Mojave Desert Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs of the Mojave Desert, Including the Mojave National Preserve, Death Valley National Park, and Joshua Tree National Park

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The Mojave Desert eco-region extends from eastern California to northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah, and boasts plant communities as diverse as alkali sinks, dune systems, Joshua tree woodland, pinyon juniper woodland, mixed mojave scrub, and even riparian woodland. Mojave Desert Wildflowers will be appreciated not only by amateur wildflower enthusiasts, but experts will also find the detailed photographs and charts useful in distinguishing among similar species in difficult groups. Species are arranged by color and plant family for easy identification. This guide features 300 of the common species, full-color photographs, detailed descriptions, information on bloom season, and interesting facts about each plant.

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Extremely Easy To Use.......2006-04-16

This is probably the easiest to use desert plant book I have (and I have eight that focus on desert plants in all). What it lacks in completeness, it more than makes up for in terms of ease of use. There is a picture for each plant and the plants are grouped according to flower color. So as long as the plant is in bloom, it's not too hard to find out what it is. This book does a great job of covering the plants you are most likely to come across which makes it a great book to thumb through in the field. If you are dealing with similar species within the same genus or rare plants, you'll probably want to get the Jepson guide.

Beautiful pix, helpful text.......2005-09-02

I love these Falcon guides mainly because of the lavish color illustrations. Every flower in the book has its own color picture, along with helpful descriptions. The front matter in this book includes all sorts of background material about the Mojave, along with the usual educational stuff about plant types, leaf distribution, etc. And the book is made to last -- if you take any care of it at all, it will last you forever.

Great book.......2005-02-12

Money well spent. We are ready for wildflower season! A lot of color pictures with good information. If you live in or near the Mojave Desert this is a valuable book.

A Gorgeous, Informative, Sturdy Field Guide.......2003-07-15

Pam MacKay's 'Mojave Desert Wildflowers' is a wonderfully informative & beautifully photographed guide to the wildflowers of the Mojave. This sturdy plastic-coated field guide contains over 300 gorgeous photos, finely detailed plant descriptions, and is virtually an introductory textbook on Mojave Desert ecology. I highly recommend this book to anyone who appreciates the Mojave Desert. The author lives & teaches in the Mojave and her dedication, attention to detail, and love of the desert are revealed on every page.

Jim Otterstrom

Beautiful Book!.......2003-05-15

This guide is so easy to use and the pictures are beautiful. I highly recommend this guide for first time wildflower enthusiasts!

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A Must Have.......2007-09-11

The title says it all, if you are doing any kind of travel around the park past the major sites, you must have this map. It shows elevation changes, more details than the standard map given at the park entrance. It's as helpful as any guidebook. And made of a very durable and waterproof material.

A Must-Have Guide.......2007-07-21

I just returned from Yellowstone and the Tetons. I used this book throughout my trip. It is clear, easy to use and well-written. The left hand page is a map of a short distance, say 14 miles, the right hand tells you about the sights. I used it in conjunction with a more detailed book (Moon guide), and found both useful in tandem. The only drawback is that it assumes you are entering the park from the West Entrance, so I had to use stick on notes to guide myself backwards by numbering the stick-ons in the order of my route. It was no big deal and hardly a reason not to buy the book. Two thirds of the annual 3 million visitors enter via the west, so you can understand the authors' reasons.

Great for quick overview.......2007-05-15

We used this book quite frequently during our recent vacation to Yellowstone. It provided an excellent quick-reference to the roads and roadside attractions we were approaching.
First, we checked which section of road we were on from the map on the inside front cover. That led us to a couple of synopsis pages with brief, accurate highlights. It was very handy for quickly assessing roadside attractions, and identifying places we wanted to go.
For more in depth research, we used "Yellowstone Treasures", which we also HIGHLY recommend!

