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The third edition of Pumping Station Design continues the award-winning tradition of previous editions. Written by 44 authors with expert input from 141 other contributors for manufacturers, utility managers, design engineers environmental engineers and all involved in the design of pumping stations, this book provides expert information. Understanding is given to the various disciplines important to the design and execution of reliable, easy to operate, low maintenance pumping stations. The depth of experience and expertise of the contributors and editors is unparalleled making this book the standard guide for the implementation of a well-integrated pumping station design.
Pumping Station Design, Third Edition is essential for professionals who will apply the fundamentals of various disciplines and subjects in order to produce a well-integrated pumping station which will be reliable, easy to operate and maintain, and free from design mistakes.
Inappropriate design can be costly and there simply is no excuse for not taking expert advice from the pages of this book!
* An award-winning reference work that has become THE standard in the field
* Dispenses expert information on how to produce a well-integrated pumping station that will be reliable, easy to operate and maintain, and free from design mistakes
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* New material added to this edition includes: the latest design information, the use of computers for pump selection, extensive references to Hydraulic Institute Standards and much more!
Customer Reviews:
Excellent book for the project engineer! Hard to enhance.......2007-07-24
One of the most comprehensive books in the area I have ever seen. I like its approach with guidelines of how to use it depending on the type of user.
It combines advices on mechanical, civil and electrical aspects obtained on years of experience of the authors (more than 100 specialist from the academy and industry).
A huge effort fron the editors. If you like the subject and want one bible-like book, this is it!
Great Reference.......2007-01-15
A great reference book that deals with all design aspects related to pumping stations. Furthermore, there is extensive information concerning procurement and commercial issues. The book is clear even when it goes into detailed information and should be considered as a must have for every engineer working in this field.
Pumping Station Review By Straeffer Pump.......2007-01-03
The book is informational and a great asset in our business. It has become an essential tool used daily to help us in our day to day functions in the office.
This was a difficult book to find and we were glad Amazon.com could fullfill our needs.
Fully covering.......2004-05-28
The Sanks' Pumping Station design is a mile stone in its field.
Having every aspect covered, Sanks has not only designed his book in a way that is easily readable for the field related people but also made it a basic reference for the people on the management side of it.
Owning such a book is a knowldge in itself !!!!
Excellent!.......2000-12-01
One of the very best engineering texts that I have run across in my career. Exceptionally clear, comprehensive, and practical.
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And this makes sense why?.......2007-08-27
So, if I'm to believe this book, I'm supposed to let my teenager (17 yr. old step-son)do whatever he wants. Whenever and however he wants. With no consequences. While I just cover my eyes, plug my ears and let him run wild? Pretend he's not being an abusive, entitled, disrespectful, disobedient, unruly, unlawful, dishonest monster? Can you say Anarchy?
When I hit the part where it blames the parents if their kid steals from them, because they *gasp* had the audacity to leave their own belongings out in their own house...it was time to toss it in the trash. This one could have been written BY a teenager. It's a perfect "how-to" book for getting away with murder (figuratively, of course.)
How is letting the kid run wild, with no fear of consequences, no guidance, no advice, preparing that kid for the real world? Sure, if kids actually LEARN from their mistakes, it's a wonderful thing. But when there's no consequences, what can they possibly be learning? And before somebody jumps in and tells me getting kicked out of school or getting arrested will teach them anything...let me ask YOU...is it the school's or the police's job to raise our kids? Or is it OURS?
I raised two teens myself, NOT in this manner, thank goodness. And they're both now happy, well adjusted, educated, contributing members of society. While on the other hand, my husband's ex raised their kids THIS way...ignored them and let them run wild. They've ended up with a compulsive liar, who also steals and does drugs, and a shoplifting pot smoker, who also lies daily. One can't hold a job to save his life, the other is mean and abusive. Why? Because they CAN. Nobody cared enough to teach them it wasn't OK to act like that.
This book (in my own humble opinion, of course) is a big 'ol cop-out for parents who don't want to put in the hard work raising their own kids.
A new perspective.......2005-11-20
This book helped the situation with my 17 yr old son. A lot of what is in this book goes directly against everything I've ever thought about parenting and it was scary for me at first, but I was desprate and we've had some positive changes because of these techniques. It took a few months, but he's back in school (he was ditching frequently), passing his classes (he was failing them all) and coming home on time every night (he was usually late or wouldn't come home at all). Basically, I've been trying to parent my teenager as if he were still a child. This book helped me to understand that it is natural for teenagers to become independent and, in fact, becoming independent is what they are supposed to be doing. The problem has been that I have been trying to direct my son to go in what I see as the right direction, and so the only way he can feel independent is to choose something different than what I want, even when that means making bad choices. Instead, this book advised me to let him find his own choices, within the boundaries of not taking advantage of me. It was scary, and I had my doubts (I felt like I was copping-out, giving up, taking the easy way out, etc) but this book has definitely helped our situation. Plus, now I feel like a person again instead of a warden.
