Reed Books

I've used this book many times for multiple different processes and it's never let me down. Anecdotal and fun to read, the authors also give good practical advice from experience.

While I think this book will most likely be used as a reference book by those who pick it up, I have to admit I'm enjoying just reading it for pleasure. Each Diary listed is also annotated. It tells you who the writer was, what they wrote about, and other historically interesting facts. And the indexes are excellent - by name, by subject, and by geographical location. The scope of the project is mind boggling and I'm glad they took the time to compile this amazingly complete list!

Dan Reed writes an organized and balanced story of American Airlines and the company's president, Robert Crandall. Bob Crandall was a innovative leader in the marketing and operation of United State's airlines.

Crandall used the SABRE computerized system of reservartions, the practice of gathering passengers in regional "hub" airports to fill big planes operating between major hubs and the frequent flyer programs to build American Airlines the nation's first airline during the years following the 1978 de-regulation of tha airline industry.

This is an exciting book which correctly predicted in 1993, that the great period of airline innovation may be ending. The only shortcoming in the book is that it was published too soon. In the fall of 1993, American's flight attendants went on strike which symbolized the real end of the period of turmoil and innovation which this book had predicted.

This book offers an in-depth look into the history of the reed organ. This is the stregnth of the book. It discusses how the reed organ grew in popularity, why it flourished in the society of its time, and then describes its demise. The restoration information is also good. The workings of the organ are described in a fair amount of detail. The tuning section is quite good. It gives exact methods and tells how to make various tools. It includes stop faces, a stop dictionary, company logos, and other useful information. As I mentioned before, though, the real stregnth of this book is the history! A great read for anyone interested in reed organs.

Emil Guillermo has put together a wonderful book about life in America from his perspective as the son of first generation Asian American immigrants of Filipino descent. In a collection of essays ranging from his undergraduate experience at Harvard University to baseball games with his Dad and commentary on the quirkiness of American culture, Guillermo reveals an engaging, humorous, and touching writing style. I enjoy reading and re-reading the essays in this book and recommend it to every American whose forbears came to this country 300 years ago or three years ago.

What a way to teach a disinterested child history! The facts are all there even better researched than those so-called textbooks our children use in school.

This style of writing involves your child into the lessons and I bet they won't even realize they are learning history by reading this book!

Now I am off to by the other one and look forward to the next book soon to hit the shelves I hope!

Being that there's no description I decided to write the description from the flap of the book for you to see:

Anna is the harrowing story of a beautiful young woman's mental breakdown and descent into madness-and of her husband's decision to take of her at home, surrounded by her children, family, friends, and sensitive "helpers," rather than permit her to be institutionalized and sujected to electroshock therapy.

Everybody meant well-from the family who wanted to save Anna's individuality and human dignity, to the doctors who thought that caring for her at home might work, to the psychotherapists, most of them of the Laingian persusion, who thought that in time the problem would disappear. But nothing disappeared. Instead came pure horror, rape, attempted murder, and the agony of Anna's lingering death from self-inflicted burns.

"Anna" and "David Reed" are pseudonyms, but Anna is a tragically true story. Every painfully revealing biographical detail, every lacerating description of the inexorable destruction of Anna's life is recorded with devastating honesty. The names have been changed in order to protect the living; none of us, on reading this profoundly disturbing book, can know how we would behave if confronted by this appalling dilemma.

Anna is the most powerful and moving story of love and the tragedy of madness to be published in our time.

This register lists organizations, programs and sources of
financial support for individuals and organizations. The book
is comprehensive in that it contains approximately 1400+ pages
of grant support listings. This book would be an excellent
reference for fund raising purposes. For instance, there are
extensive research activities funded by the Arthritis Foundation
at 1330 Peachtree St. NW Atlanta, GA. 30309 at 404-872-8694
located at dporter @ arthritis.org

Newcomers to the antiques field and veterans of it would find this reference particularly worthwhile. Types of items, descriptive terms, and historical datings are sorts of information more for newcomers. With use of this reference, they would also get educated as to the importance of relatively specialized points, such as manufacturers. Veterans of the field would inevitably learn something new from the details mentioned in many of the thousands of entries. As everyone in the antiques field says, "No one can know everything." Skills in buying and appraising come from a continual learning process - which this book contributes to.

A sample entry is the one for "Kettle front furniture." In full, it is, "A kettle-like outward swelling of the lower section of eighteenth-century furniture. Sometimes called bombe." One learns quickly about the feature by the description and the date of it in authentic antique pieces of furniture. The entry for "bombe front" explains that the term came from the French for "bulging or jutting outward." In this case, as with hundreds of other entries, there is a photograph of a "Bombe chest of drawers in Dutch rococo-style." Then, as you'd expect, there's an entry for rococo. A "Jumeau doll" is "quite possibly the finest doll ever made in the nineteenth century." The "bisque dolls" were made in France from the 1860s to the 1890s. There's an entry for "bisque."

With the great diversity of the antiques and collectibles field and flux of it from continual introduction of new types of items and the development of new interests, no book can be definitive or encyclopedic. This reference is especially useful for the field of American antiques and related areas of European antiques. Anyone involved in the field, especially ones for whom it is a business to some degree, have a limited number of reliable references they find crucial in their work. This is one such reference those in the field will want to include in this number. It's the sort of easy-to-use, wide-ranging reference many would want to bring with them to the flea markets, estates sales, etc., where they do their buying.

I've had my copy of this excellent, compact, little pocket guide for 20 years now. When I travel, it goes in either my briefcase or suitcase. When I arrive, it finds its way to my coat pocket.

Firstly, it is a dense little review of the history of architecture for the non-professional or student. Actually, it is an excellent refresher for anyone with an interest in the subject. The range is from the first Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations, to the Greeks and Romans, to South Asia, China and Japan, Islam, to Pre-Hispanic America. You get concise historical overviews concerning the architectural history of the specific region, illustrated by excellent, crisp, jewel-like line drawings of both entire structures (exteriors, floor plans, and cut-away views) and smaller details.

The Architecture of the West is especially, though by no means exclusively, covered with individual sections covering: Early Christian and Byzantine styles, Romanesque, Gothic, Italian Renaissance, Baroque and Neo-Classicism, the Nineteenth Century, Foundations of Modern, and Modern. An updated section on Post-Modernism marks the most recent edition. In addition, the index references the architectural landmarks of the world nation by nation (with reference to specific structure, architect, and City.)

A symbol system is used to quickly indicate if an entry is 1) not to be overlooked, 2) particularly beautiful or dramatic, or 3) in ruins.