This is not a bad book. The author seems sincere enough. He (yes, Lynn is a 'he') made an honest attempt to answer his question. I almost finished reading it; so that's pretty good.

Dr. Anderson does a great job of helping people deal w/ overcoming the obstacles that they encounter when they become a Christians. Anderson does a great job of describing how the doubts that we have will be with us throuhout our Christian life, but there are ways of overoming them. This book is a must have for every Christian!

I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to learn about neural networks. It starts with a good overview of the biological basis that will be appropriate for the engineering student. The author is witty and appropriately cynical.

This is one of the best books I have ever read. It introduces neural networks, with a strong emphasis on biological plausibility. For example, the book compares the visual systems of simple animals with neural network feature extraction. Anderson moves effectively among evolutionary biology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and behavioral psychology. His insights are important, clear, and often funny as well. The book gently introduces source code for implementing the various neural networks that he describes.

This book is extremely well written and is a must have for anyfamily's bookshelves. It details childhood problems and helps parentsdecipher when their child's problems are "more than just a phase". I found it to be a huge help. Not only does this book discuss the symptoms of phases; it also describes how to treat these "phases". I really recommend this book for all parents, with children of any age.

I especially liked the examples and vignettes given by the author(s). After reading this book, I was able to better recognize and deal with the behaviors my children were exhibiting. Thanks for a tremendous help and guide!

This book made me think about how I act in certain situations and how other kids feel sometimes. We can always learn from our mistakes and do better the next time. My mom says that we should try to be nice to everyone and include them, but sometimes it is hard. We should think about how others feel too.

Great book and it was easy to read.

This book tought me to always wont to help people. I always try to make people feal like they fit in with the crowd. The prayers made me feal good in side they also help me with everydy life. the problems realt to me and help me everyday. Ijust love the book!

I thought this book was REALLY good. I can
relate to the situations of some of the girl's
stories. I think it is really cool how there's
a short story, then there is a bible verse and
a closing prayer about their situation. This
book helped me know that I am not alone in doing
some things. This book also helped me know what
other girls did in their situations.

This is a really NEAT book!

When my now 22-31 year old children were very small...I stumbled across this book. Each night before dinner, we did the reading and prayer, and placed the ornament on a bare branch taken from one of our trees. Some nights were harder than others to make the time, (and to try to make sure that the beginning readers didn't have the longest and hardest readings!), but until they reached the college years, we did it! It is one of my fondest memories, as well as theirs. Now, I'm buying copies for their families...the roots grow deep when you plant with love.

The Jesse tree is a "tree" decorated with symbols of the forbearers of Jesus. They provide a devotion through Advent that teaches (or reminds one of) the Old Testament stories. There is no set group of stories that constitute an official Jesse tree, which allows the creative to adjust the tradition to meet specific needs. For those of us who need help with the art, this is an excellent collection with art that can be cut out and hung (the devotion will appear on the back of the ornament) or can be used in book form, simply leaving the appropriate symbol visible for the day. Of course, there are as many other options as those using the booklet can invent. The booklet also suggests which symbols should be omitted when Advent is less than its maximum length.

For each symbol a scriptural reading is suggested, a short reflection is given as is a final prayer.

Symbols include: the Jesse tree, the birth of life, Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, Father Abraham, Isaac and the ram, Jacob and his dream, a symbol of prophecy, Jospeh and his coat, Moses and the law, the blessing of Aaron, Samuel and the Word of the Lord, David, symbol of shepherds, the wisdom of Solomon, Elijah and the Raven, Elisha and healing, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Nehemiah the builder, angels, Zechariah and Elizabeth, Virgin Mary, Magnificat, the birth of John the Baptizer, Joseph of Nazareth, the symbol of Bethlehem and the birth of the Lord.

My only quibble with the list is that, in keeping with the geneology of Matthew, I would like to see Ruth included.

I bought this book for my niece awhile back and ended up having to buy one for my children. Its a wonderfully illistrated book, so easy for young children to understand & enjoy! My niece spent hours begging everyone & anyone to read her "Just a little bit more...". I highly recommend it to everyone!

My sister bought this children's Bible for our 5 y/o daughter last Christmas. We have never seen a more comprehensive version of the Bible written for children! The illustrations are bright and colorful and the stories are written in larger bold text so that a beginning reader can follow along as the parent is reading aloud. There are also pertinent Bible verses at the beginning of each chapter. Both the Old and New Testaments' stories are presented in a way that is fun and interesting for your child. The book is thick, but small and easy for young hands to grasp. This book would make a perfect gift for any child to cherish and read over and over again!

This is an excellent beginner's guide to UNIX. The book explains the basics very well and the excellent exercises at the end of each chapter, helps a person apply the new knowledge to use.

I would recommend this book to anybody learning UNIX for the first time.

A very easy to learn book for people who are new to Unix.

I love this book. Unrequited love, casual sex, run-in's with ex-boyfriends, you'll find it all here. Single girls, pull up a chair. "Just One of Those Things" tells the stories of young ladies on the lookout, looking for love, finding love, having love, losing love. Perrier's poems tell these stories with wit, wisdom and grace.

A few of my favorites: In "Meeting You: A Definitive Plan," a girl desperate for connection falls for a stranger in a fish shop. "On the Principle of Pairing in Nature" is the story of a young woman stalking the wild prairies of night clubs and happy hours to find a suitable mate, without much luck.

Best title: "Ass," which fires off, "Sure, my ex tells me, you can say 'ass'/with anything. For emphasis especially." With humor and bitterness, the narrator relates running into her ex at a backyard party and suffering small talk about how he has a crush on a girl at the office who has a fondness for "black bras and tattoos."

