Ross Books

A brilliant review. All the moreso since I wrote it. My question persists: Do I get any morey from the sales of this article? I believe I should, especially considering I was unceremoniously fired from IIE so many years ago. Still sour about that, you ask? Why of course I am. Not because I liked the company - clearly, it sucked - but beacuse they fired me for being out sick too much. I mean, I almost died in the hospital, and yet all the editors cared about was the fact that I missed crucial deadlines. I just have a real issue with crass corporate fascism. So should you. Now get back to work, you corporate slave, and stop reading the bitter ruminations of an otherwise euphorically happy public school teacher!

I wrote this article, before I dropped my last name, Wimsatt. I used to work for the Institute of Industrial Engineers in their publications department.

What the hell is my article doing on Amazon, and do I get any money from the sales of the article?

These are questions that will probably never be answered.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book by Dr.Marilyn J. Ross. She explained the reasons why African-American males tend to have a better chance at success in historically black colleges, and personally I believe that they do. They have a better chance of receiving academic help, encouragement, and assistance. Not only that there are more opportunities for learned networking through fraternal organizations, church organizations, and special interest groups.

I can honestly state that some of my strongest relationships and bonds where created while attending a historically black college. There I learned how to work hard, and become more aware as to what matters most . . . A sound faith, strong ties with my family, intense study, and community endeavors that support cultural awareness as a whole.

I read this book by Dr. Ross and she has explained why and how some African-American males succeed at historically black colleges. Dr. Ross researched the area of family and the importance of having a strong family base along with religon were highly significant to the findings of her study of why black males succeeded. Also Dr. Ross was able to perform a qualitative and quantitive analysis study to measure the results of her research to support her theory. I found this particular research interesting, because also these black males that were selected for the study were also mentored by a faculty member, administrative or staff member of the university. I would recommend this particular research to anyone who is looking to send their son or daughter to a historically black college or university. So often we debate in the African-American community should we or shouldn't we send our children to HBCUs or non-HBCUs and this particular book will be able good tool to help us make a researched base descision.

I am interested in performing the research that Dr. Ross has currently performed and hopefully one day I will get that opportunity.

A great book to browse thru on a winter weekend afternoon - the beautiful photos remind you of the best of summer in the country.

This beautifully illustrated book captures the essence of what makes summer cottaging so enjoyable. The settings are perfect for magical experiences & memories.

Swift, the greatest English satirist, is of course best known for Gulliver's Travels, but the Tale of a Tub is more complex, more vicious, and funnier. In some of the best prose of the 18th century, he ridicules all sorts of conventions, religious, literary, rhetorical, and otherwise. He makes full use of the capacity that prose has for being deliriously irrelevant and digressive. It is similar in some ways to Tristram Shandy and the novels of postmodernism. It'll give you fits.

A Tale of a Tub is certainly Swift's least classifiable work. He's best known, of course, for Gulliver's Travels. This work was mostly written at the very start of his career, when he hadn't yet totally hardened into his later misanthropy, and it has all the demented exuberance of a great writer in his mid-20s finding a voice.

It defies description. The kernel of it is a satire on religious controversies, but that makes up about a third of the actual text. The rest is a series of prologues, forewords, dedications, prefaces, afterwords, epilogues and appendices, the sheer profusion of which suggest very much that Swift is poking dire fun at the idea of writing itself. In that respect, it goes further than any 20th century French golden boy of artistic revolt; Artaud looks like a stamped-in-tin romantic poet when set against Swift's manic nihilism. A Tale of a Tub is the closest anyone has ever got to writing a book that tackles head-on the futility of writing books, but that's only one interpretation of it. It exhausts interpretation by being as near as possible about nothing at all - and hence about everything. Plus it's not even 200 pages long. Swift never wrote as irresponsibly ever again, although the Travels, 'A Modest Proposal', the Bickerstaffe Papers, the 'Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift' and the Drapier's Letters are all admirable enough. A Tale of a Tub is as comprehensive a piece of literary terrorism as was ever attempted.

This book has many characters. This book has a different variety of babies such as a brave Baby, Twin babies, and a scared baby. Tommy (the leader) is brave, strong, and bald. Chucky, who is a scared baby and is best buddies with Tommy. Phil and Lil are twins, Phil is a boy and Lil is a girl. They sometimes don't get along well, but they still live with each other. Kimi, who is Chucky's new little sister, has so much imaginative ideas that the babies have something fun to do Everyday. The problem in this story is that Stu's new invention (the flying Dactar) broke and sent the babies traveling back in time to Italy. The solution was that they have to fix Dactar and Go back home.

My reactions to the book were that I was shocked to read about the babies traveling back in time. My feelings were that those babies are crazy; when I was a baby I would never have been that brave.

I would highly recommend this book to 7 years olds. The reason being that they are still developing an imaginative mind. I would not recommend this book to adults because it will make their learning skills go down. For the reason being this book would not entertain them.
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Vanchung Por

Tommy's daddy is working on his latest invention, the Flying Dactar. But of course, like his other inventions, it doesn't work very well. He leaves it, and the babies crawl in. Before they know it, the Dactar transports them back to Florence, Italy, in the sixteenth century.... and then breaks down, stranding them in the past. While Angelica decides to find a palace, the others decide to search for the great inventor Leonardo da Vinci, hoping he can fix their broken machine. Along the way, they see the sights of the historic city and eventually meet Michaelangelo and da Vinci, and thanks to Angelica, fall under suspicion of being spies. I reccomend this very funny and very cute book to all fans of Rugrats, whatever their ages.

