Ross Books

This companion to Don Ross's "Rubber Powered Model Airplanes" covers updated information on flying and building rubber powered models. But best of all it now includes information related to flying the new immensely popular micro models. Micro radio control models powered by electric, CO2, as well as rubber are included in this book. Most everything needed to be successful with small model airplanes is included in this book. Everything from tools, materials and construction to flight trimming is addressed. I would highly recommend this book as well as Don's first book "Rubber Powered Model Airplanes" as two books that most any small model airplane enthusiast should have in their library.

Doris McCarthy's two-part autobiography is a joy! It is at least as much about life as it is about art, teaching art and working at being an artist. Wonderful stories of her 80 years of old and new friendships, escapades, struggles & travels fill both volumes ("A Fool in Paradise" and "The Good Wine.") Her sharp and honest (but warm) wit lightens even the stories of difficult times with her family, the war years, school administrations and art societies.

Now recognized as one of Canada's finest landscape painters, Ms. McCarthy has no hesitation in sharing with us her struggles "to get things right" in her paintings. Her openness about the challenges of being an artist is a real inspiration and her humility about her work is refreshing given her status!

As a final note it is only fair to say that when I first began to read these books I wondered if it was only because Ms. McCarthy was one of my outstanding art teachers that I felt so delighted in her story. However long before I even started the second volume I knew that she had such a well-written, fascinating story that its appeal reaches far beyond the arts community. Well worth every moment of the read!

From book cover: For Lily Van Cortlandt, Bachelor Arms was a new beginning for her and her unborn baby. Because of the battle with her dead husband's wealthy family---who wanted custody--Lily needed her best friends, Caitlin and Blythe, to help her start a new life. A life that would never again include a lying, cheating playboy. Mac Sullivan, the building's temporary handyman, was the
kind of man she could want. Hardworking. Honest and Ordinary. Except that Mac was lying about who he really was....

Superintendent Ross and High school principal Marlowe cover every aspect: student-teacher relationships, child molestation, sexual harrassment, sexual deviation, and staff romances. Authors look at what kinds of situations create a potential for sexual improprieties, and, most importantly, how to solve the problem once created.

The 'Images of America' series expands with more regional guides based on archival photos public and private. Lyn Kalani and Sarah Sweedler's FORT ROSS AND THE SONOMA COAST (073852896X) considers an early outpost of the county with strong Russian roots. Drawings, maps, and vintage black and white photos make this powerful visual presentation perfect for regional California history collections.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

This is a good book for a person who wants to have a good Russian cookbook without too much Russianess.
The authors are from the staff and the Interpertation Society of Fort Ross. The book also has some nice articles on life at the Fort. My favorite section is its description of the Russian stove or pech located in the Officials' Quarters.

Forty Miles from Poplar Bluff is a slice of life in southeast Missouri. The unvarnished grittiness of that life stood in stark contrast to the warmth and love that the characters displayed toward each other.
It is a reminder that we need to treat each other gently, for we are far more fragile than we tend to acknowledge. Despite the dark family secrets and betrayals, the reader is left with a story of love-across the generations and across racial boundaries.
I thought there was so much left unsaid. I wish it had been a longer novel. Maybe the author will publish a sequel.

Michael Hook's book is absolutely off the hook. It prompted me to delve down into the depths of my soul and allow pent up emotions to sweep me up and carry me to the shore of my heart. Once again i would like to reiterate Michael Hook's book is off the preverbial hook!!!

In this volume Sir W. David Ross expands on his earlier (and much shorter) work _The Right and the Good_, developing his views and replying to criticisms from e.g. Charlie Dunbar Broad and other contemporary philosophers. Over the course of some three hundred pages, Ross provides penetrating analyses of the concepts of right, obligation, and good, arguing among other things that the meaning of "right" is not simply reducible to "whatever maximizes the good." Probably his best-known contribution to ethical theory is his notion of a _prima facie_ duty, introduced in his earlier work and explicated here with Ross's usual workmanlike thoroughness.

Ross was a solid representative of the rationalist-intuitionist-deontologist axis in twentieth-century ethics; influenced by Prichard and Moore and a first-class Aristotelian scholar to boot, he was a profound and thorough thinker who deserves to be more widely read. For example, his discussion of determinism (and why determinism doesn't undermine ethics) in chapter ten is, to my mind, one of the finest of its kind.

I have occasionally seen Ross's prose style criticized as somewhat plodding and tortuous. I see no foundation for this criticism. Ethical philosophy, at least as Ross himself treated it, is not a flashy affair; like all philosophy, it is a matter of trying to think clearly and well. This Ross does like a master, and readers who prefer clarity and substance in their philosophy will find Ross's style eminently suited to his material. Readers who would rather subject themselves to declamations, rhetoric, and dogmatic asseveration in the service of nothing much are advised to look elsewhere -- to Nietszche, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Ayn Rand, for example.

i am not a golf fan and the closest i have ever got to the game,is the pitch and put at whitby,but never the less,i am a fan of lawrence donegans books.
all his books are about living the dream,from california,to ireland to being a caddy at a golf tournament.four iron in the soul,captures a moment in a mans life when,he actually pushes himself to something he always wanted to do,to partake in a pro golf tournament,sadly not as a golfer,but as the next best thing,a caddy.
even if you are not a golf fan,you can relate to moments in this book,as its a travelling life,interspersed with characters ,you can only meet in a life style like caddying.the books an eye opener,an emotional roller coaster of laughs and tantrums,its a book ,that once you pick up,you won,t put it down till you have read the last page.