Clarke Books

I come across an original edition autographed by Dr Torrey, "The Author". It's over a hundred years old. I've read it through many times. The messages were used of God to bring hundreds of thousands to Christ around the world at the turn of the twentieth century. The messages are the most pointed in print. They will bring about conviction in the hearts and lives of both the saved and the unsaved. He puts you into one of two sides...the Lords or the devils. Very powerful preaching. Highly Recommended.

This book is packed with sermons the Torrey preached on meetings outside the US. I guess these are exclusively Salvation messages. Although it probbably should be called "Salvation Addresses" because technically "Revival" belongs to those who are already saved, the book is valuable to me because I can use this for ideas when I preach to the lost or even in soulwinning. some chapters are on "GOD", "God is Love", "Weighing in the Balance", etc.

I was so very surprised that the simple "rules" would really affect my life. But they have - they are like quick, bottom-line guides. And they are always present to come to my aid. The authors' perception of "keeping exchanges in balance" and their methods for working that in one's life was particularly helpful - I would never have guessed how powerful this could be. This book is for adults, not just young adults. Most highly recommended.

I am 53 years old and got this book not knowing what to expect. I know that there are many things that guide our paths in life. Some basic beliefs in God and then there are the basic grass root beliefs that keep us on course. The "Rules of Five" is wonderful, non-threatening, easy to read book.

It is the first book in a long while that spurred enough emotion to actually shed a tear for Jade, the young girl growing up in the book.

I now have my 14 year old daughter reading it and she says she is enjoying it. That speaks volumes as it takes a special style to keep young girls and boys interested in anything they read.

This book is a must get for parents and for YOU. It is a Life Tune-Up. It is never too late for a tune up.

I can't believe no one has reviewed this book yet. It's an excellent book and will stir up your emotions everytime you read it. I've read this book about three times and each time, it makes me want to cry, makes me want to work for social justice. The title is from a homily from Archbishop Oscar Romero that said that those who work with the poor must ultimately suffer the same fate as the poor (which in El Salvador meant being killed, disappearing, etc). And this is exactly what Oscar Romero and these four churchwomen did. They gave their lives for the poor and this book tells their story.

While I'm interested in Maryknoll as well as in Latin American History, I would recommend this book to anyone.

The UN Truth Commission lays the martyrdom of these four holy US Churchwomen at the hands of the right wing Salvadoran dictatorship and by extension its US sponsors and advisors. Tellingly the US government never brought to justice the torturers, rapists and killers of our fellow Americans. Ragically as well the Catholic Church has not yet canonized these certain saints, confessors of the Faith and martyrs.

This revised edition now includes the UN report, as well as the consoling and helpful meditations of Sr. Noone. Please receive this volume gratefully and meditate on our own failings, our national failings and the way we have to go as Church and as individuals towards taking the same option with the Poor of God.

FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Imagine a world freed from the damaging demands of the oil economy; a world powered by 'fuel-less' energy; a world where all countries - rich and poor - have freely available electricity. Too good to be true? Or simply too good to be allowed? For over a hundred years, a maverick group of inventors and scientists have struggled to develop technologies which may end our addiction to fossil fuels. Their extraordinary and controversial discoveries now offer the potential to defuse the global climate crisis and yet they face opposition - both from the oil-dominated energy market and from the scientific establishment." Drawing on extensive and revealing research, this is the story of the mavericks, geniuses and madmen who have set out on a path paved with good intentions, and yet who have often arrived soaked with the bad blood of betrayal and conspiracy. Filled with colourful characters - mad, sane and brilliant - The Scientist, the Madman, the Thief and their Lightbulb has all the elements of a dramatic conspiracy thriller in which greed, suicide, murder, jealousy and misunderstood genius all play their full parts.

This intriguing book is a useful and balanced introduction to the field of Free Energy, with detailed discussions of several potentially successful inventions, from a 1901 patent awarded to Nikola Tesla through T. Henry Moray's work in the 1920s and '30s to Jim Griggs' Hydrosonic Pump in the 1980s and '90s. The author examines the politics behind the public debacle of Cold Fusion (it may still work), and the scientific principles behind what may seem to the layman like some mythical perpetual motion machine. Along the way he debunks a host of false claims. The first chapter is an excellent starting point for anybody who wishes to learn about Tesla, the genius who brought electricity into your home.

