Simmons Books

This book shows at a very basic, yet very profound level how important and powerful the deep mind is to success. Yet it isn't preachy. It just shows in a detached, yet passionate way, how to use your deep mind to do anything you want and achieve any goal you want to achieve by orienting your psyche towards it at a very deep level. The real honest truth that works always comes down to the lowest common denominator that is the simple "it". Yes, this book is that, most definitely.

Captain Josh.

There are many tools to garner from reading this book.

And my most treasured tool comes from the author asking, "What problems have been buzzing in your life like an annoying fly?"

This is followed by: What should you do? When?

He encourages you to consider all of the "if's," until you find the truth. And he encourages you to anticipate that you will know what to do.

When I saw that first question, I could almost feel a buzzing in my ear, and it was so easy to write 10 problems that I know have solutions to them.

And I've begun to see excellent results, just by answering these question, in writing, and following through with my willingness to see myself as benefiting from my solving these problems.

As I read this book, and did every suggested exercised, I found myself saying, "Yep! That's so nice to know."...P>There are so many tools in this book that it is well worth more money.

Even if you have read many "self-help" books, you can benefit from this book from the moment that you begin reading it, because the book is really a guide to your telling yourself your own story.

This is not a typical dry history/genealogy, but a fascinating story of the courage of one family in their search for a better life in America. The genealogy section is extremely well written and includes interesting facts about the various family members. It would be interesting for not only the resident of the Holland and Zeeland, Michigan area, but for anyone interested in history and genealogy.

This book is outstanding.
I've read quite a few books on the subject of Albuquerque lately, and this is by far the most complete, most compelling, and most well written. It's so good that I find myself recommending it to people who aren't even from Albuquerque.
It tells the story of Albuquerque, of New Mexico, of the railroads, of the Spanish conquest, of the West, and of the Civil War. It's full of almost everything and almost everyone that ever came into town, affected the town, or was born in the town. The author has an obvious affinity for the little known and the unusual, and the unique facts he digs up enhance every passage of the more commonly known history.
For instance, the volcanoes west of town are still cooling, and even released a burst of volcanic gasses in 1881. They're NOT extinct. When the infamous imprisonment of Navajos at Fort Sumner after the Long Walk ended, the Navajo men and women were marched into Albuquerque out of Tijeras Canyon, and they wept with joy when they saw the distant Mount Taylor. Oh, and Albuquerque's early mayors used to decide elections by meeting in a dirt lot and fighting with sticks.
The book also contains excellent history on the surrounding area. It features several pages on the oft-neglected town of Carnuel, quite a bit on Atrisco, and several pages on the other small towns that have since been absorbed into Albuquerque itself.
There are also dozens of pages of old photos and paintings and maps of the town. They're terrific.
If you live or have lived in Albuquerque, or if you are at all interested in the area, this book will seize and enthrall you. You will turn its pages as if it were an F. Paul Wilson novel, and when you finally put it down and drive down Central Avenue for your groceries, you will see the world around you with new eyes.
You will see the world for what it is--a place where things don't just happen here and now, but a place where things have always happened--things that have put you here today--things that have put HERE here today.

this is a very good book, espicealy because it use a very uncommon name.

Briana's story is quite delightful and something that has been needed in the African American children's reading culture for some time. Although, there are a few enjoyable books out there; this one makes it easy for parents to use as a discussion at the dinner table and conversation with other children which gets them in the mode of wanting to read more books. The story is filled with life's passion and told in a way which will draw children to it's liveliness.

I read the book and loved it especially the surprise ending. Lots of inspiration and a feel good story

Amelia Simmons prepared the first American cookbook. The first published recipes for turkey with cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie are here. This is a historical gem. This version contains updated recipes so that you can actually prepare some of the foods. Examples of the original text are included so that you can see the quaint long s (as f)and the rather blurred condition of the original text. The illustrations, introduction and updated recipes are the most important features of this book. If you are most interested in the history of cooking the Dover press facsimile edition includes an excellent scholarly article by Mary Tolford Wilson. An Amazon search for Amelia Simmons as Author gives some idea of how many times this book has been republished in various formats.

In 1796, a young lady named Amelia Simmons published her cookbook. While other cookbooks had been printed, they were just reprints of European works. All had been written by men for men. At the time, no cookbook dealt so well with the unique food ingredients available in America.
So, this was the first cookbook slanted towards female cooks and is the first book to show corn meal as a primary ingredient. Here you will find the first recipes for "Indian Slapjacks: or "Johnny Cake" which became staples during the following centuries.

