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As stated in the editor's foreword, this is not a traditional Bible commentary. It is a compilation of excerpts from The People's Bible by Joseph Parker, the 19th century English Congregationalist preacher. Far from being a dry recapitulation of Biblical content, these excerpts are rich with insight and emotion. The language is beautiful. I particularly appreciated the writer's unabashed delight in the beauty of nature as a source of inspiration. Referring to the Bible verses that prompted Dr. Parker's insights is interesting and enriching. The illustrations are intricate and beautiful and contribute to the emotional depth of the writings. By applying ancient writings to modern lives, this book succeeds in clarifying the relevance of the Old Testament. This book is a gem.

I found this book almost 15 years ago when first designing a series of clinical trials for cytomegaovirus prevention in organ transplantation. It is a very practical "how to" volume, extremely well written and concise. I recommend this to all clinical investigators who are starting out, and for all trainees. I have been waiting for his revised edition for over a decade and only hope he will update this great book.

Gorgeous graphics, lucid layout, and comprehensive coverage. Text well written and presented and graphical array of photographs and maps fascinating, well planned, and page-filling. Overall, a superb publication; makes for very nice evening browsing. Hooray.

A COLD RED SUNRISE
An Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Narrated by Mark Hammer
Copyright 1988 by Stuart Kaminsky
Performance copyright 1991 by Recorded Books, Inc.
Unabridged 6 audio cassettes, 7.75 hours

This is came from public library resell store market major collection central general.
So, that is library stickers and marks and official making are normally include.
But, case has been seen cracked tapped and dirt.
But, still playable.
But, still listenable.
where your sitting.
when you wakling.
Almost anywhere.
Ya they are care you as you care them.
Then... turned on, handed on.
[from the experience]

"The killer poured a drink from the bottle on the table and waited, waited and watched.
The secret of success was surprise, patience and anticipation.
The killer knew that, had been taught that, had already gone out in the snowy night to take care of the possibility of temporary failure.

Just before midnight a round, bundled figure stepped out of the door of the weather station and limped slowly, even more slowly than he had come up the slope, down toward the square. He was alone.

The killer lifted the nearby binoculars and scanned the frost-covered windows of the houses around the small square. No one was visible. It was time for the killer to act."
[from the A Cold Red Sunrise]

"No one had much liked the Commissar Illya Rutkin.
He had been too self-aggrandizing, behaving as if the death of Samsonov's little girl was merely a minor detail, a bothersome fly in the ointment that had landed him in Tumsk, Siberia---their iced---over hell---in the first place.

But, no one expected Rutkin to end up at the very door of the People's Hall of Justice, frozen solid, the victim of two fatal icicle wounds through the eye and neck.

When Inspector Rostnikov arrives in Siberia to sort out Rutkin's death, his back is very much against the wall.
Rostnikov has crossed the KGB's ubiquitous path one too many times in the past.
Now his every move is being carefully observed and monitored.

Accompanied by his allotted watch-dog, Sokolov, and his loyal partner, the grim-faced Karpo, Rostnikov must prove that both child and Commissar died at the hands of the same killer, and not some monstrous hallucination issued forth from the Siberian wasteland.

"Kaminsky captures the
RUSSIAN SCENE AND CHARACTER IN RICH DETAIL."
[The Washington Post]
(from the back of case covers)

Welshman R.S. Thomas is the author of some of the most memorable religious poetry of the century. As a clergyman in rural Wales Thomas had to face a country and a church in decline; this inspired poetry of an austere beauty. The poem "The Bright Field" seems to me to capture the essence of Thomas' poetry:

"I have seen the sun break through / to illuminate a small field / for a while, and gone my way / and forgotten it. But that was the pearl / of great price, the one field that had / the treasure in it. I realize now / that I must give all that I have / to possess it. Life is not hurrying // on to a receding future, nor hankering after / an imagined past. It is the turning / aside like Moses to the miracle / of the burning bush, to a brightness / that seemed as transitory as your youth / once, but is the eternity that awaits you."

