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Special Effects: Disaster at Twilight Zone : The Tragedy and the Trial

2 reviews
Ron Labrecque

Scribner Book Company, 1988

Excellent summary of a movie tragedy and the legal battle that resulted
I've read both the major works on this incident in movie history, and though it is almost impossible to credit one much more than the other, I would have to give this one special marks for its legal insights. Additionally, it gave me the clearest perception of who the men on trial were, and how their personalities affected both the disaster and the trial. I would like to have had more sense of ...

Shallow Grave: A Bill Slider Mystery (Inspector Bill Slider Mysteries)

7 reviews
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Scribner Book Company, 1999

One of the best books in an outstanding series
Slider and Atherton investigate the death of Jennifer Andrews, a contractor's adulterous wife. Her body is found in a trench the man was about to permanently fill. The construction was taking place on a fancy estate occupied by an ailing historian and the wimpy daughter he browbeats. Both knew the dead woman, and neither liked her. In fact, no one seems to have liked her much -not the (married) ...

Big Fish

2 reviews
Thomas Perry

Scribner Book Company, 1985

Publisher! Reprint this book!
The best summer reading imaginable. Buy an old copy now and don't wait for the silly publishers to get off their butts and reissue it. This is classic Thomas Perry -- odd, violent characters that you come to care about, tight plotting touched with wit and irony that make it more believable not less, and scenes you'll remember. I have to say it; Thomas Perry has this trick about writing about ...

The Twilight of Sovereignty : How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our World

2 reviews
Walter B. Wriston

Scribner Book Company, 1992

Most alarming book since Orwell's 1984
Walter Wriston emvisions a world where corporations exercise totalitarian control. With control of financial markets, they are able to make or break nations who stand in the way of their eternal drive for greater and greater profits. Mr. Wriston asks us to trust that the corporations' managers are now more enlightened while he acknowledges that they have a brutal history. This book should be a ...

Death to Go/an Inspector Bill Slider Mystery

1 review
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Scribner Book Company, 1994

A finger is all they have to go on
Finding a finger in a packet of chips leads Shepherd's Bush Inspector, Bill Slider, and his side Kick Atherton into the strangest of crimes - what is the significance of the Chinese angle? where do computers fit into it all? and why are all the people they try to interview about the crime suddenly dying? - they still don't even know the identity of the finger - or where the rest of the body is. ...

The Five Gospels

66 reviews
Robert W. Funk

Scribner Book Company, 1993

A Remarkable Book
Perhaps it does not occur to the casual reader of the Bible that we have gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John but nothing from Jesus himself. What kind of person would we find if we discovered an original work produced by this most influential man of all time? We may never know, but thanks to the efforts of groups of scholars like the Jesus Seminar and the International Q Project we ...

Space Trilogy

30 reviews
C. S. Lewis

Scribner Book Company, 1996

Excellent Series
Out of the Silent Planet C.S. Lewis Scribner Paperback ISBN 0684823802 This is the first book in C.S. Lewis's amazing Space Trilogy. These books are far less known than Lewis's Narnia series or even his Mere Christianity or The Screwtape Letters, yet it is just as good as any of those writings and goes to show the versatility of Lewis as an author. This first book begins with our hero, ...

How Many Dragons Are Behind the Door?

1 review
Virginia Kahl

Scribner Book Company, 1977

I LOVE this book!
As a child, my parents read me this book and it was my absolute favorite. Now as a mother of three, I'm here to buy a new (old) copy to read to my kids, as the old one I had is dogeared and missing pages (as any 28 year old once-cherished book should be). It's wonderful and I would recommend it in an instant to anyone with or without a child.

Space Trilogy 3 Book Set Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra & That Hideous Strength C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis

Scribner Book Company, 2003

1) Out of the Silent Planet, Space Trilogy Series This book begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to ...

Figure Skating with Carlo Fassi

3 reviews
Carlo Fassi

Scribner Book Company, 1980

An applicable book 20 years after publication
There are plenty of books on the market about figure skating. Most of them cover individual skaters or they lightly gloss over the "pretty" aspects of the sport with colorful photographs of skaters posing. You'll find behind-the-scenes books telling you the inside scoop about what happens on tour or the life of a competitive skater. What there aren't many books about are those that cover the ...

The Masters

6 reviews
C. P. Snow

Scribner Book Company, 1982

Beautifully-realized portrait of a scholarly enclave
A novel set in the intimate, closed world of a school or college (or a convent, or cathedral close) has a better-than-average chance of being fascinating to begin with. Whether a school story is a work of literary art such as Snow's The Masters or Antonia White's Frost in May, a decent novel in the vein of Hughes's Tom Brown's School Days, Kipling's Stalky and Co., or Farrar's Eric, or even ...

The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul

24 reviews
Francis Crick

Scribner Book Company, 1994

Eloquent argument
I love the part at the very end where Dr. Crick serves some delicious food for thought, making one think, "Gee whiz, maybe these archaic superstitions known as 'The World's Religions' are not based on any logic."

How to Win At Chess

4 reviews
Daniel King

Scribner Book Company, 1995

Good Basic Advice For Novices
Novices will benefit most from this simple introductory text that clearly explains basic winning principles. This is the sort of stuff you'll need to know before you can look back on this with knowing contempt.

Exotica, Series 4: International : Pictorial Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants from Tropical and Near-Tropic ...

1 review
Alfred Byrd Graf

Scribner Book Company, 1986

Graet Exotica
Exotica is one of the most complete and usefull books for who loves and works with ornamental plants. It is made of hundreds of photographies of the tropical ornamental plants that makes the identification an easy and fun task. I only miss a complete list of the scientific names, in order to save time, and some local vernacular names. If you work in tropical botany or are interest on ornamental ...

Primer of Chess (Algebraic)

5 reviews
Jose Capablanca

Scribner Book Company, 1995

a masterpiece of chess instruction
Without question, this is the one book for a beginner to get. The book not only is written by what some consider to be the greatest chess player ever, it offers a ton of excellent advice. Capablanca shows what to do in the opening, middlegame and endgame. The end of the book offers his best games for instructional purposes. The best part of the book is his excellent advice and honesty. He ...

Knitting from the Top

30 reviews
Barbara Walker

Scribner Book Company, 1982

A classic that deserves the title
I originally didn't want to buy this book. It was recommended to me, but I found it at the library first, thinking that I have about 7 quadrillion knitting books already, I don't need another one, especially not one with such a dated-looking sweater on the cover. Was I ever wrong! I found the book at the library, and after reading it for about an hour, went onto Amazon and ordered it because I ...

Build Your Own Telescope

7 reviews
Richard Berry

Scribner Book Company, 1985

the best single book today for making your first scope!
If you can only have one first book on making your own telescope this is it! I have been an active amateur astronomer for almost 35 years and I wish this book had been out in 1965 at the time I first got interested in astronomy. Richard Berry when he was editor of "Astronomy", and "Telescope Making" (now sadly defunct),was the first to popularize John Dobson's Sidewalk Telescope design now simply ...

Mrs. Presumed Dead

2 reviews
Simon Brett

Scribner Book Company, 1989

Mrs. Presumed Dead is Sheer Delight!
Move over Agatha. Not only is Simon Brett inordinately clever, but his characterizations and plotting throughout this book are marvelous! I am a tough reader to please but I was enthralled from the first word (I listened to the audio-book) to the last. This charming, wickedly clever and wildly funny story was further enhanced by the author's reading. Without question, one of the best books ...

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