Johnston Books

All perfect, but there r too many words I can't understand at first sight(not technically) , such as "gotchas" ¡°weired... etc. ...

I wonder how many people will buy this book since most Unix people are pretty certain they already know everything! I am guilty of that myself, I was modifying kernal code on ATT SYS V r 2 back in 1984, so I confess to being pretty skeptical about Unix Unleashed, but I must applaud the authors, this is a wealth of knowledge. And when I finished reading the book, I was glad I invested the time, it was a humbling reminder that just because I can spell "su", that doesn't mean I know everything about Unix.

The writing is very clear, think of the book as the polar opposite of a man page. They use charts, illustrations and other devices to convey difficult ideas. The book has been laid out well and that is critically important when you weigh in with over 1,100 pages. There are only a few pages in the entire work that don't have a subsection heading.

This is a good book and quite servicable as it is, I think it could even be used as a text in a semester long college course on Unix. When this goes to 5th edition I would recommend losing about 100 pages and not try to cover things like Snort, it is better to do one thing well and the Unix coverage is excellent. I would also like to see a bit more effort in meeting the promise of the title in the Towards Better Sysadmin section of the book, this is such an important topic and Andy and Robin clearly have the knowledge, experience and writing ability to help us in our journey to be better system administrators.

This specifically covers all the necessary but not easily found tips which are useful to SysAdmins (and personal users) of these two most popular versions of Unix. This book has now become my #1 choice of the ONE unix book to buy! Look at the TOC: it's very complete topic coverage! I'd even say it replaces the classic "Running Linux" Ora book for content breadth.

The world is dramatically changing from what mountain man Titus Bass first saw when he climbed, fished, hunted and fought against Indians and Whites in the Rocky Mountains. Three decades ago, hardly anyone not native could be found, but not in the late 1840s - early 1850s, Titus knows not only is he old, his fond world is history as settlers head west.

Titus takes his family north to live his final days with the family of his Crow wife, hoping that some vestige of his independent, solitary elbow room life style could be found. However, though it is the waning years for him, the adventures continue as Titus battles to free a daughter, battle Mormons and nature, and help a desperate wagon train containing his greatest enemy (the dreaded settler). Titus wonders whether he will find the peace he seeks amidst the Crow or will their way of life teeter towards extinction also?

The final novel in the Titus Bass saga shows why Terry C. Johnston is a western writer who has transcended the genre. The story line will please historical buffs and relationship fans as the hero struggles to retain his way of life even as the outside world crushes it. This concluding tale works on multiple levels due to the deep characterization of Titus, friends and family, and many secondary players that keep the cast fresh for long time friends and introduces the key ensemble to newcomers so that they are fully understood. This ability is what makes Mr. Johnston a great chronicler of the first half of the nineteenth century America.

Harriet Klausner

This is not a review. Terry C. Johnston died today, March 25, 2001, after weeks in the ICU of St. Vincent's Hospital, Billings. Before the life support systems were turned off a while ago, his wife, Vanette, read the last three pages of Wind Walker to the assembled doctors and nurses and family and friends. Then she played the flute, the very flute on the cover of the book, because in the story, one cannot become a wind walker until one has played it. And since he couldn't, she played it for him. His hero, Titus Bass, had always been Terry's alter ego, and in this last novel of the series, Bass dies at the end. Terry had a premonition of his own death, and only three days after the publication of Wind Walker, Terry was operated on and a tumor removed from his intestines. The nurses and doctors struggled for seven weeks against Terry's failing health. Everyone present wept as Vanette read the last pages of Terry's novel.

I was one of Terry's early editors, and a longtime friend, and my wife and I will miss him greatly.

I just found out that Mr. Johnston passed away. I am greatly saddened. I have devoured his books for about 10 years now. I've ready everyone. Does he have any more books in the publishing pipeline that will actually be published? I will greatly miss his writing.

This book is totally whacky and really different. It's also very fun to read to a 3-year old. If you like Maurice Sendak (I'm thinking particularly of "Outside over There") or William Joyce (the "George" books), or even the "George and Martha" books, with their weird sense of humor, you'll love this one.

This book along with "Diary of a Worm" are great for children ages six to eight. They become very involved in the book and identify with members of the family. Austin and Miranda were thrilled with the books.

