This is a classic portrayal of a courageous life lived in great anticipation of the One she loved and taught me to love. I would widely recommend its reading. There are insights into her life which are delicate and detailed, which have deepened my appreciation of this lady. The book spans most of her life, showing how the Lord truly called her to be His messenger. Those who attack her inadvertently are against the One who, she taught, would rather die than live without them. Read her classic "Steps to Christ" or "Desire of Ages" and see what passion inspiration drives you to. Thank you Herbert Douglass for this wonderful contribution.

Herbert Douglass and his team are to be commended and congratulated on completing this massive project. Well done Professor Douglass! This is an incredible piece of work. God bless you and everyone connected with this monumental effort! I just love this book!

In all fairness to those readers who are not members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, or who are unfamiliar with the history and teachings of the Church, it would be helpful to know that the publisher (Pacific Press Publishing Association in Nampa, Idaho) is one of two large publishing organizations of the Church in the United States. (The other being the Reveiw and Herald Publishing Association in Columbia, Maryland.) Also, the general editor of this fine work, Kenneth H. Wood, (to whom the book is dedicated) has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ellen G. White Estate, Inc. and President of its Corporation since 1980, and has served in the past as Editor of the Adventist Review, the general paper of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

For those interested in reading a critical work on the life and times of Ellen White written by a reputable historian not officially connected with the Church and its many institutions, I would suggest as a starting point Dr. Ronald L. Numbers' book entitled, Prophetess of Health: Ellen G. White and the Origins of Seventh-day Adventist Health Reform. (I am very fortunate to have in my personal library a signed copy of the library edition of this work! Dr. Numbers was very gracious in signing my copy in February, 2001 at an Association of Adventist Forums meeting in Loma Linda, California where he spoke about Ellen White.)

I wish to end with a note of caution to those readers looking for more information on Ellen G. White. There is MUCH material that can be found on the Internet regarding the life and times of Ellen White, HOWEVER, let me be quick to point out that there are serious questions as to whether or not much of this material can be relied upon as factual. So, reader, BEWARE, and remember to research sources before relying on what you find. The Ellen G. White Estate staff can assist you with this. They have proven time and again to be very helpful to scholars all over the world. The website for the White Estate can be easily found by doing a simple search using GOOGLE or some other Internet search engine. Just do an exact search on the following phrase: "The Official Ellen G. White Website" and you'll easily and quickly find it. Enjoy!

Time is short, my friend! May our Lord and Friend find you to be a faithful and true representative of His character of love, mercy, and grace--now and at His second coming. Be ready, pligrim, be ready, because we know not the day nor the hour of His appearing!

Celerino Castillo III spent 12 years in the DEA raiding cocaine labs in South America, training anti-narcotics units, and investing drug rings. His account shocks and amazes. I have met Mr. Castillo, and he as he humbly recounts his stories, it astounds me what the government is really up to. This is a four star winner.

Castillo, a former DEA field agent, stationed in Central America became an unwitting witness to the CIA's, Oliver North's, and the Reagan Administration's involvement in the smuggling of cocaine to fund the Contra army. Published years before the 1997 San Jose Mercury News/Gary Webb article, "Dark Alliance", about the CIA's role in bringing crack to the streets of America, Castillo provides a shocking but entirely credible story from the inside. Castillo, during the course of his field investigations into cocaine smuggling, inevitably ran into the CIA's cocaine network. A fly-drugs-up/fly-guns-down network operated by Oliver North, Richard Secord, and CIA front company Southern Air Transport out of the Ilopango airbase in El Salvador. He was repremanded time and time again by his DEA superiors for sticking his nose places it didn't belong. Warned off by claims he was endangering missions critical to our National Security. Yet, Castillo continued to file tell-all reports to the DEA in Washington. This is the story of the uncovering of these revelations, and one man's fight to expose the truth and bring these injustices to light. I highly recommend it.

I am a warehousing and logistics neophyte, so view my opinion accordingly.

1. This book fulfilled the title's promise: it gave good insight on how to organize warehousing and logistics.

2. The book could have been better: it referred so often to the author's prior works that it read like an incomplete book.

This is absolutely remarkable book. It's amazing how far author's vision was. Helpful for Logistics Strategy Development in US and worldwide.

