Caldwell Books

I'm a new runner. I was told to keep a log book and found this accidentally. I feel lucky to have found this book. Every Saturday I read an "entry" before I start my long runs. The insight, humor and emotional experiences shared in this "much more than a logbook" helps motivate me to keep running for the rest of the week. It's good to know that other runners face the many of the same feelings and challenges as are shared so eloquently in this journal. This guy writes for all of us Middle of the pack runners! Thanks Mr. Caldwell!

Very motivational and inspiring. I'm a marathoner and I, too, can relate to many of the passages on emotions and training cahllenges that the author has experienced. To call this just a runner's log does this journal a disservice. It's a very functional log book which has journal "entries" that make you want to get out there and put in those miles! Thumbs up! Can't wait to see the next version of this if there is one.

I'm a new runner. I was told to keep a log book and found this accidentally. I feel lucky to have found this book. Every Saturday I read an "entry" before I start my long runs. The insight, humor and empotional experiences shared in this "much more than a logbook" helps motivate me to keep running for the rest of the week. It's good to know that other runners face the many of the same feelings and challenges as are shared so elequently in this journal. This guy writes for all of us Middle of the pack runners! Thanks Mr. Caldwell!

What a wonderful book this is! Mark Caldwell strikes the perfect balance between entertainment and information as he takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through more than 350 years of New York City history. But this is, by no means, a dry recital of names, dates, and accomplishments. Caldwell explores the life of New York City that begins when the sun goes down. Along the way we meet unforgettable characters such as George Templeton Strong, Ned Buntline, Madame Restell, Earl Carroll, Billie Holiday, and Walter Winchell as we travel from Fort Amsterdam to the discos and night clubs of the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties. The book is well-researched and well-written.

Revealing a city's intrigues is quite a job, and New York's would seem impossible, but Caldwell is plainly up to the job. He makes events( famous and not so) vivid and lyrical, and the people who make those events unforgettable. Sometimes bizarre, sometimes touching, this history of the world's most exciting place after dark is gorgeously written in a funny and sensitive way. Nicely researched. I liked it.

By virtue of an almost unimaginable amount of research going back to the mid-seventeenth century and continuing to 2004 Caldwell has constructed a magical and fascinating story of New York City. This book is an instant classic.

I borrowed this book from the library, and I am actually reading it because the text is helpful, unlike many books. I am still a beginner in drawing but love pen and ink, and this book talks about finding your own style, encourages you to go outside to draw, and gives practical examples of where to draw in texture and where and when not to. I would definitely buy this book if I hadn't found at my local library--it is a fairly small book. I like Claudia Nice books for inspiration, but this book gives me some practical help.

This is a great addition to any artist's library. Caldwell's own delightful drawings serve as samples to the student, and he covers everything from materials to composition to perspective. In just a couple of sessions, I could see improvement in my own drawings. This, along with Guptill's "Rendering in Pen and Ink" is almost library enough for most ink artists

This is an excellent book with very well written text and many many drawings for the reader to review. I found it wonderful to use as ideas to copy as a beginning artist. I love the English countryside pictures and the boat pictures. I feel there is wonderful guidance presented for the beginning artist. I would recommend this book to anyone that is drawing, as stated it gave me a lot of subject matter when I could not be outside gathering my own. Excellent book for the price.

The merchandise arrived in a timely fashion the overall was a good experience.

Principles of Accounting - 7th Edition is a very elaborate book introducing accounting guidelines. Over 1000 pages of all levels of learning from begginer to advanced. It includes transparencies in some portions to make understanding statements very easy!

I liked reading this book for my accounting 101 class. The text is clear, well organized and well written. The typography makes liberal use of color, which makes reading _much_ easier when compared to a monochrome textbook. There are copious examples, illustrations and exercises. The book comes with a workbook (purchased separately) which contains template pages to write in your answers (trust me, you will need it). All chapters are grounded in current reality -- the authors make a point of tying the concepts to real-life situations.

On the cons, the 2002 edition deals with 2000 data -- their production process needs to be speeded up.

I think that a thorough review of this text will give the reader an excellent start in basic accounting.

