Bridges Books

Only someone with no other reading to do can handle the demands of reading this type of book. However, it is worth the fortune one much pay to get a copy of this work. Where else can one find the nuances of interpretation or vagaries of fact that emerge from slender information or from meager scraps of archaeological artifacts? No longer do such imponderables parade as established proof beyond a shadow of a doubt. In addition, there is no further need to look for a book for those locations that some text mentions but neglects to map; this is a a one stop shopping mall for the ancient middle east and the bible.

If you are looking for an atlas for helping in your study of the Bible - this is it. (If you are not looking you should think about it!) The maps are excellent, but they are only a part of the contents of this fine reference. There is a wealth of cultural and language information contained along side wonderful insight into Biblical history as revealed in the geography of the Scripture. The authors obviously have a passion for their subject matter and it shows in the outstanding quality of this work. The publisher has presented the work in a wonderful format and the book is as beautiful as it is thorough in scholarship. "The Sacred Bridge" is a must for the serious student of Scripture and even more so for the Bible teacher. It is expensive - I saved for it for a while - It is worth every penny and more.

Robert Curtis
Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

What an amazing resource for any student of the Bible. It brings places and events to life through extensive use of ancient sources, archaeological finds and detailed maps. It is a must have for any serious bible scholar!!

Receiving this book has been an extremely pleasant surprise for me. Knowing the quality of Carta atlases, I ordered it expecting a top-quality up to date biblical atlas. However, I found it a superb, well-documented treatise of the pre-biblical, biblical and post biblical world, through the Bar Kokhba revolt, illustrated with high quality maps and photos. Although these illustrations, by themselves, are highly instructive, they do not make this unique volume as valuable as it will be to any serious biblical scholar. The authors compiled tremendous amounts of historical and archeological information that would be hard to retrieve otherwise. Although experts may argue about details of the information presented on the interpretation of certain biblical passages, as these depend on the academic school they represent, this book provides an unprecedented wealth of up to date information; information that will allow interested biblical scholars to go to the sources and expand their horizons. Last but not least, this treatise documents in great detail the robust connection between the biblical text with the geography of the ancient Jewish homeland and with relevant recent archeological findings. It is, therefore, also of substantial timely value when the veracity of biblical history is being questioned not be scholars but by biased political parties.

Dr. Michael Anbar

I haven't done the projects, but have worked a little with a loom. This is a good, basic book, written in the 70's. I think it's a good start, but am more used to real photographs and color diagrams, which this is lacking. I'd recommend it for someone who is really into this kind of beadwork and is artistic, which I'm not.

Extraordinarily complete, this volume features closeup photos that demonstrate exactly how the stitches and wire work is done. Very helpful, for anyone of any level - even advanced or expert beaders who may yet be vague about certain aspects of their craft.

I thought the book was educational as the pictures and text were easy to follow. Many different projects to work on.

Excellent! You'll love it. If you're a novice beader it's a wealth of information that's clear and concise. If you're an accomplished beader it can only add to your already vast knowledge. Unusual among craft books, beading books in particular, due to it's large, clear, step-by-step pictures.

I have worked with Mike. He is a superstar. No gimmicks here, just good sound techniques for the beginner and the experienced sales person. This book is a must for all sales people.

Mike's powerful six step approach to sales is based on the most fundamental truth in sales--there is no such thing as a 'pitch'; sales is about communication, and communication involves at least two people, two styles, two personalities. Read this book and throw out all those 'sales' books that are mere lists of canned closes. Learn to connect with your customer using Mike's techniques, and you might surprise yourself with the results.

The Sales Bridge: Connecting With Your Customer by 25-year marketing veteran Mike Lewis is a practical, "user friendly", six-step guide for dedicated salespeople seeking to communicate quickly and efficiently with their customers, distinguishing themselves from their competition, establish long-term business relationships with profitable accounts, and much, much more. A first-rate guide to professional manners, positive attitude, awareness, and go-getting business and social skills, The Sales Bridge is recommended reading -- especially for the novice salesperson in today's volatile. and challenge marketplace.

highly reccomend this book to any salesman and especially sales managers. very to the point, very easy to read. format of book is great for future references back to it. sales techniques and analysis will definately help me with future negotiations / sales.

