Starling Lawrence
Starling Lawrence is the editor in chief and vice chairman of W.W. Norton & Company. He is the author of the novel Montenegro and the story collection Legacies. He lives in New York City and northwestern Connecticut. [... more]
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Style In History
 Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt: Stylish Historians: Peter Gay Style in History (1974, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., paperback edn., 1988) Peter Gay is one of our preeminent authorities about cultural history, and professionals historians in [... more]
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Evolution Explosion
From Amazon.com: The first thing that Harvard University biology professor Stephen Palumbi wants you to know is that evolution is a fact, not a theory. The second is this: evolution does not require eons and eons to make its effects manifest. By [... more]
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Ian Myles Slater on: Simpson Transforms the Metamorphoses: This handsomely-produced volume is actually a double value -- two books in one. The first part is a prose translation of Ovid's fifteen-book, 12,000-line Latin poem on transformations effected by [... more]
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The Applause First Folio of Shakespeare: In Modern Type
the only way to read Shakespeare: If you are interested in a simple read of the Bard, any edition will do. But if you want to know what Shakespeare wanted from his actors - how he imagined (I imagine) his lines being spoken - this is the edition for you. [... more]
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The Heroic Client: A Revolutionary Way to Improve ...
To a different approach to helping people: Barry Duncan and Scott Miller are with Marc Hubble directors of The Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change (...). These people play an important role in improving and renewing therapy. In this book, the [... more]
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Mary Poppins
From Amazon.com: For all her offended sniffs and humphs, Mary Poppins is likely the most exciting nanny England--and the world--has ever seen. Young Jane and Michael Banks have no idea what's in store for them when Mary Poppins blows in on the east wind [... more]
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Shots In The Dark
They themselves are the experiment: Buy this book, read it, and pass it on to a friend. In short, make it infections, as it is one of the best hopes for 'enlightened' men to capture the future. This is a massive journalistic endeavor for a single man to [... more]
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Mary Poppins
From Amazon.com: For all her offended sniffs and humphs, Mary Poppins is likely the most exciting nanny England--and the world--has ever seen. Young Jane and Michael Banks have no idea what's in store for them when Mary Poppins blows in on the east wind [... more]
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Bookmaking
New Edition of a Classic: One of the best texts on the production of books is "Bookmaking" by Marshall Lee. The second edition is more than twenty years old, but the third edition was just published. It covers virtually all topics, from word- [... more]
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Seven Verdi Librettos
Norton does it again...: W W Norton has been for many year the staple of music students and teachers everywhere. Their classical scores are clear, and easy to follow. It would, therefore, be odd if their libretti didn't match their usually high standards [... more]
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Norton Anthology of Western Music, Volume 2: Classic to ...
The 6th edition still sets the standard !: I remember the First edition of Grout's "A History of Western Music"--it was the main text in use when I was a first year undergraduate student. In fact it was one of the standard texts in use at a [... more]
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