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A History of the Jews by JOHNSON PAUL
Category: History
A brilliant and comprehensive one-volume survey covering 4,000 years of Jewish history and the impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world. "An absorbing, provocative, well-written, often moving book."-- "Christian Science Monitor" "An extraordinary amount of useful information." "--New York Re ...Show more
Eisenhower: A Life by Paul Johnson
Category: History
In the rousing style he's famous for, Paul Johnson offers a fascinating biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike). Johnson chronicles Ike's modest childhood in Kansas and his swift rise through the military ranks, culminating in his appointment as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces during World War II ...Show more
Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky by Professor Paul M Johnson
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: P.S.
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tyn ...Show more
Little Bunny Foo Foo - Told and Sung by the Good Fairy by Paul Brett Johnson
Category: Picture Books
""Johnson's rendition of the classic children's song is charming. His signature cartoonish illustrations are a perfect match, and turning the song into a narrative by the Good Fairy adds to the fun. The music and hand motions are included on the last page. Storytimers will be singing along from page one ...Show more
Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson
Category: Performing Arts
Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. One of the world's most enduringly popular classical musicians, Mozart had a profound influence on Western music and on his contemporaries such as Beethoven and Haydn. Johnson focuses on the importance of Mo ...Show more
Mozart: a Life by Paul Johnson
Category: Performing Arts
Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. One of the world's most enduringly popular musicians, Mozart had a profound influence on Western music and on his contemporaries such as Beethoven and Haydn. Johnson focuses on the importance of Mozart's mus ...Show more
Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson
Category: Accessories
In his highly acclaimed style, historian Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer a riveting account of a homely but charismatic middle-class man living in Athens in the Fifth Century B.C., and how what this man thought still shapes the way people decide how to act, and how ...Show more
Socrates - A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson
Category: Classics
This brilliant biography of Socrates by historian Paul Johnson situates the father of philosophy in the fifth century BC Athens that he loved, delving into the geopolitics of the time, his service as a soldier, his wide range of acquaintances and the civic unrest that led to Socrates' trial and death. T ...Show more
The California Seafood Cookbook - A Cook's Guide to the Fish and Shellfish of California, the Pacific Coast, and Beyond by Isaac Cronin; Paul Johnson; Jay Harlow; Rick Moonen (Preface by)
Category: Food & Wine
First published in 1983, The California Seafood Cookbook has sold 128,000 copies--and counting This beautiful encyclopedic guide to seafood cooking is complete with 150 recipes emphasizing simplicity, fresh ingredients, and ethnic and regional tastes, as well as an innovative approach to the infinit ...Show more
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