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This is an amazing book by a writer who deserves much wider recognition! Bonner, unfortunately, continues to be neglected by literary critics and scholars. But this novel, published in 1878, while certainly of interest to the literary historican, will also appeal to lay readers interested in the South, American womanhood, and the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. What makes this novel of superior worth, however, is not only its historical value but also the high quality of the writing. Let me assure you, this is one very well-written book. Bonner combines a coming-of-age narrative with an early realism and generally avoids the sentimentalism of most popular fiction of the nineteenth century. Therefore, readers today will find it very accessible and a pleasant surprise! I taught this book in a college course and my students unanimously enjoyed it and wondered why they had never heard of Sherwood Bonner before.

Like Unto Like challenges many of our stereotpyes about Southern women as passive, dainty belles. Blythe, the heroine, is a very thoughtful, independent-minded young woman, so much so that she is eager to welcome the Northern soldiers stationed in her Southern small town (Yariba) after the Civil War. Much to the chagrin of all around her, she initiates a reconciliation between North and South, only to discover how complex a relationship she has to her family and region. In her love affair with a Northern officer, she confronts her feelings about love, politics, race, the legacy of the war, and, ultimately, her own independence.

The main interest of the book derives from its insider's view of what it felt like to live in the conquered South after the war. But its real charm derives from its heroine, who reminds me very much of Jo in Little Women. Bonner writes of her, using her characteristically ironic tone: "Perhaps if Blythe had been more popular among the young people she would have absorbed herself more happily in the usual interests of a girl in her father's home; but she had never been a favorite. She was called literary. This was an unfortunate adjective in Yariba, and set one rather apart from one's fellows, like an affliction in the family." This, of course, is what endears her to the narrator, and to us. Blythe is different and embraces her difference. But as she grows up and learns to reconcile herself with her community, she struggles to understand her place in a nation that was so recently torn apart and is trying to heal. That this book offers no easy solutions to the dilemmas of its heroine and a nation emerging from Reconstruction is a testament to its excellence.

Linen Napkins to Paper Plates: New Southern Fare With Traditional Southern Style is by far one of the best "classic" cookbooks out there! Whether it is a casual dinner for two or an elaborate feast, you can always find what you're looking for. I can't imagine planning a dinner without it. It is by far one of my favorites!

My 4 year old daughter really loves this book. I read it to her almost ever night. The words are easy for her to read and understand.

I'm not normally a poetry reader, but I picked this up, and I was just blown away. Peter Meinke isn't afraid to be funny, but his poems are still touching and meaningful, and not at all hoity-toity. I especially loved "Supermarket" and "The Poet , Trying to Suprise God." I would recomend this book to anyone, even people who don't normally read poetry. Come on, give this one a try!

Sylvia Walker did a wonderful job with this, about 3 inch by 5 inch, paper doll. This has several pages of doll costumes representing different Caribbean nations with a national costume, for instance Carnival Costumes including headwear. This is a great little teaching tool. The costumes are very colorful and on slick paper. They make wonderful place cards at birthday parties, the book itself is a great stocking stuffer or party favor.

This is the best out of several of the Sylvia Walker series that I have purchased.

This book offers a great way to show traditional Japanese clothing. I teach 7th grade students at Desert Springs Middle School in Desert Hot Springs, Ca. Our core reading list includes The Big Wave, and Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Both novels can be accessed more completely with the visuals of the Japanese paperdoll costumes. I recommend this book to anyone interested in authentic Japanese costumes presented in a colorful, and detailed manner

This Dover Little Activity Book features a girl paper doll named "Patience". Patience herself is on the back cover,on card weight paper. She comes with 8 outfits on glossy paper, and only one of them is the outfit we think about when we imagine a pilgrim girl. The rest of the outfits are appropriately conservative for the time period and culture. The outfits reflect different activities a pilgrim girl might participate in, and include headcoverings and accessories.

I found seeing the range of pilgrim attire to be an interesting, eye-opening experience. This is a great little book for children or adults learning about pilgrim clothing options. I hope to use it as a starting point for future Thanksgiving sewing projects; creating a pilgrim girl outfit that moves beyond the stereotype.

