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The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader
Published in Hardcover by Yale University Press (1999-07-11)
Author: Jonathan Edwards
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A DIVINE AND SUPERNATURAL LIGHT
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Review Date: 2007-11-20
I purchased the book for one sermon A DIVINE AND SUPERNATURAL LIGHT

I was amazed about how many of the sermons were right one with where I am at in my life.

Gods word is time less and this is a clear translation of what God has to say to his people.


As always, excellent!
Helpful Votes: 12 out of 14 total.
Review Date: 2003-10-12
Edwards is excellent in presenting the gospel. His sermons are quite substantive and always pointing the reader (or hearer in his days) towards God. Should you desire a great book of some of Edward's greatest works, this is the book for you.

Beware of nutcase reviews of this book.
Helpful Votes: 19 out of 22 total.
Review Date: 2003-09-05
John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards are, without question, two of the greatest theologians in the history of the church. Who is Mike DeSario?

18th Century Purpose Driven preacher
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2007-10-22
Do not get this book if you're pursuing modern or postmodern theology. Do not get this book if you're looking for gimmicks.

If you want to get down to basics ... salvation and sin, heaven and hell ... read this collection.

The original 'fire & brimestone' sermon ... "Sinners in the hands of angry God" is worth the price of the book if you're unfamiliar with Edwards.

You can see the evangelical power of this mighty pastor grow in this chronological collection.

Edwards is a gift to us, well worth rediscovering.

The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards : A Reader IS A VERY GOOD BOOK TO READ
Helpful Votes: 4 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2005-09-21
Jonathan Edwards sermons are inspiring, leading to Christ. 18 century religious american genius. Easy to read. Worth to buy. Highly recommend.

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The Shadow out of Time: The Corrected Text
Published in Paperback by Hippocampus Press (2001-07-23)
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
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Mindboggling masterpiece by Lovecraft
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Review Date: 2008-07-24
This is one of Lovecraft's best and most fascinating (and longest) stories. It tells the story of a scientist who faints in class one day, only to wake up without any memories of who he is. As the story goes on, the incredible, awful and mindboggling truth is revealed. It begins on a small scale (an individual with memory loss) and ends on a cosmic scale. Less horror story and more some kind of cosmic SF/Fantasy I think... Well, this shouldn't be discussed in advance, just read it. The Shadow out of Time is included in other Lovecraft collections. This edition, though, is not only beautiful (with original cover art) but also includes the corrected text with many commentaries made by Lovecraft-scholar Joshi.

A great book
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2006-10-05
When Professor Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee is seized by a sudden mental transformation, the psychologists diagnose it as the advent of a second personality. But, it is a strange personality, interested in dark and forbidden occult studies. And when Professor Peaslee returns to his own mind, some six years later, he must pick up the pieces of his shattered life.

However, when dark dreams begin to haunt him, dreams that take the form of impossible memories, Prof. Peaslee begins to study himself, so that he can shake off these strange pseudo-memories. However, when archaeologists discover a ruin in the Australian Outback, a ruin of impossible antiquity, Prof. Peaslee's memories begin to haunt him all the more.

This is the first Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) book that I have ever read, and I must say that I am quite impressed. The author did an excellent job of creating and sustaining in the reader the horror that the main character felt throughout his adventure. Pretty much all my life I have heard of H.P. Lovecraft and his horror stories, and I found this one to be a great book to read. I really enjoyed this book, and highly recommend it.

Valueable for Any Lovecraft Fan
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2006-02-05
While this story wouldn't be the entree I'd recommend to Lovecraft, it is definitely one of his major works. And this edition is worth reading for the beginning and hardcore fan.

The editors' introduction details how long Lovecraft had been considering this story, his inspirations, and how he, as before his great creative year of 1927, undertook a reading program to sharpen his style and improve his writing before starting it, his most science-fictional, tale. They also offer some intriguing observations about the specific dates in protagonist Peaslee's life and their significance to Lovecraft's.

As to the annotations, it's not the largely unnecessary vocabulary lessons that Joshi and Schultz offer that are valueable, but how they point out similarities in motifs and language to other Lovecraft works, specific factual sources Lovecraft used, and the many links between this and other Cthulhu Mythos stories of Lovecraft and his friends. Even fans who have read this story more than once will probably learn something new in these notes.

