Compelling. Convicting. Encouraging.
This book inspires the reader to live a passionate, God-centered, Gospel-filled life as they study what it means to suffer for Christ. Much more than a history of Christian martyrs, this book powerfully equips the reader to see the purpose of God in suffering so that their faith might triumph in the day of adversity. A must read for Pastors, Missionaries, Seminarians, and all involved in Christian ministry. The message of this book is vital for the Church in our day.

This is a book that forces the reader to think seriously about the believer's relationship to suffering. Jesus said, "The servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you" (John 15:20). Jesus' statement is something with which believers in Jesus must come to terms. This book helps you come to terms with it. It does not put you on a guilt trip. Rather, it points you to Christ as the power of God to enable you to embrace persecution and suffering for His name's sake when it comes. The title might better be read as "Martyrdom: The Final Triumph of Faith IN THE GOSPEL."

A must read!

Practical Insights into the Mechanics of Conflict January 6, 2003
I read this book nearly 10 years ago and found it very helpful. As a pastor of over 23 years and a survivor of a few humdinger conflicts, it was comforting to know that conflicts have patterns. It also helped me control my own responses.

I wouldn't wish church conflicts on a dog, but they seem to come (to most of us in the ministry, not dogs!) no matter what precautions we take. But they can often be contained early, and this book can help. It will also help you accept that conflict is common and to be expected, therefore leading us to the conclusion that one should be as prepared as possible. The chapters are all pretty good, but those written by Speed Leas excel.

The time to read this book is before (or early on)conflict begins. Every pastor needs to be prepared for what is inevitable. Lay leaders (board members, etc.) can also benefit from this book. Also helpful would be Terry Muck's book, "When to Take A Risk."

The authors approach Church Management from their various perspectives, but all seem to have a grip on managing a church, everywhere from facilities to staff to offering security to planning.

This is a fine book with some great specific suggestions.

I agree is a must for secretaries that are starting out on the field or currently working as well. I use this book when I am training a new secretary or intern in the firm I work for. It is a wonderful reference book to find quick answers to questions I may have. It is also the book I recommend secretaries to buy first. It would be great is this Legal Secretaries Handbook is easily available.

After being out of the legal field for over 10 years, this book was a Godsend! Every procedure, document or legal term I had forgotten was mentioned and explained in precise, yet easy to understand terms. I ordered this book while beginning to send out resumes to legal secretary help wanted ads. It gave me great insight on cover letters, resumes, thank you letters and tips on interviewing. After sending out just seven resumes, I received two offers to interview within 24 hours. I accepted an offer from the second firm and by reading this book, I was able to walk in on my first day on the job feeling confident that my skills were up-to-date. And, if I come across a term or procedure I am not familiar with, I know that I will find the answer in this book. This is a must own for legal secretaries everywhere, those that are new or not so new to the profession.

do yourself a favor and buy this on tape. listen to it while driving, or whatever, and your heart will dance!

This abridged edition of selected passages is well done. The readers express wonderful emotion. The translation is fresh and I was touched. This is a great supplemental resource for anyone who loves the Word of God. This tape left me wanting more! I recommend this audiotape highly.

Tom did not learn to read until just a few years ago... after he was already a self made millionaire. My jaw dropped when I heard his story after he won the Horatio Alger award. He is so nice, so inspiring, and so real. You will enjoy this book. I like the part, it makes me laugh, when he talks about a vacation he took with his family once and it flooded. Don't want to give it away, but the part where he runs through the flood waters to grab the boat made me laugh for days. There's more to the story, you just have to read the book to get the scoop!

Motivating and inspiring. The story of overcoming severe health problems as a child, battling illiteracy, building a multi-million dollar business and sharing success with others. The Millionaire's Secret gives us all a ray of hope that anything is possible to those who persevere.

