Turner Books

This book is a collection of cross-stitch samplers in unique and beautiful designs. Since I love anything with a celeistial theme, I was attracted to the full chapter devoted to several attractive and varied designs incoporating sun, moon, stars, and planets. More common categories such as garden and nature include more original work than you will find anywhere else. Many of the samplers have a wonderfully old-fashioned look to them, and the completed projects are finished and photographed beautifully. The book also contains a wide variety of cross-stitch alphabets to assist you with customizing your projects. A wonderful book for serious cross-stitchers who are addicted to samplers!

This book has some wonderful celestial themes, some beautiful samplers and some lovely designs inspired by the natural world.

The presentation is great: tips and techniques for those new to cross-stitch are included as well.

There is something here for the accomplished stitcher as well as for someone who is just starting with this craft.

Highly recommended.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

A talented, young chef who has worked in my home preparing meals for dinner parties for our friends shared her copy with me. I kept it for for two months and read it from cover to cover! The profiles on the chefs were interesting and inspirational. The recipes are uncomplicated. I have prepared several recipes and each turned out delicious and almost looked like the photo in the cookbook! I am ordering it today...you should too.

A talented, young chef who has worked in my home preparing meals for dinner parties for our friends shared her copy with me. I kept it for for two months and read it from cover to cover! The profiles on the chefs were interesting and inspirational. The recipes are uncomplicated. I have prepared several recipes and each turned out delicious and almost looked like the photo in the book! I am ordering the cookbook today...you should too.

This is a really interesting story; well told. A re-creation of a historical event in a historical machine. Clearly, the people involved are passionate about the adventure; making it all the more readable and enjoyable.

An incredible book about an incredible flight.It is difficult to know which is the more interesting -- the historical part of the book about the original Smith brothers flight, or Peter McMillan's account of his modern day recreation of the same flight.As an aviation buff I loved the detail of how the airplane was built (using the original plans) and tested and then the day-by-day chronicle of the flight. The chapter about the crash in Indonesia (by uncanny coincidence in virtually the same place as the Smith brothers 75 years before) is a great read. Highly recommended.

Readers of Hadean Eclogues will be drawn into the descriptions of the world and of human nature with great ease. Turner writes elegant poetry, which consistently reveals his attention to details in the environment. Each poem is carefully crafted to highlight the best means of expressing his ideas, making the merger of form and content seamless, and each poem clear. Writing , as he does about the lived world, Turner engages the reader in speculation about such questions as what is beauty? where is it to be found? , and what are the parameters of human experience and intellect? Turner's vision of the world is reminiscent of Blakes's and Shelley's , which when combined with the eyes of Wordsworth and Coleridge, yield beautiful poetry by a modern master.

Until I read this book, I did not care for contemporary rhyming poetry. I thought it had had its time and place, ending, for the most part, with the Romantics, though some, like Wallace Stevens (when he did it) and Robert Frost did remind us that occasionally rhyming poetry could still have something to say. I now add Frederick Turner to that list. He has brought from the past the very best of Romanticism's (and various other past movements' in poetry) contributions to poetry and made them contemporary. Reading Turner's poems for the first time, I was amazed at how much I loved them. They move a person in a way that people have not been moved by poetry in decades, at least. We feel as though this poetry indeed does touch us, that we can related to it, and yet discover so much more about ourselves and the world that was hidden before Turner uncovered them for us. These are poems that everyone should read, for they will remind us that the world is indeed a beautiful place to live and to uncover the small personal truths that make the world interesting and our lives worth living.

Henry V and the Conquest of France is a Great Book to read and look at the pictures. Top of the line on Henry the V

This book is an examination of the organization and armament of the British army from its crushing victory at Agincourt in 1415 to its defeat by French patriots at Castillon in 1453.

After a brief introduction (which includes a geneology of Anglo-French kings of the 14th and 15th Centuries and a useful chronology) the book discusses the battle formations, troop types, and social origins of Henry the Fifth's soldiery. Next the weaponry, armor, heraldry, and horses of the army are all discussed, albeit rather briefly. Following this is a brief summary of King Henry's campaign in France. After this are sections in discipline, logistics, training, experience of battle, and garrison life for Henry's troops, as well as brief sections on the navy and artillery of the English army of the Hundred Years War.

The plates, by the talented Graham Turner, are detailed, attractive, and do a good job of supporting the text. Overall this is a worthy effort, covering all arenas of this topic concisely and readably. It should be highly useful to a wargamer or amateur military historian researching this era.

This is an outstanding book that provides an interdependent perspective of the processes that have shaped our world with a comprehensive coverage of the four great valley civilizations of Africa and Asia plus the two early civilizations of America. Technological advances are considered from a comparative global perspective. It provides an exceptional treatment of the different civilizations that have existed in World History.

