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"To keep children clean is something that should never be attempted. It cannot be done."
"The mere provision of the vegetable is not sufficient; it must be actually eaten."
"If there is room enough for somersaults, the child can be satisfied."
These are just a few of the words of wisdom on offer in "How to be a Good Parent, " the latest in a series of delightful advice books from the Bodleian Library that also includes "How to be a Good Husband" and "How to be a Good Wife." As developmental psychology began to show promise, beleaguered parents were drawn to the nascent discipline...

This rich anthology brings together poetry and prose in celebration of birds, records their behaviour, flight, song and migration, across the seasons and in different habitats - and our own interaction with them. Perfect for bird-lovers and anyone who has taken comfort or joy in a bird in flight.

"Make your mark in New York and you are a made man," wrote Mark Twain, encapsulating both the naked ambition of the city's citizens and the opportunities up for grabs in the Big Apple. Others take a more cynical approach, calling the city "an aviary overstocked with jays" (O. Henry), a "sucked orange" (Ralph Waldo Emerson), or "fantastically charmless and elaborately dire" (Henry James). Over the last three-and-a-half centuries, this glamorous, twenty-four hour city has attracted a multitude of thinkers, poets, novelists and playwrights, many of whom have brilliantly encapsulated its unique...

We ll always have Paris, croons Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca to a young Ingrid Bergman. F. Scott Fitzgerald commented that the best of America drifts to Paris. But, should one never get the opportunity to visit Paris, one might take consolation in the words of critic William Hazlitt, who called it a beast of a city. Be it praise or colorful invective, everyone, it seems, has something to say about the city and this slender volumefilled with wise, witty, and sometimes scandalous quotespresents the full range of impressions it has made.
Paris in Quotations takes readers on a...

London is one of the world's great cities--a source of inspiration to generations of poets, novelists, journalists, and commentators who have visited or called it home. Be it praise or colorful invective, everyone, it seems, has something to say about the city and this slender volume--filled with wise, witty, and sometimes scandalous quotes--presents the full range of impressions it has made.

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." Samuel Johnson spoke highly of London in Boswell's famous biography, but not all have shared...