I read this book for a graduate Mill seminar in Philosophy. Recommended reading for anyone interested in philosophy, political science, and history.

John Stuart Mill, 1806-73, worked for the East India Co. helped run Colonial India from England. Minister of Parliament 1865-68 he served one term.

I have to say that I found Mill's Autobiography left me wanting to read a good biography of him in order to learn more about his personal life and interaction with family and friends. He certainly did not reveal himself in the way Jean Jacques Rousseau did in his much-ballyhooed autobiography The Confessions. I do understand that his wife Harriett edited the autobiography to the extent that there is no mention of Mill's mother in it. Other than his education and his reference to taking walks with his father to talk about books he had read, he says little about their relationship. In addition, there is only a passing reference to having to serve as schoolmaster to his siblings while he was an adolescent and he does not mention them again. Mill spent most of his adulthood working for the East India Company; however, he says little about that experience in his autobiography. It seems he had few friends as an adult, if you go by his autobiography. There is a brief reference about his friendship with George Grote, the eminent historian of Greek history. Thus, the impression that I got of Mill the man was one of an emotionally cold person socially except to his wife Harriett, who I believe was the only person in his life he truly loved. Most of his autobiography is dedicated to his education; such as, books he had read or written and philosophers he was influenced by, and this is a part of his life that I found most interesting.

In Mill's autobiography, he tells readers how he benefited and suffered from having one of the most unique educational experiences known to humankind. His father was personally involved in both his education and that of his other siblings He was a brilliant student who read Greek by the age of three and Latin at eight years old. By the time he matured to adulthood, he was extremely well read. Thus, he received an academically rigorous education at home, and I find that his education really defined and shaped his character. Providing and improving education for all humans was a cornerstone of his philosophical belief in Utilitarianism. Education meant that people could develop their higher pleasures; a concept that Mill thought was of paramount importance to increase one's happiness. He invented this concept and differed with Jeremy Bentham, the progenitor of Utilitarianism, on this point. Bentham did not believe there was a qualitative property to happiness--Mill did. Thus, it is no mystery that in adulthood he developed very strong views on the advantages that universal education would have on improving people's characters. Mill believed universal education would lead to fostering social change for the betterment of all mankind. He stayed consistent on this belief throughout his life. He gave what I think was one of the great speeches on education and character formation in 1867 after accepting the position as Rector of the University of St. Andrews. In his Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, one of the points that he made in his speech was the responsibility that universities had in building their students' characters. He also wrote about the importance of character formation had on the ability for people to enjoy freedom in society in his book On Liberty. However, he personally found that his education had come at a great price to his emotional well-being.

During the winter of 1826 and into 1827 while in his early twenties, Mill recognized that he was suffering from a bout with depression. This is the only portion of his autobiography where Mill exposes his inner emotions to his readers. He believed his depression stemmed from an inadequacy in his education. He came to realize that although his father provided him a superior education on many intellectual levels, it was negligent in social contact with children of his own age, and did not prepare him emotionally for interaction with other members of society. His parents and visitors treated him as an adult from early childhood. Mill realized that his upbringing led up to his inability to feel a normal range of human emotions; thus, he felt detached from humanity. Mill found that reading poetry by Wordsworth in 1828 ultimately broke his depression. In poetry, Mill found that he could feel sorrow, and sympathize with others.
I found this part of his autobiography of importance for three reasons. First, it is the only painful human emotional event in his life that he divulges to his readers. Secondly, it is an indication of the importance that the concept of sympathy played in his life and formed his philosophical views as well. Mill understood the need for humans to be sympathetic to one another. Sympathy is required for social interaction and is a useful character trait that we use in order to keep us from harming each other. Thirdly, without his awakening of this emotion in his life, I seriously doubt that he would have found the capacity to love his wife Harriett in the manner that he did. One does get the sense from his description of her that she was his true soul mate and only real long lasting friend in his life.