I can't say as I noticed any difference between the corrected text and earlier versions of the story, but then I didn't look at the appendix showing all the textual variations. But it's there for the really hardcore Lovecraft fan and scholar.

Dreams or reality?
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2002-09-27
Professor N. W. Peaslee, from 1908 to 1913, suffered a form of amnesia or did he? After waking up he stuffers from dreams of an other time, in a city built before history and a race of creatures long gone. Is he going mad or is it real? The answer can be found in Australia, where in one of the deserts explorers have found ruins over 150,000,000 years old. The question is, does he WANT to find the answer or not?

If you liked 'At The Mountains of Madness' you should enjoy this book AND already know what the answers are!

A must-have for Lovecraft fans
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 2002-02-16
"The Shadow Out of Time" is one of Lovecraft's finest tales, and this version is a collector-quality edition. The story itself is found in many Lovecraft anthologies, including an excellent presentation in Arkham House's "The Dunwich Horror and Others." However, there are many features that mark this volume as the definitive edition of "The Shadow Out of Time."

The corrected text from a recently discovered manuscript is the highlight. This is the tale as Lovecraft envisioned it. Anyone familiar with "The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft" will appreciate S.T. Joshi's meticulous notes and annotations. He adds another layer of insight to these familiar stories.

My favorite feature, however, is the restoration of the pulp cover from Astounding Stories 6-36 where the story first appeared. It is nice to see the pulp roots of H.P. Lovecraft being honored.

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The World of Mathematics
Published in Hardcover by Simon & Schuster (1956-01-01)
Author: James R. Newman
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Great Authors, Great Articles, Great Fun
Helpful Votes: 19 out of 19 total.
Review Date: 2002-03-08
I pencil in the date that I finish reading each article in James R. Newman's four volume, "The World of Mathematics" After a good many years, I now find that I am more than halfway through Newman's remarkable collection that spans 2500 pages.

Newman described his work as "a small library of the literature of mathematics form A'hmose the Scribe to Albert Einstein, presented with commentaries and notes". The topics have been chosen with care. Newman preceded each article with a thoughtful commentary.

The individual articles are not abridgements, but are reprinted in their entirety. Some articles are short, some quite long, some are easy reading, some are difficult, but few are overwhelming.

I have not systematically read section by section. I find that I skip around. Often, after Newman introduces me to some mathematical topic, I find myself sidetracked, exploring other books and authors. But eventually I return to Newman, select another article, and begin the cycle again.

The Newman collection was published in 1956 as a boxed set that occasionally shows up in used bookstores. More recently, the four volumes have become available in soft cover (a Dover reprint) and can be purchased individually.

What makes Newman collection so remarkable? The answer is great original papers, great authors, and wide ranging topics.

Imagine reading Descartes on Cartesian coordinates, Whitehead on mathematical logic, Weyl on symmetry, Dedekind on irrational numbers, Russell on number theory, Heisenberg on the uncertainty principle, Turing on computer intelligence, Boole on set theory, and Eddington on group theory.

I enjoy the biographical and historical articles scattered throughout the four volumes. I especially liked Bell's article "Invariant Twins, Cayley and Sylvester", The Great Mathematicians" by Turnball, and G. H. Hardy's "A Mathematician's Apology".

Mathematicians try to define just what is mathematical thought and how a mathematician creates mathematics. Clifford writes about "The Exactness of Mathematical Laws", Von Neumann on "The Mathematician", Weyl on "Mathematical Way of Thinking", Poincare on "Mathematical Creation", Newman on "Godel's Proof", and Russell and Whitehead separately offer their thoughts.

This is the "World" of mathematics. Newman's assemblage also includes a fascinating, eclectic mix of articles that I have not encountered elsewhere like "How to Hunt a Submarine", "Durer as a Mathematician", "A Mathematical Approach to Ethics", "Geometry in the South Pacific", and "The Vice of Gambling and the Virtue of Insurance".

I have had great fun wandering through this four volume set from section to section, article to article. I assume that someday I will finally read the last article. I expect that I will simply begin again. It would be hard to say good-bye to Newman's collection.

Es una obra Exelente para entender las matematicas
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 1998-12-02
Al leer esta enciclopedia, aprendí que las matemáticas pueden ser fascinantes, y no muy difíciles de entender. Es muy agradable entender los razonamientos que impulsaron grandes descubrimientos, en estos Libros el autor nos explica claramente todos los pasos para ello. Nos muestra el trabajo de los mejores Matemáticos y las consecuencias de sus trabajos. Nos contagia el gusto por esta ciencia. En México se puede conseguir en la librería La aventura de Leer .

