Sheridan Books

I ordered a used book, I received a very good used book in a promptly order. I saved by not purchasing the book from the school.

This literature book incorporates the tools necessary for comprehension of selected readings, and gives the student a collaborative background for completing written responses as well as essays.

I am very pleased with my course and am happy to be using this text!

I would definitely recommend it!

Sir Peter Blake was a great adventurer and seaman. He was part of the team that won the America's Cup in 1995 and lead the defense of the title in 2000 for New Zealand, where he is a national hero.

This book is a celebration of his long and successful career sailing the world. In this last expedition, he goes from Antarctica to the Amazon, going all the way up the Casiquiare, teh legendary canal discovered by Alexander von Humboldt that connects the Negro with the Orinoco rivers. Throughout the books provides a glimpse of local history, with a special emphasis on environmental issues, which were very much on Blake's agenda in this voyage. His journals show a very deep concern for the future of both Antarctica and the Amazon, as tremendously different but similarly delicate regions.

The book is in hard cover format and has lots of pictures taken throughout the trip, which provide the reader with a visula context of the logbook. It is a sad story because it ends up in Peter's demise, attacked by pirates at the mouth of the Amazon, yet it stands as a tribute to a great sportsman and environmental leader.

If it's a large-size hardcover gift edition you seek celebrating adventure expeditions in general or the achievements of Sir Peter Blake in particular, make it Alan Sefton's editing of Blake's logbooks, The Last Great Adventure Of Sir Peter Blake. The text is drawn directly from Blake's logbooks as he journeys from the Antarctic to the Amazon, with fine color photos and paintings adding the visual delay which sets The Last Great Adventure apart from biographical memoirs alone. Plenty of factual information about the regions Blake explores, from animals to flora, make this an informational guide above and beyond its adventure biography theme.

The author, English journalist Marcus Trower, like Tyler Durden in Fight Club, became sick of being told to "play safe" in his life and fell in love with weight lifting, judo and submission wrestling (in that order). He quickly became frustrated with the attitude of his own culture, that of modern London, towards wrestling, and by extension towards certain precepts of masculinity, physical risk-taking and so-on.

After contracting a mysterious illness that prevented him from training and competing, he set out to discover what wrestling means in other cultures. This book records his adventures tracking down traditional wrestling styles in India, Mongolia, Nigeria and Brazil, interspersed with his theories about the origins of the sport.

I don't agree with all of his conclusions, but "the Last Wrestlers" is well-written, entertaining and educational. It's also an unusual and heartfelt combination of athletic travelogue and "masculinist manifesto", worth reading particularly by those who spend about equal time in the library and at the gym.

The Last Wrestlers" is one man's highly personal account of sporting obsession. Marcus Trower, rather like the characters in "Fight Club", despised his office job and lives for submssion wrestling. When a bout of ill health forces him to give up this physical outlet he embarks on a world tour to investigate the place of wrestling in other cultures where it is more highly valued than in Britain, where it's very much a minority pursuit.

Trower's interest and expertise in wrestling acts as a kind of visa enabling him to connect with people from a variety of different countries. In India, Mongolia, Brazil, Nigeria and Portsmouth pier, the author is able to gain access to people whose experience of life is very different from his own. I particularly enjoyed his skirmishes with interpreters, from an extrovert Nigerian academic to a former beauty queen who is possibly the worst person to choose to gain access to the celebrities which wrestlers are in Mongolian society.

I love Trower's turn of phrase. Modern gyms are, "a cross between an office, a show kitchen and a nightclub where everyone dances alone", in contrast to the feeling of fraternity he encounters in wrestling clubs. There is also a kind of haplessness as he faces a bizarre range of replies to a Time Out ad for training partners, is forced to bathe in the Ganges out of an English sense of politeness and has to decide how many bottles of vodka to give as bribes to his interviewees.

At times the book is so detailed it may fail to hold the interest of non-wrestlers. But I found it immensely enjoyable and unexpectedly touching. Trower is a good writer and his mission is so obviously heartfelt that I was genuinely sad when it came to an end.

"A Little Extra Effort" is an autobiography by Fred Smith, a member of the North Carolina Senate. Mr. Smith considers himself a true conservative in a state that appears to have a mixed political identity - while North Carolina tends to vote Republican in US Senate and Presidential races, our great state more often than not tends to vote Democrat for state house and governor elections.

The book covers several aspects of Smith's life:

1. Early life and description of experiences with kids in an orphannage managed by his parents.
2. Years at Wake Forest University.
3. Experience in the military.
4. First and second marriages and the pain he experienced in his divorce from his first wife.
5. Successes and failures as a businessman.
6. Being elected to the NC Senate.
7. Political philosophy.

Incidentally, I finished the book and wrote the review the day after Mr. Smith lost the Republican primary for NC Governor to Pat McCrory, the mayor of Charlotte NC. While Mr. Smith came up short, I sincerely hope he continues to serve in the NC Senate. North Carolina needs more conservatives like him to control the runaway spending our state has been doing for several years. Unfortunately, our great state has also been known for being a highly taxed state.

Read and enjoy the book. Highly recommended!