This is an outstanding book that provides an interdependent perspective of the processes that have shaped our world with a comprehensive coverage of the four great valley civilizations of Africa and Asia plus the two early civilizations of America. Technological advances are considered from a comparative global perspective. It provides an exceptional treatment of the different civilizations that have existed in World History.

Speaking as a 58-year old native, if I could suggest one book as a fun and informative way to learn about Atlanta, this would be it. "Historic Photos of Atlanta" is a beautiful blend of fascinating photography (and captions) with a terrific narrative, written by the Executive Director of the Atlanta History Center. I thought I knew all there was to know about my home town, but this book proved me wrong. Great job, Michael Rose!

Filled with exquisite photos and riveting captions, Historic Photos of Atlanta offers a terrific glimpse of Atlanta's past. A city rich with culture, this book chronicles events ranging from before the civil war (1837) to the 1996 Summer Olympic Games and everything in between. The approximately 200 photos capture all aspects of life in the capital of the South: its streets, people, events, and locations.

For any Atlanta resident, past or present, or anyone interested in the city, Historic Photos of Atlanta makes a great addition to any coffee table or bookshelf collection.

This beautiful book is a product of the Chicago History Museum, showcasing many excellent pictures from throughout Chicago's history. The pictures are arranged chronologically, all of them black-and-white, and all of them sharp and interesting to look at. Every subject is covered here - Chicago statesmen and famous celebrities, great disasters (the Great Fire and the Eastland disaster), famous landmarks, and even common people.

This is a great book, one that I am really glad to have found. The pictures are all crystal clear, and have short and well-written captions. I am a fan of history and genealogy, and as such, I love seeing the sites that were looked upon by my parents, and their parents, and their parents before them. I love this book, and give it my highest recommendations!

This is a museum in hardback! This beautifully put together collection of photos and captions span the life of this vital and popular city. This title begins before the Great Fire of Chicago, detailing various elements and people. From there the lucky reader is transported to different time periods through the beautifully taken photos of buildings and places unique and popular for this city. It details the changes Chicago has undergone as well as immortalizing historic buildings that no longer exist.

Mr. Lewis has done an amazing job telling the story of Chicago through these wonderful photos and captions. For the bibliophile this is a must have book you'll want to add to your library. This could also be used as a reference book. This is one title I have no trouble recommending.

For the asking price, Historic Photos of Cincinnati is a steal, since someone could have spent years seeking out the photographs gathered for this treasure of a book and not located half of them. Revealing daily life and special events in Cincinnati from the 1860's to the 1960's, this collection can't have enough good things written about it. I only wish photos from the generation before 1860, when the Queen City of the West was billed as "the fastest-growing metropolis on earth," had been included as well, particularly the famous 1840's panoramic daguerreotype of the riverfront on an early Sunday morning, but, hey, what's already in here makes for hours of interesting study. Some of the pictures, such as the 1892 shot of workers in P&G's central office, are especially fascinating for the details they reveal about everyday goings on. That and so many other photos are worth more than a casual glance, since they justify long examinations of the expressions and clothing and hairstyles of the workers, the contents of the desktops, the gas piping that crisscrossed the ceiling, the wire wastepaper baskets, all that and much else which tells more about the environment of a nineteenth-century office than an entire paragraph of description. I particularly liked page thirteen's picture of the militiamen in the 1880's assembled at Music Hall in the wake of the Courthouse Riots, Gatling guns loaded and at the ready, but my favorite image might be on page 131, wherein a half-completed Carew Tower is shown rising above Fifth and Vine, in 1930. Cincinnati is now into its third century, and it's gratifying to see that even as its people move toward the future, the fullness of the past is appreciated and unforgotten.

I've lived in Cincy on and off my whole life and this is the best pictorial I've ever seen! Thumbs up to Ms. Bailey for her compilation. We all should thank the existence of the Cincy museum that occupies the old Union Station.

This book is beautifully done --a MUST HAVE for those interested in Dallas' history. Included in it are many until-now rarely-seen photos from various collections. Definitely worth its price!

An excellent contribution to Turner Publishing's "Historical Photos"

On the surface this could be any city. On closer look you can see not only historic sites and people in the nearly two hundred photographs, but the city already has taken on the feel that makes Dallas great.

One fun thing about the photos that include historic places as Love Field and Adolphus Hotel, are the pictures of the changing technology. Can you imagine working at the central switchboard (phone system) or protecting your health by drinking Budweiser "Its Thoroughly Aged - Not Green or Unfinished."

This is not just a hodge-podge of un-related photos. The collection was chosen and arranged by Michael V. Hazel, a native of Dallas, who taught Dallas history at SMU.

The photos are chronologically ordered in era's form the 1940's through 1969. Living there since 1957 my history overlaps however I could not find a picture of me. Yet we can all live this time with this book.