Opening a story book by Steven Clark Goad is like embarking on a rollicking ride. Hold on tight and get ready to be transported backwards in time, jackknifed on freeway overpasses of the mind, airlifted to astounding heights of truth and hilarity, then plunged, reeling, into the lowest depths imaginable, only to be elevated once again into the stratosphere of thought.

Brace yourself, to think and to feel, to live and to re-live, to be born and to be born again and then to meet God face to face. Rich and riotous. Fun and fantastic. Serious and silly. All of these and more describe the infectious style of this parson who has become a master storyteller. "Gullible's Travels" will take you on a journey of delight that you will not soon forget. Jere Allan

There may be a better storyteller than Goad running around loose, but he'd have to be awfully good. If you're like me (and a jillion others), you love good stories really well told. In "Gullible's Travels" you'll find plenty of that. Goad's style is unaffected; there's no attempt to be elegant and it has that appealing 'gossipy' texture, on the order of Samuel Clemens, another purveyor of stories not unlike these.

Steven's humor doesn't keep him from probing diseased places with a sharp knife or making a reader feel wistful. So, expect some real candor along with the warmth, openness and wisdom that Steven Clark Goad delivers so beautifully. One other thing--better bring along tissues for some tears and perhaps a glass of water to east the pain you'll have from laughing 'til your sides hurt. Jim McGuiggan, Author Belfast, Northern Ireland

Admitting taht he "grabs for everything with Goad's name on it," Joe R. Barnett says, "Somewhere in the pages of this book, you'll find yourself. And somewhere you'll see the Savior, gently beckoning you to come closer." Seldom is extreme praise justly heaped upon a relatively new short story writer, yet "Gullible's Travels" by Steven Clark Goad is a surprising delight.

With irresistible charm and irrepressible humor, this Hoosier lad turned preacher transports you with him on an unforgettable pilgrimage. From Bean Creek's old swimming hole to Jimmy's candy wagon, from the Margaret McFarland school yard to the church house basement, from encounters with sister Jackie on the home front to Lady Barbara, a steely-eyed sister at church, we find ourselves woven into the fabric of a fascinating lifetime in an amazing and unmistakable transformation; the author's memories become our own. This is virtual reality without cyber technology.

In a favorite story of mine, the author challenges Thomas Wolfe's premise that one can't go home again. He does it with such gumption and clarity that it never occurs to the reader to question his conclusion. Listen! "Thomas, you can go home again. I've done it a hundred time and more.....in my mind. Memories. Memories of kith and kin, of puppy loves and heartbreaks, of long departed adored ones, of moments not constrained by the passing of time and the revolving of planets. Yes! I can go home again. I have and I will."

Well worth the purchase price and more. Some liken Goad's writing to Mark Twain. Others have suggested a Lincolnesque quality. Dr. Leroy Garrett, historian and author, has even gone so far as to compare S.C. Goad to C. S. Lewis. A streatch? We think not.

You'll find yourself doing some unusual things: reading the stories to family and friends, laughing out loud, thinking more deeply about the preciousness of life, plus expanding your heart. But most importantly, you'll find this master storyteller's homespun (and often riotous)recollections weave a remarkably delightful pattern - on that points our way to heaven. It's no wonder author Charles B. Hodge can assert with such confidence: "Steven Clark Goad truly does play a 'tap dance' upon our hearts."

Because the body is the house of the soul, it should not be necessary to focus on abuse, either emotional or sexual - actually, one and the same, really, as limited only to females; many men are composites of enormous stress, unresolved conflict resolution, and highly leveraged disciplinary measures from childhood and indeed up until manhood. As I watched a parent today require his 2 year old son to remain sitting in the chair he was in (despite his son's drive to "move" consistent with nature's instinct and drive), I wondered how such patterns of restraint might affect him, and their relationship later. What messages were being sent by the father? What messages were received by the son? Beyond the fact of this dominance display, the reasons were frail if not inadequate to produce the mandate in this instance, although they are not always. The pattern was used throughout the day by both parents, and I wondered if they were trying to teach "patience, and self restraint" in so young a child who is little more than a bundle of energy, new to the possibility of moving, and hence, inspired by his new found ability. What happens to the desire to move when it is so abrubtly curtailed in so young a soul? When nature conflicts with man's desire to control nature, doesn't nature always find a different avenue of expression, some not so natural? Requiring a child to "stay," as if he were a pet may not be the ideal method to teach values or mechanics, but instead displays power that children are apt to emulate as they become adults. While safety is always an issue for children, convenience often supercedes the issues of safety and become the dominating factor in relationships instead, to the detriment of nature's logical progress, destroying the ability to reach the compromises characteristic of natural selection. Nature rarely destroys, but instead adapts.

