The Edward Robinson Chair of Biblical Theology in the Union Theological Seminary, New York

This story of a dedicated Kentucky librarian pays tribute to the Works Progress Administration Pack Horse Library Project of Depression-era Appalachia. Edith is a packhorse librarian and travels on a daily basis to deliver books to the people who live deep in the hollers of eastern Kentucky. She sets out to deliver a book to 8-year-old William Caudill, who loves tales of derring-do. The trip is a dramatic and challenging one: Edith and her horse brave thunder, lightning, and hard wind and rain, complete with falling trees; slippery mud and steep mountain slopes; rushing creek waters; high mountain ridges a-bristle with thorny branches; and sliding rocks. But Edith&#39;s determination is fierce, and she successfully delivers books to the Caudill family, even staying to dry off, warm up, and visit with the family. Capturing one librarian&#39;s breathtaking fictional journey is a riveting way to showcase and honor the risky work of these real librarians, and the text communicates a deep reverence for their mission-and their tremendous fortitude. Illustrations depict a pale, red-haired librarian, nearly always smiling despite the obstacles that nature puts in her path. Light and shadow are used effectively to convey Mother Earth&#39;s shifting moods. An author&#39;s note and bibliography provide further details about the work of these resilient packhorse librarians of the Great Depression: "In the winter...librarians&#39; feet were often frozen to the stirrups." All characters present White. Educational and inspiring.

A Librarian's Brave Journey to Deliver Books to Children

Books by Horseback

&ldquo;An elegant book ... that lets readers know they aren&rsquo;t alone.&rdquo;&mdash;Wall Street Journal &ldquo;Mesmerizing. Cobb is down to earth, funny, disturbingly direct.&rdquo;&mdash;Detroit Free   Press &ldquo;An eloquent book. Cobb&rsquo;s harrowing insistence that death be confronted without   the veil of denial is made possible, and even more starkly compelling, by the grace   and wit of her writing.&rdquo; &mdash;Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind

A Conversation for the Living

In Lieu of Flowers

50 wirklich wahre Geschichten voller Geheimnisse

black stories junior - true stories

Praise for Kay Hooper and her novels  &ldquo;Vibrates with tension, passion, and mystery. Readers will devour it.&rdquo;&mdash;Jayne Ann Krentz&ldquo;[An] astonishing talent.&rdquo;&mdash;Suspense Magazine &ldquo;Kay Hooper&hellip;provide[s] a welcome chill on a hot summer&rsquo;s day.&rdquo;&mdash;Orlando Sentinel &ldquo;Filled with page-turning suspense.&rdquo;&mdash;The Sunday Oklahoman&ldquo;Readers will be mesmerized.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Hooper has created another original.&rdquo;&mdash;Times Record News (Wichita Falls, Texas)&ldquo;Thought-provoking entertainment.&rdquo;&mdash;Calgary Herald&ldquo;A full-force, page-turning, suspense-driven read.&rdquo;&mdash;The Mystery Reader  &ldquo;Hooper&rsquo;s unerring story sense and ability to keep the pages flying can&rsquo;t be denied.&rdquo;&mdash;Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine &ldquo;Kay Hooper has given you a darn good ride, and there are far too few of those these days.&rdquo;&mdash;Dayton Daily News &ldquo;Keep[s] readers enthralled until the last page is turned.&rdquo;&mdash;Booklist&ldquo;A stirring and evocative thriller.&rdquo;&mdash;Palo Alto Daily News &ldquo;It passed the 'stay up late to finish it in one night' test.&rdquo;&mdash;The Denver Post

Haven

&ldquo;&hellip;a sepia-toned picture album that beautifully captures the mesmerizing islands.&rdquo; ~Vogue&ldquo;The rich sepia-toned portraits juxtaposed with radiant seascapes are nothing but bewitching. Faery Lands is a must-have for style, travel, and culture enthusiasts.&rdquo; ~BeautyStat&ldquo;Dubbed Tahiti: Faery Lands, the book includes breathtaking portraits of some of the island&rsquo;s native inhabitants, landscapes, and a wide array of natural wonders. In addition to inspiring anyone with an appreciation for beauty, travel and photography, it will also look pretty incredible on your coffee table.&rdquo; ~Refinery29&ldquo;After looking through, I couldn&rsquo;t decide which was more hauntingly beautiful&mdash;the beaches and landscapes or the people. The photos are so rich and poignant&hellip;&rdquo; ~MarthaStewart.com&ldquo;A must-have for travel, style and culture mavens, Faery Lands is an exquisite collection of intimate sepia portraits, tinted palms and dreamy seascapes, all taken over the past twelve years on Nars&rsquo; private island&hellip;&rdquo; ~Resource Magazine

