Having shot clay targets for a few years.The ideas in the book were not out of the blue.The author just layed it out in a clear manner. I especially liked the way in which he list the different level of shooters.So you can get a better feel where you are and what you need to train on.....I would recomend this book to anyone who wants to inprove their score in any of the clay target sport...It is not written for a golfers eyes it is written in a shooters eyes. So the visualization process is easier to see the point ans the Targets turn to Dust.

My impression after the first time I read this book "WOW", my impression after the second time I read this book "WOW - WOW", etc..

After I finished the final chapter everything in the book just seemed like common sense. As a shooter, I have thought the same things that were written for years but could never made heads-or-tails out of the information. Mark (the author) is very smooth in his ability to convey seemingly complex topics and put all the pieces of the mental puzzle on the table.

My final comment is, tell me when the sequel is so I can be the first in line to buy it - at any price!

After reading this book I have one message to other shooters/readers: Buy this book, read it once, read it again, practice what it says than read the book again in 30 days.

The author does a great job of bringing difficult psychological concepts into simple understandings. While most other books, which only donate a single chapter to mental training, are written like a textbook - this author writes like he is talking directly to you. His straightforward writing style makes the book hard to put down once you start reading it.

I am currently a B-22-C trapshooter and after reading this book I feel like I have boosted my confidence such that I should be ready to move up the next class this season. I recommend this book highly.

PS. Don't loan it out to others... you will have a hard time getting it back - I know from experience.

If you're a fan of Mark Bowden's, add this book to your collection. I was hooked from page 1 until the end. I believe this book was even better then Black Hawk Down (if you can believe that!). I thought the length of the book would provide tiring details about unimportant aspects of the story. Not true. This was a very focused book and I had no trouble keeping high interest througout.

When we moved into Larry's Virginia Beach Neighborhood we wondered how could a man who piddles in his garage all day could afford to live in such a nice house. Well a couple months later the house was wrapped in crime scene tape and we found out how he could afford to handout full sized Snicker bars on Halloween!
Mark described him accurately during his Va Beach days. He was a good-guy and even helped my friend Kevin and I unhinge the jaws of a snapper turtle, which was trying to eat another turtle we had caught in the marshes.
Bowden scores again, with readable interesting non-fiction

Bowden does it again, this story is irresistible!
Dr. Larry Lavin, a charismatic fellow from humble beginnings becomes the largest cocaine dealer of Philadelphia. A family man in an affluent suburb that could easily be mistaken as your neighbor was the head of complex network of YUPPIE cocaine suppliers. His charisma and industrious caution couldn't save him from arrest and defeat. When I finished this book, I admired and pitied Larry Lavin. Bowden is one of the finest authors of our time.

This story is about a boy who joined the army because Abraham Lincoln asked him to so he can bring spirit to the solders. So he did and became a drummer boy. He seen things he thought a boy should never see. This is a good book for everyone. I think its a good history and lurning book.This is a magical, historical, and colorful book. So I think everyone should read it if they have the chance.Bye......

I am a fifth grade teacher who bought this picture book to incorporate into my Civil War studies. It is my favorite picture book. It has such a tremendous impact on the reader with such an economy of words that it truly drives home the image we have been using all year of words in a story being like a glass of water and food coloring: each strong word is a drop of food coloring making the liquid darker. Each weak, unnecessary word is water, making the liquid lighter. We want our stories to be bright red (or yellow, or blue, or green). This book is the closest thing to pure, undiluted red as any we've come across. The students are astonished by the power and strength of feeling that just a few words can convey.

They are equally mesmerized by the incredible imagery of the illustrations. In just 28 pages, the boy in the story changes from a fresh-faced innocent of 13 to a world-weary adult in a matter of months.

The language in the book makes it a perfect compliment to a study of metaphors and similes. He describes his attraction to Mr. Lincoln as "sometimes you take to a person, the way a horse snuffs up the smell of someone." And goes on to describe him as looking "so kind and sad, towering up into the sky like a black tree."

Like many other books with war as the theme, Drummer Boy personalizes death due to combat. However, unlike most other books, it does so in a mere 40 words that leave the most powerfully gripping image I have yet to read in a children's book. Instead of describing death and destruction in gory detail, the passage concentrates on describing the dying soldier's hand clasped in the protagonist's until he dies. Not once was blood, bullets, or wounds mentioned...

