I know good stamps. I have spent a lot of money on good stamps over the years. These are not good stamps. They do not feel good in your hand. They do not leave good impressions. If you are looking for quality stamps with which to make artwork in all sorts of papercrafts, do not buy these stamps. The accomponying book is cool. But the stamps themselves--yeach. Please trust me and don't waste your money.

A little tip for anyone buying these: if the ink doesn't take (ie. it sort of bubbles up on the surface of the rubber), take an emery board and go over the rubber part. Also, don't apply too much pressure as it will leave nasty edge marks. This is because of how they are mounted. I prefer stamps that are cut close to the image and THEN mounted on the wood. These stamps aren't all bad though. I've used them many times with great effect.

These stamps are great. There is a great variety and they are already assembled in a wooden box. They are high quality stamps, that come out very clear but the stamp pad is useless. These are a great value with a very low price.

I have always wanted to learn more about Teddy Roosevelt's two-year stint with the New York Police Department, and was thus thrilled to find Mr. Jeffer's book on Amamzon.com. While it does do a fairly good job of describing the events as they occurred during Roosevelt's tenure at the NYPD, I found the book on the whole to deliver a very surface treatment of the subject. It is, as one of the other reviewers noted, quite superficial, relying almost exlcusively on anecdotes which seem to have been gleaned from newspapers of the period. What the book is missing is any kind of meaningful insight into TR himself. I have always understood that TR was a prolific letter-writer. I think that this book would have benefitted greatly from the author spending more time relating TR's thoughts, which he must have undoubtedly conveyed many times in correspondence to friends and associates.

COMMISSIONER ROOSEVELT exhibits Theodore Roosevelt's true modus opporandae. There were indeed many obstacles in Roosevelt's path to making a better city police force, however, the American public was, in my opinion, persuaded by eloquent speaking and the media more so then they are today. In all likelihood there is no way Roosevelt could achieve such drastic reform results over a relatively short period of time in the modern world. However, Jeffers' book is not about that issue, this book is about displaying Roosevelt's true core beliefs and the willpower that was within a person who was weak and sickly as a child. Personally I would have liked to have seen more critical material in this book, however, it is a beautiful narrative of how one man was able to make a difference (with the help of the fledgling media). This book should be mandatory reading for all people in the law enforcement field today, it shows all the principals that American's hold dear condensed into one mortal being, Roosevelt.

Commissioner Roosevelt is a great account of Theodore Roosevelt's tenure as New York City Police Commission President. As the head of the three-person board that oversaw the city's police, Roosevelt changed our notion of a modern police department. Even as he attempted to institute reforms he faced down police corruption, ethnic-group protests, government foot-dragging, and machine politics in the land of Tamany Hall. This firebrand commissioner would even prowl the gaslighted streets of Old New York looking for policemen asleep at their posts.

Join Theodore Roosevelt in this crusade to stop crime and corruption in New York. If you enjoyed Caleb Carr's fictional T.R. in The Alienist, you'll probably enjoy the real life crime-buster in Commissioner Roosevelt. (I liked Mr. Jeffers' real one better.) Anyone interested in politics, especially New York or ethnic politics, might like it too.

What I mean by that is I was under the impression that the highly touted Cyber Classroom would be a significant addition to the book. I purchased their C# how to program and felt I was missing something by not having the Cyber classroom portion of that book by the way they and others talked about all you received in it. When I was looking to purhcase this title I decided to get the edition with the Cyber Classroom to get the full benefit as everyone said. I am not trashing the cyber classroom as it does provide all the code samples in the book with many of them accompanied by an audio description explaining what the code does. Also you can click on a lighting bolt and the code will run right from within the Cyber classroom. For me the LiveCode aspect is not a benefit to me as I like to type the code in myself when learning a new language to get ingrained in its syntax, but that's my personal way of working and I can see how it may benefit others so I am not knocking it. Aside from that, the Cyber classroom is really just the book on CD--correction; it does allow you to take an assessment exam after you complete a chapter and keeps track of your score for each exam taken. It isn't a comprehensive tracking of your score; however, just a simple score showing the percentage of the questions you got wrong. I didn't find the assessment exams to be challenging, which isn't bad because their simplicity helps reinforce the points in the chapter. However, when you want to really test your understanding and want to challenge yourself by doing the end of chapter excercises you will be up the creek alone. As stated by another reviewer, you do not get many answers to the excercises at the end of the chapters. The end of chapter excercises in my opinion are what really challenge you and not to have answers to at least half, well, kind of sucks. I realize that this text is used in colleges and all answers cannot be given, however, each chapter has at least 30+ excercises, yet they only give on average answers to 2 - 3 problems in the cyber classroom--and many of these aren't the really challenging ones. With 30+ excercises per chapter I think answers to more that 2 or 3 problems wouldn't kill professors. Kind of kills the challenge aspect. Granted you'll know if you got it right if your program works, but I always like to see how someone else would have solved it and I usually learn more form that.

