books by Mercury House     books:       Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist's Observations from Prison8 reviews Ken Lamberton Mercury House, 1999 Writing as a Way of Surviving Buddhists say that wisdom, at least a form of it, comes to those who gain access to a plane of imagining beyond hope and hopelessness. To be able to see clearly, witness openly and without prejudice, is to enter this imagining. To be able to see for seeing's sake. "Wilderness and Razor Wire" is an opus and an opera of seeing. Written during the author's twelve years of incaceration in the ...             Afghanistan: Soviet Vietnam52 reviews Vladislav Tamarov, Naomi Marcus Mercury House, 1992 A memoir you will NEVER forget! Here is a riveting memoir by Vladislav Tamarov. In 1984 men were drafted into the Soviet Army at the age of eighteen. There was no choice. Unless you were in college or disabled, you served. Many men broke their legs to avoid serving. Others, the more wealthy, bribed their way out. Vlad was in college two years when the law changed and he was off to boot camp. Training the men needed, they never ...             The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a 14th-Century Chinese Hermit6 reviews Stonehouse Mercury House, 1997 Ancient Masters From the books of Zen I've read, it always seemed to me that only the ancient writers have had the most impact. See if you will agree by reading this insightful book. It also includes a fascinating biography of this humble man.             Lao-tzu's Taoteching: with Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years15 reviews Lao-Tzu Mercury House, 2001 Finally! A Tao Te Ching with the appropriate commentaries In Asia, sacred texts like the Tao Te Ching are read with reference to the commentaries of its key historical luminaries. Only in the west is it read by itself, with no guidance. Finally, we have a TTC with key commentaries. Plus, the author has here given a translation that may come as close as possible to expressing the Chinese in English. It is concise, even pithy. A number of other features ...             Red Diaper Baby: Three Comic Monologues (With Mathematics of Change and Haiku Tunnel)7 reviews Josh Kornbluth Mercury House, 1996 Self-deprecatory comedy If you grew up with poltically active parents of any sort, the first the three monologues in this book will resonate strongly. In that monologue, Kornbluth gives a hilarious explanation of the dynamics of his relationship with his parents. He discusses how his parents influenced childhood goals (to lead the worldwide Communist revolution) and the various odd but amusing habits they -- ...             Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions, & Herbcraft (Pharmako Volii)3 reviews Dale Pendell Mercury House, 2002 Stimulating plants.... Since my own interests include gardening, herbs, plant poisons, and natural pharmaceuticals such as caffeine, I quickly decided Dale Pendell's PHARMAKO-DYNAMIS and PHARMAKO-POEIA were must-read books for me. These books are also for historians, drug counselors, people who write laws associated with drug use, those concerned with the impoverishment of countries invaded by world-based ...             From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust8 reviews Lucille Eichengreen Mercury House, 1993 Fanstastic , Touching Book! I was extremely impressed with this book. The author decribes in detail her life before anti-semitism and how it started to change. Her story is emotional and touching. She was born Celia Landau and changed her name to Lucille. She and her sister Karin were the products of a very close knit family completely torn apart by the Third Reich. Her father gets sent off to a labor camp and a year later ...             The Centaur's Son: Stories4 reviews Philip Daughtry Mercury House, 2007 Story telling at its finest - Takes you in and you don't want to be let go This book is one of storytelling's finest. Each short is a voyage that does not last long enough. I travel to each place Daughtry has been to - Ireland, Brazil, Belize, among many - and I return reluctantly. Days later, an image from one of his stories manifests in my head, and, having become so much a part of me, I can't remember if it is one of my own, if I was the one who made that trip, who ...             Renoir, My Father (The Lively Arts)12 reviews Jean Renoir Mercury House, 1988 A Vivid Portait Renoir was far more than one of the world's greatest artists. He was an adventurer, a family man, a man who held interesting views on just about every subject under the sun, and finally, in his later years, a martyr to life. Although this book was written by Renoir's middle son, Jean, it is as vibrant and alive as if Renoir, himself, had just written the words in his own hand. Through this ...             Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft11 reviews Dale Pendell Mercury House, 1994 Wonderful overview of medicinal plants.... PHARMAKO-DYNAMIS and PHARMAKO-POEIA by Dale Pendell contain much of interest to gardeners, artists, historians, drug counselors, and drug users. Pendell suggests that how a plant substance is defined (poison, drug, medicine) depends on the dosage, length of use, and intent of the user. In other words, if plant-based drugs are "abused" the problem lies not in our plants but in our selves. He says ...             