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Built from the ground up on our new understanding of the universe, this reader-friendly book focuses on central ideas and unifying themes to provide a cosmic context. Scientific concepts are linked to everyday experience to help readers develop an appreciation for the scientific method and to see how physics and astronomy are foundations for understanding their world, and recent discoveries spark readers' curiosity in the universe as a whole. The book opens with an overview of the evolving universe to give readers a big picture that is returned to throughout the book. Departing from the traditional planet-by-planet facts and figures, the book emphasizes the similarities between planets by exploring connecting processes, as well as the evolving vision of galaxies and dark matter. For college instructors and students, or anyone interested in astronomy and physics.
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Poor quality paper and binding.......2005-09-25
It is a sad day when you have to pay almost $100 for a paperback book with very thin paper. Of course as is now current practice to keep a student from getting decent resale on this item the publisher glue CD ROMs to the front of the book that once used will no longer have a valid code. The glue used to stick in the disks comes off so pages stick together.
The content of the book is fine. The quality of the binding, paper and packaging leaves a lot to be desired.
Best Textbook Ever!.......2005-02-17
This is the best textbook I have ever read. Not only is it informative, but the authors give the information in an interesting way. My entire class agrees that the best line is "we like to refer to Jupiter not as a failed starm but as a very successful planet."
A Quality Text Book.......2003-12-16
I'm not an astronomer. I'm not even a scientist. I'm just a 2nd year college student that just finished a semester of astronomy for her science requirement. None the less, after reading the majority of this book, I do feel that I'm in a position to be able to review it properly.
The beginning was a bit confusing for me, but once I read more, I began to understand the majority of the material presented. It's a very, very thorough text with excellent cd-rom resources that help you test yourself and review. I thought the chapters on the planets, particularly the jovian planets, and star formation were particularly well written and easy to understand. This is a great text for anyone wishing to teach or study astronomy. I would highly recommend it.
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Here at a last is a new novel in the great tradition of grand adventure tales, the likes of which have seldom been seen since the works of Robert Louis Stevenson. This epic adventure is the story Nick McIver, a lad who sets out to become 'the hero of his own life'.
The setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war. Nick and his sister Kate live in a lighthouse on the smallest of the Channel Islands. Nick, Kate and their father are engaged in a desperate war of espionage with the German U-boat fleets that are circling the islands prior to invasion. The information they provide daily to Winston Churchill is vital as he tries to warn England of the imminent Nazi invasion.
In a surprising twist, Nick discovers an old seachest sent to him by his ancestor, Captain Nicholas McIver of the Royal Navy. Nick returns to the year 1805 via a time machine and help save Captain McIver and, indeed, Admiral Nelson's entire fleet from the treachery of the French and the mutinous Captain Billy Blood.
In the climactic sea battle with Captain Blood, Nick's love of the sea, and his feats of derring-do, indisputably prove his courage and heroism.
His sister Kate, meanwhile, has enlisted the aid of two of England's most brilliant detectives, Lord Hawke, and Commander Hobbes, to thwart the Nazis. They prove themselves more than a match for England's underwater enemies, when they discover the existence of Germany's super-secret experimental submarine.
In the end, Nick and Kate prove themselves heroes in the eyes of two of England's greatest warriors: Admiral Nelson and Winston Churchill.
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A must read!.......2007-06-27
If you liked Ted Bell's "Hawk" series, you'll LOVE "Nick of Time". I was hesitant when I first ordered this book, since I'm usually disappointed with the early works of authors when they are released after a successful series. This certainly wasn't the case here. Not only was "Nick of Time" a lively tale that kept me drawn in from page one, it also provided an interesting background for the "Hawk" series. If you've enjoyed his work thus far, then "Nick of Time" belongs on your shelf!
