Ross Books

WOW! Great research. Book is packed with great info & facts the STATE & County don't want you to know. I live & farm on the Big Island in "Coqui central" (Puna) and I know these frogs provide a valuable service by consuming mosquitos, termites, fire ants even coqui eggs, they provide their own population control! Mr & Mrs Singer write with terrific humor & understanding of the subject matter.

The authors have done an excellent job exposing the flaws in the "coqui war" that has led to more environmental destruction than the "invasive species" it was intended to destroy. Hawaii's government and media have demonized a tiny frog that is beloved wherever it exists and have ignored many other, far worse "invasive" species. The authors put forth plausible explanations for this irrational behavior. Hopefully this little book will help Hawaiians to have some "aloha" when it comes to this peaceful little amphibian that wants nothing more than to coexist with humans and other organisms that love their new island home.

Even though this book is primarily for parents of teenagers, I read it as a parent of a three and five year-old and was still able to get very useful information. The statistics that the authors give are astounding and should reaffirm to Christian parents the importance of open commmunication with your child. Because I am raising my children in a Christian environment, I assumed that I was doing everything right. However, the authors of this book help explain the importance of doing more than just "being" a Christian. They get to the heart of the Scriptures and hold all parents accountable for the commission that is given in the Bible to diligently teach our chldren God's word while helping them to realize their role in bringing others into His kingdom. I am placing this book on my shelf to pull back out when my children are reaching the middle school years. By then I will need the gentle, scripture-based nudging that is provided by the authors.

Every Christian parent should read this book and consider the advice, recommendations and helps that it offers in raising what the authors call "Kingdom kids", children that have been raised with a consistent message that conveys a faith-centered Christian worldview.

Near the end of the book, Ross writes regarding problems with youth, "Parents come to the office of counselors and church leaders when they are in crisis. Often they say 'We never thought it would come to this. How did we ever get into this situation?' The answer is often by hundreds of decisions parents and children have made over the years."

The focus of this book is for parents to understand that a primary parenting responsiblity is to see that faith is central in their own lives and to ensure that they consistently live and communicate that message to their children by making it a priority.

Too often, parents will sacrifice to send children to sports camps but not for mission trips. They will skip church to attend a child's sports activity. They drop the children off at church but don't attend themselves. Over time, decisions such as these convey to the child that mom and dad's faith just isn't all that important. As a result, 70 percent of youth will drop out of the church within two years of high school graduation.

The authors don't just tell us what has gone wrong but also offer practical advise for how to stay "on message" with your children.

I've had this book for 3 years and both my children (now aged 5 and 11) still love to hear the stories. The pictures are colorful and enjoyable and the bible stories are well placed in the story themes. The story set up begins with a situation the bear family encounters and then a bible story that relates to that situation is recollected by one of the bears. The last story Heaven Can't Wait will have the reader teary eyed, and is told in such a way that although the child will experience the sadness of death, they will see the victory of eternal life with God. I wish there were more books written of Big Ideas In the Bible. This book makes a great family devotional!

We were on vacation at a friend's. They brought out this book to read for her bedtime story. Well, we had to read 2 of the stories that night. The first thing the next morning, she got the book out again and asked me to read more. While the other kids were out swimming in the pool, she insisted I read her 2 more of the stories. When we got home from vacation, she told me she wanted to use her allowance money and buy a copy of the book herself. The tone of the book is warm and encouraging. The spiritual truths are shared in a beautiful and loving way.

Setting it apart from most books in its category, Peace First offers practical recommendations on how to build a viable culture of peace and the importance of doing so much before war becomes a threat. Savir's presentation of a new approach to international relations - glocalization, which empowers local governments to bring the peace process to the people the way national government just cannot - leaves you with the feeling that there is hope for a more peaceful future. Equally important, Savir's thorough yet concise examination of peace provides a solid foundation for his arguments while examples from his experience in peacemaking in the Middle East make the book a must-read.

Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book should be read by policy makers, politicians, corporate executives, non-profit workers, and anyone who believes that a more peaceful world is both possible and necessary. Despite my approach as a layman in the world of peace and conflict studies and international relations, I found this book incredibly compelling--as much for Savir's earnestness as for his practical peacemaking model. Savir is a true peacemaker and diplomat, and Peace First perfectly captures his unwavering dedication to cultural understanding and compassion. I highly recommend this book to anyone needing a dose of pragmatic optimism in troubling times.

This is our 12 month old daughter's favorite book. She picks it out of a pile of books for us to read to her again and again (and again and again ...). She loves pulling the flaps to reveal puppy. Not only does she really like the book, but the book has held up to some really hard use.

This is a very cute and entertaining little book. My 17 month-old daugther loves lifting the flaps to find where the puppy is hiding. Recommended for all "curious" toddlers.

I read many of these paperbacks as a kid of nine and ten. I remembered the cover of this one especially, as it's one of my favorite pictures of Barnabas. I just finished the reread and must say this is quite a tidy and nifty achievement by Dan Ross, who happens to be a good writer and not a hack, as many other adapters I suppose are. Here we are let deeper into the world around Collinwood, and into the psyches of a couple of Dark Shadows' most enduring characters. Everything in the book -- including a pink-enshrouded ghost and a psuedo clinic for consumptives -- is something believeable even though it hasn't been encountered in the world of the actual TV show. The novelette is historically sound; the ending just surprising enough; the framing device very serviceable and smart. Onto another in the series... Another great thing about these books is that they fit easily into a sport or dress jacket for on-the-sly reading at my workplace.