Perhaps Professor Godwin ought to have written the novel himself! Certainly, by translating into English the entire text of the "Hypnoerotomachia Poliphilli", he was the condicio sine qua non for "The Rule of Four". I recommend this guide wholeheartedly, it is brilliant.

Joscelyn Godwin has published a number of excellent books, the most important of which is probably his first ever English translation of the famous and mysterious Renaissance epic, the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili". This book, with its clouded origins and hidden meaning, forms the basis of the novel "The Rule of Four" which has managed to work itself onto bestseller lists on the coattails of "The Da Vinci Code", though its obscure esocteric subject is much less controversial. Here Godwin explores the origins and authorship of the "Hypnerotomachia" in detail for the layreader and provides much interesting insight into this most beautiful and strange book.

The "Hypnerotomachia" was published in Venice by the famous Renaissance humanist printer Aldus Manutius in 1499 and has intrigued and confounded readers and scholars alike for 500 years. Godwin first gives an overview of the book's plot and discusses the 172 beautiful woodcut engravings that have made the book so fascinating to five centuries of readers. The book is filled with long and painstakingly detailed descriptions of architecture, statues, parades, ruins, pagan rituals, and beautiful, ethereal, naked nymphs and goddesses. In fact, it is this rather blatant erotic element that has certainly helped to make the book so popular. This scandalous aspect of the book made it so popular in fact, that today it is almost impossible to find original copies with all of its engravings intact or without censorship. Godwin also discusses at length the controversy regarding the authorship of the tome, today largely accepted by scholars and historians as the Venetian monk Francesco Colonna. "The Rule of Four", Godwin points out, makes great use of fictional elements of the famous book, inventing codes and ciphers that are reputed to hide secret knowledge in its voluminous pages. Godwin emphasizes that despite these fictional inventions that help make "The Rule of Four" entertaining, the real Hypnerotomachia is just as interesting without them.

Godwin has written an engaging and accessible book on a difficult and bizarre work. He has helped to clear up many of the mysteries that have clouded the famous book and its author and given fans of "The Rule of Four" more detail and information on the events, places, and people found in that novel. This book is a must for anyone who enjoyed "The Rule of Four" and is looking to delve deeper into the strange world of Poliphilo and his dream quest for the elusive Polia.

Any best-seller nowadays can be expected to generate a side industry of books, films, computer games, plastic toys and so on, trying to capitalize on the success of the original. It would be a great mistake, however, to dismiss Joscelyn Godwin's magnificent guide as just a spin-off from the success of the Rule of Four. For one thing, its author not only follows but also preceded the novel, because as author of the only modern English translation of Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili he provided the best source of knowledge of the inspiration for the Rule of Four available to people who don't read mediaeval Italian.

It would have been easy, and perhaps tempting, for a scholar of Godwin's knowledge and ability to be patronizing about the Rule of Four, concentrating on correcting its errors and misinterpretations and on displaying his own superior understanding of the Hypnerotomachia, but Godwin does not do that. On the contrary, his attitude to the novel is thoroughly generous and positive. He starts by assuring us that the Hypnerotomachia is a real book, not a fictional invention of Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, explains its importance in the history of typography and erotic literature, and describes what it is all about. He goes on to analyse the structure -- unusually complex for a popular novel -- of the Rule of Four, and to examine the evidence for the identity of the real author of the Hypnerotomachia. In this his conclusion is different from that reached in the Rule of Four, but he does not dismiss other possibilities as absurd. He describes the historical context in which the Hypnerotomachia was written, including the famous "bonfire of the vanities" of Savonarola. Finally he analyses what the Hypnerotomachia is really all about, and explains all the literary, historical and geographical name-dropping that occurs in the Rule of Four.

All in all, this is an indispensable guide, written by an outstanding expert, for anyone interested in reading the Rule of Four in more than the most superficial way.

It's amazing that there has not been a book written on this subject before. We Latinos are making great strides. It's about time we have some guidelines for what to do with our hard earned dollars.

