Northwest Books

The collaborative work of Utah-based home economics experts Maurine R. Humphris and Patricia F. Hemming, Celebrate The Seasons: Traditions & Recipes combines entertaining menus and delicious recipes with family friendly activities augmenting successful and memorable get-togethers with family and friends. A veritable compendium of ideas and suggestions for making every holiday gathering a truly memorable event, Celebrate The Seasons is additionally enhanced an Appendix, an Index, as well as a special section on household cleaning tips and hints and a chapter on etiquette called "To Do or Not to Do: A Guide to Gracious Living". Celebrate The Seasons is a very highly recommended addition to personal and community library "Family Living" cookbook and reference collections.

I have ordered this book twice on Amazon. Each time I have received multiple emails from Amazon telling me the order has been delayed and giving me a new shipping date. Eventually, I just throw my hands up and stop approving the delays because it becomes apparent they don't have and likely never will have copies of this book in stock.

Robin Shannon's "Cemeteries of Seattle" is a unique book which takes you on a visual tour through Seattle's cemeteries and their famous (and infamous) inhabitants. This book includes both historic and contemporary photographs of the cemeteries and gravesites as well as extremely interesting information about the significance of those interred within each cemetery.
This is a "must read" for any cemetery or history lover!

It's a good book,a must read book

Chances are, you (like me) got a degree from your state's teaching school and then began the first day of class with a visage similar to a deer in headlights. Heavens, why in the world didn't they prepare me for all of this stuff that I thought they should know by now?! (i.e. How to leave the room quietly, turn in homework appropriately, take notes when I write them on the board). Well, get over it already; you get to teach it.

This book provides a framework for helping you define and teach your classroom expectations. It can be implemented school wide (you have no idea how great it is for everyone when it is implemented); however, I use it as the lone teacher in my school (self contained Behavior Disorders Classroom) and let me tell you-I'm loving it.

If it works in my room. . . you get the idea.

Once you have clearly defined your expectations, classroom management becomes much more fluid and you can do what you were hired to do. . .you know, teach.

Get your principals to buy it for you and get some training. It rocks.

Chief Joseph And The Nez Perces is a beautiful photographic history documenting the epic journey of the Nez Perces made in flight from the army from June to October of 1877. The role of the respected Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph is explored with care and precision throughout the time of the Nez Perces' flight. The authors have presented only photographs of the areas travelled and frequented by the Nez Perces without reminders of modernity, so the land is presented as closely as possible to the landscape known by the Nez Perces of 1877. Tracing the route of the Nez Perces with a color coded map of the area helps explain their tortuous crossing and recrossing of the mountainous area through the main passes. The brief book is divided into three main sections: prologue, flight , and epilogue, with a helpful bibliography of related works. There is no doubt that the star feature of this history is the stellar color photographs, including a beautiful golden sweep of vista of the Bear Paw Battlefield, in Nez Perce National Historical Park, south of Chinook, Montana, and many more. There is also no doubt of the tragic heart of the tale, for Chief Joseph himself, though he worked tirelessly to reinstate his people in their homeland after the surrender, was never allowed to return to the Nez Perce Reservation in the Northwest. This blatant violation of the terms of surrender is blamed upon the army's high command, Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip H. Sheridan, who"ignored the surrender terms as if they had never existed (page ix)." Chief Joseph And The Nez Perces is a beautiful and moving picture account of a sorrowful bloody history.

Nancy Lorraine, Reviewer

The latest in the "Young Patriots" series of young adult novels, George Rogers Clark: Boy Of The Northwest Frontier by Katharine E. Wilie is a dramatic historical narrative of the childhood of George Rogers Clark, who would grow up to be a Revolutionary War general and famous explorer, as well as an inspiration for his younger brother William who would one day lead the Lewis & Clark expedition. Cathy Morrison's black-and-white illustrations bring this adventurous narrative to life; a tale that captures the imagination and introduces young people to American history through the eyes of those who grew up in the midst of critical events.

