I ordered this bible for my 14 year old son who is in confirmation class. He has an NRSV gift bible which he was struggling with. I have the Learning Bible in the CEV edition which I teach bible from and most people I work with find the CEV very refreshing.
The Promise Bible adds all of the cool stuff that student bibles like the Life Application and others have, but it is easier to comprehend than even the NIV which is important for those first studying the bible. I think the CEV also does a better job of keeping with the meaning of the scripture than the bibles I had as a kid like the Good News bible. The research for the CEV is very strong and compares strongly with most commentaries.
I think this is a good bible for teens and a good version for all of us who have a little trouble with the kings english.

This Bible is so cool. It's great for 2 reasons.

1. It's the Word Of God, so it's going to be great! 2. It's so easy to understand!

I Love this Bible. I use it for my Quiet Times with the Lord every morning! This Bible can change your life! READ IT!!!!

I bought this Bible two years ago and I love it. It has an appealing cover (and lots of people do judge books that way!). And the inside is truly amazing. It presents the Word of God in a way that makes teenagers want to read this Bible, whether they don't really know the Lord or they already have an awesome walk with Christ. The inserts (Promise, He, You, What if, etc) are great and they help students understand the Bible better. The 10 Challenges and Chacteristics of World Changers are awesome, too. The only problem is this Bible would have been better in an NIV or NRSV version. Still, the CEV is clear and easy to understand. Definately get this Bible for a teenager or adult!

I recieved this bok at an Aquire the Fire conference and loved it. It changed the lives of the kids I took with me and I am buying a bunch for the kids who are in my youth group now. i love and can't say enough good things about it. Practical baby steps for getting off to a good start with things like quiet times, putting God first and heading out on mission trips.

Before I began this devotional, my relationship with Jesus remained stagnant, lacking passion. Over the course of the thirteen weeks, I actually anticipated my quiet times and experiencing God's awesome presence everywhere. My entire being soared with a sheer, indescrible joy, and I was not content until I relinquished everything for the wonderful cause of Christ. I would recommend this book to all teenagers, whether they lack passion for Him or abound with His matchless love.

Very good! This book is for anyone, especially Christians who want to draw closer to our Lord Jesus Christ. Before I read this book, I was a piful Christian who barely knew right from wrong. I have come a very long way, and this book did it all. I hope anyone who wants to grow spiritually will read this book!

This book was so interesting that I could not put it down! A lot of books I read are very interesting, but few are such that it is hard to put them down and pick them up to continue. I read DD: 522 in just two days. It is very well written and fast-paced. Told in the words of those who experienced it, it seems as if "you are there"with them. They should make a movie of this book. It has elements of "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan"--i.e., the drama of a sinking ship and the horrors of war. I was even kind of "sad" when I finished it...I wanted it to continue, but of course it couldn't because the story ended. I cannot recommend this book too highly. (I have even started to read it for a second time already!)

I knew the family of a crew member of the Luce. His first Destroyer the DE Haven was sunk.

His next Destroyer was Sunk: the Twiggs

His last Destroyer was sunk: Luce

He died not long ago with no sort of recognition for all this at all...it sure is a waste..so what good are books..Tin Can Sailor

When I first started reading this book I could not put it down. It is very well written from the very words of the survivors of the sinking. I laughed at some of the situations the men got into and I also cried at the horror of battle. The book graphically illustrates with startling clarity what men under attack go through. Get this book, read it, and you'll want to tell all your friends and family.

in his course in Game Theory (M711!) at MIT in the late 1950's.
I took that course; while Nash was unquestionably brilliant, he was getting to be pretty hard to follow at that point. The lecture hall was always jammed to overflowing, because even on a bad day Nash was really something! Nevertheless, the book was subsequently very useful, with lots of ideas about game-theoretic approaches to real-world problems.

Nash didn't think too highly of this book (too much non-mathematical stuff), but thought it the best available at the time not written by his arch-enemy, Von Neumann!

This overview of game theory and decisions is a great into the problems and ideas behind game theory. I expect that this book will be most appreciated by non-math Ph.D.'s or grad students. For a math person, Von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic title is perhaps a better place to start. This book is one of those that can be read on a range of levels. I work in a trading and risk management environment and I find this book very useful.

This book covers all the elements of Game Theory, emphasizing intuition over mathematical formalism. The philosophical aspects are also given a thorough treatment. The 8 appendices provide a more formal exposition of several key concepts such as the Minmax Theorem, the geometry of equilibria and Linear programming. The book has not changed much since its publication in 1957, but it is by no means archaic. Even for those who have a modern and more rigorous textbook, "Games and Decisions" is Highly recommended as a supplement. There is something for everyone in it.

Casey Atwood makes a living spotting cheats in casinos. Hired by the wife of a hotel casino owner, her job is to look into shady dealings at the casino. As she begins work, bodies start to show up. The deeper she delves into the problems of the establishment, the closer a mysterious enemy comes to killing her. To add to her troubles, she falls in love with the owner of the casino but cannot touch him because he is married. She has little time for romance though as the enemy becomes bolder and more aggressive. The climax is a thrill a minute.

