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Tracy Chevalier captivated readers when Dutton published The Girl with a Pearl Earring in December 1999. Since then, she has written two New York Times bestsellers, Falling Angels and The Lady and the Unicorn.
Now, three years after the publication of her last book, Chevalier is at the top of her form in the breathtaking novel Burning Bright.
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Not one of Tracy Chevalier's better books.......2007-08-26
I've read every book by Tracy Chevalier and loved each of them. I was so happy to find out she had a new release,"Burning Bright". Sorry to say, the book is not as good as Ms. Chevalier's others. The story is dull and doesn't go anywhere. Only reason I gave this book 2 stars and not 1 is that Ms. Chevalier does an excellent job of bringing the 1792 time period to life.
Interesting historically, but not the most gripping story.......2007-08-17
An interesting and detailed picture of London in the late eighteenth century. The people and the industries of the time, along with the feeling of unrest as King George worries that his citizens will revolt like the French.
It took me a little while to get into the story, possibly because I wasn't particularly interested in the circus or the Astleys who owned it. I found it a little poor but it did improve and as the story developed I did grow to like Jem and Maggie, the main characters.
I would disagree with the synopsis that states, "Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour...William Blake." They hardly become entangled. He's a printer, a radical and poet who just happens to be a neighbour and features briefly from time to time to give them a little food for thought.
Pleasant, but not gripping.
Another Winner!.......2007-07-14
Tracy Chevalier is my favorite author. This book was fabulous! She drew me in on the first sentence. I true winner in my book. Thanks Tracy!
A Pale Watercolor/Far from a Poem.......2007-07-08
Not worth the time. There is little plot or story line other than the author tries to paint a word picture of rural England and London in Blake's time, but ends up with a lot of fog and Blake a dim drab shadow in the background. The author never seems to grasp the genius and passion of Blake's poetry or the depth of his involvement and horror over in the collaterial damage that tortured so many craftsmen and those rural people who tilled the land -- all caught in the maw of the English Industrial Revolution and the bloddy undertow from the French Revolution. If you are interested in Blake and the world in which he lived, it is better to spend your time and money on Jacob Bronowski's book: A Man Withjout a Mask : William Blake 1757 - 1827 -- now in used book sections.
Perfect!.......2007-06-27
The book is exactly what we wanted - it really got us interested in William Blake.
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All the essential mathematics teachers need for teaching at the elementary and middle school levels! This best seller features rich problem-solving strategies, relevant topics, and extensive opportunities for hands-on experience. The coverage in the book moves from the concrete to the pictorial to the abstract, reflecting the way math is generally taught in elementary classrooms.
Mathematics for Elementary Teachers, Student Resource Handbook
This invaluable resource handbook is designed to improve student learning and provide models for effective classroom practices.
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Happy Customer!.......2005-09-17
This was the first used textbook that I purchased online. The book was in almost-new condition, it arrived within 5 days after I placed the order, AND the cost was 50% less than the used book price at my college bookstore! I'll be searching Amazon again next semester!
A VERY GOOD MATH BOOK!!!!!!.......2004-05-20
So often, math textbooks are beyond anyone's comprehension. Here is one book that has changed all that! There are plenty of examples and explains the reasons and theories as to why a certain math topic is solved the way it is. It also shows different ways one could solve problems!
This 6th edition doesn't have much difference from the 5th except for more on Statistics and Probability.
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This leading mathematics text for elementary and middle school educators helps you quickly develop a true understanding of mathematical concepts. It integrates rich problem-solving strategies with relevant topics and extensive opportunities for hands-on experience. By progressing from the concrete to the pictorial to the abstract, Musser captures the way math is generally taught in elementary schools.
This title will give you all the essentials mathematics teachers need for teaching at the elementary and middle school levels:
- Highlights algebraic concepts throughout the text and includes additional supporting information.
- Provides enhanced coverage of order of operations, Z-scores, union of two events, Least Common Multiple, and Greatest Common Factor.
- Focuses on solid mathematical content in an accessible and appealing way.
- Offers the largest collection of problems (over 3,000!), worked examples, and problem-solving strategies in any text of its kind.
- Includes a comprehensive, five-chapter treatment of geometry based on the van Hiele model.
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Mathematics for Elementary Teachers.......2007-02-11
It's great. Would definately order more books by Gary L. Musser
Great Book!.......2005-09-26
Since I was unable to buy this manual at my college bookstore, it was great to be able to order it....and the manual was in perfect condition!
