Campbell Books

The author's presentation of cold facts illustrated by anecdotal realities gives the reader a three dimensional view of wartime Viet Nam. It comes to life and brings you back there!

I got my copy directly from Glenn Campbell when he self-published this book in 1995. I wouldn't part with it for the world. (Well, not the world . . .) If you're interested in the lore of Area 51, a/k/a Groom Lake, a/k/a Dreamland, a/k/a "the Ranch", try to scare up a copy of this book. It's almost a piece of history in the modern legend of Area 51. Glenn Campbell was the leader in the movement to shed light on the goings-on at Groom Lake. I call him the Guru of Groom Lake. This book was his introduction for would-be "interceptors". We haven't heard too much about the base since they shut down Freedom Ridge, but it's still there. Something will come up eventually. Good luck on your next adventure, Glenn.

Aristophanes was a ribald playwright whose raucous plays were brilliantly brought to life by Alfred Corn, RHW Dillard, XJ Kennedy, and Campbell McGrath. In the first play of the series of four plays, Wasps, satirizes the jury-for-pay system, prevalent in Athens during the war with Sparta. Athens was populated with older men, veterans of the wars with Persia, and were particularly noted for the severity of their judgments. In the play, Philocleon is being kept prisoner in his own home by his son, Bdelycleon, in an attempt to prevent the father from going to the courthouse to pronounce sentence on a criminal before even hearing the evidence. Bdelycleon uses a clever argument to convince his father to stay home and serve as judge and jury over household matters. His first case was trying the pet dog for stealing food and not sharing it with the cat.

Lysistrata is a hilarious play about Athenian women who team up with the women of Sparta and Thebes to force the men to make peace. Written during the Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes, like his play, Peace, takes a strong anti-war stance (...) .

In Frogs, Aristophanes hits upon the theme of a lack of good playwrights in Athens. Written after the death of Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles, the hero of the comedy, Dionysus (god of arts, among other things) wants to bring back Euripides from Hades. He pretends to be Hercules (who had gone to Hades to capture Cerberus, the guard dog of Hades) and runs into all kinds of trouble. He eventually referees a crazy debate between Euripides and Aescylus, to determine who the best playwright is.

Finally, in The Sexual Congress, we have an uproarious comedy about the women of Athens disguising themselves as men and stocking the General Assembly. Praxagora, as the leader of the women, proposes that the affairs of the city be turned over to the women. The women won the day and instituted a utopian society not to different from Plato's Republic, but this one went way overboard. Written after the war with Sparta, Athens was beset with corruption and low morale at the time.

The four plays in Aristophanes, 2 span the gamut from Old Comedy to New Comedy. The former was characterized by vulgar and slapstick humor with a Chorus used to interact with the audience. As comedy evolved the Chorus played less a role and there was a softening of the ribald humor so characteristic of Old Comedy.

To make the plays more readable and understandable without losing any of the humor of the plays the translators often made references to Twentieth Century phrases instead of the original Greek phrases. This might be annoying to the scholar but makes these plays eminently enjoyable to the general reader.

As the Cumberland Presbyterian Denomination spread following the frontier from its Kentucky and Tennessee roots, it found fertile ground in Arkansas. This volume is a rich tribute to the heritage and collective witness of this denomination from early in the history of the American nation up to 1984. The book is well written and loaded with people, places and dates. An excellent item for the Arkansas geneologist as well as the state and local historian. A nicely produced hardcover volume in dust jacket.

This is a beautiful and evocative book that will be enjoyed by children and adults. It made me want to go to Egypt.

I liked this book. I am a bit of an artist and have taken several watercolor classes. What I liked about this book was the actual work on color. Sounds strange but learning to watercolor doesn't always mean learning to effectively use and mix color--at least that is what I have found. This book is a good way to practice color mixing and actually playing with color so that when you are ready to paint you can proceed with more confidence.

This is a wonderfully written book and a fascinating look into the debate of nature versus nurture in the area of gender assignment. Intelligent and insightful, the author draws a compassionate portrait of a family who, faced with a decision in the wake of a tragedy, relies upon the advice of a well-respected doctor, which reliance turned out to be misplaced. The book details the aftermath of the family's fateful decision and the impact it was to have on them all.