Great condition with well kept book jacket. Smooth transaction. Delighted with book.

It's the best Gone With the Wind book I've read, besides GWTW itself! Terrific photos! Covers everything from Margaret Mitchell, to the stars of the movie! I recomend it to anyone who loves Gone With the Wind!

It's the best Gone With the Wind book I've read, besides GWTW itself! Terrific photos! Covers everything from Margaret Mitchell, to the stars of the movie! I recomend it to anyone who loves Gone With the Wind!

This book's cover alone is worth it all!!!! Contains "fresh" photos of Scarlett contenders as well as documenting the quest for the "right cast".

This book is a MUST for all GWTW collectors!

This was a great book, it was hot and sexy with a great story! Ms. Monroe knows how to keep you reading until the end! I loved it.

I was pleased that the synopsis for this book was accurate and also the book was in excellant condition. I have no criticisms of the product i purchased.

E-books have really found a niche on my shelves lately, at least my electronic shelves. Though I still read 'traditional' romance novels, I think the engaging and different story lines plus the hot, hot sex bring an extra zing that a lot of stories are missing now and days.

Shattered is just that type of novel. Alex Houston is a dancer and college student struggling through life when one freak night introduces her to the man of her dreams, Steven Macmillan. They have a passionate (and I mean passionate) interlude that leaves them both yearning for more, but it takes a year for the two of them to hook up again. What follows from there is an engaging tale of how preconcieved notions, fate and great sex can snatch up even the most aware person.

Although I own this book in both formats, I was really amped to see it on Amazon and I purchased my copy because it's definitely one for both my shelves.

Wow, what a great story. I purchased Karen Monroe's story, Shattered, when a friend recommended it to me. I'm a huge fan of erotic romance, but I love a great story as well. Ms. Monroe has the recipe for a spicy and quality read in Shattered.

Alex, an exotic dancer, instantly enthralls Steve, a millionaire, upon their first meeting. While the plot is great, the chemistry between Alex and Steve steals the show. Ms. Monroe uses great imagery to draw us into Steve and Alex's world. They are both complex persons who are battling with past demons and current struggles, but who can't deny their attraction. Steve will move mountains to get Alex, and she's overwhelmed at times by his intensity. However she realizes that true love can be deep, emotional and steadfast. I enjoyed Alex and Steve's journey towards their HEA, and I highly recommend this story for those who enjoy a good erotic story.

Additonally, the secondary characters, Jake (Steve's brother) and Ameril (Alex's friend), have a hot relationship as well. I certainly hope Ms. Monroe will write their story...SOON! Bravo to Karen Monroe for a winner with Shattered!

book was excellant, came quickly, and was in great condition.

Exellent! Out of all the Siberian Husky books I have read, which is about 6, this one was the most helpful. I have a Husky of my own and if I could say something about this book is that it was so helpful! I recomend it for all want to be and all owners of Siberian Huskies!

Although relatively small (75 pages), this paperback covers a little bit of everything pertaining to Sibes. From breed standards to training to breeding. For it's price it covers a lot of ground but might not go into the detail one might expect from a larger book. However, for it's size and price I feel it is an excellent book worthy of purchase for any owner of the Siberian Husky.

This small book could not have hoped to cover "Everything..." as it claims, but I have found it to be useful on many occasions. It provides a general guide to almost every conceivable situation and concern, providing the quality of advice a new owner needs. An owner of a new sibe puppy will want to supplement this book, so they should consult their breeder-use an established husky kennel, not a backyard breeder-other texts, and their vet. Other topics, like medical/health and diet, will likewise be covered in more detail in other places. Don't stop with this book but do get it if you are with sibe. And hang on to that leash!

