John Hughes Books

Perhaps the most influential conduct book of the eighteenth century, Gregory's *Father's Legacy* is a must-read for any student of conduct literature -- right up there with Hannah More's *Strictures on Female Education* in its conservatism and prudery. If you want to understand where idiocies like *The Rules* come from, you'll find it here.

This is what may be called passing on "old fashioned" advice from father to daughter, but I think it is an example of a father who honestly cares enough about his daughters to advise them on what IS proper. I think these words ring just as true today as they did in 1796. I wish that publishers WOULD continue to keep works like this in print. Some valuable truths might be imparted on our society about the reality of human interaction.

The book I am reading is Home Alone 3: A Novelization by Todd Strasser. I think this story should get five stars. It is a good book because it is about a little boy called Alex who is at home alone by himself. His parents have to leave him alone for one whole hour. The bad guys break in and Alex does pranks on them. Then his parents come home and the bad guys leave. The next day criminals come back. In the end Alex calls the cops and they go to jail.

Emerson, NJ fifth grade

Alex is home when he has the chicken pox.Four bad look for a chip worth10,000 dollars!Alex sets traps to defend him self!

This first biography of John Grisham reads like a mystery. It describes the mystique of Mississippi and gives historic tidbits of each town where Grisham grew up to whet the reader's appetite. For hopeful writers, it tells how Grisham evolved as a writer. A good, quick, informative read!

Narayan of Rebeccasreads highly recommends THE JOHN GRISHAM STORY as a biography of his writing life. There are no family trees, no attempt to trace out genealogy or any of the frills & hoopla commonly associated with biographies. What we find inside is a simple tale, narrated in simple words, about the life & times of one of the most widely read & popular authors of the present times.

Through the words of many of his friends, teachers & close-relatives we find out the real man behind the stunning works of THE FIRM & A TIME TO KILL, etc. It mainly focuses on three aspects of Grisham's life: the first of a lawyer & a politician; the second that of a writer extraordinaire, the king of legal thrillers, & the third about Grisham's dream of becoming a baseball star.

Two out of three's good going!

Do catch our interview with Libby Hughes.

This book is absolutely splendid! The series represents the very best quality in naval writing. Wegener is a first rate mind and his analysis of German Naval Stategy in the First World War is informative and provided by a naval officer who was on the scene and played an important role in German Naval thought during the inter-war years. If you are interested in German Naval affairs during the two world wars--- read this book!

This title belongs to the "Classics of sea power" collection edited by the United States Naval Institute. It's a good indicator that the book is worth reading. And certainly it is. Wolfgang Wegener was a German officer at the Imperial Navy during World War I. He disagreed on how the naval war was being fought and expressed himself on papers sent to his superiors. One of the major ideas he had, was that Germany needed to get ports on the Norwegian or French coasts in order to avoid British blocade. The importance of his thinking is that it led to Raeder's planning before World War II. The main text is an essay published after the Great War on which Wegener critiques the way the Navy was (mis)used during the entire conflict; here is where he points out the requirements (a hold on Norway and France) in order to achive a victorious campaign in the future. This edition includes some papers written by Wegener during the First World War, which set the basis for his later work. This is a book of geopolitics and strategy, certainly a must read for all those interested on naval affairs.

This collection is divided into three sections, "Songs for the Open Road", "Sea, Rail and Sea", "Home, Rest, and Final Voyages". It contains many of the best- loved poems in the English language, poems not necessarily associated with subjects of Travel and Adventure, though they may touch upon them.
One of the great examples is an Emily Dickinson selection"

"There is no frigate
like a book
To take us
Lands away.

Nor any corvette
like a page
of prancing
Poetry.

This traverse
may the poorest take
Without the oppress
of Toll.

How frugal
is the Chariot
that bears a human soul.

The title poem is from Whitman, and it sets the tone for what should be a highly enjoyable vogage, of mind, heart and soul.

It's hard to believe how many of the best poems in English are in this thin little book -- ninety poems for a dollar. I second the action of the Poetry Project in giving it free to lots of people. Buy one for your glove compartment, your office, your study, and your best reader friend!

This book is a really nice tool for those who are learning about spacecraft attitude dynamics

Often ignored, the ability to control just where a spacecraft is pointed is absolutely critical to space flight. Without such controls, the Hubble telescope doesn't point in the right direction. The spy satellites don't point at the ground and the re-entry rockets don't point you in the right direction to come home.

The first Explorer and Sputnik experiences proved that what we thought we knew about the classical analysis of Newton and others were wrong, or at least incomplete. The realities of space flight intruded into the carefully developed mathematics of classical mechanics.

This book reflects the lessons learned and gives a rigorous mathematical introduction to the dynamics of spacecraft control. This is an augmented reprint of the original edition published in 1986.