Tutt is fair-handed and has obviously done his homework, having personally investigated Paul Baumann's Thesta-Distatica in a religious community in Switzerland. He repeatedly addresses the questions about the veracity of his subject just before they arise in the mind of the reader. For example, many of the inventors who tried for decades to get confirmation or funding for their devices never saw penny one for their efforts, in contrast to the usually successful short-lived "take the money and run" practices of transparent shysters (who are covered in Chapter 11).

Tutt quotes extensively from statements sworn by scientists and bureaucrats who have tested the inventions in question, and reports the failures, too. In Chapter 12 he discusses the urgent need for new energy sources and also admits the difficulties in accepting and implementing new technology.

Conspiracy theories are addressed, too, and the fact is that many of the inventors featured have been mysteriously harrassed, threatened or worse. Possibly a greater threat to the viability of these devices is the difficulty of getting funding to develop a technology which is difficult to understand and not supposed to work. We've been able to electrify the world, but promising yet underexamined anomalies in electromagnetic theory have been around since Faraday's homopolar generator in 1832 (Chapter 4). Once another Maxwell comes around to explain those anomalies in equation form, it may all make sense.

The point of the book is to encourage interest in the idea of "Free" Energy without becoming a mystical or mathematical muddle, and it succeeds in an enjoyable way. It's like a mystery novel, but about actual work being done which just might change the world.

Barry Clarke's book does more than just add to the strength of the Baconian case in the authorship debate. He brings his background of scientific rationality and logic (as a Mensa puzzle maker no less) to this literary puzzle. Following in the tradition of serious analysis recently led by N. B. Cockburn in his "The Bacon-Shakespeare Question", the two of them have now created what may be the One-Two punch that both overthrows the Stratfordian arguments and provides Bacon as the strongest likely Shake-speare author, by far.

First, Clarke reiterates the argument that William Shakspere shouldn't be considered the bona-fide author unless someone else can be "proved" beyond doubt to be so. Instead, since the authorship has long been doubted with no definitive proof for William Shakspere, the question should be carried out as a trial by evidence. Currently, there is only the presumption, based on tradition and plausabile circumstancial evidence, that Shakspere wrote the plays and poems under a name similar to his. (Remember, the Sonnets were written by "Shake-speare", not William Shakespeare.) And the recent evidence supporting Bacon's authorship (and there is a great deal of it) has not been examined by Shakespeare scholars.

Clarke's book is not long on speculation and short on substance, as I have seen in recent books in favor of the Earl of Oxford or for Mary Sidney. He provides facts and reasonable analysis leading to a supportable but unpopular conclusion on a question that too many intelligent people have stopped thinking about.

This is a work in the best traditions of academic scholarship: a wealth of evidence has been assembled and rigorously scrutinized in support of Clarke's `Bacon as [author of] Shakespeare' case, inferences have been drawn with meticulous care and a concern not to go beyond the evidence, and a wide field has been surveyed. Clarke is to be commended for having foregone the temptation to cash in on the current public appetite for sensationalized conspiracy theory, as most famously in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. Clarke is equally at home unravelling cryptographic and other clues, discussing Elizabethan legal process and locating all within the paranoid court atmosphere of the time, when to criticize powerful people, even obliquely, could easily be rewarded with a spell in the Tower of London. It is this last issue which provides the motive for the massive deception claimed.

Bacon's credentials as author of `Shakespeare's Works' are examined in depth. He is seen to be an ambitious man of prodigious and varied talents, and not - as has often been argued - a dry and stylistically stilted author whose sensibilities are restricted to science, the law and administration. Clarke not only offers up an extensive collection of allusions (both within `Shakespeare', hinting at another's authorship, and from materials penned by Bacon and others, hinting at involvement in drama authorship) but also some completely new cryptographic evidence unearthed by himself. At the same time Shakespeare's credentials as author are shown to be flimsy in the extreme.

