books about: 1956

books about: 1956

books:

Emergencies Immortals Robert F. Lyons Babee Says NO! 1956

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

Jean Sasson

Windsor-Brooke Books, 2001

Fascinating--an unbelievable culture
This book is fascinating. It is hard to fathom the current religious culture where women have no rights. E.P.

Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature

Andy Goldsworthy

Harry N. Abrams, 1990

Great book, great price
This was my first Amazon experience and it was great! The book was in great condition, arrived quickly and has been enjoyed by the children at my Nursery School. I would definitely order off Amazon again since the price was so reasonable.

Harry and the Lady Next Door (I Can Read Book 1)

Gene Zion

HarperCollins, 1978

Thirty thumbs up from 15 bright eyed first graders in Osage County, Oklahoma.
Child Pleasing Read ~~~ Highly Recommended ~~~ 5 stars Poor Harry. Everything was going so well, until a new lady moved next door. Harry likes ladies, no problem there. But this new lady is an opera singer. And she has moved into the house right next to Harry's. ...

A to Z

Sandra Boynton

Little Simon, 1984

A to Z Book
Adorable book for young children. Teaches the alphabet in an educational, fun manner using a lot of age appropriate pictures. My 3 year old loves this book just has her older brother did when he was her age.

Journals of Jim Elliot, The

Revell, 2002

Book has a little of everything
This is a very impressive book. It is the honest writings of a hero to many. In the book, you see that he was just like the rest of us and that he had a great passion for God. I certainly hope that more will read this book to get a glimpse of what a life turned on ...

When the Game Was Ours

Larry Bird, Earvin Johnson Jr., ...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

classic book
now first of all i still enjoy the nba,however mainly for players, now when these guys laced them up it was must see tv. that to me in the 80's was the last golden era of nba basketball. Magic and Bird brought the league back. i remember watch a few nba finals on ...

Action Jackson

Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan

Square Fish, 2007

Art as process
When modern art is brought to the table, the question for the untrained is quite often: Is this art? What makes art? Can I do this? For such questions, answers always vary. It is art if you think it is art even if it may not be good art. The final consensus is that it ...

The Tao of Pooh

Benjamin Hoff

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1983

Taoism you can understand
If you want to share the fundamental experience of the Tao, Winnie the Pooh lives it.

Drive: The Story of My Life

Larry Bird

Bantam, 1990

Account of a life, a bit drab but enlightening none the less for Bird fans
Book outlines apparently the life as Larry Bird as written by him. Pretty basic stuff here. A good read if you were a Bird fan back in the past. Of course I emmulated my game after him while playing in two leagues as a teenager, now don't care much about basketball. So ...

Who Do You Think You Are?: A Memoir

Alyse Myers

Touchstone, 2009

I Do Relate!
Fantastically quick read that had me hooked after the first paragraph in the prologue, and addicted by the end of that section on page 3. Man, what a nice way to wheel me in... so nice that what first wheeled me in... curious about what was in her mother's secret ...

Mencken on Mencken: A New Collection of Autobiographical Writings

Louisiana State University Press, 2010

Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

Robert Walser

NYRB Classics, 2002

Genius Worth Rediscovering
Although his novel "Jakob von Gunten" is a masterpiece, the maniacal genius of Walser is more easily discovered in his short fiction. If Kafka's vision is maddening and claustrophobic, Walser, who deals with a similar kind of surrealistic world, applies a lighter, more ...

Mack & Leeann's Guide to Short-Term Missions

J. MacK Stiles, Leeann Stiles

InterVarsity Press, 2000

Excellent book for team preparation
I have gone thru many STM trainings and book readings. This is the best book I've read and it's an excellent resource for both the goer and trainer, it's captured all the important element for the team and individual success. It's very easy to read, with lots of ...

Jackson Pollock (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)

Mike Venezia

Children's Press(CT), 1994

Pollock for kids.
I took last summer my two daugthers, age 6 and 9 to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They loved it and each one choose her favorita artist. The younger one, Isabel, loved Picasso. Who doesn't?. My older daughter, Camila loved the american artist Jackson Pollock, ...

French Battleships, 1922-1956

John Jordan, Robert Dumas

Naval Institute Press, 2009

Nice technical and operational history
This book primarily covers the WWII-era French battleships Dunkerque, Strassbourg, Richelieu, and Jean Bart, from a technical and historical perspective. It appears to be an English-language update of French-language monographs written on this topic by one of the two ...