Perry Books

Quality book easy enough to understand for the beginner yet makes an excellent reference book for the experienced.

Definitely recommend this book!

This is an excellent book about knots.

It starts with some simple material about care and maintenance of ropes, and shows some tools used in ropework. It also has a glossary.

We start with stopper knots. While these are often used to protect the end of a rope from fraying, the most common use is simply to stop the end of a rope from running through a block. A simple figure-8 knot is typical here, and we are shown how to make it, as well as how to make many other stops. Another use for stopper knots is to create a weight at the end of a rope that you wish to heave. And we see some examples of these, such as the "Monkey's Fist."

Next is a chapter on bends. These knots join two pieces of cordage. Once again, a figure-8 type is typical, and we see plenty of others as well.

The following chapter is on binding knots. These are used primarily to tie two objects together. A transom knot is a good example. But they are also used as clamps (such as a "surgeon's knot" to tie off blood vessels) or just to protect the end of another rope, or to lash together two parts of the same rope.

After that comes a chapter on hitches. These are used primarily for towing and tethering. One example is a "cat's paw" hitch, which distributes weight evenly on two "legs." In some cases, when one leg of this knot breaks, the other will hold long enough so that the load being held by the rope can be lowered safely.

Now, suppose you need to pull a pole lengthwise. A "rolling hitch" is often recommended. But if that pole is slippery, this knot won't hold. In that case, the book recommends the "icicle hitch," which generally works much better. It's a very practical knot!

We see some other useful knots in this chapter, such as a "barrel sling" (which allows one to hoist a barrel upright) and a "barrel hitch" (which is used to hoist that barrel horizontally). And, given that many knots are of great use to sailors, we see a "mooring hitch." This knot is for mooring your boat to a bollard, especially if you also want to be able to pay out a little rope at a time, if necessary, in a tideway.

The following chapter is on loops, and we see a great variety of nooses and bowlines. We even see how to make the "fireman's chair knot," which can be used in an emergency if no body harness is available for a rescue.

The book concludes with some miscellaneous knots. These include a grommet, some sennits, a mat, and even a rope ladder. When you use that rope ladder, it's best to face on edge, with a hand and a foot on each side.

This is a useful and practical book.

Mozart is a delight in his own right. But this "rendition," using music to accompany the story, makes it seem so much more complete. Including the music with various part of his life helps the reader to see/hear the progress of his genius.

It seems the most popular budget classical music label, Naxos, not only makes most of the Western musical output available at very reasonable prices (no top stars who demand absurd fees make this possible), but it has also issued three very nice boxed sets of recordings on cassettes and CDs (I have the latter) that together give you a quick, fairly accurate, and quite enjoyable survey of three major topics. Perry Keenlyside's (NA 314412) is on three tapes or CDs and more or less delivers what the title promises in about 3 hours and 40 minutes. The text is considerately divided into sections--"Mozart, the child prodigy," "January 1762, the first journeys," "Paris and London, 1763-4," and so on--with tracking cues for each section. The narration and quotations from letters and journals of the time are accompanied by the appropriate music drawn from the bottomless Naxos catalogue. Nigel Anthony is the narrator, aided by Paul Rhys (Mozart), Edward de Souza (Leopold Mozart), with David Timson and Anna Patrick in "other parts." I have not seen the original books to see how much of an abridgment this is, if at all, but that is immaterial. The voices are personable, the information digestible, the whole project very worth while, especially at the price. My only objection to the Naxos recordings of books in the low recording level that makes it a bit difficult to hear on a walkman set up on (say) a noisy train. But this should offer no problem to home hearing or even in your car. These sets are really perfect listening for long trips.

I have a published review that I would like to send to Amazon. It's longer than 1,000 words but from the Journal of Chickasaw History, Volume 5, No. 1 (1999)by Richard Green, editor. In addition there is a very new CD of the same title, which are stories read from the book. Various Indian People Publishing Co in Richardson, TX, phone number 1-800-776-0842. Retail $19.95.

I love the author's style of writing. The book contains the stories about the Little People, the Steel-lo-booch-go-gee that were told among generations. The author uses the storytelling device to present the stories. I was fascinated by the stories of the Little People and their connection to children and healing. I would highly recommend this book. I couldn't put it down.

This book is one of the more impactual books I have ever read. The author weaves the lives of 5 affluent African-Americans into a wonderful story about Black wealth that has never been told. She exposes us to the inner mind sets of African Americans, the struggles and triumphs. This book will keep you constantly on the edge. It reads more like a movie. You can see the scenes and hear the ryhthmn of the music. I highly recommend this unique rendition of Black Society.