Jorge Gallegos

A backround into mathematics and the rise of mathematics
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 1998-09-13
this is a book that I recieved as a junior in High School. I am currently a senior and I still enjoy looking into this book for mathematical insight and history.

Learn From the Masters!
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2001-09-17
Carl Friedrich Gauss, a famous 18th century mathematician said "Learn from the Masters".

The World of mathematics gives us all this opportunity.

This monumental collection of articles from the Masters throws light on all aspects and areas of Mathematics and mathematical sciences.

Do you want to hear about Boolean algebra from Boole himself?
Do you Want to hear about Turing machines from Turing himself?
From Newton to Einstien, all the masters speak to you.

The collection is well organized into different areas of mathematics. Abstract algebra to Logic to Geometry and Physics
Thru a series of wonderful articles from the masters of the field spanning several hundred years, one can understand the Length and breadth and depth of the wonderful world of Mathematics.

You will slowley understand how mathematics is not just about numbers and counting and measurement. Will slowley begin to understand the unbelievable depth of abstractions it aims to capture. you will begin learning the structure and nature of mathematics..its approaches to modeling the intutive world and then..extend it! In a way you will learn what the mind is capable of and is ultimately trying to acheive!

A personal note: I started reading it during my undergraduate and after more than 10 years, still go back to it for more light. Thanks to Prof. Chandrasekar for recommending this to me.

Superb reference text for the general reader..
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2000-09-07
This four volume set is a gem. I bought this treasure back in 1973 but I still go back to it at least twice a week. The writing is uneven because of the different authors who have contributed articles. However, the substance of the book is top notch. Starting with the number system all the way to the differential calculus and parts of game theory, the book is a treasury of mathematical delights. Just pick a chapter, and you are sure to be sucked in. Another point I wish to make is the design and layout of the books. There are no slick, extra large, shiny page designs here. Just plain 6 by 8 size pages with appropriate black and white diagrams. This is when books used to be more like friends, often in one's company, and much perused. It is truly a shame that this series is out of print. If you happen to find it somewhere introduce yourself!!

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A Special Kind of Love: For Those Who Love Children With Special Needs
Published in Paperback by B&H Publishing Group (2004-01)
Authors: Susan Titus Osborn and Janet Lynn Mitchell
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Even for Professionals Who Work with Children
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Review Date: 2008-07-17
The Birth to Five Book: Confident Childrearing Right from the Start

I do not have a child with special challenges, but even still I learned some new things. I loved the quotes and photos throughout the book and the sensitive nature of the authors. If you live or work with children with special needs, get this book. You are not alone.
In my work as a speaker on family issues, I often have these courageous parents who want powerful resources to help them. A Special Kind of Love is one resource I can recommend.

Pretty good book
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Review Date: 2006-08-05
Being the mother of a special needs child, I constantly search out things that may help me cope or understand raising a child with disabilities a little bit better. This book was a reassurance to me in that I was able to see many situations that were similar to mine and the outcomes (good or bad) helped me realize that we will be able to handle whatever comes our way. Nice stories of many different families. Get a box of tissue when you read it.

Rare Gem for parents with Special Needs Child
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Review Date: 2006-05-30
This book is the first book I have that contains so many first hand experiences from parents/grandparents/friends of children with special needs. It sooths and encourages a broken heart when my day to day burden seems to be too much to bear. It speaks for me and say the things that I cannot express through my own words. It changes the way I look at my disabled child. This is the first book I come across that has poems for a special child. As the parents share, the hope is one day, when I meet my special child in heaven, everything will be alright. It's such a great book. It amazes me and my husband that the US has such a inclusive and open culture toward Special children. I'm planning to buy a few more copies of the book to share with other parents in Hongkong. We need more books like that. I really think this book is a gift from God to me when I need it most. It's a really encouraging book that every parent with a special needs child should read. It strengths and comforts. If anyone come across similar books, pls let me know
Esther Leung.

