While Fr. Miller is an Episcopalian/Anglican, and bases this commentary on his own church's eucharistic rite, his reflections are just as valuable for Roman Catholics. The structure of the Anglican rite for Holy Eucharist is akin to the Roman Catholic Mass. Indeed, some Episcopal/Anglican parishes, such as the one that Fr. Miller now serves as rector, prefer to use the term "Mass" themselves. Even more importantly, Anglican doctrine on the nature of the sacrament of the eucharist is broadly similar to that preached by Rome.

This book expounds on the eucharistic rite as a exercise in corporate (or communal) prayer, and focuses on how the celebrant or congregant can contribute to the cohesiveness of that undertaking. The author is particularly thought-provoking when he discusses how the moments of silence within the rite should be utilized for intense private prayer, and not dismissed as "dead air time" during which nothing is happening. He also is very strong is commenting on the importance of the oral proclamation of the scriptures. This section in particular deserves close attention from Roman Catholics: with the advent of missalettes, many R.C. congregants now read the scriptural passages, and do not really listen to the priest or lector. Finally, Fr. Miller offers a number of informative historical notes on how the structure of the eucharistic rite developed over time, such as how the traditional seating arrangement in synagogues of Jesus' time led to the traditional placement of priest and congregation.

The general reader should note that this book is written in a style that may be comfortable for academics with a theological background, and not in a more "popular" manner. In other words, while this book is accessible to most general readers, few will find it a quick read.

The author, who is an American, has held academic and pastoral posts in both the U.S. and the U.K., and has a particular interest in Eastern Orthodox thought and spirituality. He recently became rector of the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in New York City (long nicknamed "The Little Church Around the Corner"). At its founding in 1848, few Episcopal parishes other than Transfiguration celebrated the eucharist every Sunday (non-eucharistic Morning Prayer was the principal service at most of them). Today, while Holy Eucharist has become the norm for Episcopal Sunday worship, Transfiguration is the rare parish that has it daily, and usually twice daily at that. While Fr. Miller wrote this book several years before he came to the "Little Church," noting his current association with this parish, I believe, gives the reader useful perspective on the author.

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An ever-increasing number of Electronics Engineers, born since the transistor (1955ish), are asked sooner or later to help with a "wireless" or amplifier which contains "valves", or "tubes". In spite of countless similarities, valve systems have many important differences; and advice about servicing them is hard to come by.

But at last, here is a densely-packed book of advice, spiced with humour, reminiscences, and informed opinions - but only when and where they really help.

Whilst a pedant might pick holes in some of the theory and treatment (misplaced dots and outdated units for example), the practical advice is invaluable and will save patience, fortune, and lives. (Besides, if we are working on gadgets where 4.7 m meant 4.7 megohms, better to say so. We are even told the alternative American notation.)

If you are new to Vintage Electronics you will not be baffled by 50-year-old "slang", because commonplace terms are explained. But if you have been "at it" for 50 years you will not feel patronised. You will soon find out how much you "didn't know you had forgotten."

Bill Jarvis

Although it is of much help, to which the book lacks, it was disappointing to say the least. It did little to help simplify the understanding of the book; yet without it, one is much worse. If one needs to take trigonometry, this book will attempt to help, but lacks in great assistance.

Like all math books, this one is just an aid in the classroom. The main source of information is the instructor. This book has really good excersices. The layout is very clear clear. Dont listen to negative reviews, its probably their instructors

I bought the book to teach my 15 year old
son trigonometry and it is fantastic.
It has so many clear examples to illustrate
the concepts.
You can't go wrong with this book.

I absolutely agree with the review by Stephen Armstrong below. It doesn't take 50 - 100 problems for the average student to grasp a simple, basic algebraic concept. I see no reason for this book to be over 700 pages; the authors clearly ignored the need for simplicity and relevance in presenting their material. Of the several books I've used for algebra, this one has the most distracting presentation. It's hard to figure out what really matters and where the student should focus. And it's hard to discern how the concepts presented relate to each other. It seems that in the authors' desire to be thorough, they lost perspective.

After having completed a course in Beginning Algebra, the next textbook, Intermediate Algebra really smoothed everything out. The topics it covers are basically quite the same as Beginning Algebra (same author), but it goes into deeper depth that are peasy to pick up (especially with the examples in the start of each section). One thing I particularly like about Lial and Hornsby mathematics textbooks are the summaries they provide at the end of each chapter you complete. They give a concept covered in the chapter, a couple of examples, and therefore serve as a revision page before a test or exam.

This is a terrific book. It makes me feel that I shouldn't bother to attend my math class in school. The book explains concepts clearly. You don't even need a mentor. You can manage the book all by yourself, for the book itself is your teacher, your mentor. There is an abundance of exercises for you to practise. They never run out of it. It makes you feel that math is fun. It is the simply the best way to learn math. The best part of the book is the review after every chapter. I can learn back whatever I've missed. I'm an 8th grader only, but I can still manage the 2nd year of high school algebra. The book has helped a lot. The book is perfect for talented 8th graders.

