George Books

Adventure of Becoming an Airline Pilot: My Story as a High School Dropout Who Succeeded by Doing What I Dreamed is the straightforward life story of a pilot who achieved his dream of earning a living through flying for decades, until his retirement in 1995. A handful of black-and-white photographs illustrate his no-nonsense story of living a pilot's day-to-day life, the pressures, the all-too-minimal pay, close calls with disaster, the experience of handling different types of aircraft, and much more. An extremely candid portrait of a life and career devoted to skillfully handling airplanes, especially recommended for anyone contemplating a similar occupational path for their own life.

George's book is very well written. Interesting to read about the older planes and their means of navigation. The training from the old days to today was not changed much it seems also. A very inspiring book for the novice pilot to airline captains.
Great Job!

Brad Springstead-ATP

I enjoyed this book greatly!! It was unexpectedly funny. A must read for anybody interested in the Airline industry.

I've had the pleasure of knowing Capt. George Flavell for over twenty-five years. I was one of those military trained DC-9 pilots who flew for New York Air in LaGuardia and later transitioned to Continental Airlines in Houston that he mentions in his book. I also served in both line and management capacities at both airlines. His aviation exploits have always been fascinating to me for a couple of reasons.

First, his background and job experiences are without equal. Secondly, I've always been astounded by his ability to remember people, places and events from many years ago like they occurred yesterday afternoon. Most pilots remember momentous events or challenges that have occurred in their careers but few can associate those events with exact names, times, places and dates. George can...and that's one of the reasons that his book is so enjoyable to read.

His ability to regale the reader with fascinating stories is outstanding and makes this book fun to read whether the reader is a pilot, flight attendant, gate agent, mechanic or just an aviation enthusiast. I know several of the people mentioned in his book and I've heard of many of the others. George knows literally thousands of pilots at every level of the profession. I think each and everyone of them will enjoy his effort at documenting a remarkable and enjoyable career. George's book is well worth the small investment, just for the trip down memory lane.

I'm actually looking forward to "Adventure.....part deux" since I know he has many, many more interesting stories that are yet untold.

Capt. Bruce J. Blue, Continental Airlines (Ret.). New York Air former Director of Pilot Training, B-737 Fleet Chief Pilot

Yes, it's old. Yes, much of the data is outdated. But what isn't usable is at the very least amusing.

Okay, so I read this 1989 book about 5 years ago. It still has good advice for all but the most seasoned traveller.

I read this book back in 1989 when it came out. I was sitting in some airport east of the Colorado river waiting for a connecting flight when I stepped into the gift/book shop to get a soda and a candy bar. Somehow I spotted this book and bought it, and spent the rest of my waiting period and flight reading it.

The book is full advice regarding air travel that was excellent at the time. I haven't read the book since then, so I'm sure that a lot is out of date. But, I still use some of the major principles from the book when I fly today, particularly those relating packing and boarding and exiting the plane.

One example of the out of date nature of the book is that the author suggests that wheeled luggage will never catch on because they are just too noisy and embarass the user. While that statement might have been accurate for an older person in 1989, wheeled luggage is common now, and there are few people alive today who would avoid a wheeled suitcase for that reason.

The book is well written and the author has quite a sense of humor. It had a lot of helpful information at the time.

Interestingly, at the end of the book, the author asks people to write to him (c/o the publisher) and states that he intends to update the book periodically. Its too bad that he didn't.

If anyone knows what happened to the author, please let me know!

OK, let's put some things in perspective here. This book was published in 1989 and the first three chapters on choosing your flight are totally out of date. Consider those three chapters a history lesson at best.

However, this book is extremely well organized and does offer good tips and advice. The writing is direct with no fluff unlike some of these new travel books. The author displays a good sense of humor which a nice bonus.

If you can get this out-of-print book for a couple of books somewhere, I believe it is well worth it.

It gets 5 stars from me not because it is a completely up-to-date book, but for the value I got out of it. How I wish this book would be revised for curent times!