WOW A MUST FOR US
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2005-09-07
This is a wonderful book both for parents of special needs children and anyone who wants to convey to others what its like. This book helped me through a really tough time and validated many of the feelings I was Having

A Challenge to a Greater Love
Helpful Votes: 4 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2005-09-20
Honest. Moving. Poignant. Heart-wrenching. All these describe the stories contained in A Special Kind of Love by Susan Titus Osborn and Janet Lynn Mitchell. But nothing describes those stories more clearly than the word challenging.

From the agony of a mother sitting beside an incubator watching the life-and-death struggle of her tiny newborn, to the outrage of parents over the hurtful taunting of their "different" child by "normal" children, to the indescribable grief of a father watching his child's casket being lowered into the ground, these true-life stories will challenge readers to a greater depth of love. While offering practical helps as well as loving encouragement to those who are currently caring for special-needs children, the authors offer no pat answers, no tried-and-true formulas for success, no one-size-fits-all remedy for the pain and frustration that inevitably come with the job.

Why did God give me a handicapped child? Why did my baby die before I had a chance to hold him in my arms? Why doesn't God heal my child the way He has healed others? All of these are legitimate questions. But sometimes the only answer is that God knows why, and we don't ... and that's the way it is. Yet in the midst of the long and difficult struggle that comes with accepting that answer, there is great blessing.

These courageous caretakers and unconditional lovers of special children have chosen to come forward and bless others by sharing their own stories gained through trials and heartache, disappointments and loss. But they also share the blessings of triumphs and victory, achievements and success, as both they and their children learned, day by day, to live and rejoice in A Special Kind of Love.

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Stand Your Ground: Building Honorable Leaders the West Point Way
Published in Hardcover by Praeger Publishers (2006-08-30)
Author: Evan H. Offstein
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Very Interesting!
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Review Date: 2008-03-17
I read this book for an MBA class I'm taking and I was pleasantly surprised! Usually when students have to read textbooks for a class, they are boring and rarely keep your attention. This was not the case with Stand Your Ground: Building Honorable Leaders the West Point Way. My fiance used to be in the army, so I've heard a lot about the honor that is instilled in its members. However, I never fully understood that honor until I read this book. Much of the information is common sense, but you would be surprised how many people are not honorble. Dr. Offstein breaks honor down in such a way that you fully understand it and want to apply it in your own life. I would recommend this book to people who are interested in becoming a productive, successful, and most importantly, honorable leader.

The real meaning of leadership
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Review Date: 2007-08-26
Offstein's book is incredible. It really doesn't matter what you do for a living, leadership will always be critical in your life. Stand Your Ground is about understanding HONORABLE leadership. Offstein uses the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the honorable leadership that is honed there as the blueprint for leadership and success. Like a book fables, there are hundreds of snippets from personal experience and well-known events to illustrate the importance of honor in leadership. If you want to one day be an effective leader in your own life, who is respected and admired, you have to read this book.

Highlights the value of military trained leaders
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Review Date: 2007-08-13
We highly recommend Evan's book. As the largest contingency placement firm that specializes in placing military job seekers into Corporate America, we know that companies recognize the advantages of the leadership lessons imparted at the service academies and via the military at large. The quality of this training, coupled with the high caliber of the individual, is what makes these military leaders so valuable, whether they are serving our country, or whether they are making important contributions in the private sector after their service.

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Offstein Just Nails It
Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2006-12-28
Quite simply, Evan Offstein just nails his thesis: truly successful individuals, leaders, and their organizations are based on a deep reservoir of moral/ethical grounding that help them to make the right decisions every single day. His numerous, down-to-earth examples hammer it home from multiple angles, and you can't help but be convinced that he's on to something here. Dr. Offstein has a gift for writing prose that is personable and easy to read. It's as if he's talking straight to you through the pages of his book much the same way he might deliver a lecture at his university.

Perhaps my favorite lesson from his book is the chapter on lifelong preparations for a MOMENT (heck, multiple MOMENTS). It reminds me of what one Army General said one time: "Your integrity will be challenged in small ways every day." it has proven absolutely true over the years, and the daily struggle continues to make sure we do the right thing by our coworkers, our kids, our wives, our friends, etc. Those who can make the RIGHT ethical choices on a day-to-day basis will be slowly building the bedrock of their organizations to guard against the Enrons, Tycos, NCAA scandals, etc. of the world.

Most of the so-called "leadership" or "management" books you'll find wasting shelf-space at Barnes & Nobles or Book-a-Million wish they could lash onto some of the truths that Dr. Offstein lays out in his concise book. Highly recommended!