In 1750 Caspar Schmit migrated from Ingelheim, Germany to Philadelphia. His North Carolina descendant Fred Smith was born in 1942. A North Carolina State Senator since 2003, he declared in March 2007 his candidacy to be elected Governor in November 2008. In pursuit of this new goal he wrote A LITTLE EXTRA EFFORT: HARD WORK AND STRAIGHT TALK IN A SOUND BITE WORLD. The fast-paced campaign autobiography makes Fred Smith known to voters of North Carolina, most of whom may never have heard of him. Before he decided on this new campaign, Mr Smith calculated the odds. "I will face questions about every part of my life. Even if we're victorious, 40-some percent of the state's voters will still not like me enough to give me their vote" (p. 145).

In 2001 Fred Smith entered political office: a four-year term as an elected County Commissioner for Johnston County, NC. He sees his qualifications for increasingly responsible positions as simple and evolutionary: "My qualifications are that I have met a payroll and raised five children" (p. 125).

Senator Smith has written a short, unusually frank and self-critical autobiography. Since he has contended less than seven years in the arena of elective politics, politics rather surprisingly, but from his point of view rightly, takes up little space: only the final 55 pages of a slim 168 page paperback. He confesses that he is neither spell-binding orator nor theoretician of power. Where other political conservatives base themselves on Ayn Rand, Fred Smith invokes Presidential models, the personal examples of great leaders like the Roosevelts, Eisenhower and Reagan. His source of spiritual strength is the Southern Baptist Church. His views of business leadership replicate those of Jim Collins in his 2001 book GOOD TO GREAT: WHY SOME COMPANIES MAKE THE LEAP ... AND OTHERS DON'T.

Not surprisingly what makes both good companies and good American States great is quite simply "a little extra effort!"

As credible autobiography, A LITTLE EXTRA EFFORT will appeal outside North Carolina. The political and social ideas are not new. But they are presented simply, straight from the shoulder and with a sense of why and how they have worked for the author.

A LITTLE EXTRA EFFORT can be read for some of the same reasons that people enjoy another simple book, John Bunyan's 1678 masterpiece, PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. Senator Smith's autobiography tells the slow coming of age tale of a gifted and tenacious, single-minded but plodding achiever whose life slowly gathers positive momentum despite setbacks. By far the worst blow was his 1980 divorce from his mentally ill first wife and mother of four of his five children. Smith is blunt both about his personal failings and also about how he learns from his mistakes and how he with difficulty tames tendencies toward autocracy and harshness.

Fred Smith's earliest years were in a Methodist orphanage where his parents were employees. He went to Baptist Wake Forest University on an athletic scholarship, playing good but not great football and baseball. He took his law degree from the same institution and served four years during the Viet-Nam war in the Army JAG. He then practiced law in and around the North Carolina State capital, Raleigh, and dabbled in real estate. Mr Smith broadened his reach, taking up cattle ranching and farming and real estate development. He acquired the habit of wearing cowboy boots. At one point, as he overextended himself financially, he might reasonably have declared bankruptcy but, with the help of bankers who believed in him, rode out bad times for the American economy and created a successful, multi-faceted and still thriving family business.

Smith's managerial and entrepreneurial philosophy evolved over time from the autocratic one of his father's generation to a more consultative, employee-respecting one. In the North Carolina legislature he was appalled by one-party rule and the failure of the dominant Democrats to make generous use of his own talents and those of other Republicans. Once upon a time he himself might have behaved the same way. But he had mellowed, having learnt his lessons in the school of hard knocks in the business arena. The Lord had humbled him through his failures and he had become a better man, devoted (though when he found time from a hard-driving, detail-immersed business life is hard to imagine) to his second wife and children.

This book grows on you. Fred Smith comes across as a human, all-too-human, unpretentious Horatio Alger hero, a man of solid talents propelled by an iron will and discipline. He admits his faults, including a tin ear for the viewpoints and needs of some near and dear, but shrugs off failure and marches onward with ever growing insights. If Fred Smith can do it, so might any of us! A book refreshingly unlike any other campaign autobiography.
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hello,
as one other great writer M. R. James wrote of
joseph sheridan le fanu he stands absolutely in first rank as a writer of ghost storys I share that same verdict after reading many of his storys
this book had some very god storys in it I recommend it to those that like ghost storys and like to be scared where when you are home all alone it is late at night and as you read the ghost storys you get cold chills that run through your body as you begin to think what was that bump, or creak that came from don the hall as you shiver continuing to ead the story and wonder if something is comming toward u :)

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This is the perfect introduction to one of the most famed writers in the history of horror literature. LeFanu was the first to perfect the ghost story as a literary form and at one time was considered the greatest writer of supernatural fiction ever to live. Since then his reputation has shrunken. But he still enjoys a high reputation as the 19th century's most horrific author (after Edgar Allen Poe.)
None of the stories in this volume were collected in a book during LeFanu's lifetime. They were selected from a wide range of stories published in contemporary magazines varying from London Society to Temple Bar. They offer a broad overview of his work, which ranges from whimsically charming to utterly terrifying.
One salient feature of the stories is the innovative way in which LeFanu handles his themes. Several of them must have caused a sensation when first printed and remain shocking to this day. It would be an understatement to say that they are ahead of their time. The book is a must have for students of classic horror and 19th century literature in general.

