Oliver Books

This is the largest fragment of Columbus's first voyage log, as abstracted by Bartolome de Las Casas. Of the many editions in print, Dunn & Kelley stands head and shoulders above the rest. The format has a new Spanish transcription on the left-hand pages, exactly as hand-written in the original manuscript by Las Casas: same abbreviations, strike-outs, diacriticals, and marginal notes. The right-hand pages contain an English translation.

But perhaps the most valuable addition for the scholar is the Spanish concordance of the entire text, giving folio and line numbers for every appearance of almost every word. (Common words such as prepositions are given only with word counts, not references.) All in all, a must-have for any serious scholar or afficianado of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea.

The title says it all: A dictionary of the proverbs and proverbial phrases of the English language, relating to the sea and such associated subjects as fish, fishing: With notes, explanatory, historic, and etymologic by Frank Cowan. Yay!

IF YOU ARE A PERSON THAT EARNS THEIR LIVING AS A RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONAL, YOU NEED THIS BOOK! PERIOD!

It is a wealth of information which includes sample letters to clients, forms, clauses, etc.

In my opinion, the VALUE goes way beyond the COST of the book.

This is a great book to view and meditate over. Clearly, Beckworth is multi-talented in both his poetry and photography. This would be a great gift for anyone that you hold dear.

This book is an excellent read, I just couldnt put it down - it took me 4 days to read and it was worth it!! It gives a real insight to what Belfast was like and in some parts still is. It's about a young Belfast girl and what she encounters during her life living in Belfast. You think you where there with her and feel so sorry for her, so sorry you just want to give her a big hug. It is a fictional story but what goes on in the book happens in real life (especially Northern Ireland). Must read!!!

My husband, who is from Japan, reads only 4x4 magazines and Japanese comics, yet, he read this book from start to finish. The book is written for kids 8-12, but I found it very entertaining and well written.

This would be great for a kid who is interested in science (or even, not interested... it may spur their interest). For example, a couple of the topics are "True or False: Astronauts grow taller in space" and "Do Saturns Rings have Sheep?"

The illustrations are fun and there's some nice space photos. The book is well organized with a timeline in the back, as well as a glossary. It's an easy enjoyable read. The added bonus was that we looked really smart when we were watching Jeopardy with some friends and we both blew through all of the questions in the space category ;-)

Oliver Temple's book is a must-read for anyone who would understand the causes of the war and the nuances of the issues of abolition and secession (Chaps. 8 and 9). Written by a contemporary of those events (published in 1899), it provides invaluable insight into the "feelings" of the participants on these issues; insight that is usually lost in the passage of time. Temple's discussion of secession in Chap. 9 is particularly valuable in refuting the argument in defense of legal secession. A personal letter from Robert E. Lee to his son in January of 1861, denouncing secession was particularly enlightening.

Chad Oliver's The Edge of Forever should be the definition of anthropological science fiction. In this collection of stories, Oliver explores his "what-if" societies with the same attention that he gives to his non-fiction accounts of African cultures. "Field Expedient," my favorite story in the collection, focuses on the human population explosion on earth, with a twist to the story.

This book was issued in conjunction with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museaum of Art in New York some years ago. However, the book is really much more than that. It gives brief biographies of 14 fascinating women from the Eighteenth Century. These were women such as Abigail Adams, Rose Bertin, Vigee-Lebrun and Madame Pompadour who were women of their time and yet, in many ways, curiously modern. Some defied convention, some worked within it, but all were unique personalities. The writing is enlightening and interesting and the illustrations are lovely. If you like the Eighteenth Century and women's place in history, you will enjoy this book.

This is not a single book it is a set of 3 hardbacks:

Vol 1 is 504 pages and consists of Heaviside's papers published in the Electrician of 1891 to 1893. Vol II is 547 pages and consists Heaviside's papers published in the Electrician of 1894 to 1898. Vol III is 666 pages and consists of Heaviside's papers in the published Electrician of 1900 to 1912. It also contains papers published in Nature during this same interval. Additionally there are 140 pages of unpublished notes discovered after Heaviside's death.

Heaviside evidently published a lot of material and was a very influential engineer both in his time and subsequently. His views on Electromagnetic Theory, and in particular on transmission line theory, shaped the whole development of the subject. His arguments with the influential "experts" of his day are made public in these republished papers. Not all of his criticisms were polite and this certainly comes across in these papers!

Heaviside was a man of very limited financial resources and yet still managed to achieve scientific greatness and esteem from the great men of his time. The other men of great influence, but little ability, with whom he crossed swords, all seem to have fallen by the wayside, leaving Heaviside's viewpoint as dominant. Somehow Heaviside never translated his intellectual and scientific ability and contributions into enough finances to support him. He was desperately poor throughout his life, even having the gas supply to his home cut off during winter months due to non-payment of bills. It is therefore fitting that these volumes be read and appreciated by future generations as his reward. You may of course have heard of the Heaviside operator in calculus, the Heaviside step function, the Kennelly-Heaviside layer in the ionosphere, the Heaviside-Feynman formula for the radiated field of a moving charged particle. There is a lot of other stuff which did not get Heaviside's name on it, such as the telegrapher's equation.

Throughout, Heaviside tries to explain things in easy to understand terms using simple notation. He hated the wretched gothic fonts used by Maxwell in the famous treatise (and on this point anyone who has ever read Maxwell will easily agree!) and he introduced the bold faced fonts for the D, E, B and H vector fields that are still used today.

This collection of papers is an honest and non-pompous piece of work. It is actually pleasurable to read and to compare against more modern writers on the same subject. The reader will perhaps forgive Heaviside for his lack of (false) modesty. After all, this fame is evidently the greater part of what he personally received from his publications by way of a reward.