Bell Books

The Gray Matter: The Forgotten Story Of The Telephone by Burton H. Baker is the fascinating history of two American inventors, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray, two men who, independently of one another strove to come up with the means to improve upon the telegraph. Yet only one man could utilize their researches and discoveries to earn the coveted and incredibly profitable telephone patent involved with the creation of a newly emerging communications industry. Comprising the absorbing and little-known 1876 American saga of a remarkable invention which became a technological staple of modern life, The Gray Matter is a true and very highly recommended history of judicial inquiries, conflicts, congressional investigation, and perhaps some ethically questionable dealing.

I'm SOOOO glad this character, Kit Shannon, is back for more books. My only complaint is these books don't come out fast enough!

In this one, Kit is faced with another murder trial, and this time gets help from none other than the young magician, Harry Houdini.

It is another wonderful story about the friskiest woman lawyer in the country, Kit Shannon.

While I am not sure that I agree with all of Bell's predictions, this is an intriguing and very useful book. For one thing, it helps in understanding the interface between many aspects of the financial world on the one hand, and global warming on the other. I live in California and recently Allstate announced that it will no longer write coverage for new homes. Why? Well, it's somewhat buried in their explanation but because of The Green Bubble, it leapt out at me: Allstate believes there will be more wildfires and floods because of global climate change. In addition to helping you see what's going on, Bell also supplies some canny guidelines for readers seeking to invest in new clean energy technolies. The book is a bit dense at points, but well worth the effort.

this is a must have is all that can explain it

This is an essential book for those people engaged in the Civil engineering industry. Unfortunately is is around 500 pages and rather pricey.

I used this book as a 2nd year grad student with a little more than a year of graduate algebra. It worked very well as tool to solidifying my knowledge of group theory. i think it would also work as a great book to read while taking a first year algebra course. The idea of the book is to teach theory grounded in examples. In particular, Alperin uses the matrix groups as the main example for the entire book. The writing is very user friendly and the proofs are adequate. It covers basic group theory concepts, local structure (p-groups, Sylow, solvability), Parabolic Subgroups of Gl(n,F) and at the end goes into modules and representation theory.

Although it is writen some time ago (1886) it is available (thanks to the ministry of Dr. Donald Waite and Bible For Today) and an 'easier' read in comparison to Burgon's works. I am not shifting the blame: I am at fault for not being able to 'read Burgon' but at least Edward's level of writing is on a shelf where I can reach (hopefully the cookie jar is there too).

"THE ensuing treatise is intended to be a brief Manual on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament for ordinary students of the Bible, and induce those who may be disposed to enter more deeply into the important subject of it to prosecute further research in "The Plain Introduction" of Dr. Scrivener, the learned works of Dean Burgon, and in other well-known sources of information upon Textual Criticism." (Preface by Miller)

Chapter 1 Intro. Importance of the Subject - a short chapter laying the foundation of the seven verses in question: Luke 11:2-4; 22:19-20, 43-44; 23:34; 24:15; Matt. 6:13; among many others 'by addition of other omissions.'

Chapter 2 - History of Textual Criticism - great insights in the early stages of text crit.

Chapter 3 - " "- enter the chop shop (mine): Greisbach,Lachmann, Tregelles, Tishendorf, Wescott, and Hort. Also Miller introduces the opposition to the modernist Revision Committe: Scrivener, Burgon, Cook among many others.

Chapter 4 - School of Extreme Textualism - an asessment and refutation of Wescott and Horts theories.

Chapter 5 - The Rival School - highlighting Burgon and companies expertise on the issue. (relatively short chapter - but thoughtful and carefully worded).

Chapter 6 - History of the Traditional text till the era of Chrysostom - an amazing chapter that answers a lot of question: particularly who were the gnostics in Alexandria that corrupted the MSS (manuscripts).

Chapter 7 - From Chrysostom till the Printing Era (title mine - his was too long) - Covering the supremacy of the Traditional Text.

Chapter 8 - Materials of Criticism - exploring the actual documents.

Chapter 9 - Principles of Criticism - basically if any one does their homework they would not chuck the verses out that was thrown out by the modernists.

Like every good book there is an appendix and index to this one also.

This is a beautiful book. I love looking through it, the art is fantastic and there's so much inspiration to draw from. I really recommend this book, you will not regret buying it. It is especially good for those interested in illustration/graphic design but I think anyone with an interest in art will enjoy it. Well worth the $$ spent!

I participated in a beta test of the photometry software program and proof-read a draft of this excellent book. The book alone is worth the price, but the amazing value is the powerful software package included, AIP4WIN. It does so many image processing tasks- photometry, astrometry, spectroscopy, color pictures, image sharpening - with several deconvolution routines. This is much more than a toy (but you certainly can have fun with it) as it supports routine image processing of hundreds of images per night. The software alone is worth several times the price of the book. Anyone interested in putting a CCD camera to serious work - or serious fun - will certainly get their money's worth with this package! Berry and Burnell have a really excellent effort here.

Handheld computers can increase student learning and collaboration and can be easily integrated into a library or curriculum setting to reduce budgets and increase literacy skills - and this resource, Handheld Computers in Schools and Media Centers, is the perfect way of making the introduction work smoothly. Educators learn how to teach students to use handheld computers in conjunction with studies, with chapters discussing hardware, plug-in options, and more.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch