As mentioned in another review, there are a wide variety of essays in this book, varying both in length and subject. Some of the essays are personal ones on how the author became a Christian, some are on the integration of Christianity into the classroom (explicitly or implicitly), and some are expositions on Christian theory (the need for a personal relationship with Christ, for instance). The quality also varies widely, or rather, the use of a given essay to a particular reader will vary widely. I found the personal reminiscences to be quite useful/interesting. Unfortunately, those essays that dealt with the "theology" of Christianity were not nearly as good as a group. I think this is because people that are not theologians (or philosophers) are out of their element when writing in philosophical terms. They seem a little amateur, and overlap significantly (not surprising, since many Christians will have similar ideas on what is important).

My second disappointment was with the number of essays involving the relationship between being a Christian and teaching in a (usually) secular university. The title of the book lead me to believe there would be many more essays on this topic, but usually the fact that the author is a professor is irrelevant or of insignificant importance to the essay. I found the essays that dealt with this subject to be the most interesting and useful, being myself a professor at a secular university.

The most pleasant surprise of this book is the wide variety of backgrounds of the authors. There are people from numerous denominations, from Roman Catholics to biblical fundamentalists to African American Baptists. This variety is important and, I think, necessary, because there is far too much internicene squabbling amongst Christian denominations - this book makes clear that different methods of worship work for different people, and variety can serve to strengthen the Christian community, not weaken it. The professional disciplines of the authors also vary widely, from English literature to nursing to astronony.

Generally, this book is interesting and helpful, if suffering from some repitition. This is probably the nature of such an anthology, as I assume the authors were given a wide latitude on subject matter. I would like to have seen more essays on the merger of Christianity with academia.

Let me begin with the many things that I like about the book "Professors Who Believe", which include both the concept and the execution.

1) It's a great idea to give university professors a chance to write about their faith. In many fields, that opportunity does not arise naturally in interactions with students and other faculty. This book follows in the tradition of "Finding God at Harvard," and others cited in the Introduction.

2) The second thing I like about the book is that quality of the chapters is a bit uneven. These are not trained theologians, for the most part, they are just regular folks, albeit smart folks, trained in other fields, and writing about a topic that is important to them. That's the way it reads, and that's the way it should read, in my opinion. I actually would have been suspicious if all the essays were highly polished.

3) Third, I like the fact that not all the authors take the same perspective. There is even sharp disagreement on some issues, such as proselytizing in the classroom. Anyone who picked up this book would get some flavor for the richness and diversity of thought that occurs within the boundaries of orthodox Christianity. I like the fact that the common ground emerges from the essays, rather than being imposed from the outside.

4) Fourth, I like the mix of conceptual essays and personal testimony. It's very difficult for me to know where to come down on that issue, so I end up straddling the fence. I think that we must be prepared to give an account of our personal experience as Christians, but particularly as college professors, I think that we also must be able to tell a story about the theoretical and empirical dimensions of Christianity that at least makes sense to us, and hopefully would make sense to others, as well. I think that both kinds of accounts are needed to explain ourselves and our faith to other people, and this book contains both kinds of accounts.

I tend to think of the impact of the book on students, though of course, students and faculty are both important audiences. My opinion, perhaps a naive opinion, is that only a minority of our students have reached the point in their lives where they have hit some sort of wall, and realized neither they nor their secular sources of information are equipped to deal with the problem at hand. So they have not yet reached the point of having to ask God to save them from something specific (such as themselves, their addiction, their abusive behavior or their greed). For those who have reached that point, they will find testimonies of people who have gone through similar crises in this book.

Those who have not reached that point may have difficulty identifying with personal testimonies. However, many students, particularly as they approach graduation, have a great curiosity about the meaning of their existence -- in some cases, for the last time in their lives. Those students often are looking for a coherent story about life's most important topics which makes sense to them. They will find some of that material in this book, as well. 4) Finally, I admire the editor's ability to get the authors to produce their papers. I'd like to talk to him about how he did that.

Finally, I would add just a word about the message that Christian professors send to others about our life in the University. I realize that it is somewhat fashionable, somewhat exciting, and somewhat truthful to talk about the modern public university as a "hothouse of anti-Christian bias", mentioned on the back cover of this book. I would just offer three thoughts about sending that message from the university to the rest of the world.

1) I think that whatever pressure or persecution Christians may face in American universities needs to be put in perspective. We occasionally can be ostracized in some fashion, or even face discrimination in the worst cases, but no one is slitting our throats just yet. It just isn't credible to believe that a few snide remarks in the modern university are going to do in a religion that has survived all the horrors that Christianity has endured, especially the ones we perpetrated on ourselves.

