Everybody has a hero mine is Billy Graham. Finally, a book that does justice to a great man and his message of salvation through the LORD Jesus Christ. Iam a Christian and after I read this book,I learn more about the man that I ever imagine before. I attended his Philadelphia crusade in 1992, but if you want to know the whole story buy this book and listen to his message. You will never regret it.

I was very impressed with this book. This book can be for anyone. If you just want to learn about Billy Graham and his ministry and how it functions and how it has served God then this book is for you. If your in the ministry and want to feel inspired you can learn about how Billy Grahams ministry has chnaged the world that may give you inspiration in your ministry. I recomend this book to anyone really. It's easy to read and understand and covers the material very well. The special CD on Billy Graham is also very nice and inspirational. Every time I read about Billy Graham, I am in awe about him and how faithfull he was and is to God's calling to be a evangelist. This will make a addition to any library.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book -- the characters were well-defined -- and what a sense of humor! I hated to see the book end.

Ten minutes before the processional, groom Mark O'Grady decides that he can't get married -- again. This time it was because his bride-to-be was addicted to cellular technology. Before that one was a shopaholic, another nags, another only exhibits interest in ancient languages, and the first of the jilted fiancées hates camping. None of his friends except Sam, the best man, will show up for the ceremony anymore. His mother even refuses the invitations!

Mark really does want to get married; it's divorce he's trying to avoid. So he takes Sam's advice about looking for his next bride. He places an ad in Texas Men. Sam reasons that Mark keeps getting engaged to the wrong women because they are beautiful, so naturally he has sex with them. Except under his wild exterior, Mark is really an old fashioned kind of guy. He thinks that once he's had sex with a woman, he has to marry her. So this time they place the ad, sort through the responses, and Mark corresponds with the prospective lady -- for a long time.

Six months later, after a three-month correspondence, Charlie McPherson eagerly plans to meet Mark. She has decided to change her image, however, going for the siren look. She's tired of the low maintenance, wholesome image she ordinarily portrays. This time she intends to experience unbridled passion and searing ecstasy. Since that's exactly opposite of what Sam encourages in Mark, events promise to get very interesting!

Falling in love was never so much fun! Especially when a rapid courtship leads to a wedding proposal, and the ladies in purple T-shirts arrive to warn Charlie of Mark's nefarious past. With DOA for Damn O'Grady's Ass plastered across their T-shirts and the date of the termination of the wedding plans, these ladies mean business. They have formed a support group, meeting once a month to "talk, drink wine, eat take-out, play Uno, trash Mark." So the question remains if Charlie is at last the woman Mark's looking for, or if she's the next member of the DOA support group!

EVERY WOMAN'S FANTASY demonstrates the sensual, exquisite pleasure of meeting one's soul mate, degenerating into every woman's nightmare when the DOA arrive! Hysterically addictive and divine, EVERY WOMAN'S FANTASY fulfills every romance reader's most serious demands, including madcap fun, a tender love story, and the perfect ending. Very highly recommended!

Deloris Jordan's book, Family First is a must read for all parents. This much needed book gives a down to earth look at the Jordan household and the family dynamics which produced 5 successful, balanced children.

The first time I met the author she stood out as a remarkable woman with much wisdom. Her book with its insights and wisdom in rearing children is everything I imagined it would be including the humor and warmth of endearing episodes.

I would recommend it to anyone, but especially to parents.

"I remember sitting on the patio behind our house with Ray on warm summer evenings."(chapter 7) Everytime she and Ray shared time together. And Ray adviced and encouraged her. I leaned from this book the important role of a husband. "If one member suffers, all suffer together with it ;if one member is honored,all rejoice togehter with it."(1 corinthians 14-26)

This book is really useful, as it provides an easy reference to Harrison Ford's films and allows the reader to find the ones that are worth watching.

Besides the blurbs of reviews and general information on the movies, however, this book is made really interesting (and at times really funny too) because of the stories about the production experience for each of the movies that it includes as well. Seriously, it is hard to imagine, when viewing the finished products, the disasterous, strange, and hysterical events that occurred during the making of some of the films.

So, if you are a fan of Harrison Ford or are just a big movie fan who is especially interested in behind-the-scenes type information, this book is highly recommended. If you don't care for either of the above things, why are you looking here anyhow?

This was one of THE best HF books I have read! (It's one of the ONLY ones!) Even if you hate HF you would like this book! It has many off-screen photos. It has SO many pictures! The only thing I can say is, READ IT!!!!!!

Lewis Walton has done it again!!! The Final Storm is about the final days in Earth's history. The president of the United States, a fictional character by the name of Gregory Barton, is facing situations that could put himself in danger. This forces him to take a long look at the Constitution. Lewis Walton writes in such a manner as to cause one to look at many different aspects of life. As in his other book, The Lucifer Diary, he opens our mind to the broader picture of the matters of life. This book will keep your mind working full time. you will be thrilled at your different thought processes as you read this book. It is a MUST READ!!!

