Byrne Books

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new commands to be used in following drawings. It is a great primer
for new users learning 2-D basics, and I have shared it with experienced users at work as a reference manual for 2-D
and 3-D drawings. The book comes with a disk with programs
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While a co-worker was spending hundreds of dollars to
learn AutoCad at the local collage, I learned as much at
the same pace at home with this fine book. It should be sub-titled as a tutorial. The book begins assuming you know nothing about AutoCad,
and carefully explains in a straight-forward method all you need to know. Everything is done in sequence so each excercise teaches
new commands to be used in following drawings. It is a great primer
for new users learning 2-D basics, and I have shared it with experienced users at work as a reference manual for 2-D
and 3-D drawings. The book comes with a disk with programs
to help you learn which was a real time-saver for me. I would recommend this book to all beginning and professional
AutoCad users. I have other titles from The New Riders Publishing Company, and they have all been a very good investment.

Oh, the book is too serious to describe it just in few words. It is extremely detailed and requires broad knowlegde of the subject. It covers Irish history from the earliest times of written sources or even earlier - from the times that we only know from sages and myths to approximately 12th century. This book is a must for all the people who are scholarly interested in Irish history, but can be hard to read for people who are not that serious about it. So, I stronly recommend it to all history students, but I would advise all the diletans to prepare themselves better before they begin reading this great and very important book.

Medieval Irish history is a minority-interest field to begin with, but finding a good secondary source that accurately separates myth from history is difficult at best. F. J. Byrne, always a thorough historian, has produced what could be the definitive history of the medieval Irish political world. It is a general work, to be sure, and in that lies its strength. Until recently, the histories available to students of medieval Ireland had a fair amount of questionable data and did not focus specifically on the ever-changing political and ecclesiastical influences that the rulers of the time had to deal with.
Byrne's work is also invaluable because, unlike many other histories, it is not provincial in scope, but rather manages to grasp the political climate of medieval Ireland in total. His presentation is effective, and his writing style is far from boring. This work belongs in the forefront not only of medieval Irish history, but also of regional historical studies worldwide.

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I am completely delighted with "The Little Guides" series. The format is extremely user friendly, and each guide is packed with useful and interesting information. I enjoy reading them, but my 6 year old daughter gives them the most use. While the guides are written at an adult level, there is plenty that she can read and understand. I currently own "Sharks," "Birds," "Mammals," and "Space," and have ordered "Reptiles," "Whales," and "Flowers."

"Space" is a great book to start you looking at the stars. It starts with a general tour of the universe, including stars, galaxies, and the solar system. The majority of the book is about observing the sky, with charts for about 100 constellations. The final part of the book discusses space exploration. A pronunciation is given for each constellation, as well as the history (and mythology) of the constellation, and what type of equipment is needed to see different stars in the constellation (binoculars or what power telescope).

This is a great resource of adults as well as children!

This is such a interesting guide book!! I got this book from my christmas gift about nearly 2 months ago. Then I started to like it!! This book has everything about space, including the solar system, stars and galaxies, the space history, star charts and lots more!! It sure tests your knowledge!! It's even easy read and it includes lots of color pictures and photos!! This book is 318 pages long. So if you're interesed in space, get it!

The other evening I descended my stairs to find my husband snuggled on the couch with a picture book and my 3 year old son, reading. This is not unusual. What was unusual was that my thirteen year old daughter sat with them listening intently as well. The book, not surprisingly, was Louisa May and Mr. Thoreaus Flute.
It is a well woven story of inspiration and the search for authentic self. The illustrations have a distinctly natural appeal that defers to the passion of Thoreau very well. They absorbed my youngest. The story and the words are engaging and inspiring enough for my eldest, a big fan of Little Women. It is a lovely book to share with your young creatives.

The childhood of Louisa May Alcott is surely a subject to fascinate young readers. While many recognize her as the author of the classic "Little Women," few may know that she also penned a poem, "Thoreau's Flute," a mournful tribute to her childhood friend, Henry Thoreau. In her verse she laments that "The genius of the wood is lost."

Louisa, very much like Thoreau, was drawn to nature. She wrote as a child and her authorial skills bloomed under the tutelage of her proud parents. Nonetheless, she found time to run off to the concord woods where Thoreau had built a hut, and Louisa said that she felt closest to God.

The Walden Pond area was often visited by Louisa and her sisters who enjoyed picnicking near the water and rowing on the Pond.

This story of a young girl's friendship with a kindred soul is beautifully illustrated with woodcuts, apt companions for a tale emphasizing individual realization and nature's bounty.

- Gail Cooke

Thank goodness for people like Robert Byrne who have the foresight and passion to document the lives of subculture luminaries. Dan McGoorty was one such personality, and I'm glad this book is back in print.

On one hand, McGoorty was a person whom many considered a waste of life; on the other hand, he was a master of a complex and subtle game. The contrast of these two aspects of McGoorty makes for a fascinating read. There's also a section in which McGoorty shares with us his experience with other notable pool and billiard champs. Highly recommended for anybody interested in the history of billiards.

McGoorty: A billiard hustler's life is one of the greatest books I have ever read. It is out of print, but a few years back I got it from the Cornhusker catalog. Anyway, this book is a narrative that is just funny as hell and poignant, from beginning to end. It's all about Danny McGoorty, and his rise from being a no-name drunk pool hustler, to a drunk box car bum, and then to a sober billiard champion playing among the likes of Willie Hoppe and Ray Ceulemans. A must read for anybody who likes a story that won't slow down, and a definite must for any pool player or fanatic. Find this used or whatever, but get it!!

