Boyd Books

My 4th grader had to do a report on Michael Collins for school, and found this book very helpful. It's easy enough for kids to understand by themselves, and informative enough to be used as a reference.

The illustrations and narrative were just perfect for my 4 year-old son. The details in the illustrations, in particular, don't seem to cease fascinating him - new things are constantly discovered. I look forward to future books by this author.

Beautifully illustrated and easy to read to a four year old, I bought this for my nephew, and now he wants to be an astronaut when he grows up! The book's main theme of working and studying to achieve your goals is a great way to introduce this historical event to kids.

I also used this book in a PhD Qualitative Reasearch course. I found it to be very well written and easy to understand. Of the three books the class used, this was by far the favorite.

I am trying to learn phenomenology to do nursing research. This book is an excellent starting point. It has helped me to become "immersed" in the method of phenomenology.

Used the book for Phd nursing qualitative research class. It was useful and easy to follow.

This is a wonderful book which takes an everyday task, climbing the stairs, and makes it magical. Every step is an event in itself. The illustrations are so adorable it will hold the attention of the reader and the toddler alike. You will enjoy this book as much as your children.

It is a book any child would like. A great way to learn numbers and so much imagination. It's an over and over again reading book. Each step up the stairs has an event. Also the illustrations are suburb, very well done!

Beautifully illustrated, with delightful and resonant text, this book belongs in the library of any parent of a young child. An excellent bedtime book, this one is sure to please. (I'm pretty sure the second mouse is a little boy, though, despite what Kirkus says.)

Not only is Peter Lourie a talented writer, but now, after reading On the Trail of Sacagawea, my kids think that his family is much more exciting than ours! Or, to put it another way, this book has inspired us to think more creatively about the kinds of trips we'll be planning in the future. Why go to Disneyworld when we could be out exploring the real world? My entire family thoroughly enjoyed this book. Reading about Sacagawea's world some 200 years ago, and the present day journey shared by the Lourie family, gave us all something to think about and to discuss. The book provides a valuable glimpse into our history while at the same time it illustrates how really rewarding family experiences can be. I recommend this book to every parent who is eager to have something of substance to talk about with his or her child, and who would like to enourage reading and a sense of wonder and excitement about the world we live in.

...Reading Mr. Lourie's books truly brings history to life, and adds present day perspective to the tales they've read in their social studies books. In this book particularly, my children were able to relate to the Lourie's children, on a family vacation, traveling such an historic route. How lucky those children are to have a father who can bring to life the stories of Sacagawea, and how lucky are we that he writes it all down for us to share! My young neighbor brought the book to school and her teacher used it as she taught about Sacagawea. Our whole family is anxious to read about Mr. Lourie's next journey!!

My two daughters loved seeing the author's children included in this adventure. Lourie's photographs are amazing. They depict the wild terrain, the rivers and the mountains, that Sacagawea covered with Lewis and Clark in 1805-1806 on their way to the Pacific. From this book, I learned details about the expedition I had not known before. It's a great introduction to Sacagawea and the monumental feat accomplished by the Corps of Discovery. After reading ON THE TRAIL OF SACAGAWEA, I will keep my eyes out for other books by author Peter Lourie.

I found "One Came to Stay" gripping and well written from start to finish. It is a bitter-sweet story of a vulnerable girl who searched for happiness. Just when you think she has found stability, she is wounded and hurt. When all was lost she found the One who would never leave her or forsake her. I stayed up until 2 AM one morning because I had to know the outcome.

This book was exciting. I could hardly put it down once
I began reading it. I know it is fiction but also based
on a true life story. It definitely held my attention
with great anticipation of what was forthcoming. I found
the story to be very sad in places but the ending was
triumphant. I enjoyed it tremendously. Donna Huffman

This hard-to-put-down book is a warm and inspiring true story of a foster child and her quest to "fit-in".

From childhood, through adolescence, and to adulthood, Leta feels the effects of, and copes, with her situation. This book reveals the difficulties encountered with our foster care system from the perspective of a real-life foster child.

Leta searches her whole life to find a permanent home. And finds it. With the One who came to stay.