The book is decent. But is not a great text book. It's highlihgted formulas, etc... are very helpful, but it doesn't seem to explain a lot of things in a way to make them easily understandable. I have used many different math books, and I would not use this one unless you are teaaching extremely bright students.

This book is a great compilation of the story of a young Indianboy who grows up to learn the traditions of his family. It was veryinformative and a great read. It would also be beneficial for people intereted in Native American history or just those wanting to read a good novel.

This book suffers from a lack of chronological treatment, and tells nothing about the personal life of its subject. But it is still enjoyable reading, tho I wished I had had at hand as I read it a set of the U.S. Reports of U.S. Supreme Court cases. It is amazing that Justice Miller thought nothing of sitting on cases argued before the Court by his brother-in-law! Some things have improved over the yeaars, and I am confident nothing like that happens any more.

This is a very good book for introduction into homiletics. I was a student of Fr Miller's at St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, CA. It is a good text for first getting one's feet wet, and I continue to refer to it in my own preaching from time to time. His method is a rather basic one, but it still works well.

This book has an answer to most questions you could have regarding web site maintenance, although it is heavily biased towards configuring UNIX servers. Windows NT, for example, doesn't get much of a mention. Also, many of the examples are written in Perl which was a shame as I was more interested in CGI written with shell scripts.

Some topics do not go into enough detail. For example, the section on how to install two servers on a single machine, each responding to different domain names, tells you "what" to do but not "how" to do it.

Where the book does excel, however, is in describing the concepts of how the internet works.

Bell spends entirely too much time idolizing his great-grandfather, John Bell. Hardly a page doesn't go by where Bell repeats the same silver-coated words about him. It almost seems like the younger Bell is trying to cover something up.

Some of the stories told are almost unbelievable and have no bibliographic or footnote indicators of their sources. A prime example of this is Bell's relating discussions between his grandfather, John Bell jr, and the witch. Page after page of direct quotes made me believe there is some document that substantiates these discussions, but alas, nothing. Even a description of how Bell came into possession of such a document--if one even exists--would have been helpful and give more credibility to the account of the discussions. Were there really discussions or did Charles Bell use them to voice his own views of religion?

Charles, come back from the grave and set the record straight.

Bell's writing skills are much better than those of another Bell Witch author, MV Ingram, but the book still contains many distracting errors.

I recommend this book only if you are interested in seeing John Bell immortalized and reading an interesting discussion that allegedly took place between John Bell, jr and the witch.

Charles Bailey Bell's book about the goblin that haunted his ancestors is a simple rehash of an earlier work by M.V. Ingram, which is acceptable because the Ingram account is the first and only original written source of the stories involved.

What I expected was not only the standard Ingram rehash, but something of value in addition to the stories themselves. I found nothing of that sort save a few previously untold stories, all of which I have serious doubts about. Nobody will unravel the mystery of the Bell Witch, and that is not expected, but Charles Bell could have at least added some historical facts and color to the story.

The same stories over and over again carry some value if they are rendered in an understandable way. I found Bell's writing, albeit good, almost as confusing as Ingram's. Stories alone will not get it. This publication needs to be some "bite" in the form of additional information if it is to be a useful read.

Bell got off to an excellent start with his book, but finished it prematurely in my opinion.

This book was written by Charles Bailey Bell, who was the grandson of John Bell Jr. and great grandson of John Bell, who was supposedly killed by the spirit itself. Mr. Bell made his family angry by writing this book back in the 1930's but the reason he did it was the spirit was suppose to return around the time this book was written.Since he is a member of the Bell family, this book understandably is kind to John Bell Sr. and the Bell family as a whole. John Bell Sr. was found guilty of cheating Kate Batts at one time and the author touches on this subject. This is a pretty detailed telling of the story. One thing about this book that is really diffrent from the others is the author goes into more detail about the "witch's" conversations with his grandfather John Jr. John Bell Jr. was respected by the witch and treated kindly by her even when the other members of his family were not. Since she held him in high esteem she told him things about the future and even the disant past. She even decribes watching the day Christ was crucified. The witch never gave a straight answer about who she was or where she came from but many have concluded from what she said that she was some sort of demon or evil spirit. She never bad mouthed God and often talked about the divinity and glory of Jesus Christ. I won't go into details about her conversations but they really are facinating and some even unsettling. She predicted the Civil War ,World War I, and World War II. If you want to read a more complete version of the story(not to take away from the others who have wrote great versions of this story) get this book. One thing though, there are some misprints and some times it is a little hard to follow the way they put it togather, but it doesn't really affect the story. they are easy to look over. Also this book is really two books in one. There is a second part written by Harriet Parks Miller. She pretty much retells the Bell Witch story without as much detail, not to say she doesn't do a good job, she does. She does have a chapter on the Surrency Ghost in Georgia which is similar to the Bell Witch story. All in all I enjoyed this book and I think anyone with an intrest in the supernatural, history , folklore or even a good story will too.