Books by William Watson

This memoir vividly recounts six months of intense combat in Vietnam through the eyes of an artillery forward observer, highlighting techniques of armored cavalry operations, the routines and frustrations of searching for the enemy and chaos of finding him.

In 1861 William Watson, a native Scot who had established himself as a Louisiana businessman, enlisted in the Confederate forces although still a British subject. In 1887 he penned his memoirs "to give," he said, "a simple narrative of my experience in a war campaign."

The Medical Adviser - A Complete Treatise on the Formation, Debility and Diseases of those Organs Peculiar in Each Sex. Tenth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1860.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

This vintage book contains an accessible and comprehensive guide to growing melons, with information on common pitfalls, pests, fertilisation, feeding, harvesting, and much more. Written in clear, plain language and full of useful tips and interesting information, this guide is ideal for anyone with an interest in growing melons, and it would make for a great addition to collections of fruit growing literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Soil - Raising Young Plants', 'Muskmelon - Sutton's Emerald Gem', 'Soil', 'Raising Young Plants', 'Melon Culture', 'Planting', 'Setting The Fruit', 'Watering', 'Feeding', 'Gathering the Fruit', 'Insects and Mildew', 'Varieties', 'Melon Superb', 'Gathering the Fruit', etcetera. Many antiquarian books like this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this antiquarian volume now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a new prefatory introduction on fruit growing.

This is a survey of China's wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It discusses in detail a wide range of art forms and techniques from porcelain and pottery to secular painting and sculpture.

For more than forty years William Watson has occupied a unique place in the study and teaching of Chinese art in Great Britain. Professor Watson's publications cover a wide field, his command of Chinese, Japanese, Russian and western languages giving access to the fullest literature on his subjects.

Globalization is not new: Canadians have some 400 years' experience of being dependent on economic events in other countries. Watson shows that economic integration leaves room for considerable diversity in national economics and social policies.

William Watson spent two years evading Union gunboats and dealing with the ""sharpers"" who fed off the misfortune of the Civil War. In 1892, using log books, personal papers, and business memoranda, he published this account of events. The result was a classic adventure tale.

In the chaotic aftermath of the fall of Acre in 1291 and the reconquest of the Holy Land by the Moslems, the last survivors of the Order of the Temple make their bloody retreat from the Middle East.