Years ago I purchased this book as a birthday present for my dad. Out of curiosity, I read the first page. I was instantly caught up in the story, and stayed awake the entire night reading it. "The Shipkiller" is a thrilling, compelling tale! It is about the vengeance of Peter Hardin, whose wife is lost at sea when their yacht is crushed by a gigantic oil-tanker. The pursuit and destruction of Leviathan becomes a vendetta, and the reader very quickly comes to share Hardin's obsession. The premise may be far-fetched, but the story is so vividly written it becomes real. The passages on sailing are especially riveting, as are the descriptions of the blighted locales wherein Hardin stalks his prey. Every force of man and nature seems determined to destroy our hero; but the reader will cheer him along every tormented step of his voyage. I hope this "killer" novel will be reprinted so that many others can enjoy the experience of reading it.

Leviathan ...never knew what the word meant until I read Ship Killer. The book reads like you are watching a movie. You just don't want to put it down. You want to cast the characters. If you like adventure, love and revenge find a copy. I am amazed that it has not hit the big screen. Nicholas Gage and his determination plus intensity would be a fit no doubt about it! I lent my copy several years ago ..(rocket scientist of course) Naturally I am looking for another copy. One of the all time greats!

I READ THIS BOOK ABOUT 12 YEARS AGO. THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL ABOUT SAIL BOATS, TIDES, VENOMOUS SNAKES, MADE ME BELIEVE THAT THE AUTHOR WAS WRITING HIS MEMOIRES. A FABULOUS NON STOP ACTION NOVEL THAT I COULD NOT PUT DOWN. A PITY IT IS NOT AVAILABLE IN REPRINT. ONE REVIEWER COMMENTED THAT SHE THOUGHT A MOVIE MAY HAVE BEEN IN THE WORKS. IT WILL BE A BLOCKBUSTER IF THAT EVER COMES TO PASS. HOW CAN THE PUBLISHER BE PERSUADED TO RELEASE NEW EDITIONS?

I have had the pleasure of reading some of Scott's other books "Interface Design with Photoshop" and "Photoshop Web Techniques", and found both books at the time to be the best references for artists like myself that I have been able to find. I picked this book up the other day based on that and began to learn more about web animation technique then I had ever thought possible, I was not wrong this book is GREAT! There is a huge amount of real world professional experience that has gone into this book as well a very useful sample files, and tutorials. The CD-ROM is logical and easy to use, and has a ton of killer information. The book is put together in a fashion that makes it both readable and a great reference source as well. Something that you don't find in most computer books... If you want to know about it, it is here. From simple gif animations to multi frame, cell style Flash animation. It even covers methods of implementation... Scott covers it all. Well done, another great book from the man who knows to much. J. Scott Hamlin.

Effective Web Animation includes an exhaustive survey of different concepts and applications used in the creation of stunning animations (interactive and otherwise) for use on the web. While other web animation books might focus primarily on simply making GIF animations, Hamlin's book gives a much broader (yet in-depth) investigation into palettes, transparency issues, optimizations, timing options and disposal methods, as well as methods of creating interesting and compelling motion. In addition, Effective Web Animation goes far beyond GIF animations, and explores the capabilities of combining GIFs and JPGs into new techniques that are controlled by Javascript, and it becomes clear how to decide when it is more efficient and flexible to use Javascript over the standard GIF format.

EWA really shines by explaining its techniques in an application-independent way, such that you understand how particular features are beneficial before you even need to worry about what particular software you're going to use. Examples are shown using specific applications like Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Flash, but it is done in such a way that you don't necessarily feel "tied" to those applications. Some examples show how multiple applications were used to develop one animation, which shows how you can combine the relative strengths of different graphics applications to create something more complex than any one application would allow you to create. The book "educates" you instead of "trains" you, giving you a good conceptual foothold to take advantage of your knowledge regardless of the application you happen to be using.

The artwork and animations featured in the book cover a variety of styles, and the case studies section shows off various types and complexities of animations from some impressive sites on the web now.

