Lloyd Books

While this book isn't really for those seeking quick-fix ideas, anyone thinking of redesigning (or making built-in) their living spaces will love this book. This book has a lot of grand ideas - all beautifully presented - sure to get anyone excited about storage.

They refer to the search for compatible storage as a spiritual quest for modern man, and I would tend to agree. In a time when we take classes to reduce our clutter, clear our 'sacred spaces', and find the best Feng Shui for our possessions, figuring out how to handle our accumulated stuff has become a crucial de-stress point. As the book states, "Good storage will ease the pressure and calm the mayhem: life is too short for chaos." Amen.

Smart Storage divides solutions by room: bathroom, bedroom, home office, living room, kitchen, media center - even the laundry room gets a makeover.

It's a fun read and makes a decent coffee-table book for as long as it takes you to determine where the heck to store all the things in your life.

Some tips from the book:

* If you are lucky enough to be designing your home from scratch, plan first for your storage needs. Thinking about your possessions will be a great help in planning out your real needs in terms of light, space and furniture.

* Gorgeous storage items like wooden and carved trunks can double as furniture, and always look good. Try keeping your excess linens in those. Vintage suitcases, stacked, are another cool decorative idea, and can easily store video tapes, CDs, or household receipts.

* Don't be afraid to set things aside for thrift shops, garage sales or even the trash. Sometimes we have psychological attachments to having stuff - try to make sure everything you keep is either beautiful or useful. Lose the rest.

* Make use of your vertical space for storage. Think about setting shelves above doorways, or in place of crown molding. Use the entire closet too, even up by the ceiling, with installed hooks of shelving.

* Collections of things can become display items themselves, with a little thought about how to show off the collection in question. Plates can be hung on walls, old albums can be stacked inside wooden crates, pretty shoes can be displayed in a bedroom hutch. Don't be afraid to take your favorite things and make them part of your decor.

* Try carving into your walls to create book shelves and art nooks. Built-ins generally look good.

* Food storage is another home element that can be incorporated into decor. Try finding interesting containers for spices, pasta, nuts and wines. Stainless steel utensils, or copper pots and pans look great hanging, too.

* Consider adding a loft space for a home office or spare bedroom.

A source directory in the book's appendix offers a good start for finding companies willing to redesign your cabinets or sell you storage-type decor.

This is very well written and entertaining book, full of up-to-date, interesting information about penguins and penguin research. It thoroughly covers each penguin species, as well as providing general information about penguins. Although it is written in a question and answer format, the answers often lead to the next question so that it can be easily read cover to cover like any other book. It also has lots of great colour photos. At the end are some thought-provoking questions - what can we do to help penguins? I would highly recommend this book to any penguin or general nature lover.

This is another collection of stories with the author's favorite story (even to this day) included. Soft Whisper From A Quiet Heart is a powerful story, with the heroine doing most of the talking, you feel each of her emotions as she reveals every feeling that she has. An intense story involving 2 mismatched people and the struggles that she deals with, as she tries to escape the intense grasp of her intense and short tempered boy friend.

This is the seventh volume in Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s epoch-making exposition of Paul’s letter to the Roman Christians and contains thirty-three Bible studies originally held in London’s Westminster Chapel in 1960 and 1961; these sermons first appeared in book form in 1974 and have been continuously in print since then, both this and the fact that the original sermons drew a thousand and more listeners being evidence of their helpfulness.

It would be impossible to summarize briefly all that Lloyd-Jones has to say here, and he has, as usual, a great deal to say (the book has no less than 438 pages, although it deals with only 13 verses of Paul!). It seems, however, that the main message of the book is as follows: In Romans 8, Paul returns to what he had been describing in Romans 5: the spiritual position of the born-again Christian. In these initial verses of Romans 8, he emphasizes in particular that Christians are the “sons of God”. This is especially evidenced by two things. One is that sons of God, that is all Christians, are “led by the Spirit”. Lloyd-Jones examines this concept and shows that its basic meaning can be applied to all who know the Lord Jesus Christ personally, and that it does not necessarily imply the kind of “personal leading” (by supposed revelation) that is sometimes talked about in more enthusiastic Christian circles. The other is that sons of God receive the “spirit of adoption”, that is, they become partakers of the “witness of the Spirit”. It is at this point that Lloyd-Jones takes a comparatively controversial stand. The “witness of the Spirit” is, for him, a personal experience that is not necessarily connected with being born again. He makes a connection between this experience and the “baptism of the Holy Spirit” and quotes extensively from the writings of 17th and 18th century Christians to prove that an overwhelming experience of God’s love and fatherhood, subsequent to conversion, used to be the norm. He draws the conclusion that Christians today, if they have not yet experienced this, should seek the kind of experience that he has been describing, as it gives the kind of assurance of salvation which cannot be obtained by mere deduction.

