I am a Presbyterian pastor and use this 13-week study with my Confirmation class. I have used it three years in a row now, and plan to continue to use it indefinitely. It's a great resource for helping people get introduced and better acquainted with the Lord Jesus Christ.

An excellent study guide for Sunday schools and/or small groups, this InterVarsity LifeGuide Bible study book by Leighton Ford will work to strengthen mature believers and new believers in their walk with the Lord. For those unfamiliar with Jesus, this book will answer basic questions of what Jesus is like. It includes some discussion, some Bible questions that lead the reader into the Bible, and some application questions that lead to personal growth. Going beyond theology studies, Meeting Jesus gets back to the Savior and who He is. Thirteen chapters that cover various passages from the gospels highlight 13 traits of Jesus. Leighton Ford (Billy Graham's brother-in-law), uses his lifetime of service for the Savior to provide excellent study notes that would help even the inexperienced student feel confident to lead or teach the lessons. If you're tired of "issues" studies, or feel other Bible studies have increased your knowledge but not developed your relationship with Christ, then this study is for you and your church.

The Missionary's Catechism provides an easy to read but comprehensive overview of Catholic beliefs and practices. Highly recommended for anyone seeking an introduction to Catholicism.

The Missionary's Catechism is an excellent overview of the basic teachings and beliefs of the Catholic faith as taught by the Catholic Church. It is well-written and an easier way to get an authoritative overview of the Catholic faith than reading through the official Catechism of the Catholic Church. It indexes the CCC for elaboration in many places, so having both is helpful, but this book is a better place to get started, in my opinion.

The outline of the book is the basic outline used by most catechisms since St. Thomas Aquinas. The Ten Commandments, the Apostle's Creed, the Our Father, and the seven Sacraments are themselves the outline. Each is explicated in depth, and through these explications Catholic beliefs are conveyed. Ford uses many practical, contemporary examples to show how Catholic belief operates in practice.

I think this would be an excellent textbook for any RCIA program anywhere. Ford is concise, comprehensive, and orthodox in his presentation. He also includes apologetical arguments for why many Catholic beliefs are true. In addition, the book contains discussion of how to get started in prayer and the spiritual life, and includes a compendium of essential Catholic prayers. He includes an excellent section for examination of conscience before confession.

Overall, I recommend the Missionary's Catechism highly to anyone.

This is a compilation of the funniest 4-book trilogy every written (not a typo), with one bonus book. It's bound in genuine bonded leather, and has a built-in page marker. It's easily mistaken for a bible. More importantly, it's got detailed instructions for leaving the planet before your phone bill arrives.

A great view on how the universe works. You'll be sure to go mad. But don't worry, it's worth it. Makes fun of us, humans, so primitive that we still think that digital watches are a neat idea. Some recent movie makers seem to have read this book; MIB, Contact and Event Horizon all seem to refer to the book in some way (Event Horizon refering directly to the Heart of Gold).

This book is full of details and has several tests with different modifications done. You can see the one that suits better with your ideas and with the much you can afford.
You will find simple modifications that yourself can do during the weekend and more complexing ones using nitrous and super chargers.

Although I ended up buying a Z-28 Camaro, this book is great. It has the dyno numbers and timeslips before and after the mods. This is very important because you can predict how much faster you'll be with the money you're about to spend. Most books don't provide timeslips which [stink]..the use of power is to make your car go faster. What use is knowing how much power you've got when you don't know if you can dust you're competition or not. Most of all, it covers the 96 to 98 style mustangs (which I was looking for) with the 4.6. Not many books are out there that cover these GT's.

It was amazing to read that many of the ideas and ideals around the turn of the twentieth century are still used today. Ford goes into great detail describing the origination of the Ford motor company, the labor force, the assembly line, and financial situations of the company. At a time when most of the male workers across the country were working for fifty cents a day, Ford incorporated a minimum wage of from three to five dollars a day. Henry Ford did a good job writing this book as well. There were several examples of sage advice include which are quoted by speakers and writers to this day. He was truly a visionary, business minded genius. The world was certainly improved by his presence. I'm looking forward to reading other of his works in the future.

Sometimes with the pace of business we don't take the time to review the thoughts and concepts of the great people of the past. When I read this book I was amazed at his level of thinking. We tend to believe that "our" generation is always coming up with the great thoughts and ideas. If this is your thinking you need to step back 100 years or so to the life and times of Henry Ford. All we are doing is reinventing what he did.

In my opinion, Philip Levine is perhaps the most honest poet writing in America today. As a master's candidate in an English department, I've endured much of the post-modern fluff that dominates modern poetry. In Levine's work, you won't find the typical introspective ramblings of the depressed modern poet. Levine approaches life in clear and distinct terms. There are images in these poems with ideas showing right through. Levine doesn't resort to petty academic parlor tricks to describe the disappearence of self--check out "Silent in America" for a portrait of a man with a voice so powerful that he cannot even use it.

Of prosody, Levine is also a master. These are not your basic "skinny prose" modern free verse poems. One will find design here with artfully buried rhymes and off rhymes. Levine also experiments quite successfully with both meter and syllabic verse. The amazine thing, however, is that unless you really pay attention to the work, you miss these things. Levine hypnotizes with his ideas and phrasing and clear, sharp images.

Here are the voices of the lost; here are the voices of the downtrodden. Levine has stepped away from academic games and has become a voice of the American poor in the Whitman tradition. As an epigraph in _Selected Poems_ reads, "Vivas for those who have failed."