In ending, I WOULD recommend the book but, unless you like not having to type code when learning a language or like to read a book on screen and have the code examples executed at the click of a button, I cannot recommend the entire course--in my opinion it doesn't add all that much to it. If you are an absolute newbie to programming I say go for it though.

Writing again to correct a previous review of this course. Turns out that there are more answers to the problems on the CD, but the CyberClassroom has a few more answers in the cyber interface...that's where conclusion of 2-3 answers came from in my first review. For that I have bumped up the rating to 4 stars..

I bought this book as an additional book for my course in Java programming. It proved to be a quite useful book on its own. It contains many examples, pointers and theory. I found extremely useful the source code examples it provides. Especially the coloured text that Deitel adopts makes the code extremely easy to read. They could have added more comments though. The CD is also very useful, containing a few chapters. I haven't used the extra two cd's with the JAVA lessons because I do not have time to try it. But I read about its content and it sounds really promising. About those who study Software engineering, the book also contains many examples of UML diagrams, which I found extremely helpful. It makes the connection between Java and UML more clear and helped me a lot to understand much of UML's theory, through practice.

I am only a beginer at JAVA, and I think this book is an excelent choice of book for someone like me.

Contains hundreds of recipes, but never has the recipe I need. The indexing system is also quite inefficient.

This book is an indispensable shopping guide to the best, the best bargains and the most over rated in distilled spirits. I have never been disappointed in its recommendations. This book will pay for itself after one trip to the liquor store.

One of the best whisky guides, even though it is diluted with other hard liquors as well. Not as pretty as "Michael Jackson's Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch" (there are no pictures), it has the better, more complete tasting notes, and user-friendly rating systems for both overall quality and price. Pacult is opinionated and often funny, especially when it comes to the one * liquors: The Borghetti Café Sport Espresso Liqueur (Italy) is "a disaster; one of the singlemost sickening liqueurs I've been within 50 miles of in the last decade." He can see the Licor 43 Liqueur (Spain) "as a useful addition in the kitchen of an imaginative cook; but on its own, it's horrible."

Even the popular Laphroaig 10-year old earns only one * ("...make sure you have a whip and chair handy after opening this beastie. . .") Yet, Pacult is not a curmudgeon, he gives the 15-year old Laphroaig a 3 (out of 5): "There's still oodles of peat, but my nose cavity isn't aflame as it was with the cantankerous 10," and the strong iodine and seaweedy overtones of another Islay Whisky, the Lagavulin 15-Year Old, gets a 4 * recommendation.

Pacult favors Bowmore, Clynelish, Highland Park, Longmore, Macallan, and Springbank as "Scotland's Finest Malt Whisky Distilleries." The 12-Year old Highland Park gets a full 5 * and is praised as a glorious malt...one of my top ten malts without any hesitation; find and hoard at all costs... on the palate...the sherry races to the front just ahead of peat, mild brine, and heather...." The 12-year old Macallan gets 4 * for its nose of spice nectarine, lanolin, tannin, and cream..." and "succulent tastes of ripe blueberry, bell pepper, sweetened coconut, and peppermint." Although I didn't agree with this last description, Pacult, as always, is opinionated, descriptive, and fun to read.

