Ohio Books

As one who has facilitated parent groups, I highly recommend this model to be used in multiple settings. The 2nd edition is well organized, clear in it's meanings, and simple to follow. For anyone interested in forming parents groups, this model provides all the information, methods, cautions, and planning necessary to begin working with parents of gifted children. Since it is written in layman terms, professional degrees are not necessary to profit from the information provided. I highly recommend this book as a reference, even for those already involved in parent groups.

An interested reader, currently residing in Utah

Art collectors living in Cleveland have been well exposed to sculpture made from glass both through the efforts of Tom Reiley of the Reiley-Hawk Galleries and the passion of a group of collectors, most notably Francine & Benson Pilloff and Mike Belkin. A few years ago, the Cleveland Museum exhibited a significant amount of material from local collections in one of the Museum's most popular shows. This is the beautifully illustrated catalog that accompanied the show...and if you enjoy contemporary art, this is a must

James A Lee was a Professor of Management at Ohio University. In this book he cuts through a lot of the jargon, nonsense, and pseudo-theories of Management, like a hot knife through butter. He gives details of the many Management and Organizational Development interventions which turned out to be disasters, and for that reason were never written up for publication, and objectively considers the various Management 'theories'.
It is a powerful and realistic assessment of the subject of Management, as valid as the day it was written; critical thinking applied to a subject that badly needs it.

Few people are aware that Cleveland was America's first "Motor City" long before Detroit claimed that title. In Golden Wheels, Richard Wager tells the largely unknown story of early American automobiles from Northeast Ohio. This includes venerable names like Winton, Stearns, Peerless, Chandler, Templar, and Jordan. In all, Golden Wheels tells the stories of 80 different automobile marques from the classic era.

Every true automobile enthusiast should know the stories in this book.

Like I mentioned in his other reviews ~~ I cannot put his books down. I will be honest ~~ when I bought these books, I didn't think I was going to enjoy them as much as I do!! In fact, once I read his Civil War book, I knew that the books on the Black Swamp history will be impossible to put down. I was right. I didn't do anything for two days ~~ till I could finish these books!

Mollenkopf writes with passion and with beauty as he puts forth old stories that speaks volume of our ancestors that once trodded upon these paths in the Black Swamps. He shares many interesting stories ~~ from anti-slavery (Laura Haviland and her abolitionist views), to the first time a Steam Locomotive came into the area, to the last day of the Canal days. Yes, we Ohioans are famous for going to festivals (Canal Days anyone? The Grand Rapid Apple Butter Festival?) ~~ and yes, we put on historic stages to remember the past ~~ but these books are really wonderful for bringing the stories alive even more.

If I was an Ohio History teacher, I would definitely encourage my students to read these books! The stories are short enough to keep anyone's attention and long enough to inspire you to read more on the topic. These books are not huge historical volumes ~~ but they're truly a gem!! I am definitely going to encourage my boys to read these books when they're old enough ~~ and I hope to visit all those landmarks that he has mentioned!

10-12-05

I was using this book for a resource in my English class. It proved to be what I needed to get an A+ for my research paper. Totman knows his stuff and the reading was quite easy. I'd recommend any of his books for the college student working on Pre-Modern Japan.

Being born and bred in the area detailed in this history, I naturally enjoyed it. I have referred to it countless times, both recreationally and in times when I needed to secure certain facts. It has a layout unlike those found in today's reference books, but one not unusual for the time in which it was written. Included are several wonderful pictures of life in the 1800's of Xenia, Beavercreek, Spring Valley, etc. The pictures range from storefronts, main streets, grain elevators, trains, schools, and churches to historical markers and countryside scenes. Descriptions and dates are given for nearly all the illustrations, which adds to the value of this historical book. Anyone interested in Greene County, Ohio for personal and/or research reasons would benefit greatly from the reading of Greene County, 1803-1908.

A lot of times you'll find these little animals at Antique Shows and Flea Markets with high prices but ask the dealer and he/she will have no information about them at all. At long last, the information is finally at hand. This is a great reference book about a little known subject.

This wonderful book is so needed in this era of immigrant-bashing.
I discovered "Growing Season" after a segment of it was excerpted in "The Sun" magazine. It's such a pleasure to hear the stories of people from Latin America and those who work with them, and how the so-called "problem" or "invasion" of immigrants has actually provided benefits for countless people on both sides of the border.
Citizens of the US, the world's superpower, should also keep in mind that it is policies that emanate from Wall Street and the Pentagon that have forced so many people to come here in the first place. We owe our Latin American brothers and sisters a warm welcome, even an apology, for the generations of exploiting their labor and resources (see books like "The Annexation of Mexico" by John Ross or "Turning the Tide" by Noam Chomsky").
I'm going to buy an extra copy of this book and send it to Representative Tom Tancredo, one of this nation's leading demagogues on the issue of immigration.

In a rare display of the ability to bridge two worlds that are so strikingly different, Mr. Cooper has the gift of being able to invite the reader into the world of Conservative Quakerism, without making him feel as if he has just been preached to. Mr. Cooper is quite unusual in that he seems to be able to appreciate (and therefore communicate with) both worlds, both the modern secular world we find ourselves in today, and also the rarified (but perhaps just as valid) world of Conservative Quakerism which is apparently structured around a belief that the ideals of "simplicity" and the "peace of the indwelling spirit" are still two very real and attainable virtues and are not merely two more sad casualties along the side of our modern information superhighway.