Swashbuckling for Juniors.......2007-05-08
Twelve-year-old Nick McIver loves his idyllic life on Greybeard Island, the smallest of England's Channel Islands. He spends his days on his little sloop, the Stormy Petrel, exploring the coastline and mapping reefs with his little sister Katie. Their father is the lighthouse keeper at Greybeard Light, and their happy family lives there. Nick's father Angus has a secret hobby, though. He's a "birdwatcher," scouting the Channel for German U-boats and airplanes, and reporting to Winston Churchill, in direct violation of orders from the government.
One day while out exploring in the Stormy Petrel, Nick and Katie come upon a sea chest in the sand, bearing the name Nicholas McIver, which was also the name of an ancestor of theirs. A mean red parrot sitting on the chest bites Katie and flies off, and Nick hides the chest in a cave for exploring later because the weather is getting ugly. On the way home, the storm drives Nick and Katie to stop in a nearby pub where the owner, Gunner, will give them hot tea. The red parrot is there, sitting with a menacing pair, Billy Blood and Snake, a thug with red snakes tattooed on his face. After frightening Gunner and the children, they disappear. When Nick's dog Jip is kidnapped by Billy Blood the same day his parents are called to London, they ask Gunner to watch the children, and Nick convinces him to go with him to the cave to collect the sea chest, Blood's ransom for his dog. Once they retrieve the chest and begin sailing for the rendezvous with Blood, an encounter with a German U-boat leads them to mysterious Hawke Castle, where they defy security measures and gain an audience with Lord Hawke, the castle's reclusive owner, whose own children have also been kidnapped by Billy Blood. They open the sea chest with the help of Hawke's close friend Hobbes, a high-ranking British admiral, to find a time machine and a note from Nick's ancestor, Captain Nicholas McIver, who needs help in a sea battle against Billy Blood 130 years earlier.
While Nick, Gunner, and Lord Hawke travel back in time to battle Billy Blood, Hobbes and Katie sail for London to deliver the information Nick collected on the German U-boat to Winston Churchill, and they soon find themselves captured by the Germans. Both Hobbes and little Katie have to use their wits to not only survive, but outsmart the Germans, while Nick, Lord Hawke, and Gunner combine their abilities to assist Captain McIver in his battle against Billy Blood, as well as rescuing Jip, Hawke's children, and a whole brig full of kidnapped children and pets.
Though enjoyable for all readers, this book would be an excellent choice for a preteen. The violence and language are mild, and its protagonist is 12 years old. The story is told mostly from a kid's perspective, too. I liked the dual adventures against fearsome adversaries in both 1939 and the distant past. Though not as globe-hoppingly exciting as his Alex Hawke adventures, this was a pretty good page turner a kid could especially love.
smitty.......2005-09-25
I have read Ted Bell's novels prior to this one and even tho i thought it might have been written for a junior I felt that it was highly enjoyable. The enjoyable action was there but it did not have the female relationships that Lord Hawke had in his exploits, as I felt the later novels were meant for a more mature readership.
"This adventure story has it all!" - Writer's Digest.......2003-11-06
From its striking dust cover art to its beautiful binding and print, this middle-grade adventure story has it all: boats and the sea, pirates, castles, Nazis, and time travel. It has everything a young reader could want. The writing is crisp, clear, and practically flawless. Description and scene setting put the reader in the middle of things where he or she is immediately drawn into the adventure with the leading characters, Nick and Kate. As the story progresses, more and more actors are sprinkled in until a full host are moving the story faster and faster forward toward a roaring climax. Action never stops in the great novel which rivals Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island in size and scope. The author covers this book's sometimes rapid point of view changes with seamless transition and skill seldom seen in a beginning writer.
"OUTSTANDING IN EVERY WAY!".......2003-10-28
This book is an absolute gem! A great read for young or old or both and should be on every child's bookshelf. Very much in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson but written with a modern reader in mind. The hero, young Nick McIver is 12 when he discovers his father is spying on the Nazis for Churchill. The year is 1939 and war looms. Through a series of exiciting events, Nick and his sister Kate join forces to discover the secrets of an experimental German U-boat and, in a delightful twist, Nick comes to the aid of his ancestor who sails under Lord Nelson. Splendid rip-roaring tale and too bad they don't write them like this anymore!
