Powell Books

This is one of the funniest books I have ever read. An idealistic young American, who finds botany more compelling than his family's desires for status and wealth, goes to a Caribbean island to teach the locals how to grow Dwarf Cavendish bananas. He get kidnapped by the local revolution; there is an island custom: "One son goes into law, one goes into the priesthood, and one into the revolution; so the family is insured against everything, including the Second Coming." Disturbed by the inefficiency of his captors, he uses his Boy Scout training to teach them woodcraft and organizational skills. As his beard grows out, he starts looking more and more like the leader of the revolution, who is not at all pleased by this. I don't want to give away the whole plot, but I've read this many times over several decades and it remains hilarious throughout. Woody Allen took some of the plot - without attribution - for his movie "Bananas"; he would have done better to have made a straight adaptation, because this book is far funnier than that movie.

Willy Nilly is always being told just what to say -- unfortunately, these phrases don't always apply as well to all situations. This is a short book that had my son laughing out loud. Grandma enjoyed the story, too (and she was sitting across the room and couldn't even see the pictures). It's definitely a hit with the 4-6 year old set. It is aimed squarely at the right audience, yet it is enjoyable for adults too.

I'd love to see more by this author/illustrator team.

An amazing journey of John Wesley Powell going down the Colorado River in the early 1900's, good illustrations as well.

This worked miracles for me. I highly recommend it!!!

This book is a practical introduction to the art of deciphering your dreams. You'll learn how to remember & analyze your dreams & to initiate & control them. The book features a dream dictionary of common themes & symbols and also includes a professional analysis of real dreams.

Beautiful photographs & illustrations.

This is the first collection of records the researcher should turn to in any genealogical investigation in the Buckeye State. Taking the place of pre-1820 census records, this work presents a county-by-county list of Ohio settlers and residents from about 1800 to 1825. Along with the 1801 tax list of the Virginia Military District, it contains the names of taxpayers listed in various county tax rolls, and it also contains lists of original proprietors and settlers (taken from other sources), names of holders of military warrants, voters' lists, householders' lists, occasional lists of Revolutionary soldiers, and lists of resident proprietors.

The work is arranged by county, with multiple tax lists arranged chronologically thereunder. There is at least one tax list given for each of the seventy-five counties covered, the combined lists naming about 50,000 taxpayers. Each county tax list is accompanied by a brief history of the county's formation. Researchers should note that tax lists were not available for the following counties: Auglaize, Carroll, Erie, Fulton, Lake, Lucas, Noble, Ottawa, Paulding, Summit, Vinton, and Wyandot.

Our reprint combines the original 1971 publication and the 1973 index, both first published by the Ohio Genealogical Society.

Sit down in your garden and read this one aloud to yourself. Dannye's voice is both sharp and subtle, laced with the soft, sweet pain of yesterdays that can't be retrieved. And her wry interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve gives fresh perspective to the genesis of tension--sexual and otherwise--between woman and man.

When he was young, Michael Powell saw a documentary about the evacuation of Hirta (St. Kilda), he always wanted to make a film about it.

What happens when the people of a lonely, windswept island can no longer survive as a community ? This story examines the hardships of such a life and the decisions they must make, whether to stay where their families have worked & died to establish this hard-working community or to leave and give the next generation a better chance.

This book documents how Powell & his film crew stayed on the Hebridean island of Foula to make this dramatic film.

An excellent introduction to the turbulent period in Britain leading up to the First World War. The author divides his book into themes - constitutional reform, the Irish crisis, the suffragettes, etc - and makes everything much easier to understand than contemporaries must have found it. Solid analysis is combined with an exceptionally clear writing style.

Having been a fan of Edwin Hubble since I first learned of him in high school in the early Fifties and read his classic work, The Realm of the Nebulae, while in college, I have collected everything about him I could find. He died suddenly during my senior year in high school and I was shocked and saddened to learn of it in the January, 1954 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine. I had long hoped a biography would be forthcoming but , except for a few brief ones in a few journals, no full length treatment was produced. I talked to Dr. Charles A. Whitney once about one he was to write which he told me was on hold but it never was completed. The first book with much biographical material was in a novel entitled Hubble Time published in 1987 which was about a fictional granddaughter. There is much biographical material in it about Hubble, however. One of its highlights is the publication of an essay about Hubble by Aldous Huxley which, according to the novel, had never been published. I well recall having read this very essay in the early Fifties! I had tried to find it several times since but could find no reference to it and it has been a great mystery where I read it. So, great was my surprise to find it in Hubble Time.

Finally, in 1989, a biography was published in Russia by two Russian scientists followed by Gale Christiansons excellent biography in 1995, both books long overdue. I also have copies of journals containing many of Hubble's scientific papers, all his books and a copy of his doctoral thesis. Now several volumes for young people have been written of which Mary Virginia Fox' is one. It is an excellent overview of his life and work for young people which can easily be read in one sitting and contains some photographs which I had not previously seen. It is good that such an important American astronomer, whose discoveries have been called "the most significant contributions to cosmology since Copernicus" and of whom Stephen Hawking has said "changed the concept of the universe more profoundly than anyone else", should be made known to a young generation. And Hubble's legacy continues in the profound new findings being produced with the great space telescope that appropriatly bears his name.

I would have loved to have had this excellent little book during my own early years.