Watson Books

I just really like this book. It has such nice pictures. And I was looking for crochet patterns to make. Oh so nice!! The recipes look great also.

The Pioneer Lady's Country Kitchen

Wow! I'm a big fan of 'country' style cookbooks (cookbooks which leave you feeling warm and fuzzy inside because of stories, pictures and just plain old good food), and Pioneer Lady's Country Kitchen was quite simply awesome. Its chock full of treasured cooking memories from the authors' life during the depression. After reading this book, I really got the feel for what life was like for the author growing up on the farm, surrounded by aunts, cousins, and home-cooked food.

Most of the recipes appear to be quite easy. I read this book in a day. Sure to delight those who like a bit of nostalgia with their recipes.

I bought this book for my husband who is a Police K-9 Officer to read aloud at a school event for grade schoolers. It is a really cute story that stresses the ideas of working together with your friends, and reaching for your dreams. Both my kids love this book.

If you want a great read aloud book, this is the one. Very entertaining with great drawings. I have already read it aloud 5 times to my daughter and we've only had it one week!!

Good read and very informative. For someone taking a course in the U.S. presidency, this book helped me greatly. I would recommend it for anyone how wants to learn more about presidential doctrines, specifically national security.

I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about national security policies. I was surprised by the content of the book.

A Primer for Preachers by Ian Pitt-Watson is an excellent tool that would help prepare the "proclaimer" to deliver a foundationally sound sermon. It helps the reader to focus on the aspect of what preaching is all about. What is preaching? Preaching is about what God has done and not about what we ought to do. Watson takes the reader through steps on how to make a sermon grow and how to present correct language and delivery. The deep rooted focus of A Primer for Preachers is the story of Christ. The preaching of the Word of God is the Word of God. Watson allows the reader to see that if the scripture is correctly interpreted, the scripture will preach itself! It also helps us to see the comparison between the text of the scripture and the text of life. For every concept in preaching, there should be a simile. When Jesus taught, He pointed to some shared commonplace of human experience. A Primer assists the preacher in the same kind of development. It sheds light on the real life experience. This is an excellent training apparatus that is fully loaded and ready to prepare God's preacher to deliver His Word. I highly recommend this book for all preachers and teachers. Kudos!

A Primer for Preachers by Ian Pitt-Watson is an excellent tool that would help prepare the "proclaimer" to deliver a foundationally sound sermon. It helps the reader to focus on the aspect of what preaching is all about. What is preaching? Preaching is about what God has done and not about what we ought to do. Watson takes the reader through steps on how to make a sermon grow and how to present correct language and delivery. The deep rooted focus of A Primer for Preachers is the story of Christ. The preaching of the Word of God is the Word of God. Watson allows the reader to see that if the scripture is correctly interpreted, the scripture will preach itself! This is an excellent training apparatus that is fully loaded and ready to prepare God's preacher to deliver His Word. I highly recommend this book for all preachers and teachers. Kudos!

I took a chance and ordered this book sight-unseen because many of my art heroes are featured. It was worth every penny, and I haven't been able to put it down since it arrived. What's outstanding and different about it is the entire book is in interview format; you get each artist describing in their own words their theories, motivations, working habits, techniques, etc. Priceless.

If you're into Realistic Paintings of Still Life's, Urban depictions of America or Figure painting by 10 of America's Realist painters then you need this book. Painters like Jack Beal, William Beckman, chuck Close, Janet Fish,
Ralph Goings, Neil Welliver, and my painting mentor, Chicago's very own James Valerio.

When I purchased this book I was to young to appreciate the depth of what John Arthur shared. Regardless of whether you are an advanced realistic painter who has had major shows in the Museum of Science & Industry or you're just getting started the quality of the paintings in this book will give you a depth of insight.

The photography for the work in this book is rich with color and details. While the artist interviews expose you to rich and in depth insights into why the artist paints what they paint, draw what they draw and are inspired by what they are inspired by.

I recommend this book to all my students as the first book to put into their library. Remember readers are leaders...look and learn.

At 60 years old, Geraldine Watson decided to make the eighty mile journey down the Neches River in the pineywoods of East Texas that she had wanted to take all her life. As a naturalist and Big Thicket activist, she had visited parts of the river many times over the years. In three separate segments, she floats down the river from Town Bluff to just north of Beaumont. On the way, the reader is treated to actual accounts of the trip along with memories and histories of the river, the land, and its people. There are beautiful memories, such as finding of a rare colony of yellow ladies slipper orchids in a hidden glen, celebrating with the river people; sad memories, such as the raping of the forests, the loss of her faithful dog, the hard times of the people inhabiting the river bottoms; and funny memories, such as hitching a ride off an island on a tugboat.

Deftly written by Geraldine Ellis Watson (a plant ecologist and former ranger for the National Park Service), Reflections On The Neches is an absorbing memoir of a past childhood as well as a commentary upon the natural and social history of the Neches (one of the last "wild" rivers in Texas, just now being subjected to dams) region of the Big Thicket country. A moving and insightful reflection of the ecology and the natural beauty of the land itself, Reflections On The Neches is informed and informative reading, and highly recommended to students of Natural History in general, and the Neches River Valley country in particular.

A welcomed and surprising analysis, placed in historical context and revealing meanings and subtexts that had never previously occurred to this reader in a lifetime of reading the classics. Absolutely grand.

