"Dr. Hope" is the author of three delightful, bilingual (English/Spanish) picture story books that teach young readers invaluable lessons that will stand them in good stead throughout their lives. Laughing Day is a tale of Boologs and Grumpies who live in a village amidst a great forest and learn the happiness of helping others.

This story should be read by the young and the young at heart. It is a happy tale teaching kindness and getting along with each other. A lesson we can all learn. Wonderful characters and sweet artwork. A classic!

It is rare to find a quality children's story that delivers an important message in an entertining way. Laughing day is delightfully written in verse and indeed is such a find. It's my niece's favorite book.

Captivating, I couldn't put it down. Very well researched and extremely well written and easy to read. Any student of the U-boat was would do well to read this sad chapter in the history of the Ubootwaffe. It really gets into the mindset of the crews. Human nature is a fascinating beast and Martial Justice is a great study in the good and bad in us all.

Completely fascinating. Most Americans don't even know we had hundreds of camps all over the U.S. that housed German POWs. We study all the heros and villains of the war in broad terms, and tend to forget that there were thousands of little events that to the people involved were every bit as important as the publicized events. The U.S. Army executed a group of Germans who did what the American Army itself would have expected of its soldiers, and hushed up if American POWs did exactly the same thing. This is a frightening study of how the military bureaucracy is a law unto its own purposes. "The Killing of Corporal Kunz" and "Extreme Justice" are further fascinating looks at the same kind of situation.

Martial Justice: The Last Mass Execution in the United States is a compelling account of a conflict between honor and the fight against tyranny. A historical tragedy of German Submariner POW Werner Drechsler who was willing to sacrifice the bond of comradeship to save his homeland. On the other side, seven fellow German Submariner POWs who see Drechsler as a traitor. The actions taken by the seven leads them down a twisted wartime legal path that ends with their execution after the surrender of Germany. The book examines the strong bonds of loyalty shared amongst these young men. A close-knit fraternity which became stronger through adversity. The many questions left unanswered by history begs the reader to examine the tarnished legacy left behind by the prisoner of war experience in the United States.

This is the best introduction to Publisher I've read. The tutorials are clear and focused, providing all the instruction you need to create everything from business cards and brochures to logos and letterhead. There are plenty of useful graphics, helpful tips, and design suggestions to get you started quickly. I especially liked the use of real-life scenarios that show you how to use Publisher to create documents tailored to specific business needs.

Finally, a Publisher book that is smart, helpful, and enjoyable to read. This book will help you get started with Publisher, create original and fabulous designs for your publications, learn new tricks, and discover cool and otherwise unknown features. This is well-researched and written with care and understanding of the product and the people who use it. I work on the Publisher user assistance team and let me tell you, this book is the best I've seen!

I'm so happy to see a book that documents how versatile designing in Microsoft Publisher can be. In clear, concise tutorials, the authors show how to use the Publisher Design templates as they are, how to alter the templates, and how to create your own publications based on basic design principles.

Werner Heisenberg is the one great, if not provocative figures of the 20th. century Science. Famous for his Uncertainty Principle and formulation of Quantum Mechanics.

Unfortunately, the two great great theories of the 20th. century science, quantum theory and relavity theory was formulated in Central Europe during the two World Wars. Heisenberg, born in 1901 was a witness to the World War I, World II and the Cold War.

Heisenberg reflects this in detail. How does one deal with political chaos and diaster during the Hitler reign in Germany. He himself decided to stay in Germany. Bohr, Fermi, Einstein all fled Europe, he decided to stay.

Enrico Fermi tells in 1939 "America is a bigger and freer country. Leave the ballast of the past, pettiness of the Old World, One can start anew in the New World."

History will forever debate the Heisenberg of World War II.

Part history, part science, but the most interesting is his encounters with the great scientist of the 20th century. Science you can learn from any textbook.

Moreover, his emphasis on experiment, experiment data, experimental observation as basis for all science is important here.

Written in "conversation" form, we meet and hear the great scientist of the 20th century. Sommerfeld was his teacher, Wolfgang Pauli his classmate. He fellow scientist Born, Neils Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Paul Dirac, Einstein and many other greats are here.

This book makes them all human because they had to struggle to come "discover" science and the political diaster that engulfed Europe in the first half of 20th. century. Edward Teller "Mr. H-Bomb" was student of Heisenberg. All has to grapple with politics and history.

This book should be back in Print. Book is the mind in motion of a great scientist. With discovery of atomic theory, the linking of science and politics is joined forever. Science can never just be science and politics just be politics.

