In a quick easy to understand style, Dallas and Nancy Demmitt capture in print the principles of listening that they have been teaching for over 20 years. Almost every person on the planet needs help with listening. In our noisy world, the art of listening to another person has been lost.

Pick up this book. I recommend it.

"Christianity Revealed" a delightful an informative book. "Revealed" having referance to the opening of the eyes and the ears,giving understanding to the many outstanding subjects which are bathed in Blibical Scripture, clarifying and untangling the many misconceptions. Very enlightening. It is definately a wonderful and inspiring book.

This book studies the economic, political and historical progression of Dallas Politics. However, the ideas presented are indicative of city politics anywhere in America. This book would be appropriate for any city administrator, student or citizen that wants to know more about political participation in cities. Kudos Dr. Hanson

A great book on the ghost towns of this beautiful state! One of the best I've seen on the subject!

Clarence Jordan, founder of Koinonia Farm, a Christian community in rural Georgia (and precursor to Habitat for Humanity) and author of the Cotton Patch version of the New Testament, said that the book of Acts "merely stops, as though the author is saying, 'Here's where I get off; y'all take it from here.'" Jordan, as other Christian communitarians have done over the centuries, adapted the model of the earliest description of the Church, the "Koinonia," where believers held goods in common, in his case to a South Georgia farm setting in the mid 20th century. Dallas Lee's tale of the history of "the Koinonia Farm Experiment" gets its title from Jordan's observation that evidence of the resurrection was not so much in the empty tomb as in the transformed lives of the believers. It is a powerful story of faith in action. Lee beautifully yet simply captures the drama of people who, in many instances, put their lives on the line to bear witness to new the lives they believed in and the values of the One in whose name they gathered. Anyone who wants to know what being a Christian means today, in city, suburb or farm, should read this book.

Quilting took off in North America, from the need to make the best possible use of resources. Immigrants could not afford to be wasteful. So the cheapest way to having bedcovers and blankets was to sew cast-off and leftover materials into quilts.

Early on quiltmaking meant coming up with something not only practical, but also beautifully artistic. One of CRAZY FOR QUILT's many examples that particularly touched me was a small all-white doll quilt. It was machine-stitched more than 100 years ago. Over time black dots showed up from inside the cloth. These were cotton seeds. The quiltmaker, from a Southern state, might have picked her own cotton for batting! So this quilt was not only practical in giving a cool white night cover to a child's doll. It also left evidence for future generations of how one woman turned a child's gift into an elegantly simple, lasting work of art

These days quiltmaking has become a creative and practical outlet for probably around 20 million quilters just in the United States alone. This modern passion has also become a strong support to historical preservation, in this case in the collecting of antique quilts and in the use of traditional designs. In fact, many of the best-loved quilts have kept alive traditional patterns, such as crazy quilting, the double wedding ring, grandmother's flower garden, and the log cabin.

One of the book's more humorous sections was on the sayings that have passed down through quilting generations. The one that made me laugh, but also take note, was about giving a new quilt a good shaking outside the front door. The bad or good news was that the first man to then pass through that door should become the quilter's husband!

Margret Aldrich has also edited the equally fine THIS OLD QUILT.

Dallas Denny should be congratulated for pulling together the threads from both the trans community and the (mental) health community to form rich material for the truthseeker and researcher alike: provocative discussion and dialogue on the intriguing and oft-elusive phenomenon of "transgender identity" over the course of the past half-century.

This text weaves a vibrant tapestry of diverse perspectives from many of the key players in the field, tracing the clinical research, assessment and treatment of "gender dysphoria" and "Gender Identity Disorder," as well as sociological studies and (what is rarely seen in traditional works on this subject) phenomenological accounts of the lived experiences of real-life transsexual and transgendered people.

Of particular interest to me, as a transperson and a professional therapist, is the provision of individualized gender identity presentation paradigms, in addition to specific theoretical models and treatment interventions, including psychotherapy, electrolyis, hormonal and surgical therapies. (I especially appreciated the chapter on supportive counselling for transpeople's families and would have liked to have seen additional therapeutic strategies for specific subgroups of the TS/TG community (i.e., youth, seniors, people living with HIV/AIDS, sex workers, etc.).

Equally intriguing for me, as a gay transman, is the examination of how gender identity and sexual orientation intersect for transmen and transwomen, respectively.

Is it any surprise then that perhaps it takes a transsexual researcher and clinician, as Denny is, to possess the initiative and creativity needed to facilitate a project such as this? One that can help to bridge these two longstanding adversarial populations (trans- and non-transpeople) and substantively move us forward towards our mutual collaboration?

The entire cosmopolitan area of Dallas & Fort Worth offers fine accommodations, top-notch dining and spectacular surroundings.

This book profiles hundreds of hotels and restaurants, with an emphasis on the very best places. Daytime activities - shopping, sightseeing and more - are featured. In-margin icons allow you to see at a glance what is being covered in the text.

No serious reader who is interested in the circumstances of the assassination of John Kennedy and the subsequent murder of his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, should miss this book which provides valuable insight into the motives of Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby, through the eyes of the trial judge; the statements made by Jack Ruby to the Warren Commission and during the course of Ruby's FBI polygraph examination.
Many readers will recall the hysteria which was created by these two murders which occurred in Dallas within 48 hours. Speculation immediately arose and persists today whether Oswald was the sole assassin and whether Jack Ruby killed Oswald to silence him, thereby protecting Oswald's alleged accomplices. There was also speculation that Oswald was the tool of a foreign government and/or whether Ruby was hired by those same interests to silence Oswald.
A reading of the Ruby interrogation conducted by Chief Justice Warren and former President Gerald Ford provides the reader with valuable clues to Ruby's motivations. Ruby's testimony appears to be somewhat self-serving, but his insistence on a polygraph to prove his truthfulness is noteworthy and the results are very interesting.
The editor drew on her vast research and experiences as a Dallas psychologist to provide the reader with the necessary background regarding the mood of Dallas and in the final analysis, that mood was the key element resulting in the appellate court reversal of the Ruby conviction.

This book is the definitive source for information about the men that have wore the silver and blue. It discusses every player who has been on the Cowboy's active roster from the very beginning. This book will bring back lots of memories for long-time Cowboy fans and will be a godsend for recent "Bandwagon Jumpers"