Richardson Books

This a wonderful treatment of drag queens. The text is very sympathetic and imformative and the photographs are fabulous. Many of the photos have quotes from the drag queens that are helpful hints about dressing or windows into their souls. The author of the text is a sometime crossdresser. This book is a treasured part of my personal library.

This book was absolutely fabulous. It provided much information about drag and doing drag.fabulous.

The only book on Richardsons works that has interior floor plans. Limited, but it had the one I was most interested in. Would of prefered a hard bound copy. Happy I could find this one though. Since I only cared about Ames lodge, I haven't actually read the book through. Its worth the expenditure of your money if your a Richardson fan. Fahey.....

H.H. Richardson is often credited as the first architect to craft a unique American style. He influenced Louis Sullivan, who taught Frank Lloyd Wright, who inspired Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler and John Lautner. That encompasses a lot of American architecture. This guide provides the reader with a succinct description of each of Richardson's works, with addresses and even maps to help the interested architectural tourist to visit the actual sites. Reading the book is informative. Visiting the sites is breathtaking.

Diliberto has done a wonderful job as researcher and writer to bring this remarkable woman to life. I really felt the joy and pain of both her life and her long influence on Hemingway. One cannot really understand him, and his much criticized views and literary treatment of women, without knowing her. A can't-put-it-down read if you're interested in him and the first half of the 20th Century. By the way, she had a "second life" after Hemingway with the poet Paul Mowrer

This is an absorbing and worthwhile study of Hadley's life, but after she and Hemingway break up, Diliberto doesn't have much to say about Hadley. She sums up the rest of her life quite briefly, leaving the impression--one that I'm sure the author did not intend--that Hadley wasn't very interesting and didn't have much of a life aside from her time with Hemingway.

It starts off with the birth of a soon to be king,Arthur. The book tells about Arthur,his life, and it told how he died. I think Howard Pyle is a great writer. I wrote this review as a responce to the book

I grew up reading the Howard Pyle tellings of the Robin Hood stories so I was initially drawn to this audio collection by the author. But the real star here is the extraordinary voice of Ian Richardson whose range of expression and intonation give the stories added richness and depth. If you have ever watched Masterpiece Theater, you will have seen Richardson - he is currently appearing in a cameo role as the Chancellor in Bleak House. If you love good acting and good story-telling, this is the collection for you. If you find that you agree with my enthusiasm for Richardson, he has equally entrancing audio CDs of Machiavelli's The Prince and Dickens' Tale of Two Cities.

Actually, I read the story in the Sacramento Bee as a serialized story. It was in the paper every Mon thru Fri for a total of 21 days and I found it difficult to wait a day for the next chapter, weekends were even worse. I cried with sorrow during some of the reading and laughed with joy at other times. Marvin Wilsey

This book is written for children. It is very readable for children. The story is easy to follow. It is a great book for teaching children about the orphan train with a Christian perspective. "Ethan", the main character, was my grandfather. Richardson does a great job of fictionalizing his life.

An unusually coherent tale from the endearingly wacky R. A. "Anson" Montgomery. The fate of the Earth team visiting breakaway colony Luna is actually involving. I still lament the cancellation of the CYOA series.

I recently found my C.Y.O.A. books from when I was young, including the first Packard book, Cave of Time. I gave them to my kids, who loved them, and then realized they're still being published. The new titles, like this one, are just as well written and full of tough choices, but they're updated to include more current concerns like computer hacking and genetic engineering. Splendid books for young readers, especially those who don't think they like reading.

Outstanding compilation of research. Not "easy reading" but a treasure of useful information for serious students in music education.

The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning is a very substantial reference work prepared under high scholarly standards and useful to the music researcher on numerous topics. It was a required text for a doctoral course, but I will keep it for future reference for many years to come. Amazon's price was the best I could find, even beating the used price of several other sites. Delivery was very fast.

Friedrich Nietzsche's published references to Charles Darwin and Darwinism are typically negative, even contemptuous. Nietzsche calls one section of Twilight of the Idols "Anti-Darwin." In Beyond Good and Evil, he calls Darwinism "incomprehensibly one-sided" and "the greatest possible stupidity" and lists Darwin among a group of "mediocre Englishmen." Richardson doesn't buy it. He argues persuasively that Nietzsche is not so much refuting Darwin as building on and extending his insights.

