Biggs Books

One of the several Feng Shui books I bought. Just clean up your home and arrange it as you like. I don't like all this condemnation. If you don't do this or that bad things will happen to you. I think it's a load of nonsense and something to make money off of. The constant threatening of Feng Shui to begin with seems evil to me. Keep away from it.

This is a good start for someone wanting to know the basics of Feng Shui. But for someone who wants more details, especially when it comes to decorating or applications for in your daily life there is very little information. There is a great section on how to cleanse the atmosphere in your home or workstation. Look further if you want more detailed information.

I received this book as a Christmas present and found it quite interesting, since this is the first time I'm reading about Feng Shui. The drawings, illustrations, and photographs found on practically every page are very well done.

Each 'lesson'/chapter is pretty short (less than 20 pages), and the summary questions at the end of each section are also a good idea.

The writing style is very clear and easy to understand.

The list of books in the 'further reading' is also interesting for a reader that would want to dig deeper into this subject.

I loved this book! I recently recieved it as a gift and I am hooked. It makes the basics of feng shui very easy to understand. I recommend to those who are just starting out and those that are already know what's up.

This is a really good book on feng shui, especially if you are new to feng shui or just want a simple, basic book. The best part of this book is the very detailed charts,graphics and pictures, since they don't leave you confused like some poorly drawn diagrams might. The language is simple and easy to read.

The book is divided into 10 easy lessons, although there is no need to go in the order of the book. Each of the 10 chapters ends in a Top Ten Questions section about the chapter. The book also touches on some things many other books neglect, such as gardening, how to do feng shui around other people, your workplace, major life changes and even talks about what to look for when you are looking for a new home. There is also a space clearing procedure included.

I purchased this book specifically for technical information on creating outdoor mosaics. I was particularly interested in recommendations for grouting, adhesives, materials, etc. The majority of the book is taken up with lovely pictures and projects, but the technical portion is given the short shift at the end of the book. I'd recommend other books if you are just starting out and are looking for good, detailed information.

The book is mainly devoted to showing various projects made by the authors. Very nice and inspiring, as they do wonderful work, but if you are looking for in-depth instructions or practical knowledge, this is not the book. Try Encyclopedia of Mosaic Techniques by the same authors, instead.

This book had a great chapter on technical information and weather proofing outdoor mosaics. Was extremely helpful in determining which products I should be using on my own water feature and protecting it. Well worth the effort and time to have it sent to Australia for this chapter alone.

Brilliant book written by two of the most experienced mosaicists in the UK. I was so impressed, I attended a Mosaic Workshop course in London in October 2002 which was taught by Emma Biggs. I am now using this book as a reference for the techniques demonstrated on that course, and I thoroughly recommend it. It contains some very specific technical advice regarding weatherproofing. The advice is based on years of experience, so the techniques are eseential to follow to ensure longevity of the mosaic works. I was a total beginner last month, but feel competent and full of confidence with outdoor mosaic now. I certainly recommend this book for inspiration and reference for those who have done a bit of mosaic work.

This is a fabulous book! I have been a creating outdoor mosaics for over 15 years, and I have finally found a book that gets it correct! They have great step by step instructions, and suppliers listed as well as fabulous pictures! Five Stars!!!

Brooke Biggs is a literary master with the heart of a lion and excellent taste in sneakers. Her latest volume, a staggeringly huge triumph of the written word, should find its way to the shelf of every sentient being on Earth, nestled between "Das Kapital" and the complete Nancy Drew series.

These stories of modern day activists really give you a different perspective on the world we live in and what our role should be. Biggs is an excellent story teller.

Great stories of real people today who took a look at the world and didn't like what they saw. So they did something about it. Biggs is a great storyteller.

Wow, some of you people need to read a bit more broadly. Jeepers, this is the sort of maudlin claptrap that gives maudlin claptrap such a bad name. Brave hearts, rebel spirits, lots of cheap slogans and smarmy cliches and uplifting tales of grrl power and similar blather are a good example of why people think Americans are so stupid, and Mrs. R is certainly closer in spirit to a typical American housewife than anyone I've ever known from the UK.

Red String is a love story between the protagonist, Miharu, and Kazuo. They were engaged by their parents but, through a twist of fate, met and fell in love with each other before they discovered who they were engaged to. The story is a little slow at first but the web of relationships and character development are interesting. Secondary characters also get some limelight and you start rooting for certain people even when they are not immediately present in the story line. I would recommend this to anyone interested in a good romance.

The plot of Red String sounds promising enough, and it does have some good moments, but overall the manga is kind of weak. I wanted to like it and I really tried hard, but you shouldn't have to make an effort to enjoy a story, it should simply entertain you.
Although the art is quite good, the pacing is all over the place and the dialog is downright unbelievable. The author seems to pack more and more characters into the story until you can't remember who is who anymore.
Maybe once Miss Biggs has had more experience making comics this manga will improve, but I would recommend passing on Red String Volume 1.

