Boyd Books

This book kept me spellbound from cover to cover.....A strange but true look into the John Q. Public's mind....Robin Mullins Boyd captures the feeling towards the war in Iraq and the U.S in general......A Great Read !!

This book summarizes everything every single one of us are thinking as Americans, everything we've always wanted to say, but just couldn't figure out how. This is a must read for anyone who follows politics a little or a lot.

I bought this book for a political science class, sadly we never used it though, however, I think this is one of the best investments I could have made in a text book. It chronicles the civil rights movement and contains some pictures that are otherwise hard to find anywhere else. I attend Florida A&M and there is actually a piture of Stokley Carmichael standing in front of one of our buildings delivering one of his earth shaking speeches, I'm sure... Unfortunately, I was disheartened by the way the author skipped over Malcolm X's role in the civil rights era and how he inspired later organizations such as the Black panther Party. But that, a big issue for me, aside, this is a great textbook. When I start teaching, I will probably refer back to it for my history classes.

As a child growing up through the movement, this text has allowed me to embrace the struggle as an adult. The actual audio accounts are at times distrubing, but the realization of what people of color went through during that era is something I must endure as an African American. I highly recommend this text.

M-O-N-I-C-A, M-O-N-I-C-A, I LOVE YOU, YOU ARE THE ONE.

I LOVE YOU MO

I'm a preschool teacher and I have to say that this "opposites" book is one of my favorite books of all time. It demonstrates many examples of opposites using REAL pictures/photographs of day-to-day activites; there are no cartoon drawings. And it is written in a way that is familiar to preschool children, and easy for them to understand. This book comes highly recommended.

The person I bought this for loves it. Good for people who love teddy bears, especially those made by Boyd.

This book just puts a smile on my face everytime I open it. The bears are just wonderful and my grandkids just love sitting and looking at them. I also enjoyed reading about the history of Boyd's Bears and the founders, as a collector there were many things I didn't know. Great buy, very entertaining!

Hmong is a group of people that live in the high mountains in South China or they could live in Laos but in the mountains. They speak four different kinds of languages: Lao, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese. Whenever I read a book about a language like Lao I get very interested and I want to ask my parents about it because they are from a refugee camp, too. I ask my parents lots of questions until it blows their minds because I ask too much questions!! For example I ask "Did you swim to Thailand?" "How did you get to New York?" and lots more. I ask lots of questions until they answer me. My parents survived from the refugee and the soldiers. They swam to Thailand, if the army or soldiers saw one of my parents they would ask questions or instead they would shoot one of them. What I heard was the army took the Lao people and took them to the refugee camp! This book is a believable story and you use your imagination about the cloth talking and speaking. I would recommend this book to any child or grown up who is interested in a refugee's story.

I wish I would have spent more time with the Hmong in Thailand. I found this story very moving and the immigrants strength and resilience in surviving wonderful to see. I am excited to share this with my students several of whom are refugees from war and conflict.

Perfect book and perfect shipper.
Received the book from US to Singapore in less than 2 weeks.
Really satisfied with the book's condition.
Love it! (:

I'm a huge Incubus fan and think the band, and all of it's subsequent members, can do no wrong. I heard about this book through the band's website and instantly wanted it, afterall, this is the frontman to the band that has most influenced me in my musical travels. However I didn't buy it when I wanted to, the price was ridiculously high and I wasn't sure if it was completely worth it. I was wrong. I found it much cheaper at a concert of their's I attended and from the first page on I was awestruck. I always knew Brandon was not only an extraordinarily gifted musician but also extremely gifted when it came to drawing, and White Fluffy Clouds only proves it. His drawing are so intricate and amazing that it's hard to believe a human hand did, in fact, create them. But the drawing aren't the only thing this book has to offer. Included are more than a few poems and simple observations from Brandon. The short story entitled Fear is particularly hilarious as he tells of his many fears as a child. Not everything Brandon writes is funny though, Hail, Right Brain! is a poem that really gets you thinking. His take on love and life is yet another facet he can cover with ease, as any fan of Incubus is sure to know already. There's even parts where he talks about the world today, particularly on page 74 with the essay entitled Music. If you can find this book, certainly jump at the chance to get it, I've read it countless times and still enjoy every page. I will offer some advice though, don't waste your time trying to track it down through Amazon or some other website, get it at one of their shows, it's a mere 30 dollars compared to the 60 that Amazon is asking.