Although Pacult, the editor of "Spirit Journal" magazine, has a special love for Scotch whisky, the book includes similar notes on Brandy, White Spirits (e.g., Rum, Vodka, Gin, Tequila), Liqueurs, and Fortified Wines. Whisky, including single malt, blended, American, Canadian, and Irish varieties, take up about one-fourth of the 468 pages. The book describes briefly the making and appreciation of the liquors, an explanation of the rating system, and a bibliography. For a beautiful and informative "coffee table book" focused exclusively on whisky you might want Michael Jackson's recent volume, for a fun, thorough, and thoughtful guide to liquors, including a wonderful section on whisky, get this one.

"The City Kid" is a mostly well-written novel about Guy, a middle-aged gay man cut adrift by a break-up, and a 16-year old named Doug, who seeks Guy's company for uncertain reasons during a tumultuous time in his family's life. Reidinger has an intelligent prose style that can deftly evoke a place or a mood. Here is a wonderfully tight paragraph: "They drifted out of the park, up an adjoining street. Televisions flashed dimly in the bay windows of refurbished Victorian homes, doing the important work of holding the republic together. Guy had no idea where they were going, but Doug plainly did." Unfortunately, this conciseness is often lost amidst passages of overwriting (there are far too many clauses that begin "as if...") and precious language (one paragraph contains the following words: beckoning, perusing, trills, casement, and bestir). The same goes for the plot: on the one hand there is a genuinely compelling narrative about two men, one young, one older, who are wary about intimacy. Yet their story gets lost amidst endless narrative side-trips, flashbacks, and character sketches that do nothing to advance the story. In the end the main characters lack depth, and the final pages fizzle out. Still, Reidinger captures many aspects of contemporary life in San Francisco, and I was compelled enough by his affecting, sometimes sexy story to read on to the end.

This novel is definitely not for everybody. I'm not saying that because it is a gay novel but because it talks about a serious matter - 16 year old has a crush on a 40 year old and you see what happens. This would be an awesome book for teenagers (15-18) to read or anyone who has had unrequited love. Reidinger helps explain the reasons why some people do not return the affection that you may have for them and he does it well. As I said, it is a novel that is very well written but not for everyone.

I first discovered Paul Reidinger's work many years ago with his novel The Best Man. I was astonished by that book. Reidinger took as his subject a near universal experience of gay life which, paradoxically, had been largely ignored by the official gay litterati. Show me a gay man who hasn't experienced at least an infatuation (if not a full on romance) with a closeted guy determined to marry, father children, and pass for straight, and I'll show you a gay man who's only been out of the closet himself for about fifteen minutes. Reidinger's handling of that subject matter is scrupulously honest and at the same time beautifully told. In The City Kid, he once again treads ground multitudes of mature gay men have tread before him. The story of a middle aged gay man entangled in a bizarre relationship with a monumentally confused adolescent can't help but be messy and discomforting, but it's a realistic one. Reidinger doesn't so much create his characters as report the experiences of living, breathing human beings, flawed as they are and boring as they can occasionally be. He tells us the truth about people and relationships. He deals with issues and situations few authors will attempt to write about. They're not glamorous or particularly sexy, and they demand a degree of integrity in their portrayal which many writers simply won't bother to muster. This novel may not be the most entertaining one you'll ever read, but it will be one of the most thought provoking ones. And for fans of The Best Man, there's the additional treat of revisiting the main characters of that novel twenty some years later. If you don't like books that make you think, you probably won't like this one. But if fiction is more than brain candy for you, then you're making a mistake not reading this book.

"...there appear to be so many violations of the condition under which competitive equilibrium exists that it is hard to see why the concept survives, except for the vested interests of the economics profession and the link between prevailing ideology and the conclusions which the theory of general equilibrium provides." Ormerod, Pg. 66

In this book Ormerod, an economist, presents us with a scorching critique of orthodox, or neo-classical, economic theory. He criticizes the idea of 'equilibrium', widely believed by academic economists but found nowhere even approximately in real economic data. He argues that, in reality price levels are never determined by the matching of supply to demand. Real markets are always far from equilibrium, so that there are no clearing prices for assets or commodities. Said otherwise, the 'graphs' in Samuelson's famous textbook do not represent real data but are merely cartoons invented for inexperienced or uncritical students. Traders know that equilibrium does not prevail. Traders generally do not use orthodox economic theory in decision making.

Ormerod's summary of the neo-classical theory (which theory led to the emphasis in the west over the past 15 years to implement free market solutions regardless of circumstances) is concise and clear:

1. A free market competitive equilibrium is efficient, demand equals supply, no resources (including people) stand idle or unused. That is, Adam smith's invisible hand leads to the best of all possible worlds.

