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Collected Stories Including the Member of the Wedding and the Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Carson McCullers
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1987
Interesting...
I have always read stories in the past that gave me feelings right away. After reading these short stories, I was somewhat confused why McCullers didn't elaborate, or why she ended the story where she did. It was only after reading her biography, that I began to reread ...
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The Complete Poems (Cambridge Editions)
Anne Sexton
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1982
this is what art looks like
An old friend gave me this book about 6 or 7 years ago and I immediately fell in love with it. Anne Sexton is absolutely my favorite poetess. Her writings are pure art.
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Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery
Don Richard Riso
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1987
Terrific earlier enneagram book!
I have several books by the same author(s) from 1987 on. This one, after 1987, is an excellent update and contains wonderful charts and scientific data and insights. Also good is the 2000 or so update of this one which has its own unique perspectives and charts. All ...
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The Shopping Mall High School: Winners and Losers in the Educational Marketplace
Arthur G. Powell, Eleanor Farrar, ...
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1986
A must-read for secondary educators
This is the best book I've read on secondary education. Most educators would agree that small schools--where teachers and students know each other well and cooperate on meaningful work--are incredibly effective. However, standard high schools are large and chaotic ...
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Culture Made Stupid (Cvltvre Made Stvpid)
Tom Weller
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1987
A neglected masterpiece
Why on earth is this book out of print? Why wasn't it a huge bestseller? It was and remains one of the funniest books I have ever read, worth rereading over and over again to get the bits you missed before
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A Field Guide to Mushrooms North America (Peterson Field Guides)
Kent H. McKnight, Vera B. McKnight
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1987
Still a standard field guide to fungi
This field guide is nearly twenty years old, but there are so few field guides to fungi that it still remains a standard reference. Like all Peterson field guides, it is handy and compact and can easily be taken into the field and pored over with the mushrooms in their ...
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On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Carl R. Rogers
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1961
A humble masterpiece
This book by Carl Rogers on client-centered therapy may lack the drama, the force or the cleverness associated with some books on other forms of psychotherapy. What it doesn't seem to lack is a quiet wisdom that flowed from Rogers' many years of experience and ...
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In Search of Women's Passionate Soul: Revealing the Daimon Lover Within
Caitlin Matthews
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1997
One to go back to
A journey through the female psyche by a woman who knows. One can feel the empathy pour from the words in this book; reading it is a revelation, like having a wise old woman take you by the hand and say "This is why... this is the way." Matthews works her way through ...
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Rules of Thumb 2 (Rules of Thumb)
Tom Parker
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1987
Somewhere between funny and very useful..
Well known and little known rules that you can count on to measure things, plant crops, deal with animals & humans, gauge the weather, and meet life on a more sure fitting. For instance - the distance between an alligator's eyes in inches, is its length in feet.
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Lost Chicago
David Lowe
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1978
A Lot of Memories
There is much to enjoy here even if one does not have a special interest in architecture. As a lifelong Chicagoan, I especially liked the photo of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church (p. 79) which occurs in the formerly Polish neighborhood that I grew up in. I also enjoyed ...
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Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company
James R. Mellow
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1991
Get to Know Gertrude Stein
Mellow introduces the reader to a person and a period of time that makes the book a vacation from our modern world.He introduces us to personalities of the nineteenth and early twentieth century who remain names to most of us. How delightful to attend the parties, ...
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The American Heritage Dictionaries, 4th Edition, OFFICE Edition
Houghton Mifflin (P), 2001
Instructions for using with Office XP
Although this CD-ROM predates Office XP, it can be made to work correctly with it. 1. Locate the file named AHDLookup.dot, on the CD or on your hard drive, if you have copied the data to your hard drive. Select (highlight) this file and type Ctrl-C to copy it. 2. ...
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The World As I Found It
Bruce Duffy
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1988
forging flesh and blood out of the artifacts of history
I certainly wasn't hampered in my enjoyment of this book by a lack of familiarity with (or, until now, interest in) twentieth-century philosophy. "The World as I Found It" taught me what makes a great fictional characters: such compassion and detail that I feel I know ...
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Field Guide to Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores: Cape Hatteras to the Gulf Coast, Florida, and the ...
Eugene H. Kaplan
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1988
A great pocket guide to Caribbean Seashores
This is an ideal book for beachcombers with an interest in natural history or for marine biology students on a Caribbean field trip. It is a bit more than your standard identification guide as it has substantial sections of natural history. Kaplan was the founder and ...
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Meditations from the Breakdown Lane: Running Across America
James E. Shapiro
Houghton Mifflin (P), 1983
Excellent account of a transcon run
I have read Shapiro's book several times. It details the very dispute that goes through his head as he runs 40+ miles per day from Coast to Coast. His book helped inspire me to run across the country as well and his words were with me each day. An excellent book ...
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