A very readable primer for beginner as well as experienced investor. This book is sure to give a good case of heartburn to "financial planners" and "life retirement consultants" who make their living on portfolio maintenance charges. Chapter by chapter, George Fisher uncomplicates the world of dividend reinvestment and direct stock purchase plans, and shows the reader that it's just not as hard as it seems to become one's own self-reliant investor. Section "Best Of The Best" which profiles 16 top companies is alone worth the price of the book.

Dividend reinvestment planning is the dirty little secret your broker and mutual fund salespeople don't want you to know about. Why? Because DRIPpers pay all the commissions to themselves.
To date few books about DRIPs have gone much beyond the mechanics of starting a plan and listing a number of companies that offer DRIPs. Most books describe a "one size fits all" approach to DRIPping. Yet anyone who DRIPs will tell you it is more complex than that.
All About DRIPs and DSPs breaks the mold. It could be seen as the first text book and artistic approach to dividend reinvestment planning. There is the usual material about how to begin a plan but it also begins to consider individual approaches to the process. Although individuals are responsible for choosing their own investments Mr. Fisher helps the reader develop the skills to make wise choices. He teaches an investor how to research companies through simplified analysis, looking at management and reading an annual report. He sifts these to find what is important and does it with humour. I particularly noted the sections on how to read between the lines when management speaks or how Harley Davidson has the kind of brand loyalty that causes people to tatoo the company logo to their bodies.
There are also sections on portfolio planning with DRIPs, how bonds can be DRIPped and lists of DRIP offering companies with outstanding historical performances.
DRIPs are for take charge individuals, with only small amounts of money to invest, who are tired of paying exhorbitant fees for questionable service. This book has provided me other strategies to consider than my own and broadened my approach. All About DRIPs and DSPs is for the self motivated individuals who wants to invest effectively and successfully.
This is the kind of book DRIPpers have been waiting for.

This is a very good book about buying stocks directly from the company. In this market why pay broker fees. A bunch of drunken monkeys throwing darts at the Wall Street Journal can do just as well at picking good stock as a broker and there's no fees. This is a great nuts and bolts book on buying drips. This is a good book for the beginning investor.

This book succeeds with its target audience on so many levels. It's written in a non-pretentious manner and covers all the bases very well. Due to the nature of this type of investing anyone can pick it up and be in the stock market in no time.

How much more timely could this book be? With the gut-wrenching gyrations in the stock market right now, the prudent, dollar-cost-averaging investor's style deserves a comprehensive illustration. This book provides that.

The company capsules are an excellent bonus. You don't see anything like that in the typical investing book.

Reeview of Almost Unseen by George Elliott Clarke in The Halifax Herald, Sunday, January 28, 2001.

Swede is a haiku sculptor . . . honing in on only what he needs to report. . . . a splendid voyeurism of the natural. . . . moments of profound silence . . . . His lyrics are fine, delicate, dextrous, distilled breaths of being.

An anonymous review of Almost Unseen in Frogpond (Journal of the Haiku Society of America), 2001, Volume XXIV, Number 1, p. 78.

A major collection of the haiku of one of our most significant poets. You'll find all the poems you expect here, and some less expected as well.

A review of Almost Unseen by Robert Spiess in Modern Haiku, Fall 2000, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, pp. 102-103.

George Swede of Canada is a worldwide household name for persons who are involved with haiku. . . . A "you can't go wrong with this one" book.

A review of Almost Unseen by Caroline Gourlay in Blithe Spirit: Journal of the British Haiku Society, December 2000, Volume 10, No. 4, pp. 54-55.

Of the better known haiku poets. George Swede is probably the one whose haiku are most instantly recognisable. He has made the study of human behaviour his own territory, exploring its complexities and contradictions with subtlety and sensitivity in some truly memorable poems. . . . George Swede is never dull. Why is he so compelling and entertaining? Partly, no doubt, because his haiku tell us about ourselves (and we're all interested in how we tick) but mainly because he does it with a skill that gets to the heart of the matter without superfluous words.

U.S. history, the government, and personae of American Presidents is a fascinating subject. While many scholarly work in the market have done in-depth investigation to profile American presidents, this title by David C Whitney and Robin Vaughn Whitney in its 9th edition from Reader's Digest is classically written and readily accessible to the general audience. Its objectivity and candor serves well as a gentle and educational introduction, an abridged version, on the development of American Presidents in relation to the unfolding drama of U.S. history.