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- The essence of Hemingway is here
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No writer has been more efficiently overshadowed by his imitators than Ernest Hemingway. From the moment he unleashed his stripped-down, declarative sentences on the world, he began breeding entire generations of miniature Hemingways, who latched on to his subtractive style without ever wondering what he'd removed, or why. And his tendency to lapse into self-parody during the latter half of his career didn't help matters. But In Our Time, which Hemingway published in 1925, reminds us of just how fresh and accomplished his writing could be--and gives at least an inkling of why Ezra Pound could call him the finest prose stylist in the world.
In his first commercially published book (following the small-press appearance of Three Stories and Ten Poems in 1924), Hemingway was still wearing his influences on his sleeve. The vignettes between each story smack of Gertrude Stein, whose minimalist punctuation and clodhopping rhythms he was happy to borrow. "My Old Man" sounds like Huck Finn on the Grand Tour: "Well, we went to live at Maisons-Lafitte, where just about everybody lives except the gang at Chantilly, with a Mrs. Meyers that runs a boarding house. Maisons is about the swellest place to live I've ever seen in all my life." But in the "The Battler" or "Indian Camp" or "Big Two-Hearted River," Hemingway finds his own voice, shunning the least hint of rhetorical inflation and sticking to just the facts, ma'am. His reluctance to traffic in high-flown abstraction has often been chalked up to postwar disillusion--as though he were too much of a simpleton to make deliberate stylistic decisions. Still, nobody can read "Soldier's Home" without drawing a certain connection between the two. Returning home to Oklahoma, the hero finds that his tales of combat are now a bankrupt genre:
Even his lies were not sensational at the pool room. His acquaintances, who had heard detailed accounts of German women found chained to machine guns in the Argonne forest and who could not comprehend, or were barred by their patriotism from interest in, any German machine gunners who were not chained, were not thrilled by his stories.
If we are to believe Michael Reynolds and Ann Douglas, this passage reflects the author's own dreary homecoming as a member of the lost generation. It's also a fine example of a surprisingly rare phenomenon, at least at this point in his career: Hemingway being funny. --James Marcus
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THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS
When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three Day Blow," and "The Battler," and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose -- enlivened by an car for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart.
Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature, In Our Time provides a key to Hemingway's later works.
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THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three Day Blow," and "The Battler," and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose - enlivened by an car for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart. Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature, In Our Time provides a key to Hemingway's later works.
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The essence of Hemingway is here .......2007-09-05
It is not true that Hemingway would go on to create works better than some of the stories in this work. In some of these short pieces we have the essential Hemingway, the best that he has to give. In fact his whole picture of the world, the emphasis on 'grace under pressure' the devastating effect of war and violence, the presentation of a kind of code hero, above all the simplicity and beauty of the language are here.
This is the beginning of Hemingway but it is also the essence and the best.
Hemingway's Sketchbook.......2007-07-12
Reading the assembled vignettes and short stories of In Our Time, "Hemingway's American debut," is like taking a look at an artist's working sketches that eventually evolve into masterpieces. The reader finds all of the usual denizens of Hemingway's world: anglers, ex-patriates, toreadors, soldiers, men and women who are in love, and those who have fallen out. And, of course, Nick Adams. In these tales, Hemingway demonstrates the superfluousness of semicolons and the superiority of spartan sentences for which he is famous.
While it isn't my favorite of Hemingway's works, it makes a good sampler for those wishing to get short doses of Hemingway, especially for those whose only exposure to Hemingway was reading The Old Man and The Sea in high school.
In Our Time.......2007-04-30
This is a fine collection of (exceedingly) short stories that deal with existential themes: nature, alienation, and death. In between the stories Hemingway includes even shorter vignettes of cruelty. Brief comments on the stories (with some plot spoilers) follow:
"On the Quai at Smyrna" - An American encounters casual cruelty among the Turks and Greeks during World War I.
