Paul Walker Books

ANDY'S BOOK WAS ONE OF THE VERY FIRST ANGEL BOOKS I EVER READ. I ORDERED & CARRY WITH ME EVERY DAY A MINIATURE ANGEL PAINTING PIN THAT ANDY MADE ME. THE PICTURES OF HIS PAINTINGS & ARTWORKS BRING TEARS TO MY EYES & HAVE OPENED MY HEART TO NOT TO ANGELS,BUT MIRACLES,SAINTS ,ETC GOD BLESS ANDY FOR WHAT HE DOES!!LOVE ,MARSHA LAMPERT MBA WANTAGH NY

After being burnt out on intellectual self-help books I was guided by a dear friend to read Andy's well-illustrated book of angels. At first I thought it was doctrinaire, in a dry theological Sunday school way. I was in for a surprise, as the gentle, truly spiritual (as opposed to pious or religious) description of ever-present Angel guides began to take shape. Free of worn-out cliches and aphorisms; it left me with an exhilarating, playful awareness of Angels standing by us in our most everyday activities. A beautiful, sweet and visually trippy book. -J. Alan Rosenstein

This book is full of Andy Lakey's spiritual three dimensional art, featuring mostly his angels. Besides the full color prints, included are personal insights into his journey that led him to creating his art (he was a car salesman before) and various testimonials about the impact of his art. Skeptics might be turned off and discount him as just another new age spiritualist. However, the fact of the matter is, he has had a positive impact on many people and that is what this book and his art is about. His now famous 2000 angel series for the millenium was the impetus for his effect on countless people. The book is very easy to read and often repetitive, hence the minus one star, but the message is clear and his art shines and brightens the hearts and souls of many people. The oversized print is a background to the dazzling visual imagery Lackey employs with his angels. Of particular interest are the various stories of other people who have been touched by his art, most notably the blind, including Ray Charles. His art is collected by many people, including such luminaries as former Presidents Carter and Ford, Ed Asner, Gloria Estefan and Pope John Paul II, amongst others. This is primarily an art book but the related included stories are an additional bonus. This would make a great gift book, especially but not limited to someone who likes art or needs uplifting guidance. The angels and three dimensional art that come in the book can be enjoyed many times over. The stories will astound you.

Langston Hughes provides an introduction into this selected anthology of short stories by prominent African American writers like Langston Hughes' himself with his classic short story, "Thank You, Mam." We also have a short story by poet Gwendolyn Brooks and dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham. There are the traditional authors like Zora Neale Huston, James Baldwin, Charles Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, Jean Toomer, and Richard Wright only to name a few. It's still a great anthology of assorted stories about African American life in America from the South to Chicago and New York.

This book is a collection of short stories that was put together by the great Harlem Renaissance writer, Langston Hughes. Some authors whose works are also featured in the book are Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alice Walker. These stories are fun to read and they speak about the current issues that Black America was facing during the time period. This book is for anyone who is trying to better understand black thought during the 20th century.

This book is an excellent example of reality. In each short story, there is some kind of relivance of growing up in a nation filled with crime, love, kindenss, hardships, and friendships. The writers express themselves so wonderfully, vivid pictures of the events are played in my head. It keeps middle-school children very attentive, mainly because they can easily relate to the troubles of growing up today. Teens can feel a sense of comfort in this book because they know they are not alone. This book contains collections by some of the best authors in the world. It really makes the african-american culture shine to where all cultures will enjoy!

This is my absolute favorite book for a young boy. I bought it for my son when he was three. Two years later we have read it hundreds of times. The story is imaginative and the illustrations are beautiful.

This is an absolutely beautiful book. The pages are dense and turnable, the cover is illustrated in warm tones, the drawings in the book are cosy and inviting. Even the book has this oldy worldy cottage-y smell from the pages (or maybe I have an overactive imagination!)The story is not scary, even though it is about bears. I have just read it three times to my three year old. Highly recommend this book. I just came on to see about getting it for his grandma! It isn't too long, perfect length.

