Ferguson Books

Nerienne is the First Daughter, heir to a matriarchal line of rulers. Her life is following a set course until it's tossed topsy turvy and Nerienne finds herself allied with one of her mother's enemies in a battle to save Gayome. Durgan is a man denying his legacy as he fights for his people's freedom from the tyranny of Gayome's ruler. The last thing he ever expected was to be allied with the next ruler . . . and even worse, to be falling in love with her when he has every reason to hate her for all the hardship her mother produced during her reign.

In Dreamsinger, JA Ferguson has built a believable world, believeable conflicts, but more than that, she's created two characters who are fighting against the odds to save their world, their people and to create a love that would touch the hearts of any world.

As the First Daughter, Nerienne is a powerful individual. However, even she cannot defy the dictate that the Tiria of Gayome has declared that she marries the ruler of Teles. On the journey, Elasians attack Nerienne's caravan. Though she uses her powers, it takes the assistance of an escaped prisoner, dreamsinger Durgan Ketassian to save her life.

Durgan loathes the dictatorial rule of the Tiria, who has condemned him and his peers to death for their dreamsinging talent. He knows that Nerienne is his natural enemy as the daughter of his foe. However, he cannot stop his attraction to her. Nerienne wonders who he truly is as she finds herself in love for the first time. Together, they can save a world and find internal peace and happiness. Separately, they will find a quick death at the end of the short and lonely trail.

DREAMSINGER is an entertaining fantasy romance that will provide much pleasure to sub-genre fans. The story line is typical for the genre but raised above the clutter by the numerous intriguing characters that seem genuine in spite of many of them containing magical powers or being an author-created species such as Nerienne's companion, Bidge. J.A. Ferguson shows she is a talent that will be welcomed by fantasy and romance readers for her enthralling other world journey.

Essential Medical genetics is a must for anyone studying medical genetics. The book presents complex areas of genetics in a very clear and concise fashion with excellent supporting clinical information and pictures. I would recommend it to anyone studying, or working within the field of Medical genetics.

Medical genetics is a difficult discipline in medicine. So many factuals, rules, syndromes and malformations which will make you dizzy. Professor Connor transforms all these difficulties into a concise textbook suitable for both study and reference. Medical graduates can find medical genetics a more approachable science. Strongly recommend for all medical graduates in addition to specialists.

This book is packed with interesting and useful information, including a great deal of fascinating history. There are scores of additional resources that Ingo Swann names, and so this is a great introduction to the overall subject. I enjoyed the author's style and way of approaching his reader, and I felt wonderful about being guided through the material by him. It is a pity that this book is out of print- grab a copy!

This if one the first works of the Grandfather of Remote Viewing featuring an illuminating indroduction by the renown PHD Harold Puthoff. Some the topics covered in this amazing book are:
1#A NEW STAGE FOR ESP
2# ESP A NEW REDEFINITION
3# THE EXTRASENORY MIND MOUND
4# THE ESP EXPERIENCE AND THE ESP IMPACT
5# THE EXTRASENORY YOU
6# THE PSYCHIC NUCLEUS, THE DEEPER CEL AND THE ESP CORE
7# THE SELF GENERATING PROCESSES OF THE ESP CORE.
These technniques are the conserstone to modern day remote viewing and are seldom found in print anywhere. This a wonderful peice of work.

I have read many ethnographies in my day, but I can't recall another that has had me at turns astounded by the author's insight, impressed with his prose, saddened by his findings, and laughing out loud at the wry wit of his descriptive voice. I do not normally consider good anthropology "fun" to read, but "EXPECTATIONS OF MODERNITY" bucks the trend. It's well-argued, impassioned, and thoroughly readable.

Author Ferguson is concerned with the experience of "modernity" and "development" as lived by residents of Zambia's Copperbelt, who since the 1970s have experienced an unrelenting slide into social and economic marginalization. He works in case studies drawn from individual interview subjects, census data, and textual asides--boxes featuring news clippings from Zambian papers, or brief "People Watching" accounts of the author's street observations with his research assistant. The discussion ranges from meta-narratives of "progress" and "modernization" to an eye-opening analysis of the opposing styles adopted by Zambian urbanites.

His conclusion is grim: "For many Zambians... recent history has been experienced not--as the modernization plot led one to expect--as a process of moving forward or joining up with the world, but as a process that has pushed them out of the place in the world that they once occupied." The process of globalization has not connected this corner of Africa (and its inhabitants) to the currents of prosperity traversing the world economy; rather it has disconnected them, throwing them out of the garden of "development." Ferguson stresses that they have not been "left out" of world capitalism; the processes of abjection he describes are integral parts of the system.

Even amid the gathering gloom of this analysis, I found myself heartened by the author's occasional humor and by his sympathetic (and self-effacing) accounts of casual encounters in the field. I had not previously had much time for anti-globalization arguments, but Ferguson's disarming approach lowered my skepticism, forcing me to confront the ugly truths of the new world order in a way I had never done before. My hat is off to this man for crafting such a great book.