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A Newbery Honor Book

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Upon the Head of the Goat book review.......2006-04-28

I think that you should read this book because it is clear and it gives a good description of what it was like for the Jews as the Holocaust began. The author described how they lived, specifically, how they dressed, slept, and ate. This gives the reader a clear understanding. It is interesting to learn about an actual family that lived during these hard times, especially for the children Piri, Etu, Joli, and Sandor. Piri's family had to make hard decisions in order to survive. The book gives a good description of the Ghetto and how they had to live for those few weeks. For example, the bathroom was smelly and gross with not much privacy. The ground was cold and hard, "What if it rains during the night?" she asked. "We'll all get soaked." They were not allowed to make fires either. They don't even know how long they are going to be there so they don't know what to expect. They build somewhat of a shelter for just their family with a tent inside it for privacy and to help keep the rain out. The author, Aranka Siegal, doesn't just give an overview of what it was like in the Ghetto; she describes every detail about it. Overall, it is a good book and I recommend it to ages 13 an up.

Book Review.......2006-04-27

Upon the Head of a Goat is a very good book. It gives a lot of back round pre-holocaust. The fact that it is a true story is even better. It teaches and touches upon the home of a Jewish family torn from each other. It describes the obstacles they had to go through to live their everyday life. They had their food, conformability, morals, thoughts, believes, and one another taken from them.
I liked this book, and I recommend it. There are parts in the book that you will question yourself on the answers that you would provide in certain situations. The ending of the book was a little disappointing because it didn't really touch upon what happened. They led up to all these thoughts and stopped.

not interesting enough for my taste.......2006-04-23

I like history and the subject of World War II and Nazi Germany, that is why I was surprised how much I did not like this book. I found it boring and uninteresting. I wish the book had more action. I guess it was hard for me to identify with a nine year old girl and what she went through. I also do not like endings that leave you hanging. I wish we knew what happened to them after they got on the train. It was almost like I wish the book started where it ended. This book is probably better for someone younger or for someone who wants to avoid the violence and terror of World War II.

Started my love for all things Hungarian.......2004-09-05

This was the first book I read about the Shoah in Hungary, and it was so fascinating that it got me interested in all things Hungarian. It's different from many books about the Shoah in that the majority of it takes place before the Nazi invasion of Hungary on 19 March 1944, when the remaining members of the Davidowitz family are shipped off to a ghetto. Though life is growing increasingly hard for them because of the anti-Jewish regulations and the strain of living during a war in general, and Piri had to stay in the Ukraine with her grandmother and older sister Rozsi longer than she expected to because of a border war, the Davidowitzes still have a pretty normal and decent life before they have to leave for the ghetto. During this time the family also does their part to help other Jewish families and people in need, even with hiding them in safe houses or helping to smuggle them across borders, and Iboya, the next-youngest of Mrs. Davidowitz's children by her first marriage, is very involved in Zionism. And even in the ghetto, Piri's family and her best friend Judi's little family live the best they can, trying to keep their spirits up and to be happy. Piri and Judi both have their first romances in the ghetto, in fact. It's not one of those books that starts out happily and then quickly moves to the ghetto and then the camps. In fact, the book ends as they're leaving the ghetto in the cattlecar, and only a short postscript tells us what happened after that.

The book is also interesting because not all of Piri's siblings are at home, unlike many other Shoah books where all of the family are in the same house. Because her mother didn't want her grandmother to be lonely after she was widowed, she began farming out her five daughters to stay with her to keep her company, but Lilli, the oldest, wasn't her companion very long because she got married at only 16 years old and soon had a baby. Now Rozsi is living with the grandmother, and loves farm life very much, while the other older sister, Etu, is away at university in Budapest. Even after Lilli and her young daugher Manci move back in, there are still only Piri and her sister Iboya left at home along with their halfsiblings Sandor and Joli, and when Lilli's husband Lajos is arrested and Lilli insists on joining him along with Manci, there are still only the youngest four still at home. It makes it interesting because the family are in all different places instead of all suffering the same fates or suffering all together. The only complaint I have about the book is one I acquired in hindsight; it would have been helpful to have told the reader something about the pronunciation of the Hungarian names and that some of the names used, like Ica and Manci, are nicknames and not full given names.

Upon the Head of the Goat.......2004-03-08

It was a very interesting and informing book. It was easy to feel for the characters. I highly recommend it for people who are interested in the lives of young holocaust victims.

