If I was interested in building a personal portfolio through DRP investing, this would be the book. However, a person could not perceive this by reading the book title or description from the on-line information. From the title, I believed this was a book which dealt with the logistics of creating and managing a real mutual fund; but not so.

Aside from the misleading title, the book is a wealth of knowledge and I have already put a few of it's ideas to work so that I may save for my kids college fund.

It is a basic how to or cook book presentation on how to get started ( and encouragement to keep going) on a no frills method of creating your own stock portfolio (without a broker and without commissions). In this age of do it yourself contracting, no frills weddings and build your own funeral caskets... the author presents a good rough guide for the reader to jump into the stock market by direct contact with the corporate head office. If you buy this book and follow its recommendations, once you get going as a shareholder (and self appointed stockbroker) you may never let a day go bye without taking a peek at the stock reports in your newspaper.

Every working and instructing dental professional should readthis text concerning medically compromised patients. It updates, aswell as reviews, the important topics that are seen every day in private practice. Especially important is the areas of TB, HIV, and diabetes, although recent information may need to be added by the practioner (check out internet sites for these). Introductory tables are a must for reference in a clinical situation. I have used it a reference text in my clinical practice and in my continuing education courses.

This text has become the standard reference and source of definitive information for dental management of medically compromised patients. It serves as the textbook for Oral Medicine in many dental schools and offers practitioners valuable insight into care for acutely and chronically ill patients.

Lee Nelson keeps his notourious standard with this book. I really enjoyed reading it. Though, some of the contents were hard to believe they were historically based, it was an excellent read none the less.
I have always enjoyed learning about Old Ephraim, and this was very educational in that aspect.
The book had a great storyline and flow. Thanks Lee for another Great book!! I read it easily in one day

Lee Nelson is one of my favourite authors, I own every novel he has ever published. And I must say that Ephraim Chronicles is my favourite by him. I think I've read it over ten times. The story really brings to life the romance of living in the early 19th century. And even though there are plenty of things that are not very realistic in the novel, (A boy living with grizzly bears for much of his childhood, all the while teaching himself to read by stealing books from sheep herders) it is still a very good and beleivable read. Ephraim Chronicles is a rather short novel, (it can easily be read in one day) but I think that just adds to the intimacy of the story. The book gets better every time I read it.

My copy has regular white paper, not the yellow newsprint mentioned by another reviewer. The text is large and sharp, and the translation is easy to read.

This NCV version of the Bible is translated into easy to understand English. I bought these for my Grade School children, since the King James Version is sometimes even difficult for me to understand!

This book has a list in the back. The list is broken down into the 365 book parts so you can easily accomplish reading this bible in one year! You can either go page by page or you can jump around the Bible... as long as you read one of the parts in the 365 daily reading list everyday... you will have accomplished reading the Bible in a year!

One thing to note about this particular book is that it is on yellowish newspaper print paper, NOT the usual white bible paper you see.

Antonya Nelson's stories dwell on relationships, and particular the day to day failure of relationships. The collection largely avoids reaching for trite conclusions, and also avoids the forced ambiguity that sinks many a creative writing professor trying to write about "normal" people. Almost every story is involving, only one or two descend into situations which seem too contrived. This collection is a pleasure to read--engaging, and by design somewhat small in focus.

Antonya Nelson's short stories are provocative and entertaining because they tell us a great deal about ourselves, both in terms of the way that her characters' actions and reactions mirror our own, as well as in how we respond to the situations and characters we encounter in her work. Her stories are populated by characters who seem damaged yet strong, whose actions and dialogue convey more to us than we may consciously realize. Antonya Nelson's gift is her ability to create realistic and compelling stories without the use of gimmicky or contrived hooks, and to keep her stories moving forward on the strength of her vividly drawn characters and their unique and all-too-human motivations. My personal favorites in this collection are "Dog Problems," in which a husband deals with the possibility that his wife loves her dog more than him, and the title story, "The Expendables," which remains with me the way that Flannery O'Connor's and Joyce Carol Oates's best short stories stay with me: like a haunting but pleasant refrain that won't stop replaying itself in my head. In this story we visit the scene of a wedding, and follow one of the the bride's brothers as he encounters his relatives, his future brother-in-law, and a gypsy family down the street in the midst of a funeral service. It is absolutely one of the best short stories of the 20th century, and helps to justify Antonya Nelson's selection by The New Yorker as one of the most important young writers in America today. I'm tempted to say that this is contemporary short fiction at its best, except that these stories would stand out regardless of when they were published -- which makes them not so much contemporary as timeless.