2. In equilibrium no person or unit can be made better off by altering resources without making someone else worse off (Pareto optimum). That is, redistribution of wealth will make things worse. Indeed, this is the religion of the far right in America, and elsewhere: In this phlosophy governments simply should not intervene at all (Greenspan and the Fed are unnecessary).

As is well-known, general equilbrium theory is based on the assumption of perfectly rational agents who foresee the future perfectly and all conform to the same picture of the future (pg. 89). Ormerod's message is that nothing could be further from economic reality than this picture.

Ormerod does a nice job, via presentation of empirical data, of demolishing the notion (beloved of governments) of the Phillips Curve, the idea that there is a simple relationship between unemployment and inflation (ch. 6). He shows that there is no such relationship in the data. He also argues that Adam Smith was interested in empirics and did not advocate a completely unregulated free market devoid of all moral principles, but that economic theorizing was 'highjacked' late in the last century by theorists who ignored empiricism altogether and instead tried merely to take over the physicists' notion of equilibrium, but without any idea of dynamics and nonequilibrium. Mirowski makes a similar argument about the lifting of the idea of static equilibrium from physics. Ormerod lambasts the tendency of academics to prove empirically meaningless theoems, to treat economics as a branch of mathematics rather than an empirical science. Also criticized is the hokey assertion by orthodox economists that the failure of real markets to be in equilibrium is due to governmental and other constraints, that a truly unregulated free market would approach equilibrium (i.e., the problem of unemployment is supposed to be solved by complete deregulation). The disaster of Russia is given by Ormerod as a good counterexample. The next examples of such disasters may be the entry of former E. block countries into the (price levels of) the European Union.

The text propagates some common misconceptions about deterministic dynamics, in particular about detreministic chaos. Here are a few examples: the author asserts that the behavior of a chaotic machine cannot be predicted accurately in the long run (true in nature, completely false mathematically). Analogs of phase plots (Poincare sections) are misinterpreted as showing evidence for stable cycles (elliptic points). Certainly, in contrast with what the author expects, there are no elliptic points indicated in the data that he shows (ch. 7). The search for unstable cycles would require data of high decimal precision and cannot be decided on the basis of merely staring at a scatter plot. 'Linear' is confused with 'mechanistic', as if chaotic and/or complex could not be mechanistic. Scientifically, we do not really know how to distinguish 'mechanistic' from 'organic'. Perhaps there is no real boundary in nature. These are, in context, relatively minor criticisms of a book that does a good job of emphasizing the flaws in neo-classical economic theory when compared with economic reality.

The study of how to allocate scare resources should interest loads of people. In fact, most people who haven't studied economics in college seem fasinated by the idea. However, because of the way most Economics are taught in College, most people who have studied Economics want nothing to do with it. I know many intelligent people who hated Economics in college and have steared clear of economics every sense. This is a is the sorry state of Economics that has to die as Paul so clearly writes about in his book. I don't think, however, that the orginal intention of economics, the study of how to allocate scarce resources will ever die. His book, about its death really gives me hope that Economics will come alive again someday once we rid economics of all the ego driven, engineering models, that bore people to death of economics.

Ormerod has written an excellent critique of neoclassical economic theory (what's known to the public simply and misleadingly as "Economics"). Despite the title, Ormerod isn't dancing on the grave of his discipline. On the contrary, he wants to reform it and offers many sensible and intriguing suggestions along those lines. (Some readers may feel a more radical approach is merited but within the bounds of capitalism, Ormerod's prescriptions are hard to fault.) Unfortunately, the Queen of the Pseudosciences has survived over a hundred years of both philosophical criticism and empirical falsification. Ormerod's cogent, humane effort will be ignored by those who "know better" -- that is, by the very people who need to heed it most.