Effective Web Animation by J.Scott Hamlin is definitively one of the best web animation books I've seen around. The book is clear, to the point and covers a broad range of topics ranging from simple basic designs to quite complex animations. Each page contains step by step full color illustrations, frames, source code, and tables making it easy for anyone to understand the concepts introduced throughout the book. One great aspect of this book is that it makes it possible for beginners and experts alike to learn web animation quickly and effectively.

Effective Web Animation also contains a CD stuffed full of programs and samples for both Mac and PC platforms making it possible to start working immediately on your new web ideas. If I had to recommend a book on web animation to anyone it would definitively be this one.

This book is your all in one tool enabling you to let that "spirit of imagination in all of us" shine through.

This is arguably Scott Hahn's best and most important work in print to date. In previous books, the popular speaker and theologian has traced the theme and reality of covenant in Scripture ("A Father Who Keeps His Promises") and examined the covenantal nature of the Church's liturgical worship ("The Lamb's Supper") and Mary's spiritual motherhood ("Hail, Holy Queen"). Now, in "First Comes Love," Hahn plunges even more deeply into the supernatural foundation of the New Covenant -- the Trinity -- and shows how the Triune God is the source and sustainer of both human families and the Church, the family of God. Hahn shows how the Trinity, which the Catechism of the Catholic Church" describes as "the central mystery of Christian faith and life," is inexahustible but not unknowable.

Beginning with courtship and marriage, and building on the theme of family and love, Hahn moves on to the Incarnation and then ascends to an extended consideration of the God Who is family, covenant, and love. Covenant -- the complete gift of self to another -- is illuminated by the light of the Trinity, in which the three divine Persons eternally give themselves to one another in total love: "Covenant is what God does, because covenant is Who God is." Hahn then masterfully shows how the Incarnation, the Church, and the family logically flow from the reality of the Triune life of self-gift and life-giving love.

Written in a popular and personal style, the book clearly communicates the brilliant, but often dense, writings of Pope John Paul II pertaining to family, love and sexuality. This is particularly evident in Hahn's depiction of the Fall, when Adam and Eve refused to sacrifice their natural desires for the greater, supernatural good. Sacrifice is the way to God; it "is the only way that humans can imitate the interior life of the Trinity. For God is love, and the essence of love is life-giving. Sacrifice, then, became the essential mark of all subsequent covenants between God and humankind."

Insightful, engaging and spiritually challenging, "First Comes Love" demonstrates that Hahn has few equals when it comes to explaining the complex riches of the Catholic Faith -- without watering them down or dulling their power and potency. There is no greater vocation than to be a true child of God, and "First Comes Love" is a fine articulation and explanation of that precious truth.

This slender book conveys a monumental message. Using simple stories to illustrate complex theological concepts, Dr. Hahn (Professor of Scripture and Theology, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville), compares the human family to the Divine, namely, the Trinity. Employing examples from Scripture, the Church fathers, and Magisterial teachings of the Catholic Church, he shows similarities between human and divine expressions of love. Family-specific terminology like brother, sister, mother, and father used in ordinary conversation mirrors the inner life of the Trinity. Essential Catholic teachings and practices find clear expression in the daily experiences of Christian men and women. The 12 short chapters invite the reader to both personal reflection and active imitation. Additionally, the nearly 40 pages of critical documentation add academic credibility to this accessible text. Highly recommended, especially for Catholic readers.

Scott Hahn is always a surprise. You pick up the book thinking that, after a glitzy autobiographical opening (in the American fashion), this will be a re-play of an old record. But then, as you read on, the absolute freshness of the thinking rises up and hits you between the eyes.

Now he has done it for family, Trinity, Church.

If you think the beginning is schmalzy, read on. For Hahn, romance and children break down egoism, but even when our nuclear families are not spoiled by dysfunction, neither romance nor children is good enough. Our longing for love, family, home, can only be fulfilled in the DIVINE family plan -- which is where Israel and Christ, Trinity and Church come in.

He starts from Israel. The twelve tribes, Hahn argues, were "trustee-families," with "covenant" the legal, ritual way to accept new members. But that -- the Israelite experience -- was only a beginning. The Saviour spoke a family language of a new kind, a language of a Father's children, and a God who is (as we would come to say, in shorthand) "Trinity". His aim was to draw people away from even the primal families of the old Israel into a new supernatural family that would be "as big as God".

