Book Description
Glorious full-color images from Abrams’s best selling book, The Universe: 365 Days, make for an awesome page-a-day! ... Read more

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Informative Daily calendar for science/space lovers

I am enjoying this calendar every day. I've already learned new stuff about the universe.

365days (313) treats! Five stars anyway.
A pretty picture and a little jolt of way-out information is a perfect way to begin each day. Well -- each weekday plus one page for each two weekend days. God made the universe in 6 days and rested on Day 7? A great purchase! Now coming back for another one as a belated holiday gift. Perfect for a scientist or for anyone curious about things. Payback on your tax dollars that go to the space program. ... Read more

Product Description
This biographical play is adapted from the book by Lorraine Hansbury by Robert Nemiroff, her husband and literary executor. It features a cast of 2 males, 4 females, and can feature anywhere from 7 to 20 interracial performers. Set on a bare stage with only a ramp, a company of actors assemble to tell the story of Lorraine Hansbury, her life, her work, and her inner life. With only lighting changes and hints of props or costumes, the actors move freely in and out of character before the audience. Music and lyrics from the play are included in the script, and a sound tape can be rented from Samuel French for a nominal fee. Contemporary in form, the play was woven together from letters, diaries, notebooks, poems, and portions of her plays. The form is free-form, but chronological, with scenes and memories merging into each other, in depicting the experiences which shaped Miss Handberry's life and spirit. Detailed production notes and a set diagram are included. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Astronomical catastrophe
Astronomy: 365 DaysBeware of BordeeBook seller. I paid $38.60 to BordeeBook for a new copy and received in the mail a used book $13.99 Sort Floor Books. I don't know why my order was fouled up beyond all recognition, but BordeeBook denies receiving the book I returned for the promised refund and my credit card company will not pursue the case without a return tracking number.Also, forget about Amazon...they didn't even try...just passed me on to the seller.

Stunning
This book lives up to the others that preceed it.The collection of photographs are powerful, and there are 365 days of these images along with desciptions.The book is informative as well as stunning to look at.This is one for the coffee table and not the shelf.

Fascinating Fotos
I purchased the book as a gift and was lucky enough to have the recipient show me what was inside.The photos are breathtaking and really amazing.I recommend this book for anyone with an interest in the stars.

Glorious Images
Astronomy: 365 is a wonderfully simple concept: one picture for each of the 365 nights of the year. This allows for a great variety of images, taken by all sorts of instruments from ordinary cameras to the Hubble Space Telescope, spanning broad panoramas of the night or evening sky to extreme close-ups of the Moon, galaxies and other heavenly bodies. Each image comes with a page of explanation of what can be seen and how the image was obtained.

A fascinating collection: the only criticism possible being that the book is rather small in both senses: it leaves you hungry for more pictures, which could be done more justice on larger format pages...

an atlas, not a text
nice photographs. a book to look at photos, not to learn about astronomy ... Read more

Book Description
Photographs of outer space--produced by earthbound and space telescopes and planet-roving satellites--have captivated a vast audience. And nowhere has this audience found more enthralling views than on Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), a website so popular that it draws well over one million hits every week. The Universe: 365 Days presents in unprecedented clarity 365 spectacular images culled from the thousands that have been featured on the site, which has been hailed as one of the best science sites by both Scientific American and Popular Science magazines.

Following the enormously successful format of Abrams' Earth From Above: 365 Days, The Universe: 365 Days has been crafted by the two astrophysicists who in 1995, in collaboration with NASA, created and continue to maintain the APOD website. Accompanying each stunning image is a short explanatory text that greatly expands the reader's appreciation of the wonders of the cosmos. ... Read more

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Not so hot.
I am a HUGE fan of Earth From Above, I think it's by far one of the best photo books out there. This book pales in comparison to the caliber of the photography in Earth. Very disappointing. There a couple of amazing shots, but that's about it. I wouldn't bother, unless you're super into astronomy.

Universe
We have purchased several of these books - one for ourselves and the others as gifts.It is awesome.

