Eric Johnson Books

When mentioning the Civil Rights movement, we automatically think of Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, and other adults who spoke out against inequality. However, the role of children and young adults is not often discussed, and it should be. A SWEET SMELL OF ROSES by Angela Johnson takes a step in sharing their involvement.

The book opens early one morning as two girls sneak out of their house to join a civil rights march. They run through the streets and upon meeting the others, listen as Dr. King talks of peace, love, and nonviolence. They then join the march as protestors shout along the sidelines and police observe the group. Finally, they stop in the middle of town as King again takes center stage. Afterwards, they run back home late in the afternoon to find their mother waiting, with a worried face.

THE SWEET SMELL OF ROSES is written as a tribute to the many children and young adults who took part in the fight for justice during the Civil Rights era. Though I can't really imagine younger children leaving their houses without permission, racing through the streets alone, joining a march, and staying out all day, it could've happened, as the times were a bit safer for our children. Additionally, there are likely other areas they participated in as well and I would've loved to see that incorporated in the book. Better yet, to have them joining their parents in the march would've been more age-appropriate.

The illustrations are highly detailed, done in black and white, capturing the tone of the book. Additionally, the writing is easy to understand and children may enjoy it in a reading circle type of scenario, but I wouldn't recommend it otherwise. It doesn't fit the projected age group. It is, however, a great look into the history of the Civil Rights Movement and a nice way to introduce children to it.

Reviewed by Tee C. Royal
of The RAWSISTAZ™ Reviewers

This book, by the anti-Mormon duo Eric Johnson and Bill McKeever, parrots out nothing more than long-outdated criticisms against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

One of the criticisms levelled against the Church pertains to the practice of baptism on behalf of the dead, with the popular "pronoun" argument being used.

Notwithstanding the English translations use of the pronoun "they," the Greek does not use such. Indeed, the Greek of 1 Corinthians 15:29, the verse in question, uses a present passive participle. Participles do not contain pronouns. This is nothing more than pure deception on the behalf of the authors, as Johnson, who has a Masters of Divinity, can (or at least, should be able to) read Greek.

Another argument is that Luke 18 has a publican in the temple, seemingly in contrast with the necessitation, in the Mormon faith, for one to be in good standing to attend the temple and have a temple recommend. However, the Greek uses _hieron_, that refers, not to the temple proper, but to the outer assembly area of a temple. Had the author of the Lucan gospel meant the temple proper, the Greek word _naos_ would have been utilised in the Greek.

Much more could be said about the inaccuracies contained in this text, but this should give some food for thought, and show that this text, and the other writings of McKeever and Johnson, whether on-line or in print, cannot be taken seriously.

I welcome sincere feedback at Robert.S.Boylan@nuim.ie

Since I don't have the time to pen my own full book in response, I will just address the first question: if (all) Mormons are Christians, are (all) Christians Mormon? That is like asking: if (all) lions are cats, are (all) cats lions?

I do have a Presbyterian best friend who is essentially Mormon in her beliefs. Sometimes I tell her she is a better Mormon than I am, which she takes as a high compliment.

As a former Non-denominational Protestant Christian, I find it odd and illogical that some Protestants could fathom that Protestants as a whole with all their varied beliefs/doctrines (and Catholics whom the Protestants are protesting) can all be considered Christians, but Mormons can't.

I am your run-of-the-mill Christian. I was raised a Southern Baptist and currently attend a United Methodist church. However, I make it a point to be familiar with other views of Christianity, and Mormonism is one of them. I have talked with Elders, read the Book of Mormon, talked to my preachers about their views of Mormonism, attended Mormon services, listened to avant opposers of Mormonism, and generally made it a point to hear both sides of the story.

All I have to say is that this book is full of fallacies. These people are obviously going on hearsay on many things and have not done thorough research on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This book is not worth your money or time. If you want to question a Mormon on his or her beliefs, then don't go by a book that's poorly researched and clearly full of bias. One should always take an objective viewpoint when exploring beliefs different from one's own. Make up your own questions. Read their religious documents and make your own interpretations. Don't let other people tell you what is and what isn't, because they might not know anything at all.

I love Bill, and he's not even my dad, but his books have been a father to me. I have tasted the pie of mormonism, and found the crust undercooked. W4e need to fight lies where we find them, and yank them out like a snake in it's snakepit. And I'm nor referrring to the former guitarist from "Guns and Roses."

This book ahsd a wonderful format, and easy acess to analize and think for youself, without any input or crossthinking from the course. My goodness, ther is no jibberish in this book, which made my days.

...This books' tone is quite respectful and kind to all poepl who know the truth. I found the style to be easy to read.

i dare anyone in the world to challenge my beliefs in Mormonism. you have my email. try it.

what other purpose does this book hold?

BRING IT ON!

I ordered expidited shipping for my product to get it sooner than the regular shipping. They happily charged me for expidited shipping, then turned around and sent the book via media mail. Also, the item diescription for my book said it was highlighted by a student that got a B+ in the course. I have yet to find any hightlighted areas in the book. When I contacted the seller via email to inquire, they cam back at me angry claiming that I was trying to threaten them. This was a poor experience at best. I will never shop with this Seller agian.

