures of Famous PeopleBest Price: $2.50 A collection of humorous essays dealing with everything from deformed, exiled members of the... |  Time of Wonder (Picture Puffin)Best Price: $1.00 The wonders of the world as seen from a child's perspective are rendered beautifully in this... |  Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American ClassicBest Price: $10.62 Walden Pond is a classic which everyone should be required to read. I read this years ago and... |  We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Everyman's Library)Best Price: $14.98 I seldom read non-fiction, due to habit and training, mostly. However, when I read essays like... |
 The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human PredicamentBest Price: $7.98 In "The Truth About Testosterone", Robert Sapolsky combines his knowledge and... |  50 Essays: A Portable AnthologyBest Price: $25.00 I enjoyed the book. It was a terrific way to gain insight on the writing styles of some of... |  Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the ArtsBest Price: $15.99 "A Cultural Amnesia" isn't quite a thesis on forgetting Western Civilization, but it... |  In Brief: Short Takes on the PersonalBest Price: $7.89 An object lesson in how to cut to the chase; an example of tiny bites of beautiful writing; the... |  The Four Pages of the Sermon: A Guide to Biblical PreachingBest Price: $16.30 I had to buy this book for a homiletics class. I really needed to hear what this author had to... |
 The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and MarriageBest Price: $2.99 I apologize in advance that this review will not be very helpful to anyone, but all I can say is... |  The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell BerryBest Price: $8.50 This is the first Wendell Berry book I've read. I was vastly disappointed after reading some... |  Selected Political WritingsBest Price: $5.50 The Prince is a book everyone should read in order to understand how many kings and rulers who... |  I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York PrisonBest Price: $5.75 I haven't read anything by Wally Lamb in a while and while this book was not exactly written by... |  An Introduction to LiteratureBest Price: $52.00 There's not really much to say other than it's a pretty good book to use for an English class. A... |
 Only Love Can Break Your HeartBest Price: $13.45 I first came across David Samuels' work after reading his story on Britany Spears and the... |  Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir of Visions, Dreams, and RealizationsBest Price: $13.85 Robert Johnson has been a great teacher, mentor, and inspiration for many in the exploration of... |  OrangesBest Price: $2.45 Wonderful book like all of Mc Phee's work. However, disappointing in that he did not cover the... |  Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on CreativityBest Price: $5.98 Through these essays Bradbury restores an often distorted concept of writing and its role of... |  The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian MiscellanyBest Price: $17.84 Very, very few books this physically beautiful are published today. This is a true gem! The... |
 Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and CraftBest Price: $8.36 "Real Sofistikashun: Essays On Poetry And Craft" by Tony Hogland (who is the author of... |  Against Interpretation: And Other EssaysBest Price: $8.46 America has very few independent intellectuals, that is, intellectuals free of academic... |  Batman Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City (Smart Pop series)Best Price: $7.85 This book is very good and the authors who write the essays on Batman have some interesting... | Batman Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City (Smart Pop series) Best Price: $7.85 This book is very good and the authors who write the essays on Batman have some interesting... |  Wild Ducks Flying BackwardBest Price: $6.39 As a loyal Tom Robbins fan, I have read almost all of his published works. Like many of you, I... |
 The Braindead MegaphoneBest Price: $6.39 If you really like Pastoralia for its insanity and out of this world fantasy, then you may not... |  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Enlarged Edition, Now with "A True Tale of Slavery"Best Price: $5.89 It's obvious the difficulty slaves endured. Ironic, but she endures a great deal more than most.... |  Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, NonfictionBest Price: $79.00 $67 for a paperback book is highway roberry. Have been pricing out college textbooks on Ebay,... |  How Reading Changed My LifeBest Price: $2.49 After eighteen years of being stereotyped as "the book worm," it's good to know that... |  Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!Best Price: $1.99 This is another great book from Pat McManus, he was the only reason I used to read Outdoor Life.... |
 The Best American Essays 2005 (The Best American Series)Best Price: $3.29 I read this series every year, and usually love it, but this edition is rather weak, and I'm... |  Eight Modern EssayistsBest Price: $24.50 This in-depth collection represents 8 essential twentieth-century essayists, with 3-5 pieces by... |  Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life&TimesBest Price: $0.01 I wil never get sick of reading these things! These are classic stories that have finally been... |  James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)Best Price: $18.54 One of the greatest writers of the 1900's. Excellent physical book. Well-made and aesthetically... |  Evocative Objects: Things We Think WithBest Price: $15.53 This is a beautiful book,the essays are well written and they give the reader a good idea of the... |
 Orthodoxy (Hendrickson Christian Classics)Best Price: $3.52 Chesterton is difficult to read because he makes references to things and places that I do not... |  The Dead (The Art of the Novella)Best Price: $5.10 The description says that the events of "The Dead" took place on New Year's Eve. They... |  The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary JournalismBest Price: $5.76 Perhaps the reduction in reading of 'literary novels' is due to the general decline in other... |  Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and EssaysBest Price: $6.49 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The U.S. publication of A Book of Memories in... |  Holidays on Ice: StoriesBest Price: $5.20 While I enjoyed this book (especially the final story), I did not find it as outright hilarious... |
 Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring)Best Price: $1.25 Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant who served as an author of the Dartmouth Review during his... | ||||
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