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Tool Steel Simplified, 4th Edition 1 review
Frank R. Palmer
Chilton Book Co, 1978
simplified but informative
In the book "Randall Made Knives" the author states that Bo Randall purchased a copy of "Tool Steel Simplified" in 1938 and that it quickly became "dog-eared and smudged from use." I received my copy this morning and quickly found why Bo cherished his copy. "Tool Steel Simplified" is probably one of the best investments I've made in a long time. Long out of print but the info contained within ...
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Blood Brother 1 review
Frank Palmer
Cherrytree Books, 1996
A fine police procedural
This is the fourth novel of the Inspector "Jacko" Jackson series. As usual, I have read it out of sequence and it is the first that I have encountered. Jackson is a detective of the Major Crimes Squad and has been assigned a tantalizing Police Constable to investigate the murder of a tv producer, Penny Browne. Penny Browne is the sister of Russell Browne who happens to be a rising political ...
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Blood Brother: An Inspector "Jacko" Jackson Mystery1 review
Frank Palmer
St Martins Pr, 1995
A great work by a great friend
My great friend Frank Palmer died on June 1st 2000. I had known him for fifteen years and helped him with the photographs for all but one of his books. In that period I never met anyone who had a bad word for him. He was a true character from the old fleet street. He treated me like his son and I miss him like my father...... He was a great journalist & author - please read his books and ...
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In Situ Treatment Technology (Geraghty & Miller Environmental Science and Engineering) 1 review
Donald F. Kidd, Peter L. Palmer, ...
Lewis Pub, 1996
I like it
This book does a good job of discussing why groundwater extraction (pump and treat or whatever else you want to call it) is not useful for cleanup of petroleum contaminated sites, rendering it best suited for hydraulic control of plumes. The author also has a pretty good discussion regarding lifecycle design considerations and the various steps to go through/questions to ask with regard to ...
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Essential Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials)4 reviews
Gerry Conway, Carla Conway, ...
Marvel Comics, 2007
What a lady!!! Is she married?
Carol Danvers is a dream come true!!! She's independent, self-supporting, intelligent, beautiful and, in her spare time, she fights costumed villains!!! This alone'd give her very interesting tales to tell.
Apart from all that joking, this book shows a woman who trades punches with the likes of "The Scorpion" and "The Tiger Shark" (the best stories in the volume), but still looks feminine and, ...
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Essential Nova, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials)5 reviews
Marv Wolfman, Len Wein
Marvel Comics, 2006
Essential Nova, Volume 1
10 reasons why I love Nova:
One: The costume. This is one of the most dynamic superhero costumes of all time. It screams spaceman, it screams power, it screams raw brash energy. I love the colours, I love the whole get-up. I would wear that. I would fly around in that.
Two: Nova discovering his powers. He gets these awesome powers without really even knowing how to use them. It's neat ...
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Unfit to Plead1 review
Frank Palmer
St Martins Pr, 1994
Good despite ludicrous premise
Look, blending the supernatural with the logical is more often than not a path to complete incoherence. This book manages by not being explicit about what world is real, and showing us what the characters see, and as such is a nice technical mystery with plenty of misleading clues and a careful architecture of doubts to clue us in to who is guilty -- entirely independently of any analysis of his ...
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Grammatical Roles and Relations (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)1 review
Frank Robert Palmer
Cambridge University Press, 1994
excellent
Writing linguistic textbooks is not easy. Given that the intended audience is usually undergraduate students, you are supposed to start from the basics, you cannot assume any previous knowledge of the topics covered and you have to go to extreme lengths (literally) to make sure that the main ideas and issues are clear. All this does not mean that you can be divulgative, on the contrary, the use ...
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Bent Grasses/an Inspector "Jacko" Jackson Mystery
Frank Palmer
St Martins Pr, 1995
Finding temptation in a bewitching woman who is the reputed lover of an accused hit man, gritty Detective Inspector ""Jacko"" Jackson is disturbed by what he believes is an attempt on the hit man's life as the latter awaits trial.
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