The Worm Family is very "wormy". They are long, and squirmy. They like to sing loud. They are very different from there bug neighbors. They neighbor are mean to them and the Worm family decides to move somewhere where they will not be judged by others. They try several places but always run into others who don't like them because they are different. Finally they find a worm family just like them and all goes well from then on out!

There are lots of themes that can be discussed with this book such as family, self esteem, and worms.

We would recommend this book for families to read and discuss together. This is a great story to illustrate that just because some one is not just like you that doesn't mean that they don't have feelings that can get hurt.

A must have for academics all over the world

The authors offer an insightful examination of some problems with structuring learning experiences for adults and associated difficulties with learning from research. Their discussion of disciplinarity --- and how it constructs or limits what is perceived as appropriate in various educational practices --- is quite interesting (it seems to me that since those doing the teaching are also "victims" of disciplinarity, it is inevitable that this cycle will be self-perpetuating). The discussion of reintroducing the self (personal experience) into the technical trajectory of research is also worthy of further consideration --- the authors note that many factors affecting the researcher [and thus the research "product" (e.g., tolerance for ambiguity)] are acknowledged privately as important, but not documented or really confronted when the research is reported or critiqued. I only wish the authors would bring their recommendations down a level in terms of methods for real-world application of these concepts in institutions where adults are attempting to learn.

The director of the museum in Manistee told me that my grand-uncle married a lady, Anna Maria Johnston, who was a descendant of a distiguished Chippewa woman, Woman of the Glade, who had married a man named John Johnston and the story was in this book.
There is another story about the Johnstons called Harps Upon the Willows by Marjorie Kohn Brazier. I am always waiting for a fine director to read these stories to make the movie. And while I wait for the films the Native Americans are still waiting for treaties to be signed and for other treaties to be recognized.
This is a wonderful book but no one can read it without crying their heart out.

This book is more a chronicle than a novel, and wonderful it is to see it back in print. Janet Lewis wrote this account, imaginatively elaborated, of one of the most important families in the history of Michigan using the journals of John Johnston, the family patriarch, other family journals and memoirs, and personal interviews with members of the fourth generation Johnstons, whom Lewis knew as a girl. It is a superb read, nonetheless: rapt, poetic at times, historically accurate, elegant, and absorbing. It contains one of the finest depictions of Indian life ever written and certainly offers one of our finest portrayals of the "invasion" of Indian country by the fast encroaching Europeans in the late colonial period. Lewis's style is not for everyone, however. Her writing, as polished as it is elsewhere in her oeuvre, is a tad uneven in this, her first prose work (first published in 1932 by the excellent and now defunct Swallow Press). That's hard for me to say, since I love her novels and have long been one of their leading advocates. The narrative loses momentum and wobbles at times, and some characters are rather poorly sketched. Some scenes appear to be unfinished, dashed off, or ill-conceived. Her descriptive passages are, moreover, very intensely beautiful, almost imagistic. Lewis was a fine poet -- a very fine poet, I should say -- and her bent toward Imagism, as found in the poetry of Ezra Pound and many another leading poet in the first half of the 20th century, deeply influenced her narrative style. I love her passages of description, but I realize that not everyone takes to this sort of lyrical style. To sum things up, the novel is an account of the family of John Johnston, an Irishman who came to the wilderness around incredibly remote and rugged Lake Superior as a trader at the end of the 18th century. He married the daughter of an Ojibway "chief" (her nickname became Neengay), and established himself as one of the community elders in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, which was British at the time of his arrival in 1791, but became American in the War of 1812, an affair which plays a role in the story. Midway through the book, the narrative turns to the next generation of the Johnstons, John and Neengay's children, and later moves on the 20th-century Johnstons. It is astounding how quickly the world of the Indians changed, in less than 100 years, and the invasion that brought this change about is the main theme of Lewis's chronicle. In the opening, we read about John Johnston struggling to survive the winter in a small drafty cabin on the uninhabited western shores of Superior and in the end see the Soo Locks open and the Indians witnessing the once unimaginable event of long steamers coming up the once impassable rapids on the Saint Mary's River and entering Lake Superior. A number of important historical figures come into the account, such as Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Johnston's son-in-law, who used Neengay's stories to form the tales that Longfellow later used to write "Hiawatha" (a somewhat sad fate for the fascinating myths of the Ojibway), and Lewis Cass, who led an expedition across Superior in 1820 after visiting Johnston's outpost and eventually became the first governor of Michigan. There's plenty more to keep your interest, and the history is mostly accurate, so far as I am able to judge. In "Invasion", you will discover some of the most perceptive writings on the life of the northern Indians and the frontier, as well as explore the meaning of the invasion that forms its theme. I hope you will give Janet Lewis a try. Check out what the star ratings mean for me at my amazon site.

