E. E. Cummings Books

Needed this for a college class, the bookstore on campus didn't sell the textbook and workbook (this product) separately, so I bought it here. It isn't the best book for learning or supplemental material for that matter, but if you need it for class, you need it for class

This item was in excellent condition and came in a timely manner. It helped a lot with my class.

It's been a long coming, but it's finally here! Astronomy instructors and authors have produced a wonderfully readable and thoroughly comprehensible introduction to the science of astronomy. Each topic in this book really is a mini-tutorial as proclaimed by the cover title. The book format is actually written in a laboratory worksheet fashion (the sheets can be detached from the book along their perforated edges) with each worksheet dedicated to a specific astronomy concept (e.g., position, motion, Keplar's Third Law, etc.). One pass through this ingeniously designed "book of tutorials" and the beginner to the wonderful world of the cosmo is truly ready to move on to more advanced astronomy books and/or astronomy courses. My congratulations (and gratitude) to the Pearson Addison-Wesley Publishing Company for making the concept of learning enjoyable once again.

If you are at all interested in astronomy, but recoiled away from the subject after opening a typical "introductory" college textbook, then you would do yourself a tremendous favor by purchasing this book. You won't be disappointed!

Adam's "Lecture Tutorials" collection is an excellent suppliment to any astronomy textbook. While most text books include a couple of introductory chapters on naked-eye astronomy the material included is often surface deep at best and downright confusing at worst. Much of this is because the topics covered (i.e.-the celestial sphere, daily and yearly motions of the stars, sun and moon, etc) are highly abstract and require activities that force the student to move away from memorization towards an understand of the apparent motions and what causes them.

The Lecture Tutorials are a test ed set of just such activities based on a wealth of astronomy education research. They can be used in both large scale classes and smaller groups to get students to work through the difficult misconceptions and misunderstands that oftentimes beset the subjects being studied.

The activities range throughout the standard astronomy curriculum but, in my opinion, the best activites are those that focus on the apparent motions of the Sun, Moon and stars.

I recommend this to any student trying to better understand the subject and for any educator who wants help moving their students from "fun facts" to deeper understanding.

My father bought me the original edition of this book when I was an age group swimmer back in the 70s. Doc was light years ahead of the pack in his use of physics to analyze and improve on stroke and body position. I highly recommend it.The Waterproof Coach: The Waterproof Workout Book for Fitness Swimmers and Triathletes

Doc Counsilman was lightyears ahead of anyone in the sport and is still far ahead of most world class coaches in his understanding of swimming physics and mechanics. His discovery of propulsive forces generated by elite swimmers ranks as one of the greatest discoveries of sports biomechanics in the 20th century. The physiology and psychology parts of this book can be learned from other sources.

The New Science of Swimming book is one of the best books I've read regarding swimming. It covers everything from psychology to technique to physiology.

As someone who swam for the great Doc Councilman (What's up Doc? Elbows!) I can't sing his phrases enough. He was (and in many ways still is) a man on the cutting edge of coaching. An Olympic coach for the greatest - Mark Spitz, Jim Halliburton and many, many more! He studied the technique that brought out the sheer speed in a swimmer and applied it to the stroke and taught it so people could learn. In one summer I took 8 seconds off my 100 meter butterfly! Buy the book if you want to learn how to make a swimmer into a winner!

The poetry of E.E. Cummings is a pure example of the what the modernist period represented in American literature. Having been a volunteer with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps and prisoner of war during World War I, Cummings's poetry resonate his pre-war and aftermath experience as well as the artists and writers that influenced his work, Cubism and Post-Impressionism and Ezra Pound and Carl Sandburg. This is exhibited in one of Cummings's first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys, which is organized in Cummings's original manuscript form with the over 100 poems in tact.

