- The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.
- The state of the art dictionary no teacher in the new millenium should be without (why? The great numbers of people we teach for whom English is a second language are helped immeasurably by the plain-speech, down to earth definitions as well as usage examples and charts which also serve to put English in perspective for the native speaker who knows how to use words but not always why it is done that way and is at a loss for an explanation.)
- Definitely no student of English should be without it.
- With what you save on this book, your postage is more than covered on other books, so think about filling up your shopping cart for big savings.
- Definitely no student of English should be without it.
- Longman also publishes another dictionary of Language and Culture, which is available. This one (also a paperback) is even more lavishly illustrated:
- The Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture, Paperback 3rd edition (January 13, 2000)
- Postage costs are low, especially if you buy more than one book at a time, and orders are delivered quickly. Most books are sent out in 2-3 days.
- Ali Baba's selections as they pertain to the images on my home page, like, for example,
Books in which my work appears:
- Street Gallery, by Robin Dunitz, Second Edition (in which I am proud to say I appear)
- is the most comprehensive compendium of murals in the Los Angeles Area. From a small private publisher, it is well worth the modest price, with photographs, descriptions, directions, and artists' bios from WPA projects through 1997, when this edition went to press.
- Remembering Farley
- is a collection of original strips revolving around Lynn Johnston's For Better or Worse dog, Farley. Throughout the book are readers' letters and their memories of family pets. I wrote a very negative letter to her after the death of Farley--and I hadn't been a fan of the strip: I got sucked in by the beautiful drawings of the dog underwater just before he drowned and felt my interest had been abused. It is a tribute to Ms. Johnston that she exerpted a very positive part of the letter for inclusion in the book. The book is available here at a much lower cost than direct from the publisher. If you're a comic fan, this one is worth adding to your collection for the lovely line work that is, incidentally, that of a woman cartoonist drawing a strip in which characters grow and age, in the tradition of Gasoline Alley.
- The Best of Simple, by Langston Hughes, $8.00
- Hughes "interviews" his black urban everyman, Jessie B. Semple, for weekly op/ed pieces in a (Chicago?) newspaper. The dialogs of Hughes, as the reporter, and Simple, as everyman, provide a vehicle for humorous commentary on the human condition, from different points of view. This book is satire
- Black Profiles in Courage, Kareem Abdul-Jabar, $5.59
- 1959, Thulani Davis, $8.80
- Oprah's Book Selections upper-level readers (D and above):
- Paradise, Toni Morrison
- A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines, $7.20
- The Book of Ruth, Jane Hamilton, $7.17
- The Deep End of the Ocean, Jacquelyn Mitchard, $14.37 (hardcover)
- Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons, $6.00
- The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou, $7.20
- The Rapture of Canaan, Sheri Reynolds, $7.20
- She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb, $8.40
- Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison, $7.17
- Songs in Ordinary Time, Mary McGarry Morris, $8.37
- Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi, $7.80
- A Virtuous Woman: A Novel, Kaye Gibbons, $6.00
- A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines, $7.20
- Reviews:
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