Hughes Books

My granddaughter was able to relate to this book. She would look up from reading every once in awhile and announce to her sister what she was doing at that moment. Very well written, captavating book for young minds and easy to read building reading confidence.

I borrowed this book from the library and loved it so much that I bought a used copy online. These are timeless patterns that are sometimes hard to find in newer books. Published in 1987, there are still many used copies available through Amazon's used books or eBay. I highly recommend this book!

I am teaching an advanced English class in Japan, and I have found this book very useful. What I really like about this book are the follow-up questions. They cover vocabulary, idioms, the general point of the article, etc. My students are of different levels, and have different ideas about what they want to learn in a class, so these follow-ups really help. The lower level students can push through the questions and refer back to the article (the articles have numbers every 5 lines), thus, they can spend a lot of time getting themselves up to speed before the discussion class. More serious students can spend time memorizing the vocabulary and idioms.

Ideally, everyone will prepare for my class and then we are left to discuss the article.

The book has been great, and I'm looking for the next edition.

This is a fascinating account of imperial land-theft. The British Empire had recognised East Africa's highlands as Maasailand from the mid-19th century. But later, realising that the pastoralist Maasai owned Kenya's best land, in the Rift Valley, the Empire's rulers encouraged white settlers to carve the `White Highlands' from Maasai land.

Colonel Grogan, a leading settler, said, "We have stolen his land." Lord Lugard, Nigeria's first Governor, claimed, less honestly, "This area is uninhabited." Sir Charles Eliot, High Commissioner in British East Africa, wrote to the Foreign Secretary, Lord Lansdowne, "No doubt on platforms and in reports we declare that we have no intention of depriving natives of their lands, but this has never prevented us from taking whatever land we want ... Your Lordship has opened this Protectorate to white immigration and colonization, and I think it is well that, in confidential correspondence at least, we should face the undoubted issue - viz. that white mates black in a very few moves ... there can be no doubt that the Masai and many other tribes must go under."

The first forced move was in 1904-05. The British Liberal government then promised the Maasai that they could have Laikipia instead, an inviolable reserve, as Colonial Office Minister Winston Churchill assured the House of Commons. In 1911, the government broke its contract and moved the Maasai again, at gunpoint, to the Southern Maasai Reserve, far worse land.

In 1913, the Maasai went to court to try to win back part of their former land. British authorities systematically obstructed the law suit. In Kenya, as in all the British Empire's Protectorates, the inhabitants owed the government unlimited obedience, but as `foreign subjects' they had no rights, no access to the law. They were `protected', but not from the British Empire. The Maasai believed that the land would revert to them when the British left Kenya at independence, but even in its departure the Empire betrayed them.

In this book,you'll find pictures from the hit clay wrestlin show,includin dialogue,storyboards,character models,and more stuff for a clay animation fan. This also includes quotes from the the Celebrity Deathmatch episodes from the past,present,and the future. If you love animation,you'll love this book!

Many thanks to Bill Mulligan, Jr. for this collection of his father's speeches.

Bill Mulligan, Sr. was a great man, famous in a certain circle, and now he may be known to others through his own words, in saecula, saeculorum. The medium is humor, the message extols family, faith, and friendship, with amusing and enlightening digressions on history, the Law, the Irish, and more.

Mulligan, Jr.'s moving introduction and eulogy complete the portrait. Perhaps eloquence is hereditary.

"Mulligan's Law" is a treat for students of rhetoric and law, and and must for historians researching the history and values of Catholics and the Irish in America.

Perhaps the most detailed musicological study of all of the compositons - not just the operettas - of Sir Arthur Sullivan. This is a relatively slim book, but it is packed with musical examples, analysis and commentary. This is definately a book for those with a musical education, a music theory book and dictionary or perhaps simply a Ph.D. in Musicology, is a good companion for reading Hughes' book.

The book analyzes Arthur Sullivans style, breaking it down into chapters dealing with musical forms such as melody, harmony, word setting, orchestration, etc. Copious examples in musical notation and snippets from scores, many from very obscure non-Savoy operas. (E.g. quotes from "The Zoo" which was still officially lost at the time of the original edition).

Hughes takes a very objective style, unusual for a books on Sullivan which tend be limited to the more prosaic descriptions of his operettas. He takes Sullivan to task for some of his failings (e.g. harmon! y) and praises him where appropriate (e.g. melody and word setting).

A unique and very detailed tome!

It is a shame that this book is not more readily available as it is lovely, these are the illustrated letters of Jane Autsen and it is a wonderful introduction, not just to her wit and style, but to the colourful times she lived in and to her family and background

I was impressed with Hughes-Hallet text which helped put the letters into context, but I was mostly really thrilled about the the pictures chosen and the overall layout. The book is in landscape format with the text in the middle of the page and illustrations on the outside of the pages. They are therefore both part of the text but illustrations in their own right and fit seamlessly in with the whole.

There are colourful choices of illustrations both from the period and selected from the family. So it is nice to thumb through just for the pictures, which are well captioned too and give a sense of the period at a glance

Each chapter is well defined with an overall chapter heading such as "A New and Settled Home" with a subtitle Chawton 1809-1813 - it really helps to define the period and the possible mind-set for Austen herself

The letters are printed in full with explanations and chapter summaries as well. A great idea as Cassandra destroyed many if not most of Austen's letters on Jane's on her death - leaving a small selection to go on for later scholars and fans. This format allows a nice expansion of the small resource available to show Austen's times rather than attempting simply to analyse her thinking.

Overall I found this book to be a great read, and a good book for a browse through as well. It is less scholarly than Claire Tomalins collected letters of Austen, but a fantastic collection to have on a different level. I will definitely be lookin gout for more of Hughes-Hallet's works and would highly recommend it to others as well.

Two fine 'Welcome Books' easy readers on pets invite kids to learn more about their animal companions. Cate Foley's My Turtle (0-516-23188-X) provides large simple print and a child's review of different types of turtles and their appropriateness as pets. Sarah Hughes' My Guinea Pig (23186-3) presents a girl's experiences caring for her guinea pig. Both are very easy introductions to pet ownership.

As the assisant Manager of the Brittania Beach Hotel on Paradise Island from 1969 through 1974, I can personally attest to the accuracy of the entire 18 month period of the Hughes entourage stay in Nassau. I was well aquainted with Chuck Waldron before and during the entire period. It was like reading a journal of my life over 35 five years ago.