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I was surprised by this man's great literary span. I had never heard of him before, but was given a copy of his short stories by a friend. I couldn't put it down, absolutely fabulous. There is in his writing a kind of surreal reality, if that's not too contradictory, which kind of grabs you and brings you up sharp.

Two stories which for me stood out were the enigmatic 'Walking Through A Snowstorm...' and 'Blue Vanishing Monday'. Incredible stuff. I liked his freshness, his newness his differentness. I would like to read more, I think I really have a taste for the guy's work. A really rich and honest read.

Kenneth

I absolutely loved this book. 16 short stories which had my heart racing and my mind in overdrive. Such a unique style, so modern and up-to-date and yet, reminicent of those old gothic horror stories I always loved. I just can't recommend it enough. Fresh, new, exciting and thought provoking. I think I will be thinking of these characters and the situations they found themselves in for a very long time. The author is from Scotland, I wonder if he might be related to that other famous Scotish Burns? Whether he is or not, this is a book to buy and read and reread and reread.

Marie Rothenberg is an excellent writer, and in her book David, she describes her point of view on her son's terrible tragedy. This is an incredible book, and anyone should read it. David is a must-read book.

I first recieved the book DAVID as a young child... too young maybe. I read the book from start to finish, and I could tell I had a different outlook on life. The things that David went through, and the things that Marie went through, gave me my own strength for my own life. The book shows excellent detail on everything from Marie's fear when she recieved the telegram, to her pride in her son when he went to the park for the first time since he got back. There is nothing I would like more then to read up on David, a sequel? Maybe? Thank you... Jessica, Michigan Please Write with your opinions...

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Within twenty four hours of his return home, after a tour of duty in Iraq with the military policy, David Endicott stumbles into his first case as Private Investigator. He rescues a corpse from a fire in the guesthouse of Baulden Grey, an eccentric billionaire. Grey hires Endicott to discover three things within seven days: identify of the corpse, how he gained entrance, and his motive for entering the heavily protected grounds.

Interwoven into a frenzied plot is the secret power of a rare Chinese butterfly. The wings of the Golden Yellow butterfly possess a secret powerful enough to change the threat of gang crime in Southern California. The story is based on little-known facts about the U.S. Human Betterment Foundation. This foundation was the source of information for much of the German Nazi Party's racial cleansing movement. The dual plot weaves an historic past into a frightening future as a hypothesis for a terrifying future reality.

I was captivated by the character David Endicott. David is believable, complex, impulsive, and likeable. The well written scenes and choice of locale create an awareness that Burns has drawn from his own personal knowledge and experience.

Burns intricately weaves the story line through his characters and their engaging, crisp dialog. This action packed thriller takes the reader on a roller coaster ride with a pace that never slows down, right up to the strong finish.

Burns has written and extraordinary first novel. He has created memorable characters in "Deadline: Stiff." I am eagerly looking forward to more David Endicott Mysteries

Reviewed by William E. Cooper for Reader Views (1/07)

I don't usually read mystery novels. As a retired Chief of Police I have found many of them lack the reality of policing, the reality of what it takes to actually solve a major case. I've found many of them favor the protagonist, reducing the police to essentially negative, cynical zealots who violate one civil right after another. Even though Mr. Burns reflects some of the officers in a similar light, I found his book to be a really good mystery read, and enthusiastically recommend it. The book is an excellent read, and I found myself staying up later than usual at night reading it. Mr. Burns is a fine writer and holds the reader's attention throughout the book. The near 300 pages fly by very quickly as you attempt to solve the crime.

Having read "Deadline: Stiff," and being a person who does not easily recommend material I don't believe in, let me safely say this is a book well worth the investment. I also will categorically state that if Mr. Burns produces additional books of this genre, I will be in line to buy them. Well done sir.

"Funny as were George's previous efforts," says the Hollywood Reporter, "we found this one to be his funniest." And so did readers everywhere who snapped up nearly 200,000 copies of the Putnam hardcover edition.

