Prizewinning poet, John Howard Reid, feels that humorous poetry is more effective if it is enlivened with clever rhymes and... More > follows some sort of metrical scheme, no matter how loose or amusingly inconsistent that meter may be. In fact, Reid believes that humorous verse should have a cheeky look about it that adds to the fun. The more inventive a humorous poet is, the funnier his or her verses will be. The stanzas themselves should look enticingly amusing. All the poems in this anthology are new and were especially written for this book over a period of three years. Reid just loves to play around with words, but he knows when to restrain himself and just pen a rollicking but straightforward narrative. He has even re-worked a few traditional nursery rhymes and given them new faces. With its delightful mixture of both long and short poems, this book is intended mainly for adults. Children don't readily appreciate satire, but if a child does dip into this anthology, he or she will come to no harm. < Less

This second selection of verse by the major Spanish poet, Rosalia de Castro (1837-1885), provides readers with both... More > Rosalia's original Spanish and an English versification by John Howard Reid. In addition to the title poem, "Margarita", selections include "Pursued by a Lark", "The Oak Trees", "Saint Scholastica", "A Disappointment". < Less

This 118-page book contains selected poems by Rosalia de Castro (1837-1885), rendered into English verse by John Howard... More > Reid. Some of Rosalia's most famous poems are also presented in their original Castilian so that interested readers can compare de Castro's highly charged thoughts and phrases with Reid's interpretations. It is hoped that Rosalia's unique vision, her firmly feminist outlook and her startling modernity have been well served. Most of the poems in this anthology have been selected from her best and most famous collection, "On the Banks of the River Sar" (1884), published shortly before her death. A few poems have been taken from "La Flor" (1857) and "A mi madre" (1863). < Less

WORK IN PROGRESS. A Dual Language Book: English and Spanish. Poets represented include Rosalia de Castro, Juan Ramon... More > Jimenez, Gabriela Mistral, Gil Vicente, Gutierre de Cetina, Lope de Vega. < Less

A radical new translation of the New Testament Gospels of Mark and John, this book also includes the three Biblical letters... More > written by John, the Elder, plus the first letter attributed to Peter, which, as Peter himself acknowledges in his postscript, was actually written by Silvanus. One of many innovations in this new translation, is that for the first time in 1,800 years, all Scripture references made by the evangelists have been traced back to the Greek Septuagint which they actually quoted, not the "correct" Hebrew text which most theologians think they should have used. Some of the differences are quite startling. < Less

An anthology of some of the finest poems from Spain and Latin America. Poets represented include Miguel de Unamuno, Federico... More > Garcia Lorca, Rosalia de Castro, Ruben Dario, Leopoldo Lugones, Julio Herrera y Reissig, Amado Nervo, Antonio Machado, Alfonsina Storni, Delmira Agustini, Luis de Gongora y Argote, Andres Bello, Manuel Gonzalez Prada, Jorge Manrique, Joaquin Pasos, Gil Vicente, Miguel de Cervantes, Jose Juan Tablada, Jose Marti, Gabriela Mistral, Miguel de Barrios, Cesar Vallejo, Juan Ruiz. < Less

A complete index to all the films reviewed in all 24 of the "Hollywood Classics" movie books, this massive final volume not... More > only devotes 120 pages to the title index but also contains 212 pages of exhaustive details and comments on an additional 80 must-see films. This additional 80 includes such classics as "A Streetcar Named Desire", the 1937 "Prisoner of Zenda", the multi-award winning "All the King's Men", Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", Henry King's "Tol'able David", Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", Byron Haskin's "The War of the Worlds", the Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor "Waterloo Bridge", the Clark Gable and Jean Harlow "Red Dust", Ronald Colman's "If I Were King", the classic noir "Out of the Past", three versions of "Romeo and Juliet", and the delightful Claudette Colbert and James Stewart comedy, "It's a Wonderful World". < Less

Thanks to DVD, a great number of silent films and early talkies are now available for home viewing. In fact, so many of... More > these wonderful movies can now be purchased, rented or borrowed by classic motion picture fans that an up-to-date reference work to the best (and the middling and the worst) has become essential. In this comprehensive guide, fans and enthusiasts will find not only familiar titles like Lon Chaney's "Phantom of the Opera" or Douglas Fairbanks' "Thief of Bagdad" or Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last"; but the less familiar "Down to the Sea in Ships" (starring a young Clara Bow), "Evangeline" (Dolores Del Rio), "Stella Dallas" (Belle Bennett), "Monsieur Beaucaire" (Rudolph Valentino), Ford Sterling's "The Show-Off", and Al Jolson's "Big Boy", to mention just a few of the many hundreds of titles detailed in this massive book. 440 pages of insightful text! Over 110 wonderful photos! < Less

Although Hollywood is no longer producing westerns at the rate of over 100 a year, the western movie enthusiast has over... More > 1,000 classic films available on DVD. This guidebook, written in the same vein as the author's previous "goldmines of information" (to quote one reviewer), "Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD", "Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD", and "British Movie Entertainments on VHS and DVD", is a must-have item for even the casual western movie fan. Over 400 DVDs were examined: 136 are described in exhaustive detail and a further 100 summarized. All 66 Hopalong Cassidy movies are featured and there are chapters on Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, John Wayne, Alan Ladd and Buck Jones as well as a guide to a few of Hollywood's worst westerns. < Less

How many Psalms are there in the Bible? Nobody knows. Psalms are scattered all through the Old Testament, but this new... More > translation is concerned only with the Psalms in the Biblical book of that title. Even here, however, the actual number is uncertain. Some Psalms have been duplicated, some have been joined together, others split apart. Most Bibles number the Psalms from 1 to 150. Which numbers correspond to which Psalms, however, differs from Protestant to Catholic and Orthodox versions. For easy reference, both numbers are used in this book. Disregarding duplications and material that fails to qualify as either powerful or praiseworthy, 84 uplifting Psalms are given new life and meaning in this inspired and inspiring translation from the ancient Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint. Neither the original meaning nor the poetry is lost or diluted, for each selected Psalm is rendered in both a literal translation and a more poetic paraphrase. < Less