Tahiti: Faery Lands

&quot;Those who cannot find their own reflection in Bram Stoker's still-living creation are surely the undead.&quot;

Dracula

Regulations for the Field Exercise, Manoeuvers, and Conduct of the Infantry of the United States: Drawn Up and Adapted to the Organization of the Mili

I. Marchiafava and Bignami. II. Mannaberg

Two monographs on malaria and the parasites of malarial fevers

Threads of Meaning, Gender, and Resistance

A History of American Consumption

Airbus A320 Normal Operation

&ldquo;She had us at potluck! The fact that Lisa Fain says her most memorable meal was a family potluck warms our heart. We share with her a mutual desire to get people back around the table, since enjoying a meal with family and friends really is the best way to create lasting memories. Lisa invites you in with stories of her family and their connection to the recipes, and her warm, personal writing envelops you like a comforting blanket.&rdquo;&#160; &mdash;Crystal Cook and Sandy Pollock, authors of The Casserole Queens Cookbook&ldquo;Lisa Fain&rsquo;s new book, The Homesick Texan&rsquo;s Family Table, takes readers back to the origins of her inspiration&mdash;the family celebrations and community gatherings where platters of enchiladas, bowls of ranch-style beans, and great conversations combine to create lasting memories. It&rsquo;s a magical place that&rsquo;s changed the way we entertain&mdash;bring on the chiles, the masa, the chorizo!&rdquo;  &mdash;Matt Lee and Ted Lee authors of the Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen &#160; &ldquo;Who doesn&rsquo;t want to wake up to chilaquiles, enjoy a spicy soup for lunch, dive into a plate of peppery ribs, and finish up with a delicious, zippy version of cowboy cookies? With Lisa Fain&rsquo;s recipes, anybody, anytime, anywhere can rustle up down-home Tex-Mex fare&mdash;be it for an everyday meal or a special celebration. Now I just need a Texas-sized table to hold it all!&rdquo;  &mdash;David Lebovitz, author of My Paris Kitchen and The Sweet Life in Paris  &#160; &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always admired Lisa Fain&rsquo;s remarkable ability to express sentiment through flavor&mdash;and with her latest book, this talent is on full display. Her beautifully photographed recipes inspired me to not only revisit some of my own family favorites (which I dressed up with the help of the salsas, jams, and pickles in her &lsquo;Accompaniments&rsquo; chapter), but also introduce her family&rsquo;s classic flavors into my home. Hello, Frito Salad!&rdquo;  &mdash;Martha Foose, author of Screen Doors and Sweet Tea and A Southerly Course&#160;

Lone Star Cooking from My Kitchen to Yours [A Cookbook]