The case which Clarke sets forth is often technical but always closely argued, and readers with an interest in pursuing the argument further will welcome the extensive annotated bibliography.

Over the years there have been a number of attempts to discredit `Shakespeare' as author of the works that bear his name, but to the best of my knowledge this is the only one which is uncompromising in its rigour. Thus far it has been relatively easy for dyed-in-the-wool `Shakespeare' disciples to refute or at the least to cast serious doubt on arguments against the bard's candidature, but this work changes all that. The vast number of scholars and others sustaining their careers on the premise that the Stratford man really was the author of `Shakespeare' will now have little choice but to ignore this devastating challenge, for they would seem to have little chance of refuting Clarke's evidence or his arguments.

One of the greatest books on Chicago Architecture that I've read. I reccomend this book to anyone with even the slightest intrest in architecture or this great city. Perfect, scholarly writing skills. Couldn't ask for anything more. In one word: Perfect.

Las tipologías de edificios que se encuentran en la ciudad de chicago, desde los viejos donde los materiales crean la apariencia pesada de una masa que se extiende o intenta extenderse al cielo hasta los modernos que parecieran realizar un pequeño esfuerzo para alcanzar tales alturas.

Beautifully written account by Norma Jean Clarke - McCloud of the very personal trials and triumphs in her search for her American birth father. This book if anything, encourages others in their own search, no matter how involved or time consuming to realizing life long hopes and dreams of finding their American birth fathers. I encourage anyone searching their birth father's or families to take Norma Jean's experience and gather similar strength and persistence to pursue your dreams just as Norma Jean did. There is no time for giving up, the time is now.

I found this book totally compelling and difficult to put down. I felt as though i was right alongside Norma on the plane and on the greyhound bus in America on her journey to find her father. It must have been such an emotional rollercoaster for both norma and her children, who must have been a great deal of support towards her. I will definitely be passing this book onto my friends. I only hope that there will be a sequal to this story so we can find out what happened next. Well done.

I love this book. It inspires and informs beyond the SpaceShipOne to cover the people and their passions. Their dreams and aspirations, and how it all ties together in a grand tapestry of our collective aspirations to soar into the sky and beyond.

There are plenty of technical details that show the challenges faced and the ingenuity in overcoming them. Much is laid out in gorgeous photos and well written explanations.

If you've not seen it already, I highly recommend also getting the Discovery Channel documentary "Black Sky". Really the two mediums of print and video complement well. For some it might work best to see that first and then the book for a slower, more detailed look. That's how it worked for me though not intentionally. The video came out first.

There is only one thing I would add to this book, a photo of the crowd in attendance for the first flight to space. I was there with my oldest friend, having driven for 5 hours in the middle of the night to see such an historic event and join the thousands of others in a collective two thumbs up to the folks who made it happen. It was not an orchestrated event, there was no fare and no concessions. Just a community of wellwishers and dreamers hopping to also soar into that black sky, and see the curved earth below. To float free if only for a few minutes. As Burt himself said, it's a very good beginning. Here's hoping the trajectory is straight and high.

Dan Linehan's book Spaceshipone: An Illustrated History represents one of the best historical descriptions of the entire SS1 project written to date. Have been involved in the development of SS1, I can attest to its accuracy, and to Linehan's painstaking efforts and meticulous work to get the story, facts, and documentation correct. As an example, there is an photograph of the interior the SS1 cockpit, with all major controls and instrumentation annotated on the image. This is the kind of detail you will find nowhere else. I predict that this book will become the seminal reference on the SS1 program. I don't know how many copies were made in this first printing, but I'm glad that I've got a first edition.

On the first line of the acknowledgments page, author Dan Lineham apologizes to "any of my former English teachers who will have heart failure upon hearing that I actually wrote a book." I'm no doctor, but I have read a lot of space and aviation books, and I can say with certainty that all his former teachers are in no medical danger. This is a fantastic book. Really first rate. Glossy pictures throughout supporting excellent in-depth writing that has inside information with plenty of background history. And a foreword by the late Arthur C. Clarke who accurately says this book is "the inside story of how citizens reclaimed space."