Irene Edgerton Perry's, Light In The Basement, is a thought provoking story on Black love, wealth, situations and circumstances. Her rare ability to reveal how wealthy African-Americans relate to one another and the struggles they have is well worth the read. I took this book to Taiwan with me and could not put it down. It is definetely a page turner. I especially enjoyed how she smoothly wove the lives of the primary characters smoothly into the story. Everytime I thought I had everything figured out, I was fooled again. I can't wait to read her subsequent novels. Ms Perry is definetely an up and coming new author.

This is comparative history writing at its best. I am in awe.
I picked up this thick book thinking I'd just poke around at a few of the chapters but I found myself so drawn by it that I had to go back and read it from start to end (all 550+ pages). Anderson isn't just interested in historical detail, he's interested in trying to shed understanding on big fundamental questions such as why was serfdom re-imposed in the East at the same time that it was collapsing in the West, why absolutism arose at the time it did and took different shapes in different regions. Solidly argued and authoritative, I can say without exageration that this is one of the most important history books I have ever read (scratch that, this is simply one of the most important BOOKS I've ever read). It changed the way I think about economic development, absolutism and nation states.
It is also well written. I found myself reading the book almost like a novel. No sooner had I finished a chapter on say Prussia that I found myself unable to put the book down because I wanted to find out what was similar but different in Poland, or Russia. Anderson has framed the questions so nicely that you just keep begging for more.

This is the second volume of the two part work. The first volume is ¡®Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism¡¯. On a review of the first volume, I explained the purpose of the work. So I¡¯ll go directly to the content of the second volume.
This volume deals with the absolute monarchies. Absolute monarchies emerged from the crisis of feudalism which was tackled in the first volume. Anderson begins with the conventional consensus: Absolute monarchies are the reconstruction of feudal state to defend the interest of ruling class. Anderson overviews the path various countries like Spain, France, England, Italy, Sweden, Prussia, Poland, Austria, Russia, Islamic world, and Japan followed from the 16th century to the emergence of modern nation-states. The reason he covered Eastern Europe is the same one as he does in the first volume: comparative study. he argues that Western absolutism are different from Eastern absolutism. They follow different lineages. The aim of this volume is to answer the question, why the capitalism emerged in Western Europe just like the first volume. But the main point of the second volume lies in comparing Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Why did seemingly the same absolutism diverged?

Meeting the author on Tom's frivilous myspace, I chose to read this book. I've read all the good Christian fantasy books that I know of, therefore, I chose to order this tale of a princess who's freedom is being suffocated by her royalty seeking nanny, as well as her cunning and selfish father. But when she asks her dearest friend, Prince Brydon, for help in planning her escape from the castle's cold, cruel walls, she sets out pn the adventure of a lifetime in which she gets the chance to prove herself to all who doubt her. But is it worth it to give up those closest to her? Even in ways she never expected?
I discovering the author was only thirteen when writing this, I was impreseed with this story of Layla, the princess. It was very inspiring that even someone so young could fulfill the dream of publishing.

This is the best book you will ever read. Some call it the christian alternative to Harry Potter. I personally can't say that, myself though, because that would be bragging. I am sorely dissapointed that a year has passed and no review has been posted whatsoever. Next month i wil be fifteen, and publishing my next book (actually, it is sort of like the sequel to this, but The Lone Princess of Tentaleigh is included in as Part I. It will be over 300 pgs long, which i daresay, is better than the 142 or whatever it is now.)I, if you havent guessed, am Lacie. Many people i know would be able to tell that by the way this is written; those of you in doubt this is the author just know that i am a young teenager who has only had one book signing, and am not to high an mighty (yet! jk) to post a review about my own book on a bargain website. I will be selling autographed copies soon on the new and used section, and oh yes-- has anyone a CLUE why my book is being sold from all over the UK? If someone knows, please tell me! if you know me personally then you know how much i wish i was british, though it sounds odd... nonetheless my agent (aka grandpa) doesnt even know anything about my book being sold from UK. Weird, or what? I will check back in a month or so and see if anyone has bought my book and left a review. I'm counting on you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fosdick takes a broad-view look at the life of Jesus, and in doing so, examines the characteristics Jesus possessed as a man here on earth. This isn't a "HOW TO" or "SELF HELP" manual like most Christian growth books out there today. Rather, it just looks at Christ and asks how we measure up. It doesn't sound like earth-shattering stuff, but Fosdick digs deep and really brings it home several times throughout the book. Some of it will blow your mind. The entire thing is scripture based. Whoever reads it will, no doubt, come out of it with a much clearer, deeper perspective on the person and Diety of Jesus Christ. You won't be wasting your time on this book.

Tho written more than a century ago, Fosdick's insights and reflections on the personality of Christ remain fresh and relevant. My grandfather took this little daily devotional book with him into the First World War; my father took it with him into the Second; and it is just as insipiring for the conflicts of today. You will find daily gems of insight and inspiration. Well worth your time and study.

I defer to the excellent review of this book by Michael Potemra in the National Review, Decemeber 31, 2006 page 50.