The Homesick Texan's Family Table

&ldquo;Tom Peters' new book is a bundle of beautiful dynamite.&#160; While I've been a CEO for 30 years, I still learned much worth knowing from The Excellence Dividend.&#160; You will too.&rdquo;&mdash;John C. Bogle, founder, Vanguard&#160;&ldquo;Here's what you need to know: This is 100% pure, unfiltered, unexpurgated, Tom Peters. THIS IS THE REAL DEAL. PERIOD.&rdquo;&mdash;Seth Godin,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author of Linchpin&ldquo;Genius. . . . Tom Peters is a fearless thinker with a once in a generation mind, open this book to any page, start reading, and ten minutes later you will know this is true. . . . I&rsquo;d rather hire someone who has studied his writings than someone who has an MBA.&rdquo;&mdash;Matthew Kelly, CEO of Floyd Consulting and&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author of&#160;The Dream Manager&ldquo;A font of management wisdom germane to &lsquo;surviving and thriving in the unruly times ahead.&rsquo; . . . Peters, a veteran business writer, delivers a superb business tome.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly&#160;(starred review)&ldquo;This book offers a fresh perspective on sustaining business in the tech age and is sure to be a popular read for both employees and business leaders.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist&ldquo;Wow&#160;jumps off every page of Tom Peters&rsquo; book,&#160;The Excellence Dividend, delivering brilliant insights and imploring business leaders to change before it&rsquo;s too late.&rdquo;&mdash;Cheryl Burgess, CEO of Blue Focus Marketing and author of&#160;The Social Employee&#160; &#160; &ldquo;Ever since the 1982 publication of In Search of Excellence, Tom Peters has shaped the way an entire generation of entrepreneurs looks at business. Now, thank goodness, he&rsquo;s back at it, applying his unquenchable passion for excellence to an utterly transformed world that needs his wisdom more than ever.&rdquo; &mdash;Bo Burlingham, former Inc. editor and author of Small Giants and Finish Big &#160; &ldquo;In his vibrant new must-read, Tom Peters fires his passion at the monster challenge of our day: how to thrive in the age of algorithms. The result is nothing less than a guide to reclaiming the humanity that must always be the heart and soul of work. Tom&rsquo;s new book makes me glad to be alive today.&rdquo;  &mdash;Sally Helgesen, author of The Female Advantage and The Female Vision, co-author How Women Rise &#160;&ldquo;We spend our entire lives searching for purpose. Tom Peters found his early and never wavered.&#160; For the rest of us, thank God he did! . . . He inspired me to pursue joy and decades later he is still inspiring me with his writing and his passion. . . . If we are wise enough to listen,&#160;we will receive dividends that last a lifetime.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;Richard Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations and author of&#160;Joy Inc.&#160;&ldquo;Peters has always been original, commanding and cutting-edge. If you think you&rsquo;ve heard or read it all, you&rsquo;ll be happily invigorated by&#160;The Excellence Dividend. . . . By turns amusing, stimulating and complacency-disturbing, Peters provides true food for thought&mdash;the sort you&rsquo;ll mentally chew on through the day and which may gnaw on you through the night.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;Whitney Johnson, Thinkers50, author of&#160;Build an A Team

Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last

The Excellence Dividend

Gripping and psychologically convincing... I hope it won't be long before the second book is translated!

Death in Summer

Tonie. Bullerbü - Immer lustig in Bullerbü

Das Buch von Middelhoff und Fuchs ist lesenswert und wichtig...spannend und gut zu lesen.

Wer sie lenkt, wer sie finanziert und wie sie die Gesellschaft verändern

Das Netzwerk der neuen Rechten

"Any viable notion of critical education has to consistently interrogate its most fundamental assumptions in light of a changing political, economic, and cultural landscape. This book represents not only the best of what critical education can offer, but also addresses the fundamental challenges and struggles that open up a future in which a real democracy seems possible. An insightful and provocative book that should be read by anyone who believes there is a relationship between education, justice, and democracy." - Henry A. Giroux, Global Television Network Chair and Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University

"Power, Crisis, and Education for Liberation challenges educators to courageously extend our analysis of culture, schooling, and power, by entering more willfully into the minefield of politics and economics.In so doing, De Lissovoy proposes an embodied pedagogy of opposition, grounded in both the realities of global capital and the particularities of everyday life. In the midst of today's growing despair, his message of possibility can invigorate our educational struggles against the ravages of neoliberalism and the blight left behind in its wake." - Antonia Darder, Professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

"A new generation of critical pedagogy scholars is asserting itself and De Lissovoy is leading the charge. This is a seminal book, as De Lissovoy examines emancipatory education in the ideologically charged conditions of the contemporary era with its novel demands and complications. De Lissovoy is necessary reading for all educators dedicated to social justice in these difficult times." - Joe L. Kincheloe, Canada Research Chair in Critical Pedagogy McGill University; Project Leader, The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy

"Noah De Lissovoy has produced an impressive text that deserves to be read by a wide audience of educators interested in critical pedagogy, social justice, and recent educational reforms centering on standardization, new disciplinary regimes, and testing." - John D. Holtz, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

"What makes De Lissovoy's contribution insightful and rich is his attempt to analyze the threats posed by specific tendencies of force in a global totality while rethinking categories of investigation and action central to critical pedagogy: historical time, the dialectic, oppression, difference and power, and praxis...A challenging but timely book not about critical pedagogy, but of critical pedagogy." - Book Smarts

"The ground covered in Power, Crisis, and Education for Liberation is ambitious in scope and warrants the full attention of critical pedagogues and others who accept the challenge of developing a new global language and subject of resistance." - Gregory N. Bourassa, Educational Studies