Finally--a leadership book that explains how to BE a good leader!
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2006-09-11
I first approached this book with a bit of skepticism, as I thought its focus would be upon the "grandiose" merits of the West Point experience (which I shared elbow-to-elbow with the author, my classmate). I was greatly relieved to discover that this work is actually a testimonial to the necessity to BE a good person and leader, so important (and foreign) in a day and age where corrupt individuals realize incredible personal gains while simply paying lip service to such lofty ideals as honor. This book explains both the origin of corporate corruption and the way a leader SHOULD behave to ensure that this phenomenon does not continue to grow in scope.

I was happy to see that Dr. Evan Offstein was able to distance himself from our shared Cadet experiences and approach the book in an organized, thoughtful, and systematic fashion. He explains that good leadership begins with an honorable character and THEN extends into the leader's expertise and skill sets. I always struggled to quantify the almost intangible quality which caused me and my West Point classmates to react in horrified disbelief when we encountered corrupt individuals with an almost limitless propensity to harm and defraud employees and stakeholders. Evan has finally defined this lineament: honor, and the overwhelming need for an individual to BE a good person, rather than simply KNOW the "acceptable" or "expert" manner in which to proceed and to "DO" only what needs to be done to temporarily satisfy personal and shareholder demands.

The book is straightforward, easy to read, and informative without possessing an air of pretense or superior knowledge. I am firmly convinced that if leaders the world over would read this tome and apply its principles, corporate scandal would disappear, replaced by increased levels of profit, worker motivation, and customer/shareholder satisfaction. PLEASE READ THIS BOOK!!!!!

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Starlight Nights: The Adventures of a Star-Gazer
Published in Paperback by Sky Publishing (2007-05-01)
Author: Leslie C. Peltier
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A wonderful tale of amatuer astronomy
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-03-30
This book is a straightforward telling of Leslie Peltier life as an amateur astronomer. Although it is a simple story without much drama it draws you into his world and never gets boring.

The dark night sky is a free resource we need to preserve. Our ancestors gazed up on the same stars we see today. When you go out at night you can be the latest in a long line of humans who have looked up to the heavens and wondered about their place in the universe.

If this book doesn't inspire you get out and observe, nothing will.

Fascinating, Inspiring and Delightfully Written
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2006-05-25
This is a really neat book! I love the way that Leslie Peltier wrote - such an honest, everyman's perspective. It draws the reader in and fascinates anyone; whether interested in astronomy as a passion or just in passing. A great, quick read. Wonderful rainy day (or cloudy night!) book and a nice one to take to the beach this summer, too.

The foreward by Eugene Shoemaker is great. It is only in the newly printed version, of course - not in the original. :-)

As an amateur astronomer - a lunar observer in particular - I can heartily suggest this as not only a fun and interesting book to read but one where you learn of life in the past in the United States - a slower time but a time of great discovery and accomplishments, too.

A message from another world.
Helpful Votes: 10 out of 10 total.
Review Date: 2002-02-17
This is a jem. The author would likely fail to recognize the world of 2002, and would certainly be horrified to awake in it.
He lived, really lived, in an earlier era when discovery of a new comet by an amateur simply looking through a telescope, without the CCDs and other fancy technology, was celebrated, and civilization grew at a pleasant pace in the midwest where he lived, away from the hustle, rush hours, and UN crisis. His humility in accepting the gifts of slowly increasing aperture telescopes and the way in which alone, he found good ways to use them to their best are balm to the soul.
Get a copy of this little book, turn off the TV and computer and regress to Peltier's world of worthwhile ways of spending your time while seeing the universe. Fortunately, you don't really have to wait weeks to get a copy if you'll dial up Sky and Telescope.

A trip back in time...
Helpful Votes: 10 out of 10 total.
Review Date: 2001-01-23
Remember those movies where an old man tells his story in the form of a flashback? The kind that makes you wish you could go back in time to hang out with them, experience their life? Starlight Nights is one of those stories.
Leslie Peltier's book is full of warmth and humor. He takes us back to a 1905 farm and describes what it was like to grow up without electricity, television. The beginning of his story predates the spread of the automobile. We watch as he buys a small telescope, and without the benefit of a college education, becomes the friend and colleague of the eminent astronomers of his day. We experience the thrill of finding comets and novae, and at the same time, the quiet joy of country life a century ago.
The book is wonderfully illustrated by Mr. Peltier himself, and the introduction includes family photographs.
Absolutely recommended for everyone, not just stargazers.