Published in 1923 but revised throughout the years to get it as close to how Cummings arranged the poems, readers will see a display of fragmented and unconventional style of avant-garde prose in their most unusual organization in terms of grammar and punctuation that distinguishes his poetry. Or as avant-garde critic Edmund Wilson once attested, "eccentric punctuation" (xvii). However, the underlying meaning of each poem is comprehensible with the delicacy of eroticism, "--GON splashes sink", benevolent innocence, "where did you go" and sweeping and epic prose, "Epithalamion" and "Puella Mea," which all came from the creative mind of a 25 year old Cummings. And with most works of poetry there is a certain imagery that is conveyed with each distinct poem that resembles a work of art.

All of the poems and sonnets have a significance of their own, but readers may find several that may become their favorites. For those who enjoy reading poetry or the curious, Tulips and Chimneys may be the place to start when encountering the poetry of E.E. Cummings.

This book stands as Cummings' most playful spontaneous ecstatic intimate beautiful poems ever written.

Many of his later collections are too directly philosophical (all the abstractions can really make the poems more of a complex thinking exercise rather than a felt experience) & too syntactically disjointed (disjointed to the point in which frustration replaces giddy enjoyment) in my opinion. however This collection is honestly COMPELLING & practical while maintaining the experimental edge--beautiful & true & honest & surreal & magical & beyond Anything .

The last 30 pages of this book (the '&' manuscript) contain some of the best poems ever written in the English language I'm serious

Having glanced at his work in the past, I didn't think I'd like Cummings' work at all. It seemed 'pastiche poetry', pretty words smattered all over a page with no connecting thread. I couldn't have been further from the truth; even his shortest pieces ("I Am Going To Utter A Tree..") Cummings sometimes archiac style is unmistakably his own. Some of his "Unrealities" blend poetic word salads with ingenious covert metaphor: ("be these haunters of dreams always demurely half smiling from cool faces..") Cummings outdoes the beats with his crazed verbal exhortations to life. Simply reading or glancing at a few pages of his work makes one want to write. Above all, he is fun and certainly beyond imitation.

Tulips and Chimneys are poems which begin early in cummings carreer but are stunning in their simplicity, clarity and maturity. His erotocism, imagery and sensitivity to the beauty of nature manifest themselves in the juxtaposition of thought and its connection to his relationship to the physical environment as he has experienced it.

I love his flow of sense as it metamorphosizes through his words. It is never without deliberate meaning.

Tulips and Chimneys is a book to carry with you in bookbag or backpack or car or leave at work or in the bathroom or wherever you have a minute to restore your sense of wonder; of the wonder of what one person's mind can do to delight.

Well written - a very clear and good account of plant biology and the various concepts involved. Very good illustrations. I'm pleased to say that the chemistry aspect of plant biology is not as overwhelming (or as heavily emphasized) as it can be in some books, that are of a comparable educational level.

OK, so I may be a little biased, but I took Linda Graham's general botany class last year, in which this book is followed to the letter. Although I didn't read the book thoroughly, Professor Graham's lectures covered everything in it. I enjoyed learning the material in this book, as is covers a wide spectrum of things about plants. Although the last couple of chapters (dealing with conservation of resources, etc.) were a bit tedious at times (since it's all stuff that has been pounded into our heads for years), the rest of the book is excellent. A nice blend of pictures, examples, and explanations.

I've known many biology textbooks, but this has the nicest and best photos you could ever find. Though this book mainly aims for non-majors, I, a botany graduate student, still find it very useful and informative. Highly recommend this for people who want to know about general plant biology, but have been intimidated by heavy, thick textbooks.

This is a delightful little book, full of insights from poets and philosophers who span more than 20 centuries and as many languages. While most of the authors are famous, most of the quotations are not, so you can expect surprises. Simple line-drawn illustrations by the editor, Cicely Buckley, add to the charm of the volume. This timeless classic will make a great gift for anyone you care about, no matter their age.