Cute little story in this book that is a good size book. I don't see it as a scary book for kids. Good illustrations too.

This is a very thorough rhyming dictionary. It is a list of words alphabetized starting from the back of the word. These words then have a definition. (In cases where the ending on the word is pronounced differently than the same ending on neighboring words this is pointed out in the definition.) The main advantage to this dictionary is that it has a more extensive list of words than other rhyming dictionaries I have come across.

I have an old edition of this. (It doesn't say when it was printed but I'm thinking sometime in the 40's or 50's. From the introduction I believe that this is a reprint of the 1851 edition, so that explains some of the oddities.) The problem that I found in using this edition is that many of the words in the older edition are very unusual or are outdated. Just to pick a random word from a random page: seiatherical - belonging to a sun dial. And another: Shough - a shaggy dog. I am assuming that the revised edition removes many of these oddities.

This revised edition is probably more useful than older editions. On the other hand older editions start at 4$ for a used copy. So you are paying 10 times as much for the revision. You will have to pick through a lot of anachronisms to use an older copy. You may like this if you are into language history or you may beat your head against the wall.

incredible variety and includes the simplicities most authors leave out that makes a work accessible to all levels, however the strict alphabetical organization does leave some ryhming to a longer search, most notable collection of ryhmes though

This rhyming dictionary is a closer to a proper dictionarythan than a thesaurus of rhymes. The entire contents arealphabetized from the last letter to the first. Not 'z' to 'a', but so 'glow' and 'slow' would appear next to each other. As such, this is probably the only rhyming dictionary around that is better for sight rhymes than phonetic ones. It's real value comes from not caring about rhymes at all, but instead looking for words with similar suffixes, eg all the -ism's, or when you don't remember the first letter(s), such as perhaps 'pneumatic'.

I have used this book to define every scientific term and vocabulary word assigned since freshman year in Highschool. It is a complete refrence for every aspect of the Congnitive Sciences. If you were stuck on a desert island this book will help you do everything from convert sand into a seaworthy ship to finish your honors chemestry report on the ionization of Calcitrate. What is Thermal Latency? It has the meaning as used in 8 fields of science, from Thermal Dynamics to Engineering. The book even has illustrations and models.

Boasting of more than 2,400 pages of well-illustrated references and definitions, this "Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology" offers a fantastic value. It provides all you need in a single-volume. It is accessible and versatile. Its authority is unquestionable.
However, it biggest sin is that since 1992 it surfaced, Academic Press has failed to revise and keep it up-to-date. Also, the weight of this book is so heavy that having a CD-ROM version of it is necessary. Nevertheless, I still appreciate its value.

My 2nd grader grandson checked this out from his library and began reading me one of the stories while we were driving. We talked about the book and his opinion of it. He loved it! and I liked the story that he had read. Our library didn't have anything like it so I couldn't help myself...I bought it! NOTE: It is out of print.

My nine-year-old son loves this book. He says, "I like it because you can learn about monsters from different countries. It has real information that scientists have found." I am buying it because we checked it out of the library and he wanted to re-type all of the stories so he could read them over and over again.

Paul Walker describes his book as a "contribution from the edge." Christianity's edge is increasingly fuzzy and porous. There are huge numbers of people who find themselves somewhere along the edge - bored by church liturgies, unimpressed by doctrinal certitude, turned off by the self-importance of the clergy, but still searching. Walker's book is a contribution not only from the edge, but to it.

An Anglican minister, Walker writes with a degree of honesty and soul searching on topics such as prayer, God, Jesus, the Bible, and morality that is unexpected in a clergyman. For example, he once emphasized the centrality of prayer in his preaching, he admits, while never quite succeeding at it himself. A sort of breakthrough came once he "stopped trying." That was when he noticed a natural, internal dialogue that gave him a new way of looking at what prayer is. Walker's discovery about prayer illustrates a pattern that variously recurs as he takes up other topics. Letting go the traditional church preoccupation with doctrine about Jesus, Walker continues to find in himself a deep love for the man and his message.