The perennial best-seller, an enjoyable reading, excels in its elegance and clarity in comparison to many (auto)biographies of modern day C(orporate)EO/leadership titles.

We have been truly blessed with good men in the White House. Through the brilliant Constitution our founding fathers set up for our republic we emerged a country for all nations to envy. Through checks and balances we have created a system that works; it is at times not perfect, but there is none better.

Like any history book, "American Presidents" should not be used alone. It can not fulfill the task of evaluating the office of each of these men on its own. The author covers in detail each President's life growing up, offices held, as the executive and his achievements after the Oval Office. The vice president's, the cabinet, and historical sites are found at the end of the book. Photos are displaced throughout. One of the better books covering the Presidents.

I became increasingly interested in our Presidents, so I decide to research each one further, going as far as rating them. This is nothing new; there have been many such ratings done by scholars and intellectuals over the years. Of course I am neither. But I do find the ratings systems tend to focus on single merits and not the whole presidency. I have decided to do my own rating through these recourses:

"The American Presidents"-----Whitney
"A Patriot's History of the U.S."-----Schweikart and Allen
"The Oxford Companion to U.S. History"-----Boyer
"The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History"-----Woods
"Character"-----Wallace
"A Republic Not An Empire"-----Buchanan
and other misc. books

There is no way to fully list all of the positives and negatives of each Presidency. I have compiled a list of just a few of the important issues, then rated each according to the overall effect on the nation and the world. I admit bias cannot be removed totally. There will be some who will completely disagree with my system. You will find that I have lowered some who have been praised as great leaders and raised others that have been overlooked.

It can be hard to compare a Washington to a Bush, because these men lived at different times. The state of affairs and who they followed will have a major impact. I added W. Bush with reservation. His rating, along with the others are subject to change over time. In some cases I have added the same issue or attribute in both the pro and con column. Enjoy, take your time and feel free to comment:

After I copied and pasted I realized I could not fit the pros and cons on Amazon, so I deleted them. If any of you wish to have them you can write to me.


