This is truely is a must have book for anyone remotely interested in Santa Barbara architecture. Beautiful images and sketches of the historic work of George Washington Smith make up this coffee table treasure. Highly reccommended.

I agree that this book is a great asset, and would recommend it to anyone in Chiropractic school, having previously stipulated that it will not prepare you for part IV. The book does indeed review Part III is great detail, but the part four review - with the exception some medical stuff, abdominal exam, thorax, etc. and some others, does not fully prepare you for Part IV. I found the last section on technique extremely lacking, there were no pictures, and very little on the method with which National Boards test you on (vertebral malposition listings [national listings]) since most of us were taught Gonstead (at least at Life West).

In conclusion, I recommend the Irene Gold review seminars. They may help more than this book will. It is a great book, but let's be real here, with the expense of Part IV National Boards ($850), it is cheaper not to buy this book and go to a review and get a passing grade, than to save in the beginning and fail the exam. That's the opinion of someone who used this book and studied in detail and failed the first time around.

4 Stars!

Buy it, study it, and then take some time to relax while the rest of your class tries to learn that which you've mastered. This text allows you to optimize your time studying. No more wasted hours organizing; it is already done for you. Great book. Worth much more than the price tag. I can't endorse it enough. I gave it to my son, a chiropractor for Christmas, and it proves as useful in practice as it is in school. Much thanks to the authors for writing this book. Well done.

At first I thought this was too much information, then I realized it was everything I needed to know for my clinical studies as well as my academic studies. It is hard to understand how this book was written by doctors. I think professional editors would have a hard time negotiating this level of complexity. You both made it look simple and easy to follow. The amount of organization it contains is awesome. I am finishing up school now, and I only have one complaint about this text. It should've been handed out to the students on the first day of class with a schedule of which sections to learn for each year of study. It should be a required text for everyone. My life, my family, and my peers all would have benefitted from the decreased stress associated with a properly organized course plan. I probable could have saved thousands on coffee and actually slept instead of cramming this information for hours on end. This is an entire education between two covers. Thank you, thank you, thank you. My younger brother starts school in September and he is studying this book already! His life will be so much simpler because of it. I not only studied this material for boards, but due to the ease of which it is laid out I actually had time to learn it. You should write a business text next!

This reviewer was dithering between the 4- and 5-star ratings, and decided to err on the side of generosity. The Anglican bishop George Appleton was himself generous in compiling this book of prayers, taken largely from the Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox traditions.

If you're a Roman Catholic, you will find in the Oxford Book of Prayer examples of liturgical language that are lovelier than any of the passages you have heard at a post-conciliar Mass. For the Anglicans, there is Hooker and Traherne and Herbert of the earlier centuries, and Eric Milner-White, John Baillie, and Appleton himself for the twentieth century. Orthodoxy is very well represented, with Eucharistic prayers, with anthems and hymns for vespers and mattins at various points in the liturgical year.

There is Cardinal Langton's immortal "Veni Sancte Spiritus" in both Latin and English. There are a few poems, or snippets of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. There are canticles by Alcuin of York, and prayers of Ghanaian fishermen, in happy juxtaposition. There is a litany to the Holy Spirit (prayer no. 672) used by the ecumenical Taize community in France.

There is a moderately sized section of prayers from "other traditions of faith," from Jewish to Taoist, Muslim to Baha'i, a gracious but not overly concessive tribute to religious pluralism (a prayer-book consisting solely of Christian prayers would perhaps be seen as triumphalistic), but there, some beauty and genuine feeling for the transcendent is often to be found.

As there are more than eleven hundred prayers in this admirably capacious anthology, any review of a few paragraphs is bound to fail in its attempt to convey the temper and the flavour of the book. Let us therefore take one prayer at not-quite-random, no. 588, from the Syrian Orthodox Church:

"Open to us, Lord, your great door; O Fountain of all mercy, hear our prayer and save our souls. Shine upon me, Lord, and I shall be light like the day; I will sing your praise in light while I marvel; may the morning awaken me to the praise of your Godhead and I will pursue the study of your word all the day long. With the day may your light shine on our thoughts and may it drive away the shadows of error from our souls. The creation is full of light, give light also to our hearts that they may praise you with the day and the night."

George Appleton has put together a wonderful devotional resource. The book is divided into six sections. Section one has prayers of adoration, which are addressed to God. Section two consists of prayers from the Bible (Old and New Testaments) including those by the Psalmists, Jesus, Paul, and many others. The third section has prayers of other Christians including such themes as devotion, suffering, protection, etc. Section four has the prayers of the Church. This part is comprised of prayers relating to the creeds, the sacraments, the communion of saints, the Paschal and Christmas cycles, plus much more. Section five is called "Prayer of Listening" because it contains readings from Scripture where God addresses humankind (hence "listening"). The fifth section has prayers from a variety of other religions, including Judaism, Buddhism, Greco-Roman civilization, and primitive nature religions. This section is small compared to the Christian part and this book is primarily a Christian resource. Finally, there are prayers for the unity of humankind. Many famous Christian authors are included, ranging from the early church until the modern day. With over 1100 prayers, there is bound to be one for every occasion in a person's life. I highly recommend this book.

This prayer book is very complete and it has prayers through the ages grouped into loose categories based on how the prayer relates to the Lord's Prayer, Apostles Creed, etc. I use this in my personal worship quite a bit. The prayers are from a wide variety of saints and Christians. There are also some non-Christian prayers there for those interested.