Stevens Books

This book is great at getting a Civil War novice involved and wanting to know more about the Civil War. Steven Nathaniel Dossman clearly shows the value and importance that Corinth played during the Civil War and how the South needed these 3 feet of land to be successful throughout the war. This book has great added material that helps the text to come alive and allows the reader to relate to what is going on during the Battle of Corinth and the surrounding area. This author has great potential and looking forward to see more books from him.

Written by a descendant of men who battled at Corinth, Campaign for Corinth: Blood in Mississippi examines the events through which the quiet little town of Corinth, Mississippi because one of the South's key strongholds during the American Civil War. Captured after a siege by Federal General Henry Halleck, Corinth became a target of Southern efforts to drive back the Union, and when the bloody campaign for Corinth reached its height, it paved the way for Grant's Vicksburg campaign and the ultimate fate of the Confederacy in the Mississippi Valley. A straightforward and harshly honest accounting of military history, accessible to lay readers and historians alike, and illustrated with occasional black-and-white photographs and maps.

Well, the folks at McWhiney Foundation Press have done it again! This company is determined to make Civil War history accessible and interesting to the greatest number of readers through their Civil War Campaigns and Commanders series. This book is absolutely no exception. Stephen Dossman has written a fast-paced, succinct history of the Confederate campaign to capture Corinth, Mississippi in the fall of 1862, and weaves a masterful tale of heroism, blunder, and foolhardiness. I finished the book amazed at what a tough and scrappy action the battles of Iuka and Corinth (not to mention Davis Bridge) really were.

Perhaps the most impressive thing about this book, though, is that Dossman clearly advances his thesis that this campaign doomed the Confederates to lose control of the Mississippi. The book is worth the price to examine that argument alone.

Priced right, fully footnoted, and full of information, this book should appeal to enthusiasts and scholars alike, as well as fans of good history well told. I look forward to reading more book by this author.

This was my favorite book as a kid, I still have it and pull it out sometimes. Quick read for a bedtime story-I like to dream about candy!

I loved this story as a child and have purchased four more copies for my neices. It is such a cute story and the pictures are WONDERFUL! I strongly recommed that you share this book with anyone that you love.

This story has a cute little witch in it named windy. Now windy wants to be nice but her aunts say that she has to be bad for she is a witch.Read this story and find out what happens when a witch with a love of candy decides to become a good witch! This was an excellent book.

So, you think the currently accepted paradigm of China's so-called "peaceful rise" is accurate? Have you been bamboozled by the stories of the gleaming new cities in China and the desires of China for peace? If so, it isn't your fault. This is a common thread since the rise (and even during the rebellion) of the Communists in China. There are few better at manipulating American media and so-called scholars than the Chinese Communists.

This work is a survey history of the history of China's manipulation of the U.S. media and academia. Some of it was deliberate manipulation, but there is also an element of anti-Americanism among those in the U.S. eagerly willing the stories coming from China.

Mosher does an excellent job of showing the history of that manipulation. Those who said that China's communists believed in democracy have since been discredited. Those who said that Chinese ate well during the Cultural Revolution have been discredited. Those who believed that the Chinese Communists were headed toward a more gentle authoritarianism in the 1980s were painfully proven wrong once again in 1989.

For those who blindly accept today's version of China, read these accounts of the mistakes of the past. Doing so will cause you to step back a minute and look at the reality of today's China: People's Armed Police, Christians and Falungong continually persecuted, along with Tibetan nuns and monks, propoganda-filled Chinese media, Gulag-style prisons known as laogai, escalating threats against its neighbors accompanied by a fearsome military build-up. To this day, the government still denies entry to people known to oppose the regime.

This is an instructive work to the unintiated about the realities of China. This will tell you more than anything else that you will ever read that you believe the current "super-story" regarding China at your peril.

Despite its politically conservative credentials, the book takes a needed and hard look at the overly romantic view of China still held dear by many in Washington and Wall Street. More importantly, Mosher details why this view of China has persisted with a balanced and careful analysis that traces the roots of American views of China.

Readers will come away knowing that criticizing the necrotic thugs who rule China doesn't constitute "anti-Chinese" racism and doesn't make them a conservative crank (I'm a democrat). For too long, critics of our China policy have been labelled ignorant and lacking the exclusive understanding of China's "uniqueness" that Holbrooke-types claim to possess.

An important work that deserves a look and that has been vindicated by China's recent behavior. Of course, all that will change after WTO, I'm sure someone is saying in Washington right now...

Another excellent book by Steven Mosher. It explores the reasons for the persistent misunderstanding by Americans of China's motives and methods of operation.

The bottom line is fairly simple: if an expert criticizes China, they're denied access, if an expert praises China, they're given access. Without access, how can an "expert" be expert? Thus, the only "credible" China "experts" are those whom of whom the government in Beijing approves.