From Front Flap:

"This outstanding book offers a broad and indepth coverage of all important construction management topics, paying particular attention to professional construction management (PCM) as a contractual alternatives. This emphasis reflects the growing importance of this newly emerging area. The first nine chapters discuss administrative aspects of construction, while the last nine cover project control tools such as procurement, quality assurance, safety, and labor relations. The book assembles all the information needed to successfully manage a construction project. A general overview chapter is included on computer concepts and applications related to construction. The book is easy to understand because it features a wide range of worked examples, a detailed case study (the Mountain Town warehouse project) discussed throughout the book, and summaries concluding every chapter."


Sample Topics Covered:

* Types of Construction Projects, Organizations and Contracts; The Life Cycle of a Construction Project; Organization for Professional Construction Management; Preconstruction Site Investigation, Planning, Scheduling, Estimating, and Design; Value-Engineering Program, Work Packages, Summary Schedules, Developing Construction Packages; Preparation of Bidding Documents; Contractor Qualifications; Safety Responsibilities; Legal Considerations; Management-Level Reporting; Schedule and Progress Controls; Selecting a Professional Construction Manager; Estimating Project Costs; Cost Codes; Control Budges; The Procurement Cycle; Control of Materials Procurement; Inventory Theory; Value Engineering; Industrial Relations; Safety and Health & Construction; and a sample Bid Package & Contract Forms. (1984)

I got the book's info from my college professor. He strongly recommends this book for me as a junior engineer. I found many useful tables and info from book that mostly I also get from job. Mr Barrie is a consulting engineer and he shared his experiences with us, I felt happy what he did. In the Cve field, most of the things are gathered from experiences. It is quite diffirence from the IT or EE field, it need much time to do it. Mr Barrie give us what he did in recent decades, and I hope we will done better.

I used this book in my CM class as a senior in college. The book is pretty comprehensive and a lot of the info didn't make sense until I actually started in the field of general contracting and construction management. Now the info in the book is understandable. I would recommend the book.

The hero in this book is so endearing, you'll be cheering for him from the very first page.

Gardner picks us up where we left off at the end of Race Against Time. This time we're following Owen as he seeks justice against the man who killed his partner. Well-written, exciting, suspenseful . . . you must have it in your library.

Absolutely loved it! I couldn't put it down and read it any time I got a chance. It was definitely one of the best pieces of LDS fiction I have ever read. It was as good as the first one- Race Against Time. Both have great plots and are extremly well written. I was hooked from the beginning.

This book is FABULOUS!!!!!!! Robyn Boyd has done an excellent job in pulling together vital information for HEALTH!!!!!! Absolutely everybody should own this book!!!

This book is an important tool in my fight overcoming Cancer!

God Bless you Robyn!

I met Robyn Boyd at the International Festival of Raw Foods in Portland, OR last summer (2004) and was impressed by her immediately. She gave me a copy of her book to review and stressed her daughter's help in assisting to develop the recipes. That caught me right there! Any cookbook author whose child has a major say in the recipe tasting and selection gets points in my book. You may wonder why I didn't say "un-cookbook" or "recipe book" ... that's because Boyd advocates eating "simply, purely, wholly, and 75-80% raw." Whether or not you're into raw foods doesn't matter; this book is for all families wanting to transition to a healthier eating. That's why she calls it RawSome Recipes - 75 percent are raw recipes, while 93 percent are vegan.

First, her recipes are fabulous! My family and I tried many of them, some cooked, some not, and they were all easy to prepare and delicious. The ones especially endorsed by Boyd's daughter Molly and her friends aged 4-14 are marked "RawSome Kid Recipe!" There is also lots of information for families in this book. She includes sections called "RawSome Kids," "Great After-School Snacks and Grazing Food for Play Dates," "Tips for Healthy Traveling," and "What to Pack in the School Lunch Box." For entertaining I was happy to see "Fit for Company...Four All-Raw Dinner Menus" and a "RawSome Holiday Menu," from which I will plan my Thanksgiving and Christmas menus.

Another thing I really like about this book is that it is full of beautiful color photos, a selection of which you can see here. And some of the more complicated recipes (not that any of them are truly complicated) include not only a photo of the finished product but pictures of steps along the way. In addition, Boyd includes a wealth of information on various aspects of a healthy lifestyle, including some basic nutrition information, for example, the value of sea vegetables and a list of recommended whole food supplements, like barley grass and spirulina.

