Just plainly superb.

An exellent book. Detailed where necessary, but still concise. I am in the process of building the Greenland design that Morris recommends as a first qayaq and find the directions easy to follow and complete.
You can order supplies from Morris if you choose to build a boat.

Great pictures and drawings. Occasional unclear directions, but over-all, this is the best book I have ever seen for building a
skin boat.

I came across this book in a used bookstore. Since I enjoy reading success stories of business people, thought that I would add the is one to my library.This book covers the rise of a company called "Dare to Be Great", a motivational MLM company in the 70's created by a guy named Glenn W. Turner.Despite the companies eventual downfall, I found this success story very inspirational and motivational. Goes to show what can be done with sheer will power, determination and stickability.

Interesting book about how a cosmetics company originally started in a small apartment in SE Orlando in the 70's turned over $300 million in sales in under three years!

'Dare to Be Great' was actually the name of a motivational company that was created when certain powers cut off Koscot's cosmetic supplies (Koscot Interplanetary)and the media falsely accused Koscot of running a pyramid scheme (selling distributorships without product)

Dare to Be Great positively impacted the lives of thousands. Over 800 millionaires were created and the parent company, Turner Enterprises, originally Koscot and Dare to Be Great grew into 78 companies and in 21 countries.

This book is both inspiring and scary. Inspiring because it shows that just about anybody can become a success. Scary because it shows of the abuse of power, politics and bias in the media.

This book offers a riviting account of the top network marketing company of the 1970's-Turner Enterprises which actually started with one company, Koscot, a cosmetic company that nearly toppled Avon and Dare To Be Great, a motivational and personal development company.Turner Enterprises extrapulated into 78 companies in 21 countries with over $300,000,000 in sales and nearly 1 million distributors creating over 600 millionaires.Aside from this incredible growth is the factor that the CEO was Glenn W. Turner, a 8th grade dropout who had been born in a charity ward with a harelip and a bad speech impediment. In addition, Turner was named "American of the Year" in 1972 and ran for senate in the state of Florida beating 6 worthy opponents, although losing the race.Turner had 700 lawsuits filed against him, won 699 and lost only one.An incredible success story. Also an incredible story of government abuse in America at that time. Most people feel that Turner was essentially railroaded.Also recommend Turner, Turner, Turner: The King of Network Marketing, The Unstoppable Glen Turner and The Unstoppable American.

An excellent reference for the serious Southern Gardener.

This is absolutely the best reference book for Southern gardeners. If "it" is not mentioned here, "it" is not meant to be planted in the South. Information is easy to understand for beginning gardeners. I am on my second edition.

Gardening is a lifestyle that sings to my soul. This is THE hymnal. Pick up a copy and sing with me.

The title "Joe turner's Come & Gone symbolizes the American socialized system of oppression. Joe Turner is "the Man", Joe Turner is jail, and oppression. In this play, Herald Loomis has been detained by Joe Tuerner for seven years. Upon his release he searches to find his daughter and his wife while all along he has been searching for his inner self.
Bynum Walker is a "Rootworker", one who practices unconventional spiritual worship. He lives in the boarding house an tells a story of a shiny man who has the secrete of life. This secret that he refers to, the secret of life, symbliizes the meaning of all in existance and most impoprtantly the knowledge of self. Joe Turner, "the Man", "the system", and American society have stripped, robbed,and raped the African American of self. It is this quest for idenity that Herald Loomis searches for within himself. This same quest is also found in all of the other characters in the play as well. Those that come to the boarding house are unstable and have not found their true selves. Even Seth and Bertha, the owners of the house also quest for their idenity. They have a better financial system than the others, but they are stil timid when they encounter white America. Seth constantly states the rules of the boarding house. He proclaims to operate a clean, safe, and respectful house. He feels that any other behavior would call too much attention to him and his home. Resulting in white American society to take oppresive actions against his achievements.
Joe Turner's Come & Gone is an excellent concept that spiritually looks at the concept of knowing ones-self. August Willson's use of quest for idenity among all his characters allows the reader to unmistakenly find a connection with their own secret song to sing.

August Wilson, a Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright captures the essence of the African-American experience of slavery, migration, and the quest for an identity. These themes are part of the written slave narrative, from which the African-American literary tradition was born. In "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", Wilson brings the struggle of migration from the agricultural South to the Industrial North to light; set in the early 1900's when this great migration had just begun. The quest for self/an identity is one of the many scarring ramifications of slavery, and the result of namelessness. Wilson, is able to capture this central theme through religion, allegory, and music-Jazz/Blues. The quest for ones identity is rooted in the metaphorical use of the quest for a song. Songs mean different things for different people; they touch people in different ways. Why? Because each individual is unique, each individual has a song, an identity. With the historical culture of the African-American, and its connection to Music, this collaboration of rhythms and imagery proliferate the importance of this quest to life. Wilson, like Toni Morrison, offers his work as an illustration of the Blues Theory of Art-the idea that music has the ability to reach deep into the soul, and pull from it the raw feelings that may otherwise be unreachable. Music goes to the core of ones being, and helps the healing process. With Loomis, this was evident in the search for his song, his identity, it was all part of the restorative process, yet a consequence of America's greatest shame-Slavery. I must say that "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" in a wonderful way, using symbolism, folklore, and like Jazz, a non-written form of art, serves as an anchor and captures the heart of the African-American experience.

