This book made me realise that we are raping the earth to mine crystals when found stones and pebbles contain the very minerals we want to use for magic and healing. It explains how to use ordinary stones in a comprehensive and highly readable fashion. It should be compulsory reading for anyone who collects crystals.

A delightful book. Well researched and full of insight into the magical properties of healing stones. Sue Phillips is to be congratulated on writing a book on a subject that has beguiled many people over the centuries. Well recommended.

This book was quite a thrilling ride! The reader goes through sorrow, surprise, and anger. It leans toward a mystery, but it has a enough suspense to keep you reading. You just can't put it down!!!!!!

This is a great book!! It has many suprises throughout the book that make it very interesting. This is a great, action-packed book!!

This luscious book amply attests to the affinity between art and mathematics, and does so in an unusual and striking way. Bertrand Russel once wrote: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty---a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." Russell's beauty is that of intangibles, as when mathematicians speak of an elegant proof, a beautiful theory. Ferguson imbues mathematics with another kind of beauty, accessible to everyone.

Ferguson's sculptures are attractive both in their shape and in their materials. This lavishly illustrated book exhibits them to advantage. The artist's comments on each piece, at the end of the book, are quite valuable; in spite of the mathematical nature of some of them, they convey a sense of personal intimacy.

A reality check for those of us who were brought up to think that mathematics is dry and esoteric.

I am very impressed by the usability of this book. The cross referencing footnotes really helped when flipping to different subjects or time periods. The index and biographical information really work well for me.

The organization of subjects is wonderful, inventions are arranged linearly within the subject chapter.

The information is concise and interesting. The illustrations, timelines and photographs were extremely helpful. This book is a great way to familiarize oneself with man-made technological progress.

If a higher rating were available, I would give it to this book. This is an illustrated history of human creativity with its primary focus on several hundred inventions. The range of inventions discussed extends from "stone axes to silicon chips." The book is lavishly, abundantly illustrated. Vivid and compelling graphics include artists' renderings, photographs, maps, and time lines of various eras, from "The Beginning of Civilization" (Chapter 1) until "The Shrinking Earth" (Chapter 35). The concluding chapter, "Into the Future", examines three driving forces: convergence, communication, and collaboration. The reader is then provided with an immensely useful Biographical Dictionary and Bibliography to pursue in greater detail subjects of special interest.

Without the illustrations, this book would still be a magnificent scholarly achievement. Lest you be deterred, I hasten to add that its narrative frequently reminded me of a novel such as Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth. What I have is a "Revised Edition" of a work first published in 1987. For me, as already implied, this is one of the most entertaining as well as one of the most informative books I have read in recent years. Trevor I. Williams is identified as the author; William E. Schaaf, Jr. with Arianne E. Burnette are credited wth the updating and revising of Williams' original material. For purposes of convenience, I shall refer to them as "the collaborators" and hope that no one takes offense.

The collaborators examine those inventions which had especially great impact on the societies in which they were introduced. These were inventions which, thousands of years ago, created new industries (eg agriculture, construction, and transportation) or transformed basic human activities (eg education, communication, and war). Indeed, the term "revolution" is especially appropriate when we consider the impact of cereals, the domestication of animals, irrigation, writing and the calendar, and farming implements during what the collaborators refer to as "The Agricultural Revolution." With regard to the first half of the twentieth century, the collaborators examine the impact of military technology during the First World War, new sources of energy, new channels of communication, the emergence of travel by road and air, new building techniques, and the rise of the chemical industry. No brief commentary of mine can possibly do full justice to a book such as this. It provides a feast for the mind as well as for the eyes. Bon appetit!

This book is an excellent historical review of the computer and telecom technologies, and it is a must-read for anyone interested in the convergence of technologies, surely the most important phenomenon of the next century. The book's historical analysis of where we've been puts into perspective where we are going.

One of the most brilliant and insightful books that I have ever read. I was engaged from the first page to the last. I couldn't put it down.

No matter what you are going through or how long the journey has been this little book is packed full of hope and a significant message to women and even men who struggle with regret and shame of any kind.
If there was ever a topic that touches a central nerve in our country, it's abortion and it's not something most people want to address. The fact is, 1 in 4 women have terminated a pregnancy and for many that brings a lifetime of pain and unrest.
Kimberlee Stone was on the precipice of infertility, that chasm that, in her mind, separated her from women who were healthy and whole. After an abortion in college, she never dreamed that when she and husband Regi were ready to start a family there would be problems. In her book, I've Got A Secret Kim shares her thoughts, prayers, hurts and joys taken from her personal journal entries over the course of several years. Kim doesn't share her story from a present tense but from the midst of the pain, from the very center of her struggle. She opens the pages of her life and pours out her emotional and spiritual dependency on God and God alone,taking you down that sometimes crooked road of faith that we walk.
The important message does not lie in the healing from the abortion alone, it is in the message of hope and restoration for anyone who struggles with guilt and shame, regardless of the circumstances. The message that God does hear our cry, that He is a forgiving God and that He does answer our prayers, is what makes this little book so great!

