In All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot takes the reader through his life as a new veterinarian in Scotland during the 1930's...This hilarious, wonderful story is a great book for anyone who l ...
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
A compelling (if a touch overly detailed) look at Florence, its architecture, and one of its artisans.
...I know I will remember this book for years to come and it will always feel as if it were almost yesterday that I read it, as it is a book to treasure and keep on a dusty bookshelf to pass on for ge ...
Letters in response to Harry V. Jaffa’s review of a new translation of “Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.”
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Skloot's meticulous, riveting account strikes a humanistic balance between sociological history, venerable portraiture and Petri dish politics.
Each topic is a combination of philosophical musing, description and practical detail of how exactly he did something including detailed costs if appropriate.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
...knowing that he feared for his life and that he was killed only added to the sense of urgency of the book...Most of all, what I took away from the book was his final transformation that was sparked ...
A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive
This is very short, but ample for its dreadful litany of banal cruelty...We are used to upbeat American accounts of comfy, secure middle-class childhoods. Hearing the similar voice here underscores th ...
In the end, it's all up to Burroughs, and to give the end away would be criminal, for this memoir operates on a high level of involvement and suspense. Didn't think you’d ever feel even an ounce of sy ...
The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
