Andrew Murray has written a book with tremendous insight into the power of prayer and the need for intercession. He tackles common questions head on and has scriptural backing for his answers. I found the book very helpful in my own prayer life and have seen amazing results. Learning to pray correctly is vital to Christianity and this book outlines it well. I highly recommend it. It will change your prayer life.

Andrew Murray's books are classics. Very few I have read by this man of God are bad books and most are very simple to read with short chapters.

This book on intercessory prayer is one of his best. I found that this is a great book to read before bed since the chapters are short. This book offers biblical insight into intercessory prayer and unlike many books written today on intercessory prayer, Murray offers many Scriptural insights to back up his chapters on prayer.

Murray was a great missionary to Africa and was a man who lived this book. This book will challange your prayer life and will give you the desire to touch the heavens for this earth.

This book has been of great inspiration for me...The book came sent to my house of which I did'nt order. I also kept hearing this word of intercession, but was unsure of it's meaning. This book helped me dramatically in my spirtual life , along with the holy spirits guidance. This book was also passed to 4 other readers and one couple who's life was changed dramatically. If you haven't read this book and you have a desire to have a deeper relationship with God, and have questions on prayer, I suggest picking it up...

Each updated version of this book is more insightful and more complete. This edition has expanded information about Mexico plates that has not appeared in the older versions! If you're interested in license plates, this is the book for you!

This is a great book for collectors of license plates or just folks interested in the beautiful and diverse license plates available in each state.

Great for kids to study on long road trips or even to sit on a coffee table. Great illustrations show you exactly what the plates look like.

I bought this book for years, And I will continue to buy it , It has alot of info for plate nuts like Me, This year I buy about five of them for fellow collectors overhere in The Netherlands, Keep up the good work, Hans Borger.

Hey what can I say about this book? A great book. The quality is in the name Schums's.

My battered old copy of Spiegel has been a great help to me over the years. Dr. Spiegel provides comprehensive coverage of his topics (for example, unlike other authors of introductory texts he actually provides formulas for assessing skew and kurtosis) and he explains them simply and clearly. I have found his book particularly valuable when I have to use analytical designs or procedures which I do not normally use -- he provides a good overview and gives you a good idea of where you should be looking for further information. Now I've discovered there's an expanded second edition I'm going to order it.

I have used this book as a reference for understanding and solving various types of statistics problems for over ten years. It makes application of statistics concepts to real world problems easy because it contains many good example problems that are solved for the reader. One statistics teacher complemented me on my use of the book because it is very difficult to use the information in other textbooks on problems because they contain very few solved examples. I own a few other statistics books but this one is always the most useful.

This was one of the few books available at the time my son was diagonosed with SI. The book was invaluable to me at the time. Understand the book is a theory and practice text, and is not written with the layman in mind. However, I did gain more insight into SI with the book. It helped me understand a lot of the reasons behind my son's behaviors. It also helped me better understand the need for the therapy he was receiving, and why things affected him the way they did. I would recommend this book to other parents who are as perplexed as I was. It helps with a few more pieces of the puzzle.

I am a music therapist specializing in work with Autistic and other diagnosed children. I have just completed a book titled:
Music Therapy, Sensory Integration and The Autistic Child, currently in publication at Jessica Kingsley Publishers. It is filled with physiologic information as that relates to the work of music therapy. I have used the Fisher book as a reference and found it accurate, concise, and well presented, and it is one of the physiologic references in my own bibliography. Any therapist working with sensory integration issues must investigate the physiologic implications in coordinated hearing, seeing, sensing. For that information, I found this book clear and direct in helping lay readers and professionals alike to understand physiology. My own book follows similar progressions from presenting physiologic information to demonstrating, through case examples, how sensory integration implicates the work of music therapy. I recommend this book for clinicians, educators, caregivers. My own book will be available in late 2001.

Even with forty years of experience in the field, I found this book insightful. It is written to enlarge existing understanding of sensory integration without intimidating the reader. The wealth of knowledge can help not only the new graduate, but also the more experienced practitioner.

The photos are fantastic,the comments much more interesting,worth buying it.You can really understand why it is more than what you see at first in the movie.I loved it.

This is a must-have coffee-table book (it's also available in paperback) for all fans of Paul Verhoeven's brilliant, moving epic; it comes close to capturing the lush beauty of the movie itself. Anyone with taste, style, and/or half a brain will cherish both the gorgeous book and the inspiring, elegant movie. Thank you to the publishers of the book as well as the filmmakers.

What can I say about Showgirls that hasn't been said? I am sure I echo the sentiments of anyone who's seen this film when I say it's the best movie ever made. This book is also amazing. It features an in depth look at the talent that made this movie happen. Verhoven helps us to understand the seedy underworld of Las Vegas and why this movie is truly the story of a girl in search of herself. Where, oh where, is the sequel to this stunning masterpeice?

