Wilson Books

I just got this book yesterday to use with my 7 & 9 year old in our homeschool. I read through it and can't wait to actually start doing all the things with my kids. This isn't your normal geography book - and that's a good thing. In fact, another homeschool family is going to be going through the book with us because they have their own copy and love it, too!

It puts the world into perspective beginning at your very own home. You don't just learn about maps, you actually make your own! Not only do your learn about the compass, you make your own! You also learn about different cultures and landforms.

As the back cover states, "Most of us live on great big hunks of earth that move around like dinner plates." They also say, "It's a trip around the world in 119 pages." Amazing stuff!

As a homeschooling mom, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this book to teach my seven year old about geography and maps and where we are in our world. It's starts off with you in your house, then your neighborhood, then your town, then your state, then the US, the the world. It allows younger minds to wrap around the concepts of distance that can be confusing. I even learned concepts I never really thought much about. All the books from this publisher (Little, Brown)are good (The Book of Where, the Book of Think, The Reasons for the Seasons, Blood and Guts, The Backyard History Book- all awesome!)

This book is a definetely a keeper, about a spanish conde and his mother's nurse, I will not spoil it for any one, but this is one of the best ever Harlequin I have ever read, love this book

"Bride of Diaz" offers the reader a very pleasurable mind massage as they journey through this delightful tale of delicate but determined Nurse Laura Marsh and her strong willed employer Conde Roderigo Diaz. Wishing a chance to contemplate a big decision, Laura leaves her native England and takes a job as a nurse and companion to Roderigo's ailing mother in the mountains of Spain. Roderigo is a domineering autocrat who must learn to compromise to keep Laura in his life. Wilson deliver consistantly excellent books and "Bride of Diaz" is no exception. A definate keeper.

This is a great book for all the people who love the rural wilderness in Florida. Very well researched enjoyable story with great descriptions of adventures in the Everglades over one hundred years ago but with a contemporary point of view of the heroine. Loved it.

The Bucket Flower gives the reader an opportunity to walk in the shoes of a botanist in old Florida in early 1900.

Set primarily in South Florida, the author takes the reader on an adventure from stuffy eastern society to the wilds of the everglades. Mr. Wilson follows the trail of a young female botanist who is trying to escape her overbearing father and a fiance she does not love.

As Beth pursues her dream of identifying the tropical plants of Florida, she runs into all kinds of wild creatures never before seen by this delicate "Bucket Flower" as she walks down a path of scientific and self discovery.

The descriptions are breathtaking and the story keeps you turning pages!!

Linda Bilodeau
Author: Stepping Through Seagrass
The Olive Branch A Tale of Resistance.

Great book for anyone who loves the old west, scores of high quality photographs of the best, I repeat the BEST of the old west artifacts, from Colts, to CDV, and cabinet cards, saddles, hats, clothing, etc. Many photos never seen before..accompanied by a strong text, highest recommendations!

I was looking for a gift for a true western history buff. Many of the books out there sugarcoat the story of the West. This one is the best book I have seen on an amazing man. The details of the adventures along with the non-colorized photos are just excellent. For anyone interested in this section of American history, this book should be on your bookshelf. It's also a very good coffee table book. Highly recommended.

Art's book is an excellent resource and useful roadmap to successful selling with proven theory. The book is jam-packed with never seen before sales models and examples of implementing them.

I had the pleasure of working for Mr. Wilson while I was in college, so I have a bit of firsthand experience with his methods. I'm not a businessman or a salesman, but from a purely lay perspective, I often marvelled at his gift for taking complex, subtle ideas and explaining them in accessible ways.

Mr. Wilson and his colleagues have made careers out of teaching their selling methods and strategies to others; this alone speaks to the soundness of their methods. This is certainly a book that should be on the shelf of all sales professionals, and will doubtlessly yield extraordinary results for anyone who employs its methods.