Thinking back to when I was a teenager, I don't think there was any amount of intervention/ restriction/ punishment/ behavioral contracts/ trips to rehab that would have stopped me from doing what I wanted to do. I always found my first response to anything my parents wanted was to reject it totally and then think of reasons to support the rejection afterwards. I was a bad kid, but not because of bad parents or emotional distress...it was just my way of growing up. This book effectively addresses that mindset. Very insightful.
restore your sanity -- great parenting book!.......2005-02-06
This is probably the most helpful book on parenting I have ever read. I gave up on parenting books about 5 years ago when I realized the cookie-cutter approaches were not easily applied to my (and my son's) non-cookie-cutter lives! I purchased this book based on a review of a different book, where this book was recommended instead. I am really glad I did because from the very first exercise, it improved my whole outlook on my life with my teen.
The authors suggest to read the book through cover to cover first, then go through it chapter by chapter, working the exercises. I'm about half-way through the first read and I have already used many of the exercises (unofficially) to help me put things into perspective, regain sanity when teenage craziness is in full swing and have even used it in dealing with my ex-husband (who often acts like an adolescent!).
I have a great kid and a great life. This book helps remind me of that and also to know that I am not alone!
Only self-help book that ever helped.......2004-03-18
My ex-wife and I read this book almost 20 years ago, when our two kids were teenagers. Our daughter, the eldest, was acting up (and out)--breaking curfew, staying out, experimenting with different substances, generally going through a volatile adolescence--normal "individuating," it turned out (thank God), but it was driving her mother and me crazy because we lived apart and both worked full-time. Two employed adults are no match for one teenager intent on getting her way. We were at the end of our tethers trying to keep tabs on her. Somehow we found out about HOW TO DEAL WITH YOUR ACTING UP TEENAGER. We both read it, decided it made sense and was worth a try, and had a family meeting with both our kids. We told them we wanted to try a new way of parent-kid relations that basically boiled down to, mutual respect. When we told them we were going to stop trying to control them--ground them, harass them about schoolwork and grades, etc.--they looked at us suspiciously. Was this some kind of trick? Some sort of parental sting operation? No, no, we assured them, we were on the level. And it worked. Our daughter stopped driving us crazy, we stopped driving her crazy, and relations improved. I can say unequivocally that this is the only self-help book that has ever actually helped me (and I've read a few). I recommend it without qualification. The authors, as I recall, were parents themselves as well as psychologists, and brought both their practical and academic experience to bear. Bless them both. I still tell people about this book when I hear about problems with adolescence, and am glad it's still available.
MY highest praises for this one.......2002-07-26
A wonderful book for moms and dads who are wondering how their kids got so out of control...MAYBE its been your approach. Robert and Jean Bayard offer up a very loving parenting approach. Im giving this to my husband to read and then I'm going to read it a second time. One of the most intellegent books I have read on the subject.
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- Thrillers don't get any better than this one!
- Strange format (all dialogue in form of written communication), overly long, interesting denouement
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From the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy comes an ingenious tale of murder and revenge, featuring a retired New York City detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe.
At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope just off the parade grounds. An apparent suicide is not unheard of in a harsh regimen like West Point's, but the next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has stolen into the room where the body lay and removed the heart.
At a loss for answers and desperate to avoid any negative publicity, the Academy calls on the services of a local civilian, Augustus Landor, a former police detective who acquired some renown during his years in New York City before retiring to the Hudson Highlands for his health. Now a widower, and restless in his seclusion, Landor agrees to take on the case. As he questions the dead man's acquaintances, he finds an eager assistant in a moody, intriguing young cadet with a penchant for drink, two volumes of poetry to his name, and a murky past that changes from telling to telling. The cadet's name? Edgar Allan Poe.
Impressed with Poe's astute powers of observation, Landor is convinced that the poet may prove useful—if he can stay sober long enough to put his keen reasoning skills to the task. Working in close contact, the two men—separated by years but alike in intelligence—develop a surprisingly deep rapport as their investigation takes them into a hidden world of secret societies, ritual sacrifices, and more bodies. Soon, however, the macabre murders and Landor's own buried secrets threaten to tear the two men and their newly formed friendship apart.
A rich tapestry of fine prose and intricately detailed characters, The Pale Blue Eye transports readers into a labyrinth of the unknown that will leave them guessing until the very end.
Customer Reviews:
Thrillers don't get any better than this one!.......2007-09-29
Incredibly well-written and exceedingly clever (plus, the best opening line in years). You will not be disappointed.
Strange format (all dialogue in form of written communication), overly long, interesting denouement.......2007-08-11
The story has Poe as a "fourth-classman" (a plebe) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York
in the year 1831. (In real life, Poe did attend the Academy in 1831 but was expelled for neglect of
duty before the year was out.) In this book the murder of a cadet has taken place on the
Academy's grounds for which the Academy's superintendent calls in a former police detective
from the New York City force, now retired and living in a small village near West Point, to find
the killer. Not only was the cadet murdered by being hung from a tree, but his heart had been cut
out and taken away. Two other murders under the same circumstances follow.
Because the young Poe is described in the novel as something of a weirdo given to scampish
behavior, the detective, whose name is Gus Landor, soon makes his acquaintance and (with the
reluctant acquiescence of the Academy's superintendent) enlists him as a junior aide in solving the
murders.
