books by Harvest, HBJ Book     books:       The Little Prince276 reviews Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Harvest/HBJ Book, 1982 [...] I don't know how to begin to describe The Little Prince. In some ways it is like reviewing love itself. While many books have touched me emotionally, this short children's story has gone farther and deeper than any other. Everything about it is perfection: sweet, sad, flawed perfection. It is a tale of tears. It is about loving so much that you would embrace pain, even death, for the beloved, of ...             The Life of the Mind (Combined 2 Volumes in 1)7 reviews Hannah Arendt Harvest/HBJ Book, 1981 Philosophically speaking, this is Arendt at her best. In her typical straight-to-the-point style of writing, Arendt explores some of the most philosophically important questions asked since antiquity. She guides us through the ages of development on topics such as freewill, time, and Being. She is one of the most important thinkers, not of the 20th century, but of all "time". This is Arendt for the philosopher/thinker, not the political scientist. ...             A Writer's Diary2 reviews Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf Harvest/HBJ Book, 2003 Not For Writers Only - But For Female Survivors This is one of the greatest books ever compiled/edited (here, by the brilliant Leonard Woolf-too often completely disregarded for his own unique editorial genius) after Virginia Woolf's most tragic suicide. What you will learn from this book is the spectacularly heroic efforts VW expended moment to moment, hour to hour, day to day, month to month, year to year, and decade to decade to prevail ...             In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (Harvest Book)65 reviews P. D. Ouspensky Harvest/HBJ Book, 2001 A Must Read Have you been searching for spiritual truth and have had to traverse the myriad of paths? This is the book to read as it contains what one truly needs to know in one book. The teachings contained in this book plants the seeds for the expansion of mind for higher consciousness.             The Metamorphoses of Ovid14 reviews Ovid, Allen Mandelbaum Harvest/HBJ Book, 1995 Excellent translation, but no annotations Mandelbaum's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses is the best I have seen so far. It is a very accurate and original rendition of the poem, while also being very readable. This is my most highly recommended edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses because of its highly readable, enjoyable verse translation. Mandelbaum, who won the National Book Reward for his classic verse translation of Virgil's Aeneid, ...             The Conquest of the Incas14 reviews John Hemming Harvest/HBJ Book, 2003 The Beauty of Beauty I think that every person who lives in the Western Hemisphere needs to go to Peru or Bolivia and visit the ruins of one of the greatest civilazations that ever inhabited the earth at least once in there lifetime. There were the Egyptians, Athenians and the Incas. I visited Peru this past Xmas and this book made the trip 10 times more interesting. It opened my eyes to where I was standing, it ...             Journey into the Whirlwind (Helen and Kurt Wolff Books)30 reviews Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg Harvest/HBJ Book, 2002 "No luck today, my lady Death..." Eugenia "Genie" Semyonovna Ginzburg spent seventeen years in the Soviet prison system, escaping death, unlike millions of others. She never again saw her husband after being imprisoned. The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, Man is Wolf to Man by Bardach, Kolyma Tales by Shalamov and Journey into the Whirlwind all include overlapping and similar information, but differ in format and style ...             Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History13 reviews Milton Friedman Harvest/HBJ Book, 1994 Review for a Nobel Prize winner... Review by a non Nobel Prize winner: Dirty details of the progress of our United States Currency are the theme of this book. If you like the arithmetic to pop out as you look at text, and are one who likes absorbing and detailed accounts which provide tools for thought, you should like this collection of papers and essays on money. I did.             Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Harvest Book)12 reviews C. G. Jung Harvest/HBJ Book, 1955 Insightful Analytical Psychology A very insightful and meaningful book, 11 intriguing essays in 244 pages. Jung is a deeper thinker, and I think not reductive like Freud and Adler tended to be. He makes no claim to dogmatism or absolutes. Jung really hits on the psyche and transcends the borders of rational intelligence into areas of the unconscious expressions in symbolism and images. I am going to argue against another ...             Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing40 reviews Patricia T. O'Conner Harvest/HBJ Book, 2000 What a help !` This little book gives the beginning writer many tips on nearly each page. It covers how to organize your writng, it gives basic, but often forgotten use of proper English, it gives the aspiring writer hope for sucessfull entry into the world of published writing. I can't say enough to sing the praises of this basic little book to start a beginning writer get off the ground.             