Onward and Upward in the Garden
Amazon.com Review: These 14 pieces by Katharine White first appeared in the pages of the New Yorker and were posthumously collected by her husband, E. B. White. They are at once as formal as an English manor house garden, as sensible as the Burpee seed [... more]
$25.50
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The Silver Branch
The Silver Branch: Want a riveting historical-fiction novel with a plot that is better than most? If so, the Silver Branch is a book for you. Set in Roman Britan, over a century after the first book in the series, The Eagle of the Ninth, the book paints [... more]
$22.25
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Black Gold
Great Horse Story: It was great! I loved how it was Real and how U-See-It's colt (Black Gold) was able to get back in raceing, and how the trainer and the jockey kept their hearts up when there was bad time. It was a great book. I read it really [... more]
$22.50
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The Eagle and the Serpent
 Mexican Revolution, History as Adventure: This account of the Mexican Revolution takes you along with the participants in their adventures in the northern states with Pancho Villa as he advances on and occupies Mexico City along with Emiliano Zapata's [... more]
$27.00
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Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome
Victorian Fantasy of Rome: Vehling was a professional chef, not a scholar of Latin, and his grasp of Latin was limited, so his translations are not good. Also they are not based on the earliest available copies of the Apician cookbook. Instead, he used [... more]
$31.25
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The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian ...
Russian Culture Viewed Through A Prism: This is an impressive chronicle on Russian culture, emphasising its `intellectual and artistic' qualities over the past six centuries and bringing many unknown facets to light. Billington speaks of three `forces' [... more]
$35.75
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The Cooking of South-West France
This gem of a cookbook.: I simply couldn't believe that anyone hadn't already reviewed and raved about Paula Wolfert's Cooking of S-W France. More than a cookbook, Wolfert takes us on a journey through one of the most wonderful regions of French cuisine. [... more]
$27.75
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American Indian Myths and Legends
A comprehensive and diverse collection of Indian legends: "American Indian Myths and Legends" is a collection of 166 stories selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz that represent the heart and soul of the native people of North [... more]
$34.00
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The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life
Amazon.com Review: An accessible introduction to the science of evolutionary psychology and how it explains many aspects of human nature. Unlike many books on the topic,which focus on abstractions like kin selection, this book focuses on Darwinian [... more]
$31.25
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Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
excellent: I used this book as one of my references when I taught a Lutheran Sunday School class of high school aged students. It examines the humanity of this very important historical figure and adds a great deal of perspective to a complex time. It's [... more]
$30.25
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Bound for Glory
Amazon.com Review: The original road novel--even though it takes the form of autobiography. If Guthrie didn't actually invent the footloose, no- strings-attached American hero (remember this guy Twain who wrote something about lighting out for the [... more]
$30.25
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Tink-tink-a-link went the meadow lark: Off hand I can only think of a few Western novels that have transcended their genre to become classics, and share with the world what all great art does; that being a universality of it's story and relevance no [... more]
$33.00
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