Camille, a young woman, escapes her abusive, alcoholic husband to go camping with friends and gets captured by a member of a mysterious, unknown band of people in the forest, much like the legendary Lemurians of Mt. Shasta. He takes her there to help save his mate who has been shot by a hunter. At first she fears for her safety and wants to escape, but soon makes friends with the injured one and begins to understand their culture and language. She soon finds herself in confrontation with the matriarch of the tribe, but by this time has become friends with the whole family of the one who captured her. She stands her ground, and stays, learning ever more about their mysterious ways, discovering latent powers and capabilities she never knew she had. One of the men falls in love with her and she becomes entrenched in their society. Will she ever go home? Or will she be accepted by the Matriarch? A good fantasy read, similar to Clan of the Cave Bear in the Enchanted Forest. Unlike any other book.

It's too bad this book is out of print, and so expensive, because it's a most enlightening book for those interested in 20th Century China and the immense changes it has undergone. Presumably libraries are the main customers for this book. Yet while it's very intelligent, it's not a dry academic book, so has broad appeal beyond scholarly libraries. The fact that this book focuses on an often neglected region of China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang, Yunnan, etc.) makes it all the more important. It would be interesting to see the ratio of books published on the SE coast vs. the far West.

A. Doak Barnett, a legendary China scholar, toured these areas in
1948 and again in 1988. He paints a rich picture by interviewing a wide range of people: government officials high and low, blue-collar workers, peasants, a former labor camp prisoner, etc. As well as, of course, adding his own observations of the changes.

The consensus among all is that the positive economic transformation in these 4 decades is enormous, yet poverty remains widespread (it could hardly be any other way). Many told Barnett that the biggest positive changes in their lives, materially, came in the 1980s. This is doubtlessly true, because only in the reform period did the government give up its obsession with heavy industry and allow the production of consumer goods and petty retail market activity to flourish. But it's also likely, and one can infer this from Barnett's observations and interviews, that the capabilities for reform period growth were enhanced by productive capacity investments in the pre-reform era, which were underutilized.

The biggest current problem in urban economic reform remains the "third front" industries. These are defense industries that were placed in the far west for strategic purposes during the cold war, but now are unneeded duplicates that lose money, yet at the same time provide employment for many. The main rural problem is how to diversify (diets are much more grain-heavy/homogeneous than in the central and eastern regions) and raise yields in a difficult geographic and economic environment. Yields went through a surge in the 1978-83 period, yet gains since have been slow.

Those with an interest in China's minorities will especially want to read this book. For instance the lay reader might not know that as many Tibetans live outside of Tibet than live in it. Barnett discusses the history of and meets the Tibetans of Sichuan, Gansu, and Qinghai; as well as the many other minorities in the West.

It would be great to update this book with a third visit.

I am a native of Northwest Ohio and I am ashamed to say that I do not know much about the history of my region. I also have never read much on the history of Civil War except on the big battles that have been written about ~~ Gettysburg and Fredericksburg and so on. I never really paid attention in school (if the teachers did even mention it) regarding the Civil War soldiers from our area.

Just by chance the other day at a festival that a little town in Ohio, Grand Rapids, hold every October, my family and I walked by this author's booth. My father bought this book. (I bought the other three books by this author because my interest in the Great Black Swamp area has been ignited by a series of newspaper articles a few years' back.)

My dad read this book in three hours. I wasn't so lucky ~~ I do have two preschoolers ~~ but I managed to read it in two days. This is a very slim volume but it is full of historical tidbits about Civil War fighters from the Northwestern Ohio. It is full of emotion as the author compiled stories from old letters and poems written during this time. It is full of pictures. Every story in this book is a complete story. It is written very concisely and beautifully ~~ each character's voice was portrayed in a vivid way. In short, this book is a testament to heroes who just happened to live in a turblent time and did the best they could in their circumstances. It is a testament to those who have marched off to war and never returned home. This book has ignited a spark of interest on my behalf on the Civil War in the Cumberland Gap and other places in Tennessee and Kentucky as Sherman marched his way to Atlanta.

If you are from Ohio ~~ even if you aren't! ~~ I highly recommend this book to anyone who is a Civil War or History buff. This book is a delightful addition to any American history student's library ~~ it is not boring (like too many history books are) and it is interesting. It is also a proud testament to the heroes from my part of the country ~~ these men are just ordinary men in extraordinary times ~~ and this book is exactly that!

10-11-05