Cows in Church is a marvelous collection of children's sermons. It appeals to children with their capacity to grasp spiritual yet difficult concepts without overcomplicating them because of its refreshing use of modern culture to support its points. There is also in each sermon suggested props with which to make the point, e. g. a camera with fast film. I recommend this book to any minister or layperson who wants to bring God's Word to children. Cows in Church is not only simple a collection of children's sermons; it also speaks to adults. When I began the book, I could not put it down. It spoke to this adult woman like a concise, substantive collection of myths or fables, made me feel as if I had actually been to church. Besides being engrossing and entertaining, I learned a lot of Biblical history, a delightful surprise. For example, I had been told that Jesus threw the money changers from the temple because they were defiling the house of God. Cows in Chuch teaches the specifics of money gauging and fraud that went on in the temple. This makes Jesus' not only anger understandable but almost required. I recommend this book not only to children, but to any adult who wants to be jolted, surprised, tickled and grateful by this refreshing presentation of Biblical stories and truths.

This wonderful book is a compulation of interviews of elderly people and thier memories of thier porches; past and present. There are some very memorable stories in this book. It's just like listening to your grandmother talk about her childhood. The pictures are vivid and beautifull. This book is a must for Texas history buffs. It is also a wonderful coffee table book, it would add interest and beauty to any room.

What a cold, lifeless book. Full of interesting info, but with no enthusiasm for the art of craftsmanship.

This book covers the technical aspects of handweaving equipment and technique. The relationship between yarn and equipment design and function is detailed. The degree of detail and constructive criticism of modern handweaving equipment and technique is very beneficial and missing in other books on this topic. This book is a "Must Read" before a serious loom purchase or the decision to build one yourself, in addition to being an excellant reference regarding handweaving technique.

Sooner or later, every handloom weaver starts asking questions to which no one seems to know the answer, or encounters problems for which there seem to be no solutions. Or merely starts asking a lot of "whys". Why do it this way and not that way? Why isn't there a way to do this that doesn't cause that problem? The weaver asks around, but no one seems to have the answers. Well, relax! Allen Fannin rides to the rescue with Handloom Weaving Technology. In thorough and great detail, Fannin answers all your questions --and more -- regarding yarn, looms and related equipment, drafts and layouts, getting ready to weave, weaving, and fabric finishing. A new section in this edition addresses computer-aided design. The black-and-white photo illustrations are excellent. Fannin's writing style can be a bit academic, but no handweaver should be without this resource. I wish I had owned this book when I first started weaving. It would have saved me a lot of grief, as it does continually now that I own it.

I had the extreme displeasure of having to use this book in an undergraduate course called Linear Signals and Systems. It is poorly written and laid out first off. The ideas and concepts are half formed and the proofs are all well over any student's head who has only had one class in differential equations (rendering them pointless, for it is intend for just such people). I would actually sit down sometimes, tell myself that the book couldn't be as bad as I had it pegged, and try to read over the material that had been covered in class to learn it. I always ended up flipping pages, frustrated, sure that I had missed a page or paragraph somewhere, but I never had. It's that bad. Don't buy this. I wound up selling it before the class was over and relying on my notes and my old Ciruits text book, which was quite good (it was also written incidentally by J. David Irwin, the head of our department).

If I was a tree, I would be upset that some of my fellow trees made the ultimate sacrifice to become the paper that is used in this piece of trash someone pawned off as a textbook for a signals and systems course. I really expected a lot more from authors coming from the University of Colorado and VA Tech. This book completely tarnishes the names of those fine schools. The book is poorly organized, poorly written and the proofs for most of the equations are given as problems at the end of the chapter. Most of the examples that are given are special cases and can not be used for things that are more common in real life. Footnotes often take up more than half a page making the book extremely hard to read and comprehend. The vocabulary is such that the authors explain the words used in the text over and over. This book is one notch below useless. If I could I would rate it minus two stars. In an effort to save my grade for the course using this book I went ahead and purchased two other books in the hope to supplement this one. At the end of this semester I am burning this book to prevent it from spreading the pain and frustration it has caused me onto other people. If you have a choice, I highly recommend that you do not buy this book.

I was really surprised by some of the negative comments written on this book, and that is why I decided to write this comment. This book was the one assigned to the undergraduate course I took entitled Signals and Systems. In fact, this book made me like communications and signal processing, and I believe that it motivated me a lot (beside the other book by Ziemer & Tranter entitled Principles of Communication Systems: Modulation, Noise, Systems, 4th edition) to go for the graduate studies in communications and signal processing. What I liked about the two books was that they assume NO prior knowledge of the topics covered and they move on smoothly from one subject to another so that the student will have a better understanding of the "big picture" as he/she moves on. Well, I guess that the other "negative" comments about this book were written by students who expected to understand the topics covered in this book from one skim read. Let me say that that is NOT the case here. In order to understand the topics covered very well, you should read them more than once and try to solve as many problems as possible. But trust me on this: once you do so, you will grasp the material very well and will have a "feel" of what is going on.