Child at War: The True Story of a Young Belgian Resistance Fighter2 reviews Mark Bles Mercury House, 1991 Best book ever Comming from someone who has read extensively on resistance movements during WWII this is by far the best account. It is inspiring as well as informative. The text comes alive, and the reader is transported to war torn Belgium. Someday this book will be recognized by scholars as the difinitive account of the Belgian Resistance.             Camille Claudel: Une Femme2 reviews Anne Delbee, Carol Cosman Mercury House, 2004 The most painful book I have ever read. This is a book that I wish I had not read and yet it is one of the best books I have ever read. Camille Claudel's soul found it's path into mine and I felt all the hate towards August Rodin that she was incapable of because of her love for him and breathtaking passion for her own and his work. In a lot of ways this book resembles "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" in revealing how a human ...             A Girl With a Monkey: New and Selected Stories2 reviews Leonard Michaels Mercury House, 2000 A Refreshing Change What's amazing about Michaels is how seamlessly he transitioned from an experimental realist to a master of the realistic short story form. His early stories are marked by a linguistic self-apparency, though he's funny enough to keep it interesting. And, unlike others in this vein, his style is blatantly influenced by Kafka and Beckett. Sometimes the description in the early stories can be ...             Passion2 reviews Iginio Ugo Tarchetti Mercury House, 1994 THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE Fosca is a sick woman, living in XIXth Italy she is considered a Hysteric. But Fosca is not only sick she is ugly. And there is nothing worse for a woman being ugly. So one day arrives Giorgio, a handsome officer, who just left his lover, a married woman back in Milan. To Fosca is love at first sight, but for Giorgo is not. He tries to be kind because she is ill. But her desperate love is more ...             Good Night, Sweet Prince: The Life and Times of John Barrymore (Lively Arts Series)2 reviews Gene Fowler Mercury House, 1989 A Gracefully Written, Insightful Book from/of Another Era... Gene Fowler wrote gracefully and eloquently of his great friend John Barrymore in this, a biography from an era in which private lives were not seen as tabloid fodder and in which an author could concentrate on the significant moments of an artist's journey rather than sensationalism. As Fowler intended, Barrymore emerges from this book not as a hell-raising, womanizing alcoholic who was ...             Masters and Servants2 reviews Pierre Michon Mercury House, 1997 Literature That Matters Too often, the best books published in any given year are doomed to obscurity. I discovered 'Masters and Servants' in the New York Review of Books in a review by one of America's best critics, Roger Shattuck, author of the famous 'Banquet Years' and 'Forbidden Knowledge'. Shattuck was reviewing a book called 'Degas in New Orleans' published by a big publisher. Shattuck added a review of ...             The Start of the End of It All: Short Fiction3 reviews Carol Emshwiller Mercury House, 1991 Superior science fiction. A prolific writer of short stories, until recently it has been hard for Emshwiller to receive the recognition she richly deserves. With the publication of this new collection, she now has three books simultaneously in print, including her fascinating novel, Carmen Dog, and another collection, Verging on the Pertinent. The Start Of The End Of It All (1991) gives us 18 short stories, ...             The Harp and the Shadow2 reviews Alejo Carpentier Mercury House, 2007 Rethinking Columbus Written towards the end of Alejo Carpentier's life, The Harp and the Shadow is both a historical analysis of the Conquest and a personal reflection on fame. Carpentier-the inventor of magical realism, according to Carlos Fuentes-reinterprets Columbus's voyages as driven by greed, not honor. In the second section of book, we visit Columbus on his death bed. As Columbus awaits his confessor, ...             Monnew2 reviews Ahmadou Kourouma Mercury House, 1993 The Importance of "Monnew" Kourouma creates a narrative in "Monnew" as complex and compelling as Joyce's "Ulysses." The narrative is divided among an indeterminate number of voices (most likely two or three) and in doing so places the reader among the events in the text. The different narratives conflict, and tell different stories of the same event. The reader is thrown amongst this conflictual narrative equipped, with ...             George Raft (Lively Arts)2 reviews Lewis Yablonsky Mercury House, 1989 George Raft Biography is Insightful The biography, although not totally accurate when reciting Raft's early existency (no Raft biography is), is heartfelt and insightful in explaining the motivations behind one of the most interesting figures of the 21st century. You see George Raft as he was, a sweet, charming "gentle"-man who's rise to fame was fueled by feelings of inadequacy. Mr. Yablonsky's has done a masterful job in bring ...              search for books 14th-century, afghanistan, barrymore, belgian, camille, centaur, claudel, commentaries, fighter, herbcraft, holocaust, masters, mathematics, memories, monologues, naturalist, observations, passion, pharmako, poisons, potions, resistance, selected, servants, stimulating, stonehouse, stories, taoteching, vietnam, wilderness 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: El Libro de Los Cuentos Perdidos I Impressum - about us get your own shoutbox