This is Carol's fifth novel and it is definitely one of her best. I could hardly put it down. If you are looking for a great read and enough mystery and suspense to keep you guessing right to the end, then this is the book for you.

IF YOU ENJOY A GOOD SUSPENSE NOVEL SET IN THE GLITTER OF A GAMBLING COMMUNITY, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. THIS BOOK HAS SOMETHING FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. AS YOU PROGRESS THROUGH THE BOOK IT BECOMES A PAGE TURNER.

Author Carol Davis Luce will take you on a thrilling roller coaster ride and leave you shaken and breathless. And when the book finally shudders to a halt and you're on solid ground again, you will be haunted by scintillating Reno nights, the secrets of the dealers, and a memorable character: Kasey Atwood, whose dangerous undercover work leads her to love, betrayal, and murder

A thrilling ride that delves into the lives of beauty pageant contestants. Twenty years ago, a beauty pageant winner is attacked with acid. Now the contestants have separate lives yet still live in the same area. One of the former contestants has a TV show and invites them for a reunion on her program. All hell breaks loose and the attacks resume.

The story delves into the lives of the contestants and what happened to them later in life as the mystery unfolds. Carol masterfully drops little clues that lead you in several different directions trying to discover who the bad person is. Is it Corinne, the beauty pageant winner who is horribly scarred with acid? Is it John, the mysterious writer that has a past with Corinne? Mixed with some pretty steamy scenes, the story slowly unravels the mystery and reveals an unexpected culprit.

I highly recommend seeking this novel out. It is well worth the effort.

SKIN DEEP is a terrific blend of mystery, suspense, horror, and romance. This is one of those rare books that was, for me, quite literally impossible to put down! It's a book that men and women can enjoy.

Be sure to read Ms. Luce's other fine novels, NIGHT STALKER, NIGHT PREY, NIGHT PASSAGE, and NIGHT GAMES.

Summer is already here in Florida. Put away the Bukowski, Fitzgerald, Stryon and pull out the cheesy thrillers perfect for the beach. Chills and thrills are my summer game as long as it's not a tale about a lonely rich (young) and beautiful widow who falls in love with her handyman. This one had "beachy" stamped on the cover and I bought it. I was more than pleasantly surprised. In the world of paperback thrillers, it was a page turner with plenty of twists and a great insight into the grown up lives of former beauty queens. It's not one of the classics, but a better than average summer read about a killer stalking four former pageant winners. It's fun - read it!

This book is an amazing tool. I read it at school and It helps me cope with everyday life. I suggest that you should read Spiritual Shock Treatment. It's a really good gift to give to an unsaved friend to show them Gods glory from a teen point of view.

This book helps teens get real with God. Ron Luce wrote this book for the teens. The piont of the book is to help you not to have a rollercoaster relationship with God. Ron states ways ot help you not to. I would recommend this book to anyone that wants to have a serious walk with God.

This book tells you get real with Jesus. Ron Luce gives us advice on how to live our live for Jesus not for our selves.

Any student of foreign policy simply must read this book. In fact, anyone with a remote interst in international affairs would benefit from its contents. Kissinger presents an honest and intimate assessment of world events from 1968 to early 1973. His comments on personal relationships and candid opinions of world leaders like De Gaul, Mao, Nixon, Brandt, Brezhnev, Gandhi (Indira), Rabin and others are insightful. Kissinger covers world event touching on Vietnam, India/Pakistan relations, Middle Eastern conflicts, Russian and Chinese relationships and domestic affairs among others. The reader is afforded touching personal insight into many events that shaped the cold war world and continue to impact foreign policy today. It is a privlege to read someone with so vast an intellect that is as critical of himself as he is of other policy makers. The book is as often serious as it is funny. Kissinger honestly portrays his personal point of view on all the issues facing him. It is not every day we get to read about the nuances of policy making with such honesty and clarity. Kissinger also provides behind the scene insight into the Nixon presidency and all its ravaging conflicts and triumphs. If world issues and politics interest you then this book will as well.

The title of this review stems from an ancient Chinese proverb. Henry A. Kissinger's book, White House Years is the first of a three-volume trilogy that covers his remarkable career. This initial book begins with his appointment as National Security Advisor to Richard M. Nixon January 1969, and ends with the initialing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973. Kissinger lets the reader know early on, they were under no illusions their journey would be easy or joyous.

He paints a vivid picture of Lyndon Johnson at Nixon's inauguration. If a political heavyweight like L.B.J. could be humbled by (sic) "Veetnam" no one could expect an easy time. Nixon, who had made a career of exhorting political opponents to, "Get tough with the Communists," now had his turn. He would either succeed where his predecessors had failed, or share L.B.J.s fate.

