There are two social traditions in presenting Greek, the Biblical and the classical. Summers presents the Biblical, a somehwat simplified view, adequate perhaps if you are not really going to read the Bible in Greek. Stepping in where classicists fear to tread, he applies Latin terminology to the Greek language. We learn that Greek has an ablative and an instrumental. He means, of course, that those cases have merged with the genitive and dative in Greek. Caveat imperitus.

This is a good introduction to studying Koine Greek, though it should probably be supplemented. The workbook is nearly essential (contrary to other reviews, it's quite easy to find), especially since it's true, there are no answers to the included exercises in the textbook itself.

But the explanations are clear and easy to follow. The text is well-written and concise. The font is quite readable and clear, and you shouldn't have any problems reading the Greek text itself.

If you get this book, do yourself a favor and get the workbook too. Together they make a nice pair.

This is an excellent introduction to the study of New Testament Greek. I am partial to it, because it is the text I used in school. It has a lot of vocabulary in it (80% of all the words used in the NT/all words used more than 50 times). Although, I am more of a 5 case person, I don't mind the 8 case system. The 8 case system is more of a Latin form (Adding the Abalative/Locative/Instrumental Cases) of the Greek. Summers follows the Broadus/Robertson tradition (by using the 8 case system). The one thing that I do not like about it, is that it doesn't dicuss the optative mood at all. Other than that, though, this is an excellent addition to anyone's library .

I liked this book.It had lots of cool predicaments.My favorite
part was when Huck went to the grave yard and witnessed a murder.
Then they tried to solve it.

I think that this book is a really good book for a person to read if they like to read adventure books. The adventure in this book is non-stop. It shows the growth of a young boy going on a adventure. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin is Mark Twain's literary masterpiece. I think that Mark Twain is brilliant. The story is wrote in the first person from a young boy's perspective. This novel is also a testament to the various dialects of the southern regions. It also shows many of the charateristics of the southern regions. It is a story about freedom. It deals with physical freedom for the slaves and the freedom of the spirit for both Huck and Jim.This book is combined of serious issues but then has Mark Twain's humor. This is a excellent book, and I recommend it to everyone.

Yeah, I really liked this book I just couldn't put it down. It was so much better than a lot of other versions. My favorite part was when every one thought Huck was dead. It's interesting to feel like you are or with the characters on the river. If you want to learn more read this book.

It's a new approach to writing chess opening. But it cannot cover some new mail line.

This book is a playbook based on the Alekhine's Defense. This means that if you play this opening (1.e4 Nf6) then it will give all White's moves, but will suggest only one line for Black. Not a recommendation for anyone buying the book because they play 1.e4 but is for Black to find a specific line to play against all White continuations and therefore only suited to anyone who wants to take up the Alekhine's Defense. Having said that, if that is what you want to do, then this book is definitely worth having!

this book makes me want to eat yams! I love the yam.

W. W. Sawyer, Mathematician's Delight (Penguin, 1943)

I approached this with some trepidation, as when I picked it up recently, I discovered a makeshift bookmark (that had a date on it-- July of 1994) stuck at the beginning of chapter four. Had I started it and just forgotten, or had I given up thanks to the author's style?

The former, thankfully. While Sawyer may well have been a fine teacher-- and this book does present that side of him a number of times-- his prose is often dry as week-old bread. If you can get past the insomnia factor, however, his methods of explaining math were even able to help me (who failed calculus 101 twice) understand the uses of integrals and derivatives. Rather than trying to explain mathematics in a conventional manner, Sawyer attacks the problem for those of us who never grasped these things in class by taking what was then (and still is, to an extent) a revolutionary approach to explaining maths: tell the student what the problems will be used for, and offer concrete examples, BEFORE explaining the mechanics of the thing. It's beautiful. Too bad more math teachers haven't read it. They probably couldn't get past the prose. ***

It was worth reviewing just to find out about the basis of Euclid's work in the generalization of rules of thumb of carpentry. I've used this material over and over in teaching mathematics and physics.

This is a great book. Highly recommended by me to be read by everyone especially students who fear mathemtics. "So long as a subject seems dull, you can be sure that you are approcahing it form the wrong angle" - W.W.Sawyer

To make a long story short, Tom and Huck and Jim get trapped on a weather balloon, the owner of which plans to kill himself and the two. In a struggle, the scientist plunges to the Atlantic ocean, whereupon Tom and Huck and Jim quickly master the balloon. They find themselves in Africa.

