Teacher in America
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780819154477
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Sherwood Forest
Author: Lisa Croll Di Dio
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Published: 1999-12-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781588511287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe forest was a place of shadows and secrets...and in Sherwood, the Old Ways were very much alive... Enter the forest...it is May Eve, in the springtime of the world. Danu, who has led the forest people for 35 years, passes her legacy on to one younger and stronger, Maid Marian. Together with the powerful priestesses, Aspen, Rowan, Willow and Laurel, she is charged with the task of encircling Sherwood with protective magic, for this a time of transition, a time of choice, a perilous time for those who know the Goddess. The lines have been drawn and even the Fairy Queen plays her hand in a battle between faith and fear, wisdom and greed, magic and intolerance...
Berlioz and the Romantic Century
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe House of Intellect
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2002-12-03
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0060102306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this international bestseller, originally published in 1959, Jacques Barzun, acclaimed author of From Dawn to Decadence, takes on the whole intellectual -- or pseudo-intellectual -- world, attacking it for its betrayal of Intellect. "Intellect is despised and neglected," Barzun says, "yet intellectuals are well paid and riding high." He details this great betrayal in such areas as public administrations, communications, conversation and home life, education, business, and scholarship. In this edition's new Preface, Jacques Barzun discussess the intense -- and controversial -- reaction the world had to The House of Intellect.
Simple & Direct
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written word clear and agreeable to read. Exercises, model passages both literary and casual, and hundreds of amusing examples of usage gone wrong show how to choose the right path to self-expression in forceful and distinctive words.
Darwin Marx Wagner Critique of a Heritage
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781015403130
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