Captures the Essence of Amateur Astronomy
Helpful Votes: 6 out of 6 total.
Review Date: 2005-01-27
Starlight Nights: The Adventures of a Stargazer by Leslie Peltier is a wonderful book, which embodies the heart and soul of stargazing. It was out of print for many years, but has been republished by Sky Publishing, and is available through Amazon and through the Sky & Telescope Store online. I obtained a copy last year and read it. Once started, I couldn't put it down.

Peltier begins when, as a child of five, he first saw the Pleiades. As a young teenager he saved up his money and bought his first scope, made his own observing pier in the pasture, and hung out every night learning the night sky. The book covers about 60 years in Peltier's life, including his stargazing honeymoon out west. He observed every night he could, undeterred by cows in the field or snow on the ground.

He became an avid variable-star observer and a comet hunter. He tells the story of bicycling into town on a dark November night in 1925 to telegraph his first comet discovery to Harvard College Observatory. One of his early telescopes, a six-inch refractor, had a wooden (mahogany) tube. When he found each comet he neatly carved the date in the tube of the telescope.

Over the years he built his own observatories, and obtained castoff FAMOUS telescopes (a twelve-inch refractor made by Alvan Clark), when Miami University of Ohio, 125 miles from his home, wanted to upgrade theirs. He became famous among astronomers, but always lived a simple life, shunning publicity, and not straying far from the family homestead in Delphos, Ohio. Leslie Peltier was a gentle soul, self-effacing and honest, and "real". He writes as if he were talking to a friend, telling a favorite story.

This book captures the romance of amateur astronomy. Peltier embodied the "heart and soul" of a stargazer. As David Levy says in his foreword, this book explains the "why" of astronomy, and not just the "how".

It's a book every stargazer should read.

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Statistical Digital Signal Processing and Modeling
Published in Hardcover by Wiley (1996-03)
Author: Monson H. Hayes
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Very good book
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Review Date: 2008-11-01
Very clear in concept and derivation. The excises following each chapter are also very helpful.

Excellent book
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Review Date: 2008-05-25
I took adaptive signal processing at Georgia Tech with Dr. Hayers. This book was used as reference for the class. I really enjoyed reading it. It is concise, to the point, with lots of example and matlab source code which acctually worked. I had learned a lot. More importantly I was able to put into practise during my 9 years industry experience after graduation. Good reference book, I recommend to everyone who is serious about this topic.

This is an excellent book for advanced DSP topics
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Review Date: 2006-06-11
This book has great material on least squares filtering and spectral estimation techniques. And with Hayes providing the Matlab code to implement the formulas, it is a great help to the student in being able to run the code and see what the outputs should look like. The book reads well and is very easy to use. But it is not a substitute for an intro DSP book like Oppenheim/Schafer or Proakis.

Update - I have changed my score from 4 to 5. The longer I have been working to more I find I use this book and the examples in it to do things. I think this is a really useful book for a practicing engineer.

Clear, concise, and clean
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Review Date: 2005-05-28
This book very clearly explains advanced topics in DSP. The notation is consistent and very clean, as well as the book layout and the writing. The examples are useful and the review section is very helpful. This is how a technical book should be written.

awesome book
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2003-10-18
Clear examples, clean derivations, and easy to understand style has Monson Hayes' his signature written all over it. I have his schaum's outline on DSP, and its just as good. I haven't finish perusing this book; i am currently on signal modeling (ch.3, i think) where pade, shank and other methods are derived, and i've already found plenty of application to work on.

homework problems include both mathematical and computer (matlab) exercises that help cement understanding the material at the end of each chapter.

applicable, yet theoretically appealing, this book is best for those who has had an introductory DSP course, although it is very much self-contained - the author starts with a comprehensive review of linear algebra and random processes - it will serve the serious student with an interest on statistical description of signals and system very well.