While most of her recipes include readily recognizable food items, for those of you wondering just what the heck kombu is exactly, or why some of her recipes call for coconut oil, you can flip to the glossary in the back. This list of resources for buying many of these items, if you can't find them in your local health food store or Whole Foods, will also come in handy. In this book I found the answer to integrating my family's cooked vegan diet and my raw vegan diet. It's absolutely the best one I've come across for those desiring to incorporate more raw and vegan foods into their families' diets but aren't sure about going all vegan or all raw - or just plain don't want to.

Boyd writes from a Christian perspective, but you mustn't think her book is exclusively for Christians. While she includes interesting and thought-provoking sections entitled "Whole Foods the Way God Intended" and "Eating Vegetables Worked for Daniel" (Daniel 1:3-20, a story which is great to share with children!), there is an abundance of nutritional information and resources that anyone will appreciate. I very highly recommend this book!

This book by Robin Boyd is a great gota- have book if you are breaking into raw food. The recipies are beautifly pictured with easy to follow instructions for some of the best tasting, easy to prepare raw food and transitional to raw food recipies that Ive found. A very helpful Beautiful book.
Linda Bucci

Alvin Kuhn has done a magnificent job in explaining the ancient wisdom and showing its relevance for us today.This book gives a good exposition of his views.Man has two natures, the animal and the divine.Plato and Aristotle and others wrote about the animal soul and the divine soul.The purpose of human life is to develop the divine soul so that it can uplift the animal soul.This is the essence of the ancient wisdom.Kuhn shows how political Christianity turned this teaching upside down.It took the divine soul away from man and placed it in one alleged person, Jesus Christ.This left man empty.Christ was never a person, but a symbol of the divine soul in every human being.Early Christians such as Paul had this teaching, but in the 3rd century the Church became a tool of repression and the true teachings were discarded.Kuhn brings the truth to light again in a much needed message for our times.He shows that the Bible is not to be taken literally, but should be understood symbolically.The ancient wisdom is right there in the Bible , in symbolic language.Some examples: the virgin is the constellation Virgo;the star in the east is Sirius and the "three wise men" are the three stars in the belt of Orion the Hunter;the Christ was put in a manger, a feed trough, to be spiritual "food" for our animal nature.The raising of Lazarus is a retelling of the raising of Osiris in ancient Egypt.The name Lazarus comes from Osiris.The Bible life of the Christ is not history, but a retelling of the life of the divine soul in man.Christians burnt all the books containing the ancient wisdom to try and hide the truth from mankind.When the divine soul comes into matter it dies and then is reborn in humans.This explains the crucifixion and the resurrection, which do not make any sense when taken literally.All Kuhn's books are worth reading for those interested in religion and philosophy.This book gives a concise introduction to his ideas.If taken up, these ideas can change the world.

Alvin Boyd Kuhn has always been a polarizing force in Bible studies. During his lifetime he produced a body of work in which he proposed that the Bible was symbolic rather than just being a depiction of true events. He was almost entirely self-taught and he had few qualifications. Most scholars have not even heard his name.

But it would be a mistake to dismiss his work out of hand. Though there is impressive evidence that the Bible is an historical document, there is also an important question: were the early writers of the Bible trying to communicate concepts that lay beyond the written word? The thought processes of our great grandparents were very different from ours, let alone people from 2,000 years ago, for whom allegory, parable, analogy and symbol were important ways of communicating objective events as well as spiritual insights. Kuhn believed that the Bible was a mixture of memory and metaphor designed to preserve the meaning of Jesus' teachings. Therefore a full understanding about the significance of the life and ministry of Jesus requires us to evolve our thinking and to apply our intuition.

This book was completed shortly before Kuhn's death in 1963 and was the last in a series dealing with the mystical underpinnings of orthodox Christianity. His central idea was that we all have the ability to realize an indwelling Christ. In the years since the book was published, many others have run with an idea that he outlines in the first chapter of the book, entitled "Relighting an Ancient Lamp." This idea is that in religions around the world, the symbol of light represents Mind. This idea has recently been discussed many times, especially in the very interesting books by Lee Baumann. Kuhn develops ideas familiar to Hindus, Buddhists and Taoists, that Mind underlies the creation of the Universe. This is also where many of the ideas of "manifesting" have come from: if we each contain a small piece of Mind, then we all have the potential to be creators.

Kuhn felt that we needed to restore our personal connection to the Divine mysteries, and that we could only do so by moving beyond the historic accounts of Jesus to also understand his life as a profound spiritual allegory.

