John Winston Books

A fascinating, and largely undiscovered masterpiece purportedly addressing the Nature of Time. If you've read Grammatical Man, don't let that turn you off. This one reads like a different author

It has been a few years since I read this book. I remember the cover notes saying that I would never look at the world in the same way again and I must say that it fundamentally changed my world view. It is a very intelligent book that is wide ranging in scope but uses time as a central theme. The author convinces us that nothing exists alone and that there are clocks and cycles everywhere. I recommend to any science reader.

Wow this was a really refreshing book! If you don't wish to go through weeks of reading a several hundred page thick brick, this is the perfect choice for you. It gives you everything you need to know and some. Besides the knowledge I gained, I was left with an inspirational feeling and which led me to start writing my own book. Not an inspirational one, but a novel. Now three months later I have just finished it - 271 pages. I feel great and attribute "The 5 Steps" to getting me started.

Cunningham et al have added extensive coverage for the role accountants need to play in start-up companies. This is something quite new and exciting to find presented in a managerial accounting textbook. The older textbooks like Horngren were all focused on how you eliminate inefficiences found in the manufacturing process. So what do you do when much of that manufacturing is either contracted out or has moved to China?

Outside of Silicon Valley the most needed skill for accountants in new technology companies is in performing their role during the start-up period. The successful completion of this phase is assumed in the older textbooks and dealt with from chapter 10 onwards here. Horngren and others did not really prepare their students for this situation. Cunningham et al have stepped in and dealt with this emerging need in accounting education.

The authors should include more material on the nature of the accountants role in technology start-ups. Outside of Silicon Valley the accounting students are relying on people such as the authors to tell them what they might pick up from their working environment if they were working in the Valley. This certainly seems to be the case here in Israel. We have the high-tech companies, but accountants have yet to make the transition to this new way of thinking presented in this textbook.

It matches the book perfectly and when the teacher gives a quiz it's usually the same as the stuff on this!

As a pastor and father, I have found this to be a meaningful and useful book. It begins with an account of a very unusual baptism (unusual to North Americans, that is), and then places parenting in the context of living out the promises we make on behalf of our children at baptism. I have "required" many couples to read this as they have children baptized, and they have always found it meaningful. In an day when parenting is so often reduced to simplistic formulas and effective techniques, this book gives parents a true foundation on which to build meaningful relationships with their children, throughout life.

I recall reading this engrossing story when I was in sixth grade. I re- read it again when I was in high school, and it was just as great an experience. It was one of a handful of books that had the most influence on my own writing as an adult. The story revolves around a group of young people who travel back in time, to the age of the dinosaurs. What I remember as singularly unique about the book is the way Marsten had memories of one of the characters slowly dissolve from the minds of the survivors, after he had been killed in the past. I was fascinated by that notion, and the same idea has been utilized in other sci-fi stories, t.v. shows and movies in the years since then. I won't give away too much of the plot, but if you have a youngster who is interested in dinosaurs and time travel, this book will definitely be a treat for them. No matter how old you are, if you are simply looking for a fast-paced, well-written and intriguing tale, then "Danger Dinosaurs" is the book for you.

"Danger Dinosaurs" was written by a man whose birth name was Salvatore Lombino. Richard Marsten was one of many pseudonyms he used as an author. He was a prolific writer, and under the more well-known pseudonym of Evan Hunter, he wrote the best-seller "The Blackboard Jungle," as well as the original screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's classic film "The Birds."

John L'Heureux has written many fine books. Some of the novels are still in print. My favorite work of his, though, can be found in his two story collections -- Comedians and Desires.

Comedians is generally the more popular and highly regarded. For my money, though, Desires is the better book. It has my two favorite L'Heureux stories: "Brief Lives in California" and "The Priest's Wife." The other stories are worth the reader's time, too.

There are more L'Heureux stories floating around uncollected. I've found some of them in literary magazines like Epoch, but I bet I've missed a lot of them, too. Nobody tracks these things, except, probably, Mr. L'Heureux. I wish I was an editor at Knopf or Farrar, Straus, Giroux, so I could bring out The Collected Stories of John L'Heureux, a book that ought to be on the shelves of every library in the United States, for the sake of the pleasure it would bring us all.

Meantime, I'm going to have to satisfy myself with my used copies. The fact that I have been able to purchase them here on Amazon.com makes the Internet worth having.

Hello! I am a Spanish Major at the University of California at Santa Barbara and El Cuento by John A. Crow and Edward Dudley was required for an advanced grammar course. I found the content very useful as it not only introduces the reader to prevalent authors and themes in Spanish literature, but familiarizes the reader with how to read the literature and what to look for.

Very fast Shipping. This book was ordered for my high school son as a class book. Great condition. Even better price.

Sometimes the older textbooks are the best. This one is a early reader, and was published before the 'Whole Language' method became popular. Phonics was still king and this text has a typical mix of various levels of words without more than typical repetition. No 'See Spot run. Run Spot Run'. As a homeschooling parent, I used this book early as a tool for having my child read out loud to me, and also for dictation. It's a wonderful old book.