Richardson Books

This is a great book, and not only for children ! I've personally enjoyed it as much as my 9-year old son...

Ellmann's work is a must-read for anyone interested in anorexia in literature. As theory, it is remarkably readable, interesting, and compelling. Her reading of Richardson's Clarissa actually makes one want to read the longest novel in the English language, and her work on hunger strikers from various movements (focusing on Irish nationalists and suffragettes) is really fascinating. This book has changed the way I think about a lot of things.

A moving and absorbing account of the experiences of one internee and her family, and the mental and physical hardships they endured. It illuminates a sad chapter in our history.

This book takes the reader on a journey like no other, where the journey itself becomes real and there is the opportunity to glimpse the lost realms of another time.

Traveling up the river of consciousness symbolized by the Nile, The Inner Guide to Egypt visits key sacred sites and centres, and shows how they may be linked with psysiological and psychological functions within ourselves.

Packed with information and beautifully illustrated, it is both an invaluable resource book as well as a comprehensive system for inner development, offering numerous techniques which are entirely new, yet based on the most ancient impulses. -- from book's back cover

The children's guide to the metropolitan museam of art is super! It tells them what they will see in the museam and how to get there.

It shows you Greek marble arts, Egyptian arts, 20th century paintings, Roman marble copies, Indus river Valley arts, Chineses and Japanese arts, temple of Dendur, halls of Abu Simbel, etc. It has seventy-two pages filled with facts, stories, pictures, other galleries, and maps. It's an excellent guide for children.........

Richardson covers all the basics in just a few pages. Most of the book is devoted to specs on about 55 crosses throughout Ireland and photos from several different angles, which is a particular detail she attends to. She also includes information on similar Georgian and Armenian crosses, which seem to be related. Richardson has done extensive research in the area of high crosses, and studied with the likes of Nora Chadwick and Francoise Henry. This is a great intro (but only an intro) and the paperback would be a wonderful guidebook to take with you on Cross Hikes in Ireland.

"The only thing constant in this universe and our lives is change", as explained in an ancient Hindu Scriptures.

How do we determine the impact of constantly changing parameters around us, and what measures can we take to prepare for those changes?

Can we manipulate the variables to have a desired outcome?

Can we prepare for the dire consequences if the variables are beyond our power of manipulations?

Can we allocate our resources appropriately if we know the consequences of inactions?..........

And many more questions can be answered by the technique of dynamic system simulation. The book has ample of examples, is very well written, and is easy to follow.

One's imagination is the only limiting factor in applying the techniques of Dynamo. It could be applied to study farming, ecological balance, impact of wrath or blessings of mother nature such as drought or rain, population shifts, and much more.

For a serious student of simulation technique, I strongly recommend this book.

Excellent little thriller for the 11 to 14 crowd. I'm a children's librarian, a sucker for ghost stories and can't resist a good scare. While "The Intruders" may not satisfy the gore and guts crowd, the tale will give the younger teens and tweens a few sleepless moments...partly because they won't want to put the book down. I know I couldn't.

Usually, in a book like this, the subplot (in this case, a blended family trying to find its way to be a "real" family) not only takes a backseat to the main, scary plot, it's usually boring. But the tension between the children is so palpable and fascinating, it *almost* kicks the threat of the ghosts to the back. I really liked the characters (well, yeah, the parents were typically clueless) and enjoyed spending time with them. The teens were witty without being too adult. All in all and excellent effort and I look forward to more of Richardson's books.

One of the greatest environmental catastrophes in Canadian history occurred in the 1970s and 80s when the Quebec government undertook the construction of the James Bay projects in the northern section of the province. This book, published in 1972, details the events that brought all of this about, basically how Bourassa got all fat-headed about the project, seeing it as a means for Quebec to become economically self-sufficient, hence one step closer to having a "national identity". Boyce Richardson has to be commended for this excellent book, and the work that he did on behalf of the Cree, whose land was appropriated and flooded to facilitate this project. He spent much time with these people, produced several poignant films on their self-reliant lifestyle, and subsequently wrote a much more comprehensive book entitled Strangers Devour the Land.

I think this book will help me program something small and not complicated.