i've never met mr. winn (but i would like that)but i feel confident in saying that here is an author that has done more than just research...he has reached into the soul of our souther creek ancestors and shared that with decendants like myself.from the stories and legends i was priviledged to hear from my grandfather and clan uncle,wm. winn has filled in the blanks. his reflections on creek daily life is as i heard in my youth.for those seeking arealistic and pasionate documentation of the real people who lived in those first blessed times before the invasion and then showed their courage and spirit to overcome those horrendous days of removal. thank you mr. winn,i will continue to suggest your book. i was a partiscipant at columbus college southeastern celerbration many years. sorry i missed meeting you. i would like to read your views on who the creek people (decendants) are today and their roll and contributions here in the southeast. thank you chief bobby johns bearheart

Veterinarian Luke Duncan knows he is a soft touch for orphans of the four-legged variety. But the day a small boy steals his shopping cart, he learns that he's an equally soft touch for orphans of the two-legged variety. Now he'll do anything to help Brian, Hannah and Troy find the stability that was sadly taken from them when their mother died. Unfortunately, social worker Kealey Fitzpatrick may have other ideas about what's in the best interest of the children. Their blind date was disastrous, and her assignment to the case may prove even more so.

Kealey wishes she had the ability to take life with the openness and spontaneity that she sees in others. But years of being shuffled between foster homes taught her to guard her feelings and desires carefully. Doggedly erected barriers prevent anyone from drawing close, yet somehow Luke manages. With his gentle understanding of three orphans, Luke slips beneath her defenses. Despite his best intentions, however, Luke cannot provide the children with a two parent home; which, of course, is in their best interests. When Kealey finely understands just what Luke can provide, it may be too late to keep him and the three orphans together without resorting to a marriage of convenience.

While the Marriage of Convenience miniseries suggests a rather predictable plotline, author Bonnie K. Winn fashions a character driven romance with heart touching originality. From the shopping cart escapade that brings Luke and the orphans together to Kealey's newly discovered enthusiasm and creativity, each moment becomes charmingly poignant. Further, Luke's small gifts and loving treatment of Kealey, despite her clear cut goals of ending the marriage at a specified time, demonstrate his own remarkable abilities to risk his heart without expectation, but always with hope. Very highly recommended.

It has been said that "form follows function" and in the computer sciences we have had the freedom of sloppy engineering for way to long. It is joked that if builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. I know that it is for this reason that we have so many problems "securing" anything in the info-sec fields, form is not following function...

This book is the only book on my shelf I recommend *everyone* (interested in security) read. It is ground breaking because it starts from scratch and looks at the function and follows with what the form should be. I think this book is a decade ahead of it's time and that until every programmer, consultant, system architect, and info-sec employee read this book and the information becomes ingrained as common sense will security be truly possible in any meaningful way.

Most importantly it gives useful information on how to apply this information right now, a decade before we have good competition in the security product market place that will solve this kind of problem. If you plan on doing any kind of intrusion detection, the information in this book must be at your finger tips... It is the only way to measure how well solutions deliver, and to create meaningful metrics for measuring information security solutions.

The book has a certain prose about it that keeps on building on the previous idea, and hence seems to be repeating itself, however it is a short book that everyone from CEO to "in the trench guy" can read. Keep reading and thinking about what is being presented to you however and I think you will find as I did that the book is way ahead of it's time and you will soon be building a secure infrastructure for your business that you can measure, and justify.

The Winn Rosch Harware Bible is my pick for a microcomputer hardware handbook. It is more than a handbook. Don't be intimidated by your PC. This is more than a guided tour. This book explains PC design and technology. This book spells out standards for setttings, adjustments and compatabilities.

This multi-volume work combines the best detailed commentary, survey and education on Neurosurgery that I have found. By the very nature of the subject it must and does include much of Neurology and Neuroanatomy. It has an extraordinary breadth and scope. It is certainly the best starting point for Neurosurgery information/answers and in some respects you may need to look no further. While this series does discuss in substantial detail Neuroimaging I would suggest combining it with the Orrison Two Volume Neuroimaging set. Together they provide a tremendous wealth of information to aid in diagnosis, testing, and treatment. These publications "Youmans" and the "Orrison" books are so well known in the field that this "review" is only useful for those who might be unfamiliar with NeuroSurgery and NeuroImaging. Their authority is unquestioned and accepted by all practitioners. The education these books provide in both fundamental concepts and advanced procedures and interpretation is vast. However the Youmans set alone gives significant exposure to Neuroimaging and Neurotesting. You actually have to use the books to appreciate the assets they provide. Over time you will realize that they address virturally every question that may arise or with the voluminous references show you where to go. This publication is the result of a vast effort by many practitioners and so reflects a combined expertise greater than most other publications. The cost of the publications is difficult but the return is well worth it. I have not found any Neurosurgery problems left untouched by Youmans and together with Orrison they are a powerful weapon. If our hospitals and facilities could only implement all this knowledge much suffering could be eliminated or reduced. Unfortunately my experience has been that the total knowledge represented by these books is way ahead of the medical care provided to many patients. Certainly every Neurosurgeon should own these books and every person needing such references could do no better. Kenny ...