Shape and delievery perfect

A very interesting and worthwhile book, if you want to learn about Interfaces, COM programming, Type Librarys, DCom and all that stuff. It provides a good set of examples, and some very fine sample code, such as a type library viewer, which is almost worth the price of the book itself. Well worth a read if you want to integrate COM into your delphi apps.

This is not your typical 1200 page Delphi biceps-builder. This book is compact, well written and to the point. No filler, just meat. The chapters develop each topic with very good examples that illustrate COM and some good coding practices to boot. One caveat is that he does not always give each step if your working through the examples so you may have to do a little detective work to find out how a variable or interface showed up where it did. Take heart though, all the code can be downloaded"~ from the New Riders web site and the examples run fine. He also affords you the curtsey of compiling the examples for you so you can run them even if you don't have the latest version of Delphi. The book can be used equally well with Delphi 3 through 5."~ server by the second chapter!"~ done does not implement this interface directly. It is much more practical to let COM do the marshaling for you.

Very well structured and complete. It has been really helpful to several Delphi developers I know, which had little or no experience with COM. With this book in your hands you will learn not only "how", but also "why". It covers many concepts and explanations that usually Delphi programmers ignore or don't know. I particularly liked the DCOM topics. The examples are very good and well-chosen too. A good job, for sure...

the most useless piece of junk i have ever wasted my money on!

Harmon takes eighteen of golf's best holes and then proceeds to play them from the reference point of the mind of three levels of player --- A shot a 76, B a 84 and C a 89. He replays their shots and gives suggestions on what they might have did differently.

Only way likely most of us will play these holes. Excellent advice given by one of the best. This with Watson's "Strategic Golf" are the two best in this neglected category.

When I first started golfing I didn't realize how important course management was. I was really just interested in hitting the ball far and straight. And to be honest, that is what a beginner should concentrate on. But after hitting that first plateau, this book was really a breakthrough. Not only does it teach you how to manage a course to lower your score, it adds a very intriguing dynamic to the game itself. It is much like watching a football game without knowing the rules and strategies - laborious and dull. But once you know the rules and the intricate strategies developed to acheive your best score, you are infinitely more pleased with what you see.

Though I love that we get a guided tour of America's most storied golf holes, the fact that Harmon read my mind half of the time is what impressed me most. He lays out three separate strategies for three different levels of players. It is astonishing how he contrasts the different thought patterns of the lower v. higher handicappers. There are times where he makes high handicappers feel like idiots, but if you want to get better, hearing the truth about your game is the best way. I recommend this book very highly for all those tired of "reading" golf books with nothing but pictures and tips in them. While Butch does give a few tips, it is his golf mentality that is so fresh. And while the book is graphically impeccable, it isn't overcrowded with a bunch of confusing graphics and diagrams. Not your run-of-the-mill golf instruction book.

Ms. Harmon is an excellent, witty, and creative writer, but honestly, I could not get through the first three chapters of this book. First off, I don't believe there is such a "love potion" like this one that really exists, and it bothered me the way the two main characters were thrown together in totally compromising and lustful situations constantly. To me it was unreal, the potion having that kind of effect on real humans, and then having them behave that way. It could have been written with a little more tact. I read the "Beloved One" and it was a charming tale, but I just couldn't keep myself from putting this one away. It's just not believable.

Usually I find when reading a series that most of the books within it are average with one or two of them being true keepers. Well not so with this fantastic series about the de Montforte brothers! So far..they have ALL been keepers! "The Defiant One" was about Andrew..whom I have to tell you thus far is my personal favorite. I absolutely loved watching him and Celsiana come together. Now, some may say that this story was just a bit too unbelievable..and perhaps it was, but you know...its fiction..and thats the fun of it!...if you havent already read this series I wholeheartedly urge you to..I think youll be glad that you did..I CANNOT WAIT to now read Luciens story..I have a feeling that he is going to blow all of the other brothers out of the water!

Both the bride and the groom had vowed never to marry, but a few drops of an aphrodisiac invented by Andrew left Celsie thoroughly compromised (or was it the other way around?) and marriage was the only option. Although Andrew found himself beginning to like the idea of being married to Celsie, he knew that she would despise him when she found out the truth about him. Celsie found herself falling in love with her handsome new husband, but knew that whatever horrible secret he was keeping from her had the potential to destroy their marriage.

