Boone Books

Interesting book....creative ideas for party giving that may spark some of your own. Cool photos.

This designer Jonathan Fong has a wonderful sense of humor, you can see it in his creations. They are reasonable arrangements that can be achieved by the every day lay person with very good step by step instructions.

Any who love throwing parties who want to put on an outstanding celebration will relish the many ideas, from decorating to food to fun interactions between guests, which comprise PARTIES THAT WOW: SETTING THE STAGE FOR CREATIVE ENTERTAINING. More than your usual focus on foods, this teaches how to offer guests theme parties with fun, memorable experiences - and on a budget, too. Any general-interest lending library will relish the theme and seasonal ideas.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

I was disappointed in this book - ther is nothing elegant or stylish about this eent planner and quite frankly it all seems amatuerish and cheap. Harsh, I know, but I do this for a living and look to other peers for ideas and inspiration.

I happy that he was able to fulfill a dream with a book. It just does not make the mark for excellence.

J.V. Bone's A Brief History Of Cryptology provides more than just a history of cryptography communications: it covers how it affects our daily lives; from secure financial transactions and communications to common cryptologic secrets. Boone provides a historical review of technological developments in cryptology and computers, covering major achievements and activities across the field. His is a lively account which may come from a military intelligence background, but which avoids the confusing jargon common in cryptology explanations.

Overall, this book is a short and easy read, but falls short of the title: "A Brief History of Cryptology".

Perhaps fearing inadvertently stating some piece of classified data, the author has chosen to focus on the cryptography vice cryptology. Cryptology is the combination of cryptography (making codes) and cryptoanalysis (breaking codes).

Indeed, this book is more of an analysis over the combination of advanced mathematics, communications theory, and networking in the development of modern secure communications.

This reviewer recommends "The Codebreakers" as a far better substitute.

This could certainly have been a much longer book. Boone gives us a precis of cryptology through the centuries. Though with a natural emphasis on the last hundred years. Because it in only within this period that mechanical and then electronic calculators and computers came to the fore, thus enabling ever more sophisticated algorithms and countermeasures.

But both during and before this period, the book is a tribute to human ingenuity. For all the power of the latest computers used in encryption, they are merely idiot savants.

Given the author's background, it is a pity that he could not have striven to write more, about strictly declassified matters. Which would have played to his strengths in his professional experience. While the historical material in the book is well written and accurate, other authors have covered those matters well. His comparative advantage perhaps was not put to full use here.

Murray State University (Kentucky) history professor Ted Franklin Belue discovered the only known copy of Peter Houston's manuscript about his personal recollections of the famous frontiersman, Daniel Boone, in the Lyman C. Draper papers at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in 1990. Written in the 1840s by a friend and neighbor of Boone's, the original manuscript was stolen from the author's grandson in 1887, but luckily for future historians, the grandson had, mere weeks before the theft, mailed a copy of the lengthy work to the prolific historian, Lyman Draper. Belue has done a masterful job in presenting this rare piece of Americana to the reading public. Replete with extensive annotations and notes, a pictorial section, and an impressive bibliography, the book goes a long way in shedding light on everyday times on America's first western frontier during the 1770s and 1780s. For those of WWA's membership who believe, as I do, that "western" writing is defined as that which encompasses the entire American frontier experience, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific shores, this book will provide several hours of interesting reading, indeed.--Jim Crutchfield, Managing Editor, Roundup Magazine April 1998, Western Writers of America

Long ago Peter Houston's A Sketch in the Life and Character of Daniel Boone should have been properly annotated and published. Ted Franklin Belue has done historians a genuinely useful service in transcribing into a readily available and readable form this insightful contemporary view of Daniel Boone and the times. This is an addition to the Daniel Boone-Frontier America story, casting a new first-hand and contemporary light on the subject. Dr. Thomas D. Clark, Historian Laureate of Kentucky, professor emeritus of the University of Kentucky, and author of many books on Kentucky and the American South.