The fact that this book was written at all makes it interesting. Dr. Perry, a Protestant, sets out to explain and even defend traditionally Catholic views of Mary. And why? He explains that we are fascinated with Mary because, "we are fascinated with Jesus. She directs the faith away from herself, always to her Son." Indeed, this is the precisely the point Catholic theologians have attempted to make for so long and, perhaps, one reason why Protestants and Catholics have found so little to share in common. Dr. Perry correctly identifies the close linkage between Marian and Christological doctrines.

Dr. Perry is to be commended for his commitment to understand and challenge his own assumptions in order to do so. The result is well-organized record of his studies and where those studies have led. His conclusions may seem not enough for some Catholics but shocking to some Protestants. Those who would argue his conclusions fall far too short may have a poor appreciation for how difficult these questions can be for a Protestant. Those who are shocked that he has concluded too much may need to pursue a similar study themselves to see if what Dr. Perry finds is not true. A good place to start would be Dr. Gamero's Mary and the Fathers of the Church: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought.

At times Dr. Perry seems to be riding the fence, at one point explaining how scripture must be interpreted always in light of the sacred tradition of the church - a bold admission for a Protestant to make. On the other hand, he keeps returning to the test of scripture alone as the test for orthodoxy - the more traditional Protestant stance. But even with such inconsistencies, Dr. Perry makes some rather startling (from a Protestant perspective) conclusions. And, what is more, those conclusions are backed up with solid exegesis that will likely make many squirm. Rather than give away what those conclusions are, I will refrain from further comment and leave it to your discovery. This book is like a good mystery, building the evidence all along but still keeping the end hidden to the last. At times you will think the conclusions will be in favor of one side then wonder if perhaps the evidence is leading to the other side. The writing style is clean and entertaining so that you will find it difficult to set aside.

In the process of his investigation, Dr. Perry has to lay out some ground rules for tradition, scripture, and doctrinal development. Those alone have serious implications in their admission from a Protestant and that alone gives the book its four stars. For more on these topics you may also want to see the work of another Evangelical Protestant, Dr. Willams, in Tradition, Scripture, and Interpretation: A Sourcebook of the Ancient Church (Evangelical Ressourcement: Ancient Sources for the Church's Future).

Dr. Perry's research recorded in this work will go far to raising the awareness of Protestants to their mother. Perhaps too, it will give Catholics a better understanding of the difficulties their Protestant friends may have with Mariology and, in the process, give them the tools they can use to share those doctrines without being threatening. Pope John Paul II stated on several occasions the importance of Mary in the unity of the Church. Dr. Perry seems to second that opinion. May it be that this is the crack that will begin the collapse of the wall that divides us. It is, at the very least, a step in the right direction to understanding.

This well written text book is helpful in grasping the various basic concepts of microbiology.

I utilized this text for my microbiology class in undergrad. It lists the major parasites, molds and bacteria. Parasites were the most interesting because it shows you what foods are associated with what parasite. Pretty gross stuff but was not boring at all. I also used:
Microbiology Study Guide: Key Review Question and Answers, isbn 0971999635, to help me with test preparation. The questions were quite similar to what I found on my college microbiology tests. Both books helped me to achieve very good scores on my tests.

Sarah Reed needed help with her kids, and Matt Caldwell need help from Sarah.
This book has a wonderful ending, I was sorry when it ended.
Most of the Love inspired books are very good reads, they are clean and not too preachy, although centered around church, they show people who are really people.
I still liked Susan Fox, Helen Brooks, Jessica Steele, Essie Summers, Diana Palmer, Eva Rutland, and Rebecca Winters, for good reads that are really funny.

When war correspondent Matt Caldwell interviewed his friend James Whitman, who ran a mission station in Indonesia, it hadn't occurred to him that terrorists watch television too. They blew up the mission, killing Matt's friend and wounding several children. Matt broke up on the air when he reported his friend's death and because of that his bosses told him to take six months off.

Matt, his faith in God and life in general shattered, goes home to the arms of his family in small Caldwell Island, connected to the coast of South Carolina by a bridge, to help runt the Caldwell Cove Gazette, because he owned half the paper. However he hadn't reckoned on Sarah Reed who owned the other half.

Sarah has four children, the youngest a baby. Her husband has been dead less than a year when Matt walked into their lives. The small town paper that had been hers and her husbands is her only livelihood. Now big time reporter Matt Caldwell has come to town and wants to change things. Sarah has babies to raise, she can't let that happen.

This is an inspirational romance, so naturally it has an uplifting ending, but we worry quit a bit along the way as we read through the book. We worry about Matt and whether he'll get his faith back, whether he'll get over his psychological trauma and whether he'll wind up with Sarah. And we get that old feel good feeling inside as he takes to the children and the small town he's been away from for so long. You know, I really liked this book.