Just why such re-making was necessary, and why -- in the last analysis -- it took the Incarnation and the Atonement to make it stick, it is the job of the narrative of the Fall in the book of Genesis to explain. Here Hahn's account takes on the tension of a detective story. I will not spoil the reader's enjoyment, but limit myself to saying: Hahn's theology of the Fall is wholly original and wholly orthodox, two qualities that, in such wide-ranging biblical interpretation, are rarely combined.

The message of Jesus life and death is clear: only a blameless life given to another, for another -- given sacrificially, then -- could reverse the Fall and reveal the Trinity. The Trinity is the only family bond that can last for ever, and the proof of its reality is Eucharistic communion in the Real Presence. And so finally to the Church. The great trustee family of ancient Israel moves to the margins but Jesus's disciples are not left orphans. In the Church, Christ has a bride that is also his body -- not as strange as it sounds, for a woman was so to cleave to her husband as to become one flesh. And this bride is, through our baptism, our Mother. Or rather, it is because the Holy Spirit's mothering of believers happens through Mother Church that she -- the Church -- can regenerate in baptism. As the communion of saints, human sin notwithstanding, this is a family that is always functional. And in its context, all those domestic realities from which Hahn started -- the married couple, children, sexuality, and indeed single people, whether consecrated celibates or not -- can find their home at the sacred hearth of God.

The delicacy with which Scott Hahn reaches out in his conclusion to those who have suffered in the family circle, or suffered from having no family circle to call their own, is not the least strength of this remarkable book.

In preparing our list of Christmas books to share with others, we had to search far and wide on amazon to find this particular book, a paperback edition of the classic Night Before Christmas.

This is the book I've used for years when reading this story to my own children, passing on Tasha Tudor and other illustrators. Why?

Although we can find the same poem and pay a lot more, with award winning illustrators, the illustrations provided by Douglas Gorsline are surely the best. They are quite colorful, and offer details little children love looking into...cats lie sleepily on the window sill, we see an overview of the town, the presents spilling from the open sack are intriguing and plentiful, and Jolly St. Nick is -- well, quite Jolly (as you can see by looking at the cover!)

The story is an "abridged version" - I'm not sure about other parents, but we read this on Christmas Eve, and we only have so much time and energy. Everything we remember from the classic poem by Clement Clarke Moore is in this version.

(From "'Twas the Night Before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse" to "He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,"HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!" In between we have everything, from the names of the eight tiny reindeer, to a belly that shakes like a bowl full of jelly, including dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky".

In other words, don't be scared off by 'abridged'!)

Perhaps a hardcover edition might be more appropriate if you're giving a gift (unless you're giving to more than one child), but this book is one of the best offers we've found!

A classic done simply and inexpensively!

We have an inexpensive paperback version (see our reviews) of this classic poem, and we said that's enough for us. That was before we looked through this beautifully illustrated (by Bruce Whatley) edition of The Night Before Christmas.

The lyrics are the same, from book to book, but the fanciful illustrations in this one are enough to engage adults and children as they read this book together.

The perfect gift for any family whose Christmas tradition includes reading this classic!

This beautiful book was in my family as a hard cover edition for many years and was a Christmas Eve tradition for my four sons when they were growing up. It's poor battered body disappeared some time after the last of my little ones went off into the adult world. I am so delighted to see it back again, though this time as a nicely affordable soft cover. Clement C. Moore's enchanting story poem already provides an atmosphere filled with warmth and joyful expectation and with the addition of Tasha Tudor's quaint, nostalgic water-colors from an antique New England the Christmas magic is complete!
The winter landscapes fill our senses and Tasha's own gray tabby cat and Welsh Corgi welcome us into this charming world.
Tasha's Santa that you will meet in this book has been portrayed as the poem describes him...a right jolly old elf. He's not that much larger than the corgi and his team really consists of eight "tiny" reindeer. His pointy ears and his Eskimo mukluks add to the delightful ambiance of the book. He dances with the toys and with the happy animals and we can truly believe it will be a happy Christmas for all.
I hope this book becomes a Christmas Eve tradition for many, many more families.

