.....or if you had to travel back in time. I had this for my textbook in Biology back in 1987 and even then, .... well before the human genome was anywhere near being charted, let alone completed, this was a spectacular acomplishment. This book isn't riveting like say Druyan and Sagan's SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESOTRS is, but it is as good as any biology textbook can possibly be. It has EVERYTHING you could possibly want to know about biology; from modern cell theory to ecology. All you have to do is look this over and you'll see why I highly recommend it. Does any other bio textbook even compare?

This is by far the finest Introductory Biology textbook I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Biology teachers, do yourselves (not to mention your students) a favor--make this the required text for your Biology I (and II) Class! Special Thanks goes out to Dr. Michael Hoefer...for requiring this textbook!

This is definitely the best intro to bio books out there. As a graduate student I got the chance to read lots of bio books and this one by far is the best. The chapters are well organized and easy to follow and gives you the depth needed to pursue any area of biology. When it was time for me to student teach this was the book of my chose. It expensive but definiely worth it to any biologist. The CD-ROM is also very good!

I've read hundreds of books over the past five years, but this is without a doubt one of my top few. In fact, I've read and underlined it four or five times now. I guarantee you will laugh until you wake up your spouse! I did. You will also discover that the things that matter aren't really things at all, they're relationships. Though most of us know this already, few of us live that way, and therein lies the beauty of this book: helping us realize that the most rewarding life comes from living the way God intended us to, investing in others, and walking with God.

I picked up this book in the airport, needing something to keep me entertained during a particularly long flight. I finished the book during the plane ride home, then rushed to purchase the other books Phil has written. Phil Calloway has a knack for driving home important points without being overly preachy or condescending. I laughed, I cried...but most importantly, I came away with a better sense of what's really important in life.

I work as a Financial Planner and am very familiar with money matters. Phil Callaway has hit the nail on the head with this book. I am sure that everyone who reads it will immediately be "richer." This book is for everyone, young or old, rich or poor. I enjoyed this book immensely and would highly recommend it!

The author believes that we are to blame for putting our world on fast forward and that there are practical steps to balancing our lives. He is right. This is an immensely practical book which has had a huge impact on the way I view success. Fabulous stuff!

With his 6 secrets to slowing down, Phil Callaway has literally reorganized my priority list. His section called "living at the speed of grace" is worth the price of admission. "Doing all that we do out of thanksgiving for all that Christ has done," Callaway says, "helps us cease all the sprinting and start walking with God as He has asked us to do throughout Scripture." A liberating book.

I'd just been to a doctor who diagnosed me with--in layman's terms--extreme burnout. He said, "You'd better slow down or your body will force you to. During a trip to the grocery store I added this book to my cart and I couldn't be more happy. God has used it in my life like I never thought a book could be used. I've underlined so many sentences that I used up one highlighter and I still wasn't nearing the conclusion. Spending a few days in Phil Callaway's company was the perfect medicine. This book made me laugh and a page later I was crying and best of all it has helped me put my fast forward life on pause long enough to center and balance things. I know what my busy friends will have under their Christmas tree already this year!

I'm absolutely hooked on this guy's writing and am amazed that it doesn't top the bestseller lists yet (just wait it will!). Phil is unintentionally funny. He can't help being this way, but the humor is merely a vehicle to convey deep spiritual truths that are best learned when we are nursing a stomach ache from all the laughter. Every one of us encounters a skunk in life, believes Callaway, but this book isn't as much about the skunks as it is about what to do once they've crawled into our trunk. If you have a friend with cancer or one who has lost a loved one, this is one of the best gifts you could ever give them, apart from an arm around their shoulder.

Phil Callaway is a charming writer...knowing when to use humor after knocking you over with great thought or a marvelous and true story. This is a deeply spiritual book, one that will challenge your life. And yet he has the great ability to laugh and make us laugh. This is a very rewarding book. I read it on a Delta airplane on theway to New York City to celebrate my wife's 63rd birthday...and finished it before we landed...many times turning to my wife with a tear gently rolling down my cheek and into my beard, and simply saying, "Wow." So...this is a "WOW" book--I highly recommend it.

I've always been skeptical when people say, "Read this book...it will change your life." Until I read this book. This is a life-changer, guaranteed. I laughed until I cried and then I re-evaluated my perspective on suffering, on fairness, and on God. I have now bought 20 copies to give to friends. If you read only one book this year, make it this one.

Better than a Callaway driver, this Callaway book is sure to make you laugh yourself silly one moment, then wipe back tears of joy the next. Having never read this best-selling author before, I was surprised by the humor and deeply touched by the spiritual message of these 32 devotionals. ... He even responded with a hilarious email. If I had three thumbs, this book would get three thumbs up!

I bought this devotional, not expecting much from it. WOW, was I wrong. This is arguably the best devotional I've read. Phil is very down to earth and practical, you can easily see yourself in his daily thoughts. If you love God and love golf, this is a great pick-up. Each day has a simple nuget that will challenge you over and over, each time you read it.

Like the author, I love golf, but I've found many devotional books hyper-spiritual, unrealistic, and dry as dust. Until now. This book is simply the best devotional going. It combines humorous anecdotes with Biblical truth and is written by a real guy in a way that makes me want to take advice. I've just bought 2 copies, one for my husband and one for my son.

I can't look at this title without grinning and I can't pick this book up and read a paragraph without laughing. If you have kids or grandchildren or you just know some kids, you'll love this. Max Lucado is one of a dozen popular authors and singers who has endorsed this and it's been recommended by Focus on the Family as well. Rumor is James Dobson almost drove off the road laughing while listening to a tape of Phil Callaway speaking, so that's good enough for me. The book contains 44 short hilarious stories, that don't just make you laugh, they make you think. I found myself hugging my kids more often, and even helping out around the home. This book is a huge blessing!

