Bell Books

The colors featured on the cover are the first to be distinguished by an infant. This is the first book I read to my grandchildren--at about 6 wks. The rhymes that compose the text are catchy. The pop-ups are effective and very durable; mine are still in prime condition after being read to numberous children from 6 wks.-5 yrs. of age over a period of 4 years. The door bell sound is not offensive and the button is easy for little fingers to press. I am a school teacher, and this is the most effective book I have found to help little ones learn to sit still and enjoy reading time. Both boys and girls enjoy the book. I have a page dedicated to this book and children enjoying it in my creative memories scrapbook. The only criticism I have is that the doorbell sound is not controlled by a replaceable battery. My doorbell has died,(can't imagine why) and I cannot find new copies of this book.

Doorbell is a story written with humorous rhyming sentences. It is filled with pop-up characters, and a battery-operated "doorbell" so the kids can interact with each page. This book is sturdy enough for most ages. I'm nearly 40 years old, and I can't get enough of it!

"Dumb-bell of Brookfield" is classic John Taintor Foote writing. Anyone who enjoyed his book "A Wedding Gift" will want to own "Dumb-bell." Those who aren't familiar with Foote's writing but who are into great dog stories, and not only stories about hunting dogs, will also want to buy this book. It is realy special.

As a child my mom read Trub's diary from this book to us. EXCELLENT, been seaching for this book for a while. That story was a really whitty dog's eye view of the world. Don't know about the other stories.

"Eight Bells is the story of Gallery's life in the Navy. The things that happened were enough for three careers. With his brash and breezy writing style, his rapid-fire quips and his irreverent comments, he has produced a book which will not disappoint those who have come to expect high-spirited rollicking, entertainment from him." -- Navy News

"As exciting as fiction... his book is witty, improbable and outrageous." -- St. Louis Globe Democrat

On almost every page the author induces a smile, a grin and sometimes a downright belly laugh... The reader will find this really down to earth story a real treat." -- Virginia Pilot

"DAN GALLERY IS AN ADMIRABLE ADMIRAL.." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Eight Bells is the story of Gallery's life in the Navy. The things that happened were enough for three careers. With his brash and breezy writing style, his rapid-fire quips and his irreverent comments, he has produced a book which will not disappoint those who have come to expect high-spirited rollicking, entertainment from him." -- Navy News

"As exciting as fiction... his book is witty, improbable and outrageous." -- St. Louis Globe Democrat

On almost every page the author induces a smile, a grin and sometimes a downright belly laugh... The reader will find this really down to earth story a real treat." -- Virginia Pilot

DAN GALLERY IS AN ADMIRABLE ADMIRAL.." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer

If you are searching for the one uncomplicated text on electronic devices and circuits, then Bell will help. The author knows that the reader knows nothing. So he assumes nothing. And presents everything in an accessible way.

Reading this book will give any student a clear idea of the basic concepts, with which one can attack a tougher textbook. I found reading this book enjoyable.

As an instructor, I found it well-written and easy to read. The text provides a thorough coverage of electronic fundamentals at the Engineering Technology Level. For example, Mr. Bell explains circuit operation, analysis, and design concepts; furthermore, he provides excellent examples, figures, and practice problems that are directly related to the material. Unlike some textbooks at this level, the equations are very precise and accurate without unnecessary approximations that lead to erroneous answers. Enough said, you must read it for yourself. It is a fine piece of work. Having obtained it by interlibrary loan, I would like to obtain a deskcopy. I would recommend it to any of my EET or EE students.

The translator of the Yockey essay gave me a copy of the first edition of this book some twenty years ago. From what I can tell from the sample pages, this edition is just a reprint of the original, with a new cover.

Why the Yockey essay needed translation is an interesting story in itself, which Professor Oliver briefly recounts in his companion piece. Yockey, an American, wrote The Enemy of Europe in English and then translated it (or had it translated) for publication in Berlin in the early 1950s.The plates of the German book were destroyed and the English original entirely disappeared. However, one copy of the German typescript survived, and this was then "retroverted" into a slightly stilted Anglo-American idiom. Not a perfect replication of the original, but as good an approximation as was possible to attain.

Oliver's essay is vintage RPO--feisty, erudite, entertaining, viperish. Yockey's piece may be inaccessible to most people who haven't read any of his other writings. His political stance really defies categorization. He was a man of neither the left nor the right, a visionary without any slogans or nostrums for the immediate future. The uninitiated will find him an infuriating mass of contradictions. For example, the enemy of Europe referred to in the title is the United States of America. But Yockey was himself a patriotic American as well as a Europe-firster. To explain how all this fits together one would have to give a detailed analysis of Yockey's philosophy of history.

The closest thing we have to a present-day Yockey is Spengler--not Oswald, but the columnist in the Asia Times (atimes.com). If you don't have the stomach for Spengler in the Asia Times, then don't go anywhere near Yockey.

Francis Parker Yockey's 'Imperium' is probably the single greatest philosophical & political work since Plato's 'The Republic.' Unfortunately, its somewhat dense, overly subtle, rather lengthy, and frankly too difficult for many people to read. This book, which Yockey intended as a sort of explanatory epilogue to 'Imperium,' may be better suited for the purpose of inspiring already committed souls, and winning new minds to the sacred cause of the West. The fact that this volume contains a lengthy discourse on its contents by yet another of the foremost intellectuals and patriots of the post-1945 era, Dr. Revilo P. Oliver, is a much appreciated bonus.

I have enjoyed Sheehan's book from the first to the last page. The book includes images from the most prominent lunar atlases ever edited and a nice description of every map and its circumstances.