"The real insight of De Lissovoy's rethinking of the critical pedagogical tradition lies in his novel critique of oppressive schooling practices and his equally ingenious attempt to formulate a new method for thinking and acting against such oppression." - Tyson E. Lewis, Educational Philosophy and Theory Book Reviews

Rethinking Critical Pedagogy

Power, Crisis, and Education for Liberation

Adoptierte Indianer kennen keinen Schmerz, oder doch? - Autobiografie über Verlassenwerden, Adoption und Wurzelsuche - Handbuch zur Selbsthilfe

"In this fourth book about Anastasia's spunky little brother, Sam Krupnik really comes into his own. . . . Lowry gets everything about Sam just right." -- Booklist, Boxed"Another visit with the Krupniks is time well spent." -- School Library Journal

Zooman Sam

A Church in the Wilds: The Remarkable Story of the Establishment of the South American Mission Amongst the Hitherto Savage and Intractable Na

The Cosmopolitan State is presented to us in an impressive way by H. Patrick Glenn...[it is a] must read!

The Cosmopolitan State

Praise for LOOK!:An Amazon Best Book of the Month! &#160;* "The slapstick action unfolds on linen-textured backgrounds, battered vintage book covers, and the actual pages of a book&mdash;hat-tips to the physicality of books that hint at a happy ending for bibliophiles of all ages. Even if audiences miss these winks and nods to the tactile pleasures of reading, they&rsquo;ll still love that gorilla: hulking, eager-to-please and almost palpably furry, he&rsquo;ll be welcome in any room."&mdash;Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW"The personalities and emotions of the chunky, fluffy ape and the TV-entranced boy nearly vibrate off the page. Look, indeed! An energetic invitation to the joys of books."&mdash;Kirkus Reviews "This is a fun read-aloud that will have children wanting to look and look again."&mdash;School Library Journal"Mack&rsquo;s gentle, cartoonish illustrations are cleverly drawn on old book covers and endpapers, a subtle detail that emphasizes the joy of reading, and with a playful two-word vocabulary, even the littlest readers will be able to get in on the fun."&mdash;Booklist"Look!&#160;treads familiar metafictive ground in celebrating the pleasures of reading, but it manages to feel fresh nonetheless, with inventive use of controlled text, vibrant mixed-media art, and thoughtful design."&mdash;Horn Book

Look!

&ldquo;America&rsquo;s favorite writer.&rdquo;&mdash;The New Yorker&ldquo;Book two of Roberts's In the Garden trilogy ably showcases the author's many strengths, from her creation of appealing characters to her melding of the eerily paranormal with the delightfully down-to-earth.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly

Black Rose

Vimp Series Book 1 Without a Shadow

HallowedSpell

The Unconquered

"Brian Benson&rsquo;s memoir about riding from the hinterlands of Wisconsin to Portland, Oregon on his bicycle is as poignant as it is gripping, as hilarious as it is wise. Going Somewhere&#160;is a tender, sexy, take-it-with-you-everywhere-you-go-until-you&rsquo;ve-read-the-last-page beauty of a book.&rdquo;&mdash;Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail  &ldquo;Irresistible. . . . Let&rsquo;s hope Benson has more travels in mind. He is a gifted writer, an observant human with an eye for the telling detail and how to tell it.&rdquo;&mdash;Booklist&ldquo;Charming&hellip; His travelogue is vibrant and engrossing, with wonderful portraits of Western landscapes and scruffy small towns, Job-like ordeals of gusty headwinds and breakdowns, and piquant portraits of kindly, parental folks who offer the cyclists food and shelter and another of a menacing drifter on a dark road.&rdquo;&mdash;Publisher&rsquo;s Weekly

A Bicycle Journey Across America

Going Somewhere

&ldquo;A coming-of-age tale with a magical ferocity that recalls Doctorow and Nabokov.&rdquo;&mdash;Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Lark & Termite&ldquo;A beautifully written, complex story of self-discovery.&rdquo;&mdash;The Boston Globe&ldquo;Truong explores&mdash;and explodes&mdash;[her characters&rsquo;] secrets at a captivating pace. . . . Reminiscent of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times Book Review&#160;&ldquo;A searing exploration of intimacy and enmity, language, betrayal, and silence, Bitter in the Mouth is as dazzling as it is deeply emotional.&#160;It also has the best twist in its tail&mdash;ever.&rdquo;&mdash;Parade

