Q Books

I think all the books I ordered were very good and informative.

informative book for anyone diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, no matter the stage, and/or concerned family, friends, etc. despite a bleak outcome in my family situation, this book will be helpful to all of us, strongly recommend!

This book is the best thing that ever happened to me! After I divorced my husband, it was a great help to me in making sure I didn't make the same mistake again. This humorous coffee-table book is a great conversation piece as well as a relationship tool.

Rarely is an instructional or self-help type book so uniquely charming. It is a great tool for those considering marriage, and I will definately also be giving this book, as well as its counterpart, "367 Things I'm Going to Know About the Next Woman I Marry", to my sons, as well as several other starry-eyed teenagers that are of dating age. I feel it will give them something concrete to think about as they explore their feelings and get to know others. Also, the book was great reading for my husband and me. Hey!!! It's the perfect sensitivity training for partners! It opens up the lines of communication with a lot of laughs along the way. I highly recommend both of these books.

It's so very true, with tips such as when and when not to make eye contact, being cute, telephone manners, and my personal favorite, escaping from collars. I swear my cat found my copy and read it... she does everything by the book!

This book is written by cats, and does a great job of explaining the cat's brain and behavior to mere humans. Read it, share it with friends and new cat owners. DO NOT ALLOW ANY CAT TO SEE THIS BOOK!! Any cat who doesn't know these secrets shouldn't learn them from us. 50 Secrets of Highly Successful Cats is hilarious and right on the mark. After reading it myself, I read it aloud to friends. It is a must for new cat owners, who will need a good laugh while they are getting acquainted with their cat.

This is a great songbook who anyone who loves Avenue Q, or any modern musical. My best friend and I spend hours playing the songs and singing along!

It was a great buy!

The arrangements here are great: They're in keys that are easy to play, yet aren't overly simplified. This is Vocal Selections only; it doesn't include "If You Were Gay," "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" (a real shame), "Mix Tape," "You Can Be as Loud As You Want," "There Is Life Outside Your Apartment," "Schadenfreude" (another shame), "The Money Song" or "School for Monsters."

This book has a weath of information in it that will help us struggling to get out of debt and save money. I have learned a lot and I am now inplementing all of this wealth of info. Thanks so much for your help!

I highly recommend this book to anyone. Especially people who feel they don't make enough money to live their dreams. This book shows you how it's not how much you make, but what you do with what you have. It is simplistic in its style which makes it perfect for one not knowing how to handle money. Giving you basic everyday principles to apply and think about. With great examples of how we take our money for granted and use it poorly and how not to. Covering setting goals, budgeting, purchasing cars, real estate, insurance, investment, traveling and more.

Clear and Precise and at time humorous. Interesting to read "How they do it"

And you can get it for list within a day from the loompanics page or 8003802230. A classic in the private investigation genre. Some of the loop holes he mentions would be worth more than the price of the book alone--for protecting your own privacy as well as for ferreting out the secrets of someone else. John Q wrote this right before the turn of the century, but the gumshoe methods he espouses are sound and true even today. This author has a good understanding of the ways to obtain information and is good at getting the information across.

This book came in very handy ,it not only addressed my issues with dentures but gave suggestions on possible problems in the future.

I found this book to be informative and funny. It not only
resolved some of my problems but also suggested some helpful hints in dealing with my dentures. Since the author was not a dentist but an average denture wearer it was written in everyday language. This book was an enjoyable and quick read. I definitely recommend this book......

This book came in very handy ,it not only addressed my issues with dentures but gave suggestions on possible problems in the future.

I found this book to be informative and funny. It not only
resolved some of my problems but also suggested some helpful hints in dealing with my dentures. Since the author was not a dentist but an average denture wearer it was written in everyday language. This book was an enjoyable and quick read. I definitely recommend this book......

Friel on the page is almost as vivid as he is on stage.

Really, to call Friel an Irish playwright is to pigeon hole him unfairly. This group of plays by Brian Friel attests to his extraordinary talent as a modern playwright, period. He dramatizes the human journey using equal doses of humor, pathos and tragedy. These remarkable, fully-dimensional characters leap of the page, or, if you're very lucky, the stage. No avid theater fan should be without these works of art. Order this collection immediately.

The Case Against Q: Studies In Markan Priority And Synoptic Problem By Mark Goodacre (Lecturer in New Testament, Department of Theology, University of Birmingham, England) is a crucial and scholarly study of the relationship between the Biblical figures of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. The "Q" hypothesis claims that Matthew and Luke referred to another source as well as Mark. That source, now lost, is called "Q." The Case Against Q is a meticulously researched, well-reasoned, carefully documented, cautious analysis and criticism of the Q hypothesis. A fascinating in-depth look at Synoptic relationships, The Case Against Q is a seminal and highly recommended addition to Biblical studies reading lists and reference collections.

Ch1 The psychological reasons Q is taken for granted. Q literature is written in the language of "discovery" as if an archaeological find rather than a hypothesis. The literature goes from calling it a "source" to calling it a "gospel document." Many scholars either ignore or are unaware of rival hypotheses. Although Q is taken for granted, people can't agree on a reconstruction of it.

Ch2 Arguments for the priority of Mark. His strongest argument is the argument from fatigue. Where Matthew or Luke alter Mark, they sometimes fail to incorporate the change throughout the passage being redacted leaving it incoherent.

