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The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

3 reviews
Abigail Adams

Penguin Classics, 2003

The loving letters of our second president and his wife abigail: brilliance in Braintree!
John Adams was the first Vice-President and second chief executive of the United States of America. He was also a brilliant lawyer, legislator, writer and diplomat for the fledging American nation in France and the Netherlands during the Revolutionary War. In this excellent collection of personal letters John and Abigail share their thoughts on a wide variety of topics chiefly the struggle ...

Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin

4 reviews
Lawrence Weinstein, John A. Adam

Princeton University Press, 2008

A little knowledge, common sense and basic algebra will carry you far.
This is a great "hands on" book that teaches the art of making a quantitative "educated" guess based on just a few basic facts most people know (or should know). I found this book great reading and very educational. Recommended for anyone.

My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

12 reviews
Abigail Adams, John Adams

Belknap Press, 2007

My Dearest Friend~Letters from John Adams to his wife Abbigail
If you are a history buff or just a little interested in the history of our nation you will love this book. The letters exchanged between John and Abigail Adams are wonderful. Abigail was definitely John's rock. She kept him focused and steady. John was a very passionate man in his beliefs and at times would become a tyrant trying to convince people that his way of thnking was the only way to ...

Constitutional Documents of the United States of America, ...

MSI Publishing, 2008

Edited specifically for the Kindle, this ebook contains the following documents: The Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation Constitution of the United States of America United States Bill of Rights Additional Amendments to the United States Constitution

The Dragonfly Door

6 reviews
John Adams

Feather Rock Books, Inc., 2007

The warm, emotional colors of award-winning artist Barbara L. Gibson
The debut children's picturebook of author John Adams, The Dragonfly Door dares to confront serious topics - of loss, death, grieving, and transition. Nym and Lea are two close insect friends, but one day after Nym yells at Lea, Lea disappears. Nym searches everywhere for her missing friend, and can't find her. At last Nym falls asleep, grief-stricken, and finally hears Lea's voice one more time. ...

Taking God to Bed With You: The truth they don't want you to know about God, sex and the way the world really ...
John Adam Kovin

iUniverse, Inc., 2007

If the Bible were correctly categorized it would be found in the fiction section of our local book store. If Pinocchio or Cinderella were considered to be true accounts of history, imagine how insane it would be to believe in them. Thus you have an accurate comparison of the insanity of accounts noted in the Bible. God created our sexuality for us to enjoy as well as use for procreation, therefore, it is a God given gift as well. This book ...

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

17 reviews
Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, ...

Night Shade Books, 2008

Not Free SF Reader
Wastelands is pretty close to the perfect anthology, making just a touch over the magic 4.00 story average. For an authoritative (the editor does say he is now an expert) look at the sub-genre, it is a bit light on for analytical non-fiction. For readers, less space taken thanking your mates, more time writing about the work would be appreciated, I think. There is a fairly lengthy ...

The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections (American Heritage Series (New York, N.Y.).)
John Adams

Hackett Publishing Company, 2003

A reprint of the 1954 Bobbs-Merrill edition. "The fundamental article of my political creed," declared John Adams, "is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical." The consequences of this article for Adams' thought are nowhere better ...

The Book of Abigail & John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family 1762-1784

3 reviews
Abigail Smith Adams, John Adams

Northeastern University Press, 2002

The First Harvard Collection of Adams Letters--1975
This collection is the first assemblage of the letters between John and Abigail Adams published by Harvard University Press. Subsequently, in 2007, an expanded collection was published by Harvard, under the editorship of different scholars, with the title of "My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams" (which I also reviewed on Amazon). While the newer version has more letters (289 v. ...

The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams

20 reviews
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, ...

Clarion, 1971

Not a book about History, this IS History
Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall and to be able to share in the thoughts and happenings of important places and people? Well, if your desires in that regard include the office of the Presidency of the United States and the early days following the American Revolution, that is exactly what this book provides. As was typical of statesmen of that day, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams ...