Paul Gilster's, "Digital Literacy", is not a book about how to get around the Internet, but rather about enhancing the human experience. The World now rests upon a point and click procedure. He talks about how landmark inventions, such as written language and the printing press, changed how procedures were done. He feels that the Internet ranks up with these monumental inventions. This is not a passing fad. Gilster calms fears about the possibility of the virtual library pushing the real library to extinction. They are parallels. The virtual book is used for specific information. "The physical book is what I bring to the easy chair in front of my fireplace to read, to explore, to mull over with a glass of wine." Gilster also talks about the importance of using discretion when finding information. Many sites out there are not credible, but many are. Make sure the source is credible. This book is written for individuals who already have computer knowledge. It doesn't show you how to get around the Internet, but rather, increases methodology on how to find specific information, after exploiting popular resources, and a reorientation of the thinking process. I found this book to be boring, and above my level of computer knowledge. I would recommend this book to individuals who spend an above average amount of time on the Internet, and are looking for ways to increase their computer knowledge.

I found the book Digital Literacy a very enjoyable and interesting book to read. I got as great deal of information from the readings that will help me in the future with Internet use. The Internet is a source of information with millions of ways of retrieving the data. There are times that I get overwhelmed with the Internet because of all the information and not knowing how to retrieve the info. Gilster shows that despite this overwhelming amount of data it is possible to find the information that you are looking for and confirm that it is from a reliable source. This has helped me in valuable ways. Gilster shows the Internet user how to navigate the Internet with good content-evaluation skills. I felt that chapter 4 (content-evaluation) of this book was most important. The Internet has given our society an incredible tool for research and entertainment. There are many people that don't believe this to be a positive thing. However, those that are learning and are excited about the Internet should read this book. The beginner may have a difficult time with a couple chapters but Gilster does an excellent job of helping the beginner with some very important information and the basic thinking skills needed to use the Internet.

Digital Literacy gives you an overall view of Internet language and how different parts of the Internet are used. Paul Gilster refers to digital literacy in the sense of not only being able to scroll down on a web page but fully understanding how pages are linked together to get the best and most infromation to one's benefit. Gilster strongly feels the Net, in contrast to written information within a library is unfiltered and can contain unreliable information. A lot of people often take a web page at face value, believing the content within it is factual. By taking the proper steps to evaluate a web page one can determine its reliability. Examining the page for author names along with other materials that list their occupation, location, and their email is useful to determine a web page's validity. Also by using major search engines to do searches on authors names, background, and other articles they have written is important to remember. Paul Gilster leads us on a journey called the "Internet Day." This gives a full account of how within one day of work as an author he can easily contact my sources of information from news groups, online chats with other authors, stock report checks, and newspaper headline readings. Throughout this book Gilster consisently compares the Internet resources to that of the actual physical world of books and magazines. He compares and contrasts the downfalls and benefits of both sets of information. Will the Internet elminate the library with a so called virtual library? Gilster discusses this throughly and feels that there will always be a demand for that physical world of literature and books to touch. But the immediacy of split second retrieval of information will and has brought about many changes. Card catalogues have been quickly replaced with online catalogues and book sorting. He believes the sacrifice of some things always is expected if change must occur. Therefore one must use digital literacy to sort through scads of information and commercialism brought on by the Internet to take in the arts, literature, and science that is truly beneficial to us. I thought this book was very useful in the sense that it brought to my attention how Internet information should not be taken at face value. It should be critically evaluated and researched before using its material for research. I feel this is an error I have made and I'm sure others have also. So, if one wanted to read about how you should "knowledge assemble" a five step plan on how to evaluate and pick apart each web page I would highly recommend this book. An excellent point that Gilster did bring to my attention was the fact the Internet is very beneficial in the sense that it gets us away from the television. It allows for us to become an active participant in a medium instead of propping ourselves in front of the TV with a bag of chips. I thought this was very interesting because it gave a positive view about the Internet instead of so much negative hype about Internet use and addication.

Until the author mentions that he is a native american I thought he was just ignorantly biased. He laments the tourism of the Black Hills and Mt. Rushmore while complaing and totally ignores the Crazy Horse Memorial which will dwarf Rushmore when completed. He concludes that it was just fine for Means to block access to important segments of "Custer Battlefield National Monument" while ignoring the rights of other Americans to visit the battlefield. (My family came all the way from Texas and were unable to see the Reno site because of the illegal blockade which had nothing to do with the Sun Dance.) Who wants to hear the usual park service inaccurate litanies when the real 'mccoy' is outside the door. There should be a rating lower than 1 star for tripe such as this book. Of the more than 97 books I have on the Custer Battlefield and Indian wars, this one is the second worst. The author omits anything that would detract from his agenda and ignores countless resources that would prove his hypothesis wrong at many key points. He doesn't even believe the winter count records apparently. I was most disappointed in this book. The title should be " My views or A Midsummer Nights Dream". I wonder how much of his royalties the author has donated to the Northern Cheyenne or to the various Sioux councils.