Mill's friendship with Harriett while she was married to another man, caused them both to endure scandalous gossip, even though they both denied there relationship had any sexual component to it. When they eventually married each other about two years after she became a widow, Mill stayed true to his life long conviction in believing in equal rights for women. During Mill's time, married women's property automatically devolved to their husband and he correctly saw this as one more inequity against women placed on them by society. Therefore, on the day when he married Harriett Taylor in 1851, a financially secure widow, he wrote a formal renunciation to all of her property in protest against the current law. He was a life long feminist who wrote in his essay The Subjection of Women, about the scathing inequalities that women endured since the history of mankind had been chronicled. I have no doubt that his essay paved the way in changing marriage and divorce laws and fostered the improvement of relations between the sexes. He was also the first Member of Parliament to introduce a bill in the Commons to enfranchise women. He worked tirelessly at the end of his life, supporting women's rights with his pen and his purse. His stepdaughter Helen carried on his feminist work by becoming a leader in the suffragist movement in her own right.

In total, I would say that although the Autobiography provides scant information into Mill's daily life, when he does reveal himself, it appears he consistently lived up to his philosophical teachings and beliefs.

This is much more than a book for collectors of outer space memorabilia. It shows the influence of society on the space race and the influence of the space race on society. Would we really have supported man's race ito space if Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon had not glorified the image of the space man. This book is really a look at what was happening here on earth when we wanted to explore space and when we finally attained our first steps on another planetary body. Wow!

I have had the pleasure of being taught Physics by Brian Jones at CSU from this book, and I will say that although I have personally had an aversion and dread of taking a physics class, Brian's enthusiasm, knowledge, real-life applications, participation and integration with this text have made Physics into my favorite class this semester (and I am a Biomedical Science major). This text is extremely readable, even engrossing; moreover, it thoroughly covers the major principles of physics without losing the reader. The clever integration of real-world examples helps to visualize physics as the amazing observation and understanding tool of the "magical" aspects of the world and the greater universe surrounding us. The problems in the book are workable, and there are plenty of examples in the text that relate to the problems to help solve them. Brian used to write problems for the MCAT, and some of the problems in the book are geared for biology applications, so this would be a great study tool for the MCAT as well. This text does not require any calculus, but a strong understanding of trigonometry is essential. As an aside, Brian is devoted to making physics fun and interesting and has taught physics all over the world, including in Africa. His Little Shop of Physics (go to littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/) is an extraordinary traveling teaching tool geared to elementary school students--my own children have been turned on to a love of science by this program.

I have had the pleasure of being taught Physics by Brian Jones at CSU from this book, and I will say that although I have personally had an aversion and dread of taking a physics class, Brian's enthusiasm, knowledge, real-life applications, participation and integration with this text have made Physics into my favorite class this semester (and I am a Biomedical Science major). This text is extremely readable, even engrossing; moreover, it thoroughly covers the major principles of physics without losing the reader. The clever integration of real-world examples helps to visualize physics as the amazing observation and understanding tool of the "magical" aspects of the world and the greater universe surrounding us. The problems in the book are workable, and there are plenty of examples in the text that relate to the problems to help solve them. Brian used to write problems for the MCAT, and some of the problems in the book are geared for biology applications, so this would be a great study tool for the MCAT as well. This text does not require any calculus, but a strong understanding of trigonometry is essential. As an aside, Brian is devoted to making physics fun and interesting and has taught physics all over the world, including in Africa. His Little Shop of Physics [...] is an extraordinary traveling teaching tool geared to elementary school students--my own children have been turned on to a love of science by this program.

This 1983 version of the Collins Bird Guide has been superseded by Lars Svenssons well praised more recent effort, but remains a highly usable and thoroughly adequate guide to the birds of Europe.
The layout is closely analogous to that of the National Audubon Field Guide to North American Birds. There is an introductory overview, a series of photographic color plates and then more detailed individual species descriptions, including field marks and similar species differentiators, range maps, nesting, habitat and voice specifics, as well as some behavior characteristics. A few species are sketched in as well, which helps illustrate typical poses and appearances.
The book is about 4"x8", good pocket size, bound in water resistant plastic leatherette covers. It remains an excellent value, particularly as the practical utility is hardly less than that of the newer version.