Tell me where the trees find shelter?...For a moment the title made me stop and think, and as I read each page my eyes and my mind were being taken to another place. I have not read poetry in a long time and Paula Ross reminded me of what I have been missing. Inner thoughts, some hit home and some grabbed me by the eyes and and almost kept me from blinking. This book is an excellent must-read.

Paula Ross', Tell Me Where The Trees Find Shelter is an extremely well planted alphabet flourishing garden. Many books of poetry are consumed with revolution, love, joy or pain, this read spouts picturesque verbs that dance in the wind of life's descriptive truths. Don't expect mediocrity or the over usage of big words with hollow meanings.

This writer flawlessly takes readers on a 114-page trip from thought to thought with a unique style of literary grace that touches upon a plethora of topics with the addition of informative snippets regarding varied topics such as domestic violence.

The vivid photography and art work of N. Chaz Bowie is definitely an added bonus that will surely help to make this talking drum your final answer.

Stacey Tolbert

Long overdue. Chris Ross and Lane Sloan have written a very complete book for current and future leaders in this important sector. With over 20 years of experience in the energy world I have learned new things from this book. Just the interviews with leaders in this industry make this worth buying.

Don't even start with the first page of this book. Start with the last two chapters, then the beginning, and read, and reread again and again!

Anyone that genuinely desires a candid, 4D picture of the changing and challenging direction required of today's energy leaders will find it in "Terra Incognita." It is high time for leaders that have operated with consistent and steadfast integrity to be recognized for what that have accomplished.

If you want to know what it really takes to secure the leadership mantle in any industry, Lane Sloan and Chris Ross have provided an industry GPS with the complete energy landscape.

Three weeks before Sue Ross, the author's, untimely death in 1996 from cancer she received her doctorate in Fine Art for her thesis and signed a contract with Oxford Books to publish "This is My World" a book about the life and work of South African artist Helen Martins. The book was published a year later after her death. The photographs in "This is My World" are stunning and the book is an illuminating study of Martin's life story. Martins created a fantasy world of sculpture and light (known as Outsider Art) in her Karoo village home, named "The Owl House," in South Africa. In 1976, when her house and garden were filled with more than 200 camels, owls, peacocks, Buddha's, Bushman and Biblical scenes, she seemed to feel her life's purpose was complete and committed suicide. After her death she became a nationally acclaimed artist and her home was proclaimed a national monument and museum. "This is My World" is both inspiring and heart wrenching. It is not only a tribute to Helen Martin's work but to the life and work of Susan Imrie Ross as well. I'm proud that Helen Martin's is my great Aunt!

Three weeks before Sue Ross, the author's, untimely death in 1996 from cancer she received her doctorate in Fine Art for her thesis and signed a contract with Oxford Books to publish "This is My World" a book about the life and work of South African artist Helen Martins. The book was published a year later after her death. The photographs in "This is My World" are stunning and the book is an illuminating study of Martin's life story. Martins created a fantasy world of sculpture and light (known as Outsider Art) in her Karoo village home, named "The Owl House," in South Africa. In 1976, when her house and garden were filled with more than 200 camels, owls, peacocks, Buddha's, Bushman and Biblical scenes, she seemed to feel her life's purpose was complete and committed suicide. After her death she became a nationally acclaimed artist and her home was proclaimed a national monument and museum. "This is My World" is both inspiring and heart wrenching. It is not only a tribute to Helen Martin's work but to the life and work of Susan Imrie Ross as well. I'm proud that Helen Martin's is my great Aunt!

I'm glad I bought this book. It covers a range of interesting, esoteric, and ultimately contemporarily resonant topics in a sophisticated yet approachable way--with just the right amount of detail. Some essays are better than others, but I guess that's to be expected. Buy it.

The Vietnam War has influenced policy ideas and political alignments, historiography and international law scholarship. And so, 30 years after the last American helicopter left Saigon, fresh thinking on "what it all means" is still, remarkably, in order. "To Oppose Any Foe" is just such a rethink.
In presenting its novel challenges to the conventional wisdom about Vietnam, "To Oppose Any Foe" has something for everyone, from the historian and historically-minded layman to the military strategist and legal scholar. That there can exist such opposing views is certainly a parallel to the scholarship developing around our current war. Let us hope that the practical legacy of Iraq, both for the people of that nation and for American policy, will not be similarly comparable to that of Vietnam.

The author spent 23 years in the Naval Cryptologic Organization. This is his true life experience. He reveals information which he believes has never been previously revealed, such as the following:

A. How the Japanese hijacked a Pan American China Clipper in 1938. There was $2 million in gold on that clipper from the Chinese in the U.S. to aid China in its war effort against Japan. (Perhaps the first hijack of a commercial aircraft in world history.)
B. How the Japanese planned to take over the Shanghai China International Settlement in 1940 and how COMMIT ruined their plan.
C. Startling information from the Secretary of Navy just before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
D. Japanese fifth column activity in Hawaii before and after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
E. How he accidentally killed many sailors and marines at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
F. How we shot down our own planes on the evenng of December 7, 1941.
G. Our original Midway Battle counterattack plan??
--- from book's Preface

During W.W.2 He came to our station Bainbridge island But rather than instruct classes wanted to work in school office so I took his classes to teach.I was 3 years here & most of his memories square with mine. I saw some of same happen, and some sailors came thru for rest & recreation had stories to tell & I was to have them give highlights to claasses for what was ahead for them in the field but allis classified material and must be cleared so I appreciate his efforts to do all this and keep a story all together in some fashion in spite of that problem.