UPON THE HEAD OF THE GOAT A CHILDHOOD IN HUNGARY 1939-1944

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UPON THE HEAD OF THE GOAT A CHILDHOOD IN HUNGARY 1939-1944
Aranka Siegal
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus Giroux
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Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944
Aranka Siegal
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Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944 (Newbery Series)

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Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944 (Newbery Series)

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ASIN: 0676301835

Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944

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Awesome But Sad Book
Understanding the Holocaust in the Middle Grades

Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
Aranka Siegal
Manufacturer: Sagebrush Education Resources
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Binding: Library Binding

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Awesome But Sad Book.......2000-05-11

I really enjoyed this book. Piri, the main character, is a young girl who lives in Hungary with her family in WWII. Her family consists of her mother, 2 sisters and her brother. Her father is off at war, fighting in favor of the Germans. Piri and her family are Jewish. If you have studied the war you know that the Germans (Nazi) were against Jews and wanted to kill them all. This is a novel about the hardships of Piri and her family.

Understanding the Holocaust in the Middle Grades.......2000-05-10

After many years of using The Diary of Ann Frank, teachers now have a chance to use an equally exciting book by Aranka Seigal, Upon the Head of the Goat. This book describes the trials and tribulations in the life of Piri Davidowitz, a young Hungarian girl of the Jewish faith, during the terrible years of World War II. Piri is unusual in that her grandmother lives in Ukraine, her father is from Czechoslovakia, and her mother is Hungarian. This book allows teachers and students to study the Holocaust and the geography of the region and cover the national standards in geography, history, and language arts. Students will learn about Piri and the hardships she and her family suffer, and they will discover that like many people of the Jewish faith, Piri and her family are sent to a concentration camp. Piri's life slowly desintegrates as Jews receive more and more restrictions with the coming of the Arrow Cross, the Hungarian fascist group, to power in Hungary. As more restrictions come into play, Piri loses friends and family, chances for education, and freedom. Students will enjoy the suspense that is in the novel and will learn a valuable lesson on the Holocaust.

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Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
Aranka Siegal
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Buy it for the photos, not for the content.

Informative with lots of beautiful photographs

Guide to Owning an African Pygmy Hedgehog: Housing, Feeding, Breeding, Exhibition, Health Care (Re Series)
Dennis Kelsey-Wood
Manufacturer: TFH Publications
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ASIN: 0793821509

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Buy it for the photos, not for the content........2001-09-20

All of Kelsey-Woods' books have terrific photos, but poorly organized and often inaccurate information. Sections on hedgehog diet recommend foods that are high in fat, low in protein -- exactly the opposite of what a hedgehog needs. He also recommends the use of gloves while handling hedgehogs -- a true no-no if you ever expect your pet to bond with you. The habitats shown in the book are not large enough for an active hedgehog.

This book is widely distributed, and I am sad every time I see it displayed in a bookstore. Hedgehogs all over the country are receiving sub-standard care because of this book.

Informative with lots of beautiful photographs.......2000-03-02

My daughter just bought her first hedgehog as a pet. Although she researched hedgehogs before deciding to buy one, she was able to learn some important facts of which she was unaware. This book contains exquisite photographs and stresses the importance of selecting a hedgehog of good health and temperament. It is a good source of information for those who are new to hedgehogs, yet find them totally irresistable. We have all fallen in love with this new prickly family member

The Guide to Owning a Hedgehog (Guide to Owning)

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The Guide to Owning a Hedgehog (Guide to Owning)
Audrey Pavia
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ASIN: 0793822254

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Reading this cookbook is like taking a stroll through the Farmers' Market to gather a basketful of garden-fresh goodies for supper. The recipes and menus are ideally suited for a leisurely brunch behind adobe walls in a shady garden of lush foliage and a bubbling fountain, for a perfect picnic beside a cool winding stream. There are menus for a succulent Fourth of July barbecue and a panoply of contemporary Native foods inspired by the ancient culture of the Eight Northern Pueblos of New Mexico. The authors celebrate Fiestas de Santa Fe with a tempting buffet and divulge other food secrets for Santa Fe's myriad special occasions. A sampling of the healthful recipes include:

Sweet Roasted Red Beet Salad

Santa Fe Gingerbread with Tangy Poached Apricots

Chile-Barbecued Salmon with Jalapeño, Herb and Orange Relish

Tangy Goat Cheese, Chile and Pumpkin Seed Nachos

Golden Corn and Green Chile Soup

Summer in Santa Fe is more than an array of delectable menus and luscious recipes from The City Different. It's a celebration of the city's history, folklore, traditions, and cultural events. In the shadows of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, discover the old and the new Santa Fe.