Rating President Held office Party
1 George Washington 1st 1789-97 Federalist

2 Thomas Jefferson 3rd 1801-09 Democrat-Republican(new)

3 Abraham Lincoln 16th 1861-65 Republican (first)

4 Calvin Coolidge 13th 1923-29 Republican

5 James Monroe 5th 1818-25 Democrat-Republican

6 Ronald Reagan 40th 1981-89 Republican

7 Grover Cleveland 22nd 1885-89 Democrat
24th 1893-97

8 James Madison 4th 1809-17 Democrat-Republican

9 John Adams 2nd 1797-1801 Federalist

10 Warren Harding 29th 1921-23 Republican

11 William McKinley 25th 1897-1901 Republican

12 Rutherford Hays 19th 1877-81 Republican

13 George W. Bush 43rd 2001- Republican

14 Dwight Eisenhower 34th 1953-61 Republican

15 Andrew Jackson 7th 1829-37 Democrat (first)

16 George H.W. Bush 41st 1989-93 Republican

17 Chester Arthur 21st 1881-85 Republican

18 Andrew Johnson 17th 1865-69 Unionist (only)

19 Franklin Pierce 14th 1853-57 Democrat

20 Gerald Ford 38th 1974-77 Republican

21 Richard Nixon 37th 1969-74 Republican

22 James Polk 11th 1845-49 Democrat

23 Martin Van Buren 8th 1837-41 Democrat (father of)

24 Harry Truman 33rd 1945-53 Democrat

25 John Kennedy 35th 1961-63 Democrat

26 Theodore Roosevelt 26th 1901-09 Republican

27 James Garfield 20th 1881 Republican

28 John Tyler 10th 1841-45 Whig

29 Benjamin Harrison 23rd 1889-93 Republican

30 John Quincy Adams 6th 1825-29 Coalition (mix)

31 James Buchanan 15th 1857-61 Democrat

32 Franklin Roosevelt 32nd 1933-45 Democrat

33 Herbert Hoover 31st 1929-33 Republican

34 Jimmy Carter 39th 1977-81 Democrat

35 Woodrow Wilson 28th 1913-21 Democrat

36 Lyndon Johnson 36th 1963-69 Democrat

37 Zachary Taylor 12th 1849-50 Whig

38 William Clinton 42nd 1993-2001 Democrat

39 William Harrison 9th 1841 whig (first)

40 Ulysses Grant 18th 1869-77 Republican

41 William Taft 27th 1909-13 Republican

42 Millard Fillmore 13th 1850-53 Whig (last)

This is an excellent book. It is great for people beginning to learn about American politics. It's a great source for quick handy reminders. It's a great gift. ( I bought seven copies for that reason). This would be a great book for teachers to have their high school students study.
While it is not possible to have one book completely cover all the Presidents, this single volumn outlines many important events.
There is an index in the back for quick searches.
Political views?
I have heard people claim this book is written with a Republican slant, and other claim it's written with a Democratic slant!
Using the above paragraph, one would have to think it was pretty fairly written.
I have went back to this book more often, during the election season, to brief my memory.

As a single volumn book; I repeat, this is an excellent book.

THIS IS A WONDERFUL OVERVIEW OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, AND QUITE ACCURATE. I HAVE READ BIOGRAPHIES OF MOST PRESIDENTS, VISITED MOST PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES, AND THOUGHT DAVID WHITNEY DID A GREAT JOB ON THIS SERIES.

If you have time to read only one book on Immigration in the Trans-Mississippi West this classic by Stewart is the one. Filled with characters and anecdotes it started me on a long and large collection of books on the Old West. Many published in small numbers have been excellent investments.

Stewart tells us a splendid story. In 1840, California was there to be settled, but how to cross the deserts and mountains to reach it? Beginning with the Bartelson Party in 1841, pioneers blazed ever-better trails that avoided deserts, followed water, and crossed the mountains, especially the forbidding peaks of the Sierras. But even though trails improved, they were still treacherous, as shown by the doomed Donner Party in 1846. We get a fascinating picture of the West, and Stewart even takes on a trip along the California Trail, from Independence, Missouri to Sacramento via Fort Laramie, Wyoming's South Pass, Nevada's Humboldt River, and over Donner Pass. If you enjoy travel or American history, you can spend many, pleasant hours with this book.

The old West is a subject that has been poorly served by Hollywood and the current crop of academic writers eager to show that the US is a rogue nation fit only for extinction. Reading Stewart's book will change all that.

In 1957 I talked with a 96 year-old gentleman in Golden, CO, who was then living in a rooming house next to one of my college buddies. He claimed to have been the sheriff of Central City (CO) in the 1880s, which I later found to have been true. He talked about how the "fanners" (gunmen who fanned the hammers of their pistols with their non-gun hand) held no danger for him. He simply took careful aim with his pistol and shot them dead. He also favored using a shotgun in close quarters, and always shot first if his opponent started to draw his pistol. Myths like those he debunked and others like Indians circling wagon trains and shooting from horseback at men under cover need to be refuted.

This book is a reprint of the 1962 edition, and author Stewart, who also wrote the fine novels "Fire" and "Storm", writes in a style that seems somewhat enthusiastic to contemporary readers. Nor does he compare the subject period of 1840 to 1858 to current times and moralize against Bush, imperialism or the emmigrants' treatment of Indians. If you want to find fault with America, this book is not for you, but conversely, if you want to know what made America great, this is required reading.

There are many heroes here in Stewart's presentation, all with flaws, but most with outstanding physical and moral courage. American democracy was at its best in the emmigrant parties, who expected no help of any kind from their government and whose loyalties descending from family to friend to party to others in the same endeavor were evident to all. Indeed, these parties had no backing from government, corporations, or any other organizations, and the free enterprise ethic presented in such stark definition will be almost unrecognizable by those raised on improving the governmental nanny-state, or requiring free education, tenure, social security, unemployment, disability and health insurance (and cell phones) to make it through another day.

When decisions were made in the emmigrant parties the most risky option was usually chosen, and it needs to be emphasized that the lives of the decision-makers were what was at risk. This led to amazing feats and great suffering, experiences almost universally remembered by the participants as much less difficult than was actually the case, and even exciting and pleasant. Where was post-traumatic stress syndrome? Relief parties were organized by men sometimes at great expense and their own peril, yet expecting no reward or payment of any kind. It is sometimes said that adversity brings out the best in people -- if so, it was here in abundance.

