July 2012 | Newport Ri Mansions

Change Your Brain, Change Your Body Cookbook Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I perused Change Your Brain, Change Your Body Cookbook at my local bn and found it to be really pretty but not up to what I was hoping for. It lists 50 brain boosters such as salmon and almonds and then has recipes that include those brain boosters with notations on the recipe as to how many brain boosters...

My Navy Too Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was very impressed with the author's writing style. Her story is one that needs to be told and she shows much courage in the telling. The Navy, like all our institutions, must move into the 21st Century and away from the "good ol' boy" management style that has prevailed far too long. Beth Coye gives...

The Dorr War: Treason, Rebellion and the Fight for Reform in Rhode Island Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Rory Raven's concise history of The Dorr War is a valuable account of a little-known battle to impose democratic ideals on a system ruled by corrupt elites--and the unlikely champion who led the fight. Reading this book, I couldn't help comparing Thomas Dorr's struggle to the John Brown uprising: both...

The Next Archaeology Workbook Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Next Archaeology Workbook is a great educational tool for students and anyone interested in archaeology. Are you sick of talking about archaeology as an abstract concept? Then this book is for you. The book includes an number of fictionalized archaeological problems situated all over the world. Answering...

Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The popular American view of Puritans is usually something out of Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." That is, a bleak, dreary group of religious fanatics who take themselves entirely too seriously. While they did take their religion very seriously (your life on earth does determine whether you will spend...

Duel of the Ironclads: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads 1862 (General Military) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I thought this was a great read. Splendid illustrations, well written text. Qucik, easy, and enjoyable. I wanted to know more about the famous battle between the Monitor and Viginia, but didn't want to be bogged down with the text, and I wanted a well illustrated volume. I'm sure that this subject has...

To Try the Bloody Law: The Story of Mary Dyer Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)She was hung for defending freedom of choice. Choice to believe in a religion that was contrary to the pilgrim beliefs. 17th century Bible belt??? Moral Majority??? Thirty years before the Salem witch trials - did anyone listen??? Do they listen now? Mary Dyer had the courage to walk to Boston from Rhode...

On the Wind: The Marine Photographs of Norman Fortier (Imago Mundi Book) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I found this book to be immediately inspiring as it is very well written and the photography is nothing short of beautiful. It is unfortunate that I should learn about my uncle from a book, especially since he is still alive... But I will rectify this. Regardless of my obvious bias toward the subject,...

Vadriel Vail Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Basically, the story is about 22-year-old Vadriel Vail, wealthy, handsome, beautiful, whose parents and brother died in a boating accident, leaving him in the care of an old business manager. Sheltered from life in an English public school, and preoccupied with his spiritual life, he is actually too...

Peabody & Stearns: Country Houses and Seaside Cottages Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Ms. Robinson made a vital contribution with the first monograph of the residential work of Peabody and Stearns. Per the title, this monograph omits most of the firm's non-residential buildings. The history of the commissions and the rediscovery of many little-known works makes this book a valuable resource....

Counterfeiting in Colonial America Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This coverage of an aspect of early American history and culture will delight readers researching this era. Kenneth Scott's Counterfeiting In Colonial America reviews the law enforcement system of the times, liberal attitudes toward counterfeiters, and the prevalence of counterfeiting during the times....

Virginia Gold Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Virginia Gold" is historical fiction. It follows the life of it's main character (and the author's ancestor) John Thomas as he pursues his dreams of becoming a gentleman farmer in the new world. There's a little something for everyone in this read; adventure, romance, telling the history of the personal...

Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals (Oxford Oral History Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)David King Dunaway has immersed himself in "Folk Music" for more than 30 years He has written at least two biographies of "folk music" legend, Pete Seeger. Along the way he made MANY recorded interviews with those involved in "folk music" and these recordings and the transcriptions are now deposited...

Fodor's Oregon, 4th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)FODOR'S OREGON is a great book about Oregon. Whether you want to learn about the big-city pleasures of the Portland area, with its colleges and universities, major shopping malls and various other unique stores, smaller cities such as Eugene (home to the University of Oregon), Salem, and Corvallis (location...

Winning Wealth Strategies: Secrets to Successful Investing in Any Market Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is a very simple read, but it shares with you a lot of powerful techniques to make money in any market. Most importantly, it teaches you how to limit your losses to a minimum. Did you know you can set your stock losses to 10% with a simple, free technique available to anyone. But only a handful...

Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America (3 Vol. Set) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Wow. Where do I start?If you are an art or architectural historian, and you consider yourself a member of the so-called "colonial mafia" (you know who you are), this work is indispensable. Its swath of interest includes all colonial settlements in North America (excluding Mexico) - Spanish, French, British,...

Biblical Characters and the Enneagram: Images of Transformation Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)When I first started studying the enneagram Tom Condon's great book, The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide, really help me understand the personality types better and put a face to them. Reading Biblical Characters and the Enneagram helped me deeply understand them on a profound level. The book is well...