Richardson Books

For any teacher of writing and rhetoric, this book is a gold mine of classroom methods and resources. It is, of course, written in a different time, but not altogether _for_ a different time. The principles of expression and clarity that it teaches still hold. It is a very practical book.

This is a GREAT book!!! It tells you all you need to know about exercise and health. Donna Richardson has such an up beat attitude. She's GREAT!!! I recommend this book to anyone who wants to buy a health or exercise book. Her videos are great too!!!

This book was very educational--and written in a very thoughtful and thought provoking manner. Mr. Martinez is a polished author and he explains the complexities surrounding the death penalty in several accessible essays.

I wish I had a book like this while I was going to school. Its not easy to realise that one is living without this precious knowledge all the way into adulthood. I would advise everyone to get this book, set aside time with family or by themselves, and study this book. Better yet, invite friends and family to sit and learn this work. What a treasure!

This book has many great chefs showecasing their creativity. It's not too often that you hear about chefs from London, but this book does them justice.

Richardson's book, London & Its People: A Social History from Medieval Time to the Present Day, is a fascinating survey of London through the occupations and diversions of the people who have made up the English capital for the past thousand years.

This book presents London in the extremes (rich and poor, powerful and powerless, etc.) as well as in the middle, mostly where it is today. London, founded as a remote outpost of a major empire, later became the centre of a much more vast empire, one of the extremes present in the historical development on the city. London was spared much of the turmoil which plagued continental capitals; London has been spared invasion and much upheaval, churning its way along a remarkable historical path.

Interesting stories, complete with paintings, drawings, and photographs, make up the main part of the text. One such story is illustrated below:

'King's Bench Prison, St. George's Field, circa 1800, by Pugin and Rowlandson. This building of 224 rooms, was renowned for the freedom of its inhabitants. It was quite easy to buy 'liberty' of the walls, and was a much desired place of incarceration. Women were allowed to live there, and traders such as bakers and tailors could move freely in the building--at the height of the gin epidemic there were at least 30 gin shops in the precincts.'

Another great illustration is contained below.

'The 1869 Debtors Act abolished imprisonment for debt other than for money owed to the Crown. It also provided that those who were already in prison for debt could be freed with their debts cancelled. This produced a rush of people anxious to be incarcerated for a few days so that their debts could be erased, and a good many people crowded into the last City debtors' prison at Whitecross Street. '

Both stories include a drawing or painting illustrating the scene.

Richardson illustrates contrasts current in each historical period as well as contrasts between the historical periods, i.e., London going from being a city of producers to a city of financiers to a city of consumers. Included also is a wonderful chapter, entitled 'Strangers to Our Shores' in which foreign perspectives of the city are recounted in an interesting style.

It is an excellent book to understand Economic Cycles .It worths its
value.

The Lordly Ones is a must have for any reader of history, especially those just beginning the journey of researching the War of the Roses and the powerful Neville family and the critical role they played in it.

Richardson, skips the prose and gets straight to the point in an easy to read fashion that never skims over the details, yet makes the issues more striking and easy to recall with his charts and maps. He's also cleary comfortable offering his own opinion while laying the background on this complex family that turned into the ultimate family of 'players' by a series of masterful marriages.

Though Richard Neville aka The Kingmaker is the best known figure in the family it was his daughter Anne who wore a crown through her mariage to Richard III. And Richardson, doesn't just linger on the most famous of the Nevilles; he carefully takes the reader through their entire history in concise able fashion.

This is one of the most charming children's books I have ever read. A child loses her beloved doll and comes in distress to her father. He is with a business client/friend who happens to be a writer about to embark on a world cruise. Older children reading the story will guess the real author of the series of postcards that arrives for the child from her lost doll. Each new postcard describes an adventure in an exotic and faraway place, and the doll uses pictures instead of words in her messages so that non-readers can help "read" the messages from the doll. The doll is unable to curb her wanderlust and convinces her former owner that although she loves her, she is unable to return and the last communication is a package with a new doll for her to care for (a friend her old doll made while travelling). After reading this story to my four- and six- year old daughters, the six-year old beamed and took me aside to tell me that she knew who really sent the postcards and "isn't it cute how Claire (the four-year old) believes it was really the doll. The pictures are beautiful, the messages whimsical enough to bring to life a doll. The author in the story was supposed to have been Kafka, and as I remember it, the story is based on truth. After reading it, I thought, if it really is based on a good deed of his, what a lovely man!

I went to a University in Indiana that had the largest library building in the entire world at the time (Notre Dame). Now that I'm over 50+ yrs old, I realize that none of the books in this library nor in the entire world can compare with the contents of this tiny little book and how it has helped me...
Don't take my word for it. Buy it and watch the positive, helpful, happy, practical changes begin to happen in your life. YOU WILL NOT REGRET GETTING THIS BOOK! Buy one for someone you care about. It is out of print & hard to find.