Customer Review: A History of Histories is an idiosyncratic work filled with a kaleidoscope of insights that derive from the author's broad education and lifetime of reading. At his best, Burrow seems like an animated tour guide pointing us to histories that we have never read and never will read: "Bet you've not... more info
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
(Retold from the Howard Pyle original) I chose to read The Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle for three reasons: 1) because I like to read adventure stories; 2) because my brother recommended it to me; and 3) because I read the back... more info
Customer Review: This is a typically well constructed Eyewitness Companions book. The focus is classical music, bridging the time period from 1000 to the present. The editor-in-charge, John Burrows, notes the goal of this book (Page 10): "The book should inform, excite, inspire and be very accessible to Classical... more info
Customer Review: For years I have struggled with a past I couldn't outrun, and a sense of shame and guilt that crippled me. I got this book from someone close to me, and read it through again and again.
Understanding not only where I have been wounded, and why I live the way I do (even when I truly don't want... more info