Let me start this review by confessing that I am biased. One of my letters from Vietnam is included in the book. I therefore view the book differently from the average reader.

I also got an advance copy of the book a week before the official release date, and have been able to read it.

Andrew Carroll produced this book by reading through almost 50,000 letters and selected roughly 200 that best show what everyday life in the military - and in war - are like from the viewpoint of the average soldier, sailor, marine, and airman.

Andy was able to get these letters by persuading Dear Abby to publish an appeal in her column on Veteran's Day in 1998. The column urged readers to contribute these letters so that the sacrifices of the writers would not be forgotten. The result was a flood of 50,000 letters - some faded, some muddy, some blood-stained, and one pierced by a bullet. One letter was written on Hitler's personal stationary by an American sergeant who worked in Hitler's personal quarters in Germany just after WW II. What could be a better symbol of justice?

The letter writers' views are very different than the views you will get by reading the memoirs of a general or an admiral. When I was in the Army, there was a wonderful comment that explained life in the Infantry:

"The general gets the glory, The family gets the body, and We get another mission."

Your view of the military - and of war - changes depending on your position in this food chain.

Overcoming an enemy machine gun is an interesting technical problem when you are circling a firefight in a helicopter at 1,000 feet. You take a very different view of the problem when you are so close to the machine gun that your body pulses from the shock wave of the muzzle blast.

These letters were written by soldiers while they were in the military. They are describing events that happened that day, the pervious day, or the previous week. Their memories are very fresh. Their views also are very different from the views that someone might have when writing his memoirs thirty years later. In thirty years the everyday pains, problems, and terrors could very well be forgotten or become humorous.

The book groups these letters by war or police action. There are sections for letters from the Civil War, WW I (the war to end wars), WW II, Vietnam War, Desert Storm, and Somolia/Bosnia/Kosovo.

Some things never change. The Civil War letter writers grumble about poor food, tiresome marches, mindless sergeants and incompetent officers. The Vietnam letter writers (myself included) grumbled about the same things.

One anguished letter was from an officer in Vietnam who was torn by his need to hide his opposition to the war for fear of demoralizing his men. At the end of the letter is a brief comment explaining that the officer stepped on a mine and died shortly after writing this letter.

Welcome to life in the military. Welcome to war.

You should read this book if you want to see what life was like and is like in the military and in war.

Let me start this review by confessing that I am biased. One of my letters from Vietnam is included in the book. I therefore view the book differently from the average reader.

I also got an advance copy of the book a week before the official release date, and have been able to read it.

Andrew Carroll produced this book by reading through almost 50,000 letters and selected roughly 200 that best show what everyday life in the military - and in war - are like from the viewpoint of the average soldier, sailor, marine, and airman.

Andy was able to get these letters by persuading Dear Abby to publish an appeal in her column on Veteran's Day in 1998. The column urged readers to contribute these letters so that the sacrifices of the writers would not be forgotten. The result was a flood of 50,000 letters - some faded, some muddy, some blood-stained, and one pierced by a bullet. One letter was written on Hitler's personal stationary by an American sergeant who worked in Hitler's personal quarters in Germany just after WW II. What could be a better symbol of justice?

The letter writers' views are very different than the views you will get by reading the memoirs of a general or an admiral. When I was in the Army, there was a wonderful comment that explained life in the Infantry:

"The general gets the glory, The family gets the body, and We get another mission."

Your view of the military - and of war - changes depending on your position in this food chain.

Overcoming an enemy machine gun is an interesting technical problem when you are circling a firefight in a helicopter at 1,000 feet. You take a very different view of the problem when you are so close to the machine gun that your body pulses from the shock wave of the muzzle blast.

These letters were written by soldiers while they were in the military. They are describing events that happened that day, the pervious day, or the previous week. Their memories are very fresh. Their views also are very different from the views that someone might have when writing his memoirs thirty years later. In thirty years the everyday pains, problems, and terrors could very well be forgotten or become humorous.

The book groups these letters by war or police action. There are sections for letters from the Civil War, WW I (the war to end wars), WW II, Vietnam War, Desert Storm, and Somolia/Bosnia/Kosovo.