Although the Donner party figures prominently in this book, it is only one of many parties whose experiences are presented in detail, and the only one that came to grief in the Sierras. The reader is treated to other epics such as Chiles's return to Missouri in 1842 starting from present-day Sacramento in April, crossing the Sierras through Tejon Pass north of Los Angeles, then up the east side of the Sierras to the Humbolt sink in Nevada, then east to Fort Hall in Idaho and Fort Bridger in Wyoming, south through Colorado to Santa Fe, and finally east to Independence, arriving on September 9th. One would search far and wide to find this story in an American history book. It must be remembered that history is not what happened, but what was recorded and how it is presented by writers and teachers who often change history to fit their own predilections. There is none of that here in Stewart.

A trek of 2,000 miles in a single season over a wilderness with few trails and without information on conditions ahead by unoutfitted parties was essentially a unique feat in the annals of mankind. The questions naturally become: "Who were they, why did they do it, how did they do it, and what enabled them to do it?"

Stewart answers all these questions, and his treatise should be read by all who would like to understand Americans and their basic ideas on self-reliance and freedom rather than change them.

Because my family also migrated to California (albiet in 1993) I have been interested in the history of the settling of the American west. This book was wonderfully informative but also very compelling reading. It chronicles the annual human migrations from the Missouri to California, including the ill-fated Donner party (in 1845)and the famous "49ers". The author did a very good job comparing the immigrants mode of travel, unique difficulties faced during each of these migration years, route finding and heroes and villans, and the sweat and tears progress which lead to the wider opening and settlement of the west.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the history of the settlement of the west or anyone who just wants to read a good old-fashioned adventure story based in historical fact.

In his year-end column for World War II Magazine, book review editor Robert Citino selected American Warriors as one of the best World War II books of the year. I agree. History books should be informative, accurate and readable; American Warriors is all of these and more. The author brings to light the military careers of five of our recent presidents, highlighting their naval service in the Pacific. Extensively end-noted, American Warriors draws on interviews with more than 100 veterans who served with the presidents as well as on a comprehensive bibliography of primary sources. Folklore has no place in this well-researched book. Presidential scholars will find it a dependable resource; more casual readers will find it swift paced and enjoyable. I highly recommend American Warriors.

As we currently ponder our country's military involvements and the credentials of those who would be President, a.k.a. Commander in Chief, this is a timely book to digest.

American Warriors is a highly readable, yet detailed account of the naval service of five United States presidents. Before picking up this informative book, I knew that presidents Kennedy and Bush Sr. served in World War II. I certainly did not know that five presidents were naval officers in the Pacific.

I am particularly impressed with the author's interviews of well over 100 veterans who served with the presidents. American Warriors is a reflection of his diligent pursuit of the details that are often passed over by political biographers. Time and again he sorts out conflicting testimony with rational explanations of events seen through multiple eyes.

Many Americans are aware that President Kennedy was the skipper of PT 109, which was sunk by a Japanese destroyer. I would venture a guess that very few are aware that Kennedy skippered a second PT boat, or equally surprising, that Presidents Nixon and Ford each served in the Pacific longer than either Kennedy or Bush.

American Warriors sets the standard for reporting these five presidents' military service. Presidential biographers would do well to take note of this insightful book. Military history fans will be delighted.

American Warriors is a detailed, annotated account of five American Presidents who also happened to serve their country as soldiers in the Pacific theater during WWII. The author has thoroughly researched the naval careers of each of these men, and has skillfully annotated their records by interviewing the many veterans who served with them.

The thoroughness of the research in American Warriors does not affect its readability. The accounts range from Lyndon Johnson's reconnaissance mission for General MacArthur, to the rescue of George H. W. Bush after his near fatal glide-bombing attack in his VT-51 Avenger. The details describing John F. Kennedy's heroism and dedication to his crew after the ramming of his PT-109 provide an equally important "rest of the story." The particulars of Richard Nixon as a young ground aviation officer stationed in the Solomon Islands present an interesting contrast to the Machiavellian characteristics that he later exhibited. And the natural leadership qualities of Gerald Ford are clearly displayed during his duty under fire as officer-of-the-deck on the carrier Monterey. In summary, the exploits documented in American Warriors serve as fascinating prologues, that should enhance the reader's knowledge of the more well-known political personas later developed by these Commanders-in-Chief.

