Spencer Books

As a part-time reading teacher, I use this book with slower readers and underachievers. The book's simple, clear process of handling time gave the students a sense of how to be responsible for what they do NOW, learning that their futures are dependent on proper actions taken right now.

The chapters are short, and as a result very digestible for your teens. This book allowed me to move into basic study skills with the lessons inherent in the text as a basis for their new learning schema.

The principles are universal and maybe applied to anyone at any age.

We were all able to improve our use of time!

I purchased this book for my department at work. I also purchased the CD and found the CD even more enjoyable than reading the book.

My team was under a lot of pressure to perform and as is often the case in adverse conditions, some were beginning to blame others and lose focus on the tasks at hand given the large amount of work yet to be done.

The response I recieved from the workforce was varied but all positive. Living in the present, learning from our past, preparing for the future, and living with purpose has become a sound bite in our department. The book is a quick read and the CD tough to not listen to all at once. Make sure you have sufficient time to listen to it in one sitting.

If you have customers or coworkers that do important work and you have lost touch with what needs to be done, this book will help you step back from your task saturation and reflect on where you are at, where you need to go and why it is important for you to do so.

This is a book I will share for many years to come.

a great book...dark with the overwhelming feeling of doom.,
i can't believe no one ever reviewed this book i owned it years ago, in the 90's and from the moment i picked it up i could not put it down. RAR was hands down the best source book i ever read for werewolf (apocalypse)
the entire book made you feel as if amragedon was months away and that it was unavoidable.

it really made a lot of comparisons to how americans veiwed soviet russia during the cold war, with how the garou outside of russia veiwed those stuck (trapped)behind the iron shadow (nod to the iron curtain) it was by far the darkest themed book werewolf had,
and if you ever read the Silver Crown, this book gave an all new depth to the character Arkady, and what he had to do to escape Baba Yaga's reach.

i think the new forsakken series (or new WOD in general) could probally have something similar to this story arch, given the actions Vladimir Putin has taken to consolidate the kremlin's power (as of september 2006)
or better yet they could give a peak into the world of Kim Jong-il and the DPRK (north korea)

so all the above stills applies from my other review only with this package you get an extra book, caerns places of power, in of itself a great resource....

This is a great buy especialy for a ST just getting into W:TA. For it contains two sorce books that are out of print. This book help flesh out chronicals that span more then just one area of the world.

11 Jan 1863 in the Gulf of Mexico
"The two ships were within hailing distance when Blake (Lieutenant-Comander Homer C. Blake) demanded his opponent's identity. In what Porter (Admiral David Porter) called 'pure perfidy, such as a Zulu warrior would resort to.' Semmes identified his ship as Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Petrel. Reassured, Blake demanded the right to inspect the ship's registry in accordance with international law. After a boat had been lowered and was underway from the Hatteras. Semmes called out. 'This is the Confederate States steamer Alabama. FIRE'.
The first broadside from the Alabama was decisive, the Hatteras staggering under its force."

Spencer C. Tucker writes a fun book on the history and exploits of the famous Condeferate raider The Alabama. He includes some nice maps, drawings and photos for the reader.Not many books write about the other side of the War, the Naval part. So this book is welcomed. The Union navy was crucial in the War with it's blockades and for the Confederate's it was crucial to try to defeat the blockaders.

What would you do as the Captain of the Alabama as the Union Navy searches the high seas for you with every ship it can?

I enjoyed this book. Took me awhile to read but very enjoyable. Civil War on the high seas!

With the death of Jacques Derrida, eulogies to the field of semiotic theory and its relevance to contemporary scholarship are becoming both ubiquitous and clichéd. Post-structuralism and its less disciplined sibling post-modernism are being dismissed as passing intellectual fashions. You even occasionally see ethnocentric barbs thrown at the French origins of these theoretical traditions.

What you don't see is a refutation of the basic insight at the heart of the field of semiotics: that all inquiry and all knowledge claims are mediated by signs, and thus no representation we make of the things of this world can be direct, pure, innocent, or final. It raises the question: what are the ethics associated with choosing one form of inquiry, one form of knowledge production, over another. This single insight throws into question the entire inheritance of enlightenment thought, upon which most of our political and educational institutions are founded. It is no wonder that less robust minds are quick to take up any opportunity to dismiss it.

