You watch the news and about all you hear is bad news. Turn off the T.V. and read this book and enjoy the daily activities of a boy growing up in small town America. It's the best book I've read in a very long time. Return to a time when a mop was instantly transformed into a hero's horse. A box was the rocket ship that would take you to another galaxy. A boy saw the world through his eyes and now that he's a man he has put his memories to paper. THANK GOODNESS because we all need this type book!

I must say that I truly enjoyed this book! I read it all in one day, which is what I do when I enjoy a good book.
Steven's brother, Mike, was in my class at school. And although some of the short stories don't connect with me, many of them do.
The things that struck me the most were his vivid descriptions which brought back so many memories. I've been gone from Aberdeen for over 28 years, yet when I read the story about the "Nat" I could actually see it and hear the sounds. I hadn't thought of the "Posse" or Alcho Chumley for many many years. It brought back memories of school days and certain teachers. It brought back memories of "Aberdeen Days," fireworks, the boat dock, spring hollow, the library, the "Sweet Shop," the movie theater, the library, hula hoops, marbles, and the Neeley Honey Company. It brought back my childhood in a wonderful way. I would recommend this book! Thanks Steven for writing it!

Aberdeen Stories is a wonderful book about children growing up on a farm in rural Idaho. Steven Stoker's writing style is akin to Archibald Rutledge's. When reading the stories you feel as if you are sitting on a front porch listening to the author talk of his boy hood. While delightfully funny, Steven's serious side and his deep feelings of family unity and love are very apparent.
A must for everyone who enjoys reading about a simpler life in rural America.

It really doesn't matter what small American town you grew up in, because the author is able to relate stories that make you remember that those things happened to either you, your best friend or someone you knew. If you want a quick reading book that will have you laugh and maybe shed a tear please read this book. I highly recommend Aberdeen High Jinks.

This author has much talent putting into his words his feelings
of life and growing up, finding his way along life's path, sharing
favorite stories of living in a small wonderful farming town in Idaho. Trying to figure out make believe names who most would know and laughing or almost crying.. I recommend this book very much !

Who doesn't remember being a teenager? Return to this time of your life through the eyes of a guy that survived entering high school, going on his first blind date, encountering a very mad porcupine, skinny dipping and getting caught by a gaggle of giggling girls, cars, friends, family and all the things that propel us toward adulthood. Go on this adventure with Steven Stoker and dig into your memories along the way. You may find yourself in one or more of these stories that are guaranteed to bring a smile and perhaps a tear, but definitely a memory or two.

as a person who in his heart of hearts hopes to one day be a Byzantine Catholic monk, i found this book to be both rich in information, and inspiring.
pelikan has long been my favorite historian of Christian theology. one of the great things about his work is his familiarity with the original texts: he is absolutely saturated in the writings of the fathers, and he can weave citations from their various works into his study in a manner similar to the way the old school fathers weave Scripture into their arguments.
i never new what the cappadocians were as far as natural theologians. before i read this book, they were my heroes as Christians; now they are my heroes as intellectuals as well. he compares the effect that the cappadocians had on the east with the effect that augustine had on the west; as a Catholic, i'm half jealous :-)
to me, the cappadocians serve as a model for just how good Christian theology can get. their writings are saturated in beauty; their theology is absolutely Trinitarian. they met their world head on and analyzed it in light of what Christianity could give. they combined an uncommon ability to both stand for the Orthodox and Catholic faith and to be vibrant and bold in their theology.
a bonus is pelikan's portraying macrina, the sister of basil and gregory of nyssa, as 'the fourth cappadocian' and a source of much that was great in her brothers.
i highly recommend this book. often, Christianity is accused of being 'paganized' from its encounter with hellenism. pelikan's study shows perhaps quite a different picutre: the Christianization of hellenism. at any rate, this wonderful book shows Christian theology at its best. i highly recommend it.

This is truly a gem in the field of Cappadocian studies.

Contents include: PART ONE: Natural Theology as Apologetics 1)Classical Culture and Christian Theology 2)Natural Theology as Apologetics 3)The Language of Negation 4)God and the Ways of Knowing 5)The Many and the One 6)THe Universe as Cosmos 7)Space, Time, and Deity 8)The Image of God 9)The Source of All Good 10)From Tyche to Telos

PART TWO: Natural Theology as Presupposition 11)Christian Theology and Classical Culture 12)Natural Theology as Presupposition 13)The Lexicon of Transcendence 14)Faith as the Fulfillment of Reason 15)The One and the Three 16)Cosmos as Contingent Creation 17)The Economy of Salvation 18)The Metamorphosis of Human Nature 19)The Worship Offered by Rational Creatures 20)The Life of the Aeon to Come

