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Snowy Torrents: Avalanche Accidents in the United States 1972-1979 1 review
Betsy R. Armstrong, Knox Williams
Teton Bookshop, 1984
See also my review for the Snowy Torrents, 1980 to 1986
If you really study the subject of avalanches this and the later edition is a must purchase.
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All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud (Godine Storyteller)1 review
Topeka Bindery, 1995
A Ripping Yarn
Though he writes for younger readers, Sperry has an unmatched gift for writing adventure tales. This reissue is an essential of its genre and takes you in a clipper ship around the Horn to California. Of all the sea stories I've read--Hornblower, Aubrey/Maturin--this little work actually managed to explain more sailing terminology than 21 volumes of the O'Brien series. And the author's superb ...
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ORGANS FOR AMERICA, The Life and Work of David Tannenberg1 review
William H. Armstrong
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969
Organs for America: The Life and Work of David Tannenberg by William H. Armstrong. Foreword by E. Power Biggs
David Tannenberg (1728-1804)builder of organs in Southeastern Pennsylvania during America's infancy years, is considered one of our country's greatest in his craft. He came to the Colonies in 1740 with fellow Moravians. Soon after Johann Gottlob Klemm, organ builder, joined the religious community in 1757, Tannenberg began work as his assistant, and then carried on following Klemm's death. ...
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Francis of Assisi: Index: Early Documents, Vol. 42 reviews
William J. Short
New City Press, 2002
The set of books to read about the Saint
This first volume of a projected 3 volume edition of documents pertaining to the life and order of Saint Francis will easily become the source for all followers of Christ through the inspiration of this timeless saint. It provides the best translations and most recent scholarship on the life and times of the saint. In many way St. Francis is the most universal and beloved of Chirstian ...
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Francis of Assisi: The Founder: Early Documents, Vol. 2 (Francis of Assisi Early Documents)2 reviews
William Short
NEW CITY PRESS, 2002
major resource on the Saints life
The second in a projected three-volume series, this well-crafted tome brings together the early sources on Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), arguably one of the most popular saints among Christians and non-Christians alike, shedding light on his role as religious founder. The writings of Francis himself were collected in the first volume, as were the earliest lives of Francis and some liturgical ...
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Practical Cardiology: Evaluation and Treatment of Common Cardiovascular Disorders1 review
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/139/3/236
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/139/3/236
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Fred Harvey: Creator of Western Hospitality1 review
William Patrick Armstrong
Canyonlands Publications, 2000
We need more books like this one
This book is very professionally written and is an amazing first book for Mr. Armstrong. The amount of effort and research that went into this tiny book is overwhelming. I am very impressed with the accuracy of detail and emphasis on how important the Harvey Girls were to our history. I would definately recommend this book as a "Must Read" to everyone in the hotel/hospitality industry. Nicely ...
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Pitching In2 reviews
Charles M. Spellmann Ph. D., Rachel Williams
Jalmar Press, 1981
it's about time
I have 3 children and I've read all the "how to" books I could in many subjects thoughout my 18 years as a parent. I found this small book in the library and I'm sad to see it's not printed new. They should bring this book out to publish again! It's old fashioned , right to point and a simple read. Many parenting troubles can be solved by having our children "pitch in"! I'm not even sure Mr. ...
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Human chemistry1 review
William Armstrong Fairburn
Nation Press, 1914
An classic book of great historical importance
Aside from Goethe's classic 1809 novella Elective Affinities, which argues that human lives are bound by the laws of chemical affinities, Fairburn's Human Chemistry is the ground-breaking historical book in the new field of interpersonal chemistry. For such early period in history, and knowing that Fairburn is essentially a sociology writer, we find eloquent statements such as "men are like ...
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Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals1 review
Xinware Corporation, 2008
129th Pennsylvania in disquise:
Reprint of an 1864 book detailing the service of the fictional 210th Pennsylvania, a nine-month regiment which charges on Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg and is heavily engaged at Chancellorsville just days before the expiration of their enlistment. Originally published anonymously under the guise of fiction, Mr. Arner's commentary demonstrates the connections to actual people and events in ...
