Bates Books

Who so ever buys this book is in for a real treat. Even though the plays are not always "traditional" and will not fit every church, they all have the same positive message, short, sweet, with easy to memorize lines these plays are ideal for kids. Possible to reproduce (copy, and act)

I was having a difficult time finding books that were not too babyish for my 9 year-old. He has a reading difficulty and was reluctant to read most of the easy reader books that are out there. I found these for christmas and he really likes them. I highly reccomend these books for any child.

Our 4 year old son is captivated by the storyline and sits contently for the telling of the whole story. Well written interpretation of the classic story in a condensed and easy to understand form.

If Mark Twain could have drawn like Amy Bates, this is the way he would have illustrated Tom Sawyer! The illustrations bring smiles to your face and delight to the heart. It makes you want to be a boy or girl again with Tom Sawyer as your friend (I hope). If the young reader catches a hold of this one, they will love reading for the rest of their life!

Amy Bates illustrates Tom Sawyer the way Mark Twain would have wanted him to appear: Fun, delightful and light-hearted! It makes you fall in love with Tom Sawyer all over again. What a gift to bring him to life in a primer like this that will instill a love of reading and of the story of Tom Sawyer in the heart of a young reader. All thumbs up on this one!

This book describes our country, as you show the pictures while singing the song. It has beautiful illustrations that also show America as sung about in Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land." Very good for an appreciation of the beauty of our multi-faceted country.

From Inside Cover:

"Meant for both connoisseur and amateur, serious collector and people simply interested in the subject, 'American Furniture' is the definitive book in its field, one of the great examples of scholarship and book design of the past decades.

During the ten years of research and writing this book has required, the authors have examined furniture from coast to coast, in museums and private collections. Naturally, there is extensive coverage of the masterpieces of every era, form the seventeenth century to the present, many of them newly photographed for this book. But 'American Furniture' is by no means restricted to these pieces, nor is it merely a catalog or collection of pictures of tables and chairs.

'American Furniture' has a running text along with its identification captions, which places furniture in its social and historical context.

This is the only book to encompass furniture 'away from the mainstream' -- pieces made away from the furniture centers of New York, New England, and Pennsylvania. Thus, there is discussion of the furniture of the Southwest; furniture made in Dutch, Spanish, French, and Norwegian settlements, furniture made in religious enclaves or as part of social or aesthetic reform movements; furniture that, new today, will become classic tomorrow.

Exquisite line drawings reveal how antique furniture was made -- and therefore how to tell a genuine antique from a forgery.

In both its 100 color pictures and its 1300 black-and-white photos, the book frequently presents furniture in the rooms they were made for -- one sees how the individual pieces forms part of a harmonious whole.

'American Furniture' is a source book, a record of American history, a treasury of inspiration for lovers of the decorative arts. It is itself, like so many of the pieces of furniture it discusses and portrays, a masterpiece."

The book under review is one of the best books that has appeared in the field of Public Choice Theroy. Myself doing a post-doctoral research on the public choice theory, I found it a necessary reading for not only those interested in the field but also for general scholars of political theory. The author has covered almost all the necessary subjects about which all over the world increasing attention is being paid or needs to be paid. This book is an answer to those who find public choice theory as basically a statistical theory only. The books has actually covered all the philosophical underpinnings of the public choice therory. This books stands out to be a highly recommended reading for scholars of social science. Sukant Vyas Lecturer Department of Political Science Dyal Singh (Evening) College Lodi Road New Delhi - 110003 (India)

In contrast to many other reviews,this book actually merits a superlative like five stars. I was fortunate to live in the same town as Joe Bates and spoke to him on several occassions. He urged me to read as many book about the sport as possible , and to collect only hardbacks from the area I was interested in the most. I had him sign a copy of his Streamer Fly Fishing, which I later traded for the book now under consideration. As you may know ,Joe Bates cut his teeth on fishing the Rangely Lakes and the Colonel Bates streamer fly is one Helen Shaw named after him! He has about 15 books to his credit, three of which should be in a serious fly fishing library-Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing, Atlantic Salmon Flies and Fishing, and The Art of the Atlantic Salmon Fly. Some are very had to find. I have followed Joe's advice. This past year I have read nearly 350 old, rare, or antique fly fishing books from the Fredrick Lane collection at Amherst College. Many are the actual originals cited here. The Art of the Atlantic Salmon Fly is a scholarly tracing of the origins and pathways the craft went through, but it is not academic. Bates brings in solid information from all the greats in the field. This includes Barker, Chetham, Bainbridge, Younger, Scrope, Rogan, Blacker, Fitzgibbon, Wade, Francis, Kelson, Maxwell, Hardy, Pryce-Tannatt... The book goes back to the Treatise and starts with the Twelve Flies of 1496. It goes from the primative patterns of the 1600-1800's and then continues with the early Tweed patterns. The Irish, Welsh, English, American, Icelandic patterns are covered. There is even a lesson in tying a Classic "Baron". With twenty-four large plates of beautifully photographed groups of actual flies (some of his own antique collection too) and about seventeen drawings and photos to compliment the actual flies, you are getting a lot of information to digest plus a lot art work. There is information on Hair Wings,the Tweed, the Dee, the Victorian, and just about every major aspect of the game that I can think of. I have read this book three times so far, and keep it as a reference and cross reference to the actual originals I read. This book provides the reader with a perspective you don't find in other so-called art books. Joe was a serious fisherman, and a serious collector. Even some of his personal antiques flies, tools, and vices are pictured. He had the good sense to pick the brains of masters around him, to read deeply, and to fish throughout the world. A lot of detail and knowledge went into this book. I value it , having known the author, but there is more than sentiment here. Anyone serious about the sport, anyone who wants a wide and detailed history should grab this book.It is a piece of art itself. And by the way, it is a heck of a lot cheaper now than when I bought it. Tight Lines!

Joseph Bates was a man of God. He lived a life of faith, and through his adventures described in the book, it illustrates that we too can be living out a life of faith, which is the most exciting and rewarding type of life. I highly recommend this book, as it can be a start to a life of hope and joy.