A recent survey found that the death of a pet is one of the times when children most want to talk to clergy---rivalled only by divorce. This book asks some difficult questions (what is the church? how do we deal with death?) and offers, in return, God's love. Churches which celebrate the Feast of St. Francis could have someone read it out loud after the service and lead a discussion. This lovely story will appeal to all ages.

This book is wonderful for anyone who's ever had and loved a cat. It does deal with death, and is very sad at the end. A great way to help a child deal with the death of a pet.

My Grade three class thoroughly enjoyed the story of Leo. We were doing a unit on cats and Leo's story was one of the highlights. An excellent book.

Book arrived just 5 days after I ordered it and looks like a brand new book. Couldn't be happier.

"The deplorable, miserable conditions which I recently observed when visiting the parishes have constrained and pressed me to put this catechism of Christian doctrine into the brief, plain, and simple form. How pitiable, so help me God, were the things I saw: the common man, espcially in the villages, knows practically nothing of Christian doctrine, and many of the pastors are almost entirely imcompetent and unable to teach." Thus begins Martin Luther in his incomparable little guide to the Christian faith. The Small Catechism is simple enough to be understood by a child, yet challenging enough for the most mature Christian. In his book Luther outlines the basics of the Faith: The Ten Commandments, The Creed, The Lord's Prayer, The Sacrament of Holy Baptism, Confession (the Office of the Keys), and The Sacrament of the Altar. Luther also adds Daily Prayers, a Table of Duties, and Christian Questions with Their Answers. The addition featured above also contains more elaborate question and answers involving the six chief parts. Luther was at his finest as a theologian and a pastor when he penned the Small Catechism. Don't just read this book, it must be continually reviewed, memorized, and taken to heart.

As a faithful member of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, I decided to re-read the old Small Catechism. To tell you the truth, in church every Sunday, the pastor would talk about how Baptism and Holy Communion forgive one of his sins, but I never really understood why. I couldn't understand why a baby is Baptized when that baby obviously can't even understand the concept of "I" let alone the concept of a Triune God. So, to find the answers to these questions, I turned to the Catechism.

I found the answers to why Communion and Baptism offers forgiveness of sins; I found the rationalle for Baptising babies (they can have a saving faith); I found answers to other questions that I have never thought of: Even though we pray "...and lead us not into temptation," God does not tempt us to sin; what each commandment really means, the relationship between obeying the Law of God and Grace/Forgiveness.

Now, if Luther had just sat down and wrote his own thoughts on all these subjects, the book wouldn't be worth the paper it was written on, but Luther makes sure he puts several verses from the Bible (none taken out of context), to show Biblical support for his answers. It really helped me to understand my fait a little better. It's little wonder that it's been in print for nearly 500 years.

I remember reading this book over and over and over when i was nine or ten. It was such a good book!! Although it wasn't as spooky as Stacey And The Haunted Masquerade(or whatever it was called)...

This book was great! It is about a diary Mallory finds in Stacey's attic. The diary was a girl called Sophie's in the 1800's. She told of how her mother had died at the birth of her baby brother. Her rich grandfather then hated her father and blamed him for stealing a painting he had of his daughter. The diary didn't say anything about who was the culprit, only that Sophie was sure it wasn't her father. Mallory then found the old man's confession about covering up the portrait and then went on to find the atchual painting. An exelent read.

This is a great book! My mother just bought it for me and I'm really caught up in it. It's sort of like a Babysitters club book(which it is, of course) and a ghost story. I don't usually read ghost stories (ocasionally I read Goosebump books) but the the Babysitter's club and a ghost story goes really well together. The first chapter is a bit boring but all in all it's one of the better Babysitter's Club books.

Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were the 2 most prominent African-American leaders of the 20th Century. In this book Dr. Cone explores how each leader rose to prominence. He also show why they did not win total acceptance from African-Americans. He compares and contrast their ideas and shows their strong and weak points.

