This book was written by one of my past co-workers and he was gracious enough to sign my copy. Scott was one of our web developers and we worked together for about 2 years before I found out that he was working on his PhD and had authored a book. I promptly ordered the book […]
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This is the second of the books written by the same author drawn from the records in the National Archives of the “Writers Project” from the Depression years. This selection is from a variety of locations while the other book centers on North Carolina. As with the first book, what I was struck by were […]
From the forward, a summary: “The War of the Castes in Yucatan is one of the least known but most colorful episodes in Mexican history. Indeed, if told offhand that as recently as 1848 the descendants of the ancient Maya, after centuries of subjugation, fought their way across the peninsula of Yucatan and came within […]
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This was a book that I picked up in a Tibetan shop in Santa Fe. Whenever I’m in town, I make a point of stopping there and have walked away with a variety of religious objects and more than a few books. I think this is the first to get a review here. Let me […]
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I bought this book, along with several others on 9/6/07: Lost Civilizations Engineering the Pyramids Keys of Egypt in a bookstore in Washington state as we were waiting for a ferry to Vancouver Island. This was not as expected…there is no real old history here but quite valuable none the less. This was a rather […]
Another of the books acquired from the Alia Book Store in Santa Fe, recommended by the proprietor Jim. This is an eyewitness account of the death of a civilization – the bloody brutal destruction of the Aztec peoples by Cortes and his Spanish warriors. The authors are a varied group of survivors who lived through […]
This is a nice book for a person who has a deep interest in the nation of Hungary. I fit that bill…..my grandparents on my Father’s side were immigrants in the early part of the 20th century. The family story is that they met on the boat coming here, settled in Cleveland, married and moved […]
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I have been studying Egypt for over 20 years and have 100+ book related to the subject in my personal library. This one was a bit of a disappointment. It might better have been an article in Scientific American, rather than a short 170 page book. The first half of the book was mostly a […]
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This is a short (83 pages) glossy book that consists of pictures of Pancho Villa with some narrative. Given what I have already read of Pancho, this collection of photographs does an excellent job of capturing the man. Not a lot of new facts, but still a very nice addition to the collection. Most of […]
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By way of background: In 1959 I made the decision to leave my family and enter High School at St. Leo College Preparatory School in St. Leo, Florida. The school was attached to the Benedictine Abbey at St Leo. I was 13 years old. I had taken a look at the brand new local High […]
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I’ve been a regular watcher of “The O’Reilly Factor” for years now and this is the first of his books that I have read. In a word – Excellent. The book reads just like a conversation with O’Reilly as if it was dictated, not written but that works out quite well. The style is familiar […]
Book Review – A Bold Fresh Piece Of Humanity – Bill O’Reilly Read More »
This is nor a book – rather it is a web site I stumbled on. I was at work…the folks I work with had just implemented a project that converts out email system from Groupwise to Outlook. The process had run into a wide variety of bumps and the staff was fully engaged in the […]
n Ælfred’s Days, A Story of the Saga the Dane, Paul Creswick I picked up this book while on vacation in British Columbia and read it thru while there. It caught my attention immediately because it is inscribed with the name Winifred Bullock (my mother’s maiden name!) It’s actually one of the few fiction books […]
Background: I have made an earnest effort to learn what I can about nuclear weapons. That means how they work, what they do, how we came to build them and how and why they were used. I trace the interest to the fact that I have a personal connection to the Cuban Missile Crisis. I […]
I spent so much time trying to locate this text that I decided to make an exception and include the entire thing. I encountered this book while reading Rituals of War and it was a real pain to run down. It seems to be available only in: From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of […]
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Not sure where I obtained this or why. This started out as a very disappointing book due to the fact that the author seems to have gone out of his way to use such arcane and specialist language that it was frustrating to try to understand. I added so many words to the dictionary in […]
Found this while on vacation in British Columbia I read only the first of the 2 books contained in this volumn as the second, by Layamon, is written/translated into a very old form of English and is not particularly easy to read. Having read so many of these stories and having found the first one […]
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This was a book recommended to me by my book dealer friend in Santa Fe. From the Publisher The memories of heroes are preserved the world over in place names, patriotic holidays, printed images on money and stamps, folk songs, roadside shrines, and on web sites. Understanding the origin and meaning of these forms of […]
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Kinda funny story about this book….. We went to an antique sale held outside near Leesburg, which cost us 24.00 just to get in. We bought nothing….But, at one of the vendor’s tables, I saw a copy of this book and asked for a price as there was none in the book. The vendor asked […]
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The Bells of Nagasaki, Takashi Nagai I found this book in an antique store while on vacation in British Columbia, 2009. This is, to the best of my knowledge, the only account of the atomic bomb attacks that was personally written by one of the survivors. The only other like volumn was written by an […]
I picked up this book while on vacation in British Columbia and read it in its entirety during the vacation. An enormous number of books have been written about King Arthur and his knights. This book, long out-of-print, is the original and definitive “source book” of the actual textual evidence related to the legend. I’ve […]
This is a companion to the other Collier’s book and was bought at the same time and from the same dealer as the first. This one is not in such great shape. I do not think we had this one at home when I was a child but I just had to buy it since […]
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Photographs by the Official Photographers Accompanying Each Army This is one of two such books that I bought at the DC Big Flea on 11/7/2009. This was a “buy on first sight” kinda thing….the reason being that my step-father had this book in our house when I was a child. I opened the book and […]
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