Bradley Books

Reussir a vendre, c'est pourquoi on choisit telle graphique. Will Bradley le savait tres bien, ayant travaille depuis l'apprenti imprimeur, jusqu'au directeur des arts et des grahpiques publies par l'empire Hearst. Il aimait les styles des artistes japonais, des dessinateurs americains, et de William Morris. Ainsi favorisait-il des dessins asymmetriques, en blanc et noir. Il favorisait aussi les caracteres en Caslon Roman et en italiques. Pendant ses dernieres annees il finissait par favoriser la composition par la photographie et l'imprimerie par l'ecran et par l'offset. Clarence P Hornung reunit 97 creations de l'oeuvre Bradley, telles que des couvertures des livres, des frontispices, des illustrations et meme des immeubles.

WILL BRADLEY said in his autobiographical notes that one of the biggest eye-openers for him was figuring out how much selling something was behind design and typography. As he worked his way from printer's devil to Hearst publications art supervisor, he drew on influences from American draftsmen, English Arts and Crafts leader William Morris, and Japanese art for his black and white mix of asymmetrical curves, patterns, and shapes. Trade journals followed his lead in favoring Caslon Roman and italic type with woodcut initials and ornaments and with the occasional Caslon Black. Clarence P. Hornung has edited a wonderful collection of 97 Bradley creations, such as the covers for the Columbia bicycles booklet and Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind" book; the designs of shaggy toys and Mary with Jesus from "Bradley: His Book"; the frontispiece to "Peter Poodle, Toymaker to the King"; hall and living room interiors for the "Ladies Home Journal"; and an illustration from the "Wonderbox Stories." Towards the end of his life the artist was enthusiastic about the growth of commercial silk-screen and offset printings and about typesetting by photography. He might feel the same way nowadays about the breakthroughs in Warrington Colescott and Arthur Hove's PROGRESSIVE PRINTMAKERS, Steven Heller and Karen Pomeroy's DESIGN LITERACY, Henry Steiner and Ken Haas' CROSS-CULTURAL DESIGN, or Willem Velthoven and Jorinde Seijdel's MULTIMEDIA GRAPHICS.

Hurry and buy this book before the remainders run out, sure to become a $50.00 or plus Classic Collectable Book within a year. The best book yet on the subject, was just poorly marketed!

60 color plates and 117 black-and-white illustrations adorn the Hudson Hills Press edition of Robert Koch's Will H. Bradley American Artist In Print: A Collector's Guide. This visually impressive compendium showcases the work a man who, in his heyday, was the highest-paid commercial artist of North America. The printed oeuvre of Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is gathered and lavishly displayed, along with an extensive biographical text adding insight into the stark and vivid images brought together from periodicals, programs, illustrations from books and much more. Bold lines and eye-catching contrast characterize these memorable works. Will H. Bradley American Artist In Print: A Collector's Guide is a welcome addition to American Art History collections and will prove an invaluable informational resource for art students, art collectors and art dealers, as well as gallery and museum staff.

This little book is the perfect companion to keep on your desk, in your briefcase or anywhere you can reach for it when you need some solid pick-me-ups. It is based on Carl Mays' larger, hardcover book, A STRATEGY FOR WINNING. Each page of WINNING THOUGHTS is complete within itself, containing its own "thought". For example, one page reads, "Be creative. Take an idea, an object, a group of people, a method, a problem - something that's been around for a while - stand back and look at it with a new perspective (a fresh pair of eyes). Give it a different twist. Do a common thing uncommonly well."

Another page reads, "Don't wait. Most people develop feelings because of happenings; winners develop happenings as a result of feelings. Believe that you can make a positive difference. Work to make it happen. Losers find ways to lose while winners find ways to win!"

WINNING THOUGHTS contains practical, uplifting comfort food for the soul!

This little book is the perfect companion to keep on your desk, in your briefcase or anywhere you can reach for it when you need some solid pick-me-ups. It is based on Carl Mays' larger, hardcover book, A STRATEGY FOR WINNING. Each page of WINNING THOUGHTS is complete within itself, containing its own "thought". For example, one page reads, "Be creative. Take an idea, an object, a group of people, a method, a problem - something that's been around for a while - stand back and look at it with a new perspective (a fresh pair of eyes). Give it a different twist. Do a common thing uncommonly well."

Another page reads, "Don't wait. Most people develop feelings because of happenings; winners develop happenings as a result of feelings. Believe that you can make a positive difference. Work to make it happen. Losers find ways to lose while winners find ways to win!"

WINNING THOUGHTS contains practical, uplifting comfort food for the soul!

Dr. Bradley does a marvelous job of showing the level of brutality used by the US Army in its unsuccessful attempt to pacify the Tennessee countryside during the Civil War. Murder, starvation, kidnapping, intimidation were among the Army's tools of the trade, but they never stopped Southerners from shooting at trains and boats. Americans did not make a good occupying force in the 19th Century and we don't make a good one today -- thankfully.