Killing Custer starts out lame and limps along like a horse with three shoes! The Author has a good opportunity to present a Native American viewpoint on a great battle (Native American vs the White Anglo) but choose to wander and bounces from personal grudges to mythical happening to political agendas! As this book progress, the reader is left with the feeling that the material being presented is inadequate to make a complete book and that the author adds side-bars to flesh out the copy. Little new information is added to the existing knowledge and most of the material presented is tainted with the political subtones of the author. To bad... as this book could have been a good one for the library!

It's a good day to die; the book was issued in France under this title.Looking for other books on this american site,I was surprised and shocked to read some of the reviews.I think this book is important . Of course, I guess that many books have been written about this subject, and I don't know if this one gives us more informations than the others.But what is important to me is the fact that this book has been written by an indian,a man who has more than anyone else, the right to speak about what happened to his people. The 20's century great democracies, including France,can't be proud of their foundations.America with indian and black peoples,France in the West Indies ,and North Africa.One thing surprises me in the reviews of this book:a reviewer only writes about the Little Big Horn battle,although the book goes from 1869 to Sitting Bull's death in 1890.He is sad not to have been able to see the Reno site while visiting the country; personnaly,I would have prefered (and hope I'll have the opportunity) to spend a few hours on the place,near the river,where the Sioux and Cheyennes were living with their families.Another reviewer complains about "the political subtones of the author".And so what? Senator McCarthy fortunately died,no? And I think Mr Welch ,like any other human being, can and has to have a political conciousness.YOu can agree with him or not,but you can't reproach him with telling what he thinks .I was glad to read this book,and I recommend it to you.

"the prophet who prophesies will be recognized as one truly sent by the Lord ONLY IF HIS PREDICTION COMES TRUE."(Jer.28:9)

This is the inerrant litmus test of Bible prophecy: 100% Definitive Factuality in ADVANCE of freely chosen agent decisions, 0% error rate. Openism is DOA,AWOL,Mene-Mene-Tekel-Uparsin at this point! The handwriting is on the wall!

"Hear the Word of the Lord all you exiles in Babylon. This is what the Lord Almighty says about Ahab and Zedekiah who are prophesying lies to you in My Name. 'I will hand them over to King Neb. and he will put them to death before your very eyes. Because of them, all the exiles from Judah in Babylon will use this curse: The Lord treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned in the fire.'"

An irrefutable case of EXHAUSTIVE DEFINITIVE DIVINE FOREKNOWN FACTUALITY about the future free decisions of Ahab; Zedekiah; King of Babylon specifically using fire for execution; and all exiles using the exact, precisely predicted curse based on the free decisions of Ahab, Zedekiah, King (all inextricably interlinked) in the OMNI-Mind of God, freely played out in time

Openism's 'extensive indefinite forecasting' cannot account for such prophecies. (Too many to list here - see separate reviews for 'Beyond the Bounds'; 'God Under Fire'; 'Bound Only Once'.)

Why must Gregory Boyd set up a hyper-Calvinist view as straw antagonist, then make his 'case' for why his Open Theory is the 'most Biblical' (compared to what??)? Ajarism (Free Futures are seen by God as through an ajar door darkly) can't help but seem more palatable by comparison with the ultra-Calvinist
'Closed door known but to God' or Liberal Process 'Wide-Open door unknown to God'.

The nebulous argument for 'Infinite Intelligence' to compensate for 'Non-infinite knowledge of free futures' (known as Divine Nescience,i.e Ignorance) is verbal legerdemain for denial of genuine, meaningful OMNI-science as the Bible teaches.

God is, according to Boydian theory, MULTI-scient or MAXIMI-scient (God knows a lot, more than anyone, the maximum logically knowable, but not quite EVERYTHING as the Bible says).

