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Statistical Thinking, 2/E: Telephone & Beyond
Published in Hardcover by W.H. Freeman & Company (1982)
Author: John L. Phillips
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Conceptual Introduction
This book does not teach you how to "do" statistics, which would mean doing a lot of mathematical manipulations and handling formulas and checking tables, etc. Rather, this book is about what needs to be understood to use statistics effectively, what statistics is about. Come to think of it, this makes a lot of sense, because today, we have lots of aids to do the manipulations for us. We don't really need to know the formula for computing stadard deviation, when excel can do it for us, with a few clicks of the mouse.

The book reads sequentially. Each chapter assumes the reader has a firm grasp of the preceding ones. So, if you do not have the time to read a book sequentially, this book is probably not for you. This book does not assume that you'll already have know something about statistics. It starts more or less from scratch.


Tales of Evil and Good
Published in Paperback by iUniverse.com (2001)
Authors: Phillip S., Ph.D. Duke, John Donne, and Leo Tolstoy
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A Review of Tales Of Evil and Good
An extremely well written, wonderful treatment of its subject. I highly recommend this book to all persons interested in excellent, powerful writing on the subject of Religion. A truly amazing, creative work. A masterpiece.


Uncle John's Presents Blame It on the Weather: Amazing Weather Facts
Published in Paperback by Portable Press (2002)
Authors: David Phillips, Suzanne Chisholm, and Michael Parfit
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Exciting and little-known facts about weather in general
Uncle John's Presents Blame It On The Weather: Amazing Weather Facts is an amazing and collaborative compilation by weather experts and science writers David Phillips, Michael Parfit, and Suzanne Chisholm of exciting and little-known facts about weather in general, and North American weather patterns in particular, ranging from a bizarre thirty hours when Niagra Falls ran dry, to the worst ice storm in recorded history in the year 1998. Trivia, charts, quotes, and an inset section of full-color plates embellish this informed and informative, "reader friendly", and highly recommended survey guide to the weird and wonderful weather workings.


What Price Paradise? (The Timeshift Trilogy, Part 3)
Published in Paperback by PublishAmerica (14 October, 2002)
Authors: Phillip Ellis Jackson and John William Galt
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Very interesting, well tought and well written
We here in scifi-stories.com just finished reading the last book of this TIMESHIFT trilogy 'What Price Paradise?' and it is very interesting, well thought out and well written. The one that will definitely intrigue you until the end. We can't recommended it enough. For this last book Phillip Ellis Jackson teamed up with author John William Galt, an award winning movie talent, screenwriter, and actor.

In the third book of the Timeshift trilogy we find Elias Putnam discovering a way to send a jumper (what time travelers are called) back in time. Keith Maravich is sent back to save Alicia York and her mother from being murdered, believing that this could fix the calamities mankind has caused.

Carson Gilmore, Keith Maravich's friend, is sent back on a mission to stop Maravich from changing the past. In the middle of the desperation that mankind finds itself in the future, Maravich believes he will do good by affecting the past, bringing the scenario of changing events from the past that could cause irreversible consequences and an uncertain future.

This book is never boring and all connects together very well.

When finishing this books we now wonder, with what new ideas will Phillip Jackson come up with next? We have become his fans as a 'story teller' just as we know many of those that will read these books.


The World's Greatest Buildings: Masterpieces of Architecture & Engineering (Time-Life Guides)
Published in Hardcover by Time Life (1900)
Authors: Henry J. Cowan, Ruth Greenstein, Bronwyn Hanna, John Haskell, Trevor Howells, Deborah Malor, John Phillips, Thomas A. Ranieri, Mark Stiles, and Bronwyn Sweeney
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Great Guide to the world's greatest architectural designs!
This book is indeed a masterpiece and it is great for someone who is studying to be an engineer or is interested in architecture. It is fantastic and has everything from the Lovely Louvre to the palace at Petra, from the Great Golden Gate to the construction of the Chrysler. It shows fine examples of art deco, modern, classical, Greek, Muslim etc. architectural wonders. It not only explains and shows the construction of these great buildings, but for certain buildings it also shows their plan, it's legends, along with information about who built it, why did they build it, whom did it build it for, when was it built, and where it is. It also has sections showing the greatest styles of architecture ever used along with a series of historic sites in the world. All in all this is a fantastic and very useful guide to the masterpieces of Architecture and Engineering.