"Indian Camp" - Nick Adams and his father, a scientific man who is quite detached from other people, visit an Indian camp where his father performs a Caesarian without anesthetic. While he performs the operation, the baby's father kills himself by cutting his throat with a straight razor.
"The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" - Nick's mother is revealed to be weak willed and self-deceiving, and we are not too surprised to learn that Nick prefers his father's company.
"The End of Something" - The adolescent Nick ends a relationship with a girl. Before the end comes, Hemingway provides a typically economical but touching depiction of Marjorie, his girlfriend, as they row across a lake with their lines in the water: "She was intent on the rod all the time they trolled, even while she talked. She loved to fish. She loved to fish with Nick."
"The Three-Day Blow" - Nick and his friend Bill drink quietly in front of a fireplace during a storm - they are just learning to drink - and later disregard an important gun safety precaution.
"The Battler" - Nick encounters a damaged former prizefighter.
"A Very Short Story" - (Well, they almost all are.) An American develops an affection for an Italian nurse and expects to marry her, but she loses interest after the end of the war.
"Soldier's Home" - A young man returns home after World War I, disillusioned and alienated.
"The Revolutionist" - Not really a story at all but a very brief character sketch of a young communist traveling through Italy after World War I.
"Mr. And Mrs. Elliot" - A young poet supposes himself to be a superior sort of person but turns out to be ordinary.
"Cat in the Rain" An American wife tries to rescue a kitten from the rain.
"Out of Season" - A young man wants to go fishing but then decides not to.
"Cross-Country Snow" - Nick Adams and a friend go skiing in Switzerland and find it to be a very satisfying experience.
"My Old Man" - A man's father dies in an accident, tragically, since his son knows that he is crooked.
"Big Two-Hearted River: Part I" - Nick Adams returns to his home ground for a solitary camping trip.
"Big Two-Hearted River: Part II" - He goes fishing too.
Hemingway's Concept Album.......2007-01-13
"In Our Time," the first published work of fiction by Ernest Hemingway, reads like a sketchpad at times, notes toward a novel. In fact, the seeds for two of Hemingway's earliest novels, "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell To Arms," can be found here, but "In Our Time" works better than either of those classics when it comes to showing why Hemingway mattered, and still does.
Hemingway is a writer prized for his economic writing style, and he doesn't get more economical than here. The stories in this collection sometimes run just two or three pages, and are broken up by even briefer story nuggets that read like brushwork haikus.
Included are three of Hemingway's most celebrated shorts, "Soldier's Home," "Indian Camp," and "Big Two-Hearted River," but while these and a couple of others ("The Battler" "My Old Man") are gripping enough read alone, they really come alive here in tandem with "In Our Time's" other stories and anecdotes. The mood of "In Our Time" seems more important than any message, and is certainly easier to discern.
First published in 1925, "In Our Time" expresses a world-weariness typical of the generation that came home from the First World War, "The War To End All Wars," to find their glorious dreams and beliefs shattered. Cynicism was a newer thing in Hemingway's time, and harder for his generation to digest. Presenting himself in slightly fictionalized form as one Nick Adams, Hemingway looks backward to moments of nausea in his youth, bitter breakups and parental failures, before dealing with how the war itself left him shattered. Sometimes the lens of the book moves to characters other than Nick, but it never leaves aside that spirit of disillusion and loss.
"He did not want any consequences," he writes of Krebs, the protagonist of "Soldier's Home." "He did not want any consequences ever again."
Hemingway writes beautifully and sparingly throughout "In Our Time," showing generations of writers how much more effective an idea can be when a writer leaves it to a reader to work it out. No story better illustrates his singular command than "Big Two-Hearted River," an elegy and grace note in two parts for all that comes before, as Nick recaptures a sense of peace fishing for trout on a river. It's one of the longest stories, and may seem aimless to a first-time reader as it focuses on the nitty-gritty of Nick's routine, but the more you read it, the more drawn in you become, until you feel like you are on that river with Nick, plucking black grasshoppers off the tall grass.
