Virginia Books

I checked Dr. Mickey's textbook out from Tsing-Hua Univ (Taiwan) Library for preparing my MBA thesis regarding the interaction effects. Given the widespread use of the SPSS or SAS, this practical and concise volume is suitable for premiere researchers and veteran practitioners.

Burleigh Law did not envision himself as a Christian martyr. He simply wanted to share his building and mechanical skills where they were needed in the days of the Belgian Congo. He and his wife were appointed as missionaries by the Methodist Church and went to the Congo in 1950. After building a hospital and schools, Burleigh Law was caught up in the events of the Revolution and killed by rebels in 1964. This is his story written by his widow, Virginia Law. She gives the reader many pictures of everyday life in the Congo, from the humerous to the heartbreaking. This is a wonderful read for anyone interested in the progress of the Christian Church in Africa and the effect of missionary work in Africa.

This is a terrific record of the 28,000+ men who received their paroles from Grant at Lee's surrender. Soldiers are isted alphabetically with the each unit name listed after the soldier's name.

There are also brief commentaries in the book.

I am a Virginia Tech alumnus and I just finished this book. It amazes me that in spite of all the tragedy, the Tech community showed its strength in numbers and will overcome this in time.

Let's Go Hokies!!!

This short book details the first year of the excavations made to try to find the site of the original James Fort, the first permanent English settlement in Virginia. This book, which is the first in a continuing series of publications highlighting the discoveries, is richly illustrated with pictures of the various objects recovered which include armor, crockery and items of daily life. It is enhanced by the inclusion of paintings from the period that illustrate identical or very similar objects. There is a bibliography and informative endnotes that include accession numbers and measurements of the artifacts.

This book is written for the lay person and would be appropriate for older children. I highly recommend it!

In 15 years, I've not found another source book that compares. The author thoroughly researched the available census and county records to produce a very faithful and detailed book. a great but at this price.

Remember Marios Pizza? They are still around! Remember putt putt golf on Glebe road? That's long gone but they are about to put up a new course at the Ballston mall. Who were the Donaldsons? How did Arlington get its wierd shape? Where did the high school boppers go for ice cream on a date? This book is filled with wonderful history of a tremendously historic place, Arlington VA.

One of the most useful and interesting publishing phenomena of the past decade has been the appearance of a number of collections of Civil War diaries and letters written not by famous names but by the line officers and common soldiers who actually fought the war--and who suffered the diseases, quibbles and boredom of camp life in the often-long intervals between battles. I found this particular book especially insightful on both the details of military life and the ambience of the war years. The letters themselves are marvelous--even in their mundane concerns. This truly is a slice of "real life" that a standard history text can't offer (the book reminds me of the wonderful collections of courts-martial, reports and papers assembled by Dr. Thomas Lowry, who is consistently one of our most interesting Civil War historians). Credited as the book's "editor," Eric Ward has actually done far more than simply getting the narrative into shape for publication (a tough enough job by itself). Ward has set the book off superbly, and his interlocutions to place Benedict's jottings in context are masterful in their accuracy, succinctness and insight. For those seriously interested in Civil War studies, or simply for a reader anxious to enter that bygone world for the first time, this book is an excellent choice. Very well done!

After spending my first ten years of life in Ohio I lived with my parents in New Market, Virginia until after college when I became a teacher in the Roanoke, Valley of Virginia. I have never seen a small town so riddled with great history and this is one of the things that inspired me to be a history teacher and supervisor. The book is excellent and even has the store in it that my parents owned and ran. I especially liked the coverage of my old school, the Shenandoah Valley Academy. I'll be soon going to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of that school and actully bought extra copies of this book to give to classmate who I'll be seeing. I realize the company does this sort of thing for many communities and for one raised in the Shenandoah Valley it was a great service. Many thanks to them and the local people who cooperated in this project.

Art and Enterprise: American Decorative Art 1825-1917: The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta is a catalogue of the collection as of the date of publication. Catalogues of exhibits and collection have always been a wonderful source of knowledge and this one is superior even in this elite category. The collection's goal has been to represent the period from 1825-1917 in American Decorative Art with masterpieces whose superior quality is matched by their historical significance. This goal is key to this book as a major focus in not just the object but the history of the manufacture or of those involved in the object. With a total of 227 objects arranged chronologically by style, this book is a wonderful reference for this period.