Lisa Donner went through all the treatments for breast cancer. She died at the age of 36 leaving her husband Chris, the single-father of four. This is the story of her battle and his family challenges.

Confronting the Cow offers hope, understanding and consolation to caregivers, cancer sufferers and their survivors. This is a very nicely produced book and a great tribute to Lisa. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com

In Confronting the Cow, Chris Donner does a superb job chronicling his personal experiences and his family's experiences following his wife's breast cancer diagnosis at age 34.

His warm, personable, and at times humorous accounts of life's daily experiences allow the reader to step inside his very existence in a virtual sense.

Donner shares his thoughts, fears, and techniques for supporting his wife, and their four children, who were all less than six years old, at the time the illness presented itself. In his book, Donner works through all of the human emotions and challeges that breast cancer provokes.

He provides just enough technical information to educate the reader on the disease's symptoms and treatment while providing insight into the medical profession's response to the disease.

While the book is powerfully emotional and moving, it leaves the reader with a sense of optimism and well-being.

Chris Donner writes an intimate, revealing, and honest account of his wife's struggle with breast cancer and the rebuilding of the lives of himself and his children after her death. The book brought tears to my eyes at times, but also laughter. It is a must read for those who are going through this or have gone through this, and for those who have not had the experiences of cancer in their family or with loved ones.

As a personal conviction, my main reading material is the Word of God.

Using the Word of God as a plumbline to measure the "straightness" of the teachings in Dialogue With God, I have found it to be an excellent resource filled with UNCOMPROMISED biblical truths.

In addition, Mark Virkler outlines many points with easy to understand graphics/diagrams and helpful appendixes.

In my personal estimation, it is a book every born-again believer should read.

If followed this book will definately spur you onto a closer relationship with God. You will unquestionably start to hear His voice. The simple/straight forward pointers and lessons Mark Virkler shares with you in this publication will put you on a road you never thought possible. Enjoy!

This book is one of the best books on prayer I have read. He gives 4 keys on how to hear God's voice and open a dialogue with Him involving 2-way communication. Too often we prayer at God and do not talk to God like a friend or family member. Overall this should be recommended reading for any Christian.

This is a must for anybody's personal library. No matter where you are in life, Sir John has done us all a great favour by writing this book. He uses a range of philosiphies and theologies to explain everyday events in our lives.
Are you overwhemled or caught up in day to day events? Mr. Templeton's collections of various authors and his own works will explain sometimes difficult situations into easy to understand english. For example, lesson "No one knows the weight of another's burden" on page 20 is about the young man in a male therapy group.
The men were in a group session and the person in the story is a new participant. The mediator explained that each person would have a few minutes to explain his problem and what they plan to do about it. Natually, the new person thought with his marital break down, near bankruptcy and poor health, his would be one of the saddest cases.
Before it was his turn to speak, a handsome young man in his 20's revealed that he was terminally ill and had 6 months to live. Rather than dwell on it, he decided to take up flying lessons and live! Naturally, everybody else was taken off guard and rediscovered the gifts they have.
Templeton's 200 lessons in this book address almost every situation around. You don't have to be struggling with life to enjoy this. Everybody needs a bit of down to earth insiration and you'll have it with this!

John Marks Templeton's most important discovery is that our lives are shaped by certain eternal laws. He has established several foundations to advance spiritual developments and offers free literature plus newsletter to all who ask. Enjoy a visit to the Templeton Foundation . He rose from humble beginnings to lead a 30-billion dollar group of investment companies and established the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, which exceeds the Nobel Prize in financial value. This beloved book includes two hundred "laws of life" and appeals to all on the spiritual path. Contributors to "Laws" include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jesus, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Gerald G. Jampolsky , and Eric Butterworth . Endorsements include Dr. Robert Schuller, Billy Graham, and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.

Great therapy. It is an easy read. Something you can open a few minutes a day to lift your spirits, and it doesn't hurt to read over and over again. It may not dazzle your senses (nonfiction), but it should make you feel good.

"A Distant Shore" is a wonderful love story with great plot twists and fantastic characters. Put this on your booklist as a must summer read!

Author Mark Templeman has written a delightful first novel. The pages literally turned themselves as I was drawn along by the unfolding story line, and the fascinating characters, especially, Father Geoff Schaeffer.

