Indiana Books

My father was absolutely delighted to receive this book as a gift! He played high school basketball in Indiana in the 50's and he found that his team is pictured in the book (Columbus)! As he had no idea this book even existed it could not have been a more perfect gift.

Author William Venner has assembled a useful book in relating to the history of the 19th Indiana. Venner has worked hard to back up his information offering many pages of footnotes that are handy in reenforcing his writing. This book is a fast read and chronologically follows the 19th from 1861 muster to final discharge as the unit is blended with the 20th Indiana. This book follows the hard fought history of a tough group of individuals that faced many conflicts such as Gainesville, Antietam, Gettysburg, The Wilderness and Petersburg. Venner does an excellent job covering the manpower involved in the regiment and how they survived with ever-dwindling numbers. Venner's writing is easy to read and not ever complex. This book is an excellent source for reading about the 19th Indiana as much is not written about this hard fighting group. 5 STARS!

probably this book has been sold plenty of times. so, what could be said? it contains plenty of beautifully made pictures of carriages. this is what is shown on the cover and this is exactly what I have been looking for. I could not ask for more, the choice of the carriages is great, the pictures are just perfect.

This book touches on issues and on possible pitfalls that protective mothers can encounter and are currently encountering in the legal system. It will help them to better understand what strategies are being used to discredit their children. The book is absolutely realistic in its assertions on how the system is treating sexual abuse allegations. It is also correct in its description of the bias in the courts against mothers. This can be difficult to believe for anyone who has not been to family court but unfortunately it is the reality today. Thanks to the authors! Great book!

It's amazing to me that I am the first person to write a review of this important collection by one of the U.S.'s most daring film scholars. "How a Film Theory Got Lost" investigates the problematic between film studies and cultural studies scholarship, both of which pay special attention to the visual image. Ray's book does not offer a reading of individual movies, thankfully. Rather, he invents, surreptitously, a new way of writing and thinking about movies and popular culture; he does so by using form as a methodology for writing. Each essay is its own gem.

For instance, in his essay "Snapshots: the Beginning of Photography," Ray moves from the beginnings of photography and the detective novel to a discussion of narrative film's predilection to uncover/detect visual clues. Ray's writing makes the read all the more enjoyable. In lovely prose, he summarizes: "In the origins of photography, therefore, lies an intersection of related problems: the legibility of the surrounding world, the status of the detail, the relationship between image and language." As this passage suggests, this essay beautifully complicates a teleological (linear) view of film historicism by focusing on the still image as a "shapshot" onto a history that yearns for a caption. Along the way, he performs some phenomenal readings of film stills, each of which becomes an archive of film history. Truly, a fun read!

In the end, Ray wishes to recover the thing we love most about movies: the ineffable, that thing we can't explain. As such, his collection becomes a manifesto against the kind of cultural knowledge built upon accretion. We, each one of us, have an entry-point onto/into the movies and other popular culture forms, if only we look and investigate that which intrerests us. Ray's book asks us to create an archive of details, both historical and formal, to create a new kind of cultural history. Rethinking my own relationship to film history, I began to ask questions about the details of the most ambiguous of genres, film noir: what about the anklet caressing Phyllis Dietrich's mobile tendon in "Double Indemnity?" Or the black sweetheart dress incinerated by Norah Larkin in Fritz Lang's "The Blue Gardenia" -- a synechdoche for her, and, by extension, the 1950s naivete? Or, that background setting (a kind of economic deep focus) of a ceasless and menacing oil derrick in Welles' "Touch of Evil?"

After reading Ray's collection, I realize that such details are not "background" but rather apertures onto a world of history that lies just outside of the film's frame. The book is a treat, an insightful contribution to film scholarhip.

It's no secret that I adore Dr. Goodman and her work. This book is no exception. I truly appreciate the body of knowledge she has assembled in this one title, addressing mental illness, spiritual intrusions, modern methods of approaching both and tribal wisdom to distinguish the two. Dr. Goodman provides a bridge between healing approaches that is incredibly under appreciated.

Emily Kimbrough is the co-author, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, of the classic, OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY. On her own, she was a prolific author, and I wish that her publishers would re-issue more of her books. HOW DEAR TO MY HEART is a 1991 re-issue, underwritten by the Delaware County Historic Society, of her reminiscence of her earliest childhood in Muncie, Indiana at the turn of the 20th century. The original printing was in 1944.

As always, Ms. Kimbrough's writing is lyrical, and one easily can imagine through her those defining years for our nation, a moment when electricity and automobiles first were entering everyday life, and the telephone still was in the experimental stages. Ms. Kimbrough's vivid style makes that moment understandable, and she remembers her childhood, the places and the people, with great affection.