This is easily the best of a dozen or so books I have worked through. It is defininately Christian in its approach, even if you do not hold this world view there is comfort and information for the spouse of a sexual abuse survivor.

This book ties for first place in my list of resources with Laura Davis's "Allies in Healing" (NOT a Christian work but excellent nonetheless). Spouses, you are not alone, unique or crazy! These volumes will help you grasp what your survivor is working through and give you help in dealing with the damage of sexual abuse (for yourself and the survivor).

An Insightful look at the effects Child Abuse can have on a survivor, as well as a guide for those who love them in how best to contend with the ghosts of their past. Written with Compassion and Empathy while encouraging an emphatic approach to attaining a life well worth living. I know... I have indeed survived with this book at my side.

Of course, being a hard-core rocket geek, I first read this book hoping to learn about one of my favorite subjects. What I found was a wonderful, personal account of the men behind the technology. This book is an entertaining read that manages to teach quite a bit along the way. My favorite quote from the book is where Clark describes Red Fuming Nitric Acid (RFNA), a powerful oxidizer, as a substance that "attacks flesh with the avidity of a school of pirhana." That one passage did more to instill a sense of caution in my chosen hobby than anything else I've read or heard before or since.

This book has the right mix of technical details, descriptions of experiments with spectacular results, background info about the why's and how's, and about the politics involved. It is a very engaging and uplifting book because Clark captured a lot of the enthusiasm he had for rockets.

The author is a suberb writer as well as a chemist. Umpteen years of funny stories are threaded through the history of rocket propulsion. My favorite is the attempt to use skunk oil as fuel.......

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book from cover to cover. The book is extremely well written. I have a much greater appreciation for the suffering caused by war and the great sacrifice that our WWII veterans made in serving our country. This book is well worth your time.

I throughly enjoyed reading this book from cover to cover. The book is extremely well written. I have a much greater appreciation for the suffering caused by war and the great sacrifice that our WWII veterans made in serving our country. This book is well worth your time.

The book's title tells the story line. One young American, plunged into WWII, quickly becomes a man whose life will forever be changed. It starts with his induction into the Army and ends with his letter to his wife with the good news of his returning home. During his tour he experiences the core of WWII to the furnaces of Buchenwald. This is not a book of anti-Natzi nor pro Jew. It is simply a book of facts, hardships and history. Be warned; once you pick this book up to read it is hard to put down.

Larry Clark books? how many are in print? 1. Tulsa 2. Teenage Lust 3. Kids 4. Heroine (Jan. 2000) 5, anything else? please help...i'm desparate! thanks. peony@compac.net

I think that this book was great.it tells about the dangers of sex and drugs....me being a teenager it really tought me a lesson.

When a book or a movie can both be as true as the world that we live in, than you know that it has succeeded. Such is the case with KIDS. As a teenager growing up in the rural life, you don't see very many pieces of art that reflect upon what truly is happening in society with the younger generations. While critics might say that it is too "touchy" or "sick", they don't realize that this is what is really happening in America today and must either deal with it, orchange their opinion on it because what they call this movie or book, is what they call American teenage society.

Hello, this book is small, but wonderful. This is the best home decor sewing book I have found, the instructions are clear and helpful. There is a section on your sewing machine, seams, and everything I wanted to know was here. Finally after sewing classes and many other books, I finished my bedroom curtains, and I'm ready to do more. I can't believe I like to sew. Before it was a chore and made me cry in frustration, I wish I found this book a long time ago. Worth the money, I like the series but this book was the best.

As someone who returned to sewing after a 20 year absence, I found this book a wonderful way to "jump start" into projects. The instructions were clear and the illustrations made each project a "never fail" project. Also, there are dozens of tips and sewing term explanations throughout the book that were helpful as well. Coats & Clark even suggests the different fabrics you can use for each project which was a plus for me. I've completed all but one project from the book and get raves from people who see my handiwork. There are so many DIY projects and suggestions for decorating your home in this one book, it was well worth buying.