People say Frank Sinatra did the first concept album with "In The Wee Small Hours," but it seems to me Hemingway had him beat by some 30 years with these tone poems of stunning narrative craft.
Why not have it all?.......2006-05-24
If you're looking for an introduction to Hemingway's shorter works, I'd recommend getting the whole collection at once. Even anthologized, the complete short stories don't make too large a book, and you'll have a much better range of work to peruse. Some of Hemingway's favorite works (The Snows of Kilimanjaro, A Clean Well-Lighted Place, The Light of the World) and some of the most frequently referenced in high school and college lit classes (Hills Like White Elephants) are not to be found in this slimmer volume. While this book represents Hemingway's important debut, you can achieve the same understanding of his first stories by reading them chronologically from an anthology.
A complete anthology also provides something that this collection of early work does not explore in detail: Hemingway's obsession with "sea change" and gender-bending. This is a major theme in his life and writing that challenges most readers' conception of him as ultra-masculine.
If you're sour on Hemingway because this is your only taste of his writing, I'd urge you to check out some of his later works, which are more stylistically his own, and also perhaps more accessible.
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In this pathbreaking philosophical work, Elizabeth Grosz points the way toward a theory of becoming to replace the prevailing ontologies of being in social, political, and biological discourse. Arguing that theories of temporality have significant and underappreciated relevance to the social dimensions of science and the political dimensions of struggle, Grosz engages key theoretical concerns related to the reality of time. She explores the effect of time on the organization of matter and on the emergence and development of biological life. Considering how the relentless forward movement of time might be conceived in political and social terms, she begins to formulate a model of time that incorporates the future and its capacity to supersede and transform the past and present.
Grosz develops her argument by juxtaposing the work of three major figures in Western thought: Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Henri Bergson. She reveals that in theorizing time as an active, positive phenomenon with its own characteristics and specific effects, each of these thinkers had a profound effect on contemporary understandings of the body in relation to time. She shows how their allied concepts of life, evolution, and becoming are manifest in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Luce Irigaray. Throughout The Nick of Time, Grosz emphasizes the political and cultural imperative to fundamentally rethink time: the more clearly we understand our temporal location as beings straddling the past and the future without the security of a stable and abiding present, the more transformation becomes conceivable.
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A good piece of work with more potential.......2005-04-06
I first became interested in this book after seeing it in a bookshop. Having read some Darwin and a fair bit of Bergson I was interested. It is rare indeed nowadays to see any work at all on the concept of time in any other form than the typical linear classical physics/relativity idea. This posits time as something that either acts as a medium through which matter moves or in the case of relativity as another dimension much like the three known space dimensions. In both cases time is strongly spatialised i.e. thought of in the same way that space is.
Time is of course strongly linked to change whether it is the idea of change prevalent in ancient times e.g. Plato and Aristotle, Heraclitus or the more modern versions used in science. Grosz has studied time's presence through three well known figures Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson. Darwin's concern was how organisms evolved over time, Nietzsche how the human being uses the "Will to Power" to become more and Bergson was interested in both. That is in how organisms evolved and what duration (time) actually is, especially in comparison to space.
Grosz analyses all of them in turn. She does something unexpected with Darwin, she suggests that natural selection is in fact a positive "force" rather than a purely negative influence on species. I did not find myself believing this, it makes more of natural selection that it is originally posited to be. In turn she considers the ideas of Nietzsche who did foresee Bergson to some degree in that he proposed "The Will to Power" which can be recognised a little in Bergson's elan vital. Finally she discusses Bergson's ideas on time/duration, evolution, intelligence, instinct and so on. She studies Bergson far more deeply than either of the other two.
She also relates these concepts to politics especially those of feminism, racism and other forms of political struggle. Her discussion of Bergson is deep and she understands his work well. At times I found myself impressed at her whole grasp of Bergson's issues. She locates a kind of complete whole within his work which eluded me. I had read Creative Evolution, Time and Free Will and The Creative Mind but have not as yet covered Duration and Simultaneity or Mind-Energy.
