Adamson Books

I received this book as a Christmas gift from my in-laws. I was very excited about it! I have a taste for sweets, yet I try to eat healthy. Now, with a toddler in the house, I am becoming more aware of family illnesses that can be hereditary. So, my interest in eating healthy has become more serious, as I try to raise my son to eat better than my husband and I did growing up.

This book is quite large. It stands about 15 inches tall, and has 512 pages filled with advice on food allergies, diabetes, arthritis, cancer prevention and heart disease. The information is easy to read and understand. It helps explain what you need to do to help increase your health with these illnesses. With diabetes, heart disease and arthritis in my family, I find the information extremely useful. With lactose intolerance in my husband's family, I find the information invaluable. In raising my son, I do not restrict his intake of a specific food item, but I am using the information from our family history and trying not to give him an excess of food items that can ultimately make him ill.

The book contains over 300 recipes. With each recipe comes a guide, which indicates whether that particular recipe is gluten-free, wheat-free, corn-free, dairy-free, nut-free, shellfish-free, egg-free, yeast-free or Soya-free. Also, with each recipe, is a breakdown of the nutritional content: calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates, fiber and sodium. This information is invaluable! How many times have you found a recipe and did not really understand that it actually did have a high fat content! With this book, you do not have to wonder, as the information is all there!

"Healing Foods" is also loaded with photographs. Not only do you get gorgeous photos of the end result of the recipes, but there are also preparation photos. I find this very useful when you have never heard of a dish before, and have trouble picturing it in my mind!

The index is fabulous too. Not only does it contain a standard index, but also an index of recipes for special diets: low-cholesterol, low salt, and more! There is also an information section, where you can find additional information about a particular health problem like diabetes!

There are many delicious recipes in this book: Spring Vegetable
Omelet, Beef Tagine With Sweet Potatoes, Potato and Garlic Soup,
Portuguese Rice Pudding and Rice & Beans With Avocado Salsa! All of these were a huge success in my home!

I would highly recommend this book for anyone with the above health problems, or for anyone who is interested in eating healthier. I have thoroughly enjoyed this book!

Following on the success of "I Wish I had Freckles like Abby" and "I Wish I had Glasses like Rosa" comes "I Wish I Was Tall Like Willie". As with the earlier books this one focuses on the common childhood desire to be just like your best friend. It is the story of a young boy who tries everything to try to appear taller like his friend Willie. From walking on stilts to putting socks in his shoes he tries everything but of course nothing works. With the complete text in both Spanish and English readers of either language can appreciate the book. No only is it a funny book that children will enjoy but it is also a good book to help Spanish speaking children learn English and vice versa. As with the prior books, I Wish I Was Tall Like Willie is a recommended book for young children.

A execellent book on the history of Ulster

The subject of the book, Brooks Stevens, had an amazing career spanning decades. He lived in Milwaukee working for industrial giants but his influence spread far outside the Midwest. This book has wonderful essays, entries on specific design projects and great photos. The writing makes it interesting with anecdotal information and excerpts from Brooks Stevens.

Oswald's Closest Friend: The George De Mohrenschildt Story

In the last couple of years under the JFK Assassination Records Review Board Act our government has spent millions of dollars into the research of the assassination of our 35th President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. As a former Federal employee, on several occasions I have offered all of my research under the Whistleblowing Act to the Clinton administration without receiving replies. President Clinton's former Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, in the past (1992), had supported this author's research as a former Congressman for the County of Santa Cruz. This author believes that it was certainly unethical and boardering upon fraud when President George Bush signed into law The JFK Assassination Records Review Board Act and did not disclose that he knew George de Mohrenschildt since 1942. In order to understand the conflict of interest George Bush played in the JFK assassination investigation in 1963 and in 1976, one needs to look at his entire career with the CIA and Zapata Oil industry.

