Very good, strightforward book. It leads you through word problems, the nemesis of all math students, and does so in a clear and sensible way. Don't leave home without it.

I was first introduced to the mysteries of limits, differentiation, and integration in the Winter of 1966. I used a text no longer available, one that really stretched your abilities through the variety and difficulty of elementary problems offered up for exercise. Since that time, I have seen many a calculus book come and go where most contain the same old tired and unimaginative problem set. This book definitely fills that woeful gap. Not only does "How to Solve Word Problems in Calculus" present a great variety of classic derivative problems completely worked out, but it also presents the solutions in a step-by-step fashion, which helps the student thoroughly familiarize themselves with a basic problem-solving process as presented in an early chapter. One thing that I like is the emphasis on precise picture drawing that allows for crucial left-right brain integration--very important when trying to figure out exactly what quanity (and subsequently function) we are trying to optimize. If the book has a weakness, it is the lack of really new and innovative problems in integration. But, integration has traditionally been a subject that eludes elementary applications other than the usual geometric fare. Don't let this stop you from buying this great and valuable teacher resource!

This is the memoir of a young cavalry officer serving on the Plains at the end of the Civil War. It is very interesting in the way it depicts day to day life, and merges the two conflicts. I was not aware, for example, that the Union was so concerned about Confederate attempts to ally with Indian tribes.

Having said this, I caution, that it's not exactly like reading about Custer. The most exciting encounter with the Indians involves Ware and his troop trying to make a mad dash for the fort before the Indians have time to persue, and the major accomplishment is replacing the telegraph wires that the Cheyennes destroyed. Thus I would not recommend this for an individual new to the topic of the Indian Wars, but if you're at the point where you want to delve deeper, and get more insight into the times, this is a very valuable work.

"The Indian War of 1864" is a reissue of a memoir originally published in the early 1900s. It recounts the day-by-day adventures of Eugene Ware, a young officer in an Iowa cavalry unit serving in far western Nebraska toward the end of the Civil War. The author, who later in his life was a published poet and friend of Mark Twain's, writes beautifully of life in the ranks on the far edges of civilization. He not only recounts the nitty-gritty of service in a volunteer cavalry unit, he wisely and graphically documents the clash of settlers and Indians. As a serving Army officer, I most enjoyed the many hard lessons Ware learned as a junior officer trying to maintain order and discipline among his soldiers. The volunteer soldiers of his unit were a rough and unruly bunch who had the signal virtues of being fearless fighters who never shirked their duties. All other soldierly qualities--such as the ability to stay sober--were in doubt and posed extreme leadership challenges for Lieutenant Ware. I have often shared anecdotes from the book with my peers and subordinates as examples of both how to earn the respect of American soldiers and how to live up to the demands of duty as an officer under extreme stress in remote locations. I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in the settling of the West, the US Army of the time, and the sad downfall of the American Indian.

When I finished reading "The Jaguar Prince", a novel by Eugene E. Whitworth, I swore at the Author. I had not eaten for 18 hours and I was famished. My youthful appetite requires attention about every four hours, and clamors growlingly if it is not stoked within six. How could any writer fascinate me so much that my personal hunger could be set aside in order to read and reread his writing?

I was hungry. I was stiff from long sitting. I was sweaty from emotion, and I was starkly in love with a mind that could do all that to me! I had to know more about the author, about the Mayan culture that formed the historic basis of "The Jaguar Prince". How the blazes could any writer make characters so real that they walked right off the pages and into my heart?

So off to food, bed, and then about a month of research on the guy "who done this to me". Finding him was easy. One call to San Francisco and he answered in person. It turns out that he is a more powerful character than those are he writes into his fast-paced novels. He has been on 12 major expeditions to far away places to research the people he writes about. His writing is authentic. He's been there! And how does he make you feel you're there?

I asked him. He answered fast: " Oh, the characters write their own story. I just report on the actions of the characters I have seen in person or in my imagination in the place I'm writing about."

