Ferguson Books

Will Ferguson plows through centuries of Canadian history in Bastards and Boneheads, a book that beautifully judges the personalities that have created and built Canada. This is a book for those who do not think Canadian history is very interesting or eventful. Very colourful personalities have made their will known in both helpful and harmful shaping this country and they come alive within these pages. This book will also shatter the myth of Canadians as "nice" people, because quite often we are not, particularly looking at the Holocaust of the WWII, the Japanese internments, and the relations with First Nations people (such as the chapter on Oka). The author's examination of more recent history, from the October Crisis to Chretien is also very illuminating. In the end how can any book with a chapter called "Ranking the Prime Ministers, From the Great to Mulroney" be all that bad. A wonderful book on a fascinating country. Highly recommended.

Ferguson does a wonderful job making Canadian history, traditionally perceieved as a dull topic, into an enthralling tale of a budding nation, people, and the strange contradiction that is inherent to all things Canadian. The language is simple, yet the ideas are very critical. The humoUr is terrific, yet Ferguson pulls no punches in condemning some of Canada's more shameful history. An excellent primer for anybody interested in Canadian history.

I use this book everyday in my clinic. My patients love getting to know the truth of why their diagnosis is a mystery. The patients are fascinated that when one uses optimal ranges alot more dis-ease is exposed.
I have recommended this book to so many other physicians. Dicken and Scott did a great job with this book. It's a masterpiece.

Functional analysis of blood tests goes far beyond looking at reference ranges (which are commonly mistaken for optimal ranges.) However aspects of blood chemistry which are normal, compared with abnormalities in other aspects may lead to an understanding of impaired immunological or endocrine function. Weatherby clearly describes how to analyze blood chemistry and CBC tests in this book. If you deal with blood test analysis, read this book.

A must have book for the avid sailor and a perfect gift to give! Filled with info.

The Boat Data Book is a great book. It has a lot of tables and reference numbers. It can help any designer with the heights and widths needed for things to fit and people to be comfertable. It is an easy to read book well worth the money. A must buy for anyone.

Finally, someone has written an intelligent discussion of why this epidemic is plaguing us. The writing is very articulate. The authors really know what they are talking about.

This book represents a new view of breast cancer from the perspective of a group of commited feminists and founders of the women's health movement. Through this book, we learn to understand breast cancer and how it impacts on poor women as well as the important environmental links to breast cancer.

I have been an animal lover my whole life. This wonderful tale of Bubbles the pot bellied pig is fun, touching and clever. The colorful illustrations really draw you into the story. The Nathan family is truly lucky to have little Bubbles!

What a wonderful story about a fascinating little critter. I even shed a tear at the happy ending. I hope this is the first in a series.

This National Park Mystery is different from all the other ones. The story actually spends more time talking about the foster kid, Nicky Milano. If you enjoy the National Park Mysteries, and like the story about the kids verses the mystery, then this book is for you. It just gives so much more detail. Remember, there are eleven other books before this one.
The thing with this book is that it is so suspenseful to see if the Landon kids and Nicky Milano will survive. (...). That's when Nicky stops lying, and tells Jack and Ashley the real story of his dangerous, hidden life, and his father, an ex-criminal.
I liked this book because I think it had more emotion in it. This story's foster kid really bonded with Jack and Ashley. The only thing with this last book is that I think the author rushed it. I mean, the bad guy goes right out and says he did it. Where's the mystery? Other than that, it was great. So read all the other Mysteries in our National Parks.

I thought this book book was a good book. It probably is one of the best in the series. It is heart pounding suspenseful,thrilling and full of action. It was heart pounding and suspenseful because when the avalanche comes they get freaked.




This book is about Jack and Ashley going Alaska's Denali National Park and Reserve to investigate the death of two male wolverines. They bring a boy named Nickey Milano and Jack gets suspicious about him when Nickey says that he is crazy and they don't know what they are dealing with. They get to their cabin and the next mourning Jack and Ashley go out in the snow to see a moose but Nickey finds them and they find out that his dad is in the CIA but jack knows he is lying. They get to Denali and a man named Chaz has agreed to take them on a dog sled ride to wonder lake while Olivia is studying the dead wolverines. They next thing the Landon kids and Nickey know the is they see Chaz riding away leaving them stranded in the middle of Alaska's wilderness. Suddenly they hear a roaring sound what is it AVALANCH! Can the the three of them escape the roaring mass of snow or will they be buried alive.


I recommend this book to a 8-13 year old or someone who likes mystery books.

As a career services professional, I have found this book very useful. Vogt provides career advice on a wide range of important topics, written in an easy, engaging way. Each chapter reads more like a short article, 5 pages at most, and he lists the most important points at the end of each chapter.
Vogt touches on many important points that college students need to consider, from resumes to networking to the "low GPA blues." I have used this book as a text in my career exploration class, and the students are able to come away with lot in small bites, which they appreciate. Highly recommended.