Great book!.......2005-08-19
I was able to use this book for two semesters! It contains double the info and you don't have to buy a book the next semester.
Outstanding price.......2002-01-18
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New and improved ways to problem solve in mathematics.......2000-05-10
I used the Mathematics for elementary teachers for a college level course. The text is interesting and provides the reader/learner with a solid foundation of Problem solving skills in learning and teaching mathematics. It has several useful examples of the strategies as well as challenging problems that can be solved on ones own. The problem solving strategies are new in the respect that "it's not your mama's math." There are several types of problem solving skills that I was not aware of and will come in handy for teaching and learning because not everybody solves problems the same. The text works at applying concepts to "real classroom" setting. Many of the strategies presented are in line with the National Council Of Teachers of Mathematics Curriculum and Evaluation Standards (NCTM)- the leading authority in the U.S. focusing on keeping standards in math curriculums across the country, to ensure that students are well prepared for future more complex mathematics. The chapters are followed by numerous challenging math problems to solve. And some of the answers are even in the back of the book so you can check yourself. A solid foundation of basic math operations and Algebra I is a must to keep up with the text. The only downside is that I wish there was a workbook to compliment the text. I found myself re doing the same problems in order to get the concepts down. It would have been better if there were more problems similar to the chapters. Another problem was that some of the answers in the back of the book were wrong.
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An indispensable guide to Blake's ideas and symbols is once again available in paper, with a new foreword and annotated bibliography
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An essential reference work for Blake scholarship........2000-06-08
Prophet? Madman? Or philosopher? The mythological characters in William Blake's prophetic poetry present a conundrum for the reader who confronts these characters with the traditional literary expectations of a symbolic reading. Indeed, the vanguard of contemporary criticism would argue that the very complexity of Blake's mythology precludes an all inclusive schemata.
Yet S. Foster Damon's A BLAKE DICTIONARY offers compelling testament that there was methodology in Blake's madness. In addition to providing a detailed enunciation of virtually every character in Blake's poetry, Damon further offers an exposition of the major themes and symbols which Blake repeatedly returned to in his longer prophetic works. Along with both Northrop Frye's FEARFUL SYMMETRY and David Erdman's PROPHET AGAINST EMPIRE, Damon's meticulously cross-referenced dictionary is an essential reference work for anyone who dares delve into Blake's complex mythology.
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Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, if includes up-to-date work on variants, chronology of poems and critical commentary by Harold Bloom.
An "Approved Edition" of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.
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It has it all.......2006-11-04
It has all his writings: letters, anotations scribbled in the margins of other people's books, everything. Only downside: it doesn't show his illuminated printing.
Complete works of William Blake.......2006-03-09
A wonderful paperback edition, containing all the works of
William Blake, with a excellent introduction
of Harold Bloom. An priceless tool for students
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outstanding.......2006-02-23
This is an outstanding resource for anyone interested in the works of William Blake. It's well organized and easy to work with. I'm very pleased with it.
It Can't Be Possible.......2004-07-24
How is it possible that Blake was able to articulate the full enormity of his vision while keeping up with the complex mythological narrative he invented? Through much of his longer poetical works he so effortlessly associates his mammoth cosmic figures with a riveting and impassioned philosophical discourse. One wonders whether the man was even human. And yet it is precisely this disbelief he and, a bit later and with more severity, Nietzsche preached against.
For Blake, the human imagination is the gateway to eternity, and anyone is capable of it. Yet even this vote of confidence in man falls short of Nietzsche's often misunderstood optimism when he asserts that artistic achievement has nothing to do with the "muse" and is wholly within the boundaries of human ability. For Nietzsche, man alone responsible for his great works, and to credit anything else with their sublimity is to undermine human potential. But Blake, a man of profound faith, contends that "When I am commanded by the spirits, then I write; and the moment I have written, I see the words fly about the room in all directions." Yet how telling it is that even this humble explaining-away of his powers is fraught with poetry.
