This is a simple book, with a simple premise and wonderful illustrations. It written in the clear and honest prose for which Vachss is so well known. It also hits home with every story. If you want to know what honor, courage, and love look like, this is your book. Most books, I lend; this one, I buy multiple copies and give them away, over and over again.

Every person who ever wants to have children of their own by blood, or the more saintly act of adopting those children who need the love of someone who cares... needs to read this book. I have given a copy to everyone I know who has ever had children, including my Mother.

Having met Mr. Vachss and told him my acts of spreading his insights, wisdom, and warnings, he was delightfully pleased at my efforts.

Every word in this book is placed perfectly. Not a phrase can be misconstrued. In its execution of prose, there is none in literature refined more to an essence of purpose than in these 64 pages. Each vignette is more poignant than the last.

The artwork is extremely appropriate and offers enough to attract you, draw you in , and keep you connected to each story or lesson. Each artistic compliment has a specific merit to the story they accompany. Pay special attention to the "artistic focus effects" from Geof Darrow (Pgs 26-43). They are a masterpiece than should be studied.

My personal favorites in thew collection of prose and pencil/pen are pgs 8-10, and 48-51. One speaks on the philospohical scale of children as a future and past; and the other is far more personal to the author and reader. Both will leave the interested reader with a great deal of introspection. But the lessons learned within will affect how the reader thinks and acts around children. Those they know and love, and those they will never know, and never suspect, are hurting.

This book is a beautiful set of stories and essays about how to protect children from abuse. Given the subject matter, it would be easy to pass this book by. It's easy to hold the preconception that there is nothing more that can be said about child abuse, or that there is nothing we can do to stand against it.

Nothing can be further from the truth, and Mr. Vachss proves it with prose so clean and direct that it reads like the sparest poetry. I've read this book with my own children, and it has given them an understanding and sympathy that will serve them well all their days. DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS BOOK!

I recently read this delightful novel by Andrew McAleer and really enjoyed the book. It was full of familiar places. The plot was very interesting. I would recommend the book to all mystery buffs and those who are familiar with Boston and its surrounding suburbs will really feel part of the story.

Andrew McAleer is President of the Boston Authors Club and editor of Crimestalker Casebook Magazine. This is a solid debut novel, and fun from start to finish.

Three Cheers for Joe Gleason. This book is a load of fun. Joe is very Bostonian yet very cosmopolitan!

This is a great book, it is about two boys who find a flying machine, and can't find out where to hide it so no one can see it. They have lots of great adventures with Aquila, it can do lots of great things like shoot lasers, turn invisible, talk, etc. This book would be good for anyone who loves to read, especially adventure books. If you like this book, then you should try reading Heaven Eyes, By David Almond.

This book is brilliant. my favorite character is Mrs. Murphy Tom's next door neighbor who everybody thinks is as mad as a hatter.I would recommend this book to people who like to laugh and go on adventures because you go on many adventures with Tom and Geoffery.

Two boys doing what they do best, avoiding anything academic, discover an ancient flying machine. This book is a charming testament to the fact that observed intelligence may not be all that it is cracked up to be. The absolute perfect book for a reluctant (or any) 9 - 12 year-old reader and a joy to read out loud. Number one on my birthday gift list!

I purchased this for my dad for Christmas and he loved it!

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then this is the book for you. I bought it as a gift for a knowledgable friend and he was in raptures. I now know more about John Deere tractors than I ever dreamed it was possible to know! This book covers every John Deere tractor ever made and covers them in great detail. The photos and vintage posters add to the appeal of this tractor encyclopedia.

I'm a pretty picky reader and this book not only held my attention but left me craving more. The action is intense, the emotion is incredible and the story is ingenious. This story makes you happy, sad, scared, excited, and all of these feelings within seconds of each other. It's absolutely the best Christian Novel I've ever read, plus how cool is it that all proceeds go to charity?

If you want to read a truly unique and stimulating book, YOU GOTTA GET IT!

I bought 'The Bottom Never Ends' because I wanted to support charity, but I began reading the book and became very intrigued.

I always read the book while I was working out on the machines at the gym. Well, the book is so suspenseful and exciting that I repeatedly found myself working out much longer than usual so that I could continue reading!

It's a great book - the message hits home. I honestly believe that it will play a role in turning around lives for Christ. It allows you to peak inside the characters' minds and see the spiritual battles that go on. It also keeps you guessing . . . in fact, I'm still kept guessing as I wait for the sequel - plus, I have no motivation to go to the gym!

I bought this book just because the proceeds were going to a charity, thinking that I wouldn't be that good...but I could at least support a good cause. But to my suprise, this is without a doubt one of the best novels I've ever read. The suspense will kill you, the characters will leave you relating to each and everyone of them, and at the end you won't even know who to root for and who to hate. But as the dust clears, you know there is a lesson to take away that's better then the story itself.