Martin and Malcolm and America presents an extraordinary comparison of the two most influential figures of the Civil Rights movement. It is especially enlightening because it presents the sides of each man which the world has forgotten, that is, the militant nature of the later teachings of Dr. King and the more conciliatory nature of the later teachings of Brother Malcolm. James Cone also focuses heavily on the religious aspects of each man's teaching, arguing that neither man's philosophy can be separated from the religious doctrines he espoused.

If I had one critique of this book, it is that Cone relies too heavily on the Autobiography of Malcolm X for his Malcolm information. Almost all of his Malcolm info is quoted directly from that book, and like most autobiographies, Malcolm wrote/dictated with a bit of license. Having read the autobiography twice, it got a bit annoying at times to reread Malcolm's own words about himself. Malcolm was a far more complex (and more interesting) character than he portrayed himself to be, and that part was left out. (For more info, I'd recommend "Malcolm : The Life of the Man Who Changed Black America.")

All in all, though, this is a book that should be on your bookshelf. Highly recommended.

Cone presents an indepth review of how Martin King and Malcolm X complimented and connected in their efforts to address problems of race and class in America. Used as a text in undergraduate courses on "social problems", this work offer students new insight into the lives and visions of these two American leaders and their attempts to confront the problems of our time. Well written and easily understood, Cone's work is a useful and challenging tool for better understanding the issues of race and class in America.

Totally delightful and revealing... I pull a card or a couple when I'm feeling confused, or stuck and there it is, in living color... something for me to really think about and explore within myself.

And that's the whole idea, of course, to give us a window into ourselves - a window we can use to take action, which might be anything from a nap, to a celebration or telling someone (or ourselves) the truth.

A great gift to yourself or someone else or both!

At my age I no longer need to make many important life choices. But I know many young people who do. The most difficult decisions to make are when both options are equally desirable, or when both are unpleasant, but one has to be chosen nevertheless. Often, we are all alone when we need to make these decisions. So how do we go about it? We usually make two columns, the Yes and No ones. But they are not very helpful. We may have a long Yes list and still feel uncomfortable about that choice. What we tend to forget is that our emotions must be behind our decision. Otherwise, we won't be happy with it in the long run. And many of our emotions are ones that we don't really want to acknowledge - like fear, anger, embarrassment, envy. With these cards it is easy to get reminded of what we are really feeling -- there are so many of them. So if we pick out the cards that go into the Yes and No column, we get a much better idea what our final decision should be. Then we will feel good about the job, or move, or connection with another person. This attractive pack of cards makes a wonderful, truly unique gift for any person who might get bombarded by numerous opportunities and forks in the road. Included is an instruction booklet on how to use the cards for other situations as well. A great gift indeed!

What a beautiful resource! Using the Mixed Emotions cards helped me frame the many feelings I was experiencing while holding a job I found to be less than fulfilling. I was able to use the cards not only to organize my thoughts and emotions for myself, but actually use them with my manager when I notified him that I was resigning to "follow my bliss." Being able to lay out the cards as an instrument to assist me in delivering my message made our meeting somehow less tense and easier to complete.

This is great book and offered me a lot of help in interviews. Being an engineer, I found that finding a job especially in engineering can be a rigorous and tedious process. Most companies will use psychological based questions to determine what type of person you are and to see if you fit in the company culture. As for skills and knowledge, that's left up to you and what you can tell about yourself.

This book is also good for interviewers, since it has do's and dont's about interview questions.

Read this book and review it before your interview. It will definitely pay off when you get the job offer in this tough economy.

Using the advice in Knock 'Em Dead, I have gotten jobs that I would've otherwise had no business getting! The first time that I used his book I got a job where I was the least experienced, the least qualified of all the candidates. But, I had the best presentation of all the candidates. So, just like Mr.Yate promised, it's not the best qualified candidate that gets the job, it's the candidate with the best interviewing skills that wins the day.

