Bernard Books

This is the latest serious biography on Bernard Maybeck, and by far the best collection of photographs of his work to date (2008). A nice balance of archival material on Maybeck, including his drawings, and contemporary photos of his surviving buildings. Some photos accentuate golden hues that are not true to the real-life interiors, but this is a minor drawback in what is a very good picture of who Maybeck was and what he built. - William Marquand

A great overview of Maybeck's work. As a decorative concrete contractor, I was really looking for good photography of his work for inspirational purposes. I am definitely not disappointed.

I have not even looked at this book. It left my house in its wrapper.

My review is based on the reaction of my mother. Her father built houses in the bay area and did a few designed by Maybeck.

The joy in her voice as she describes the work he did and the pictures of the houses that she remembers from her childhood was worth every penny. The next time I visit her I expect to see a lot of this book as she seems to be really enjoying the nostalgic trip it has provided.

Far from being another commentary that interprets the Book of The Apocalypse as a literal text, Father Kramer demonstrates that he has found the symbolic key to understanding the mysteries of the holy scripture. He even predicted the threat of Islam as far back as the 1940s and shows how it is symbolized in St. John's Vision. I have studied the Book of Apocalypse since I was fifteen and have nevber come across a commentary as complete as this. Get this book.

THE BOOK OF DESTINY. Fr. H.B. Kramer spent over 30 years compiling this fantastic and frightening interpretation of the Apocalypse, which he took from the writings of The Fathers of The Church. Read how Red Communism is the scourge of God on sinful nations; who was given the "keys" of Hell, who the sun, the moon and the stars are. Weep at the apostasy of Rome when she overthrows the Vatican-Papacy. Read of her awesome fate for becoming the "Great Harlot" Understand why one-third of the human race will die in the Third World War. Do the Fathers say what the mark of the Beast will be? What does the number 666 mean? When do Enoch and Elias enter the drama? WHEN - WHY do we lose the Sacrifice of the Mass? For priests and laity alike. A great spiritual gift for all. 520pp. PB. Imprimatur.

Have you ever read the last book of the Bible (known Traditionally as the Book of the Apocalypse) and wondered what all the symbolism means? Well, you need not wonder any longer as Rev. Fr. Kramer has unlocked many of the mysteries surrounding the symbolism through his extensive amount of studies.

It becomes frighteningly clear that we are living under these signs and that the Catholic Church holds the key to what lies ahead for the world. Don't waste another minute trying to figure out what the Four Horses, the Seven Trumpets, etc. mean. Fr. Kramer has done all the work for us already.

Jami's book was published AFTER I needed it. I read it a few years after my breast cancer diagnosis. It would have been very helpful to me in the months right after diagnosis, that are so terrifying. It is a lifesaving, life-enhancing read.

Jami Bernard provides the reader with humor and personal experience throughout her cancer treatment journey in this book. As a recently diagnosed patient, I wanted to learn more about my new unchosen journey. Jami detailed what to expect during every step of the treatment process and provided helpful hints for dealing with not only the physical but the mental side effects from the initial diagnosis to surgery to treatment. I have read many books since my diagnosis and found this book to be the most helpful and insightful. Thank you Jami!

The author manages to provide valuable information, but with some great entertainment. It's hard to imagine that a book on this topic could be funny, but her outstanding wit had me laughing out loud. When you're diagnosed with breast cancer, you find yourself bombarded with information from all sources and it can get overwhelming, and sometimes depressing. This book really helps you to learn everything about the condition, but helps keep your spirits up in the process. If you hve a sense of humor you'll love it. Outstanding! I'd love to meet the author.

BRINGING HOME THE BRIDE gives a challenge to each of us. In like manner as the motto of our ministry. Dan shares a call to Consecration, Commitment and Action. ---by Doug Stringer founder of Turning Point Ministries and the author of the FATHERLESS GENERATION and WHO WILL CROSS THE JORDAN.