Levine has had a great influence on me and my work. Anyone writing poetry should check out Levine's work. I'd recommend _What Work Is_ also. In my opinion, it's his best book.

Philip Levine¹s Collected Works is an amazing biography of a life. Spanning a so-far-incomplete life, we can follow Levine¹s progress of maturation. While the beginning poems are strong, it is the middle and end pieces that were the most startling, poems about the working class and later his son. His ability to mix narration and the more typical elements of poetry is extraordinary. Compare the first and last sentences of ³One For The Rose²: ³Three weeks ago I went back / to the same street corner where / 27 years before I took a bus for Akron, / Ohio, but now there was only a blank space / with a few concrete building blocks / scattered among the beer cans², ³Instead I was born / in the wrong year and in the wrong place, / and I made my way so slowly and badly / that I remember every single turn, / and each one smells like an overblown rose, / yellow, American, beautiful, and true.² Levine writes American poetry in the American diction better than anyone since Whitman or Sandburg. His language is conservative and seems simple at first, but when the poem blossoms we are all the more surprised and excited because of it. This book is a gem to read and contains a story, making it as hard to put down as your favorite novel.

This book was informative for me in that it brought a much deeper insight and understanding of the country and its people. This little island was so ravaged by France, England and America that it is no wonder that even today it remains one of the poorest, most disadvantaged countries in the world. There is evidence of remarkable research and documentation. The characters are well developed in personalities, beliefs and motives. The most outstanding character in the book is Toussaint Loverture, the slave who rose up with intelligence, courage and military expertise to inspire the fight for freedom from slavery. The dynamics between him and other military leaders represent fascinating reading. The switching of sides for personal gain was complex and the unbelieveable treachery against Loverture was devastating. Yet, in the face of overwhelming opposition he remained strong in persevering freedom for his people until the very end. He died a noble death and his principles should live on in the hearts of not only Haitians, but all the racially disadvantaged people in the world. An excellent historical novel!

This book,originally wrtitten in Dutch,is an exciting history of the only modern slave revolution. It is not a polemic for or against the Haitian people and makes no apologies for the atrocities committed by the French, Haitians, English and others who participated in the revolution. Rather is explains the motivations and thinking that led to the horrible bloodshed that is associated with the revolution.

The book conveys the politics and values of the time in a way that makes it fasinating reading, without making Toussaint or Dessaline cult heroes, or the French devils. It does, however, succeed in bringing the main characters to life, which adds greatly to the enjoyment of the book.

Published about the time of the first Woodstock 'happening,' this novel deals with anti-war protesters on a New England college campus. Well worth the read, for anyone who was there at the time. Wonder how the Vietnam protests came to be? Young (and middle-aged) people in Ford's story will show that it was all in motion at the beginning of the 1960s.

I always like to see where a writer is coming from. Dan Ford writes military history now, but he started out as a novelist, and this was his first published book. He's writing about the era just before Viet Nam, when JFK was in the White House and Bill Clinton was in high school. Instead of the draft, his students are scared of The Bomb, and they'd rather march for peace and try out for extracurricular sex than hit the books. The 1960s began long before the love-in at Woodstock!

This is a really fine first novel. The writing is snappy, the characters are real, and their worries are timeless. Read it! - Paddy

I find this book to be one of the best fairy tale books I've ever read. The illustrations are simply beautiful! The different plots and twists for each tale are interesting.

Lang was one of the first editors to collect multicultural fairy tales into one volume for readers. The Orange Fairy Book offers tales from many cultures. Included tales are The Girl-Fish, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, How the Stalos Were Tricked, The Adventures of a Jackal, Story of the King Who Would See Paradise, and many others. I have enjoyed the colored fairy books for years. Don't miss the great illustrations either.

I have read a lot of books about early aviation and especially Glenn Curtiss, and Mr. Carpenter's book is among the best. It has been very helpful to me to put the entire chronology of the Wright brothers and Curtis and the development of flight in perspective because of the way he organizes his information. This book is most helpful when read AFTER a Curtiss biography, such as Roseberry's book on Curtiss.

Pendulum is written for the serious student of early aviation history. Unlike most stories that focus on the Wright brothers' struggles before Dec. 17, 1903, this book delves into what happened AFTER Kitty Hawk.

In 1908 Glenn Curtiss won the Scientific American Magazine trophy for the first public flight in America. It was he, not the Wright brothers, who received instant fame and glory. He built and sold civilian airplanes while they focused on a single sale to the American, British or French Army.

The book explains how early chronicles touted Glenn Curtiss, not the Wrights, as the pioneer of aviation. Thousands of Curtiss JN-4 "Jennys" were used to train WW-I pilots. Today the pendulum has swung to the opposite extreme. Few people know of Curtiss, inventer of the flying boat and father of naval aviation, but everyone has seen the photo of Orville Wright's famous "First Flight" at Kitty Hawk.

In a sometimes dry account, Jack Carpenter meticulously compares step-by-step progress of the three men, with more rare photos than any other book. He tells how they were influenced by Alexander Graham Bell, inventer of the telephone, and Henry Ford, the father of mass produced automobiles.

Having studied the lives of all three men, I think Pendulum is the only book that gives an unbiased account of the bitter patent lawsuit that delayed the growth of American aviation for 10 years.