This is a great book showing how God's forgiveness can cleanse and heal even the deepest wounds. I recommend it to people who are stuck in a "shame spiral" brought on by past sins.

I really enjoy Irving Stone's novels. He writes factually, and very humanistically. You feel like you are right there with the characters and experiencing everything that they are going through. Immortal Wife has been my favorite book since I was a teenager. Jessie Benton Fremont was a great supporter of her husband. Whether it be his political aspirations, his travels through California, or any trouble that he got into. A great book if you enjoy romance, history and the flavor of the Civil War era. John C. Fremont was a great explorer, and he and his wife were very much against slavery, and started the civil war talk on slavery even before President Lincoln did! This is a must read.

I find reading Irving Stone very informative. I get my romance and my history all rapped up into one book. Immortal Wife has been my favorite nov el since I was a young girl. My husband just recently purchased the book for me, and I reread it. I loved it the second time too!!

In Search of Susanna is a remarkable transgeneric experiment in life writing, a densely textured "word quilt" in Bunkers' words, testifying to the author's passionate determination not only to reclaim her family past but to affirm a vital future for the female descendants who look back to Susanna and discover themselves." --William L. Andrews, University of North Carolina.

"In Search of Susanna is a lovely weaving together of threads from the ancestral past to tell a story of the present and future. The Susanna sought in this book--and beautifully evoked--is not only Suzanne Bunkers' great-great-grandmother but the author and her daughter as well. No one restores to us the lives of women across generations as gracefully and as movingly as Suzanne Bunkers."--James Olney, Editor, Southern Review

In spite of my personal opinion (which is admittedly biased), this collection of stories will compete on anyone's bookshelf for the best work of medical lit yet written. This *is* John Stone, the physician, the human hands, the poet, the wit, it's all in here.

Where to start?....Blue Baby is where John started by connecting a nursery rhyme with tetralogy of Fallot; An Infected Heart (which I've read to my students for >10 years now.....sometimes half the class is in tears by the time I reach the end where they inevitably gasp with comprehension of their own relationships with patients); Breath; Missed Signals; Balloon Man, it's a long and enjoyable list.

Reading and re-reading these gives you a sense of place within medicine (and reminds you exactly how grand those little events really are), it's a solid base from which to teach, it's wonder at the craft of an excellent wordsmith like Stone.

If you are in medicine, if you teach, if you are human.....read this one, you'll be glad you did.

Poet and cardiologist John Stone has written a compelling collection of essays and stories from his practice regarding his care of the human heart. The two disciplines not only get equal time but are beautifully juxtaposed in his writing. His tremendous love and appreciation for his patients and for medicine are easy to read between almost every line in the book. His warm sense of humor and keen eye for irony keep the stories from becoming maudlin, something that can happen easily in the telling of medical tales. This is a book for non-medical as well as medical people, a great traveller that can be read a few pages at a time; some of his stories are only one or two paragraphs! But even the shortest are thoughtful and provocative. Dr. Stone's deep humanism restores faith in the medical profession!

The work of Julius Stone, one of the most prolific jurists of last century, is always authoritative and of excellent quality. This analysis of the legal issues surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict proves to be no exception, and for the most part it remains highly relevant to the situation today.

'Israel and Palestine: Assault on the Law of Nations' takes the deceptive mythology that is still current in its stride, convincingly debunking the Palestinian Arab claim to the land between the Mediterranean and the River Jordan and exposing the coerced partisanship of the United Nations in respect of the West in general and Israel in particular.

Highly readable, comprehensive and superbly written. If you only buy one book on Middle East politics, buy this.

The work of Julius Stone, one of the most prolific jurists of last century, is always authoritative and of excellent quality. This analysis of the legal issues surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict proves to be no exception, and for the most part it remains highly relevant to the situation today.

'Israel and Palestine: Assault on the Law of Nations' takes the deceptive mythology that is still current in its stride, convincingly debunking the Palestinian Arab claim to the land between the Mediterranean and the River Jordan and exposing the coerced partisanship of the United Nations in respect of the West in general and Israel in particular.

Highly readable, comprehensive and superbly written. If you only buy one book on Middle East politics, buy this.