A Novel

Bitter in the Mouth

*Debut author Liu-Perkins' infectious curiosity shines in this exploration of a Han dynasty burial chamber excavated in 1972. The "best preserved body in the world." This honor goes to no  ordinary mummy. It belongs to the remains of one Chinese woman known as  the Marchioness of Dai, or Lady Dai. Buried beneath two hills called  Mawangdui, Lady Dai's tomb held three nobles: the marquis Li Cang, his  wife, Lady Dai, and apparently one of their sons. As archaeologists dug  through layers of white clay and charcoal, they uncovered more than  3,000 "astonishingly well-preserved" artifacts. Most amazing of all was  Lady Dai's body. After being buried for almost 2,200 years, her skin  remained moist, her joints were movable, and her finger- and toeprints  were still discernible. Other rare finds included an elaborate silk  painting called a feiyi and the oldest and largest stash of silk  books ever discovered in China. Based on 14 years of extensive research,  the author's storytelling is clear, inviting and filled with awe, as if  she's right there alongside the dig experts. Fictionalized vignettes of  Lady Dai's life that introduce each chapter add charm and perspective.  Artifact photographs and illustrations heighten the fascination. In  particular, Brannen's illustration of Lady Dai's chamber of multiple,  nested coffins demonstrates the creative ingenuity of these ancient  embalmers. Move over King Tut. Lady Dai is in the house. -Kirkus Reviews, *starred reviewIn 1972, archaeologists made an  astonishing find at a site called Mawangdui near Changsha, China. Inside  an ornate coffin nested three other elaborate ones, and wrapped in many  layers of fine silk lay the body of a woman, buried for over two  millennia but whose skin was soft and supple. Buried with her were many  treasures, including foodstuffs that, amazingly, looked fresh enough to  be eaten upon discovery. More than a year later, two other tombs within  the same burial chamber were unearthed&ndash;-those of the woman&rsquo;s husband and  son, though their remains were far more degraded. In time, the woman  was identified as &ldquo;Lady Dai,&rdquo; the name by which she is now commonly  known, the widow of the Marquis of Dai, a high official during the Han  Dynasty. Her story makes for fascinating reading. The writing is  accessible, and each of the well-organized chapters delineates all the  treasures that were found in Lady Dai&rsquo;s and her son&rsquo;s tombs&ndash;-and how the  finds have brought the world of ancient China to vivid, illuminating  life. Chapters open with an illustration and an imagined scene written  in the present tense&ndash;-a device the author has used to bring readers  directly into Lady Dai&rsquo;s world. Budding forensic scientists will  appreciate the information and pertinent photographs about how the  woman&rsquo;s body was preserved after her death in 158 BCE and about the  modern-day autopsy performed on her. The book benefits from handsome  design: photographs are of high quality, and illustrations, maps, and  diagrams are attractive and helpful. This volume will serve as an  interesting browser and as a fine supplementary resource in units on  ancient China.-School Library JournalMethane gas and a layer of white clay were  tip-offs that laborers building an air raid shelter in 1971 Hunan  Province had made a critical discovery. Formal excavations soon began  which uncovered the two thousand year old tombs of the emperor appointed  marquis Li Cang, his wife Xin Zhui, and one of their sons. All the  tombs yielded priceless grave goods, but that of the wife, known by the  honorific Lady Dai, also held her remarkably intact remains, so  well-preserved that tissue was soft, joints somewhat flexible, and even  stomach contents full of undigested melon seeds. Liu-Perkins is a  knowledgeable and enthusiastic docent, leading readers through the  particulars of the excavation and reveling in the enormous amount of  information the find revealed about the Qin and early Han periods, which  had been presumed to be forever lost to object decay and human  destruction. Books that scholars had only known from references in other  works were unearthed, along with musical instruments still playable,  silk maps still readable, game boards still playable (if only we knew  all the rules), foods still aromatic, and equally important, a cadaver  that could be fully autopsied. The author supports her neatly organized  chapters with brief, conjectural musings on Lady Dai&rsquo;s life, plenty of  diagrams and photographs, a glossary with Chinese pronunciations, a dual  timeline of Chinese and Changsha (Li Cang&rsquo;s kingdom) history during the  relevant period, quotation sources, bibliography, index, and a  substantive history of Chinese unification under the first emperors.  This material will be a boon for archaeology fans who have exhausted  standard library offerings on Middle Eastern and occidental mummies and  excavations, as well as a vital resource for collections that are  top-heavy on the Great Wall and the Terracotta Army.-The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books*There is quite a good selection of youth  titles that deal with archaeological finds, but this well-researched  book about a remarkable discovery takes readers somewhere they've never  been before: China, 150 years before the time of Christ. Although the  two mounds that look like a saddle have been a focal point in the  Changsha area of south-central China for more than 2,000 years, it  wasn't until 1971 that archaeologists began excavating these ancient  tombs, and what they uncovered was astounding. The books made of bamboo,  the lacquer dishes, the carved wooden servants--all would have been  priceless finds on their own. But there was also a body of a woman so  well preserved that her skin was still soft and pliable. During an  autopsy, doctors found they could discern her illnesses and what she had  had for her last meal! And this was no anonymous woman. Artifacts gave  her name and her position: she was Lady Dai, the wife of a high official  during the early Han dynasty. Liu-Perkins does an excellent job of  making kids care about this discovery (well, the photo of Lady Dai's  remains does draw them in). Just as important, she explains a wide  variety of topics--silk making and funeral practices, to name a  few--easily packing in a great deal more information. Delicate original  art juxtaposes well with the many photos of artifacts, making this a  handsome as well as an intriguing offer.-Booklist, *starred review