Anybody even remotely interested in the mid 1800's events that took place in the Dakota's, Wyoming, Montana and even Texas, should have the 16 book series. I purchased every single one, after reading the "Sioux Dawn" book from our local library, I was hooked and it has given me a completely different outlook on the happenings to the Indians in this country. I was born and raised in the Netherlands and my "Indian Knowledge" was strictly from the movies. But this book has opened my eyes to what we as human beings can do to each other. And most of what they did to the Indian Nations is nothing to be proud of. How many times did the white man break the treaties they made with the natives?? I don't know, haven't been able yet to figure out how many times.
In one of the books Mr. Johnston mentions that he is planning as many as 22 or 23 for the Series, I for one will purchase every one of them. Mr. Terry C. Johnston is very fast becoming my favorite historical/novel writer.
Yours,
Richard H. Reupert

Black Sun is the 4th in the Plainsmen Series and the 4th book of Terry Johnston's that I have read. Since reading it, I have read the next 4 books in the series. Terry Johnston brings the old west to life with his descriptive writing. He has researched this period of time and knows what he is writing about. Black Sun was like the other books that I have read of his in that once you start reading, you can't put it down. He is successful in taking his reader captive and transporting them to the old west to be a spectator of the adventures of Seamus Donegan and his friends, fictional and real life. I highly recommend this book and the others in the Plainsmen Series.

I ordered this book because it is used as a textbook for my Buddhism class. After reading it, I understand much more about the culture and religion, as well as appreciate the artistic poeticism that is behind the story of the Buddha's life.

This book is the paperback edition (cloth is ISBN 8120810295) of the reprint of the 1936 Lahore edition of Asvaghosa's Buddhacarita, translated in English by E.H. Johnston. Part I is the complete Sanskrit text of Cantos I to XIV, using as its chief authority a Sanskrit manuscript dating from app. 1300 AD, supplemented by the Tibetan version and a fifth century A.D. Chinese translation.

Part I: Sanskrit Text of I-XIV
Part II: English translation of I-XIV
Part III: English translation of XV-XXVIII

Part II includes a lengthy introduction by the translator on Asvaghosa's life and works. The book includes the original Sanskrit text of Sargas I-XIV, but not the original Tibetan and Chinese texts used for part III.

book was offered at my school, a community college, for $79.00. It was paperback, and looked to me like it was photocopied very inexpensively. I found this book, hardback, for about half the price. FANTASTIC!!!

I bought this book to tutor one of my kids with. I was there to help explain the concepts, but the book did most of that. We needed a lot of problems to work out and they were right in the book too. This is a great book to teach high school students with.

Serious biblical students must attempt to understand first century thought since the Jesus of history as well as the canonical scriptures are historically tied to the first century. The Jews and early Christians were an extremely textual people and it is necessary to read their writings. This book gives the bible student an open door into the first century thought by virtue of the writings of various authors of that time period. Don't expect to find any great discoveries, but do expect to find a wonderful collection of ancient quotes, stories, and historical facts collated by two of the most qualified authors alive today, Elwell and Yarbrough.

This book is an excellent anthology. The editors have taken pertinent selections from ancient writings and grouped them into subjects involving the New Testament. Examples of the sub-groupings are The History of the Jews; The Religious Life of the Jews; Jesus Outside of the New Testament; and Romans-Galatians. The selected writings include authors such as Josephus, Philo, Suetonius, Origen, and Justin Maryr. I agree with the book's editors that this collection of readings will enable those with a limited background in ancient literature to obtain a sense of those times and the New Testament. In addition, this anthology is an inexpensive way of possessing a good selection of ancient writings. This book is perfect for new students and personal theological libraries. This book would not be of interest to the advanced theological professional.

This used book in like new condition. No markings and in great shape. Thank you for the prompt shipping as well.

It was the book I needed for class & it helped me get that A