Kory Sorrel, in his book Representative Practices: Peirce, Pragmatism, and Feminist Epistemology, takes up the challenge of semiotics to western enlightenment thought. He avoids the missteps and excesses often associated with "post-structuralist" thought, which relies on the semiotic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure, by grounding his analysis in the semiotic theory of the another 19th century thinker: Charles Sanders Peirce.

Sorrell does a masterful job of presenting the notoriously difficult philosophy of Peirce in a lucid manner, and relating it to contemporary fields such as feminist epistemology, cultural anthropology, and the philosophy of science. He offers an interpretation of Peirce's philosophy that illustrates how the idea that all knowledge is mediated by signs can be reconciled with a commitment to realism. He then offers an elaboration of Peirce's work that points to a conception of representation that is both descriptive and constitutive and to a community practice of inquiry (continued improvement of our representations) that is genuinely melioristic.

This is Sorrell's first book in a line of what we should hope are many. It is fresh, is analytical and contains wonderful prose at the same time, seeks new routes of critical inquiry to crack open and reconstruct, and draws non-ideologically and critically on diverse philosophical traditions - pragmatism, feminism, analytic philosophy, and postmodern thought. His work looks to take careful analysis of traditional philosophical problems and approaches into novel terrain and make them matter beyond philosophers' discussions. As Sorrell suggests in the context of a discussion of Peirce's method of science, traditional methods are quite useful, but often not in the way that is traditionally understood. This idea is at the root of Sorrell's erudite engagement with Peirce.

The book focuses on representation of a reconstructed Peircean stripe. The first half or so of the book discusses Peirce's unique brand of phenomenology and semeiotic and lays out a pragmatic realist view of how representation of the objectively real is possible. Sorrell expertly engages ongoing technical debates among Peirce scholars. The second half discusses the nature of authority in representation, drawing also on feminist epistemology, and concludes with the development of an "ethic of representation." As such, the book does something very rarely done with Peirce's philosophy - it moves towards the genuinely concrete and practical.

In the second part of the book, Sorrell argues that authority is an inescapable feature of representative practices, the shared understandings and conduct through which epistemic communities interpret the world and concomitantly reconstitute these understandings and conduct. Rather than deny its legitimacy, or try to eliminate it, we are better off confronting authority as both constructive and constraining in representation. Typically, authority is taken as an excess of bias or privilege that arbitrarily frames understanding of the object. In this sense, the presence of authority in representative practices has tended to both exalt and conceal particular social perspectives, often under the guise of universality or best corresponding to the "real," while excluding others' representations of social reality. Characterized as such, the best reaction might be to weed out the presence of authority and many theorists have taken this route. Sorrell suggests, however, that we can and ought to render authority more reasonable by recognizing that authoritative representation, as a social process, actually allows the community to expose ways in which social inequalities are represented or marginalized. Sorrell shows us how this can be done. This enables us to develop more inclusive forms of representation as well as to distinguish those parts of our authoritative traditions worthy of respect and those that perpetuate exclusion and are better off subverted.

This book will definitely find a solid place among top-notch Peirce scholarship. But it ought to be read by a broader audience for its development of a pragmatic, ameliorative method of criticism that extends to all representative practices, as well as for its own spirit of generosity and inclusiveness.

James Spencer shows different scenarios to set up for training your retriever. These tests can help all hunting retrievers: from your companion in the blind to your field trial champion. Note this book does not go into teaching commands. It focuses on marking and blind setups. He also goes on to discuss different types of competition. This book is filled with ideas and concepts you can put to use next time you are in the field.

Anyone wanting to learn the fine details of training their dog for hunt tests or field trials could learn a great deal fromn this book. Mr. Spencer breaks down the various factors which play in setting up training sessions or tests into component pieces. I have found many people do not understand why their dogs do what they do faced with various factors of wind, terrain and mark placement. This book will help the novice and experienced trainer begin to analyze these factors. One result is a better sense of what your dog dog nees to learn to be successful in field competitions. It's a great book for someone aspiring to become a judge.

Grace's parents say she's out of control and her old friends don't like her - but Grace thinks she's a whole new chic person and is happy with her new friends in Katherine Spencer's SAVING GRACE, an excellent story for ages 12 and older about change, self-image, and coming to grips with a brother's death.