There is merit to much of the novel. Providing an authentic atmosphere to a special place at a time
175 years in the past--in this case, the Military Academy at West Point in 1831--by a present-
day author is not easily done. Bayard does well in this respect. He also makes the detective
Landor into an unflappable fellow--a trait which allows him to keep his cool when engaged with
some of the military brass and their hidebound attitudes. (Likewise, as a widower, Landor has no
trouble accepting the sexual favors of a buxom barmaid who lives nearby.) However, with Poe,
the author is a bit less successful in projecting his character--he at times stretches too far in
making him a roguish devil-may-care upstart.
But the book does have its shortcomings. The first is its length--in my opinion, 414 pages is far
too long for detective fiction; I prefer no more than around 200 pages. There is a lot of filler
(numerous encounters between various characters that add little to the flow of the story) that
could better have been excised. However, scanning many of the pages to skip over the filler, but
yet keep track of the story, was fairly easy.
Another fault is that the entire story consists of written reports, letters, testaments, etc. by
Landor and by Poe: "Last Testament of Gus Landor April 19th, 1831" (the opening chapter),
"Narrative of Gus Landor November 1st to November 2nd", "Report of Edgar A. Poe to
Augustus Landor November 16th" are examples. To have characters going through an entire
story just writing such texts (although conversations are reported in the texts) strains the credulity
of the reader.
The denouement comes in two parts. So as not to give away the endings, I can only say so much
about them. The first part is very much third rate--it could have come from one of Edgar
Wallace's stories or from a Stephen King potboiler. The second part, however, is interesting. It is
in the same style as a particular one of Agatha Christie's whodunits, which was criticized by some
critics but which I liked.
An enjoyable mystery..........2007-08-10
In general, I enjoyed this book quite a bit. I thought it was suspenseful, intriguing and well written. I did find it to be a tad "wordy" and maybe 50 pages too long, but my interest never wavered and I was surprised by the nice little twist at the end. I've always been partial to mysteries set in the past and this didn't disappoint. A four star recommendation.
Absorbing historical mystery.......2007-08-07
A cynical cop investigating a murder in 1800s West Point Military Academy gets Cadet Edgar Allan Poe as an assistant. Sometimes wordy but absorbing. Longer review available at my website the Impatient Reader. See My Amazon profile for URL.
Murder at West Point.......2007-07-20
Most Poe fans are aware that the poet spent a short time at West Point, before being court-martialed and dismissed. This author's plot takes place during that brief time, and involves Poe in helping a retired New York City detective to solve one murder, which eventually evolves into two. The writing is crisp and the plot moves along quickly. The author has captured as well as possible the unusual nature of Poe, and all of the other main figures are extremely well-drawn. This is an exciting mystery, with a twist at the end. Not everyone in the book is actully what they appear to be, and even a close reading doesn't necessarily help the reader in atempting to solve the murders. An exciting read, and one I highly recommend!
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William K. Harvey was the CIA’s most daring and successful field operator during the tense, early days of the Cold War. Extremely intelligent, a dedicated martini drinker, coarse in manner and appearance, both loved and hated, he was larger than life. But just as Harvey reached his zenith, fate and personal flaws caused his swift, dramatic downfall. Bayard Stockton provides a rich portrait of the man, including accounts from Harvey’s family, friends, and former CIA colleagues who have never spoken publicly before.
Harvey’s intelligence career began at the FBI, where he hunted Nazi spies. After running afoul of J. Edgar Hoover, Harvey went to the fledgling CIA in 1947. Harvey’s CIA successes included the unmasking of Soviet spy Kim Philby and masterminding the famous Berlin Tunnel that tapped Russian communications. The pinnacle of Harvey’s career came as chief of both ZR/RIFLE, the agency’s political assassination operation, and Task Force W, the group targeted on Cuba. But Harvey was in constant conflict with Bobby Kennedy, who micromanaged operations against Fidel Castro. Harvey profanely insulted the president’s brother during a tense meeting, which led to Harvey’s reassignment to Rome. His alcoholism worsened in Italian exile, and he was forced to retire. He became a nonperson.
However, Harvey resurfaced during Senate hearings in the 1970s. When his supervision of the plots to assassinate Castro was revealed, many labeled Harvey the epitome of CIA excess. Harvey’s continuing friendship with Johnny Rosselli, a Mafia figure who had helped the CIA with Cuban operations, opened further questions as some—most notably Robert Blakey, former chief counsel to the House Subcommittee on Assassinations—linked Rosselli to JFK’s assassination.
Flawed Patriot cuts through the rumors and inaccuracies surrounding Harvey to show a brilliant but flawed man who was undoubtedly one of the most talented and imaginative officers in the agency’s storied history.
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A tough read.......2007-05-07
There's a lot of great info in this book, but unless you're REALLY into FBI/CIA/Bill Harvey, it's very dry reading. It jumps around a bit, but if you persevere, you'll find some interesting tidbits here and there.
A Brilliant Title.......2007-02-02
This book has a brilliant title. Bill Harvey was indeed a Patriot. And he certainly had flaws. His drinking was a problem from early in his life and combined with smoking was at least partly responsible for the heart attacks that killed him at the relatively early age of 61.