It is so exciting to be reading about modern advances in space (by private rebels!), rather than re-hashed history from 40 and 50 years ago. I was worried that the book would be a few press pictures slapped together with a few superficial words covering just a couple of flights; but this is loads of awesome photographs with detailed and balanced writing coming from unique insider access. There is history and breadth with personal commentary from key players. There is detail with logs of all the flights and a full transcript of the Ansari X Prize-winning spaceflight. Overall a real quality production about a real exciting chapter in human history.

Cassie Gordon, on her way to Treaine to take a job as an apprentice engineer, has the bad luck to be on a spaceship that is captured by pirates. The men are all killed, and the women are kidnapped to work as slaves in the illegal drug trade - except for Cassie, who is put on the flesh auction block, to be purchased and used by the highest bidder. This is where Sebastian Asteril, disgraced former officer in the Seventh Fleet of Mariltar and now a trader of questionable ethics, found her and bought her. By the time they arrive at their destination, Sebastian and Cassie have developed a bond - but will it survive Cassie's psychological trauma from the pirate attack and Sebastian's lies?

This full-length novel has a very ambitious plot of broad scope containing a controversial topic (drugs and drug-dealing), as well as a love story that spans time and distance. The plot moves along at a fast clip, and the author manages to keep surprises coming until the very end. Clarke definitely knows her science fiction, ably blending a believable science fiction story with an emotional romance. In my opinion, StarJumper's Bride is a superior addition to the genre of futuristic romance, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.

I liked the character of Sebastian a lot - he was brash and sexy, and came across as a very independent guy. I was less fond of Cassie's character because at first she seemed timid and passive in many ways - not really a match for Sebastian -- although her character grew and developed as the story progressed. The love scenes are sensual and somewhat explicit, and demonstrate the hero and heroine's growing affection for each other. Readers should be warned that the story does contain some violence, which is used to move the plot forward. -- Jean, Fallen Angel Reviews (courtesy of Fallen Angel Reviews)

Starjumper's Bride is the second book written by Ms. Clarke with the futuristic setting of the Crestar System. Moonfire, her best selling book on Fictionwise, is the first book to take us to the exotic future world Treaine, with its multiple moons and varied cultures. I couldn't wait to get back to the future with this newest romance.

Sebastian Asteril rescues Cassie Gordon from a flesh auction by purchasing her. He isn't sure why he did that, he'd seen many other women being sold before, but Cassie is different and he has no choice, he can't leave her. An outcast from Treaine, stripped of his rank as captain in the Mariltar Seventh Fleet, Sebastian is a trader of goods among the far flung worlds. He takes Cassie with him, but when danger threatens, he marries her and leaves her on Treaine. Unsure of her growing feelings for the scoundrel Sebastian, Cassie is excited and unsettled when he returns. He tells her he is allowed on Treaine for a brief time to trade, yet his actions remain suspicious and she begins to wonder if he is as he seems. Danger from her past threatens not only Cassie but the entire Crestar System and Sebastian is the only one who can save them all.

Ms. Clarke is a masterful writer who makes you care about her characters. I always know that I will find a fully developed new world to explore with two people I want to get to know quite well. Dashes of humor and intimacy spice up the book and make it impossible to put down. I stayed up much too late one night to finish it and was very satisfied with the ending. Her two characters fought hard for their ever after and I was pleased to be there with them.

Ms Clarke has published three books, Moonfire under the name Anne Clarke and Starjumper's Bride and Summer Heat, a contemporary romance, under the name J.A.Clarke. One of her short stories in a collection titled Northwest Tales of the Season. I would recommend all of them and am looking forward to reading her next book.

Like all Studio Works. Perfectly edited and inspiringly educational.
Recommend the more recent Studio Works , stronger imagery.
A fantastic aid in compiling your own concept/design in a presentation format.
Worth every cent!

These are two connected books that show the graduate design projects of Harvard University School of Design 2001-2003.