Houston's Boone is a diminutive book but one brimming with contemporary insights plus editor's annotations into frontier life featuring new stuff on Boone, hide tanning, buffalo, Indians, and early hunter anecdotes. An elegent little book with a gorgeous jacket, a highly collectable bit of old-time Kentuckiana.

I read this novel because I loved The Chess Garden by Hansen, and I found it very interesting. Each character in the novel provides a retrospective of the main character, Ethan Boone. Ethan held a deep love for his mother, and spent his adult life attempting to understand his father's betrayal of her and her death. AA raw novel, and at times disturbing, I found it a worthwile read.

Perhaps I favor the works of Brooks Hansen a bit too much to be objective....but, the magic and soul in his writing never ceases to amaze me. Read it.

In 1859 with the death of her beloved father in Paris, Cecile Villier decides to leave France to visit the Sahara where she was born two decades ago. Her beloved late father left the desert grieving the death of his Bedouin wife in childbirth. She asks her late dad's friend Mr. Blackmoor for help in locating her foster father, Raga eben Haddal.

Blackmoor sends his son Matthew to meet her, but he learns she has been abducted by a caravan planning to sell her to the Caliph. Matthew rescues Cecilia but introduces himself as El Faris rather than the son of her late father's friend. He treats her like the lowest creature on the planet and leaves her at a Bedouin camp to learn the ways of the women of the desert. Although not easy, the courageous Cecilia wins the respect of those at the camp when she risks her life to rescue a child from a wolf. As she and El Faris fall in love, he takes her to meet Haddal, who plans to sell her as a wife to the highest bidding sheik. Matthew proposes, but when she fails to return from a trek into the desert, he assumes she died and marries another. When she finally returns to accept his proposal, she must decide whether she wants to be his second spouse.

CALL OF THE TRUMPET is not the usual historical romance as the Bedouin culture serves as the prime focus of this strong mid nineteenth century tale. Thus a westernized Victorian style relationship between the lead couple even when the male is a sheik does not occur; instead the audience lives within the Bedouin camp and learns its ways along side of the heroine. Her struggles to adapt and her courage make for a rich saga as the audience will wonder will she willingly become the second wife, return to France, or be sold to the highest bidder.

Harriet Klausner

Cecile Villier was a daughter of France but a child of the desert. Born to a rich Frenchman and a Bedouin beauty, the lovely woman found no comfort in the immense wealth of Parisian society. Intent on finding a home to call her own, she returned to her mother's birthplace: the Sahara. There she found freedom in a new way of life-and the most captivating man she'd ever seen. Matthew Blackmoore had become one with the desert and its people. To Cecile, the dashing young Englishman embodied this strange place: He blazed with passion, and in the horseman's embrace she knew she risked destruction. But the oasis of his kiss proved a haven from the dangers of the fierce wilderness, and the resourceful beauty was determined to make both the man-and the land-her own.

This book is a MUST for Hilary Duff fans. Every page, all 80 of them, have either facts, or pictures! It has a quiz, and many facts about Hilary Duff. It even talks about Hilary Duff's love life. You can't call yourself a Hilary Duff fan enlese you have this book. It even says what Heart of Summer (one of Hilary Duff's upcoming movie) is about, along with many others. It has alot of great Hilary Duff pictures as well. It even has a questions with Hilary Duff's own answer's. Also, there's about three pages about Haylie Duff(Hilary Duff's sister). Go out and buy this book!

I'm not a huge Hilary Duff fan, but I was browsing in the library when I happened to find this book and started to read it.

It's basically a really comprehensive photo scrapbook of Hilary Duff, with thousands of great pictures. Many of them have been seen before, but they're still really nice. The book details her early life and gives you a brief biography, along with giving information on her CDs, upcoming movies, fashion, guy traumas, and more. It also has quizzes and such to see how big of a Hilary Duff fan you really are.

