Campbell Books

"The best way to cut down on cleaning is to prevent it."
--from A Clean Break


They say the mark of a good book is that you can't put it down. That may be true for thrillers and mysteries, but the mark of this good book was that I couldn't wait to put it down and start putting the ideas into practice.

I desperately needed "A Clean Break" from my old mindset about cleaning. This warm, wise, and entertaining book gave me a new vision and a new vocabulary of clean. And who better to tackle the topic of home management than mother-of-eight Sandra Phillips and cleaning guru Don Aslett? The homes of both authors have been featured in newspaper and magazine articles and on television networks like the Discovery Channel, HGTV, or CBS.

Section One, on designing your home for easy cleaning, has practical advice on downsizing, camouflage, maximizing storage, and much more. Building a house? Read this book before consulting an architect. Buying a home? This information may save you from buyer's remorse. And even in my not-so-new house, I'm learning how to rearrange rooms and replace worn items in ways that will make housework easier. At last, I feel like I can take control of my house instead of having it control me.

A Clean Break is designed to enlist the help of every family member--with sections aimed at inspiring children, teens, and spouses to pitch in (and pitch out). As Sandra says, we wouldn't tell our kids "Go drive a car" or "Go make a pie" without first training them. Why then do we tell them "Go clean your room" without showing them step by step how to do it? The objective is for kids to carry these organizing skills into their schoolwork, their careers, and their homes of the future. And the delightful side effect is a clean house now.

In this cleaning curriculum for families, Phillips and Aslett offer creative, kid-friendly suggestions, such as color-coding the laundry and making up your bed while you're still in it. Or for teens, relating cleaning to fitness. (Genius!) For spouses, this sterling advice: don't ambush your mate with a chore list. Let the need for help be known well ahead of "deadline." And for everybody, why standards of clean work better than cumbersome cleaning schedules.

The order (or disorder) in our homes affects every part of our lives--our health, our productivity, our play, our spiritual life, and family harmony. Clutter and disorganization rob us of our most important resources--our time and energy. Thanks to the principles in A Clean Break, my family is simplifying, de-cluttering, and cleaning its way to freedom.

This story is about a Polish girl named Anetka who is thirteen years old is immigrating to Lattimer, Pennsylvania. She hopes to find her true love of an American-Polish miner named Stanley who has three little girls. She loved him but, he doesn't love her back. His three girls hated Anetka. But in the end of the middle part, the three girls loved Anetka and Stanley, her husband died. Before Anetka was immigrated to America, she misses her Bacia( grandmother) at Sadowka, Poland.

My 16 month old loves this book! We have been reading it to him as a bedtime story for a few months now and he looks forward to it every time. I added a hand signal (finger to lips) to the last page where the zebra goes to sleep and now he mimics the signal when we get to the last page. The length is just right to maintain his interest. He makes me read it to him about 3x in a row every night.

Quite simply, at 600+ pages, this book Colossus of Folk Medicine--An Encyclopedia--is the most comprehensive collection of folk medicine remedies, concoctions, preparations, et cetera, ever published. Remedies range from A - Z, from simple to sublime, from recent to pre-historic, originate from throughout the world, and are multi-cultural. Information on some subjects is particularly extensive, covering more "cures" (in certain areas) than is available in the entire text on most folk medicine publications. Writing style is terse, and avoids fluff. Personal opinions of the writer are largely avoided.

This book is excellent. Probably you won't find such a complete information and photos in one single "small volume".As a War-Between-The States enthusiast I think the author,-R. Thomas Campbell-, has accomplished his informative objectives.

This book presents a value averaging purchase plan for stock mutual fund shares based on the S&P500 P/E ratio. After presenting background information on P/E ratios, the historical real returns of the S&P500 are presented versus its P/E ratio. The near linear relationship shows that when P/Es are high, ie prices are high, real returns are low. One feature of dollar cost averaging is to buy more shares when prices are low; however, investors can improve upon this by considering the P/E ratio to increase their periodic purchases when P/Es are low and decrease them when it is high. A thorough description of other asset classes and their roles in a portfolio is also provided, including inflation protected instruments.

This book has become an invaluable reference around our office...for the engineers, landscape architect and directors. The book covers a range of useful topics, from design basics (including relevant modeling formulas), pricing estimates, integration information for planners, citizens and regulators, wetland ecology background notes, landscaping ideas and wonderful examples of systems that the authors themselves have designed and installed.

The book highlights the benefits of wetlands often overlooked or undervalued in other engineering-oriented texts - wildlife habitat creation, aesthetics, water recharge, etc.

Since the book was writen by a landscape architect and an engineer, two visionary pioneers in their fields, it covers a lot of useful ground.

Will Campbell's THE CONVENTION: A PARABLE is one of the best, if not the best
inside look at the workings of the Southern Baptist Convention. The book is
timeless. Whether one is a moderate, middle roader or conservative or fundememtalist
THE CONVENTION puts them all in their place. It is a "parable" but it
sheds light on the SBC just as Jesus shed light -- by of parables -- on the failings of his
day and those to come.

Floyd Craig
Nashville, TN

I CALLED THIS MY "RED BOOK".THIS BOOK TELLS ME WHAT TO DO WITH MY CANS OF SOUP I HAVE IN MY PANTRY.LOTS OF THE RECIPE ARE USEFUL WHEN I FEEL THAT I WANT TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT WITH JUST "A CAN OF SOUP IN A HAND".I AM NOT AN EXPERIENCED COOK BUT THIS IS A VERY DEPENDABLE COOKBOOK.SO I SAY YES!!!!!

This was the first cook book I ever owned. I was a newlywed at the time and my mother-in-law bought me this book. She knew we were on a limited budget and didn't have much of a food allowance. I was working and quick, simple, easy to make meals were the perfect solution.