Bradshaw Books

Be aware that this book ONLY contains names found in the bible. It does have a scripture reference for each name and would make a great bible study tool. If you are looking for a broad spectrum of names this may not be the book for you.

This book makes an execellent and unique shower gift. it is also available in a hardcover gift set with 600 girls/boys names. I have found several names that are not in the Bible as well.

Okay, I don't have kids, so I don't know how helpful this book would be to someone who is expecting, but it has proven very useful to me. I like to make up stories and do character sketches (confession: aspiring author) and I like to find beautiful names that are also meaningful and unusual. This book has all of it: unusual, common, and some of the slightly far out and their meanings. I love to look up the meaning of my friends' and family's names...so far, every name I've looked up has been in it. This book is worth every penny I payed for it plus having the handsome young salesclerk eye my tummy when I bought it. Sigh.

Just bought this book as a gift for my son, a suerfer, and he couldn't put it down.

Great insight into the culture and characters that make up the Big Wave surfing community. Focus on "feud" gets a little too much attention, but overall worth the read and props to the author for his obvious passion for the big waves and the icons of the sport. Surfing fan? Eddie would go, so should you!

I lived with Mark Foo for 3 months during the winter of 81. Although Mark, and his surfing partner, Bobby Owens, would talk about Bradshaw, it wasn't a big feud. Truth be told, Bobby Owens was the best surfer of the three, in my opinion. Bobby Owens was also humble, even though he drove around the north shore in a big BMW. The feud probably grew as Mark's self-promotion raised the ire of the heavy locals. It's a shame Bobby gets ignored by surfing history when he surfed circles around these two.

The character of leadership: Politic Realism and Public Virtue in nonprofit organizations

Machiavelli has been unfairly portrayed for centuries--kind of a Renaissance Dick Morris (minus the propensity for prostitutes and toe-s#&king). But the authors recognize the truth of Machiavelli's advice in the proper historical context and apply what he has to say to leadership in the modern world, especially as it relates to nonprofits. The section on determining whether your organization is a republic or a principality is worth the price of the book by itself. The authors' examples of skillful political maneuvering on behalf of worthwhile causes--not to mention bungling by well-meaning, but hopeless executives--are also enlightening.

Essentially, this book gives you some wonderfully useful strategies and ideas for making progress toward your organization's mission. You may have to learn to settle for incremental progress, for not always accomplishing everything you'd like to as soon as you'd like, but you can make a difference without compromising your values. The lessons in this book are practical for leaders of nonprofit and for-profit organizations. A little slow in parts, but well worth it overall.

From the back cover:

Puritan beauty...

Jane Alexander knew it was wrong to buy a child, but surely God would forgive her. She had lost her baby. Now she would mother the soon-to-be-orphaned son of a condemned spy. But when she visited Lord Chester in jail to assure him that his child would be safe, she made an enemy who vowed to stalk her from the grave. She tried to forget his blazing hazel eyes--until the day he returned from the dead to claim his son--and her as well...

Unrepentant royalist...

Once he had been Matthew Hawkins, Earl of Chester. Now he was "Hawk", escaped convict, King of Thieves, master of London's underworld, determined to drive the puritan Cromwell from England's helm. But first he would find his son--and Jane Alexander, whose face haunted his dreams. He thought she was the enemy until he met her in a contest of wills. Her reckless courage, her stubborn integrity, her innocent beauty were devastating. But it was her passion that shook them both to the core...

And my review:

I've enjoyed books by Emily Bradshaw (who also writes as Emily Carmichael) in the past, though I've found none of them to be keepers. This is no exception to that rule.

HALFWAY TO PARADISE is a story set in England in the time of Oliver Cromwell and in the aftermath of the English revolution. It's yet another take on "Romeo and Juliet", with a love developing between a Royalist and a Puritan. It's also a story over the love of a child, one that they both seek to claim exclusive parental rights to.

Emily Bradshaw writes with an engaging, flowing style that is pleasant and easy to read. She has obviously done her research, and weaves the historical details into the background in such a way that it never detracts from the story. I never felt like I was reading a history textbook--thank goodness. This book is written just how a historical romance should be.

My problem was not with how this story was written, or that it wasn't interesting enough. There was never a complaint on that score. My complaint was with the way the hero was constantly using sex as a weapon against the heroine. He doesn't go so far as to actually rape her, but still, the violent sexual undertones left me feeling more than a little creeped out. The story started off well, but then deteriorated into a formulamatic "sheltered heroine is set free from her contraints by the hero and turns into a nymphomanic/slut" story. That was where this book lost my interest.

