A friend of mine lent me this book. I am a new Christian, and I didn't understand how I should feel different. Although the teen context didn't interest me, the content did, and I really started understanding. For instance, that faith is a decision, not a feeling, based on knowledge. The feeling of faith comes in time, but its absence at any time does not indicate you do not have faith. This book has really helped me sort through and understand what my expectations should be, especially in the beginning of my walk with the Lord.

a very good book for researchers embarking for a higher degree (masters or Ph.D.). interesting format with useful tips on many aspects of the research experience. draws attention to aspects that go mostly unnoticed by many of us (many tips deal with common sense matters though). deals with practical issues, unlike many works in this field that tend to concentrate on the 'emotional & stressful" sides of research' ! good chapters on: GETTING STARTED, FINDING YOUR FEET AND KEEPING THEM, READING WRITING FINISHING ... etc. a useful book. I recommend it strongly.

This is a 3-story anthology with nuclear war as a common theme. By far the best is Spinrad's entry, which (I think) is not available anywhere else. It's a hilarious tale of a pot-smoking Arab oil sheik bent on acquiring nukes to annihilate Israel, and an attendant power struggle between a screwball American president (a former used-car salesman) and a computer-animated corpse of the Soviet Communist Party Secretary General. All the comdey ingredients are there and Spinrad makes the best of them!

An excellent parralel universe novel. Good characters investigating several alternative 1970s universes. Worth reading if you can find it.

I love this book on The American Cowboy in Life & Legend by author Bart McDowell & Photography by William Albert Allard.

It has color photos in this book & I love those color photos.

But manager Lewis Watton's notes, "My family doesn't cotton much to that."

I like the photos of a cowboy roping a calf & I think they are beautiful photos & drawings of an american cowboy in his life & legend.

This is a great book & it has rodeo in it.

It had a picture of a world champion team steer roper Joe Glenn waiting for his turn to rope a steer & he had his arms folded & smoked a cigar & threw it away after he smoked & he would rope the steer's horns & carry his second rope but when a cowboy catches a steer's horns, he let's the rope slip out of his hands & the steer runs away & this is called team steer roping but in steer roping he must rope the steer's horns, tie his rope to the horn, trip the steer over with his rope, leap from his horse & tie the feat.

When in team-steer roping, you don't use a piggin' string you carry a second rope incase you miss.

This is funny of saying The Ashdale Cowboy in life & legend!! This is silly.

In calf roping at a rodeo, the cowboy must chase the calf on horseback, rope the calf, leap from his horse & tie the calve's three legs with a piggin' string he keeps in his mouth.
The calf must stay tied for 5 seconds.

I loved this book & this is a great book & I loved it!!!!!!!!!

"The Amulet", first published in 1979, was Michael McDowell's first paperback original. It set the pace for what was to be a marvelous career, including several other novels, such as "Cold Moon Over Babylon", "The Elementals", "Katie", "Gilded Needles" and the successful serial novel "Blackwater", to which Stephen King gives credit as his main inspiration for the "Green Mile" series.

Also, as a footnote, Michael McDowell was the creator of the screenplay and characters of the hugely successful "Beetlejuice" movie.

Set in the summer of 1965, at the dawn of the Vietnam war, this is the haunting story of a sleepy southern town called Pine Cone, and what went on there... After her husband is the casualty of a bizarre accident, young Sarah Howell slowly comes to realize that her strange, treacherous mother-in-law, is somehow behind an infernal plan of revenge.

Slowly, as a pendant in a gold chain passes from hand to hand, citizens of the town begin to die in horrid, violent ways. What is behind this? What leads a loving mother to set her children and home on fire? A dutiful policeman to turn against his wife? A friend against the other?... as the body count rises, Sarah must run against time to stop the accursed amulet... but slowly it seems to be finding her way to her.

Michael McDowell passed away on December 27, 1999. He was a lecturer at Tufts college, a Harvard Graduate and a Brandeis Ph.D... He will be sorely missed on account of his books, wickedly funny, consistently written and beautifully plotted. His characters stay with the reader even long after finishing the book. It's too bad he has been overlooked by many a horror and literature fan, for this si the real stuff... Horror as Modern Literature.

Concise, well crafted and packed with the most modern information pertinent to the field of archaeology. The author shares her experience as a professor, offering guidence to those considering entering the field. Years of experience in fieldwork by Dr. Mc Dowell-Loudan allows her to easily offer an enjoyable introduction of modern field techniques, survey work, site reporting, mapping, on site scientific methodology, field notes, laboratoy analysis, final summation and publication of one's findings. The addendum of archaeology forms are an added bonus.
It is a philosophical work as well, as the author looks at the start of a new millennium of archaeology, and the discoveries that await to be located...and she cautions us: Not only must the past be studied, findings analyized, scientifically documented and shared...but also, we must all be made very much aware that accepted techniques of the past were indeed unfair and in many cases, conducted in an unscientific manner. Dr. McDowell-Loudan maintains archaeology belongs to all of us, as the tangible documentation of our past. She asserts that the descendants of past, or living cultures as the case may be, must be respected and included as a part of the process. Working in North America, the author shares multiple examples of the growing spirit of cooperation between various Native American cultural groups and the scientific community.
A practical guide that is a must have for professional,student and avocational archaeologists and all that are interested in how we discover, and preserve our past.

Given the dozens of backpacking books on the market, you might be inclined to forego this title in favor of a more readily available one. But it's worth the wait. "Backpacking" by Jack McDowell is a well-organized volume that introduces, step-by-step, the many joys and rewards of backpacking. Part of a laudable Sports Illustrated series from a few years back.

The Battle of McDowell is the first of it's kind in the respect that it is devoted to the history of this important battle in Highland County, Virginia. Anyone interested in further details of the battle may e-mail me at 7thcav@va.tds.net and I will do my best to answer their questions. I thank you, Richard L. Armstrong. P. S. - Yes, I am that Richard L. Armstrong.

Steven McDowell is a wonderful storyteller. "Chasing the Minnesota Moon" spans the county, along with your range of emotions, in telling the story of Paulette Swenson's life. There are surprises, twists and turns and Mr. McDowell knits the story together in a way that makes it extremely hard to put down. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am anxiously awaiting his next.