I loved how the author described what it means- the bottom never ends. I found so much truth to my own life in this book. It's the first time I've seen Christianity described without the over cheesy context of other Christian books. This was not only on the edge, but showed how Christianity can be such a dangerous threat to all of the evil enterprises out there if we're willing to roll up our sleves and just simply fight back.

But with all the machoism of the book, the sole purpose is to show the power of having unconditional motives and to love others first, no strings attached. I love the point he made of that idea through many key relationships in the book. I don't know how many people have read this book, but if it's not many, what a shame that is.

We know that to be successful, our organizations have to become "customer driven" and that means improving our business processes across the enterprise. But business processes are boring, and so are most business books. This one is an exception.
Mr. Spanyi makes a strong case that if people collaborate better, the organization can reach its goals - despite the tough economy.
Want to attain that "shared thinking" so necessary in cross-functional teams? This book provides real advice that any business person can use. Best of all, its clear and concise. So, if you are faced with improving the performance of your organization, I highly recommend this book.

In this book Mr. Spanyi's thought leadership is some of the clearest and timeliest I have ever encountered in a business publication. An expert himself, he has (happily) the expert's ability to reduce complex subject matter to an elegantly simple and instructive message. I recommend this book above all others to anyone who may be curious about what it means to be entrepreneurial in the 21st century, which is to say, everyone who must consider their business in light of customer requirements.

The recent history of business publications has seen a plethora of ideas for addressing the dual challenges of accelerating change of pace and complexity of operation. In his book, Spanyi clearly presents his ideas on how to successfully create and implement Business Process Management (BPM) on an enterprise-wide basis for current and future business success.

He restates and drives home the eternal truth of developing a strategic plan and using business process thinking to get company wide buy-in. He details and explains mistakes of the past and presents his BPM approach as a blueprint for future success. His ideas for implementing strategic cross-functional process design and elimination of traditional barriers such as turf wars are as intellectually stimulating as they are practical and represent a potential formula for success.

Cunning as the Devil was Nathan Bedford Forrest and this book indicates just how quick and clever this military genius was. Little wonder then that Lee considered this dark knight to be his finest soldier, above even the legendary Stonewall Jackson.

In terms of his impact on modern warfare, no general of the Civil War had more than Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. Not Grant, not Lee, not Longstreet or Sherman. This is the man. No less a general than Erwin Rommel studied Forrest's tactics and implemented them with modern weaponry when his Afrika Korps marched all over Libya and Egypt in World War II.

The reason I say this book isn't for the "politically correct" is that it was written some 70 years ago, by a man of the old South who obviously idolized Forrest and everything he stood for. As you know already, not everything Forrest stood for was good. He was 100 years ahead of his time as a soldier, but stuck in 1860 in his personal beliefs.

But...getting into the book. He was a brilliant commander who never had enough men under his command to turn the war in the South's favor. Still, he was a hero to the people of the Tennessee river valley where he won most of his victories, with good reason. When the Union troops overran these areas and placed them under military rule, Forrest made sure they treated the citizens decently. Once he even saved a group of innocent men from a flaming death at the hands of vengeful Union soldiers whom he was defeating in battle. Reading these and other stories makes you understand why he was such a hero to the author, who would have heard first-hand accounts of Forrest's exploits.

Lytle believes that the South would have won the war if Forrest had been placed in command of the main Confederate army in the west, and he's probably right. Forrest was an extraordinary individual who had more impact on the 20th century than any other Civil War general.

I never fully appreciated the intellect of Forrest until I finished this book. It peels away the myths about the man, and tells about what he was really like. I loved it, and often flip around in it from time to time. A must for Civil War buffs!

"Betting Thoroughbreds" is a good book. After you read it, you will be equipped with many "weapons" on horse racing. This books tells you that horse racing is more an art than purely mathematics. I highly recommend you to read this book.

This is one of the best handicapping books I have ever read and I have read just about every one...it's not full of get rich quick strategies...just solid handicapping education by someone who has the experience and it shows in the book. I'd recommend this one coupled with Tom Ainslie's book.

From Silky Sullivan to the making of speed figures, and on through "looking through the trainer's window," Steve-O's book has things to teach even when he isn't trying. But most of all, this book is sound on the fundamentals. Handicapping thoroughbreds, as a craft, contains elements of math, intuition, reason and insight all bound up in a chance proposition. Cut down the chance-factors, concentrate on what you understand, and you CAN do well. Davidowitz's book is the first step & easy to read on top of it all.