He was also not exactly what you would call a team player. He was fired by J. Edgar Hoover for breaking regulations. His relationship with Robert Kennedy might best be called hatred. While he did some brilliant work, like identifying Kim Philby as a KGB agent and the famous tunnel into East Berlin, his relationship with the Mafia and rumors about being involved in the JFK assassination are not the sort of things that help get promotions within an organization like the CIA.
This is both an interesting biography of a full fledged master spy, and a history of the early days of the CIA and the Cold War. The author worked for Harvey in Berlin for two years before becomming a journalist and now a biographer.
The CIA Legend part is correct.......2007-01-23
Flawed Patriot has a great topic in Bill Harvey. The author's direct knowledge seems to be based on Harvey's career in Germany . The research of the late Mr. Stockton of much of the career of Bill Harvey appeares flawed. The drama of Bill and CG's adoption of a daughter in Germany is in line with what they told my wife and me in Rome,Italy in the mid 1960s. The events surronding Bill's return to Washington from Rome are not fair and complete and appear to be based on interviews that lack some of the facts.
Based on my personal knowledge and my research as an intelligence scholar and professor, Flawed Patroit does no justice to the pioneering work of Bill Harvey in clandestine collection, covert action and technical intelligence operations. In my opinion, Bill Harvey ranks amond the Top Ten Clandestine Service Officers in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.
A true American patriot deserves better than this........2007-01-16
Bill Harvey was a larger-than-life secret agent who bull-dogged his way through the corridors of power in WW-11 FBI (where his sin of not being instantly available to take Herbert Hoover's telephone call cost him Napoleon's blessings), the OSS and eventually the CIA.
The apotheosis of Harvey's career was conceiving of and managing the digging of the Berlin Tunnel in 1953--an audacious wire-tap of 172 telephone cables just over the border in East Berlin. Before the author gets to telling us this story, he foreshadows it many times as if he's already told it. When he does tell it, the tale is vague and incomplete. Little of the extreme tension is conveyed that this major espionage coup created among the band of agents who carried it out, and none of the exultation.
Harvey was an anomaly in the rising intelligence community. Just like those other genius mavericks--General Billy Mitchell, General George Patton, Col. Charlie Beckwith--he bucked his superiors to get things done, and like them, he was undone by the iron law of all bureaucracies-- that fealty is much more important than results. His resentment at Bobbie Kennedy's ultra micro-managing of the Bay of Pigs fiasco certainly contributed to its failure. It certainly scuttle Harvey's career. Yet what politician has ever learned the harsh lesson that others' are better at their jobs than they are--so let them do their jobs?
A serious 3-martini luncheon schmoozer, Harvey was adroit in finding and attracting talented cohorts. He built up highly loyal groups in spite of the usual internecine infighting that is the hallmark of all operational organizations. In the end his drinking got the better of him, and he was cast off like all such "failures."
This author (deceased) needed a rigorous editor to get his house in order. The work is a mish-mash of anecdotes and commentary, all presented in no particular order, as if a massive re-ordering of chapters had been undertaken at the last minute. Names appear out of nowhere as if we had already been introduced. Too bad. Bill Harvey was a true American patriot; he deserves better than this.
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"The Mysteries of Chris Van Allsburg";
November 20, 2004-March 13, 2005.
"Through a Glass, Darkly", by Jane Bayard Curley.
Catalog Design by Rita Marshall,
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From "Acknowledgments," by H. Nichols B. Clark:
"Like his mentor Maurice Sendak, Chris Van Allsburg proves through his highly imaginative work that children enjoy material that may prove unsettling to adults. In "Jumanji" (1981), for example, the monkeys pillaging the kitchen are not the lovable characters typified by Curious George. Throughout his oeuvre, Van Allsburg propels his reader in and out of reality and, as Jane Curley points out in her essay, looks to earlier traditions for inspiration. His admiration for the German Romantics -- early and late -- combines the hermetic stillness of Caspar David Friedrich with Max Klinger's penchant for the bizarre to produce what the artist himself terms a 'gentle surrealism.' "
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Tiny Tim is back! No, not the squeaky-voiced troubadour who tip-toed through tulips in the 1960s, but the original--Timothy Cratchit, the crutch-wielding tyke from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Only now he's a "mostly able-bodied" 23 years old, resides in a London whorehouse in exchange for tutoring the madam, struggles to wean himself from financial dependence on his ancient "Uncle" Ebenezer Scrooge, and, as we learn in Louis Bayard's darkly enchanting historical thriller, Mr. Timothy, is haunted by the spirit of his late father--a man whose optimism and strength the son feels himself incapable of imitating.
