Hi there If you are a Boyer (or a French) and have family from southwestern Ohio - please order one of these fine paperbacks by Paul. Besides wonderful mission history there is also Boyer (and French) family history to be learned.
Have a wonderful day.
Nanette

The author writes some of the best texts on every subject he engages in. This book is the crown of all his works as it covers the most important aspects of life. He most convincingly reveals the true standard of biblical holiness and the way therein by sound arguments from the bible and a very indepth and unique argument from his own experience (both positively and negatively). His work stresses no simplistic approach to true holiness but reveals very indepth angles to the entire prosses. Thus one is not left to feel that some one crisis experience is the means to the whole christian life but rather a continual searching after Jesus Christ for infinite resourses. This short space could not begin to describe how profound this work is, and everyone we have givin the work too has testified of the same inspirations. We thus have the work online ... and in print.

I've been reading a number of Pshop books lately, and would say without hesitation that the Wow Book is not only the most useful and information-rich guide to using Photoshop, but is also the most attractive book on the subject I've seen. Somehow the practicing of what it preaches bodes well for the subject. Peachpit deserves credit too for a luxury treatment...nothing is more tedious than a decent book ruined by cheap printing (cf., for example, the Windows 95 Photoshop Bible which is decent but was given a cheap and ugly production). Highest rating, and it's nice to see specialized versions for both Win and Mac platforms. The CD also has a lot on it, unlike many other books that simply throw on the stuff that's already in the Extras folder Adobe provides.

I purchased this book because I was frustrated with the textbook in my alge class. I found this book to be both helpful and informative. It is not a difficult read and the authors didn't use a lot of technical words just to prove they knew them. Tons of great information.

The third book in this little mini-series within SCE finishes up with Scotty once again helping out the original SCE. This time they are testing out a new warp engine that the Kelvans have invented. The Kelvans are the aliens we saw in TOS hijacking the original Enterprise and include Scotty famous line, "It's green".

The story has interesting twists which you always get from Ward and Dilmore. The B-Story is the continuation from the previous SCE 17&18 with the crew of the daVinci dealing with their own technical problem. It's a great conclusion how the SCE was founded and became what we see now in this series. Stongly recommend people to get into the series great concept.

This book is excellent because it contains over 30 stencils already cut - you just have to punch them out! DK Publishing has the "look and learn" approach, which is really great for those who don't like to read a ton. This book has very nice stencils and endless ways to present them on all types of surfaces. I highly recommend this book to the home stenciler who would like to add class to his/her home.

This book is a great book on stewardship. The author uses the bible to backup his points. He does a good job at doing this. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in doing things the bible way. You owe it to yourself.

Rev. Hughes

A fairly complex plot line that blends a "reality plot" with one of fantasy. As the plot lines merge, I finally started to piece together the subtle lesson the book had been trying to teach me all along - the value of life and celebrating it in a variety of ways.

As a reader, I don't typically go for the "feel sorry for myself/the Fates are against me" storylines. I do read books that deal with serious, even sad, subject matter, but I seem to react better to those than aren't more of a pity party to which I've (mistakenly) been invited. I don't say this as a good or bad thing, only as an indication of my taste. From that indication, you might better judge my opinion of this book, which is very high, by the way.

The story begins as a reminiscence by a widow of her deceased physician husband and how they both dealt with the loss of their son. While this sounds depressing and, to use one of my strongest condemning phrases, angst-filled, it actually handles both issues in a way that left me . . . shoot, how do you describe a sad topic that doesn't leave you exactly sad? Hopeful?

So, with that in mind, I loved this book. If I can't describe the plot well, maybe I can do better with the book itself . . . it is impressive and at times, fun. It will slow at points, but hang in there. It'll be worth it in the end.

I've read "The Chess Garden" only once, four years ago. But a week rarely goes by when my heart and mind don't return to it. I don't pretend to grasp all of its themes. But as a parent, I found deep meaning in this book, wherein God's presence is revealed most fully in the love we feel for our children. And our experience of this love then allows us to turn outward to others, more completely and authentically. Mark Helprin's "Memoir from Antproof Case" touches on this theme, but not with the same power. The Doctor's spiritual quest after the death of his young son rang so emotionally true, so heartbreakingly real, that I've been unable to read it again. (Though I'm sure I will eventually) It's a sad and hopeful book. For those of us who struggle with doubt and strain to glimpse a loving, personal God, we should spend a few summer afternoons in The Chess Garden. Of course, it's only fiction. It merely points the way to what we all have access to, every day, in our real lives.

The Chess Garden is simply one of the best books I have ever read. The protagonist deals with many issues confronting every one: spiritual ambiguity and conviction, passionate love, tragic loss, and one's sense of place and community. The novel moves in three timelines: the doctor's growing up in Europe and courtship of his wife, his imaginary tale of Gulliverian wanderings in the mysterious land of Antipodes, and his hometown of Dayton 13 years after the doctor's famous letters from abroad. I wanted to restart it as soon as I finished it!

Prepare to e-mail all your cleverest friends and recommend Trials of the Monkey, Matthew Chapman's wickedly funny, politically incorrect diatribe on religious superstition and other human follies.

The narrative is loosely organized around the yearly re-enactment of the Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee. In 1925, biology teacher John Scopes was tried for teaching evolution in the public classroom in defiance of Tennessee laws. Chapman has a piquant relationship to his subject: he is the great, great grandson of Charles Darwin, who pioneered evolutionary theory.

Chapman's ostensible mission in this book is to travel to Dayton and report on the re-enactment of the Scopes trial. But this purpose is virtually lost in his wickedly delightful portraits of the people he meets on his journey. Chapman, an Englishman living in New York who writes for the film industry, harbors some predictable stereotypes about the rural southeastern United States. Yet he profiles his victims in such intriguing detail and with such wit that reading his book is a lot like eating chocolate mousse: You know you shouldn't, but it's just so delicious.