This book is right on target for college students, giving them a road map for making the most of their college experience. Vogt's style of writing is engaging, humorous, and ultimately convincing. My copy is now marked up with yellow high lighter. I highly recommend this book for both college students and their parents.

This book explains clearly the Reformed, biblical understanding of the covenant between God and His children. For Christians undergoing hard times and especially for parents who have children who they worry about because they have yet to show signs of salvation this book is a blessing. This book leads the reader to Scripture that will strenghen faith and provide hope and comfort through the worst of the trials of life. This is a wonderfull book for counselors and pastors as a resource in couseling, instruction, or special studies. It is sophisticated enough for a professional theologian yet easy and understandable for the laiety as well. I continually run out of copies of this book because so often situations come up in people's lives where I know the wisdom and understanding in it will is the best counsel that I can give. I am here to order several now.

Sinclair Ferguson is a master at giving you the big picture of a portion of scripture and then breaking it down and then putting it back together again. I am teaching through this book at our church and have found it to be very thorough.
The first few chapters are so rich that we have taken several classes on just a few pages. This understanding, that we are children of the living God, is so foundational to our christian walk and needs to be meditated on so that we don't neglect so great a privilege. For the people of Israel the "access" that we have to the Father was beyond their comprehension. It is my prayer that you will seriously ponder these great truths that Christ died for and continues to intercede for us as our "elder brother" and Lord.

All of the books by Everett Ferguson are written at the highest standards of scholarship. The book entitled Church of Christ: A Biblical Ecclesiology for Today is especially valuable for anyone devoted to a return to biblical roots, regardless of the reader's present tradition or affiliation. All agree that although the church in the New Testament had challenges from both within and outside its boundaries, the community called together by the divine message of love and forgiveness, was not any denomination but rather the ark of all the saved. The author is committed to this view and strives, above all who have attempted such a task, to present simply the biblical perspective without the addition of ideas that resulted from later developments and elaborations of faith and practice. As a scholarly treatment, Ferguson's book is an alternative to the popular book by Leroy Brownlow.

With the publication of Everett Ferguson's book on ecclesiology, another milestone has been reached in the scholarly presentation of the distinctive theological perspective of Churches of Christ. The book is divided into six chapters, each roughly sixty to seventy pages in length. Within each chapter, Ferguson neatly and systematically outlines his thoughts and arguments. The first chapter, entitled "The People and the Messiah: History and Eschatology," deals mainly with background issues. It examines the Old Testament teaching on the importance of covenant and the meaning of the phrase "kingdom of God" in its relationship to an and distinction from the church. Ferguson enters into the New Testament and ecclesiology proper via a consideration of Jesus as Messiah, including a careful exegesis of Matt. 16:13-23, where he concludes that the "rock" of Matt. 16:18 is not Peter, but the fact of Jesus' Messiahship. Ferguson's analysis of Matt. 16:13-23 is insightful and carefully articulated. Within this section, he gives attention to "the gates of Hades will not prevail" and concludes with some interesting yet encouraging insight. In the second chapter, "The Church and Her Lord: The Nature of the Church," Ferguson deals with and focuses on three images, "people of God," "body of Christ," and "community of the Spirit." A peculiar feature in this chapter is placing the discussion of the word ekklesia last rather than first. The latter would seem more appropriate and would seem to set the stage for the chapter, especially for a work of biblical ecclesiology. This great section will open the eyes of the reader and renew his focus of church. That is to say, this chapter correctly puts Christ as the head of the church and gives Him His appropriate place. The third chapter concentrates on, "The Church and Her Savior: Salvation and Church Membership." Essentially this section covers soteriology, which determines ecclesiology, but it is not ecclesiology itself. His full treatment of the nature of sin, the meaning of the cross, and the human response to God's saving work is only loosely linked to his topic of ecclesiology. This is not to say that this section is uninteresting or uninformative because it is quite helpful for a fuller understanding of these matters. Far more important is the content of Ferguson's soteriology. Ferguson is strong when it comes to the necessity of baptism. A few statements will give the reader an idea of his position: "Baptism is the time at which one is incorporated into Christ and so becomes a child of God" (pg. 170); "Baptism is a `calling on the name' of the Lord" (pg. 180); and, "Baptism is the appointed time at which God pronounces forgiveness" (pg. 183). He concludes: There must be an objective necessity about baptism, or New Testament writers could not speak of baptism in the way they do" (pg. 185). How refreshing! In our world of relativity and ecumenism, people need to hear Ferguson's words, especially those in Churches of Christ. The last three chapters move into a more familiar territory for a treatise on the church. Chapter four, "The Church and Her High Priest: Worship and Assembly" is a great section for anyone interested in the dynamics of worship. Here, Ferguson begins with a type of etymology as a way of introduction, concentrating on both the Greek and English words. This introduction to the subject sets the stage for the entire chapter. Worship is a hot topic today, thus chapter four is rather applicable for our day with all the differing views. This section is multitudinously faceted and exhaustive. "The Church and Her Bishop: The Continuing Ministry" is appropriately the title for the fifth chapter. In this section, Ferguson again touches on some hot topics in the church. It is unfortunate however that he only briefly deals with the debates on miraculous gifts and women's roles. Ferguson advocates a cessasionist position on miraculous gifts and a complementarian position on women's roles, but leaves the reader thirsting for more information and a more comprehensive treatment of the issues. In a day where these two in particular issues are so widely discussed and debated, one would think that they might have received a little concentration. Again, this is not to eradicate what was accomplished in this chapter because it was insightful and obliging, especially given the fact that his discussion on deaconesses was amazingly insightful and well balanced. In chapter six Ferguson adequately covers, "The Church and Her Teacher: The New Way of Life." In this section, he includes an unusually prominent consideration of ethics and a very healthy discussion of the importance of Christian fellowship and its concomitant, church discipline. One last thing that must be mentioned about this chapter is Ferguson's section on unity. Although this section is brief, it is significant and insightful. Ferguson lays out the various aspects of unity and does so in just a few short pages. It serves as an excellent conclusion to a monumental work. Of course, any reader is free to take issue with some of Ferguson's conclusions. For example, the distinction that is made between the temporary and permanent endowments of the Spirit still awaits additional clarification, and there will be those who will score Ferguson, despite his disclaimer, for his synchronic rather than diachronic approach to the New Testament writings. This is a courageous book. Its Reformed-Restorationist slant that the proper doctrine of the church entails a return to the faith and practice of the apostolic church is unmistakable. There are numerous nuggets of exegesis and important points of emphases that make this book worth reading. It is astounding that Ferguson deals with so many facets of ecclesiology in a one-volume work. Not only that, but he also includes a helpful subject index as well as a number of bibliographies. Just a glance at his copious footnotes and it is clear that this book is well researched and well documented. This book should be one that every minister, church leader, and ministry student is required to read and ponder.

