Bernard Books

My twin boys who are almost 2 LOVE this book! It's Mother Goose and Dinosaurs - I can't think of a better combination for them. I am hoping to find a sequel to it. It is good for me to read to them just because it shakes things up a bit. It has the classics you know and love with a dino twist. Some are the same nursery rhymes with a dino illlustration. What did happen to those 3 kittens mittens? Very good for the imagination.

The first edition of this book was published about 1950. This is a broad survey of Freemasonry covering English, Scottish and Irish aspects and written by an English author. Unlike many earlier books on Freemasonry which are often available in reprinted form, this book is readable and remains an invaluable and authoritative reference source. Jones also wrote a book on the Royal Arch, also highly recommended. A CD version containing both books is available.

This is a fantastic book on one of the great jewel collections in world history. The royal house of Valois and Bourbon were spectacularly wealthy and as such they were great collectors of fabulous gems. The most famous being the Regent, the Sancy, and the French Blue, aka Hope Diamond, which is, of course in the Smithsonian; the singular Regent being thankfully in the Louvre as is the Sancy. This book is very complete and thorough and the jewels amazing. The text is highly informitive and the images are crisp and clear. Highly recommended.

I happened upon this cookbook years ago and have loved it ever since. I use it mainly for the maincourse beef and chicken recipes. They remind me of the dishes a French au pair prepared and that amazed us with how a very young woman could cook so well. The recipes are one to the page with a lovely picture of the finished dish. The ingredients and instructions are laid out clearly and are easy to follow. It is my favorite cookbook.

This 1956 Heritage Press edition of Carlyle's classic tome finds the great prose supplemented with about 20 flavoring illustrations by noted Bernard Lamotte. The work speaks for itself by virtue of its longevity, but this particular iteration is highly recommended with its choice graphics.

An excellent book on the history of Daly City, part of the exciting San Francisico Bay Area. It was a great help to me when I was writing my biography of Harold Lang, the ballet and Broadway star who was born in Daly City in 1920. Wonderful photos and accurate descriptions. Any history buff would enjoy it.

One of the most amazing books i have ever read. This book explores the evolution of human spirituality. For any reader looking for a view of religion, and in particualar Christianity, outside of western religious dogma, this is the book. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in esoteric christianity.

I was just cruising around on Amazon when I thought to check on what was in print by Bernard, a great little known American writer -- and I saw no one had said anything about this book. A shame. It's a fine novel, recommended to anyone who is seriously interested in fiction as an art. The debt to Kafka is apparent, but there is also an earned sweetness and quirky creativity in each sentence, without look-I'm-David-Foster-Wallace pyrotechnics always slapping you in the head. The plot wouldn't make much sense in short form (which is maybe why we haven't heard more of Bernard -- unsummarizable plots?), except it's in the future, and the hero is a bureacratic clerk who undertakes a form of subtle sabotage against a state which insists on companionship and tramples imagination underfoot. But that's already saying too much. Try it out. Bernard books are generally treasures, and this is the best I know of them.

once you start this book ' you want to know more. you live in it . it's very real . the feeling of a rural family , before , during , and after the war in france where the son take the wrong way. and it's also a book full of hope.

The conquest of England by William of Normandy changed the island's political nature for all and good, but his dynasty didn't last very long. The Angevins, beginning with Henry II, had an almost equally great impact and their control continued more or less strongly for several centuries. In the earlier period, a century before the Conquest, the counts of Anjou were every bit the equals of the dukes of Normandy, eventually establishing an empire that stretched from Scotland to the Pyrenees, and which encompassed both England and Aquitaine in addition to Anjou itself. The story really begins with Fulk Nerra, who built the Angevin state, both physically and politically, and laid the essential groundwork for Henry's later conquests. Of course, Fulk's efforts were based on those of his own predecessors, back into the early 9th century, and Bachrach spends a fair amount of time discussing this ancestral power and its roots in the old Roman civitates. Bachrach is perhaps the leading present authority on the Angevins and his theories are worth paying attention to. There's also an excellent, lengthy bibliography.