This is a truly rich and incisive ethnography of an African nation in the midst of long-term economic decline. Ferguson may be best known to readers as the author of 1990's "The Anti-Politics Machine", a widely acknowledged classic of contemporary social anthropology and one of the seminal works of what might be called the new development studies. Admirers of "Anti-Politics Machine" should not expect a simple retread of old material here, however. "Expectations of Modernity" focuses squarely on the lived experience of national economic decline, and the cultural and economic strategies by which retiring copper miners are adjusting to the new world order.
Perhaps the most refreshing aspect of "Expectations" is Ferguson's recourse to an eclectic mix of theoretical concepts and approaches. Dick Hebdige's analysis of subculture and style, Judith Butler's insights into gender performances, and Bourdieu's reflections on cultural capital are all invoked here to shed light on Zambians' attempts to grapple with economic decline. The breadth and subtlety of the author's theoretical approach to questions of culture, power, and style enables him to challenge the old, teleological narrative of Africa's progress from "tradition" to "modernity." "Expectations of Modernity" is therefore relevant not only to Africa and the Third World, but also to all those de-industrializing and declining regions of the capitalist West that have been nourished for decades on the false promises of modernist metanarratives.

Este est muy bueno libro por escuela. Yo gusta mucho.

The Ferguson Guide to School to Work empowers those working with the School to Work/Career initiative to develop sound partnerships within their community as well as find resources for grants and action planning. An excellent resource guide at $49.95

this book IS the second book i turn to when i am in need of advice. the 1st ofcourse is the bible. he seems to be an amazing man.After you read the book your outlook changes. p.s. it is not a book you can read chapter after chapter. if something is bothering you , the pages just come and the word speak to your soul. PEACE.

Highly relevant to today's political situation, it directly referrs to characters we are forced to endure and listen to in Congress, the evening news, and religious programs.

Some of my favorites?...Assholius Trentlottius (p.23), The Weeping Goddwit- "Assholius Religious" (p.19) and the Starr-Eyed Smirker- "Assholier Thanthousis" (p.69)

If you need a good laugh, you will deffinately find it here. I am surprised this one isn't a National Bestsleller! Has America lost its sense of humor or are we getting sensitive?

My last piece of advice: The Politically Correct crowd should deffinately avoid this one!

Richly researched and clearly written, this book is a find! Has just the right amount of detail to provide the reader with the degrees of difficulty in conducting nuclear terrorism but does not overwhelm.
The "four faces" of nuclear terrorism described in the book are (1) theft of a nuclear weapon, (2) construction of a nuclear weapon (3) damage to a nuclear reactor or facility, and (4) construction of a radiological dispersal device. The authors succintly analyze each of these scenarios and clearly present the challenges involved by terrorists attempting each task. Devoid of hype, absent political rhetoric, the book is superb at providing the general reader with an appreciation for the actual risks America faces from this area. Particularly recommended for those engaged in the profession of CBRN defense.
Apparently out of print which is a shame, try to get your hands on a copy and read it.

This book possesses two advantages over other accounts: 1) as a product of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute, which has the leading archive of information on the subject, it offers rich, precisely documented detail; and 2) besides discussing how terrorists might acquire an existing nuclear weapon or fashion their own (Faces #1 and 2), it offers in-depth treatments of terrorist threats to nuclear plants (#3) and the use of radiological weapons (#4). A more comprehensive approach than one focussed just on the bomb, this leads to superior analysis and recommendations regarding ranking of priority issues and solutions. I found of special value the authors' many imaginative proposals, e.g., encourage Japan to build a strategic reserve of low-enriched uranium from Russia rather than to proceed with its plutonium separation plant. The authors' discussion of the gaping holes in the approaches of the U.S. Government and other governments should cause us to treat with skepticism our leaders' avowals of how seriously they take these threats.
If you are looking for a reliable, comprehensive, understandable, and thoughtful guide to nuclear terrorism, I recommend this book.

Genius, was an excellent biography of Albert Einstein, talking all about his life. Starting from when he was born, the book takes the reader on a journey, through his schooling, his research, coming to America, all the way till his death. The book also explains his major scientific discoveries, like his theory of relativity winning him the Nobel Prize, and the unified field theory he tried to figure out. This book has a lot of information, but is a very quick read. Overall, it is a great book.

I ordered this book for my mentally challenged son, hoping it would be simple enough for him to grasp, and it fulfilled my hopes very well. It's simple, yet comprehensive, and the photographs are superb.

I am just curious. Does anyone know what an original edition of this book would be worth?

The title of this book is appropriate; it contains many gems! These brief and insightful perspectives are enjoyable to read and can even provide us with guidance on the way to get the most out of life (2nd to the Bible). A special thanks to Doug Kenney for his wonderful editing efforts to bring the existing "gems" into today's language.

GOOD REBEL SOIL-THE CHAMP FERGUSON STORY is an exciting Civil War story of not the many major battles that took place in this great conflict, but is a natative and insightful look at guerilla warfare. Troy weaves a tale of both revenge by Champ for the disgrace suffered by his wife and daughter and his fight to protect his home land. GOOD REBEL SOIL is a book that will keep you turning pages as you learn more aboutone of the lesser know figures of the Civil War.

Like another novel by Troy Smith, Bound for the Promise-Land, this story features a complex and intriguing central character. One of the things that interested me about the novel was the fact that the main character, Champ Ferguson, was a real person. He fought in the Civil War, but not as a regular soldier -- he was closer to a guerilla warrior. It turns out he was one of only two confederate fighters not to receive amnesty after the war. It was also an intriguing story to me because I live in the small rural Tennessee town where Champ had his headquarters (though not the town he was originally from). The book grapples very effectively with the issues that his guerilla status brings up. The reader is asking the question throughout the book, "Is Champ a soldier or just a common criminal set loose by circumstance?" I would recommend this story not just because of the interesting questions it brings up, nor simply for the rich historical detail (there is a lot of it), but also because it is a very lively and exciting story.