In the years since these sermons were held, this particular contention has been the object of considerable controversy. The more charismatically-inclined sections of Christendom have tended to quote Lloyd-Jones to support their teaching about the Holy Spirit, whereas more theologically-minded evangelicals such as John R. W. Stott have criticized Lloyd-Jones for reading more into the text than is actually there. It is not for me to solve this controversy here, and each reader will have to make up his own mind. I personally feel that although John Stott may be right as far as exegesis is concerned, Lloyd-Jones has certainly made a valid point that needs to be heeded, especially among Bible-orientated evangelicals in more traditional Protestant denominations, where the Holy Spirit tends to be treated as an abstract doctrine rather than as the Third Person of the Trinity and as the present power of God in the lives of true Christians.

Dr. Saunders taught a 'History of London' course at Richmond College back in the early 80's, which I had the privilege of attending. She knows more about the history of this city and its great architecture than anyone else I've ever met. She instills history with meaning and relevancy and genuine emotion. If you're looking for the best history of this magnificent cathedral, stop right now and buy this book.

I used this book as a reward for two reluctant readers and they loved it. It captured their interest and was a pleasure to read and look through.

This book is 122 pages in length and was published in 1976. (In 1995 a 48 page soft cover supplement was released by the same author entitled; Frisco Steam Finale 1946-1952. The supplemental title published by South Platte Press in David City, Nebraska.) The photos in the book are black and white and it is full of great information about Frisco steam locomotives. If you are a Frisco Railroad fan or are learning about the Frisco, this book is a must have! I paid $125 for an author autographed copy of the book. I'm sure you can get one at a better price and make sure you get the supplemental title as well!

Lloyd Stearman established one of the more famous airplane manufacturing companies in Wichita, Kansas. After a series of biplanes were designed and put into production the company built the primary trainer, (10,346 of them) that was used by the Army Air Corp in World War II. This detailed book is the complete story of Stearman and the aircraft that they produced.

It's also the story of the advances in aviation. It begins with fabric covered wooden biplanes powered by the War Surplus Curtis OX-5 engine. From there the story progresses to metal framed designs, and eventually to all metal monopplanes. As the depression deepened, the Stearman Company was merged into United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, which owned among other companies, Boeing. Unlike most companies, Boeing used the low prices during the depression to expand. When World War II started the company had the capacity to build not only the primary trainer, but 750 gliders, 1,769 B-29's and subsequently 1,390 B-47 and 467 B-52 jet bombers.

The book has an amazing collection of photographs, including pictures of just about every type of airplane built there. The final section of the book has several pages of color photographs showing the colorful paint schemes sported by Stearmans. You can still buy a Stearman in perfect flying condition for about $125,000.

Lloyd Biggle, Jr's _The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets_ posits a future where mankind has spread to the stars, and attempts to integrate newfound worlds with intelligent life into a galactic Federation. One of the prerequisites for entry is a global, democratic government. The galactic federation believes that it cannot visibly impose democracy on a world, so it works through the machinations of the Interplanetary Relations Bureau to secretly foment democratic rebellions on newfound worlds before officially integrating them into the greater galactic community. Most of these worlds are at a technological level that makes them unaware of space flight and the existence of intelligent life outside of their world.

The story centers on one such planet, Kurr, where the IRB has failed (for 400 years!) to foment democratic reforms in one of its major kingdoms. The kingdom is ruled by a tyrant who knows how to appease and oppress his people, in balance and as necessary, to keep them happy with the current state of affairs. Jef Forzon, a high-ranking member of a different organization, the "Cultural Survey", finds himself wrapped up in shadowy IRB dealings to try to bring down the king and institute a democratic government. But rogue elements within the IRB are working against them.

Jef's unique skills and perspective as a student of culture enable him to think laterally through the difficulties the loyal IRB people face, and stand him in good stead on a planet where art is highly valued.

Overall Biggle's work is erudite and sharp. It contrasts sharply with the typical sf milieus of either "big ships in space" or "angst-ridden distopianism" that pervades so much sci-fi. I found the cultural elements in the book to be a refreshing change of pace, and there were enough plot twists to hold interest in the main storyline. I enjoyed this book and anyone looking for scifi that eschews the mainstream to go its own way, but is intelligent and exciting nonetheless should avail themselves of any opportunity to read it. Recommended.

This is a well-written and interesting book on the history of astronomy. The book is divided into 18 chapters, each of which makes a comfortable evening's reading. Another plus is the general quality of the book's construction, most notably its sturdy cover and binding and thicker than average paper. This is a book that will last a long time. The only downside is that it appears that Amazon does not offer a discount to the book's list price. I have also bought The Story of Mathematics by the same authors. I am about half way finished with that book and have enjoyed it very much, although not as much as Astronomy. I plan to also buy their Story of Physics when I am finished with Mathematics.