Utah Books

I thought this was one of the better written books on the early history of Latter Days Saints - otherwise known as the Mormons. The book traces the Church's history from the beginning and how they interacted with other sectors of American society as they grew and expanded. The author's premise was that the LDS was part of the America's growing pain during this period (1830-1846). The author maintained that Mormons remains true to the concepts of the Republic even although they were leaning toward theocracy. The book was well written, appears to be well researched and the author maintained an even approach while exploring his premise. Its a good book, quite insightful and should be read by anyone interested in Mormon history.

Although a somewhat mundane journal, Stansbury nevertheless accomplished the tedious task of surveying the entire Great Salt Lake and surrounding area, along with proposing new routes for future wagons and the railroad to California, Oregon and Utah in the years 1849-1850.
While his account is not exactly edge of your seat reading material, it does depict life along the trail accurately. If one has an interest in geology and geography, this journal may be even more engaging as he meticulously describes these subjects throughout his report.
The journal describes many important historical first-hand experiences of the times such as the meeting of numerous returning emigrants, the cholera epidemic, abandoned wagons, dead oxen and a plethora of belongings simply dumped along the way, the many graves along the trail and overall activity along the Emigrant Trail.
His report and conscience on Brigham Young and the Mormons is praiseworthy and commendable as he received much needed assistance from them while pursuing his surveying responsibilities.
Overall a worthy journal with many pages of beautiful drawings. Maps would have been very helpful.

"The Green Book" - a great little book with 16 backcountry canyoneering and hiking routes in Zion. It's a little dated now, but still has great charm. A good source for the non-technical and semi-technical classics (Narrows, Orderville, Subway). Until recently, the only published backcountry guide to Zion, it still holds it own against the commercial interlopers.

This is a well researched and informative work. However, Bigler's thesis and conclusions are somewhat tenuous and not always fully supported by the facts. Bigler's premise that the Mormon "theocracy" was bound to have a run in with the United States sooner or later is probably accurate. However, he reaches beyond the mark in asserting that Brigham Young and his cohorts actively brought about the Utah War in 1857 through their attempts to immediately establish an independent kingdom seperate from the United States. In addition, his conclusion that the Bannock raid on Fort Limhi in February 1858 marked a quantum shift in Young's Utah War policy may also be stretching the facts somewhat, although the occurance no coubt limited Mormon options for a retreat northward. In short, this is a wonderful source for facts about a little known occurence in Mormon history which no doubt played an important part in the Utah War...but take Bigler's premises with caution.

"Genealogy is a technical discipline requiring training in methods of research and analysis. This training can be obtained, however, without formal classroom instruction through the appllication of proven research techniques. The JURISDICTIONAL APPROACH has been developed to provide a do-it-yourself manual of such procedures. Each step of the genealogical research process is described in detail; each step in the order in which it should be taken.
Even the beginner can discover his ancestry with a minimum of expenditure of time and resources by following these step-by-step, common sense methods. The only IF between the researcher and guaranteed success is the survival of relevant research sources- an if over which no one has positive control."

This book has four articles on mathematics in quantum field theory. Some of it is well known and "classical", particularly the article by Bryant on symplectic geometry (however, Bryan does discuss the modern modern developments by Gromov in the last section). The article by Rabin attempts to do the impossible: try to teach mathematicians the physics behind quantum field theory via path integrals. The article by Alvarez on index theorems summarizes nicely the connections between supersymmetry and index theory. The last article by Quinn on topological field theory is written for the mathematician in mind. It is fascinating mathematics and gives the reader the impression that research in topological field theory will no doubt continue to grow in importance. Several advances have taken place since the book was published (1995), so peruse the literature before buying it.

This book is a great guide for people who are going to make a trip to Utah to do family research. The perfect Tool for genealogoligists.

When I studied in University, I have a chance to use this book to finish term project. Later, I find I can not leave this book. This book is not suitable for the design. But it gives a lot of information for you to understand the design mannual.

This book was a great help at finding the well-known arches at Arches National Park, and it was also extremely helpful in identifying them later in the pictures I took. The only thing I wish was that the book was in color. Oh what a wonderful book it would be then! Even in black and white, however, it's certainly worth the money.

I found this book very useful when selecting trees for landscaping. The sketches were useful in identification.