I love this bible. It is a great bible for teens. It helps you understand what the bible means to teens. It is the NKJ version but it is easy to understand.

This Bible is like, so totally cool. I'm 13, and it makes studing God's word much more fun. There's great "On The Edge" things that very well explain what certain verses mean. I reccomend buying this Bible. You won't regret it! :)

Shirley Nelson's _Fair, Clear, and Terrible: The Story of Shiloh_ is one of those rare history books that's plotted and executed more like a mystery novel than a documentary. Nelson, whose parents met at Shiloh, took an interest in the site at a young age, and thus grew up always in its shadow. Through the years she gathered as much information as she could, and reports on it all here. However, this isn't just a regurgitation of the facts. Nelson's family ties to the place give her, it would seem, a reason to write about it with more heart than most historians, coupled with a sardonic, not-quite-suppressed sarcasm that leaves the reader laughing on occasion. And when was the last time you laughed at a HISTORY book?

A wonderful piece of work. Highly recommended.

Shirley Nelson did a great deal of research for this wonderful book! She not only took her own family history, but dug into other sources to put together a complete and fair minded look into a fascinating piece of Americana. The pure faith that took believers to Shiloh comes through as well has the hardships and abuse they endured as they tried to please their leader, Frank Sanford. She did a great service to many who were still in the movement of their forefathers at the time the book was published. Many of the facts of the history of The Kingdom movement were hidden or glossed over so that present members did not understand what the true story was. This book started a lot of questioning of the leaders of the church and helped in bringing to light lies and half truths. I would highly recommend this book, not only to those interested in history, but also to those who are or have been in a cult. So many common threads run through cults. So many innocent people trying to live their faith while the doctrines they are taught to love more than their own families carries consequences down through many generations. Highly reommended reading! For more information on the history of Shiloh and The Kingdom movement see the website fwselijah.com.

How delightful to read this story and see the better aspects of stressed personalities emerge! There is a little bit of this heroine in all of us, as we struggle with the 'what if's' and 'maybe's' of our growing-up years, all the while trying to reconcile how we THOUGHT we were perceived with how we actually are...if we are lucky, we realize much of the pressure is self-inflicted! There is much here about human quirks and insecurities, while keeping it fun reading, thoroughly enjoyable!

Anyone who has ever had mixed feelings about going home for the holidays will appreciate "Fish Stories" by Kathleen H. Nelson. The characters are engaging and real; the plot is as fast-paced as an Olympic bobsled ride. And the ending fits the story like a glove. Ms. Nelson writes with passion and skill, and has a great eye for detail. She can paint a complete picture with a single sentence. For instance: "Later, some poor chump on an ice-cream run for his pregnant wife will mosey in and find us sprawled in our own blood: me and the Hobson boys by the bait case, and Junior behind the counter, looking like a harpooned pilot whale in stonewashed jeans." Great stuff.

The story literally starts with a bang as the main character, Raven Middlefield, accidentally breaks up an armed robbery. That touches off a chain-reaction of events that turn Raven into an unwilling celebrity. Ms. Nelson shows us the flipside of fame: the almost instant and mostly media-driven invasion of privacy. At the same time, she examines the baggage that adults carry with them from 'the good old days'of their youths. She throws in a ticking biological clock, an aging, eccentric mother who claims to hear angels, and a Christmas Eve nor'easter for good measure.
The result is a book that you'll find hard to put down.

John Pollock's biography of Dr. Nelson Bell is well researched and written in straightforward, easily understood prose. Dr. Bell led an unusually active life, being a missionary physician in China in the 1920s and 1930s when war, thieving, highway robbery, murder, and corruption were pervasive. Despite this, Dr. Bell and his wife managed to rear a family, expand the services of the hospital where they worked, make many friends, and give health care to many in need. As a surgeon, Dr. Bell operated on a variety of ailments, but it was the spiritual ills of the people that ultimately concerned him the most. War and ill health forced Dr. Bell to finish his medical career in North Carolina, where his daughter Ruth resided with husband Billy Graham (the evangelist) and where he, along with Graham, founded the magazine Christianity Today. He lived a long and highly productive life, and Pollock's rendering of it is done with engaging diplomacy.