"One near me cried for his mother. I held his hand until he died, and I always feel his fingers on mine, how hot and dry they were, how they grabbed mine and crushed them until his eyes stopped seeing."

This is a book that seems to speak directly to the children's souls. It seems to touch something in them, for when the story is over there is an almost reverent silence in the room and you can almost feel them coming back from the farthest regions of their imaginations...changed by the sights and sounds of war.

I love to teach history and this book is a winner. I am always amazed how children focus on the glory of war, not the reality. This book gently brings home the reality. In the illustrations the child, drummer boy ages before the eyes of the reader. As a Civil War survivor he says what many other veterans of more recent wars have shared with me of their experiences.

I have read all of Mark's books, and highly recommend them! We visited Gettysburg last year, and while we didn't see any apparitions (or I don't think we did), his books were very informative! His Ghosts of Gettysburg tour is also high on our 'redo' list!

If it's Gettysburg history you want, this series is for you!!!

Former Park Ranger Mark Nesbitt has over the years gathered many ghost stories from other park rangers, visitors and people who live in the area. Nesbitt tries to gather factual data on the stories he receives so he can offer a background as to why these ghost stories may have evolved. His stories are usually quite interesting and do not just talk about battlefield soldiers, civilians alike are also involved in famous ghost stories in Gettysburg! Buy all 5 books, there worth it! Each has many short stories that are easy and fun to read.

I ordered books 1 through 4 last year, and it took me a little
more than a week to read all of them. Even if you're not
interested in ghosts, the historical accounts of the areas in
which the stories took place is quite interesting. I like the
4 books so much that I'm afraid to lend them out for fear of not
seeing them again. I'm looking forward to book 5. If you like
both civil war history and ghost stories, you won't regret reading these little gems.

This review compares the Lonely Plantet Greece (4th Edition) with the Rough Guide Greece (8th edition). We spent 2.5 weeks in July, 2001 in Greece, our first visit, and these were our guide books.
A relucant 4 stars to each, and a slight preference for RG. We certainly found the books serviceable, and they gave us good ideas of where in Greece we wanted to go. But they were much less valuable in their listings for individual destinations. They were the least valuable compared to the other LP and RG travel books we've used (Portugal, Italy, Thailand, Tokyo).

As usual, they both overstate their hotel rankings which to me make sense only if you've been sleeping out on the beach from necessity, and now have finally scraped some money together for a room. An exagerration, but I've lost patience with gushing praise for facilities which are usually no better than serviceable and sometimes less than that. And, we're not into spending money on fancy accommodations. Occassionaly the books are on the money, but often not.

On the smaller islands RG usually had more accommodation listings, but occassionally LP did. There were at least two instances when LP had none, just saying that rooms were available.

The ferry schedules in the books, pretty much consistent between them, bore little relation to reality, even though we were there in the high season.

I want to complete with my usual gripe about these and other guide books: we don't know which restaurants and hotels were actually visited by the writers (and by which one) and when. To paraphrase from my review of RG Portugal:

LP is out front in saying that its reviewers do not stay at all the hotels or eat at all the restaurants they list. I would like it if the reviews would be initialized by the reviewers with the date. This would allow us to learn each reviewer's tastes and standards, not to mention seeing which places they actually visited.

One LP writer (not I think an author of this book) in discussing restaurants wrote: "As one of those LP writers I can tell you that it is not physically possible to eat even a 'little bit of a meal' in each of those restaurants :-) What we all tend to do is eat at a broad cross-section within the norms of natural eating times and visit the other restaurants and talk to the owner or even the diners if it can be done discretely. In the same vein we don't sleep at every hotel!"

Talk to the owners for your evaluation! Says it all.

Most of my friends often recommend the Lonely Planet books, especially for those of us who can't mortgage our homes for one-night stays in hotels listed by Frommer's and Fodor's guides. But I went with Rough Guide for my trip last summer to Greece, and while some of the maps weren't as detailed as they could might have been, most of the recommendations were spot on.

Many nightspots get renovated; names get changed, etc. That's something the editors can't really help with. But any restaurant or bar I went to (listed in the guide) was above-average, if not better than they claimed.

The historical data was also well-balanced; so you're not bored to tears with it, and yet it's detailed enough to keep you reading through it. Bonus marks for the great inclusion of the Greek music coverage (flawed, but excellent), and the price of the book is decent.

