books by Granta Books     books:       The Last Cigarette (Smoking Diaries Volume 3) Simon Gray Granta Books, 2008             Nickel and Dimed7 reviews Barbara Ehrenreich Granta Books, 2002 At the end of the day "At the end of the day You're another day older That's all you can say of the life of the poor." Welcome to Bush- and,shortly. post-Bush America, when more than 30% of Americans will be unable to find work that carries them beyond one's day's meals. A must read.             The Wild Places1 review Robert MacFarlane Granta Books, 2007 beautiful evocation of a disappearing landscape I love books about travel, esp in Britain, and I love nature. So I thought this book might be the perfect match. I was not disappointed! First, the book is filled with detailed descriptions of what he is seeing, so that you are seeing it too. His writing reminds me much of Chet Raymo's. I was esp fascinated with the map he made of the wild areas he is exploring. Its a map that doesn't look like ...             Native Speaker72 reviews Chang-Rae Lee Granta Books, 1998 Auspicious Literary Debut by a Great American Writer of Fiction For a long time I have resisted reading Chang Rae Lee's "Native Speaker", even though it's been recommended to me by others on numerous occasions. I suppose that resistance is due to my reluctance to embrace fully the work of Asian-American writers, when I see myself as someone who is an American who just happens to be of East Asian descent, and thus, interested in reading what I believe is great ...             Fat Chance1 review Simon Gray Granta Books, 2005 Intelligent. Fascinating. Enjoyable. I read the book because I've been a Stephen Fry fan for years and had not heard about the event the book describes. Gray writes clearly and beautifully, brings you with him into the theatre world as he tells his side of the story, with some (understandable) frustration but without recrimination. I intend to read more of Gray's work.             The Radetzky March31 reviews Joseph Roth Granta Books, 2003 Helpful hint I have little to add to the helpful reviews here but just wish to inform readers: Michael Hoffman's superb translation is now available in the US - ASIN 1862076057 - and is the best translation of this wonderful work.             The Inferno6 reviews Ciaran Carson Granta Books, 2004 Medieval vision of the afterlife This was required reading for a graduate course in medieval history. Dante Alighieri's (1265-1321) "Devine Comedy" weaved together aspects of biblical and classical Greek literary traditions to produce one of the most important works of not only medieval literature, but also one of the great literary works of Western civilization. The full impact of this 14,000-line poem divided into 100 ...             How to Read Hume (How to Read) Simon Blackburn Granta Books, 2008             The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol11 reviews N.V. Gogol Granta Books, 2003 Sheer Genius (and a good translation) This is the kind of writing that makes me questions why movies even exist. The style, the sentences, the humor, the feel is all something unique, unpredictable, and unmistakable. These plots are bizarre, intriguing and it is nearly impossible to guess the endings. All this coming from a translated work is a success for the writer and the translators. The Overcoat, Diary of a Madman, & the Nose ...             Global Woman4 reviews Granta Books, 2003 Fact-filled, careful study In brief essays, the authors present generally unbiased academic discussions of the globalization of female workers. Though hardly a new phenomenon, it has dramatically increased in the last 50 years and is a topic that is deserving of this type of examination. The topics are clearly delineated between domestic workers, cheap labor and the sex trade - however, there are unfortunates whose ...             Imperium23 reviews Ryszard Kapuscinski Granta Books, 1998 Sine qua non A lyrical masterpiece by this superlative writer! Nowhere have I found a dissection of the Evil Empire done with such fluid verse. He goes from the periphery into the heart of the beast and everywhere he discovers that appearances deceive and what seems to signal change is really a re-hash of old. Kapuczinski's sharp analysis and trenchant comments will be sorely missed!             The Massacre at El Mozote (Classics of Reportage)10 reviews Mark Danner Granta Books, 2005 A lesson for our times Mark Danner's short book, The Massacre at El Mozote, is an extremely powerful depiction of not only what can go wrong with US foreign policy, but of the lengths politicians will go through to convince us that what they are doing is, in fact, right. The thoroughness and integrity of Danner's investigation cannot be disputed; on top of that, he is very adept at leaving readers to draw their own ...             A Country in the Moon : Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland Michael Moran Granta Books, 2008             What Do Catholics Believe? Leonie Caldecott Granta Books, 2008             Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination1 review Robert Macfarlane Granta Books, 2004 Good trees, but a disappointing forest In this book, MacFarlane tries to trace the process by which humans - - well, European humans - - came to view mountains as places of beauty, glory, and adventure. He doesn't succeed in giving us an answer but he provides a lot of stories, and a little history, on these thems. He builds the story around themes such as scientific research into geology, glaciers, and the nature of time; fear ...             Hatless Jack10 reviews Neil Steinberg Granta Books, 2005 A fascinating look at a major cultural change Imagine if all of a sudden men starting going outside without pants on. (Let's for the moment ignore the teenagers who wear them so low they are essentially pantless, wearing tall socks rather than trousers.) We would be startled, shocked, confused, and wonder what had happened. Well, this is what occurred during the 20th Century with hats. Look at old photos of busy New York streets and you'll ...             Mona In the Promised Land22 reviews Gish Jen Granta Books, 1998 A Very Interesting Read! I had to read this for class and I thought it was an extremely interesting read. I thought the characters were, although at times stereotypical, also came alive on the page. I thought this book explored many racial attitudes and what it means to be from a certain race or culture.              search for books believe, catholics, chance, cigarette, classics, collected, country, diaries, fascination, global, hatless, history, imperium, inferno, massacre, mountains, mozote, native, nickel, nikolai, places, poland, promised, radetzky, reportage, search, smoking, speaker, travels, volume 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: Regenerative and Cell Therapy: Clinical Advances (Ernst Schering ... we recommend Sine qua non Impressum - about us get your own free tagboard