It is refreshing to meet someone with one burning passion that never abates. Daniel Bernard has such a fervency to reach the lost, and it is reflected in his book BRINGING HOME THE BRIDE. I know as you read it, you, too, will be ignited to seek and save the lost. --- by: Dr. Terry Teykl founder of Renewal Ministries and author of MAKING ROOM TO PRAY and PRAYED ON OR PRAYED FOR.

Are you someone who ...after being newly converted, had a spontaneous and bold witness that has now waned, and need encouragement to recover your first love? ...while in an evangelism program, was zealous, but since its conclusion, your witness has fizzled? ...attend a congregation that started evangelism campaigns now non-existent? ...needs to know what God wants and has wanted since the beginning of time? Reading this book will answer these questions and others, rekindling your desire to be a testimony of God's love. What this book will give you above all else is God's perspective. God's perspective is what you need to keep evangelism fires burning within you. There are many books on evangelism that give good insight and practical guidelines. However, knowing the "how-to" without a heart for God is like someone giving you a driver's manual for a car that has no engine. Though I give practical instruction in this book, above all, my hope is that the heart of God- and what should be the heart of the church - would be imparted in you. There are several ways in which we can read and apply God's word: subjectively, contextually, literally and figuratively. I will figuratively examine Genesis 24; the story of Abraham's servant, Eliezer, getting a bride for Isaac. Many events in the Old Testament are shadows of the reality found in the New Testament, and they also speak figuratively to us today. I believe that Genesis 24 is a parallel of God's desire to have His bride. Abraham symbolically represents God the Father through being served and respected. Isaac represents the Son of God, Jesus Christ. He is the one who is waiting for his bride and for prophesy to be fulfilled. The servant is symbolic of the work of the Holy Spirit who, through His church, is to bring home the bride of Christ. I focus on the servant's relationship, character, and consequent actions as he fulfills his assignment of retrieving a mate for the master's son. Through this, you will gain insight and instruction as an individual and as a member of the corporate body of Christ. You will discover what you and the church are to be and to do tho accomplish the mission of bringing home the bride of Christ. By the grace of the Holy Spirit, you will receive the passion and the power t5o bring home his end-time bride. I reccommend that you familiarize yourself with Abraham, Issac, and Eliezer by reading Genesis 24 and its parallel in isaiah 62. We pray God's blessings upon you as you read.

I have for many years seen books come and go regarding the engineering profession and elements of a successful career. Berson and Benner have done an excellent job laying out how to jump start your career, how to develop on the job, how to prepare yourself to be a professional, and have also identified contemporary issues facing the individual engineer. The book is readable, practical, and useful. In engineering terms, buying, reading, and applying the knowledge communicated in the book will yield at least a 1000 fold return! I would recommend that every engineer should read this book!

I highly recommend that all engineering graduates be give a copy. This would be a great gift from family, friends, and alumni associations to the newly minted engineer. It is a must read whenever an engineer is considering a job change. An outstanding job is done in presenting ethics and professionalism in very pratical terms.

It may take a few years of experience to appreciate the depth and breadth of mentoring advice presented in this excellent career guide. Building a network of contracts and planning needs to start at the very beginning of a career. Understanding diverse aspects of engineering and business risks will be very helpful. I am particularly impressed with the insight provided for leadership and learning soft skills. The range of topics makes this a reference book to be reviewed every couple of years.

I'm a retired professional engineer. I wish that a publication like this had been available to me when I was getting our of school. It would have helped my transition and career development.

My fourth Menkes, alas! People get old, legends do not. The typical user of this book comes to count in advance on what he/she's going to find inside.
This seventh edition is the usual thesaurus of clinical wisdom and state of the art resarch.
Oliviero Fuzzi

This is a reference text for Child Neurology. However, it is quite "readable" and can be finished in a month's rotation, if one is motivated to do so. It is very clearly written, but does not have many tables or illustrations. Still, it is the best and most current reference text available for Child Neurology.