After the death of her brother, Grace Stanley starts acting strange. She dumps her old friends, starts drinking, starts lying to everyone, starts hanging out with the popular kids, flunking her classes, missing study sessions, and skipping school.

But then something happens; Grace just snaps. Later, her parents confront her about missing classes and flunking math. They tell her that this isn't like her and that they didn't realize that she was having so much trouble.

She feels like she can't talk to them because they're always at church. But then Grace meets a girl named Philomena. She helps Grace with everything. See what happens. Find out what makes Grace say "enough!"

Grace has a lot of feelings and you get to hear them through her point of view. I think this book was excellent. It was thrilling and I didn't want to put it down. I recommended it to all of my friends when I was finished; it made you want to read more and more! I would definitely give this book 5 stars and a Gold Award!!

Reviewed by: Frizzie

I'm reading this now, savouring it, allowing one story a day. The stories are gems, polished without feeling workshopped, elegant without seeming traditional, classics yet not stodgy. Spencer's understanding of the nuances of class are superb, and her settings are evocative, rich and compelling. I've read little Southern fiction and spent even less time below the Mason-Dixon line, but these stories still seem real to me, important, touching and relevant. Highly recommended.

Elizabeth Spencer's short stories are elegantly written and filled with moments of delicacy and insight. "Ship of Fools," written many years ago, retains a freshness in its youthful protagonist's perceptions, while her best-known work, "Light in the Piazza," takes the reader into an ethereal, long-lost but bewitching Italian setting. As piercing as her insights into human dynamics is her ability to capture a peculiar quality of light or the dreamy interior world of her many characters. Spencer expertly juxtaposes passages of apparently random stream-of-consciousness with exchanges between men and women that illustrate the kinds of tangled relationships we all make and encounter in daily life. There's never just surface events taking place in Spencer's fiction; much is constantly going on beneath the surface, which for me generates the kind of depth found only in the very best fiction. I strongly recommend her work to readers looking for prose that can be read and re-read, savored and enjoyed, many times over.

This book gives a mathematically rigorous and self-contained presentation of the hp method for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The presentation begins with an introduction of the fundamental concepts related to both h and p methods using simple one-dimensional model PDEs and continues with the more complex PDEs governig multidimensional incompressible and compressible flows of practical interest. In addition to the clear and complete presentation of the mathematical theory, sufficient guidelines and implementation details are given throughout the presentation of the material. This book is very helpful to both newcomers in the field of CFD as well as experienced practitioners who wish to apply hp refinement methods in CFD.

This book is thorough and self contained. It can serve as a very good text for someone who just begun to learn about the method. It can also serve as an excellent reference for someone who is already experienced in the method of spectral elements. It explains very clearly both the mathematical theory as well as the implementation details.

What do you think when you go to your doctor, that he will help you? That the only thing that he wants is your money? That he cares about you? The only problem with the medical thrillers is that you will think twice if you want to see a doctor or if you want to go to an hospital.
This thriller is good it will keep you reading and you will see the two types of doctors that exist, one who the only thing he wants is money, and the other that the only things he wants is to cure people, I think that this profession is the most difficult to live with, in one hand you need to live, but in the other is with the life of a person that are you dealing for.

Since Amazon didn't post an editorial review, here's the description from the back of the book to help you decide if this book is for you: "Married in name only .... the marriage of Spencer Brade, M.D., to Carol Grahame was one of simple convenience. He needed money to start the practice -- wanted it desperately -- she needed a husband immediately. With the Grahame fortune he could set himself up. In return, Carol was able to give her unborn child a name. But soon Spencer Brade found himself in love with the beautiful girl who was his wife. The money she had given him seemed like an inrumountable barrier between them. He decided that he must make money quickly, without caring too much how he got it, and pay Carol back. Only then could he hope to win her love in return and make their marriage one in fact as well as one in name .... Spencer Brade, M.D. is the thrilling story of an idealistic young doctor who allows himself to be corrupted by the medical vultures of a great and honorable profession ..."

This is the BEST book ever written on the subject of Spencers. I have 4 Military Rifles, one of which is the model 1870, and I have always wanted to know more about the man and his weapon, and this book answered every question I ever had. Easily worth the price!!!

This is simply the most thorough resource out there for anyone interested in Spencer firearms. Indispensable and worth every penny.