Donald J Richardson

Tractors, Trains & Shipwrecks: Yesteryear Recollections of Sonoma County

Editorial review: "...There are enough mechanized adventures to justify the title, but the collection is also liberally laced with Tom Sawyer-type adventures of a North Coast kid.” (read full review further down on page) — Gaye LeBaron Leading Sonoma County historian Longtime Press Democrat column...

Rotating Electric Machinery and Transformer Technology

This book fills the need for an up-to-date source of information on how to connect, operate, adjust, and take performance data on the entire field of electric machinery. KEY TOPICS: It enables readers to recognize, understand, analyze, specify, connect, control and effectively apply the various e...

Creating Remembrance: The Art and Design of Australian War Memorials

The Life of Henry V: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

The Life of Henry V continues the epic story of Richard II; Henry IV, Part One; and Henry IV, Part Two. In the Life of Henry V, Prince Hal has matured and left behind the carefree days of his youth, divorcing himself from Falstaff and his ilk and assuming the leadership of England following the deat...

The Complete Much Ado About Nothing: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

Much Ado About Nothing is a delightful play which pits two intelligent, thinking people against each other, both of whom protest against love (and each other), but who finally come to embrace the other both literally and emotionally. The contretemps between Beatrice and Benedick is emotionally and i...

The Complete Hamlet: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

As an instructor of English 102, First-Year Composition, for more than seventy-five times, I have read and taught Hamlet repeatedly. I have come to know the play extensively and, as a result, when we read the play aloud in class I have to stop the students repeatedly to explain various arcane refere...

The Complete Othello: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

It is probably natural that a reader feel sympathy for Desdemona; falsely accused, she suffers some of the most offensive name-calling in all of Shakespeare. But it is also appropriate to sympathize with Othello. He becomes malleable in the hands of Iago who molds him to his own vindictive purpose, ...

The Complete Troilus and Cressida: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

Troilus and Cressida retells the epic story of the Iliad, but with an altered focus. The tale of these lovers (and Pandarus) was told earlier by both Homer and Geoffrey Chaucer. In Shakespeare, however, the epic proportions are reduced to the quotidian details of human passion, including quarrels an...

Great Zeus and All His Children

Greek Mythology for Everyone

Men of Style: The Zoli Guide for the Total Man

Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis

One Big Poem

Stories of the Greeks & Romans: Introduction to Classical Mythology

Stories of the Greeks and Romans

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