Brandt Books

I hardly know where to start with this one. This wonderful book is a cookbook, but it is so much more. Lovingly illustrated and organized, this book contains recipes that are typical of the many different Anabaptist groups that came to the New World - the Hutterites, the Pennsylvania Germans, and the Mennonites of the Netherlands, West Prussia, Poland, Russia, and...everywhere. But, added to the recipes are beautiful pen and ink illustrations, folk stories, pictures, trivia, poems, and so much more.

Yes, this is a wonderful book. It's not just a useful cookbook (which it is!), but it's also a cultural expression, and a wonderful heirloom to be passed on. (My book belonged to my grandmother.) I love this book, and highly recommend it to everyone.

This is a very useful book. Lots of good essays and central ideas concerning theater. The value is in gathering such material together so it's quickly available and at hand.

Mr. Tubbs' Civil War discusses the war through the letters received by a Charles Tubbs by his friends. Mr Tubbs never went to battle, but learned about the great battles of that war through the letters he received. The letters are ungrammatical, often crudely written. But they give you a great perspective on the civil war. I enjoyed it

The most magnificent book of neurology published within the last 10 years. If you haven't read this you should not be dabbling in neurology

Gailly writes bare-bones narrative - non-sequential with broken syntax. But do read the book before reading the introduction - the literary school and structural devices are not required to enjoy the book.

The narrator gives the story in third person - moving from the end of vacation to return of hidden letter to workers' strike to Asia road construction to civil unrest to reunion with love. The tone of the narrator varies from neutral observer to intimate knowledge of the inner thoughts of characters. At times the disjointed prose leans towards stream of consciousness; at other times, the punctuation severs relationships between elements of an otherwise normal sentence; still other times the disrupted syntax reveals pure perception without mental overlays of meaning.

Through it all, Gailly manages to create narrative tension in the reader - you want to know what happened/will happen. You want to understand more about the characters. In short, it is a very literary good read of a mystery-romance.

An example of the prose: "A name like this. Or like that. Sounded like this. She made some noises with her mouth while moving her fingers, then: I wonder, she said, what family of instruments, what coupling, or marriage, could make that sound." Or "Brought it to his lips. And. With a stiff movement of his neck. As if caught in a vice. He emptied it. Put it down. Then. A pause."

if you are a cat lover like me, you will love this book! i love it!

I don`t... but it sure made me want one. This book is a wonderful collection of quality literature pieces devoted to dogs of all kinds : sofa dogs, mud dogs, wild dogs. The greatest names have contributed, some in loving tribute to their best friend. I warmly recommend it. Some of the stories are totally fascinating, so well do they penetrate the mysterious psychology of dogs. I read it in two days.

This book is totally excellent. This book sheds much light on quantum mechanics with its excellent graphical representations of the functions involved. The CD-ROM is also great. The companion book which introduces the computer software usd to generate many of these graphics is also great and brings a physics lab into your own room (well as far as is possible)! These books make the reader feel like a physicist rather than a recipient of some authour's bruised ego as the authour tries to confuse the reader by demonstrating 'mathematical prowess' by making their subject dull and unintelligible. This book is beautiful and inspiring and a must for anyone interested in quantum mechanics. The text contains a lot of detail, but the accompanying images make even the harder parts a joy to read. Since reading this book I have decided that a proper physics book is not simply a half-explained mathematical proof splattered on paper with accompanying problems that try to out-smart competing authours, but a good physics book is, like this one, about physics! Physics can be a very visual subject, so let's make it so! If more books were as well thought out as this one then we would have more first-class physicists!

A psychology that canmnot explain how human beings develop psychological systems, theories, research methods, techniques, and treatments falls short of its goal. In this book, Dr. Brandt investigates how close to the goal various systems come. Beginning with a discussion of his own premises, which are largely bases on his own experience, he proceeds to consider the premises of various schools of psychology - behaviorist, psychoanallytic, gestalt, phenomenological, genetic, and dialectical-materialist. Brandt demonstrates how each is bound by a number of frameworks in which psyvhologists are caught. He discusses the roles played by different language backgrounds, interests and value systems, conceptualizations of the natural sciences, tastes, and religious systems, in determining the kind of psychology any given psychologists follow and try to promote.

The author's approach in this book combines phenomenological and psychoanalitic approaches on the basis of their common hermeneutic approach. He draws upon a number of European works, cheifly German and Russian, not available in English, key sections of which he has translated. This book, therefore, is a unique introduction to recent German and Russian psychology for unilingual English readers. It will be of interest to a wide audience including practising psychologists and psychoatrists, philosophers of science, and those in the fields of social and theoretical psychology, and of systems and methodology.
--- from book's back cover

The Pushcart Prize is the most wonderful and rewarding annual anthology out there because, for one thing, it's the most fair--as Bill Henderson says in his introduction, there's no money here. You don't have to have written a bestseller or be in with the "New Yorker" crowd in order to be published here. All you have to do is be a good writer. Here is fiction and poetry at its rawest and purest form, from writers who write for the sake of writing, for the sheer love of it. This is a noble thing.