Margaret Grierson, archivist at Smith College, wrote of the jewels in this collection from 25 centuries and 5 continents, on the Art of Living, Freedom from Oppression and the Natural Way, by LAO TSU, haiku, and Persian poets. With index by authors and original languages, which are often included with the English translations: the Greeks and Romans (Pericles and Robert Kennedy share a page on war); Isaiah and Palestinian poets and JFK speak of the children. Antonio Machado and a Japanese proverb remind us that "we make our own way as we go...se hace camino al andar", Rabelais says laughter is the essence of man while Camus turns a corner to discover the beauty of morning dew. A Finnish proverb says "when you drink the water, think of the well", while the Russian version says "remember the well-digger." Harlan Ellison (script writer of one of the memorable Star Wars scenarios) gives the worst case scenario for the world, against which Eluard's Seasons and Asian wisdom from Persia and the far East shine, while Thomas Hardy reminds us, in planning, to take a good look at the worst. Listen to Cervantes: La musica compone los animos descompuestos ~ Music restores broken souls and lightens the worries of the mind. Heed the advice of a Nigerian proverb: The biting fly gets no satisfaction on the back of a turtle. Scott Momaday and other native Americans wisely propose what it takes to make a beautiful day. 3rd edition now includes e.e.cummings, Thoreau, Wordsworth, Paul Eluard.

I, highly recommend this DVDs, there is 14 outstanding video documentaries in the compilation. It is not "How To" videos but more like a private interview with the artist and the understanding of his process to create master pieces.
Beautiful videography, it is very entertaining with great music, a great visit of the home and workshop of those amazing wood artists

Even though I was told it had a dent in the spine, it was so small and at the bottom of it that I had to look very close to the book spine to see it. It was in better condition. It also showed up at the given dates.

As the preface says, written by e.e. cummings in his usual style, this is not a book for mostpeople. 'The poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople.'

The poetry of ee cummings is something that most Americans gain exposure to during secondary school (and very rarely in the education of those outside America) -- he is often seen as an acceptable example of one who broke the rules -- rules, the teacher will often hasten to add, which must be mastered before they can be acceptably broken.

Yet this is not what ee cummings would hope had come of his legacy. In reading his poetry in this edition, his prose, his theatrical writings, and his unpublished manuscripts (some of which have been published under the title Etc.), a new vision begins to emerge of a real maverick--not someone who wanted to break the rules, but someone who eschewed the idea of rules so completely that breaking them was beyond the question, for that would have to recognise the value of the rules.

And yet, some rules creep in:

'the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds
(also, with the church's protestant blessings
daughters, unscented shapeless spirited)'

This is a classic example of a cummings sonnet--adhering to rhyme and meter, yet very original.

Or, perhaps not that original. Unfortunately, ee cummings has become a conventional unconventionality. He was a success at being different--at one point only cummings and Frost, New Englanders both, with very different vines growing on the respective sides of their fence, were able to make a living solely from their writing while concentrating on poetry.

This text contains the entirety of the first six of 12 published volumes of poetry cummings produced in his lifetime. In this we find his faith, his politics, his social criticism and his social prejudices, and his ideas of love and desire.

Some of his poetry is best meant to be read aloud, as all good poetry ultimately finds its best expression not on the lifeless page but in the spirited, feeling telling. There is an incredible sense (try reading it aloud, slowly).

'I sing of Olaf glad and big
whose warmest heart recoiled at war:
a conscientious object-or'

Some of the cummings poetry, however, is simplicity and verges on the concrete. These sometimes resort to cleverness that might have been genius of observation at the time but unfortunately due to overexposure now just seem an elementary type of cleverness. Of course, simplicity is so often overlooked, that when it is seen, we often react not as we should.

Arrangement on the page is so critical to cummings perception of how things must be that the lastest editions of his poetry are put in typewriter typeset (the way he composed and envisioned his poetry). The medium is part of the message, he would have said.

Try to read cummings with a new eye, and look for that which would have been shocking to the more standard and rule-bound Cambridge soul.

If you are interested in understanding more about Developmental Psychopathology, with particualr attention to family processes, this is a great book. The authors provide a nice introduction into current methodological approaches in developmental psychopathology and provide a nice intro into the next generation of research questions. A particularly good book for graduate students!!!!

norman (friend of cummings) has created this exquisite work in the true style of cummings, holding the interest of any true cummings lover endlessly; this book gives a true feeling of fullness and (character and content) - do love it as i do...