But whether or not Blake credited himself with his evident genius, the works speak for themselves. And for "The Complete Poetry and Prose," two of the most competent Blake scholars join forces to offer a clear, extensive and informed presentation of Blake's output. Astonishing in scope and scholarship, this Erdman/Bloom edition is as indispensable for Blake's work as it is for their notes and commentary. My only complaint is the inconsistency of Bloom's commentary. He skips entire sections of Blake's worth here, whereas he covers every last word of it in his own book, "Blake's Apocalypse." Hmm . . . Harold wouldn't, by any chance, be trying to get us to, um, SPEND a little more, you think? Naaahhh.
But no commentary -- no matter how illuminating -- will ever approach the radiance of Blake's own words. From the plainspoken awe of the early masterpieces, "Ahania" and "The Book of Thel," to the astonishing epics "The Four Zoas" and "Jerusalem" and right down to "The Mental Traveler," that late fruition of Blake's bitingly ironical voice, "The Complete Poems and Prose" reads like a Bible in its own right. Routinely taking on such lofty subjects as the fall of man, love and jealousy, desire and reason, good and evil, a reading of Blake's work all together yields just as much beauty, mystery and genius.
Equally as riveting are the many letters with which the primary portion of the book concludes. Rife with the fierce inquisitiveness and confidence that characterizes the famous "Proverbs of Hell," Blake's letters rank with those of Keats and Hopkins as some of the most stirring autobiographical sketches ever produced by a master poet.
Erdman's "Prophet Against Empire" and Bloom's aforementioned "Blake's Apocalypse" make for great companion pieces, as does Frye's "Fearful Symmetry." But I think the best way for new readers to take on Blake's work is by diving blindly into its initially cold waters, and only calling in Erdman, Bloom and Frye to turn up the heat later on.
An essential book with the words of a great writer and poet.......2002-09-11
This is an essential book for those of us who love William Blake for his words as well as for his engravings, drawings, and paintings.
I hardly knew anything about Blake before I made several trips to London on business in 1995 - 96. When I began to see his work (for example, at the Tate - now Tate Britain) I was deeply moved. I read the wonderful biography by Ackroyd that was just then published and began to collect affordable editions of the illustrated works.
Later, I became aware of this book and purchased it as well. It is very affordable and contains many wonderful things in addition to the primary writings of Blake. For example, we also get Blake's annotations of other writers' works, some of his letters, and textual notes. On the downside, there are a only a few black and white illustrations. This is a book for thinking about Blake's WORDS.
Yes, by definition the illuminated works really do require the illustrations to be complete, but it is hard to meditate and think about just the words without being distracted by those amazing drawings. (Princeton University Press publishes fabulous editions of the illuminated works in paperback.) By all means spend a great deal of time with the illuminated works and you will be richly rewarded, but spending time with the words apart is also very wonderful and very helpful.
The always rewarding Harold Bloom also provides extended commentary on many of the works in the back of the book.
Please put this book in your library and on your shelf - AFTER you read it. Then take it off again to drink of these great words over and over again.
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A poet, painter, and engraver, William Blake died in 1827 in obscurity. Yet he has become one of the most anthologized writers in English and one of the most collected British artists. His urge to create masterpieces of revelation has left complex (and sometimes bizarre) works of written and visual art. The essays in this Companion and a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of Blake's terms identify the key points of departure into Blake's diverse world.
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The last volumes in the series of William Blake's Illuminated Books reveal the writer and artist as a prophet driven by a sense of apocalyptic urgency. Blake conceived and executed The Continental Prophecies and The Urizen Books in the early 1790s, capturing the intellectual and spiritual turmoil of the American and French revolutions. Here, for the first time, the general reader will encounter Blake's most intense vision in reproductions that do justice to the originals, accompanied by texts, comprehensive notes and commentaries, and detailed interpretations of the designs.
The Urizen Books, made up of "Urizen," "The Book of Los," and "Ahania," describes the dissemination of the autocratic mythology of Urizen, Blake's inflexibly rationalist and myopic law-giver. These books stand as the author's sensible and considered response to the events of his time. The illuminated text of "Urizen" and the ten full-page illustrations from copy D in the British Museum, never before reproduced, represent a tour de force in Blake's specialist process of color printing.
These volumes complete the six-part series of William Blake's Illuminated Books, including Jerusalem, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Early Illuminated Books, and Milton, A Poem, all published by Princeton University Press.
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Beautiful images, great helps for the general reader.......2004-02-02
These three works in some ways develop the characters Blake used in the three Continental Prophecies. But don't expect any kind of coherent development or to be able to fathom out any kind of understandable timeline. This is Blake after all. Most of this book is helpful introduction, commentary, notes, and supplementary materials.
