books by Melville House     books:     Melville House      You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America John R. MacArthur Melville House, 2008 Thoroughly Entertaining and Insightful Everyone hears it as a kid, that they can be anything they want when they grow up; be it cowboy, astronaut, dinosaur, or, of course, President of the United States. John R. MacArthur's fascinating new book You Can't Be President reveals that unless you're part of an ...             A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose B. R. Myers Melville House, 2002 Essential! Simply brilliant. The reason why you know Myers' arguments are so good is that most of the book's detractors don't actually approach said arguments themselves. Instead they just attack Myers broadly, calling him a philistine, etc, etc. Well-- He's not. Myers is ...             Eeeee Eee Eeee Tao Lin Melville House, 2007 Amazing I bought this book because of the title. Little did I know that it would turn out to be the best book I've read in a very long time. I have a hard time considering it a piece of prose. It is pure poetry. Tao Lin is my new favorite writer.             Basics: The Foundations of Modern Cooking Filip Verheyden Melville House, 2007 The Basics- more than basic. I have given this lovely book as a gift to a young friend who is curious about cooking and has a strong aesthetic sense. Not only is the book a beautiful object with the gold edged pages, gold embossed lettering, red page marker and compact, black exterior it is ...             I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World Trevor Paglen Melville House, 2008 This has become a classic in the Military Black World Mr. Paglen's book has been spotted in many offices that work with the projects within... or so I've been told. While the conjecture and interpretation may be a little hard to take for those "not in the know" it is amazing that he compiled this resource using open ...             Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Poetry Tao Lin Melville House, 2008 i felt the things that matter i think a lot about this book and tao lin's other books the first time i read this i was so excited i read it all in one sitting it is hard for me normally to read more than three poems in one sitting i normally stand up and do something else there are a ...             Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System Raj Patel Melville House, 2008 Sheds light on a difficult subject Daniel B. Schuster says: I was entranced by this book. Mr Patel discusses the micro effects of our agriculture system as well as the macro effects and shows their interaction.. On both farmers and consumers. Every claim or fact in the book is footnoted. And the ...             A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial H.L. Mencken Melville House, 2006 Brilliant...Classic Mencken I am a huge fan of H. L. Mencken and this addition to the library doesn't disappoint. Mencken was one of America's most respected, despised, and feared journalists. As the number one literary enemy of the fundamentalist most of his career, Mencken was in his element ...             Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences Kitty Burns Florey Melville House, 2006 got as a gift but HAD to read it!! as one of the survivors of diagramming sentences (we're 70 plus) I bought this as a gift for a friend, then HAD TO KEEP it for myself! Ordering another for my friend!             Bed Tao Lin Melville House, 2007 is this the garden? I was looking for the garden, but I guess since I am here I will tell you about this book. This book is unbridled imagination. If imagination were a horse, this book would be a pretty white horse in the middle of Mall of America, shy and blushing a little, alone and ...             Who Killed Daniel Pearl? Bernard Henri Levy Melville House, 2003 A sharing and shining of light This is another of those books which by the very provocative nature of its title invites apprehension and misunderstanding from those who have not read it. Other reviewers have summarized the contents of the book quite adequately, so I shall confine my description ...             Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Case (Melville House Classic Journalism) A.M. Rosenthal Melville House, 2008 Extraordinary tale, written by a great journalist Abe Rosenthal is the greatest editor opf his generation, a man who transformed The New York Times and modern-day journalism. Earlier, he was a wonderful foreign correspondent, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his dispatches from Poland. This book, written when he was ...             Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights Trevor Paglen, AC Thompson Melville House, 2006 Superb book, Gripping read This is a must read for anyone who cares what our government is doing with people they don't like--which soon might be you and me. Concisely written, part decective story and part horror story, this book is an unforgettable account of torture of men who, curiously, ...             The Secret History of the English Language M.J. Harper Melville House, 2008 Cantankerously entertaining You might be a crank if: 1. You have one big idea, such as "What is is what was, unless you've got bone-chilling evidence to the contrary." 2. You view everything through the lens of this big idea (the English have always spoken English, etc.) 3. You insist ...             With the Beatles Lewis Lapham Melville House, 2005 more illuminating than books 10 times its length This book does a number of things with grace. To my taste, the most important thing it does is to capture the moral and cultural confusion, doomed innocence, and lively idealism of the cusp of the 1960's. Lapham's prose is lapidary: clear, precise, vivid, dryly ...          products you might be interested in search for books cognitive-behavioral, diagramming, foundations, outrageous, pretentiousness, thirty-eight      geepe.com    web we recommend is this the garden? randomly chosen electronics: M-Audio Delta 1010-LT PCI Digital Audio System (PC & Mac)