The Meaning of Liff

7 reviews
Douglas Adams, John Lloyd

Harmony Books Random House Crown, 1984

Now my liff has a real meaning!!!
(Attention, if not warning: this comment contains two or so profanities. When confronted with them, just block your eyes then, eh??! OK, great!!:) I've tried 'em all, Webster's, Oxford's, Cambridge's, but none of those dictionaries ever really made sense to me. I mean, I could not possibly care less how many people live in a town named Aalst (nothing personal, Aalst, but that's where I always ...

Time to Kill

353 reviews
John Grisham

Books on Tape, 1993

Your Eyes Will Bleed as You Pour Through the Pages
Gwen Hailey calls her husband Carl Lee at work, tells him their daughter, ten-year-old Tonya is missing. Carl Lee isn't all that worried though, because his wife tends to be, well a little protective. However when he gets home he's met with the news that Tonya has been raped by a pair of redneck types named Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard. Tonya had been left for dead and Carl Lee is seeing red. ...

The Richardson Memorial, Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the Posterity of the Three Brothers, ...
John Adams Vinton

The Apple Manor Press, 2007

Reprint of a classic work originally published in 1876. It is reprinted here in 2 volumes.

Then and Now: The Vanishing Orange in Southern California
John Anthony Adams

CreateSpace, 2008

This book is a visit to the glorious past of Southern California when it was filled with orange groves. The author is a third-generation Southern California orange grower and he interviewed hundreds of old timers, most of whom are now deceased. The book is especially for those who lament the disappearance of Southern California's groves.

If Mahan Ran the Great Pacific War: An Analysis of World War II Naval Strategy

3 reviews
John A. Adams

Indiana University Press, 2008

Strategic Thinking as Illustrated by the Pacific War
This study could be used as an organizational management text book in a business school class. The author begins with a review of Mahan's principles, e.g., focus on the most essential task, never divide your fleet, and then applies these principles to the history of the Pacific War. Familiar historical episodes illustrate how difficult sticking to these simple principles is in practice. In the ...

Ansel Adams at 100

23 reviews
Ansel Adams, John Szarkowski

Bulfinch, 2003

A pioneer of photography and art
Ansel Adams at 100 by John Szarkowski is a beautiful collection of Adam's finest work. The first fifth of this 191 page book contains a bibliography about Ansel Adams. I was able to read about the trials and tribulations of Adams' family issues, life, and his discovery of his passion for photography. It was in this book that I found out where Adams' passion began - Yosemite National Park. Though, ...

The Living Dead
Stephen King, Joe Hill, ...

Night Shade Books, 2008

"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth!" From White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead, Resident Evil to World War Z, zombies have invaded popular culture, becoming the monsters that best express the fears and anxieties of the modern west. Gathering together the best zombie literature of the last three decades from many of today's most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror, including Stephen King, Harlan ...

The Children of Cthulhu

16 reviews
John & ADAMS, Benjamin(editors) PELAN

Ballantine, 2002

Modern Mythos Inspired by HPL
The problem with reviewing books in this genre is that usually you've read a lot of them. And I mean a lot. After you've read 20 or so Mythos anthologies, they all blend together. You already know what you're getting before you open the book. Not that it's a bad thing; you are after all buying a very specific niche and there's not a lot of unmapped parameter space. Maybe it's just nice to ...

The Portable John Adams (Penguin Classics)

2 reviews
John Adams

Penguin Classics, 2004

The greatness of a founding father
Adams was in my American childhood a neglected founding father. Washington was the father of the nation, and Jefferson the great author of the 'Declaration of Independence'maker of the Louisiana Purchase, Madison the great author of the Federalist, Monroe the enunciator of the doctrine which determined US attitudes to the whole of the Americas. But in recent years there has been a great interest ...

Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Programmer to Programmer)

12 reviews
John Holliday, John Alexander, ...

Wrox, 2007

A must have if you are serious about MOSS 2007 Development
I always find WROX books are the best value for money. This book is no exception. The details this book provides is atypical and that is what I find very useful. Devil is in the details and we need that for programming. If you are interested in Solutions Development on SharePoint Platform, this book is a very good companion.

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