American Warriors is highly recommended for those interested in modern presidential history.

American Warriors chronicals the time spent by Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Bush in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Most of us knew these five men from their times as President and their poltical careers prior to becoming President. Some of us knew about President Kennedy and the PT-109 story and the dangers he faced while serving his country in WWII; but few of us knew that the other Presidents served in the war and faced life-threatening situations that shaped their future views of the world prior to entering the political area.
All of these Presidents had to make decisions during their Presidency to send others to war. The book shows that these men knew war first-hand and were undoubtedly influenced in their future political careers by their dangerous wartime experiences. American Warriors provides information on these five Presidents that is not typically addressed in other biographies using interviews with veterans who were there to corroborate events during these Presidents' service in the Pacific Theater of WWII.

Do you know why the capitalist rulers broke virtually every promise to Native Americans as they waged genocidal wars against them? Who made the American Revolution? How did this great liberation struggle give way to the solidification of slavery? How did the slavocracy rise to become a world power, only to meet defeat at the hands of the industrial capitalist class, which proceeded to enforce brutal apartheid-like conditions on freed Blacks? How did the U.S. monopolists rise to their position as the world's mightiest-and last-empire? This book gives the scientific answers workers need to know.If not available from Amazon, booksfrompathfinder will have it--click on "new and used" near the top of the page.

I first read this book while taking U.S. history in high school. A friend recommended it as an antidote to the required text. I am not exaggerating when I say this book saved me from emerging from that course muddled in confusion about this country's past. Now that I have become a teacher I rely on it.

Recently a colleague criticized the U.S. history textbook currently used in our school for giving too much prominence to Crispus Attucks. This African American sailor escaped from slavery and later became the first to fall under a hail of British bullets in the Boston Massacre of 1770. She complained the four paragraph biography and picture of him in the school textbook was "multiculturalism run amuck." Thanks to what I learned in America's Revolutionary Heritage I was able to answer her by explaining that, on the contrary, it was Attucks and thousands of ordinary people like him -- too often dismissed as "the rabble" -- who were decisive in the making of the first American revolution. Novack shows how when the well-to-do colonialists, the merchants and plantation owners -- the ones most often featured in the writing of U.S. history -- waffled on independence from Britain, it was the servants, sailors, small farmers, carpenters, day laborers and mechanics who stood fast and pushed the movement forward.

Malcolm X once said, "Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research." An understanding of our history can be a great weapon in the fight for social justice. This book was written as such a tool for the "rabble," the modern-day Crispus Attuckses, to arm them with an awareness of their power as the unsung heroes, the true shapers of history.

There are a lot of writers of history who claim to be Marxist. Most of them are academics that simply see Marxism as an angle for them to hold onto cushy university jobs.
This is the most important work of American history by a real Marxist. George Novack was a real Marxist, a fighter to build the real struggles for workers, Blacks, women, Latinos, and other oppressed in the world. Like a real Marxist, like Marx, he worked not on gaining a university chair, but in fighting to build an international revolutionary movement of Socialist Workers. He fought to free the Scottsboro Boys, he worked directly with Leon Trotsky, to expose the crimes of Stalin's Moscow trials, he defended worker militants who would not succumb to FDR's war drive, he worked to publicize the ideas of Che Guevera, Fidel Castro, Malcolm X, and he was a key figure in the struggle to expose the FBI's Cointelpro. He fought this capitalism for 50 years!!!
This is real Marxist history because as a fighter, Novack understood the real lives, the real struggles, the real history of all the American revolutionary fighters in this history and many besides. That is why this book is not just a nice look at our past, but a tool workers, youth, intellectuals, not just in the USA, but around the world can use to fight for a future where the world is ruled by working people and farmers, not by the filthy rich.