This is a wonderful, dare I say, pastoral book for honest searchers. More than that, it is an invitation to conversation on the search for faith, God or whatever it is that impresses us with the notion that life is about something beyond ourselves. Walker longs for community that consists of "people truly open to each other and welcoming of newcomers." For those prepared to let go the rigid boundaries of church, Walker's book may serve as a guide for rediscovering "church" as precisely that kind of open community. Searching, dialogue, openness, welcome, community: these qualities describe an "edge" that many will recognize as central to their spiritual needs.

Here is a book that presents a true agnosticism, not a trite apology for an indifference to the question of God (as so many modern agnostic expressions are) but an enquiry that is engaging and transforming. Walker's personal testimony confronts contemporary Christianity and finds much of it wanting. His response, however, is not to give up on the Christian search for meaning but to seek to find a continuing value in the process, regardless of how difficult or uncomfortable the journey may be.

Walker doesn't operate at the margins of faith, he considers the big issues; the meaning of life; the existence of God; the nature of Jesus and the authority of the Bible among them. The vision he articulates, whilst remaining personal is, I suspect, just about the only position that any thinking twenty-first century Christian could arrive at. We must seek God in the elusive moments of transcendence that occasionally overtake us, not in ancient mythology or the expectation of miracle. We must find Jesus in his message of love, compassion and social justice rather than in the theological embellishments of later centuries. And in the Bible we should find inspiration in the story of the search for God that an entire society embarked upon, not see it as some bizarre divine and unchanging ethical code.

I would contend that "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" represents almost the only future for Christianity that will allow it to remain relevant and purposeful. For that reason alone it deserves a wide readership, both in the Christian community and beyond.

We've become avid baseball fans in the last few years, and felt the need to know at least the basics of keeping score. If nothing else, it meant that we'd have a better idea what the announcers were talking about when they'd say, "That's a 4-6-1."

This book, while far from extensive, suits our needs very well. The "how to" is really only a chapter or two long, but you'll find plenty of other anecdotes, such as the reasons why a strikeout is recorded as a K (it's a debatable point), and discussion of L.L.Bean's "simplified baseball scorebook" (yeah, *that* L.L.Bean). Lots of black-and-white photos, too.

It's a short book, about 100 pages, but a fun read. Nothing deep or "meaningful" here, but it'd make a dandy gift for any baseball fan. Including yourself.

I would recommend this book for those wanting to learn MORE about scoring, not how to score. After reading, we went to a Major League Baseball game and kept score...lots of fun.

I found this book while looking for an informative reference on how to score the game. I looked at two other titles and chose this one because it contained the information I was seeking and loads of extra "fun facts" regarding the history of the game. It is a fun read and I think you will find this a "gem" of a book. This would make a great present to any youngsters who start an interest in baseball.

Author Paul Dickson's love of baseball flows from every page of this delightful little book. It's not a how-to book, but rather an appreciation of the art form of scoring a baseball game. It includes a comprehesive list of abbreviations used in scoring, many anecdotes, and photos of scorecards from famous games.

This book contains an excellent history of scorekeeping (and thus lives up to its subtitle). As a fan of baseball history, I appreciated it for that. It was also a quick read, and I read it all in less than an afternoon. I recommend it if you are interested in the history of scoring.

It was lacking, however, in the "how-to" department. I was just learning to score games. I had been using the guide contained in baseball programs and was looking for a little more depth. This book did provide a little more depth, but not a great deal. It contains information about marking plays, but does not go in to a lot of detail about the rules (which are essential to being a good scorekeeper). I did find it helpful to learn that not all scorers mark their card identically because as I developed some of my own techniques, I didn't feel like I was doing a disservice to the history of the game.