I was recently introduced to this textbook by a child neurologist while I was on an elective at my medical school; he had used an earlier edition during his training and spoke glowingly of it. It's a quite comprehensive text written in a very clear style (a boon for tired eyes and tired minds at the end of the day), and its fairly reasonable price makes it accessible to medical students and residents. Another excellent child neurology book is the one by Berg, however, it has not been updated and there are apparently no plans to release another edition. In short, Menkes' and Sarnat's book is a very valuable addition to the aspiring child neurologist's library.

I couldn't agree more with the editorial reviews of this book. It is excellent!

I'm reading the book just out of interest in the subject matter and I'm not involved professionally with neurology. I have recently read several books on the topic though and that list would include:

. Mapping the Mind - Rita Carter's excellent survey of brain functions (similar in some ways to this book and really excellent!).
. Exploring Consciousness - Another very good Rita Carter text.
. The Neuron - Cell and Molecular Biology - Irwin Levitan and Leonard K Kaczmarek's 500+ page non-light reading but fascinating book on neurons.
. Quest for Consciousness - Christopher Koch's (and Francis Crick's) insightful search for the neural correlates of consciousness.
. Wider Than The Sky - Gene Edelman's equally fascinating perspective on the same type of research.
. In Search of Memory - Eric Kandel's part autobiography, part neurology book.
. Etc.

Each of those books were wonderful and I plan on going back and reading them again just to see how my perspective has changed from what I've learned since the last time. But, if I had to pick one book to provide a survey of how the brain is organized and functions I believe this is the book I would chose. It is actually the first textbook I can remember reading in the past 40 years but it didn't remind me of the textbooks of that era.

Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness has the following assets:

. It is well organized and well indexed.
. The writing style seems to take advantage of the authors' understanding of the learning process.
. It provides more than a casual introduction to each of the topics it covers.
. I thought it provided a balanced view of conflicting theories and approaches, giving the pros and cons of each.
. The book is extremely well illustrated throughout. Each illustration seems very thoughtfully composed and selected.
. It should, as the editorial reviews suggest, appeal to a range of readers from "student through established researcher."

There are some typographical problems but they are minor (e.g. References to Appendix C - which doesn't exist). I ordered the book before its release date and actually received it before June 11th so I can imagine typos happening. There appears to be extensive support for the material on the publisher's website but I haven't checked that out as yet.

So I'm really writing this to thank the Bernard Baars and Nicole Gage for providing such amazing material. It is really outstanding and even though it is expensive I would say without hesitation that it is more than worth its price!

I am a clinical psychiatrist and neuroscience aficionado who happens to be friends with one editor and one writer of COGNITION, BRAIN, AND CONSCIOUSNESS. Naturally, nothing in my social relationships with these two principles will influence in the least my objective and judicious review of this volume.

Ah, this last sentence! Do you think it is likely to be true or false or somewhere in between? The current scientific understanding of these kind of cognitive ambiguities, and a plethora of other topics, is well served in this uniformly careful account of contemporary studies of mind and brain. As Dr. Baars asserts in the Preface, modern neuroscience is a "marriage of the cognitive and brain sciences". Identify some of the many academic disciplines attending the wedding party, and you will find, among the usual suspects, some brand-new, still wet behind the ears areas of study like neurotheology, theoretical neurobiology and array tomography. How will they ever communicate with the reader? Fortunately, the two editors qua event planners are more than up to the task and express in clear sentences the broad themes emerging from the multi-disciplinary babel.

