This book covers from fundamental data types to advanced data types in a clear, concise manner.

Mark Guyer draws upon his more than fifteen years of professional experience as a grant writer to author A Concise Guide To Getting Grants For Nonprofit Organizations. This brief, 124-page, information-packed survey of the do's and don'ts of writing effective grant requests also includes useful Internet sites for grant seekers, explores other fund-raising options, and a great deal more. A Concise Guide To Getting Grants For Nonprofit Organizations is a straightforward, practical, "user friendly", how-to resource which is especially recommended to anyone charged with the responsibility of obtaining governmental or private sector grants in support of their nonprofit organization or group.

Tells what jazz is, how it originated, how it is made, who is important and why, how to locate the best recordings. Optional CD of historic recordings is available. Optional CD of narrated demonstrations for jazz instruments, jazz methods and how to listen is also available. This is the abridged edition of the best-selling, critically acclaimed JAZZ STYLES by Gridley.

This little book is full to the brim with beautiful stories that touch the heart. Even though I've read and heard many of the stories before from reading other "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books, it was still a welcomed treat. I'll reference and recommend this book to my participants in my motivational and educational Seminars. This book makes a great gift even to those people who don't enjoy reading. Great stories like these are good to read again and again.

Mark Neely, Harold Holzer, and Gabor S. Boritt effectively collaborate to present a pioneering and seminal examination of the popular lithographs and engravings cherished by Southerners during and after the Civil War in The Confederate Image: Prints Of A Lost Cause. These were the images in southern popular culture that helped to sustain and revive a post-confederacy identity following the collapse of the Confederacy at the end of the war. It is one of history's ironies that these images were actually crafted by Northern artisans. The principle focus of The Confederate Image is on the prints of three prominent southern Civil War figures (Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson) as well as offering informative discussions on prints of other significant Confederates as well as the contributions of the short-lived "Southern Illustrated News". The Confederate Image is a highly recommended and unique addition to Civil War studies and of considerable interest to students of American popular culture and art history.

This was my very first book cover 10 years ago. Today the book roles are reversed. I'm the single parent not the kid! I still love to go to the library to see the book on the shelf and my 6 yr old loves when I read him "Mommy's Book". Mark is a wonderful author and he did a beautiful job. This is a wholesome, genuine, down to earth great pre-teen book. A must for all aspiring young actors/actresses.

Marcia's message is needed for all women in today's world. Her thoughts and feelings are passionately expressed and will touch all who pick up her "Connection Complete". A book from a writer who's own personal experiences fills the reader with good common sense on connecting with the spritual soul to meet today's challenges. I recommend after reading "Connection Complete" to pass it onto others so they may share in this gifted, needed message.

Remember the Peace Dividend? Where did it go? If I could trace one book that radicalized me, it was this one. It was on the reading list for a course I took in college called "Alternatives to War" (right after the Persian Gulf War, of all things). I took the class because it was something I'd never thought of - alternatives to war? War seemed inevitable, like the tides.

But this book contains some of the most interesting and overlooked ideas you'll find. It radicalized me because the ideas made so much sense and flew in the face of everything I'd been taught while growing up. They weren't pie-in-the-sky, but actually practical. It got me thinking that if alternatives could be found for something as seemingly overwhelming as warfare, then alternatives could be found for anything.

I'm sad to see this book out of print, but am not really surprised. Works like this clash with conventional wisdom. Leaders don't want citizens thinking about ideas like this. If you stumble across this book, grab it quickly, because you'll find things that you simply don't see anywhere else - lost to the dustbin of history. Things like the Clark-Sohn Plan, minimum deterrence, qualitative disarmament, nonprovocative defense, civilian-based defense, and so forth. I personally found qualitative disarmament among the most intriguing ideas, devised by Basil Liddell Hart, the British military strategist - probably the most influential military thinker of the 20th century (he invented the concept of the Blitzkrieg - too bad that the Germans were the only ones reading his works prior to World War II!)

The book is divided into three parts: Part One explores the United Nations and the above-mentioned alternatives to war; Part Two covers issues that apply to all of the above-things like verification, international law, and peacetime conversion. Part Three troubleshoots the relative strengths and weaknesses of each security alternative.

Despite having three writers, this book is very readable considering it covers such a deep topic. They clearly wrote it to make it accessible to everyday people. My sincere hope is that Westview Press reprints this book, because it's needed now more than ever, in the post-Cold War era we're in.

What you come to realize after reading this book is that nations don't really want peace, despite lip service and lofty rhetoric - or that true peace is an obstacle to national and international power, not a goal in itself. Just look at where the money goes. But everyday people do want peace, and in the age of weapons of mass destruction, it seems more important than ever for people to consider alternatives to war, rather than continuing the endless upward spiral of military spending.

I held onto this book after college because I realized it was an important work. I hope you can find it.

This book is important book

This tiny book packs the only most useful information into the smallest usable size, small enough to fit in a shirt pocket. I keep mine in my binocular case. It has compact overview maps showing constellations and a few selected objects by season, then constellation by constellation maps with greater detail and many objects which can be seen in binoculars or a small telescope. On the page facing each map is short, well written text describing the most interesting stars and deep sky objects on the map.

Because of its small size, it is limited to only the brightest stars and objects, but there is plenty detail for star hopping to interesting objects with the aid of a pair of binoculars. It is not a substitute for a serious field guide and star atlas, but begginers will find plenty to look for with this and more experienced stargazers will appreciate its convenience.

This book is a good way to learn your way around the sky. Remember, it takes some practice to learn how to read a star map and mentally rotate and project it onto the curved night sky. You get better at this with practice. I also suggest you get a small flashlight with a red filter.

Beginners wishing to learn constellations may also wish to consult Levitt and Marshall's classic "Star Maps for Begginers", which has much less cartographic detail (perhaps an advantage for learning the constellations). This book is much more useful on an ongoing basis, however.