It is a good starting point for the beginning scorer and an excellent reference on scoring background; but if you have scored a few and are looking to get more complex, you may want to pass on this.

Pope believes Bush has done his best to turn back the clock a full century on environmental progress. A prime mechanism for accomplishing this is through misleading verbiage - eg. "Healthy Forests" for logging, suppressing evidence on global warming, a "Clean Air" act that allows increased pollution, etc.

On the other hand, "Strategic Ignorance" is weak on specifics and documenting some of its points. For example, it criticizes renaming radioactive nuclear waste as "incidental waste," but doesn't tell us how radioactive the reclassified substances are. (There are several classes of nuclear waste, ranging from extremely dangerous to very mild.) It also claims, probably correctly, that there need be no tradeoff between auto-safety and fuel economy - especially when both vehicles are considered. However, specific data are not presented. A third example is that condemning the administration's recalculating the value of human life for use in cost/benefit analyses - yet, if done logically this offers a major tool in prioritizing regulatory focus. ("Strategic Ignorance" did not offer any evidence that the new calculations were in error.)

Recommendations include increasing auto fuel economy requirements, greater use of solar and wind energy, installing modern air pollution controls on older electric plants, restoring the Superfund tax, more controlled burns in the forests, and supporting the Kyoto objectives.

Bottom Line: Evidence from other areas (eg. Iraq, Katrina, tax breaks) suggest that "Strategic Ignorance" probably is close to being "on the money." However, it does not do a very good job of quantifying what is going on.

This book reveals a lot of facts most American's have missed. Why are policies that will determine Earth's future habitability Faith Based rather than Science Based? Why is the potential for clean safe nuclear power tied up with the future of leaky old plants that nearly destroyed Toledo? What companies and administration investments benefit from denying the realities of global warming?

I used this book as a resource on a Global Warming paper I was doing in college. While some of the information in the book is useful, most of the book is a transparent attempt by a couple of democrats to bash the oppositions leader. The authors often abondon intellect and quality prose for childish and mean spirited cheap shots at the Bush administration. I don't agree with Bush's environmental policies either but authors of a book should be more careful about how they let their emotions play out.

Carl Pope is the Executive Director of the Sierra Club and his co-author Paul Rauber is a senior editor at Sierra Magazine. Their prose is direct, clear and hard-hitting, and their book is a devastating indictment of the Bush administration's environmental polices.

Exhibit #1 is the big lie. As Pope and Rauber put it, the Bush administration's strategy is to "Say one thing, do another" and "Never admit what you're up to. Rather, assert the opposite repeatedly and despite all available evidence." (p. 24) The interesting thing about this is, what could be more authoritarian and anti-democratic?

Bush's so-called "Clear Skies" proposal, which is aimed at circumventing the Clean Air Act, is an excellent example of the big lie and of the Orwellian doublethink employed by Bush's people. The authors quote Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords as saying, "The President says one thing, but does another...With a straight face he talks about protecting resources for our children--even as he abandons the federal protection of land and air and water as fast as he can. Does he think we don't notice?" (p. 78)

Actually we don't, most of us anyway. It very hard for most people to believe that the President can call for "Clear Skies" and "Healthy Forests" while deliberately fostering the opposite. Yet, that is exactly what Bush does as this book so clearly and overwhelming demonstrates. The question might be why? Don't the people in the Bush administration love their children too?

Strange as it may seem the faith-based logic of the administration has Higher goals. It believes first that it is essential to reduce the size and effectiveness of government. Bush wants to make government less popular by making it less effective (see Chapter 13). But more than this is an underlining rationale that simultaneously desires a return to a social Darwinian ethos while believing that the Second Coming will make all of this irrelevant anyway. Reagan's Secretary of the Interior James Watt, who would fit nicely into the Bush administration except for his candid expression, put it like this when asked if it might not be wise to save something for future generations: "I don't know how many future generations we can count on until the Lord returns." (p. 25)

Meanwhile, no more "nanny state." Let's bring back the "social Darwinian notion of the struggle for existence as 'red in tooth and claw.'" Only "this time...the predators" will be "ruthless corporations, not carnivores." Let's "Stop coddling the public. Only wimps and trial lawyers worry about parts per million." (p. 23) Indeed, there is the idea that winning is its own justification, even if you cheat to win, and the devil take the hindmost.