A very strongly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library Civil War Studies collections, With Blood & Fire: Life Behind Union Lines In Middle Tennessee, 1863-65 by Civil War expert Michael R. Bradley is a brutal and candid accounting of the devastating toll Union occupation took upon Middle Tennesee. Graphic in its detail of murder, robbery, looting, sexual assault, and more, With Blood & Fire is an expertly researched, deftly written, presentation of the hardships of war and scars that could not fully heal.

I bought this for a recent college graduate, and wound up reading it myself. It covers quite a few subjects and keeps it pithy. It's funny, and the topics are real enough that anybody in their twenties or early thirties will appreciate it.

Such an entertaining read, yet very applicable for the recent college graduate. Great gift!

Among all of Marion Zimmer Bradley's impressive body of work, she loved and cherished her Darkover novels and stories above all others. From the publication of Planet Savers in 1962 until her death in 1999, Bradley published over twenty Darkover novels and a dozen Darkover anthologies. It is a remarkable series covering six major stages of Darkovan history. Tragically, many of the Darkover publications have gone out of print over the years; thankfully, in 2002, Daw began publishing special omnibus collections such as this one. A World Divided consists of three novels: Star of Danger (1965), The Bloody Sun (1965), and The Winds of Darkover (1970).

One of the best things about Bradley's Darkover series is the fact that each can book can be read and enjoyed in and of itself; while there is a definite history and chronology of the planet Darkover, the reader does not have to tackle the books in any certain order. A World Divided gives us an interesting mix: two relatively minor Darkover novels and one major novel of great importance, each of them taking place in an era of great historical change.

Star of Danger reads like an exciting juvenile novel, and I believe it serves as an excellent, solid introduction to the planet Darkover. The book's protagonists are two teenaged boys standing on the cusp of adulthood, natives of two different cultures coming together for the unplanned-for adventure of a lifetime. The "backwards" Darkovans do not trust the Terrans, afraid of the type of change Earthmen will bring to their traditional, highly structured society, but Larry Montray, a young Terran new to the planet, is easily mistaken for a native inhabitant. After striking up a friendship with a young Darkovan aristocrat named Kennard Alton, Montray is given an unprecedented opportunity to spend the summer with the Altons in the countryside. Larry's great adventure soon becomes a perilous ordeal. In order to survive, Montray and Kennard must learn from and defer to one another's strengths. Culture clashes are inevitable, but in such a bond of friendship is forged the bridge that may one day unite the competing Terran and Darkovan cultures.

The Winds of Darkover shows us a side of the planet rarely explored. Alienated from the ruling families on Darkover, Loran Storn has no one to call upon for aid when bandits seize the outlying Castle of Storn. His blindness is a further impediment, and in desperation he seeks out another mind and engineers a rescue mission through that person. The mind he finds is that of a Terran named Dan Barron, and thus in one character we are presented with two unique, fresh viewpoints of Darkovan life - one by the Terran who is journeying into this world for the first time, and the other by the blind Storn aristocrat seeing the world of Darkover for the first time through Barron's eyes. The winds of change blowing in the realms outside the control of Darkover's ruling families portend the sweeping changes coming to the planet as The First Age of contact with the Terrans draws to a close.

The real gem of this omnibus collection is The Bloody Sun, as it basically takes us through the dawning of Darkover's Second Age. By this time, the influence of the Terran presence in the land has led some Darkovans to question the old ways and to call for a closer relationship with the Terrans. Some of the people believe that the old ways are out-dated and needlessly burdensome, but few in authority have the desire, let alone the courage, to pursue "progress." The true power of the ruling families has long been centralized inside the mysterious Towers that dot the land, but now only the mighty Tower in Arilinn can boast of a full-fledged Keeper, and even this primary Tower's circle is incomplete at the time this novel opens.

Raised in the Spacemen's Orphanage on Darkover until he was twelve, Jeff Kerwin spent his next several years on Earth with his Terran father's parents; an outcast on a world not truly his own, he pined for the day he could return to Darkover and learn the truth of his heritage. All he has is the name his Terran father gave him and a matrix jewel of unknown origin. When he begins to search for the history of his earliest years, he is upset to learn that no such records seem to exist. Kerwin knows he is being lied to and manipulated, but he has no idea why. On the brink of deportation from the planet of his birth, a voice beckons him through the jewel he wears, and by following this voice Kerwin finds a new home on Darkover - a home within the very Tower of Arilinn.

Thus we get an inside look at the work of the Keepers inside their mysterious Towers. It is a brand new life for Kerwin, accepted into a telepathic circle of power and authority. Ultimately, he carries the burden of knowing that the future direction of Darkover depends on him, as the Tower of Arilinn is put to a test that will determine whether traditional "magic" or Terran technology will best serve the Darkovan people in the future.