When we first encounter Timothy, during the Christmas season of 1860, he's vexed by the discovery of two dead 10-year-old girls, each branded with the letter "G"--one found in an alley, the other fished from the Thames River by Cratchit and a voluble old salt who makes his money by finding (and then robbing, of course) errant corpses. Timothy's concern leads him to protect a third possessively marked waif, the frightened and suspicious Philomela--who, he soon realizes, is being sought by a knife-loving former Scotland Yard inspector and a moneyed, malevolent voluptuary. When, despite precautions, Philomela is kidnapped by her pursuers, Cratchit--assisted by a shrewd warbling urchin known as Colin the Melodious--resolves to fulfill his "great calling" in life by mounting a rescue. However, this mission will force the habitually uncourageous Timothy to not only defend himself against sexual molestation charges, storm a well-guarded mansion, and solve the puzzle of a coffin-filled basement, but also engage in a nightmarish final chase along London's docklands.
Authors employing real-life characters as detectives are often hampered by their adherence to historical fact. Bayard suffers no such limitations in imagining what fates awaited Dickens's now-famous fictional figures. Under his pen, Scrooge--whose rooms are decorated for Christmas year-round--becomes an eccentric collector of fungi and host to an interminable stream of charity solicitors, while Timothy Cratchit strikes out beyond his lonely young man status to become the head of an unconventional clan. Bayard's appreciation for the lurid exoticness of Victorian London rivals that of John MacLachlan Gray (The Fiend in Human), while his lyrical prose subtly suggests 19th-century influences. Mr. Timothy is at once a compelling Christmas crime yarn and an audacious literary endeavor. No humbug there. --J. Kingston Pierce
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Welcome to the world of a grown-up Timothy Cratchit, as created by the astonishing imagination of author Louis Bayard.
Mr. Timothy Cratchit has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London's underbelly. He boards at a brothel in exchange for teaching the mistress how to read and spends his nights dredging the Thames for dead bodies and the treasures in their pockets.
Timothy's life takes a sharp turn when he discovers the bodies of two dead girls, each seared with the same cruel brand on the upper arm. The sight of their horror-struck faces compels Timothy to become the protector of another young girl, the enigmatic Philomela. Spurred on by the unwavering enthusiasm of a street-smart, fast-talking homeless boy who calls himself Colin the Melodious, Timothy soon finds that he's on the trail of something far worse -- and far more dangerous -- than an ordinary killer.
This breathless flight through the teeming markets, shadowy passageways, and rolling brown fog of 1860s London is wrought with remarkable depth and intelligence, complete with surprising twists and extraordinary heart.
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It's the Christmas season, and Mr. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent ""Uncle"" Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London's underbelly. He boards at a brothel in exchange for teaching the mistress how to read and spends his nights dredging the Thames for dead bodies and the treasures in their pockets.
Timothy's life takes a sharp turn when he discovers the bodies of two dead girls, each seared with the same cruel brand on the upper arm. The sight of their horror-struck faces compels Timothy to become the protector of another young girl, Philomela, from the fate the others suffered at the hands of a dangerous and powerful man.
A different kind of Christmas story, this breathless flight through the teeming markets, shadowy passageways, and rolling brown fog of 1860s London would do Dickens proud for its surprising twists and turns, and its extraordinary heart.
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Customer Reviews:
Excellent.......2007-08-30
I was a little apprehensive about reading MR. TIMOTHY, but after reading THE PALE BLUE EYE, a book I enjoyed quite a bit, I decided to go ahead and read this one. I found this book to be even more enjoyable.
Kudos to Bayard for having the guts to take such a beloved classic character and place him in a situation that we as readers could never contemplate him being in. Bayard does a great job of describing Tim's life in 1860 London and his descriptions are detailed enough without being over-bearing.
Unlike THE PALE BLUE EYE, which I thought was just a bit too long, this book gave me everything I needed in the story and my interest never wavered. I can't wait too see what Bayard has in store for us next.
Entertaining follow-up to an old story (with a twist) (and, please don't read the Editorial Reviews, they are a spoiler).......2007-04-11
Hopefully, you have not yet read the editorial reviews for this book. If you haven't, please don't do so. They share too much of the story, and are almost a spoiler.
As you might know, the title of this book comes from Timothy Cratchit, the Little Timmy from Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Timothy is now a 22 year orphan and lives independently. He is not the cheery little kid from years ago, but kind of a bitter young man. Ebenezer Scrooge (known now as Uncle N), transformed by the Christmas incident of years ago, is a kind and caring old man, looking after Timothy and his siblings.
With this background, Mr Bayard develops a mystery thriller. By random reasons, Timothy finds the bodies of two dead girls. Led by the suspicion that both deaths are related, and trying to protect a mysterious third girl he mets, he sets himself to find out what's going on. Who is killing the girls? Why? How to stop him or her?
In summary, this is what this work is about.
What I liked about this book?
- It's a nice thriller. Not full of surprises but, in my opinion, solidly built. After a while you will not want to drop the book, you will want to get to the end and find out all about the crimes.
- It's a creative work that takes well-known characters from Dickens and builds a new layer of personality above them (or, putting it in another way, uncovers to the reader some aspects of the characters' personality that were not explored by Dickens)
- Mr Bayard has written it reflecting the language of the times. It creates an special ambiance for the book.
What is it that I did not enjoy?
- The first 80 pages required some extra effort on my part. It takes a while to get used to the language Mr Bayard used (which becomes a plus as the book builds the story). He also takes some time to set it up. As a result, it has a cumbersome and almost boring beginning. Get past through it, and the book becomes quite enjoyable.