This is the first to examine the works of Ammann, one of the finest modern bridge designers of modern times. This uses over 200 archival photos to present displays of his New York bridges, their construction, and the development of his ideas. The in-depth details on bridge designs of the times and Ammann's place in the world of bridge designers makes for excellent coverage.

Diane C. Donovan Reviewer

This book is as special to New Yorkers as it is to Engineering Enthusiasts. As New Yorker in Exile, I now live a life where if I traverse one major bridge a year, it's an event. When I lived in New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Stane Island at various times), the crossing of these major Bridges was a daily event. Not a day went by when I didn't listen to the Traffic reports and have to quickly calculate my Commute strategy in order to choose the most efficient Span to cross. When going Upstate to visit the parents, I often crossed The Whitestone, Throgsneck or Tri-borough if traffic was too congested in Manhattan. Sometimes, I'd cross the Verrazano, The Brooklyn and the George Washington. This book honours the creation of the modern bridges, their design, construction, completion and functionality as well as describing the political and economic climate in which they were conceived and completed. It answers many of the passing questions that came to my Driving Mind as I stalled in traffic at the Tolls of these Bridges and it brings back memories of my life in the City of Islands. As I mentioned in the title of this review, while kinda technical and history-laden, this is a love song to the Bridges of New York City. Buy it, read it and you'll learn to be grateful for living in a time when these bridges ease travel and not curse them as I used to do occaisonally during Jams. Before reading this book, I never bothered to imagine New York before them and now I appreciate them all the much more.

"Six Bridges - The Legacy of Othmar H. Ammann by Darl Rastorfer is a very well written book about a great 20th Century engineer and his engineering feats in long span suspension bridges. This is a must read for everyone for it reveals the trials and tribulations of a man who made history by using scientific principles to design world record breaking bridges.

With his European education Ammann sought out a dream to come to America and seek opportunities in the new country. Within two weeks he started his first position. The early years of Othmar Ammann's career are clearly outlined showing how he gained his knowledge with diligence in various career positions. His thoroughness and dedication to hard work is demonstrated by the trust, faith and confidence of the people who hired him. His reputation was building.

I enjoyed the stories which tell of his character building during hard times also. After his plans for a bridge challenged his future with an employer, he was able to move on and demonstrate his convictions with successful accomplishments. Interesting political considerations are also profiled in the important decisions of costly construction and pressures from public opinion. Ammann's skill to work with people results in many obstacles being overcome.

When the trials and tribulations of office competition evoled, Ammann had the fortitude to break away and start anew. He was a man of visions and had dreams to fulfill. He was a man of principles and nothing could sway him. He was confident his engineering background and skills could lay a path of successful bridge design and construction.

No other bridge engineer has influenced one city more than O.H. Ammann. The history of the planning stages of the designing and construction of these six bridges is well written and interesting for all readers. These six bridges: Georg Washington, Bayonne, Triborough, Bronx-Whitestone, Throngs Neck, and Verrazano-Narrows all are beautifully photographed. A chapter for each bridge outlines their construction with great description and many breathtaking photographs. If you have never been to New York Ctiy this author will certainly take you there with beautiful photos and interesting, informative narrative. Another book including O.H. Ammann's life is: Henry Petrosky's - "Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders"

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During the first half of this century, American bridges became the largest and most beautiful structures ever built; Othmar Ammann, a Swiss engineer who came to New York in 1904, was the quiet genius who built six of the very best.

George Washington, Bayonne, Triborough, Bronx-Whitestone, Throgs Neck and Verrazano-Narrows are his monuments; like the skyscrapers, literally "invented" in New York, the builders of suspension bridges perfected their art in the US. It shows what can be accomplished with new wealth, pride and vision. One of the finest is the Verrazano-Narrows bridge; the towers for the cables are as high as a seventy story building. To put this in perspective, that's twice as high as the tallest "skyscraper" in Phoenix.