Final Storm is a thrilling epic about the final events on planet earth. Walton does a masterful job of portraying the scenario from military, biological, economic, political, religious, and personal angles. The main character, a U.S. President named Gregory Barton, finds himself in the middle of an ever-growing circle of trouble that not only puts his life in jeopardy, but forces him to take a second look at the Constitution and all that it stands for. When the world is falling apart, is it worth forfeiting certain rights and liberties for the sake of regaining peace and safety? This is the question that our protagonist (and the nation at large) end up facing throughout this compelling and unpredictable roller-coaster ride of a story. While it is a novel, it is that rare sort that makes you stop and actually think about the reality that could very soon be ours. What makes the book so enthralling is, in fact, its plausibility in light of world conditions, even today. No matter what your political, national, or religious background, you will be fascinated by this captivating story. As I said at the beginning, once you start reading it you will not be able to put it down.

(with kind permission from Kluver Academic Publisher)

The mechanics of porous multiphase media (composed of a deformable solid skeleton and one or more fluids) are known to stem primarily from the pioneering works of P. Fillunger and C. Terzaghi, motivated by geotechnical and dam engineering during and after the first World War and from the more academic investigations of M. A. Biot during and after the second. Nowadays this area of theoretical and applied mechanics turns out to be mature but still fast growing. Its recent growth is perhaps partly due to its intrinsic complexities and certainly primarily fostered by its relevance to such diverse disciplines and technological fields such as soil and rock mechanics, civil engineering of dams and embankments, geophysics, environmental engineering, material sciences, biomechanics, petroleum and offshore engineering, physical chemistry. This book by two internationally acknowledged experts in the field is the substantially expanded and updated second edition of a successful text appeared about ten years ago. The research interests of the Authors are focused on computational mechanics of coupled problems and, especially on the finite element method and are reflected in this book as well. However this volume provides a very comprehensive conspectus of almost the whole field in its present broad spectrum of topics, even if special emphasis is on numerical solution methods and on environmental and geotechnical engineering applications: from the conceptual scientific fundamentals to case histories, concerning timely real-life engineering situations. The physical and mathematical foundations of the multiphase continuum mechanics are established in the first chapters both by the phenomenological approach which generalised Biot's classical theory and by the averaging ("hybrid mixture theory") approach rooted in interpretations and modelling of phenomena at the microscale. After the formulation of mathematical models in terms of continuum mechanics at the phenomenological 'macroscopic' scale, three chapters are devoted to the finite element discretization and numerical solution of those continuum models and to their validation by examples. Subsequently, surface subsidence phenomena are analysed by various approaches, and phenomena, which range from single-acquifer withdrawal, settlements over gaseous reservoirs, compaction of oil deposits, up to subsidence at the regional scale. Among various real-life situations considered in order to validate the predictive tools dealt with in these chapters, special attention is paid to Venice and its region (which harbours the latter author's university). Chapters 9-14 are devoted to special topics and extensions of the coupled problem theory and numerical methodology: fractured reservoirs, heat flow, drying processes, creep manifestations, structural interactions, parameter identification, dynamic and finite strain analysis. In my opinion, this book is bound to represent a useful and lasting reference for all researchers, engineers and students interested in the now fashionable, multifaceted title subject. It is well organised, clearly written and very rich in up-to-date technical knowledge. Its orientation towards computational methods and engineering practice confers to this volume a special role in the scientific literature (in a sense, complementary to, for example, Coussy's "Mechanics of Porous Continua" appeared in 1995). The authors, who substantially contributed to the growth of this field of applied mechanics in the last two decades, are to be congratulated on this expanded second edition of their treatise.

I still remember vividly the experience of reading, and being greatly impressed by, the first edition of this book when I was a PhD student at Swansea in the late 1980's. It was the first book of its kind, despite the many available texts on groundwater flow in porous media. Even today, there still exists no other book which covers all the mechanical and numerical aspects of flow in deforming porous media in such detail. The book has now been extensively updated and several new chapters have been added to give a much broader coverage of recent research interests in this field. The chapters are organised as follows:

1. 'Introduction' 2. 'Mechanics of saturated and partially saturated porous media' 3. 'Numerical solution for isothermal consolidation' 4. 'Solid-phase constitutive relationships, variable permeabilities and solution procedures' 5. 'Verification of elastic and elastoplastic consolidation programs' 6. 'Modelling subsidence: numerical aspects and problems of regional scale' 7. 'Modelling subsidence: case studies' 8. 'Modelling three-phase flow in deforming saturated oil reservoirs' 9. 'Fractured reservoir simulation' 10. 'Heat and fluid flow in deforming porous media' 11. 'Secondary consolidation creep in solids' 12. 'Soil-structure interaction' 13. 'Back analysis in consolidation' 14. 'Large-strain quasi-static and dynamic soil behaviour'