Like all children, she assumed that her realities were the only ones, but the truth is that she grew up in one of the most prominent and affluent families in a small town and, as such, her upbringing was that of an American princess. Still, her family's excellent values shine through, as they do in all her books, and she demonstrates a slice of life that never again will be recaptured. Christmas in Muncie in 1905 is somewhere between Dickens and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and it makes for marvelous reading.

Consistent with all of her other books, there are plenty of funny anecdotes interspersed with studies of the characters in her life, her paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother (and that grandmother's next-door neighbor, President Benjamin Harrison) and her nanny, the daughter of former slaves.

The charming drawings add to the overall feeling of the book. I believe that the same artist also did the illustrations for the early Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace; essentially, these stories are about similar little girls in similar towns. Maud's girls are fictionalized and Emily's story is her own, but the spirit of both their styles are much the same.

This is a wonderful book.

"CONTENTS

Insect Collecting Equipment
Where to Collect Insects
How to Preserve Insects
How to Pin Insects
The Spreading Board
How to Label Specimens
Display Boxes
How to Arrange Insects in Boxes
Score Card for Judging Collections
How to Rear Insects
Close Relatives of Insects
How to Identify Insects
The Development of Insects
The Order of Insects
Portura
Thysanura
Collembola
Ephemeroptera (Ephemerida)
Odonata
Orthoptera
Isoptera
Plecoptera
Dermaptera
Psocoptera (Corrodentia)
Zoraptera
Mallophaga
Anoplura
Thysanoptera
Hemiptera
Homoptera
Coleoptera
Strepsiptera
Mecoptera
Trichoptera
Diptera
Siphonaptera
Hymenoptera
Where to Get Supplies
Controlling Destructive Insects
Reference Books
[from the book of the contents]

This is a valuable book (resource) for budding entrepreneurs. It seems to try to cover all the bases for starting a small business, but it can't do them all well in the space available between its covers. The book is only 288 pages long. If you are in the planning stages of starting a small business, then I highly recommend you get a copy of this book. Read it, study it, and outline it. There are helpful checklists to help you grasp the subjects. You will come up with a plethora of keywords and terms that you will want to google to find Web pages giving more detailed (and maybe more current) information.

I am a SCORE counselor (Senior Corps of Retired Executives) who typically does face-to-face counseling sessions three nights a month. It would really be neat if my clients would read this book BEFORE they came to their session with me because they would pretty much be "educated customers" ready to ask educated questions. Our sessions would be so much more beneficial.

My favorite chapters were:

1. Initial business concerns
2. Your business' structure
3. Business start-up details
5. Sources of business assistance (SCORE is mentioned here)
7. Your smart business plan (and a good sample plan is included)
8. Obtaining the financing you need

The book is weak when it comes to how the Internet can be used in corresponding, hiring, and marketing. But this is just one example of how googling keywords and concepts found in the book will make the book more complete. Don't treat the book as authoritative on the law. It isn't. Nor was it ever intended to be. It is light on tax information as it relates to small business.

I was particularly impressed with the material presented in Chapter 2: Choice of Legal Entity. That subject is sorely ignored in most small business books, and it is critically important. It is a subject I regularly must spend a great deal of time discussing at my SCORE sessions. This book does a pretty good job on the topic.

Chapters 4 and 9 through 12 are easy to find fault with. The topic of each could fill a book. But having these topics covered definitely will help a budding entrepreneur know some of the issues they raise.

I would have liked the book more if Chapter 6 (marketing) had been less superficial. When I read it I got the impression that the author was more a public relations expert than a marketing expert. I generally categorize public relations as a subset of marketing. Marketing includes advertising, public relations, and a whole host of other promotion techniques. I did not get this message when I read the book. I also would have liked the book better if the Internet, email, and Web sites had been discussed more. But there are many books on those subjects. Therefore, I can't complain too much about the limited discussion of computers.

When you read this book it may feel a little like it was produced on an assembly line. Maybe it was? There are 51 versions of this book sold; one for each state and the District of Columbia. Content is king, and this book has it. 5 stars!

International Human rights are a relatively recent invention, and there coming into international law can be attributed to the UN. "Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice" is a through and scholarly look at the development of human writes during the periods of shortly before its creation and immediately following it, and its expansion and development over the years following it all and everything since, as rights for all more and more often becomes the norm. "Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice" is highly recommended for community library international affairs shelves and for anyone who wants to be more appreciative of what we have now.