Greed, feuding families, assorted acts of violence, fine bloodlines (both horse and human), Romeos and Juliets characterize Dick Francis's novel Break In. For those who suffer under the delusion that Francis is a stodgy Brit that pens plodding, equine-obsessed mystery snoozers, Break In is a perfect remedy. While Francis does not disappoint his loyal readership who appreciates his first-hand, detailed knowledge of the world of steeplechasing, he also will delight any lover of the mystery suspense genre through his tightly woven plot, engaging narrative, and thorough characterization. You would think that someone named Christmas (after his day of birth) would have better luck than Break In's hero enjoys. Steeplechase jockey Christmas "Kit" Fielding manages to survive frequent brushes with danger (both on and off the racecourse), but does so in such an entertaining way that you never stop to worry about the unlikelihood of his continued survival (a hallmark of all good suspense writers, and a particular talent of Francis). The danger stems from his desire to free one Bobby Allardeck from an attack on his reputation that is being waged by newspaper columns insinuating that he is in deep financial trouble. As Bobby's livelihood as a horse trainer depends on his reputation among both his clients and his suppliers, the longer the smear campaign continues, the more likely it will be that the paper's lies will become truth. Why does Kit care, especially since his family enjoys perpetuating a longstanding blood feud with the Allardecks? Enter the aforementioned Romeo and Juliet--Bobby and his wife, Kit's aptly named twin sister, Holly. Despite generations of animosity, but with the full support of Kit, the two have married, and it is Holly who begs Kit to investigate the rumor. Though Bobby's father Maynard Allardeck is quite well-off, Bobby's nuptials have effectively ended any hope of support from that quarter, and it is partially his father's notoriety as a business man that extends public interest in the newspaper report. As Kit, Bobby, and Holly race to discover who has it out for them before the financial damage becomes irreversible, some interesting facts about Maynard's business practices come to light. Tensions mount between the young threesome, as they fight--not always successfully--to keep the feud from destroying the bonds that they have worked to develop between them. Naturally, Kit's resourcefulness and ingenuity help them sort out their troubles to a satisfying conclusion. If you have never read a Dick Francis novel, this book is a perfect place to Break In.

As a former bookseller, I soon learned that the annual appearance of a Dick Francis novel was cause for celebration among mystery lovers. "Break In" is certainly one of his strongest books, possibly because it returns readers to the world of horse-racing, the sport which Francis, a former steeplechase jockey, loved fiercely.

Like the author, Kit Fielding is a steeplechase jockey and considered one of England's finest. Like previous Francis heroes, Kit is intelligent, tough-minded and resilient, with a strong moral center. But while many of his fictional predecessors are loners, Kit is inextricably connected to his family by years of racing tradition and by his close, almost telepathic connection with his twin sister, Holly. Recently, Holly has disrupted family harmony by marrying Bobby Allardeck, scion of another racing clan with whom the Fieldings have had a bitter, centuries-old feud.

Entreated by Holly to stop a vicious newspaper campaign seemingly designed to ruin her husband, Kit soon learns that the true target is Maynard Allardeck, a ruthless robber baron who is Bobby's own father. Seeking to harm the father through the son, Maynard's many enemies are prepared to squash whoever stands in their way and their brutal tactics place Kit in deadly peril. But the greatest danger may lie within his own family. . . in the form of a human time bomb who happens to be Kit's brother-in-law.

Francis tells a swiftly paced tale, enhanced by an unexpected ethical dilemma. In extricating his loved ones from difficulties, Kit must employ morally ambiguous methods, one of which skirts perilously close to extortion. Moreover, the reader closes "Break In," feeling a strong sense of unfinished business. Fortunately, Francis seems to have felt the same way and his next mystery, "Bolt" seeks to resolve "Break In"'s loose ends. (The only other Francis hero besides Kit Fielding to make a return engagement i! s Sid Halley). While both novels may be read independently, they provide the most enjoyment when read sequentially, giving readers a fuller picture of the family ties that bind.

I love almost all of the Dick Francis books I've read, and this I'd have to say id one of the better ones he's writen. I love the way he puts the plot of Romeo and Juliet into this fast pace racehorse mystery novel. Any Dick Francis fan should read this book. And as for any new comers they'll be hooked.

This book is a must have and you must have read it at least once. Then again, I have read it once and will only use it as a quick reference. For more elaborate information I will look for (my) other books that will tell the same in a more fluent and up to date style (read: Expert C Programming).
This book shows all the pitfalls in a convenient compact volume.
If you are NOT a sloppy programmer you might dislike many of the more obvious examples . . then again, you might do some maintenance on "someone else's code".

If you program in C or C++, you must read this book if you want to consider yourself a superior programmer. If you are a college student, definitely read this book. Koenig fills in a lot of gaps left by authors of introductory books on C or C++. Why do I mention C++? Because C++ is far more than just objects and classes. The lower level implementation of functions is still basically C programming. He includes chapters on linkage, the preprocessor, and portability. It is a short book that is definitely worth reading.

Along with Holub's 'The C Companion', this is one of the few programming books that I've read in 13 years of C programming that talks about real programming issues instead of simply rehashing what a for loop is. A must read for C programmers.