Recent Accounting knowledge is a plus when reading this book. A few examples of problem solving would be nice. An answer key to the exercises in each chapter would be helpful too.

You will want a fresh mind & coffee when reading this book!

This book has many characteristics that I really dislike to see in a textbook.

First, the authors flooded almost every page with extraneous information. When you're learning this stuff, you want it to be explained simply and clearly - but the authors seem more intent on showing you how much they know about some topic, even when that information is tangenital and not very helpful.

They don't word things clearly. They'll call the same thing by two different names - (i.e. "Pension Cost" and "Pension Expense") which needlessly adds to the confusion. They'll discuss some topic for several pages without even writing down the basic, relevant journal entry.

One of the wordiest, most poorly written accounting books I have ever had the displeasure of studying from.

This publication provides a thorough and comprehensive review of almost every important aspect of accounting, financial analytics and reporting. A useful tool for a person new to finance or someone needing a refresh or review of important topics. A solutions manual would have been helpful, but the book is a valuable buy nonetheless.

The book provides very clear explanations about different aspects of financial statement analysis. The only drawbacks are that the book is a little simplistic and that problem solutions are sorely needed. However, I am sure you are not going to use oit for self-study- you would be using it as a textbook in a financial statement analysis class. The professor, would be able to provide you with solutions (as in my case- thanks Dr. Church!) and will also help you out with some of the tougher stuff. Whatever, the book does an excellent job in explaining the basic stuff- much better than the Sondhi book.

This book does little more than give a little very brief overview on the various tools that are available, then points the reader to where he or she can find more detailed info. Next to useless in and of itself as a reference guide.

This book does little more than give a very, very brief overview of the various Unix development tools and points the reader to where to look to find more information. It would function well as a directory, but not as a tutorial.

Good overview of practical tools for serious Unix programming, with some mention of cross-platform work on Windows. Also has a number of good book and www references, as well as a nice CD-ROM of freeware tools. Easily worth the price to the beginning or intermediate-level Unix programmer needing to build a toolkit.

The idea of "dieters beware" below is that I actually liked the chapter of the book with that same title, which somehow got omitted from my review below. It gives you the nutritional downside of numerous popular diets that you probably won't get in the books that promote or endorse those diets. This knowledge could be quite useful even if you do not choose to go with the chitosan plan. You should keep in mind however that the information does appear to be slanted in favor of high carbohydrate diets, and attacks extra fat in food as being the main source of our nutritional problems, whereas most sources I have read agree that excess energy is stored in our bodies as fat regardless of what type of food the energy derives from.

I purchased this book hoping to have some guidelines for losing weight. All it does is exploit the chitosan natural fiber pill but without any guidelines for taking it. The authors spent too many pages downrating other diets and their pitfalls. It did not give me the information I was seeking on where to find this fiber pill, how to use it in my diet, etc. The book only told of their case studies of their patients using this fiber pill. To say the least, I was disappointed and mad at my self for buying a book which did not give any details to using this fiber pill.

This book is a diet centered around the food supplement chitosan. According to the author research has shown that chitosan when added to the diet blocks fat absorbtion thus you can eliminate fat calories using the product. I had read about chitosan on the web and wanted additonal concrete information which was sadly lacking in this book. The authors spend a lot of time discussing many "diet" topics such as why excess fat is bad, why other diets dont work, why exercise is important but very little information is given on chitosan itself. Though chitosan may very well be a revolutionary product for fat control you will barely learn the essentials about it with this text. For example he tells you how many grams of chitosan to take prior to eating certain items. Most chitosan is sold in milligrams so this will be confusing for some. He tells you not to take a surplus of the product but does not really explain why. He fails to explain the difference between food grade and pharmaceutical grade chitosan and the dosages to take of each. He does not mention how to use ascorbic acid to increase its potency. He does not list sources or what to look for when purchasing chitosan. The diet itself appears to be based on the food pyramid alone and is old fashioned in that it does not allow for individual differences. Some people following a 70% carbohydrate diet for example will not loose weight needing more protein. He also commits the sin of not including an index at the back. I feel all factual books should include that for easy reference and anyone who does not include one is making it easy on themselves and not writing a true reference book. On the plus side at least he helps draw chitosan to the publics attention.

The basic idea of the fat blocker diet is to take the supplement chitosan before meals to absorb a high percentage of fat so that you do not end up ingesting it in the first place. The plan also calls for a high-carbohydrate/low-protein/low-fat diet. The book focuses on establising good eating habits for life and is not supposed to be a fad diet that you will abandon in a few weeks or months.END

The book is a lot of fluff surrounding two very basic messages: 1)Take one gram of chitosan for every five grams of fat you don't want to be absorbed, and 2)follow a high-fiber, low-fat diet to lose weight. The former is readily available info that you could get at a health-food store or on the web, the latter is common sense. I can't vouch for Chitosan's weight-loss benefits (I have a few colleagues who swear by it, and they're pretty stable folks, so...), but I recommend you buy a good book about basic nutrition instead of this one...you'll learn more and will be able to apply it to your lifestyle more constructively.