Okay...I learned to sew in home ec. and havent since then (let's say 30 years or so)...and this book brought it all back. Wow, I made the best tablecloth in 2 days...great instructions...easy measuring and fabric guide! I am impressed

To me "introduction" books are always an interesting venture. Some
are great experiences, and others are nightmares. Overall this book
was a pretty good experience, although there was a major bump in the
road (and a couple of minor ones). In the chapter summary below I will
go into a little more detail on the positive and negative points.

Chapter Summary:

Chapter 1: Overview of Object Oriented Programming
This chapter starts with a very brief overview of the history of OOP.

Brief is good. It also has brief definitions of OOP characteristics;
Objects, Abstraction, Encapsulation, Polymorphism, Inheritance, and
Aggregation. It ends with a blurb about the history of VB.

Chapter 2: Designing OOP Solutions: Identifying the Class Structure &
Chapter 3: Designing OOP Solutions: Modeling the Object Interaction
These chapters go into UML and things like Use Cases, Class Diagrams,
Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, and Activity diagrams. This
seemed exciting to me because I never really get into anything like
this on the job, and I wanted to know a little more about it. Well,
while interesting this ended up being a bump in the road for me.

The Author says to either do the exercises with a UML Modeler you can
download from the net, or creating the diagram by hand. I wanted
to try the tool he used in the examples so I downloaded it. At this
point just let me say that you should be prepared to spend a lot of
time figuring out the tool if you decide to try it. It is not easy.
The directions for doing the exercises don't quite flow with actually
using the tool either. The author does state that it is pretty tricky
to use, but I really feel that the directions for these exercises
should have been better. I managed to get through some of the examples
in chapters 2 and 3 after a couple of hours.

Chapter 4: Designing OOP Solutions: A Case Study
This chapter talks about the process by which one would design an OOP
solution with a case study. The Author goes into good detail about the
actual steps needed, and does a good job explaining the methodology by
which this is accomplished. He also gives some good advice on how to
avoid some of the more common pitfalls of designing an OOP solution.

Chapter 5: Introducing VB .NET
This chapter gives an overview of VB.Net as well as the .Net
Framework. After the overview it gives you a hands on tour of the
Visual Studio .Net IDE. Of course, you will need to have the IDE to do
the tour. This tour shows you many of the screens, option settings,
and menus of Visual Studio .Net. The second exercise shows you the
debugging features of VS .Net. At his point you will need files that
you can download from the Apress web site. I may have missed it, but I
never saw any mention that downloading files was needed for the
exercises. It certainly was not at the beginning of this exercise, and I
think their should be some kind of direction about it present.

Chapter 6: Creating Classes
This chapter is all about classes. How to restrict them, access to
them, creating methods, overloading methods, using constructors to
name some topics. This chapter too has exercises you complete with VS
.Net. They all seemed to work fine for me, and were very easy to
follow.

Chapter 7: Creating Class Hierarchies &
Chapter 8: Implementing Object Collaboration
These chapters discuss things like inheritance, polymorphism,
interfaces, delegation, error handling, shared properties and methods
to new a few. These two chapters also have multiple hands-on
activities so you can continue to learn how to operate VS .Net as well
as learn more concepts of OOP. These activities are well documented,
and I had no problems completing them all without incident.

Chapter 9: OSO Application Revisited: Implementing the Business Logic
This chapter helps bring together all the ideas you were introduced to
in chapter 4. From there it goes into data access by talking about
stored procedures, ADO.net, sqlclient namespace, and many other
details. In order to do the examples you will have to have SQL Server.

Chapter 10: Developing Windows Applications
This is a fun chapter that talks about windows forms, event handlers,
dialog boxes and different types of bound controls. This chapter is
full of hands on activities that are well done.

Chapter 11: Developing Web Applications
This long chapter deals with web forms, server controls, server
control inheritance, server-side event processing, ASP.net, state, and
many other things. It is all about designing an application for the
web. The activities are easy to follow, and work.

Chapter 12: Wrapping Up and Reviewing
A quick summation of what the book covers and some tips on where to
focus next.

Appendix A: Fundamental Programming Concepts
This appendix is basically a primer for beginning programmers.

Appendix B: Exception Handling in VB .NET
A quick 4-page explanation of how exceptions are handled in VB.Net

After finishing this book I had a hard time deciding what grade to
give it. I ended up giving it a 7 out of 10. The many problems I had
with the UML activities using the UML modeler were just too painful
and frustrating to give it higher than a 7.