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Delicious.......2005-10-03

This is a beautiful cookbook ... good enough to put on the coffee table. Delicious recipes that made me want to take another trip down to Santa Fe.

Truly a teaching cookbook.......2001-08-27

I have enjoyed this cookbook so much, that it has become my current favorite hostess gift! The recipes are wonderful, and I appreciate the variety of the suggested menus. Most of all, this book educates the reader with "Chefs Corner" tips and a lengthy explanation of southwestern cooking terms and proceedures. Learning how to properly roast vegetables has given a healthy boost to my repetoire, as well as introductions to other southwestern staples.The pictures are also very appealing~ this is just a delightful cookbook that I would highly recommend to anyone with an interest in colorful, healthy food.

Fresh exciting menus for great summer food - Santa Fe style........2001-07-22

I have used several of the menus, and have received rave reviews from all my guests. Everything I have made was FLAVORFUL,TASTY AND INTERESTING. Many of the recipes easily lend themselves to advance preparation - I prefer to spend time with my guests, and not cooking in the kitchen. There are recipes for all levels of expertise, and my 12-year old daughter has made several of the dishes. The recipes interpret historic Santa Fe cuisine in an innovative contemporary style. I am so happy to have added Summer in Santa Fe to my cookbook collection....

A Feast for the Eyes!.......2001-07-06

This absolutely gorgeous book immediately brought back memories of an idyllic summer stay I once enjoyed in Santa Fe. While the recipes themselves are quite nice, it is the photography, history of the city, and evocative intros to each section of the book that make this cookbook really stand out. The layout and design of the pages beautifully conjure the city too, with southwestern woodcut borders decorating each page. From the ripe, prettily plated blueberries on the cover, to the darling little boy in the giant sombrero in the fiesta section, this book is truly a feast for the eyes!

Sheer Pleasure.......2001-06-19

The photographs of Santa Fe and its Farmer's Market take the reader halfway to that beautiful place, but it is the smells and flavors that come from cooking these recipes, that transport the reader to the land of the high mesas, Georgia O'Keefe and crystal blue skies.

Having been fortunate enough not only to travel to Santa Fe several times in the past few years, but also to take classes from Janet Mitchell (the author) at the Santa Fe School of Cooking, I can recommend this cookbook without hesitation. It offers tried-and-tested recipes that yield a wide range of dishes and flavors unique to a very special part of the United States. I will be buying this cookbook for friends and family for years to come.

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“The rituals of gardening give a rhythm, even rapture, to everyday life that is apart from the routines of writing and the flows of relationships. Tending my garden became the same as taking care of myself.”

When Laurie Lisle fled the city, she was in such a fever to buy a particular old clapboard house on the green of a historic New England village that she didn’t notice the awkward shape of the backyard. “When I had seen the surveyor’s map of my less than half acre,” she writes, “I was shocked at how very long and narrow a rectangle it actually was; on paper, as if seen from above, it looked to me like a fairway on a golf course, and I wondered how I could turn such an awful shape into a graceful garden.”

Thus begins this modern pastoral, in which Lisle tells us how she heaved compost, dug post holes, planted, and replanted–and how she also found herself digging into her feelings about love and loss, work and play, roots and rootlessness, solitude and sociability. Twenty years later, in these intimate essays that have sprung up around themes such as “Weather,” “Color,” “Woods,” and “Shadows,” Lisle explores the fascinating connections among one’s interior landscape, village life, and the natural world.

In “Roots,” Lisle writes about the generations of female gardeners in her family and the question of whether she has exiled herself into “a floral cage.” In “Sharon,” she traces the grand gardening history of her pre-Revolution town and notes the tensions between natives and newcomers. “Words” contrasts “the easy pleasure of gardening” with “the more elusive satisfaction of writing,” and goes on to examine the role of the garden in the lives of writers such as Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton. “Woods” tells of the “dramatic demarcation point between nature acted upon and nature left alone.” In “Outside,” Lisle battles back the deer and contemplates the mature garden that has grown up around her. Ultimately, Four Tenths of an Acre is a testament to one woman’s glorious engagement with place.

