This book is excellent and very inspiring. I highly recommend it to anyone, but especially to other gays and lesbians who are carrying a heavy burden of guilt from their childhood on. Reading it and completing the exercises led me on a splendid and magical, healing journey to wholeness. For the first time in my life of over 30 years, I actually feel good about myself and my life and my sexual orientation. The message of this wonderful book is: Society is the problem -- NOT your sexual orientation! I agree 100%. This book's message is easily applicable to all other minorities with an alternative lifestyle, as well. Please read this book, for yourself and for your loved ones. Self-esteem is the greatest gift which you can give to yourself as well as to your partner and the other people in your life. READ IT today! And a warm hug and THANK YOU to Dr. Hardin for sharing this tremendous message! ;)

Dr. Hardin's book is a powerful book that presents information vital to healing the wounds inflicted on gays and lesbians, both by society and by individuals, in a manner that is friendly, accessible and eminently usable without compromising on the complexity of the topic. The respect with which the subjects of his book and the readers are treated is healing in and of itself. This book is a must read for all gays and lesbians, their family, friends and coworkers and anyone interested in preventing the damage inflicted on individuals simply because of their sexual orientation. It speaks indirectly as well to members of other groups who likewise suffer discrimination because of group membership. As a woman, in a male dominated society, I found much of relevance to my own situation in his book. This book is an easy, accessible read whose implications and potential to better the lives of its readers are profound and anything but simplistic. I highly recommend it.

This book expresses deep, thought-provoking, loving, insights into life, family and God. One gets the feeling that the author is expressing his own life in the struggles and joys he has experienced which all people can relate to in one form or another. Very inspiring book!

Warm, sweet, light-hearted, deep-thought, hope, courage and fear are all touched in these pages. Love for life and God are felt as each verse is read. A wonderful testimony.

This collection of essays explores how individuals view commonly-owned resources. The clear conclusion is that people are biologically selfish: each person sees his/her own interests as more important than the group's interests. Altruism doesn't work as a policy. This flies in the face of common wisdom. I wish this book could be made standard reading for all high-school students. It explains the population's apparently self-defeating habit of destroying their own habitat.

Very informing information...Innovative, intuitive, interesting. -B. Baggins

This book supports the arguments economic conservatives have intuitively had against altruistic national and international welfare schemes - they only encourage more irresponsibility, even larger families in already impoverished lands, and only encourage immigration to welfare states such as the United States and Western Europe -- spreading the misery of low wages due to oversupply of farm and blue collar labor and increasingly white collar and even high technology degreed job categories. This is in addition to the fundamentally immoral and monstrous nature of such redistributionist schemes.

Quoting from Abernethy's book: "Americans are too careless in protecting their own heritage and too ready to impose western culture on others." "Organization is one of the linchpins of prosperity, and it depends on stability and security. But maintenance of order within a democratic framework ultimately depends on the consent and consensus of the governed. Without a core of common values, order depends upon coercion and the criminal justice system. Public safety in today's American cities comes at the cost of erosion in treasured liberties such as freedom from unreasonable search and seizure -- the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. And the shift toward state coerciveness will probably be irreversible so long as the numbers outside the law, or in disagreement with fundamental values, keep growing."

After 15 years I am currently on a search to recover the Sweet Dreams series for my 3 girls to experience. I just read 101 Ways To Meet Mr. Right by Janet Quin-Harkin and found it as delightful as I remembered it.

A sophomore named Darcy decides to write a term paper on how to meet guys and enlists her 2 best friends to help her. After a few mishaps and a make-over Darcy discovers that she has a crush on her brothers best friend of all people!! Not sure he feels the same way she tries to push the thought of him out of her head but finds it hard because he's always around.

I thought this story was really good and funny to read at times. The book dated itself with references of Matt Dillon and Lionel Richie as well as feather haircuts and 80s style clothing. *hehehe* A very good read.

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This book is a model example of how to write philosophy. It examines a body of evidence about an aspect of the real world--in this case, about the physics, physiology, psychology, and cultural anthropology of human color vision--and does so with impressive clarity; a completely naive reader could read it and learn more than from most textbooks. It then goes on to explore the philosophical implications of this body of evidence. Here the conclusions are less satisfactory, largely because the author forces things into a framework of objective (= in reality apart from the mind) vs. subjective (= in the mind apart from reality), with no conception of the intentional or relational (in the mind interacting with reality), and thus reaches the unwarranted conclusion that color is subjective. But even given this limitation, his arguments are so clearly presented that the reader is never confused about what his conclusions are or how he reached them; the presentation approaches the honesty of good mathematics. If there is a muse of expository prose this book belongs in her shrine.

What a great ride! I've read many books regarding the topics of awakenings and angelic experiences and this one is the most enjoyable. G.W. Hardin is the same co-author of "The Messengers", the story of businessman Nick Bunick's angelic encounters and the unfolding of his 10 years of memories of his past life as the Apostle Paul.

It would take a remarkable series of events to convince ourselves to drop everything, write a book, interview with publishers, quit the full-time job, and then go on the road speaking about your visits by the Angels. In this book Hardin describes in rich detail the day-to-day events orchestrated by a Divine Hand, eventually overtaking the lives of Nick Bunick, Hardin, and others.

This book is very engaging because the author gives you the insider's view of unfolding events: the Angelic messages and what it takes to bring it to the media and those first book signings and lectures on the road. You will rush through the pages following the quickly changing lives of all involved.

Dan Gookin teaches in a non-threatening manner, and keeps up good humor in the meantime. It makes the learning process fun, as well as simple. I especially like the way he throws in personal comments, as it saves me trial and error to learn the same outcome. This is definately an asset not found with other computer-book authors. It is evident that he uses computers, not just teaches them. Great book, easy to read, easy to use, and well worth the minimal investment.

GEE is an extension of the Generalized Linear Models that handles the correlation structure found in panel data and longitudinal or repeated measures analysis. The idea goes back to a paper by Zeger and Liang in 1986 and is well cover in their 1994 book with Diggle and its most recent revision. However, over the years the statistical packages have implemented GEE and variations of it in many different ways. This important new book not only provides a detailed description of GEE for theoreticians and practitioners but it also presents comparisons of how the various software products implement it. The packages include GLIM, SAS STAT/GENMOD, S-PLUS, Stata and RTI's product SUDAAN (designed specifically for survey data).

This book is well written and comprehensive and will make a great reference book. It even provides a chapter on model diagnostics. Many examples are illustrated using the various software packages.