Reed Books

I am a pediatrician and have been in general pediatric practice for over 25 years. In addition, I have four grown children. I highly recommend this book on general baby and child care and problem management. In my early learning years a book like this one would have been helpful to me both as a mother and as a pediatrician.

This compact little book is power packed with informative and easily readable tips for any mother, from the least experienced new mother to the veteran mother of a large brood. There is always something new to learn, and each child brings new and unexpected challenges. Dr. Baskerville's observations, comments and suggestions come from her long experience in interacting with mothers and children of every sort. It is easy to find your way around this book in order to find the answer to a specific question. It is also a comfort to just read straight through it, or through a section of it, for general information. Issues from taking the baby's temperature to how to position the baby for sleeping to problems with discipline are addressed. She also directs the reader to appropriate sources for further help if this is necessary.

In my opinion, this book, Baby Basics, should be a standard on every mother's nursery shelf. It is a ready reference of most of those little unexpected day to day problems, and it is a pleasure to read.

Dr. Baskerville's "Baby Basics" is a common sense approach to caring for babies and toddlers. She answers many questions new parents ask in a way that is easy to understand and to carry out. I am a labor/delivery nurse and am in a position of answering many of these same questions from new parents before I send them home with their babies. I am so happy to have a book like this to refer to and I happily recommend it to my patients. I am buying a copy for each of my own children to use as they become parents for the first time or even if they already have a child. There should be more manuals like this for parents. Thank you Dr. Baskerville.

Robert Reed is THE sf short story writer of the nineties. Here's a collection of a fraction of those stories, the best of the best. Consistently well written with intriguing ideas. Buy this book!

I understand those who say they don't write SF like they used to. Reed shows they do it better. The style of the New Wave with the substance of the old. An important author who will be huge in the next decade. I assure you. His stories are like action packed explosions that manage to make you think at the same time. SF has a future & he's a big part of it. Only Nancy Kress, & Baxter will be as big or bigger.

Shock SuspenStories, The EC Archives, Volume 2 contains full color glossy reprints of issues 7-12 of Shock SuspenStories. Now that Gemstone is publishing these stories, one can see why "The Code" was created, EC was censored, and went out of business. The only thing missing from these reprints are the advertisements. I wanna send away from my X-Ray specs!

Issue 7's last story, "The Small Assassin," is an adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story. Issue 9's first story, "The October Game" is also an adaptation of a Ray Bradbury tale.

The story "In Gratitude..." deals with racism and the small town mindset. It is stories like these that offer a glimpse into how life was back years ago. Taking into account the final message of this story, the moral lesson, one can see how it conflicted with an agenda of racism. I will not give you the particulars and details because the story presents the realities of war, two heroes' homecomings, and how different they were. For children and teenagers to read comic books with such social commentary rebuking the establishment, EC branded themselves.

Great stories and a great glimpse into the history of comics!

Where it all began. Amazing art, great stories, beautiful new color on heavy glossy paper. These E.C. Archives are well worth buying. I intend to get them all.

Beautiful colorful book, full of designs from around the world. Gave me great ideas for my new home.

I already own her book, "Ethnic Interiors" and love it. I ordered this book online thinking it would be just as good. But it's actually the exact same book with a different cover. No kidding! I have no idea why she'd release the two books with different covers but identical content, but that's what's happened here. The content is wonderful. I wrote a great Amazon review of for the other book, which I won't repeat here. But I'm terribly disappointed that no one has bothered to mention in the item description that the two books are the same. I guess I'll be passing this book on as a gift.

Perhaps the most influential conduct book of the eighteenth century, Gregory's *Father's Legacy* is a must-read for any student of conduct literature -- right up there with Hannah More's *Strictures on Female Education* in its conservatism and prudery. If you want to understand where idiocies like *The Rules* come from, you'll find it here.

This is what may be called passing on "old fashioned" advice from father to daughter, but I think it is an example of a father who honestly cares enough about his daughters to advise them on what IS proper. I think these words ring just as true today as they did in 1796. I wish that publishers WOULD continue to keep works like this in print. Some valuable truths might be imparted on our society about the reality of human interaction.

Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (12/06)




Five men organize a small company to search for gold. Each man invests a small sum of money to get the C.S.O. up and running. Regular board meetings are scheduled to discuss and vote on equipment purchases, planned explorations, and to review the results of their latest outing.

Edward L. Allum, in journal form, has written these delightful stories which follow the paths of the miners of the 1849 gold rush. He details (with maps) the small mining towns in the historical mother lode country of California.

Allum makes fun of his group as they establish a pattern of weekly meeting in the club house, early morning departures, breakfast eateries, casinos, and diners. In detail he tells of the struggles of setting equipment and of panning for the gold. Adventures in Fiddletown, French Camp, Lake Topaz, Bagby, Candy Rock, Colfax, Bear River, and Colombia, each provide unique struggles, and lessons for the team members of the C. S. O.

Allum subtly introduces proven organization and management skills as a part of the C.S.O. board and relates these to their mining adventures. It's also an example of how important this is when faced with trials, and hardship.

In the Annual Report of C.S.O. the following observation is recorded: "Many companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to motivate and teach their executive management teams, through survival courses, to trust in their team members, knowing they won't let you down. If the C.S.O. finds no other gold, the real gold is in the friendships that have been formed, which will be everlasting."

"The Fiddletown Journal" has given me the yen to study Allum's maps, to fill the gas tank, to visit the small mining towns he has mentioned and to find the restaurants, and shops introduced in the journal.

This is an inspirational and informational book for the history enthusiast and the gold panning hobbyist.

Fiddletown tickled my funny bone and perked up my retired management skills. Oh Yeah! All those skills I had left behind can be applied to a new hobby as did this Author and his friends when they took on GOLD PANNING in California. The detailed research is exceptionally applied in the actually and true maps and techniques for finding the Mother Lode in California.

