This collection of letters written by Eleanor Roosevelt from 1943-1962 documents this remarkable woman's service to mankind, and the bottomless well of compassion and love that was at the center of her being.

Of particular interest is her unusual and unfulfilled romantic attachment to two men: the author, Joseph P. Lash, and a doctor she met on a trip to Switzerland, Dr. David Gurewitsch.

The letters reveal her devotion to her children, who were a source of frequent disappointment and frustration. They also are a testament to her unbelievable energy. Mrs. Roosevelt's travel schedule, even in her final years, would be a challenge to the youngest and heartiest of globetrotters.

The book does have weaknesses. The author seems to make the assumption that the reader is either familiar with his earlier books about the Roosevelts, or has some other source of knowledge about Mrs. Roosevelt's relationships to the persons to whom she writes in A World of Love.

More background information about the recipients of the letters is needed throughout, and this is particularly true in the case of Mrs. Roosevelt's relationship to Mr. Lash and his wife, Trude. Also, the two should be included in the picture sections of the book. Perhaps the fact that they are not is a sign of the author's modesty but, nevertheless, it is a definite oversight.

A World of Love is a worthwhile read for any admirer of one of history's most dynamic and selfless women. But this book could have been a world better if the narrative had included more information about the people who were fortunate enough to attract Eleanor Roosevelt's attention and affection.

Jones and Joseph's non-fiction title, You Have The Power is broken into five sections:

-Inoculate Yourself with the "I Love Me" Vaccine -The Professional -Romance -The Financial -The Personal

Each of these sections are broken up into chapters that are written by way of the authors' personal experiences and through anecdotes. The essential theme of the book is learning how to tap into your inner strength to find your power to have a successful life, whether that is learning how to love your inner child in order to love your FULL self, or understanding that education builds confidence, or learning how to separate the personal from the professional, or how to find/look for the man for YOU..and how to keep him. All of these things and more are found within the pages of You Have The Power.

The book is a quick-read and can...and should be used as a reference, to go back to when it can be used for your life. If anything, this book will show all women that they are not alone in the struggles of their lives, however, I think in the midst of so many self-help books that are out today, this one may be lost in the shuffle.

Reviewed by Shonie

Review:I think more people should write books like you. You need to writem more books. I need to learn how to find good guys cuz I've had some grease BALLS in the past- ifound my true love from this book INTials- A.H.! I love him sooo much THanks alot!

Has zen moments and moments that fail to be zen. It seems like two authors have written the different chapters, one who is a zen master and the other who is Mr Wilson, Dennis the Menace's slightly crabby next door neighbor. For me, it was the contrast in the two personna's that provided the most enlightenment. Very thought provoking. Cannot help but improve your attitude toward the game and your fellow golfer.

This book discusses a lot of mundane HTML stuff without even getting into the guts of VI6. It is spattered with screen dumps, and snippets of code that really don't teach you much.

Save your money and buy something else.

I found this book to very helpful in grasping all the features and power of InterDev 6. I also appreciated the chapters on VBScript and Javascript, which many other books would probably pass on. I also got a better feel for how to use DHTML and ASP's, as well as Client vs. Server scripting. The DTC (Design-Time Controls) chapters were probably the most crucial in terms of getting a functional site up and running with forms.

On the minus side, I found many of the examples to be too trivial to bother with executing along with the book. I found it better just to read through them. There was also a bit too much repetition and "filler" in the form of context menu tables, etc. that regurgitate fairly obvious information. I also found the illustrations of many HTML examples to be useless, since they often involved setting color properties which you can't discern in black and white print.

On the plus side, this book is very readable and full of graphics, so you know what you're looking at when you actually use the product! I can't say the same for many excruciatingly dull Microsoft Press books.

This writers style is very easily understood. I truly enjoyed the chapters on Style Sheets (.css files) and his explanation of Design Time Controls. The small project at the end was well presented although limited in scope.

I felt there should have been more examples of how to use design time controls. The examples should have further illustrated Visual Interdev capabilities and its integration with .asp technology. The examples were limited to the recordset and the grid control. There were no examples of using the Active X Controls.

I found too much redundancy with the tables, listing object properties and methods, being strewn throughout the book. I felt this was better suited for an organized appenix that could also double as a reference. However, this book combined with Profesional Active Server pages provides a good look at web technology.