-------------------------AHMED MASHHOOD--------------------------


Charlie Calvert's C++ Builder 3 Unleashed
Published in Paperback by Sams (09 June, 1998)
Authors: Charles Calvert, John Phillips, Charlie Carvert, and Charlie Calvert
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An excellent book that covers just about everything
This book covers just about everything that a C++ Builder programmer is ever likely need.

It starts off with the simpler stuff but the chapters I was particularly interested in covered the creation of components. I was not disappointed; indeed, the information on Property Editors literally rescued my project.

The book is massive, with extra chapters on CD ROM. However, it is written in such a way that each chapter is self contained and you don't have to read it all to benefit from it.

This book should is likely to become the C++ Builder Bible.

Absolutely a masterpiece
Not a book for beginners, but absolutely the best book in my library. Every of the amazing number of examples is accompanied by a simple, elegant example which illustrates it so well. I've read this book twice already. If you know C++, it covers everything you need to know to program Builder.

Great book covering many in-depth subjects.
A great book that really covers Builder. An excellent source for database and active x development within builder. Examples are clear, clean, and to the point. I recommend this book to all users of builder.


Your God Is Too Small
Published in Hardcover by MacMillan Publishing Company (1953)
Author: John B. Phillips
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The Second Half is Better
I picked up an early edition of this book at a used book sale recently. I had heard of Phillips, but had not read any of his writings. Unlike an earlier reviewer, I enjoyed the second half of the book much more than the first. I am a C.S. Lewis fan, so I am already quite familiar with the "destructive" views of God which are briefly examined in the first half of this book. But, the second part of the book in which the "constructive" view/feel for God is explored is, in my estimation, good and original stuff. [I liked that Phillips used the word "stuff" so I thought I'd add it here.] Like Lewis, and unlike so many of the more modern Christian writers, Phillips can certainly "turn a phrase". He writes so well that it makes his constructive vision of God, in the person of Jesus, come alive and convince. Christians should share/mention the book when evangelizing; non-Christians should read it to see that God is big enough to handle their questio ns and criticisms.

This Book Saved My Life!
I first read this book fifteen years ago as a utterly miserable fundamentalist Christian. I was caught in a terrible dilemma: wanting to walk away from my rigid, dysfunctional beliefs, but unwilling to trust anyone who wasn't a believer to show me the way. Along comes J.B. Phillips, well-known Christian author, and expresses things I was terrified even to think! The first half of this book is devoted to demolishing destructive views of God. Phillips can be as unsparing at this as Nietzsche or Feuerbach. Especially shocking is his section entitled "Pale Galilean." The second half of the book attempts to rehabilitate the Biblical view of Jesus and to make his sayings palatable to modern readers. It's a heroic effort, but not a successful one, I think, because it fails to take account of modern Biblical criticism. In spite of its faults, this book freed me from fear and set me on the road to exploring the truth, a road that I walk to this day.

Wrestle with your conception of God
Do you struggle to understand why God didn't answer your prayer?
Are you convinced that He will like you more if you do the right things?
Or do you think God is a lovable papa bear in the sky who only wants you to be happy? Reading Phillips' classic may disturb you into a proper understanding of the real and living God, a mystery whose ways are higher than our ways, whose thoughts are unfathomable.

