Author: Eric Baird
Publisher: Chocolate Tree Books
Keywords: relativity, special, life, spacetime, curved
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2007-09-19
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0955706807
ISBN-13: 9780955706806

Relativity theory has become one of the icons of Twentieth Century science. It’s reckoned to be a difficult subject, taught as a layered series of increasingly difficult mathematics and increasingly abstract concepts. We’re told that relativity theory is supposed to be this complicated and counter-intuitive. But how much of this historical complexity is really necessary? Can we bypass the interpretations and paradoxes and pseudoparadoxes of Einstein’s special theory and jump directly to a deeper and more intuitive description of reality? What if curvature is a fundamental

Author: Don Ball
Publisher: Elm Tree Books
Keywords: 1950s, 1940s, railroad, pennsylvania
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1986-09
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0393023575
ISBN-13: 9780393023572

An extensive and colorful salute to the nation’s largest railroad during its most dramatic years, by one of America’s most prominent railroad authors. 286 full-color photographs.

Author: Sharon Carmack
Publisher: Family Tree Books
Keywords: ellis, island, guide, database, passenger, arrival, list, navigating, ancestors, tree, finding, family, genealogist, essential
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-06-05
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1558706941
ISBN-13: 9781558706941

An estimated 40 percent of Americans descended from an Ellis Island immigrant - as many as 100 million people - but until now there was no comprehensive guide for researching these early ancestors. This book offers family historians: • Tips and strategies for using the popular Ellis Island online database, which 60,000 users visit every day • Advice on overcoming searches that come up empty-handed • Guidelines for what basic information is required to start a successful search • An overview of how passenger lists were created and what genealogy clues they contain It’s th

Author: Rhonda Mcclure
Publisher: Family Tree Books
Keywords: family, books, tree, history, digitizing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-08-19
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1558707085
ISBN-13: 9781558707085

Family historians know the value of preserving precious family heirlooms--old letters, diaries, photographs, Bible pages. Yet most have limited, if any, knowledge of the technology needed to safely save these items. Digitizing Your Family History gives readers the tools they need to keep these records permanently. They’ll learn to: * Utilize a scanner to best save photos and documents * Get maximum results from digital cameras * Enhance vintage photos through electronic editing * Work with printers, PDAs, and more to preserve family records * Organize digital records fo

Author: B. Kojo Laing
Publisher: Beech Tree Books
Keywords: country, sweet, search
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 1987-04
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0688069053
ISBN-13: 9780688069056

A brilliant first novel from Ghana portraying a crucial period in the nation’s history--a poet’s story of Africa that has already provoked critical attention in Britain.

Author: Jack Londo
Publisher: Little Red Tree Pub.
Keywords: london, jack, poetry, complete
Published: 2007-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0978944623
ISBN-13: 9780978944629

Author: Jon Norman
Publisher: Little Red Tree Pub.
Keywords: poems, collection, creativity, days
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 2007-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0978944615
ISBN-13: 9780978944612