If you can get past the hero using sex as a weapon, then you'll probably enjoy this book. If you can't, then you won't.

This was one of my favorite books. I like how Emily brought the characters to life. It also had some funny lines in the book.i would recomend any romance reader to buy it.Even though i am 16 this was the first romance i have ever read,and to tell the truth i like it alot.

I am new to the internet so I needed a book written for a dummy. This book was not as easy for me to understand as some of the other books I checked out from the library. I got lost and fell asleep.

This book can take you from ground zero to up and running your own web page through its clear consise graphics and explanations. There are also plenty of easy-to-follow exercises that put the subject matter to use. I learned more in less time than with any other book I have seen on the subject

This was a pretty good book, depending on how you like your sports book. This is not a chapter-by-chapter review of Terry Bradshaw's career, although he does include brief sections on each Super Bowl. The former star quarterback does give his insights on many issues, however, such as his rocky relationship with Coach Chuck Knoll and his friendship with Art Rooney Sr. There is a lot of good information on the Steelers of the '70s and every fan of those teams should enjoy this book.

I thought that the book was very good. It showed you Bradshaw's opinions about a lot of stuff, including a lot of controversial things. From this book, we get to know what Terry Bradshaw the person is really like.

O, what a beautiful book. Mr. Bradshaw really went out full "hog" on this one. I do not know what other book he has written but this one sure hits the spot. Bradshaw discusses the world and life that he led in the deep south which highly influenced his adulthood. While the book touches on some areas that many of us may not relate to, it does ring out enough familarity to make a believer out of you. Bradshaw, no doubt, operates with a lot of spirituality, therefore, that spirit is expressed throughout the pages of his book.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in finding out how to insure that one's spirituality is reflected in everything one does.

O, what a beautiful book. Mr. Bradshaw really went out full "hog" on this one. I do not know what other book he has written but this one sure hits the spot. Bradshaw discusses the world and life that he led in the deep south which highly influenced his adulthood. While the book touches on some areas that many of us may not relate to, it does ring out enough familarity to make a believer out of you. Bradshaw, no doubt, operates with a lot of spirituality, therefore, that spirit is expressed throughout the pages of his book.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in finding out how to insure that one's spirituality is reflected in everything one does.

If your looking for a step by step guide go else where. If your looking for a pocket sized referance to jog the memory in a panic confused situation this is it. Tabed to help find topics. Solid laminated pages to protect it from weather; and my children. Large printing so broaken or lost glases aren't as much of a problem. And oh yes, informitave, with lots of diagrams to back up the info. The check list is compleat and helpfull and eveything I can think of is covered. I am defietly getting the rest of the series.

It's a great book if you are looking for a small compact book with the basics but there isn't any detials. I was expecting some detailed information on edible plants and survival techniques. I like the fact that it's made from plastic so if it gets wet, it won't hurt it.

Certainly, Aldous Huxley believed in the rule of elites and had anti-democratic notions -- for a period of time. In these essays and letters it is a troubled Huxley that can't fathom the solutions to the social problems of his time that can be observed. He went through many changes and was greatly influenced in thought by ocurrances which he had to live through. This is a pivotal point to understading Huxley which has been overlooked as a consequence of the "claims" that his greatest novels are a few that only reflect one period of his life (e.g. Brave New World). Must read! Redeems Huxley as a thinker with great love and concern for masses.

Gillian Bradshaw was born in the US and was brought up in Washington, Santiago, Chile and Michigan. She is a classics graduate from Newnham College, Cambridge. She has won much acclaim as an historical novelist. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and their four children.

This book isn't exactly laugh a minute in fact it is quite dour in places, but also thought provoking. Plus it features something that most of us would love to do, or is that just my warped mind. What am I talking about. Blowing the whistle on a multi-national company, or in this case the main character of the book, Antonia Lanchester, is trying to expose her employers.

Being told she has not long to live has encouraged her to pass incriminating files to an environmental campaign group. The files link the swish furnishing company that she is employed by to n atrocity committed by illegal loggers in Borneo. However Antonia is soon out of her depth and she has to struggle against unseen enemies, as well as the cancer that is eating away at her brain.

The author, Gillian Bradshaw shows that she is equally at home in the 21st century as she is in the fourth, or whenever her historical novels take place. Her attention to detail is second to none and her writing style makes for easy reading, even with such a difficult subject matter.