Many of the stories in this book are distasteful. I would not recomend this book to anyone.

This is a wonderful book. Once I started it, I didn't want to put it down. I love a format of vignettes (short essays or stories). If you aren't a Christian, you may think these stories are too churchy or just can't be real. But if you ARE a Christian, you know exactly how the power of God carries us through everyday life. The theme of this book touches the soul of Christian women. Stories are either told by a woman of faith, or are about a woman of faith. Both men and women share real incidences from their life, covering nearly every scenario imaginable. The horrible: death, cancer, physical disfigurements, abuse, divorce. And the glorious: miraculous healings, new love, the wonder of children, God's protective hand. Though quite varied in content, each story testifies to God's grace, strength, and abundant love. The Chicken Soup people have outdone themselves with this uplifting collection to warm and heal the soul of the Christian woman. Blessings to them. And blessings to you from the MenopauseLady. Donna Rogers, author The Menopause Survival Guide.

We are blessed to have yet another collection of amazing stories to read and to share. Also of note is the tone of the book which is gentle and lovingly points the reader to draw their own conclusions - there is absolutely no offensive preachyness here! I would highly recommend this as a great gift or to read yourself! Thanks again to the Chicken Soup Team - you have done it again!

Sorry to say but the book was very boring. In fact, I hardly got through it at all. It seemed to me the book was just written in order to gain new clients (as the writers own their own investment boutique). I definitely would not recommend this book!

A good introduction to the art and science of the sales process. The authors are clearly seasoned pros who share their years of experience and battle tales with the reader. A great read and a fine primer into the complex process of selling a business.

One of the better books on the subject. I recently sold my business, and wanted to get as educated as I could before getting started. I probably bought six books on the subject. This book was quite helpful in identifying the major issues and providing meaningful insight into the process. The authors do a good job of weaving specific advise in with their recounting of real tales of past experiences.

On the strength of the other reviews I decided to pick this up. But I found it to be a fairly dissatisfying. Inside were page after page of women who look like over the hill exotic dancers. Heavily made up & dispassionate faces peer out at you. Some of the clothes were fairly interesting, but not enough to make up for the rest.

Goth Girls, Leather Boys, Doms and more. . .
Though in my opinion alot of the photos are fairly blan, there are indeed some that a worth while. Most of the photos seem to be snapshot style scene photos and others are simply portrait style fetish shots.

Dave is a mighty fine photographer, and this book proves it. A mighty nice collection of glamourous girls done "Naz-style". I like it muchly says me, and I should know! I'm a photographer too!

I was prepared to love this book, based on the reviews posted so far and my general love of travel and books about other cultures. While it is written well, I found it disappointing - the characters weren't fully drawn, the situations weren't interesting - overall, it just didn't grab me. And it's a lot of money for such a slim volume. If you want a good read about buying a house in Italy and adjusting to life there, try Extra Virgin instead.

The book was enjoyable. I would have loved for it to be a little longer. Some topics or stories could have been expounded on longer. I also read "Extra Virgin ... " by Annie Hawes and it sounds like Maremma is close to the small town she wrote about. From the description of the house, it sounds like it turned out to be gorgeous, they sould have included a picture of some of the decor of the house. I enjoy reading this genre of books, please keep them coming. I will be reading "Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town" by Michael Rips soon.

Two US writers conclude their charming account of life in a non- chic Tuscan town with the insight that though they moved there "... to capture a dream less of Italy than of being foreigners in Italy, figures in a Forster novel," they have become Tuscans despite maddening bureaucracy and cravings for peanut butter. One wishes for a map, farmhouse remodeling photos, and observations on how they are viewed as an apparently gay couple.

While this book is funny/interesting, there was nothing in this book that I had not heard before or that experience or common sense (remember what that is?) had not taught me. I believe that the the book is also vastly over priced for it's size(120 pages). Save your money, buy gas for your bike, and use the best teacher of all, get on the road, and in the wind.

A great little book with lots of insightful views into the world of motorcycling and the people who live in it. The illustrations are outstanding and really enhance the thoughts expressed. Well worth the cost.

This is a fun book and with some very indepth wisdom, if you can read between the lines. Be prepared for a series of one liners, leave your troubles in the dust (except for those that are inherent in owning a bike!) and enjoy the wind in your face.

John Mitchell can't quite decide if 4 Go Mad in Massachusetts is a travelogue or a travel book, but therein lies its perfection.

A series of short stories about his family's travels all over the state make more fun reading than a bland travel book, while imparting the kind of hidden information about attractions both offbeat and obvious that often goes unsaid (like that when visiting 'The Butterfly Place' his twin boys get more excited about an infestation of mealy bugs they find, or how the boys' 'Uncle Biz' accompanies them to a historic site and meets a man in period costume portraying his Mayflower riding ancestor but all he can think to ask him is "Where is the bathroom?"). From the Thermometer Museum to an Anatomical Museum, to the Freedom Trail and Edaville Railroad, Mitchell paints a portrait of the state with equal parts sarcasm, wit, and wonderment that goes far outside the lines yet entices the reader to delve deeper into finding the Massachusetts that lies just outside the box.

Throughout the nearly 200 pages of this book, John Mitchell finds himself facing an age-old dilemma: can a family find places to visit that won't leave at least one side of the parent-child team screaming for mercy? How do two young hipsters entertain their kids without hooking them up to the corporate theme park teat?

