Park University Books

This book has been written for gastroenterologists and clinical immunologists, and contains much of interest to paediatricians, pathologists and physicans working in infectious disease.
The editors have aimed at the integration of theoretical immunology and morphological basis of phagocytosis, the gastrointestinal immune response and secretory antibodies are described in detail. Well, there is much more to it, but you have to read the book to find out.

This book is for any nature lover, even if they have never been to the High Ledges Wildlife Sanctuary. Dr. Barnard has lived on and loved this land for decades and it shows! Furthermore, the wood-cut illustrations are beautiful.

Anyone who looks at current best seller lists and wonders what ever happened to serious writing can find an answer here. "Literary short fictions" is the publisher's way of describing this collection from Edward Falco, author of two novels and numerous poems and short stories. In the afterword Falco explains that whatever labels have been applied to these pieces individually, all were approached in a spirit of experimentation, "disregarding the various conventions of form to see where such contraventions might lead." Themes include the intersection of cultural forces and personal desires and the difficulty of maintaining faith in a world marked by violence. The language is vivid: "asleep in his clothes on furniture that owned him," and "a place where we know each other by what's in our hearts," and "I'm lit up bright as a movie screen."

The longest piece is 13 pages, the shortest less than half a page. Formats are varied. "Memories" is made up of six vignettes subtitled "Four from Boyhood" "One from My First Marriage" and "One, Recent, from My House in the Suburbs." "Magic" is a single, 14-line sentence of circular phrases.

When I got this book I spent the first week enjoying the photographs. I'm glad I devoted some undivided attention for these images. They express a personal involvement with, and a command of the subject matter. They would make a wonderful, gallery show. I was not in a hurry to get to the text, though, probably because I thought I already got the gist of the book from the excerpt in "My California" (Angel City Press), or that it was going to be a bit of a travel log.

What was I thinking!?! I clearly forgot who I was dealing with. This is the author that cracked wide open my emotions with her story of the heroic power of a young woman in the same desert ("Twentynine Palms").

Besides the blind side assault on my status quo, this volume, as most of what Ms. Stillman writes, performs well on several levels. Geology, botany, zoology, humor, history, and politics are woven together with autobiographical anthropology. And, despite the nonfiction genre, the book subtly tracks the opening, conflict, climax, and resolution of a play or novel.

Much of my enjoyment in reading her work is my perception of the recurring theme of putting Pop-Culture, Americana, and civilization in context. A kind of Grand Unification Theory. All political debate prompted by the biting, well supported commentary seems welcome in this Big Picture. And, Baseball is more than just a metaphor.

This book does satisfy the nature enthusiast's desire for the must see, and might see highlights of the Park, but moreover, it's well crafted, moving, and much larger than it's size suggests.

This is the amazing story of two young cavers who found a pristine cave and, with the help of enlightened landowners, kept it a secret for 14 years until it could be purchased by the state of Arizona. Kartchner Caverns is a wonderful resource, an educational tool and a great example of cooperation by diverse interests who shared a common goal: the protection of the cave. Miller details the process and the personalities. Thanks to his research and writing skill, we can feel the discoverers' excitement, frustration and, finally, satisfaction.

A stunningly unique, beautiful book! Wege's glorious paintings are printed on fold-outs 40" wide (perfect to prop open on a sofa) so one can relish the vibrant matte colors throughout the day. She passionately grasps the essence of the changing seasons, the diverse locations, with colors and brushstrokes to astound you. Don't miss this very special book about the soul of our land and a very important concept: leaving wilderness alone.

Photo record of the county's older places. A Very good read.

This book is a sea monster of a book. It's enormous. It will rise up and devour anything else ever written on Lee's Ferry. Be careful where you place it on your shelf.
It's a huge, heavy brick of a book. Buy enough copies and use it as a building material. Take one with you as firestarter for a ten-year expedition. Or, read it.
Pick it up, intending on only leafing through it, and then find yourself unable to put it down, find yourself trapped in an absorbing, fascinating, well-researched, well-written Bible of information.
This book is a must for anyone interested in Lee's Ferry, Arizona--a ferry crossing on the Colorado River where sooner or later every single cowboy, outlaw, Indian, and zealot in the Old West passed by.
If you're interested in a much thinner book that you can read in a night or two, try W.L. Rusho and C. Gregory Crampton's "Desert River Crossing," or Joanna Joseph's "Lee's Ferry & Lonely Dell Ranch Historic Districts: A Walking Tour Guide."
But if you want an avalanche of fact, if you want a town-destroying tidal wave of knowledge, if you want to be bludgeoned to death with valid, pertinent, astounding history, lore, and information, then pick up a copy (if you're strong enough) of "Lee's Ferry: From Mormon Crossing to National Park," by P.T. Reilly, expert riverman and writer.
Your chiropractor will thank me.

Legends of the Delaware Indians and Picture Writing is beautifully amplified by Deborah Nichol's introduction and brief biography of Richard C. Adams(1864-1921), a self educated Delaware (Lenape) Indian who devoted 25 years of his life to the furtherance of causes of the many trialed Delaware tribe. The Legends are part of his scholarly and historical legacy. The tales teach homilies on desirable attributes such as pride, courage, promise-keeping, modesty and courtesy as well as courting customs, gambling games, and other pastimes. The picture writing and photographs enrich and complement the text as do the appendices of Lenape translations of several of the legends by Lucy Parks Blalock and Nora Thompson Deane. Legends Of The Delaware Indians And Picture Writing is a very valuable text both because of the enriched script of the tales but also because of the complex, condensed history of the persecutions suffered by the Delawares detailed in the introduction. The cover illustration gracing Legends of the Delaware Indians is a color painting reproduction of Delaware Women by Ruth Blalock Jones.

Nancy Lorraine, Reviewer

Part of the University of Calgary Press unique 'Parks and Heritage' series focusing on North American national parks and historic sites, "The Lens Of Time: A Repeat Photography Of Landscape Change In The Canadian Rockies" is the collaborative Project of Cliff White and Ted Hart which compares yesteryear black-and-white photographs in side-by-side arrangement with contemporary full color photographs of the same landscapes, taken from the same positional perspectives, and revealing the changes that have taken place during the intervening 125 years. Enhanced with an informed and informative commentary text, "The Lens Of Time" is an enthusiastically recommended addition to professional, academic, and community library collections, and would prove of immense and particular interest to environmental activists and non-specialist general readers with an appreciation of Canadian Rockies landscapes -- then and now!