Ward Books

I am very sad that this wonderful book is out of print. I have tried to find out who owns the copyright so that, if it is out of copyright, I could simply scan it onto the web. Can't find out however. The author was a famous expert in law in the middle years of the twentieth century. Of Chinese origin, he grew up steeped in Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. As a young adult, he converted to Christianity, with a special love for St. Therese and her "little way of love." This book discusses the three-fold path that traditional Christianity follows (purgative, illuminative, and unitive) in the light of the carmelite teachings. But what makes this work special is the lucid and loving thinking of the author. It is unfortunate that the book is only available used and usual at awful prices (sometimes in excess of $100). It is so well done that it really deserves to be reprinted.

This book provides a good introduction to the basics of flight test. Instrumentation and airdata are well covered. The text includes material on performance, stability, and control testing. Requires some familiarity with atmospheric flight mechanics. I highly recommend this book.

Mary Ward Brown's second collection of stories is a terrific read. These 11 stories (ten set in Alabama, one in Russia) are heartwarming, thought provoking, and very human (not to mention well written). They run the emotional gamut that can cover a lifetime and in each there's a sense that something more important than life itself is at stake (often this reminder comes in the form of death or thoughts about mortality).

The stories in this collection take up 142 pages (the longest is only 18 pages long) and for the most part stand alone (as opposed to being fragments of longer stories). These are essentially Southern stories told by a great Southern writer and there's not a dud in the mix.

"It Wasn't All Dancing" examines the relationship between an aged Southerner and her black nurse. As with many of the stories in this collection, the relationship (and its impact on the main characters) is the focus.

"Once in a Lifetime" is a love story on several levels--a mother's love for her young-adult daughter and her newly found love for the former high school hot shot.

"A New Life" is perhaps the weakest story in the batch and centers on an encounter between a recently widowed woman and a group of well-intentioned Christians who become interested in her fate.

"No Sound in the Night" is a moving story about a learning disabled adult-child and his love for his hardworking female boss.

"The Birthday Cake" is another story about deep friendships, love, choices, and consequences.

"Swing Low: A Memoir", perhaps the best story in this collection, is a moving account of the deep friendship that develops between an aged wealthy woman and one of her family's hired hands.

"Alone in a Foreign Country" is a brief tale about a young woman's overnight adventure/scare in a foreign country.

"The House the Asa Built" recounts how a strong marriage can have problems and how the husband and wife in this short story deal with them.

"The Parlor Tumblers" is about a grandfather's difficulty in getting reacquainted with his grandson after three years apart. It's also about the grandfather's regrets and his relationship with his son. And some pretty cool pigeons.

"A Good Heart" details the relationship between two neighbors from different social stratas and the effect of their tentative friendship on each.

Lastly, "A Meeting on the Road" provides a very short glimpse into what it would be like to be a minority in a small town--from both the black and white perspectives.

All of these stories are concise and each allows for some personal reflection upon completion. They're short stories, but they stick with you. This is a terrific collection of stories. Very Highly Recommended.

It's About Time: Time Saving Tips for Every Day - Home or Away is a no-nonsense guide to time management, especially recommended for homemakers, college students, parents, and anyone else desperately pressed for time. Chapters also have tips for freeing up space, though learning to stretch the hours in one's day is the primary focus. From furnishing one's home in such a manner as to make it easier to clean, to arranging one's closet by category so as to pick out what to wear more quickly, to miscellaneous tips, tricks, and techniques for dealing with slow people, It's About Time is a top-notch, easy-to-follow guide that literally pays for itself (since time is money, after all)! "Need to call a 'talker'? Place your call when the 'talker' isn't likely to keep you on the phone or just before lunch or quitting time. Or leave a voice message when you suspect that person will not be there." Highly recommended.

I use this excellent documentary source with success in a storytelling class I've taught periodically over the past 10 years. Jack tales are a rarified regional tradition as well as a type of folk hero tale with many connections to other North American and global oral traditions. Their geneology is here traced and illustrated by phonetic transcriptions of a number of performances by different generations of Jack tale tellers from the central Appalachians, each accompanied by an introductory essay. It's a useful case study of how a particular tale type entered the country and spread among a small localized and often related group of tellers, migrated into text form and then out again, and became in one sense the archtypal tale type of the American storytelling revival, thanks to the late Ray Hicks of Beech Mountain, who leads off the bunch and headlined the first decade or so of national festivals in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

Last fall after the festival I had the good fortune to visit my uncle's church in Banner Elk, at the foot of Beech Mountain, where I met a couple of Marshall Ward's former students, who remembered him telling Jack tales to assembled students every Friday after school.

Available elsewhere are audio versions of these Jack tales by at least some of the tellers included in this book: Ray Hicks, Marshall Ward, and Donald Davis.

This is one of Wallace's extraordinary thrillers with an over the top villain. The unctuous master criminal Colonel Boundary. The Colonel receives an envelope in the mail that contains a playing card, knave of clubs and wrote on it Jack o'Judgment. Stafford King had devoted his time to smashing the Colonel's gang. The Colonel was accused of robbing a merchant of sixty thousand pounds by means of card tricks. Cocaine, dope fiends, gambling, show girls, and stage-door Johnnies add tricky obstacles and frightening drama. The action is fast paced and justice is done.

I was fortunate to receive "Jackanapes, the Artful Dodger and the Hero of the Forlorn Hope" as a gift from a dear friend in the UK. I was so very pleased with the book because it is so very well written! Immediately you feel a part of the story and become so wrapped up in the characters and escapades of Jack Dawkins. This wonderful book is one of those "hard to put down" books. Get it if you can, read it! You will totally enjoy it. I can guarantee it! Smashing Mr. Ward!

"Jennifer's Diary" is an interesting book.there are two girls, Jennifer and Iolanthe.Iolanthe has many ideas and can write stories.Jennifer can do maths, and learn poems and, and even play on the piano.But she can't write stories because she doesn't have any ideas.Aunt Mureil gave Jennifer a rainbow-coloured book.It was a diary.Jennifer wrote very boring things in her diary.For example:Jan 1st, it was quite cold today.Iolanthe started to write stories in Jennifer's diary.Because she had many ideas,so her stories were amusing and intersting.

This book organizes all the biblical scriptures pertaining to Jerusalem, Zion, Israel and the nations. It is helpful when following end time events as well as for prayer, specifically intercession.

What was Jesus of Nazareth really like? Whatever our faith, there are few more interesting questions.

Here is a book that makes use of the recent advances in research to consider honestly the facts surrounding Jesus' life and death. The result: a reliable and vivid portrait of Jesus' life as it would have been seen by His contemporaries. We see the challenge and novelty of Jesus in his actual setting. We read about Jesus' parties: joyful, relaxed, leisurely, and profoundly healing, a symbol of all He stood for. And we are given an honest analysis of His central significance for us today.


The Jesus Story does not stop short of the most perplexing of questions: did Jesus really rise from the dead to give us life? In this account, we are given reliable information about the factuality and meaning of the Resurrection. The evidence is sifted; the author also sheds light on the media's inability to handle that evidence.

The Jesus Story will appeal to anyone who would like to get some "feel" for how Jesus - in His teaching, His company, His relatonships. His challenge and activity - came across to His contemporaries, and to know what significance is claimed for Jesus' life in our very different age.
--- from book's back cover