It is often said that we cannont go back and relive our past, but Geoff does, and with the most surprising results. With feelings of his first love, Elizabeth, ever present, life takes on startling new emotional challenges. There is romance, danger, and confusion as Fr. Geoff discovers a new life in "Manitou" which had been so much a part of his formative years.

As an Episcopal priest myself, I greatly resonated with Fr. Geoff's struggles as he found himself immersed in a new congregation, a community scattered with "ghosts" from his past, and searching to find himself in his new life and calling. I could not put this book down, and when I did, I picked it up and read it again! Twice!

Wonderfully refreshing! A beautifully written love story and mystery that's hard to put down. It really touched my emotions with characters that walk right off the page and into my heart. Can't wait for the sequel!

I had to write a term paper about the Internet and privacy issues. I was initially overwhelmed by the amount of information on this topic and didn't know where to start. This book helped focus me and identify major issues whereas I got lost in similar volumes. Some of the info is more technical than I needed, but I'm sure it is useful to other readers with a different perspective. If you are trying to understand what the privacy debate is about, I recommend this book.

I'm an information technology manager for a large municipality. This book helped us get a handle on the issues involved when migrating city applications to the web. One of our main concerns was protecting citizen privacy and I thought the book provided a great overview of the issues involved. The book is clearly written and it is particularly good at shifting gears from what starts out as an overview of the issues to specific concerns that we were having. For example, we were able to use the sample privacy policy provided as a jumping off point for what has evolved into our city's web privacy policy. I strongly recommend this book.

I have waded through several volumes on privacy issues, but most of them are too academic or legal in their focus. I needed a book that clearly explained my rights and responsibilities vis-a-vis my customers' privacy. I am a small business entrepreneur of a successful dot.com, and I need to understand the issues affecting me and my customers. I found this book extremely helpful. Whereas it only touches on several topics of interest to me, the scope is comprehensive enough to get me started. I highly recommend this book to anyone struggling to understand the thorny problem of privacy in the electronic age.

This is a very good handbook for not only power quality professional,but also electrical engineers. With well organized chapters, it covered comprehensive knowledge of power quality and relevant experience of authors. I really hope it can be translated into Chinese and let more power quality professionals share this valuable resource.

I have recently asked some electrical engineers to recommend me a good book concerning Power Quality. Each of them gave me two or three recommendations and only "Electrical Power Systems Quality" by R. C. Dugan, M. F. McGranaghan, S. Santoso and H. W. Beaty appeared in all recommendations...
Indeed, it seems to me to be one of the best books about Power Quality I have ever read. It is very well organized, complex and up-to-date, and above all it is very useful for my research project as it offers clear descriptions (understanding) of all, important Power Quality issues. I would recommend it as a kind of compendium for engineers, designers and researchers that work not only with Power Quality but also with modern Electric Power Systems in general.

This is a must have for any professional involved in Power Quality. Not only are all the topics covered, they are explained in a way that is easy to read and understand.

This book has a more profound, deeper message relating to principals of self character and integrity. The premise of the exercises are to help an individual keep not only financial commitments but personal committments as well. Being "brutely honest" while simultaneously allowing oneself to be open minded to rapid change and new methods, especially in relationship building, opportunity and abundance are unlimited. Thanks Mark.

There are certain things in life we all know but never really say them out loud. Flashpoint emphasizes there should be synergy of family, social and work life. All three are critically important and we must not ignore any of them or they ALL suffer. Flashpoint can help you find the proper balance for your life in order for to achieve emotional and financial abundance.

Until I read the book I did not understand the word Abundant. Now its clear to me that an abundant life is being involved equally with all aspects of my life. I am no longer a workaholic, although I love my job and do work many hours,but I am also deeply interested and much more active with my children, my home, my wife and relatives. I had been narrowly focused on professional life as exclusive to success, but with the help of the Matsons and FlashPoint I have discovered my own personal FlashPoint and that is success comes from many areas of life. I intend to enjoy it all.

Mark Sutton and Bruce Hennigan do a great job of explaining some of the many possible causes for depression as well as steps to take in overcoming it. I discovered that a person may battle depression on a daily basis, but it can be overcome. The Life Filters are great! Written from a compassionate viewpoint, this book will help you with depression if you are willing to work and apply its suggestions.