This is an excellent resource for those interested in the development of modern Mission theory. The book is produced in a concise dictionary format, with articles on over 70 prominent figures from a variety of traditions. Each article provides a biographical overview of the subject personality, a summary of their main contributions to Mission, and a discussion of their central writings. Articles conclude with a select bibliography of foundational sources that provides the reader with an excellent starting point for further reading and research.

Because the book focuses upon those in Mission who have left a literary record, there are few women who are examined in these pages. Women missionaries (generally) tended not to write treatises on mission theory and practice. So, even though they were central to Christian Mission during the time period covered, they are virtually absent from this volume. This should not be counted as a fault, however. Rather, the reader should keep in mind the limits of what the book covers.

This book should be in the library of anyone interested in Christian Mission. Excellent.

Mission Legacies is an attractive, durable hardback book of missionary biographical articles published by the American Society of Missiology through Orbis Books. It is divided into several major divisions: "Promoters and Interpreters," "Theologians and Historians,""Theorists and Strategists," and "Administrators." The chapters of this book first appeared as articles in the "International Bulletin of Missionary Research" beginning in 1977. Chapter assignments were made in a "serendipitous fashion over a period of about twenty years", as editors chose well-known contemporary church historians to write the biographical profiles.

Some of the famous 75 names are from the late 1700's, but most are from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were chosen without regard for disciplinary, national, or denominational backgrounds, though there are only six women and six representatives of the two-thirds world among them. This will no doubt be different if a later edition is published.

Though the articles are scholarly, they are very readable and interesting. This will serve primarily as a reference book, but lovers of world missions and biography will find themselves often dipping into it for information and inspiration. I was pleased to find such diversity as Pius XI and William Carey, such educators and promoters as A.J. Gordon, John R. Mott and W.O. Carver, and such famous missionaries as David Livingstone, Hudson Taylor and Lottie Moon. I was glad to see historians like Kenneth Scott Latoureette and Stephen Neill, such innovative missionaries as Frank Laubach and E. Stanley Jones and such missions strategists as John Nevius, Roland Allen, D.T. Niles and Donald McGavran. In these pages, students of world Christianity "can gain insight into the spiritual and human dynamics that produced the modern Christian missionary movement". This book, now in its fourth printing, should be of interest to all students of World Christianity and Mission.

Burnham and Anderson have put together a scholarly account of the developments in model selection techniques from the information theoretic viewpoint. This is an important practical subject. As computer algorithms become more and more available for fitting models and data mining and exploratory analysis become more popular and used more by novices, problems with overfitting models will again raise their ugly heads. This has been an issue for statisticians for decades. But the problems and the art of model selection has not been commonly covered in elementary courses on statistics and regression. George Box puts proper emphasis on the iterative nature of model selection and the importance of applying the principle of parismony in many of his books. Classic texts on regression like Draper and Smith point out the pitfalls of goodness of ift measures like R-square and explain Mallows Cp and adjusted R-square. There are now also a few good books devoted to model selection including the book by McQuarrie and Tsai (that I recently reviewed for Amazon) and the Chapman and Hall monograph by A. J. Miller.

Burnham and Anderson address all these issues and provide the best coverage to date on bootstrap and cross-validation approaches. They also are careful in their historical account and in putting together some coherence to the scattered literature. They are thorough in their references to the literature. Their theme is the information theoretic measures based on the Kullback-Liebler distance measure. The breakthrough in this theory came from Akaike in the 1970s and improvements and refinement came later. The authors provide the theory, but more importantly, they provide many real examples to illustrate the problems and show how the methods work.

They also refer to the recent work in Bayesian methods. Chapter 1 is a great introduction that everyone should read. Being a fan of the bootstrap I was interested in their coverage of it in chapters 4, 5 and 6 (much of which is the authors' own work).

Because the authors work in biological fields they cover survival models as well as the standard time series and regression models where most of the emphasis has been placed on model selection in the past.

It is a great reference source and an important book for learning about model selection as part of the inferential process. The pictures of the famous contributors inserted throughout the book is also nice to see. We have Akaike, Boltzmann, Shibata, Kullback, and Liebler brought to life in photographs or sketches.

