Rare Earth (2000,Copernicus Press, New York) begins as a challenging book from its introduction which defines the Rare Earth Hypothesis as commonness of simple life and the rarity of complex…
Simple Pleasures of the Kitchen
The latest in Susannah Seton’s Simple Pleasures series is Simples Pleasures of the Kitchen (Conari Press, Boston, 2005). Seton gives us a wonderful anthology of food stories, recipes, crafts, quotes,…
The Virtual Community
‘Anyone interested in the next twenty years must read this book’ marks the Financial Times on the back cover of Howard Rheingold’s The Virtual Community (Secker & Werburg Limited, 1994).…
Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism: The Turn of the Screw
Priscilla L. Walton reminds us that The Turn of the Screw has been called the “small problem child” of Henry James’s fiction. We remember James for the intricacies of his…
Great Short Stories of the English Speaking World
Great Short Stories of the English Speaking World (Vol. 1) is one book that brings to readers ‘Best of the Best’ in the world of short fiction. Published first in…
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories
From the HBJ Modern Classic series comes Eudora Welty’s A Curtain of Green and Other Stories in hard cover, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers (Orlando, FL 1991). The book…
Reinventing the Future
Good books bridge profound realities to lay minds. Great books do so in an interesting way. Reinventing the Future, by Thomas A. Bass, is one of those books that take…