Each tower was assembled with 10,000 steel cells, fastened with six million rivets and two million bolts. The Empire State Building has 365,000 tons of steel, the bridge has 1,265,000 tons. Like the Parthenon, where the pillars were sculpted to present the most pleasing appearance, the bridge towers are tapered from top to bottom. The two towers are plumb, but the curvature of the earth means the tops are one and five-eighth inches further apart than the base. Since metal expands in hot weather, the roadway at the center of the span rises or falls by 12 feet during a temperature change of 100 degrees.

Bigger bridges will be built. Some will be more beautiful. But these six are the ones that set the standard. Everything from now will be an adaptation of them. It's like the Golden Age of radio, or television, or movies, or the Internet; experimentation and innovation is always greatest when technology is new.

A suspension bridge is truly an artistic sculpture, because it is based on natural curve of a cord strung between two points. Look at a spider's web, the curve of a bird's wing, or wheat bending in the wind; there is a contrast between nature and the massive stone blocks of earlier bridges. The book is admirably illustrated with more than 200 photos; they show the artistry, and the incredible labor that went into the construction of each.

In today's society, when lowest cost seems to be the only consideration, some wisdom from Ammann in 1958 stands out, "In fact, an engineer designing a bridge is justified in making a more expensive design for beauty's sake. After all, many people will have to look at the bridge for the rest of their lives. Few of us appreciate eyesores, even if we should save a little money by building them."

It shows good design is possible, and adds a great deal to a community. Like Will Bruder's design of the new Phoenix library, skillfully described in the book "Phoenix Central Library" by Oscar Riera Ojeda, et al, this book is a must for anyone interested in better communities.

You have to get this book. And get more copies for your friends. If you have any concern for the lost and sparking concern in others for the lost you will read this book.

Charles Spurgeon has a unique Blessing for communicating how to allpy what God is telling us in the Bible.

This is a valuable resource.

A delightful compilation of the best representatives of Spurgeon's wisdom and expositions of how to use God's Law (Ten Commandments) in evangelism.
There is little original writing by the author other than his preface. However, Ray has provided some commentary after certain quotes which does not serve to detract the reader from Spurgeon's topics. This is a smart approach to this collection. Spurgeon was such an inspired rhetorist, gifted with an imcomparably rich vocabulary that demands little or no explanation, which is a testament to Spurgeon's ability to preach to all levels of human intellect. There's not much to expound on the fact that all mankind is under the curse of sin having violated God's holy standard and the need for salvation from eternal damnation through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ on Calvary.
A required edition for anyone involved in evangelism.

This book really gets you to want to share your faith. It reminds us of just what the fate of the unsaved is and how imperitive it is for them to repent. Well done.

According to Alexei and Cory Panshin, in the critical work The World Beyond the Hill, Star Bridge's genesis goes back to 1944 or so. Jack Williamson, inspired by Isaac Asimov's Foundation stories, decided to do his own "managed history/galactic empire" novel, with the working title of Star of Empire. Williamson had problems making the idea work, so that it took 10 more years plus James Gunn's assistance to finally make a story out of the idea.

And what a story! I first read this novel at the age of 9, just a few years after it came out, and have periodically re-read it every so often since then. I outgrew much of what I read in my teen years and before, but this book is one of those stories that I still enjoy now as much as I did then.

This story succeeds on more than one level. Most obviously, it is a fastpaced adventure story. On another level, it's one of those stories where things aren't quite what they seem at first glance. Or at the second (third? fourth?) glance. That, I think,is what keeps me coming back to this novel -- the thought that I may see something in it that I missed on the previous reads.

One thing that completely perplexes me is how unknown Star Bridge is, even among science fiction fandom. It is in the top rank of Williamson's work (that goes for Gunn, too), yet I find that even big fans of Williamson often have never heard of it. Hopefully there will be enough demand for used copies of this book that someone may do another reprint. I think it's about time -- and it would really be cool if it were to be made into a movie.