This is an excellent book and the Bible for spacecraft attitude dynamics. The book uses the so-called vectrices to represent reference frames. After getting used to the notation, it is very convenient tool for book keeping multiple reference frames. Although the idea is not original and appears in Wittenburg's Dynamics of System of Rigid Bodies, the author shows many nice and helpful relations in vectices algebra and uses it elegantly to derive equations of motion. In addition to the comprehensive coverage of attitude dynamics of all kind of satellite configurations, the book gives stand alone reviews of other topics:
- Representations of attitude transformation including quaternions.
- Linear (and some non-linear) stability analysis including Floquet theory.
- Analysis of disturbances with a nice derivation of the general gravitational torque between spacecraft and other finite bodies. Rigorous treatment of torque due to free molecular flow.
- Equations of motion for multi-body, orbital-attitude coupling (both ways), the principle of quassi-velocities, energy methods for stability analysis and much more.
In general, this book is analytically beautiful, rigorous, typos free and a fun reading.

For farther reading, I recommend Beletskii's book on Motion of an Artificial Satellite for perturbation analysis of slightly non-linear attitude dynamics and Bong Wie's book on Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control that is particularly strong on quaternion control.
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Wow! Wow! I could not put it down. This is the smart man's John Grisham. If you love current events and are into the psyche of white supremacists like Timothy McVie and black muslims like Louis Farrakan, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU. I promise you will not put it down once you pick it up and you will never forget it.

I never read a book that kept me awake at night until now. All of The Spark's characters; Ruddy, Sister Farah, Bowman, come to life, and the realistic possibilities of the pent-up anger the blacks had for the whites, and the deep-seeded suspicions the whites had of blacks brought out in this story left me feeling cold and thrilled. I love Hughes' writing. It's a combination of John Grisham and Stephen King. I hope he continues his Bowman character in his next book. The Spark destroyed many beliefs that I had about my 'white prespective' of the current race relations in this country. It also destroyed a full-day at the beach. I stayed inside to read and never left my room

Compiled and edited by John R. Hughes (the grandson of Lt. Col. John McKendrick Hughes) The Unwanted: Great War Letters From The Field is a compilation of the correspondences of an officer in the 151st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, whose unit reached Shorncliffe in late 1916 where he and the other company officers were bluntly informed by the British that they were "unwanted", officers deemed "surplus to the establishment". Determined to contribute to the war effort, Major John Hughes became on of three Corps Agricultural Officers with the British 2nd Army, charged with growing vegetables and other foodstuffs to feed the front line troops. The Unwanted is John's personal story, based on the letters he sent to his wife nearly every day for three and a half years -- and a superb contribution to the still expanding library of World War I personal memoirs and military biographies.

Film and books have given us an image of World War I as being a bloodbath in the trenches where every available body from all of the companies involved were fed into the fight. John Hughes enlisted in the Canadian Army and was sent to France expecting to be in the infantry. Unbelievably when he got there he found that he was surplus to their needs.

'Hughes,' he was told, 'I want you to start a kitchen garden for me.'
'Yes, Sir. Where will you have it.'
'Oh, wherever you find room.'
'How large do you wnat it, Sir.'
'Oh, make it large enough to supply potatoes and vegetables for a million men.'

And he did.

For three and a half years, Major Hughes was the Agricultural Officer. He farmed using ill and injured cavalry horses and recovering wounded men. While doing this, he wrote a letter to his wife back in Canada nearly every day. This book has been put together from these letters by his grandson, John R. Hughes. It tells a story of World War I that is dramatically different than what we are accustomed to seeing.

I have yet to see this movie, I picked up the book, as it was on sale for 5.99 and I am a writer. By the 4th page or so, I was invested, in this book. in Hughes life. it pulls you in, inside his head, tics, and wants. and doesnt stop until the last page.

With accounts of the Battle of the Atlantic being written by such notable authors as Donald Macintyre who, as a serving Royal Navy Officer earned no fewer than three DSOs during that battle, being favoured by many historians, this particular account may have been overlooked by those with an interest in such historical events.

This book, however, tackles the subject from a completely different perspective and, instead of competing with those other works, stands to complement them instead. Just a glance at the Contents page will show the reader how these authors have tackled the subject in the most complete fashion - from beginning to end. A further glance at the 2 pages of bibliography and other sources consulted will also leave the reader in no doubt as to the thoroughness of the work produced here. That research includes material from Britain, USA and Germany.

In many ways this book is the complete account of the Battle of the Atlantic instead of, perhaps, being the personal accounts of those who were there.

From beginning to end the book is well illustrated with historic photographs (I particularly liked the one of the image of Hitler being removed from Madam Tussaud's waxworks), cartoons, maps and diagrams. Altogether an excellent account.

NM