It's a tribute to the Mitchells' parenting skills that they and their children derive as much fascination and enjoyment from talking to hens at the zoo as they do from wandering through a World War II-era submarine (although the boys get as much pleasure from crawling across the lined-up bunks and pretending to be moles). Between John's smart, clever prose and Jana's gorgeous, fluid illustrations, 4 Go Mad will make you want to visit more places and spend time examining their beauty, their pathos, and how different age groups derive different meanings from them. A smart, fun read.

From the moment I picked up this book, I was hooked - and I don't even live in Massachusetts! The adventures of the Mitchell family not only entertained me - they opened my eyes to a small part of the vast array of hidden oddities out there in the world just waiting to be discovered and explored!

And what explorations they have! Every chapter uncovers yet another amazing locale - each more fascinating then the last.

Harry and Hugo sound like wonderful children with vast creativity and an immense amount to offer - who wouldn't be with parents like these?

Love it! Love it! LOVE IT - keep up the good work!

I found this book quite by accident. I was so excited I read it all through my favorite class, art. Later on a school bus, I was a freshman, I read the story itself in a half hour. By the end of the story I was crying so hard my shop teacher wondered what was wrong. I loved it! It was great the way the heroine chose to keep what she held precious even in the face of danger. I also loved the letters between Mitchell and Henry Love Angel that compose the first half of the book. Especially the letter about the train ride and the soldier's coffin. That is probably one of the best forms of symbolism I have ever read.

I liked the story in the book, however, I thgouht that the letters were boring but had good pictures. I reccomend this book! I just wish that the story itself would have been longer!

If you're a GWTW fan, don't miss this love story! Lost Laysen is second fiddle to the real story in this offering: Margaret "Peggy" Mitchell's letters to Henry Love Angel. Their story fascinated me much more than the fiction she pinned as a teen. Her letters and the photos and the story of how they surfaced made me feel like the young "Peggy" defied time and was alive again. Peggy's Henry must have been very special!

This book covers CDO 1.2.1. It does not cover CDO for Windows 2000. I did not discover this until I bought the book. The project I was working on required CDO 2000, so the book was worthless to me.

While most of what you need to know about CDO programming is in this book, I found that the information could have been presented in a more friendly manner. Most of the examples seem to be spread out throughout several chapters, leaving you to do a lot of flipping back and forth to figure out fairly straight forward information. Quite frustrating. To be fair to the authors, I have found this to be the case with most of the books in the WROX library, so it is probably just the editorial style of the publishing company.

If you like the WROX style, you should be happy with this book.

Started out with this book to understand the direction of Microsoft in the gradual move towards object model programming. CDO is meant to ease the "pain" of raw extended MAPI programming. However, there are some issues and cases that still required the ascent into the arcane area of raw MAPI. Examples are custom agent programming and Calendar programming(which is greatly undocumented) using raw MAPI. Correlating IDispatch and IUnknown Interfaces does not make it easier, and smart pointers are not a panacea for all programming issues. Enough said... I really love this book, and with the move to Exchange 2000, it should give a good foundation for CDO programming in both C++ and VB.

If you've got a brain and some common sense you don't need this book. It was a total waste of money. The only tips that were even partially helpful were the make-up tips, and you can get that information at your department store cosmetic counter (pick your favourite brand, mine's Clinique). If you honestly have NO clue what to do with regard to making wedding choices and can't find the information on the Internet, then go ahead and make the purchase.

I found this book useful because it covers a lot of ground. It has tips on everything. There are tips on gowns, flowers, hair, makeup... I would definitely recommend this book for any bride-to-be.

The make-up chapter alone is worth the price of the book. I don't normally wear a lot of make-up, and I couldn't afford to hire a professional for my wedding, but this book was almost like having Mitchell right there. I followed his advice, and was very please with the results.

The other chapters were very useful as well. All in all, the best advice he gives is "Less is more."

This book is very outdated to start things off. This shows no studies done on children who are actually involved with equal shared parenting. This book tells how the children should not spend the night at the onon-custodial parents house when at a young age. A child can sleep at a daycare or at school, but can't go spend the night at dad's house. How else can a child get the benefit of having both parents share in the raising of that child. The non-custodial parent would never get to help the child get ready for bed, wake them up in the morning, take them to school, make them dinner, and the list would go on forever. This book is great information for people who want their children to have one parent and to have major problems later in life

Good book if you are a bad female custodial parent involved in a custody dispute over a baby. Gives lots of reasons for not allowing the non-custodial to be involved as more than just a visitor. If you are a non-custodial, it shows you the kind of shallow thinking that Child psychologists were using only 10 years ago and explains many of the prejudices you run up against when it comes to taking care of babies. One example is they suggest that the "primary parent" or custody should be given to the one that spends the most amount of time caring for the child. They neglect to mention that in many cases this would be the day care provider or that it is possible that the time the "primary parent" gives her baby is only what she has to do to keep the baby alive while the limited time the non-custodial parent gives is because he wants to be with the child and knows that the child desperately need him. The information offered in the book gets more in sync with modern thinking as the age of the child increases.

This book is an excellent guide to understanding what is best for your child and why. The author's recommendations stem from widely recognized theories of psychological development. It may seem unfair at times to the non-custodial parent. However, a part of being a good parent is doing what is best for your child even if that means putting your own needs aside. I think this book offers excellent guidance for parents trying to develop a healthy co-parenting plan that works and is age appropriate.