The author doesn't spare himself the edge of his own razor-sharp insight. Alternating chapters are devoted to exposing the most sordid moments of his childhood. But what does Chapman's reckless adolescence have to do with the re-enactment of the Scopes trial? This is where you have to read with some subtlety, but the key lies, perhaps, in the following sentence: "When Darwin called his second book The Descent of Man instead of The Ascent of Man, he was thinking of his progeny."

Evolution doesn't always go forward, in other words. Just look at me, the author quips. Similarly, Dayton, Tennessee, which in 1925 gloried in debating evolution with full intellectual vigor, has subsequently subsided into religious complacency and complete denial of scientific discovery, Chapman indicates.

Witty, incisive and shockingly irreverent, Chapman's talents have been largely buried in a pile of unproduced Hollywood scripts. Though he has made millions on his writing, he is virtually unknown to the reading world. With luck, Trials of the Monkey will be the first step in reversing that misfortune.

This book by screenwriter/director Matthew Chapman (who also happens to be the great-great grandson of Charles Darwin) is many things. On one hand, it's a wonderfully told piece of history, examining the Scopes Monkey Trial (many think the whole story was told in the play-and-film INHERIT THE WIND, but - as Chapman shows us - there was a lot more to it than most people know). It's also an enlightening and often laugh out-loud funny travelogue as Chapman journeys to Dayton, Tennessee (site of the Scopes Trial) to check out the Evolution vs. Creation debate firsthand. And, finally, it's a hilarious, heartbreaking, and unfailingly honest autobiography: A man's reflection on his most extraordinary life. Whether writing about the amusing characters he met in Tennessee, giving an account of the ups and downs of his career as an A-list writer in Hollywood, or (most movingly) discussing his family and the death of his mother, Chapman is never less than entertaining, perceptive and unflinching. The author is seemingly unable to completely hate anyone, yet he's also laser-beam precise in exposing their foibles (his own most of all). And for those who don't consider themselves religious but still struggle with existential and spiritual matters, TRIALS OF THE MONKEY could also be a helpful and weirdly inspirational book. I read this in two sittings, and found myself for days after regaling friends with anecdotes and lines from it. I have a feeling that TRIALS OF THE MONKEY may well be a classic-to-be, and one can only hope that Chapman's Hollywood career doesn't keep him from writing more books.

This very unusually organized memoir of Matthew Chapman, great-great-grandson of Charles Robert Darwin, can be tough going at times, but is well worth the effort. The book began as an exploration of Dayton, Tennessee and the Scopes Trial, but ended up as a deep examination of a human being. Mr. Chapman pulls no punches when it comes to his own life and by the end of the book seems to be a man of greater understanding. If you have expectations of what this book SHOULD be, don't read it. As a person who thinks that a person can be spiritual without being religious or a believer in the supernatural, I enjoyed Mr. Chapman's musings on life, religion, evolution, and masturbation. This book is hard to pigeonhole and I know that some reviewers missed the point[s] while trying. Tell your friends about "Trials of the Monkey"!

"He that troubleth his own home shall inherit the wind:
And the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart."
Proverbs 11:29

In Inherit the Wind, Bertram Cates, a small-time schoolteacher, teaches Darwinism and dares to challenge his upbringing in the small town of Hillsboro. The mob mentality of overzealous religious people causes them to object. The protagonist of the story is Henry Drummond, the defending attorney for Bertram Cates. The antagonists are Matthew Harrison Brady, the prosecuting attorney, Reverend Jeremiah Brown, who condemns to Hell all people who dare to challenge his strict interpretations of the Bible, and Hornbeck, the forever cynic of everyone's thoughts and feelings but his own.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee are not supporters of Darwinism. They just want to convey, through their story, that things and thoughts should not be condemned merely because they are different. In their writing, the authors used flashbacks through Henry Drummond and metaphors through many of the characters in order to communicate their feelings. This book conveys a message to its audience that is well-worth reading.

I'd have to say that this is one of the best books i've read this year. No, it is not a historical account, and I am somewhat surprised that people looked at it that way at all.

I think it portrays the "bible beaters" as ignorant for a reason: fundamentalism tends to breed ignorance. Oh, and maybe I'm the only one who noticed, but there are still people who refuse to think about evolution at all and instead take the word of the Bible literally without thinking. In fact, there are many such people, especially in my home state of Utah, so this book was particularly meaningful to me because of my experience in junior high/high school. (it is also good to remember that fundamentalism is not limited to religion.)

This is not to say that it is a proponent of atheism, either. If you notice, all of the characters believe in God with the exception of Hornbeck, and he isn't any sort of hero. Rather, the heros are those who can think for themselves and balance science with religion without harming the work of either. Evolution and Creation are simply a structure in which to discuss the issue of free thinking. That is what this book/play is about -- the ability to think for oneself.

Happy reading!

Scott

Inherit the Wind, a book written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is based on the famous Scopes Trial. In this novel, Henry Drummond is the lawyer fighting for what is right. Inherit the Wind takes place in the summer of 1925, in a small town. The majority of the book is inside the courtroom. The major conflict is between Henry Drummond and Matthew Brady who believes in God and wants the law enforced. The theme of Inherit the Wind is that just because you don't believe in something, doesn't make it wrong for someone else to. Lawrence and Lee use foreshadowing in this book. The people in the court take their jackets off because it is so hot to foreshadow that the trial is going to get heated. I found this book to be very easy to read and understand. It has a valuable lesson and I would suggest this book. "He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the wind."