In this pocket-sixed book, Phillips deals with incorrect ideas about the God of the Bible. He's not a cosmic policeman or a divine grandfather. Neither is He a bellhop, a tottering old man, nor a fire-breathing despot. He is a God who loves the world for His own glory and calls everyone to repentance for their sins against Him. Does that fit your understanding of God? If not, you may be deceived. Don't let yourself exist with a God too small for your life.
Read this book. Come to know the infinite Almighty.


Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults
Published in Paperback by Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) (2002)
Author: John Neal Phillips
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Good to the Last Page
This is the story of a criminal in the 1930's who was part of the Barrow gang, and whom we've previously heard little if any about. Though a good part of the book is about his time spent with Bonnie and Clyde, it's also about his own career in crime and the atrocities of the Texas prison system of the era. The book is well written and also very well researched. The author is to be applauded for his extensive list of resources. Mr. Fults, the ex-gang member, does put a sympathetic spin on Barrow and Parker. But he was there, and he got to know them in a different way than a lawman or reporter. The book contains some good photos, many which were new to me. Well done!

Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph
Great book! There are footnotes all throughout the book to let the reader know where the author got his information. It reads like a novel yet the information seems a little more acurate than most nonfiction books since most of his writings come directly from interviews with the ones involved. Since the book was published all of the people involved are dead, so this is the end of the personal information. After reading this book one can understand why this couple went so wrong, and why they are America's most notorius outlaws.

Must Read for all Bonnie & Clyde Enthusiasts
I admired the lengths the author went to to assure historical accuracy of the book. Accuracy pertaining to Bonnie & Clyde were of high importance to me. The author at the same time should be credited for bringing out the human element in it as well. I was touched very much by Ralphs Fultz life as well. The way he turned his life around after all he had been through is astonishing and nothing less than miraculous. Fultz' work to stand up against the corruption of the prison system and spread the word to help others from following the same road were admirable. I found that I was inspired over all by the story.

I was also pleasantly surprised by the number of photos in the book as well as several maps outlining movements of the key individuals involved.

It would be my profound pleasure to one day shake the hand of the author that painstakingly put this work together.

Ajila


The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness
Published in Paperback by Del Rey (1996)
Authors: H. P. Lovecraft, John Jude Palencar, and Barbara Hambly
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Fascinating Tales for Collectors and Other Freaks!
This collection of stories by H.P. Lovecraft apparently was put together for hardcore collectors, but it does have many treasures for those who are just beginning to discover his work. The book begins with several "Early Tales" from Lovecraft's formative period. Some go as far back as his teenage years. In these early stories Lovecraft was still nailing down the style that would later become so influential. Unfortunately some of these tales aren't very good, especially the very predictable "The Beast in the Cave," and the others are high on stiff prose and low on ideas. So this early stuff is a real treasure for collectors but may be a struggle for everyone else. However, once you get over that hurdle, this book starts to pick up steam with a steady supply of fascinating and freaky tales of horror and the supernatural. As the title indicates, most of these short stories contain people going mad, and you may be wondering about your own sanity at the end. Highlights include the Frankenstein-style tales "Herbert West-Reanimator" and "Cool Air." My favorites appear toward the end of the book, with the sci-fi style "In the Walls of Eryx," in which Lovecraft shows a surprising flair for conceptual science fiction. The mini-novel "At the Mountains of Madness" may be Lovecraft's all-time best - a masterpiece of occult history that leaves you with a very spooky feeling afterwards. For those who are just discovering Lovecraft: while you're reading the stories, sometimes you'll find yourself struggling through his dense, slow-moving prose (which hardly ever contains dialogue), and his obscure references to the occult. But once you put the book down, and the stories work their way to the back of your mind, you'll start feeling creeped out. VERY creeped out.

Typical Lovecraft mixed with less known works.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft ... a writer who has been granted both respect and contempt over the decades, the founder of a school of purple prose-laden horror that has, despite critical approbation, not only survived but thrived in book and cinematic form. New devotees join the cadre of writers who have continued various aspects of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, and Lovecraft himself has had a cinematic avatar in two made-for-cable alternate universe movies, and never mind the rock band named after the man himself (or the growing collection of music based on or inspired by his work.)

