Cameron Books

These cards offer a hilarious view on calling cards.
Great gift item, gal pals love em.

This is a great book for any single woman! Dating can become rather annoying at times, and this book is a way to liven things up for yourself. There is space for you to evaluate each date you have, score it and decide whether or not you will go out with him again. There is even a space for you to draw a sketch of the guy. This book can make you smile even after an awful first date!

I use these cute little stamps on my thank you notes to my hostesses as I am a pleasure party lady. These are girly fun for sure!

If homicidal faeries aren't enough, they can have a twisted sense of humor, too. Many of these stories will be your favorite. It's hard to reccmmend a favorite to start off with, but I recommend a cover-to-cover approach, because the stories just keep getting better and better. If I were to list 3 here, the most memorable from my picky perspective would be Passarella's "Twillight Crossing" Cameron's "Whisky Sour" and Ackley-McPhail's "Within the Guardian Bell" ...the continuing dramatic story from the first BAF best-selling book. It had sure been a pleasurable chilling night reading obsessively. It'll haunt you like that, too.
Passarell's Twilighy Crossing" is a reflection of his usual brilliant writing. This tale starts you out falling in love with the characters and story-telling style all at once. It's hilarious at times and twisted when you least expect it. His characterization skill is consistent, his clever and vivid descriptions bring you into the scene, as well as the Just Plain Bad nightmare... if you're not watching. One read and you're hooked. These authors rein supreme.

This is an excellent book and I wish I had not loaned my copy to someone and lost it. Nigel Cameron writes history in an entertaining, yet scholarly and informative manner. This is the best book I have ever read about the Western world's early experiences in China.

Cameron's first chapter briefly recounts the earliest exchanges between Rome and Han China and progresses to early Nestorian Christians living in 7th and 8th century Tang China. The really interesting tales begin in the second chapter when Cameron begins his extensive chronicle of individual western visitors from 13th century Mongol China to late 19th century Qing China.

These western visitors include the earliest missionaries (St. Ulrich, etc.) and merchants (Marco Polo) during the Mongol period, the extraordinary Matteo Ricci who lived in China during the Ming, the first Portuguese and British adventurers and diplomats during the Ming and Qing, and those explorers, scientist, and adventurers who travelled throughout China after China was forcibly "opened" to the west in the 19th century.

Cameron devotes a chapter to each Western visitor and portrays in great detail the people and society he or she encountered. Cameron is not averse to letting his feelings about each "barbarian" and "mandarin" show through. He really respects the early Qing Dynasty emperors - Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong; he is awed and amazed by Matteo Ricci; and seems amused by the adventures of 14th century St. Ulrich and the early frustrations of the British who try in vain to open a China that is utterly disinterested in trading with them. Cameron seems to disdain Marco Polo and only includes him in the book because...well, he's Marco Polo.

Finally, I think Cameron portrays China and the Chinese people very vividly and with proper respect. The reader will gain a greater understanding of how China was so far more advanced than Europe for most of the last 1000 years and how Chinese society evolved from the Yuan Dynasty, to the Ming, to the Qing, and finally to post-dynastic China of the 20th century. I lived in China for 13 years and think Cameron's portrayal of China is very accurate and very positive.

I hope someone comes to their senses and reprints this book again soon.

To the Batman fan, this particular volume is a particularly gratifying one, as we are seeing some of Dick Sprang's earliest work on the character he was probably best known for illustrating.
This isn't to degrade the work of Jerry Robinson, Jack Burnley or even Bob Kane himself, whose work also appears in this volume.
But Sprang, who actually began illustrating Batman in 1941, but whose stories were stockpiled until a few years later, brought a dazzling, magnificient, vibrant look to the feature unmatched by any artist of the time. In fact, he [later w/Charlie Paris inking] set the standard for the character, but was virtually unknown for who he really was [by name] until years and years later when he finally attended his first comic convention in Kansas City.
Sprang became a lifelong friend of mine and I worked with him closely to ID art he was unaware that he even did.
No serious Batman collector can do WITHOUT this Archive. Classic Batman w/great writing and imaginative illustrative story telling!!!

This is a happy little book of short stories about romance on Valentine's Day. I recommend this for teenage girls that like short, sweet romances. It'll put you in a good and hopeful mood.

I'm typically not one who likes those "day by day" inspirational books. They tend to be full of material that may have a nice point to make, but nothing that would stick with me through the day. The writings chosen for this work, though, are absolutely amazing. Each reading has given me a deep insight into a particular topic that somehow has a direct bearing on my spiritual life. A good book for any Christian, but particularly for theologians, seminarians and priests.

Bio-ethics is a new and burgeoning field, effecting all of us. Issues like human cloning, genetic engineering, assisted reproductive technologies, genetically modified foods, and embryo research are just some of the contentious areas which are making an impact on so many of us. Therefore it is important that those with religious convictions bring their concerns to bear on the new and weighty issues being debated.

Too often such debates have been left to the scientists, medical professionals, politicians and even the corporations to sort through. And often these folk bring to bear a secular utilitarian worldview on such issues. But these important matters should not be left for our politicians and scientists to decide upon. People with a religious worldview very much need to raise their voices as well.

As Nigel Cameron states in his helpful introduction:

"It is in bioethics, that point of intersection of the professions, the academy, and public policy, in which the dignity of the human being is constantly open to re-definition, and in which most of the best in our inheritance - medicine, science, the professional idea - is coming under withering fire from those whose values are radically distinct from the Judeo-Christian tradition. Our failure at the start of the new millennium to engage the culture in a degree which mirrors the size of our churches is distressing. Our failure in this realm of bioethics is particularly discouraging, since it is here that the assumptions of post-Christians are shaping their idea of what it is to be one of us. Conversely, our opportunity to make a difference at this point is immense."

That is why this volume is so important. It offers a much-needed corrective to the various dehumanising and market-driven approaches to the many debates in the life sciences. It offers a fresh restatement of the biblical position which promotes the dignity and worth of every member of the human race.

In this book a number of experts look at many different bio-ethics issues, but all from the Judeo-Christian point of view. All up, twenty medical, ethical, theological and scientific experts examine the many vexing moral issues which new developments in science and technology have produced.

These authorities deal with such topics as: fetal tissue research, in vitro fertilization, stem cell research, health care issues, abortion, euthanasia, sex education, and many other issues. The emphasis is on applying a biblical worldview to these ethical and public policy debates.

The book does not just deal with specific ethics issues. It also provides chapters on Christian leadership in public policy, developing a Christian worldview, mobilising churches to engage in the issues, and dealing with the media.

Some of the leading thinkers and writers in the field come together in this one volume: John Kilner, C. Ben Mitchell, Nigel Cameron, Francis Beckwith and Terry Schlossberg, among others. Their meaty chapters feature incisive comment on the perplexing ethical issues of our day, along with practical advice on how we all can make a contribution to the debate.

Thus this volume offers a fine collection of articles which are both timely and informative. The need has never been greater for a Biblical worldview to challenge the secularists and utilitarians who have tended to dominate these debates. This volume is a welcome corrective to that imbalance.

This is an essential NOIR reference book, jam-packed with extensive, literate essays and numerous eye-catching photos. Cameron has put together what is both an entertaining read, and a thoughtful, text-like guide. Don't pick this up until your NOIR education is well underway, It's not light reading by any stretch. But do seek it out eventually as it will enlighten and inform.