We just came back from a 3 weeks, modest-budget, partly backpacking, partly car-rental trip around Rhodes, Crete, and Peloponnese. We deliberately stayed off the beaten tracks as much as possible. We used this guide along with French "Guide du Routard" and Michelin guides. I picked this guide against the Lonely Planet one based on an excellent experience with the Corsica rough guide last year.

This Rough Guide was above all very practical -- it simply is amazingly detailed, and what's more, it's mostly right. The rooms , hotels, and restaurants suggested were spot on. Very few outdated entries.

This guide also includes much relevant background info on Greek history, politics, food, an so on. This made for a much more interesting trip.

The paper was very thin yet high quality, making this guide even more worth its space in my pack.

This is definitely not the guide for organized tours -- the authors make no secret of their disdain for package tourism and the spoiling it often brings. But, for the independent traveller, this is the best guide I have found in English or French.

I think that "CASH OUT, CASH IN" is simple, yet comprehensive.

Simple in that it is very easy to read, understand and absorb, yet comprehensive with regards to the details, tips and information that it contains.

I have learned a lot from reading this book and the bottom line is this: Diversify your income/investments - I particularly love the breakdown of the investment portfolio that is in this book.

If this is what the Ultra-Rich are doing to either get rich or stay there, then one best read the book carefully...as you might learn something the way that I did.

In closing, I may not have millions, in fact, I don't even have hundreds of thousands, but one day when I do, and I know I will, I am most definitely going to contact you, Mr. Van Mourick, as my desire (with your knowledge) will be for you to help me become part of the Ultra-Rich Club!

Great job! When's your next book coming out?!!!

Thank you Mark Van Mourick!

Although the price was a tad more than what I wanted to spend, your book actually proved out to be worth every penny!

Chapter 2 "Before signing the letter of intent" helped me make some very important decisions (I went into an opportunity knowing a lot more than what I knew before reading your book); and

Chapter 10 has taught me some very interesting points about real estate investments, especially, since I'm very close to making some real estate decisions that I truly believe will prove to be in my favor!

What I liked most about this book is that it is very comprehensive as it pertains to the information or content of the book (I haven't found anything close to the information that is in this book), yet simplified enough for me to thoroughly understand.

I'm a better investor because of Cash Out, Cash In!

Thanks again!

Nicole

The information Mark Van Mourick offers in his book helped me immensely. Using his advice I doubled my profits through investments! His book is definately worth every cent of the cost! I very highly recommend this book for those who are in need of assistance for after success as I was.

I lost all enthusiasm for this expansive tome when I cracked it open and realized that it was geared toward the basic user. The author does a good job of explaining how a particular piece of hardware works and even how to physically attach that piece of hardware to the system, but stops there. Absent are the in-depth troubleshooting or compatibility suggestions that one would expect out of a book this large. Far from "complete", I found as much information in a 1988 copy of Scott Mueller's "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" and my owner's manuals/instructions. The CD was also sorely disappointing. Every program on the CD is either shareware or a limited-use trial version. After shelling out $ for the book, I would have rather had one legitimate program than 7 different registry editors that I have to fool around with before purchasing. Finally, the section on making the ultimate PC was a joke. To summarize, buy all the parts, assemble, and if it doesn't work, check all your connections. This book is for beginners only.

I'm a huge fan of Minasi's books, see my review for his latest 12th ed. I Can't recommend this book enough to the novice and advanced.

After a year of learning on my own reading "...for Dummies" books, I went looking for more advanced books. All I found was area spacific books( IT, graphics, alt-OS) until this one.

This book had everything I wanted. Defined all the terms I wanted to know and gave me tips I could really use. Since reading this book I've built two computers, I have never had to call a tech line or call my personal computer guru. I'm fixing friends computers. I owe it mainly to this book. I have only one problem with the book and that is the CD's...it's not that they're not informative, it's just that they're dated. The guy talks about a few thing that haven't been used in 4-5 years.

Why are you still reading? BUY IT!!!!

Gracie was a really cool dog. She was a very helpful dog. She liked quiet but it got noisy in her house and she did not like the noise.
We liked this book because it has good colors and details. Gracie is funny.