Amelia also presented the first recipe for pumpkin pie, Indian pudding, rice pudding and gingerbread. Here you can find the words "cookie" and "slaw" which come from the Dutch in America. Many of the recipes show you how to cook classic recipes for dumplins, biscuits and fruit pies.

The most recent printing of this cookbook seems to be by Tresco Publishers and it was reprinted in 2001. This Ohio publisher obtained special permission to reprint a limited facsimile copy (all forty-seven octavo pages) of this American Classic.

The book I found has a facsimile copy of American Cookery from 1796 that is definately showing it was used often, complete with grease stains. Then, there is a translation into a modern printing font that is much easier to read. In the facsimile copy with Early American print fonts in which the letter "s" appeared as "f"... this makes the original harder to read. For example:

"By having an opinion and determination, I would not be underftood to mean an obftinate perfeverance in trifles, which borders on obftinacy - by no means, but only an adherence to thofe rules and mazims which have ftood the teft of ages, and will forever eftablifh the female character, a virtuous character -altho' they conform to the ruling tafte of the age in cookery, drefs, language, manners, &c." ~Preface

The dated language is amusing to read and you can glimpse a picture of America through Amelias eyes. The "spellings" of many words were of course different so they are not typographical errors. There is a glossary that explains terms like bullace (small plum), gallipot (earthen pot) and pannikin (small metal vessel).

This book therefore "contains" the first cookbook published in America by an American author and the translation of the work into modern English. It is a first in cookbook literature and therefore is an historic document you will want to collect if you are a cookbook collector.

Only two First Edition copies are known to exist. One is in the Bitting Collection of the Library of Congress, the other in the Whitney Collection of the New York Public Library. The book I have contains the dog-eared and stained copy from the Bitting Collection and includes a forward by Mary Tolford Wilson.

By reading her cookbook, you can imagine a young colonial woman cooking over a hot cook fire, taking care of her children and using this cookbook to prepare her evening meal. It almost evokes a sense of nostalgia for when things were simpler, or were they?

Diet Bread

One pound sugar, 9 eggs, beat for an hour. Add to 14 ounces flour, spoonful rose water, one spoonful cinnamon or coriander. Bake quick.

An hour? Who would have the time these days. It is amazing! And I thought kneading bread was work.

You will also find recipes for:

Minced Pie
Bread Pudding
Puff Pastry
Roast Mutton
Indian Pudding
Meats
Poultry
Fish

My heart did beat a little faster just because it is so overwhelming how far cookbooks has come since this first American cookbook written by a woman and I was delighted to finally own a copy. This is not really a cookbook you would use as the recipes are not exactly easy to follow and don't always contain exact quantities of ingredients. It is more to amuse!

This cookbook will produce in you a similar excitement that you might feel if you had happened upon this book in a musty library or in an attic.

But then again, I read cookbooks in bed! ;)

~The Rebecca Review

Frank N. Wilner has a new book, published August 1997 (also by Simmons-Boardman Books of Omaha): Railroad Mergers: History, Analysis, Insight. A history of railroad mergers -- and public policy toward them -- from 1830 through current Conrail merger application. Includes rare maps. Holman Jenkins of Wall Street Journal said: "Frank Wilner gives us a fascinating and timely account of what has aptly been called The Hundred Years War over America's railroads." Dave Young of Chicago Tribune wrote: "A wonderful reference work on the corporate histories of American railroads, complete with a genealogy of all extant rail corporations . . . "

".......
This book deals primarily with the interpretation rather than with the preparation of the accounts and statistics.

It is the author's hope that a study of the following pages will make the vast fund of information contained in the accounting records and statistics more available to railroad men and to other students of railroad operations without accounting training.

He also has tried to give railroad accounts a clearer idea of the operating man's point of view and the use that can be made of the figures prepared by the accounting department in analyzing the operations of the railroad.

While the purpose and general contents of this book remain the same, certain changes have been made in arrangement and presentation of the material in the Second Edition, in addition to BRINGING IT UP TO DATE on accounting rules and statistical practices of the Interstate Commerce Commission......"

[from the book of the foreword to the second edition
by Joseph L. White,
Washington, D. C.,
October, 1946]