Some things never change. The Civil War letter writers grumble about poor food, tiresome marches, mindless sergeants and incompetent officers. The Vietnam letter writers (myself included) grumbled about the same things.

One anguished letter was from an officer in Vietnam who was torn by his need to hide his opposition to the war for fear of demoralizing his men. At the end of the letter is a brief comment explaining that the officer stepped on a mine and died shortly after writing this letter.

Welcome to life in the military. Welcome to war.

You should read this book if you want to see what life was like and is like in the military and in war.

This book, War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars, by Andrew Carroll (Editor) is a touching book. With the recent release of the movie Pearl Harbor, the questions that my generation wants to ask the veterans of war are rising out of the ashes once again. Carroll did an excellent job of putting together a collage of soldier's letters which portrays the true emotions of our freedom fighters. Recently having studied many of the wars included in this book, War Letters pulled everything into one book; from the Civil War all the way through Bosnia/Kosovo. The letters in WWI and WWII seemed more hopeful, and 'the great generation' seemed more patriotic. While the soldiers fighting Vietnam had more of a sense of urgency, kind of 'get this over with already' attitude. A common theme with all the letters was they were writing to loved ones, and would claim they would see them soon. Unfortunately, many of these letters were the 'last letters' to the families, some even written on backs of photographs, on scratch paper, or on Hitler's personal stationary. Also, these letters are written a few hours, days, or weeks after the events happened. The soldier has no opportunity to hear what the media said, or how the nation reacted to such a horrific event. They write with their souls, spilling their guts to their families, and shedding their blood for their nation. Granted, having just completed one year of US History helps me understand these events just that much more, but all in all, this book was everything from terrifying to heart warming.

The Mouse And The Motorcycle is a book based on love and trust shown between a boy and a mouse. This mouse was not an ordinary mouse but was portrayed as one that could actually speak, and ride a motorcycle. Ralph who was the mouse and Keith who was the boy, really became good friends. The two really shared a lot, and really hated to part, when Keith's family had to leave the motel.

The book is about a mouse named Ralph, who finds a toy car- motorcycle. He tries to drive it, but he drives it right into the trash can! He is lucky when Keith, the boy who moved in and who is the owner of the toy car, comes and rescues him.

To Ralph's surprise, Keith is lonely and wants to be Ralph's friend. One night, when Keith is asleep, Ralph sneaks out of the room with the motorcycle. Ralph gets in trouble when the mean, old cat finds him and goes after him. But, Ralph gets lucky, and , of course, like usual, Keith comes to the rescue.

This is a great book about a curious mouse who likes lots of fun. I found this book much more interesting than most, and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I give it 2 1/2 thumbs up--way up! It is fun and interesting. If you like action and adventure, then you would just love this book. I know I do!

I believe that Beverly Cleary is the world's most important children's author. Even adults will read and enjoy Beverly Cleary's books. my personal favorite is The Mouse and the Motorcycle. It is about a mouse named Ralph. Ralph is a regular speed demon. He has a love for the thrill of speed. The Mouse and the Motorcycle teaches the values of keeping promises and honesty. Ralph is always breaking promises. Everytime he does, something happens that causes a big problem. The book teaches respect. When Ralph ignores his mother, something happens like falling in a wastepaper basket. In the story's conclusion, Ralph realizes all he wants is to be a respectable mouse. The Mouse and the Motorcycle is enjoyable for all audiences. Its fun and exciting plot makes it a good read-aloud story. A good example of this can be found on page 23. "There it was at the end-the motorcycle! Ralph stared at it and then walked over and kicked a tire. Close up the motorcycle looked even better than he expected. it was new and shiny with a good pair of tires. Ralph walked all the way around it, examining the pair of chromium mufflers and the engine and the hand clutch. It even had a little license plate so it would be legal to ride it. "Boy!" Ralph said to himself, his whiskers quivering with excitement. "Boy, oh Boy!"." Every boy and girl of any age would love this story! Comparing Beverly Cleary's books, I have discovered they should be rated first. The majority of children's books are aimed mainly to young girls while Beverly Cleary's books are enjoyed by girls and boys. Beverly Cleary's books promote good values unlike books such as Sideways Storys from Wayside School by Louis Sachar. The children in these stories do not respect their elders. Beverly Cleary's beleivable characters make her silly plots seem real. Louis Sachar's characters are not believable which make the plot just plain weird. The Mouse and the Motorcycle should be considered a children's classic.