"Academic Affairs," about a fantasy love affair with a colleague, wins the prize for best first line: "Why don't you love me, and we can hit the road together,/cruise the lecture circuit and tell other single people/about the work it takes to make it work." And it only gets better with: "This is how/itinerant scholars of loss communicate: quote, footnote." This line breaks my heart, every single time.

"Just One of Those Things" finishes off with a fury. "Fresh," a stunning long poem, takes the reader on a break-neck journey back to a time of heady sexual exploration while mapping the wilds of the adolescent heart..

With humor, sass and sex appeal, Perrier writes new love lyrics for the new age. Sarah Perrier is the next big thing. Mark my words.

What a great book! I picked up a friend's copy of "Just One of Those Things" and couldn't put it down until I finished the whole thing. The voices in these poems knocked me out - strong, clear, desperate and ferocious. Great stories. There's a world of heart in these poems. Beautiful and surprising, every single one.

In "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows," Poul Anderson did the nearly impossible and unthinkable before this book. He managed to get Dominic Flandry to grow up.

Before this book, Flandry, while a brilliant secret agent for the Terran Empire, always was a bit juvenile, and reveled in it. He figured that if he was going to die soon anyway (as secret agents rarely live long lives), why not make the best of it? So, he slept with many lissome women, ate lots of good food, and drank lots of great liquor along the way.

His other attributes, of loyalty, self-sacrifice, intelligence, a certain type of shifty honesty unusual in a secret agent -- well, they always were underplayed, partly because Flandry was an interstellar James Bond and that might not have been "sexy," and partly because Flandry looked at them as bad qualities.

Well, no wonder. The Terran Empire was in decay, and only people like him were holding it together, before the advent of this book. At the start of this book, Hans Molitor has seized the throne -- with Flandry's blessing, as at least he was a strong military man, and as he was better than any of the other contenders for the throne. And trouble's brewing all over the Empire . . . .

Without the trouble, there's no way Flandry would have been able to go off on his own. He's now in his 40s, and although he's still an international bon vivant, he's not the same man he used to be. He's found out he has a son, Dominic Hazeltine, by Persis D'Io (the dancer in "Ensign Flandry), and he's starting to perhaps slow down a bit in his travels.

But his mind is as keen as ever, so when an exotic, aristocratic slave girl from Dennitza shows up, his interest is piqued. The more he finds out, the more upset he gets. Then, he flits off with her, to find out the truth -- which is more shattering than he ever expected.

He does run into Aycharaych again, but it's almost more of an afterthought. Because before this book is done, his life stands in ruin, and about all he has left is his honor, pride, and a job well done -- rather than the life he'd briefly glimpsed in the eyes of Kossara, the Dennitzan slave girl (who never should have been sold for slavery).

As he destroys Aycharaych, he realizes that nothing, but nothing, can bring back love -- and wonders what's next for him. These are astonishingly adult thoughts for Flandry, and extremely moving.

This book deserves over five stars because of how moving and heart-wrenching it is for Flandry to go through all this. I truly believed in his pain, while enjoying his witty repartee with Chives (his Shalmuan body-servant/cook/batman/everything), Kossara, and son Dominic. Flandry is no intellectual lightweight, and he really does have a heart. Excellent book; truly one of Anderson's best (and I've read most of his output).

Btw, "A Stone in Heaven" is also another great book about Flandry in his age -- I recommend that one, too, extremely highly.

Anderson's recurring hero, Dominic Flandry, is like Horatio Hornblower, shown at different points of his career. In this, he is middle-aged, with a grown son...and in his final battle with a mind-reading foe from an elder race he has fought many times before. It is their final battle, and in it Flandry is not only betrayed, but goes through a self-betrayal of many of the principles he believes in. In this one, Flandry ceases to be a pleasure-loving, decadent Simon Templer, and instead shows true depth of character, and indeed, true tragedy, on several fronts. Easily the best of all the Flandry books, which is high praise indeed

Many authors research their subjects. A select few, including Steven L. Herman, *know* their subjects. He is a journalist with extensive work and travel experience in Asia. The adventures of his protagonist are thus true to life, and yet the surprising twist of fate which befalls Lewis Cody shows the reader that Mr. Herman is a truly versatile author -- a journalist who knows his venue, and a compelling storyteller as well.

I have just had the pleasure of reading "Last Assignment" by Steven Herman. I found it to be worlds above the usual, run-of-the-mill novels that seem to be currently flooding the market.

It's a bit unusual in some aspects, but I felt this actually added to its charms. I admit this is probably a bit of a "guy's book" but I found it extremely entertaining anyway.

I suppose I ought to explain what I meant by a "bit unusual." The author writes in an engaging first-person viewpoint, as though he is telling the story to you directly. I personally found that to be a bit unusual, since I tend to like third-person narrators a bit better. In spite of my personal preferences, I found myself enjoying the narrator's voice nonetheless. In retrospect, as I said, this actually added to the book's appeal.

Also, the book is a unique combination of an overriding plot along with smaller, "mini-plots." This, too, was unique and actually made the book more like real-life.

In the middle of reading this--because the author and publisher claim the book was based on real-life events--I checked on the web for some places where the story supposedly took place, and they really are actual places. I thought that was pretty cool, especially since he writes about some really out-of-the-way places. I felt like the author really knew what he was talking about and you could tell he's actually lived in the places he writes about.

Anyway, a great book! I'd highly recommend it to anyone!