2) I don't think that complaining about a hostile atmosphere in the university reflects very well on us (given the trials that other Christians are enduring); on the intellectual power (both conceptual and empirical) of Christianity; on the person and power of Christ himself; and on the university, which I still believe stands along with the Church and government as one of society's most important institutions.

I think that our mission as Christians in a university is relatively simple. We need to encourage people to do about five simple things:

1) If people don't have a Bible, encourage them to get one.

2) If they have a Bible, suggest that they actually read it.

3) Make sure that they have access to some basic information about Christian resources.

4) Encourage them to use their intellect and imagination. A.N. Wilson suggested that J.R.R. Tolkein's contribution to C.S. Lewis' spiritual development was convincing Lewis that the failure to grasp Christianity was primarily a failure of the imagination, and Tolkein knew something about imagination.

5) Encourage them to pray, even if only as a last resort, and then to be astute observers of the results. I was impressed by the number of authors in this book whose first exposure to the power of Christ was through praying as a last resort. Christians have a monopoly on the best news ever to hit the planet, and in the university there are tens of thousands of people who would be better off for hearing it. What more could we ask?

Dr. Bryan Dowd Professor Health Services Research and Policy School of Public Health University of Minnesota

This autobiography is well done, but there is too much detail about life after the first offensive of the United States during World War II. The descriptions of dog fights in an F4F against every kind of fighter plane the Japanese had in the Solomon Islands is the best I have ever read. Most engrossing, but the rest of the book lost me.

Joe Foss may will have been the most celebrated hero of WW II.
The feats which earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor are now legend. He describes them in detail in this his autobiography.
Anyone with the slightest interest in aerial combat will thrill
to the excitement of how he and a small flight of 4F4 fighters
defeated a ten to 20-fold larger Japanese force.
The keen judgement and tenacity he showed in this war feat would appear again and again in some half dozen career accomplishments. Besides his WW II heroics,Joe will be remembered most as a two term governor of South Dakota and as commissioner of the American Football League, where he lead an upstart organization to prominence.
His other career adventures provide equally exciting reading.
A man of boundless energy and indomitable spirit he has moved through the American scene desmonstaring a combination of character, talent and mannerisms the nation has not seen since
Davy Crockett. I would describe this book as one which every
father should give to his son.

Don Napier
Corpus Chriati, Texas

I think that they should have presented a more applicable, rather than theoretical, approach to the foundations of work. However, it covered a variety of topics and the tables were superb.

This is the best book available on Industrial/Organizational Psychology. I have used it for several years. I enjoy it, and my students enjoy as well.

Paul Bottomer's work comes with a generous display of figures and footwork illustrations, found lacking in many vintage dancing instructional materials sold .

Each new technique at the start of the chapter provides an introduction into the occasions when the technique(s) are used.

Typically , a British - style Ballroom dance instructional book worth its weight in gold- the beginner will not be intimidated by its step by step easy-to-follow instructions. This book will even captivate the more serious dance enthusiast.

However, be prepared to be reformed; the steps may differ somewhat ; most British styles start with the left foot as the first advance step in any dance. This should not deter anyone keen to start dancing in the confines of his home , and not go to the Ballroom.

Paul Bottomer's 'Quickstep' in the Dance Crazy series is one of the well-presented works in contemporary Ballroom Dancing. Figures with pictorial layout of footwork and introductions of each dance technique at the opening of each chapter gives the amateur to the serious dancer enthusiast a good understanding of when to use the variation.

A combination of writings, generous pictorial and dance steps illustration which many other instructional books do not strive to create; make this book a must on every serious ballroom enthusiast's bookshelf; Overall, it would be a difficult task trying to unravel its shortcomings.

"Rat Man in Paris" is about Etienne, a man living in Paris, in poverty, who begs the streets in a strange manner. He exposes a live rat to people who pass on the street, in the hope they will pay him something out of pity, or perhaps out of revulsion, to make him go away. He lives in a small apartment in squalid conditions. He meets Sharli, a sympathetic young woman, who takes kindly to him, almost mothering him.

Etienne is affected by a memory which boils to the surface now and again, of his parents killed by Nazis when he was a boy. He has heard that a Nazi war criminal is to be held in a prison nearby, and acts more wildly than ever. He tries to draw attention to his story, as if trying to exorcise the demonic memory of his childhood by proxy, by condemning this Nazi. Etienne cannot even be entirely sure this particular Nazi actually had anything to do with his parents, but he rants on the street about him nonetheless, fantasizing about vengeance, and wondering in psychic agony, how can this Nazi receive three meals a day in prison, while I starve? He feels the need to stage an event so spectacular it will engulf his painful past in the same flames which once engulfed his family's future.

