Great to have Henderson's last 100 columns back in one place
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It is great to have Joe Henderson's last 100 Runner's World columns in one place. Henderson, a prolific observer and writer of distance running, and a former editor in chief of Runners World Magazine, revisits a range of subjects very relevant for today's runners in this collection.
I remember what a treat it was to pick up an issue of Runners World and read Joe Henderson and his close friend George Sheehan's columns when both were featured every issue, and to see so many of Joe and Dr. George Sheehan's running books in book stores at that time.
Joe stopped writing for Runner's World in 2004, so whether you once read the columns in their original printing, or have never read them you are in for a treat with his book.
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This book is the fifth and last volume of Ray Merriman's series on Stock Market Timing.
 In his previous four volumes his focus has been on teaching the reader how to recognize and use astronomical patterns of planet cycles that he calls "Geo-cosmic correlations" to accurately time market movements. Each progressive volume is thoroughly researched, documented in detail and easily testable. The information is by its nature dense, yet he manages to present it in a straightforward linear manner that is easy to follow. It's a lifetime of data that can be easily referenced and studied.
His final offering, "The Ultimate Book on Stock Market Trading-Volume 5", changes focus from geo-cosmic correlation analysis to chart pattern technical analysis and provides the reader a last refining level of detail for capturing price targets. The book is just as impressive in its presentation as the first four. I was especially appreciative of the glossary in the opening pages with detailed descriptions of 50 or so of commonly used terms that I have heard or read but didn't necessarily completely understand. After an overview of some of the key elements from previous books he jumps into the new material on technical charting. He doesn't try to describe every type of technical market indicator ever invented--which I am grateful for. I have books on those, none of which are particularly helpful because I have no idea how to use them. Ray presents a selection of indicators that he considers the most useful. He devotes a chapter to each and explains in his patient thorough fashion exactly what to look for, how to measure it, and how to project it. I tried out the chapter on the "head and shoulders" configuration. I recognized one. I drew the trend lines just as he instructed, and it is still trending as projected, right on the money. Yea! So now, it's on to the next chapter.
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This is mostly a collection of Bob Bitchin's Attutude columns from his magazine, but still nice to have in one collection. It's also a great book to pick up when you have just a few moments to kill, since each article is fairly short.
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I like being able to compare all these translations at the same time. Plus the TNIV is out of print and really hard to find these days.
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Anyone who is a gearhead, car guy, or whatever you want to call it will love this collection of Peter Egan's columns from Road & Track magazine.
Also recommend "Leanings" collection of his "CycleWorld" columns.
Now that he is semi-retired, this is a great way to get his funny , witty, and often insightful writing. These books are collections of columns, so they are in bite sized pieces that you can read when you get a few minutes, or devour 3 or 4 at a time with a good cup of coffee.
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Awesome collection of passages from the world's greatest writers, brilliantly selected and arranged.  What a shame that this has been out of print since the 80's.  I would use it in a minute for my Intro to the Humanities Course if it were still available.
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Awesome to be able to find old editions of lost books ! Glad to have it back in my collection of music books!
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This is a great way to get three books that have been out of print for a while. Hodges wrote the book on this p.o.v.
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I love to reread the classics after an interval of 40 or 50 years and pick up on so much I missed the first time. Thanks so much for making this possible as I no longer have access to a complete library and have left copies of many books behind when moving thru the years.
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Another first class collection from the man who took over John Dickson Carr's mantle. I only wish the publishers Crippen and Landru could improve their publication schedule of these volumes from glacial (the last story in this volume was published in 1991!) to merely slow. Perhaps there are copyright problems with the original publishers. But it seems the publishers themselves are not too clued-in. As of this writing, I am avidly reading this volume, while Crippen and Landru's site says it "is in proofs".
I very much appreciate the work that Crippen and Landru do, but it does seem they are run by people who can't quite remember where they left yesterday's old tea-bag just to get one more cuppa from it.
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I have found this a singularly entertaining and wonderfully organized complete addition of YTJD.  While I haven't listened to every single episode, practically all of the 5 part episodes are in great shape and are well preserved.  I am grateful to have found this, and recommend it to all of my fellow old time radio fans.
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I'm one of those people who still consider paper books more readable that e-versions.  However, at one point I owned the weighty Dover paperback collection of the books of Charles Fort and this is an instance where I'd urge you to go with the e-version.  This particular collection is nice in that the table of contents and references are clickable, and it has a search function.  That makes navigation a great deal easier than it is in many e-documents sold today.  Since there's not a whole lot of continuity per se in Fort's stuff, you can click on just about any chapter link and be taken to one or another bizarre and fascinating set of stories.  For me, Charles Fort was never someone to read front-to-back, so this collection is a nice way to dip into the range of his stuff for just a few dollars.
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i just got this the other day and have already spent a fair amount of time browsing thru it.  sure it would have been great to have collected the best articles from the last 20 years; however  the problem with that (and something the book acknowledges) is sometimes what is viewed at the time as important and groundbreaking turns out to have been not such a big deal.  the great thing about this book is the advantage of perspective, being able to go back and identify what really turned out to have been influential and then weeding out the chaff.  in the appendix section the editors show some magazine covers that in retrospect demonstrate that sometimes the "next big thing" often ends up in the "where are they now file" ie Lisa Stansfield, Creed, etc.

