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This book was very helpful as I was preparing to present Picasso's art to elementary school children. It takes a long, prolific career, and organizes the different periods of Picasso's art so that it is more succinct. The wording is very understandable yet not condescending for older readers. This is a great series for adults, like myself, trying to help children understand why an artist was so great.

I like this series a lot for kids' nonfiction books from about 3rd grade level and up. It contains a lot of information, is easy to read and the pictures provide a way to visualize the subject. The Pacific Ocean covers different areas, depths and living things in the Pacific Ocean. Very nice.

Papalagui means, in Samoan, "Skybreaker" as the first time Samoan people saw us, "white people" their thought were that we make hole in the sky with our white sailing boat.

Touiavii, the wise man of the Tiavéa tribe has observed with length the behaviour pattern of the "white people".His view full of love and lightness still show us were we missed the point.He talk about time and money, two terrible invention that are making us insane. He explain to his people not to follow us in our arrogance against nature and our chronical lack of wisdom.
our school look to him more like brainwashing...
He spoke in a very poetic and metaphorical langage that goes very very deep, as quoted " it is the pride of the papalagui that leads him to disaster ! and why ? Despite this point is the smallest, it is most essentiel as it is the entry to the highest knowledge, the one detained only by the great spirit !
But this entry is always closed and his best magical eyes[microscope of any kind and particle accelerators!! yes you can grin ]have not been inside.The great-spirit never allow his secret to be taken.Never.[...] even the cleverest PApalagui agree on this point, yet the people sick of over-thinking keep going.

this passage has been translated from a french version.i did my best, but any error would be my humble responsability.

Quant ? SON ESSENCE ce-livre-de-296-paragraphes est UN CRITIQUE RADICAL SUR LA MODERNITE, dans lequel Nietzsche attaque de "sa" mani?re furieuse "? lui", les sciences, les arts et la politique "moderne", modernit? dont on ?tait fier ? son ?poque et m?me encore aujourd'hui. Avec la philosophie et la psychologie il DISSECTE MINUTIEUSEMENT des notions et conceptions comme par example "l'objectivit? scientifique", "la sympathie" et "la responsabilit? ?thique". En m?me-temps il les r?duit ? leur vraie origine: LA VOLONTE DE PUISSANCE.
L'auteur a ?crit ce livre, voulant et esp?rant qu'il serait lu comme UNE DISSERTATION, UN DISCOURS PROGRAMMATIQUE avec lequel il essayait de toute force ? atteindre, "toucher" ses alli?s intellectuels: les libres-penseurs avec l'esprit autonome, les gens du futur qui voyaient Nietzsche comme leur "?gal", ou plut?t: qui voudraient voir Nietzsche comme leur leader et guide spirituel.

Ce bouquin est mont?, construit de 296 PARAGRAPHES - quelques lignes ou quelques pages - et peut ?tre consid?r? comme LE PENDANT de son "AINSI PARLAIT ZARATHOUSTRA". Ce dernier est paru un an avant son 'Bien et Mal", "Zarathoustra" dans lequel Nietzsche a essay? pour la premi?re fois de faire un r?sum? de sa philosophie ? lui.
LA DIFFERENCE ENTRE LES DEUX: le "Zarathoustra" excelle en symbolisme et pr?sentation litt?raire, PENDANT QUE son "Bien et Mal" est connu et excelle par ses nombreuses aphorismes et citations concis parfaitement, ?crit ... POUR LES CITER.
Apr?s son "Zarathoustra" et son "Ecce Homo" tr?s probablement l'oeuvre, de la plume de Nietzsche, le plus lu.

DE LA LITTERATURE DU PLUS HAUT NIVEAU, BIEN LISIBLE POUR TOUS ET QUI RESTE RELU, RELU, RELU ... GRACE AUX SPLENDIDES APHORISMES ET CITATIONS ! UN OEUVRE INOUBLIABLE ET QUASI INCOMPARABLE. UN GRAND ET VRAI PLAISIR A LIRE ! RECOMMENDE CHALEUREUSEMENT A TOUS !

This wonderful literary study puts the reader in the mindset of the English mystical tradition and the mindset of the metaphysical poets. Reading this book made me want to read Traherne's Centuries of Meditations, which is now one of my favorite books. Both Vaughan and Milton are better-known than Traherne, but his writing is sublime in the old sense of that word.

One reviewer said that Traherne invokes the sense you get in Van Morrison and William Blake. I quite agree. Traherne is not about quietism or pietism, his paradise is without in the sense that it's a way of loving the divine by meditation on and experiencing the creation. Many people today love to experience the outdoors, but Traherne lets that experience lead naturally to a sense of gratitude and oneness.

"Centuries" refers not to the passing of one hundred years but simple means one hundred meditations. Traherne wrote his book for a female friend, dedicating it simply "to the friend of my Friend." In one of my favorite meditations he wonders why men spare no effort to obtain diamonds because they shine like the stars, but yet neglect the celestial stars, provided by the Creator for our enjoyment and far surpassing the finest cut stones.

Since most of the readily available editions of Centuries are abridgements or edited versions and not the complete text, or new modern translations, I don't know if this meditation is included in them. The complete Centuries is well worth tracking down, and this book serves as an introduction and invitation to regain this nearly-lost paradise.

I want to impress my friends and neighbors, so I always keep large, glossy books on my coffee table. "Paris: la Defense" is a perfect book for this! First it is about Paris, which is always fashionable. Second, it is about art, and that makes my friends think I am intellectual. But mainly, it is so heavy! When my Aunt Ruth comes to visit, she can barely pick it up! It's better than the Sears catalog.

The information regarding various parliamentary devices viz Bills, Resolutions and Motions is mentioned in finer detail. A must read for all new members who wish to make maximum use of them in parliament. arvind Gokhale

P.S : if CD of this book is available ,I will like to buy it.

Ayant découvert ce roman de Fred Vargas par recomendation d'un ami, je l'ai lu avec entière plaisir pendant mes deplacements au travaille aller et retour. Sans etre grand fan des romans policieres en particulier, je lis pour le première fois de ma vie un "polar français" (je croyais la chose impossible) et c'est excellent en plus!

L'histoire est tellement bien racontée qu'on la vit plutôt, on est dedans, intelligent, rebondissements en tous genre, et ça se lit très vite, on reste accroché à l'histoire.

C'est bourré de rtrouvailles et d'histoire, la criée de Joss, il fallait y penser, c'est érudit-sans-trop-le-montrer, et en la lissant, ca m'a empeché de aucune moment enuyant, et on aprend beaucoup de choses sur la peste de l'Europe médiévale.

Je le conseille vivement !!!

a tremendous acheivement that argues an original and controversial thesis at every turn. the scholarly research is truly outstanding.her grasp of the critical literature across a number of fields of intellectual inquiry is thorough exacting and always subtle. an extraordinary book.complete intimacy with its subject.

This translation of a classic of French literature captures in a hundred pages the essence of French Cuisine. Chapter 4 gets to the heart of what August Escoffier once said, "The simple foods are the best." If this book doesn't make you want to drop everything and visit France, nothing will.