Sangren's Marxian approach to social analysis is crucial to understanding the phenomenon of culture. This theory is more insightful than other theories because it views culture as an endlessly reproducing machine-like whole that produces individual selves, communities, and society in its process. In turn, people themselves are human agents with power who unconsciously reproduce the machine at all these levels by simply living out their lives. Alienation is an element in this process, and although Sangren focuses mainly on how alienation works regarding Chinese religion, religious gods are only one form of all the alienating idioms people express depending on their situations and interests. When analyzing social reality, alienation becomes a constant while its idioms and the peoples and cultures reflecting them often conflict with each other and change through history, and many times the changes themselves serve only to reproduce the original system as history repeats itself. In addition, Sangren offers a critique of Foucault's concept of power, emphasizing that power is not a "subject" itself with its own agency and intentions and should not be treated like one. Finally, it remains an open question as to whether or not the author should be applying Freudian psychoanalytic concepts to Chinese minds in his last chapter, especially since the Chinese people don't agree with it. Overall, the book makes one wonder if the human mind will ever mutate out of the circular logics that form the basis of the reasoning that social orders are built upon.

Are you interested in Anthropological theory but tired of one's that that ignore the power of people as human agents to reproduce their own cultures? Sangren's focus on alienation shows how people themselves play an integral part in this process. Did you ever think that your belief in a god might actually be contributing to the survival of your own culture? Or, if you're being exploited, did you ever wonder how your own actions could be contributing to your own exploitation and reproducing your own circumstances? Although answers to these questions are not provided directly, they can be derived from Sangren's extremely thought-provoking model that is not only relevant to Chinese society, but with some tweaking, can be applied anywhere! Employing concepts like alienation, misrepresentation, and mystification, this model comes from a Marxian dialectical approach that proves to be so much more enlightening than postmodern theories about culture.
Critics might argue that the theory doesn't account for change, but how can any approach account for change before understanding, totally, the nature of the culture that changes in the first place? Social realities in any culture might not be pretty, but anthropologists have to first face the facts before they can understand change. For example, reality may include seemingly inescapable relationships of exploitation(like in his analysis of Chinese women's circumstances), but if analysts ignore how people, as productive agents, might be reproducing their own exploitation even through resistant behaviors, they will never be able to account for how true creative change happens.
Although Sangren's model doesn't yet account for change, his special attention to how people are also true agents of power can certainly inspire change!

Chinese Sociologics: An Anthropological Account Of The Role Of Alienation In Social Reproduction presents an original, thought-provoking, articulate analysis of Chinese culture and society along with a compelling, scholarly critique of contemporary social theory. Steven Sangren (Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University) insightful explores the various dimensions of both social and individual life in China, including the effect of gender and desire. After an informative introduction, individual chapters address Why "Culture": Why "Production?"; History and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy: The Mazu Cult of Taiwan; Dialectics of Alienation: Individuals and the Collectivities in Chinese Religion; Power and Transcendence in the Mazu Pilgrimages of Taiwan; "Power" Against Ideology: A Critique of Foucaultian Usage; Women's Production: Gender and Exploitation in Patrilinear Mode; Fathers and Sons in a Patrilinear mode of Desire: Preliminary Analysis of the Story of Nezha from Fengshen Yanyi; Afterword: "Excess"; Change and the Limits of Analysis. Enhanced with a Character List, References, and an Index, Chinese Sociologics is a meticulous and very highly recommended work for students of contemporary Chinese culture, multicultural sociology, and social rituals.

Steven Craig ate, lived, & breathed, response efforts following Katrina. Rather than writing from a literature review, he writes from a 1st hand experience perspective. This is one of the best books on the market, to help you develop a disaster plan for your family, so that in today's world, you will have the necessary information to prepare, respond, and recover, from a disaster, whether a local or mass catestrophic event, such as Katrina. Additionally, his experience is not soley Katrina based, he is an emergency manager, and has taught emergency management on a college level. His book is easy to read and understand; he leaves out the jargon, and presents the information for practical day-to-day application. susanf

This book was easy to get into and stay with as author tells of his experiences with helping in restoring Coast Guard facilities in Florida after Katrina. He writes of conditions he saw and offers good advice on things we can do which would be helpful should we experience such a tragedy. Found his preparedness section especially helpful as we never know when a disaster, natural or otherwise, may occur. One such tip was to have one person all family members would use to communicate if we were separated and didn't know where other members were.

This is an excellent book. Not the ususal format of tales told from the storm. Its an unbiased account from the perspective of a senior level Emergency Manager. This is a book that should be read by anyone involved in Emergency Planning and Operations. It is a brass tacks assessment of circumstances as they were encountered in a plain language no nonsense format. Steve Craig also highlights some of the activities of the responders in their free time.