Opal is a ten yearold girl who found a stray dog in a grocery store and takes care of it and in return he helps her find new friends.

He helps her find Gloria Dump,Otis,Stevie,Dunlap,and Mrs.Franny Block.

Otis was the man that worked in a pet shop.Gloria was the old woman that Stevie and Dunlap called a witch.Stevie and Dunlap were the two Dewberry boys Opal called the bald headed babies.Mrs.Franny Block was the librarian at the Hurman W. Block Memorial Library.Winn dixie helps change Opal's dad from being like a turtle in its shell to being a regular dad. All the adventure starts when Winn Dixie helped India Opal Buloni find new friends after she just moved there from Naomi,Flordia. Opal is a 10 yearoldgirl who found a stray dog in a grocery store and takes care of it and in return he helps her find new friends.Otis the man that runs the pet shop plays his guitar for all the animals after he lets them out of their cages. Gloria lives next to the Dewberry boys. Every day when Opal and Winn Dixie go over there Gloria makes them a peanut butter sand which.Stevie and Dunlapare the two Dewberry boys that call Opal names and called Gloria a witch. Mrs Franny Block is the woman in the stoy that has her own library. Also Winn Dixie helped change Opals dad from being like a turtle in its shell to being not like one. Finally Winn Dixie changes Opal from being lonely to being happy.For more info read Because of win dixie.

It's huge, it's hairy, it's a . . dog named Winn-Dixie. One day a girl named Opal goes to a grocery store for tomatoes, white rice, and macaroni & cheese, but comes back with a dog. Soon Opal finds herself making friends with a librarian, a store owner and a sweet old lady. When Opal reads Gone With the Wind to Gloria Dump (the old lady) she gets a great idea. When Winn-Dixie runs away because of his fear of thunder stores it is up to Opal to find him. I think the author was trying to say don't think you can't do thinks if something is wrong in your life. Because Opal lost her mom and she thought she could not make any friends. But that was only until she found Winn-Dixie. My opinion of the book is it was the best book I have ever read because Opal moved away from her old friends just like I had to. I would recommend this book to the fourth grade reading level and above.

A story soon to be a classic and a must read for anyone who has ever felt lost in the world. This story is about a young girl and her father. India Opal and her father the preacher move to a new town in northern Florida. She has trouble making friends and her father keeps himself emotionally distanced from her. He asks her to go to the grocery store and she goes but comes home with something that wasn't on the list...a dog that she named "Winn-Dixie," and it is because of Winn-Dixie that her life starts to make changes.

This book is an enjoyable read for any age. The author has done a wonderful job of setting the location of where the story is taking place, whom the character's are and gives the reader the feeling of being in the story. The text is not hard to read but some of the dialect could be difficult. There is a bit of understatement in the book that may be hard for younger reads to understand but not enough to discourage reading, the writing style is one that fits the story line.

On a personal level I highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever felt lost in the world and needed a friend. Having grown up moving around in the southern states I truly connected to this book and if nothing else this is a great book about a girl and her dog.

I just wanted to stop by here and let you know that I have a review of The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah on Epinions.com, so all you have to do is go to that site and search for the book in the database there. I don't want to post the whole review here, but reading it may encourage you to buy the book.

I love the energy, power and atmosphere of Ian Winn and his wild, crazy and in the same time crystal clear and brilliant search for magic, mystery and myths in Egypt and India.

This 'Karma Bible' opens up doors to religion, antropology, biology, mysticicm, drugs, yoga, kabbalah, new age, just to mention some of the bright shining stars on the sky of The Techno-Pagan Octopus Messiah...

You will carry it around as your Bible and walk right out into the wilderness.

Ian Winns adventures and lust for life power will change your life, your thoughts, your perspectives...

