I absolutely LOVE this book. It's an adorable sing songy rhyming story written with childlike wild imagination and great pictures. It's a story they will never tire of hearing. It's perfect for a child expecting a new baby sibling but we are not and it's still one of our favorite books to read! Great baby shower gift.

This was my son's favorite story the months before I had my second son. A tired, rather pregnant mother doesn't have the energy to play with her son, so he imagines that having playmates like a moose, a chimp, birds or even a crocodile would be great. Lynne Fairbridge does a wonderful job of rhyming and repetition. Even after the 100th reading (I swear I'm not exaggerating), the story still brings a smile to my face. Not to ruin the surprise ending, but when God send a "brand new baby brother", my children shout out the ending. They even ran into the hospital room after the birth of their brother,shouting, "Where's my brand new baby brother?"

I am a firm believer that reading, memorizing and studying Scripture is best done in context. It helps me tremendously to be familiar with who the author is, when the book was written and a little background on where and why it was written. What the Bible is All About answers these questions plus many more. Now, when I begin to study a specific book in the Bible or simply want a little background on a passage I'm reading, I turn to this book as a complementary tool. I highly recommend it as an addition to any Believer's library!

Front cover says it is a Bible handbook but it is also like a commentary. I like it as a study guide as I am reading the bible. It give an excellent overview of every book in the Bible. A very user friendly book to help you understand the Bible. I like it. Check it out and I think you will want to add it to your collection.

Jerry's life is out of control. He has wound up in prison and now he is in the hole. This is a place few of us can even imagine. It is where convicts are sent for punisment. A place where even the flies won't land. Into this dark hell comes a man of God to deliver the good news to a man who wants nothing to do with God. Is he beyond help? Is anyone beyond help? This book will make you rethink things you have been taught all your life. You will look at people differently. You will look at yourself differently. And you will look at Jesus differently.

Well I was icarserated I received this book from a pastor and I could not put it down.It is a book that I can say pointed me home.

My wife bought this book as a christmas present... for my son zach. It has been my son's favorite book ever since. It has been read so much that my son can recite the whole book by heart, and the tabs are all but worn out. My son enjoys the hunt for all the items that Zak hides in the book and it keeps his intrest for hours. I highly recomend this book for anyone with preschool kids.

Although I bought this book for my daughter, I enjoyed it as much as she did. Zak is an adorable, tiny tooth fairy who comes into the house to collect a tooth but he also hides objects. So while reading the book you are lifting flaps, pulling tabs and looking for tiny objects. The illustrations are extremely detailed and adorable. This book also contains over 65 flaps and tabs, more than any other lift-the-flap book I have read. The recommended age is 4-8 but I would recommend this book for any age (including adults) person who enjoys unique interactive books!

This story really touched my heart in the end, when Arthur thought he was never going to ever going to be a pet of anybody, then all of a sudden a little girl comes and takes him. I'm sure that really felt good for that dog. This story is funny in some ways when he trys to act like another animal. That has a lotta laughs in it. This is a good story to a person who thinks they will never get accepted by anybody, because you know that someday you will always be accepted. Great story!!!!!!!!!

Arthur is a plain brown dog in a pet shop who sees pets of various kinds being purchased each day. When he sees several of a certain kind of pet purchased each day, he practices trying to be the type of pet that is in demand in the evenings after the store is closed, but each time, the following morning customers seem to be interested in a different kind of pet than what he has been emulating. Finally, someone comes in looking for a plain brown dog, and he realizes that he just needs to be himself. Just by being himself, and waiting patiently, he finds that someone wants him.

There are many people who go through life doing the same sort of thing as Arthur, but unfortunately, many of them never realize that they only need to act naturally for others to accept them. I think that there is a lesson in this story that people of every age can learn.

This is an excellent book. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the reasons for their being. It is well written and thought provoking.

Graham shares a very unique experience in his life . An experience that ultimately changes his entire perception of reality as we know it. This book may not be meant for everyone, but for the seekers of knowledge and truth, it is definitely a book to read and share with other enlightened souls.

...Mr. Masterton takes into mind not only women like me but also women who are recently divorced or split from their boyfriend and gives each of us tricks and advice that really teaches you how to make love to your man for the first time. How to please him and make sure you are still enjoying yourself.
I would recommend this book for anyone who wants help on how to handle starting a new sexual relationship whether you have prior to now or never have before. It is an excellent book.

Graham Master wins again.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, as I have all of Graham Masterton's books. He is an inspiration to anyone who wants to transform their love lives, and their relationships. He has been instrumental in doing this for me and my husband of 25 years. I cannot tell you how much his books have meant to us, it is like we are on a second honeymoon, and our relationship is brand new again. I owe it all to Graham's books, they are truly a work of art, I am anxiously awaiting a new book.

This book contains real practicality, not just empty theory. Talk about "put your money where your mouth is" - Hugh lives on a remote spit of land in Northern Scotland that doesn't even have roads, much less access to the power grid. If necessity is the mother of invention, there's good reason why he was highly motivated to develop the kinds of simple airfoils and low speed alternator combinations that produced real power. This rudimentary experience has taken him all over the world for installations and workshops. I guess having someone like that around makes him a pretty popular guy with his neighbors.