Having been an Emergency Manager in the middle of the entire experience, I can say that this is an accurate account and assessment of the challenges experienced in responding to and managing the worst natural disaster in the history of this country.

"Many pastors are so close to the pew, they can't see the people. Offers hands-on, practical, and tested solutions. . . . An urgent response to the cries from the multi-generational church that are often ignored. Must reading for every pastor and ministry worker desirous of investigating effective remedies for the needs of their congregation."

Reviewed by: Rev. Wilbur James Antisdale, Pastor Emeritus, Westminster Chapel, Bellevue, Washington

"DELIVERS A FRESH NEW PERSPECTIVE for Christian organizations facing today's challenge of change. We are fortunate . . . one of the aerospace industry's top analytical problem solvers addresses the church's epic struggle to keep their ministries relevant in today's age-related cultural diversity."

Reviewed by: Malcolm Stamper, Publisher and CEO, Storytellers Ink, Seattle, Washington; former President and Vice-Chairman of The Boeing Company

As a church lay leader, I have been reading church management books for many years. With a MBA background, I am also leading the strategic planning for our church. Rarely I can find a book with such a combined managerial/bibical strengths. This is the best church management book on ministry planning I came across so far.

As a word of warning, this book focuses primarily on ministry planning, not leadership nor general management. This book provides a useful overview on various generation (gen-X, boomers, etc) issues in the postmodern era. It also provides a very useful, practical and easy-to-use tool for evaluating the church's existing programs to align them with the church mission. It also includes some info on trends and best practices of some sucuessful churches. If you are planning on church ministries, this is the book you should read.

Steven, you have done a wonderful contribution to our profession with so many nice books. This one is also really
great. My sincere congratulations !

These books, this one and Part 2, are great for anyone who wishes to learn Circuit Analysis. Both books are straight and to the point in explaining theory. Ample amounts of examples and problems test one's understanding of this material. The integration of MATLAB use into the subject is well done. Anyone should be pleased at using these books as either a main textbook or as a self-study supplement.

Circuit Analysis I With MATLAB Applications by electrical engineer and educator Steven T. Karris (Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley Extension) is a highly technical but accessibly written, college-level textbook for teaching engineering students how to analyze potential difference of voltage in a wide variety of increasingly complex circuits and much more. Embodying advanced math and physics material (all theorems and definitions are accompanied by carefully detailed and presented explanations and illustrations), the numerous exercises and practical applications are specific to the MATLAB software. Circuit Analysis I With MATLAB Applications is highly recommended as a scholarly text intended for (and appropriate to) undergraduate as well as advanced students in the field of electrical engineering.

The Civil Rights Chronicle belongs in every library, every school, and every home. This honest look at the enslavement of people is not to be missed. The struggle for independence and freedom is chronicled here for all, black, white, or 'other', to read and understand. There are so many things in this world that should never be allowed to happen again!

Yet they continue to happen.

Wow! I've always been interested in the Civil Rights movement, so naturally I was drawn to this book when I spied it in the bookstore. I especially liked that I got a discount on it, which is always a nice thing. I paged through it in the bookstore, was impressed, bought it, took it home, and was just blown away. It's a very informative and outstanding book on the subject and if you are interested in this topic, then you should definitely check this book out. It also contains scores of photographs, so it is somewhat like an encyclopedia. It definitely helped me gain a better understanding of this dark part of our history.

Once again - WOW!

I highly recommend this book to teenagers because it tells you about a lot of things that you don't learn in the classroom.

We received this book as a gift for our son's first birthday, and he has loved it to death! He loved to fill in the missing words as we read to him, and quickly learned all of his nursery ryhmes. Now at age 2, he is rediscovering this treasure...he has fallen in love with the illustrations all over again, and he understands the meaning and humor in these wonderful rhymes!

I got this book when I was little and now I want this book for my little girl. My favorite nursery rhyme is the one about the Crooked man. I reccommend everyone buying this book for their children.

The Classic Mother Goose is the perfect book to introduce nursery rhymes to kids of all ages. The illustrations in this book captivate the smallest children and they will choose this book over and over again as a favorite for bedtime stories. My kids read our first copy to death. That is the true test of how good a book is.

As part of my research on environmental regs, Mr. Young's books were recommended to me. The author is clear in his expression, as well as providing food for thought on related topics. I would recommend it to others who are following similar lines of research to my own.

This is a good briefing on clean air regulation in the United States through 1995. The publisher is a diffircult company to get a hold of. However, the book is well work the investment

This book is written as a brief history of clean air regulation in the United States. It is not meant to be a professional compliance manual. Overall, it provides the reader with the opportunity to examine the legislative history of clean air regulation in the United States.