I will admit that the rest of the book was great and would be very
useful to a beginner trying to become more familiar with VB.Net and
VS.net. The VS.net activities were flawless, and gave good hands-on
experience that beginners would love. The UML material was actually
good as well, but the problems with the modeling tool activities
really influenced my final judging of the book.

In summation, this book is without doubt a beginner's book. Do not buy
this if you already basically familiar with VS .net or UML. If you are a
beginner and do the UML activities with pen and paper I believe it will
be a great learning experience.

This book is very well written. The material is organized well and the information is presented in easily digestable pieces.
The book gives a nice overall background of OOP then shows how to implment it (on a very basic level) in VB.NET.

I highly recommend this book for VB programmers who have never incorporated OOP in their programs.

If you are new to Object-Oriented Programming this is a great introduction the OOP features of VB.NET. Concepts are clearly explained and there is no assumption that you know the jargon used in OOP. A good first book for .NETer newbies who found VB6 classes too complicated or too clumsy to use.

While it purports to be about iSCSI, the book does such a good job of explaining the history of the technologies that lead up to iSCSI (SANs, Fibre Channel, etc.) that I feel confident recommending the book to people that are network geeks that want to learn what all this SAN and Fiber Channel stuff is about, and also want to learn about all this new iSCSI, iFCP and FCIP too.

It doesn't go into vendor-specific information, it is _not_ a book about how to run a SAN or how to pick vendors. It is about the technology in general, how it works, what it does, and what it can't do.

Someone that deals with SANs all day might read it and say, "Yeah, but I know all that already. I want to know what products work with what equipment, etc." People just getting involved in the technology, on the other hand, really need this book.

I highly recommend it.

Clear explanation about the RAID, SCSI, FC and IP relations. Very good book. I found it very helpful.

This is a really good book on the new area of Storage Area Networking using IP network technology. It starts with a background on SAN and Fibre Channel (FC), then gets into why IP SAN products are coming onto the market, and how they compare to the older FC products. It also covers SCSI, and has several chapters on IP, UDP and TCP, including how they apply to SANs. A large part of the book is devoted to the various protocols and approaches being used to support SANs over IP, including Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), Internet Fibre Channel Protocol (iFCP), Metro Fibre Channel Protocol (mFCP), and Internet SCSI (iSCSI). There are also chapters on security and QoS.

This book could be used by either a "storage head" or a "net head", as it has chapters to bring the reader up to speed in both storage and networking technology. Best of all, it is written in a very accessible, readable style that entirely avoids the dry textbook style some tech authors fall into. While the intro claims the book was written for IT personnel in various capacities, it would also be useful to development engineers and marketing types trying to come up to speed on the parts of IP SANs they are not familiar with.

Highly recommended.

This was a very informative book about how the Irish in Philadelphia affected the city, and how the old establishment of the city was able to keep the Philadlephia Irish from gaining the same political power as those from New York and Boston. It is not a very easy read, due to the fact that it contains many facts and figures, but is nonetheless a very informative work about the forgotten Irish-Americans of Philadelphia, and why they were forgotten.

I had this book recommended to me by someone in one of my genealogical mailing list.

I highly recommend it.

The thing I most liked most about this book was that the author went into detail about the conditions of life in Ireland for these people. Whether they came before the famine or after, these folks didn't just get off the boat and become Americans. They brought with them a rich culture and way of life. If you are Irish and from Philadelphia, this book will mean something to you.

Earlier works by Robert Clark have suffered from the 'dark photograph' syndrome found in many martial arts books.

This publication shows the improvement that can be achieved with first-class camera work and proper use of placing Tori and Uke in light and dark Gi (clothing for practise).

Anyone who is making a serious attempt to improve their range of techniques for grading purposes etc. would do well to purchase this book as it is an easy reference to throws, ground techniques and finishes.

I have also purchased the White to Green Belt and the Black belt publications in the same series, which are equally high quality publications.

Buy these books, they are worth every penny in saving your practise time and improving your rate of progress.

This book, like the others in this series comes highly recommended.

Robert Clark is one of the biggest names in British ju-jitsu. This book illustrates the moves required to pass his "World Ju-jitsu Federation" grading scheme.

Since he was one of the first on the scene in the UK it has had a great influence.

This book provides a solid foundation for any jitsuka.It is clearly illustrated (with the author performing the moves) and well presented.

A "must have" book.

A great book. I would recommend to anyone. Step by Step instructions. Great for beginners.