But how does he make you feel that you are the character? Not just make you cry or laugh but cry or laugh as the character? I sat down to ponder this small touch of genius. I love to read, so I went back to the things I had read to compare them with him. My assay is:

He has the depth and wisdom and rhythm in writing of a Shakespeare; he has the swashbuckling sweep of a Dumas; the beauty and poetic grace of a Shelley; the bawdy abandon of a Chaucer; and the risqué insight of a modern pulp love romance. When I challenged him with this he laughed: "I've simplified Shakespeare's plays, I have loved the "Three Musketeers", I've read Shelley aloud on the radio, and written parodies on Chaucer. My one great failure in life is that I have never been able to sell a pulp love story to a modern Romance Magazine."

Yeah, but! Where and how did he get the ability to write so easily? Where did he learn to become a Master Craftsman in writing novels, poetry, drama and Musicals? And when did he have time to study and learn all the metaphysical skills and spiritual wisdom in his book? BOOKS! Plural! He has demonstrated an almost superhuman empowerment in more than 75 works, fact, fiction, poetry, or drama. He has three musicals, and over 108 songs and lyrics. And, Oh, My Gosh, he has written, directed, acted in some 260-radio dramas, and three religious dramas.

I had to conclude that his output was phenomenal. But how was his sales record? It has been good. His books sell slowly but continuously. "Nine Faces of Christ", "Genesis: The Children of Thoth, First God first Man", "The First Christmas Tree" (a talking book and he recorded it!)-all are selling well.

Every one of them is a deep study in metaphysical skills and techniques like a lesson in advanced metaphysical wisdom. No wonder the saints in India introduce him as: "The Saint from San Francisco".

But he is equally valid in his history in "the Jaguar Prince". He explains the tribal history and conflicts that was a major reason why the mysterious Mayan civilization, so advanced in astronomy, medicine and warfare, fell so swiftly to a hand-full of invading Spanish Conquistadors. And you will weep, if you are sensitive to the written word, with the downfall, You will want to be as beautiful as the Cocom Princess, Flower of Jade, or as skilled at warfare as The Jaguar Prince, of the Xiu-and as deeply in love as these two star-crossed are with each other. How they plan to save their true religion from conniving and false priests, how they plan to develop the religion of the little but mad Priest of the invaders because it is so like their inner and secret beliefs, and the secrets of the Shining-One, and the promise of Intala for mankind's future and peace in the world-all this you will be entwined with when you read "The Jaguar Prince".

You will also put down the book with a tear and a sigh at the emotions you have enjoyed, the religious and metaphysical wisdom you have gained, the depth of the Christian Religion you have come to understand. Read "The Jaguar Prince" and you may begin to understand why a Bishop from Canada paid one thousand dollars (American) for the last available copy of the type-script of "The Jaguar Prince" rather than wait for the book to be printed. Now that he can get printed copies, he will not sell the typescript copy at any price

What next, you may wonder. Waiting at the printer are "Tomorrow Dawns Today", a spiritual love story, "Casa Na Balam, House of the Jaguar", a Mayan love/mystery opus, and "The Astral Man", a metaphysical block-buster story so big it took two to write it, co-authored with Lewis Keizer. If you are impatient enough, send a thousand dollars for one of the last typescripts available of either of these books. Read "The Jaguar Prince" and see why this recommendation.

It somehow seems so fitting that I should finish the journey of THE JAGUAR PRINCE on the eve of Good Friday and the day after the Full/Blue Moon of March ....

I didn't say that I read this incredible story, because that is not what happened. I was consumed by the pages, taken inside and held there by a subtle yet tremendous power - one that I can only describe as embodying pure love and truth. So simply and yet so intricately was I woven within those pages that my heart knows another beat, sings to a clearer melody now awakened within my soul.

I was there, at Chichen Itza - some part of me, some aspect of my Being - I'm not sure. It doesn't matter. I have held the essence of truth in my heart for so long and now it pours forth gloriously in opalescent rainbows. THE JAGUAR PRINCE activated this memory and I thank Dr. Whitworth for reminding me of Who I Am.