I recommend this book to anyone that:
- Read A Christmas Carol and is open for a follow-up in which the characters have grown, gotten older and changed
- Wants to read a fine thriller
I only suggest you not to read it if you don't have the patience for the first 80 pages, or if you are not willing to see changes in the personalities of the old novel's characters.
Good read!
Too bad it's boring.......2007-03-13
The concept was good (and it certainly worked in Bayard's Poe novel). But after a half dozen chapters, I still couldn't care less about Tim. The prose tended towards the pedantic and the supporting characters were flat.
Far more than a mere gimmick.......2006-12-05
I confess that I bought this book because of the gimmick, i.e. Bayard's taking the characters of Dickens' Christmas Carol and then telling us what happened to them in later years. But on reading it, I was surprised and pleased to find that Bayard has produced a novel that is far more than a mere gimmick, showing us Dickens' so-familiar characters through a different perspective, fleshing them out in intruiging ways and then adding in new characters of his own. We see things now through the eyes of a very different Timothy Crachit, a young man who proclaims himself "Not so tiny any more, that's a fact" in the opening line, struggling both to find his way in the world and to define himself after having spent a lifetime of being defined by others, first by his father and later by Ebenezer Scrooge, whose "help" Timothy now desperately longs to escape.
Here Bayard shows his real mastery, delving deep into Timothy's psyche and showing us a character who sees himself as a character, trapped in narratives not of his choosing: "As a narrator, of course, I'm still feeling my way, but I do have quite a lot of practice being narrated." On top of everything else, Timothy is haunted by his recently deceased father, Bob Crachit, in a manner both original and compelling.
Added to these familiar ones are a cast of marvelously drawn new characters: Mrs. Sharpe, the brothel mistress who rents a room to Timothy in return for his teaching her to read Robinson Crusoe; Captain Gully, the boatman who dreams of Majorca (when he isn't cursing his neighbor's cats) and with whom Timothy occasionally goes trolling the river looking for bodies; the enterprising street-urchin Colin the Melodious who knows in his heart that Timothy cannot manage without him, and the resourceful young immigrant girl Philomela, around whom the mystery of the novel centers.
I cannot praise this book enough. It is much more than a gimmick or a mere mystery as it deals with issues of family - those we're born into and those we later make on our own - of identity, and of coming to terms with the ghosts that haunt us. And the cast of characters are truly memorable and will stay with you long after the read itself. Highly recommended.
A Sober, Haunting "Sequel" to A CHRISTMAS CAROL.......2006-08-12
This is truly one of the most unforgettable novels I've read in years. I first learned of it in a mini-review in an entertainment magazine. I wonder that it didn't get more press during its initial release, because this is a book that deserves its place on a shelf with the classics, including those of Dickens himself. I don't suppose it's giving too much away to say that Tiny Tim has lost his father Bob Cratchit, an initial irony that pervades the entire novel, while his benefactor, Scrooge (never referred to as such)remains alive. This is a Victorian murder mystery, a meditation on fathers and sons, and a deeply moving second act for one of the most adored fictional characters of all time. Highly recommended, and high time some trumpets blow to herald this fine piece of literature.
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Not everyone has a religion, but everyone has a worldview-that core set of beliefs through which you interpret your world. From music and media to professors and peers, you're exposed to different worldviews every day, and usually not from a biblical perspective. So how can you engage others in meaningful conversation if you don't know where they're coming from? Forget the doctorate-level jargon. Discussing worldviews doesn't have to be intimidating. This user-friendly book will help you understand where others are coming from-whether they embrace the Haunted worldview, Dueling Yodas, Omnipresent Supergalactic Oneness, WYSIWYG, or Designer Religion. Discover what these terms mean and how their worldview messages have crept into today's culture. You'll become a more confident, effective Christian representative in this increasingly pluralistic world.
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A HIGH QUALITY RESOURCE FOR REACHING THE GENERATION X-ERS.......2007-07-28
After having ministered daily for 17 years, providing Pastoral Care as a full time hospital chaplain, I find Bayard Taylor's book, "Blah Blah Blah" to be the most user friendly and rational approach to reaching well-educated 20 - 40 year olds for Christ. Bayard gives great tools to his readers ie methodology to identify another's world view by their basic conversation and a cogent address of differing world views through a very good layout, analysis, and rationale for holding Biblical "world view" in a post-Christian era. A very effective tool for witnessing and apologetics. Pastor Phil Jackson, Hospital Chaplain
Not another Blah book.......2007-02-20
As a seminary student, I've plowed my way through numerous theological books. In "Blah," Taylor provides a refreshing break by offering important information in an easy-to-read style.
Worth the read.......2007-01-20
This book isn't just for students. I work and do research at a university and, while this is obviously is not a full academic treatment of the subject, I found it to be very relevant to my own life and my understanding of others, particularly in the university setting. I think the book did a good job of organizing and categorizing world-view information, but I will probably need to read it once or twice again to more fully absorb the information within.