While visiting a grave in the Collinwood cemetery, Maggie Evans suddenly finds herself transported to Collinwood in 1880, and with a case of total amnesia. She doesn't recognize the kindly people around her, only Barnabas Collins, a cousin visiting from England. However, the dream world around her quickly turns to a nightmare when she realizes that Dr. Giles Collins is performing some weird experiments involving blood. Everyone warns her that Barnabas is a vampire, but he is the only one apparently ready to help her. The situation at Collinwood is growing dangerous for Maggie, but she has faith in Barnabas...now, if he can save himself from Giles Collins, he can maybe save her.

Canadian author Dan Ross, under the pseudonym of Marilyn Ross, wrote this suspenseful, Gothic horror story, along with 32 other Dark Shadows novels. These novels were based on the American television show Dark Shadows (1966-71), but as they were written at the same time as the show was unfolding, there are some discrepancies between the books and the show. In spite of that, though, Ross's characters are wonderfully fleshed out, and story itself is absolutely gripping.

So, if you are a fan of Gothic horror, you will like this book very much. If you are a fan of Dark Shadows you will absolutely *love* this book. (I did.) I highly recommend this book!

As a committed devotee of Roth's work, I've read a number of articles and critiques of his literature and its meaning, but none compare to the expansiveness, clarity, and insight that one can derive from Posnock's book. While most works on Roth tend to focus on categorizing him narrowly as a Jewish American author, Posnock's work sees him in a novel light - Roth is part of a tradition of authors on both sides of the Atlantic who write about the importance of immaturity, silliness, and flouting convention. It is this lens, perhaps even more than a particular Jewish/ethnic lens that, in my opinion, offers the most insight into Portnoy's Complaint, The Counterlife, The Human Stain, and his other great works. By taking into account his literary genealogy, one also learns a lot about Henry James, Raplh Waldo Emerson, and Milan Kundera.

Besides being impeccably researched and carefully (and not exaggeratedly) argued, Posnock has a talent for excellent, even beautiful, writing. This is the kind of style and caliber of writing that I would enjoy even if I had no interest in Roth or his canon. The work as a whole is outstanding and I highly recommend it for anyone interested in Roth's work or in a model of sterling scholarship and writing.

Ross Posnock makes a new reading of the work of Philip Roth. He focuses on the idea of 'immaturity' and through it links Roth to literary traditions and writers to whom he is not normally connected. Perhaps most notably he connects Roth with the writers of the American Renaissance (1850-55) Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Hawthorne the giants of the American Tradition. Posnock shows how Roth's refusal to accept the inhibiting restrictions of maturity free him to make an incredible imaginative effort, one which remarkably unlike that of so many American writers, does in fact have a 'second act' Posnock also links Roth with the world of Eastern European writers most notably Milan Kundera. Posnock finds Roth to be that rare American writer who has gone from strength to greater strength. For him the first rank of Roth's work consists in "Portnoy's Complaint" (1969) "The Counterlife" (1986) "Sabbath's Theatre " (1995) and "The Human Stain" ( 2000) I myself have a different sense of the Roth canon and believe that his most recent work "Everyman" is at a level only "Portnoy" can match.
Posnock does what a good literary critic should do - expands our sense of the richness of meaning of the work.
This is a welcome addition to the growing critical literature on the work of an American master.

This textbook is one of the best text in Physical Chemistry in the modern time. Although not a classic, it is well organized and pulls all the important information and problems from a variety of sources. The writing is clear and logical for both undergraduate and graduate students alike.

This book puts a high value on clarity and logic. Time invested with this book is repaid with UNDERSTANDING.

Too bad Pilgrimage is out of print. The idea of the journey west on the Oregon Trail will never seem the same to me as it did before I traveled it with young Emma. Her insight into both delightfully earthy and horribly vicious situations is perfectly wonderful. She might be a younger version of Miss Julia from the Ann B. Ross series, but with a less caustic and cynical wit. Character development is masterful. A strong voice from a strong author. Loved it.

In Missouri in 1846, Jessie and Emma Heath have recently lost their father and are now orphans. Jessie believes the Lord wants her to go out west to convert the Indians, so she and Emma pack up and leave home. After a run-in with two unsavory characters on the way to Independence, Jessie decides it's too dangerous for them to appear as two vulnerable women traveling alone, so Em dresses up as a boy and pretends to be Jessie's young brother, Emmett. From Independence, they head out on the Oregon Trail with the Donner family, and so the fun begins. The adventures that follow make for a great and hilarious story. Indian raids, unwanted marriage proposals, fake preachers, "divine" interventions, daring rescues, near starvation, the effort of keeping up Em's disguise, and a cast of wacky characters - including the mountain men Mego Cobb and Mr. Garrett - make this book hard to put down. Though it is now unfortunately out of print, it's worth the effort to track down a used copy online. You won't regret it.

"In 1948 the Queen's University, Belfast, did me the honour of appointing me to deliver the Memorial Lecture established in memory of the notable historian of ancient thought, Sir Samuel Dill.

I WELCOMED THE OPPORTUNITY OF SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT PLATO'S THEORY OF IDEAS, at which I had been working for some time, and the substance of the lecture is embodied in the final chapter and in other parts of the present book.

I have not thought is necessary, as a rule, to print in the original Greek passages from Plato and other Greek writers, but have been content to translate or to use a good existing translation....."
[from the book of the preface by W. D. R.]

This book by Sir David Ross is, for me, the best account of Platos's famous theory of Ideas. The author goes back to Plato's earlyer dialogues and gives a detailed exposition of how the doctrine developed all through the dialogues, how were took the teachings of Socrates and how Plato gave to it full consistence. Especially fine is his account of the Parmenides, one of Plato's mature works. This is, may be, the most difficult of all the dialogues and Ross sheds real clarity on it. This is the book if one wants to get to know Plato's philosophy through his central root. It really helped me in my first readings of the divine Plato.