The textbook's organization follows a conventional course in order to follow "the gentlest learning curve possible":


Mind and brain - Bernard J. Baars.
A framework - Bernard J. Baars.
Neurons and their connections - Bernard J. Baars.
The tools: Imaging the living brain - Bernard J. Baars and Thomas Ramsoy.
The brain - Bernard J. Baars.
Vision - Frank Tong and Joel Pearson.
Hearing and speech - Nicole M. Gage.
Attention and consciousness - Bernard J. Baars.
Learning, memory and knowledge - Morris Moscovitch, Jason M. Chein, Deborah Talmi, and Melanie Cohn.
Thinking and Problem Solving - Bernard J. Baars.
Language - Bernard J. Baars.
Goals, executive control, and action - Elkhonon M. Goldberg and Dmitri H. Bougakov.
Emotion - Katharine McGovern.
Social Cognition: Perceiving the mental states of others - Katharine McGovern.
Development - Nicole M. Gage and Mark H. Johnson.
Appendices.
A. Neural Models: a Route to Cognitive Brain Theory - Igor Aleksander.
B. Methods for observing the living brain - Thomas Ramsoy, Daniela Balslev, and Olaf Paulson.

The 16 authors of these chapters bring not only outstanding expertise but scholarly passion to their subjects. The two editors have done a masterful job insuring the writing is done at similar levels of detail and generalization, helped by the fact that the senior editor wrote seven and co-authored one of the 15 chapters. Fortunately, Dr. Baars' writing (he is well known as the author of A COGNITIVE THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS) remains among the best organized and most lucid of modern neuroscientists.

The book pays homage to William James. In 1890, James was a committed empiricist with command of the then-current literature of the emerging field of scientific psychology. The page in the Reference section of CBC which begins with James' own THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY lists 43 texts, 26 of which were published during or after the year 2000. By extension, this means that 600 of the 1000 citations are less then seven years old. In the book world, that's as current as it gets. Following now standard practice, the book supervenes on a supportive website - textbooks.elsevier.com - which provides all figures in electronic format with export to Powerpoint, as well as supplementary material including movies.

Throughout the book, numerous depictions of difficult concepts approach pedagogical perfection. For example, Baars invites the reader to "grow a brain" and proceeds, through a series of pictures and discussion, to introduce the fundamental features of brain anatomy. By sequentially meeting the major landmarks through cartoons - brainstem, pons, thalami, hippocampus, amygdale, ventricles, basal ganglia, fiber tracts, cerebellum and cortex - the reader is enabled intuitively (subliminally?) to build a brain representation which sticks in the memory.

I reckon the volume aims to be THE primary textbook in cognitive neuroscience, the canonical statement, as it were. I think it makes a good beginning toward that end. But consider. The most widely used textbook in pharmacology is Hardman. Limbard and Gilman's THE PHRAMACOLOGICAL BASIS OF THERAPEUTICS. My tenth edition weighs in at 2148 pages. In computational neuroscience, it's Arbib's HANDBOOK OF BRAIN THEORY AND NEURAL NETWORKS, 1290 pages. In basic physics I will go with THE FEYNMAN LECTURES ON PHYSICS. The pages aren't sequentially numbered, but there are three volumes making, I would guess, around 1500 pages.

This poor text is a puny 546 pages. However, the baby is so brilliant and beautiful, I pray that in the second edition there is a more complete account. Here is what is needed:

* A section which maps the entire landscape of mind-brain studies, allowing the reader to see clearly where cognitive neuroscience is located.
* A chapter on neurochemistry and neuropharmacology.
* A chapter on the cognitive unconscious and context.
* A chapter on how the brain does mathematics and music.
* A chapter on the paranormal and the brain (just because people are always asking).
* A chapter on play, fun, humor, altruism, cooperation, creativity.
* A chapter on evolutionary neuroscience.
* A chapter on spiritual experiences and the brain. (Still following the lead of William James.)
* A chapter on consciousness.
* A chapter devoted to current attempts at "whole brain" theories.
* A section on what's hot in current research and what's needed.

In summary: COGNITION, BRAIN, AND CONSCIOUSNESS provides a somewhat curtailed overview of the emerging science of mind and brain. It is accessible to students and interested readers at all levels. It is beautifully illustrated and pedagogically advanced. It is the best of its kind now available.