First, to echo what has been stated repeatedly in other reviews: there are WAY TOO MANY TYPOS in this book! This book was required for my Java class (who made that choice?), but I wish I could've picked another one. The typos crop up at a rate of about one in every two pages. If you're a relatively experienced programmer, it's not too hard to spot them and decifer the meaning (that is what an editor is supposed to do though, right?), but for a beginner they could prove to be a real problem. Even being able to spot and correct them for yourself, it tends to bring the pace of the book to a grinding halt causing one to have to re-read passages with the corrections in mind.

Secondly, the examples the author uses are horrible. While they might reflect the topic at hand, they are overly complicated most of the time and lack focus. Other times the author tries to amuse us with his examples (there's a Casey Jones theme that runs through the earlier chapters), but they tend to distract rather than educate. Even simple examples are often handled poorly. For example, almost every other programming text, when illustrating booleans, tend to liken them to a switch being on or off, or a simple conditional situation as being true or false, etc. In this book we are given the example of a piece of paper being on or off of a table. Granted, there is nothing technically wrong with this, but it just seems like the author is trying to hard to be different.

Lastly, I don't like the author's technique of showing poor programming style and then later on showing how it can be improved. This is mainly because he often doesn't point out that the poor example is illustrating this fact. For example, early in the discussion of classes we are shown many examples that have public data members. It isn't till somewhat later that we are told, no, these should actually be declared private with public access methods. Once again, to a novice programmer, I think this tends to muddy the point, causing one to have to go back and look at prior examples a second time in order to realize that they were illustrating poor programming style.

Overall I feel that Weber is a competent and knowledgeable Java programmer, but he's not an effective educator. I would heartily recommend "Thinking in Java" by Bruce Eckel over this book. I give this book two stars mainly because the info is in there, but is just too much of a pain to extract it. I'd probably rate it higher if they'd re-edit the book and make it freely available to those who already bought this edition.

As someone who has 1 full year in Object orient C++, this book is just right. It is not to complex and yet not too easy either. This is one of the better books on java . Some of the weakness in the book is the fact that in the database chapter he should have covered sql more and in the applet chap covered some more basic html. One thing that i would like, that i have not found is a book on or a many chapters on how to put together a client/server, multitiered sql, corba database that is scaleable, that has/uses swing gui and/or with serlets so the user can query stuff from a webpage or from a application that can hook up to the server via tcp/ip. A book that would be about that would sell well. Anyway this book is very good to cover the basics of the jdk which must be mastered by anyone getting into java.Yes the book has typos but it does explain concepts clearly which in my opinion is the most important thing. Another book i found that is very good is called Just Java 2.

This book covers a ton of things about the Java language. Some reviewers who have suggested that the coverage is 'rushed', but I think that's more because the book covers soo much material. This is a great reference. The explanations are easy to understand, and I loved the explanation of Threads. Unfortunately, the index leaves a lot to be desired and sometimes makes it hard to find what you are looking for, so you have to rely on the table of contents.

The Cranes, who were merely angry that 8.3 million people would belong to the Mormon Church when the book was written in 1993, must be throughly enraged by now. The Church currently has more than 12 million members, has been featured on the cover of TIME, has had its president on 60 Minutes, and, best of all, has become "mainstream." The Cranes thesis is that the Church is ashamed of Joseph Smith and downplays him whenever possible. There is no doubt that the Mormonism of today bears little resemblance to the 19th Century religion of Smith and Brigham Young. This is hardly a recent (pardon the word) revelation. However, I don't think today's practicing Mormons are ashamed of Joseph Smith. Rather, they are very proud of the Smith who has been so completely reshaped by the Church as to make him unrecognizable to the man of history. They are not interested in the historical Smith and are unlikely to change. The Church has done such a great job of both diluting Smith and convincing its members that anything contrary to the modern version must, of necessity, be ill-motivated, and thus false, that no full-fledged Mormon would ever bother to read this book, let alone believe any of it. The Cranes have done a good job of documenting the numerous problems of Smith - his "peeping," contradictory statements regarding the First Vision, lack of physical evidence to support the Book of Mormon, polygamy, power grabbing, etc. However, there is nothing here that isn't presented better elsewhere. There is a genuine need in the pantheon of Mormon history for a relatively short book that synthesizes the Smith of history versus the Smith of the late 20th Century. Unfortunately, the Cranes desire to deprogram Mormons and return them to the "true" Christian fold is as obnoxious as the Mormons desire to direct everyone to the "true church." Without the Cranes missionary zeal (and the use of countless exclamation points) the book would have been a much better product.