This is a wonderful catalogue that accompanies the landmark exhibition that was held at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland in 2004, and at the Phillips Collection in Washington. Apart from the groundbreaking comparative study of both artists, which is very well written and highly informative (a trove of previously unpublished documents), the illustrations are fantastic. One of the most moving series by Miro, the Constellations, some 40 watercolors painted in 1941, are wonderfully echoed in a three-dimensional space by Calder's delicate mobiles of the same period. Highly recommended.

it is always interesting to see how artists and friends influence one another and here is another brilliant examination. alexander calder and joan miro couldn't have been more different, yet, it seems that this factor propelled their friendship. they true friends from the beginning the artists, and their families, remained close throughout their careers. often collaborating on works, sharing ideas or simply exchanging artistic gifts their friendship shines through to their art. this show brings commonalities and collaborations together under one roof (some for the first time ever) and explores the influences behind the objects. bravo to the curators for bringing this to our attention and thanks for the fantastic catalogue that accompanies it!

I have read large sections of this book when I had Rob Wilson as a professor. The text is clear and concise and I recommend it to anyone interested in Individualism.

The issue of individualism in the philosophy of psychology is related to the larger question of the place of individualism as a viable construct in any scientific account of beliefs, desires and other curiosities of folk psychology. While Wilson's focus on this book is part of an attempt to come to grips with the status of folk psychology and a scientific account of mind as a whole, the book has earned its place as a valuable text for anyone interested in a clear rendering of the issues involved.

It is very pleasing to see this book back in print.
I picked up my copy circa 1980 and it remains my
favorite book on the mathematics of gambling. Why?
It is mathematically rigorous, it is comprehensive
and yet it manages to be very readable and even
entertaining. It assumes a familiarity with
elementary probability theory. Anyone who is
already familiar with the first few chapters of
Feller volume I can easily understand the theory
in this book. And those who don't can still understand
the strategies and be entertained by the author's
gambling stories. Epstein's book is also very good
(my second favorite)and more encyclopaedic and has
lots and lots of data tables but Wilson is the best
place to start.

I read this book in the mid 70's after which I lent it to someone and never saw it again, much to my regret because in my opinion this is the best written book that I have ever read on Casino gambling and, as a one-time world-roving BJ player and habitue of Las Vegas' "Gamblers Bookshop", I have read quite a few.

In its coverage of blackjack and particularly so-called "card-counting" this book shows its age (1965) - as these were early days in the evolution of effective blackjack strategies.
But, being that the subject of Blackjack has since been exploited to death, this is not a serious criticism.

Where this book really excels (and nobody has ever done this better) are the chapters on "systems" and "gambling fallacies" in which Allan Wilson (who I believe is a real live "rocket scientist") expertly and lucidly analyses and takes-down many of the foolish irrational ideas which the great majority of (losing) gamblers - not to mention many dealers and pit-bosses - thrive on.

But the most unique part is his coverage of the rarely-if-ever mentioned subject of exploiting the statistical bias of many Roulette Wheels. The several chapters on his student exploits in the Reno of the early 50's is a fascinating and entertaining story the likes of which has never been repeated.

Even though this all happened 50 years ago, much of this is still secret knowledge and I therefore absolutely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in casino systems, strategies and fallacies, or those who just want to read an amazing and exciting casino tale which also happens to be 100% scientific.

"The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel in Fact and Fiction" is one of the great modern dog books, and certainly it was no surprise when this magnificent work won a Maxwell award for best breed book given by the Dog Writers Association of America at their annual banquet the night before the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. This is the third book by Cavalier-breeder and author Barbara Garnett-Wilson, a long time American breeder of winning Cavalier King Charles Spaniels at "Laughing Cavaliers", including the first Cavalier to win Best of Breed and a Toy Group Placement at the Westminster Kennel Dog Club Show. A well-respected show judge herself, Garnett-Wilson has served and currently is President of the Western Region of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club of the USA, where she has tirelessly championed her beloved breed. (Ms Garnett-Wilson's earlier book, The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel in North America, is itself one of the best books on the breed.) Yet in this 2007 work Garnett-Wilson outdoes not only her own excellent previous work, but has produced a major lasting book on this happy and charming and most loving companion, the delightful dog that is the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.