This is a wonderful picture book for horror fans of any age -- including adults.

The story is apparently about a broken-down society in which food and water have grown scarce, electricity is out, and people are left to fend for themselves. The story is narrated first-person by a teenager named Ben who lives alone in the basement of an apartment building after his family was killed by wolves roaming the city. But these are not ordinary wolves, Ben assures us, leaving me to wonder if he's talking about werewolves. The kindly Mrs. Radinski doesn't believe in any wolves despite Ben's repeated warnings. Then one day she goes missing...

Or maybe there are no wolves. Maybe Ben is a mentally ill teenage runaway whose hallucinations have painted a threatening shadow over the peaceful streets and parks he remembers from his childhood. We can't really tell for sure, because Ben is the only narrator we have, and no matter what's really happening, Ben just isn't all there.

I've read hundreds and hundreds of picture books, but I've never seen one anything like this. The story is told with a genuine sincerity that is made more powerful by the poor spelling, and the dark sketchy illustrations complement the writing perfectly. I'm not sure who the target audience is, but fans of Neil Gaiman's twisted perspective on horror will love this. Buy it for teenagers or adults, or for anyone old enough to appreciate a good psychological horror story.

Margaret Wild is one of Australia's most successful, imaginative and challenging writers for children, and Woolvs in the Sitee the bravest to date. It is a beautiful and frightening book, with poetic language rich with unsettling imagery and metaphor. It presents a dystopic post-Western world, in which people vanish and `woolvs' prowl. The exact nature of these woolvs is never quite spelt out.

Nor, for that matter, is anything else: the most striking aspect of Woolvs in the Sitee is the phonetic spelling that forms the voice of protagonist Ben. The device speaks of his interrupted schooling, the disappearance of his family, and mirrors the collapse of his society. Anne Spudvilas' illustrations are spellbinding, full of shadows and menace, amplifying the unnerving and paranoid atmosphere.

The book deserves the awards it has won (and will no doubt win). However, the book is challenging, and I do wonder who the intended readers are. Younger children are not cognitively developed enough to understand the many metaphors and resonances essential to grappling with the text. By the time older children have matured enough to understand the text, they generally reject picture books.

To test the theory I ran the book past my three girls. Each reacted quite differently: my six-year-old Dr-Seuss-fan was terrified; my eight-year-old Harry-Potter-freak was bored; and my ten-year-old, who is mid-way through The Lord of the Rings and attempting to translate the Elvish, was badly irritated by the spelling, which she found made it difficult to read physically. In Piagetian terms, the eldest has moved on from concrete to formal logic, but even so, none of my girls was as excited by the book as I was.

Likewise, I was unable to persuade any of the three to 'read' past the first page of Shaun Tan's beautiful The Arrival.

Is Woolvs in the Sitee then an attempt by adults to push post-modern genre-straddling texts onto children for the children's own good? Is there an intellectual didactic purpose behind its authorship, which is rejected by kids as they reject all preaching? Is the book really aimed at well-meaning, literary parents hoping to broaden their children's minds? These are probably questions which arise whenever children's books break with expectations.

It's refreshing to see a child's book that isn't all pastel-pink fairy-floss and no fillings, but my feeling is that Woolvs in the Sitee is possibly too alienating for many of its intended audience.

I've taught the Word of God for over thirty years, and have a large library with hundreds of books. I say this only to qualify the statement made in the title. If one was to own only one Bible handbook with which to study and teach the Scriptures, this is it.

From archaeology, to science, to seed thoughts for sermons, to customs, to statistics, to hundreds of outlines--this handbook is as inexhaustible as it is indispensable. It is so voluminous, it has several separate indexes (which sometimes are a bit confusing).