This book is entertaining because the character Jim becomes intellectually intolerant of Tom. And while Tom has the better arguments, by far, we are amazed by Jim's attitude. It stems probably from Tom's treatment of him in the Huck book.

I would have liked to see Tom land in England. Only because America was so sharply apart from England, as they remain now.

My rating is 3 1/2.

This book picks up right after the hullaballo has died down from Tom and Huck's triumphal return. Tom kinda craves notoriety as he competes for the unofficial title of Hannibal's First Traveler. Then Tom, Huck and Jim are accidentally kidnapped by a mad inventor and go sailing off in a hot-air balloon. They eventually find themselves adrift over the Atlantic Ocean but when they sight land, it is not Europe! This book is told with youthful zest and slangy vocabulary by an admiring Huck in the first person, so that he can praise Tom's leadership skills and powers of argument!

The three unintentional argonauts finally realize that they are sailing over the Sahara Desert, where they have a variety of adventures, interspersed with juvenile deductions and debates. Their adventures are right out of Arabian Nights: no magic lamp or genies, but caravans, lions, mirages, warring Bedouin tribes, devastating sand storms! All interspersed with Tawin's wry humor as he slips in some snide remarks about more serious social issues (spoken through the mouths of babes). Not much of a plot, but plenty of lively dialogue as the boys try to argue using logic and indulge in youthful dreams of sudden fortune. A fun read with sly social criticism. But really, Mark Twain, Tigers--in Africa???

If you really want to sink your teeth into three of Mark Twain's greatest characters, read this book. I actually prefer it over Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Twain went much deeper in defining the characters; Tom thinks he knows everything and loves to argue, Huck takes everything literally and loves to argue back, and Jim is well. . . Jim! I will say this: If anyone has ever found the portrayal of Jim offensive, it's no different here, but I'm assuming that if you're considering reading this, you must have enjoyed the other two books. So, what are you waiting for, read it!

I have developed applications using Foxpro v2.x for 4 years and shifted to VFP6 quite recently. I opted to go for this book as from the reviews I read, it should get a semi-newbi like me, up and running. On browsing the book, I found out that it wastes too much time on tables and relationships (data structures), and with around 350 pages, not much more space remains.

While I do understand that data manipulation and application design are very important, one finds extensive discussions on these topics in software engineering books or gained through experience.

Somehow, I was left a bit disappointed and have to go for another manual with more "how-to-do-it" instructions.

This book really helped me get off the ground, but once I reached a certain level of proficiency, it quickly became irrelevant. Many important topics are not discussed, or only discussed if you are using VFP at a very basic level. In fact, I find most of their techniques irrelevant, though their philosophies about development are helpful. I don't recommend this book to anyone with serious VFP development experience.

This book is a wonderful resource for actual, practical information that will come in handy when your application in is development. I suggest you read it once through to get an idea of what's inside, and then refer back to it often as you make your way through your development process.

This Book begins using something called horizontial statments and then in chapter 5 switches to regular T accounts thus confusing students completely, I have yet to find a student that tells me the book is easy to understand or useful. It would be helpful if there was a solutions manual. Our school will change books next semester. It's not even good enough to make dorm furniture.

I've read the reviews stating that this is a confusing book. I disagree completely. Although the author does not immediately delve into traditional T-accounts, the introduction of the "horizontal model" serves as a good foundation for building the awareness of the accounting equation that should be second nature BEFORE tackling T-accounts. The text's preface states: "A horizontal financial statements model replaces the accounting equation as the predominant teaching platform. The model enables students to VISUALIZE THE SIMULTANEOUS EFFECTS OF A SINGLE BUSINESS EVENT on the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows." I felt as though this methodology was very effective for my learning style. Recording transactions in T-accounts came almost as second nature after mastering the horizontal model.

The "Working Papers" (a separate workbook) makes doing the assigned problems easy by providing a ready-made template for each problem. If you've had to draw your own T-accounts or your own journal in a notebook before, you will definitely appreciate this.

This text serves as a good introduction to the skills necessary to master financial accounting.

