Ross Books

"This book contains stories of frontline heroism that will inspire your children, keep you awake at night, and redefine what it means to live whole-heartedly for Jesus. Buy a copy for your children, for your friends, and if you dare, buy one for yourself as well!"

I confess to being a voracious reader of fiction. It is normally my preferred genre. But once in a great while I run across a non-fiction book that demonstrates that truth really is more fascinating than fiction. Ross Tooley's book "Following Jesus" is one such book.

My wife had to plead with me to turn off the bedside lamp, because once I started reading "Following Jesus" I didn't want to put it down. It is the story of how God transformed an ordinary person - can you believe a twelve year old shoplifter?- into a fully devoted, effectual servant and teacher with a world-wide ministry.

What makes this story more than just another autobiographical account is the skillful interweaving of practical principles into the narrative. Thus the book is not merely inspirational, it is also instructional.

Whether a person is just beginning their faith walk, or are leaders in their Christian community, they will find this to be a worthwhile, maybe even life-changing read. I've already ordered several additional copies to pass along to friends.

This collection contains 8 of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's best plays. Shepard has a way of capturing our imagination with a wild collection of characters in even wilder stories. "Fool For Love", "Angel City", "Geography of a Horse Dreamer", "Action", "Cowboy Mouth", Seduced", "Suicide in B", "Melodrama Play".
Shepard is one of the great American voices in theatre. These are all classics that deserve to be remembered and studied.

With this collection, Shepard demonstrates his remarkable ability to portray America in the realistic ways most contemporary authors/playwrights/poets are afraid to do. The dialogue is captivating and moving, and the action is fast-paced. Definetely an excellent buy.

Ed is best read.

Simply put, Ed Ross is real about real estate.

Look at his record: has owned over 200 properties and has custom-built, renovated and personally rented more than 100 dwellings and office buildings. And that's just data on the jacket.

The information on the 230 pages builds his case -- that you can make serious money. Even in this flopping housing market.

As Ed writes, it's all about doing your homework. With his textbook.

Ross spells it out clearly: 65% of our country will stall on the housing front until 2013. That's in keeping with his cyclical call of 2006 -- that we're in for seven years of drought.

Still, that leaves 35% in for rain. So natch he points to the Pacific Northwest for a floating housing market. In his Top 10 U.S. Cities section, Bellingham, Wash., comes out No. 1 and Bend, Ore., No. 2.

Why Bellingham? Says Ross: It's between two heavyweights in Seattle and Vancouver, directly in line of residential migration growth. Add the sharing of those two cultural meccas, thriving biz and Northwest lifestyle, and the sum question follows: What's not to like?

I edited Ed Ross' previous book, "The Spill Zone." The man knows real estate. Most of us don't. So ya gonna call? The Boss: Ross.

This book is very comprehensive, yet easy to read. This book has it all, buying, selling, financing, forecast trending, foreclosures and a detailed method making money in the current market cycle.The book covers market trends, historicals and gives you 7 years worth of future projections in just about every area imagineable.

I own two properties (my home and an tri-plex), one of which I have been trying to sell, without any success. My biggest challenge presently is to sell my home and figure out if I should buy a new one or rent. After reading this material I have a lot more confidence that renting would be a bad idea. Meanwhile the author gave me a bunch of creative ways to expedite the sale my property. One of my concerns was that once I sell it, lenders will likely make it difficult for me to get financing for my next home. Again Ross detailed how to use other sources for financing, specifically in Chapter 6. This is a great book for answering the what type, where, and how much you spend on any property, even when the market is in a difficult period. The book has so much information that it is next to impossible to just read it once, or explain it in this review. It is a good book for the experienced investor who wants to make a lot of money in this real estate market, but also from my first read it was written simple enough to benefit any first time home buyer. It has a lot of complex calculators and algorithms for measuring the quality of a property, but then the author gives you free access to web sites so that you do not have to do anything manually. I would recommend this to just about all levels, novice or advanced, real estate buyers or sellers.

Charles Larpenteur's capabilities as a writer, his presence in the American wilderness at a time when many were not literate, his submersion in the fur trade in positions of responsibility, all make him a unique, worthy read.

The reader is removed from the adventure fantasies and romance, carried into the day-to-day details of the life of a man who became a mountain man early in life and remained one until the trade was no longer a viable institution. A mountain man worrying about profit and loss far more than fights with wild tribesmen, a man who knows white men and studiously avoids being tricked or ruined by their wiles and their competition for trade with the Indians.

Larpenteur has been used as a reference by almost every work written about the fur trade, but his own work needs no references.

Read it.

Captivating! This is an accurate and vivid account of the day to day and year to year activities associated with the early American fur trade era. Pick up any book on this subject and you will find that this book is used as a reference. Larpenteur spent much of his time at the Fort Union trading post in present day Montana where the Yellowstone River empties into the Missouri. This is his story of how the actual trading was carried on, relationships with the Indians and resulting battles that oftentimes would occur, along with the inner relationships amongst the fur companies and military, the hardships which had to be overcome, etc. He shouldered heavy responsibilities and it is apparent that at times he would get somewhat down on himself for not accomplishing or meeting his goals. If he were alive today, he would see that his journal would erase all those self doubts and misconceptions that he had of himself. A great book.

