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List of 1059 of my books
רשימה של כ- 1059 מהספרים שלי

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TITLE: Floating Cities: Venice, Amsterdam, Leningrad - & Moscow
ISBN: 0788154427
Publish Date: May 1998
Author: Margaret Hewson (Editor),Lorraine Cole (Editor), Stephen Wiltshire (Illustrator)
Binding: Paperback
List Price: USD 25.00

Check those Reviews: Floating cities is actually a series of drawings done by a young english autistic boy. They are absolutely fantastic renditions of famous buildings, made more incredible by the fact that Stephen himself has this overwhelming disability, and many of them were done by memory. This book will make you realise that disabilities are by no means disabling, and can open up worlds unaccessable to the rest of society.

A best seller in England, this book brings together the brilliant drawings of four of the great cities of the world by 16-year-old artistic prodigy Stephen Wiltshire, described as the best child artist in Britain. What makes these drawings truly extraordinary is the fact that Wiltshire is autistic, & lives in his own private world. Yet his remarkable drawings express an understanding of his surroundings that most of us would envy. Not only does his art reveal a mastery of perspective & expert draftsmanship, but more important, it reveals his mysterious creative ability to capture the feeling of a building, its mood, character, & voice.



TITLE: Mister God, This Is Anna
ISBN: 0345327225
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publish Date: 1 September 1976
Author: Fynn, Anna
Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
List Price: USD 6.50

Check those Reviews:
Anna had an astonishing ability to ask--and answer--life's largest questions. Her total
openness and honesty amazed all who knew her. She seemed to understand with
uncanny certainty the purpose of being, the essence of feeling, the beauty of love.

Spoken from the heart. One of the most heartwarming and beautiful books one can
imagine, about the major logical questions in the universe. A unique look on reality told
from the perspective of a little girl and her relationship with God.

Profound and Wonderful. Whatever you believe about God, religion, love, and the
human condition will be radically altered for the better after you meet Fynn and Anna.
It's not the usual so-called inspiration, but a real eye (and soul) opener.
Highly recommended.




TITLE: When Elephants Paint: The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thialand
ISBN: 0060953527
Publisher: Harperperennial Library
Publish Date: 1 November 2000
Author: Vitaly Komar; Unnithi Khon Rak Ch Ang H; Jason Schmidt
Binding: Paperback 112 pages
List Price: USD 20.00

Amazon.com Editorial Reviews:
Once revered as semidivine beings and collaborators in the hard work of transporting goods and materials, Thailand's elephants have fallen on hard times. With the destruction of their forested habitats, a consequent nationwide ban on hardwood logging, and the decline of traditional agriculture in the rapidly urbanizing country, their numbers have declined from tens of thousands just a decade ago to only a few thousand today. Many of the surviving elephants have been put to work in traveling circuses or used for black-market labor, subject to overwork and all manner of abuse.
Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Russian expatriates who have been working together for more than 30 years, have a knack, writes art curator Mia Fineman, for "transforming the solemn rituals of high art into high comedy." It was with the utmost seriousness, however, that the two, on reading of the elephants' plight, traveled to Thailand and established the Thai Elephant Art School, through whose offices elephants create pop-art masterpieces with palette, brush, and trunk. (Elephants, it seems, have a well-known gift for the visual arts and, in the Thai case, adore the work of Vasily Kandinsky.) Sold to collectors on the world market, pachyderm-painted pieces generated $75,000 at a single early auction, the proceeds of which were used to establish and maintain sanctuaries throughout Thailand.

--Luc Sante, New York Times Book Review:
"Komar and Melamid's sensibility is funny, prickly, complex, humane, dense with implications, and a baited trap for ideologues and hypocrites."




TITLE: Blue (Novel)
ISBN: 1585670006
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Publish Date: December 1999
Author: Benjamin Zucker
Binding: Hardcover 224 pages
List Price: 40.00 USD
It is an Intriguing, Intellectual-Challenging & Fascinating book.

Read Amazon's Reviews:
A stunningly original first novel--modeled after the Talmud--in which the central story is surrounded by the voices and images of numerous characters, real and imagined.
Blue is the story of Abraham Tal, a diamond merchant in New York City who spends his days counseling friends and neighbors in what has come to be referred to as his "advice shop." It is here that his real passion lies, for Abraham is a commentator--a man who prefers to sit back and discuss the finer points of life rather than to go out and live.
In this kaleidoscopic novel the great irony is that Abraham's story itself is, page by page, surrounded by the stories of others. Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Bob Dylan, Elie Wiesel, Chief Crazy Horse, various Jewish Mystics and Rebbes, Vermeer, Kierkegaard, Abraham's mother, his father, his girlfriend--all are allowed their commentaries, often in the form of parallel stories from their own lives. Each page of text is also accompanied by a piece of art--a color photo, a painting or an illustration--that further comments upon the story. The result is a novel that can be read over and over again, in a seemingly endless variety of ways. Like Perec's Life: A User's Manual or Breton's Nadja, Blue makes a claim to enlarge the boundaries of literature.

