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Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography

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Morris makes documentaries, and this is definitely a book written by a documentarian, which is not entirely a criticism. There are a lot of transcripts of long exchanges between him and people he calls up to talk to about various photos (which is actually not how he does his documentaries, where you almost never hear his side of the interview). The most interesting chapters of the book are about Abu [...]

The Winters Tale: Applause First Folio Editions (Applause Shakespeare Library Folio Texts)

William Shakespeare and Neil Freeman

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The Winter’s Tale is a lot of things: heart-breaking, exhilerating, funny, beautiful, romantic, profound, etc. Yeah, it’s all here. This is one of the bard’s best plays, and I can’t believe they don’t teach this in schools. Of course, the ones they teach are excellent, but I can see high school kids enjoying this one a lot more than some of those others (Othello, King Lear). The story is, of [...]

Grammatically Correct

Anne Stilman

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I bought this book based on customer reviews after browsing through grammar books on amazon.com. It has certainly more than met my expectations. There are few grammar books that you can pick up and can’t put down. Anne Stilman in "Grammatically Correct" has forged a new style in presenting information that is both enjoyable to read and provides the necessary rules. This book literally breezes through the basics of spelling, [...]