The Company She Keeps3 reviews Mary McCarthy Harvest/HBJ Book, 2003 McCarthy's first book and one of her best The book consists of six somewhat lengthy "episodes" dealing with a young woman in the 1930s who runs with a very intellectual and bohemian crowd. All of the episodes are interesting and well told, but the best is "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt." It is so good that it alone is worth the cost of the book. It describes an encounter between the young woman and a young man on a train, in which ...             Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh13 reviews James D. Newton Harvest/HBJ Book, 1989 A Truly Fascinating Book on the Lives of a Five Twentieth Ce This book originally caught my eye as an addition to another book I read called Edison: A Life of Invention by Paul Israel. I wanted a book that would cover a little more of Edison's personal life, and this book did just that. However, James Newton's close, dedicated friendships with all of these great men of the twentieth century is truly amazing, and I learned more than I would probably learn ...             Eden (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book)20 reviews Stanislaw Lem Harvest/HBJ Book, 1991 Beyond SF An astonishing book, especially so given its date. It's not about narrative nor character, so if you're reading for those prepare to be disappointed. It's about the impossibility of human perception outside of any human frame. Having said it's not about narrative, it's disappointing that Lem felt the need to supply something of a classic-realist conclusion in the last pages, but the rest of the ...             Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire54 reviews Murry A. Taylor Harvest/HBJ Book, 2001 Jumping Fire Murray creates a beautifully written piece of wild land fire fighting history. With sometimes disturbing detail of tragedy and intimate personal accounts,he truly captures the ups and downs of smoke jumping. As well as the beauty of the Alaskan territories. Being a wild land fire fighter myself Jumping Fire was both entertaining and educational. A first hand documentary of fire fighting ...             The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement10 reviews Susan Ferriss, Ricardo Sandoval, ... Harvest/HBJ Book, 1998 Cesar Chavez Merits a National Holiday ! "The Fight in the Fields" compelled me to recognize that Cesar Chavez is arguably the greatest humanitarian in US history. He tirelessly and peacefully campaigned on behalf of underpaid and overworked farmworkers and migrants who were forced to toil amidst toxic insecticides and pesticides. Chavez was profoundly influenced by Gandhi, Martin Luther King and St. Francis of Assisi. He was an ...             Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa124 reviews Keith B. Richburg Harvest/HBJ Book, 1998 a real eye opener This reporter went to Africa with lots of hope and was forced to conclude that the reality did not match it.A good,honest job of reporting.             Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears (Harvest American Writing)4 reviews Diane Glancy Harvest/HBJ Book, 1998 feeling the pain Having heard the story in my partly-Cherokee family all my life, this is the first telling that has put me there on the trail with the suffering of the people, native american and whites alike, who walked it. The varying voices expressing the ordeal of each day thru their eyes and being, brought this historical experience to life , especially since the various characters are given very ...             The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 2 (1934-1939)2 reviews Anais Nin Harvest/HBJ Book, 1970 A coherent extension of the first volume Anais Nin began a letter to her father, on the ship that carried her, her mother and brothers, away from him, away from Europe and to New York City. She was 11 at the time. The letter was never sent (her mother did not think it appropriate), but instead developed into a diary that would become legendary by the time she reached her late 20s. Henry Miller helped feed the legend by stating that, ...             Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From The Great Philosophers, Volume I6 reviews Karl Jaspers Harvest/HBJ Book, 1966 Made a big impression on me! Aside from being an intelligently written book, I gave this book 5 stars because it made a big impression on me. Jaspers explanation of Confucius made the strength of Confucious's teaching clear. Now I'm very interested in Confucious and am reading more books about him. In that respect, this slim volume changed my life: It brought Confucious to life. What's more, by explaining Confucius's ...             Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-19374 reviews Anaïs Nin Harvest/HBJ Book, 1996 ANAIS NIN BRAVERY SHE FREELY WROTE ABOUT EROTICISM As follower of Anais' Diaries (expurgated or not) and her novels I would like to express my admiration and my curiosity for her amazing literature and her rare personality, motivated again by "Fire". I believe that Anais was able to enjoy sex simultaneously with several men, each one of them however, playing an appropriate , no transferable, role: Hugh (husband),Joaquin Nin ...              search for books 1934-1937, 1934-1939, american, charles, combined, company, confronts, confucius, conquest, episodes, everyone, farmworkers, fighting, firestone, fragments, friends, lindbergh, metamorphoses, miraculous, mischief, monetary, movement, philosophers, smokejumper, socrates, teaching, uncommon, unexpurgated, whirlwind, wildfire books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Prize leave a comment home  impressum - about us