From the cold formality of London town-houses to the the dull chaos of the academic's abode, and the eccentric spinsters' Hampstead home, Virigina Woolf paints a series of portraits of everyday life. This compilation from Woolf's early notebooks was unearthed from a collection of private papers. Editor, David Bradshaw offers his commentary on Woolf's life and writings throughout.

Stitched together over five years of journaling, Obiter Dicta is a commonplace book of freewheeling explorations representing the transcription of a dozen notebooks, since painstakingly reimagined for publication. Organized after Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia, this unschooled exercise in aesthetic thought-gleefully dilettantish, oftentimes dangerously close to the epigrammatic-interrogates an array of subject matter (although inescapably circling...

At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue to live on, beloved by millions of pianists young and old. Yet the pedagogical utility of this music--long associated with the sound of children practicing and mothers listening--has encouraged a rosy...

A notebook that is passed from student to student around a classroom becomes a repository for wild rumors, heartfelt confessions, and creative writing and helps the students cope when their teacher has medical emergency and they must cope with a rigid substitute as they worry about their beloved teacher and her family.

"This kids' book describes how scientists have used science notebooks to learn, explore, and discover."--

"The notebooks of A.D. Hope are a portrait of the contradictory essence of the poet's intellect and character. Shot through with threads of self-awareness and revelation, Hope imbued his notebooks with irony and humour, forming them as a celebration of the joy and terror of human existence. Stripped of intimate revelation, the entries give witness to Hope's view that art is a superior force in the creation of new being and values, and a guide for...