I find that she takes the most from Bergson and relates it at the highest level to much else in our current cultural and political reality. However I did not feel convinced by her study of Darwin and the earlier parts of the book felt a little disjointed. Some parts, especially those on Bergson flowed well together. A good piece of work with more potential.
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By the famous Big Reel columnist: the story of serials from Universal's 1930 The Indians Are Coming to Columbia's 1956 Blazing the Overland Trail. Fifteen fascinating chapters explain the importance of cliffhangers to the industry as audience builders and product leaders. The serials provided training for actors and served as a technical university for people who later made the television industry work. An appendix lists in order of release all of the sound serials from 1930 through 1956, showing titles, releasing companies, chapter titles, directors and several cast members. Superb photographs.
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Hurry Up and Read This Book.......2002-08-21
Great reference book. Concentrates on the people who made the serials rather than the serials themselves. One fifth of the volume is devoted to Filmography listing serials released from 1930 through 1956 as well as background information. Excellent index. Fantastic photos from films. Some typos. Don't read this volume until after you see the serial as the secret identity or plot twist is sometimes given away. Appreciation of the motion picture serial is greatly enhanced after reading this monograph.
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Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity (Comedia)
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MediaSpace explores the importance of ideas of space and place to understanding the ways in which we experience the media in our everyday lives. Essays from leading international scholars address the kinds of space created by media and the effects that spatial arrangements have on media forms. Case studies focus on a wide variety of subjects and locales, from in-flight entertainment to mobile media such as personal stereos and mobile phones, and from the electronic spaces of the Internet to the shopping mall.
MediaSpace contains both theoretical overviews and a geographically diverse selection of current research. Of primary interest within media and cultural studies, it will also prove necessary reading for geographers, sociologists and anthropologists concerned with issues of space and media.
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Combining humor with strong argument, Page analyzes how worship song writers have bought into a disposable, "pop-song" model; how they have filled their songs with a kind of semi-Biblical code and how songs suffer from poor technique and a lack of specialist lyric writers. Above all it encourages writers to really think about the words of their songs and whether they really communicate truth about God—truth that should lead to worship.
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Embarassingly acurate.......2006-04-05
The book is very funny but embarassingly acurate. Many of my associates think that anything goes when it comes to worship, and I, too, acknowledge that there are times for unrestrained emotionalism.
But the "meat and potatoes" of church music worship should be grounded in proper syntax and truth. Over the years, evangelicalism has been dumbed down to a level likely unrecognizable to generations past. Not that it has to be the reason to criticize bad poetry - but as a comparison.
Nick Page rebels in a funny and articulate way that would make any level headed worshiper nod in agreement.
Good thoughts.......2005-08-03
Despite some UK-isms, this is very fine contribution to the question of quality worship music that is written and chosen to be sung by worship leaders. It is a very thoughtful critique, with an abundance of tongue-in-cheek humour sprinkled in. I feel there is a needed corrective to the abundance of thoughtless choruses that are produced today. Page advocates for the hard work and diligence that should accompany the writing, production and overall craft of worship. I think this book should be required reading for worship leaders and music pastors in order to keep a freshness to the question of what will best contribute to bring the congregation closer to God's presence while in keeping with good theology and an excellence in construction (melody, meter, etc..) I only give it a 4.5 instead of a 5 because of the slight diminishment of applicability beyond the UK - but this is slight and can easily be overlooked.
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- Once Upon a Time
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Once Upon a Time.......2007-02-02
This book is so CUTE! One of my 2nd grade students brought it in to share. The kids took turns changing the story and then reading thier version to the class! This is a great book for inspiring imaginations!! It is a great book for a center!!! The illustrations are bright and beautiful. The writing is clear for children to read. They absolutely loved it!!!