"The First Book of Urizen" is the longest of the three and the most illustrated. It has images that are absolutely unforgettable. They have a power and emotional impact that holds the viewer. I have met people who find them repulsive. I think the emotional impact makes them uncomfortable so they want to get away from the images and so push them away.
"The Book of Ahania" and "The Book of Los" are much shorter and the illustrations are limited to the title page and the last plate ("The Book of Los" also has an illustration on the opening page of text.). The other pages are done in particularly fine Blake script.
As with the rest of the volumes in this series the quality of reproduction is very high and these images are delightful to study. The scholarship is quite good and the writing is focused on opening these works up to the general reader - at least a general reader who enjoys studying Blake and is willing to put in the time it takes to fathom these rather wonderfully strange works. A treasure for the shelf of any Blake lover.
A must have!.......2000-09-27
I recommend that any fan of William Blake buy this volume and the other 5 in the series. The books are beautiful, large, and handsomely bound. Each book is reproduced in full color, using a six-color printing process rather than the standard four. The pages are heavy, opaque and have a gorgous lustre indicating very high quality paper. The text of each book accompanies the color reproductions in standard typeface with very competent commentary to boot.
A must have!.......2000-09-27
I recommend that any fan of William Blake buy this volume and the other 5 in the series. The books are beautiful, large, and handsomely bound. Each book is reproduced in full color, using a six-color printing process rather than the standard four. The pages are heavy, opaque and have a gorgous lustre indicating very high quality paper. The text of each book accompanies the color reproductions in standard typeface with very competent commentary to boot.
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Inspired satire on religion and morality, including 70 aphorisms of "Proverbs of Hell." 27 full-color plates, full text.
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Marriage of Heaven and Hell.......2007-01-18
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"The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.".......2004-08-07
One of Blake's fantastic works, with all of the artwork right there with it. This is the first copy of a William Blake book I ever owned and I still love it to death, as small as it is, and read it again and again.
worth it.......1999-04-28
It's great to read Blake is his own typeset. And the book is essential Blake.
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- "A Long, and Perhaps Strange, Way Into Blake"
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Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E. P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake's poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism of the "Antichrist" embodied by contemporary society--to "witness against the beast."
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"A Long, and Perhaps Strange, Way Into Blake".......2004-07-18
The cumbersome challenge E.P. Thompson sets for himself in this book is to unearth Blake's obscure philosophical and literary heritage. Chiefly, he seeks to correct prior notions of Blake as a self-alienated figure who was almost wholly out of touch with his time. The result is an occasionally unreadable but ultimately significant contribution to Blake scholarship.
The book, meticulous in detail and enormous in scope, is so dense and fraught with an overwhelming amount of research and knowledge that, in the end, it seems Thompson wrote it not for the casual Blake enthusiast but for the Blake scholars with whom he quarrels in frequent disputes. As Thompson himself pauses to note: "I have been engaged, throughout the first part of this book, in an exceedingly difficult argument, and I am not wholly sure myself what this argument adduces." When the author himself has to take a step back to warn the reader that he is not entirely certain of what he is doing, it is a pretty good way of posting up a fat and bold "BEWARE" in plain view of the reader.
Though Thompson seems to have written this book for himself, the radiant intensity with which he attacks his subject makes for a deeply probing text. He even investigates the etymology of Blake's poetic vocabulary to flesh out his suspicion that the foundation for the poet's thought was laid over a century before his birth. In his quest to assign Blake a particular tradition, Thompson often succeeds so well as to contest Blake's very originality. Encouragingly, though, the sheer luminosity, energy and power of Blake's more inspired verse withstands most skepticism. Perhaps Blake's ideas themselves were not as original or isolated as other critics and biographers would have one believe, but we remember him still because of his talent for transforming into stark and masterful art the literary heritage Thompson uncovers.
Thompson concedes that "if Blake read any or all" of the antecedent works he cites as his possible influences, "he read them in his own way. He employs an inherited vocabulary to make statements directly opposed to those authorized by the "Tradition". He appropriates old symbols and turns them to new purposes." Specifically, the tradition Blake is identified with is that of the Antinomians and Muggletonians (I know, sounds like something out of Gulliver's Travels), both of which closely resemble Blake's own beliefs on reason, liberty, the Fall, the book of Genesis, the trinity, desire and the notion that there is no God but man himself. The two sects abound with anticipations of Blake's "mind-forg'd manacles" and "chains of reason." Even Blake's own mother is implicated as a Muggletonian (a marvelous distinction if I've ever heard one).
