This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to learn basic principles about money management including estate planning and retirement.

PLANNING FOR YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE is well organized, easy to read and understand! The authors explain and illustrate good examples of worksheets for each topic; the book also includes additional blank worksheets in the back of the book.

Other topics include: housing, insurance (car, life, and medical), stock market, transportation, retirement, estate planning, etc.

A disk is included with sample template files to enable the user to prepare numerous worksheets using EXCEL. Examples of templates: budget, income statement, balance sheets, future value of money, loan payments, estate planning.

My students (Ages 17 and up--even older adults)love this book because of its importance to their personal lives and their financial future. They never return this book to the bookstore during "buyback"; they tell me that they will keep it as a great resource. I AGREE!

Daniel Boone is an iconic figure in early American history, immortalized in legend and the famous painting "Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap" by George Caleb Bingham. However, this juvenile biography by Patricia Calvert goes well beyond the figure of legend. The story of Daniel Boone begins with his family sailing from England for the New World because of the desire to own land. Daniel Boone was born in 1734 in western Pennsylvania and as he grew up it was clear this was a man to whom something beyond the mountains always whispered. As much, Calvert presents Boone as embodying the frontier spirit that would come to define the American character.

Calvert provides a comprehensive look at Boone's life, both as an explorer and as a family man. This is not an idealized version of Boone's life; Calvert covers such details as his problems with debt and the fact that during one of his long absences his wife, Rebecca, had a child by another man (Boone considered the child his own and she ended up vowing never to stray from his side). Young readers will learn about Boone's experiences in Braddock's War (where he served with George Washington), his early trips to Kan-ta-ke, the establishment of Boonesborough, and his capture by the Shawnees. It is easy to understand why Daniel Boone became the first truly mythic figure in American history.

"Daniel Boone: Beyond the Mountains" is illustrated with a few pictures somewhat contemporaneous to his life (e.g, the title page from "Life & Times of Col. Daniel Boone"). Calvert certainly manages to put together a complete picture of his life, although the documentation on Boone is rather scarce. I think young readers who are assigned to find out about the real Daniel Boone are going to be surprised at how much they learn from this book. Other volumes in the Great Explorations series are devoted to Captain James Cook, La Salle, Lewis and Clark, Ferdinand Magellan, and Robert E. Peary.

I am the author of this book, which is written to honor and to edify mothers regarding their true worth. While feminists disavow the essentiality of motherhood, I see motherhood as the sum and substance of human reality. My book draws from academic studies, from science and math to women's studies, but regardless of the amount of formal schooling one has endured, any mother will easily relate to my message, which couldn't be more lucid: motherhood is It, what every religion idealizes but oddly enough in the form of fatherhood. I make clear how this switcheroo has come to pass, and suggest how mothers might now reevaluate what they're doing and still adore their men folk. I especially recommend the essays on Romance, Consciousness, and The Madonna.

From Adele's Big Bird to Joanne's Apricot-Glazed Ham, Home For The Holidays is bursting with the Larson's family favorites destined to find their way to your holiday table.

Inspired by Jodie Foster's film of the same name--Home for the Holidays contains more than 60 kitchen-tested recipes, from appetizers to desserts, including vegetarian dishes. of color photos.

Home for the Holidays is dedicated "to our mothers, who taught us everything about saying 'thank you' on command, overeating, and the culinary miracle of salt." This dedication alone should be a tip off to the kind of wit, joy and heart warming recipes of our growing up that the book contains.

Pick up a copy and try your hand at baking Harvest Pumpkin Pie -- maybe, just maybe, you won't have to sit at the kids table this year!

Honor Without a Stain: The 34th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 1862-1865 walks in the footstep of the average North Mississippian from his first engagement at Farmington, Mississippi across the battlefields of Perryville, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Atlanta, and into the grand coronation of death at Franklin and Nashville, Tennessee.

Included are never before published wartime diary and letter excerpts. Invaluable to genealogists will be the complete roster of the regiment including last known residences for survivors, circa 1907.
Honor Without a Stain is required reading for every serious student of the War Between the States. The author's best work yet, Honor Without a Stain is not only a great read, it's brimming with facts and personal anecdotes available in no other generally accessible publication anywhere. This book should be in every library, every school, and every private bookshelf across our country. The true story of the Civil War is here. Read it and you will understand.

"How did my town get it's name?"...Idaho Place Names gives you the answer. It will give you the history about the founding of your town and the succession of names to the present. It also includes the origin of names for mountains, rivers, hills and hollows. It takes you from "Abandon Creek" to "Zumwalt Lake" with 400 pages of intriguing history in-between. If you are interested in the history of the west you will enjoy this book.

I have only read the first two chapters, but this book has already structured my own knowledge on information systems and benefits more than I could have asked for. At the moment I am working on an information analysis for a customer and I have been looking for ways to simplify the presentation of potential benefits in cost-displacement and value added to my customer - and Eureka! I have found it!

This book is a wonderful assessment of relational therapy and living in community with people who think or behave differently than yourself. All of us live in the "border" around someone who is behaving in ways that we seek to understand. This book gives hope and encouragement and also helps us to realize that we too have a responsibility to "clean up" our own "borders". Very Easy Reading!

Daniel Boone is a man lost in legend, "Mythologised heyond recognition". His true story is certainly more incredible and indeed astonishing than anything fiction could dream up. Even in his own lifetime he was feted for his incredible abilities.

Boone's abilities were apparent from his earliest childhood in mid-eighteenth century pioneer America. He had an uncanny sense of direction and ability to find his way around. He kept moving west through Kentucky to Missouri and even went as far as Yellowstone Lake on one trip. Yet despite opening up vast new territories for new settlers he died without owning an acre of land. In that time he had worked with and fought against the Indians, served with the American's in the War of Independence, narrowly missing being captured, and seen at least two of his children killed before their time.

I loved this biography by Elliot. I felt he really stripped back the layers of myth, carefully weighing up different accounts and the veracity of them while telling his story. The result is a small insight into the private life of a private man as well as his amazing public acts. I often wondered if Diana Gabaldon read this biography when working on her Outlander series, or maybe she had a Daniel Boone-ish sort of character in mind to base her character of Jamie on when he reached America.

I saw Mr. Boone on the 700 Club, and his words spoke directly to my heart. His book does the same. One of the most inspiring Christian books I have read. Thank You !