Will Etienne cause a stir? Will he settle his conscience? Will Sharli help? Will she suffer as a result of his infatuation? Will his crusade end badly? Will it end at all? The reader will learn in due time. The book is interesting and generally well written, but Sharli, Etienne's female companion, is not as fleshed out as one might like. It is unclear why she is attracted to this strange character, why she wishes to be with him at all. Nonetheless, Paul West has a vibrant imagination, and his book deserves a look.

The superb historical novelist Paul West's greatest accomplishment is this short, unsentimental yet oddly moving love story between a Parisian vagabond and the young woman who (against all bourgeois judgement) cleans him up and falls strangely in love with him in occupied Paris. Loosely inspired by stories of sightings of a real life character who wandered the city of lights with a trained rat during the war, West's gritty, twisted love story is among the best three novels I have read from the 1980s, along with White Hotel and Libra. A strange, rewarding read.

I'll admit this book is better than the first, but it is still only an average book. The two qualities that stick out in my mind is the further development of Peter. Watching the path he is taking, well it is disturbing to see. The other gem in this book is Bradbury's short story, "The Sound of Thunder" which is the story that started this series. And believe me, after reading Bradbury at the end, you realize just how 'average' Stephen Leigh is. But it has made me curious enough to read the next book in the series. I'll let you know how that one turns out.

IT WAS A WELL WRITTEN BOOK.ALTOUGH

IT KIND OF COPIED PIER BOULLE'S BOOK

MONKEY PLANET WHICH BECAME PLANET OF THE APES. AHHH SCHOESOW

This is an awsome story, because it has a good DRAMA... and I personal recommend this book for all the teen agers... it's a book that's about a guy like us.. i'm serious.. you'll like it... Who reads this book will like it..

This is an awsome story, because it has a good DRAMA... and I personal recommend this book for all the teen agers... it's a book that's about a guy like us.. i'm serious.. you'll like it... Who reads this book will like it..

Remember the Disney movie about Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox? I loved it! But this is better. My children can use more of their imagination when listening to this then the would if they were watching it. Odd Bodkins is so much fun to hear telling this story. I really enjoyed it as much as my kids did. And my six year old is thrilled to know the legend of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. I am also thrilled to know that it isn't from Disney.

This is one of our family's favorite tapes. Paul Bunyan tales capture everyone's imagination and Odds Bokin knows how to bring them to life. One of the best things about this tape for parents is that as often as your children want to listen to this tape, you will enjoy this one time and again! A real hit. Some of the stories are familar such as Babe the blue ox but others are new and wonderful - the limbless forest and bedcats. You'll never sleep with your cat again without thinking of this story.

This compilation of essays on Paul and his theology, especially as it was influenced by his Damascus road experience, is well done, covers all the important issues in Pauline theology (eschatology, christology, ethics, law, women, spirit), and includes contributions from an impressive lineup of evangelical heavyweights.

Notable are the chapters by I. H. Marshall (eschatology), James Dunn (justification), Stephen Westerholm (law), Seyoon Kim (reconciliation), Gordon Fee (spirit), and Judith Gundry-Volf (women).

This collection would serve adequately as an introduction to Pauline theology.

The conversion of Paul on the road to Damascus has captured the imagination of many artists and writers down through the centuries. Indeed, the idea of a `Damascus road experience' has become part of the English language. However, it has also been the source of much scholarly debate and critique from an historical, sociological or psychological perspective (witness Krister Stendahl's 1963 essay `The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West'). This book is designed to examine the biblical material and ascertain the impact his experience might have had on Paul's understanding of Christology, Eschatology, his Gentile Mission, Justification, Reconciliation, Covenant Theology, the Mosaic Law, the Holy Spirit, Women and Ethics. On the whole the authors do a good job (although I cannot agree with Donaldson's views of Paul's Gentile Mission, which work so hard to avoid the idea that Paul was given the mission by Christ at conversion that he misses the mark altogether). The material is well thought through and, despite some of the technical sounding titles, the language is clear and understandable. Seyoon Kim on Reconciliation and Gordon Fee on the Holy Spirit were particularly thought provoking. This book is well worth a read by pastors, theological students or educated lay people who want to think about the impact that the scriptural record of Paul's conversion has had upon their understanding of the Christian faith.

The notation in this book is quite a problem. John J. Craig's book "Introduction to Robotics, Mechanics and Control" does a better job with the notation and clairity of explanation. The math is perfectly applicable, once one gets through the notation. Since there are a few concepts in Paul's book that are not covered in Craig's, both books should be part of a library for anyone involved in the mathematics of robotics.

It's an exelent book, but it needs a previous knowledge of the matter, the notation sometimes is not raly clear but it had all the algoritms and formulas of robotics