Eighty-nine years in the making! The book he swore he'd never write. (So he dictated it!) Priceless pearls of wisdom from the man who played God three times and never got struck by a thunderbolt!

Wherever Burns goes, his reputation precedes him. (Well, nobody's perfect!) But some people aren't fooled by appearances, and these discerning men and women have written to Dr. Burns for help with their most pressing problems. They know they can count on him to come up with the right answers. He's sensible, erudite, compassionate, and does a passable soft shoe. He shoots from the hip, calls 'em as he sees 'em, and makes it all perfectly clear. His expertise covers a virtually inexhaustible range of subjects. Whether the topic is sex or girls, he can be counted on to zero in on the question and come up with the perfect, practical solution.

Neither an optimist nor a pessimist (nor a podiatrist), George Burns grinds no axes. His openmindedness (he likes readheads as well as blondes) is one of the very special qualities he brings to the role of counselor. Nor is he a snob. He'll shoot off his mouth to practically anyone. And he knows how to keep a secret. From the reader's pen to Oh, God's ears is a principle he sees as central to the art of helping others. And he's been giving advice for a long time. In fact, he was telling people what to do when Dear Abby was still in Mary Janes.

Perigee Books is honored to publish what must be regarded as a major breakthrough in the field of personal guidance. Dear George--a work whose universality extends from Anaheim all the way to Bora Bora and whose brilliant insights may well change your life. (Even if they don't, you'll still get a couple of good laughs out of it)

This is another of George Burns' greats. All the answers are funny and some have a bit of wisdom to them!

It was a great pleasure to read the book “Differential Geometry and Topology With a View to Dynamical Systems” by Keith Burns and Marian Gidea. The topic of manifolds and its development, typically considered as “very abstract and difficult”, becomes for the reader of this outstanding book tangible and familiar. This joyful aspect of the book was achieved by the authors by setting the advanced material of differential geometry and topology as if on a “mobile bridge” or a “crossroad” that associates a(n) (primarily) unfamiliar abstract part of the text with elementary math theories. The latter pedagogical approach was mostly carried out through carefully prepared examples, in which, for essentially abstract structures and mathematical topics, well known familiar elementary settings serve as obvious motivations, which make the transition to a higher level of an abstraction smooth. Nevertheless, the scope of the main topic in this book, differential geometry and topology, is pretty far advanced. Besides the basic theory, centered around analytical properties of manifolds (mostly endowed with additional, in particular Riemannian, structures and vector or tensor fields defined on them) and their applications, it also provides a good introductory approach to some deeper topics of differential topology such as Fixed Points theory, Morse theory, and hyperbolic systems throughout the rest of the book.
The main stream of the applications that always follow or motivate the theoretical context is dynamical systems. Excellent examples reveal the close ties of this beautiful mathematical theory with common problems in theoretical physics, classical and fluid mechanics, field theory, and, most importantly, the theory of general relativity.
The book by Burns and Gidea is also be strongly recommended for those readers who wish to enhance their mathematical tools to make possible a deeper insight into these fascinating physical theories.

Jerzy K. Filus

A very clear and very entertaining book for a course on differential geometry and topology (with a view to dynamical systems).

First let me remark that talking about content, the book is very good. Each of the 9 chapters of the book offers intuitive insight while developing the main text and it does so without lacking in rigor. The first 6 chapters (which deal with manifolds, vector fields and dynamical systems, Riemannian metrics, Riemannian connections and geodesics, curvature and tensors and differential forms) make up an introduction to dynamical systems and Morse theory (the subject of chapter 8). Chapter 7 is devoted to fixed points and intersection numbers. The last chapter is an introduction to hyperbolic systems.