TRACKING THE JFK ASSASSINATION

Santa Monica College Corsair - November 17,1997, by Donna Lynn

As the 34th anniversary of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination approaches, Bruce Campbell Adamson, a self-taught genealogist, historian, author and Santa Monica College graduate says that he is close to solving "the crime of the century." When his father died in 1980, Adamson applied for a job at the Santa Monica Post Office. He says he "wanted to work outdoors" because it seemed to be a "healthy" job with few problems. "It took me five years to get hired," he says "And I retired in five years." Adamson ended up filing a federal lawsuit against the Post Office in a worker's compensation claim. He was the case in 1991 and has used the money to research the JFK assassination. "I started researching it (JFK) because I was tired of the subject, said Adamson. When I began my research Oliver Stone's movie, JFK, had just been released and I was sick and tired of all of the theories generated by the tabloid news agencies." This motivated him to write and publish The JFK Assassination Timeline Chart, and eight volumes (now ten) of Oswald's Closest Friend; The George de Mohrenschildt Story. Each bit of information led to another, and Adamson soon discovered that some of his own family members were coincidentally associated with persons connected to George de Mohrenschildt in one way or another. In the past 14 years, Adamson's research has taken him through the government and the Central Intelligence Agency...In a trail that leads from oil fields to Wall Street to the sales of helicopters used in the Vietnam War, Adamson claims that he exposes evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. Everything that we are today exists today because of the past, he said "If historians don't get the story right, then our lives today are based upon lies." He also link's "alleged lone assassin" Oswald to de Mohrenschildt, an aristocrat who had ties to the rich and famous. Adamson asserts that these elites may have benefited financially from JFK's death. The wealthy "were also retaliating for their political as well as other motives," said Adamson. "Wealthy individuals having prior knowledge of the plans to kill JFK could sell short on the New York Stock Exchange and buy their company back for half the price after the assassination," Adamson aid. On the day of the assassination, the stock market lost 11 billion in paper." Adamson's main theory focuses on a U.S. oil depletion allowance, which grants oilmen a 27.5 percent tax break when reinvesting in their other corporation. Adamson says that Texas oilmen plotted the assassination of JFK to gain more power, and that the Warren Commission found Oswald guilty without a fair trial. He places de Mohrenschildt with a group of friends -- one of whose grandfather's chartered the oil depletion allowance in the 1920s."... De Mohrenschildt died on March 29, 1977, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Adamson, however, says de Mohrenschildt could have been murdered, since the CIA was on his back about his knowledge of the assassination. Adamson asserts that de Mohrenschildt, prior to his death, told a close friend that a number of oilmen, FBI and CIA agents were behind the JFK assassination. "De Mohrenschildt had complained to his friend, CIA Director George Bush in September of 1976 about being harassed," Adamson wrote. "Shortly thereafter, Bush contacted the FBI Director and it was not long after that de Mohrenschildt would find himself in Parkland Hospital receiving nine shock treatments." Were the shock treatments CIA-sponsored, Adamson asks? While Bush was CIA Director, more than 200 Top Secret documents came up missing, including the letters between de Mohrenschildt and Bush, says Adamson. Like Oswald, de Mohrenschildt went to his grave insisting that Oswald was "just a patsy," and that Oswald was not the assassin, according to Adamson. "That's a dying declaration," Adamson insists. "When someone makes a statement on their deathbed, they're likely telling the truth." Is finding the truth about JFK's murder Bruce Campbell Adamson's destiny? Is Adamson possessed by the genetics of his own distinguished American heritage, driving him to correct an error made in history? Is he driven by Hustler magazine's bounty of $1 million to whoever determines the murderer? "Circumstantial evidence does not lie," says Adamson. "And people should not be afraid to focus and speak of these associations in our society, which allows free speech, nor should they fear retaliation for alienating the rich and famous." "Adamson's fascinating bloodline hasn't gone to his head. He maintains that he's just "a simple guy. I'm nothing special," he says, but "here I am trying to solve the 'crime of the century,'" for which "there is no statute of limitations on murder."

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Joy Adamson was also a talented artist as well as author. Having been trained in Europe, she posessed the skills of the old masters. Her lion sketches are very exceptional. A good source for reference for the young artist.

This is an amazing story, one you don't know - this is the story of the husband of Joy Adamson, the Joy Adamson portrayed in the movies "Born Free", "Living Free" and "Forever Free". Mr Adamson gives his accounts of life with Elsa, which was totally ignored in the Joy Adamson accounts. He worked hard for the rehabilitation of lions into their natural habitat and worked hard to bring poachers to justice.
Besides the story of a real lion lover, there are also some great black and white phoyographs of lions - lions lounging in the fields of Africa, lions nuzzling humans, lions loungng on Land Rovers.
If you ever watched "Born Free" and wondered about how life really was, or contemplated what it would be like to live with the lions, this is an excellent book for you. I recommend it highly for the lion lovers in your life.

I love this book. I am homeschooling and find this to be one of my very favorite resource books. It is organized by historical period and then by grade level. I have found that using literature to teach history really brings it alive for my daughter.

Chad Randall has done a beautiful job with the illustrations in this book. I like children to have a gentle story and also be exposed to good art. 2 year olds love this book.

Charlotte Bronte, who created magnetic, passionate heroes on paper, was in her own life a lonely woman who loved two inaccessible, brilliant men who could not love her back. Little did she know that she would find real happiness with the man who lived a minute's walk from her door, Arthur Bell Nicholls, whose story is the subject of this book. For far less than a year until her early tragic death, she was so happily married to him and he adored her. Why did it take so many years for them to find each other as he served her father as curate, adopted her dead sisters' dogs, protected her brother, and actually kept the parsonage roof over her head by doing all the priest's work which her elderly and half blind father could no longer do? In this excellent book, we find out why he was so reticent to feel and then to declare his love for this tiny woman who was then one of the most famous writers in England and once he did, fought for her with a persistence which could not be turned away. Like her heroine Jane Eyre he was poor and obscure, but by no means plain....he was as handsome and strongly built a man as any of the Bronte heroes.

As the years went on, they would have had a job together to find a way for Charlotte to be both happy wife and productive writer, but her friend Mrs. Gaskell, who was also married to a minister, had done it very well. As for Nicholls, he cared for Charlotte's aged father after her death, and spent the rest of his life as curator of her memory.

Wonderfully done!