"Dom Casmurro," by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, is a delightful novel by this great Brazilian writer. I have read the English translation by John Gledson. In the foreword to his translation, Gledson notes that the book was first published in 1899 or 1900.

"Dom Casmurro" is a first-person narrative about the life of Bento, a 19th century Brazilian man. Bento recalls his youth and adulthood, and tells about his friendships, education, romantic life, and family relationships.

The content of the novel sounds straightforward enough, but its execution is a virtuoso display of ironic playfulness. Machado's narrator addresses various potential readers, from the "'most chaste' lady reader" to young lads. The narrator comments on the structure of the story and plays with readers' expectations, and even at one point challenges the reader to throw the book out. Machado's narrative technique blurs the line between fiction and reality.

"Dom Casmurro" is an effective mix of comic and tragic elements. Particularly interesting are the gently satiric portrayal of religion, the tender evocation of youthful romance, and the many European cultural references. This is a story of love, jealousy, and loss, told with wit and compassion by Machado. Highly recommended for all those interested in Latin American fiction.

I can say without a shadow of doubt that this is my favourite book. It was the first book of Machado de Assis that I read and which made me follow in love with his work.
It is a story about an old man who "try to attached both extremes of his life" on the own words of this character, Bentinho who explains his nickname, Dom Casmurro, on the first pages of the book. He tells the reader about his youth, his studies and mainly about his first and only love: Capitu.
However, if you are expecting another novel talking about love, reading the book will surprise you. It is not only about love, it is about insecurity and doubts. Better, this novel is about the human soul, its worst and best sides.
I would say that the talent Machado de Assis takes the reader into an investigation. But it is not an usual one. It is necessary to enter into Bentinho's mind looking for clues that could absolve him or his beloved, Capitu. The reader is overwhelmed by the doubts that disturbs Bentinho and which made him took drastic actions.
The most fantastic element in this book is that reading it over and over never guarantees the certainty about what it is right and what is wrong. If we suppose that there is some truth to be found. It is a game between the character and the reader!

Considered by most critics the greatest brazilian writer ever, Machado de Assis writes a masterpiece about a paranoid man consumed by his own jealousy, insecurity and self pity. This storyline is also considered one of the most intriguing dillemas of brazilian literature. DID CAPITU CHEAT ON BENTINHO OR NOT??? Machado doesn't reveal it. Each reader makes his own mind. I believe in Capitu and hate Bentinho. She was faithful till the end. Why did that stupid paranoid had to fool her that way... Oh man, read this book!

The four funniest books I have read in my life were: 1) Candide by Voltaire, 2) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole, 3) My Gorgeous Life by Dame Edna (Barry Humphries) and 4) Buddy Babylon. This book is so funny, I was laughing out loud while reading it during lunch at a restaurant. Scott Thompson is funny to the extreme. And I do not mean "smile" funny but out loud hilarious funny. This is the kind of comic book I will be reading every couple of years just to enjoy all of the routines and great lines over and over again. Absolutely the funniest book in years!!!

Being a Kids in the Hall fan, I may be biased, but I have loaned this book to some of my friends who aren't quite so lucky to have experience the hilarity of the Kids. They have quite enjoyed the book, and rightly so! It is a well-written, and although unsuffice enough to say, very funny. Scott's character recalls hilarious anecdotes and manages to make something that would normally be serious and unlaughable into just that, a laughing matter. I suggest this book to anyone unless you're homophobic; you never get the full gist of Buddy Cole's flamingness until you read Buddy Babylon. It's great.

I have read this book 27 times already, and it gets better each read! If you think your life is a little sick and twisted, read Buddy's story! I am a huge fan of The Kids in the Hall, and think Scott Thompson is GOD! This book peeks into why Buddy is the way he is...FLAWLESS! You have never read a more creative book in your life, nor will you ever, (unless part two comes about)! Reading this book will leave you continually fantisizing about the Canadian wilderness, and thanking God your not there! You will become a child again, and pretend Buddy is a close personal friend, (who you don't like)! I no linger fear circus freaks, but now love them as other people's children. This book is a true spititual journey! Buddy is genius!

