Lawrence Books

The reviewers didn't get this book. Ferlinghetti speaks to the heart of American experience here in the spirit of John Dos Passos "USA" but without Dos Passos political hysteria. Americus is a great overview of American poetics while at the same time being this incredible distillation of Ferlighetti's own vision of American and the world. To read this book is to revisit some of Ferlinghetti's best writing as he looks back on the world so far. It is an incredible achievment in a time where it is so unfashionable to be political or to see the world beyond the elitest confines of academic poetry. The Publisher's Weekly review misses the mark, he does not try to rival Whitman or Pound, but he takes that voice into our new millenium. I see him as a continuation of the work that so many modern poets are afraid to take up. I am looking forward to book II.

I purchased this book for my high school's library and it has proven to be very popular. We also have many of Rosen's other titles and they all have been an important assett to us.

This book is well written and gives a good description of the life and times in the medical world.

Any college-level collection strong in Huxley literature needs SELECTED LETTERS: it's a powerful gathering of his personal and intellectual life in letters - most of them published for the first time - and is especially notable in light of the fact that of some ten thousand letters he wrote, only a fraction have previously been published - and that this volume comes nearly forty years after the first appearance of another volume of letters. These here have never been published, providing a fine new collection for any college-level library already strong in Huxley works, who would round out their offerings with nonfiction.

I was first exposed to this book six years ago when I was a freshman in high school. As the primary text for my History of Guam class, this book served as a significant resource. The book is full of color (in the words) and life. It is not a dry review of a people, but tells their story. Rather than just stating facts, Larry told about the culture and the people as a whole. This book truly brings back to life an ancient people.

This book contains six one-page size puzzles. The pictures are much like the front cover. My 5-year-old loves this book, but I think all early elementary age kids would enjoy this (if they like puzzles!). I think there is also an Ancient Egypt puzzle book made by the same company.

This text is a great academic source for the serious study (as opposed to 'those Indians did some nice art') of petroglyphs and pictographs in general, and more specifically for the key sites in Wyoming and near Billings. The writing is clear, concise and precise. The sources cited are all solid and the bibliography is valuable. The printing is excellent and the cover is very appealing to view. It is the best book on the subject. I am happy someone wrote it.

I don't actually own this book, but I took it out from the library and enjoyed reading it. The author, who lived in Angola for several years, did a good job of explaining the history of Angola and its people from the first contact with the Portuguese up until the independence. The book explains many of the conflicts Angola has suffered and continues to suffer as a result of colonialism, ethnolinguistic clashes, and the conflict of African and european nationalisms. A good resource for information on how the April 25 Movement in Portugal related to the independence of Angola.

No easy reading, but complete, good, and useful.
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this has to be the best book for children i have read in a long time. i read to my grandchildren more then anyother in the past 6 month's they just love it could be a very good children's movie there is also a lesson for kids ;that not everything isn't better somewhere else i hope it becomes a best seller..
this book is not so long it get's boring and the names of the animals is the best ever thankyou MR.TILLEY WELL DONE