How to build, not burn, relational bridges........2006-12-10
Bayard Taylor's Blah, Blah, Blah: Making Sense of the World's Spiritual Chatter is one of the most important books that's come out in a long time. It's great for youth and college age people and it's even simple enough for recovering dumb jocks like me -- so it has to be a winner. As a public school teacher, Blah has been very useful to me in better understanding the world views of my colleagues and students. With some friends of long-standing, Blah has helped some really meaningful conversations blossom. The website is great, too!
Well Worth Reading.......2006-10-17
In the Introduction to her book Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey discusses the burgeoning Christian interest in the topic of worldview. "Just a few years ago, when I began work on that earlier volume [How Now Shall We Live?], using the term worldview was not on anyone's list of good conversation openers. To tell people that you were writing a book on worldview was to risk glazes stares and a quick change in subject. But today as I travel around the country, I sense an eagerness among evangelicals to move beyond a purely privatized faith, applying biblical principles to areas like work, business, and politics. Flip open any number of Christian publications and you're likely to find half a dozen advertisements for worldview conferences, worldviewinstitutes, and worldviewprograms. Clearly the term itself has strong marketing cachet these days, which signals a deep hunger among Christians for an overarching framework to bring unity to their lives."
It seems clear that what Pearcey says is true--the topic of worldview is gaining interest among Christians. I consider this a positive development, for when we understand worldview, we are better equipped to understand both ourselves and the culture we inhabit. Bayard Taylor's Blah Blah Blah is a book dedicated to worldview, and one aimed squarely at the teen and college crowd.
And what is worldview? It is a word derived from the German word weltanschauung which means "look onto the world." It describes, quite simply, a way of looking at the world. Every person has a worldview, which acts, according to Pearcey "like a mental map that tells us how to navigate the world effectively." A worldview can be derived from any kind of ideology or influence. It can be Marxist, Darwinian, postmodern, biblical, or just about anything else. Taylor says, "Your worldview is your frame of reference, the spectacles through which you see the world. Worldview is the biggest determiner of human behavior. You might say you believe on way, but your real worldview is revealed by what you do." Later he writes, "I'll be using the word worldview to speak of people's understanding of what is ultimately true and real about (1) the spiritual world, and (2) what it means to be human in this real world." He lists five points that are true of all people: 1) Not everybody has a religion, but everybody has a worldview. 2) A worldview begins with a set of assumptions that can only be taken "by faith." 3) Worldview assumptions are rarely acknowledged openly, questioned or challenged by those who hold them. 4) No worldview is totally open-minded; every worldview forces some narrowing of the mind. 5) Every worldview has strict and inflexible rules, or Absolutes, that must never be broken.
Taylor then introduces the "worldview zoo," six categories of worldviews that quite adequately encompass the range of worldviews which is, in reality, as large as the number of people on the earth. He arrives at the haunted worldview, the biblical worldview, the WYSIWYG worldview, the dueling yodas worldview, the omnipresent supergalactic oneness worldview, and designer religion. The rest of the book is dedicated to explaining these worldviews and to interpreting them. The weaknesses of the worldviews are exposed and the biblical worldview is shown to be the only one that can be consistent with Scripture. Ultimately, this book is about "laying the foundation and spinning a web for the Biblical worldview."
And, on the whole, I think Taylor does a good job. Worldview is not my area of expertise, but I do feel that he covered the topics well and did a good job of defending a biblical worldview. In fact, my only real critique would be that his understanding of "Christian" may be a good deal wider than mine. Thus his understanding of what can constitute a biblical worldview would also be wider. Still, this is seen in only a few short paragraphs and does not detract a great deal from the book.
Written and presented in a way that will appeal to teens and college students, but will not drive away adult readers, Blah Blah Blah covers an important topic. This book will equip Christians, and primarily young Christians, to deal with the culture around them. It will help prepare Christians both spiritually and mentally to face a world that is increasingly post-Christian.
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The Catalog (Kitab al-fihrist) by Ibn al-Nadim (d. 995 AD) is an index of all books written in Arabic either by Arabs or non-Arabs and contains ten discourses. The first six of them deal with books on Islamic subjects: 1. the Scriptures of Muslims, Jews and Christians with emphasis on the Quran and Quranic sciences; 2. grammar and philology; 3. history, biography, genealogy and related subjects; 4. poetry; 5. scholastic theology (kalam); 6. law and tradition. The last four discourses deal with non-Islamic subjects. 7. philosophy and the ancient sciences; 8. legends, fables, magic, conjuring Inc; 9. the doctrines of the non-monotheistic creeds; 10. alchemy. The author, a bookseller, often mentions the size of a book and the number of pages so buyers would not be cheated by copyists creating shorter versions. He refers often to copies written by famous calligraphers, bibliophies and other libraries and speaks of an auction and of the trade in books. In the opening section he deals with the alphabets of 14 people (Arabs and non-Arabs) and their manner of writing and also with the writing-pen, paper and its different varieties.
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One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring the struggle of African Americans to the forefront of a nation's consciousness. But despite his incontrovertibly integral role in the movement, the openly gay Rustin is not the household name that many of his activist contemporaries are. In exploring history's Lost Prophet, acclaimed historian John D'Emilio explains why Rustin's influence was minimized by his peers and why his brilliant strategies were not followed, or were followed by those he never meant to help.