We all suffer from a case of TDNAH (That Does Not Apply Here), but workers in information technology seem to be the pathological case. Despite years of repeated admonitions that the only way to build successful software projects is to have a specific plan and that extensive overtime is counterproductive, many still do not listen. While most of the dot-com failures were bad ideas, there were many good ideas that were poorly planned and organized. The hours that most of the employees worked were more than what one would expect from a slave, as that seemed to be the only strategy for success that many could come up with.
Once you finally admit that you are not an exceptional member of the business section of the human race, it follows that you should look for someone with accumulated wisdom regarding how to successfully manage software projects. Cracking this book open is a good place to start, provided that quality software is truly your goal. While the advice in the book is good, it is of little use for someone more interested in exercising power and fueling their ego. This book is about being a true leader that people would listen to and follow even when choices are available. Management is about motivating people with a feather duster rather than a bullwhip and this book contains a detailed plan for the creation of competent managers who can lead the development of quality software.
Perhaps we are finally at the point where the popularity of the Dilbert cartoon will be due more to the humor rather than the accurate way it describes the work environment. Wherever we are in that trend, this is one book that is helping the push in that direction.

Successful software projects need to be organized and managed opposite to successful companies, because of the need for creativity. This book points out the differences in crystal clarity, with very specific suggestions on what to do at each stage of moving software projects forward. Of particular interest are shortcomings of the other approaches such as waterfall, hands-off, and rapid prototyping. Details on how to use RUP (Rational Unified Process) with UML examples are provided as well.

Murray Cantor's book discusses leadership, which is an important, though neglected, area of software development. In the introduction Murray Cantor makes it clear this isn't a 'how to' book about software development -- though he writes well on this here -- but this book is about *leading* a software development process. Again and again Murray reminds us that developing software is a team effort, and that only as an effective team will we succeed.
Murray drives this point home forcefully in chapter 3 when he reminds the reader that software projects are non-linear. He observes, correctly, that "Common sense flows from a shared view of how the world works." On the next page he reinfoces this with his tip that our new common sense approach to development is about leadership. From this point on, Murray illustrates the way in which to apply the team concepts to the process of building software.
If the reader is current with the literature as it pertains to development methods, then the technology in the book will not be new. Nevertheless, the lessons pertaining to team building are as profound as they are necessary. Those using the book as an introduction to development methodology will have the treat of learning this from one of the best, and as a bonus receive his sound advice regarding leadership.
Murray has written a book that should be on the shelf of any manager, er leader, associated with the development of software products. This is definitely a "two-thumbs-up" book.

The photos were wonderful and so were the comments. I have lots of memories of South Philadelphia after living there for 27 years (10th and Jackson). There were some that were good and some that weren't so great. It's a different world, but I'm happy where I am.

Being a South Philly resident sparks my interest in South Philly as well as Philadelphia. This book is GREAT! Each issue is handled with love and affection for the the good things South Philly used to be known for. I love the little facts and the info that makes you smile. It has given me a great sense of pride and I wish the sense of community the author writes about existed as fully today. If we could get rid of the violence South Philly has also been known for it would be the perfect place. If you are into facts, humor, touching life stories (without being sad), a little local history and a lot of love this is a great book to read. I do not read often but this book held my interest and was not overbearing in any one aspect. I may even read it again! If you read it you won't be disappointed! God Bless South Philly! --Nicole R.

This factual, tender, and personal treatise immediately transported me back to my childhood in South Philadelphia in the 50's. The content is both from an historical and cultural perspective,and is interspersed with wonderful photographs and humorous commentary. Much of the thorough historical information (the author is a journalist) was new to me and fascinating. However, it was the exploration of the cultural heritage which launched me on a wistful, nostalgic journey. Mr. Dubin, whose experiential reverence is evident, has infused the story of South Philadelphia with a rare intimacy. This reader feels very appreciative.

Miss a lot of things in this book. For example, there is no good and right explanation about intersegment jumps and calls.

If you really want to know what really makes the PC works, read this one. It really helps people to understand the logic process that is inside each PC component. It teaches you the bases of electronics, from the diode to the serial ports, and Pentium processor. The explanations are simple, but it does not goes in deep, leaving you with the necessary knowledge to just understand the innerworkings of the computer, no to make one from the scratch.

The assembler part is very good,but it is intended for people with medium level skills in programming, hard to understand if your are a beginner.

I gave 4 stars because this book is a bit older, it does not cover things like the new USB, PCMCIA III, and DVD topics. I really use it as a reliable refference material.