I first journeyed with the author in NINE FACES OF CHRIST about a year ago .... I went through the initiations with Jesus in the two days that I lived with the book. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life and I felt drawn to the soul that could possibly be such a pure vehicle ...... Dr. Whitworth's words are empowered with an energy that reaches out and touches one beyond where one has felt before.

The Knife and Gun Club gives a candid and uncensored look into Denver General Hospital's Emergency Room and Paramedic Division. Richards has captured the spirit of the personell of the Denver General ER. As an EMT trained at Denver General and the daughter of one of Denver General's first paramedics, I found this book very accurate and true to life. It spares no detail and gives the true flavor of one of the nations top trauma centers and emergency departments. If you have any interest in the emergency field, I suggest you read this book for a truthful look into an emergency room and the lives of the people who work in the emergency system. This book is fabulous, and very well written. Richards pulls the reader in to Denver General and all its supporting emergency systems. I have never read a better documentation or representation of the way emergency medicine in all its aspects truely is.

Richard's provides an unbiased look into the world of emergency medicine at Denver General hospital and Denver Emergency Medical Services. This book couples full page black & white pictures with interviews with various health proffesionals. A true look at the events and emotions surrounding emergency care.

Nobody was reporting on the changes in the newspaper industry as the chains were becoming larger and more dominant, owning 80% of the nearly 1,500 newspapers in the US. In the middle 1990s, journalists no longer working for newspapers (to avoid conflict of interest) launched the Project on the State of the American Newspaper, projected to produce some 20 articles that would appear in the American Journalism Review and be the foundation for two volumes.

Leaving The Reader Behind: The Age Of Corporate Newspapering surveys a generation of relentless "corporatization" that has radically transformed journalism and newspaper publishing. Unprecedented in the 300 year history of American newspapers, the blitz of buying, selling, and consolidation of newspapers has effected the industry from small town weeklies to the nationally renowned dailies. Gene Roberts (an immensely respected newspaper reporter and editor) has provided the reader with a unique and documented history that is as engaging as it is informative. Leaving The Reader Behind is essential reading for aspiring journalists and students of American newspaper publishing.

Chapter by chapter, Peterson presents each teenage challenge to parents (10 of them), and answers them with scripture and understanding. If we cannot draw on the example of Jesus to relate to our teenagers, then what good is our faith? As Christians we are uniquely gifted to deal with life, especially teenage sons and daughters. I was impressed with the examples. I recommend this book for parents *and* for teenagers, as both should come to a better understanding of each other after reading it.

We have a review of this book on our church's web page, at www.ilinks.net/~faithpca/teams/youth/parents.html

What is a book about lost mines without maps? The maps in the book were neat. Maybe the gold is still there?

I wrote the original book in 1963 (as Lost Desert Bonanzas) to mark 25 years of Desert Magazine lost mine stories. The main appeal was Norton Allen's great cartography (this is the only kind of map book that gets better as the maps are outdated by freeways and etc.). I would like input from treasure-seekers, but all I know about the particular lost mines is recounted in the book.

I have two of these: one at home and one at work. When ever I feel an emotion and need some soothing I go to this book. Look up the topic and read the scripture. Alot of times I will randomly just open the book and read what pops up. Great help in time of need.

It helps us get a fresh perspective of the heart of God in relating to us.

as a pastor in the postmodern church, and the editor of ginkworld.net, i recommend the entire message series. we use it 100% of the time. all our lessons and teachings come from the message - it's easy to read and powerful for the heart.

Peterson has painstakingly translated not just the words from the original text, he has also captured a contemporary setting for the life of Moses.
There is an easy relation between the world we know today & the world that was then.
Personally I have always struggled with the contextual issues of the Old Testament in King James Version or even the New International Version, t's the relation between a cultural I have no knowledge of & the culture that I am soaked in. The Message Old Testament books, for me, is perfect clarity in an otherwise cloudy spectrum.

do yourself a favor and buy this on tape. listen to it while driving, or whatever, and your heart will dance!

This abridged edition of selected passages is well done. The readers express wonderful emotion. The translation is fresh and I was touched. This is a great supplemental resource for anyone who loves the Word of God. This tape left me wanting more! I recommend this audiotape highly.