by Howard Leighton | Mar 14, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Mathematics, Science & Technology
Most of us know there is oxygen and carbon dioxide in our air (atmosphere). Sam Kean makes a book about the makeup of the atmosphere interesting and entertaining. This book is actually about the atmosphere of the earth and the air we breathe. As a way of introduction...
by Howard Leighton | Feb 27, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
The FBI office in Erie, Pennsylvania is neither a very busy nor an exciting place for recent graduate Norah Khalil, especially after having spent four years in her native Philadelphia as a cop. While the department is engaged in trying to gather information to indict...
by Howard Leighton | Feb 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater, History, War & Military
This is a memoir of one man’s experience during the Vietnam War, beginning approximately April of 1966 and ending April of 1975 with the fall of Saigon. It is a beautifully told story by a cameraman with 10 years of experience in Japan who wanted to become a...
by Howard Leighton | Jan 2, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Nautical, War & Military
This is a history book of an element of the Revolutionary War most likely little known to us as Americans, and certainly not recounted in our elementary or high school education about the War. From 1776 through 1783 a series of about seventeen British ships were used...
by Howard Leighton | Dec 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Comics & Graphic Novels, Health, Fitness & Dieting
After a period of multiple months of new onset, unexplained hip and back pain, Teva Harrison discovered a painful lump in her breast. Within two weeks, at the age of thirty seven, she knew she had stage IV metastatic breast cancer. With the initiation of treatment,...