Delightful book offers much more than just a story.......2004-11-22
My daughter Amy (who just turned 5) has really enjoyed this book. It's printed on sturdy stock, with cheerful colors made even more vibrant by the glossy finish. When Amy first received it, she enjoyed punching out all the figures and insterting them into their matching slots. There isn't much of a plot, but this is fine because the text is simple enough for preschoolers to memorize, and for early readers to handle on their own. Tonight we had to read the book six times in a row, so that Amy could try a variety of different "stories." This book is definitely a great value!
Entertaining, interactive and interesting.......2003-11-12
There is something unique and special about this book. As a volunteer who reads one-on-one to preschoolers, I have observed that, when choosing from an array of age-appropriate books, the children, boys and girls alike, invariably choose "Once Upon A Time" as the story they want to hear first. They love being able to make the choices that will make "their story" unique. They expand their vocabulary as they learn to identify unicorns, dragons, and tree houses. They can add to their early reading skills by naming the letters or even reading the words on the cut-out pictures. They learn that when the story is over, it's best to return the cut-outs to their well-marked places so they'll all be ready for the next reading of the story. And, perhaps most importantly, the story becomes a backdrop for thought-provoking conversations such as, "what would YOU wish for if a "magic duck" granted you three wishes?"
This book goes far beyond its fairly simple story and concept. I wish there were more interactive books of this genre for this age group.
PRINCESS FUN.......2002-07-03
Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess storybook that changed every time a child opened it. This short-and-sweet candy-colored board book comes with 36 press-out pieces that let you choose a different picture for each spread, thereby changing the story each time it's read. Because it's really half story and half game, it provides interactive possibilities that never end. It's an absolutely perfect fantasy book for little girls age 3-6 in the throes of the imaginative "princess phase." Learning to read doesn't get any better than this.
Book Description
Food And Drink, Everything's On Me All To Celebrate The Fact That I'm Free
Attorney Fiona Daniels admits it: she married "Mr. Wrong." Newly divorced, she's determined not to make the same mistake twice. To celebrate her newfound freedom, she throws a divorce party where she announces to her best friends and her sister that she's a DFL (divorcee for life).
Fiona may talk the talk, but can she walk the walk? At the very same party she meets chef and restaurateur Nicholas "Nick" Nathaniel, a maple syrup man who's so sweet Fiona can't resist a taste, a bite, and a delicious one-night stand...that soon becomes two nights...and more...
Although Fiona insists her sizzling affair with Nick is a non-relationship, she's about to discover sex always has strings--and the heart is a very fragile thing. In fact, this smart lady lawyer may have to learn a tough lesson about betrayal, forgiveness, and the redeeming power of love before she can grab the right gold ring...
Customer Reviews:
Loved It!.......2007-03-31
This is one of the best books I've read in a long time. San Culberson is a refreshingly new and welcomed voice. I can't wait to read her next offering.
BEST "chick lit" read of the year!.......2007-03-22
Got men problems? Join the club of women who have had their hearts broken. Regardless of how strong we think we are, no one is ever ready to find out that their man is cheating on them. After suffering through a year long separation, Fiona Daniels finally got her signed divorce papers.
With feelings of joy, she recruited her best friend, Nicole, to help her plan a "DFL - divorcee for life" party. Fiona spared no expense and invited 27 of our closet friends to celebrate with champagne, catered buffet, and private room. She shed her dressed to impress attorney façade for the evening and partied like there was no tomorrow. During the clean up phase of this soirée, she noticed the handsome cater. Drunken Fiona threw caution to the wind and invited him home for a one-night stand. Fiona acknowledged that the sex was hot and Nicholas "Nick" Nathaniel was FINE (frog hair split three ways fine) but in no way was she becoming involved in a serious relationship.
Nick is a divorcee, master chef and restaurant owner with two kids. He is a free spirit with a passion for expensive gifts and good food. Fiona captivated him while her mean spirit and her funky attitude made him even hungrier in the chase to win her heart. The friendship between the two gets complicated when Fiona realizes who her sisters new man is - waking up the ghetto side of this otherwise refined sister. She temporally loses touch with reality which may cause her to lose everything - her position at the firm, the love of her mother, and her new man friend - Nick.