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Swindled!: The 1906 Journal of Fitz Morgan (Crime Through Time (Sagebrush))
Published in Library Binding by Tandem Library (2006-03)
Author: Bill H. Doyle
List price: $14.65

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Swindled got me
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2006-11-24
This book is so clever and fun and surprising, I read it twice--and the second time, I read it aloud to my nephew, who was riveted. He loved the illustrations and all the "real life" stuff that helps you solve the mystery--the postcards, the ad about the secret service hiring. And he LOVED the sidebar about how to compare fingerprints; he's fingerprinted half of Los Angeles by now...and, of course, he's waiting for me to visit again so we can read the next book in the series together. Any book that gets a kid to do THAT deserves a medal!

History and Mystery - the ultimate combination!!
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2006-05-15
Wow!! What a great series. As a homeschooling mom, I could not be more happy with this series of books. My 10 year old is enthralled - I even loved the book when I pre-read it! The mystery is detailed just enough to capture and hold the young reader's attention. The historical facts are delivered in a manner that entertains without lecturing. Keep it up Bill Doyle!

THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-05-15
I started the book and didn't put it down until I was done. I really loved it!!! I want Mom to get me number 3, 4 & 5 .... I can't wait until they are out!

Nabbed
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-05-10
I loved this book! I finished it (with the help of my dad) over the course of three nights and tried to guess all of the mysteries. I can't wait to see what characters are in the next book. What happens to Asyla???

Another Hot Bill Doyle Book!
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-05-10
My students are waiting in line to read this book! Its illustrations support and add interest to the historical elements of the story. Light humor, appealing characterizations, and intrique accessible to 5th graders make it a must read.

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Teaching Special Students in General Education Classrooms (5th Edition)
Published in Paperback by Prentice Hall (1998-08-13)
Authors: Rena B. Lewis and Donald H. Doorlag
List price: $64.00
New price: $3.19
Used price: $0.01

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Teaching Special Students in the General Education Classes
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-08-13
The book is pretty detailed and talks about many different laws that back up special students in education. It also talks about all the different types of special students that one ca n have in the general education classrooms. Overall I recommend this book if you have little or no knowledge of what is classified under Special students and how to go about helping them in their Education.

Excellent Service!
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2007-09-24
The book I received was brand new at an excellent price and the delivery was surprisingly speedy! I would definitely recommend this seller!

Exceptional Service !
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2007-08-07
The book arrived quickly and in perfect condition. I consider this book to be a good resource for new teachers.
I have no complaints.

Great but Incomplete
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2007-03-22
I've been a faithful user of the Lewis & Doorlag book since its first edition. Each subsequent revision has added substance and useful information that makes buying it worthwhile. Of all the introductory texts on special education, this one is the most concise, reader-friendly, practical and up-to-date. It has invaluable teaching strategies and resources to inform the practice of special educators and diagnosticians. The only downside that is consistent across all editions is the unevenness of its content. In virtually every chapter about a given exceptionality, say mental retardation, more emphasis is placed on nature of the disability and teaching strategies than on its causes. Therefore, when using this book as a teaching tool in college, it has to be supplemented with other resources that do more justice to the etiology of each special need.

Informative and Easy-to-Read
Helpful Votes: 6 out of 6 total.
Review Date: 2006-05-03
I am a contract instructor who uses this book for an undergraduate level "Exceptional Children in the Classroom" class. I chose this text because it is practical and not as dry as Heward, another widely respected author of special education texts. Many strategies are provided for meeting the needs of students with disabilities as well as gifted students, those who are at risk, and those who are linguistically and culturally diverse.

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Textbook of Small Animal Surgery
Published in Hardcover by W.B. Saunders Company (2003-01)
Author:
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scientific book
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-15
it would be the perfect book if there were more photos of the surgical procedures...and if it was in color!but still,it remains one of the best surgery books if you want to read about a case from the pathofysiology site to operation!

very expensive
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 1999-03-04
god book, but....

very expensive
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 1999-03-04
god book, but....

Slatter best surgery book
Helpful Votes: 14 out of 14 total.
Review Date: 2000-05-18
This is definately the best small animal surgery book on the market. I have used it as a new grad and even now as a more "experienced" practicioner. Very good for soft tissue and orthopedic topics, with concise but thorough explanations of how/which surgical option is best for each type of condition (fracture type, etc) I'm buying a set as a gift for a new grad!

excellent book...
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2005-10-12
This is the most comprehensive surgery book I have ever seen...I have received this book today and I think everyone who wants to become a good veterinarian especially surgeon must buy this book. Useful very useful...Explanations are good and enough...Thanks Slatter...Arzu Temizyürek


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