Instead, Gregory makes God out to be of such great intellect to work around His deemed lack of Infinite Foreknowledge of all future mortal free Shalls and Shall nots, Wills and Will nots. Boyd invents a new sub-Attribute to compensate for eviscerating another Attribute to allow God to come out O.K. in the end.

But it backfires. It only creates a deity in a limited human's intellectual image. In exchange for the Biblical Jesus of Infinite awareness, foresight, prescience and precise knowledge of all Space-Time events/decisions from Eternity Past to Eternity Future and all in between, we are left with a supreme weather forecaster or chess grandmaster. However as we all know, weathermen are often surprised, wrong, erroneous and mistaken. Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue have both lost against each other. Is this the sort of Jesus that Gregory Boyd sincerely believes in, trying to persuade others to accept,too?

'Infinite Intelligence' is woeful consolation for 'knowing' free agent futures as predominantly possibles, maybes, contingents, risky what-ifs, potentials, probables, likelihoods,
projections, indeterminates, variables, random chance, unpredictabilities, uncertainties that may after all not materialize to divine expectations/forecasts.

It is here that the equally nebulous Boydian concept of 'Theo-Repentism' must be triggered to explain how Jesus handles free futures that don't work out as anticipated. When confronted with new information, or in relating to free decision makers, the Eternal Lord Jesus then changes the divine mind, repents (of wrong-doing, wrong-guessing,wrong-imagining, wrong-thinking,wrong-prognosticating, wrong-speaking,wrong-predicting, wrong-prophesying, etc.) or regrets, rues prior decisions based on incomplete data, wishing they could be do-overs or in need of retraction or repair. Infinite Intelligence kicks in at this stage for 'divine damage control' to salvage a draw and prevent checkmate from all the free-ranging opponents who act/decide contrary to the limits of divine predictability in the chaotic chessgame/meteorology of life.

Sound puzzling? It is. Especially when you read the seminal book by Gregory Boyd that started it all: 'Trinity & Process' (see separate review), based on Hartshorne's 'Omnipotence & Other Theological Mistakes' (see review where you discover that Boyd's Omnipotence is no less limited than his Omniscience).

It seems OMNI (Latin for All) cannot mean OMNI anymore, at least for Open Theorists. What then becomes of OMNI-presence? Infiniteness? Eternality?
Transcendence? OMNI-sapience (ALL-Wise)? What happens to all the Historic-Evangelically understood Trinitarian Attributes? How are they Openistly redefined/updated for modern consumption? Only God knows (or, maybe He doesn't? Stay tuned!)

Most unfortunate that books like this which incorporate non-evangelical 'theology' alongside historic Christianity are distributed for uncritical consumption by a non-discerning readership. Seeking wider respectability, Openism/Ajar Theory merely shows with every published page how far Boyd-Pinnock-Sanders have headed AWAY from the Bible and TOWARD a vivid, free agent imagination a la borrowed elements of Hartshorne's Processistic, non-Scriptural philosophic fabrications.

The LORD said it best in Job 42:7 "I am angry with you..because you have not spoken of Me what is right."

This book rates 3 stars for including 3 Biblical/Evangelical views, but subtract stars for Gregory's use of contemporary philosophic presuppositions applied to selective misinterpreted Bible texts to provide a marginal audience the latest heterodox option to counter the straw antagonist of hyper-Calvinism.

Ultimately can't persuade in any cogent, balanced, unbiased way.

The OMNITrue One Who has Eternal Exhaustively Divine Definitive Foreknown Factuality of ALL Free Futures, Infinitely Uninformable ,Unrepentable,Inerrant, Incorrectible, Infallible, OMNI-Present (Ever-Present I AM in ALL point-moments of space-time: Length-Width-Height-Past-Present-Future), Eternal, Limitlessly Aware,OMNI-Relational,Interactive LORD Jesus said,

"Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?"

Just one Scripture from Jesus settles the Foreknowledge Issue once for all:

"I AM TELLING YOU NOW BEFORE IT HAPPENS SO THAT WHEN IT DOES HAPPEN YOU WILL BELIEVE THAT I AM HE." (John 13:19)
Not forecasting, possibilizing, but TELLING. Not if, but WHEN.
Not may,might,could,perhaps should, but DOES happen. 0% Uncertain. 100% definite. That's genuine Omniscience. Amen.

