University of Louisville Books

While growing up in Louisville, I did not have any interest in my "little hick town". I dreamt of leaving for the big city. At 22 I left, for the west coast, eventually hitting the big cities of Dallas and Detroit, on my way back home. Now here, I find this the perfect place for raising my children. This book completes my journey, and brings me home. This is the most interesting book I have ready in years!

The Encyclopedia of Louisville is an incredible reference guide and history of the city from its beginnings to the year 2000.The information on African-American life in Louisville is vast and interesting.I encourage anyone who loves or lives in the city to purchase this book. You will not be disspointed.

This wonderful volume covers people, places, events and things in the Louisville metropolitan area from a historical and cultural perspective in encyclopedia style entries written by Louivillians. As a native Louivillian I am finding it a delight to browse thru the entries learning delightful details about my birthplace and its history. It takes many more universal topics and relates how they have impacted the city and its people. A must for Louisvillians that want to learn more about our rich history and cultural legacy.

Photography gathers many unusual images of perspective and still life: changes in light change image results substantially. Enjoy Gathering Light, a superb collection of full-page photographic images which illustrate this point, with texts by Dave Hickey and Eduardo Cadava accenting some startling photos.

Mr. Ross wields the camera like Shakespeare wielded the plume, gathering images more beautiful than the white cliffs of Dover at dawn. In passing from page to page, Ross takes you on a journey from the bayou to Burma and everywhere in between, focusing in on places Indiana Jones would have thought too difficult to reach. And all through the mind's eye of a true gatherer of light. I felt like Kim Basinger looking at slides in "Nine and a Half Weeks." Arousing to say the least.

BB New Series #2 is misnumbered as #3. It has a Tarzan of the Apes cover - July 1990.
The real BB New Series #3 is with the Gods of Mars cover October 1990.
One has to be careful to buy BB 2 and 3 by either the cover or the date of publication.

A Kingdom Not Of This World by Preston D. Graham, Jr. (Senior Pastor, Christ Presbyterian Church, New Haven, Connecticut) is a profoundly presented, persuasively argued treatise against the common tendency of current historians to perceive religion as subordinate to nationalism in the American Civil War, with theology and the Church being used largely to justify political aims of the North and the South. A Kingdom Not Of This World challenges such perceptions with meticulous research, studies of primary resources, and emphatic presentation of the power of religious beliefs held in their own right, quite distinct from the 19th Century political controversy over slavery and states' rights that threatened to destroy America. A Kingdom Not Of This World is a unique and invaluable study which adds depth and focus to Civil War Studies and Church/State Studies supplemental reading lists and reference collections.

This is another book by the prolific railroad author Richard E. Prince who is well-known throughout the American railfan community for his books on the steam locomotives of several Southeastern railroads. These books, mostly long out of print and of limited initial press runs, are highly prized by collectors. Most of these volumes are now being reissued by Indiana University Press so that these books may gain a wider circulation and offer those who were unable to purchase a copy of the limited initial releases. I, for one, am grateful to Indiana University Press for re-releasing this book, as well as others on steam motive power of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air line rairoads (both if which I have previously reviewed ...)A volume on the steam power of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad is forthcoming.

The typical comprehensiveness of a Prince work is in this volume down to which six class J-4 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotves got larger tenders in later years, not to mention the physical dimensions such as driving wheel diameter, cylinder bore and stroke, boiler pressure and tractive effort of each class of engine and date of disposition of each individual locomotive. If there is anything you would want to know about Louisville and Nashville Railroad steam power, it is in the book. It is my opinion that photographic clarity and quality is better than the usual Prince volume and does not suffer by comparison with other works of this genre.

This is a good book and a copy of it belongs in the library of any American steam locomotive enthusiast.

Great book and a must have for any fan of Louisville Athletics and fans of NCAA football. Gives great insight in the difficulties the program has gone through and the amazing strides it makes yearly.

Jack Mellot's photos capture the beauty of Northwestern's Evanston campus in a way that I imagine all alumni want to remember it. Nary a word, except for the haunting alma mater, occupy this book, and for good reason -- the pictures speak for themselves.

As anyone who has walked the walk can attest, the University of Iowa campus is a beautiful place. After examining this book, others can experience some of what is there. It is a vibrant university, from the athletic events to those of a more mental bent. Most of what you see in this book is the exterior of the major buildings as well as some of the favorite hangouts of the students. While no set of photographs can ever capture all that is a university, this collection of snapshots comes as close as it possible to do so.

The 20th Century will be remembered for many things, one of the most significant will be the emergence of women in leadership both inside and outside of the church.

Scales book gives pause for consideration by anyone interested in how women recognize the call of God and then pursue that call with tenacity, perserverance and determination. All That Fits a Woman is much more than a history of the training of Southern Baptist Women at the school in Louisville, KY, it is a wonderfully woven, and meticulously researched, story of the passion for God that supersedes all of life's other considerations and drives one to do the extraordinary for others in need.

Highly recommended!

At a timely moment, when questions about the role of women in religious institutions cross social and ecumenical lines, Scales offers a well-documented, detail-oriented history of the founding of the Women's Missionary Union Training School in Louisville, Kentucky in 1907. The educational arm for training Baptist women both for foreign missions and their duties in and for "home" in the broadest sense of the word, the WMU's founding offers in microcosm the issues and trends of the time. The author details the inside maneuvering among Baptists of the early 20th century south juxtaposed with the larger history of women's movements in the United States, for the two often coincided in their concerns: slavery, temperance, women's education and role in society. Individual stories weave across broader historical developments and are set against the background of the at-times contentious relationships among Baptist organizations throughout the United States, and in particular in the south, where the evolution of the Southern Baptist Convention would come to dominate the particular coda of Baptist life below the Mason-Dixon line. The depth of Scales worth, though, is found in the details: students' daily lives at the WMU, their studies, development of domestic skills, their activities, be it drama or music, and the evolution from "calling" in the courtship process to the gradual freedom of the unchaperoned "date" of "dining and dancing, Coke dates, movies, parking." The author never waivers in her assessment of the driving force and enduring legacy of the creation of this school for females as it empowered women in the utilization of the skill most significant for home and church, yet one whose imprimatur yet awaits a final Baptist consenus: their leadership.

This is not so much a personal biography of the Kentucky general as an account of his influence on John Hunt Morgan. Civil War buffs will appreciate the details that fill in previous blanks in other accounts of Morgan's Raiders and the role of Kentuckians in the War Between the States.