I just heard this author on Focus on the Family. He was hilarious. He also spoke deeply to my heart. The topic was guys, which he alliterated as G-grace-filled, U-Understanding, Y-Yielded, and S-Successful. This book is absolutely hilarious, but full of down-home wisdom and truth. You will not be disappointed. Be sure to order his others, especially Making Life Rich Without Any Money, which Max Lucado has called "A sparkling star." You'll learn about the joys of a SITCOM family (single income three children oppressive mortgage), and be challenged to remember that the best things in life are not things, after all.

These 43 short stories had me laughing so hard I had tears rolling down my face. Phil Callaway is an award-winning humorist whose goal isn't just to make us laugh but to make us learn about the things that really matter. From the early daze of parenthood to the mischief of toddlerhood and the white knuckles of the teenage years, these stories of laughter and hope remind us that at the worst of times, the best is coming. When we listen to our children and remember the children we used to be, we'll never be short on laughter. Callaway believes one four letter word we should use more around the house is HOPE. This book is full of it. I couldn't recommend it more highly. Best-selling author Max Lucado says, "Need a shot of sunlight on a cloudy day? This book's for you. Need a whisper of God's love in a noisy life? You'll hear it as you turn these pages." I'd recommend buying six copies of this one for birthday and Christmas gifts.

An unexpectedly good book.

If you're interested in implementation choices for Scheme and the Lisp family of languages, this is an amazing book. Its worth reading even if you never plan to implement a Lisp interpreter and just want to learn a bit of theory and history behind these languages.

This is an excellent book on Lisp implementation. You'll get a lot out of it, whether you are interested in writing compilers and interpreters (for Lisp or any language) or whether you just want to see how Lisp works. It is the modern day successor to Allen's "Anatomy of Lisp".

This is the English Translation of a book originally published in French, under the title _Les_Langages_Lisp_.

In it, Quinniec covers a variety of different approaches to interpretation and compilation. Typically, an idea is presented with a chapter discussing the issues related to it -- then in the following chapter, a compiler or interpreter that implements it correctly. He covers compilation to C, compilation to bytecodes, direct interpretation, token-reduced interpretation, denotational semantics, lambda-calculus, continuations, macros, and an object system. It's well-written and engaging, and unlike some translations, the English is handled very well. The primary language being considered (and used) is Scheme -- arguably the easiest LISP dialect to implement and the hardest to implement well.

This is by far one of the best self-help book/workbooks out there. It gives you a clear understanding with an easy to read study tool.

This book has all the essential components to assist a student not only for registry prep but also as a reinforcement aid for all courses along the way.

This is outstanding! There is no comparison to any of the other books in this field. Look no further.

It is rare for me to have such unbridled praise for any individual writer, but Metzner is quite simply a shining intellect - a hero among others.

Anything with the name Ralph Metzner even remotely attached to it is a safe buy. Metzner brings vitality and encyclopedic awareness to every project. An elder statesman responsible for such dramatic shifts in consciousness within this nation and throughout the world, buy his works and read them with pleasure.

What is striking about this work is the respect he brings to the subject and the well-constructed tapestry of thought contained within the pages.

Also, the design of this book is beautiful.

Solid content with the stamp of greatness. Palatable to the senses and nourishing to the neurons.

Cannot go wrong here!

This book discusses Ayahuasca from a variety of perspectives: historical, religious, chemical, cultural, horticultural and experiencial. The way the book is structured it would be easy for a reader to skip over the topics that don't interest them. All of the information is presented in a thorough, well-written, and objective manner offering some conclusions while at the same time allowing the reader to form their own.

Most interesting were the 25 or so personal accounts, 3-4 pages each written by people who appeared to Americans/Westerners who took the drug for religious/spiritual purposes and in a religious/spiritual setting. It was clear, based on their mindset (objectives and beliefs) and the religious setting that Ayahuasca seems to somehow create a religious construct through which a person can work through personal issues or sort through personal beliefs. The experience seemed to have a profound affect on most of these people.

Overall, I got the impression that Ayahuasca was not connecting these individuals to something divine outside of themselves, but rather that it was freeing the brain up to explore the subconscious/ID in order to resolve problems or explore issues in the persons life.

Well worth reading if you're interested in this sort of thing.

This book is an excellent reference source in understanding the processes on breeding the top favorite ornamental plants. The book is well written to support the serious amateur plant breeder to even the professional. The introductory chapters provide a quick education on genetics and its applications to plant protection and trademarks. The book is well illustrated and provides and excellent source of collections, suppliers, plant societies and references for each ornamental plant. Well worth the purchase!

This book has been sorely needed: a book about breeding ornamental (as opposed to crop) plants, and geared toward the serious amateur plant breeder. However, even professional plant breeders should find much of interest in this book.

There are introductory chapters on general breeding and basic genetics, clearly written and none of it heavily technical. This will be especially useful to the beginning breeder. The rest of the chapters are written by different plant breeders, discussing different genera or groups of plants. Although this makes the quality somewhat uneven and some of the information redundant, it's both fascinating and instructive to see how the goals, objectives, and techniques are similar, as well as different, between the different plant groups and different breeders. By and large, these breeders are not professionals, they are just regular people who like to grow plants and have gotten bitten by the hybridizing bug. All have valuable information to pass on based on their own experience, so even if you buy this book for information about breeding Saintpaulia, or Hemerocallis, or another particular group, be sure to read ALL the chapters as much of the information is applicable to plant breeding in general.

The book is handsomely produced and very nicely illustrated, with excellent color photographs of the plants and line drawings to help illustrate certain techniques. This book is required reading for anybody who is interested in plant breeding as a hobby.