Thank you Mark and Bruce for putting together the book "Conquering Depression". I believe it to be the best and most practical book I have ever read on the subject. For once I have found a book outlining a workable program, that develops tangible skills, and that forges and sharpens mighty weapons to defeat and overcome depression. A book that addresses the tri-part nature of man: his spirit, his soul (mind, will and emotions) and his body. I am convinced that should people who suffer the dreadful effects of despair and depression follow the 30 day program outlined in your book, they will be empowered to overcome and defeat their depression. Again, well done !

As one who has suffered from clinical depression for many years I was skeptical about this "30 day plan" approach but after reading this book I am skeptical no more. Written by a medical doctor and a pastor, this is not a "pray it away" approach but rather a multidisciplinary approach that gives information from a medical and spiritual perspective as well as recommendations for treatment and tools to use on a day to day basis. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who lives with depression or even thinks they might have it.

Dispite the 300+ pages, I was able to finish this book in a day. It provides clear and concise information on how to manage a data warehousing project, caveats & pitfalls, and differences between DW technologies & strategies. The first half of the book focuses on step-by-step DW project management and methodology. The second half focuses on technologies and concepts. However, I felt that the second half of the book was not as strong as the first (probably because technology changes constantly). If you want a book that gives you a step-by-step task list that can be easily transferred to a MS Project plan, then this is the book you want!

This is a good introduction to data warehousing for business process owners, project managers and service delivery and support professionals. Like all books in the Enterprise Computing series this one follows the people-process-technology pattern, with a focus on business value.

The authors start by showing how data warehouses fit into the context of IT architecture, and how this relates to fulfilling business needs. This is followed by a clearly presented section on concepts that will be easily understood by non-technical readers, especially business process owner who are exploring the benefits and advantages of data warehousing.

Scope and complexity of designing, implementing and deploying a data warehouse are discussed in detail in Section II, starting with some excellent material for developing a business case and determining the cost/benefit ratio of a data warehouse initiative. Information in this section is also useful for planning a data warehouse project because it provides low-level details on roles and responsibilities. A key point here is the way the project is structured with both technical and business resources. I like this approach because it involves all of the major stakeholders and IT customers from the beginning instead of the more common practice of waiting until the last minute to involve the business. This approach will go a long way towards making a data warehouse project a success and ensuring that the business gets what it really needs instead of what IT thinks the business needs.

The technology section of this book is an excellent description of data structures, meta data and topics that need to be understood in view of the large difference between a data warehouse and an online transaction processing system. I learned a lot from this section and appreciated the way the information was clearly presented. I also liked the fact that the authors included a section on production and maintenance. Other books stop short of this important milestone in a development life cycle, which leaves a lot of unaccounted for issues. This section completes the total picture of a data warehousing initiative and sets realistic expectations for the true costs, resources and effort required to implement and maintain a data warehouse throughout its entire life cycle.

This is a nicely done book that is accessible to both technical and non-technical readers, and is one of the best resources with which to get up-to-speed on data warehousing without getting bogged down with too many technical details.

Data Warehousing covers a lot of territory, but does not go into depth. If you know this in advance it sets your expectations that this book is more of an educational tool for managers than a "how-to" for data architects and DBAs. I recommend The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit by Ralph Kimball for those who are seeking an in-depth technical treatment of the subject.

This book will give you a solid foundation of the basics, expose the issues and provide a high-level process for planning and implementing a data warehouse. It is divided into sections, the first three covering people, process and technology.

Section One starts with an overview enterprise IT architectures, how data warehousing fits into the scheme of things, and associated business and technical perspectives. I like the way the authors emphasize business perspectives, which is a consistent thread throughout the book. They use a framework called "InfoMotion", which covers all of the requirements, but (to me) is too wrapped-up in "consultant-speak". For example, they litter this section with nonsense such as "InfoMotion = Information/Data * motion. While it makes perfect sense from a conceptual viewpoint, there is no way to compute it, so why express it as a formula? Parenthetically, data is easy to quantify; measuring information is difficult, but can be done. The motion part of the equation is plain silliness because there is no basis given for measurement. But I am nitpicking here.