The blue of the title refers to the color of a sapphire, or to the irresistible blue of a Vermeer painting, or even the blues of the Mississippi Delta. In other words, it signifies humanity's wide experience, and in terms of this structurally complex novel, that of Judaism in particular. The story centers around Abraham Tal, who with his brother, Tuviah, is a dealer in precious stones in New York City. In a life that reflects his heritage, not to mention the Old Testament, Abraham, who has never married, eventually seeks spiritual peace in Israel, passing his birthright to his nephew, Isaac. The basic plot is elucidated by a commentary that is five times as large as the story, but very much alive itself, being the disembodied voices of, among others, Abraham's parents, his dead lover, various Jewish teachers down through the centuries, artists such as Vermeer and Van Gogh, and twentieth-century figures Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez. There are also 112 illustrations, 80 of which are in color. Frank Caso
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Blue, a wildly original first novel by Benjamin Zucker, is a richly illustrated, multilayered story about aesthetics, love, brotherhood, and tradition. The novel's main character, Abraham Tal, is (like Blue's author) a gem merchant in New York City. Tal's treasure is a Venetian Jewish wedding ring, a mysterious link to the traditions of his family and his culture; his search for the ring's origins and significance drive the book's main plot. Blue's design is highly unusual and worth close attention. The text of the main story, about Tal and the ring, appears at the center of every other page in the book (each page of text faces a full-page illustration, meant to shed light on the story--subjects range from a photograph of the Taj Mahal to a self-portrait by Claude Monet). This central text is surrounded by commentaries in the margins, which are written in the voices of historical characters such as Vermeer, Crazy Horse, Bob Dylan, Proust, and Kafka, as well as the voices of Tal's mother, father, and girlfriend. The commentaries, like Talmudic writings, play with, build upon, and illuminate the primary story. Blue moves fluidly through time, offering its reader countless opportunities to discover the harmonies and beauty that, over the course of this story, its main character gradually learns to see. --Michael Joseph Gross
I bought it from A1Books, for 34% off at 31.45 USD (Include S&H).




TITLE: What is an emotion? Classic Readings in Philosophical Psychology
ISBN: 0195033043
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publish Date: 30 April 1984
Edited by CHESHIRE CALHOUN, Colby College, and ROBERT C. SOLOMON,
University of Texas at Austin.
Binding: Paperback 368 pages
List Price: USD 24.95

For more details GoTo The OUP "What is an Emotion" Web Page.
Or call them at: 800-451-7556; Out side the US, call: 919-677-0977.
(In the US, with "Priority Mail" (4$) I got the book in 4 days).




TITLE: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
ISBN: 0198601735
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publish Date: 30 September 1999
Edited by Elizabeth Knowles
Binding: Hardcover, 5th ed.,1152pp.
List Price: USD 40.00

For details GoTo ODQ web page




TITLE: Thirteen Petalled Roses: A Discourse on the Essence of Jewish Existence and Belief
ISBN: 0465-08272-6
Publisher: Basic Books
Author: Adin Steinsaltz,Yehuda Hanegbi (Translator). Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications, Jerusalem
Binding: Paperback 200 pages
List Price: USD 14.95


The Hebrew Version can be purchase "Milta Books Ltd.".
In Israel call them at: 972-2-624-9464.






TITLE: Compact Oxford English Dictionary (Capture the complete twenty-volume
OED II in just one volume, at one-tenth the price).
ISBN: 0198612583
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publish Date: 12/01/1991
Edited by: John Simpson & Edmund S. Weiner
Binding: Hardcover, 2,402 pages, 2nd edition
List Price: USD 390.00
For more detaile GoTo The Oxford University Press COED page




TITLE: Think
ISBN: 0192100246
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publish Date: 10/01/1999
Author: Simon Blackburn
Binding: Hardcover , vii, 312 pages
List Price: USD 22.00
I invite you to read few lines I found close to mind & interest.
Check my
Think File.
For the publisher review goto The Oxford University Press "Think" page. Click for more.