The Cranes present a revealing examination of the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, whose members are best known as Mormons. They document the deemphasis of Joseph Smith in the public presentations of the church. This shift in focus is not surprising when you consider that his doctrines include the outrageous statement that dark skin is a curse from God. They also illustrate many of the events of Joseph Smith's life, as well as examine a number of his unfulfilled prophecies. The truth could hardly be topped by any work of fiction. Many of the Cranes' references come straight from the Latter-Day Saints' own publications. Particularly compelling was the comparison between the humble and meek life of Christ and the violent and proud life of Joseph Smith. This book will not reveal much that is new to those who are familiar with the history of the Mormon church(es), but it is a good introduction for those who think that the LDS church is a group that is not too different than other denominations. I have also heard good things about Charles Crane's book comparing the Bible with Mormon scriptures, and Jerald and Sandra Tanner's exhaustive works on the LDS church have also been recommended.

What is absolutely amazing to me is the blatant lies that the church tells it's members. This book explains how realistically the church is crumbling. When the false prophet includes members that are dead, ie. baptism of the dead. Members that have been inactive for many years, the membership numbers are highly exagerated. The long list of members also includes people who have requested their names be removed, but the church hesitantly resists this due to accurate disclosure and fear of fallout. The book also explains why the missionaries are going to third world countries, out of desperation. Most Americans are knowledgable in this new religion that proselytizing here is almost non-existant. This book should be required to all members of mormonism along with the BoM. If they could accept this reality, they wouldn't need the other book. I applaud the Cranes for telling the truth and allowing the false church membership lies to be revealed. It's the moral thing to do.

This book is terribly disorganized, repetitive and has numerous
errors. Unfortunately, it seems to be one of only 2 books
available on this certification. The only chapter that was worth
reading was the one on JMS. The rest of the book was eminently
unreadable. I suggest reading "UML Distilled", the
Design Patterns book by Gamma et al, and a good book on EJBs,
messaging and JCA, instead of wasting time and effort over
this book.

This book reads as if it were written entirely between the hours of 2&5AM. It is more like an 11th hour paper one would write all night in college to barely make the deadline, than a well structured book that is written and rewritten to achieve its purpose. This is disturbing since the goal of reading it is to obtain a certification in software architecture, a discipline that demands quality execution to ensure success. The book is repeative across chapters, unstructured within any given chapter, poorly defines concepts and terms and generally frustrates the reader with obfuscated and needlessly complicated sentence structure. The content can be moderately useful if the reader has the patience to read and re-read passages when necessary. A heavily edited and refined second edition could succeed if the need to dwell on poorly written passages and definitions was totally eliminated. Proper grammar and spelling would be a nice touch too.

This study guide is the second book on SCEA available from the market.

It covers all the main topics for the SCEA 310-051 exams, with step-by-step instruction, and 2 sets of practice exercises. Chapters concentrate on the basic J2EE concepts, common architectures, legacy connectivity, EJB and its container model, protocols, applicability of J2EE, design patterns and messaging. Besides that, a J2EE case study is provided in the last chapter. The companion CD-ROM contains two sets of practice tests and a pdf-version of the study guide.

For a SCEA candidate, it is normally a challenge of using UML and J2EE together in the SCEA part 2. Unfortunately, this topic is missing in the book.

The J2EE case study chooses a real-life J2EE architecture, which involves legacy connectivity on Mainframe. This example is absolutely helpful on the SCEA part 2. However, it would be better if the authors could illustrate the pros and cons of specific design approaches.

Near 100 challenging practice questions are provided in the Mock Exam. They are closely modeling the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real exam.

Since it's the one of the only two books available, I suggest you go through this book. However, you should also learn the specific subjects from practice or from other corresponding books.

I haven't read this book but have just ordered it.. I very much appreciate Al Franken's humor and have for along time... so I since I am open minded - how can I pass up the retort.

