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The Collected Poems by Sergei Yesenin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Preserving in English the immortal spirit and rhyme of the great Russian genius."Biographical notes on Esenin and Isadora Duncan precede each vol. and some chapters.Includes several color reproductions of landscape paintings by Isaac Levitan mounted on pages with captions, and other photos, including a portrait photo of Esenin and his wife Isadora Duncan, American dancer (v. 2, p. [7])... -
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The Selected Poetry by Robinson Jeffers
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers , a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers—in spite of the almost total academic neglect that followed his fame in the 1920s and 1930s—a force in American poetry... -
The Treasury of American Poetry by Nancy Sullivan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe title of this anthology suggests the thrust of its contents: The treasures inside are the definition of a country characterized by diversity, power, stability, and strife. Because of the complexity of American life and of America's heritage, it is easier to explain what American poetry is not than to explain what it is... -
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Secret Garden: A BabyLit® Flowers Primer by Jennifer Adams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBabyLit® is a fashionable way to introduce your toddler to the world of classic literature. With clever, simple text by Jennifer Adams, paired with stylish design and illustrations by Sugar’s Alison Oliver, these books are a must for every savvy parent’s nursery library... -
Singing in the Rain by Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain, Oh, what a glorious feeling!Spring calls in this classic Broadway number, brought to life in a beautiful picture book--perfect for sharing! Jump in puddles, raise umbrellas, and dance with joy through the pages of this visual story. With colorful, springy scenes and the familiar lyrics, this is a beautiful, gift-worthy, feel-good read-aloud... -
Pilgrim at Sea by Pär Lagerkvist
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBenché il successo di Barabba e il Premio Nobel nei 1951 l’avessero fatto conoscere al grande pubblico anche italiano, Pär Lagerkvist è stato in seguito quasi dimenticato; lasciato in disparte dai flussi delle mode... -
Big Woods by William Faulkner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBig Woods is a collection of Faulkner's best hunting stories. An avid hunter as well as one of America's greatest writers, Faulkner spent many days hunting in the big woods near Oxford, Mississippi.Included here is his most famous hunting story, "The Bear", as well as "The Old People", "A Bear Hunt", and "Race at Morning"... -
La Chasse Galerie, and Other Canadian Stories by Honoré Beaugrand
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExcerpt from La Chasse Galerie: And Other Canadian Stories About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work... -
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsA grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive the world --from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes. The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields... -
Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt—In a NutshellYou wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You're mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself... -
C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsClassic, bestselling introduction that teaches the language and illustrates useful algorithms, data structures and programming techniques... -
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America by David Allen Sibley
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 703 bird species plus regional populations found west of the Rocky Mountains... -
The Ants by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Hölldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants... -
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Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana by Hans Henning Ørberg
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHans Oerberg’s Lingua Latina per se Illustrata is the world’s premiere textbook for learning Latin via the Natural Method. Students first learn grammar and vocabulary intuitively through extended contextual reading and an innovative system of marginal notes... -
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language--beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout's odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals... -
The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Superorganism promises to be one of the most important scientific works published in this decade. Coming eighteen years after the publication of The Ants, this new volume expands our knowledge of the social insects (among them, ants, bees, wasps, and termites) and is based on remarkable research conducted mostly within the last two decades... -
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms by Donald Ervin Knuth
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe bible of all fundamental algorithms and the work that taught many of today's software developers most of what they know about computer programming. -Byte, September 1995 I can't begin to tell you how many pleasurable hours of study and recreation they have afforded me! I have pored over them in cars, restaurants, at work, at home.. -
The Collected Poems, 1957-1982 by Wendell Berry
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA longtime spokesman for conservation, common sense, and sustainable agriculture, Wendell Berry writes eloquently in several styles and methods. Among other literary forms, he is a poet of great clarity and sureness... -
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications by Christian Rätsch
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants• Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances• Explores how using psychoactive plants in a culturally sanctioned context can produce important insights into the nature of reality• Contains 797 color photographs and 645 black-and-white illustrationsIn the traditions of...Categorized as:
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Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary by Merriam-Webster
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMerriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary Book With Jacket contains 225,000 clear and precise definitions along with 10,000 new words as well as more than 40,000 example sentences to better clarify meaning plus illustrate idiomatic use. 11th Edition hardcover book features a geographical section including 12,000 names, a biographical section with 6,000 names and a handbook of style... -
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, Volume 1 by Jim Hamm
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe Traditional Bowyer's Bible series includes three essential volumes filled with history, humor, and practical advice. Invaluable information for anyone interested in the age-old lure of archery... -
The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsemThe Leafcutter Ants/em is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal societies. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade... -
Code Complete by Steve McConnell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWidely considered one of the best practical guides to programming, Steve McConnell's original CODE COMPLETE has been helping developers write better software for more than a decade. Now this classic book has been fully updated and revised with leading-edge practices--and hundreds of new code samples--illustrating the art and science of software construction... -
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The Illustrated A Brief History of Time/The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen W. Hawking
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOne of the most influential thinkers of our time, Stephen Hawking is an intellectual icon, known not only for the adventurousness of his ideas but for the clarity and wit with which he expresses them. In this new book Hawking takes us to the cutting edge of theoretical physics, where truth is often stranger than fiction, to explain in laymen's terms the principles that control our universe... -
The Life of Mammals by David Attenborough
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOf marsupials, mice and men. Evolution, and Sir David Attenborough's 23-year sequence of books and BBC television 'Life' films, have culminated in the mammals and the explosion of awareness and intelligence. In the very short period of 100 million years - a mere blink in evolutionary time - the first mammals have arrived at world dominance.This came largely from hair and milk... -
The Life of Birds by David Attenborough
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBased on the spectacular ten-part program on PBS, The Life of Birds is David Attenborough at his characteristic best: presenting the drama, beauty, and eccentricities of the natural world with unusual flair and intelligence... -
Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology by Michael J. Benton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOver the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in prehistoric bones that no one could have previously predicted. We can now work out the color of dinosaurs, the force of their bite, their top speeds, and even how they cared for their young... -
Halley's Bible Handbook: An Abbreviated Bible Commentary by Henry H. Halley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHalley's Bible Handbook, the classic layperson's companion text, includes a concise Bible commentary, important discoveries in archaeology, related historical data, church history, maps, and more... -
Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth by David Attenborough
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet . Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano...
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