Both Star of Danger and The Winds of Darkover are wonderfully evocative, adventure-filled novels painting an illuminating picture of Darkovan culture, but The Bloody Sun is among the most important and significant of Bradley's Darkover novels, showing as it does the inner workings of the last and most important Tower, revealing long-buried secrets reaching all the way back to the turbulent days of The Forbidden Tower, and basically explaining the impetus for one of the most significant cultural evolutions in Darkovan history. Marion Zimmer Bradley has long been an underappreciated giant in the genres of fantasy and science fiction; no reader's journey through the modern classics is complete without at least one stopover on the planet Darkover.

Larry Montray is a Terran boy who befriends a Darkovan boy, Kennard Alton. Together, they are thrown into an adventure that requires each learn about the other ... and in the process learn more about Terra *and* Darkover...

Jeff Kerwin is a Terran orphan who remembers Darkover in an odd way ... the more he remembers, the stranger he seems to be. Is he 'Jeff Kerwin' ... or the son of a leronis who fulfilled the promise of the Forbidden Tower?

Finally, the adult Larry Montrey journeys through the sky-raping Hellers in an attempt to save the Storn family...

Each story tells the efforts of Earth-humans to reconcile what they *think* they know about Darkover when actually plunged into the planet's culture ... to learn that there is more to Darkover than its 'primitive' appearance, and that 'superstitions' can be based on more than mere myth. Finding out the differences -- and similarities -- in the types of people on the planet is only the start of the journeys of discovery, through the divided world that is Darkover!

Alice Bradley became principal of the famed Miss Farmer's School of Cookery in Massachusetts after Miss Farmer passed away in 1915. This booklet was published towards the end of her stay as cooking editor for The Woman's Home Companion (she left in 1936). During her career, she published more than 10 books and numerous articles, traveled as a cooking lecturer, taught an on-air radio cooking series and had her own newspaper column as well as teaching at the school in Massachusetts and another in New York. As the title of this booklet suggests, here Ms. Bradley covers the basics from which a wider repertoire of cooking can be built. It has a nice selection of various sweets - always my favorite - with puddings, sauces, frozen and chilled desserts, pasty, cakes, cookies, fillings and frostings. Lightly illustrated with photo images that, have FAB tableware of the day. The back includes a menu section to help put the recipes together. Booklet is hard to find.

I happen to attend Indiana University, same as Bradley. When I found out he was 19 I was interested. I read the book and was amazed. My expectations were not set very high, and I was incredibly impressed, almost shocked. The book is in 4 parts. The first part is simple prose poetry, the second part is dream reflections, the third monologues, and the fourth part is 25 K Later, journals written by a fictional college student who happened to attend I.U. Bradley's characters are generally lower class citizens with tragic stories, the monologue section especially was a statement on social problems in America. 25 K Later is a coming of age story about Ben Wilkner's first year in college. Bradley provides amazing prose through his character's battles with drugs, women, and being a college freshman. I'd recommend this book to anyone who is a proud supporter of the anti-censorship movement. This is a book for young adults, by a young adult. And just for the record, this is the first and only book I have ever given 5 stars to, my only complaint is that it wasn't longer.

This book is loaded with ideal and simple projects for teaching children the basics of gardening from flower gardens to vegetable gardens, from water gardens to desert gardens. One miniature garden serves as a butterfly and bee garden. Another is an herb garden. Children can also learn about some of the beneficial garden insects like lacewings, butterflies, bees, worms and ladybugs. Children can plant potatoes, peanuts, fruits and vegetables and literally enjoy the 'fruits' of their labors. Also introduce the value of seeds to birds. This book is the most complete educational book I've found to introduce children to all the varied aspects of gardening. Even grown-ups can learn a few things from this book! Great for educational programs and scout programs as well as the avid gardener who wishes to instill the value of gardening upon a young, impressionable mind. Very highly recommended. Great job Ms. Bradley!

Windows Vista is Microsoft's newest operating system. With Windows Vista, Microsoft changed nearly everything. Most of the changes were minor, but if you were used to doing something in a step-by-step approach in prior versions of Windows, then there is a good chance that some of those steps changed or went away. This book is fully focused on Windows Vista and on showing you how to get specific task done.

If you are new to Vista, then this is the perfect book to get all the information you'll need to get started and more. If you are an experienced Windows user, then this is the perfect book to have sitting next to your computer in case you need to know how to do something. Either way, chances are you'll find the book great to have when you simply can't figure out what you need to do when using Vista.

I'm the author, so after you pick up a copy of Windows Vista Desktop Edition, drop a comment here on Amazon or email me to let me know your opinion of the book!