Glossary of Greek Technical Terms From Sources Ancient and Modern

Biblography

Index

Other books of interest may include: The Works of Ss. Basil the Great, Gregory Nyssa, Gregory Nazianzus. These may be found in many series. "Clement's use of Aristotle" by Elizabeth Clark; "The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers" by Jaeger; Meijering's "Othodoxy and Platonism in Athanasius: Synthesis or Antithesis?"; Lossky's "Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church" and "In the Image and Likeness of God"; Stead's "Philosophy in Christian Antiquity"; "The Hellenic-Christian Philosophical Tradition" by Cavarnos; Georges Florovsky's "Aspects of Church History" and The Eastern Fathers of the Fourth Century"; "The Cappadocians" by Anthony Meredith; "The Fathers Speak" ed. Georges Barrios. Enjoy!

This book is a must have for anyone interested in learning more about Business Law. The book utilizes real life cases, giving you perspective into the every changing world of law. I give this book 5 stars. It's a must have.

A very informative book explaining the breeding program of the famous linebred Wye line of Angus cattle and the people behind the program. A must for those interested in Angus history and Beef cattle breeding.

Legal textbooks by nature are encyclopedic and ponderous, however, this text is one of the most interesting and compelling books I have ever read on the subject of law. The material is presented clearly and rationally and each topic is supplemented heavily by significant "real-world" examples. The examples are timely and upbeat and very interesting to read. You will find it difficult to avoid reading all the real-world examples at one sitting. If you are forced to purchase this text for a Business Law class.....count yourself lucky. This one is the best. If you are merely curious about the inner-workings of torts, contract law and intellectual propery rights, then this is the book to buy.

In this volume Sir W. David Ross expands on his earlier (and much shorter) work _The Right and the Good_, developing his views and replying to criticisms from e.g. Charlie Dunbar Broad and other contemporary philosophers. Over the course of some three hundred pages, Ross provides penetrating analyses of the concepts of right, obligation, and good, arguing among other things that the meaning of "right" is not simply reducible to "whatever maximizes the good." Probably his best-known contribution to ethical theory is his notion of a _prima facie_ duty, introduced in his earlier work and explicated here with Ross's usual workmanlike thoroughness.

Ross was a solid representative of the rationalist-intuitionist-deontologist axis in twentieth-century ethics; influenced by Prichard and Moore and a first-class Aristotelian scholar to boot, he was a profound and thorough thinker who deserves to be more widely read. For example, his discussion of determinism (and why determinism doesn't undermine ethics) in chapter ten is, to my mind, one of the finest of its kind.

I have occasionally seen Ross's prose style criticized as somewhat plodding and tortuous. I see no foundation for this criticism. Ethical philosophy, at least as Ross himself treated it, is not a flashy affair; like all philosophy, it is a matter of trying to think clearly and well. This Ross does like a master, and readers who prefer clarity and substance in their philosophy will find Ross's style eminently suited to his material. Readers who would rather subject themselves to declamations, rhetoric, and dogmatic asseveration in the service of nothing much are advised to look elsewhere -- to Nietszche, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Ayn Rand, for example.

I rate it so highly because it teaches you, not physics but the latest in physics and to a great extent helps to your understanding of the concepts of General relativity.I would say that it is certainly worth its price.

Hollywood Renegades introduces us to a group of independent filmmakers whose collective efforts and use of their movies as weapons against the major studies effectively ended the old Hollywood studio contract system. Historian J.A. Aberdeen reveals fascinating information (much of it previously unreported) about the rise and fall of the Society Of Independent Motion Picture Producers (SIMPP) and how an independent filmmaker movement of more than 50 years ago laid the foundation of the modern Hollywood we have today -- and a struggle by independents to make and distribute their films that continues into the present day. Highly recommended reading for all movie buffs and cinema history students, Hollywood Renegades reveals the astonishing stories of Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Samuel Goldwyn, Alexander Korda, Mary Pickford, David O. Selznick, Walter Wanger, Orson Wells and others whose impact on American filmmaking was as profound and far reaching as they were talented and ambitious.

Mr. Dyson is one of the most respected and distinguished physicists in the world. He is also a great science writer for the layman. Although a gentle and gracious man by nature, Dyson is not afraid to take on the sacred cows and unfashionable areas of science, and it is obvious that there is little beyond his powers of comprehension. When I read Freeman Dyson, I feel as though I am in the presence of supreme, but very kindly intellect. This is a collection of 17 lectures that touch on many subjects, including 6 on biology. Unplug the phone, lock the door--whatever it takes to have some quiet time to yourself--and read this absorbing and thoughtful book. It will change the way you look at the universe around you. This book will also introduce the you other fascinating books that you've never heard about but will wish that you had.