I live in NYC and I have been struggling off and on in the daily grind for a job for months. I tried employment agencies and the internet but hadn't been receiving any positive responses to my submissions. ***I admit I was beginning to take it personal.*** I didn't know if I wasn't getting the response I had hoped for because the market is so competitive, because I had been out of the job market for so long (I took about 3 years off to be a stay at home mom), or because maybe I wasn't marketable anymore.

So, I figured I better revamp the old resume and try again. I would start with online submissions before I took it to the agencies. I couldn't afford to get it professionally redone so I bought the "Knock em Dead" book along with the "Knock em Dead Resume" book in the hopes that I could get some fresh ideas.

In the span of one week, I redid my resume based on the formats given in the book and emailed it to a few corporations to see if I got any bites. I did. I landed an interview with a huge company the following week. In fact they were so impressed with my resume and presentation that I received a very lucrative offer last week. (The whole process took about 3 weeks total!) I simply followed the steps as Mr. Yate laid them out and I am starting this coming Monday.

His advice was dead on! I knew I had an edge on the competition based on my interviewers response to me. I actually had one interviewer stop me in the middle of our meeting to compliment me on one of the best presentations he has ever had the pleasure to participate in. HA!!! HE THANKED ME!!!! This had to be the Twilight Zone!!!

I can't think of any other way that I can express my gratitude to Mr. Yate for writing this book other than this endorsement...

BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING THE JOB YOU WANT!
Mr. Yate, I couldn't have done it without you and some serious prayer!

For those with an interest in Kurdish studies, this volume is a must. Recording the history of this nation-less state, Meisalis has done an extraordinary job of compiling not only the traditional linear history, but has added a caleidoscope of supporting documentation, to include rare pictures,maps, letters, etc.... I value this book as a cornerstone of my collection of books dealing with the history of this region (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria). As mentioned in other reviews, this is a weighty tome (literally). Well worth the look for the pictures alone!

This fantastic book is designed as a scrapbook of over 100 years of Kurdish history. It pieces together photographs, newspaper clippings, and excerpts from letters to present the story of the Kurds and their persistent, ultimately unsuccessful attempts to gain independence.

Major events and figures are covered in all the regions of Kurdistan - Southeast Turkey, Eastern Syria, and Northwest Iran. I would recommend this book to anyone as a primer on political events in the Middle East during the 20th century. Be warned that this volume is literally quite heavy.

Ms. Meisalis has complied a beautiful history of the Kurdish people. This book is a must for anyone connected to, or interested in, the history of the Kurds.

This book teaches the Basics of Swahili grammer and gives a person tons of words and phrases. One could learn some basic Swahili phrases from this and even think in Swahili numbers, but besides that, it is mostly a tourist manual, and unless you plan on being in rural East Africa, and are very polite, do you need to really know tourist Swahili if a large majority of the people will already have the ability to understand you in English?

Very good! I am fully confident that it will help me wonderfully when I go to Kenya this summer. I will be buying more of Lonely Planet's Phrasebooks when I go on missions trips to different countries in the future.

There just aren't that many swahili dictionaries or phrasebooks out there, and this one turns out to be useful too. Its small size makes it easy to take everywhere and the sections give travelers a good feel for the language without being too overwhelmed by swahili's many noun classes. I would recommend it more as a reference than as a stand-alone teaching tool, but the english-swahili, swahili-english dictonary is comprehensive and useful for travelers with all degrees of Kiswahili fluency. My copy has turned somewhat brown from all the dust, but the book has held up well. I would hate to be stuck in East Africa without it.

Hmm, some things are well... 1. The book's view toward this particular period of history is rather outdated today. I know you shouldn't really get so nit-picky about details such as history but I am afraid the author did not fulfill a good job about depicting this era. The Spaniard guy Ramon said something that was very pro-conquistador and declared that the Spanish had really good intentions for Indians and today we know that the forced labor against Indians actually destroyed their population. And secondly, there was a part that gave the land "back" to the Spaniards, "the rightful owners", instead of the Indians. Considering today's history classes depict Columbus as a villain as well as other European colonists, well, it was rather amusing to read a very saccharine interpretation of history.