Most dog books have their strengths and weaknesses: authors may know their breed backwards and forwards, but lack skills at writing. Some dog books offer well-written text without covering important subjects, or the author's work fails to utilize top quality reproductions. Dog books often use photos as mere window-dressing - a particular problem with such photogenic dogs as Cavalier King Charles Spaniels! And even if requirements for an excellent and helpful book are achieved, there remains certain intangibles, intangibles that mark a superior imaginative presentation. In Garnett-Wilson's work these often missing intagibles are everywhere, they literally can be found in super-abundance. Although on the surface her book seems at first yet another - admittedly glorious - example of a coffee table book, the reality is that this book, like the breed itself, is far more than a pretty face. This is a serious work filled to bursting with deeply informed experience founded on three decades of working closely with these dogs, listening and learning from the top breeders, and promoting the positives of this wonderful dog, the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, to many new fans.

One of the many virtues of Garnett-Wilson as author is not only fine writing skills put at the service of her vast experience with the breed, here unfolded in a exquisite series of chapters on all the basics of breeding and raising Cavaliers, but a remarkable generosity shown her fellow Cavalier lovers. Throughout the book are scores and scores of photos and stories highlighting other breeders and owners and their dogs. Rather than pack her book with photos of her own dogs, and she has had hundreds of dogs, and a limitless supply of photos, Garnett-Wilson instead opts to showcase the full range and richness of her beloved Cavaliers through a wide-ranging multitude of dogs and owners.

The book's chapters all offer a balanced match between text and images. Readers should be aware the book's lavish illustrations are not window dressing, but are frequently perfect visual guides for the author's narrative. The chapters on breeding, pregnancy and whelping, the nursery, and grooming couldn't be bettered. Garnett-Wilson also has the most up-to-date news on Cavalier health and wellness.

A list of the chapters goes as follows,

THE WONDER OF CAVALIERS
A HISTORY OF THE CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIEL
CHOOSING A CAVALIER
THE NEW CAVALIER PUPPY
A GALLERY OF CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIELS
THE VERSATILE CAVALIER
THE CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIEL IN ART
UNDERSTANDING THE BREED STANDARDS
THE CHALLENGE OF BREEDING
PREGNANCY AND WHELPING
THE CAVALIER NURSERY
GOLDEN OLDIES
TRAINING AND SHOWING THE CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIEL
GROOMING THE CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIEL
CAVALIER HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Appendices, contact information, favorite products, artistic credits,
I love my Cavalier contract.
Glossary
Index - a very fine one running to several pages of fine print.


The book is filled with over 300 color photos, including several reproductions also found in the author's book, "The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: A Tribute in Art", published simultaneously. (This other book contains a very high standard of art reproductions - these are easily superior to most of what I see in my field of Art History. This companion work also was nominated for a prestigious Maxwell Award by the Dog Writers Association of America in 2007, an unheard of achievement for one author!)

Any Cavalier owner has to see "The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel In Fact and Fancy"! If you can find one for sale - grab it! You'll have a treasure that does justice to the wonder that is these bouncy adorable heart-throbs with spirit! As the author writes in her preface, "Enjoy your Cavalier. And if this is your first, don't be surprised if she's the first of many. They are a bit like potato chips. You can't, it seems, have just one."

Should the Amazon site listings be temporarily out of the book it may still be available by contacting Laughing Cavaliers at their website, or through the publisher, Cascade Publishers.

This is an absolutely fantastic book. I highly recommend it to anyone even the slightest bit interested in the breed. The photographs alone make it well worth purchasing, but Barbara Garnett-Wilson has also packed decades worth of experience into this volume. She has thoroughly researched the origins and history of the breed and has included spectacular examples of artwork from across the ages. This, coupled with practical information on every aspect of cavalier ownership from breeding to show (how exactly do you keep those long beautiful coats shiny and smelling fresh?...lots of product info and links included) makes it a must have for cavalier owners and potential owners alike.

i can't write in all caps, but this series of baby books from amy wilson sanger are our absolute favorite. i have all 7, and give them as gifts to lucky friends. so funny, so cute, so creative and a great way to learn about world foods, really. my older daughter likes to read the dessert sections to our baby and we have even experimented with some of the foods. A MUST HAVE FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES!

My daughter received this book as a gift on her 1st birthday. She is half Indian, half Welsh- how exciting for her to have a board book about Indian foods for her book collection! I didn't even know such books existed. What a pleasant surprise. The book is well done- great illustrations and funny. Would love to see more books for children about the Indian culture.