i found the book to be immensely readable, one you can pick up and start anywhere, jump to whatever interests you, and even learn about music or artists that at the time you didn't care about.

a great book about a great magazine, and should be of interest to any music fan, especially one like myself who when i was younger read SPIN religiously.
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I took a UNIX class twelve years ago and the instructor referred to the various UNIX versions around at that time as the "31 flavors of UNIX." Since then, we've seen LINUX (and its various versions), Mac OS and Sun Solaris among others also appear. So along with "good old" System V and BSD and HP-UNIX and several other "older" versions, we have even more "UNIX flavors" now. And this new edition covers them all. The newly revised Unix command and Unix Shell chapters cover all the changes and also include information about the bash and tcsh shells. in fact, bash and tcsh have their own chapters.

There's also a chapter devoted to the Emacs editor, one of the first text editors I ever used. Also one for vi, another editor I use often. I have to admit a bit of sadness that the text formatting chapter on Nroff and Troff is gone (save for commands for writing man pages), but with LaTeK the program of choice nowadays, this was inevitable.

I really liked the previous versions of this book which let me look up commands on the fly whenever I needed to, but I'm glad to see this updated edition.
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Back in the early 1940's, Walter Scott "Scotty" Houston began writing a column for Sky & Telescope Magazine called "Deep-Sky Wonders." He continued to write this column until his death. Then ten years lapsed before Sue French picked the column back up in July of 1999 and she continues to write the column for Sky & Telescope today. This wonderful hardbound book is a compilation of her monthly columns and I consider it a terrific source of information for the novice and experienced observer alike. The chapters are arranged by month making it easy for the user to pick out targets appropriate for the time of year.  Each month contains eight or nine columns giving a wealth of targets to choose from.

Now, many of these objects require a large aperture scope and/or very dark skies, however I have personally viewed a large number of these objects with my 3" and 4" refractors from my suburban home, as I have been following her column since she started it back in 1999. This is a rather massive book, over 300 pages, hard bound, with a glossy paper cover. There are many full color illustrations and images to grab the eye, making this a book that I love to simply browse through as much as I use it for resource material. The chapters are laid out basically the same as in the magazine columns. There is a target chart with magnitudes, angular sizes, and celestial coordinates; star charts; full color photos and illustrations; and of course the text giving the reader full access to these celestial gems in the sky. Sue's writing style is thorough, giving the reader not only information about the objects but instructions on how to find them as well. Still, I might recommend (especially for the novice observer) using a larger star atlas or computer software as an aid in finding the targets. The reader will find Sue's knowledge extensive, and she shares that knowledge in the text about the objects, the constellations they reside in, and often some history as well. I almost always learn something knew from Sue, regardless of how commonly known the object is. Sue's choice of objects is highly varied, from galaxies to gas clouds to multiple stars. She uses targets from commons lists, like the Messier Objects, but she also pulls from a number of perhaps lesser known lists, such as the Sharpless or Barnard catalogs. I consider this book to be a valuable addition to anyone's personal library, as it is so rare to get such a combination of knowledge, observing experience, teaching skills, and professional writing abilities all from one author.

David Elosser
Kernersville, NC
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I have always enjoyed reading Peggy Noonan's columns.  This book is a compilation of some of her best over a number of years.  They are organized topically, and not necessarily chronologically.  Even some of her older columns are so very apropos for today.  Her sadness with the way things are going in our country and our society are shared by so many of us.  Thank you, Peggy, and keep up the great writing!
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Wonderful to be reunited to a book that was a family hand-me-down sixty years ago. As my parents were living in London throughout WW2 the firemen were their heroes from the Blitz to the V1 and V2's in '44,'45. This book showed the Massey Shaw fire float at work and now having lived in NYC I can appreciate the color pictures of FDNY fireboats.