Amazing book. The real account of a Southern heroine from North Carolina, Mary Bayard Clarke. She travels early America, including Texas and Cuba (you can certainly see she lives up to her motto, the title "Life your own life"). The historical detail and meticulous research by the authors brings out her rich and wonderful writing and poetry. I recommend it as a great addition for any Civil War or North Carolina history buff.

This book collects seventeen classic papers on logic, semantics and metamathematics authored or co-authored by the late Alfred Tarski (1901-1983), who is considered to be one of the five greatest logicians of all time (the others being Aristotle, Boole, Frege, and Gödel). Tarski is as famous for his contributions to philosophy as for his contributions to mathematics. His most important contributions to philosophy are two definitions in which he proposes characterizations of concepts that are central to our understanding of the axiomatic method and, more generally, of rationality. In 1933 he published an essay in Polish giving a mathematically precise definition of TRUTH and building the axiomatic foundations on which this definition rests. This truth-definition paper, which has been translated into many languages, may well be the most important paper in philosophical semantics, if not in analytic philosophy broadly considered. This article alone is worth the price of the book. Its 120-page length qualifies it to be regarded as a monograph, not just as an article. It has spawned a huge literature and it continues to be studied not only as an historic breakthrough paper but also as a source of fresh ideas. A revised and corrected version of a 1956 English translation of the truth-definition paper appears in this book in its entirety. In 1936 he wrote two 10-page papers sketching a mathematically precise definition of logical CONSEQUENCE (needed to define validity of arguments), one in German for international readers and one in his native Polish. This book contains an English translation of the German version. This is the only publication of the English translation of the entire Tarski truth-definition paper and it is also the only publication of the original English translation of the German-language consequence-definition paper. Tarski's definitions of truth and of consequence employ the tools of modern mathematical logic in order to characterize classically accepted concepts. They were not intended to displace classical concepts with modern constructions. Accordingly both are based on comprehensive knowledge of the relevant parts of Western philosophy going back to Aristotle and on a deep appreciation of modern mathematics, a field to which Tarski had already made important contributions on his own and in collaboration with acknowledged masters such as Banach and Kuratowski. As Tarski emphasizes in his 1969 "Scientific American" article "Truth and Proof", just as truth, which is ontic and objective, is a precondition for proof (or demonstrative knowledge), which is epistemic and to an extent subjective, consequence is an ontic and objective precondition for inference, which like proof is epistemic and inescapably subjective. Without an understanding of truth and consequence it is impossible to understand proof. Included is an editor's introduction indicating "how Tarski's development of the conceptual framework of the methodology of deductive science can be traced through the articles in this volume". The volume ends with a nearly forty-page analytical index which greatly facilitates use of this work as a reference book on logical terminology.

"The 'Lomokome' Papers," by Herman Wouk, is a compellingly constructed science fiction novel. The book has a copyright date of 1956, and was issued in a Pocket Books paperback edition in 1968, with a new preface by Wouk. In his preface, Wouk notes that the novel was actually written in 1949. The novel tells the story of a United States astronaut who travels to the moon and discovers a race of human-like beings living beneath the lunar surface.

Wouk uses a "text within a text within a text" format to structure his tale. The first "layer" of the story consists of "official" documents by a Navy official and a professor; this frame material assures the reader that the astronaut's narrative is a fiction written as a result of hallucination. The second layer of the text is the astronaut's salvaged first-person account of his encounter with the lunar nation of Lomokome. The third layer is the astronaut's alleged English translation of the Book of Ctuzelawis, the sacred text which dominates the lives of the moon people. The central topic of the Book of Ctuzelawis is the Law of Reasonable War.

I read "The 'Lomokome' Papers" as an intriguing satire of social attitudes towards war, death, and violence. Wouk's use of the sacred text motif is alo noteworthy; this aspect of the novel puts it in the company of such literary works as Gore Vidal's "Messiah" and Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower." Wouk's vision strikes me as being as relevant today as it was when he first wrote the book. This is definitely a curious text which deserves continued attention.