This is one of those books that didn't get much review coverage when it came out but has come to be recognized since as the classic on its subject. That subject is how the English novel got thrown into creative ferment by the French Revolution and how that ferment produced the novel as we still know it. It's one of the only books about the late eighteenth century novel that isn't drearily plodding and worthy -- the prose is a joy, full of quirky flair and fizz that will remind you why you ever found fiction sexy. Rousseau, Austen, Scott, Hazlitt, Hogg, Hays, Wollstonecraft, Byron -- this is one of the mosty distinctive and persuasive books available about any of them. The section on Hazlitt's confessional Liber Amoris is the only good thing I know on the subject & puts Tom Paulin's embarrassed dismissal in his big biography to shame. This is a cult work of intellectual history, and deserves to be.

Books of this quality are rare. For anyone interested in the underlying patterns which orchestrate existence, this book superbly details, describes, compares and analyzes major cosmological concepts and ideas. I heartfelt wish the author, drawing upon 25 years of living these ideas, would write a sequel discussing what he has learned through his sojourn in Indonesia.

A must read for those interested in seeing the connection of mysticism and our natural world.

This book will stand the test of time. Published in 1975 at the height of the "consciousness movement" of the 60's & 70's this book blends myths, magic and religion to modern natural science and leaves the reader wanting more. Author Blair takes the reader on a step by step journey through the transformation of consciousness from the past to the present supported from the microcosm to macrocosm.

This book is a comfortable read though in its simplicity it evokes the reader's own sense of wonderment about the world around him/her.

"The Road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists", by Istvan Hargittai, Frwd. James Watson, Oxford Univ. Press, GB 2002/3, ISBN: 0-19-860785-7, PC 344 pages, includes Preface, Acknowledgments, Notes 48 pgs., Nobelists (1901-2002) 28 pgs., & Name Index 10 pgs., plus 59 glossy B & W photographs. 7 7/8" x 5".

Hargittai, Professor of Chemistry and Structural Chemist Researcher at Budapest and Eotvos Univs. is extensively published. He's personally acquainted with many Nobelists discussed in this book and was guest lecturer at Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, 2001 on this book's contents.

He discusses establishment of the Nobel Prize(s) in 1895 by Alfred Nobel (1833-'96) and details his Will, it's Statutes, categories, nomination & selection processes, and awards bestowed (medals, money, and ceremonies). The book has focused chapters: -- on biases, who wins, discoveries, adversities, incentives toward science career, venues, mentors, changing fields, making impact, life after a Nobel Prize, and who did not win and why.

Of interest are the personal reflections of scientists both upon themselves, their associates and others in allied fields over impact of discoveries to themselves and society. Hargittai writes in interesting, educational and entertaining prose, a style to maintain the reader's interest. He discloses the primal nature of basic research, of asking the appropriate question, finding its answer and publishing results in peer-reviewed publications forthwith. He describes an exciting social subculture, a world-set of the Laureates and near-Laureatres who reflect, often at great length, upon discoveries, failures, impacts and he even renders a mild flirtation with hypotheses of how to achieve a Nobel Prize. Aside from some prolixity which establishes internal consistency, there are dozens of nicely stated maxims one is wont to memorize.

Professor István Hargittai, a Hungarian research chemist, has written a beautiful book about the myths and stories surrounding the Nobel Prizes for physics (P), chemistry (C), and medicine or physiology (M). Starting from the somewhat vague Nobel's Will, written in 1895, he goes on to analyze various aspects of the organization of the Nobel Foundation, national politics associated to the assignment of the prize, and the common characteristics of the winners. Many nobelists have carried out scientific experiments during their childhood while others have followed the steps of a great mentor, in some case himself a winner. Surprising for us is the kind of hardships (i.e., persecutions, illnesses, poverty, etc.) that many nobelists have faced during the initial steps of their scientific careers. Perhaps these hardships acted as catalysts in persuing one's goals. Working either in a stimulating and creative environment (for example, the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge produced a lot of winners) or in a research field different from that of origin may represent additional ingredients for success. A final (12-th) chapter is dedicated to the non-winners, i.e. top level scientists that didn't receive the prize in spite of their fundamental discoveries and contributions to science. Among them we find the russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (Periodic Table of the Elements), the botanist Michael Tsweet (discoverer of chromatography), Oswald Avery (the proposer that DNA, not proteins, is the genetic material), Leo Szilard (physicist and molecular biologist), Arnold Sommerfeld (one of the founders of quantum mechanics), the chemist G.N. Lewis (important contributor to the fields of chemical thermodynamics and the electronic structure of molecules), and Lise Meitner (co-discoverer - with Otto Hahn - of nuclear fission), just to cite some examples. An important name missing here is that of John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematical physichist that, in addition to having been a child prodigy, contributed greatly in the fields of set theory, algebra, quantum mechanics, and computer science. The reader interested in the remaining Nobel Prizes (Literature, Peace, Economics) may complement this book with Burton Feldman's "The Nobel Prize : A History of Genius, Controversy and Prestige".

If you are a fan of 80's pop AND you love to cook, there couldn't be a better book for you. Several recipes are simple, some inedible, but it's a fun book just to thumb through. I've made a few dishes (Rick Nielsens Nuclear Chicken Wings and Fleetwood Mac Fiesta Dip are my favs) but this collection is more about seeing what celebrities find tasty and seeing them explain in their own (funny) words how to prepare it. A lot of fun.

I love the recipes, especially when they are written in original handwriting, and a story about the recipe how it was acquired...initmate profile of our favorite intertainer's! Excellent!