books about: gustave     books:       Gustave Baumann 2009 Wall Calendar Pomegranate, 2008 Gustave Baumann (American, b. Germany, 1881 1971) studied in Munich at a time when some of the world s most innovative block printing was being done there. In 1918 he moved to the American Southwest, where for more than fifty years he captured the crystalline light and rich colors of the landscape with affection, grace, and subtlety. This calendar presents twelve of Baumann s brilliant, meticulously crafted woodcuts, among them Rio Tesuque, The ...             The Crowd17 reviews Gustave Le Bon Dover Publications, 2002 A very important book.. Influenced Lenin and Mussolini This is a very important book on political theory and tactics. Lebon presents a very incisive study of mass psychology. He's not a popular fellow with some in light of his cynical view of democracy. However, whether or not you agree with his views on this, his views on political tactics are brilliant. For more books on subjects like this including communism and fascism, see my profile.             Milton's Paradise Lost6 reviews John Milton Book Sales, 2006 Breathtaking With its fine binding, large type, and beautiful paper, this large addition of Milton's Paradise Lost will make a handsome addition to any shelf. Some will say that it is not well suited for the first time reader, lacking the line notes of other annotated additions. I would beg to differ, as such commentary, while deepening ones understanding, can also detract from the majesty of Milton's words. ...             Le Desert (Folio Ser .: No 1670) Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio Gallimard Education, 1987             The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability12 reviews James Gustave Speth Yale University Press, 2008 The view on this bridge is inspiring. The view from the Bridge at the Edge of the World is inspiring. Dean Speth offers hope if you are willing to work hard to make the world a better place for humans and all other life. He challenges the cultural values that lead us to avarice and greed and insists that we can do better, we can do much better. We can rise up to become proper stewards of the Earth. As a four decade ...             The Dore Bible Illustrations8 reviews Gustave Dore Dover Publications, 1974 A fun, easy way to learn more about the Bible In 1865, Gustave Dore illustrated an edition of the Bible with drawings that are popular to this day. This collection of Dore's 241 Bible plates from Dover Publications sells for a very reasonable price. I think some of Dore's illustrations are wonderful. Among my favorites are a portrait of Amos, Jesus and the woman of Samaria, and the arrival of the Good Samaritan at the inn. One thing that ...             Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise6 reviews Dante Alighieri Chartwell Books, 2006 A classic only for $17.98 NOTE: Barnes and Noble sells it for only $17.98 in store or online. Great translation.The classic black and white illustrations by THE master Gustave Dore. A must for your classics library. I bought it at B&N, very happy with the quality of paper and the lay-out. This title is quite large in size, almost coffee table book style. Not for dragging around the beach. Highly recommended!             Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)21 reviews Gustave Flaubert Penguin Classics, 2002 A Compelling, Complex, Classic "The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?'" Sigmund Freud This is one unforgettable classic! I don't even know how to begin describing it, mainly because of the complexity of the main character Emma Bovary. When I finished this novel (almost in ...             Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (Oxford World's Classics)197 reviews Gustave Flaubert, Malcolm Bowie, ... Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Wow, what a prescient novel This is a very well written novel. It deserves its high status in the cannon of world literature. The most unique and surprising thing about this novel is that it seems to be so timely and modern. Though it was written long before our consumer driven culture of debt, it seems to understand these issues is a weirdly foretelling way. I was an English literature major in college so I was exposed to ...             The Dore Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy17 reviews Gustave Dore Dover Publications, 1976 An Excellent book for the Doré or Dante lover The quality of this book - along with an amazingly affordable price tag - quickly persuaded me to pick up a copy. Its really everything you could ask for in an art book; The pictures are all very big, but not overwhelming; Its easy to see minute detail, and the overall scope of the image. I actually blew up some of the prints in photoshop and printed them on huge poster paper for my room, ...             The Rime of the Ancient Mariner3 reviews Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chartwell Books, 2008 Similar to Dover edition This review is just to point out that this edition is basically the same as the The Dover Edition with the following exceptions: 1. The Dore engravings are slightly reduced in size in this edition. 