Bertha Books

This book is part of a series, dedicated to listing the bibliographical references of texts found throughout Egypt. It sorts the texts in topographical order, with indexes on names of kings, names of gods and names of private people. This part deals with the discoveries between Saqqara and Dashur, the southernmost part of the Memphite necropolis. It is the starting point for any research into the Saqqara area and into the lives of the inhabitants of Memphis during the Pharaonic era.

Miss Bertha: Woman of Revival tells the story of one of the most amazing women Baptists have ever produced. Bertha Smith lived 100 years and influenced several generation of missionaries and pastors. Drummond does a good job of focusing mainly on her public life while still giving us a glimpse at her early years. Everyone should read this book!

I've not only read this book but have an original copy in great condition (golden label hard bound-first edition). . Box Car Bertha was an experimental woman, drawn to what was considered deviant social groups during the time before and during the depression. It also has 30 pages of appendix relavant to hobos, tramps, pimps, whores, faggens, grifters and .Of special interest to cultural anthropologists.

I'm just the beginner in English and I think this is a book I have expexted for a long time. Inside I learn many phrases or sentences that often used in telephone conversation. And now although I'm still beginner but I can express the spirit of this book to my telephone conversation

I read this book when I was little. I really liked it a lot. Found it and 2 other Triplet Series books in my childhood book box. As the books were really old (printed in the 1940's) and were my stepmother's originally, I sent them to her to give to her biological granddaughter. I am now in the process of ordering the books for my own girls. Highly recommended!!

Mr. Homer Breckinridge, head of the All Purpose Insurance Company, visits the Cool & Lam Agency to hire a private detective for a "highly specialized job", one which requires brains instead of brawn. The insurance company has a liability in an accident, and thinks the victim is a malingerer who is claiming a whiplash injury of the cervical vertebrae. But whiplash can't be shown on X-rays. After the injured receives a settlement there is often a rapid and miraculous recovery. Juries don't like any spying that entraps plaintiffs. So they developed a scheme: send the plaintiff to a dude ranch to show he can take part in physical activities. If the man asks to take his wife the company will settle the case. But if the man leaves his wife at home they know he is a
cheap chiseler. Lam will go to this dude ranch to observe Helmann Bruno, get acquainted with some unattached girl, and create rivalry so Bruno will start to show off. Then Lam will provide the names of witnesses to Bruno's actions. Lam will also find out about his character, his background, his likes and dislikes. But Lam doesn't like the idea of putting a girl into an embarrassing position. Breckinridge tells of the problem in using a regular female operative: the pair can work too closely together.

In Chapter 2 Lam lands at Tucson and meets "Buck" Kramer. [There is an amusing conversation.] Lam meets an artist, Faith Callison, who paints and also takes motion-pictures of people enjoying themselves. She sells copies to guests, and in one case an insurance company. Chapter 3 tells what a day at a dude ranch is like. There is a light and noise from the adjoining cabin, and it wakes up Lam (Chapter 4). In the next chapter Lam investigates the Bruno household to discover more about their background. In Chapter 6 Lam goes to meet Breckinridge and report his findings. Homer's wife asks a few questions and telegraphs her attitude. When they go to see the insured defendant they get a surprise! The police are also looking for Foley Chester. Lam continues his investigation of Melita Doon, who visited that dude ranch. But other facts make Breckinridge anxious to settle, and Lam is sent back to make a deal.

Donald Lam returns to the dude ranch, and meets a new guest Alexis B. Melvin. Melvin is a lawyer for Bruno and had his own investigation (Chapter 13). Melvin has motion pictures showing Bruno at the dude ranch, a trap maintained by the insurance company to get people to overexert themselves! Lam reports to Breckinridge, and is told to settle the case in 48 hours (Chapter 14). When Lam arrives at Los Angeles Sgt. Sellers meets him and the scam starts to fall apart. Lam figures out the facts behind the mystery. Lam "knows how these things are" (Chapter 15).

The addition of "head rests" to automobile seats since the late 1960s has diminished whiplash injuries. The requirement for police reports has eliminated fraudulent accidents as in this book. But stealing a corpse from a hospital seems highly improbable.

A fun story, with delightful illustrations. In an Alice-like dream, Poppy falls into the Vege-Men's land, where she is planted and sprouts. This edition is a facsimile reproduction of the book that was originally written in 1897. Rather long for today's children but will appeal to readers of turn-of-the-century children's books or collectors of Bertha Upton's Golliwogg series.

I expected to find everything in here, How much milk I should pump to feed my baby, how many times does a 3-months-old has to eat, for how long?? But I couldn't find those answers... I don't know if the book is too big to read and when you have a baby you have too little time... or the writes expect you to read it while you are pregnant.
Although it has some useful information, not sure if I will recommended to a friend.. I think all the information you want to know is in the Internet.

While the American Academy of Pediatrics book is good, this one is more user friendly. It's divided by age, you can skim what you need without having to read the whole thing in one go.

Book is a great follow up to the other "what to expects" and I will be using it as reference for awhile. Seller had accidentally sent wrong book but was kind and fast in replacing it with correct one.