Although often criticized, what Kuhn was trying to do was to re-discover a living spiritual experience. He was not trying to re-write history, but deepen our experience of Christ.

The book is well worth reading, if only for his discussion of the symbol of light representing Mind and the notion that even in the Christian tradition Mind is the force behind God's creation. For people on a spiritual path, there is a lot of material in the book that can provide an excellent focus for contemplation and meditation.

Warmly recommended.

I found this Boyd Kuhn masterpiece, while searching for another book of his. This was his last book before passing from this realm. This might have been his best work; written with a sincerity & passion for the truth. Boyd Kuhn lifts the veil from Prophet Issa (Jesus) and reveals the true essence & meaning of this great Master's work. A special treat for all those travelling brothers from & to foreign countries.

John Boyd's answer to the problem of winning in any form of conflict, the "Discourse on Winning and Losing," is a set of roughly 300 charts, and Dutch AF Col Frans Osinga has set himself the task of guiding his readers through them. It is a formidable assignment. Boyd, you see, did not intend the briefings of the Discourse to be read on their own. For years, he would not give out copies until after the presentation, and it had to be the "whole brief or no brief." It may seem obvious, but it was in briefing format not so much in tribute to Sun Tzu - although The Art of War is, like the Discourse, a set of bullet points - but simply because he didn't feel that there were enough readers inside the Beltway to make it worthwhile.

Osinga accomplishes his mission magnificently. If you are interested in Boyd's problem of how to win regardless, stop right now and order the book. If you have not heard the briefings, my recommendation is to begin with chapter one, then skip back to chapter seven for a summary of Boyd's influence on strategy. Then, download the charts, go back to chapter two, and work your way through the rest of the book. [The briefings are all available on Defense and the National Interest.]

Is it a tough read? Do you know of anything really worthwhile that is easy? Just as there is no royal road to mathematics, there is no royal road to Boyd. I was present at the creation of many of these charts, and I found a lot in this book that was new and helpful in broadening my understanding (for one thing, I have not, as Osinga did, read Boyd's original notes in the source books).

This book is a distilled version of Col Osinga's Ph.D. dissertation, which he completed while serving as a research fellow at the Clingendael Institute of International Relations in The Hague. He has done an excellent job of making academic rigor accessible to the general reader - the only equations, for example, are the ones Boyd used in "Destruction and Creation" - while exploiting the depth of research that a dissertation requires. There are 32 pages of single-spaced notes and 12 of bibliography.

I enthusiastically recommend Science, Strategy and War to all students of strategy, particularly those more concerned with where strategy is going than where it has been.

Colonel Osinga has written an important book distilling the strategic thinking of one of the 20th century's most important contributors, Colonel John R. Boyd. I began my "Boyd odyssey" a couple of years ago when I read Robert Coram's excellent biography, BOYD, The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (would recommend this title first to those unfamiliar with Col Boyd). Since reading Coram's book, I've read everything I could find on Boyd and his ideas. Col Osinga's book places Boyd's ideas in accessible (albeit sometimes dense) format (agree with the Col Richards (author of Certain to Win!---a translation of Boyd's strategy into business---and a very good read, as well) that sometimes the best things don't come easy. Col Osinga's book provides Boyd's ground-breaking methods of "how to win" and problem solving---a literal "out-of-the-box thinker"---with emphasis on THINKING.
Personally, after becoming acquainted with Boyd's work (I carry printed copies of his only published work, an essay called Destruction and Creation, in my computer bag read while traveling---giving copies to clients and friends) my business has changed and to a great extent, my life has changed. Boyd's method of synthesizing data from disparate sources has helped me to help clients solve problems and exposed me to areas I would have never investigated otherwise.
This book is important and highly recommended.

The benefits of a book like this (the hardcover edition) lies not only in its scope and intelligence, but also in its physical weight. Where the words themselves fail to penetrate the skulls of second-generation military minds, a sharp blow from above with this book will work wonders in a language they understand. It is only on rare occasions in life that any of us are privileged to be even dimly aware of being in the presence of true greatness. This magnificent work will confirm John Boyd's reputation and enhance - deservedly - that of its highly respected author. It is a book I shall have to read and re-read for some time to get the full benefit, and what a pleasure that is. It is impossible for me to rate this work too highly.