AWESOME!
This is a truly awesome and inspiring book. The gorgeous photographs and the informative text will challenge your imagination to the breaking point! Best of all, this book will strengthen your faith in our awesome Creator God, and in the Bible - His word of truth to all mankind.
Consider the following Bible verses, written hundreds to thousands of years before the invention of the first telescope:
"The host of heaven cannot be numbered." Jeremiah 33:22
"As many as the stars of the sky in multitude - innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore." Hebrews 11:12
"Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power; not one is missing." Isaiah 40:26
"When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have made, what is man that You are mindful of him?" Psalm 8:3,4
"[God] hangs the earth on nothing." Job 26:7
"It is [God] who sits above the circle of the earth." Isaiah 40:22
"There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory." 1 Corinthians 15:41
"Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades? [Can you] loose the belt of Orion?" Job 38:31
"Can you guide Arcturus?" Job 38:32
"God ..... has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds." Hebrews 1:1,2
"For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it ..... who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited." Isaiah 45:18
"You alone are the Lord; You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host ..... the host of heaven worships You." Nehemiah 9:6
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, and there words to the end of the world." Psalm 19:1-4
"Be still, and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10

Disappointing to say the least
I wanted to buy this book for a long time and waited until the price was right. When I bought it, I couldn't check inside because it was wrapped in plastic. So when I brought it home and opened it, I was very disappointed with the photos. I was expecting super high quality photos and instead found tons of OLD photos of galaxies and stars that have been available in other books (which I have or have read) since the 1960s and 1970s. Or worse, photos seemingly taken directly from websites, with web quality, ie: not very good.

They had to fill this book with 365 photos and I say 250 of them are not worth spending any amount of money on, because they're free on the internet or the quality is terrible or simply because they've been available in other (and better) books for several decades now and the writer didn't bother getting updated versions of those old photos. As an example, on Nov. 27, there's the famous "Earth at Night" photo. I already have the photo as a desktop image (it's widely available on the net) and it looks better on my computer than in the book, which is murky and lacks detail.

The Universe: 365 Days is just not what I expected. The concept is actually cool but the execution is very uneven and at times poor. I would have left it at the bookstore if I initially had the chance to look inside it before purchasing it.

beautiful photography
There is a website called "Astronomy Picture of the Day".The website is exactly what it claims to be.Every day the website posts a new picture related to astronomy with a description of that picture written by a professional astronomer.With the first archived photo on that website from June 16, 1995, the editors of "The Universe: 365 Days" had nearly 8 years of photographs to draw on when this volume was published in May 2003.This book can be used like a calendar because that is how this book is laid out: every day of the year has an astronomy photograph, with a description of each picture.

As someone who knows very little about the universe, or astronomy, even with the descriptions next to the pictures I still wasn't always sure what I was looking at and how one picture was truly different from another.I understand that they look different and that they are pictures of very different parts of the universe, but the details are far beyond my comprehension.What is not beyond my comprehension is the fact that these are stunningly beautiful pictures.Even simple pictures that we may have seen many times before, like a picture of our planet from space, is striking and beautiful.Others are of star clusters and galaxies that are so far away and so alien that it boggles the mind to know that there are places like this out there and we really know nothing about what it would be like to travel there.

This book can be read as a calendar, where you flip the page each day and see what new photograph is waiting.It can be read like that, but I couldn't imagine only looking at one of these pictures a day.After seeing one picture, I just had to turn the page to see what wonder was waiting for me, and almost without exception, there was a wonder on every page.Beautiful space photography (though some are on Earth, and others looking out from Earth).If that sounds interesting, this collection is probably for you.

-Joe Sherry ... Read more

Book Description
The Unfilmed Original Screenplay of an American classic.

