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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

44 reviews
Michael A. Hiltzik

Collins, 2000

Excellent history of a major player in computing history
I found this an excellent, well-written overview of the history of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Not only are major players and products covered (the Alto, Smalltalk, Alan Kay), but the background and collateral history appears as well (DARPA, Vannevar Bush, J.C. Licklider, The Spacewar article in Rolling Stone). Much like Steven Levy's book Hackers, reading this book makes you feel ...

Leo the Lightning Bug (with Audio CD)

14 reviews
Eric Drachman

Kidwick Books, 2001

My two nephews love this book & CD!
This lovely and lively story became an instant favorite of my two young nephews -- which is saying a lot considering that their bookshelf is well stocked! The CD that accompanies the book (making the price a real bargain) is no afterthought -- it is just as rich in detail and as well-produced as the book itself. And having a CD of the book comes in very handy when the boys are in the mood to ...

Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers)
John Sandford

Putnam Adult, 2008

Fresh from his “spectacular” (Cleveland Plain Dealer ) debut in Dark of the Moon , investigator Virgil Flowers takes on a puzzling—and most alarming—case, in the new book from the #1 bestselling author . John Sandford’s introduction of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers was an immediate critical and popular success: “laser-sharp characters and a plot that’s fast and surprising” (Cleveland Plain Dealer ); ...

Lightning

4 reviews
Seymour Simon

Collins, 2006

Wonderful text and gorgeous illustrations!
By far the best illustrations of any book I've seen about lightning. It also contains two photos from Boston's Museum of Science's electricity show, which are interesting, and a special treat for those of us who have seen that wonderful show. The content of the book is great and gives more detail about lightning than I've found in other children's books on this subject. An example is giving a ...

People of the Lightning (The First North Americans series, Book 7)

14 reviews
Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear

Tor Books, 1996

Historical Fiction Reader's Review
This book was a great addition to the People of the....series of the Gear's. If you liked their previous books you will certainly like this one.

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

223 reviews
Rick Riordan

Miramax, 2006

My Grandson loves it!
Although I did not read this book myself, I bought it for my Grandson (a bright and curious 9 year old). He loves it! The good humor and mischievous nature of the book is revealed in chapter headings such as, "I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-algebra Teacher", "Grover Unexpectedly Loses His Pants", and "A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers." He enjoyed J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and then ...

Summer Lightning and Other Stories (Longman Caribbean Writers Series)

2 reviews
Olive Senior

Longman Publishing Group, 1987

I still have fond memories from my school days
I studied this book for literature when I was in high school and thoroughly enjoyed it. Each story focuses on the lives of children from different economical and social backgrounds in Jamaica, each one experiencing a different form of conflict as they face a critical stage of their development. Most of the stories are written in Jamaican dialect which is rich and colorful allowing the reader a ...

Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities

5 reviews
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

Joseph Henry Press, 2006

A Great Practical Book on Probability in the Everyday World
I love books like this! I saw this one, browsed through it a bit and bought it right away because it looked very good - it was. I can confidently say that this is one of the best books of its type. The author explains, in very clear language, the nature of probability and its use in understanding some of the many areas in everyday life that could otherwise remain very obscure or misunderstood. ...

Justice League of America Vol. 2: The Lightning Saga

5 reviews
Brad Meltzer, Geoff Johns

DC Comics, 2008

Best Justice League in Years
I recently picked up volumes 1-10 of the previous JLA series -- the one that started with Grant Morrison's very good "New World Order" -- and I have to say that over the course of 10 volumes I pretty much lost interest in the League. I loved Bruce Timm's Justice League Unlimmited cartoon, but as far as League comics go, they just seemed bland and unimportant overall (with the exception of New ...

Lightning

261 reviews
Dean Koontz

Berkley, 2003

This is typical Dean Koontz...
. ...which is to say Fantastic. What would you do if you could move through time and create the ideal future? Here is one take. One of the things I really liked about this book is that I have lived in many of the areas where the story unfolds, and even came down from Big Bear by way of a dirt road....it's more of a deer track than a road, but still....