This book goes into all the nitty-gritty details that all REAL programmers are after. Although I'm a CS major at Ohio State, I knew little about computers except how to program them. Their inner-workings were still a mystery to me. This book was used for one of my courses and was exactly what I needed. It gives both a high-level view of the x86 architecture, and all the fine points down to the individual pins on the hardware components. It also covers x86 assembly language in some detail. This book has just about everything you need to know for programming in the Intel x86 architecture. Look no further.

This book has high quality photos printed on high quality paper. So, it's worth owning. Just don't get the pages sticky.

What can you say about this thing? It's Playboy! It's a history of the first forty years of Playboy magazine. I'm not afraid to say that I can be your basic white trash and enjoy this one. It shows the stories, news, sports, cartoons, and the women that Playboy has had between it's covers.

What is neat about the book for me, were two things:

The history of Playboy. For example did you know that January 1958's Playmate Elizabeth Ann Roberts had to get a note from her mother to appear nude in Playboy? Hefner was then charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and from then on demanded that all his model be 18.

The women. Not all Playmates became stars, but a lot were interesting like the above mentioned Playmate. There have been major stars like Betty Page, Marilyn Monroe, Sharon Stone, Pam Anderson, Vanna White, Madonna, Tanya Roberts, et cetera, et cetera, in the magazine as well.

Say all you want, I'm glad this one is on my bookshelf to peruse through.

Here you have 40 terrific years of playboy magazine's greatest accomplishments summed up in these few hundred pages. If you enjoy looking at all beautiful women from 1954-1994, its here. This book also includes 40 years of American music ,fashion,sports,motion pictures,books, and anything interesting that you have incountered in the last 40 years. Its a must for any Playboy fanatic, and has Mr.Hugh Hefner as a role model .

In "The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism" Janet Biehl does an excellent job elaborating upon and solidifying the ideas, steps and political procedures stemming from Murray Bookchin's red-green philosophy. Concise, to the point, and thought provoking for any reader curious towards politics and the human order.

The aim of the book -as expressed during the introduction by its author Janet Biehl- is to divulge the ideas of Murray Bookchin, already published in different books and articles, but sometimes hard to find or to read to the common people. With a short trip through human history, Bookchin shows us that the State has not always existed (and, of course, that it has not to exist for ever). What's more, he maintains that the State as a form of organisation has been an imposition of a part of the people, not a free choice of the majority --and that actual political class tries to keep away the common people from the political arena, converting them just in "voters" and "taxpayers". There has been alternatives to the State, all of them with a main thing in common: its origin in the municipality. From here, Bookchin extracts the main theses of the book: the municipality is the right place --and maybe the unique-- where people can start to radicalise the democracy in order to get direct democracy. The book goes on describing the process libertarian people must follow to get at libertarian municipalities: the way they have to organise, the way they have to take decisions, the way they have to participate in the actual "political" live, the dangers they will have to confront (with an interesting Green's movement analysis), etc.. If some times the book seems too simple, we must arrive to the interview with M. Bookchin. This is the place where many questions appeared through the text find its answer. An essential complement, the interview gives to the book the necessary end. A light in the night!

The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism by Janet Biehl. Biehl's previous work looked at the convergence of ecological and feminist thinking 'Rethinking Ecofeminism'. Here she addresses the politics of social ecology, a radical critique of existing society pioneered and developed by political philosopher Murray Bookchin. This is then, a primer on Bookchin's thinking, an essential opening to Social Ecology. The stress here is on the political, rather than the social, anthropological or philosophical aspects of Social Ecology. This is no accident. At the heart of Biehl's analysis is the idea that the ecology movement has largely moved away from the political, increasingly moving towards a purely personal and/or spiritual worldview. This, argues Biehl persuasively, results in an insipid reactionary environmentalism. In opposition to this trend she advocates the radicalisation of the ecology movement, making common cause with other areas of exploitation. We must, she argues, understand the forces which undermine our environment, degrade our experiences and commodify our existence. These forces are the free market capitalist economy perpetuated by the nation state. In opposition to these now universal forces which cause such poverty, and human degradation we must build movements of resistance around municipalities. She argues that, whilst the state has been an imposition of an arcane and insane political order, there is a alternative history of free municipalities. Social Ecology demands the overthrow of the capitalist state and the reconstruction of viable socio-ecological relations. It is markedly different from other ecological outlooks in it refuses to buy into a reactionary technophobic analysis, arguing for appropriate technologies and embracing Enlightenment ideals as being essential to human develeopment. Biehl's book addresses the possibilities of a new politics based on direct democracy of municipal assemblies. Such assemblies would be confederated to wider regional groups who would co-ordinate non-local matters. It's an inspiring vision of a different, ecological future, where a general interest is realised and allows human endeavous to flourish. Social Ecology is a powerful tool for the re-contruction of a left-green movement wallowing in confusion, indulging in psychobabble and spiritual hokum and deluded by political compromise. Janet Biehl's book is a brilliant analysis of alternatives to this dead end.