Lloyd Books

This book was an excellent book. About a boy named Taran, and many other people. I could not put the book down. It is a little challenging because of the long and strange words and names. Now they are first in everyone is meeting in Cear Delben. That is where Taran lives. Taran is an assistant pig keeper. The reason all of the people were at his house is because they are going on a quest to retrieve the black cauldron from the evil clutches of Arawn. But when the get to his castle (through dark gate) Doli a dwarf that can turn invisible goes in to the room where the cauldron is kept and...it was gone! So they made a retreat but got separated from all of the others so now it is just Taran, princess Eilonway and, Ffludder, Doli, girgie (a strange creature), Ellider, and adaon went to the marshes of Morvia. But on there way adoan dies. In brif for the rest of the story Ellidyr try's to kill taran. Than he goes and gives the cauldron to the evil war leader who plans to use it to take over the world. Ellider said he was sorry to taran and sacrificed himself so the cauldron would shatter.

This is a story about a run away slave who becomes adopted by a white man. When the Civil War breaks out, he volunteers to teach marksmanship. He becomes a hero by carving out his own destiny as an independent sniper. After the war, he returns home to find his father and others being squeezed by those who want the land. What made the story interesting for me was how Lloyd Hunter blended the Civil War with taming the west, -two chapters in American history normally kept separate. I can't wait to see it on the big screen. The story is that good!

In 1986, the plastic model industry surprised the world by releasing a scale model of the Stealth Fighter, an airplane so secret that even today the United States Government denies its existence. How could a company dealing in miniature plastic models scoop the press, perhaps even the Soviet Union, in revealing not only the existence of the plane, but its major characteristics? The engineering of models is as advanced as full-scale designing. Is it possible that both engineering groups reached the same conclusion?

Black Rainbow tells the story of an aircraft engineer who's modeling experience is put to use in unraveling a baffling mystery surrounding a stealth fighter at the Air Force's secret Groom Lake test center in the middle of the Nevada desert. In writing this novel, the author has used his own engineering and modeling background to show the parallels between miniature a full-size technology.
--- from books back cover

The author teaches Oregon Trail history at Eastern Oregon State College and has liberally used excerpts from diaries and letters to give a first-person feel for his narrative. The accounts of fording the rivers make you realize that none of them were routine, but an accident could happen at any moment. You feel the heat and dust of the plains and the cold of the mountains as these pioneers did. This was the first emigrant wagon train to Oregon; their experiences aided the passage of the thousands who followed. I had difficulty laying the book aside to eat or sleep.

Writing of historical interpretation, the great classical scholar U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff once compared it with the Homeric picture of ghosts revived by the blood of the living, warning that in the very process of revival the ghosts inevitably absorb an alien elemnet. In this wide-ranging collection Professor Lloyd-Jones looks at the influence of the Greeks on creative thinkers and scholars since the close of the eighteenth century, when for the first time, largely as a result of German scholarship, the Greeks began to be studied directly, rather than through Roman eyes. The men discussed range from Coleridge, Leopardi, Gladstone, Wagner and Nietzsche to scholars of our own day such as Edouard Fraenkel, Rudolf Pfeiffer and E. R. Dodds.
--- form book's back cover

This book is a middle school/high school age level book that looks at the history of blue jeans. It is well written, covering the history of jeans from their invention through to today's high end fashion jeans.

The history of jeans is covered in chapters that each spans several decades. In later chapters, some of the social aspect of jeans is evaluated as well, including such phenomena as smuggling into Eastern European Bloc countries during the 70s and 80s, moving of manufacturing to low wage countries, and the problems associated with boot legged jeans.

The book is copiously illustrated with photographs and reproductions of old advertising material.

This is a great book, for its intended age, at a look at the history and social facets of blue jeans. I would recommend it for any student with interest in the subject matter.

Designed as a coloring book by renowned Oysterville author and artist Nancy Lloyd, this covers all the boats you are likely to wonder about: canoes, dugouts, Schooner, Sailing gillnetters, pleasure boats, charter boats, crabber- trollers, purse seiners, trawlers, shrimpers, oyster dredges, Coast Guard vessels, even a semaphore alphabet and of course, the Columbia River Bar Pilot Boat and tugboats. Back cover is decorated with smokestack designs of twenty famous shipping companies.

As I read through this young people's book, I was surprised by the quality of the story. I thought that the story would limit itself to bobcats frolicking about and being inquisitive within their environment. Instead, what the author presented was a deeper story of reality. The bobcats are taught by their mother to kill prey for their food. There are struggles that the bobcats face which show death as a natural part of life's order. The story is illuminated by gorgeous drawn illustrations. This book is an excellent story about real life.

Although this book is over 15 years old, it still presents a great deal of interesting information on the Boeing 707, 720, and KC-135 (717) variants. It gives no feeling of being dated.

This book presents detailed photos of the undercarriage, wheel wells, engines (both turbojet and turbofan), and flight decks you are unlikely to encounter in most aviation books. My only quibble is page 46, which discusses the 707-200, a "hot ship" delivered exclusively to Braniff, in which the short fuselage and wings of the 707-120 was mated to the Pratt & Whittney JT-4A turbojets of the -320 Intercontinental. Two pictures do indeed depict a 707-227, but the caption mentions that the aircraft pictured, N7071, was delivered to Braniff in July 1959. In fact, this aircraft crashed prior to delivery, making N7072 Braniff's first 707. The bottom photo shows a Braniff 720-027, not a 707-227; that aircraft was equipped with the same Pratt & Whittney JT-3C turbojets of the 707-120 series.

The color and black-and-white photos and illustrations are crisp and of good quality. The author does a good job showing the differences among the various types and subtypes, both civil and military. Several nice photos of aircraft under construction are presented, but for a detailed look at early proposed designs, you will need to consult Rene Francillon's 707: Pioneer Jetliner. Diagrams outlining the interior of the AWACS versions are included, but as the book was published during the Cold War, these may not be complets. At the end of the book, Mr. Lloyd presents kit reviews. Some of these kits are still available, for others you will need to find one on eBay (the rare Airfix 707 "Air Force One" is not mentioned); the newer kits by AMT and Minicraft, of course, are not included. Though this section is somewhat out of date, I still found it to be helpful in my selection of the Entex 1/100 scale kit over the Heller 1/72 model to represent the 707 in my collection. The bibliography lists books on the Boeing 707 published prior to 1985; it is fairly comprehensive but omits Martin Caidin's classic mass-market paperback when American Airlines took delivery of its first 707s.

Anyway, if you like the 707, you would do well to puprchase this book.

What a delight there is in reading this book. Rev. Jones's writing style has the sound of a personal conversation, sincere and informed, yet sprinkled with wit and charm. (As I had the pleasure of meeting this Welsh minister last May in Annapolis, I can attest to these attributes in the person whose hand I shook and sparkling eyes I appreciated!)

This book you can have "both ways." You can take is as a general read, picking up on parts of the Old Testament that have always fascinated or intrigued you. Or, you can read it paragraph by paragraph in order to more fully absorb the scholarship Rev. Jones offers.

What's offered here works well in study groups, too.