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Excellent Reading! Dr. King Wasn't The Total Mastermind!.......2006-12-19
I just finished reading this book for my class on The Civil Rights Movement. I have say this book was very good. It gave me much insight into how the movement was more complex than what I was taught in grade school. If you're one of the people like I was who thought Dr. King was the total force behind the movement, you must read this book. You will become far more educated on how much of an impact this man was not only to the Civl Rights Movement, but other endeavors as well. It is sad how easily Rustin has been tossed aside because of prejudice of all things. But this is why it is important to have books like this one that educates and informs.
Excellent biography.......2005-08-05
Rustin's story is a curious one -- how is it that a militant Quaker pacifist, a man who chose to go to prison during World War II, is found defending Lyndon Johnson's Presidency in 1968? The answer lies in the various tragedies of the '60's: the vestiges of the Cold War that shaped American policies; Johnson's ability to commit to progressive domestic policies but inability to shake free of the worst of the Cold War mentality; the triumphs and the tragic splintering of the American Civil Rights movement; and perhaps in Rustin's personal tragedy, that of a gay, black pacifist whose biggest political obstacle was not found in the radicalism of his ideas but in his attempt to live his personal life as a gay man.
D'Emilo appears to capture all those elements of Rustin, and suggests both how Rustin shaped those political movements in which he involved himself and how they served to shape him.
My students generally all are familiar with Dr. King's speech at the 1963 March on Washington. With few exceptions, however, they have never heard of the two men who planned the March: labor leader A.P. Randolph and Rustin. D'Emilo's book serves to remind us of just how much an injustice it is that Rustin's role in the Civil Rights movement has been so much forgotten.
Anything ahead of the times has a hard time in its own time.......2004-12-09
Like many other people, I had not learned that 1963 March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin was also homosexual. Because Rustin lived in a time when homosexuality was stigmatized (and march organizers had believed public recognition of his homosexuality was not 'respectable' Rustin had to keep this portion of his life hidden in order to have impact at this event.
Rustin complied with the now-unthinkable directive because social justice had always been a passion.
Rustin's Quaker upbringing influenced his passion for social justice. In college, he became an organizer for the Young Communist League; he later quit when they advocated World War II participation. Rustin's strong sense of morality would not allow him to enlist in World War II, he believed that a sentence in the federal prison system was the only moral option.
Rustin began freedom riding with the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) as early as the 1940's. Although these people were ahead of their time on many issues, they could not accept his sexuality. Rustin later found employment with the War Resisters League (which in that era at least stayed neutral on the issue) but the experience undoubtedly stayed with him.
Fortunately, Rustin was able to later come out in the 1970's. Until his death he was open about his identity as a gay man. Discrimination was the problem, not his sexuality.
Today, we continue to see inadvertent consequences from the earlier decision to minimize Rustin's identity as a gay man. The allegedly liberal mass media has largely persisted in portraying GLBT issues as universally white, and gave substantial airtime to Alveda King, a niece of the late Martin Luther King who denounces homosexuality.
The mass media tellingly elects to ignore the public GLBT rights support of Jesse Jackson and Coretta Scott King, who recognize there are many more blacks like Rustin. We cannot work towards the world he had envisioned without acknowlleging his whole self.
A name restored.......2004-03-15
This biography is dedicated to the notion that Bayard Rustin deserves to be rememebered. John D'Emilio is persuasive in that regard. This is a scholarly work and it's well-written. The author does an excellent job of placing Rustin's life in context, showing where he fits in as a 20th century organizer and civil rights activist. It's a satisfying work.
A great historical document.......2003-12-06
An exhaustive biography of the often overlooked archtect of the civil rights movement. An espouser of Gandhian non-violence and a mentor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Rustin was a man of fierce convictions, openly gay in a time when to be so jeopardized even his basic freedoms.
D'Emilio records Rustin's life warts and all. He documents his numerous arrests for acts of civil disobedience, for being a conscientious objector, as well as on a morals charge.
However, it is the triumphs that are most exhilerating to read about. The March on Washington, as one would expect, is a highlight. Finally, and definitively, the credit for coordinating this event is attributed to Rustin. In the face of extreme opposition from the likes of Strom Thurmond and J. Edgar Hoover, Rustin staged an event of epic porportion and historic significance.
Rustin was one of the great unsung heroes of the last century. John D'Emilio's biography, with a cast of characters that reads like a who's who of the twentieth century, is a tribute to Rustin and a model of its kind.
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From cushions to cradle blankets, from kids’ clothes to a kimono, this wide-ranging reference by the author of last season’s Embroidery offers all the techniques needed to hand- or machine-sew clothing and home accessories.The designs in this wonderfully practical guide showcase a diversity and richness of material, forms, textures, and colors, and teach a range of couture skills, from the simplest to near-professional level. Comprehensive, detailed sections deal with supplies and fabrics, stitching points and buttonholes, assembling basic seams, stitching in the round, smocking, adding linings, and putting in fasteners and zippers. There’s advice on dealing with a variety of fabrics, and projects that work with mesh (a jersey shawl), velour (a jacket), braiding (a curtain loop), and more.
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