Kentucky Books

Written by the commander, this book contains interesting insights into one of the "hot" conflicts of the Cold War, which very few people in the U.S. even remember today. It makes an excellent companion to the Leavenworth Paper on the same subject.

este pequeno libro, ofrece una ligera introduccion a la literatura norteamericana,vista desde la perspectiva de borges. es el unico libro que he leido de el en ingles y me parecio algo liviano, como para estudiantes. en el no brilla borges el erudito, sino el critico y este muy poco. el final del libro hay cortas biografias de los mas importantes autores norteamericanos.

LUIS MENDEZ

The Irish Play on the New York Stage has been awarded the Michael J. Durkan Prize of the American Conference for Irish Studies, given annually to the best book in Literary Criticism/ Arts Criticism/Cultural Studies. Lucy McDiarmid, President, American Conference for Irish Studies

The purpose for my search for Isaac Johnson was interesting because like artwork it is controversial in nature and ignites various responses. The review of Isaac Johnson of Kentucky is very similar to most Black Americans. Therefore, I'm very interested to know more information about him. His siblings names, Also, who his wife was. Your review in my opinion is not funny, as some reviews have said. By his father being a slave owner and his mother a slave shows that she was not in love with him; in fact most likely taken to him. His father selling them into slavery and his mother back into slavery tells the bitter truth of why so many black people are angry and bitter. Yet, through the belief in a higher power is why so many are strong, love all and continue to endure. To know your history is to know yourself. This story is interesting and should be told as well as others like this. Hopefully Isaac Johnson of Kentucky found his siblings and his wife in Canada. Thank God he escaped without death or else that would have been another generation lost. "God, forgive them for they know not what they have done." Black America has always accepted interracial children as there own people, because the government and the people of our country didnot. This is nothing new. (interracial children)It appears that the government and religious leaders are now more accepting because of the benefits it may bring.

This book was an important part of my history. Isaac is my great great grandfather. He was such an important part of history. I appreciate that Mrs. Borries took the time to write this book and share his life with the world.

Sandi K Shelby

WOW! This is a great book for those who love the Singing cowboy group "Riders in the Sky". If you have never heard of them, try their music! You won't be disappointed!

This book covers nearly EVERYTHING a first time Riders fan could need to know (although there are a few areas of interest missing from this book! Guess you can't include everything in just one volume). A great book with fantastic stories, info and pictures (althought they deleted a few pics from the pre-publication copy....I have an editor's edition and they should have left in ALL the pictures in the final run of this book).

Riders in the Sky are reminescent of Roy Rogers & Gene Autry....but with a bit of "tongue-in-cheek" humor and a bit of their own twists added in. Regulars at the Opry and with a regular tour schedule sure to be hitting a state near you! Check out www.ridersinthesky.com for more info!

This book sheds devastating new life on Joyce's life and art, and is a must read.

The infection he contracted in his teens cause Joyce's iritis and near blindness, his funny walk, sexual impotence, his wife's miscarriage and hysterectomy, his daughter's madness, his early death and much else besides.

Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are crawling with allusions to syphilis and its symptoms, as is "The Sisters" of which the first version was composed in 1904, the year in which Joyce was first treated for the disease.

Victim of a nasty joke, Joyce responded to his miseries by clowning. His masterpieces are also confessional. Ferris asks us to "suspend Ellmann's construct of Joyce as a secular humanist" and see him "as a guilt-ridden, diseased, deracinated Catholic who repented his sins" and remained a frequent church-goer.

This book is well written and is a necessity to anyone researching their family regarding the sur names, Money, Noe, Sidebottom, Skaggs, Wright and many more.
This book has a lot of great history involved in it and is labor intensive, I would hate to think of the years involved in just preparing it to be written.

I had the pleasure of talking to Harold Money before his death, he was truley a remarkable man..

Joe Saylor

This is a regional study looking at many aspects of Japan, including its physical setting, history, population, agriculture, politics, urban areas, economics, environment, and future challenges, all liberally laced with illustrative photos (B&W), maps, and diagrams. Before the publication of this book, the only comprehensive work on Japan was done by Glenn Trewartha, last published in 1965, a 1945 update. With the relevance of Japan in today's world, it's surprising that something hasn't been done sooner.

Each chapter has a valuable list of references at the end, with dates from Ellen Churchill Semple's time to modern journal articles published in 2002, which make an interesting work in itself.

99% of the photos were taken by the author, so this is more of a first hand account of what's there than a library study.

This is a good book to find out what's actually occurring in Japan and why.

This book is an excellent companion piece to Milton studies, whether one is an undergraduate reading Milton for the first time, or a Milton scholar of a quarter-century's standing. Prof. Shawcross is recognized by his peers as the premier authority for Milton biography among scholars living today, and his former teacher, William Parker, held that rank for the previous generation. Though its approach is sufficiently psychological to earn it a classification among the works of that discipline by Library of Congress, it is densely populated by matters biographical. It addresses textual issues intermingled with a reliable account of the events of Milton's life, and includes a goldmine of insights gleaned over the decades of Prof. Shawcross's own meticulous readings, making Milton's works not only more comprehensible to the novice, but enriching the experience of reading them even for an "old hand."

Prof. Shawcross's writing style is lucid and non-pedantic, and the effort is a masterful one (not surprising, to anyone who knows his previous output). Like Nicolson's _Reader's Guide_ of several decades ago, _The Self and the World_ provides the rich background modern students need to understand the relevance of Milton studies to today's world -- only it does so even more successfully, in my opinion (and I have the greatest respect for Prof. Nicolson's work).

I would recommend this book to anyone teaching or studying Milton, at any level of expertise -- without reservation.