With the Lightnings

22 reviews
David Drake

Baen, 1999

Excellent Kick-off to the Cinnabar Leary/Mundy Series
It takes a little while for this story to kick into gear, so that the characters and story backdrop can be introduced; but there is plenty of action and intrigue in the later sections, to make up for the initial slow development. This Military SciFi story takes place in the far future, in which mankind has discovered faster than light travel, and spread though hundreds of star systems in the ...

Storm: The Lightning Fairy (Rainbow Magic: The Weather Fairies, No. 6)

5 reviews
Daisy Meadows

Scholastic Paperbacks, 2007

We love the Rainbow Magic series
My soon-to-be 5 year old daughter and I LOVE this series. The stories are simple enough and short enough (about 40 min) to hold her attention as a read aloud, and there are enough illustrations peppered throughout to give her something to look at as I read. Both the stories and the illustrations are delightful. These books have ignited a passion for reading in my daughter, and she is now ...

Homemade Lightning: Creative Experiments in Electricity

11 reviews
R. A. Ford, Richard A. Ford

McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 2001

Nicely done book on electrostatics
There's a lot of material floating around the web and bookstores that deals with Tesla and related topics. However, when it comes to good old fashion electro-statics, there is no where near the same volume of information. In fact, I've found four books pretty much cover the field -- at least for my money. Something to consider when contemplating a purchase of books on niche subjects such as ...

Lightning Strike: The Secret Mission to Kill Admiral Yamamoto and Avenge Pearl Harbor

14 reviews
Donald A. Davis

St. Martin's Griffin, 2006

Lighning Strikes Very Late (Chapter 21 in fact)
If you bought this book expecting to read about the secret P-38 mission to kill the Admiral who planned Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, you'd be sadly disappointed - at least until somewhere around page 220. By then, you might have concluded that the book is really a history of World War II as fought in the Pacific, for the book is written in much the same vein as one might write about ...

Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalayas
Sienna Craig

Wisdom Publications, 2008

A tender account – by turns cultural exploration and memoir – of a young woman’s first hand experience of change and continuity in one of the world’s most remote regions, through the lens of the horse and ‘horse culture’... At just 19, Sienna Craig made her first venture to Mustang, an ethnically Tibetan area of Nepal, in the rainshadow of the Himalayas. As an equestrian and a budding anthropologist, she ...

When Lightning Strikes (1-800-Where-R-You)

60 reviews
Meg Cabot

Simon Pulse, 2007

A Must Read !
This is the first series by Meg Cabot that i have read. I loved it. Jess is funny and admirable, always standing up for people who dont do it for themselves. Jess is a regular girl with anger management issues who gets struck by lightning and wakes up knowing the location of missing kids. She has a crush on a guy named Rob (gotta love him) who is 2 years older than her and wont date her. ...

Lightning: Physics and Effects
Vladimir A. Rakov, Martin A. Uman

Cambridge University Press, 2007

This is the first book to cover essentially all aspects of lightning, including lightning physics, lightning protection, and the interaction of lightning with a variety of objects and systems as well as with the environment. Accessible to the technical non-expert, it is addressed to anyone interested in lightning and its effects.

How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning

1 review

HarperCollins, 2003

The Ever-Inventive, Ben Franklin.....
"It's true! The great Benjamin Franklin really did steal lightning right out of the sky! And then he set out to tame the beast. It goes to figure, though, because he was a man who could do just about anything..." So begins Rosalyn Schanzer's engaging introduction to one of colonial America's most fascinating men. Ben Franklin was a man of many talents and accomplishments. He was a writer, ...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Books 1-3: The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, and The Titan's Curse ...
Rick Riordan

Scholastic Book Clubs, 2008

Includes The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, and The Titan's Curse.

Red Lightning

22 reviews
John Varley

Ace, 2007

Good old-fashioned sci-fi
With a career that spans over thirty years, John Varley is only moderately prolific, with just over a dozen novels to his name. Fortunately, he is an author who is well worth the wait between books. Red Lightning once again shows why he continues to be one of the greats in science fiction. Red Lightning is the sequel to Red Thunder. The earlier novel dealt with a group of young adults who ...

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