Wilson's play is set in the early 1920's in Pittsburgh. The play is about blacks migrating North and away from slave states towards better, or different opportunity. The action takes place in two acts at boarding house owned by Seth and his wife Bertha. The husband and wife duo have several guest who come and go each with a different story, or "song." The play has a jazz influence that makes the story line flow like a musical. Music and dance are the major form of communication for blacks and Wilson uses this mode of communication effectively throughout the play to bring his characters to life. Each person who encounters the boarding house of Seth and his wife are in search of their song, which is a synonym for their identity. The characters search for their song by trying to locate others through Selig, the people finder. The song symbolizes an identity that has been lost within years of slavery and continuing discrimination. The play shows us that a person's song is within and can never be found in the hands of someone else. Our song is inside of us. We are not to search for others or look for others to define ourselves. The search needs to begin within. This play was very magical in that it transformed music into a body. Two thumbs up!

Light One Candle: A Survivor's Tale From Lithuania To Jerusalem is the autobiographical story of Solly Ganor, a man who survived the unspeakable holocaust of the Second World War when he was 13 years old through the intervention and rescue of a Japanese American soldier in 1945 (who himself had been releases from a U.S. internment camp for Japanese Americans just a few months earlier. Light One Candle is a powerful and vividly told memoir of struggle, starvation, and the brutal tolls of concentration and extermination camps. Light One Candle is a welcome eye-witness testimony and a very highly recommended addition to personal reading lists as well as academic and community library Holocaust Studies reference collections.

i have read well over two hundred memoirs. This is worth crying over (not that other ones aren't also) and listening to very carefully. without sentimentality - without profession of feelings that may or may not have been felt but remembered...solly ganor brings the reader inside his mind and heart.

In LIGHT ONE CANDLE, Solly Ganor takes the reader into that nightmare world of the Holocaust--I could practically feel the harsh elements, the constant danger of the camps. This book isn't anther rote recitation of death counts. There's so much heart and compassion for all those sweptup in these horrors. The insights into camp life include the primal nature of life stripped to itsbasics--such as the "storyteller" who keeps the outside world and traditions alive. Particularly poignant is Cooky, Ganor's childhood friend whose account of the slaughter at the Ninth Fort is more compelling than Dante's own descent into Hell. Ipersonally feel Ganor's book is deserving of some national/international award. Actually, reading the book I wonder how Ganor got it all done. It must have been so painful to revisit these terrible, incomprehensible, sublime, poignant memories. To me it's the best book on the Holocaust, personal or otherwise--certainly it should be a companion to any serious study of this subject. To me it hits at the heart, gets into the soul. It's the humanity of the account,particularly those heart-rending final glimpses of the condemned trying to smile as they wave good-bye.

I bought this book awile ago. Some of the things left behind have letters or notes attached to them. Very chilling. Awesome book for anyone. I love it.

My best friend and I used to curl up in chairs at the local book store to read this book and weep. It is a very touching and poignant book, a must see.

This book is beyond catagorization. More than any story, journalism, or war photos could ever do, this book demonstrates the horrors that soldiers in Vietnam were subjected to both "in-country" and state-side. Every American should own this book.

The book is what it seems--a commonsense introduction to everyday business practice in a lovely little edition with a nice price--but for one thing. The authors are not what you might expect from this publisher, people interested in higher consciousness (for lack of a better term), but perfectly ordinary capitalist apologists of the same sort the business schools (and I am a graduate of one!) turn out every day. On the west coast even the bankers mouth a few bland whole-earth type new-ageisms here and there, I suppose; enough to get published by Shambhala, anyway. Buy it for business advice only and save your soul elsewhere, if you have one left to save after you're done worshipping the author's god, Mammon.

A refreshing restoration of faith that you CAN make money without compromising your ethics. An excellent read that you will refer to again and again.

I purchased this book in 1987 just before starting my business. "Honest Business" affirmed every belief I had about how business should and could be practiced. Even concepts such as a business' responsibility to the community it conducts business in is discussed in depth. "Honest Business" gave me the courage and the steps for conducting business without foresaking my personal principles, morals, and objective. Even today this book is my constant companion; my business bible.

The ComStar field manual is a useful roleplaying resource, with the unit histories similar to those found in all of the field manuals. I find that it is somewhat less useful than the others, if only because it tries to do too much. The book wastes space explaining 4 different organizational systems (Com Star, Star League, Rasalhague, and Clan). The other manuals had more focus, whereas this apears to be an attempt to throw in every reamining non-great house faction. Can't really blame FASA for that though, as Rasalhague and the SLDF had to get something, and surely dont deserve their own manuals (yet).. overall a sold product, and worth getting eventually, although i recommend picking up some of the others first if you dont really need the ComStar info for a campaign.