Interesting that this book would present as one of the "evangelical" options of what God knows and when He can know it:
the curious notion that God possesses EXTENSIVE INDEFINITE FORECASTING (a la weather prognosticator or chess grandmaster) subject to all the iffiness and unknowable randomness of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Chaos Theory working themselves out in a fallen world unbeknownst in advance to the Creator! Boyd's presupposition is THE FUTURE DOES NOT EXIST YET, EVEN FOR THE OMNISCIENT/ETERNAL CREATOR GOD, except as mere possibilities yet to be freely actualized.
Therefore He is the deity of what is humanly,logically possible.

Boyd's Neo-Processistic philosophical theorizing becomes more incoherent with each book. How can God know how He will definitely act in the future if He doesn't know how sinners and demons will definitely behave? If our decisions don't exist until we freely make them, how can God's decisions exist until He freely makes His in response to ours in response to others in response to the devil's in response to... ad infinitum?? If all God can know are ultimately possibles (not actuals, definites), then ALL He can know about future agency is INDEFINITE (MAYBE). Thus Boyd teaches EXTENSIVE INDEFINITE FORECASTING - which he calls Omniscience! Talk about verbal legerdemain! God can only know what is humanly,finitely knowable

A careful study of the Bible shows rather the truth that there is NO LIMIT to the extent (past,present,future) of God's knowledge. It is ETERNALLY EXHAUSTIVE DIVINE DEFINITIVE FOREKNOWN FACTUALITY OF ALL FREE FUTURES-OMNIPRESCIENCE
His understanding is INFINITE. That God definitely knows in advance precisely what sinners and demons WILL/WILL NOT do doesn't mean therefore that they are thus forced to, or thereby lose their agency/moral responsibility. Neither is God to blame for the foreknown exercise of their agency. He retains full final say, ultimate control and awareness as definite in advance of ALL they will choose to do. Because some mortal minds can't reconcile this profundity, Open Theory (Ajarism) is the misbegotten result. With all due respect to sincere but sincerely wrong Gregory Boyd, there is little about Neo-processism or EIF (EXTENSIVE INDEFINITE FORECASTING) that can be understood in any sense as Biblical or Orthodox Truth about God's Attributes such as OMNISCIENCE/OMNIPRESENCE. God is ever PRESENT at every point/moment of space/time, including ALL the FUTURE. The I AM is ALREADY THERE/THEN waiting for us just as He IS with us HERE/NOW.

Otherwise well-written. 1 star for attempting to resurrect the long-discredited 'Nescience' pseudo-theology of the late 19th Century (with some elements of 16th Cent. Socinianism) via a self-refuting misunderstanding of how God interacts with ALL FUTURE MORTAL AGENCY: Comprehensively, and for Open Theorists, Incomprehendible.

Most of the reviews on this page miss the boat entirely. Rather than actually reviewing or recommending DF the reviewers are merely venting their anger because their particular view is challenged.

Pay them no mind. DF is an excellent book. Buy it and read all the views with as much of an open humble mind as you can. It's better than the alternative spoon feeding that is rampant in many circles of Evangelicalism today.

The glossary is a great idea more publishers should follow.

Keep em coming Eddy, Beilby, Gannsle ....etc.

This small book (a bit expensive at 25 bucks) has some interesting things to say about location and economic activity (though I wished there would have been more on the way of examples). It is surprising, though, that Krugman never mentions one reason why labor mobility it's not (and, in all probability, will never be) as high in the European Union as it is in the United States: the fact that European workers speak different languages (OK, many speak english, but many don't, and one almost surely is bound to be less good working in a second language than in a native one).

It is great that Krugman is promoting space to the world of Economics but he hasn't brought much to the table of economic geography that wasn't already there. However, as the author's knowledge increases in the subject area, geographers would be advised to keep tabs on his work as the field is lacking in formal models.

That it has taken an economist to highlight the role of space in spatial economic development is an indication of the failure of geographers to do the same with mathematical models (they've had more time to do it...). Regional science has long held the view that space matters, yet geography has not come up with sufficiently rich models to explain why. Dr Krugman has provided a valueble service to making geography matter more in ecomonics. Perhaps it is time for economics to matter more in space?