Unfornate but true. Knowledge renders power. No one is more "powerful" than scientist now and in the future.

Once you know the "laws of nature", you then can be "master of nature".

This is an absolutely fascinating book when read between thelines. Werner Heisenberg (best known for his uncertainty principle,but also remembered as one of the few truly great scientists who nevertheless swore allegiance to the Nazis) explains, in his own words, why his leadership of the German atom bomb project in WWII was morally defensible.

Heisenberg was, in his moment of glory, in the unique position of being the intellectual better of both Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. He explains this at some length in his book, which consists of stilted, imaginary conversations he had or "would have had" with other scientists. According to Werner, he used his powerful intellect to deliberately mislead the Nazis and to thwart the German atom bomb project. If you believe this, you will also believe that he did it in order to "save German youth." It's a complex work in which Werner comes off as less than courageous.

If you've ever felt intimidated by Heisenberg (and who wouldn't be?) you will appreciate Lindemann (the legendary mathematician) dismissing him as worthless. Also worth reading are Heisenberg's hopelessly antiquated views on biology, language, music and philosophy . . . you will feel better, because you know more than he ever did, even though he formalized quantum mechanics.

This book is a good introduction to modern physics. It shows both the reasoning and the cultural context that led to this still-rather-dubious abstraction. Quantum mechanics is more comprehensible when you understand the characters who invented it.

Heisenberg was a great thinker. His antiquated values serve as a reminder that one can be both brilliant and deluded at the same time.

While it suffers from a somewhat "clunky" writing style, this book is extremely interesting. Heisenberg introduces the reader to his world. The reader learns of the thoughts that led to his discoveries, the process by which these discoveries were made, and, almost as a side-note, the reader is acquainted with Heisenberg as a person.

A great deal of controversy has surrounded Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. For a long time many people did not accept it as true. Now that it has been largely accepted, there is still a great deal of difficulty in understanding it. This book will aid the non-scientist in getting a better idea of what it is all about and in understanding why it was necessary.

The inclusion of an audio CD with the poets reading their own work adds a valuable new dimension to this complex and rewarding selection of poems. Each poem in this innovative new journal stands up to multiple reads and strict scrutiny. The poems are smart and rich and painfully true, and the CD allows you to hear to poets intended music. Bravo!

The multi-media approach this journal takes with its audio CD is the perfect compliment to the inventive, well-crafted and painfully true poetry found inside.

Probably one of the most unique journals I have ever read--anywhere. Where did it come from? The poetry is very well written and musical. There was something very different about this magazine from the moment I picked it up--something special. And listening to the poets read their work on the CD while I followed along in the book was delightful. Their poems came alive!

As with Franzmann's "Bible History Commentary Old Testament", these two volumes should be recommended reading for every Sunday School teacher. This invaluable resource never talks down, but clarifies even the most difficult to understand passages. He touches on questions that children (and adults) typically ask. As a Sunday School teacher, next to the Bible, his volumes were my most treasured resource. I successfully used his volumes for small folks(4-5 years old), medium folks (4th-5th grade), and to settle discussions with larger folks. I cannot recommend this highly enough. Every church library should have at least one set on their shelves.

Werner Franzmann, theologian, professor, and pastor of the Wisconsin Lutheran Synod, was commissioned to write a Bible History Commentary for use by Sunday School teachers. If you, like me, teach Sunday school and/or Adult Bible classes, this two-volume set is a precious resource of New Testament stories. Networking with fellow teachers, there is always an eye kept open for good resources. This set is written in plain, clear, concise English. It also makes a great reference work for the budding Church library.

If you teach Sunday School, Franzman should be required reading, right after the Scriptures. He touches on questions all children ask, and clarifies passages that confuse even adults. I used him to teach small children,(4-5 years old), medium sized children,(4th & 5th grade), and to prove my point in discussions with adults. The writing style is easy to read and comprehend. He never talks down, but instead seeks to clarify any passages that might need explanation. In preparing for your Bible lesson, he lays an essential groundwork in understanding even the most vague passages. I cannot recommend this highly enough.

Werner Franzmann, theologian, professor, and pastor of the Wisconsin Lutheran Synod, was commissioned to write a Bible History Commentary for use by Sunday School teachers. If you, like me, teach Sunday school and/or Adult Bible classes, this two-volume set is a precious resource of Old Testament stories. Networking with fellow teachers, there is always an eye kept open for good resources. This set is written in plain, clear, concise English. It also makes a great reference work for the budding Church library.

Werner Jeanrond's book, 'Call and Response: The Challenge of Christian Life' is a little known work by a little known theologian. Often as is the case, it is this obscure work that has made a profound impact on my personal theological development.