Statistical data analysis usually goes through cycles of exploring and looking for patterns in data, often through model construction, analyzing residuals and modifying model fits, until all unusual features being explained. Though this practice has been going on for more than 100 years, it has not been closely examined to see whether the fact that your analysis based on the best fitted model using the same data set should be biased, or plainly you cheated by over-analyzing your data. This book by the two productive authors say yes, and you should rethink about what you have been doing. A highly applaudable and timely efforts on the part of the authors, considering that the trend of over-analyzing your data is increasing rapidly with recent explosion of data and intensive computer analysis in the data mining industry. It's not as hopeless or bad as you think, and there are ways to avoid pitfalls and there may exist ways of making some valid inference out of this model selection process. So enjoy reading this book and think!

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I thought Moonlight & Mistletoe was an excellent read. Keepsake by Ms. Reeves was a wonderful story about Gary and Kim. Gary who was much older than Kimberly. But, he proved to be just what she needed. It was a tender story that kept you turning the pages. Next was Imani by Ms. Anderson. I think this was my favorite. It spoke about abuse and healing. A city girl found just what she needed in a small town. Her boyfriend was a jerk in the biggest sense of the word. It didn't know what I don't want to see you anymore meant. Lastly New Year, New Beginning by Ms. Poarch. It thought this story was really good also. A woman found herself in love with her deceased husband's best friend. She found that her life could go on. All the stories were beautiful. It you have not read this wonderful book, I suggest you do.

"Moonlight and Mistletoe" is Arabesque's 1997 year-end holiday collection. There is something for everyone: a Christmas, a Kwanzaa and a New Year's story. The collection holds together very well. The writers and their works are evenly matched. Adrienne Ellis Reeves' Christmas story, "Keepsake," is a sweet story. But Reeves' fans have come to expect that from her. As in her novels, "Change of Heart" and "Heaven Knows," this story has all of the full-bodied warmth of romance and love without all the steam. Reeves dislikes loose ends. Characters from other works who don't quite live happily ever after are not forgotten. They get their own stories. "Keepsake" is the story of divorced father Gary Raeford whom we met in "Heaven Knows." He has moved past his attraction to Glennette Percy in that novel to pursue the widow, Kimberly Williams. "Imani" is Bridget Anderson's Kwanzaa story. Can a girl from Atlanta--with an unfulfilling job and an abusive, philandering ex-boyfriend--find happiness in a small town with a sensitive hunk? Just watch her! "A New Year, A New Beginning" is the tender story of love among the 40-somethings, a rarity among romance novels. Candice Poarch has crafted a funny, grown-up story about a widow and her husband's best friend and business partner. This is not "old folks at home." It's a mature story about timeless love, realization, priorities and new beginnings.

I am currently studying to become a medical transcriptionist. I've utilized and compared numerous different medical dictionaries: Dorland's, Taber's, Stedman's, Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, and now Mosby's. Mosby's is an exceptionally fine reference work, and is always accessed first when I need to make an inquiry. Dorland's has the broadest field of definitions, but they have an irritating substition for what have become standard pronunciation guidelines in most collegiate dictionaries. Mosby's pronunciation guidelines mirror the superior trend set by the Merriam-Webster dictionaries, whether medical or standard collegiate. In addition, the Mosby's reference is littered with full-color photographs, illustrations, and useful appendix-type system review supplements in the introduction that provide a more visceral grasp of the subject matter. Like the AMA's 'Encyclopedia of Medicine,' the graphic nature of the text can be alarming, but is appropriate considering the gravity of the material presented. It is priced very reasonably. I keep my Dorland's accessible in case I can't find what I need, but I haven't had to seriously use it. Like the yellow pages, the Mosby's dictionary is 'the one that gets used'!

I bought Mosby's because it's easy to read and look up medical terms. I'm learning the language and this book is formatted for easy readability. The numerous illustrations are all in color which I found informative. It's definitely a user-friendly dictionary.