Campbell Books

The book is a well written literary dialogue that recounts an extraordinary insight into the cosmic order. The scope of the book is immense; a fantasy dialogue between the Sherlock Holmes of science and his trusting public Watson reviews the whole of science for the general reader. The parts about fishing in the Canadian wilderness provide continuity. They are liberally sprinkled throughout the book and are very illuminating in how they relate to the cosmic order. The way the cosmic order is illustrated is not easy to follow completely but one can nevertheless glimpse a new approach to understanding the natural order and the empirical evidence of science, as well as the revelation described. The book is quite a feat that will make the reader sit back and think. The author's novel The Hall of Two Truths is also available at Amazon. You can find his website on a Google search.

This book is only five pages long, but my one-year-old loves it. He gets to stick his finger in the shark's toothy mouth and other such activities. High excitement!

Polly Penguin travels from her cold, snowy home to a warm island and back again as she tries to find out where she feels best. Cute book. My kids, ages 3 & 4.5 enjoy twirling the feet. We were given this book by my in-laws--the only English language book they found for kids on their trip around South America! They got to walk with penguins--so they thought the book would be a good one.

Regional collections of poetry can often be so narrow that only people that are from or living in that region can appreciate. However, McGrath's "Florida Poems" is an exception. Perhaps it is because Florida is a state that most Americans visit at some point, even if it is just to visit Disney, McGrath doesn't just show the beautiful side of the state or only the ugly side of it either, but a beautiful coherent combination of both. Not only is the colonization of Florida explored, occasionally lamented, but readers step inside Chucky Cheese's and the geography of Florida itself. While there are two long poems in this collection, they are well worth reading, and especially the first one, "A City in Clouds" provides, if not retells, a myth of Florida. I especially enjoyed "William Bartram Beset by Crocodiles," "Hemingway Dines on Boiled Shrimp and Beer," and "Trouble With Miami." I previously read "Road Atlas" just before this collection, which is another book I would highly recommend. So even if you never set foot in Florida itself, "Florida Poems" is an excellent way to visit Florida from the bookshelf.

This adorable little book published in England, is an absolute treasure. This is the kind of book that childhood memories are made of. It's a shame that Amazon doesn't present a picture of this book. It is made in the cut-out shape of a spotted pony with one of its spots made of fluffy white fabric for a child to feel. It also has a googly eye. Each page of the pony book tells the story of the little ponies adventures on the farm. The pages are set with a hidden window that pops out to reveal a new little farm animal. This is a book that a child will remember their whole life. It is an awesome gift to give a little one.

This is a wonderful children's book. I already loved it from my own children's library, just needed to replace a long-lost copy, for reading to the first graders that I teach.

I found this book to be excellent. The information is laid out in a clear conscice manner. Making some of the more complex information easy to understand. Professor Mcintosh and collegues did a great job.

Right now, Amazon and competitors are only able to get this book through used channels, but it is worth it. This book got me through college and every department wanting a different citation style. It is spiral bound, lays flat and includes the three major styles: MLA, APA and Chicago (aka Turabian). If you need a reference guide for writing papers, this is the best i've seen.

This volume has a great deal of information in it, though for the most interesting stories, one has to know some historical background in order to read between the lines. The records translated by William Campbell were written by missionaries, officials of the Dutch East India Company, and other observers of the brief Dutch occupation of southwestern Formosa (Taiwan)in the early 17th century.

The records tell the story of how the Dutch built forts (at the site of the present day city of Tainan) in order to trade with the Taiwan Aborigines, the Chinese, and the Japanese. There are also descriptions of the native people and the efforts to convert them to Christianity. Only traces of the culture described in these records remain, and the descendants of the people with whom the Dutch had most intimate contact have become more or less assimilated into the Chinese population that has immigrated to Taiwan over the past four centuries.

The usual characteristics of colonialism are all there: the exchange of diseases, transformation of the landscape, immigration from other areas, and so forth. One of the most interesting themes is the practice of ritual abortion among the Aborigines of southwestern Taiwan. These abortions were required and performed by female religious leaders. The Dutch missionaries, in their efforts to eliminate abortion, had these priestesses banished from the villages under their control.

This volume is indispensable for those interested in the history of Taiwan, and also contains interesting information about colonialism and the history of indigenous peoples. Military history buffs may be interested in the accounts of the siege of the Dutch forts and eventual victory of the Chinese rebel, Koxinga.

This is a superb history of old Fort Bridger, the fortification built by Jim Bridger and his partner Louis Vasquez in present-day SW Wyoming. In 1843, at the tail end of the fur trade period, Bridger and Vasquez had the western emigrants along the Oregon Trail in mind when they established their fort along the Black Fork of the Green River (Bernard DeVoto called it one of the most beautiful valleys in the West). The fort almost lost its significance a few years after it was built when the Greenwood Cutoff, a shortcut along the Oregon Trail that stretched from the Little Sandy to the Bear River Valley east of Bear Lake, isolated Fort Bridger. But the creation of the notorious Hastings Cutoff, a shortcut on the trail to California that began at Ft. Bridger and ran to the Humboldt River via the forbidding Great Salt Lake Desert, assured the fort's survival.

Troubles with the Mormons caused Bridger to leave the fort in 1853, and in a disputed action Vasquez sold the fort to the Mormons in 1855 (Bridger claimed this was done without his knowledge; letters that Gowans produces in the book seem to indicate otherwise). A few years later, when the Mormons felt threatened by the US Army, they burned the fort and abandoned it. It became an army base and was rebuilt.

The fort saw much use over the next decade or so. It became a station on the Pony Express, a major supply base during the Sweetwater Region gold rush and once again for Hayden's geological survey of the Uinta Mountains in 1870. Indians came often and treaties were signed there. In 1890 the government decided to phase out the fort, and for the next 30 years it sat mostly abandoned. In 1929 the Historical Landmark Commission got deed to the site and built a museum. Over the years improvements were made and today it's a major historical site in Wyoming with thousands of annual visitors.

Gowans relates the story of the fort in full detail and in a scholarly fashion. Many original documents relating to the fort are reproduced, as are many photographs. Fort Bridger was an important location during the emigrant period; much history unfolded here and Gowans (Campbell was more a rewrite man) tells its story magnificently. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the Old West.