The authors are to be commended on weaving together the lives and observations of three centuries of those people who dedicated great amounts of time and effort into studying our nearest celestial neighbor with the telescope. Interesting. exciting and unique is how I would sum up the telling of this facet of the history of Astronomy. Beginning with Galileo's first telescopic observations and culminating with Man's arrival on the moon this book tells it all. I was most impressed with the incredible amount of work that went into the mapping of the moon in ever increasing detail as telescopes became better and better. Enjoying the sketching of lunar formations at the eyepiece myself I can appreciate the size of the task of drawing the entire visible face of the moon as seen through a telescope. Yet this was done on several different levels of perfection by a very few observers and was the only record available before the invention of lunar photography came along. Not only is this a great history of lunar observation, but also tells the story of the history of the telescope. The wealth of pictures of the early telescopes is a delight in itself and adds a great deal to the text. I would most certainly recommend this book to anyone interested in the moon, or the history of astronomy. A well done to the authors. One of the authors is a psychiatrist and I assume it was his input which resulted in the emotions and thought processes of the characters in the book seeping out between the lines and made the book all the more enjoyable.It was also obvious that both authors are observers themselves.

If you enjoy gourmet dinners but don't have time to prepare them after a hard day's work, then buy this book. It will show you the way to prepare fresh enjoyable dinners without sacrificing too much from family time.

I bought this book in New Zealand when first published here and have cooked many times from the book. The recipes are very easy and also easy to change by substituting ingredients if you want. There is something for everyone - some for when you aren't worried about calories, like the chicken and spinach phyllo pie which is just delicious, and others which are suitable for people watching their weight like the tunisian fish tagine. I have made the grissini - so much nicer than bought ones out of a packet. Other favourites are courgettes (zuchini) with basil and pecorino romano cheese, coriander (cilantro) chili rice with chicken, lamb with orzo and a spiced tomato sauce and chermoula fish with chickpea pasta (which I usually make with chicken breasts). The writing is clear and the focus is on using really good ingredients for great home cooked meals. Catherine Bell's philosophy is based around if you want fine restaurant food, go to a restaurant. If you want good food you can share with family and friends, this is the book for you.

Expanding Architecture Design as Activism collects thirty in-depth essays about the concept of "public-interest architecture", that is, building designs created explicitly with the benefit of the public in mind. Illustrated with full-color photography on virtually every page, individual essays discuss examples ranging from building housing or water systems to best serve the needs of a refugee population, to participatory planning in a Taiwanese mountain village that transforms an abandoned creek into swimming ponds for the village's future, to exploring different ways to create strong designs with minimal environmental impact, all at a reasonable profit. Enthusiastically recommended to anyone with a serious interest in expanding the humanitarian role of modern architecture, from professionals in the field to any concerned citizen voting on city planning projects.

This book is filled with examples of good designs that redefine architectural resources. I am challenged to share architectural ways of thinking and space making in my own town. This book shows how good design can improve the way we work and live together!

This is a masterful study of the Graeco-Roman culture of the first century AD which underlies the New Testament. Bell examines a wide variety of topics, from dress to how meals were eaten, from child-rearing to the treatment of slaves, and discusses the dominant philosophical and religious movements of the day. Knowing such things enables a reader of the New Testament to delve more deeply into the meaning of the text and to dig out new levels of understanding.

Albert Bell sees this book as beginning while he was yet in high school. At some point, he says, he made the connection that the authors he read in his Latin class "lived in the same world as the people who wrote the books I studied on Sunday." Now as an instructor at Hope college in Holland, MI, Bell asks the question of how we can believe something that we simply do not understand. Will we be like the Ethiopian eunuch of Acts 8.26-40 who asked, " How can I (understand) unless someone guides me?"

As an illustration of what he means, Bell says he once heard a minister tell the story of Paul's imprisonment in Rome. In his story, the minister told of clanking chains and a foul-smelling dungeon. But in ancient Rome, the law was that prisons were for holding people for trial and not for punishment. More accurately, Paul as under house arrest. He was chained during moves but even in Rome he was allowed to by himself in his own hired dwelling with a guard.

There are ten major sections to Bell's book ranging from the Judaic background of the NT to Roman law, religion, and philosophy to Greco-Roman society and morality to a section on time, distance, and travel. In the section on Roman Law, Bell covers Pliny the Younger, the powers of Roman governors, and so on. in the section on Greco-Roman religion Bell notes the story of Vespasian's healing of the blind man; such stories succeeded, says Bell, because "the popular mentality of the time accepted such things happening"

I heartily endorse the study of non-canonical writings in order to study the cultural milieu of a text. Time and again Bell guides the reader through the world in which the writers of the New Testament wrote.

Harold Bell Wright may have published "The Eyes of the Word in 1915, but its message is directly applicable to today. Behind the captivating saga of a portrait painter romancing a violinist under the scrutiny of his famous novelist yokefellow, a renowned media critic, and mismatched promiscuous art patrons is a morality play that is just as timely as it was a nearly a hundred years ago.

The narrative repeatedly laments the success bestowed upon much so called "art" that debauches that title. Conrad LaGrange, the celebrated author, begrudgingly iterates that his wealth and esteem have been acquired by accentuating the profane and sacrificing the nobility of his profession. Reading of such a contretemps, it is hard not to ponder the likes of Madonna, Howard Stern, Roseanne Barr and host of other modern icons who've built their careers on the meretricious rather than the meritorious.

As usual Harold Bell Wright displays his masterful command of the written word. Few other authors can match him when it comes to unfolding action in a manner that engages the reader from the first sentence to the satisfying conclusion

I've read this book at least 15 times and everytime I read it I'm amazed at how much I learn and how different the message seems to me each time I read it. The message is so perfect for today that you hardly believe it was written so long ago. If I could give one to everyone in the world I would, the message, the writing, the underlying depth of this life changing book is truly magnifiscent! Read this book, and maybe it will touch your life as it has mine!