[Longhorn Review] Meadowlands
By: Lutz, Joshua.
Wonderful photography and essays about an area that we usually see only from planes (landing at Newark Liberty) or from the road and rail links that cross it.
Reviewer: David
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Handbook of Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
By: Rowland, David L.
To say that diversity in sexual identity is caused by a disorder is wrong and offensive. The author should reconsider the implications of his syntax.
Reviewer: Longhorn Reviewer
An Egyptian grammar with chrestomathy and glossary
By: Mercer, Samuel A. B.
Be aware that this text is exactly what its title says it is: a grammar. The text is terse and to the point – out of the book’s 184 pages, only the first 86 actually contain English text. The rest are the selection of Egyptian readings (or “Chrestomathy” as he calls it) and the sign list.
Furthermore, the copies printed by Ares are exact duplicates of the original edition (1926, London). When this was written, it was still a fairly safe assumption that anyone reading it had already studied Latin and probably Greek. As a result, you will find this rough going if you’re not already familiar with grammatical terms borrowed from Latin and Greek. I had some Latin and Anglo-Saxon before I was assigned this book as an introductory text. Most of my classmates did not have that background. I learned a good deal from this book; they, mostly, did not.
In short, if you don’t know what a “dual pronoun” is, you need a newer, friendlier book. I have some recommendations.
For a comprehensive introductory textbook aimed at those with a serious interest in mastering Middle Egyptian, try “Middle Egyptian: an introduction to the language and culture of hieroglyphs” by James P. Allen. If your interest is more casual, you may find “How To Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs” by Mark Collier and Bill Manley helpful. Both base their examples on texts found in museum pieces.
Alan Gardiner’s “Egyptian Grammar” is still fairly comprehensive, but decidedly dated. Avoid anything by E.A.W. Budge – he published prolifically, but also sloppily. There are a great many errors in Budge’s work, which will cause you no end of headaches if you try and use his texts as study guides.
Lastly, for a good dictionary try “A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian” by Raymond Faulkner. Note that this book is handwritten lecture notes in published form, so it can be hard to read. The English index was published as a separate volume, the “English-Egyptian index of Faulkner’s Concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian” by David Shennum. These two are expensive; refer to them at a library if you can.
Reviewer: Will Martin
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
By: Harris, Mark
Any serious or casual movie buff should read this book. It interweaves the stories of five movies nominated for Best Picture Oscar in 1967: “In the Heat of the Night”, “The Graduate”, “Bonnie and Clyde”, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, and – most improbably – “Dr. Dolittle”. These disparate films, with their long, tortured development and production histories vividly described, represent a watershed moment in the history of the US film industry. The old Studio System, dominated by moguls and super-producers like Jack Warner, Joe E. Levine, Stanley Kramer, Walter Mirisch, and the like, was tottering on its last legs, consumed with turning out expensive “road-show” musicals and epics like “Cleopatra”, “The Sound of Music,” and “The Bible” – which, if successful, could put a studio in fine financial condition. But if they failed, which they began to do with shocking regularity in the mid-60s, they could break a studio and end careers.
Reviewer: David Flaxbart
The $12 million stuffed shark : the curious economics of contemporary art and auction houses
By: Don Thompson
For an eye-opening study of the market for art and why some artists are paid millions and others starve, this is a fascinating read. Full of gory detail about how dealers, auction houses, collectors and artists operate.
Reviewer: David
A performer’s guide to music of the classical period
By: Anthony Burton
Three picks from different publishers and different years that we received within the last month or so; they could almost be companion volumes:
- A performer’s guide to Renaissance music
- A performer’s guide to music of the Baroque period
- A performer’s guide to music of the classical period
Reviewer: David
A performer’s guide to music of the Baroque period
By: Anthony Burton
Three picks from different publishers and different years that we received within the last month or so; they could almost be companion volumes:
- A performer’s guide to Renaissance music
- A performer’s guide to music of the Baroque period
- A performer’s guide to music of the classical period
Reviewer: David
A performer’s guide to Renaissance music
By: Jeffery Kite-Powell
Three picks from different publishers and different years that we received within the last month or so; they could almost be companion volumes:
- A performer’s guide to Renaissance music
- A performer’s guide to music of the Baroque period
- A performer’s guide to music of the classical period
Reviewer: David
Philip Plisson’s Celtic Coastlines
By: Plisson, Philip
I like it because it has a huge photo of part of the town of Aberystwyth including the Old College, where I studied, and also the house in which I lived for 3 years, and the building in which I had my natural food store! Also many other great photos of the sea along the coastlines of the 6 celtic countries.
Reviewer: David
Beyond exoticism : western music and the world.
By: Taylor, Timothy Dean
This book considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term “exoticism” glosses over such differences in many studies of western music.
Reviewer: David
