Delaware Books

The quantity of drawings is excellent, although some are surprisingly small. The bigger disappointment is the lack of color in the book. Prud'hon's academy drawings look lackluster on the page without the familiar blue tint of the paper. While this may be a small quibble for some, it takes a great deal away from getting the true experience of his work. The academy reproductions appear to lack detail I've seen in other books. Whether this is due to the lack of color or poor scanning I'm not sure. But the very fine detail of his chalk work is lost here.

The text is informative and well written. But it's the work you're buying the book for, and that's not nearly reproduced as well as it should have been. Overall, quite disappointing.

For a Delawarean interested in the Civil War, this is a fascinating book.

Written by Capt. Seville, who served in the regiment, this book presents a first person account of the 1st Regiment Delaware Volunteers as they participated in some of the great battles in the East such as Fredricksburg, Anteitam, Gettysburg and others. The book relies heavily on regimantal after battle reports, some of which are printed in their entirety.

The prose is sparse and the story is sparingly told. Nevertheless, this account of the service of one of the best regiments of the Civil War (which suffered tremendous casualties opposite the Bloody Lane at Anteitam and helped repel Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg) is fascinating.

Mr. Baur's book gives a good coherent view of this great American artists life. It includes many black and white renderings of Burchfield's works and a number of colored plates. While not up to present standards for such a book it does present Charles Burchfield's life with a minimum of interpretation using Burchfield's own diary entries and letters to express the artists thoughts. Could be better, an update would be helpful with all Burchfield's works rendered in color. Be sure to visit the new Burchfield art center (as of 2000) at the corner of Union Road and Clinton Street on the banks of the creek that Burchfield so loved in Gardenville New York.

Very informative, the bulk of this book is accurate however Kraft is misled and therefor misjudged much of the modern history of our peope...

Okay, give this four stars if you are from Delaware or a Delaware junkie.

This book gives an average telling of the story of the Kalmar Nyckel, the ship that brought the first Sweedes to Delaware, and Peter Minuet, the man who captained the effort of the Sweedish Crown to establish a colony in the New World.

I imagine that documents on a subject from the early 1600's are hard to come by. That may explain why the book has gaps and is thin in some places. Still, this is probably the most thorough treatment one is apt to find on the subject.

Being a proud Delawarean, I enjoyed this book.

This is a 1973 discography of all of Caruso's recorded work. Be warned however it is somewhat outdated now. Author John Bolig did an update of this book in 2002. I have not seen that book, but I assume it makes corrections on the original. Also note that this book is purely a list of records, with only a brief written introduction.

Of all the places the Dutch have settled during their days as an economic superpower the Delaware river-region is pretty unknown and not very important compared to New Amsterdam (New York). We do however see some names back in this history that can also be seen in New York history, especially Stuyvesant and Peter Minuit. He plays a double role, first as an employee of the West Indian Company, later as an employee of the Swedes, who also played a part in the history of the Delaware Region.

The rest of the book is like many other books about 17th century America. Hard living, frontier life, slow trade and permanent fights with the Indians

For those of you interesting in exploration it is very interesting. Weslager notes often how the countryside were described and how maps were made. These maps are important and even an entire capital and how topography was named by the Dutch.

For those of you from Delaware and people interested in Dutch settlers in 17th century America this book is one to look out for. Unfortunately it seems to be pretty rare.

I think this book is great, however the delivery was so slow from the bookseller, I had to purchase a second book. the book finally arrived, so now I have two similar gardeniing books.

I really like the information in this book. However instead of being organized by Month as the title suggests, It is organized by Plant type (perennial, annual,etc.) I find it time consuming and frustrating to have to continually flip from one section to another just to find out what to do for a specific month.

This book is the perfect tool for me, as I'm always wondering what I should be doing when to get the best results. It's unique in the way it's written and I don't believe it's meant to be your only resource for gardening information. It's very good at what it does and I actually like the way it's broken down, it works well for me.

I like the idea behind this book a lot. It has a lot of good tips, but it needs to be reorganized. There are January - December sections for annuals, perennials, bulbs, etc. I don't like having to have to go to several different sections for each month. It would be a nicer book if it was better organized.

I just moved to Maryland from a quite different climate and was unsure how to deal with the changing seasons in this part of the country. It's very helpful to be able to look under a particular month and plant type and figure out what I'm supposed to be doing this time of year. Should I still be pruning my flowers? Is it okay to plant ANYTHING this time of year? What about preparing my garden for the winter? How do I deal with humid summers? My new home has a long-untended yard and garden, so I will pretty much be starting from scratch, and it's great to have some idea what can be planted, when it can be planted, and how to care for it.

This book indeed concentrates on Delaware, but does offer incorporation procedures and fees for every state in the USA (as far as I could see, anyway). It's entirely adequate, if extremely lacking in the sort of explanatory babble that one might desire from such a book.

If you want to learn more about incorporation and what it means, look elsewhere. If you want a bare-bones incorporation guide that does cover the ground, is up-to-date and points to a company well-known for pioneering low-cost self-help incorporations, then this is a good book, and your money will have not been spent in vain.

The book is very informative and helpful, and gives the reader a good background on what is required to create a corporation. The weakness of the book is that it focuses on creating a corporation in the State of Delaware. And does not warn the reader of this until they begin reading the book. All the forms and information provided relate to creating a corporation in Delaware. If that is the objective of the reader, then this is a very useful book. If one is planning on creating a corporation in another state then this book may not be very useful.

This book is horrible. First it focuses on incorporating in Delaware, and gives you most of the necessary forms for that state as well as basic forms 40 other states (no explanation why 9 states were excluded). These forms and instructions are all downloadable from the states' Web sites anyway, so this book is pretty much useless.

The book also promotes the author's company, which charges very high fees for simple incorporating services.

If you need sample bylaws, etc, get them from "Small Business Kit for Dummies," which has much, much more useful information and many other forms you can use. Don't waste your money on this book like I did.

A very good referance guide, a little over my head, but makes me study a little harder. Great pictures I like it and will be reading it a lot............Rod

I've already passed the middle of the book and it's basically another Photoshop book. I knew that photo editing would be a part of the book but not the whole thing. In addition, they are not very good Photoshop tips you are better off just getting a Scott Kelby book for editing or Shoot like a Pro by Julie Adair King to learn digital photography basics.