Just Couldn't Resist...........

This afternoon I was fortunate to spend some major time in my favorite store - Barnes & Noble. Since they are moving to a new site in a mall, they are having a great store-wide sale, so I picked up a few books. Just thought I'd give you a glimpse at what they are:

'The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism' by James Geary, New York, New York. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2005
I seriously doubt that I will read the book from cover to cover, just read it when in my other readings I come across one of the aphorisms. Here is the list of chapters
*We Are What We Think: Ancient Sages, Preachers and Prophets
Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, Muhammad, The Zen Masters
*A Man Is Wealthy in Proportion to the Things He Can Do Without: Greek & Roman Stoics
Diogenes, Epicurus, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
*Upon the Highest Throne in the World, We Are Seated, Still, Upon Our Arses: French and Spanish Moralists.
Michel de Montaigne, BAltasar Gracian, Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, Joseph Joubert
*Good and Evil Are the Prejudices of God: Heretics, Dissenters and Skeptics
Geroge Christoph Lichtenberg, Arthur Schopenhauer, Fridrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, E.M Cioran
*The Lack of Money is the Root of All Evil: The Rise of the American One-Liner
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce
*Know Then Thyself, Presume not God to Scan: The Proper Study of Mankind is Man: in Praise of Light Verse
Alexander Pope, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Samuel HOffenstein, Dorothy Parker and Dr. Seuss.
*In the Beginning Was the Word - At the End Just the Cliche: The Aphorism Today
Karl Kraus, Antonio Porchia, Malcom de Chazal, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer

Elijah Visible....
Thane Rosenbaum weaves together nine postmodern tales about Adam Posner, a young man determined to climb the American corporate ladder who finds himself paralyzed by the legacy of the Holocaust. Encumbered by the psychic screams of his deceased parents ..... [from back cover]. I bought this book for only a dollar; but also since I have read a number of novels about Germany in WWII over the summer this seemed appropriate to read also.
Rosenbaum, Thane. 'Elijah Visible ' New York, New York. St. Martin's GRiffin 1995

Dog Man......
Dog Man is an elegantly written account of a stubborn man who found meaning in old-fashioned values while his nation threw itself headlong into building an affluent, materialist, consumer-orientated society. In her wonderful journey to Japan's snow country, Martha Sherrill introduces us to a world - and a gruffy independent personality - that transcends national boundaries.
-John W. Dower
A story of a hard life and dedication to preserving a traditional dog breed in the mountains of Japan. Fascinating descriptions of life in rural Japan during WWII. - Temple Grandin
Sherrill, Martha. 'Dog Man' New York, New York. Riverhead Books, Penguin Publishing. 2008