2. This edition's introduction focuses mostly on Coleridge and the Dover edition's is all about Dore. 3. This edition has a few additional selections of Coleridge poetry at the end. These are nice ...             A Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics)26 reviews Gustave Flaubert Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Flaubert's Sentimental Education: one reason why life's worth living. "I want to write the moral history of the men of my generation-- or, more accurately, the history of their feelings. It's a book about love, about passion; but passion such as can exist nowadays--that is to say, inactive." --Flaubert on Sentimental Education. Best known for his novel, Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert's (1821-1880) last novel, Sentimental Education (L'Éducation sentimentale, ...             Flaubert's Parrot31 reviews Julian Barnes Vintage, 1990 A review of Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes is a book I have had queuing up to read for some time. I don't know why I have never got round to reading it. Perhaps it's because of the overtly "literary" tag that was attached to it when it was short-listed for the Booker Prize. I am not against "literary" fiction. Far from it: indeed I aspire to write it, after a fashion. My avoidance of Flaubert's Parrot ...             Coeur Brule: Et Autres Romances Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio Gallimard Education, 2002             The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind1 review Gustave le Bon Boomer Books, 2008 Brilliant Notwithstanding Its Perceived Legacy Many readers of this 1895 book will be intrigued by the notion that 20th century dictators allegedly based their regimes on it. The false inference that this book promotes totalitarianism is an unfortunate result. Not only does Le Bon remain scientific and neutral with regard to the applications of his study, but so too does this book offer us great insight into the psychology of crowds that ...             Inferno (Modern Library Classics)106 reviews Dante Modern Library, 2003 A powerful translation of a masterpiece There have been several excellent translations of Dante in the past few years, all worth reading in their own right. But I retain a special affection for John Ciardi's version, as it's the first one I ever read, at the unprepared & overwhelmed age of 15. I knew of its reputation as a major classic & I was ignorant enough to be unfazed by the prospect of reading it. Well, to say that I was soon ...             Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, second edition (Yale Nota Bene)11 reviews James Gustave Speth Yale University Press, 2005 Serious threat to profits! Sure pal, anything you say. A gripping book. Yes..ANOTHER global warming book..but it does link habitat loss, ocean health and sustainability all together similar to Paul and Ann Ehrlich's "One With Nineveh". Comprehensive. My favorite type of "global catastrophe" book. This author is extremely knowledgeable (he should be being a Yale Dean, I would hope so). He is hoping to reach younger people, like myself, but I don't ...             Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost" (Dover Pictorial Archives)5 reviews Gustave Dore Dover Publications, 1993 A necessary companion to the Literary Masterpiece Dore, known perhaps best for his woodcuts of Dante's "Divine Comedy", was not only a fantastic illustrator, but a prolific one as well, producing scores of woodcuts for great literature, including "The Holy Bible" and "Orlando Furioso". Before there were movies, a person could look at these pictures for motion, excitement, and dramatic storytelling. This is a necessary companion to "Paradise ...             The Dore Gallery: His 120 Greatest Illustrations (Dover Pictorial Archives)3 reviews Gustave Dore Dover Publications, 1997 A great buy ! This book is really great because it provides the reader with an extensive view of Dore's work. It displays more than a hundred high quality full-paged engravings for a very low price. I was utterly delighted when I found this book : I am French and though Gustave Dore is a French artist, it is at present impossible to find here such books as the Dore series published by Dover Publishers.             Gustave Courbet3 reviews Sylvain Amic, Kathryn Calley Galitz, ... Hatje Cantz, 2008 major new study of the art, life, and ideas of the French painter Courbet Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) embraced the democratic ideas and values taking root in French Society following the overthrow of the French monarchy in the latter 1700s not only in his art, but in all other areas of his life as well. A moody bohemian-like person who naturally drifted to the margins of society, Courbet nonetheless sought political positions. At one time, he was the mayor of Paris's ...              search for books america, ancient, archives, calendar, capitalism, classics, courbet, crossing, edition, education, environment, flaubert, gallery, greatest, gustave, illustrations, inferno, library, manners, mariner, morning, paradise, penguin, pictorial, popular, provincial, purgatory, romances, sentimental, sustainability books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Lectures on Monte Carlo Methods we recommend Wow, what a prescient novel leave a comment home  impressum - about us