God's way to change those stubborn areas of your life that won't seem to change. This was written before Rick Warren wrote The Purpose Driven Life. It's worth reading. I've given it to both adults and teenagers to read. very clear.

Practical Photovoltaics is one of the finest, most comprehensive guides to the world of solar energy. The book starts with a beginer's course in solid state physical devices (which taught even an Electrical Engineer such as myself new things) and leads into the history of solar cell materials and procedures over the years. Next comes an in-depth discussion of the various types of materials, and how they are suited for different applications. He makes logical predictions about the future of some of these materials, and hints around at what new techniques scientists are starting to look at today.
In the appendix, he even describes how to assemble your own array of solar cells for those who wish to try a hands-on approach to learning.
Oh, yeah, one more thing: he has a decent list of recomended readings at the end of each chapter, allowing you to select topics that interest you to continue your reading.

Pyle and Pious do an excellent job of bringing together the proper corpus of primary documents to support their thesis that different institutions of power, especially the executive and less-so the judiciary, have not respected the constitutional confines placed on them. The two professors, through an erudite and relevant collection and commentary of source materal, including books, essays, and Supreme Court cases, make a strong argument. Moreover, the authors substantiate facts with source material and are neither implictly nor explicitly supercilious in their presentation of their commentary and sources. I personally recommend this book as either a text for use in an American Government class at the High School or college level in addition to a personal read for any one who has an acute interest in American political history.

"Everybody has to be somewhere," and Higley has located the social upper class. The use of Social Register and Zip Code data is a methodological stratagem. It eliminates much of the confusion between economic mobility and the enduring role of the social class that requires more than money for membership. If you live within a hundred miles of a city, you will want to know who those people are in the elegant downtown apartment towers with doormen, and behind the walls and fences of the mansions of the suburbs and exurbs. If you don't live within a hundred miles of a city, then how in heaven's name did you get on-line?

This short book was written by the great European photographer Brassai not long before his death in 1982. It has only now found its way into print in English, and what a gem it is. Beautifully translated by Richard Howard and featuring a gorgeous design, this is one of the best and most accessible books I've ever read about Proust. One can tell that Brassai had a great love for Proust's work--and he richly explores the writer's life in France in the early 20th century and his fascination with the new art of photography...and how the medium impacted Proust's work. Really, this is a special book and should appeal to anyone interested in photography, Proust, French culture in the first half of the twentieth century.

If you ever thought that purchasing was dull and that purchasing professionals had an equally boring task, then think again. All organisations are equal in one respect. Each one buys something, adds value to that which it has bought and then sells it on - hopefully with a profit. Most companies focus their activity on the cost of adding value and the sale of the finished product. Most focus only a small portion of their resources on what, where and how to obtain those goods on which they rely. Purchasing Power demonstrates the value of purchasing as a core business process and hands the reader the key to increased profitability.

This sensitive story about an adolescent's surprising, unfolding discovery of his father's motivation in a semmingly sordid past will leave the patient reader with one of the last quarter century's more moving-insight experiences. Clearly written, observant, fully believable, a must for Americans interested in truth..

This book provides much intriguing and fascinating information on the role of scent and smell over history. It's captivating to find the emphasis past cultures and time periods had on scent and smells - and how much of that we have lost. Particularly interesting are the sections on scent as it relates to seduction and magic. A bit "scholarly" but understandable and educational!

It's always "Terek region this, Terek region that," and not a word about the poor bastards in Chechnia! Sure, some consider them the "trailer trash of the trans-Caucus," but I find the Chechnians to be heartwarming, charming, and mirthful when they mispronounce the names of ethnic dishes. My feelings aside, I found King's book to be accurate, entertaining, and page-turning. You know, sometimes it's the forgotten stories from the backwaters of history that truly shine a narrowly focused beam of insight that brings the big picture into sharp focus on the wide screen of our modern political era. This is just such a book. Don't let the longish title (it's half as long as the book) fool you...this one wil hold your interest wher it should!

This is an extremely engrossing history of the (virtual) stranglehold the South maintained on the US government from the birth of America until the election of Abraham Lincoln. It is also on account of the efforts by post-war southern historians to cover up the central fact of slavery as the dominating motive in the South's wish for control. I first heard of this book when I read a (highly complimentary) review of it by James McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom. If you like McPherson's book, this will seem in many ways like a "prequel," filling in the story of the run-up to the Civil War in greater depth than McPherson could devote (though he did a great job on that, too). This book blows away alot of the "Gone With The Wind" fairy tales about the South before the war, and shows, convincingly and absorbingly, the Southern States' governments conscious (and for many decades, entirely successfull) attempts to maintain its slavery interests at the expense of the North and , of course, the slaves. When the South could no longer impose its will, it opted for war. Like McPherson's writings, Alan Nolan's Lee Considered, Thomas Connelly's The Marble Man and the writings of Gary Gallagher, this book helps do away with the "Moonlight & Magnolias" view of the South that was so prevalent up until the 1950's and, for some Civil War buffs, is the only reason for their interest. Too, Leonard Richards can write, so the reading of this book is a pleasure right up there with enjoyment of the argument. I think it will appear to all general readers interested in unravelling the complexities of the Civil War and our early history. Unlike so many awful books on the Civil War, this book is intellectually stimulating.