March 2012 | Newport Ri Mansions

Building Chris-Craft: Inside the Factories Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Very informative book regarding Chris Craft boats history, the people involved and the products and achievements they accomplished. One for the coffee table.Click Here to see more reviews about: Building Chris-Craft: Inside the FactoriesFor more than half a century, Chris-Craft reigned supreme in the...

Preachin' the Blues: The Life and Times of Son House Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I finished reading the Son House biography, "Preachin' the Blues: The Life and Times of Son House" by Daniel Beaumont and while I intend to do a lengthier review, I thought it would serve to state my brief impressions. He makes use of much of the existing published material as well as some unpublished...

Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Von Eschen is a historian of the cold war, and her book overlaps other recent works detailing how the demands of the cold war forced otherwise cautious presidential administrations to back civil rights and government support for the arts when they really would have preferred to buckle under to conservative...

American Furniture: Understanding Styles, Construction, and Quality Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I do not have the knowledge of 17th/18th century museum quality furniture to properly rate this book. I just want to comment on the very misleading assurtion that this book covers furniture styles up to the present - unless you consider one 1961 furniture company ad and a photo of a Stickley bookcase...

Equipment Theory for Respiratory Care Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Thanks for the super fast shipping. The book is in excellent condition and a hard cover textbook under $2 made my dayClick Here to see more reviews about: Equipment Theory for Respiratory CareThe fourth edition of Equipment Theory for Respiratory Care employs a comprehensive, competency-based approach...

History's Mysteries: People, Places and Oddities Lost in the Sands of Time Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)When I stumbled upon this book in the bookstore, I had no idea which slant it took in approaching these mysteries: was the author positing that Atlantis survivors and/or extraterrestrials had something to do with them, or was he objectively reviewing the archaeological/historical evidence in order to...

Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die: Sailing Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)We cruise extensively in Australia and on the Med. We bought the book hoping that it would introduce us to new, exciting sailing grounds. Sadly, the book largely fails to do so.To start with, it lists the locations in alphabetical order: California, China, Chile, Colorado etc instead of geographical...

From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In this very well written book, Professor Maier describes the evolution of colonial thought and political action from protest within an accepted formula of dissent to revolution. She shows how colonial actions were based upon a perceived constitutional pattern articulated by British dissident Whig intellectuals...

Lonely Planet Wales (Country Travel Guide) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Lonely Planet Guides are for "advanced" travellers, but this one is usable and very fine even for those of us who aren't in that category. It also seems to be the sole "Wales only" guidebook now available, so for those who plan to travel only in Wales and want detailed information about places, history,...

Around Lake Memphremagog (VT) (Images of America) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Being a resident of Derby, VT, this book was local history for me. I enjoyed it. The book will be on display in my home as a conversation book. The historic photographs are wonderful.Click Here to see more reviews about: Around Lake Memphremagog (VT) (Images of America)Get 22% OFFClick here for more...

The Keeper Of Lime Rock: The Remarkable True Story Of Ida Lewis, America's Most Celebrated Lighthouse Keeper Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read this book in a day. I was so taken by the life story of Ida Lewis and her many rescues in the harbor at Newport Rhode Island I could not put it down. I grew up in the area and I can't imagine how her very existence was unknown to me, until I was so lucky as to pick up this book in passing. The...

The Red Rover, A Tale (James Fenimore Cooper Works) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper could (or rather should, in my opinion) be classified as the definitive pirate story. Set in a time in which wars frequented the then infant american nation and when men were still civil towards one another regardless of apparent violent intentions or differences,...

Lonely Planet Los Angeles San Diego & Southern California (Regional Travel Guide) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Ok, I was raised in Los Angeles area, and I secretly wanted to know what I missed out on since I left for Alaska. Boy, after going through this book, I see I missed so much, better think about returning soon. This book is well laid out with it's new Top 25 Experiences, itineraries that work for short...

Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Wow! This was one of those books I found myself carrying around from room to room, so impatient was I to resume it after interruptions. Maybe the material is familiar to serious students of American history, but for somebody like me this book was a revelation, showing how hugely significant slavery (both...

Frommer's New England (Frommer's Complete Guides) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have never bought a Frommer's Guide Book before, and now after I purchased this one, I am a loyal customer! I found it extremely insightful as to the most quaint New England towns to visit, which are the best routes to get there, practical information on the restaurants in town as well as their price...

Black Sailors: Afro-American Merchant Seamen and Whalemen Prior to the Civil War (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Putney has put together an impressive amount of factual data on this subject. Her research is comprehensive and well annotated. The extent of her sources provides for a compelling and credible read. A fascinating subject particularly for those pursuing African American studies. She has taken a rather...

The Red Rover (A Bison book) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you can get past Cooper's verbose and stilted prose, this is a great love letter to the skilled mariners who manned the decks during the Golden Age of Sail. Probably a full quarter of the book is devoted to depicting the moment-by-moment changes in rigging and tactics for both fight and flight in...