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I recently began reading the first book in the series and I'm really enjoying it. The second book is somewhat difficult to find at a reasonable price, but I intend to purchase it as well.

it was 1974, it got a LOT of attention/review at the time. I think PBS did a feature on it also. Studs was a regular guest on all the serious/political chat shows.

Why is there 3 different cover for Understanding Comics books, is there any difference? Which one is the best?

This is a beautiful edition!!

I always remember a phrase from Dr HK book 'On the meaning of history' when he said that the problem with Germany (from Bismarck onwards) was that it committed itself to being "a permanent tour de force." This brilliant phrase has never been bettered (imho) as the ultimate description of what happened to Europe in the 20th century. Thank you for your presentation.

amazing story . referenced by sir antony beevor many times in his "battle for crete". a significant book documenting amazing deeds.

Not sure why, but it reminds me of my copy of opium eater

Impressive library, sir. I have tried a few apps, and this is one of the only apps that auto-populates the genre. Appreciate your ideas here, especially thinking about your bookshelves as cells in an Excel sheet. I can't wait to organize in all the ways!

I watched an interview with the author some years ago and I remember him saying that his intention was to make the reader feel like a child. When you’re a child pre alphabetisation, and you open an encyclopaedia, you don’t understand anything: you can’t read! You’re just in awe with the illustrations. I think it’s a great concept. To fill grown ups with a sense of wonder again.

Found this in paperback earlier today at Goodwill. Reading had been a new hobby for me and I hope this book takes me on a little adventure. Thanks for the video my friend. God bless. 🙏

I would love to own this edition of book someday🥰 i love folio society editions amd adore this book

Thank you for showcasing these beautiful books and it's contents. I already have Reformation: Europe's House Divided by Diarmaid Macculloch, folio edition. Is the set, really that anti-christian? I ask that because of: ‘I hope that this book will help readers stand back from Christianity, whether they love it or hate it, or are simply curious about it, and see it in the round.’ Neil MacGregor, from his introduction

To not have Dostoevsky into these boxes is true CRIME

Great video and explanation!! I have the box set of the Little Black Classics (and a handful of the additional volumes) but now I want the Penguin Modern set! 🤣

I don’t know, I kind of like the idea of using archaic words that no one uses anymore.

I first discovered this by accident in the Queensland State Library, and almost made a spectacle of myself as I couldn't contain my laughter as I read it through. So when I saw that the Folio Society had published it, there was absolutely no stopping me from buying it.

I have been looking everywhere I can get them, can you advise me to contact any place to buy? They are out of stock everywhere!! Will you sell them to me?❤❤

Yeah i like these kinda videos instead of reviewa

In 14 edition you can find detailed info about any random topic due to its A-Z layout ,however in 15th it was shortened to 750 word limit with few diagrams in micropedia and portions of it were combined in Macropedia

I got this for 43 dollars in Korea! Very cheap for 80 books, and I enjoyed most of them (Im not quite done with all of them lol)

Those set of Beatrix Potter looks pretty cool, like old classic novels, my dad was a book collector for years, he passed away in 2022 at age 83. But he has lots of books 📚 in my house, i guess 5000. I have the complete tales of Beatrix Potter in an big book, it's printed and bounded in Great Britain by William Clowes limited, Beccles and London.

That's a gorgeous book

Thanks for this! I’m thinking about picking up this book. Trying to understand how our culture got to where it’s at

Also, I watched this last night when I should have been sleeping, and woke up today seeing that I had actually ordered it. It’s on its way. I need to watch these when I’m more fully awake 😂 or my bank account is going to end up regretting it.

The way people use “literally” literally drives me nuts. Haha. It does make me crazy, but I actually do say something to people when they use it like that. It doesn’t make me any friends, but someone has to fight back against this onslaught of stupidity, haha. And for the record, YES, IT’S WRONG!!! Ok I’m done.

Does it has white nights in it ?

If the book take pieces of the larger work, are we going to understand it? Like do we know what’s going on in there😂 I was thinking what to buy little black classic or modern classic.

Just got my copy for my birthday 🥰

I read all the bibliography of John Williams (4 books), he was a great writter.

I love the orange cloth, I wonder if LoA ever did any other unique colors

Thank you I was thinking of getting this book 😊

The Wind In The Willows Folio is absolutely stunning. Wow that's a special piece, its utter perfection.

One of my all time favorites

I like them. I like photos with a lot of texture.

wow it is a library!

seeing your channel, i’m appalled. do u live in a library

For library reference

Roughly speaking GEB is examining the phenomenological paradox that arises when you use your own thought process to mechanistically model the origin of your own thought process. He basically argues that the Nature of Consciousness is in some mysterious and distilled sense the self-reinforcing absurdity of Paradox Itself, while trying to actually be somewhat precise about what that means. Since the content of his thesis includes the very impossibility of it being realized, his approach is to take the reader on an extremely powerful tour of cutting edge physical and symbolic science, zoology, cognition, music, visual art, linguistics, the history of computer systems, AI research (as of 1979) and Zen Buddhism, all while generating his own absurd socratic dialogues, logic puzzles, etc. The book is ridiculously playful, rests somewhere between an almanac and a textbook, and is sneakily a deeply religious and vulnerable document. It’s a stone cold work of genius, bet 👌. It’s also soooooo fucking 1970s, in the best possible way. ThErE iS nO fOuNdAtiOn GuYs!!

Another great video, thanks for sharing (it’s always great to see your videos on LOA volumes)! I’ll keep an eye out for this edition, but like all LOA volumes they’re hard to come by in the UK!

I think I have about 200 Folio Society books and if I were to do the same thing with my collection Beowulf and Wind in the Willows would also be in my top five. Some other top picks would be Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake (original 1992 edition) and The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Their Myths and Sagas collection and the leather bound Dickens collection from the turn of the millennium are also very pretty. They really do make very beautiful books all round.

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There has to be one volume of this Bible in double column format for both Bible text without commentary, to contain the entire Tanakh in volume. This is Bible as literature. Also, the new testament translation by David Hart is Bible as literature. These are not theological translations.

It cracked me up when you said, “I’m a grown-up…”

This has been sat on my shelf for years, didn’t know it was going for over a hundred bucks 😂

Being no fan of ,as of an example, ,Reader’s Digest’ , you saved meself some research. Indeed informative, thanks!

Godel's "Theorem" is a complete farce and absolute bullshit. Godel assigns a unique number to all the symbols in real numbers via the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra: e.g., the syntactical symbols "+", "-", "x" (multiplication) as well as the actual numbers and powers (e.g. 3^2). By his criteria, a "proof" consists of a tautology on each side of the equal sign. At first, one might think the statement "3 + 4 = 7" is a "proof", since it can be reduced to a sum of units on either side. But that would be a contradiction, according to Godel, because "3 + 4" has a different Godel Number than "7". So the only "proofs" for Godel are G(wff) = G(wff); any other statement is a contradiction by Godel Number. I call BS - a giant twittering machine built on nothing, see my pdfs on physicsdiscussionforum dot org Remember, you read it here first... :)

good book!

Where can I buy this book? I am from India..

This is a lovely story by Josephine Tey. I’d read a couple of her others first…just to get to know her star detective. The story holds together a little bit better as you are comfortable with his character.

These books are wonderful. Well worth the time.