Richardson breaks his arguments into four parts. In the first, he looks at Nietzsche's doctrine of the will to power, which Nietzsche often sees (followed by most commentators) as a refutation of Darwin's idea of a "struggle for existence." Richardson claims that, if one looks at the will to power as a result of that struggle rather than an alternative to it, it makes more sense as a philosophical doctrine. He next looks at Nietzsche's perspectival metaethics not so much as a rejection of natural selection, but an addition to natural selection of social selection and self-selection by those powerful enough to do it. In the former sense, Nietzsche may be a forerunner of modern notions of memetics or gene-culture coevolution. Richardson ends with evaluations of Nietzsche's first-order ethical views and his aesthetics, reinterpreting them both as extensions and revisions of Darwin.

In the end, although I am not persuaded by some of the readings he propounds, this is a fascinating, well thought-out, careful book. Although certainly not intended for a popular audience, it is relatively clear and understandable. You certainly don't need to be a philosophy professor to get where he's going, and he provides enough primary citation of Nietzsche's works to allow you to evaluate his arguments for yourself without a deep familiarity with the original texts, at least to a significant extent.

A valuable and important addition to the study of Nietzsche and Darwin.

Nietzsche referred to Darwin as "mediocre" and most of his comments on Darwin are similar negative criticisms. However, argues John Richardson, we should not be misled by such "attacks." He argues persuasively that Nietzsche accepted Darwin's basic evolutionary mechanism: natural selection, but sought to add to, transform, and improve Darwinism. Nietzsche's "new Darwinism" (or neo-Darwinism) incorporates two additional "steps" that humans have taken (or can take) beyond Darwin's natural selection. These two are "social selection:" and "superhuman (over-human) selection. The third step involves a "self-overcoming" and "self-selection" which incorporates the best of natural selection and breaks away from the "herd" (which has been created by social selection). Only by such a break from the "mediocrity" of the tamed or domesticated herd can a person attain the "super-human" or "superior individual" (der Ubermensch) who rises above the "human-all-too-human."

I learned a new word by reading Richardson's book. The word is "exapt," a word that Richardson uses often. To "exapt" something involves incorporating the best of that subject or concept, and revising, redesigning, and re-aiming it so as to make an advance or improvement. Richardson argues that Nietzsche's project is to "exapt" Darwinian natural selection and transform its basic truth into something higher. I suspect that by doing so, Nietzsche is engaged in a kind of "oneupmanship," seeking to demonstrate that his (Nietzsche's) explication of evolution is superior to Darwin's. After all, on another occasions, Nietzsche remarked, "Philosophy is the most spiritual form of the will to power."

One of the problems of "reading" (interpreting) Nietzsche is that his work can be (and often has been) divided into three periods: (1) the early Nietzsche--author of The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, in which he praised art as the highest human pursuit; the middle period--in which he wrote "Human-All-Too-Human," a positivistic celebration of science over art; And the mature period, in which he tried to synthesize art and science. On the penultimate page of Richardsons' book, the author writes, "Nietzsche thinks himself a novelty both in being a poet who is also a philosopher (and so poetizes his own ideas), and in being a philosopher who is also a scientist (and so makes his ideas in the light of selection's truth." Nietzsche sought, in other words, to synthesize the aesthetic drive to art and beauty with the scientific, or epistemic, drive to knowledge and truth. His "new aesthetics," therefore, seeks to incorporate art, poetry, science, and philosophy in a coherent whole.

The selection of poems is good. It would have been nice if the reader would have identified the title of the poem he was reading. The reading was a bit over the top at times.

Many recordings exist of Keats' poems; most are good but Ralph Richardson's surpasses them all. The timbre of his voice, his pauses and inflections never interfere with the intention of Keats, but clarify the poetry much as a fine pianist will give us Beethoven without gratuitously imposing idiosyncracies.
I have listened to these recordings over and over, and never tire of them.

Great book with very well organinzed content, but there are a few illnesses not included in various body systems. Overall a great reference for NP students.

This is a great reference for PNPs and PNP students. The most common entities seen in pediatric primary care are here, with signs and symptoms, diagnostic tools, and treatments, all in outline format. I used this book a lot as a PNP student and plan on using it when starting in practice. Highly recommended!