Although this is the first book I have read by Danelle Harmon, it is apparently the third part of a series of romances involving the de Montforte family and their matchmaking duke of a brother, Lucien. (Reminds me a great deal of the Malloren family saga by Jo Beverley.) This book had me so spellbound I could hardly put it down! I'll be looking for more books (past and future) by this talented author!

The information in this book is readily available in the educational features of E-Trade and other online investing sources. The author doesn't address the reality that Fidelity picks IPO recipients based on size and longevity of account (hence the rich get richer) and E-Trade prefers daytraders and assigns others randomly. The volume at E-Trade is so high... good luck to get any shares at all. Both require the invenstor keep the shares for a set number of days which is usually after the steller 120% rise is over. I was disappointed in the book. Not worth the money if you have taken advantage of free internet info.

Investing in IPOs describes the process behind taking a private company public in the United States. The book lists the players in an initial public offering and describes the documents that must be filed with securities regulators. It also offers suggestions about what characteristics lead to successful IPOs, such as a history of profits, a strong management team and a lack of strong competition. Also noteworthy are the advance warning signs which point to losers. These signs include pending lawsuits, low-price stock and recently changed business plans. We [...] recommend this book with its exhaustive and useful look at the IPO process to investors and to companies pondering an IPO. This clearly written book includes specific examples that use real-world companies to illustrate points.

Yes, this book has large print and is an easy read. Don't let that fool you; it's loaded with useful information! In very concise terms, "Investing in IPOs" quickly brought me (a beginning investor) to the point where I understand what to look for in an IPO and where to find that information.

Taulli also addresses the sad reality that most individual investors are stuck on the outside when the initial offering happens. But he offers tips to tell you the best time to jump in if you've missed the first offering.

Read this book with a highligher in hand because you will be going back to it. It's a great launching point, though not a single source for all you'll ever need to know. On the other hand, the questions I'm now looking to answer are questions I didn't even know to ask before reading this book.

I read Ms. Presley's book and I felt for her when she was only 14 and still a kid. Yet,as I read the book and seen how she said she loved him and how much her parents loved her. I had a very hard time accepting that anyone in the book really knew what it was to love another person. It was a book about lust of the flesh, disrespect for each other and what each self-centered individual could get off the other. More to say what they could get by being associated and in favor with Mr. Elvis Aaron Presley. The man became a bully, drug addict, prevert and why, because he did not know who he was anymore. He only knew what was expected of him financially and that all who said they loved him didn't have the guts to stand up and tell him that money was not the most important thing in the world to them he was;that he needed to take time and get his life pulled together. He was a fianancal product and nothing more to the people he was associated with. He is as much to blame for his bad life and death as all the others. The people closest to him should have united and stood their ground and gave Mr. Presley the strength he needed from them to better his life. Mr. Parker should have gotten him better acting roles. I am writing a paper on why Mr. Presley behaved the way he did. I am trying to get inside his head, to understand him as a person.

I started this book and I have to admitt, I read it in one day....It was very intersting however I don't think it was very factual....If you get this book be sure and get "Child Bride" as well, and compare....It is entertaining that's for sure! I love Elvis Presley...My mom was at his concert when she started having contractions with me...He is a heart throb and a very intersting man. This book I am sure has some truth to the legend, Elvis Presley's life and the things that went on during his time here, but lil Mrs. Priscilla is not as innocent as she tries to say in her book...Just look at her past reviews, the "seductive" pictures she has posed oh so many times in...She is a good story teller though. She tells it like she is a victim. You will see reading this book that in her own words she was very into Elvis, and VERY controlling and jealous....I say read this book...but get "Child Bride" as well...

"Elvis and Me" is ony of my favorite books I'v ever read simply because he's my favorite singer and my favorite person of all time, and because it's a great one-in-a-million book. This touching and moving story is told neatly and accordingly by Priscilla who experienced her life as the King's love interest, and later becomes his wife, and become unfortunately separated but they've never lost contact with each other. There are a lot of things about Elvis I never knew before that are in here: His total disinterest in making "G.I. Blues" (I can't imagine why other than he just returned from the Army), and his addiction to prescription drugs staring before the end of his life. It was the Army that got him started on prescription pills. Not because he felt like it, people. Read this wonderful page-turner and see what you think. You'll find out a lot of information. One other thing, Elvis swears in this book several times, but don't let that stop you from loving him.