Consequently it is not greed alone that is powering the Bush pollution machine. It is instead a kind of spiritual arrogance that allows the employment of a deliberate strategy of ignorance, as the authors see it, a strategy that allows Bush to reward polluters and others who desecrate America, without qualm, all in the name of a new sort of laissez faire mentality combined with a belief that this earth, this country and our lives are just stopping places on the way to the coming rapture. With this kind of mentality it doesn't matter what science says. The studies are really irrelevant. Junk science is as good as real science; indeed, the only science that matters is the science that agrees with the polluters.

Pope and Rauber detail in sharp focus how the Bush administration has perverted the scientific method and in effect substituted false rhetoric and lies for scientific experiment. But it is not enough to allow the contamination of our country by big corporations. It is also necessary that laws be passed that protect those corporations from being sued by people who may be harmed by their pollution. Therefore it is a top priority this year for the White House to see that laws are passed limiting the ability of citizens to sue those who pollute or otherwise harm them.

In addition to the indictment, the authors present a way to reclaim America's future as outlined in Chapter 15. Clearly at the top of the list of how to save America is to ENFORCE the Clean Air Act! The authors also want the Superfund tax restored so that polluters will have to pay for their own clean-ups instead of putting the burden on taxpayers. This is included in the "Ten Commonsense Solutions for the Next Twenty Years" that they present beginning on page 228.

To the commonsense solutions I would offer this: we need more journalists trained in environmental concerns and publishers who are not afraid to actually report what the administration is doing. If a wider public actually knew the extent of the despoiling of America being undertaken by George W. and friends, they would cry out long and loud and maybe something could be done about it. The authors offer, in an appalling Appendix beginning on page 241, a list of what Bush has done to the environment since taking office in 2001.

Messrs. Pope and Rauber are to be commended for their work in trying to counteract the horrors committed by the Bush administration, and Sierra Club Books and the University of California Press are to complimented on helping to produce such an outstanding and extremely important book.

And yes, rivers should NOT catch fire, nor should those who drop their waste on the rest of us get away with it.

This otherwise excellent account of George W. Bush's appalling environmental record (strategically?) ignores, and thereby condones, the President's three most deadly anti-environment policies: never-ending mass immigration, nearly open borders, and countless stealth attempts to reengineer more amnesties. These policies are fueling a US population explosion that is outstripping that of many Third World nations. Bush and Pope (and his Sierra Club) are something like the dazed South Asian islanders seen wading out into the sudden eerie low tide, oblivious to that high distant foaming crest, a tsunami, making its way, making its way.

I've used Office (primarily Word and Excel) extensively on a PC for over 12 years. This book could be used for a Mac or PC--it is not helpful at targeting the differences if you are switching from a PC to a MAC. Why there should be differences, I don't know, but there are. Mostly a lot of things that make it easier to use are apparently missing from the Mac version. Based on the description, I thought that it would describe the differences. There may be a way to do most of the things I miss from the PC version, but this book is not the way to learn them.

A big, heavy book that I wish I could read in bed but it weighs too much on my stomach. It has a lot of stuff and I will use it as a reference when I have a problem converting my old Word 2000 text to the newer 2004. I'm new to the Mac computers.

Frustrated by the continuing changes-for-the-sake-of-change by the software moguls?
Here's some help.
Highly readiable and still helpful book for the windows challenged who would just like to make it work.

I have never been disappointed by Missing Manuals and this one is no different. Many, many tips are revealed and locating these is very easy. Great book!

Great book for OS X users. You can easily troubleshoot with this book. Saves time and money. Should never have to call for manufacters help again.