Meet Cameryn Mahoney. She's not your average high school senior. She's the assistant to the county coroner in Silverton, Colorado. Most kids her age find her fascination with all things forensic rather bizarre, if not macabre. But Cameryn is intrigued and has gained the (reluctant) respect of local law enforcement and medical personnel alike.

The story starts off with Cameryn and her father handling a fatal car accident. The victim affects Cameryn and her father in the fact that it's a young man. Nothing is worse than a senseless death. But Cameryn is ever the professional and they get the job done.

Later that day, Cameryn encounters her long lost mother, Hannah. Hannah has a young girl in the car with her. The girl seems agitated and Hannah doesn't give Cameryn a straight answer. But there is little Cameryn can do, and her mother drives off with the sad girl, Mariah, in the passenger seat.

Only later does the encounter come back to haunt Cameryn. Her father is out of town when the call comes in. There's another dead body. Cameryn is asked to attend to the scene until her father can be present. Upon seeing the body, Cameryn realizes that it's the girl, Mariah. If she lets on that she recognizes the girl, then her mother could be implicated.

What starts as an omission soon blossoms into a complete mystery that entwines everything that Cameryn does. Her mother eventually gets arrested for a murder that she swears she didn't commit. No one is there to help Hannah. Cameryn has since learned the truth of her childhood, and still finds it in her heart to forgive Hannah for everything she's done and comes to her aid. Against the odds and against the advice of everyone she knows, Cameryn takes it upon herself to clear her mother's name.

For anyone who's a fan of C.S.I. or Bones, THE CIRCLE OF BLOOD is a real page-turner. It's a bit graphic in the descriptions of dead bodies and autopsies, but done so in a fascinating and scientific manner. This isn't the first story featuring Cameryn Mahoney, but one doesn't have to have read the previous stories to enjoy this one. The story is easy to follow with little to cloud the main plot. I enjoyed it quite a bit and will now look for the previous Cameryn Mahoney books myself.

Reviewed by: Jaglvr

This is the best of the three forensic mysteries, I think. With each new book, Ferguson, becomes better at hiding the solution to the mystery. I had a little inside chuckle concerning the head rolling down the side of the mountain (sick, I know).
Learning new things like the story behind "Keep Sweet" and how the path of the bullet was determined by using the "brain bucket" is great information. You just never know when that information might come in handy at a party. LOL No really, I love it!
Justin has been staying at a safe distance. Maybe he has been just waiting for Kyle to surface.