2. Another cliched approach to "nicen" up the characters. Ramon for some reason is REALLY, REALLY nice to Indians and he and Cara do some cool community service stuff without a real motive, other than to appear like nice people to us.

3. Some sexual assault stuff that goes unnoticed and tolerated.

Good stuff:

1. Very nice and cosy.

2. The ambiance of old California is beautiful indeed. But then again, it is off set because the guy hero Ramon is actually Spanish so he isn't really a Californian.

3. Extra points for excellent sexual tension maintained throughout the novel. Read it !

4. Although I've criticized this book (because the novels that take place in Cali are my fav) a lot, trust me, it's really , really good.

This was my first Kat Martin novel. I got this book in a large historical romance novel lot I won in an online auction and this was the first I chose to read.
Kat Martin is a great writer. It's pretty rare in Romance novels that the side characters come alive. I could hear Pedro and Two Hawks in their voices. Truely exceptional.
Carly was truely one of a kind. She creates strong- exceptionally strong willed- women, on par with those created by Iris Johansen or Elizabeth Lowell.
This was my first by Kat Martin, but certainly not my last. Lovely!

I don't think I have read a better book in quite a while. I first fell in love with Kat Martin's historical fiction NOTHING BUT VELVET. It was the first book I had read by her, and this is even a little better. Never have I read a book that has as much intrigue, adventure and sizzling love scens as this one. I would definitely recommend it to everyone. Ramon and Carly are a match made in heaven and kissed upon by the angels!

A quick test: Your daughter is getting married and has all of the
household gadgets she needs. Would it be appropriate to enclosed
in the wedding invitations that she and her future husband want
to go to Hawaii for their honeymoon and that cash would be
appreciated?

What would you do if your child was invited to a friend's
birthday party and the invitation listed the gifts that would be
desired? What if your child couldn't go and his friend's mother
told him to drop by later on to drop off his gift?

Stuck so far? Here's an easier one: A colleague at work has a bad
habit of mooching the snacks that you bring for your own use.
Should you send him a note, along with a bag of goodies, telling
him that for his own good you will not share any more?

Less you think I'm making these up, all three problems are
covered in Judith Martin's latest book, Miss Manners Rescues
Civilization. We live today in a society that feels etiquette can
be dropped for common sense, a society that laughs at people who
worry which fork to use for their salad. But Miss Manners (her
column appears in a number of newspapers) disagrees.

One of the major problems in today's society is rudeness. You see
it on the streets, in the classroom, in the workplace, and even
in the home. Just telling people to show good manners isn't
enough, though; we have to specify what those manners are! And
just telling folks to do what makes them comfortable is an
invitation to disaster.

Thus if we remember the specific rule that invitations are sent
to people we want to share our happiness and are not indications
that we expect gifts, we can avoid quite a few headaches. High
school graduates, for example, don't have to worry that an
invitation to a friend will suggest they are asking for presents,
and receiving an invitation from a friend's child does not mean
you have to fork over. It merely means you are being asked to
share in their happiness.

You will probably find a number of your own pet peeves here: the
doctor who calls his 65-year-old patient "John" but who wants to
be called Dr. Jones himself, the nephew who hasn't sent a thank-
you note six months after you mailed a nice gift, and the sales
clerk who ignores you while she finishes her telephone
conversation with a friend.

You'll enjoy her examples and may even learn some manners!

Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners, will save civilization if anyone can. This book, like her column, is full of good sense and good humor -- and she's got the importance of etiquette just exactly right. Please read this book at once, and try to find a polite way to get everyone you know to read it too.

Miss Manners presents the keys to a more gracious and civilized world, without the "slash-and-burn" style of other social commentators. Old-fashioned without being reactionary, Miss Manners is a role model for us all. Read Miss Manners--please.