Most Hilary Duff fans probably know most of the info in this book, but it's still a great comprehensive fanbook with many glossy pictures. It would be a great addition to your Hilary Duff collection.

Daniel Boone , a renowned name in the field of speech pathology, has written a readable self help book for any person who is keen on improving his/her voice. 'Voice Care & Vocal Enhancement' is a complex and specialised subject .But, Daniel Boone has written it in a simple, easy to understand format which would appeal even to a novice.The tests devised to gauge the various parameters of the voice viz. breath control, loudness level, optimum pitch, tone focus are easy to follow.The exercises for improving various aspects of the voice can be easily understood and performed by the reader. However,the book is aimed mainly at the layperson and is not for you if you are a singer or performing artiste who has a fair knowledge of the voice.

As a non-professional (in terms of not being a singer, although I do frequently use my voice in my job), I believe Boone has written an excellent title full of practical advice for improving your voice. I concur with the earlier reviewer that the book is decidedly targeted towards the layperson. Considering that the author's audience is probably mainly nonprofessionals who only want to improve their voice, this is a sound approach.

Among the helpful areas convered in the book include:

1. Problems with too loud or too soft a voice.
2. Suggestions for improving your voice's loudness.
3. Stressful situations and physical stressors that can affect your voice.
4. 6 ways to control stage fright.
5. Common problems of the male and female voice.
6. Voice tips for men and women.
7. 10 suggestions for keeping your natural voice.

If you are a nonprofessional who is interested in improving your voice, then I highly recommend this title as a practical and helpful tool. Read and enjoy!

I give this book to parents who get a baby as a present. I spent a day finding a good baby record in Barns&Norbles and Babyrus. This is what I found. I'm satisfied in terms of the quality of binding, contents and thickness of the book.

This is a beautiful record book of baby's first five years. I've looked all over for a baby book that wasn't too cutesy, too commercialized (i..e, Pooh is great, but I didn't want a theme like that for our baby book), and with enough pre-defined AND flexible space to record items of importance in our baby's early years. This book is PERFECT and includes space to record many things that I may not have remembered to note.

Mr Guyton was one of the primary Corsair test pilots from the experimental model all the way up to the Korean War and provides many details about the process Vought went through to improve the design over time. I thought the section on testing new aileron modifications on a dailly basis was particularly interesting. He basically had a tape measure extended between his knees. He also had a gauge on the top of the stick that measured the amount of lateral force he was applying to the stick. His job day-after-day was to move the stick an inch to the left and then record the roll rate and the pressure reading in a log book. Then move it and inch to the right and record. Then an inch and a half to the left. Then and inch and a half to the right... He was on a regular diet of airsickness pills. He told stories of having to open the canopy to eject his breakfast and hoping that his mechanics wouldn't find the evidence on the tail group. Very readable book. The sections on dive testing were thrilling and terifying as well. I can't imagine pushing a plane over into a dive that nearly killed you the prior day.

Boone Guyton includes a lot of interesting information on the development history of the Vought Corsair. The narrative is conventionally done, starting with its role in the Pacific war, then a little bit on his getting started in aviation and in the Navy, and finally his flying experiences with Vought.

Some unexpected and appreciated extras included his description of reassembly testing of Vought dive bombers in pre-war France and his experiences with the "Flying Pancake".

His two accidents flying the Corsair, as well as the loss of some friends, vividly pointed out the hazards of the test pilot life.

Overall, a very good read, interesting and well written.

I learned a great deal about Dan'l I never heard of before, such as he renounced American Citizenship in later life and left America, that he had gone west as a mountain man in the last days of his life, and many other items of interest to the frontier fan.

A steal at under $2, it is worth the price alone for the early history of America the book opens with.

I recommend it to any American, and should be required reading today especially after the Patriot Act, you may find that you too, like Daniel Boone are more 'terrorist' by today's definition than you think!