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Green Soldiers
Published in Paperback by Yale Univ Pr (1981)
Authors: John Bensko and Richard Hugo
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astonishing poetry about war and ordinary life
Green Soldiers has two discrete sections. The first, and most powerful, has poems about the World Wars that evoke the poetry of Wilfred Owen. Bensko is probably the only writer besides Stephen Crane who can create a vivid, intense atmosphere of a war without having had first-hand experience. The poems in the second section are about everyday topics--a girl in the park, children at a planetarium--but with interesting psychological twists. The book's final poem, "The Night-Blooming Cactus," is a meditation on lost love, and a strong ending to an excellent collection. Green Soldiers is the one poetry book I never ever lend to friends because it's out of print and I simply have to have it to read again and again.


Guide to Architecture Schools (6th Edition)
Published in Paperback by Assn of Collegiate Schools Of Architecture (1998)
Authors: John K. Edwards, Karen L. Eldridge, and Richard E. McCommons
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Great for those considering architecture as a career...
This is a great resource for someone considering architecture school. It lists biographical information on every architecture school in the US...a very valuable resource.


Guildbook: Artificers (Wraith)
Published in Paperback by White Wolf Publishing Inc. (1995)
Authors: Richard E. Dansky, John Cobb, and White Wolf Games Studio
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Jiggy Fly...worth it
All throughout the basic wraith book they make references to this. They did so with good reason. The info on Soulforging was great, thogh i thought that the focus should have stayed on the more modern powers. The history of the coup is nice, and i thought it was worth the cost


Handbook of Mineralogy: Silica, Silicates
Published in Hardcover by Mineral Data Pub (1997)
Authors: John W. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, and Monte C. Nichols
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Excellent and complete
This book, in fact this whole series, has been excellent from the start. The amount of information provided is a little slim -- there are no crystal drawings, no forms listed, and no atomic arrangement information -- but all needed physical properties are given.

Just buy the whole series and you will not be disappointed.


Handbook of Small Business Valuation Formulas and Rules of Thumb/Third Edition
Published in Hardcover by Valuation Press (1993)
Authors: John A. Marcell, Glenn M. Desmond, Sandra Storm, and Richard E. Kelley
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Very Handy Book
Gives Industry rules of thumb for various businesses. It also discusses valuation factors to consider in many businesses. My only complaint is that the last version I have found is 1993.


Hands on Vb5 for Web Development
Published in Paperback by Premier Press (1997)
Authors: Rod Paddock, Richard Campbell, John V. Petersen, Peter Aiken, and Peter G. Aitken
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Great book for the beginner
I ordered this book expecting a lot of computer jargon that I would not understand. I am new to programming and this book really helped me learn a few things about VB5 and web development. The instructions were very informative and really explained how everything works. There were lessons to follow that made everything easier for me. The CD that comes with the book was very helpful and made the location of the code in the book easily accessible for reference. I would recommend this book to anyone learning VB5 and web development.


The Headmaster's Papers: A Novel
Published in Paperback by Paul S. Eriksson (2002)
Authors: Richard A. Hawley and John Irving
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A powerful saga of courage and adapting to the unexpected
The Headmaster's Papers by Richard A. Hawley is the literate and engaging story of John Greeve, headmaster for a small, independent New England boys' school, whose personal and professional life begins to disintegrate around him. Faced with the crumbling of his meticulously ordered routine, Greeve must accept the challenge and fight for his school, his family, and even his own life. Originally published almost twenty years ago, Richard Hawley's The Headmaster's Papers continues to be very highly recommended as a powerful saga of courage and adapting to the unexpected.


Hideous Progeny
Published in Paperback by RazorBlade Press (2000)
Authors: Peter Crowther, Paul Finch, Gary Greenwood, Ceri Jordan, James Lovegrove, Simon Morden, Chris Poote, Brian Willis, Iain Darby, and Rhys Hughes
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It's alive! It's alive!
Coming out of RazorBlade Press, Hideous Progeny is one monstrously beautiful anthology that explores the world as it would have been if Dr. Victor Frankenstein's gruesome experiments had not gone awry. Writers such as Tim Lebbon, Peter Crowther, Steven Volk, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Rhys Hughes (to name just a few) each donate a small literary organ to the mix, and everything is skilfully stitched together into a marvellous book by first-time editor Brian Willis.

Cosmetically, the book is a two-face: while cover design by Chris Nurse is nothing short of outstanding, the internal layout is not without blemish. For example, outside margins are too wide, story titles are not always at the same height in the page, and the author's name is italicised in some but not all of the instances. Another gripe I have is that page numbers on the right-hand pages are left-aligned; plus, headers have no indication about the stories presented below them: these will give you a bad time if you want to riffle through the book to look up a specific something. There are a few extra typesetting warts and moles as well, as I noticed some characters showing up in a different size than the rest of the text, uneven spacing between words, typos derived from bad OCR, and so on. I sincerely encourage RazorBlade Press to pay more attention to internal design in the future, and run a few spell checks as well. Still, don't let appearances fool you, because the writing on these pages is top-notch.

In the whole, I was not in the least disappointed by Hideous Progeny while expecting quality work. Many short stories surprised me by their original angles, and all are very well written. The subjects are quite varied too, although some do overlap a little - it seems inevitable given the limitations inherent to their collective premise. I have my favourites, of course: Peter Crowther's piece is shocking yet touching at the same time, and the idea behind "Mad Jack" is a simple but nevertheless brilliant one. "The Banker of Ingolstadt" is perhaps the funniest in the book, and I found Steven Volk's "Blitzenstein" to rank among the best.

Whatever shortcomings the book has, they're quickly overwhelmed by the superb fiction it it, not to mention a downright gorgeous cover. For £6.99, it's well worth getting Hideous Progeny: not only will you be adding a fine specimen of a book to your library, you'll also be helping small press business to thrive. Because I want to see more from RazorBlade Press. Oh yeah.


High Mountains and Cold Seas: A Biography of H.W. Tilman
Published in Hardcover by Mountaineers Books (1980)
Author: John Richard Lane Anderson
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An excellent biography of a visionary adventurer.
A man before his time, H. W. Tilman changed the history of mountaineering by creating an ethic of the small, compact team attempting to summit high peaks and sail remote seas.


A History of the Franciscan Order from Its Origins to the Year 1517
Published in Textbook Binding by Oxford University Press (1968)
Author: John Richard Humpidge, Bp. of Ripon. Moorman
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The only book on Franciscan History you will need.
Moorman's work offers a thourough and accessible account of the development of the Franciscan Order. He weaves together biographical, historical, and theological considerations almost seemlessly. The appendicies and the bibliography are also very helpful. If you had to buy just one book on Franciscan History, this is it.


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