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Gardening and the Inner Life .......2005-07-21

These essays are a meditation on the changing seasons in Lisle's New England town yet they also reveal the seasons of the author's inner life. "Four Tenths of an Acre" tells the story of a woman coming to her maturity in the same way that a garden reaches its height after many years of culling and with the spontaneous addition of new colors and shapes. As I finished this memoir, I felt I had witnessed not just the transformation of the land but the transformation of the gardener.

Lisle is the M.F.K. Fisher of the outdoor palette, describing local personalities and gardens with wit and affection, showing us how people reveal themselves as they get their hands into the earth.

For Lisle, gardening is not just a weekend hobby but a dialogue with life. It is a universal endeavor that asks us to reflect on our own periods of growth and quiescence, on the things that we choose to keep in our sphere of influence (as we keep the livelier and more robust plants in a flower bed), and what we must prune away in order to create a sense of harmony and peace. Lisle's description of an early marriage, and its ending, is part of this sometimes painful but necessary process.

The garden is also a bridge between generations. It has deepened Lisle's relationship with her mother, allowing the two women to share their fundamental respect for life, despite their different roles and values.

This wonderful book is at bottom, about the way Time shapes us as it shapes the land. It is about the mistakes we make, the choices we can't undo -- and the interplay between human will and some Grand Design.

Lisle's memoir is a lovely companion to the classic "Gift from the Sea" which explores the undercurrents of relationship in the context of a sojourn at the beach. "Four Tenths of an Acre" offers a gentle philosophy of growth and change as it discusses planting trees, building fences and the best way to discourage garden pests.

I shall never look at my miniature rose garden in the same way after reading Lisle's description: Even the tiniest piece of earth stretches downward for four thousand miles. I have learned not to be so ashamed of my "stragglers" but to view them as part of an ongoing process. A garden is never quite finished and that is one of its most important attributes--it serves to remind us of a larger pattern of existence and of all the things in life that are beyond our control. Whether we maintain a large property or cultivate a single flower bed, we discover that there is something beyond clock time and the "to do" list. The historical treatises on gardening, quoted here, are good affirmations for those of us too penned in by "busyness" to contemplate the progress of the natural world. Caring for the earth, Lisle shows, is a time-honored way of caring for ourselves.

Gardening is next to godliness.......2005-07-16

Laurie Lisle is a former journalist and budding author who fled life in New York City for a place of her own in Sharon, CT. She didn't know anyone in Sharon, but her family is from New England. She gives us a crisp run through of her life in Connecticut, where to her gardening seems next to godliness. She meets the local gardening expert, joins the garden club, and begins swapping perennials with friends and neighbors. She researched the history of her house, of writers who were gardeners, and numerous old diaries. Along the way we get an array of gardening stories. A few examples follow.

LaFontan's Black Gold was discovered when a landowner followed an old German proverb and threw a pocketbook over a rainbow. The pocketbook revealed a deposit of decayed matter that grew prize winning dahlias. They decided to package it for sale.

A Revolutionary War tale tells of raising the first "sellery", grown from seeds ordered from England but originally grown in Turkey. It was uprooted in autumn and buried in root cellars to be eaten raw in winter. Oranges were a holiday rarity.

We get the complete story of the elm tree. They were native trees found by early settlers and selected as shade trees because of their tall, statuesque beauty and their resistance to summer drought. Then came Dutch elm disease in the `30s. Early efforts to stop the fungus introduced by imported elm veneer slowed its progress, but by the 1950s, most elms had died or been cut down. Only a few resistant varieties remain.

Gardens not tended by owners lack heart. Gardeners have to be wary of gifts from other gardeners. Often the plants offered are prolific and will take over if not contained.

Pressing questions-Is it rude to pull a weed spotted in a neighbor's garden, or should it be ignored? What stories would your houseplants tell if they could speak?

Following the long tradition of New England, she is known as the lady who lives in the Mow house-even after she has lived there 20 years. From research she learns why residents recall the Mows with fondness-even though they were not the original or most recent owners. She notes the importance of a commanding house on the green, which had been allowed to deteriorate. "A single building on main street can affect an entire community."