This enjoyable and highly instructive book contains a large number of examples and exercises. It is an incredible help to those trying to learn dynamical systems (and not only). It teaches all the differential geometry and topology notions that somebody needs in the study of dynamical systems.
The authors, without making use of a pedantic formalism, emphasize the connection of important ideas via examples. It completely enhanced my knowledge on the subject and took me to a higher level of understanding.

This is a great Western story that is so good you just can't put it down. The chapters are short. The action is fast and it's just plain fun reading. I loved it!!!

Larry Smith is a common name for a cowboy. But it's not Larry's name folks remember. Everyone Larry meets feels like they know him from somewhere. That's how Larry and Jake Lambert happen to be begin riding together. This face recognition can be both good and bad. Like the time the shop keeper thought Larry always paid his bills on time and was willing to let Larry provision himself for the trail on credit. Then when Jake and Larry happened upon some rustlers, one of who thought he knew Larry. Smith was able to talk the rustlers into returning the cattle from the trail outfit Texas drovers and Jayhawkers in a saloon both thought they knew Larry. Both he and Jake were able to leave the saloon before the two sides had at each other. In Ft. Worth, Smith and Lambert meet up with Amanda Ruth, whose uncle Milt Black owns one of the largest ranches in New Mexico Territory. After taking Mandy to her uncle's ranch, Milt offers both Larry and Jake a job. Things are going along smoothly when a Deputy U. S. Marshall arrests Larry for the shooting of a judge's brother. Now Larry is on trial and since there are witnesses who will testify seeing Larry shoot judge Black's brother, it does not look good for Larry. Even though Larry was working on the M Bar B and has witnesses of his own, will the jury believe his testimony? Will Larry be set free or face the hangman's noose. Along the way Larry and Jake meet such notables as Cochise, Billy The Kid, Pat Garret and Wyatt Earp. There are more surprises in store for the reader of Terry's WONDERFUL STORY-DON'T I KNOW YOU? Terry Burns has done it again...written a very good inspirational western that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!!

Fortescue argues the essential Catholic doctrines of the early understanding of the papacy with great authority and learning. This reviewer found much I didn't know and reinforced many things I knew but could never have said so elegantly. The volume is detailed and comprehensive but mercifully short, and not full of jargon -- it was witten at a time when brevity and style were still in favor. If you're curious about the traditions and customs of the early Catholic church and the pope, this is the book you need.

This book is a brief defense of the papacy from common patristic sources prior to the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Fortescue wrote this book as a response to Anglicans and the date 451 was chosen because of the seemingly arbitrary inconsistency of Anglicans in the date ranges they will accept evidence from for something being a "practice of the Ancient Church." Depending on the time of day and the Anglican in question those of a mind to accept patristic evidence accept the first two, three, four or seven Ecumenical Councils or any number in-between. Most all accept Chalcedon so it was used as the criteria by the Anglicans Fortescue was responding to.

This book is a good introduction to the patristic evidence for and a very good explanation of the disputed papal powers. Fortescue does a good job of explaining how the big question is really the universal jurisdiction of the pope and how the primacy (less disputed) and infallibility (very disputed) stem from it. Because this book was written toward Anglicans the quoted Fathers are probably too Western for use with the Eastern Orthodox. At the same time the brevity will probably not convince an obstinate Anglican either. However, it does give a good explanation and introduction on the subject and is a good place to start for those who have honest questions on the matter and especially for those ignorant of the most common ancient sources.

I made this quilt for my bed! Following Eleanor's instructions, my quilt turned out perfect. Do you want your quilt to be perfect? This is the book for you!

I love this book. It's another one of Eleanor's Easy ways to learn to quilt. She's done a fine job and I'm delighted to add it to my library.

The Empowerment of You I found to be a positive outlook on one's way to hit the "Reset Button" in their lives. I found the recipes to be lean, hearty and tasty. Its a fast and easy way for one to start a healthier life style. Great job

I found The Empowerment of You to be very inspirational, and one of the best and most helpful diet remedy in a long time. What a wonderful start to a new beginning and a new year.