Dr. Hahn has summarized his lectures and tape conferences in this amazing "user friendly" book on the Holy Bible. It is an excellent guide for anyone who finds the Old Testament confusing. Hahn clearly shows the unity of the Old and New Testaments and how the Bible is a family narrative of God the Father's love for His children. Once you read this book, you will see the Bible in a whole new light; and appreciate the Divine plan of God in salvation history. Noteworthy especially is Hahn's excellent synthesis and orthodox interpretation of the Book of Genesis; perhaps one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted Biblical books in the last few centuries. Non-Catholics will benefit from reading Hahn's book, for it shows how the Catholic Church has correctly interpreted scripture throughout the centuries; and it clears up misunderstandings that some non-Catholics have in regard to the belief that the Catholic Church "downplays" the Bible. This book shows the love and reverence that the Catholic Church has always had for Sacred Scripture.

Dr. Hahn once again has brought new insights into scripture for us all. His book is not hard to read but also allows our minds to dive into covenant theology. His presentation style is straight-forward and scholarly, but also entertaining.

I used the book as an outline to teach a religious education class and it went over great with the kids. To understand the relationship that God has built throughout history with his people and then how it all comes together in Jesus is really a necessity for all Christians to understand. Dr. Hahn has made this both fun and easy to do.

I'm a cradle Catholic, but through Scott Hahn's tapes and especially this book, I've discovered how rich, powerful, and loving my faith actually is. I urge all Catholics, all Christians, and any others with only a slight interest in God to buy this book and ingest its every word. Dr. Hahn's explanantions are thought provoking yet lighthearted, informational as well as inspiring, entertaining while also being essential for understanding the true love of Our Father. You'll enjoy it and cherish it. I just finished it and will pick it up to re-read it tonight. This study provides a wonderful explanation of how the Old and New Testaments reveal God's promise to love us from the beginning of time, despite Man's continuous rebellion. Scott shows how the Father slowly forms His family through His covenant promises, climaxing in the universal family established with Christ's New Covenant. Scott breaths new life into the stories of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David and explains the true significance of Christ's Passover celebration with His apostles. To know God is to love Him. This book will help you do both. (Also great for CCD teachers trying to get a grasp on the significance of the Old Testament stories.)

The Good and Angry book is wonderful! This book gives practical easy to read advice that will change your life! So many moms (and dads) have anger issues in their family either within themselves, their children or both and it's about time someone addressed this issue!. I have learned how to understand what causes my anger and how to break the cycle as well as develop new behavior patterns. I now have tools that will help me and my children develop good character and skills that will last a lifetime. If you want to learn how to stop being angry and build a better relationship with your kids this book is for you!

Like other books by Turansky & Miller, this book is a deceptively easy read. There are so many great ideas--practical, easy to implement ideas--that I could only read the book a bit at a time in order to let the information soak in! My children are young preschoolers and the information presented is appropriate for them and will continue to be applicable as they grow older. I appreciate that Turansky & Miller's approach works to change the "Heart attitude" not just outward behavior. I've recommended this book to many of my friends. No matter what issues you are dealing with with your kids, I think you will find tips that help you become a better parent--the parent you want to be.

As the mother of seven children, ages 1 to 13, I have read many parenting books, both secular and religious. Good and Angry is one of those rare books that offers the right blend of theory and practice. Turansky and Miller offer sound parenting advice based on solid biblical principles of mutual respect, kindness, and a proper view of authority. Beware -- this is not a quick fix book! Rather than focusing on changing behavior through a series of manipulations or oppressive authority, Good and Angry goes to the heart of the matter -- the need for parents to examine their own hearts and responses, to control their anger and re-direct it to positive interactions with their children. I especially appreciate the emphasis on teaching children to deal with their own anger, a skill which is mostly learned by example. Because it deals with matters of the heart, Good and Angry helps bring about lasting change in families -- a worthy goal and one from which all family members benefit.