Those who love history and being a part of walking through it will throughly enjoy this factual book.

Those who desire to start a hobby with friends will learn all the techniques for getting started on a shoestring, using all those management skills you once put in mothballs. It can be applied to any hobby.

I truly enjoyed the adventure of these men. It was a great and inspiring read

A plague is ripping through Constantinople during the reign of Justinian at the very beginning of the Byzantine Empire. So many people are dying that the Emperor has commissioned ships to be filled with bodies, towed to the harbor, and set ablaze. With so many dead, one more wouldn't seem to be a big deal. But John the Eunuch, Lord Chamberland to the Emperor, feels compelled to search for the killer of one man--a longtime friend and former soldier comrad of Peter, John's cook. According to Peter, an angel came, demanding vengence. While John follows Mithra rather than Christianity, he owes his faithful servant the investigation.

In a city being emptied by plague and people fleeing the plague, it's hard to find witnesses but John establishes a possible connection. Gregory, the dead man, had recently witnessed a will. When other witnesses also turn up dead, it seems that John is onto something--but what.

Authors Mary Reed and John Mayer do a wonderful job depicting what was then the greatest and most powerful city in the world. The holy fool, the aspiring poets, the politically savvy and dangerous Empress Theodora, and especially John the Eunuch and his family really come to life.

Reed and Mayer use the mosaic metaphor several times in their book and, in fact, present a bit of a mosaic of Constantinople. Not all of the crimes that John uncovers are connected to one another, but they are connected to the extended family that John has built in the new Rome. FIVE FOR SILVER is therefore a very personal story.

John the Eunuch is one of the most entertaining of the historical mystery series being written today. If you haven't discovered it yet, you're in for a treat.

The year is 542. Peter, John the Lord Chamberlain's elderly servant, claims a heavenly visitor revealed a murder to him. It transpires that Peter's old army friend has indeed been stabbed, but then John discovers that Gregory was not what he appeared to be. Is the solution to the mystery to be found in a hidden identity, in the will made by a dying ship owner with a wayward
son, or perhaps even amid the oracles in a merchant's garden.

Five for Silver is set in Constantinope against the backdrop of the plague. It is an extemely well written mystery with loads of terrific historical detail and well developed characters you come to care about. The details on the plague will give you the chills just imagining what it must have been like to live thru it. An elaborately plotted mystery that will leave you guessing, speculating and trying to solve it until the very end. Just when
you think you have finally figured it out....you haven't! A must read mystery that will send you scrambling for the first four in this dynamite series.

Goethe's Italian journey came after ten hard years administering and working at Weimar. In these years his literary output contracted. The trip to Italy was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream, a dream inspired in part by his own father's earlier journey and love of Italy. In Italy Goethe found yet another side of his multifaceted self . He opened to the world and the light and to sensuous reality. His connection with Nature is a fundamental theme of his poetry and in Italy he found a Nature which seemed imbued with organic form and Art , and an Art imbued with Nature. In a sense leaving home enabled him to come home to a central side of himself.
Goethe was a writer- scientist- artist whose central theme was his own inner development. This development took a dramatic turn for the good, and these journals of his Italian trip are a central part of ' the great confession' which was his work.

Those who love Goethe or love Italy or love traveling might have come across The Italian Journey, Goethe's late-in-life rendering of his experience "fleeing" Weimar and hopeless love to fulfill a lifelong dream of being in Italy. I can't say staying in Italy or visiting Italy or studying Italy because Goethe's quest was so much more profound and fundamental; in Italy Goethe hoped to BE. This diary and these letters, however, are Goethe's immediate impressions, un-editted and not reconsidered. These are his immediate considerations and his emotions expressed in the diary he wrote for Frau von Stein, the woman he loved more or less hopelessly for several years. I love both books, but this one, unlike Italian Journey, is not neatly refined and carved and considered from a mature viewpoint; this is full of the urgency and passion and longing that propelled Goethe across the Brenner and up the slopes of Vesuvius. It's just GREAT.

In a world of deceit, excess, killing, lying and stealing, the present moment works with faith FOR A FUTURE TO BE POSSIBLE by enlightenment from the Buddha, the practice of love and understanding, and ever bigger and greater numbers of communities seeking wisdom, harmony and awareness. Art and meditation send energy into cell nutrition and nervous system health. Mindfulness teaches respect for all life, generosity, responsibility, careful speech and healthy diet for concentration and insight. Nobel Prize winner Thich Nhat Hanh's book is a beautifully reader-friendly steppingstone to THE GOOD HEART by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, AWAKENING THE BUDDHIST HEART by Lama Surya Das, and LOVINGKINDNESS by Sharon Salzberg.

Thich Nhat Hanh has updated the traditional Buddhist precepts in this book. His version goes beyond "do not kill," for example, to be mindful of that we might be killing inadvertently. He makes us aware of the broadness of the precepts and thus encourages us to be more mindful. If we are not mindful, we break the precepts. Therefore, he calls them Mindfulness Trainings. Thay's approach frames the precepts in a way that is helpful in our daily life. He makes them relevant.

Through the eyes and thoughts of an American soldier, For a Time We Were Titans allows you to experience the human emotions, annoyances and gratification felt by those who put their lives on the line for their country - true heroes. This book is well written and fast moving. The only disappointment is that it ends.

Tom "tells it like it was". The men of the LRRP/LRP teams were a tight knit band that had both good times and bad. He takes you from the suspense of a contact to the loss of team-mates and friends. No bull here. No glory hounds or make believe either. All in all, well written and gives you a feel for our men in this special unit. Once a LRRP, always a LRRP.