I love this book! every month I can go to the next chapter and read about that month. It is very helpful and informative.

I found all answers to my questions, regarding the first year of a baby. Everything is explained simple and in detail, month by month. A must have book for new parents like me.

As a professional librarian, I collected funny names of authors and books for 35 years, mainly for the amusement of my colleagues and myself. But reading Larry Ashmead's Bertha Venation (and Russell Ash's and Brian Lake's Bizarre Books) inspired me to publish my collection. The result is The Inscribed List, or Why Librarians Are Crazy: Hilarious Real Names of Real People from Library Catalogs.

Ashmead's work is witty and charming, but Ash and Lake remain the undisputed champions of digging up literary howlers. Like trained pigs with noses for exquisite truffles, they find and publish the wildest names and titles.

I hope that Larry Ashmead put more effort into his job as an editor than he bothered to put into this disappointing book.

Here is page 2, almost in its entirety:

"here's a recent list of babies born in Upstate New York.

Caiden Lee
Tyler Ryan
carly Morgan
Jeremiah James Jr.
Sarafia Frances
Brianna Darcie
Hayles Tasha
Sabryn Maura
Bethanyann Busta
Kai Nolan
Autumn Elizabeth
Ashlwyn Zoe
Trinity Jade

Bette Harrison, who keeps an eye on new arrivals at O' Grady Hospital in Atlanta, spotted Vaseline Glass."

If you find that kind of thing riveting, then you might enjoy this book. Incredibly, Ashmead stoops to the same device again on page 9, which consists solely of two lists of names, gleaned from birth announcements in Upstate New York. As Ashmead lists them without comment, we are left to wonder what he considers odd about the names "Kobe, Kody Ryan, Nayraha Dmarye, Tajae Nylei, Nyeerah Oqay-lyn, or Jayden Xavier". In a multi-cultural society, surely names are no longer considered funny just because they deviate from the list favored by white Anglo-Saxons.

Tip: The phone directory is a treasure trove of names, and it's free.

At times, reading this book gives you that sense of being trapped on a transcontinental flight next to that guy who trots out one lethally boring anecdote after another. This is a man who devotes a page and a half to the fact that his employee badge misspelled his name at one of his jobs. Fear not, it was corrected when he moved to his next job. Here's the thing: on what planet does he think anyone could possibly care enough about this to make it necessary for him to include photos of the two ID's in question?

Ashmead's laziness doesn't stop at reproducing lists of names gleaned from birth announcements. Fully six pages of a chapter devoted to pets' names are a verbatim reproduction of a (not particularly interesting) newspaper article about Queen Victoria and her dogs. Then there are the interminably meandering, pointless anecdotes from, or about, various acquaintances of his. Introductions like this one are typical: "Mary Tobin Adams Hedges was a dear friend in the late 1960s and '70s when I owned a beach house in Sagaponack, a small town in the Hamptons."

There is one moderately amusing chapter in the book, that on celebrity baby names. Though it contains nothing more than what would be returned by an internet search on the term 'weird celebrity baby names', it is pretty funny. Unfortunately, none of the other chapters come close.

Given the preponderance of material copied verbatim from other sources, and dull anecdotes from or about the authors' friends and acquaintances, it is hard to believe that the author did much research for this book. His laziness shows on almost every page of this disappointing effort.

This book is one of the funniest that i have ever read!
Open it to any page, and you'll shriek with laughter!

This book is a great reference tool for any new parent. With week by week insights into how your baby is developing, and what to expect along the way, it's the best book I've found.

We used it every day. It is a day by day guide. The entries are short which is important at that stage because you don't have a lot of time. We left it in our bathroom and that was enough to have time to read it every day. It really lets you know what to expect(what they could be doing or physical developments).It also gives you a good idea of when to go to a doctor. It also teaches quite a bit of what new parents need to know to take care of their babies.(Just don't be thrown off by what they put in for the first week- It's what you need to know but you may not have the time for it. That week is better to read ahead if you can.) LOVE IT!!!!

This was a bargain book that indicated it may have a "small mark from the publisher or an Amazon price sticker." The price sticker was there and that was fine. However, the cover has a long carpet-knife mark all the way down one side, the front and back covers are bent and have small tears. the binding is loose toward the end of the book. There was a stain that, luckily, I was able to wash off. This book was a gift for a young, new mother and I didn't have time to return. I will know better next time. GR

I liked this book so much with my first child, I am re-reading it with my second and it is my standard first baby gift.

If you are a new mom, I suggest that you dont read this book. It relies heavily on milestones and what babies should be doing at each week. For example, it says that your baby will be holding its head up, sitting, walking, etc at specific weeks, which are often on the earlier range on the spectrum. I dutiful read each week, but constantly felt alarmed and concerned about my childs development (and I'm normally a laid back person). My pediatrician told me that my child was fine and had no signs of delay, and to throw away the book. I did, but this was only after months of reading over and over again that my baby was "behind" and not doing what they were supposed to at each week. This is just not encouraging or comforting for a new mom. I wish I never had read it.