I have utilized this book for more effective physical activities than any other book I have used before. Randy Stone has created a resource for real physical education classes; it has been proven effective in my classes time and time again. I highly recommend this book to any educator whose goal is teaching children through physical activity!

An honest, thought provoking book. Jennifer Stone uses amazing imagery, she is funny, insightful and extremely intelligent.

This is the book I have been waiting for! It captures the essence of the mind and the heart of the soul. All men and women with feelings, sensibilties, and intelligence should read this book about one man in desperate search for sanity. Stone Waters MD is trully magnificent. His prose flow beautiful. He writes with such conciseness as the Man, Hemingway; the man American literature owes all respect to. I just wish Stone would follow up his magnificent work with another novel.

I was looking at Tillich's, A Theology of Peace on Amazon and I came across this synopsis of the book, apparently from "Library Journal" whatever that is. It made this statement.

"Taken as a whole, these essays represent Tillich's effort to think theologically about peace. Always a realist, Tillich warns against utopian dreams of peace on Earth. Striving for peace is a Christian duty, but true peace remains a religious hope only realizable in heaven."

It stuck me as a particularly un-Tillich way of speaking about the issue. It surprised me that a) someone would call Tillich a "realist" and b) say that Tillich's final analysis was that true peace is a hope only "realizable in heaven." For one thing, I think the person who writes this means that Tillich remains "realistic" not necessarily a realist per se. And, correct me if I'm way off base, but I don't think Tillich would describe ideas on hope or peace as something that are only realizable in a "heaven" of the apocalyptic finality type.

For one thing, in one of Tillich's sermons, he writes on hope saying that, "Genuine hope is such only when that hope already has some presence." But more than this, I'm pretty sure Tillich would consider the more traditional concept of heaven and hell with streets of gold and a God on a throne as some kind of symbol pointing to something significant, not a literal reality, at least not as traditionally described. From everything I can tell from Tillich, his idea of the "Kingdom of God" is very much a hope for life, a hope for the transformation of the world.

I guess what I'm saying is that this quote seemed to really misrepresent the thematic "center" of what Tillich might say. Actually, I think I just found Tillician support for the point I was trying to make. As a critique of the quote above about Tillich's views on peace, I offer this direct quote from Tillich:

"There will be victories as well as defeats in these struggles. There will be progress and regressions. But in every victory, every particular progress from injustice to more justice, from suffering to more happiness, from hostility to more peace, from separation to more unity anywhere in mankind, is a manifestation of the eternal in time and space. It is, in the language of men of the Old and New Testament, the coming of the Kingdom of God.

For the Kingdom of God does not come in one dramatic event sometime in the future. It is coming here and now in every act of love, in every manifestation of truth, in every moment of joy, in every experience of the holy. The hope of the Kingdom of God is not the expectation of a perfect stage at the end of history, in which only a few in comparison with the innumerable generations of men, would participate, and the unimaginable amount of misery of all past generations would not be compensated. And it might be that those who would live in it, as "blessed animals" would long for the struggles, the victories and the defeats of the past. No! The hope of mankind lies in the here and now, whenever the eternal appears in time and history. the hope is justified; for there is always a presence and a beginning of what is seriously hoped for."

This is basically saying the OPPOSITE of what the synopsis says. Just goes to show you can never stop thinking and just take for granted what others present as truth.

Intermolecular forces pervade the whole of chemistry and biology. Just think about two molecules that are going to initiate a chemical reaction, or about the transduction of biochemical signals via ligand-binding at the active site of a membrane protein. These are but few fundamental processes without which life would not exist. However, in spite of the overwhelming importance of intermolecular interactions, few books have been fully devoted to this subject. Stone's book attempts to illustrate the theories and models that have been developed so far by physical-chemists in order to describe the forces acting among molecules. Across 13 chapters you will find in-depth descriptions about electrostatic interactions, atom-atom potentials, intermolecular perturbation theory, distributed multipoles, etc. The mathematical treatment is rather advanced and it requires a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics. Future editions (if any) might include some material about the theoretical treatment of interactions within large molecular systems, such as DNA-protein and protein-protein complexes. All in all this is a good and comprehensive book which is worth of being in your bookshelf. Another book on the same subject is "Intermolecular and Surface Forces" by Jacob N. Israelachvili.

I am interested in acquiring 200+ copies of this book for our sophomore religion classes. We were told that it is not being published anymore. If anyone has a source for this number of books please let me know. Thanks.

Cannot believe that no-one has reviewed this book yet. I loved it. It grabbed my attention from the first page and just could not put it down. The protagonist, John Goss, is both likeable and believable. In fact Haley really understands his characters and brings them to life for the reader. Even the ending was good. So many of these types of books end badly or at least with some disappointment. Highly recommended.

This is a 1992 exhibition catalogue from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The museum has an a very diverse collection of pre-Columbian and colonial textiles from Peru.

The catalouge is well presented with a number of essays on these ancient textiles, their method of construction and meaning at the front - followed by a colour listing and description of each textile on show in the second half of the book.

The photography is beautiful in this book and we are shown textiles ranging from 500Bc to the 18th century. There are also a few pieces of featherwork thrown in.

My only dissapointment with this book was the lack of secondary textile objects such as featherwork head ornaments or fans. But you can't have everything.

A good book to buy if you are into pre-colubmian textiles or art work.

This book will attempt to give in a simple and concise way a resume of our knowledge concerning the manufacture and use of prehistoric stone implements in the Old World which started about two Million years ago.

Just after turning 50, I had a sudden, unexplained weight loss that turned out to be Type II diabetes.

This book is one of the best I've read as an initial overview of the disease and how to cope with it. Its clear and concise, providing adequate--but not too much--information in plain language.

If you've recently been diagnosed with diabetes, I strongly recommend this book as a beginning point in your education. Its 10 bucks well spent!