This is a landmark volume of the epic, original film script written by Lorraine Hansberry, adapted from her stage play. But movie audiences did not know that nearly a third of her powerful screenplay had been cut. This edition restores all of these deletions and delivers the screenplay that is true to Hansberry's vision. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Cliche Story of Black America in the 1950's
I kept thinking something new and original would happen, but it didn't.The characters are very stereotpyical; the courage of moving into a white neighborhood (that an aspect of the book deals with) is no different thanwhat one would expect from any work of fiction about Black America.Onecharacter relationship I did find interesting was Beneatha and Lena (Mama). They have several interesting interaction/ conflicts over religion andBeneatha's looking for her African identity.Perhaps novel in its time,this work is outdated.

a very good play, that had to do with the.
good play because it influance many black people to stand up for their rights.

LOstiantance y cinco y beta !
Asa y triente wete y bilifico!

Asia magnifico bujione la trakento

Finish
Why didn't the author finish the play and tell us what happened toeverybody?How did they get enough money to pay for the house?Whateverhappened to Beneatha being a doctor, did she go to Africa and marry Asagai? There were a lot of things left out that should have been addressed.

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i though that the raisin in the sun was a very informative play.It touched on many themes that touched eveybody.Such as the false pride that money brings.Walter lee's obession with money was clearly stated and illustrated.My expectations were that walter lee would sell the house and obtain the money,but it did not happen.He was a bigger man and realized that his dream of becoming rich was nothing compared to the actulaziation of a sane mind.Walter lee is a man in all of us.He is the common man of today ... Read more

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srekcarc
There are a lot of lazy ignorant people in our society who believe that black people should be all accomodating and not be too complex, in other words, human. How sad for them. Hansberry was ofcourse a genius. Bless her short life and her work.

I Can Relate
I remember reading this book thinking that I could relate to the author perfectly well. Though I am not a playright, I do understand a lot of what she is saying. There should and will never be a borderline or a glass ceiling or anything else to hold me down. You are who you are regardless of what is . . . There is no turning back only that which is to be gained and won.

When I think of Lorraine Hansberry I think of a woman who achieved the impossible in an impossible time. She completed her plays with such intensity and flair . . . As if she lived and researched each every act.

Nevertheless, I feel that Hansberry was stating that to be "Young, gifted, and black," is clearly to be aware of who and what you are . . . and to take this knowledge of who and what you are and to run with it. Taking a chance when given a chance, or rather taking a chance and creating an opportunity with merely a bit of the gift that you had.

I will always remember what Thurgood Marshall, he basically stated that "He did the best with what he had." Is that being merely good or is that being the best.I believe that the concept of this book is not to be mistaken. I believe Hansberry is saying, "Hey sister, hold your head up high. It does not matter what this world thinks of you. It only merely matters about what you can do for yourself and your fellowman. Do you know your gifts? Hey write it down. You are worth perfecting."

Lorraine Hansberry did wonders in her lifetime she did so much for her community and her fellowman. My question to myself and others is . . . What about your gifts? Hey write them down. They are worth perfecting.

Young, gifted, and brilliant
I found this book in the library and fell in love with it instantly. The passages from Hansberry's plays and journal enteries were quite powerful- witty, yet moving. She truly had a gift for describing the human condition- AS IT IS, rather than how it "should be." However, I must admit to finding myself at a bit of a cultural disadvantage at times, as the author assumes that most readers will be familiar with African American lingo from the '50s. While some readers like myself may have difficulty understanding certain expressions, etc, the sharp overall messages and delightful writing style make this book both a learning experience and a pleasure to read. I hope others will gain as much from this book as I have.

Poignant and inspiring
Getting inside the head of such a great thinker is a wonderful opportunity.The only negative comment I could make about this book is that a few of the passages included from Hansberry's lesser-known plays were not as powerful as the passages from speeches, journals, and A Raisin in the Sun. It is tragic that the world lost a truly gifted and spirited writer at such a young age. If you enjoyed A Raisin in the Sun, you'll also find this a rewarding read.

Universal, Accessible, and Powerful!
I thought this was an absolutely beautiful book. Hansberry had such a gift for writing about the human spirit. I hope that the students who say they got nothing from reading this book come back to it as adults and give it another try. I found it to be inspiring. It will definitely join my list of favorites! ... Read more