Red String deals with teen romance in a way that is alien to most teens in the US - the main characters are forced together in an arranged marriage. The story explores their feelings about having their future decided by their parents balanced against their natural yearnings. There is plenty of the usual japanese teen drama as well, with all the intensity and sweetness one might expect from a high school romance. The images are beautifully rendered in the manga style. The book covers the first 7 chapters of the series. I found it to be a captivating story, and am eager for the next installment.

provide a good and easy to understand introduction to the subject

This book gives a good introduction to the mathematical modeling of cognition and does so with a level of mathematics that is very accessible to a typical graduate student in computer science or psychology. The book could have been written using tools from measure theory but luckily it was not for a book at an introductory level. The concept of probably approximately correct is introduced early on in the third chapter of the book with efficient learning given later on in Chapter 5. Chapter 7, the best chapter of the book, discusses the idea of VC dimension, which has had many applications, such as network stability and optimization. VC dimension plays the pre-dominant theme in the rest of the book, with the book ending with an application to neural networks. There are short problem sets at the end of the chapters, and these are useful for more understanding of the concepts in the book. A very interesting book and worth the price.

I like it, but I think there are better ways of teaching Discrete Maths. I can tell you that you discovered me the difference between Calculus and Discrete Maths. That's cool!!

Dr. Biggs' book is an excellent introduction to discrete maths--I used it for the first term and part of the second term of his "Introduction to Pure Maths". The book reads the same as he lectures, which, while sometimes creepy (it's like he's talking to you), is a very good thing. It is very well written and explains everything clearly. He has plenty of worked examples to illustrate how to use what he has taught as well as exercises (w/ answers in the back of the book) for students to work out for themselves.

Not as thoroughly investigated as 'Paratrooper' by Michael T. Booth, but Ltcol (ret) Bradley Biggs, a former 555 PIB 'Triple Nickle' officer gives a rather short but good account of Gavin's life. The accent of the book is heavy to the late 50-s and Gavins time as ambassador to France and CEO of Arhtur Little and Co.
A nice tribute for a general who integrated the black Triple Nickles into his beloved 505 PIR in 1947.

Gavin, I love the man, but the book is a biased (albeit the author acknowledges his bias) and under-researched account of a complex leader. Gavin was an orphan raised in Pennsylvania who earned an appointment to West Point after enlisting in the Army. He rose to become the Division Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division (the youngest Brigadier General since Custer)during WWII and amassed an incredible war record. Following the war, he rose to the rank of 3 stars before retiring amid a controversy over his testimony before the senate. As the division commander, he fully integrated black airborne soldiers into the 82nd. He would later become JFK's ambassador to France. He protested the war in Vietnam and wrote several books.

If you want a more thorough account of this truly exceptional and interesting leader, read Paratrooper: the Life of James M. Gavin by T. Michael Booth, Duncan Spencer. It is well researched and gives a more thorough representation of Gavin's life, although Mrs. Gavin claims the book gives short shrift to Gavin's time at Arthur D. Little as the CEO.

If you are more interested in a cursory review of Gavin's life, then Bigg's rendition is for you. You can read it in an evening.

Airborne!

The music itself is good. However, the description did not say that you get 2 copies of the music, so I ordered 1 for the pianist and 1 for the organist. Now I have enough music for 4 people.

Included is an 8 page arrangement for piano and organ including pedal notation. Printing is dark and pages large and well spaced. I'm still learning this piece. The version I learned previously included only few verses an edit from Cantata 147 in simplified notation. This version has more voicings so it's harder for me to play but it sounds lovely. I will be busy with this for a while.

Never heard of them. The usual answer. The same went for me till June 10,2000 when I personally met a Triple Nickler at Carter's Grove, Colonial Williamsburg, Va. The interest stirred in me to know more of these fine paratroopers in the U.S. ARMY during WW II. It seems that this is the only book with the Triple Nickles' history. Take advantage of this book while there are still some out there. Guaranteed, you'll want to know more about these fine paratroopers who endured so much because of their race, but stood as exemplary models that most of us would fall short. Maybe if we, as readers, pay more tribute to these fine men, more will come forward with their books to help resurrect the historical memories that we beckon to know more. If The Triple Nickles is the only book available, I highly suggest reading it to witness the start of the finest intergrated fighting force of the world. Don't let this piece of history slip through your finger tips!

We were lucky enough to get this book at a Black Educators Conference, but had the sad, but familiar, experience of wanting to share with a young man for inspiration -- and never seeing it again.

The book is written for young adults, but can keep the interest of adults reading it. It tells the story of the first Black paratroop squadron, which served in WWII. As was similar in many of the early US military/minority encounters, these men were trained to fight but then given kitchen duty. Eventually they were given a chance with the 82nd Airborne and went on to have many successful missions.

I found the book to be inspiring and humbling. It would do both blacks and whites good to read it to remember how things were, and not sugarcoat history.

I found this book very clear, concise, and well written. Most proofs seemed effortless on both the author's and reader's part. Moreover, I found the content very interesting, especially the results on the spectrum of a graph, which simply represents the eigenvalues (and their multiplicities) of the adjacency matrix (although recently it has been defined in terms of the normalized incidence matrix). It amazed me just how much mathematics can be put to bear on such a simple notion of vertices and connections between them. The only downside to this book is that algebraic graph theory has moved in many new directions since the first edition (the second edition mostly states some recent results at the end of each chapter), and the interested reader may want to supplement this book or follow up this book with the following: "Spectral Graph Theory", by Fan Chung, "Algebraic Graph Theory", by Godsil et al., and "Modern Graph Theory", by Bollobas, all of which make for graduate-level reading. And to think that some mathematics departments still show little if any desire to support fellow mathematicians who study graph theory! Reading any of these books hopefully might alter some of those entrenched attitudes.