Reading the reviews I had to respond to J. Russ Fields. I should remind all that good republicans know that the French are to be reviled. But if you chose to use their phrases at least get it right...it's "faux pas" not faux paus...at least he got he meaning close to correct. It's real meaning is to be socially or maybe politically embarassed. Giggling in a library...?

As an American who lived in Switzerland and learned to read and write in French before English, I see Franco-bashing as a sign that (Republican?) Americans love to hate that "other" - any "other" in their intolerance. France disagrees with us now yet France stood with us when we fought for independence against England during the Revolutionary War - the birth of our nation...they gave the Statue of Liberty. How ironic that only 225 years later - that historically is only an eye blink in human history - we should decide they are our enemies and England is our ally. Maybe we should all pay more attention in history class.

From the moment I first saw this book in my local library and noticed that it had a cover that looked almost exactly like "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot" (which I own), I had to pick it up and at least scan it, if not check it out and take it home with me.

I'm giving Mr. Mauro two stars for trying, but in this book you will not hear the voice of a die-hard Rush Limbaugh fan who was so incensed and outraged over some of the things that Mr. Franken writes about his beloved idol that he just had to go out and write a book of his own in response. No, this is just an everyday conservative Republican lawyer (or is it two everyday conservative Republican lawyers?) doing his best to add fuel to the already burning-out-of-control fires of conservative ire over how there are too many liberals in America today. It's telling, for instance, that Mauro doesn't even bother to devote as much time to defending Limbaugh as Franken does to dissecting Limbaugh. Mauro appears to be more interested in comparing the person Franken was in his years on "Saturday Night Live" to the person he is today as a result of writing the Limbaugh book.

To give Mauro credit, he does do a great job of cutting PETA up like a buzz saw and pointing out how tiresome some of Franken's most repetitive jokes can be, case in point: the one about former Senator Alphonse D'Amato. At least those parts are funny.

Someone told me that Matt Drudge has been touting this book recently as "the funniest conservative book ever" or some such thing, so I picked up a used copy for a song off of Amazon. I don't know if it's the funniest conservative book ever, but it IS damn funny. It's also surprisingly accurate -- I can't believe it wasn't a bigger deal when it came out (the Jesse Jackson stuff alone is scarily prescient). Definitely worth the few bucks I paid. I howled.

This man has absolutely no idea of what a homosexual is!
He needs to come out of the middle ages and read up on current science and psychology!! Too bad you don't allow NO STAR, Amazon!

The author capitalizes on the fears and insecurities of parents who want to help and support their children. He profits from the fears of well-meaning parents, and in my opinion causes harm. Instead of this diatribe, which blames parents for something that in fact is inborn and God-Given, a good parent will read this:
Steps to Recovery from Bible Abuse by Rembert Truluck. Pastor Truluck is one of the foremost Bible scholars writing on this subject today. Learn what the actual Bible really says, (the word Homosexual never appeared in the original scriptures--it was added in the 1700's) and, how to answer your children's questions with love and truth. Don't alienate your children. Don't add to their adolescent confusion. Don't harm someone else or their children thru ignorance or repeating nonsense, and don't waste your money enriching any more fearmongers. You can't change sexuality; you can only make someone miserable, or give them love and peace within your family and community. Don't be suckered by a conartist. Do take a look at reality, and God's beautiful creation. Use your head.

I am a physician, and a Christian. My life work includes trying to repair the harm done to families by unloving, misguided, phoney Christians who profit and thrive by taking advantage of well-meaning parents who don't yet understand this simple and obvious fact: there is a wide range of human sexuality, emotional and/or physical expressions, that may include hetero, celibate, transgendered, bi, gay, or what-have-you. Being a good parent has a great deal to do with the happiness of children, but not with their sexuality.

This is one of the most stupid books I have ever read. For the record, evangelicals can believe whatever they want to believe and find "scientific" studies to reinforce their beliefs, and I suppose that the authors honestly believe that what they're doing is a good thing.

But this book is harmful for three reasons: 1) it is so ideologically self-serving that it fails to refute arguments, 2) it focuses too much on male homosexuality and barely addresses bisexual or transgendered individuals, and 3) it fails to address the prevalence of clinical depression among gay and lesbian individuals.