Lady Dai and the Ancient Chinese Treasures of Mawangdui

At Home in Her Tomb

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Dwight Garner, The New York Times:"Kevin Birmingham&#8217;s new book about the long censorship fight over James Joyce&#8217;s Ulysses braids eight or nine good stories into one mighty strand... The best story that&#8217;s told&#8230; may be that of the arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer. Mr. Birmingham, a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard, appears fully formed in this, his first book. The historian and the writer in him are utterly in sync. He marches through this material with authority and grace, an instinct for detail and smacking quotation and a fair amount of wit. It&#8217;s a measured yet bravura performance."Michael Dirda, The Washington Post:&#8220;Birmingham has produced an excellent work of consolidation&#8230;. [A] lively history &#8230;. The Most Dangerous Book is impressivelyresearched and especially useful for its meticulous accounts of various legal battles. It is meant to be fun to read and, setting aside my fogeyish cavils, it is.&#8221;The Economist:&#8220;[G]ripping. Like the novel which it takes as its subject, it deserves to be read.&#8221;The New Yorker:&#8220;Terrific&#8230;. The Most Dangerous Book is the fullest account anybody has made of the publication history of Ulysses. Birmingham&#8217;s brilliant study makes you realize how important owning this book, the physical book, has always been to people."&#160;Vanity Fair:&#8220;Birmingham recounts this story with a richness of detail and dramatic verve unexpected of literary history, making one almost nostalgic for the bad old days, when a book could be still be dangerous.&#8221;The Wall Street Journal:&#8220;The story of Ulysses has been told before, but not with Mr. Birmingham's thoroughness. The Most Dangerous Book makes use of newspaper reports, court documents, letters and the existing Joyce biographies. It looks back to a time &#8216;when novelists tested the limits of the law and when novels were dangerous enough to be burned&#8217; and makes one almost nostalgic for it.&#8221;Dallas Morning News:&#8220;Hundreds of books and thousands of articles have been written about&#160;Ulysses&#160;since its publication. Kevin Birmingham&#8217;s&#160;The Most Dangerous Book&#160;is a splendid addition&#8230;.&#160; this book has groundbreaking new archival research, and it thrills like a courtroom drama.&#8221;Boston Globe:&#8220;I am not a Joycean. But I loved Kevin Birmingham&#8217;s The Most Dangerous Book anyway. You don&#8217;t need to be a Bloomsday devotee to enjoy or profit mightily from it. Birmingham&#8230; writes with fluidity and a surprising eye for fun. He probably has read through the mountains of books and scholarly articles on Ulysses and seems obsessed with the book itself, but wears it all lightly. [A] vivid narrative [that]&#8230;makes you want to go back and read&#8212;and treasure&#8212;Joyce&#8217;s novel because he liberally salts the novel&#8217;s backstory with memorable anecdotes and apercus, especially at the close of each chapter.&#8221;Houston Chronicle:&#8220;Lively and engrossing.&#8221;Slate:&#8220;[A] deeply fun work of scholarship that rescues Ulysses from the superlatives and academic battles that shroud its fundamental unruliness and humanity.&#8221;Salon:&#8220;Astute and gorgeously written&#8230;. [The] battle for Ulysses&#8230;is a story that, as Birmingham puts it, forced the world to &#8216;recognize that beauty is deeper than pleasure and that art is larger than beauty.&#8217; He has done it justice.&#8221;Chronicle of Higher Education:&#8220;An essential, thoroughly researched addition to Joyceana and a consistently engaging narrative of how sexuality, aesthetics, morality, and jurisprudence collided almost a century ago.&#8221;The Nation:&#8220;Kevin Birmingham&#8217;s The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce&#8217;s Ulysses casts its nets&#8230; widely, synthesizing enormous amounts of information and describing in detail the multiple circumstances surrounding the gestation, publication and suppression of Ulysses. Birmingham is a fluid writer, and the more intricate the detail, the more compelling the narrative he constructs: his account of the rise of American obscenity laws&#8230; is as gripping to read as his account of the barbaric eye surgeries Joyce endured or his account of the nearly slapstick manner in which Samuel Roth published a pirated edition of Ulysses in 1929.&#8221;Publishers Weekly (starred):&#8220;Exultant&#8230;.Drawing upon extensive research, Birmingham skillfully converts the dust of the archive into vivid narrative, steeping readers in the culture, law, and art of a world forced to contend with a masterpiece.&#8221;Kirkus Reviews (starred):&#8220;[A] sharp, well-written debut&#8230;.Birmingham makes palpable the courage and commitment of the rebels who championed Joyce, but he grants the censors their points of view as well in this absorbing chronicle of a tumultuous time. Superb cultural history, pulling together many strands of literary, judicial and societal developments into a smoothly woven narrative fabric.&#8221;Library Journal:&#8220;What begins as simply the &#8216;biography of a book&#8217; morphs into an absorbing, deeply researched, and accessible guide to the history of modern thought in the first two decades of the 20th century through the lens of Joyce&#8217;s innovative fiction.&#8221;Booklist:&#8220;Birmingham delivers for the first time a complete account of the legal war waged&#8230;to get Joyce&#8217;s masterpiece past British and American obscenity laws. Birmingham has chronicled an epoch-making triumph for literature.&#8221;&#160;

