Cameron Books

Accomplished gardener Louisa Pringle Cameron and free lance photographer Lauren Preller Chambers collaborate in The Charleston Gardener to explore the lush and varied private gardens that have made the city of Charleston horticulturally famous, -- along with its numerous instances of Georgian and antebellum architecture. Brief yet thoughtful commentaries on the individual gardens showcased, along with the wonderful full-color photography, work in perfect tandem. Also very highly recommended is the previous and companion volume: The Private Gardens Of Charleston.

I was lucky enough to get an advanced reading copy of Bill Cameron's Chasing Smoke several months ago ... and the book has haunted me ever since.

A chilling, completely original premise--what if fellow clients of your oncologist are dying under suspicious circumstances?--that lays bare psychological and physical vulnerability in a darkly elegiac and beautifully written fashion. Expert character study, almost unbearably suspenseful pace, evocative Portland setting, and textured, realistic detail. This book is a masterwork, building on the promise and success of Cameron's first noir crime novel, Lost Dog.

Read Chasing Smoke ... you'll find images lingering long after you've finished the novel. Hollywood, are you listening?

This excellent book documents the aftermath of the August 6, 1945, atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Although an historic report, it is as captivating and as "page turning" as a good novel. The stories it recounts show both the best and the worst of what it means to be human.

Dr. Jungk, a German Jew who was imprisoned by the Nazis, is a journalist and historian without peer. He spent almost 3 years researching this book and it paid off. Children of the Ashes is an incredibly informative recount of Hiroshima's struggle to recover, intertwined with numerous "close-up" stories of individuals who survived and of people - including Americans - who to helped rebuild it.

Despite the subject being about one of the low points in recent history, the book leaves you with a positive feeling about humankind. As "history" or as simply a "story" this book so good that I cannot find a positive enough adjective to describe it. If you are interested in humanity, war, history or Japan, hunt down a copy!

(For readers in English: the copy I read was translated from the original German "Strahlen aus der Asche" by Constantine Fitzgibbon.)

What are the brand names of coca-cola? How can they enter the chinese market? what were the problems that they met?

This book is great. It has showed me many new areas of the city to explore. And I have lived here all my life!! Hikes are rated from easy to very difficult making it a good book for everyone... regardless of their fitness level. If you live in the area BUY IT!!!

this story is about a girl who uses her head to help out her father who gets himself in trouble over a donkey. a man gave katya's father a horse and that horse had a baby with the father's mare, so the guy who first gave the horse wanted the foal, so he took the case to the tsar. the king gives out a riddle to the two men and says whoever answers the riddle gets the foal. the riddle is 'what is the fastest thing in the world, what is the fattest thing in the world, what is the softest thing in the world and what is the most precious?' the other guys asks a neighbour who owes him some money and the father asks katya. i won't tell you the answer but i'll say that katya won. the tsar was interested in these answers and asked the father who told them to him, to which he replied his daughter. so the king asked the father to bring katya to him, but he said that 'she must come neither on horseback nor on foot, neither naked nor dressed and neither bringing a present nor empty handed.' so she goes to him, and at the end of the book he marries her because she was the most clever person in the kingdom.

this was a nice story based on an old russian folktale. the pictures are beautiful and colourful with nice traditional, colourful borders surrounding them. i first heard this story in grade 3 or 4 and it was one of those that i remembered to this day. it's one of those odd books you'll find where the girl gets the guy because of her brain, not her beauty. a beautiful story. i recommend.

Enoc, do to a flirtatous wife beats the crap out of Herms Vanhorn. He was put in jail and told it might be best if he and his trouble making wife would leave town. On the way to Tennessee Enoc meets ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE. In trying to handle the situation more trouble appears. Actually Enoc doen't start any of the trouble himself. During the story Enoc hears of the lost confederate gold, and like many before him his mind is drawn away from his original goals. This is a good story you will enjoy.

You discover your blood pressure's high, and your MD puts you on pills. Now that your pressure is controlled you can relax a little, knowing the one or two pills a day reduce your cardiovascular risk, right? Control Your High Blood Pressure Without Drugs, by Cleaves M. Bennett, M.D. is your wake-up call. Dr. Bennett explains in non-technical language what blood pressure is, why we need it, and what exactly goes awry to drive it up and keep it elevated. After convincing the reader that high blood pressure must be controlled, Dr. Bennett reviews the usual treatment regimen most practitioners employ: lip service to non-drug methods and a prescription for one or more medications. Although Dr. Bennett concedes that drugs may be necessary as a holding measure, he takes a dim view of their long-term value, showing the reader how drugs merely set up a "tug-of-war" in the body between toxic chemicals and reactions to stress within the body which brought about elevated pressure in the first place. Claiming success in weaning hypertensives off their pills, Dr. Bennett argues persuasively for life style changes in diet(low-salt,low fat), exercise, and stress reduction. He educates, motivates, even graduates the reader from the same step-by-step course in blood pressure reduction offered at his clinic. Blood pressure medicine today is available and afforable enough, and with mild enough side effects, that it is difficult to motivate doctors and patients to follow Dr. Bennett's regime closely enough to obtain dramatic results. But it is worth the effort to try lowering blood pressure without drugs. Even if you still require pills to do the job, following Dr. Bennett's guidelines will enable you to get by on less medication, as well as give you the satisfaction that you're taking charge of your destiny. Cleaves Bennett's book is a "must-read" for everyone taking pills to lower blood pressure, especially those with mild to moderate levels.

I'm a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and I think this book is really wonderful. It gives an interesting perspective on one of our nation's most fascinating college campuses and its surrounding town. Take a chance and give this interesting read a try.

Cameron's brilliant analysis is the first serious study of the extraordinarily physical aspects of Melville's novel. By combining psychoanalytic analysis with a deep understanding of the Romantic obsession with physical and psychological fragmentation, Cameron creates a deeply penetrating study of these great writers that places them in the central tradition of nineteenth century romanticism. Indeed, next to Tom McFarland's central study on romantic fragmentation and longing, this is the most important study ever to emerge of this central topic.