Having gone through a number of golf teaching methods over the years, I ran across Mark Evershed on the Golf Channel giving his ideas on how the golf swing really works. The next day I went to the range to hit balls and was IMMEDIATELY impressed with my results by trying just one thing he mentioned. I ordered "The Golf Soultion" the next day and reduced my handicap 10 shots over the next 60 days. Mark breaks the golf swing down into six areas. All independent of but building on each other. He reviews the concept of "muscle memory" of which he says "there is no such thing". Your brain tells you what to do with your hands and your body. It was hard to understand that "in order to make the ball go straight, you have to swing the club crooked". This statement, and learning how to keep my right wrist bent through the impact area and follow through were the key's for me. The book seems to present what most golf professionals are already doing but don't realize they are doing it. Once you experience the feeling of a correct swing, the game seems to be a little easier.

Mark Ashcraft has written a very accessible and friendly introduction to cognitive psychology in this textbook. This slim volume covers a variety of topics, focusing on memory (as many similar books do) but also including pattern recognition, attention, reasoning, language, and the brain. He writes in an understandable and inviting style, without sacrificing academic detail. Highly recommended.

This book is very usable. The simple and clear format and the interesting stories make this very easy to use. But, the proof of the pudding is in the eating and our kids sit through these lessons absorbing every word. Definitely worth buying, I hope there's another volume coming soon.

This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary debates on Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. Perfect for classroom use. In addition to complete indexes and a volume bibliography, there is a glossary of technical terms that arise in the volume.

The essays are separated into three major topical areas to cover discussion of: 1) Rhetorical and Epistolary Genre; 2) The Autobiographical Narratives; 3) The Galatian Situation(s).

Contents include:

Introduction, Mark D. Nanos

Part 1.Rhetorical and Epistolary Genre:
A. Rhetorical Approaches:

1.The Literary Composition and Function of Paul's Letter to the Galatians, Hans Dieter Betz

2.The Rhetorical Outline for Galatians: A Reconsideration, Robert G. Hall

3.The Letter of Paul to the Galatians: A Deliberative Speech, Joop Smit

4. Galatians (1:1-5): Paul and Greco-Roman Rhetoric, Robert M. Berchman

5.Apostasy to Paganism: The Rhetorical Stasis of the Galatian Controversy, Troy Martin

6.Paul's Epistles and Ancient Greek and Roman Rhetoric, Carl Joachim Classen

B. Epistolary Approaches

7.Paul's Letter to the Galatians: Epistolary Genre, Content, and Structure, Nils A. Dahl

8.A Paradigm of the Apocalypse: The Gospel in the Light of Epistolary Analysis, G. Walter Hansen

Part 2: Autobiographical Narratives:
A. Rhetorical Approaches

9.Rhetorical Identification in Paul's Autobiographical Narrative: Galatians 1.13-2.14, Paul E. Koptak

10.Paul's Argumentation in Galatians 1-2, Johan S. Vos

11. Epideictic Rhetoric and Persona in Galatians One and Two, James D. Hester

B. Socio-historical Approaches

12.The Incident at Antioch (Gal. 2.11-18), James D. G. Dunn

13.Judaism, the Circumcision of Gentiles, and Apocalyptic Hope: Another Look at Galatians 1 and 2, Paula Fredriksen

14.Making and Breaking an Agreement Mediterranean Style: A New Reading of Galatians 2:1-14, Philip F. Esler

15. What Was at Stake in Peter's 'Eating with Gentiles' at Antioch? Mark D. Nanos

Part 3: The Galatian Situation(s)

16.The Opposition to Paul, A. E. Harvey

17.The Agitators and the Galatian Congregation, Robert Jewett

18.A Law-Observant Mission to Gentiles, J. Louis Martyn

19.Paul and the Opponents of the Christ-Gospel in Galatia, Nikolaus Walter

20.Mirror-Reading a Polemical Letter: Galatians as a Test Case, John M. G. Barclay

21.The Argumentative Situation of Galatians, B. C. Lategan

22.The Inter- and Intra-Jewish Political Context of Paul's Letter to the Galatians, Mark D. Nanos

23.Foolish Galatians?-A Recipient-Oriented Assessment of Paul's Letter, Dieter Mitternacht

This, coming from me a MAJOR GARFIELD fan , is not one of Jim Davise's best but when i read i still bust up!Its great for those of you that like goofy,wacky, and silly jokes

5 good, sightly funny stories make this book one of his lit... best. Beside, a fat cat can do so much.

Very funny!!!!I really recomend it for people 7-adult!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found this book excellently written and easy to understand. The illustrations are appropriate and the subjecct matter is approached objectively and professionally. I would recommend this book to any internist or allergist who is interested in building his/her knowledge of gastroesophageal reflux disease and airway disease. It is a must read.

To those students, mostly at the undergraduate level, that are not applied mathematic specialists and have looked for an easy to understand, well written, introduction to Neural Networks in learning processes; this is a must-have book. "Gateway..." is an excellent read, targeted to readers from a wide scope of backgrounds, from Biologists to Computer Science Majors through Medical Sciences.

Although leaning a bit too heavily on the conceptual view of the subject, the book introduces the reader gradually to what a Neural Network is, what a computer model is and how it works.

Two basic tools are of special interest to the reader. First, the beginning half of the book gives a general, yet very complete, introduction of the concepts, history and theory to be used. Second, for those with a little more interest in the mathematics there's a good number of "Math Boxes" delving into the details of the subject(s).

The effect of these tools is that, by the time you reach into the core matter of how neural networks models are constructed and worked in the field of Hippocampal memory, the reader suddenly finds his/herself well-familiarized with the theory. A comfortable, gradual, learning process has taken place without any discomfort (and in less time than you would think!).