This book covers the theory necessary to understand wind energy basics, and proceeds as a how-to manual on shaping a simple turbine out of wood. It then shows how to build a low speed alternator out of a brake drum. (There is another book by Hugh called "Brake Drum Windmill Handbook" which goes into more detail).

The challenge is building an electrical generating system that operates at the slow rotational speeds of a wind turbine (e.g. 300 - 500 RPM). Everybody wants to hook up an automobile alternator, but even if it is optimized for high output at an idle, it probably will not start producing power until it reaches 1800 RPM. (Typically the engine/alternator pulleys have a ratio of 3 or 3.5 to 1 and the engine idles @ 600 RPM).

A great little book.

I found this book to be very informative. Not all of my questions were answered, but I now feel that I have a basic grasp of how to design and build my own scrapyard wind turbine. If you are interested in this I highly recommend this book for your collection of reference materials.

Zarate has written an first-rate review of this excellent book but may unintentionally suggest that the value of the book will be greatest for "mature" organizations when, in fact, small-to-midsize organizations also have an urgent need to "design and implement scorecards" by which to obtain accurate measurements of various kinds. My own opinion is that their need is indeed greater because they have fewer resources available and narrower margins for error. Therefore, organizational waste and incompetence can have much greater impact. Aphorisms which endure express an essential truth. For example, "You can't manage what you can't measure." There may be some exceptions but not many. What Brown accomplishes in this book is to provide and then explain a cohesive, comprehensive, and cost-effective system which accommodates most organizations' needs for operational metrics and plans, for strategic metrics and plans, and then for implementation of the "scoreboard" after it has been devised. He identifies ten "Mistakes" which create barriers to addressing these separate but related needs:

1. Tracking output/outcome metrics that cannot be influenced or controlled

2. Gathering data that tells you what you already know

3. Gathering data for its own sake

NOTE: Brown and I apparently disagree about "data" which I consider a plural.

4. Relying heavily [too heavily] on customer satisfaction surveys

5. Executives focusing on detailed metrics

6. Measures that are not linked to the strategic plan

NOTE: Kaplan and Norton have much of great value to said about this in their most recent book, The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment

7. Failing to define Practical Correlations between [and among] key metrics

8. Reporting data that is difficult to read and analyze

9. "Superstitious" process metrics

10. Measures that drive the wrong performance

Brown explains how and why such "Mistakes" are made, how to correct them, and also how to avoid repeating them. For purposes of illustration, let's say your organization needs to improve performance in these three areas: Cycle Time, First Pass Yield, and On-Time Delivery. Although separate, they are also interdependent. Obviously there are problems which need to be solved. More often than not, a corrective action responds to symptoms rather than to root causes. We all know that many (most?) of those involved in any organizational process (regardless of nature and extent) fear change, resent what they perceive to be criticism of their performance, and will therefore resist (perhaps sabotage) efforts to transform the status quo. Hence the importance of formulating the correct metrics, applying them where they will generate the data needed, and -- meanwhile -- ensuring that the "score" kept is appropriate to whatever "game" is being played.

This book goes a long way towards helping organizations actually implement balanced scorecards instead of giving them lip service. It also shows what to measure and why, and gives a list of measurement mistakes that render many company's balanced scorecard efforts meaningless.

Unlike Kaplan's and Norton's seminal (and decade old) book, "The Balanced Scorecard", this book is short on theory and heavy on practical applications. This is not a criticism of "The Balanced Scorecard" - just recognition of the fact that in the ensuing decade since that book was first published there have been lesson's learned about what does and does not work. The author distills these lesson's learned into this slim, content-filled book.

What I like most is the author clearly links metrics to vision, mission and strategy. This is what a balanced scorecard is supposed to be about, but this is not always so in practice. He also sorts out the difference between basic business indicators and critical success factors, which is augmented by an outstanding discussion (throughout the book) on top measurement mistakes, and a liberal sprinkling of tips throughout the book.

Probably the most valuable parts of the book are Part 3, where step-by-step procedures are given to implement an *effective* scorecard, and the appendices which contain case studies drawn from real organizations and actual scorecards. The examples given are worth their weight in gold and elevate this book from the theoretical to realistic and practical. My highest recommendation and 5 solid stars.

The author really knows how to transmit the subject matter to his audiance. I was really impressed by his approach. He begins by creating a big picture and then proceeds to show you how each element fits into the whole scheme of things. This is all done in simple straight-forward english. I strongly recommend the book to both beginners and inter-mediate web developers. This one is a keeper.

This is a good book, albeit somewhat misnamed--it should be called "Web Development and Management." The first part of the book reviews XHTML, HTML, XML and CSS and their role in Web development--this is great information and is the first thing I've read that clearly outlines how all of this fits together. The second part provides a lot of information for managing web projects--everything from site and application design approaches to understanding how to deal with technical issues like making pages load quickly and designing for various browsers. There is a lot of valuable information here. The last part reviews CGI processing on servers and outlines many of the tools available for developing web applications, for content and site management (link checkers, performance monitors etc.)--all really useful, although some of the content will be somewhat out of date. Fortunately, the book web site seems to have been updated and contains other information including an extremely useful online reference page.