I am a relative newcomer to the database server arena yet found enough in this book to get me well on my way. Very easy to follow.

This is an excellent tool for the administration of MS SQL Server. I has important information for DBA's and some usefull information for developers. It has detailed explanations of SQL Server tuning, Replication and SQL Security. An absolute must read for SQL Server Administrators!

This book is destined, I think, to be considered one of the most important poetry books of the 21st Century in both Ireland and American. I'm not joking. This poet writes as well as -- and often better than -- Plath, Patrick Kavanagh, Bishop, Lorine Niedecker, and Ashbery. These are all very different writers, obviously -- which is in part to say that this writer and the poems in this book are so versatile and disparate in form, content, and style that I am nonplussed and frankly awed by this poet's versatility; her conceptual, lyrical, and narrative gifts are so stellar and strange that I have trouble thinking of Mairéad Byrne as one person.

It is a long first book (128 pages) that reads like a "Selected" volume. The book is divided into three sections: 1. "From _An Interview with Romulus and Remus_"; 2."From _Cycling to Marino_"; 3. "From _The Pillar_" -- which makes me think it is three books in one. The credits and acknowledgements pages are extensive: she's published widely in both Ireland and America, in both countries' best journals. She's been widely anthologized in both Ireland and America.

I see that Wild Honey Press is a new Irish press and that this is its first full length book. And, too, I can see why the press chose to inaugurate or christen its full length publications with this book: this book is absolutely stupendous-and this poet is a major Irish poet; what's more, Mairéad Byrne is a major Irish poet writing as an immigrant in America, writing thus from and in two traditions, in two countries, taking on, getting from, and contributing to the American poetry milieu in ways that I have not seen, and do not expect to see, American authors doing.

I read these poems and said yes; yes, there's a brightness, yes, there's a resonant voice, yes, the varied conceptualizations are ingenious, yes, I saw, yes, I touched, yes, it remains. I think there'll be volumes more; Flo-Jo blown into motion.
This volatile stuff is chameleon poetry, dazzling all the cosmic accesories, of verdant verbiage, with wit; the book shook. Read the poetry that's been lived in, its running commentary, investigation, controlled mutation, labor-exploratory station, mad scientist jones.
It's an inventor's notebook, a painter's mannered design, a scholar's close angle, the aviator's dashing plan; blueprints, I mean, of a perspective, the scene. The long poem "The Pillar" stands as a remarkable treatment of the form, its possibilities, near-infinitessimal variation wobble. I bogus U knot...just trust me, if you want to write, join the debate, or read to enlightenment, look for as many vehicles of language as you might conceivably sample, maybe, all the way to customary usage.
Although, the book is something a bit unconventional; dare I say, revolutionary? We see that there's fuel in the underground, storage tanks, sloshing rare brews, blot tests. Where else can you catch sight of the bashful huruburu bird, or, see speedwellbuttercup under the monkey-puzzle tree? Don't you tempt me. I say, raise the cup, pour the libations to poor poetry, vowing a helix of laurels, for another, another day. Find out today, enter, lights on, reaction. Of course, I said yes.

Of the numerous books of poetry I have read, Passages of Time is by far one of the best!
You are an amazing poet and writer.

Wishing you all the best.

This collection of poems by James Byrne is choc-full of imagery, and has wonderful use of some lost techniques mixed in with a fresh modern outlook.
A reccommended read for all poetry lovers.
Support the poets of today! They are the greats of tomorrow!

Nicholas, Earl of Ravensdene, returns to his ancestral home in Sussex after over a decade of fighting in battlefields in the Continent - Napoleon abdicated the year before. Ravensdene now works for the Foreign Office and his return to Essex is primarily to catch a traitor. What he didn't bargain for was the relentless pursuits of the local misses and their matchmaking mamas. To make matters worst, he finds himself surprisingly intrigued by the niece of his prime suspect. Sarah Lynley is sweet and is universally adored by everyone. She is a bundle of nerves whenever she and Ravensdene meet - although it didn't stop her from pointing a pistol at him!

Our hero is wonderfully tall, dark - every inch a man! Despite his lethal strength he is always wonderfully gentle when it comes to our heroine. Sarah is innocent and delicate due to a horrible tragedy she faced at a very young age. Which is why I love their story so much. It makes for a refreshing change from the seemingly standard strong, independent and opinionated heroine. Despite his overwhelming desire for her, he courts her ever so patiently. And it's wonderful to see how Sarah slowly blossoms and finally becomes a woman.

The love scenes may be considered chaste by modern standards but the intense passion and desire between the two is always there just simmering. Although chastely described, the big love scene (practically near the end!) is wonderfully intense. I love that Sarah is so different from the usual heroine. No shouting matches, no battles of stubborn wills. Their love story is exquisitely tender but passionate!

The Earl of Ravensdene goes back to his seat in Sussex to hunt down a spy and finds himself in hot pursuit of the totally refreshing and somewhat mysterious Miss Lynley. You'd think the plot is old and tried but Ms. Byrne certainly knows how to write a Regency romance and for that I thank her heartily. The plot, the story, and the characters are all very well developed and portrayed and Ms. Byrne has a wonderful sense of humor to boost. She keeps you in suspence until the very last pages, I couldn't put the book down. While this might be the firt book I read by Ms. Byrne, I am quite certain it shall not be the last.