I have enjoyed all of the Field Manuals to date. This one tells us more about the new Star League army and the Rasalhague military than anywhere else. Best Comstar resource since the old Comstar manual.

This field manual on Comstar is better than the older one that I do not have and I can not find. If you want to have an idea on what Comstar is doing, then, this is the field manual to have. It does try to do too much but it is very clear on what is about. Comstar is now part of the starleague.

This book is well written, and the author knows what he's talking about. However, I found he repeats things and often complicates simple things. After reading the chapter about PocketPC Flash technology I found it offered no more information than the Macromedia SDK (free on their website). He does offer some additional advice on PPC game development such as color and art optimization; common sense to most Flash developers. The book attemps to explain how to program a complete game in ActionScript, but does not elaborate on the details of ActionScript (ie: mentions the use of arrays, but doesn't explain their complex charictaristics). If your looking to learn ActionScript, this is not the book. Overall, this book has the advantage of being one of the first in it's catagory.

I just finished reading "Flash the Future" from the folks over at Flash the Future. It's great, as in really good and you should go out and get it now. Some may ask "I already have Flash Enabled the book, do I need this?" The answer is (and what you'll hear from me from now on since I've read this) you really need both books if you're interested in creating rich content for multiple devices. With both books, there's not much overlap and everything gets covered in deeper and broader ways. Amazon has a special, so go for it.

After reading this book, I was VERY happy to have spent the money to pick this one up!

What struck me most, just from reading the table of contents, was the breadth of the content that is found in Flash: the Future. Not only is there information on creating Flash content for PocketPC 2002, but the book also covers Flash for Broadcast (DVD, iTV, and consoles), as well as the Nokia 9200 series. This book covers all of these topics extremely well. Just over half of the book devoted to developing content for the Pocket PC.

There are several different authors who contribute chapters in this section, and each authors' respective expertise in each different topic is evident throughout the section. For example, in each chapter you will find valuable tips and tricks that only come from such experience.

Flash: the Future is a well written and well edited title, and I strongly recommend picking it up if you are serious about Flash development.

This book of narrative poems deals with the author's emotional damage she encountered as a child after being sexually abused by a vacation friend. The emotions Ann feels and describes are paralleled to her learning to swim. The book is divided into three sections: sailing, sinking, and swimming. She begins the book as a happy exuberant child looking forward to a vacation in the summerhouse she loves. She is so looking forward to swimming on her own, without the swimming ring or her daddy's hands. She is confident and feels like she is sailing on top of the world. Her tone soon changes when Kevin, a friend down the road, takes her upstairs to read to her. Instead of reading he sexually abuses her and threatens her to never tell. At this point she feels like she is sinking. The secret she cannot tell anyone makes her feel physically sick. The hate and contempt for what Kevin keeps doing to her continue to builds up inside of her. When she tries to swim on her own she thrashes her arms and legs around until she almost sinks. Her daddy says maybe she will have better luck next time. Finally the time comes when Ann tells her mother the horrible secret she had been keeping to herself. Her father, mother, and grandfather try to instill the security and innocence in her that had been lost. Ann slowly starts to let go of the pain. She begins to return to a sense of normalcy in her life. This time when she gets in the water she forgets to be afraid. She starts swimming. This is a wonderful book dealing with the issue of sexual abuse. If something is wrong or someone is hurting you it is always better to tell someone. Then you can start the healing process. This book would be interesting to sixth graders and up due to the content and form of the text. Parents and teachers could use this book to enhance the study of english, art, social relationships, and health.

...Teaching K-8 magazine...suggested that it be used in middle school classes to discuss the presence of sexual abuse by a family member or family friend. While this is obviously not a happy topic, this book explores it in a responsible and appropriate manner.

Culled from the real-life experiences of poet Ann Turner, "Learning to Swim" tells the story of a young girl on a family vacation who is molested by an older boy. Each page has a separate poem that explores her feelings at a particular time. The actual events are not related. The only questionable language is a mention to "private parts". This is what makes the poetry all that much powerful. The images created are wonderful and the reader is able to get a glimpse into the mind that this child must have felt.

The reader will feel the same emotions as the girl and it sends a powerful message about how awful the exploitation of children is. The reading ability is definitely Young Adult and Turner is able to relate this difficult subject matter to a level that is appropriate for this age group - boys and girls alike.

Why 4 stars?: Really my only objection is that she did not write more. While we see the events from the child's mind, I would have appreciated even more depth into her emotions, as well as to the other people involved - her parents, brothers, and even the perpetrator. However, I did enjoy the poems, and could not put it down - I read it the first time in a single sitting, and then had to go back and read them again so the full levity could hit me. Turner does a masterful job of exploring this tragic subject in a manner that is appropriate for adolescents.

This is a unique book about the experience of sexual abuse, creatively written in poetic form, from the voice of a young child. Ann Turner eloquently shows what it is like for a child facing this kind of abuse. The book is so short you can read it in one sitting. The best thing about Ann's book is that it is written for a younger audience and in such a way that it encourages children to tell, even though it means facing painful feelings. As a survivor I want to thank Ann Turner for turning her painful experience into a work of art and as a way for other children to receive help.