At $...I couldn't go wrong: as it turns out I went very right.
I just found a very rare picture
of an astronomical plasma jet from an elliptical galaxy as a picture in it.
In every way this book delivers what it says it will.
If you can find it, buy it.
Or any other book by Motz on Astronomy!

If you are a 9/11/01 survivor, literally and/or physically, here's just what the doctor ordered for your further survival. Let me tell you, the words of healing and renewal found here should not be missed. If you are sending out an S.O.S., whether to your fellow earthbound creatures, or have already looked up with eyes searching and hands reaching out for an answer to your questions, and to your feelings of lost security, look no further.
Just like September 11, 2001 will always be etched in your mind and heart, after reading this book, you will forever be changed. Don't take my word for it!
Let me suggest his other books as well.
From one once fearful and anxiety-ridden person who has finally found the peace of which I have all along been seeking.
I wish you all a peaceful future.

This work is an efficient survey of agriculture and its relation to population growth through history. The chapters are designed to focus on population growth through time. For example chapter 2 is: Reaching for 5 million ( to 8000BC); chapter 3 is: Towards 50 million ( 8000-2000BC); chapter 4 is: The first half-billion ( 2000BC-1500AD); chapter 5 is: Towards the first billion (1500-1825) etc. Under each heading is a discussion of the critical agricultural developments during that time period. The last chapter focuses on the problems of feeding 10 billion people in the future.The research is detailed and knowledgable. The sources are modern and uptodate. The writing is precise. It is an excellent book that covers a lot of ground in a small compass. Highly recommended.

I recommend this series highly. Every chapter is a five star sermon that not only informed and enlightened, but called me to a closer walk with God and His Son Jesus Christ. I have been mightily impacted forever by what I have read here.

Its great to have a book that owners and veterinarians alike can read for reference. Ferrets aren't as popular as dogs and cats, therefore books and information on ferrets are hard to find. This book is a comfort to have for any ferret-owner.

Sometimes the movie biz can be murder. Is it malicious mischief, or something more sinister? That's the question for Staff Inspector Charlie Salter, working undercover as a police "adviser" to a movie crew shooting in Toronto. A fake fire alarm, a missing can of film, a damaged sound machine, and a kidnapped actor are merely opening salvos in what appears to be an attempt to halt production on this ill-fated film. Yet who among the bickering cast and crew would want to see the movie fail? Could it be the Easter European actor who's made a name for himself playing villians; the arrogant, egocentric star; the flakey first assistant director; or the obnoxious screenwriter who's on everyone's hit list? It's a reel-life mystery that has Charlie Salter dreading the next scene. But when the leading man is mugged and a prime player is found with a dagger through his chest, Salter takes the lead in a homicidal drama that stretches from Toronto to Bucharest, on a trail steeped in blood, retribution, and corrosive memory.

Tunes from the gay 90s (that's 1890s, and no, that's not what Gay meant), spirituals, folk songs, Civil War songs, lovely old American hymns (stolen from other sources, yes, but here printed in their American versions).

The editors weren't trying to create authentic arrangements, so some of the chords are a hipper than would have been played 100 years ago -- but nothing that works against the spirit of the music, nothing jarringly modernistic.

The exceptions to the 'non-modernistic' rule are the arrangements by the estimable George Pullen Jackson from his Spiritual Folk Songs of Early America. These are full of major sevens and ninths, and Pullen's use of dissonance is too advanced to sound old-fashioned. His are fine arrangements nonetheless, and could easily be simplified to achieve a more "period" sound.

The book is prejudiced towards piano players. Guitar chords are not always printed, and when they are they tend to be much simpler and less imaginative than the piano accompaniments. Piano parts are not condescending, but not difficult either: interesting enough that a professional can play them without rewriting and fixing, easy enough that an amateur can master them with a little practice.

There is a companion volume, Fireside Book of American Folk Songs.

First published in 1976, this book is by a former NBC reporter Robin Lloyd. It is one of the most rational studies of the issue of homosexual boy prostitution in America. Many aspects of Lloyd's study are still applicable some twenty years later.

Lloyd covers this controversial topic beginning with his discovery that both his teenage son and ward have posed in the nude for a pornographer whom they first met while hitchiking to the beach. He covers the topics of boys consensually selling their bodies for money to older men, chickens and chickenhawks in his terminology.

He tells the story of 12 year old Jimmy who ran away from his abusive family in the Appalachians to make his way in New York. Befriended by a 15 year old pimp, he is introduced to gay sex and selling his body to older men. Lloyd gives the details of this seamy indoctrination.

He also tells the stories of some of the older men who pay for willing sex with these boys. Like the judge who had 18 boys that he had loved over his lifetime come to his funereal. He is unusual in that he puts real faces to these men, and does not demonize them. He even gives examples where boys have benefited from the caring given by older men, and have grown up to be good citizens.

Lloyd covers the faults in society, many of which still persist 20 years later, that cause boys to turn to prostitution. From abusive homelife, to child care institutions who provide abuse not care, to the juvenile justice system. Also he covers the problems of adoptions and fostering for openly gay boys.

He offers solutions ranging from new government bodies to speak for youth to liberalized adoption laws. Also the timely spending of money on youth in need of care before they become a criminal justic system problem.

While sensational in areas, even explicit in sexual details, this book is overall a sensible, rational study of the issues surrounding boys willingly sell themselves for sex. Many of the issues still persist today, and too many of the corrective actions remain to be implemented. All in all a good read for those interested in boys and their welfare.

A good explanation of pure Prolog and their inference mechanisme. Elementary considerations of using negation in Prolog but a new look about continous processes. Dedicated to lecture notes for students and undergraduates.

This book has a large amount of color photographs of his work. The photographs alone show you what a wonderful architect he was. The book also gives you information on all the pictures of his work. Information about the locations, years, and also professional and personal information on Frank Lloyd Wright. I highly recommend this book to anyone.