There are not many books available on ministerial ethics. With the rise in sexual impropriety, financial mismanagement, and other scandalous conduct, Joe Trull and James Carter provide some much needed insight for clergy today. I have been in the pastoral ministry for twenty years, and I cannot think of one ethical issue for ministers they have not addressed. Being written by two Southern Baptists, this volume is understandably most appealing to fellow Baptists. Still, the tone of the chapters and the treatment of the issues are presented in such a way as to apply to all ministers, regardless of denomination.

I recommend this title very highly. Too many ministers have a shallow understanding of the broad range of ethical issues confronting clergy in the 21st century. This book is very readable, and would be a valuable asset on any pastor's bookshelf. Well worth the price!

Al Carter takes a dry, difficult to understand subject and uses his co-author, Larry Lymphocyte, a cytotoxic-T-cell, to enlighten not only the reader but also Al Carter about the importance of minerals to the human body. I feel people need to know why we need to take mineral supplements to ensure the health of our cells. A must read for all health conscious people. I give the book an A+. Way-to-go Al Carter.

For those who ride on motorcycles in the state of Mississippi, this is a great book to have in your saddle bags. It gives interesting insights into who, what and why things occured.

Professor Smith contributes a highly readable, erudite, study of the Carter administation. He fairly examines its shortcomings, and tries to explain how Carter's attempt to meld morality and real politics failed. A must read for students of the period, and a good source for further research. To be fair, Professor Smith was a Professor of mine.

This book is great for little kids. They get to learn colors. Plus, pictures pop out! A great learning book.

Schiff has done a lucid job here for the readers,he writes quite well, not slipping into piles of set theory or analytical jargoneze,that speaks to a diminishing elite. Many have labeled Carter an elite creator,but that's a matter of reference(well Carter did walk out on a performance in Chicago due to Leonard Slatkin's pre-concert remarks). Schiff remarkably covers all the great Carter works, the turbulent works of the Sixties and Seventies, the darkly brooding Piano Concerto(written in West Berlin) and the Concerto for Orchestra,a Sixties work of violence, a reflection on the Anti-War Times. The latter unaccompanied solos are all here as well, all works written,for the most part after the First Edition. Schiff frequently reflects upon what works in a piece, a purely function premise that explains much, and is food for thought to any youngster hoping to someday write just like Elliot Carter. I miss the photographs from the First Edition, those with Stravinsky and Boulez, and the Carter manuscript reproductions included there. Schiff seems quite lucid in speaking about all this complexity whether rhythmic,structural or pitchbound. I didn't know for instance that Carter has kept a harmony book, sort of a creative Oracle to refer to over ones life. The chapters divide things again quite clearly, The Chamber Music, The Vocal Music, The Piano Music and Orchestral, with a nice Appendix of Carter's Listing of Three to Six Note Chords, also a Chronological Catalogue of Works, a select Bibliography and Discography, a List of Charts. A shame however is, although the winner of numerous Pulitzers, Carter until quite recent times has been neglected here in this country fighting in his home territory, the Eastern Musical Establishment and the Bernstein Clique of the Sixties and Seventies. Boulez did much to repair this damage with The New York Philharmonic and now Barenboim has in Chicago, as well as premiere ensembles,Arditti and soloists,Chas Rosen and Ms Oppens. Schiff also always points to Carter's extracurricular interests in literature, where he frequently finds an impetus for a work, as well as the Italian language for a conceptual working premise. The Glossary at the beginning also is a wonderful clarifier, of forms we frequently hear about but seldom understand within the context of the subsequent work these terms refer to.

I've just started to use this book as my morning meditation. So far I find it very deep and rich as each day offers a different experience with the Most Blessed Sacrament.

This book was the best. Not only did they have good facts, but awesome pictures too. Definatly a keeper.

Carter Dickson (the pen name of prolific detective story writer John Dickson Carr) came up with one of his best and most chilling tales in this rare venture into the world of the serial killer.

Roger Bewlay is a Bluebeard type who woos and marries timid women and then kills them, yet manages to hide the bodies where the police cannot find them. Having struck 4 times before World War 2, his tracks are obliterated by the chaos of wartime. But then, in gloomy postwar London, the manuscript of a play by an unknown author turns up, a play with some startling insights into Bewlay's methods...

To say more would be telling! Bewlay is one of the writer's most frightening and best-realised characters and the climax, set in a storm-wracked mansion used for wartime training, is a cracker.

Conoisseurs of detective, suspense, even horror fiction should enjoy this atmospheric tale.

The thing that's so special about this book, what sets it apart form other vampire books.. are the characters.. their humanities. You will fall head over heals in love with these characters.. Jackeb, the eccentric madman that you love to hate, but love non-the-less.. Auggie! OMG, AUGGIE! The sweet, sweet aged and all powerful oracle.. beautiful, clumsy, vivid and lovely Laura.. and Nathan.. despite his current "predicament" of vampirism, and all his blythes and sorrow.. he embodies a true hero, a man among men. Their story, as they discover friendship and betrayal, love and lust, destiny and free will.. will enrapture you as you watch these very human characters, with very human emotions find the courage within them to face their destinies. These authors have taken the history of vampires, and made it far more ancient, seductive, and.. genuine.. than ever before.

What a provocative surprise! I can't wait for the sequel!