This book reminds grown-ups just how much fun it can be to read picture books. It is a silly, quick-moving, adorable little story that every toddler I know loves. Mark Teague's genius really carries the simple tale in a delightful way. After all, if you are a pre or emergent reader you can't help but adore his plump, colorful images. Especially good, and worthy of a spot on your already crowded personal book shelf.

Gracie is a good little dog who likes a nice quiet house. She never caused a bit of trouble until the day the painters came. The painters drove up in their noisy truck, yelling back and forth to each other, dragging furniture and clanging ladders and Gracie began to bark. She barked and barked, but the painters wouldn't leave. Instead, they put her outside, so that she wouldn't disturb THEM. Gracie saw the open gate and decided to take a little walk all by herself. She had just set off down the street, when she heard someone shout, "Where's Gracie?" and that's when the Great Gracie Chase began..... Cynthia Rylant has written a delightful and vivid story that's full of energy and magic. Her easy to read text is complemented by Mark Teague's bold, bright and expressive artwork that pulls you into the story and let's you join the chase. With each page, the chaos grows larger and busier, until it almost spills off the page. Together, they've authored a charming and humorous book that's perfect for youngsters 3-7. The Great Gracie Chase is a winner and a wonderful addition to all home bookshelves.

Congratulation's to Dr. Mark Baker for recognizing the profound ways in which Jesus speaks to our deepest human needs, wants and desires. I found this book to be a finely crafted reflection on the most complex and congruent person who ever lived. I appreciate the way Baker discusses complex issues without trivializing Jesus or the psychological concepts. Baker does a nice job integrating the timeless nature of Jesus' teaching with the timeliness of modern psychological insights. I see no discontinuity between theology and therapy. In fact, theology is most therapuetic when it is most faithful to Jesus.

This book should be read by every person serious about looking at the quality of life they live. One reviewer has concluded that the "proof-texts fall short...". This is not a book about proof-texts but about looking at the wisdom of Jesus TODAY through the mind of a psychologist practicing TODAY. The people are real, the quality of life issues are real, but the wisdom is from the mouth of one who lived thousands of years ago -- corroborated by current psychological theory.

The effort is not (in my reading) to somehow characterize Jesus as a touchy-feely person, but to reveal the value of what He said to the world in which we live.

The book takes-to-task some traditional Christian thinking (e.g. what about original sin? people are good, people are bad...) and explores some very different ways (from my perspective) to understand addictions. Finally, Part 2 forces one to consider oneself -- very important work.

110 chapters in 281 pages of text -- that's 2.53 pages/chapter (on average). Makes a great way to start the day with some wisdom for the soul.

Before I give my review I would like to breifly respond to the review I just read by Tom Hinkle. I have difficulty understanding why he would write a review like he did, perhaps he had difficulty understanding Dr. Baker's book. For Mr. Hinkle, a self proclaimed "amature" theologian, to insinuate that the biblical Jesus was not represented is completely untrue. I found the book to be honest and totally accurate. Mr Hinkle seems to have missed the entire point of the book. He accuses Dr Baker of promoting a relationship with a therapist over one with Christ. How he surmised that makes me wonder if he even read the book. Judging by how well the book is selling I would say that virtually no one would support his opinion. The book is interesting, and informative. It has great insights into human behavior and the teachings of Jesus. Dr. Baker did an excellent job and I highly reccomend this wonderful book.

Mark tries hard to offer something of value here, and, on some level, he succeeds. But if you want the real thing, get Og Mandino's The Greatest Salesman in the World. Mark borrows heavily from a real master and Grow Your Business is really Og Mandino Light mixed with other ideas borrowed from the likes of Napolean Hill and Clement Stone. Go to the them directly for a direct flow of original ideas.

I first met Mark LeBlanc when he did a talk in Charlotte, NC, and I was extremely impressed with his presentation. This book is much of what he covered in the seminar, and believe me, it makes incredible sense! If you are seeking a no-nonsense, very usable guide to positioning yourself and your business, Growing Your Business is a must-have. I have tried LeBlanc's methods, and they are solid gold!

The best part of Mark LeBlanc's book is that his ideas are ones that can be put to use immediately. One concept that really got me going is what he calls Target 25. He discusses this on pages 65 - 67. It is so easy to use and I have found out a principle that underlies it: other people really do want to be part of my success! In return, I continually offer myself to them as their partner in success. Mark's approach is positive, within your reach, and it works! I am grateful to Mark for sharing these ideas with his readers.