I agree with the previous poster's comments on the viability of this book for learning programming. The title is all wrong; it's not specifically about programming! HOWEVER, it is a very good book for those new to Linux in that it answers alot of the questions that new users have. It highlights the many of the strengths of LINUX from a UNIX point of view. i.e. pipes, redirections, job-control, Xconfiguration, programming basics. Patrick Volkerding does a very good job of demonstrating Linux and detailing it's true power. This book should be renamed "Getting started in LINUX". If it was...I'd give it five starz!

Caveat Emptor. I bought this book without really looking at it first... what a mistake! Of the 370 total pages, the first 114 pages are about installing the Slackware CD included in the back cover (installing and configuring Linux was covered in the first of this series of books). Those 114 pages might have been better used to cover "programming" in Linux. The 2nd chapter [C Programming Tools and Linux] goes from page 115 to page 134 (less than 18 pages of content). The 3rd chapter [X Windows Programming] goes from page 135 to page 179 (less than 44 pages of content). Chapter 4 [Using Tcl] goes from page 181 to page 201 (less than 19 pages). And so on... The book tries to cover too much. Most of the information is not even useful for doing anything, not even introductory in nature. I'm sorry I bought the book, and I hope this review will keep others from wasting their money on it. All in all, this is one of the worst computer books I've ever purchased, and I'm very sorry I got it.

The lazy man is Penzler. I was caught bookless and had to have something quickly a couple of days ago, so I picked this up on the title alone. I read widely, but my weakness has always been mysteries, preferably of the who-done-it variety with psychological insights. I've read historial and contemporary, procedurals and cozies..lots and lots of English and American writers. So I figured...The 50 Greatest Mysteries! Edited by a Big Name in mystery fiction. I expected well written and carefully chosen mysteries, including lesser known fascinating puzzles. Penzler is well known in mystery literature: owner of the Mysterious Bookshop, compiler, guest lecturer...a Name in the Business. The "Best" of anything is always an argument, so even if the stories were not "the best" they would certainly be contenders.
The stories are arranged chronologically, and Penzler provides a very brief introductory paragraph. He does not suggest why the story is included (and in one instance, refers to a story that is not included as better than his example). He doesn't discuss or distinguish between a true mystery, a suspense story, a procedural or a cozy. Arguments abound as to what is a 'mystery' and Penzler doesn't attempt to add to or resolve the discussions. He adds no insights or points of view--nothing to justify his choices. Some of his dated pieces are charmless, so I have to assume they were included as exemplars of the period, but Mr. Penzler doesn't place the unfamiliar within a context. Instead, he seems to have included the oldest first, plodding through the genre to fill the pages before the next book, which will probably be called Another 50 of the Greatest Mysteries. The book seems complied haphazardly and named to sell.

Perhaps I ask too much. There are some lovely stories,and some that are interesting. He includes a brief suspenseful piece by Edith Wharton. She's a lovely writer, but not an ounce of mystery is involved in the tale. The Red Headed League is an early Sherlock Holmes which is fun but not the best of Doyle. I can't argue with The Purloined Letter (Poe), and am happy to known that writers not known for mysteries actually wrote a few (Jack London, Aldus Huxley, Thomas Hardy[and its a good one], Thurber, AA Milne, Ogden Nash) but they are not the Greatest Mysteries. Fredrick Irvington Anderson's story is dated and tiresome--and Mr. Anderson is not a familiar name. Mr. Penzler doesn't crack stories from 1950 until page 327--two thirds of the way through the book. But it is probably cheaper to republish stories well past their copyright conflicts date.

They ain't The Greatest Mysteries. They are sometimes interesting. Some are truly fine. If you want context, insight or thematic consistency, look elsewhere. These are complied tales, not an editor's choice. On the other hand, if you are caught bookless and need 567 page of choices, you will find some good stories, some seldom published historical oddies to leaf through, some to skip and certainly, along the way, something to like.

After a quick perusal, I found this book to be highly out-dated in today's context. Content-wise, it is more of a career planning guide for first timers, & not a systematic comprehensive life/work planning guide as suggested in the secondary title of this book. This was my mistake, as I was attracted by the latter. I originally thought that I could pick up some winning fundamentals of life/work planning.

Worst of all, this book used the old-fashioned typewriter fonts, & was printed in a manuscript format, which further aggravated my reading process.

Fortunately, my copy is a used one, which I have bought very cheaply from an online shop.

On the whole, I have been very disappointed.

This book is a joke! Mistakes in every area-take the transcription of "Zap" for instance. An Ab chord in the standard notation, but the tab shows a Db chord! The opening run-how do you slur from an F on the D string to an Eb on the A string, then to Ab on the D string to Bb on the G string? A G5 chord symbol over a Ab5 in the notation and tab? A5 labeling a Bb5? What!? Plus, this should be notated in A, with instructions to tune down 1/2 step! Take the fourth bar of "Trademark"-E should be on the second fret, not the third. How do you play B on the second fret, then magically switch to the seventh fret while still holding the note?! You get the idea-this reminds me of the "authentic" Hendrix transcriptions, which are as equally screwed up. Think twice before wasting your money on this!