Finally, someone has written a financial planning and wealth building guide for Latinos. The skills needed to build a secure future are all contained here, and EVERY Latino who is concerned about his financial future should buy this handy book.

i knew nothing about finance, investing, buying stocks or real estate until i read this great book. i'd recommend it to anyone. oh, i'm NOT hispanic. RR, vermont

I heard about this book from the mom of my daughter's friends and decided to check it out from the library. I'm always looking for wholesome, yet exciting, books to keep my kids interested. Flipping through the books first hand isn't a bad idea either. The book is just a tad thin, but very funny. It was like sitting back and watching my own kids. There was adventure and humor throughout and it always had little surprises. There aren't any disastrous things that you might be worried about your kids reading and its just plain fun to read, even for adults. If your kids like humor and adventure, I highly recommend this book. I looked up the author's website the other day and found that there is a sequel coming out soon and two teen horror books as well. Part 2 seems extremely interesting from the teaser in the back of volume one and I cant wait to find out what happens to the older sister. It cant be true. You can find a little more information about this author at : cacaldwellbooks.com . It looks like a fun site.

My son checked this out at the school library and loved it. So I bought my own copy to read for myself. It's a great kids book. Even my oldest son likes it. We can't wait for the next book to come out !!!

My son is 8 years old and he just finished this book. He loved it and is now passing it around his third grade class, because other children want to read it to.

I think it is a great intro to a classic book.

I love this classic comic! Having been one of the first completed comic works by Sechrist, I love his take on Tom Sawyer. This comic has been enjoyed by multiple generations, as I'm sure it will continue to do so. It's too bad there isn't a Tom Sawyer series!

Caldwell sets this novel in 17th century France, when the persecutions of the French Protestant Huguenots is about to resume after a hiatus of tolerance. She offers her usual vivid portraits of characters, especially the wily Cardinal Richelieu, and a vivid depiction of the bitterness of the poverty of Paris peasants. The novel culminates in the dreadful siege of Rochelle, which led to the Huguenots' mass exodus to the New World, where they founded New Rochelle. Caldwell's usual flaws are evident here--why is everone so "inexorable," so bitter, so alientated, so all-or-nothing in their approach? Still, this novel is a highly entertaining account of this turbulent period in French history, and Caldwell's many fans won't be disappointed.

It is a unique experience to read a period piece and feel that when you're finished you have learned things that can easily be applied to your own world. Connecting history like that to the present is very amazing.
Set in pre-revolutionary France in the days of Cardinal Richelieu, Taylor Caldwell brings to life the man the forever changed France in ways surpassed by none other than perhaps Napolean Bonaparte. Each character comes from opposing religions, ideals, and childhood experiences and they influence eachother in very profound ways.
Besides feeling connected to a period so distant from us, this novel explores the possibilities of human interaction and how much a person can change. If you enjoy history as well as exploring our own humanity and relationships we forge, you will not be disappointed by this book. The beginning is very exciting then it staggers a bit, but it picks up right till the end. Truly, a great book.

I discovered this book whilst randomly scanning the internet on Caldwell. It is a must read. It includes all the combat details that he was involved in, it details the priciples of shadow shooting that he developed and his emergence from the loner to a leader. Great read.

Wow! The first book I've read that gives more than a passing glance to Australia's top-scoring (28 victories) ace of World War 2. I had searched for many years for a book dealing with Australia's use of Spitfires in the Second World War, and more significantly a book on Caldwell. Most of these books were either ridiculously over-priced imports or re-hashed works with pictures that had been previously published over-and-over in other publications. This is the first (and to my knowledge ONLY) book on Caldwell and the Spitfire pilots of Number 1 Wing, RAAF in Darwin during WW2. The book encompasses Caldwell's entire life, not just his time in Spits. From the day he was born, thru his time as a semi-pro athlete, to his enlistment in the RAAF and also encompassing his time with 112 Squadron in the African Desert during 1941 and 1942, where he scored 20 of his victories over the Germans and Italians. It also pays a full chapter-and-a-half to the unfortunate court martial he went thru at the end of the war (from which he emerged vindicated, if not cleared, but guilty of minor insubordinations) before closing with a chapter on his final years. Highly recommended!