Yes this is an introductory text with the necessary starting points on the origins, importance of, and framework for studying cognitive neuroscience. And like introductory texts on neuroscience, it breaks down brain functions into separate chapters (e.g., vision, hearing, language, memory). But that's where the similarities with typical texts end. None of the chapters are dry; there is typically a conversational tone and always, a focus on the big picture - how the mind works. They add just enough clinical data and interesting asides to enrich the material without bogging it or the reader down. There is no skimping on illustrations and imaging and this enhances the material even further. The end result is that by the end of each chapter you know the material very well and wouldn't you know it, you've started thinking about how the mind really works and some of the philosophical implications of brain function. That's more than I expect from most textbooks, so I think the authors are being a bit modest in calling this book an introduction to cognitive neuroscience; it is that and much more.

The Corporate Intranet by Ryan Bernard covers every crucial point necessary to "create and manage an internal web for your organization." The language used is easy to understand, gets to the point quickly, and moves from subject to subject with ease

If you don't have a clue where to start when speaking about Intranets read this book. From A to Z, explaining everything in a very simple way

Ryan Bernard's book (published title "The Corporate Intranet"), is one of the best technical books I read lately. It is very clear, useful, well written and practical. The book answered many of my lingering questions. Its "cookbook" approach, well selected and presented examples make it very easy to follow. Unlike in many other books, no new terminology is used before it's explained. I highly recommend it to anyone starting to build an Intranet. Susan Farkas, NYLCare Healthplans, N.Y.C.

I had the good fortune to take a short course from Bernie Silverman on density estimation just after this book came out in 1986. It is one of the clearest treatments of the subject and I found it particularly good on the coverage of optimal kernels. It is also filled with good practical examples and advice. For instance, the Old Faithful data provides an excellent example of a bimodal distribution where kernel density estimation provides a way to detect the two modes.

The author was also very perceptive in recognizing the value of projection pursuit techniques and bootstrap methods and the way density estimation techniques relate to these methods.

The book has the virtue of being clear and concise.

I had the good fortune to take a short course from Bernie Silverman on density estimation just after this book came out in 1986. It is one of the clearest treatments of the subject and I found it particularly good on the coverage of optimal kernels.

It is also filled with good practical examples and advice. For instance, the Old Faithful data provides an excellent example of a bimodal distribution where kernel density estimation provides a way to detect the two modes.

The author was also very perceptive in recognizing the value of projection pursuit techniques and bootstrap methods and the way density estimation techniques relate to these methods.

The book has the virtue of being clear and concise.

Quite a few books have been written since 1986, but this book is still the best. Very intuitive and very readable. It is written with a mastery of the subject and an excellent style of pedagogy. I remember of the joy and refreshness of reading this book around 1987 and it has served me well on a very important introductory of mordern statistics without having to go through tedious "math" notations and a shining example that statistics can be full of intuitive ideas and beautiful. For people unfamiliar with this book, it deals with probability density estimation using the idea of "local averages", and so it does not deal with other techniques such as splines. Also it is purely a density estimation book, and does not deal with another important problem, namely regression estimation (on which there are many other books). In summary, this book introduces the ideas and sense of "smoothing", a large (perhaps a little overblown) area of modern statistics. If you want to learn statistical smoothing, besides from Steve Marron, this one is the way to go.

This is the best way to practice the grammar from each chapter of the book. I have been studying with other books as well and I can say this book and the workbook are one of the best I have found to improve my English.

I'd like to learn english and I hope this book help me.

I'm an ESL teacher and I've used this collection for over 3 years to teach adults. I have many students who have learned using it and in my household only there are 3 of them. Yes, I've taught my own family! It's filled with great exercises, fun lessons and easy to do step-by-step class plans. Buy it, it'll change your method. With this books you don't even need the flash cards!