There is also a Subject Index at the end of the book. The list of references given at the end of each chapter is extremely comprehensive (i.e. it even has me in it). As the contents indicate, this is a unique book which presents a systematic development of mathematical models and numerical solutions for heat and mass transfer in fully and partially saturated deforming porous media. The governing equations are newly derived in a general form using both averaging methods (hybrid mixture theory) and an engineering approach. Within this framework, a wide spectrum of engineering problems are solved which include consolidation of fully and partially saturated soil, land subsidence due to excessive groundwater withdrawal, and petroleum reservoir simulation. Several case studies are presented in great detail which I find most interesting. Another significant feature of the book is that the reader is provided with access to a finite element code for coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical problems in partially saturated porous media with full two phase flow and phase change, written according to the theory outlined in the book and obtainable via the Network of the Italian Research Council (COMES). For more than 20 years, the two distinguished authors have both carried out extensive research on, and made significant contributions to, various topics covered in this state-of-the-art book. It represents an important resource and is thus highly recommended for students, researchers and practitioners in a range of engineering fields from geotechnical and petroleum engineering through to bioengineering and materials science.

Yi-Min (Mike) Xie, Associate Professor in Civil Engineering, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia,

I first read Five Families when I was a 23yo public health nurse from the Midwest, working in a Mexican-American barrio in East Los Angeles. A co-worker advised me to read this book in order to better understand the families I found myself working with.
I devoured it.
Then I came to realize that it's a seminal work in modern cultural anthropology, a book that will surely stand the test of time, a 'study' written in a style that makes it accessible to all readers.
Five Families is a dramatic and forceful account five poor Mexican families. It's a book that will leave you changed.

I just read this book, as I have read his other works. Oscar Lewis gives an extensive complete examination into the lives of extreme poverty. He gives exacting detail of the homes, lifestyles, and characteristics of the poor in Mexico. The last chapter delves with the poor who have accomplished "some wealth" and their upbringing still manages to evolve the same as if they were still poor. Wonderful thorough book!

In Forgotten Helper, T. Lewis provides a Christmas story for kids with reading skills at the chapter book level: Aben is Santa's best toymaker -and the grouchiest, worst-behaved elf. When he's left behind by mistake, he must wait a whole year at a child's house for Santa's return - only to find his counterpart in an ill-behaved child. Black and white drawings in this appealing tale.

We had this book when it was first printed in the 80s and it became a family traditon to read it to us kids every Xmas. We loved the naughtiness of the main characters --The forgotten helper "Aben" and the bratty girl he has to convince to be good..Kids can identify with both characters. We even named our cat Neba (Aben spelled backwards) because of her someitmes unpleasant personlity...although she's really very lovable...just like Aben really is in the book.

This not your typical Xmas book. Through many home moves over the years, I lost our copy. I'm thrilled it's back again. A bunch of people will be gettiing it from me this holiday. Thanks...JE

The story is easy to read aloud and the illustrations are rivetting. I bought this for my three-year-old son, but find myself using it as a teaching tool in my second grade classroom, as well. It is very similar to a story my grandparents (Quinault-Cowlitz/Coast Salish) used to tell me when I was growing up. The message about taking care of all our relations is an important one. The story ignited a new interest in volcanoes and pond-life in my son's imagination. His interest in volcanoes and caves became so keen because of this book that we spent hours in the volcano exhibits at the Natural History Museum and made a special trip to Carlsbad Caverns! Bravo Paul Owen Lewis.

This is a title that will entertain both the adult reader and the child. An adventure regarding stewardship of the earth. The dream-like images and intriguing story draw one right in. Would make a nice gift.

I think this "We Both Read" series is great. Whatever mood my boy is in when bedtime rolls around - whether he's working with me or against me - this concept works. I read the (difficult) left page in each two page spread, and the child reads the (easy) right. Teamwork. And even though these make no mention of Power Rangers or Batman Beyond, these are my boy's favorites. Along with some math books from Singapore(sgbox.com), and a learn-to-read series called "Now I'm Reading" by Nora Gaydos, these books are a great experience for your child. After your child has finished reading and they climb in bed, give your child something to strive for... turn on your booklight, turn off the room lights, and read your child a chapter or two from a more advanced book. Treasure Island, Harry Potter, anything by Roald Dahl... That's what works for my boys and I.

This series of readers really works. I've been running through them at bedtime with my six-year-old, who adores taking it in turns with me to read her page after I've read mine. It turns reading into a collaborative game, with plenty of play-acting (doing the different voices of the characters) thrown in. At my daughter's stage of reading, a short book can be a long haul, when she has to do it all by herself. The "We Both Read" books break up the text into manageable segments, and give her time-out while I do my share of the work. I'd like to see more and more titles quickly added to the series. I am baffled as to why Amazon should inflict a $1.35 surcharge on the publisher's recommended price--it seems to run entirely counter to the Amazon way of doing things. But the books themselves are splendid.