A series of opportunities to "get tough" with the Communists soon followed. The Soviets continued to harass Berlin; the Strateg!ic Arms Limitation (SALT) Talks provided critics from the right and left; West German leader Willie Brandt's Ostpolitik threatened the cohesion of the Atlantic Alliance and the Soviets' establishment of a submarine base at Cienfuegos, Cuba created a situation reminiscent of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also, the election of Salvador Allende in Chile threatened to introduce a second, Communist state into the Western Hemisphere. Elsewhere, a crisis was brewing between India and Pakistan, and the powder keg in the Middle East threatened to explode at any time.

All these things occurred while the bulk of our military forces were mired in a seemingly endless stalemate in Vietnam that was tearing our nation apart and steadily draining both our coffers and our national resolve. Any of them had the potential to bring the two nuclear equipped superpowers into direct confrontation at any time. Kissinger calmly states: "Statesmen do not have the right to ask to serve only in simple t!imes." The early '70's were anything but, "simple times."

White House Years is a first-person account from a key player in each of these crises. Kissinger takes us step-for-step through the decision-making process they undertook before each action. These deliberations led to the most spectacular diplomatic initiative of our time: Nixon's historic trip to The Peoples Republic of China! The diplomatic opportunities made possible by this trip still shape our world today. Among other things it made Hanoi serious about negotiating an end to the War in Vietnam.

Dr. Kissinger narrates the maddening, secret negotiations with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho in Paris. The differences between what the Communists were feeding the Western media and what they were saying behind closed doors makes the reader both loathe and admire them for their political skill. Their efforts finally led to the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. Kissinger sincerely believed South Vietnam would surv!ive. Unfortunately, he was wrong.

White House Years reads like a Greek tragedy. The reader gets excited and then remembers how it all ends. The very secretiveness that produced spectacular successes also sowed the seeds that would lead to Nixon's self-destruction.

I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the War in Vietnam and/or international relations. The conduct of international diplomacy today is still unquestionably influenced by the events narrated here. I am much better informed for having read it. You will be as well!

Dr. Kissinger's book is a must read for those wishing to gain insight into the politics of the diplomatic process. He takes great pains to be fair in his assessment of a number of personalities from President Nixon, to Indira Gandi. Self-observations are modest to the point of self-deprecation. The chapters in which he chronicles the Nixon Administration's involvement in the Vietnam War is worth the price of the book. Mr. Kissinger's observation of this tumultuous time in our history is candid, sometimes sad, but scholarly without being pedantic. I highly recommend this book.

This was an entertaining and fun read. I know next to nothing about the early film industry, so I got to learn a little bit as well. I'll confess to knowing one of the authors -- we went to high school together. Knowing Elizabeth Brackman was what made me buy the book, but the story itself made me read on and finish it. Once I was fifty pages in I was hooked.

For me, the most interesting part of the book centered around the past -- one of the characters fled rural Georgia in the 1920s following the lynching of a young black man. I wanted to know a lot more about that period and the incident. The book wavers between the seemingly very serious to frivolous, and on several occasions I laughed out loud. Luce and Coco spend most of the book twisting an assortment of young men around their fingers. Having been occasionally twisted at that age, it was fun to read about it from the other perspective. Well worth reading, I would highly recommend it.

This was a fascinating story of two girls exploring the outer limits of their lifestyle. One of the characters, Luce, is a 20 year old college dropout who has inherited an estate from an aunt who was a minor silent film star. There are occasional flashbacks to the life of the aunt, some of which were more interesting than the main thrust of the story. The only real drawback was that the very frequent drug references were annoying. All in all a really good read.

In 1944, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, the author of the novels ''Journey to the End of the Night'' and ''Death on the Installment Plan,'' fled his native France. In the preceding decade he had written pamphlets blaming the impending war on industrialists, literary figures, politicians and Jews. His anti-Semitism became increasingly virulent, when the Occupation years ended in 1945 he went into exile in Denmark, where he was imprisoned for over a year for collaborating with the Nazis. Given amnesty by France in 1951, Celine returned, and found that his work was largely ignored.

In ''Conversations with Professor Y'' he set out to restore his reputation as an innovative literary stylist. The book appears here in English for the first time, alongside the French text, in a solid translation. Professor Y is a fictional foil for the author's digs at formal literature, and much of ''Conversations'' is hilarious. Celine is self-mocking as he tries to get his name back into circulation. He compares an eager genius to the new Big Bubbly soap product, is adamant in his revulsion at the ascendancy of ideas over emotion and is passionate in his desire to capture the immediacy of conversation on the page. ''The emotion of spoken language through the written form! Just reflect on that a bit, dear Professor Y! get your noodle in gear!'' Poor Professor Y! This dull academician (whose most intelligent comment is ''Why, holy moly! you're afloat in dialectics!'') is led on a dizzying tour of Paris, overwhelmed by a crazed author who claims he's on the brink of a revelation just when the professor expresses a need to find a bathroom. ''Conversations''is essential for Celine fans, and a good, if tame, introduction for the uninitiated.

Conversations is an easy and short read...in the text we find Celine describing his 'style'--the "emotive subway" as he called it...there are funny episodes and attacks on publishers and whoever gets in his way, I would recommend it along with 'Mea Culpa'...one can gather what Celine was composed of more with insights such as this!...