THE NICK OF TIME is a story that rings true for so many sisters today. Culberson draws the reader in with humorous dialogue, theatrical twists, and the understanding that sex always has strings. Unquestionably, the BEST "chick lit" read of the year. Don't sleep on San Culberson because her pen flows with page turning action that will carry you through the full gamut of emotions.
Deltareviewer
Reviewing for Real Page Turners
Never Say Never.......2007-03-07
Attorney Fiona Daniels has signed the divorce papers and is ready to celebrate her newfound freedom. She has a new attitude and has vowed to never marry again. Dating and no-strings attached sexual relationships are her motto. In San Culberson's debut novel, The Nick of Time, Fiona the gay divorcee finds life has a strange way of being the opposite of what you expect. At her divorce party, Fiona sees a handsome man cleaning up the mess. Instead of going home in the cab her best friend put her in, Fiona had the cabdriver return her to the restaurant so she could scope out the potential candidate for a no-strings attached sexual romp. Nick Nathaniel is more than happy to satisfy Fiona, however a one-night stand is not what he has in mind. He knows Fiona thinks little of the janitor she picked up, but what she does not know is there is much more to him than meets the eye. He could be the one that makes her forget her vow. .
As Culberson develops the romance between Fiona and Nick, there are other sub-plots that make for exciting reading. Fiona and her sister Ramona have never been closed but now that they are both divorced, they decide to work on their relationship and become close, until her sister betrays her. Fiona and her mother have a love/hate relationship. Fiona did not understand her mother, until moms explained to her motherly obligations, though you love your children, you might have to treat them based on their personality and temperament. I would put this novel in the category of Chick Lit. The Nick of Time involves a single, successful female, with a best friend and a rocky budding romance and a complicated life turning things around. There is just enough romance, humor and conflict to make a good read. . Fans of the "Chick Lit" genre and those looking for a funny romance will enjoy this offering.
Jeanette
APOOO BookClub
I've Got a New Attitude.......2007-03-03
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fiona Daniels is determined not to be that fool again. After the betrayal of a cheating husband, she promises to be a DFL (divorcee for life). Up goes her guard and sealed shut is the door to her heart. On the night she's celebrating the official exit of one man in her life, another man makes an unofficial entrance. Has he arrived in the nick of time? Can he save Fiona from herself?
I loved it! The Nick of Time is a dramedy filled with the perfect balance of drama and humor. As the story spirals towards its climax, readers' emotional attachment to the characters is strong. I loved the witty banter that characterized the relationship of Fiona and Nick. Fiona's mother was a riot. The writing in this novel is wonderful. San Culberson deftly sustains a lively pace while remaining true to her characters. San, I like your spunk and flare. The Nick of Time is well worth the read. I look forward to San's sophomore novel and hopes she revisits the Daniels family one day soon.
Time Heals All Wounds.......2007-03-03
Fiona loves throwing a good party, especially a divorce party. Being single is a way of life she is planning on enjoying. Even though she is hurt by her ex-husband's tackiness and his cheating ways, Fiona is prepared to become the vixen she knows is inside of her.
While Fiona begins to enjoy her newfound happiness, her sights are set on the most handsome man cleaning her after-party mess. Knowing that this could help her break into her one-night stand debut, Fiona is willing and ready to make Nick her conquest.
Dealing with an ex-wife, two children and a restaurant keeps Nick busy. Not really having the time or patience to deal with uncertain women of today, Nick throws himself into his many responsibilities and obligations.
Seeing the beauty of Fiona on the outside while she continues to party with her friends, Nick also enjoys the beauty he knows is inside this feisty woman and is not ready for just a one night stand.
In The Nick of Time will have you laughing, crying and falling in love with the characters. Fiona's mother is so funny that I had to read her parts over again. I will have to get some sweet and sour pig feet really soon.
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