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Back to Basics: Rediscovering the Richness of the Reformed Faith 7 reviews
Douglas M. Jones, Roger Wagner
P & R Publishing, 1996
Well-rounded presentation of Reformed Theology
The book is divided into four sections: Conversion, The Covenant, The Church and The Christian Life. Each chapter in every section has study questions that reinforce and help the reader gain a deeper understanding of each section. The foreword is written by RC Sproul. Doug Wilson, Doug Jones, Roger Wagner and David Hagopian have put together a well-rounded presentation of the Reformed ...
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Basic Accounting Concepts, Principles and Procedures2 reviews
Gregory R. Mostyn
Worthy & James Pub., 2007
An Accounting Tutor's Opinion
I tutor basic accounting at the college level and have been able to see students use several different textbooks including this one.
This text is quite thorough but still easy to understand. One of the great things about this text is it makes debits and credits really clear. Students who use this text, and its companion volume, tend to understand debits and credits very well and this is ...
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An Ansel Adams Guide : Basic Techniques of Photography (Book One)2 reviews
John P. Schaefer, Ansel Adams
Bulfinch Pr, 1992
This is an outstanding book on photographic technique.
John Schaefer is a fine photographer who works in black and
white and color. In "Basic Techniques of Photography"
John Schaefer has created a wonderful "how to" on the
basic and intermediate aspects of photography. The book is
filled with helpful information, and beautifully illustrated
with the work of notable photographers, with many images due to
Ansel Adams. Here are summarized and ...
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Toddler Brain Basics 12 to 24 Months: Brilliant Beginnings (Toddler Brain Basics, 12 - 24 Months)3 reviews
Brilliant Beginnings
Brilliant Beginnings, LLC, 1999
A complete Kit
Just like Baby Brain Basics, this is more than a book-- it is a kit containing four products: The Toddler Brain Basics Book, a book for the baby, a CD with songs from the book on it, and a toy buying guide for 12-24 month olds. The book is spiral bound and very easy to hold and read. It has tabbed off sections so you can very easily locate the topics of interest to you. Some of the topics ...
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Leavenworth Train: A Fugitive's Search for Justice in the Vanishing West5 reviews
Joe Jackson
Basic Books, 2002
An Exciting and Thoughtful Tale of Justice Delayed
In 1906, the twenty year old Frank Grigware announced to his family that he was going to see the world. They had been living in eastern Washington for years, and he wanted to see more of the West than Spokane. His mother understood completely; it is not an uncommon occurrence for a young man to want to roam before settling down to respectable ways. He hooked up with his best friend Frank ...
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Civilization And The Limpet (Helix Books)8 reviews
Martin Wells
Basic Books, 1998
A child's sense of wonder in an adult's words
Naturalists who pick up the pen have to work hard to make their objects of study-which obviously they find of great interest-compelling for the rest of us. This problem is made more difficult by the secret language that scientists speak, which is not as indecipherable as computer programmer geekspeak, but close. The naturalists that succeed at this provide a real service to the rest of us, their ...
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Basic Flower Painting Techniques in Watercolor (Basic Techniques Series)4 reviews
North Light Books, 1996
I have many flower books, but this one by far is the best.
After purchasing many watercolor books on flowers and realizing they just didn't fit my needs, I was hesitant to purchase another one. But after seing Basic Flower Painting, I succumbed and am thrilled with the instructions and the step by step demos that are the most helpful of all. The price is so reasonable for what is provided in the content, and the colors are as vibrant as in a much ...
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Back to Basics: Tactics (ChessCafe Back to Basics Chess)7 reviews
Dan Heisman
Russell Enterprises, 2007
Execellent introductory book.
My rating is just above 1000 and this book has perfectly organized presentation on the common tactical techniques that I need to improve my mid-game. It may be too basic for 1500-rated players, but for me it is the best chess book I have ever read.
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Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series)1 review
Luis W. Alvarez
Basic Books, 1987
Very interesting life
Luis Alvarez was likely the best American experimental physicist of the 20th century who lived a full and interesting life from the bitter winters of Wisconsin to San Francisco Bay where he began.
He invented radar for instrument flight landing, discovered new elements, invented new accelerators, invented clever optical devices, built the big bubble chambers of particle physics, x-rayed the ...