With the world seemingly becoming smaller each day, with less room for new adventures and discoveries, David Cowper's journey will invigorate those who have a yearning for the olden days of the explorers. The Northwest Passage still has a romantic mystic attached to it, and the difficulties of crossing it are well described in this book. Enough detail and description is included to give the reader a genuine feel for the Passage and the scope of the trip. Even if a reader has no interest in the North, the book offers a glimpse into the human spirit's desire for adventure and challenge. Yet, and perhaps the nicest thing about it, Mr. Cowper retains humility and never self-aggrandizes.

A very intresting book regarding a extraordinary journey. A travelers tale of a difference.

FROM A CLASSIC MYSTERY AUTHOR A WONDERFUL BOOK STUFFED WITH THREE GREAT MYSTERIES AND THE DASHING RODERICK ALLEYN

Ngaio Marsh is among the great mystery novelists of the 20th Century--but like many another writer she went through an aprentice period. Both A MAN LAY DEAD and ENTER A MURDER were fairly well received when they were published in the early 1930s, but it wasn't until the 1935 publication of THE NURSING HOME MURDER that the reading public began to take notice.

England's Home Secretary is on the eve of both important political watersheds and not a few personal developments when he is suddenly taken ill and rushed into surgery. But what should be a simple operation finds him dead on the table, and at least two two of those in attendance had good reason to wish him out of the picture. Inspector Alleyn has his hands full with doctors, nurses, lawyers and such--and just possibly a political assassin lurking in the background.

This is the first Marsh novel in which Inspector Alleyn truly emerges as a memorable personality--and in which Marsh begins to show her talent for both characterization and setting. The plot is also quite striking, and medical technology aside the novel has a remarkably modern feel. Marsh would go on to do better works, but that doesn't undercut this particular title, which is quite fine. Recommended.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer

This is a great novel! Lovers of mystery and intrigue will not regret picking this one up. The novel manages to sustain a brisk and logical pace that will definitely hold your interest as you journey through the seedy side of greed, love and murder.
One Last Sin is definitely the author's best work to date. If you are not familiar with Michael Sheridan's work I would say that his writing style is similar in tone to Robert Ludlum's The Matareese Circle.
Overall this is well worth a look.

I found this book to be very fast paced with many unexpected twists and turns in its plot. I was very pleased with its character development and was astonished when I read how it ends. His writing style reminds me of Sidney Sheldon, of whom I am a big fan. For his first book, Michael Sheridan has hit a home run in my opinion and I look forward to reading his next. I would recommend this book to anyone who is in to murder mysteries, this book will not disappoint.

Sheridan Morley's 'The Other Side Of The Moon' is an incredibly absorbing biography of Hollywood film great David Niven. Niven starred in over 80 motion pictures, but the charming, suave actor is revealed to be a hollow man deeply wracked with personal insecurities. David Niven won the 1959 Academy Award Oscar in a starring role for his magnificent performance in 'Separate Tables', yet he spent the rest of his career looking over his shoulder. Author Morley does extensive interviews with many of Niven's co-stars and former close friends that reveal something of the darker side of the star. A horrible turning point in Niven's life, was the death of his young British wife from injuries sustained at a Hollywood party, while playing 'hide and go seek' at the house of Tyrone Power! On the positive side, the writer highlights David Niven's heroic service in the British Army in World War 2, and his nearly lone defense of the long deceased Errol Flynn against charges of being a Nazi sympathizer.
Sheridan Morley's 'The Other Side of The Moon' is a terrific, page-turning look at the complex actor we knew and loved as David Niven, and is a must have book for movie buffs.

Sheridan Morley's biography of David Niven is a more concise an indepth look at the British actor's life and career than that portrayed by Niven in his own autobiography "The Moons a balloon". As Morley points out Niven writes more about his Hollywood experiences then actually about himself, creating a narrative that delves superficially in terms to his own life story as to that of his famous friends. Morley is an equitable writer who provides a fair and detailed account of the man and actor who was always slightly bemused by his own success. Morley offers no nasty hidden skeletons in the Niven closet but does clarify those stories that the actor alluded to in his books, especially the affair he had with Merle Oberon and the traumatic mental breakdowns that plagued Vivian Leigh. An interesting biography of a truly charming man.

Good book. Althought not in-depth info, it's a very good basic book to help understand the various systems (fuel, cooling, ignition, etc) before going to the motor service manual in a atempt to fix some problem with the engine. This book is much better suited to the person who wants to keep an outboard motor in good shape, rather fix or rebuild a broken motor. It also has a very good chapter on winterizing.

I went to Borders Singapore yesterday looking for books on outboard motors, and bought this book together with 'Cheap Outboards', not knowing I've already ordered this same book from Amazon.com !

Well... if I've picked this book from Amazon, and decided to buy it at the bookstore after actually reading it... that should say something about how good it is, right? ;-)

No regrets getting 2 copies. I shall keep one copy in my boat for handy reference.