Best of
Adult

1964

For One Moment: A Biographical Story


Christmas Carol Kauffman - 1964
    

A Square of Sky: Memoirs of a Wartime Childhood


Janina David - 1964
    Like The Diary of Anne Frank, but by a survivor who, instead of her own death, has to come to terms with the death of her parents and her own survival. Made into a massively successful film in Germany, where the author played a crucial role in excavating the legacy of the Holocaust by lecturing on her life

The Spice Cookbook


Avanelle Day - 1964
    Illustrations by Jo Spier.

South to Forget


Essie Summers - 1964
    Now she wanted only to get away from everything, so when Ninian Macandrew, who had also recently been jilted, asked her to travel to his New Zealand home with him and pose as his fiancee, it seemed the answer to her problems as well as his own. But "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to decieve!" Warmly welcomed into Ninian's home by his kindly parents, treated as a loved daughter, Mary had to remind herself that it was all based on a lie. And there was no chance that Ninian would turn it into reality, for it was clear that he still loved his former fiancee, who was still, as his bother's wife, very much in the picture.

Death Among Friends


Elizabeth Cadell - 1964
    After eighteen months as a companion-secretary to a charming but eccentric old lady, she felt she was ready to forget the past and begin again…But a chance encounter on a London railway station brings it all back…

Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Volume 1: The Individual and Human Values


Bruce Budge Clark - 1964
    An anthology of literature.The principal idea behind this book is that the best way to study literature is to read it--that the work of literature itself is more important than anything that can be said about it....Therefore, with the hope that it will be read and discussed by thousands of women throughout the world, this book has been prepared and published for use in the literature program of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Arts and Their Mission: (Cw 276)


Rudolf Steiner - 1964
    We should not mock scientific materialism and naturalistic art. These have their place in human culture. But the starting point for a new life of art can come only through direct stimulation from the spiritual realm. We must become artists, not by developing symbolism or allegory, but by rising, through spiritual knowledge, more and more into the spiritual world." --Rudolf Steiner In these lectures, Steiner offers insights into architecture, sculpture, painting, drama, costuming, music, poetry, and eurythmy.The Arts and Their Mission is a translation from German of Das K�nstlerische in seiner Weltmission. Der Genius der Sprache. Die Welt des sich offenbarenden strahlenden Scheins - Anthroposophie und Kunst. Anthroposophie und Dichtung (GA 276).

Lincoln and the First Shot


Richard Nelson Current - 1964
    However, he was willing to accept war if he could avoid the blame for having started it. As events turned out, he was no more the aggressor than was Jefferson Davis. In these pages, Current retraces step by step the influences and events that shaped Lincoln's controversial April policy, beginning with the new president's rather furtive arrival in Washington and concluding with the mobilization for war. The Sumter question, as the author points out, "reflects and in turn casts light upon the national tradition of avoiding the `first shot.' It concerns the events that led directly to the Civil War, the greatest of wars from the American point of view. And it involves problems of historical evidence and interpretation that have more fascination than even the best of ordinary puzzles."

Marriage Lines: Notes of a Student Husband


Ogden Nash - 1964
    

Christian Witness To The State


John Howard Yoder - 1964
    Yoder’s novel contribution to the debate concerning the church’s and the Christian’s calling is his starting point. He insists that Christ, through his death and resurrection, is now exercising dominion over the world. God has reclaimed his intention for creation. Thus the structures of the social order has as much potential for good as for evil. The church belongs in this world; it has a mission to and even with society.

Poems of Stephen Crane


Stephen Crane - 1964