You are next introduced to data warehouse concepts. This gives a foundation that is complete and covers all key elements, such as reports, definitions of data warehouse and data mart and operational data stores. I thought this was an excellent introduction. Also included is a brief piece on cost/benefit and return on investment. It was short and hit all of the key points, but would have fit better in the prior discussion of the business perspective.

The next section addresses the people part of a data warehousing project, begining with the project sponsor. Answers to some incisive questions are given in this part, such as "how will the data warehouse affect decision-making processes?", "how will it improve financial, marketing and operations processes?" and similar business-focused questions. These draw your attention to the real reasons for data warehousing. This section moves naturally into project management considerations, and exposes some common problems like defining project scope, underestimating time and project overhead or factoring the operational support issues after the data warehouse is rolled out and in production. One of the best parts of this section is how the authors counter common problems and risks with advice on how to eliminate or mitigate them. I liked the approach to measuring results, which gives some sound key performance indications that you can use to baseline some total cost of ownership drivers after the data warehouse is in production. This section continues with roles and responsibilities of the project team. The authors have crafted a sound team structure that consists of business and technical representatives who are overseen by a steering committee. This is an excellent approach. I thought the inclusion of users from various business domains was one of the key strengths, because these people know the data's value to the business a lot better than the technical side of the team. On the other hand, I thought it was naive of the authors to state that this group would be required 80% of the time during the project. While I fully agree with this estimate, it is nearly impossible in practice. I wish the authors would have shared how they sold the business side on making an 80% commitment of their best and brightest.

As this section moves into the actual project there are some things I loved about their approach: breaking the project into four parallel tracks and the proposed rollout strategy. These give you a good understanding of the scope and magnitude of a typical data warehouse project.

Section 4 covers technology, and gets a little too technical for a business user in some places, but is just right for an IT manager who is not a DBA or data architect. I liked the discussion of metadata, why normalization is not appropriate for data warehousing, and the treatment of fact and dimension tables.

The final section discusses maintenance requirements once the data warehouse is in production. This prepares you for the realities of managing these systems. I wish the authors would have addressed some of the workload and scheduling issues that are a part of the territory - refreshing the warehouse is going to require a fine balancing act that is going to affect maintenance windows, other production jobs and a plethora of other production headaches if not planned for in advance.

Overall this is a good book for the audience I cited above. I strongly recommend anyone considering a data warehouse to also read Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality by Larry P. English.

One more book for armchair climbers. It's a good book, but it's basically useless to the real weekend warriors. With the noted exception of Lynn Hill and 2 or 3 others, all the climbers in this book are offering routes that are way beyonb the ability of the average climber. Yes, they are professional climbers, and yes, they want to show off their greatest achievements; so if this book will make you dream, it won't make you want to get up and follow in their footsteps !

50FC is a terrific book about climbing, but it really plays to a much broader audience. Its about climbing and specific ascents, but then climbing and ascents are really about a whole lot more. The book has absolutely killer photos, clear maps laying out the technical aspects of each ascent, portraits and profiles of the individual climbers, and very readable discussion about each particular climb and climber being profiled. The various chapters are each a separate world, laying out the geography of climbing and the broad differences between one face and another, as unique as the characters and personalities involved. The author is a climber who took a number of the photos himself, so this is told from the POV of someone who knows what climbing is about, but not in a condescending way (no pun). Kroese writes clearly, so that anyone can get excited about what's happening up above. I have never climbed, which is what makes 50FC even more intriguing. Its about 50 distinct challenges, and the different ways people plan and conquer those challenges. The methods and process draw a good parallel to any sport, or even business. An inspiring view of high-altitude acheivement. A great book to give someone as a gift. But keep a copy for yourself.

After reading this book several times, my enthusiasm for it just continues to grow. This book is one of the most monumental assets to mountaineering since "The White Spider, The Story of the North Face of the Eiger." It raises the bar on climbing levels and performance to such heights that even experienced mountain climbers will get shivers reading some of the stories. It exposes a cross section of the best climbers in Amercia while telling stories of their favorite ascents. Anyone who enjoys mountaineering books or adventure books will consider this a asset to their library, and it is so readable that anyone who picks it up will have trouble putting it down. What a book! 5 Stars..