Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The tragic story of the most legendary shipwreck on America's inland waters.
ISBN: 1596911670
Author: Michael Schumacher
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Rating: 3.95
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Friday, September 15, 2006
A Spot of Bother
A Spot of Bother
George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not at quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. “The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.” Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored.
At 61, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels and listening to a bit of light jazz. Then his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting re-married, to the deeply inappropriate Ray. Her family is not pleased – as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has “strangler’s hands.” Katie can’t decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband’s ex-colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.
Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.
The way these damaged people fall apart – and come together – as a family is the true subject of Haddon’s disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.
A SPOT OF BOTHER is Mark Haddon’s unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME. Here the madness – literally – of family life proves rich comic fodder for Haddon’s crackling prose and bittersweet insights into misdirected love.
ISBN: 0385520514
Author: Mark Haddon
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Rating: 3.45
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Saturday, July 1, 2006
Logitude and Empire: How Captain Cook s Voyages Changed the World
Logitude and Empire: How Captain Cook s Voyages Changed the World
No one had travelled like Captain Cook, and no one can again. Before his three voyages, the world was uncertain and dangerous; after them, it was clear and safe. Written as a conceptual field guide to the voyages, "Longitude and Empire" offers a significant rereading of both the voyages and of modern political philosophy.
While the voyages are not explicitly works of political philosophy, they are political philosophy by other means, offering new ways of thinking about the world and about the place of human beings have in that world. More than any other work, they mark the shift from early modern to modern ways of looking at the world, a world that is no longer divided into Europeans and savages, but is populated by an almost overwhelming variety of national identities.
Cook's voyages took what fragmented and obscure descriptions of the world that were available and consolidated them into a single textual, tabular vision of the entire world. Places thus became clear and distinct, their locations were fixed, and everything inside - people, animals, plants and artifacts - was identified, collected, understood, and assimilated into a single world order. The Pacific was a test case for a new way of knowing and relating to the world. Then, it was possible to seriously travel only in Cook's wake, to be always already moving either within, or in reaction to his accounts of the world. As the culmination of global exploration, Cook's voyages became the ideal, and it is through Cook, after Cook, that Europe regrouped what knowledge it already had, and returned to the world with new epistemological and political expectations.
This fascinating and informative account offers a new understanding of Captain Cook's voyages and how they affected Europe's world view. It will engage historians, geographers, ethnographers, Cook enthusiasts, and anyone with an interest in epistemology or how the world was mapped.
ISBN: 0774811900
Author: Brian W. Richardson
Publisher: UBC Press
Rating: 3.25
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Friday, June 30, 2006
Chamán
Chamán
Escocés y miembro de una familia que ha practicado la medicina a lo largo de generaciones, Rob J. Cole debe emigrar por razones políticas a las nuevas tierras de América. Tras trabajar en Boston con el eminente cirujano Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cole partirá rumbo al Oeste, hacia un territorio que los colonos todavía no han podido arrebatar a los indios sauk, y donde le esperan las experiencias más intensas de su vida profesional y personal. Sigue así la trepidante saga de la familia Cole, que Noah Gordon había iniciado con la publicación de El médico y que tiene en Chamán una excelente continuación.
ISBN: 849654642X
Author: Noah Gordon
Publisher: Zeta Bolsillo
Rating: 4.03
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Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN?
This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying new book, the story of the Pilgrims does not end with the First Thanksgiving; instead, it is a fifty-five-year epic that is at once tragic and heroic, and still carries meaning for us today.
ISBN: 0670037605
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Viking
Rating: 3.85
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems
From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems.
That Mark Haddon’s first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise his many fans; that it is also one of such virtuosity and range will not.
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon’s prose are in strong evidence here – the humanity, the dark humour, and the uncanny ventriloquism – but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power, and surreal invention. This book will consolidate his reputation as one of the most imaginative writers in contemporary literature.
ISBN: 0307275698
Author: Mark Haddon
Publisher: Vintage
Rating: 3.34
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Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Golden Horrors: An Illustrated Critical Filmography of Terror Cinema, 1931 1939
Golden Horrors: An Illustrated Critical Filmography of Terror Cinema, 1931 1939
From the grindhouse oddities to major studio releases, this work details 46 horror films released during the genre's golden era. Each entry includes cast and credits, a plot synopsis, in-depth critical analysis, contemporary reviews, time of release, brief biographies of the principal cast and crew, and a production history. Apart from the 46 main entries, 71 additional ?borderline horrors? are examined and critiqued in an appendix.
ISBN: 0786427248
Author: Bryan Senn
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Rating: 4.00
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
L évangile selon Pilate
L évangile selon Pilate
Première partie : Dans le jardin des oliviers, un homme attend que les soldats viennent l'arrêter pour le conduire au supplice. Quelle puissance surnaturelle a fait de lui, fils de menuisier, un agitateur, un faiseur de miracles prêchant l'amour et le pardon ? Deuxième partie: Trois jours plus tard, au matin de la Pâque, Pilate dirige la plus extravagante des enquêtes policières. Un cadavre a disparu et est réapparu vivant ! Y a-t-il un mystère Jésus ou simplement une affaire Jésus ? A mesure que Sherlock Pilate avance dans son enquête, le doute s'insinue dans son esprit. Et avec le doute, l'idée de foi. L'Evangile selon Pilate a reçu le Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle 2001.
ISBN: 2253116041
Author: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Publisher: LGF
Rating: 3.95
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