Back when I was discerning my call (or rather, trying to discern if I had a call) to ministry, there were many obstacles thrown up (some circumstantial, some deliberate) which caused me to reflect on the nature of what a call is. For starters, I tend to stay away from 'call' language, as I believe everyone is called to something, and a call to ministry is not necessarily more important (and indeed, can often be less important) than a call to be a teacher or doctor or engineer, or the call to be a good parent or good neighbour, etc. Jeanrond helped me to put into words some of my doubts and frustrations with current practice in churches, and current language of vocation.

He begins by identifying that Christianity (as indeed many religions) is in crisis. It is harder, he says, to reconcile the experiences of ancient forms of religious organisation or ancient ritualistic practices with the ordinary life as mature adults in today's society. However, this is not to say that society is anti-religious.

'It would be wrong to diagnose a foundational hostility to religion in today's intellectual climate. What is, however, true is that the intellectual climate in the West harbours a fundamental suspicion of any form of dogmatism and institutionalism.'

He gave me insight into the nature of ministry:

'All too often priests and even theologians are considered to be a sort of professional Christian, paid to be Christian so as to assure that the non-paid Christians be saved.'

In calling for a more cooperative form of organisation and ministerial outlook, one that embraces the call of all to be workers for justice and compassion, Jeanrond voices some of the same concerns as Bill Countryman in his book on the priesthood of all believers (see my review on that, too, posted 4/1/00).

We are called by God to join in the work of creation and sustenance of justice and mercy.

'The belief in God's concern for this world tends to promote more of an appreciation of a communal effort, both to protect this world from extinction and to make it better in response to God's call according to which all of us ought to become co-creators of his project.'

Jeanrond calls for a radical shift in the way that communities view themselves, and to lessen the divisive characters, to spread the idea of authority out across ever-widening circles which hold each other in check and cooperation. So long as one group (i.e., the clergy) have authority over another (i.e., the laity) there will be a skewing of the radical equality we all share before God.

Jeanrond echoes many theologians past and present when calling for continuing interpretation of the Gospel message.

'The gospel must be interpreted anew in every generation and context. Such interpretation will always be pluralistic by nature of the different perspectives and contexts of the interpreters.'

Jeanrond, while calling for more cooperation and community (communion), warns against simplistic ideas of ecumenism, particularly the kind of ecumenism that happens in committee rooms and conferences but fails to involve the actual people of the churches for whom these leadership groups claim to act. Without the consent of the people, the efforts will fail, probably damaging the mothering institutions in the process.

Werner Jeanrond, having taught at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Lund, is a bit outside common theological circles, which is unfortunate, as his writing is crisp and clear. He does not introduce obscure or 'patented' terminology, but rather embraces common language as the vehicle for remarkably simple yet meaningful thoughts.

This is not a long book. But it is important. It is on my regular re-read list. It is a compassionate critique of the current state of religion, and hopefully a voice that will be heard.

Jeanrond's basic overview here is a brief systematic survey of a theology of inclusiveness and really develops the idea of the 'priesthood of all believers'. He challenges the dominant modes of thinking, tendencies toward clericalism and dogmatism, tendencies toward belief as opposed to right relationships and action. The true Christian acts communally, striving to build up the entire community and include all in the process, Jeanrond argues. Older modes of thinking that we've inherited need to be re-examined, and adapted while still being honoured for their validity for their time and the import that validity has for our own time. An excellent book.

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I'm an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Drives Chair of National Technical University of Ukraine, and my courses are "Control Of Electrical Drives","Automatic Control Systems" etc. If this significant book was in my disposal, or in our library, it would be a good help to students in this course studying. Very good material with fine logic construction.

Single crystal structure determination has become an important and extremely powerful tool not only for inorganic and structural chemists but for all kinds of chemists interested in the structures of their compounds. The major disadvantage of this method was hitherto the lack of useful introductions into it's practical use.
This gap has been filled by Massa's book.
It focuses - unlike other crystallography books - on the practical applications and enables the reader to attack own structural problems by himself. Additionally, this book will provide the necessary theoretical background to understand how X-ray diffraction works, how crystals are built, all this symmetry stuff and so on.
The absolute highlight is, however, the step-by-step explanation of a structure determination, where one can almost see the author sitting in front of his computer and struggling with one of his structures, explaining every step in detail.
Crystallography still needs heavy brain work sometimes. But this book won't cause unnecessary headaches as many other crystallography books do.
Therefore, I recommend this book warmly to my crystallography students.

This review is important for me because I'm working in a Lab.