I randomly picked up this book because I'm trying to learn about the history of Christianity. I haven't studied Christiany much, I'm not a church goer, and I haven't read most of the Bible. What I know of Christianity, I've absorbed from the American culture.

That said, I still enjoyed this book and could understand most of it fairly well. I expected the book to discuss Saul's philosophy and theology in more depth, but that was my mistake. This is a history book and not a philosophy or theology book. Most of the book focuses on debunking other historians views of Saul, Jesus, and the Gospels. Akenson presents Saul, as best he can, as a man who lived in Jesus's time, and most importantly, who wrote his letters before the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. Akenson outlines the probable religious atmosphere of Jesus time, speculates on Jesus's and Saul's relation to Judahism (as Akenson calls it), and discusses Saul's relation to Jesus, the early church, and the Gentiles.

I would have given this book five stars, but the organization of the book was a little too loose for my liking, and I got tired of Akenson harping on other historian's views of the Gospels (To Harkenson's credit, the harping was necessary to defend his presentation of the material... I just wish we would have done more of it in the appendix)

Akenson has done a good job of writing an informative, entertaining and accurate (inasmuch as the latter adjective can be at all meaningful here)book on Paul and Jesus for the lay reader. All in all, a very good hermeneutic reading of both concerned persons and a good illustration of their milieu. However, I have differences of opinion on several issues.
First, the author is quick (and correct) to point out the highly suspect nature of Secret Mark. But he is also quick (incorrectly- this time) to proclaim it a forgery. While I certainly agree that Crossan and Koester have prematurely and somewhat naively antedated this document, there is, at the other logical extreme, no reason to insist that it is an obvious fabrication on the part of Morton Smith (its 'discoverer') or any other. Sure, its possible. But without real evidence, we can just as properly take the leap and say that the earliest fragments of Secret Mark come from C.E. 50. Not a very good approach, of course. Methodologically, the best response to this issue is a negative one; i.e. there is NEITHER evidence that Secret Mark should predate Canonical Mark, NOR any direct evidence that the former is a forgery rather than a very late and poorly documented piece of apocryphal literature.
Second, Akenson seems to misunderstand the idea behind the Criteria of Multiple Attestation. Few biblical scholars (the Jesus Seminar included) believe that the extant Gospels are independent resources, in and of themselves. What they do believe is that there are strands of contradictory material within the Gospels that can be reasonably supposed to have come from a different source than that which they contradict. If some of these differing materials have thematically or theologically common elements, that constitutes a possible or probable independent attestation- not necessarily a definite one (though Akenson is quite right when he says that some scholars have too much faith in this device). Furthermore, Akenson does not delve sufficiently into the debate as to whether John ought to be considered dependent upon the synoptics. The concensus says no but, as Akenson points out elsewhere, others in biblical scholarship are only too willing to appeal to authority. In not dealing more fully with this issue, Akenson misses an important point that is pivotal in either making or breaking his case against the utility of the Criteria of Independent Attestation.
Third, Akenson's treatment of Q seems to me to be too conservative (very much echoing other giants like John Meier and Richard Horsley). He does not seem to want to grant that Q is best explained as having been written in stages (or formative stratum, to use Kloppenborg's terminology). If Q were was orally transmitted, verbatim and near-verbatim agreements on Jesus' aphorisms in Matthew and Luke are hard to explain. If it was not written in various stages, its various thematic tendencies also become cumbersome. While it is clear to me that the 'Cynic Sage' thesis of Burton Mack and Leif Vaage is based on too liberal an approach to scant information, Akenson's (and Meier and Horsley's) methodological conservatism is also somewhat beyond the pale.
Fourth, Akenson is correct to point out that liberal scholars are frequently sailing off the edge of the world in their conjecture. He is also correct to say that Paul is "the nearest thing we have to a witness." Unfortunately, this is not enough. In order for the Quest for the Historical Jesus to succeed to proceed substantively, we need more sources, and such sources as are not so scant in their mention of historical details. Akenson is skeptical of how we can so proceed with every other source being colored by the cultural response to the fall of Jerusalem in C.E. 70, thus most likely endearing himself to Luke Timothy Johnson and other like-minded (and admittedly articulate and respectable) theological conservatives who routinely lecture on the 'limitations of history.' My position is that because we have so very little to go on after C.E. 70, it does not follow that a careful examination of Gospel material cannot yield a reasonable amount of important, accurate and explanatory data. One previous reviewer has stated that "[e]arly First Century Jerusalem is a murky, far-away place, and we're never going to know all we want to about it, or the people who lived in it." That is a more extreme propounding of the non sequitur that lies behind the reluctance of some theological and methodological conservatives. Like the contemporaries of that revolutionary astronomer Copernicus, scholars should be ready to sail off the edge of the world before coming upon is spherical nature. The Gospels are certaunly problematic as sources, but not altogether impenetrable.
Finally, Akenson does not consider the position that Jesus never existed. Paul's relative silence on historical details about him have led some toward that hypothesis- an hypothesis that has recieved too little attention. Ironically, Akenson has firmly grasped some ammunition that could potentially blow a few holes in the mythicist argument but does not feel trigger happy on such an important, albeit little addressed, issue.

