The Cave of Poison Grass: Essays on the Hannya Sutra (Companions of Zen Training)

Hasegawa, Seikan

Religion & Spirituality

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A distinguished ophthalmologist answers questions about the structure and workings of the eyes, glasses and contact lenses, eye injuries, and sight disorders and diseases of adults and children

The Eye Book: A Specialist's Guide to Your Eyes and Their Care

Esterman, Ben

Medical Books

A distinguished ophthalmologist answers questions about the structure and workings of the eyes, glasses and contact lenses, eye injuries, and sight disorders and diseases of adults and children

Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos.Beneath the surface of this enchanting fantasy lurks a devastating critique of human malevolence, stupidity, greed, vanity, and short-sightedness. A brilliant combination of adventure, humor, and philosophy, Gulliver’s Travels is one of literature’s most durable masterpieces. Michael Seidel is Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He has written widely on eighteenth-century literature. His books include Satiric Inheritance: Rabelais to Sterne (1979), Exile and the Narrative Imagination (1986), and Robinson Crusoe: Island Myths and the Novel (1991).

Gulliver's Travels

Literature & Fiction

Jonathan, Swift

Literary

The autobiography of Madeleine Slade, a young English woman who renounced her heritage of privilege to become, as Mirabehn, the intimate and trusted disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.

Spirit's Pilgrimage

Biographies & Memoirs

Mirabehn

Historical

The autobiography of Madeleine Slade, a young English woman who renounced her heritage of privilege to become, as Mirabehn, the intimate and trusted disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.

The Spirit's Pilgrimage

Language Notes\nText: English, German (translation)\nFrom Publishers Weekly\nTranslated from the German edition issued by Alfred C. Kalisher, whose notes are appended, this book informs and touches the reader deeply. Longtime friends of Ludwig van Beethoven, Wegeler and Ries published their recollections of the composer after his death in 1827. There are letters from Beethoven that testify to his tremendous emotional drive, his explosive temper and the suffering caused by his deafness. Wegeler was a childhood friend of the master who was born in Bonn in 1770. They were apart during Beethoven's years in Vienna, the period during which Ries became close to him. A musician, Ries was Beethoven's pupil, and he contributes data on the composer's works: symphonies, chamber music, sonatas, vocal music, etc. Primarily, however, the memorabilia presents the genius as a man "always in love" but never married, generous and kind, but frequently cruel, a complex being whose faults made him no less beloved to his friends. Photos. 
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Beethoven Remembered: The Biographical Notes of Franz Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries (English and German Edition)

Arts & Photography

Wegeler, Franz

Ries, Ferdinand

Music

The Everyday Genius: Restoring Children's Natural Joy of Learning

Explains why and how successful learning occurs. It is a practical guide for producing confident, eager learners at any age, in any school. Peter Kline's ideas and his ability to apply them in practical, down-to-earth situations have already helped transform the lives of many children, their families, and teachers. Any one of dozens of wonderfully simple and powerful ideas, games and exercises in this book could instantly ignite a spark, and change a life forever.

Kline, Peter

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

This is a book about life, not just about drawing from life. For forty years I have drawn the naked human body in all its variations on the human theme: white, black, male, female, fat, thin, young and old. It led me to doing ever less looking-at and ever more seeing--seeing humans in wonder and reverence. So that is the body you have to live in, has often gone through my head. the seeing and the drawing gradually became the single undivided act I called seeing/drawing...an ongoing meditation by hand and eye combined that taught me more about life than any psychologizing and philosophizing.- Frederick Franck

Life Drawing Life: On Seeing/Drawing the Human

FRANCK, Frederick

Drawing

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The Cave of Poison Grass: Essays on the Hannya Sutra (Companions of Zen Training)

The Eye Book: A Specialist's Guide to Your Eyes and Their Care

The Eye Book: A Specialist's Guide to Your Eyes and Their Care

Gulliver's Travels

Spirit's Pilgrimage

The Spirit's Pilgrimage

Beethoven Remembered: The Biographical Notes of Franz Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries (English and German Edition)

The Everyday Genius: Restoring Children's Natural Joy of Learning

The Everyday Genius: Restoring Children's Natural Joy of Learning

Life Drawing Life: On Seeing/Drawing the Human