Richardson Books

What a perfect book for every young musician!

This one is pure Americana. It's also ideal for home-schoolers, to help them experience the "look and feel" of the original American nation.

This dust jacket is so beautiful that it should help make this a true collectible as time goes by. Using red and blue inks, it shows a WOMAN with red hair holding a large guitar with a big eagle over what looks like a log structure! It's great art in itself!

A "solid piece of Americana," as the dust jacket blurb states, with a very interesting and thorough background and lore for these songs: Yankee Doodle, The Star-Spangled Banner, Home Sweet Home, America, Old Folks at Home, Dixie, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, The Bonnie Blue Flag, Maryland My Maryland, Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, America The Beautiful, The Lord's Prayer, God Bless America, Ballad of the Green Berets and Others, Some American Christmas Songs (Jingle Bells, White Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). With bibliography.

Melody lines, words, and guitar chords are included for most of the songs!

I'm 23 years old yet am captivated by the likeness to my childhood that gillian capture's. When babysitting her stories captavate the children and they never what me to leave!!!.I am bias she is my aunt but I have never met her so what I say is the truth

I found this books very helpful to my studies. It has clear explanations and diagrams. It is not very detailed, but it is excellent in summarising key facts you should know. I think Year 7s, or 7/6 th graders would find this book great for revision and homework.

Loved it. Simon Gosling is the best in biz. =)

I love this book. It is not a how-to manual for beginning scrapbookers, but rather a group of prompts for you to think in new ways about this hobby and how you can make it more meaningful and personal by taking it in some new directions.

Jews and Christians alike know that in the time of the Holocaust the world looked the other way. After the Holocaust Jewish life has gone on. Elias Canetti said that one could not say God anymore. Religion, arguably, is an attempt to make the universe humanly significant. One cannot conceive of a way to bind sin, punishment, and the Holocaust together. One of the products of the disaster is that attendance at the synagogues is growing and the Orthodox movement has increased sevenfold. Also, the State of Israel was established as a sort of world atonement.

When Jews lose connection with impoverished people they become a sort of broken link to the American dream. Currently there is much hard feeling between Jews and African-Americans. This is regrettable since Jews were in the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement. Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman died in Mississippi.

In Poland today Jewish life exists only in photographs. At the start of World War II three and a half million Jewish people lived there. Nearly all of them perished. Poles were victims, Jewish protectors, and Jewish betrayers. In 1946 forty-two Jewish survivors of the camps were murdered in Kielce.

After the Russian Revolution Jews had a brief resurgence. Over time, though, there was folk anti-semitism prevailing. Ten public institutions in Israel are devoted to the Holocaust. Jewish-American politics have been altered by the Holocaust.

The author presents a cogent discussion of the many ways Jewish life in America has changed and been recast since the days of the Holocaust and the long aftermath of coming to terms with, (trying to understand), that hideous event.

"Sense and Sensibility," Jane Austen's first published novel (1811), tells the intertwined stories of two contrasting sisters, the lively, passionate, impulsive Marianne and the reserved, self-disciplined, dutiful Elinor. Both experience love, heartache, and eventual happiness in marriage, and both have their beliefs and value systems tested. A host of memorable, comic minor characters combine with the principal heroines and heroes to develop a tale that is both lively and thought provoking, humorous and psychologically astute. Anyone who has ever struggled with conflicts between spontaneity and caution, heart and head, can identify with the central characters of this novel.
This edition of "Sense and Sensibility" includes a number of helpful supplementary materials that enhance the reader's understanding and appreciation of the novel. Excerpts from contemporary texts clarify the historical context of the terms "sense" and "sensibility." Among the works included are selections from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther," a classic example of the novel of sensibility, and Maria Edgeworth's "Letters of Julia and Caroline," an earlier novel of contrasting female characters, in this case two friends, one of whom is sensible and the other romantic and impractical. The edition also includes the whole of Jane Austen's "Love and Freindship" (sic), a hilarious parody of sentimental fiction written when Austen was fourteen. Besides background materials, the volume includes four essays from recent critics that represent a range of different interpretations of the novel.
Finally, the introduction provides useful biographical and historical information and outlines a variety of critical approaches to the novel: some critics believe Elinor is clearly the favored sister and the sense she embodies the preferred value system; some critics by contrast believe the novel either consciously or unconsciously betrays sympathy for Marianne and the sensibility she represents; and other critics believe the novel advocates a middle ground between sense and sensibility, according to which both sisters need to abandon aspects of their initial beliefs and adopt attitudes and behaviors associated with the other sibling. "Sense and Sensibility" has sometimes been criticized for being too didactic and formulaic, but those who read the novel along with the various background, critical, and introductory essays in this volume should discover a work that is richly complex, ambiguous, and many-sided in its exploration of the competing values of emotion and reason, spontaneity and restraint, and personal fulfillment versus duty to others.

When it comes to Western history, and narrative history, this is the absolute best book I have ever read. If you like your cavalry and Indian stories in the best "John Ford/John Wayne" tradition, with the advantage of intensive and even-handed research, you simply have to buy this book. It reads like a novel, captures all the pathos of the era, and plays fair with both sides. In Hamilton's west, there are no good guys, and no bugles and guidons glory; there is only survival, and the understanding that, in the end, might does really make right, and the strongest do indeed survive. A fantastic read, and with the footnotes and bibliography, a must for the general reader and the specialist too. AND, the best treatment of the Warren Wagon Train Raid, one of the most important events in the history of the Southern Plains, ever done. FOUR STARS!

Simon & Barklee In England is the latest book in the adventurous Simon & Barklee series for children. The exciting tale is of a best-friends dog and bird duo exploring a new country, visiting Shakespeare's home town, and singing for the Queen among numerous other amazing activities. Simon & Barklee features not only playful color illustrations, but also a simple map of England and a glossary of British English words that differ from their American counterparts, making the engaging exploits of the animal companions as educational as it is entertaining! Also highly recommended is the Simon & Barklee In England Fun Book (0970466153, $4.00), a consumable companion workbook for young folks, who can undertake 22 different exercises of three different challenge levels, from coloring the Union Jack flag to measuring in metrics and learning what happens when one crosses the International Date Line.

Simon is a bird and Barklee is a dog. Together these two great friends embark upon a wonderful adventure traveling to France and meeting a series of remarkable and memorable characters. David Scherer's delightfully entertaining text is laced with factual information about France, while Kara Richardson's superbly executed artwork is a perfect support for the storyline. Simon & Barklee In France is an enthusiastically recommended addition to school and community library collections -- and is a "must" for any family with children bound for vacation or business travel in France!