A great novel with (at the time) revolutionairy ideas of travel via 'wormholes'. The character is typical of Sci-fi writing of the time, and there is a leading character that has to be an early personification of 'Giles Habbibula'.
Well worth the read, and great book from THE Grand Master of Sci-fi.

I first read "Star Bridge" in sixth grade at the age of 11; I'm now almost 43, and I still hold this as one of the greatest SF books I've read.

Williamson's imagery and wordcraft set the standard for many of today's modern masters. His antihero Horn, the eccentric man-with-a-secret Wu, and his decaying human empire are shown in high relief, and the imagery evoked burns itself into your mind permanently.

Find and read this book; do what you must to acquire a copy, and savor it slowly. Horn's passage through the Tube and hyperspace is one of the most stirring examinations of consciousness I've yet to read; it still moves me.

Find out why one man can move an empire...

Why has this book never been made into a movie? It has it all...adventure, romance, a Metropolis-like futuristic empire, the idea of near-instantaneous space travel.
Well, that part of the book was probably the inspiration for the original Star Gate movie. But this book's plot was much more coherent than the revolt against the sketchy, androgynous tyrant of Star Gate. The character of Wu is one of the best executed and most thoughtful in the history of the SF genre, IMHO.

Imangine reading a book, and forgetting what you had just read?
Or trying to "get" what the author was saying, or falling asleep after reading a book. This happens all to often. It's observable it all schools, and in most everyone, reading almost anything.
I grew up knowing this technology, and recently starting fully using it in my everyday life.
I used it to get to new heights, in playing chess. I always wanted to be a good chess player, but felt frustrated by the many books, and what-not out there, that seemed over my head, or too confusing. Finding the right chess book, led me to owning almost 300 books! and still not getting better.
I recently went back, and used this study tech, on a piticular tough chess book, and to my amazement, I learned something! and still remember it to this day. Now i'm ready to get through the whole book, and get to new heights in chess.
With this data by Mr Hubbard, anyone can learn what ever they set out to!

I wish I had been given this book before I started college - it would have made my studies much easier.

This book covers the basic technology of successful study.

Did you ever get to the bottom of a page and realize you don't know what you just read?

Have you ever gotten headaches or stomaches while studying?

Have you ever felt frustrated by study materials?

Did you ever just want to throw a textbook away and quit the class?

I, like probably most everybody, have experienced all these things. This little book explains what EXACTLY happens to cause these different phenomenon. Not only does it explain the cause, but it gives very simple - VERY simple - ways to handle them!

I use these study techniques with my children. My 12-year-old just read the whole set of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and is now reading "Runaway Jury" - not something most 12-year-old kids can do. He's been reading high school science books for a few years now, and he uses these techniques himself in his study.

This study technology makes it possible for anyone able to read to be able to read anything. Legal documents, scientific texts, whatever -- if you use the techniques as laid out in this book, you can learn anything.

Unlike the "how to study" course I took my first semester in college, this book actually covers basics of learning that EVERYONE runs into, whether they are an engineer, or writer, or artist.

It breaks down basic barriers to learning and explains clearly how to overcome each one.

This is not dry theory - it's practical application that the student APPLIES. I have gotten SO much out of this material already!

I got this lil pamphlet thing from this yellow tent in my city.

Guess what: I CAN FIALY UNDERSTAND PHYISICS! Although my teachers and family dis the guy who wrote this book, the book kicks ass all the same. The idea of clearing words up while studying is SOOOOO GOD DAM TRUE! Just try it out! There is no psychobabble about brains and nerve pulses, just 3 study steps. You really can conquer any subject by applying the oh-so-simple techniques outlined.

The reason I never liked physics and got 'bored' or 'wooden' was through no pictures in the school text book. I now draw a diagram for every concept in all my lessons and clear up EVERY word I don't understand in English class.

I really really recommend you get dis book.