A lively and very informative collection of writings on U.S. history-- scientific, factual explanation of how and why things happened as they did. George Novack was a leading Marxist political activist and writer on philosophy, history and politics. These articles aim to help us understand events so as to learn from the past to organize to change society today.

The book takes up the fight for independence and the 1776 revolution, slavery and the genocidal wars against Native Americans and their role in the development of U.S. capitalism, the rise of Big Business monopolies, the capitalist two-party system, and the emergence of the United States as an empire-building world power. I found particularly useful the explanation of political and social forms that are often presented almost as divine wonders (the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the so-called "system of checks and balances," etc.) and their actual roots in the particular development of a class divided society on the North American continent. And particularly inspiring the stories of the revolutionary fighters who struggled against the misery, oppression and barbarity of this rising capitalist society, including Tom Paine, Mercy Otis Warren, John Brown and Martin R. Delaney.

I'd recommend reading this along with the two-volume series Revolutionary Continuity by Farrell Dobbs that traces the complicated and persistent efforts to forge a revolutionary working class movement in the United States from 1848 through 1922.

This book is absolutely beautiful. Simple to read and understand. The artwork is also beaufiful. Great information about the Archangels and how we can work with them to make our lives better. It talks about how each Archangel has a specific ray of Light that shines down on the Earth more strongly on specific days of the week, and how we can work with the Archangels and their Light so that we grow spiritually. Wonderful book for yourself or as a gift.

I found this book very interesting and informative. It is one of the best books I have read for the information I was looking for on the Archangels.
I am thrilled that I now own this book.

Angels of Love and Light: The Great Archangels & Their Divine Complements, the Archeiai
A great little book for those who want to know about the archangels and their female complements called the "archeiai," including Michael and Faith, Jophiel and Christine, Chamuel and Charity, Gabriel and Hope, Raphael and Mary, Uriel and Aurora, and Zadkiel and Amethyst. Learn about the seven rays of color (blue, gold, pink, white, green, ruby, and violet) in relationship to the archangels.

This is an excellent book which gives a detailed unbiased and rather loving view of the angels of Christian doctrine. If you have ever been interested in Gabriel , Michael or any other Angels I would recommend this book , as it will give you gorgeous pictures and all the information you will ever need on these beings.

Do you feel a fondness in your heart for old black and white cartoons? Do you know that the original Tom and Jerry were not a cat and a mouse but two loopy guys? If you can answer yes to those questions you will like this book which was originally published way back then.
It's actually full of good information that is still relevant today. I own a number of animation how-to-do-it books and one thing about this book is that all its numerous illustrations are unique and different from any other book. And it covers a few things that I've never seen covered in any other book - like exactly how to draw all the frames for the smoke coming from the tailpipe of an old jalopy. The emphasis of this book is different from modern books and the tone is more bright-eyed and awestruck. It's refreshing to read something written at the very beginning of animation when it was still viewed with amazement.
If watching Betty Boop fills you with warm nostalgia then I think this book will do the same for you.

Maybe I will not read every word of this book, but just knowing it is on my shelf makes me give it 5 stars, being a landmark in the history of animation, also being the book Walt started out with...
For animators then, it was comparable to, what Frank & Ollie's 'The Illusion of Life' is now (if you are looking for THE book on animation, start here), or Preston Blair's book (when there only was one) when I started in animation in the 70's...

This book is the best place to start actually making animation. Equipment construction is explained well enough to start a professional studio. Techniques are clearly described and perfect for students of the art. Extras are the theory of what is funny and why, but mostly, the uses animation may serve in education. Many great old illustrations of walks pepper this volume. If you like to draw in ink, this book is for you.

Some clarification is needed here - this book is a reprint of a book from 1920, and although you might glean some tips on how to animate that are still relevant, this is NOT the book to buy if you're looking to learn the craft - it has been reprinted purely for historical interest. There's nothing here that is not outdated or superseded. If you want to learn animation, the books you really need are Tony White's 'Animator's Workbook', and Richard Williams's 'Animator's Survival Kit'. That said, if you're already a clued-up animator, or interested in the history of the craft, this is a fascinating book, representing as it does the state of the art just a few years before Disney appeared on the scene and set new standards. Historically - wonderful. Instructionally - look elsewhere.