The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses

The Most Dangerous Book

"This beautiful book, which celebrates Berkeley's iconic grocery, is filled not only with Erin Scott's stunning photographs but also with recipes and ideas for how to use produce that grows on our shores but is not always the easiest to know what to do with. Now I know how to use those banana flowers I've encountered in Florida&ndash;&ndash;and many other foods as well." &mdash;Deborah Madison, author of Vegetable Literacy and In My Kitchen&#160;"I've been waiting for this book for the past decade. Since moving to the Bay Area, Berkeley Bowl has been my go-to market for buying food&ndash;&ndash;whether catering an event or cooking for my family&ndash;&ndash;and I am always discovering new produce there. The Berkeley Bowl Cookbook is an invaluable resource with fresh ideas for familiar ingredients and dozens of recipes for ingredients that you probably have never heard of (let alone cooked)." &mdash;Bryant Terry, James Beard Foundation Leadership Award recipient and author of Afro-Vegan&#160;"The recipes are adventurous, but their execution is straightforward&mdash;perfect for those looking to cook outside their culinary comfort zones." &mdash;Publisher's Weekly&#160;"If you've ever wanted to diversify your diet and include some of the stranger vegetables at the grocery store,&#160;The Berkeley Bowl Cookbook&#160;is a must-buy.&#160;Registered dietitian Laura McLively has created easy, accessible recipes for vegetables like stinging nettle, sea bean, kohlrabi, ramp, green garlic, chayote, pomelo, and more. She also tells you&#160;why&#160;they're worthy of inclusion in your diet&mdash;and it turns out, there are tons of superfoods (with super benefits!) we're all missing out on."&#160;&mdash;MindBodyGreen"You could say [McLively] wrote the book on the place.... You'll be cooking inventively in no time."&#160;&mdash;Diablo Magazine &#160;"The diversity is stunning and inspiring, with recipes using flowers, seeds and pods, savoury fruits, leaves, spores and succulents, roots and tubers, stems and sweet fruits, plus tips on where to get these if you don&rsquo;t live in the shop&rsquo;s vicinity." &mdash;American Express Essentials

The Edward Robinson Chair of Biblical Theology in the Union Theological Seminary, New York

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