Ch3 Answers some arguments for Luke's independence from Matt. According to Burton Mack, Matt was written in the late 80's and Luke around 120, yet Luke had a copy of Q, but not Matt. Goodacre argues that if Luke was written that late, he would be more likely to have a copy of Matt than Q because Q was waning in popularity and Matt was gaining in popularity. Fitzmyer argued that Luke is ignorant of Matt's additions to Mark, but Goodacre shows that Luke agrees with Matt's additions to Mark.

Ch4 Explains why Luke follows Mark's order, but not Matt's. If Luke follows Mark's order but not Matt's, so the argument goes, because he's following Q, and not Matt. Goodacre thinks the claim is overstated because Luke somtimes DOES diverge from Mark's order. Since Matt was written later than Mark, Luke was likely more familiar with Mark. Mark became his primary source and Matt was suplementary. Goodacres shows that Luke breaks up long discourse in Mark 4 which makes it understandable that he would break up Matt's sermon on the mount. Sermon on the mount is very Mathean, so it's reasonable to think Luke would alter it.

Ch5 How narrative criticism could shed light on redaction criticism. Fitzmyer said, "Why would so literary an artist as Luke want to destroy the Matthean masterpiece of the Sermon on the Mount?" Goodacre replies, "It is the thesis of this chapter that it is precisely because Luke is 'so literary an artist' that he would have wanted creatively to rework the Sermon on the Mount." He points out that Luke's purpose was to write an orderly account, so Luke was able to take from Matt's long discourses and weave them into a more plausible historical biography.

Ch6 How Jesus films can shed light on the synoptic problem--analogy of film makers working with their sources. JESUS OF NAZARETH has no Sermon the Mount, but distibutes the material. Film makers abreviate, omit, relocate, and redistrubute to add dramatic effect and biographical plausibility, especially with the Sermon on the Mount, yet they know Matt and aren't cranks for changing it. On the other hand, some of these reworkings were probably inspired by Luke's reworking. But that shows Matt's sermon is not superior to Luke since film makers choose Luke over Matt. Goodacre refutes the argument that Luke wouldn't have altered Matt's masterpeice unless he was a crank because Matt's version is superior to Luke's.

Ch7 Discusses the beatitude, blessed are the poor (in spirit). Matt has "in spirit" but not Luke or Thomas, so it is argued that the version without "in spirit" is more primitive, and therefore reflects Q, explaining why Luke doesn't use Matt's "in spirit." Goodacre explains why Luke would change Matt's version by pointing out that 1) Luke is concerned with the poor, 2) reversals in Luke (blessings and woes) would not work with "in the spirit," for it would have to be contrasted with "woe to the rich in flesh" or "woe to the rich in spirit" which doesn't make sense, and 3) beatitude was addressed to disciples who had left worldly posessions to follow Jesus and were actually poor. Goodacre also says that Luke and Thomas probably agree because Thomas relied on Luke. To explain why, in the beatitudes, Thomas changed "kingdom of God" to "kingdom of heaven" while Luke has "kingdom of heaven" and Matt has "kingdom of God," Goodacre points out that nowhere in Thomas do you find "kingdom of heaven."

Ch8 Argues that Luke used Matt, which is evident in the minor agreements between Luke and Matt against Mark in triple tradition. Against the argument that the minor agreements are too minor to prove anything, Goodacre points out that there's a sliding scale from minor agreements to major agreements (called Mark-Q overlap by Q theorists) to double traditions, and these categories are artificial.

Ch9 Discusses the relevence of Thomas on the synoptic problem, since Thomas seems to give precedence to the genre of "sayings gospel." He argues that they really aren't the same genre since Q has a narrative sequence containing chronology and biography not found in Thomas, especially in the first 1/3 of Q. He explains the other 2/3 and how it is explicable on the assumption that Luke used Matt.

Goodacre is an outstanding teacher. He took a tedius subject and explained it in a way that was easy to follow. His arguments are sharp and well-articulated. He uses footnotes instead of endnotes so you don't have to flip back and forth to read them. The only bad things I have to say about the book is that the vast majority of it answers objections to Luke's use of Matthew, and only a small percentage of the book makes the case that Luke used Matt. He does a great job of tearing down one point of view, but doesn't do much in the way of building up his own case. Ch8 seemed to be the only chapter that really argued positively for his case, and I think more should've been said about the major and minor agreements between Matt and Luke against Mark. The book is way over-priced. There are 17 pages of bibliography, but there are only 189 pages of text.

We had the pleasure of meeting Ms Wall at our school when she came to do a reading of her book for us. It was a great tale with acurate historical events and places in NH. And the story was told in a way that the children actually got to "feel" what it was like to live in Matty's day and time, as well as the pressure of her circumstances of racial issues for that time.
I would Highly reccommend this book for older kids, as a great way to open up conversations about different things.

Ms. Wall does a beautiful job of sharing a piece of our American history in a way that draws you in and makes you feel like you are a part of it all.
I found this to be a wonderful story and a gentler way of introducing my daughter to the horrible subject of slavery. Somehow she makes it easier for a child to understand and yet does not sugar coat the facts.
This book has earned a place on my shelf with other classics like Catcher in the Rye and Tom Sawyer. Thank you Ms. Wall for this wonderful book. We look forward to the next one.