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Books to read if you're planning a vacation in "Ray", sorted by average review score:
Saint Joan of Arc, God's Soldier (Encounter the Saints Series, 7)
Published in Paperback by Pauline Books & Media (February, 2002)
Authors: Susan Helen Wallace and Ray Morelli
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Great Books of this century
i have read many books in the past concerning joan of arc and nothing even compares to the fluent sentances and smooth readability of this book

this book was one of the best works that i have ever laid eyes on.

Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X in 24 Hours
Published in Paperback by Sams (21 December, 2001)
Authors: John Ray and Robyn Ness
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Easy to Read and Very Organized
Pros: While this manual is not as complete and technical as the phone-book size Missing Manual (Pogue), it is very detailed. It is written in language anyone can understand with many clear screenshot llustrations. I think it would be an excellent book for someone who is very new to Apple OS X. I have been using Macs for more than ten years. I bought this after using OS X (and now Jaguar) for over a year and I learned how to take care of some annoying things and also how to use many things I didn't know I had. It is laid out as 24 chapters (thus the 24 hour title) clearly named in the Table of Contents so you can easily find what you are looking for. The chapters end with a summary and a helpful Q & A section that often covers troubleshooting questions. These are followed by Workhop (practice), Quiz questions and Activities. Almost every option from the file menus of every program is defined in simple English as you learn about the program.
Cons: Some of the programs have been updated either with Jaguar or with downloads and these latest features or options aren't covered. As I said before it is not as technical as others, i.e. you will not find sections on Bluetooth.

San Francisco's Dot-Com Directory
Published in Mass Market Paperback by 415 TECH Media, LLC (23 August, 2000)
Author: Tom Ray
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A Great Guide
I found this guide to be an extremely useful resource for identifying and contacting some of the best high-tech companies in the Bay Area. There are many online resources available, but this guide was effective in distilling a lot of information into one managable tool. Recommended!

SAS Programming by Example
Published in Paperback by SAS Publishing (08 March, 1995)
Authors: Ron Cody and Ray Pass
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Excellent Resource...much more readable than the SAS manuals
If you are learning SAS, you will probably find this book to be very helpful. The manuals that come with SAS are very diffuse, and furthermore, don't have enough examples, giving you mainly syntax. On the other hand, this book extracts a useful subset of the SAS system that is spread over many of the SAS manuals, and illustrates it with numerous simple, well-chosen examples.

One thing that sets this book apart from many of the other after-market SAS books for beginners is that it gives some nice hints as to how to write efficient SAS code, which quickly becomes important when you are dealing with large data sets.

Overall, the book is nicely organized, and well-suited to being used as a reference after you read it. It belongs on the desk of every beginning to intermediate SAS programmer. (If you are a true beginner, you might want to start with Delwiche and Slaughter's "The Little SAS Book: A Primer" for a completely painless introduction to the SAS system.)

Saving America's Treasures
Published in Hardcover by National Geographic (15 January, 2000)
Authors: Dwight Young, Ira Block, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ray Suarez, Ian Frazier, Henry Petroski, Thomas Mallon, Francine Prose, and Phyllis Theroux
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Great read, and coffee table book
This is a great collection of American treasured landmarks and items. It serves as both a historical review and a great presentation piece.

Scientific Facts in the Bible: 100 Reasons to Believe the Bible is Supernatural in Origin
Published in Mass Market Paperback by Bridge-Logos Publishers (15 October, 2001)
Author: Ray Comfort
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Don't believe the lies; The Bible is Truth and here's proof!
[Cool, first review!]

This is chock full of scientific facts, historical evidence, and world-leader quotes all related to the Bible.

Don't believe it is God's word? Think it is out of date? Just because its cover is dusty in your home doesn't mean its contents are no longer applicable. This short little book is a good addition to an evangelizing believer, and will give the skeptic and critic something challenging to consider.

And for a dose of eye-opening facts that is like 100x as powerful as this, check out Ray Comfort's highly praised "The Evidence Bible" - ...

May you seek truth and seek the One who is the Giver of that truth.

Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging
Published in Hardcover by Focal Press (August, 1999)
Author: Sidney F. Ray
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Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging
Knowing Sidney Ray's writings for Applied Photographic Opitcs (second edition) and from his/her (?) introductory overview textbooks, I was certainly positively inclined towards the author. The book is well structured with historical introduction and a chapter on human perception at the beginning. The technical chapters on lighting, optics, processing, and specialty applications are up to date and fully referenced (which is a rarety among the usual crop of photographic how-to books). Those interested in more recent technological devlopments (lasers, UV, far IR, spectrophotometry, ...) will find a treasure chest in this volume.

The only significant let-down was the chapter 11 on image processing and analysis (including Photoshop). The chapters concentrates on simplistic examples of gadget filters (gaussian blur etc.) that are not employed in science (at least as far as I have ever experienced it). Explaing the use of alpha channels to improve color contrast in B&W print images would have been much more helpful. The omission of NIH image is yet another inexplicable phenomenon, as it is THE premier platform for quantitative image analysis.

Overall, I highly recommend this book for those interested in scientific applications of photography. This includes those like myself who deal on a day-to-day basis with various photographic challenges as working scientists (repro, extreme macro, micro, SEM/TEM, field photography, underwater). For a fuller mathematical treatment of the optical principles, you may want also to get his/her (?) '94 volume on optics. In the end you will find yourself referring back and forth between these two complementary tomes.

A Sea Kayakers Navigation Primer
Published in Paperback by Katabasis (June, 2002)
Author: Ray Killen
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Start Your Navigating Here!
Ray Killen has put together a great foundational navigation reference which condenses a variety of intricate navigational information into one concise primer. In this guide, Killen takes a relatively bland, technical subject matter and uses the same witty linguistic style that he uses to teach his very popular instructional courses. In addition to providing the basics of kayak navigation in an "easy to understand" manner, Killen's book provides an enjoyable read.

I highly recommend this navigational primer for any beginning sea kayaker who plans to drop a paddle in any tidal river, bay or ocean. I also recommend Killens book as a prerequisite to David Burch's more comprehensive and detailed "Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation".

The Sea of Cortez: Mexico's Primitive Frontier (A Sunset Book)
Published in Hardcover by Sunset Pub Co (1966)
Authors: Sunset Editors and Ray Cannon
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An excellent guide to Baja and the Sea of Cortez


This book was written prior to the opening of the paved highway from the U.S. to La Paz and Cabo San Lucas. It is heavily illustrated with wonderful color pictures of such places a Mulege, San Felipe, and many other villages on the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Coast of Baja, as well as maps and much information. It is not up-to-date, but is nevertheless an inspiring read, printed on high-quality glossy paper.

For anyone with an interest in this area, I recommend it highly.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre

author of Handguns and Freedom...Their Care and Maintenance
and other books

The Second Best of Car Talk: More Used Calls from Click and Clack
Published in Audio Cassette by Soundelux Audio Pub (February, 1997)
Authors: Tom Magliozzi and Ray Magliozzi
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I laughed so I hard I had to pull over!
No kidding! I was laughing so hard when I heard this the first time I had to pull over from the tears in my eyes. A lady pulled over next to me to ask me what I was listening too!

Max and the Schnauzer - that's the clip that is a true keepsake - you can visit their website ...... to listen to the most recent edition of the funny and incredibly popular NPR series - but this collection is one of their best!

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