I would assess this book on a couple of different levels. First of all, it is a very interesting story. A young physician with a promising future decides to spend his life as a medical missionary in China giving much needed medical care to the poor and destitute. Dr. Bell and his wife began their service in China in 1916, and remained there until 1941, at the beginning of World War II. As a missionary story, it embraces all the familiar themes: sacrifice for a cause greater than oneself, spending one's own time and resources to help those who are less fortunate, adapting to a new culture, improving the lives of people through basic health care, raising children in a foreign culture and so on.

At another level, though, this book is a very important contribution to missionary literature, because it deals with so many of the issues that are fundamental to the development of effective missionary efforts. Nelson Bell was a physician, but he never minimized the importance of addressing the spiritual needs of the people as well as their physical needs. So many have yielded to the temptation to come down hard on one side of the other. But if we would follow the example of Christ himself, we will always insist on meeting both kinds of needs.

Dr. Bell had dedicated his life to help the Chinese people, but he never pretended to be Chinese. Of course one must accept a certain amount of sacrifice to live for a prolonged period of time in a developing culture. But Dr. Bell never fell into the all too familiar trap of "sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice" which is sometimes found among sincere folks who have given themselves for the "great cause" and sometimes suffered deprivations that were not really necessary. One interesting anecdote illustrates this. A new missionary doctor had come to China to intern under Dr. Bell. This young couple stood on the deck of the ship as it pulled into the harbor in Shanghai. They felt somewhat overcome by the change they were going to have to adapt too. As they left the ship, and braced themselves for the rigor of this transition, they were met on the dock by Dr. Bell with a greeting that caught them by surprise, "How would you like a chocolate sundae?"

Finally, this book shines as an example of how to deal with a difficult government. As the Japanese moved into China in the thirties, foreign consulates urged their citizens to leave the country, since their safety could no longer be guaranteed. But Dr. Bell refused to go. As soon as the Japanese occupied the city where he was working, he presented himself to the commanding officer, and reported on what he was doing, and that he intended to stay. His calm, levelheaded approach established his neutrality, and won him the unqualified respect of the Japanese officers. At one point, he had gotten a letter from his daughter, who had been evacuated from her boarding school in Korea. All the children were in Shanghai, waiting to be sent to America, but she sent an urgent letter to her parents begging to be allowed to stay in China and study at home. The Japanese officer who delivered the letter to Dr. Bell had obviously read it. "Tell her to come," he said, "She will be safe here.

I heartily recommend this book for all those who are interested in mercy missions, but also for anyone who just enjoys a good story about a man and his family who lived to make life better for the people around them. Would this book have been written if Dr. Bell's daughter had not married Billy Graham? Perhaps not, but that does not diminish its value. This book clearly stands alone as a premium example of how to do medical missions effectively. Read it for the wealth of information it provides, or just read it as a happy, homey, heartwarming story.

Hold on there, dudes. Etymology of Chinese characters does NOT prove that they independently developed a prehistory based on Adam & Eve and the Great Flood. The Chinese alphabet evolved much later than Sumerian. Historians already recognize that trade brought not only the idea of writing from Sumer to other cultures but also their prehistory. All we can accurately say is that Sumerian writing and prehistory influenced the development of Chinese writing. That is not the same thing as saying that China preserved its own memory of the same events. Please do read the book, but with a healthy context rather than a wild eyed, unsubstantiated and unsupportable conclusion.

I found the book quite enlightening. Many of the pictographs from ancient chinese as depicted in oracle bone and bronzeware writings, are strikingly telling of the genesis creation account. There were too many such examples to list them all here. On the other hand, there were a few that were....well, a stretch. The authors premise is that the pictographs were formed and accepted because the creation account passed down through the generations was universally recognized information. For example, the pictograph for dusk is a man, woman, and God behind gates in a garden. This is strongly reminiscent of the the genesis account of God visiting with Adam and Eve at Dusk as described in Genesis. In any event, the book is has enough of these examples to be worth reading. It is very good evidence that all races had one and the same beginning and God. It also provides evidence that monotheism was first.