Because Blake is writing out of this "tradition" Thompson assigns him, the conclusion is that the poet's work "has the confidence, an assured reference, very different from the speculations of an eccentric or a solitary . . . this man does not feel himself to be alone." Gone is the image of a wild-eyed and fierce-jowled eccentric basking in the nude with his wife in their garden (which he did).
For my tastes, the book labors too long over many uninteresting rhetorical debates and theoretical religious arguments between various 17th and 18th century sects. It is in this regard that the book requires a lot of patience, especially since Thompson keeps the reader waiting for any specific discussion of Blake's work until well over one hundred pages into the book. Then again, if learning that "Naamah is sister to Tubal-cain" is the kind of thing that gets you frothing at the mouth for more, then by all means, have at it. The problem is that Thompson seems to be writing two books at once, probing so extensively and thoroughly into Blake's alleged influences as to lose sight of the big picture which, presumably, is Blake's own life and work. The pattern is one in which Thompson will spend an inordinate amount of pages on a few forgotten religious movements in 17th or 18th century London and follow that up with a sudden "hmmm . . . so maybe these were Blake's guys . . . but let us look a little further" sort of thing.
Nonetheless, the reader who refuses to lose sight of the topic at hand as easily as Thompson does at times will come away from the book with a feeling of having really gotten somewhere. In his investigation and analysis Thompson confirms some critical readings of Blake while replacing many others with some well-founded suppositions of his own, offering as clear and meaningful an understanding of Blake as this dramatically ambitious book can possibly allow. His discussion of Blake's prescient use of the word "chartr'd" in "London," one of his most definitive poems, is nothing if not revelatory. The same goes for his discussions of "London's" various influences as well as the prolonged explication of Blake's "The Human Abstract." It is here where Thompson most successfully endorses David Erdman's cause to demonstrate Blake's work as a reaction to the social and political realities of his day. Thompson's love for the poetry itself weans him off of his abstruse historical commentary in favor of a refreshingly plainspoken understanding of the work's origins and issues. Thankfully, this is the warmer tone with which the book concludes; I only wish Thompson could have stayed as close to the ground throughout the book as he does at its final stages.
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Evidence-based Pediatrics and Child Health is a ground-breaking new text on pediatrics and child care management, using evidence based approach. It covers all the major childhood conditions and contains the features of both a handbook and a reference text. Each chapter combines both advice on management and how best to practice evidence based medicine with reviews of all the available evidence in a specific area.The goal of the book is to help pediatricians and others who care for children to provide the best possible care by combining the best, most current evidence with special circumstances of each individual patient.
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Evidence based pediatrics and child health.......2002-02-03
This is a very impressive and timely book on Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) by 74 contributors in the field of pediatrics and child health from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Holland and Italy.
The term EBM was developed by Sackett and colleagues from the McMaster University (Sackett DL et al. Evidence based medicine. BMJ 1996;312:71-2) as "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients" or in other words, good medical practice based on as much facts as possible for the benefit of your patient. Since 1991 this field has been incooporated into many medical schools around the work, textbooks published and now we see it reaching pediatrics and child health.
This superbly edited book (updates will be regularly posted on www.evidbasedpediatrics.com) is devided into three sections: "Finding, evaluating and applying the evidence"; "Evidence for routine practices: screening/prevention" and finally "Common pediatrics conditions" with a good and comprehensive index.
The steps in the practice of Evidence Based Pediatrics (EBP) are: to evaluate the clinical situation (by history, by examination and laboratory tests), identify information needs and structure clinical questions, search for relevant information from the literature, evaluate the evidence found or identify lack of evidence and finally apply the evidence to your patients.
You will find many useful and structured entries in this book from the issue of the "well child" to the common pediatric problems of otitis media, constipation, short stature or croup.
We believe that this important book should find its way to the desks of the practicing pediatrician, the lecturer in child health and the researcher in pediatrics.
Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel, email: jmerrick@aquanet.co.il
Mohammed Morad, MD
Family physician, Division for Community Health, Ben Gurion University, Box 653, IL-84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel, email: morad-62@barak-online.net
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