For any minister or teacher who wants many encyclopedia's worth of reference material in one single book, this is the book to beg for, borrow, or steal. Formally entitled "Boyd's Bible Handbook", this work will give the reader a lifetime of useful material--always--always--being careful to exalt Christ in all the Bible. (I spent 3 hours on just 'prayer' alone!)

The book is thoroughly researched (as of 1980), and references are fully cited. In short, this work is a masterpiece. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

This Handbook is not only informative but also a reverent guide to HIS WORD. There are many devotionals for each and every book and like a prism, reflects many aspects of HIS WORD that even a devout student has probably not considered. For example, "Christ in the Grave Three Days and Three Nights" (p. 467) gives an interesting and reasoned suggestion for Christ having been crucified on Thursday -- supporting Christ's own words in a literal and exact prediction as opposed to simply omitting the 3 nights portion of the prediction when trying to uderstand the Crucifixion/Resurrection timetable. The introduction of this Handbook is titled "The Bible Palace" and approaches Our Father's Love Letter (the Holy Bible) with a delectable sample of its enticing morsels: "It is the Word of the living God and is (1) Indestructible (Matt 24:35); (2) Incorruptible (1 Pet 1:24-25); (3) Indispensable (Deut 8:3; Matt 4:4; Job 23:12); (4) Infallible (Matt 5:18); (5) Inexhaustible (Psalm 92:5) . . . God thought it, Christ wrought it, the Holy Spirit brought it, the devil fought it, but I got it." And I would recommend any student, lover of the Word, or honest seeker buy this book -- you won't be able to resist jumping in and swimming in this delicious, nourishing Milk of the Word. This is one of those books which is truly a bargain, especially since it reveals many not-so-obvious gems contained within the Pearl Beyond Price!

Many of his ideas stayed with me. Others got lost in obscurity. He would size people up and tell them which supplemental books to read based on their level of psychology.

The book its self is in a yellow binding. It contains several sketches But no Photographs. The table of content reads:
1 psychology: for the now
2 factors in behavior
3 the function of organization
4 the healthy-mind
6 the inadequate personality
7 perception: seeing things as they are
8 emotions
9 learning

10 motivation: the why of human behavior
11 creativity, intelligence and thinking
12 psychology and the popular appeal

In Perception: seeing things, as they are he quotes Alan Watts from a letter that appeared in "The Oracle of Southern California", October, 1967

Clothes all too easily make the man, and those who dress like Nazi SS troupers tend to behave like them. Police uniforms should therefore be changed from black or blue to khaki-green, and instead of helmets pr vizored caps, we should restore the old Campaign Hat, as worn by Forest Rangers and Mounties-officials generally liked by the public as helpful "scouts." If there must be helmets, let them be those of British "bobbies."

dr. shiraev's and dr. boyd's book, which i have recently read alongside a few other books on giving advice to international students coming to the united states in order to reccommend a work for friends of mine planning to come to study in the states, is by far the best that i have come along. it poignantly addresses all the issues of importance for a foreign student, leaving little to be desired, without being patronizing or attepting to prescribe receipies of how one is to manage once arrived. maybe it is the unique or if not unique: successful combination of a foreign and domestic point of view, that manages to be very precise and diligent in sketching out that, which is to be expected by those who come from cultures that are both very different, but also seemingly similar. indeed, as a german, i have found out that the seeming similarities of western countries contribute much to the skewed expectations of students that culminate often in a rude awakening, often without knowing why. it is often less important to be pointed towards the obvious, after all, if i had come to the us from myanmar, or swaziland, i would have known very well THAT i was to expect great differences and hence would have been more aware of them. even at the danger of being redundant: in my opinion the danger or difficulty is more often, that differences are not obvious and thus not expected. these subtle differences, different attitudes not perceived up front, the accumulation of otherness in often miniscule details are put forward in a way that i would have very much appreciated being told when i came to the us. unfortunately, then the book had not even been conceived. alas, now it exists - and i would not reccommend any other book but this to anyone coming to the us, in particular those 'familiar' with the western or european lifestyle.