All of this aside, however, Akenson's writing ability and his approach to the subject matter as a non-specialist is quite commendable. There are always going to be disagreements in such a volatile subject matter, so my criticisms should not be mistaken for indictments. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in an insightful survey and series of arguments regarding those two great speakers whom we now wish could have written a bit more (though Jesus may not have been literate). A more than satisfactory effort, I recommend it highly.

Akeson is a very entertaining writer, and "Saint Saul" is fun to read even if you disagree with some of the substance. His fundamental argument, which seemed completely convincing to me, is that the epistles of Paul should be the prime source for uncovering the authentic historical Jesus, because Paul, unlike the Gospel writers, wrote before the destruction of the 2d Temple around 70 CE. He explains why many of the analytical tools used by the various questors for the historical Jesus lack analytical rigor, or are based on faulty premises. One obvious example is the one just mentioned -- using the post-destruction gospels and Acts to check the historical accuracy of Saul/Paul's letters. He is very effective in exposing the party-game qualities that underlie some recent, headline grabbing New Testament scholarship. He unequivocally asserts that the Secret Gospel of Mark allegedly discovered by Morton Smith, and relied upon by such groups as the Jesus Seminar, is an outright fraud. The only critisicm I have of the book is one I see in a few of the other comments -- in the end, there is not enough about Saul/Paul, and the book sometimes reads as a CliffNote's version of Akenson's "Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds", which is referenced throughout. Nonetheless, the book substantially increased my ability to test recent hypotheses by exposing flaws in logic, so I still recommend it highly.

I guess I am going to annoy all of you 5 star critics but I thought that the whole plot was unrealistic especially for those times. An unwed mother with not a fear or condemnation from society? Give me a break. The hero is unlikable he is very immature. The older brother I guess was the only saving grace of the book.

In all honesty, I read this book a year or two ago and...well...it wasn't one of Harmon's best books. I agree that the hero was quite immature and really quite annoying. I thought that it was nice in the end when he turned out to be a man of courage but I usually like my heros somewhat...more intelligent and mature and well...a man. Gareth was like a boy in a man's body and it wasn't until near the end of the book that he figured out he needed to mature a bit to make his new life with his wife her infant child (his brother's, no less) work. I wouldn't NOT recomend the book because it wasn't bad but it's just not a book that I would start a friend out on to advertise this author. Danelle Harmon is usually an excellent author and I hope her newest book, "The Wicked One" will not dissapoint me.

I LOVED THIS STORY. I thought that Gareth was unbearably adorable..so he was a little immature at times, but he was only 23 and I for one, was thoroughly charmed by him. I adored watching him with Juliet and especially his interactions with little Charlotte. I thought that Juliet was his perfect match , though Ill admit that at first it worried me that she had been involved with his brother,but my fears were soon laid to rest as I watched their love grow. My only quibble with this book was that sometimes I felt like other aspects of the plot overshadowed the romance, but for the most part..I LOVED THIS.. A definite keeper..I cannot wait to move onto the next in the series!