John Waters Books

Every owner of a sailing ship or yacht needs to understand the sanitation and water systems that are an integral part of their craft. John C. Payne is an internationally recognized expert in marine electrical systems and electronics who brings to bear his many years of experience and expertise to the technical issues as he addresses the specific issues of marine plumbing systems, fresh water systems, hot water systems, galley plumbing systems, watermaker systems, salt water systems, bilge pump systems, shower (gray) water systems, sewage (black) water and MSD systems. The result is the comprehensive and thoroughly 'user friendly' instructional compendium "Understanding Boat Plumbing And Water Systems" as an concise, compact, and fully illustrated shipboard reference. Also very highly recommended for personal, professional, academic, and library Nautical Reference collections and supplemental reading lists is John C. Payne's "Understanding Boat AC Power Systems".

The text provides an in-depth description of the basic processes in water and wastewater engineering. The discussion is understandable and informative. The arrangement of the book leads the reader logically through the different processes and provides a good base of information on which a complete understanding of water and wastewater treatment could be built.

This is the BEST book on vadose zone processes. The author balances scientific data and easy to follow explanations. Should be on the coffee table of every soil scientist. From D.J. Richards.

This merticulous study of the New Testament descriptions of the Miracle at Cana, and the beheading of John the Baptist, relating them to the Book of Esther and the Targum on the Book of Esther is fascinating, intense, and at times dazzling. The author takes us on a deep journey into words, phrases, and verbal motifs, arguing that the New Testament writers invented the Cana miracle and John's martyrdom having been inspired by familiar Old Testament stories. Thrilled as I am by this wondrous scholarly detective work, I disagree totally with the conclusions. I think they're naieve. If Aus can see clearly that Cana and Esther connect, why couldn't Jesus of Nazareth see it? If Aus can see a connection between the Emperor's lavish style and promises in Esther and that of Herod, why couldn't Herodias see it and be inspired to ask for John the Baptist's head on a platter? Another argument which counters Aus is that the similarity of language and phrasing which he notes betweeen NT and OT here might have to do with the reporting of real events because the NT writers were familiar with that language. In other words the events are actual and the language describing them is literary. And lastly, let me say that it is highly unlikely that any gospel writer would have fabricated the story of John's beheading simply because John the Baptist was so popular and had so many followers. A gospel writer wanting to claim authority would not have simply made up something that went counter to what was known about such a famous personage. The gospels weren't written in isolation. They weren't written for isolated communities. Bauckham in his brilliant work has well established what anyone can see from the letters of Paul: word circulated widely and rapidly in the Christian communities. Followers of John the Baptist, or their sons and daughters would have been outraged by a fancy story of a beheading that never took place. Scholars simply don't understand how good communications were in biblical times, how rapidly word of something spread by ship and by Roman road, and how united by news and story people were. So we can not simply throw out the story of "the damsel's" dance and the beheading of John. The way to go in scholarship is to try to figure out more about the incident as it is reported. The real mystery is why did Salome dance before drunken men? Did she risk her entire reputation as a marriageable young woman when she did that to please Herod and obtain the head of the Baptist? Or was that actually permissable for a young woman? Just throwing out the whole story doesn't really help us. It's not realistic. Of course I can not go toe to toe with a scholar like Aus when it comes to studying the texts, but those are my strong conclusions. Nevertheless I recommend this book highly. I hope it finds wide circulation soon in attractive re-print. The trip is worth it but come to your own conclusions.

This book is a concise detailed account of water and waste water treatment, covering on site test, calculations, and treatment.

There is a paperback which came out about two years ago nd Amazon.co.uk still sell it it was published by Gollancz, London

Water's Way is a stunningly photographed, and exquisitely written glimpse of life in the Chesapeake region. The book celebrates beauty, both in the natural and human worlds. Author Tom Horton's essays are insightful, humorous, and well-crafted. His words flow like the many creeks and rivers that he describes on the Delmarva peninsula. Dave Harp's photography defines the people, animals, and landscape in such concert with Horton's words that the book should be considered the National Geographic of the Eastern Shore. This a worthy addition to anyone's coffee table.

I had John Sinton as a professor at Richard Stockton College of NJ in the early 1990's. This book was the basic text book of the Land Use Planning Course he taught. I recently re-read this book and noticed that a lot of the stories and background on the history of South Jersey including the now extinct South Jersey "PINEYS", similar to the Tennessee and Kentucky "Hillbillies", and the ever elusive Pennsylvania "Townies". Anyone who wants to learn about the history of South Jersey should pick up this book, remember New Jersey isn't only about Springsteen and the Soprano's.

I received the book order in excellent condition and in good time to use for an uncomming project at my office. It was a real hit with the staff and should generate even greater interest in watercolor rendering.

It's easy to be complacent about writing out of pain - it's easy to imagine it's all the same somehow, or all intended to affect you in a particular way. This book is different. The poems here are so exposed, so incandescent with the presence of loving ghosts, that Rybicki's intention may just be a real danger: as he writes in "Julie Ovary Song," he wants you to drown with him.

In some of these poems Rybicki seems to live his own life from across a insurmountable distance - watching through a movie screen, or as a "distant eye in the future gazing back on this," or from a vantage helplessly "mounted in the sky." But even as he leaps from constellation to constellation in his perfect, barbaric, unprecedented writing, he never lets us forget that the water keeps rising around us, and will not stop to admire the view.

Buy this book. It will be a classic of modern American poetry.