Del Rey have been releasing a series of Lovecraft collections in trade paperback, each one with a new introduction and a handful of macabre illustrations. This volume is set up as something of an overview, hence the title, and features not only well-known tales such as "At The Mountains Of Madness" but a selection of early (and more derivative) pieces, a poem that reads like congealed Coleridge, and several collaborations, including a notable adventure produced with the aid of Harry Houdini and a science fiction tale that takes a horrific turn.

The Transition Of H.P. Lovecraft makes a fair introduction to Lovecraft's entire body of writing, but if the mythos is more of interest, then the better choice would likely be the earlier The Dream Cycle Of H.P Lovecraft, though "At The Mountains Of Madness" and "Herbert West - Reanimator" should not be missed.

--Steven McDonal

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I highly recomend this book. It combines classic lovecraft stories (such as "At the Mountains of Madness") with some of his lesser known classics (like "The Shunned House" and "The Street")
I think that this book in conjunction with "Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft" and "Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H.P. Lovecraft" could be the definitive (although by no means complete) Lovecraft
collection.
Some of the stories are rascist, but with Lovecraft's background, what else would you expect.


Guitar for Dummies
Published in Paperback by For Dummies (1998)
Authors: Mark Phillips, John Chappell, and Jon Chappell
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Lots of great information but you still need lessons
I got myself a Fender Stratocaster and have been taking guitar lessons. I also bought this book. It's a great book to pick up a lots of great hints and has a wealth of good information about buying and caring for an instrument. However, this book does not replace lessons. For exzample, even though charts show you the proper fingering for the various chords, you need lessons to show you the proper positioning of you hand in order to be able to actually play the chord. If you are holding the neck of the guitar wrong, many chords are very difficult to play. Another example.. bending strings! The book can explain it but it sure is a lot easier to learn when you have a teacher showing you and practicing with you. On the other hand, the book shows chord progressions you can pick up and other techniques that, in conjunction with your lessons, you can learn. I recommend the book as a great supplement to lessons. A main reason for my recommendation is that the book is well written and is interesting to read. The fact that it can hold your interest makes it easier to learn than if the book were dry and technical in it's approach. However, I much less strongly recommend the book as your sole method of learning to play guitar. It can be done but not nearly as well as with a teacher guiding you along.

Great Starting Point
I, too, bought a new Fender and this book. I wanted to sit down and learn some basics and see if I enjoyed playing guitar before going out to lessons. This book was probably the best at getting you playing the guitar as any I have looked at. The authors really zoom in on the important aspects of starting to play the guitar as well as adding some of the theory behind why and how things are done. After using this book for about a month, I was able to play recognizable tunes for people. This book got me to that point so fast, I really fell in love with playing and I have started taking lessons. The book propelled me way past beginner status so the lessons I'm taking are actually "more bang for my buck" and I'm playing real songs after only 2 lessons. I would recommend this book to any beginner who wants to learn the basics at their own pace. This is a must have for anyone starting out.

Great, great beginner's reference!
Guitar for Dummies is the epitome of learning tools for the guitar. This is the undisputed king of all guitar books.

If you're anything like me, you've given up the guitar multiple times because learning it has always been so boring. Most lame books always start you off with notation reading. Those books teach to read music. Not PLAY music. That's what makes this book so great. You'll be playing Kumbaya within minutes. Not Mary Had a Little Lamb after 4 hours.

The CD that accompanies the book is invaluable. It gives you the ability to track your progress against a recorded version of the song. It's simple and easy to use.

The best part of the book to me is the section on barre chords and power chords. If you have the patience to make it to this section, you will never put the guitar down again. That's because all of a sudden you can play nearly every song you've ever heard.

I highly recommend this book to anybody who wants to learn how to play guitar. Once you've studied the book for awhile, the rest gets easier and easier.


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