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Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece 5 reviews
William Armstrong Percy III
University of Illinois Press, 1998
A very readable and provoking book.
I am by no means a Greek historian or scholar, but I find thisbook to be exceptionally well documented, and even in those areaswhere the author admits the hard evidence is scant, he carefully lays out his hypothesis to support his conclusions. The book provides a fascinating insight into how previous historians downplayed or ignored the evidence of wide-spread pederasty and male-male relations ...
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Sour Land1 review
William H. Armstrong
Harpercollins, 1991
I loved reading this book!
I just loved Sour Land! It was a nice break from all the sugar coated books that most kids read. Sure, the end is sad. But I think that is was the real world is like, full of disapointments, deaths, horible sicknesses, and whatever might come your way. So, reading this book might prepare kids for stuff that is going to get in there way of live one day. I have to tell you that I have always wanted ...
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Just Wind: Tales Of Two Pilots Under Pressure4 reviews
William G. Jr. Armstrong
AuthorHouse, 2003
Just Wind, two tales about pioneers in aeronautics.
I have knowledge about both of the stories in this book. I can tell you that both of these stories are really true and that alone makes it better than any fiction. It is amazing how this author was able to retain all of that detail and then narrate it so interestingly.
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God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist25 reviews
Oxford University Press, USA, 2003
Sizzling Debate, But You'll Need Your Thinking Cap!
William Lane Craig is one of my favorite Christian apologists. But he has his hands full in this debate over the existence of God. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong vigorously challenges Craig's five arguments for the existence of God, and he also gives three of his own arguments for atheism.
Craig's strongest moments were his arguments for the causation of the universe and the fine tuning of this said ...
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Echocardiography, Sixth Edition7 reviews
Harvey Feigenbaum, William F. Armstrong, ...
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004
echocardiography at its finest
As a student echocardiographer learning the pathology of cardiovascular diseases, I have both this edition and one earlier. This is well worth the upgrade in price. It has 1 second loops of most of the many possible pathologies found in echocardiographic studies. Though I have looked at the clips several times, installation was initially a short-lived problem. This new edition is a complete ...
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Through troubled waters1 review
William Howard Armstrong
Harper & Row, 1973
Excellent account of love lost and reocvery.
I recieved this book from Mr. Armstrong after I lost my parents in a plane crash in 1988. I was one of his students at Kent School. This is an excellent account of losing a loved one and the depression that follows. Armstrong takes you through his heart breaking story of the death of his wife. He is left alone to raise their children. It tells of his depression and how he overcame the ...
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Study Tactics1 review
William H. Armstrong, Willard M. Lampe
Barron's Educational Series, 1983
Great Way to Learn the Basics and In-Depth Tactics
This book, coupled with How to Study by Kornhauser, is a great way to get the basics. Readers will learn everything they need to know, including outlining form, studying for all subjects, etc. Also, it teaches time management, and offers some suggestions for time management. The best thing about this book is its in-depth direction and examples of correct and incorrect form. This is most ...
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Study is hard work11 reviews
William Howard Armstrong
Harper & Row, 1967
"Before the Gates of Excellence the High Gods Have Placed
Sweat ... ."
This passage from the Greek Poet Hesiod (which concludes: Long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning) is the core message of this book. It is also the passage that was posted on William H. Armstrong's classroom wall for over 30 years. This book and the work ethic instilled by ...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1660 (Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol 1)8 reviews
Samuel Pepys, William A. Armstrong
Harpercollins, 1995
The World Upside Down
I've long been a student and a collector of information on the personalities of Restoration England, growing out of a desire to know more about the background in literature classes. The Restoration crowd loved life, and in this volume (and presumably the next) you see how tenuous their lives were -- 5000 a week in the City of London dying of plague, two fleets of 100 ships each at war in a ...
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Stop the Y2K Madness1 review
Robert Armstrong, William J. Murray
M F M Publishing, 1999
Excellent book for Christians that are in a panic over Y2k
This book along with Dave Hunt's book, Y2k: A reasoned response to mass Hysteria should be read by all Christians who have bought into the Y2K Madness that is occuring in the evangelical churches today. We need to get back to getting the gospel out, not preparing for the end of the world.
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