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High Sierra Fly Fishing: Basics to Advanced Tactics4 reviews
Billy Van Loek
Frank Amato Publications, 2001
the art and science of flyfishing
This book is an artful blend of practical how-to fishing advice and wonderfully lyrical descriptions of the high Sierra. There are plenty of photos that will make you hanker for a fishing trip just as surely as using one of the handtied flies the author describes should lure an elusive golden trout out from his hideaway. I have a much better idea now of how inexpertly I have been fishing all ...
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Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience (Los Alamos Series in Basic & Applied Sciences)1 review
University of California Press, 1986
Most human of all books on interstellar travel
Most other books about interstellar travel are the same, talking about only the technology. But this one talks about the human part of it. The ideas range from "why do it?" to "it's all sooo easy!". The multiple viewpoints are very interesting. I would recommend this to anyone interested in science fiction and/or space travel.
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Electrical coronas, their basic physical mechanisms1 review
Leonard B Loeb
University of California Press, 1965
Best available book on electrical coronas. Most text taken from dust jacket.
Corona discharges range from tiny luminous specks to tenuous glowing spheres some tens of centimeters in diameter- "St. Elmo's fire." Many of them can only be seen in a darkened room. Yet they are unique physical phenomena which mark a transition form to the electric spark. Industrially they are of immense and growing importance: they lead to power loss in high-tension lines and to radio ...
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Basic Nutrition (Eating Right: An Introduction to Human Nutrition)1 review
Lori A. Smolin, Mary B. Grosvenor
Chelsea House Publications, 2004
The best summary of basic nutritional science I've seen
I picked this up at my local library, as I have with many health and nutrition books, but this is the first one that I am going to buy. Most nutrition books I see are full of either iffy science, too much biased opinion, or they're just too complicated for me to follow. This book gives a brief but thorough explanation of all the basics. The text and pictures are concise and easy to follow. I have ...
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Basic Writings of Thomas Paine1 review
thomas Paine
Willey Co., 1942
We have it in our power to begin the world over again
This was a required reading for a graduate humanities class. John Keane's biography succinctly showed that Tom Paine (1737-1809) was the consummate revolutionary and a daring adventurer. Not only was he an important figure in the American Revolution, but he also traveled to France in 1791 to give that revolution a push. Paine traveled from England, just in time to stoke the flames of the ...
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Basic in Action (Questions & Answers)1 review
Stanislav Dvorak, Anthony Musset
Butterworth-Heinemann, 1984
Really good book
This is one of the classics in my collection, and has been heavily used. When having to check a solution regarding numerical mathematics, graph and tree processing, searching methods, sorting, combinatorial algorithms, it is often one of my first choices, to get the ideas. One drawback is that it is written in the BASIC language, with a lot of GOTOs. I have often looked on Amazon for a follow up ...
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Basic Counselling Skills: A Helper's Manual1 review
Richard Nelson-Jones
Sage Publications Ltd, 2002
Counseling Skills
I enjoyed this book, because of the variety that it shared throughout. I was very pleased.
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French Rural History: An Essay on Its Basic Characteristics1 review
Marc Bloch
University of California Press, 1970
Explains the often undocumented evolution of rural societies
I read the Spanish translation of this book for a graduate course and it became a crucial reference for other scholarly work I am doing now. While urban history is often well documented, rural history is a huge question mark. As a result, most of the history we know is that of urban societies. Bloch's work is outstanding, since he decides to reconstruct history from the evidence still left ...
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Evaluation Methodology Basics: The Nuts and Bolts of Sound Evaluation1 review
E. Jane Davidson
Sage Publications, Inc, 2004
Extremely Important Book
Jane Davidson's work finally makes possible the creation of the 'Evaluative Organization'. We've been told for years that the highest performing companies learn and adapt to changes in their environment or customer needs. But no one until now has given us the 'nuts and bolts' regarding how to become such an organization.
Davidson offers exceptional insights and step by step guides for ...
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Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality1 review
Thomas Merton
Templegate Publishers, 1997
Written by a monk, for monks
This little book was written by Thomas Merton as an orientation manual for Cistercian novices and postulates. This in no way limits its appeal to those of different rules and orders- or to complete outsiders. That is because this book is a concise, beautiful, expanation of the great theological principles without which monastic life would have no meaning. You will not find the many details of ...
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Basic Equipment1 review
Martha Connally Ybarra
1st Books Library, 2003
Basic Equipment
I like this book and think it is excellent. It is very well written. I like how the cover relates to the content of this book. Anyone who reads this book can receive great incite on issues that faces us each day. I would highy reccomend it as a book worth having in your library.
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