BOOK 1

Preface | Introduction to Departments | Faculty of Design | Core Studios | Architecture | Landscape Architecture | Urban Planning and Design

Exhibitions | AUTOeMOTIVE: The Design Work of J Mays 28 January - 7 April 2002 | 30-50% Void: Residential Waterfront Borneo Sporenburg, Amsterdam 25 November 2002 - 12 January 2003 | Paper and Wood: Structural Innovation in the Work of Shigeru Ban
27 January - 16 March 2003



BOOK 2

Options Studios Fall 2001
Inside and Outside the Box/A Chelsea Addition, Linda Pollak | Los Angeles River Studio, George Hargreaves | Fueling the Vienna Prater, Gustav Peichl, Christoph Lechner | Urbanizations: The Blank Building, the U.S. Postal Service at South Station, Rodolfo Machado, Alan Mountjoy | Alternative Futures for Hangzhou, Richard Peiser, Carl Steinitz | Tokyo: Inner-City Revitalization, Peter Rowe, Masami Kobayashi |
Havana, Cuba: El Malecon, Leland Cott, Mario Coyula

Options Studios Spring 2002
Holdout Architecture (Case Study: Upper Manhattan), Preston Scott Cohen | Ostend, Belgium, Marcel Smets, Alexander D'Hooghe | Architecture for Politics? A New Swiss Embassy in Washington, D.C., Marcel Meili | The Mississippi Studio: Appropriating the Terrain of the Basin Model, Anu Mathur | Symmetrical Performance, Mack Scogin | The National Archives of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Gerardo Caballero, Jorge Silvetti

Options Studios Fall 2002
Beijing: Urbanism, Yung Ho Chang | Weather Monitoring Station, Winka Dubbeldam | Planning in Practice: Honolulu, Hawaii, Alex Krieger, Janine Clifford | Architecture Museum, Manuel Mateus | Lost and Found: New York City's Small Urban Spaces, Thomas Balsley | Exhibition & Introspection: New Building Complex for the Art Institute of Boston, Maryann Thompson | Backward and Forward in Time: The Xicheng District of Beijing, Peter Rowe | Disassembly Required: Constructing the Unwanted Building, Monica Ponce de Leon | Alternative Futures for Pueckler-Muskau Land, Carl Steinitz | Sighting the Cirque du Soleil, Peter Rose

Options Studios Spring 2003
Eyes in the Heat: Optics & Violence: A New Museum at Queens West, Michael Bell | Drawn to the Center... Living on the Edge, David M. Lee |
New Central Library for Shantou University, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron | The Temporal Field--Sports and Recreation Center, Vincent James | New Metropolitan Entrance, Joan Busquets | Weatherize, Jurgen Mayer Hermann | The Lakes Project, Mexico City, Hope H Hasbrouck |
Reinventing Apkujung, Seoul, South Korea, Rodolfo Machado | Assembly Square Mall, Carme Pinos | Miasteczko Wilanow: Landscape Matrix, Martha Schwartz, Elizabeth Mossop | The Hague, Binckhorst: Revising the Dump, Marcel Smets, Alexander D'Hooghe | "My Way"--a trip to Gee's Bend, Mack Scogin

Independent Design Theses
The Housing Diagram: Understanding the Korean Production of Western Housing Types, Kyungen Kim, MArch, Fall 2001 | Seascraper: The Leaning Tower of PSA, Ker-Shing Ong, MArch, Fall 2001 | Dial-A-Theater, Christian Alba, MArch, Spring 2002 | Thesis, Leonard Ng, MArch, Fall 2002 | Assembling Poche, Angus Eade, MArch, Spring 2003 | Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Start, Bryan Young, MArch, Spring 2003
| Times Space, Tobias Armborst, UPD, Spring 2002

Advanced Research Seminar
Tadashi Kawamata: Boston Project, Plan in Progress, Joe MacDonald | Independent Research Study: Weaving Material and Habitation, Toshiko Mori | Critical Perspectives: Perspectival Representation in the Process of Landscape Architecture Design, Holly Getch Clarke | Urban Planning and Design Advanced Seminar: Midtown West, Alex Krieger, Richard Marshall, Richard Sommer, Martin Zogran

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