I hope his second book will come soon, we are many disciples out here waiting...

Romance, drugs, sex, sure... but what really makes this book a read is the adventure.

Is it a novel, a spiritual coming-of-age, a travelogue? Hard to know what shelf to find it on. Perhaps it's
described best as a do-it-yourself guide to wide-eyed, slurp-it-up, grab-with-both-fists living: with the
author's own experience teaching by example.

If you've seen Winn perform his poetry slam act, you'll have had a glimpse of the energy that animates him -
in this book you get to see how that energy takes him through Egypt and India, surfing on the energy waves of
pink-mohawked cultural terrorists, shifty Mohammads, psychic saddhus, frustratingly luscious francaiskas,
glassy-eyed Rajneeshians, and straw-twisting donkey johns. Not a dull page in the book.

I won't give away the end except to say that the author gives every indication that his adventures are just
beginning, and so I'm happy to guess that we'll have another adventure of the Octopus Messiah to enjoy
before too long.

it's probably the best book till now for the e-commerce la

I have used this book continually since its first or second (looseleaf) edition. Ben Wright wrote one of the first serious works to diligently and thoughtfully explain practical Internet legal issues. He and Jane Winn have continued to make this the best, clearest reference work on e-commerce, a field where many poorly-written books were rushed to press. I keep it at my desk and tell my e-commerce lawyer colleagues to do the same.

The Law of Electronic Commerce, Fourth Edition, is a fine resource for lawyers practicing in the e-commerce area. It incorporates the rare combination of a broad coverage of applicable topics, substantive explanations of those topics and practical advice on how to apply them that is kept up to date in this rapidly changing environment by the hard work of the authors. I have a copy on my desk as I type this and it will remain within arms reach.

I am interested in mind control and this came recommended as a good book on the subject. However this book is one long history of research into mind control. The book begins with a general description of the first case of actual mind control as performed on American POW's in Korea, where many were so brainwashed that they openly embraced their captors and communism. It was at this point, the author claims, that it was realized that mind control could occur.

It is from this watershed event, and the data collected therefrom, that all current study of brainwashing and mind control stem. The author then surveys the Pavlov dog experiments, animal research, various large scale experiments involving humans where unbelievable counter intuitive results occur. This book is worth its price just to read about these studies into things like 'the gun effect' where people were actually mroe aggressive to an armed motorist getting stuck on a highway then to an unarmed one.

All in all, this is a general study, somewhat outdated, and is written from English points of view. This is a book you can start with, and then use its extensive bibliography to explore areas that interest you more closely.

I thought this book did a good job of conveying the info in a rational manner without overhyping the findings. I would recommend Sargents book "the battle for the mind" also, to those who are interested.

HOWEVER, FOR A VISCERAL READ and insider's account, I suggest Deborah Layton's memoir, SEDUCTIVE POISON> It was required reading in my son's Psychology course at Stanford University and at his urging I picked it up. Besides being eloquent the story transported me into the world of idealism, innocent delusion and cults. What Layton brings to this subject / discussion is the Universality of it all. She's the quintessential "girl next door," someone you recognize as "your own", likeable, attractive, searching for meaning in her life. She is not unlike any of us at that age and time-the 60's. Layton's tale reminded me that it could happen to the brightest and best of us. Her experience is not unlike that of Europeans with Hitler's rise to power in the equally turbulent 1930 and 40's. Hitler had a gradual infatuation with putting respect and power back into the hands of Germany. Jim Jones, too, promised his flock that they would have more power over their lives if they followed him to South America. Both charismatic men started out respected and supported by politicians. When it was over the world cried, "How could they have allowed this to happen?" It does! And will! until we understand the phenomenon and admit that we, too, have been lured, seduced, fooled, misguided and ill-informed at various times in our lives. Layton's experience, though extreme IS UNIVERSAL.

This book is well written. It uses language kids can understand, and also points parents and teachers to additional resources. A great book for parents to read WITH their kids, with lots of discussion suggestions at the end of every chapter. It can really help parents guide their children in the Internet age.

After I saw this book on Tech tv i had to have it and its well worth it..

We have to use this book in our Information Technology course, and we were all a little hesitant at first, but from the first page this book had us laughing...and thinking. It provides you with great resources and plenty of opportunities to flex your mind muscles with hypothetical situations and challenging questions. I actually enjoy using THIS text book! Everyone who has a computer should get it, if for no other reason that to laugh and think!