In August 1965, Canadians Janet and Ron Reimer gave birth to identical twin boys, whom they named Brian and Bruce. When they were about eight months old, they arranged to have them circumcised due to a medical condition that caused them pain during urination. Circumcision was to remedy the problem. Little did they know that the circumcision for Bruce would be botched, resulting in the loss of his penis.

A plastic surgeon with whom the Reimers had consulted in connection with the catastrophe that had struck Bruce had spoken to a sex researcher who had recommended that they raise Bruce as a girl. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic had suggested that they ought to get a second opinion with regards to that suggestion. The parents then consulted with a doctor affiliated with John Hopkins Hospital, Dr. John Money, a renowned doctor in the area of gender transformation, who had been the driving force behind the then controversial surgical gender re-assignment procedure for which the hospital was becoming known.

In 1967, the distraught parents met with Dr. Money and shortly after, Bruce became Brenda and clinical castration followed. Thus, their child, who genetically and anatomically had been born a boy, was for all extent and purposes now deemed to be a girl. Brian was now on the other side of the gender divide of his identical twin brother, the twin formerly known as Bruce.

Moreover, Dr. Money now had a dream scientific experiment, because he had a set of twins for which the unafflicted twin could act as a control by which to measure the afflicted one. In 1972, Dr. Money disclosed his "twins case" to the medical world, giving a slanted version of the experiment that made it appear to be an unqualified success. Unfortunately, his analysis of the situation did not disclose the difficulties that Brenda was having and her seeming inability to adjust to being a girl.

Apparently, though Brenda had no idea as she was growing up that she had originally been born a boy, she never felt that she was a girl. Years of follow-up visits with Dr. Money for both twins proved to be unsettling for them, as Dr. Money employed somewhat bizarre methods and procedures. Moreover, as Brenda grew older, she would resist additional surgeries and initially resisted the hormone therapy that was introduced on the eve of puberty. Even when confronted with a totally rebellious Brenda, Dr. Money, however, remained in denial about the failure of his experiment. He would continue to tout his treatment of Brenda as an unqualified success.

It was not until March of 1980 that Brenda was finally informed by her father about what had happened to her years ago and what had been decided in light of the circumstances. It was a revelation that was to dramatically change Brenda's life. What followed was a repudiation of Dr. Money's assertions with respect to his treatment. The book details the changes that Brenda was to make in her life, changes that would find her living the life she was originally meant to lead. Brenda would now become David and live the life of a male. Unfortunately, happiness would continue to elude him.

This is a simply wonderful, intimate look at a family that survived a hideous tragedy. It also sympathetically and sensitively details the personal journey of one family through the labyrinthine differences in opinion surrounding the age old debate over nature versus nature. I would certainly assert that nature, and not nurture, controls. This is a very well thought out book on the issue, grounded in the tragic experience of one family. Bravo!

I found this taught pshchological and very English novel at a garage sale and it is exceptionally written. Intriguing and not for the squemish. On a coincidence I late found out that this one of my favorite authors real names for the pseudonym of Campbell Armstrong. Never know what you will find sometimes.

Very tense and insightful look into post world war II where ex-concentration camp survivor meets up with and it chased by evil Nazi camp doctor. Doesn't end happily which makes it even more interesting. I am surprised no one else has reviewed this gripping novel

Astounding Stories was the highest quality "pulp" magazine ever published, thanks to intelligent editor John W. Campbell, Jr., who first discovered and published in these pages the best authors of the 20th century, including Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, AE Van Vogt, and others. In these 3 lush volumes Easton Press presents most of the best stories reprinted, for the first time ever, as they originally appeared in the magazine, including the cover paintings for each story -- by such great artists as Frank Kelly Freas. These leather-bound editions are printed on acid-neutral paper, with 22kt gold on the spine, gilded page edges, and ribbons attached to mark the pages. Just a few of the classic stories included are The Roads Must Roll by Robert A. Heinlein; Killdozer by Theodore Sturgeon; Cold Front by Hal Clement; The Shadow Out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft; The Changeling by A. E. Van Vogt; several stories by Isaac Asimov including Nightfall; and many others by such terrific writers as Poul Anderson, Fredric Brown, Eric Frank Russell, James Blish, Lewis Padgett, Murray Leinster, Edmond Hamilton, and Jack Williamson.