This book is an excellent book to go with a Financial Accounting course. Everything is laid out in plain English, and shows you in diagrams and models exactly how each kind of transaction works. I recommend for professors everywhere to adopt this book for their clases. I'm glad mine did!

i did not like the book adventures of tom sawyer because i thought the book was to slow. they would carry on and on about things that were not that important. in my opinion i think that junior high kids should read this book. i thought that the book was like a roller coaster because one chapter you start getting to the climax and it just turns on you and goes to something differnt that is not even involved in thier adventure.

This is the first novel that I ever remember reading and thank the lord for Mark Twain and what he did for me. I was amazed, as a young boy of eight, that a book could bring me so much pleasure. I loved the adventure and romance of Twain's world and thirty years later remember the adventures he took me on and the charachters he introduced me to. True, this is not the depth of James Fenimore Cooper, the detail of Clancy, the clarity of thought of Dostoyevsky or even the shock of Steven King, but it is classic American literature and had it not been for Tom and Huck, I may have never learned to love to read as I do. This book should be read by every young person.

I am very disappointed by the number of inaccuracies, inconsistencies and contradictory statements that this book contains. It appears that no one proofread the manuscript for content before it was approved for publication. On page 10 we are told that "Irish music falls into primarily two broad categories: songs and dance tunes. Of the latter, marches constitute the largest class." Surely if we consider the published collections and the predisposition of today's players this largest class must be reels? Page 25 includes the assertion that "Irish music is primarily modal, in contrast to the more harmonic characteristics of Western music; notes appear in clusters, as in chords or in harmony singing." This appears to tell us that Irish music notes are grouped in chordal clusters, although I am sure that the opposite must have been intended. The sentence that immediately follows, "Traditional Celtic music largely depends on a single melody line," does little to clarify this once the initial confusion has been established. The harper Rory Dall is referenced on page 37 with the statement that "Unfortunately, none of his harp music has survived, just his reputation." However, on page 50 we learn that Alison Kinnaird's recording The Harp Key "features music of Rory Dall... the great highland harper." On page 39 the Welsh triple harp is summarized with the observation that "Unlike the pedal harp it is fully chromatic." Since pedals render the pedal harp fully chromatic, if there is another distinction to be understood from this statement I don't know what it might be. We learn on page 28 that the Brian Boru harp was "named after the Irish high king who died ... at the Battle of Clontarf ... It actually dates from the fourteenth century and thus could not have been played at the battle scene." However, on pages 36-37 we are told that the Scottish Queen Mary harp "is said to resemble the harp of Brian Boru (now in Trinity College, Dublin), slain at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. Scholars tell us that there was little difference between the Scottish and Irish harps at that time." Which time would that be, exactly?
I finally decided to take this book as the work of an enthusiast in the act of enthusing, but I would not recommend it to anyone with a serious interest in traditional music. To call this a "Complete Guide" is a misreprentation, and a better subtitle would have been "A Personal Guide." I'm sorry to have to file such a negative reaction. I harbor no ill will towards the author but simply feel sufficiently distressed by what I have read that I am compelled to speak up.

The foundations of Celtic Music from early to modern times is revealed in Celtic Music: A Complete Guide, a history of the genre which considers all aspects of the music; from its roots to its contemporary development. From the artists who have produced the sound to lists of Celtic publications and festivals which have fostered its growth, Celtic Music: A Complete Guide packs in a fine history.

I never realized that a study of the living God could be turned into such confusing charts and stagnant layouts like this. It makes studying God seem like we are studying a car engine or DVD player.

The Charts are very useful to bring context to the study of theology, church history and biblical studies. Moreover, they help to identify the various issues and concepts for further study. I found the sections on church history and the historical development of various theological systems to be a great reference. Also, students will find the taxonmic charts helpful in organizing their studies, especially if they are visual learners as they paint "mental maps" of the subject catagories.

The definition section was and nice bonus. In further editions, the author may consider adding the various chart numbers where each definition can be found. This would be a nice enhancement to the overall volume.

Dr. Sawyer has put together a wonderful book. As a pastor, I find it to be an excellent resource. It is without doubt a wonderful tool for any person who is serious about the Scriptures. It does make obscure relationships clear by anchoring theolgy and Biblical studies. The glossary of terms at the end of the book is so helpful. Every chart is complete, precise and informative. I do believe you will use this again and again in all disciplines of Biblical study.