Moore Books

50 practical ideas of Buckminster Fuller. 50-page booklet designed for the layman. Each page has a b&w graphic with the best references listed below. 2-page summary of Fuller's "Grand Strategy for Solving World's Problems" on inside covers. Great introduction to the 20th Century's most important thinker.

I love Evan Moor products. This resource is great for my Kindergarten students who are on-level or who have emerging sound-letter awareness.

Hi !!!! If you are looking for a book for your 4-5 yr olds (and maybe even older children) ,who are showing interest in reading,this is the best book you can find..
Excellent examples to explain long and short Vowels,Phonics,word endings, silent e etc. to your kids. The ALL in one Book !!!. My daughter is five and I was browsing for some good books to get her interested in the Grammer behind good reading skills and found this book immensely helpful. I wish I had ordered the LevelA and LevelB books right from the time she started showing interest in reading...A MUST HAVE Book for all the children learning to read.....

Another awesome book for sight words..."100 words your kid needs to know by grade 1" by Scholastic.

I bought this package for my BYU online STATS course. They wanted me to buy a hardback text package from their bookstore. Thankfully, this package included a soft text and everything else that I needed for the class (cds, text, practice book, etc). And I saved about $100! Yea!!!!

This is one of those core Batman titles.You get to see The Joker before the accident that turned his skin white,his lips red and his hair green.He was a comedian that turned into a criminal and fell into a vat of chemicals at a playing card factory. This title came out a year and 4 months before the original Batman movie premiered in 1989. It was a backstory or preview to the movie.The origin story in this comic was used in the film except for the comedian part and the chemical plant was called Axis Chemicals. But this story gives you a idea of just how mentally cracked the Joker is.Killing to him is funny and he makes it so with deadly pranks.Some DC fans think that the Joker isn't crazy at all and that it is a persona or mask that he puts on.He gets locked up in Arkham for a while and then he walks out again.Batman won't kill him because he would be a murderer.And for obvious reasons in the DC Universe,Batman can't exist without The Joker.Pick this first edition up if you are a serious collector,but also get the new 20th Anniversary Hardcover for reading purposes.And if you want to know more about 'ol Jack Napier/Joker,pick up The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told.They are all good reads!

The Bears of Paris is a modern match for Dante's _Inferno_. The poems in this collection give us today's Man-in-the-city in the character of Fatslug dodging the slings and arrows of our fates, often pierced and wounded. Yet the poems reaffirm our essential humanity, the struggle to love and to be loved. While thoroughly rooted in our times, the poems also connect us with events from history, revealing the nature of suffering. Moore takes on the subject of evil and Man's inhumanity to man with Swiftian wit. Miles Moore has a deadly satiric eye for human failings, the interactions of daily life, intended and unintentional cruelties, and yet writes with much empathy of the consequent pain inflicted on the victims. Many of the poems such as "Two Men", "I love Barbie Taylor, T. Mc" and "Dead Boy in the Road at Fredericksburg" deserve to be included in anthologies of the best American poetry. "Dead Boy.." ends with this panoramic fade on the photograph from the Civil War: "Through the millenia the murdered march/ To someone else's tune and memory/ And through some other guy's triumphal arch./ You and they are no one. You're history./ Repeating rifles always bear repeating./ The silent beast that ate you keeps on eating."

This is a fascinating and satisfying collection with poetry that gives us much to ponder.

I have always been facinated with Howard Hughes the entrepeneur, the visionaire, the inventor. After reading this book, I am more impressed with his charitable nature and his simple, uncomplicated caring for the rest of his fellow humans. What an incredible man!!

On Marianne Moore ...

"The keynote of Williams's 1925 characterization of Moore, and of the diminution of Moore subsequently, is his image of the porcelain garden. As used within Williams's essay, this is a positive image. It is meant to underscore Moore's uniqueness and originality."

On Emily Dickinson . . .

"a tiny friend of tiny living things. Since she supposedly never left her home and garden, she could be read as the poet of the conservatory, the potted exotic of American verse."

BECOMING CANONICAL IN AMERICAN POETRY by Timothy Morris offers a brilliant compendium of essays on Walt Whitman as the "American Homer," Emily Dickinson as the "Supposed Person," Marianne Moore as William's "Porcelain Garden," along with articles on the early reception of Elizabeth Bishop, and the continuing presence of Emily Dickinson.

With humor, history, and wonderment en excellent introduction to how these great writers became "great' in orthodox and unorthodox scholarahip.

This interesting novel, set in the seventeenth century, is quilted from patches of history, fiction, and metafiction. Samanya, the protagonist, witnesses the massacre of his family in Africa as a boy and is forced into slavery. The central cast of fictional characters includes a Dutch spy, a Virginia blacksmith, the blacksmith's wife, their son, a Quaker peddler, and two Native Americans.

The author focuses on how words both help and hinder the exploration of truth and lies. The book's theme is the manner in which choices made by the characters in the face of the challenging circumstances of fate leads to their destinies. The plot winds through a web of conflicts, secrets, lies, sins, and desires.

The story spans about three decades years of the protagonist's life, as he deals with terror and its consequences in his quest to overcome them. The last part of the story involves a war in New England that occurred a century before the American Revolution, the details of which are not well known to many Americans.

I greatly enjoyed reading this book.

I ran in to this book completely by accident. Then, seeing the author's name, I immediately ordered it, and read the book at one sitting. I was a frequent weekly, weekend, and day visitor to the Moores at 1611 Wallace Street in Philadelphia during the mid 80's. The author is truly an amazing woman, and I always felt that about her. Naturally, I learned of many unhappy moments, years, and incidents, of which I was not aware, which put many other things into perspective for me. The chapters are short, readable, and at times very amusing, as Marcy literally takes the reader around the world. I would recommend this book highly, as it is thoroughly enjoyable; and also very sad as well, learning of what she had to deal with.