Her wildlife tales include the usual. A groundhog was trapped and relocated. A rabbit that squeezed under the fence was chased to exhaustion by her cocker spaniel. Later there were battles with deer. The usual deterrents-human hair, repellant scents, wind chimes, and scarecrows-were ineffective, until finally proper fencing and hedges provided some protection.

She tells of early iron works in Connecticut, which made iron from local ores using charcoal from local hardwoods. Forests were depleted. By error she mentions the smell of dynamite in 1806, but it was not invented until late in the 19th century. She does not tell of the agricultural revolution when after completion of the Erie Canal in 1823, Midwestern grain production was so prolific that Eastern states were not competitive and had to rejigger their economies. Manufacturing, and farm specialization such as dairy, potatoes, truck farming, and chicken farms resulted.

After 10 years of gardening, she made the typical gardener's decision. She had learned what grew well for her. She grew more of what pleased her and enjoyed it even more.

The book reveals the complex tale of Yankee determination to control one's destiny, the things her mother taught her about gardening, the relationship between gardening and writing, both creative, very personal endeavors, and the story of a failed marriage. The book is nicely written and highly readable. Gardeners will enjoy it. Others may enjoy one woman's story of her determination to succeed against mother nature.

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This selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades. The volume demonstrates how the theories of Epic Theatre and Alienation evolved and contains notes and essays on the staging of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, Galileo, and many others of his plays. Also included is A Short Organum for the Theatre, Brecht's most complete statement of his revolutionary philosophy of the theatre.

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A must have for Theatre majors.......2007-08-16

This is a huge selection of essays written over many years. This not necessarily something you may want to just sit down and read straight through. If you do, you will find many contradictions over the years. At any rate, it is a very formative collection of Brecht's work, and certainly a must have for anyone who studies theatre or the arts in general.

Required Reading.......2007-01-13

Classic Text. Feel free to jump around chapters as you read this. It's a compilation of Brecht's ideas andis best read in random order.

Useful Toolkit for Theorists and Dramatists.......2004-11-30

Brecht's theater is a blast, a genuine attempt to do something unique and productive with the heretofore conservative and corporate medium of the stage. It represents the first wave of revolution in European theater since the English stage was closed in the mid-17th century. Brecht successfully constructs an antifascist, anti-exploitative theater without being didactic or heavyhanded about it. (As I mentioned, it's actually a blast.) Much of his success came from surrounding himself with brilliant and dedicated people, and much of the success of this collection of Brecht's writings comes from Brecht's polishing his ideas in the tumbler of real practice with those people. For me, Brecht's passing comments on Aristotle and Shakespeare are worth the price of admission.

Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic.......2004-06-14

There is only one way to describe this book: Paperback gold. I am currently studying A-Level theatre studies and I couldn't ask for a better resource on Brecht than this. However, I don't think it is necessary to be a drama student to read this book. Obviously some background knowledge of Brecht is helpful when tackling some of the essays that he has written but if you have any kind of interest in the theatre then have a go with this, it's very well edited and above all it's really quite an easy read.

Amazingly coherent for literary theory!.......2000-12-06

I expected Brecht to be murky at best in logic and stultifying at best in format, but this book reads very nicely. While he does express unique and sometimes eccentric views on epic theater, the ideas are overall incisive, original, and clear. The book is divided into many short essays, reviews, and interviews--making it easy and rewarding to pick up, ingest, digest, and set down again. I'm writing a thesis on contemporary theater; reading Brecht's ideas have clarified my own.

Brecht on Theatre The Development of an Aesthetic

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Brecht on Theatre The Development of an Aesthetic
John (editor and translator) Willett
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BRECHT ON THEATRE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AESTHETIC
John Willet
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Brecht on Theatre, the Development of an Aesthetic
Berthold Becht
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Brecht on Theatre. The Development of an Aesthetic. transl J Willett.

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Brecht on Theatre. The Development of an Aesthetic. transl J Willett.
Brecht
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Brecht On Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
John , Editor Wille
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John Willett
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BRECHT ON THEATRE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AESTHETIC

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