If you like Historical Fiction THIS IS IT!!!!!!!! Winstom Graham, now decesed began these family saga novels in the 1950's 'and finished the
Poldark Saga shortly up to his death.


The books number 13 in the saga and are the very best read, Ross Poldark is a swashbuckling romantic hero, the type one doesn't see these days.

The Four Swans, book six, marks the mid-point in the Poldark series. Set in Cornwall and also elsewhere in England at this time, The Four Swans sees Ross Poldark, survivor of war, feuds, plagues, murder attempts, raids, rivalries and marriage to the longsuffering but fiery Demelza Carne, discovers a new danger in his midst when a young (and gradually dying) naval officer he rescued from certain death in a French prison, becomes openly enchanted with Demelza, and quietly seeks to gain the love of this ever-loyal, beautiful woman. Trouble also stirs in the Enys household, where tragedy pays a visit to Caroline and Dwight, and the doctor's health is still not all it could be as a result of his incarceration. And even amid the extravagance with which George Warleggan surrounds himself and his family, all is not well. George tries to quell fears about Valentine's paternity, but his terrible suspicions that the child he is raising as his own heir is in fact the offspring of his enemy Ross Poldark, sets off a venomous fever that imperils his relationship with Elizabeth, the only woman he has ever loved. Meanwhile Morwenna's wedded life with the moneyed cleric, Osborne Whitworth, is an ongoing nightmare from which a pure-hearted boy, Demelza's younger brother Drake Carne, wishes to rescue her, unaware of the danger in which he places them both. The Four Swans was perhaps the last time Graham allowed such a deliberate pace to be used in his Poldark books, and this novel stands as a sort of gift from the writer to those who love the series, and lets a reader sit back and feel the totality of this immense literary undertaking go on around him...right before the series leaves familiar waters and plunges into the rapids of the year 1799 and the violent nineteenth-century after that.

This is a well-written, easy-to-read investigation of some unusual Jewish and Jewish wannabe communities in Uganda, Peru, Brazil, India, and even Israel. There are chapters on the ever-increasing discovery of Marranos and their descendents and an interesting one on the Karaite community, who are officially acknowledged as Jews by the rabbinic authorities in Israel though their rabbis are not. Ross focuses on several individuals in each chapter, which brings the research down to a personal and more readable level. He is also careful not to take any one `expert's' advice on the theories of some of the communitites who claim `Lost Tribe' status but brings objective reporting into the argument. Each chapter can be read independent of each other, with an introduction and conclusion linking them. On the whole, interesting and very readable of some unusual communities!

Well written. Well researched. Reads like classic novel.

Frank and the Giant is a children's picturebook in the "We Both Read" series, in which every two-page spread features a more complex passage for adults to read to children on the left, and a simple read-aloud word or phrase for the young person to read aloud on the right. The colorful artwork offers a wealth of contextual information to help young readers, and the Parent's Introduction is designed to help acclimate parents to encouraging a love of reading in their children. The story of Frank and the Giant follows an adventurous little frog and his friends, who follow their ball into the house of a tremendous giant - who turns out to be a little boy! A lighthearted and fun experience to share with young people learning to sound out their first words.

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The course I am taking prescribes the book by Brealey-Myers, but I find this book to be better and easier to understand the concepts for a person studying finance for the first time. There are a number of worked examples and also practice problems. I am amazed that this book wasn't our textbook in the first place. I happened to find this in the library and am glad I did!

If only my finance professor was as good as the book my class would be easy. I like the study guide and excel tutor that came with the purchase.

John Ross, who had earlier failed to find the Northwest passage and had created a mirage of `Lancaster sound' in 1818 returned in 1828 to lead an expedition by steam to seek out the Northwest passage and map the arctic. He ended up stranded for almost four years. His men survived on meager rations while learning from the natives. A small party led by his Nephew James Ross also discovered the Magnetic North Pole.

This is an amazing account of the ordeal of this harrowing journey into the arctic wasteland. Well written, its greatest downfall is that it includes only one map. This book will be enjoyed by anyone interested in the arctic, seafaring, adventure or survival stories. For further reading `Barrows Boys' by Fleming, `Into Thin Air, and `Sea of Glory' by Philbrick will be of great interest.

Fury Beach by Ray Edinger combines thorough research with a rousing good story. The lengthy bibliography and index suggest the extensive research that went into producing this book. Well written, it is actually two stories for the price of one: a tale of an Arctic voyage of discovery and scientific research and the heart-warming story of the interaction of two cultures, an Inuit tribe and Englishmen, meeting for the first time and things actually go right. People treat each other with kindness and respect. Friendships result. I particularly liked the short snippets of biographies at the close of the book that explained what happened to the participants after the adventure ended. There are many illustrations, all charming.

Photography gathers many unusual images of perspective and still life: changes in light change image results substantially. Enjoy Gathering Light, a superb collection of full-page photographic images which illustrate this point, with texts by Dave Hickey and Eduardo Cadava accenting some startling photos.

Mr. Ross wields the camera like Shakespeare wielded the plume, gathering images more beautiful than the white cliffs of Dover at dawn. In passing from page to page, Ross takes you on a journey from the bayou to Burma and everywhere in between, focusing in on places Indiana Jones would have thought too difficult to reach. And all through the mind's eye of a true gatherer of light. I felt like Kim Basinger looking at slides in "Nine and a Half Weeks." Arousing to say the least.